A stunning view of Lake Berryessa unfolds high atop a steep-mountain fire trail behind Scott Becker’s property on Capell Valley Road. The Sacramento skyline is visible above the ridge to the right, and Lake County is off to the left. Osprey fly overhead.

Billing their community as the “Backroads of Napa,” a group of Lake Berryessa businesspeople has banded together in a new effort to promote lake tourism and business.

Mary White’s conviction that “good manners will take you anywhere” took White, her husband, Peter, and 11 boys ages 4 to 12 to lunch at Silverado Brewing Company north of St. Helena.

Jessica Ponce’s dream of becoming a champion boxer comes down to little choices.

They read. They understand.

A Napa man and teenager face serious charges in connection with vandalism and gang activity.

Calistoga is the Napa Valley’s mineral water capital, but Napa could someday share the honor.

OKLAHOMA CITY — With a son-in-law in Iraq and a son who served in Afghanistan, Kathy Johnston says she wants to make sure her five grandchildren know it’s important to support U.S. troops, no matter how they feel about the war.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — John Mark Karr, who made what turned out to be bogus claims of killing JonBenet Ramsey, was jailed Saturday in a domestic argument at his father’s house in suburban Atlanta.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Hordes of tourists are clogging the cable handrails on the slope leading up Yosemite’s iconic Half Dome, delaying climbers and frustrating serious athletes who say the unprepared masses have made the hike unpleasant and downright dangerous.

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida is gaining strength and the United States is still not as safe as it should be, former Indiana congressman Tim Roemer said Saturday.

SALT LAKE CITY — A 160,000 acre wildfire jumped a freeway Saturday, forcing the closure of Interstate 15 for a 100 mile stretch through central Utah, fire officials said.

KATY, Texas — Writing “I love Alex” on a school gymnasium wall brought a 12-year-old the same punishment as if she had made terrorist threats.

DALLAS — The sky was mercifully clear over much of Texas on Saturday after three weeks of drenching rain, as search teams combed the swollen Trinity River for a missing rafter.

WASHINGTON — Momentum is building in Congress for overhauling farm subsidies because of tight budgets and increasing enthusiasm for renewable fuels and conservation programs.

WASHINGTON — President Bush accused Democratic lawmakers on Saturday of being unable to live up to their duties, citing Congress’ inability to pass legislation to fund the federal government.

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LANCASTER — Must’ve been a poler bear.

SAN RAFAEL — A 5-year-old boy sitting in his mother’s stolen sport utility vehicle was found safe in his car seat about an hour after the Friday afternoon heist.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Four out of five homes built near Lake Tahoe since 1990 are in areas considered to have a high fire hazard, according to a new analysis less than a week after a blaze destroyed 254 homes and caused more than $141 million in property damage.

LISBON, Portugal — The Great Wall of China, Rome’s Colosseum, India’s Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll released on Saturday.

MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon presides over strategy sessions with the leaders of Mexico’s army and navy, key players in the centerpiece initiative of his seven-month-old presidency: a military assault against drug cartels.

TUZ KHORMATO, Iraq — A suicide truck bomber blasted a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 100 people, police said, in a sign Sunni insurgents are pulling away from a U.S. offensive around the capital to attack where security is thinner.