OROVILLE — A Butte County wildfire that destroyed a mobile home over the weekend continued threatening other homes Monday, although officials expected to have the blaze fully contained by the end of the day.

West of Yosemite National Park, a fire that already destroyed 21 homes is now 95 percent contained, and officials say they expect full contained by the end of Monday.

Workers pass and stack roof tiles atop the Napa Square work site in downtown Napa last week. The office and retail building opposite Napa City Hall is scheduled for completion in February 2009. The top floor of the building will contain offices for U.S. Advisors. The first announced tenant for the ground floor is Spinelle Fine Jewelers. J.L. Sousa/Register

The first of two practices between the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers took place this morning at Redwood Middle School and the Napa Valley Marriott, home of the closed-to-the-public Raiders summer training camp.

Napa Pipe will not appear on the November ballot.

Opponents of June’s Measure N poured nearly $1.8 million into defeating the initiative that would have killed the proposed development at Napa Pipe, according to campaign finance reports.

Four years ago Tobias Rose-Stockwell swung his leg over the back of a motorbike driven by a young, orange-clad monk and putt-putted into the Cambodian countryside with four other monks. The backpacking artist from the Napa Valley had no idea where he was headed.

JACKSON, Miss. — Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday after being seriously injured in a car accident near his home in Mississippi.

Jennifer Cole believed she was making a difference.

The races for supervisor in District 2 and District 5 have  already cost a bundle, with District 2 incumbent Mark Luce and District 5 candidate Rich Jager raising the most money.

San Francisco 49ers players and staff are due in Napa later today to prepare for a two-a-day practice Monday with the Oakland Raiders.