Video of a Vacant home in Napa being cleared off of a downtown lot.

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson, the moonwalking former child star who became known the world over as the “King of Pop” before his life and career deteriorated in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. He was 50.

At least one Napa home will not survive to see the recovery of real estate prices in the Napa Valley.

As many as 20 scabies cases — 10 confirmed and 10 suspected — have been discovered among patients who use the Queen of the Valley Medical Center’s Wellness Center. It’s estimated between 500 and 1,000 people use the center daily.

SACRAMENTO — To hear Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state finance officials tell it, July 28 is California’s last stand before fiscal Armageddon.

The Napa Sheriff's Department received a call of a potential mountain lion sighting in the Carneros District around the area of the Carneros Inn and Old Sonoma Road in the south county.

Fifteen Justin-Siena High School students among 22 high school students traveling abroad were quarantined in Ecuador this week after one of the group tested positive for swine flu. The person who tested positive for the H1N1 virus is a male Novato High School student.

A 53-year-old Solano County man with a confirmed case of H1N1 has died, according to Solano County health authorities. His death is the first in the county involving a person with the virus.