The American Canyon Planning Commission -- in an effort to meet new state housing requirements -- has recommended new rules to allow affordable housing units on designated properties along Highway 29.

Weigh in on downtown parking garage

Four businesses were cited in August for allegedly serving alcohol to minors in and around Napa, according to the Napa County Sheriff's Department.

Vintner David Graves is stepping down from his position as a member of the Napa County Planning Commission.

A teacher was the last thing Abigail Sywyk wanted to be. Her mother was a teacher, as were her grandmother and great-grandmother.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Sunny Dawson ran two miles every other day when she started her freshman year at the University of Southern California. But the lure of the cafeteria near her dorm became too much to resist.

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. -- Tokens of Christianity, including crosses and religious mottos, are found in schools and government buildings all over Harrison County. The amenities in a women's bathroom at the Board of Education offices even include a leather-bound pocket copy of "New Testament: Psalms Proverbs."

The high school class of 2006 got stuck with a new, longer version of the SAT and didn't fare well on it. Average reading and math scores fell a total of seven points -- the sharpest decline in 31 years.

LAS VEGAS -- The charismatic leader of a polygamous sect was captured during a traffic stop three months after being put on the FBI's Most Wanted List and faces charges he arranged marriages between underage girls and older men.

WASHINGTON -- Gulf Coast nursing homes that evacuated patients as a result of hurricanes experienced a range of problems, including transportation agreements that fell through, long trips and a lack of food, water and medicine, a report released Friday says.

Wine's most compatible companion is cheese.

As you enter the world famous Napa Valley wine country from the south, you'll be greeted by an old-time diner. At the almost half-century old HWY 29 Cafe there is no wine list and no boutique olive oil for dipping artisan bread in before noshing upscale cuisine. And serving up the hearty food are waitresses -- not food servers and runners.

THURSDAY

DUBLIN -- Smokers, beware: This bedroom community near San Francisco may soon put you in the same category as rodents, junk cars, vicious dogs and weeds.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan and NATO troops used rockets, planes and artillery in rolling battles with Taliban insurgents this weekend in Afghanistan's volatile south, leaving 71 militants and five Afghan soldiers dead in one of the bloodiest clashes since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. A British soldier was killed in a separate attack.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Snipers lurking on buildings and in a cemetery sprayed bullets into Shiite Muslim religious processions in the capital Sunday, killing at least 20 people in another spasm of sectarian bloodletting that many Iraqis fear is pushing them toward civil war.

JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that countries that don't have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state should not participate in the international peacekeeping force that will police a truce along the Lebanese border, his office said.

TIJUANA, Mexico -- On her first try, Mari Paz said, she clambered over the barrier and walked only a short distance before U.S. Border Patrol agents spotted her. On her second, she slipped through a hidden door. She later tried crawling under the border and sneaking across hidden inside a van.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged President Bush to a televised debate, a proposal the White House immediately dismissed as a "diversion."