Voice Our Independent Choices for Emancipation Support, a local nonprofit group that helps local foster care youths on the road to adulthood, kicked off a campaign to address the physical and mental health needs of its clients.

The Napa Police Department warns residents to be on the lookout for a burglar who has been targeting homes in the Foster Road area. Three homes have been burglarized in the area since June 5, 2007, according to police records.

A Clearlake man lost his life early Sunday morning in a traffic wreck.

St. Helena Library Director Larry Hlavsa has announced his resignation, effective July 20.

VINE schedules may be tweaked so that more buses run on time, providing better service to both Upvalley and city of Napa riders.

Whoever is named the Yountville's new town manager will oversee a healthy budget, according to the town's finance records.

On June 1, 2007, during a reconnaissance operation in Iraq, Army Sgt. 1st Class Brian Field's life changed forever.

The high school I attended in Sioux City, Iowa, was called "The Castle on the Hill" because it looked like a castle, and it was on a very modest hill. But to a teenager, it was just like going into a real castle.

LOS ANGELES -- Dagmar Tomlinson is the grandma you wish you had or hope you will be.

EIJSDEN, Netherlands -- It's a sunny Sunday morning, and altar boys ringing silver bells announce the passage of the Blood and Body of Christ through the ancient streets of Eijsden and its surrounding pastures.

ORANGE -- Between cramming for finals, preparing for prom and graduating, Shauna Fleming managed to crisscross the country, visit the Pentagon, throw out the first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game and shoot a national TV advertising campaign.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Neighbors of Elvira Carvajal sought refuge in her house so immigration agents wouldn't arrest them. Friends of Herman Martinez asked him to bring them milk for their children because they were afraid to step onto the streets.

LOS ANGELES -- A state appeals court has ruled that cities can prohibit the declawing of cats, a procedure critics say is cruel and unnecessary.

LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told U.S. mayors Saturday they must take the lead in battling global warming and creating an economy based on "clean" technology.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Little Natasha is a giggling, wriggling bundle of mischief. She adores Barney the Dinosaur, claps along to her favorite songs, and throws a typical 3-year-old's temper tantrums.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai accused NATO and U.S.-led troops Saturday of carelessly killing scores of Afghan civilians and warned that the fight against resurgent Taliban militants could fail unless foreign forces show more restraint.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- When the Sunni sheik sent his representatives into the heaving Baghdad slum where a Shiite militia holds sway, many people thought he was courting disaster. Sunnis who enter Sadr City are have been stuffed into the trunks of cars.