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Saturday, March 25, 2006

In conservatorships, a delicate balance

Can one lawyer represent the owner of an estate and a potential heir at the same time?

One True Vine Winery dodges bullet from Planning Commission

Thanks to a high legal threshold for yanking a winery's use permit, cult winemaker Jayson Woodbridge can continue to make wine at his Crystal Springs Road facility, but with a raft of new restrictions designed to curtail what planners view as a history of illegal activity.

Upvalley briefs

Retaining Calistoga's economic vitality

Four arrested in AmCan after Wal-Mart site burgled

An early Friday morning burglary spree in American Canyon ended with four men in jail.

Well-traveled St. Apollinaris sixth-grader a contender in geography bee state finals

In a confident but humble voice, 11-year-old Alice Hyde gladly talks about the five continents she's explored and about the exciting African safari she's going on this summer with her grandparents from England.

Six vie for AmCan council seat at forum Tuesday

Six candidates running for one American Canyon City Council seat are set to square off Tuesday at a candidates' forum.

Daily briefing

Cartoonist Phil Frank at Napa library

Planners raising funds for national memorial to disabled veterans

WASHINGTON -- Soldiers returning from Iraq and other conflicts with missing limbs and shattered bodies will have a place of honor among the memorials of the nation's capital.

Thousands rally across the country for immigrants' rights

LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of people across the country protested Friday against legislation cracking down on illegal immigrants, with demonstrators in such cities as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Atlanta staging school walkouts, marches and work stoppages.

Passengers, heading home after cruise ship fire, recall fear, praise crew

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica -- Some of the passengers were stirred from sleep by the smell of smoke. Others were jolted awake by a fire alarm, then startled to see sparks drifting past the ship's windows in the Caribbean moonlight.

Family buries remains of WWII airman discovered on California mountain

BRAINERD, Minn. -- Leo Mustonen's closest surviving relatives have no memory of him, but they've come to know the World War II airman through others since his body was chipped out of a California glacier.

NASA's new Mars probe sends back first view from orbit

LOS ANGELES -- A high-resolution camera aboard NASA's latest spacecraft to reach Mars sent back its first view of the Red Planet from orbit, the space agency said Friday.

Judge: Domestic partners same as spouses when inheriting property

SACRAMENTO -- Registered domestic partners will continue to get the same tax benefits as married couples who transfer property under a recent court ruling that upheld a 2003 decision granting that right.

Schools are on the front line in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The day began like any other at Dijla Primary School in Baghdad's posh Mansour district.

Iraqi documents say Russians had sources in U.S. command and fed tips -- some true, some not -- to Saddam during invasion

WASHINGTON -- Russia collected information about U.S. troop movements and battle plans at the outset of the Iraq invasion by tapping sources inside the American military, and the intelligence was passed to Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, according to Iraqi documents cited in a Pentagon report released Friday.

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