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(Newser) - Two young females were killed Saturday night in what the Los Angeles Times calls a "rare" homicide in California's Napa Valley. Police in Napa—the biggest city in Napa Valley, northern California's wine region—say the killings were the first two this year, and they were just...

(Newser) - California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in Napa, Sonoma, and Yuba counties because of wildfires he says are threatening thousands of homes. Brown issued the declaration on Monday, as multiple fires forced people to evacuate their homes, the AP reports. Napa County Fire Chief Barry Biermann...

(Newser) - A group of mostly black women filed a racial discrimination lawsuit Thursday after they were removed from a train that tours Napa Valley wineries, saying it was humiliating to be thrown off a rail car when loud and inebriated white passengers were allowed to stay. The 11 women sued Napa...