Our top story tomorrow will be something other than the continuing coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II. But we'll have plenty of pope coverage on Page One.

We'll lead the paper with the merger of Chevron Texaco and Unocal. It's a $16.4 billion deal combining the No. 2 (Chevron Texaco) and No. 9 (Unocal) biggest oil and gas producing companies. Unocal, of course, has a long history in Ventura County.

Our pope coverage will include a main story about the details of the funeral and today's first public viewing of the body. We're looking to a New York Times story describing the scene at the Vatican. And we'll combine that with a staff writer Stephanie Hoops (shoops@VenturaCountyStar.com) story on the church since Vatican II.

Sacramento bureau chief Timm Herdt (therdt@VenturaCountyStar.com) writes about the push for legislation that would require pharmacists to fill all legal prescriptions. A Pharmacists for Life group is urging pharmacists to not fill prescriptions that would allow patients to do something that would violate the pharmacist's moral values -- mainly targeting "morning after" birth control.

There was also some advocacy for putting out front a story on a state Supreme Court ruling restricting hospitals from chasing after patients to pay the difference between their bills and what their insurance companies pay. But it looks like that story will be inside the paper.