From Register Staff

From Register Staff

Seven kids and their mother might have been overtaken by floodwaters early Saturday morning were it not for a relative with pneumonia who came to their rescue.

Editor’s note American Canyon Eagle Editor Mike Waterson found himself stuck in the middle of the flood Friday night. Here’s his story.

The Napa Valley was walloped by a major storm on New Year’s Eve, causing the Napa River and creeks to overflow their banks from Calistoga to American Canyon.

Tonight’s storm should be lighter

Some months back when the sun was shining and the ground was dry, Napa flood control officials told residents in flood prone areas not to cancel their flood insurance and don’t build up a false sense of security.

Tiffany Corona probably had a different plan for her New Year’s Eve morning. At 11:30 she was waiting on Soscol Avenue for her husband Gilberto to be rescued from their Ida Street home. When they were told to evacuate at 3:30 a.m. Saturday they moved their cars, except one that was parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot.

A suspicious fire roared through a Montessori school at Covenant Presbyterian Church on Salvador Avenue on Thursday evening, destroying a shed, plastic swimming pool and part of a wall. Investigators say the fire is the latest act of vandalism at the school.

Mother Nature is the giving Father Time a run for his money.

There were many great Napa County stories in 2005, from the controversial and failed plan to dedicate Hwy. 29 for vintner Robert Mondavi, to the tragic deaths of a St. Helena Boy Scout and a 29-year-old Scout leader when they were struck by lightning during a September climbing expedition in the high Sierra.

Flood project work to resumes after rain

NEW YORK -- The onslaught of Gulf Coast hurricanes, notably Katrina and the deadly flooding which devastated New Orleans, was overwhelmingly picked by U.S. editors and news directors as the top story of 2005 in the Associated Press' annual vote.

If life is often a matter of split seconds -- the train door that closes in your face, the chance encounter with the love of your life, the near-collision with an oncoming SUV -- then the universe is about to bestow upon us a generous gift: the leap second.

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has opened another investigation into leaks of classified information, this time to determine who divulged the existence of President Bush's secret domestic spying program.

ATLANTA -- An Iraqi infant with a severe birth defect began her journey Friday to the United States, where she will receive medical care at the urging of U.S. soldiers who discovered her during a raid.

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge Friday loosened the restrictions on John W. Hinckley Jr., allowing the hospitalized presidential assailant to spend seven overnight visits with his parents in Williamsburg, Va.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A 16-year-old from Florida who traveled to one of the world's most dangerous places without telling his parents left Baghdad on Friday to begin his journey home, the U.S. Embassy said, drawing to a close an adventure that could have cost him his life.