A Napa man was robbed while walking in the 600 block of First Street early Tuesday morning, according to police.

Two Napa men have been sentenced to nearly two decades in prison for the savage beating of Jose Gregorio Gomez, 41, last August.

St. John's open house

There is no doubt that a drug-addled Brian Hust killed a 60-year-old woman in a Jamieson Canyon car crash last year. The only question before jurors this week was whether Hust was guilty of second-degree murder or a lesser charge.

Napa arts groups, nonprofits, political candidates and others who put on special events have some new rules to live by.

An anonymous donor working through the Community Foundation of the Napa Valley has earmarked $25,000 for an open space study in Napa County.

While President Bush painted a rosy picture in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, said afterward, "He spent a lot of money tonight."

WASHINGTON -- Samuel Alito took his place on the Supreme Court Tuesday after winning Senate confirmation, a personal triumph for the son of an Italian immigrant and a political milestone in President Bush's campaign to give the judiciary a more conservative cast.

ATLANTA -- Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband's dream alive with a chin-held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s creed of brotherhood and nonviolence, died Tuesday. She was 78.

HOUSTON -- Lawyers for former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling insisted Tuesday the men were guilty of no crimes, arguing the company was never infested with fraud and instead fell victim to a sudden crisis of market confidence.

WASHINGTON -- A politically weakened President Bush declared Tuesday night that America must break its long dependence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay-the-course strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland lays off 17 employees to cover $1.2 million budget deficit

GOLETA -- "Going postal" had almost become an anachronism.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers are demanding that the new chief judge be removed before they will end their boycott of the trial, which resumes Wednesday after a stormy session where the former president was tossed out.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A roadside bomb killed a British soldier in southern Iraq Tuesday as a new video from kidnappers conveyed threats to kill two German hostages if Germany fails to stop cooperating with the Iraqi government.

VIENNA, Austria -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said in a report Tuesday that Iran obtained documents and drawings on the black market that serve no other purpose than to make an atomic warhead. Tehran warned of an "end of diplomacy" if plans to refer it to the U.N. Security Council are carried out.