Planetary Play Day

The idea of separating the registrar of voters' duties from those of the county clerk will be on the Napa County Board of Supervisors' agenda next Tuesday, as new concerns arose about whether Registrar and Clerk John Tuteur has too much on his plate.

Come July 1, homeowners in a far northeastern subdivision in Pope Valley will pay on average $524 every two months to have running water and a working toilet.

A clothes dryer fire ended up destroying a garage and melting electronic equipment Monday evening at a home on Republic Avenue.

The end of a building moratorium for Circle Oaks County Water District residents may be in sight.

Playing off the success of San Francisco's Ferry Building Marketplace, a local partnership is planning to build a market for 35 food merchants on First Street next to Copia.

After a week of street protests, Napa's Latino community came in from the cold Tuesday night to offer testimonials to the City Council about the value of their labor.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Threatened with the loss of federal money, the vast majority of the nation's schools have declared that they allow prayer wherever and however the Constitution permits.

WASHINGTON -- Succumbing to scandal, former Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday he is resigning from Congress in the face of a tough re-election race, closing out a career that blended unflinching conservatism with a bare-knuckled political style.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration wants to bury tens of thousands of tons more nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain dump in Nevada than now allowed -- part of a package of new proposals meant to spur development of the controversial and long-delayed dump.

SAN FRANCISCO -- In Atlanta, an online ad offers a room in exchange for "sex and light office duty." In Los Angeles, a one-bedroom pool house is free "to a girl that is skilled and willing." And in New York City, a $700-a-month room is available at a discount to a fit female willing to provide sex.

MERCED, Calif. (AP) -- Two levees broke Tuesday in California's chief agricultural region, flooding a trailer park and threatening other homes in Merced and inundating farmland near Sacramento.

PARIS -- Rioting youths swarmed across a downtown Paris plaza, ripping up street signs and park benches and hurling stones and chunks of pavement at police at the end of the largest of massive but mostly peaceful protests Tuesday across France against a new jobs law.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities filed genocide charges against Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, accusing the ousted ruler and six others in a 1980s crackdown that killed an estimated 100,000 Kurds in northern Iraq.