Is that building ugly? Does this place smell bad? Is there too much noise coming from over there?

A Calistoga man convicted of bilking at least 10 victims out of hundreds of thousands dollars has coughed up $110,000 in restitution.

On Thursday a Napa County Superior Court judge ordered the county to fix an error that would have appeared in the voter pamphlet for the June 6 election.

Supervisor Diane Dillon has placed on the Tuesday, April 11, 2006, Board of Supervisors agenda a discussion of creating an appointed registrar of voters who would report directly to the board. I currently serve as Napa County's registrar of voters, as an ex-officio responsibility of the county clerk office, to which I was first elected in 1998. Ex-officio is a Latin term meaning "by virtue of office or position" and describes the election official duties assigned to the county clerk by California law. Ex-officio does not mean that the duties are in any way secondary or subordinate in terms of importance to the holder of the office. I perform my duties as Napa County's election official with the same dedication and enjoyment as I do my assessor, recorder, county clerk and commissioner of civil marriages duties.

Seasonal Affective Disorder is triggered by the short daylight hours and a lack of wintertime sunlight.

Madeleine and Meigan Dutcher took advantage of the first burst of sunshine and blue skies in more than a week to pick flowers at Fuller Park Wednesday afternoon.

WASHINGTON -- Putting aside party differences, Senate Republicans and Democrats coalesced Thursday around compromise legislation that holds out the hope of citizenship to an estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States unlawfully.

WASHINGTON -- With hurricane season just two months away, President Bush on Thursday nominated the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be permanent head of the nation's disaster response agency.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The stories and photos of four young children, all of whom lost parents in the 9/11 attacks, brought witnesses to tears and visibly affected jurors Thursday at the death penalty trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

NEW YORK -- Two highly decorated former detectives were convicted Thursday of moonlighting as hitmen for the mob in one of the most sensational cases of police corruption in New York history.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney authorized Cheney's top aide to launch a counterattack of leaks against administration critics on Iraq by feeding intelligence information to reporters, according to court papers citing the aide's testimony in the CIA leak case.

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