Another hearing for One True Vine
An irate Napa County Planning Commission has set May 17 to get another update on Jayson Woodbridge's controversial One True Vine Winery off Crystal Springs Road near St. Helena.
UpValley in brief
Immigration not only
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Catholic Men's Conference
Planners push to uncover impact of Soscol Gateway project
The Napa Planning Commission wants to know what happens to residents and auto-related businesses if the city proceeds with plans for a redevelopment project along the Soscol Avenue gateway to downtown.
Stabbing victim identified; arrests made for threatening officer
The Napa man repeatedly stabbed in the apartment parking lot where he lives has been identified by police as Ingalls Henderson. The Napa telephone directory, however, has a Wallace H. Ingalls as a resident of the complex where the incident took place.
Vintage rally spurs clash
A lunchtime pro-America demonstration by Vintage High students turned into a tense verbal clash Friday, as Anglo and Latino students taunted each other. In one case, two female students got into a fight.
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Oops ... Postal food drive next Saturday
AmCan holds lead in growth among Napa County cities
American Canyon Mayor Cecil Shaver said he believes his rapidly-growing city now needs more commercial and industrial development instead of new homes.
Salutes and smiles
In a show of support for the men and women of the armed forces stationed overseas, second- and third-graders of Vichy Alternative School presented six visiting Marines "gifts from home" during the "Bring a Smile to a Soldier" assembly on Thursday.
CIA chief Goss resigns
WASHINGTON -- CIA Director Porter Goss resigned unexpectedly Friday, nudged from the helm of a spy agency still reeling from intelligence failures before America's worst terrorist attack and faulty information that formed the U.S. rationale for invading Iraq.
Many nations harsher than U.S. on illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON -- Defending his House-passed immigration bill that sparked street protest by millions of immigrants, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a report Friday showing that several countries are harsher than the United Stated in their treatment of illegal immigrants and their employers.
Sex abuse reports prompt background checks for foreign exchange host families
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The families who host the nearly 30,000 foreign exchange students who stay in this country each year now will have to undergo criminal background checks, under new federal rules that went into effect this week.
New autopsy finds Fla. teen was suffocated
TAMPA, Fla. -- A 14-year-old boy kicked and punched by guards at a juvenile boot camp died because the sheriff's officials suffocated him, a medical examiner said Friday, contradicting a colleague who blamed the death on a usually benign blood disorder.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy to enter drug rehab after auto crash
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Friday he was entering treatment for addiction to prescription pain drugs after a middle-of-the-night car crash near the Capitol that he said he had no memory of. "That's not how I want to live my life," he declared.
Prosecutors to retry man whose son was convicted in terror case
SACRAMENTO -- Federal prosecutors will retry a Lodi man on charges that he lied to the FBI about his son's attendance at a terrorist training camp.
Government, main rebels sign peace accord for Darfur
ABUJA, Nigeria -- Thanks in part to last-minute U.S. diplomacy, two years of Darfur peace talks beset by setbacks and frustration ended with a signing ceremony between the government and the largest rebel faction Friday.