The man arrested Wednesday for the infamous 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey worked briefly as a substitute elementary school teacher in 2001 in Napa, where law enforcement officers interviewed him in relation to possible efforts to make inappropriate contact with others on the Internet.

Dec. 26, 1996: JonBenet Ramsey, 6, was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colo.

Mariela Hernandez has high aspirations. Pictures of a lavish home, luxury car, jewelry and a pretty scene from South Africa fill a collage that, for now, reflects what she wants to see in her future.

The Napa City Council responded this week to fierce criticism from the civil grand jury, acknowledging slow service in the Community Development Department while accepting much of the responsibility.

The lineup for November's Napa City Council election features veteran council member Harry Martin and two candidates now on the city Planning Commission, Juliana Inman and Peter Mott.

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The slate of local candidates vying for seats on city councils in the Napa Valley came into focus Wednesday, the deadline for filing campaign papers. Here's a look at races in cities and school boards around Napa County.

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A former Napa schoolteacher was arrested Wednesday in Thailand in the slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey -- a surprise breakthrough in a lurid, decade-old murder mystery that had cast a cloud of suspicion over her parents.

During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Napa Valley Unified School District officials provided details of the detainment of John Mark Karr, the man arrested in the 1996 death of Jon Benet Ramsey.

HATCH, N.M. -- Pumps slowly drained waist-deep floodwater from parts of this southern New Mexico town Wednesday, while crews worked to reinforce a breached arroyo that caused hundreds of residents to flee their homes.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Drunken drivers beware: Police say they are starting a crackdown this month and the government is promising arrests for those who drink and drive.

NEW YORK -- Trapped and running out of air on the smoky 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, Melissa Doi begged the 911 operator not to hang up.

BOSTON -- Two fighter jets were scrambled Wednesday to escort a London-to-Washington flight to an emergency landing in Boston after a disturbance in which passengers said a woman in a jogging suit paced up and down the aisle, peppering her incoherent mutterings with the word "Pakistan."

BOULDER, Colo. -- A former schoolteacher was arrested Wednesday in Thailand in the slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey -- a surprise breakthrough in a lurid, decade-old murder mystery that had cast a cloud of suspicion over her parents.

Sending an old jazzer to review a bluegrass concert could produce interesting results, but this old jazzer left the Napa Valley Opera House Tuesday evening at least partially agreeing with a statement by mandolinist David Grisman: "There's a fine line between bluegrass and jazz."

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LONDON -- A 12-year-old boy managed to get around stepped up security and board a jetliner at an airport outside London without a passport or a boarding pass.

WASHINGTON -- The Coast Guard caught Mexican drug lord Francisco Javier Arellano Felix deep-sea fishing off Mexico, decapitating a murderous cartel that dug smuggling tunnels under the U.S. border, officials said Wednesday.