Daily briefing
Disaster training offered
Does Copple case merit death penalty?
It's been more than two years since two Napa women were stabbed to death in the upstairs bedrooms of a west Napa home, and the court case against accused murderer Eric Copple is beginning to heat up.
Bel Aire: Too much success?
How much additional success can Bel Aire Plaza handle?
AmCan gets state OK onhousing plans
The cities of Napa County have not had an easy time meeting state requirements for new housing.
Napa's history with capital crimes
Register Staff Writer
Trial judge: Referee, researcher, ruler of the courtroom
There's nothing like a murder trial.
Dogs kill hundreds of wedge-tailed shearwater chicks
HONOLULU — Dogs killed hundreds of wedge-tailed shearwater chicks at the Kaena Point nature reserve over the weekend.
At home and abroad, things aren't going Bush's way
WASHINGTON -- For a relentlessly optimistic President Bush, this is a season of disappointment, surprise and setbacks.
Bush hails bravery, dedication of troops
ARLINGTON, Va. -- President Bush marked Veterans Day by praising U.S. troops for fighting tyranny and oppression, yet touched only briefly on the war in Iraq, where U.S. commanders are rethinking strategy.
Rare stamp may be on envelope inside sealed ballot box
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- An absentee ballot was mailed with what may have been a rare stamp worth at least $200,000 -- the famous Inverted Jenny -- but the envelope is in a box that by law can't be opened.
Property Owner Tips
Supplemental offerings of Prop. 13
Marriage licenses
SANZA-JAIME -- Nicholas William Sanza Jr., 29, Kansas Street, Napa, to Angela Marie Jaime, 32, Persimmon Place, Fairfield.
Woman who threw kids in SF Bay goes to trial
SAN FRANCISCO -- LaShuan Harris and her three children took a train from Oakland into San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2005. She bought the little boys hot dogs and they walked along Fisherman's Wharf.
Hunger seen as the next big enemy in war on AIDS
CANGE, Haiti -- AIDS made Marie Lourdes Israel so sick she could barely move her bowed, stick-thin body. The medicine almost killed her.
After the Taliban, Kabul blossoms for the rich, unchanged for the poor
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Eight-year-old Sajjad's kite struggles upward. It's nothing grand -- a plastic bag salvaged from a heap of garbage and fashioned into a diamond shape.
2 U.N. peacekeepers shot to death in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Unidentified gunmen attacked U.N. peacekeepers near a restive slum in Haiti's capital, killing two Jordanian members of the force, officials said Saturday.
Hezbollah, allied party resign from Lebanese government
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Cabinet ministers from Hezbollah and an allied party resigned Saturday, a decision that could cost the Western-backed government crucial support from Lebanon's Shiite Muslims.
Fighters loyal to Congo election foes clash in capital
KINSHASA, Congo -- Gunfire and explosions boomed through Congo's capital Saturday in a new round of fighting between forces loyal to two presidential candidates awaiting the results of a runoff election meant to secure an end to years of war.
U.S. troops take on community building in violent Baghdad neighborhoods
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. soldiers, automatic rifles buckled to their body armor, filed into an community center in a dangerous Shiite neighborhood of north Baghdad Saturday and for a few hours became social workers, cops on the beat and referees between feuding tribesmen.
Sunni gunmen ambush bus convoy near Baghdad, kill 10 Shiites and kidnap about 50
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sunni gunmen ambushed a convoy of minibuses Saturday night at a fake checkpoint on the dangerous highway south of Baghdad, killing 10 Shiite passengers and kidnapping about 50. Across the country at least 52 other people were killed in violence or were found dead, five of them decapitated Iraqi soldiers.
