The Napa Valley Register publishes monthly statistics on arrests and convictions for driving under the influence in Napa County. Statistics are published the first Monday of each month.

Three Napa Valley vintners cited by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for illegally pouring wine at a consumer event have had their licenses suspended for 10 days.

Thanksgiving came and went just like any other day in the Ruiz household.

The last time anyone came to Brian Kearnes’ Napa Street home to talk about flooding, the waters were rising on New Year’s Eve 2005 and emergency officials were telling him to evacuate.

Napa resident Eric Copple pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to two counts of first degree murder in the Nov. 1, 2004, slayings of Adriane Insogna and Leslie Ann Mazzara in a west Napa home.

SUVA, Fiji — Fiji’s elected leader said Tuesday a military takeover was under way in the South Pacific country as armed troops surrounded his house and other government buildings in a lockdown of the capital.

MANILA, Philippines — A young U.S. Marine faces 40 years in jail after being convicted Monday of rape in a landmark case that has become a symbol for women’s rights and national sovereignty in the Philippines.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Four U.S. Marines died when a Sea Knight helicopter plunged into a lake in volatile Anbar province, the military said Monday, raising to 13 the number of American troops killed during a bloody weekend in Iraq.

WASHINGTON — President Bush told a Shiite political leader on Monday the United States is not happy with progress in Iraq and sought the cleric’s help to curb extremists and terrorists trying to undermine the struggling new democracy.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Three members of a San Francisco family missing for more than a week were found alive Monday in a remote area of southern Oregon, police said. A search continued for the father.

WASHINGTON — John Bolton never had much job security. President Bush sent him to the United Nations without confirmation, an end run around the Senate that could only last so long.