Night-time lows are expected to drop into the 20s in Napa over the weekend, possibly breaking some historical weather records and prompting authorities to warn residents to take precautions regarding everything from their homes and pets to their daily activities.

The Register is compiling a story about Napa Valley residents who’ve had rats, mice, raccoons, squirrels and other wild invaders in their homes. If you’d like to share your tale, please e-mail it to Sasha Paulsen, features editor, at spaulsen@napanews.com or send it to her care of the Napa Valley Register, P.O. Box 150, Napa, CA 94559. Submissions should be less than 250 words./Register

Trinchero Family Estates has sold its sprawling mid-valley Zinfandel Ranch for an undisclosed sum to a local wine industry investment group known as Rutherford Studios.

Leonardini Family Vineyards and owner Thomas Leonardini Sr. have been ordered to pay $76,000 in restitution, civil penalties and other costs associated with the unlawful use of their Fawn Park vineyard and barn on Silverado Trail in St. Helena, according to a Napa County Superior Court judgment reached Jan. 3.

The Napa Valley Register newsroom has added a new staffer in a key position and promoted another person, Natalie Hoffman, to staff writer.

A Jan. 10 front page article on a $66,000 fine levied against American Canyon for problems at the city’s sewage treatment plant misstated the name of the authority that provides sewage service to residents of Napa. It is the Napa Sanitation District.

Napa public school officials have unveiled preliminary plans for the much-anticipated American Canyon High School.

10 a.m. A magnitude 3.8 earthquake awoke many Napa Valley residents early Friday morning, but caused no reported damage.

11 a.m. MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Adirisaq Khalid Ahmed was shining shoes in Mogadishu's labyrinthine marketplace when a soldier from the country's Islamic movement approached, asking him to join up.

12 p.m. SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking on just about every major interest group in California in his audacious effort to bring universal health care to the nation’s biggest state: unions, small business, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, conservatives.

WASHINGTON — The statistics tell a sorry tale about the public schools in America’s capital.

MADISON, Wis. — The Department of Veterans Affairs’ increasing use of religion in treating ailing veterans does not violate the separation of church and state, a federal judge has ruled.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Thomas Kelly embraces life, having survived two bouts with cancer. But when the end comes, the retired nurse is leaving nothing to chance.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Major Ndaba dons his wild cat skin hat, stands by his “lucky charm” baboon skeleton and poses for the cameras of visitors intent on experiencing a South Africa far removed from game reserves and glistening beaches.

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House Thursday passed a bill bolstering embryonic stem cell research that advocates say shows promise for numerous medical cures.

ATLANTA — More than 1,500 toddlers and babies wound up in emergency rooms over a two-year period and three died because of bad reactions to cold or cough medicine, federal health officials reported Thursday.

LOS ANGELES — An environmental law group sued Southern California Gas Co. on Thursday, claiming cancer-causing chemicals were leaking from an underground reservoir and polluting groundwater in Playa del Rey.

WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans aren’t following the adage: Prevention is the best medicine.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s conservative President Felipe Calderon kicked off a health insurance program to cover all infants born under his administration on Monday, answering leftist critics that his government only looks after the rich.

ROME — Expired drugs, unlicensed nurses, stray cats and scuttling rats were among the horrors that emerged from police inspections of Italian hospitals that recommended possible investigations against more than 100 people, health officials said Thursday.

GUANTANAMO, Cuba  — Cindy Sheehan marched with the mothers of a Guantanamo prisoner, a New York firefighter killed on 9/11 and other peace activists Thursday to demand the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay be closed five years after the first terrorist suspects arrived.

WASHINGTON — Procrastination in society is getting worse and scientists are finally getting around to figuring out how and why. Too many tempting diversions are to blame, but more on that later.

WASHINGTON — Seventy percent of Americans oppose sending more troops to Iraq, according to a new poll that provides a devastatingly blunt response to President Bush’s plan to bolster military forces there.

SAN FRANCISCO — A mysterious San Francisco company has launched an equally mysterious product aimed at coffee drinkers seeking an extra boost. The company and the product share the same name — Meth Coffee.

WASHINGTON — President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq ran into a wall of criticism on Capitol Hill on Thursday as administration officials drew confrontational, sometimes mocking challenges from both Democrats and Republicans.

INDIANAPOLIS — A man shot and wounded four co-workers Thursday at a factory that employs disabled people, telling police he did it “over respect,” authorities said.