Scott Nixon was not about to let anything happen to a Napa mom and her baby, even if it meant chasing a gun-toting bad guy across a parking lot and into the blackberry bushes.

The Napa man who was shot last week in an altercation near Main Street has been released from the hospital.

Flood control officials announced disappointing news Tuesday, but they say they have found a silver lining for the nine year-old project.

United Farm Workers union member Jose Gonzalez boards a bus headed to Sacramento to visit with the Agricultural Labor  Relations Board along with fellow union members who were dismissed from the Charles Krug Winery last year. 

Democrats blistered President Bush’s war policy Tuesday night, challenging him to redeem the nation’s credibility — and his own — with an immediate shift toward a diplomatic end to the bloody conflict in Iraq.

A Jan. 21 front page story about police work in the arrest of convicted murderer Eric Copple misstated the name of a retired Napa Police Department detective who worked on the case. He is Dan Lonergan.