The ComingUp calendar listings on Thursday omitted an item.

With Democrats back in control of Congress after more than a decade, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, has a newly-appointed chief of staff, Charles Jefferson, based close to the halls of power in Washington, D.C.

Thirty-four years ago, Sarah Weddington was a 27-year-old lawyer who had tried uncontested divorces and little else, when she won the case that legalized abortion in the United States before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The $463.5 billion spending bill the House passed Wednesday killed off $11 million in funding for the Napa flood control project.

Sheriff’s investigators are aggressively working to solve the homicide of 16-year-old Anthony Gee.