Answer: This 14-year-old Justin-Siena High School honors student represented Napa with intelligence, charisma and confidence on national TV Tuesday evening.

Friends and family gathered for a vigil Wednesday evening in memory of former Vintage High School student Anthony Gee, who died after being shot in the head at a party Jan. 27 in American Canyon.

The designers of a new Yountville inn and spa are heading back to the drawing board after hearing neighbors’ qualms about the fate of a heritage oak tree and plans to add a second story to the so-called Bardessano project.

Lorena Rodrigues took the stand Wednesday to describe her terrifying experience when a Vallejo man demanded money and her car keys at the Target store parking lot in South Napa Marketplace last month.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — NASA said Wednesday it would review its psychological screening process in light of an astronaut’s arrest on charges she tried to murder a woman she believed was her rival for a space shuttle pilot’s affections.

WASHINGTON — A long-awaited transcript of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s last conversation with air traffic control was released Wednesday but revealed little about the flight in which he was killed in July 1999.

The numbers behind an international child pornography bust Wednesday were themselves disturbing: Nearly 2,400 suspects from 77 countries allegedly paid to view videos depicting sexual abuse online. But the nature of Internet traffic makes it sadly unsurprising that people would figure they could hide so much hideous material.

VIENNA, Austria  — Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos of young children being sexually abused.

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Wednesday assailed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s request for access to an Air Force transport plane as an extravagance, though former Speaker Dennis Hastert flew in a military jet as well.

FORT LEWIS, Wash — A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the court-martial of an Army lieutenant who refused to deploy to Iraq, saying the soldier did not fully understand a document he signed in which he admitted to elements of the charges.

JUNEAU, Alaska — Some Alaska lawmakers on Wednesday decided to push forward with a $1.2 million election that would simply ask voters if they would support a constitutional amendment next year to overturn court-ordered benefits for the partners of gay public employees.

WASHINGTON — More American troops were killed in combat in Iraq over the past four months — at least 334 through Jan. 31 — than in any comparable stretch since the war began, according to an Associated Press analysis of casualty records.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Teachers and administrators at Central Elementary School knew they had a problem with F.H., a 12-year-old who had been accused of going into a bathroom stall and sexually assaulting a first-grade boy.

10:30 a.m. ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- There's only one public place in his residence hall where Ken Miguel doesn't wear a surgical mask - the cafeteria.

SAN FRANCISCO — Two women in Cincinnati had better leave big tips the next time they get their hair done.

1:00 p.m. HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said.

11:45 a.m. NEW YORK -- The timing could hardly be better.

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