American Canyon Middle School science teacher Anna Niklewicz always wanted to own a house and live close enough to her school to be able to ride a bicycle to work.

As county and city housing authority officials work to put their financial house in order following the unauthorized spending of $1.4 million on two Upvalley farmworker camps, other economic mishaps of the past year are surfacing.

On the evening of Sept. 15, 1995, George Gosling III, then 25, bicycled down a steep section of Sanitarium Road in Deer Park. Meanwhile, a pickup truck turned left off Sanitarium onto Crystal Springs Road.

Hit with last-minute questions about the proposed Soscol Avenue redevelopment project, the city of Napa will redo portions of a draft environmental impact report.

• Antonio Damian Garcia was taken into custody Monday night after a woman he knows told police he had assaulted her, according to Napa police.

Motorists may want to map out an alternate route if they are heading Upvalley Tuesday.

Aaron Henderson, an electrician, steps into the sign at the Imola Avenue entrance to the South Napa Marketplace to check on the lights, Tuesday.

The teen driver who led police on a high-speed chase that ended with a crash on Jefferson Street has been released from the hospital.

California Boulevard will be closed at night for the rest of the week for the installation of a storm drain near the Napa Valley Wine Train tracks, south of Trancas Street.

12:45 p.m. WASHINGTON -- House members debated Iraq Tuesday in an emotional and historic faceoff over a war that Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned as a commitment with ''no end in sight.''

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Jeff Ingram hunches over the countertop and peers at the foreign words in the Betty Crocker cookbook.

BEIJING — A hard-won disarmament pact that the U.S. and four other nations struck with North Korea on Tuesday requires the communist nation to halt its nuclear programs in exchange for oil while leaving the ultimate abandonment of those weapons projects to a potentially trouble-filled future.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced Tuesday that Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran as word emerged that anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had fled the country ahead of the drive to pacify the capital.

WASHINGTON — An updated No Child Left Behind law should track the progress of teachers as well as students, a special commission said Tuesday.

CAIRO, Egypt — Al-Qaida’s No. 2 said President Bush was an alcoholic and a lying gambler who wagered on Iraq and lost, according to a new audiotape released Tuesday.

WASHINGTON  — Democrats relentlessly assailed President Bush’s policy in Iraq as a catastrophic failure Tuesday as the House plunged into momentous debate on a war that has lost public support and cost more than 3,100 U.S. troops their lives. “No more blank checks,” declared Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

SACRAMENTO — The state Senate on Tuesday voted to move California’s 2008 presidential primary from June to February to give the most populous state a larger say in national politics.