When Kate and Timothy Hanni left Napa for Point Clear, Ala., with their children at 3 a.m. on Dec. 29 they had no way of knowing American Airlines flight 1348 would be the worst plane ride of their lives.

When Kate and Tim Hanni left Napa for Point Clear, Ala., with their children at 3 a.m. on Dec. 29, they had no way of knowing they were about to embark on the worst plane ride of their lives.

Two Napa department heads with troubled operations are stepping down as part of a major shake-up of top management by new City Manager Mike Parness.

It’s big, state of the art and rolling into town Saturday to prepare some tax returns at Cope Family Center on Fourth Street.

A Vacaville woman who worked at Kaiser Clinic’s radiology department in Napa for more than 10 years was killed by an alleged drunk driver.

The battle over the Wal-Mart Supercenter in American Canyon returned to a Napa courtroom Thursday.

Napa Mayor Jill Techel and other council members said they support City Manager Mike Parness’ new management structure.

Before AT&T installs metal boxes in neighborhoods for its new video service, the company will consult with homeowners, a company official promised the Napa City Council this week.

WASHINGTON — It doesn’t add up.

SACRAMENTO — Targeting truckers, contractors and others, Senate Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions beyond the landmark global warming law that took effect this year.

WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups for immigrant families and the Department of Homeland Scurity are at odds over detention facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania that critics argue are inhumanely housing adults and young children in jail-like conditions.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A salesman was ordered to pay back more than $50,000 to an Atlanta-based software company that accused him of begging off work for months by falsely claiming his young son was stricken with cancer.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. military warned Thursday that insurgents are adopting new tactics in a campaign to spread panic after troops uncovered a car bomb factory with propane tanks and chlorine cylinders — possible ingredients for more chemical attacks following three explosions involving chlorine.

SACRAMENTO — A Democratic lawmaker on Thursday abandoned her heavily ridiculed campaign to make spanking a crime, acknowledging that the bill which had become fodder for late-night comedians would get whacked even in California’s sometimes whimsical Legislature.

NEW ORLEANS — Two residents got the keys Thursday to what are believed to be the first homes built in the Lower Ninth Ward since Hurricane Katrina hit 18 months ago, and officials hope the houses — elevated against floodwaters and designed to withstand 160 mph winds — will help spark a revival in the devastated neighborhood.

NEW YORK — South Korean businessman Tongsun Park, who was accused in the 1970s of trying to buy influence in Congress in the “Koreagate” scandal, was sentenced to five years in prison for accepting at least $2 million to work on Iraq’s behalf to influence the U.N. oil-for-food program.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.  — More than 200 illegal immigrants were arrested and three officials at a nationwide janitorial service face federal fraud and tax charges after an investigation of cleaning crews at a northern Michigan resort, government officials said.