One of the Vallejo teens accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy in American Canyon has hired a new attorney, prompting the court to delay the boys’ arraignment for another two weeks.

Three pocket parks with views of downtown waterways are in the early design stage.

Many people see local government as a monolith, one machine that takes your tax money and pays for some service you use, like public schools or streetlights.

The Napa Valley Housing Authority board of directors took their first public step Monday toward handing over their longtime leadership of three area farmworker camps to Napa County.

Veterans organizations will participate in a ceremony Saturday to commemorate the closure of Veteran’s Memorial Park for reconstruction.

Two days of activities will mark the reopening of the Goodman Library, home to the Napa County Historical Society, in April.

Police are still trying to unravel the crimes and pinpoint suspects in a homicide and separate attempted murder in downtown Napa this year.

A burglar alarm tipped off Calistoga police of a burglary early Tuesday morning, netting the arrest of three suspects.

This winter was supposed to be an “El Niño” event, with blustery, wet weather coming to the West Coast courtesy of changing ocean temperatures on the open sea between Hawaii and Alaska.

A traffic stop in Calistoga ended with the arrest of two out-of-county suspects.

On Tuesday, page A6 in the Building Business column, the last name of developer Kirk Geyer and his wife Lisa Geyer, a real estate agent with ReMax, was misspelled.

Traffic congestion in the Napa downtown parking lot next to the movie theater lead to the arrest of a Napa man and trip to the hospital for a male victim, suffering from a head wound, police said.

MOCKSVILLE, N.C. — Investigators are probing whether oxygen tanks may have started a fire at an adult care home that killed one person and left more than a dozen hospitalized, among other possible causes, authorities said Tuesday.

NEW YORK — Here’s a tip for the guy who beat up a 101-year-old woman in a walker and took off with her purse: Get out of New York.

NEW ORLEANS — The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President Bush’s promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.

CHICAGO — Carrots, rich in beta carotene, long have been thought to sharpen eyesight, but a new study suggests that beta carotene pills are powerless against a common type of vision loss among older people.

MADISON, Wis. — With the thermometer hovering at 22, and the wind ripping off a frozen Lake Mendota, Rink DaVee and his brother Jim decided to take a stroll.

LONDON — As little as five minutes of exercise seems to help smokers curb their craving for a cigarette, a review of a dozen studies found.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — It was a summer day in 2003, when Iraq was still filled with the half-truths of occupation and liberation, before its nihilistic descent into carnage.

SACRAMENTO — Two female Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies have resigned over allegations that they had phone sex with jail inmates while on duty.

ANAHEIM — The Happiest Place on Earth doesn’t want any new neighbors.

MERIDA, Mexico — President Bush sought to soothe strained ties with Mexico on Tuesday by promising to prod Congress to overhaul tough U.S. immigration policies. But Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized U.S. plans for a 700-mile border fence and said Bush must do more to curb American drug appetites.

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday described past Republican political malfeasance in New Hampshire as evidence of a “vast, right-wing conspiracy.”

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Halliburton Co.’s decision to split its headquarters between Houston and Dubai, where its CEO will move, puts a key company post nearer to important markets — and further from some political headaches. Industry experts say that makes sense.

Can you put a price on a good night’s rest?