Police make series of domestic violence arrests
Peace officers made three domestic violence arrests this weekend in three separate incidents from one end of Napa County to the other.
Spector’s past to figure in trial of former Napa woman’s death
LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector never denied he wagged a pistol at a member of the Ramones or fired off a shot during a studio session with John Lennon.
Ex-city worker pleads guilty to child porn possession
A former Napa city assistant planning director has pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing more than 1,000 child pornography photos and videos.
Arrest in wine warehouse blaze
Seventeen months after a warehouse blaze in Vallejo wiped out more than $200 million worth of wine, federal agents Monday arrested a Marin County man for starting the fire.
1 p.m. UPDATE: Two killed in crash on Trail
A Calistoga teen and her 21-year-old friend died in a two-vehicle crash Monday night on Silverado Trail.
Napan arrested for fleeing scene of crash
California Highway Patrol officers arrested a Napa man Monday morning, saying he failed to stop at a traffic crash on Silverado Trail and Glass Mountain Road.
Emergency preparedness fair Saturday
A variety of groups are helping out Saturday to show Napa County residents how to prepare of potential emergency situations.
Homeless forum tonight
Join in at tonight’s Community Forum on the Homeless at 6:30 p.m., at Napa City Hall.
4:30 p.m. UPDATE: Calistogan dies in Highway 29 crash, highway closed in both directions
A 39-year-old Calistoga woman died this afternoon in a car crash on Highway 29 in Yountville, closing the highway in both directions.
Two crashes take lives of three Calistogans
Two car crashes have taken the lives of three Calistoga residents, including a teenager.
Corps finds $3 million more for ’07
The Napa Flood Project received 3 million pieces of good news on Monday.
McClintock: GOP should stand tall
Though the talk may have been designed for a group of Republicans, Denise Levine saw Monday’s visit from a leading California Republican as an opportunity for a Democrat like herself to learn about the political beliefs of others.
3 p.m. UPDATE: Tigger clothing ban causes family to sue school district
No Jesus — or Tigger — allowed.
A name fit for the Queen
Queen of the Valley Hospital is no more.
Cracking Redwood’s dress code
Toni Kay Scott, a 14-year-old Redwood Middle School eighth-grader, longingly watches her friends from other schools wear stripes and two tones.
With each new crisis, Bush finding less political support from Republicans
WASHINGTON — With every unfolding crisis, President Bush is finding fewer allies in his corner. Republicans are ever more nervous about the Iraq war, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ problems, FBI abuses of the Patriot Act and the botched treatment of war wounded at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Supreme Court debates about testimony in Solano County murder case
WASHINGTON — John Fry was convicted of shooting two people to death alongside a Northern California highway even though a witness overheard another man confess to the crimes.
D.C. madam case leads to speculation that there are big names on the client list
McLEAN, Va. — High-priced call girls always seem to have their little black books. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, accused of running an illegal escort service in the nation’s capital, has 46 pounds of phone records.
First visitors step onto Canyon skywalk
HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. — Indian leaders and former astronauts stepped gingerly beyond the Grand Canyon’s rim Tuesday, staring through the glass floor and into the 4,000-foot chasm below during the opening ceremony for a new observation deck.
Missing Boy Scout found alive after 4 days in N. C. wilderness
McGRADY, N.C.— A 12-year-old Boy Scout whose favorite book was about a youngster lost in the wilderness now has his own harrowing survival tale to tell after rescuers found him Tuesday, dehydrated and disoriented from four days in the wooded mountains of North Carolina.
Around the globe: March 21
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Fire kills at least 62 at nursing home in Russian town an hour from nearest fire station
KAMYSHEVATSKAYA, Russia — The feeble residents of the nursing home lived their final moments in terror, some banging on windows pleading for help as the two-story brick building burned around them in the middle of the night.
Bush says Congress can question aides — but not in public or under oath; Democrats say no
WASHINGTON — A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides testify about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath or risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down.
Experts say exercise can help the elderly prevent falls, injuries
DALLAS — Like a lot of people, former flight attendant Mary Nicholson wasn’t an exerciser. But two years ago she changed all that — at age 71.
House panel approves subpoenas for top Bush aides in prosecutor flap
9:07 a.m. WASHINGTON -- A House panel on Wednesday approved subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove and other top White House aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors.
Gore urges quick U.S. action to avert global warming catastrophe
9 a.m. WASHINGTON -- Al Gore, a Democratic favorite for the presidency despite pronouncements that he's not running, spoke out on his signature issue Wednesday, warning of a ''true planetary emergency'' if Congress fails to act on global warming.
Far from Iraq, a demonstration of a war zone
WASHINGTON — There’s a lot of weirdness every day in the capital city, but this one pushed the envelope: 13 Iraq war veterans in full desert camo going on “patrol” from Union Station to Arlington National Cemetery.
