Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man at the Rutherford Grill Monday night after two female patrons each reported the man, who was naked in the women’s restroom, attempted to rape them.

Living with a school dress code doesn’t mean you can’t be stylish on campus.

A March 24 front page story about water rights around American Canyon misstated the occupation of Jim Barbour, one of those seeking city water service. He is a vineyard management consultant.

American Canyon’s fire chief plans to throw his hat — or rather his helmet — into the ring for a spot on the Napa County Board of Supervisors.

Former Napa County Fire Marshal Kate Dargan is making history, becoming the first woman to be named California Fire Marshal.

Robert G. Gallagher calls his oddball exhibit of mundane and macabre Elvis memorabilia “the greatest find since the Titanic.”

The Helfrich family didn’t ask for it, but this weekend dozens of Napa families came together to shop for bargains, set the children loose on games — and raise thousands of dollars to help support Wendy Helfrich, who suffered a medical lapse in 2005 that radically altered life for her and her family.

PHOENIX — Gov. Janet Napolitano removed the director of the Department of Veterans’ Services on Monday from direct responsibility over the state’s troubled nursing home for military veterans, the governor’s spokeswoman said.

SAN FRANCISCO — It took seven years after the fighting had ended for the nation to dedicate the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. This time around, Americans aren’t waiting for the shooting to stop.

FREMONT — The first deaf retirement home in Northern California has ended up taking mostly hearing seniors, frustrating the project’s organizers, who hoped for a deaf-only enclave.

RICHMOND, Va. — A fire in a crowded house sent people climbing out windows to safety early Monday, and killed two young girls and injured 11 other people, fire officials said.

WASHINGTON — High-ranking Army officers made critical errors in reporting the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, but there was no criminal wrongdoing in the shooting of the former NFL star by fellow soldiers, the military concluded Monday.

NEW YORK — David Stockman, the former budget director in the Reagan White House, was charged Monday with overseeing a sweeping fraud at a troubled auto parts supplier that he led before the company sought bankruptcy protection.

WASHINGTON — The children and parents gathered for story time one recent Saturday morning in Washington, D.C., heard “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” not once but twice. “In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf,” the Eric Carle classic began in the first rendition.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The leaders of Northern Ireland’s major Protestant and Catholic parties, sitting side by side for the first time in history, announced a stunning deal Monday to forge a coalition of archenemies within six weeks.

12:50 p.m. WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller labored Tuesday to persuade skeptical senators that the FBI can properly use its Patriot Act authority to gather telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists.

SAN DIEGO — A border inspector who pleaded guilty to accepting cash bribes and luxury cars in exchange for allowing smugglers to sneak hundreds of illegal immigrants from Mexico into the United States was sentenced Monday to 57 months in prison.

DANIA BEACH, Fla. — Anna Nicole Smith accidentally overdosed on at least nine prescription drugs — including a powerful sleep syrup she was known to swig right out of the bottle — after a miserable last few days in which she endured stomach flu, a 105-degree fever, pungent sweating and an infection on her buttocks from repeated injections.