All but two schools in the Napa Valley Unified School District have met or exceeded state goals in standardized testing, based on scores released Tuesday by the state Department of Education.

A new administrator has been named to oversee Napa State Hospital’s more than 2,000 workers and more than 1,000 patients.

Funding for widening Jamieson Canyon Road to four lanes is $12 million short of the Caltrans estimate, but that won’t stop the project, said John Ponte, assistant director of the Napa County Transportation and Planning Agency, Tuesday.

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

Two months ago, 16-year-old Anthony Gee was fatally shot to death while attending a birthday party in American Canyon. On Wednesday, the two Vallejo teens accused of killing of Gee appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

The homeless man charged with the attempted murder of a Napa bicyclist pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the attack.

For one mother bird, the patch of shade from a boot-sized chunk of concrete is the most important place in the world right now.

The two Vallejo teens accused of killing 16-year-old Anthony Gee at a birthday party in American Canyon pleaded not guilty Wednesday to all charges.

Vintage High Principal Eric Schneider met with parents in a geography class at the high school Wednesday night to talk about that very class.

City Manager Mike Parness Wednesday named Barry Martin as Napa’s first community outreach coordinator.

Traffic will be detoured away from the Pearl and Yajome intersection today so workers can stripe new asphalt.

The homeless man charged with the attempted murder of a Napa bicyclist pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the attack.

A former Napa High School teacher convicted of sexually abusing a teenage boy was sentenced on Thursday to two years in state prison.

SAN FRANCISCO — The number of immigrants who became American citizens reached an all-time high in 2005, and the percentage of those who did so reached its highest level in a quarter-century, according to a study released Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — President Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress lurched toward a veto showdown over Iraq on Wednesday, the commander in chief demanding a replenishment of war funding with no strings and Speaker Nancy Pelosi counseling him, “Calm down with the threats.”

MIAMI — More than 100 Haitian migrants reached South Florida on Wednesday after spending at least three weeks at sea in a dilapidated sailboat, officials said. One man died in the crossing, and three people were in critical condition from dehydration.

KUTERI, Sudan — The men with rifles lounged on a carpet in the sand. The five of them had come to the village that morning from the crumble of mountains nearby, and now the afternoon sun was blasting. Some sipped tea.

OCEANSIDE — Five tattooed skulls stretch from Marine Cpl. Jeremy Slaton’s right elbow to his wrist, spelling out the word “Death.” He planned to add a tattoo spelling “Life” on his left arm, but that’s on hold because of a Marine policy taking effect Sunday.

ABOARD THE USS JOHN C. STENNIS — The United States wrapped up a massive military exercise in the Persian Gulf Wednesday, putting on a show of strength for Iran even as the United Arab Emirates became the second Gulf nation to declare it would not take part in any attack on the Islamic Republic.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that Britain must admit that its 15 sailors and marines entered Iranian waters in order to resolve a standoff over their capture by the Mideast nation.

PALO ALTO — Paul Joseph Cohen, a leading mathematician who won several of the world’s most prestigious math awards, has died. He was 72.

12:15 p.m. WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats ignored a veto threat and pushed through a bill Thursday requiring President Bush to start withdrawing troops from ''the civil war in Iraq,'' dealing a rare, sharp rebuke to a wartime commander in chief.

12:15 p.m. LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- In Coldwater Creek, a middle-class housing development outside Atlanta, the neighbors mind their own business and respect each other's privacy - ideal conditions, it turns out, for growing marijuana in the suburbs.