$6.6 million loan for new AmCan City Hall
American Canyon will take a $6.6 million loan to finance the purchase of its new city hall at Cabernet Village, the City Council voted Thursday.
Two days of Independence fun in AmCan
American Canyon’s Fourth of July celebration will begin a day early this year if enough money is raised for a two-day event.
Florida firm buys JV Wine site
A Miami-based real estate group is the buyer of the JV Wine & Spirits property on First Street.
For the Record: April 7
A March 30 story front page about a former Napa High School teacher convicted of nine counts of sexual abuse misstated information about his sentence and a defense argument at trial.
An appreciation of Sister Ann
More than 150 people attended a memorial Mass Wednesday at St. Apollinaris Catholic Church in celebration of Sister Ann McGuinn, former administrator at Queen of the Valley Hospital, who died March 27. Sister Ann was remembered as a woman of incredible strength, courage and leadership. She was 85 years old.
Friends mourn Calistoga woman who died in Yountville crash
To some, Jennifer Haden, 39, may be just one more person to die on the sometimes treacherous roads of Napa Valley.
AmCan firefighter battles rare disease
Fighting fires for nearly 30 years was a passion for Jim Stavas. His fight today is dealing with a rare illness.
With no place else to go, Miami sex offenders live under bridge
MIAMI — In a county where any housing within close to a half-mile of a school is off-limits for sex offenders, five convicts have been forced to call the low space under the Julia Tuttle Causeway home.
Around the globe: Global warming effects hit poor hardest
BRUSSELS, Belgium — As the world gets hotter by degrees, millions of poor people will suffer from hunger, thirst, floods and disease unless drastic action is taken, scientists and diplomats warned Friday in their bleakest report ever on global warming.
98 percent of illegal border-crossers never prosecuted
EL PASO, Texas — For all the tough talk out of Washington on immigration, illegal immigrants caught along the Mexican border have almost no reason to fear they will be prosecuted.
Jailed former Rwandan president pardoned on genocide anniversary
NAIROBI, Kenya — Rwanda’s first post-genocide leader walked free from prison Friday after a surprise presidential pardon of his convictions that included inciting ethnic tension.
Old rockets rest in pieces in space junkyard
LOS ANGELES — Mounds of titanium and steel glinted in the afternoon sun, valves and pipes protruding in all directions like half-formed metal organisms.
‘Just shoot me,’ suspect begs in N.J. bank robbery that led to FBI agent’s death
BRANCHBURG, N.J. — When a third suspect was caught Friday in a bank robbery investigation that led to the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, he had a request for officers: “Just shoot me.”
Disney opens Fairy Tale Wedding service to
gay couples
LOS ANGELES — Same-sex couples who want to exchange vows in front of Cinderella’s Castle now have the chance.
Pranksters glue doors shut at SoCal high school
CARSLBAD — Forget being glued to their seats: Kids at a suburban San Diego County high school couldn’t even get through their classroom doors Friday.
HDL raising drugs may be of limited use in fighting cholesterol
For nearly two decades, the mantra of cardiologists has been “Reduce bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol.”
Noted California child psychiatrist accused of molesting boy
patients dating back to 1960s
REDWOOD CITY— A child psychiatrist who once headed the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry was arrested amid allegations he molested male patients dating back to the 1960s.
Judge temporarily halts deportation of immigrants detained in New Bedford, Mass., factory raid
BOSTON — A Massachusetts judge on Friday temporarily barred federal officials from deporting a large group of illegal immigrants snared in a factory raid last month.
Ride the Screamer at Sacramento fun park, but no shrieks allowed
SACRAMENTO — No screaming on the Screamer!
Education official put on leave after disclosure of stock ownership
WASHINGTON — A Department of Education official who oversaw the student loan industry and owned at least $100,000 worth of stock in a student loan company has been placed on leave, a department spokeswoman said Friday.
