Napa Police officers arrested a Napa man Saturday evening in connection with an assault that occured on April 2.

A traffic stop turned into a drug arrest along Highway 128 in Lake Berryessa early Sunday morning.

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A Sacramento developer is proposing to tear down the 115-room Chateau Hotel on Solano Avenue and replace it with an upscale hotel twice the size with a sky bar.

Signs and verbal warnings to drivers at Sheveland Ranch didn't do the trick. Now Napa police are going to write citations to drivers on a short stretch of road in south Napa.

The city of 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.

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For the nutritionally conscious food shopper, a stroll down the supermarket aisle has become the visual equivalent of a frenetic day at the carnival: With each visit, new nutritional claims leap from boxes and packaging to hawk their products' healthful attributes, a cacophony of urgent and eye-catching messages.

WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich wants somebody running for president -- maybe himself -- to embrace his solutions to the nation's problems.

WASHINGTON -- In putting together the House's war spending bill, Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey gave false information to fellow Democrats, yelled at anti-war protesters and slammed the Washington Post.

WASHINGTON -- Justice Anthony Kennedy has become the object of his colleagues' attention on a Supreme Court with four reliably conservative votes and four dependably liberal.

WASHINGTON -- The GOP presidential race can be summed up this way: three strong contenders and a hunger for someone else.

ROMULUS, Mich. -- A Northwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit was canceled after authorities said a pilot was yelling obscenities during a mobile phone conversation as passengers boarded.

ORANGE COVE -- A century ago, when Harvey Bailey's great uncle happened upon this spot where California's Central Valley begins its ascent toward the Sierra Nevada, he could tell it was a land made for farming.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- A female white supremacist gang member stabbed a black man and woman during an apparent race-related brawl late Thursday, authorities said.

SACRAMENTO -- The taxman is going after the medical marijuana man.

LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of people marched through downtown on Saturday, demanding a way for the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become American citizens and condemning President Bush's latest proposal.

MYSORE, India (AP) -- At the heart of the sprawling corporate campus, in a hilltop building overlooking the immaculately shorn lawns, the sports fields and the hypermodern theater complex, young engineers crowd into a classroom.

JERUSALEM -- The newly opened Kosher Gym in Jerusalem offers prayer books instead of magazines at its juice bar, and bearded men listen to Talmudic interpretations on earphones as they exercise.

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- A Russian rocket carrying the American billionaire who helped develop Microsoft Word roared into the night skies over Kazakhstan Saturday, sending Charles Simonyi and two cosmonauts soaring into orbit on a two-day journey to the international space station.

KIEV, Ukraine -- Since the tumultuous Orange Revolution of 2004 opened the door to democracy in Ukraine, this ex-Soviet republic has lurched from one political showdown into another. This time, however, the stakes are higher.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI baptized eight people during a candlelit Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica early Sunday, opening the most important event of the Christian Church calendar.