Dozens of drivers traveling along Napa-Vallejo Highway late Monday morning were greeted by the sight of picketers lined up in front of the entrance to Napa State Hospital.

The city of American Canyon will give priority to military veterans who want to rent or lease affordable housing in the city.

Pueblo Vista Elementary students hop, skip and jump together in a wild session of jumprope during morning recess.

A Napa County jury Tuesday morning rejected a San Ramon woman’s claim she contracted herpes from a 2005 facial she received at the Villagio Inn & Spa in Yountville.

A fire started by faulty electrical wiring led Napa police to an indoor pot farm Tuesday, landing the occupant of the north Napa home behind bars facing felony drug charges.

The Napa Valley Housing Authority continued to somersault down the road of change Monday afternoon, as the board of directors launched a major well-drilling project and pondered future budgetary uncertainties.

The 11-year-old boy injured this weekend when the bicycle he was riding struck a car in north Napa is in serious condition at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, according to his mother, Holly Smith.

A security guard spotted Sandra Dufford putting clothing into a bag at Mervyns Department Store in downtown Napa Monday afternoon, according to police.

John Bruce Mayton was arrested after a woman accused him of striking her with his fist Monday, Sgt. Don Honey said.

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The flat stucco facade of the Ross clothing store on Trancas Street will be remodeled to match the new Safeway next-door.

A proposed 50-unit townhouse project on First Street, just west of Highway 29, needs further work, city planning commissions told the developer last week.

Vallerga’s Market hand-delivered letters to 30 employees Tuesday, terminating them from jobs effective April 28.

The county department responsible for repairing county roads could be on fiscal life support by 2009.

ADELANTO — The mayor of this high desert down was arrested Tuesday along with his wife for allegedly stealing more than $20,000 from Little League coffers over three years.

NEW ORLEANS — The Community Book Center, a longtime fixture on Bayou Road in the Esplanade Ridge neighborhood, was one of the numerous small-business casualties of Hurricane Katrina. The storm ravaged the venture that Vera Warren-Williams had nurtured for 25 years, where she sold black novels, required school reading texts, gifts and artwork.

WASHINGTON -- Google is using its popular online mapping service to call attention to atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan.

SACRAMENTO — A state Assembly committee voted Tuesday for a bill that would allow gay couples to marry, despite a veto threat and a continuing debate over the legislation’s constitutionality.

MONAHANS, Texas — The former principal and assistant superintendent of a state juvenile prison were indicted Tuesday on charges that they sexually abused teenage inmates in their care.

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — A few years after retiring to this Pacific resort city, David Bender was bored with golf. His new hobby, the American decided, would be tackling Mexico’s income inequality. He would do it by teaching English to Mexican children.

WASHINGTON — Democrats subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales  Tuesday for more documents, escalating their fight with the Bush administration over the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Acting on a tip, Moroccan police surrounded a building where four terrorism suspects were holed up Tuesday, causing three to flee and blow themselves up with explosives. The fourth was shot dead by a police sharpshooter as he apparently tried to detonate his bomb.

CARLSBAD — Forget being glued to their seats: Kids at a suburban San Diego high school couldn’t even get through their classroom doors Friday.

SANTORINI, Greece — Cleanup crews struggled to avert a major oil spill Tuesday on one of the Mediterranean Sea’s most picturesque destinations after a sunken cruise ship leaked dozens of tons of oil off the resort island of Santorini at the start of the summer tourist season.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency, following a congressional mandate, finalized plans Tuesday for new standards to boost the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.

RICHMOND, Va. — This is what the Museum of the Confederacy, the onetime “Shrine of the South,” has come down to:

9:30 p.m. NEW YORK -- Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' and ''Cat's Cradle,'' died Wednesday. He was 84.