The merger between Vintage Bank’s parent company and Umpqua Holding Corporation is not the only recent change in Napa’s financial sector.

Fire investigators are sifting through debris to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed a garage and damaged a home in Napa early Friday morning.

The many forms of housing discrimination against Latinos was the topic of a presentation to local attorneys and real estate professionals on Friday.

With Bel Aire Plaza burgeoning with new shopping and dining attractions, commercial development may now move across the street.

A March 13 page one story about credit unions neglected to mention one of the six credit unions operating in Napa Valley.

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The fallout for fallen radio talk show star Don Imus has worked its way to Napa, where the station carrying “Imus in the Morning” has a gap in its lineup.

Investigators are sifting through debris to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed a garage and damaged a home in Napa early Friday morning.

A man was injured when a mobile home caught fire in American Canyon Friday night.

A structure fire at an American Canyon mobile home park Friday evening destroyed a mobile home, sent a man to the hospital with burns and led to the bizarre arrest of a neighbor who struck a firefighter in the head.

Like many children his age, Airyn Carvalho enjoys playing team sports such as soccer, basketball and football. But he has to be careful.

A solo crash Thursday afternoon on Highway 128 near Moskowite Corners landed three victims in the hospital after the pickup they were riding in ran off the road and plowed into a tree, the California Highway Patrol said.

NORTENO, Panama — Dressed in sweaty surgical scrubs and grappling with a screaming 6-year-old girl as he pulled her abscessed tooth, dentist Jason Vogt didn’t look the part of a diplomat.

PARIS — Ambushing locals as they return home from work, foreign invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli army said Friday that it was suspending the commander of troops seen using two Palestinian youths as human shields, the latest evidence that its soldiers still protect themselves with civilians in violation of international and Israeli law.

LOS ANGELES — Friends call him Thurston Howell III, for his passing resemblance to the millionaire played by Jim Backus in the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island.”

CAMDEN, N.J. — Gov. Jon S. Corzine was apparently riding without a seat belt, in violation of state law, when he was critically injured in the crash of his official vehicle, a spokesman said Friday.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department weighed political activism and membership in a conservative law group in evaluating the nation’s federal prosecutors, documents released in the probe of fired U.S. attorneys show.

SANTA MONICA — Hollywood art director George Jenkins, who won an Oscar for his work in the 1976 film “All the President’s Men” and was nominated for 1979’s “The China Syndrome,” has died. He was 98.

6 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO -- Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.

WASHINGTON -- Finance officials from the world's wealthiest countries expressed confidence Friday that the global economy will experience strong growth despite risks.

WASHINGTON — Students who took part in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex as those who did not, according to a study ordered by Congress.

PHILADELPHIA — The Vatican has defrocked a former priest accused of sexually assaulting and whipping boys participating in Passion plays, the Philadelphia archdiocese said.

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led troops and aircraft pounded Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, killing more than 35, the coalition said. A British NATO soldier was killed in separate fighting, which has intensified following a winter lull.

NEW YORK — The standard advice for how much weight a woman should gain during pregnancy may need to changed, concludes a rigorous and provocative study suggesting that even accepted weight gains may raise the risk of having an overweight toddler.

LOS ANGELES — Barry Nelson, an MGM contract player during the 1940s who later had a prolific theater career and was the first actor to play James Bond on screen, has died. He was 89.

SAN DIEGO — In a world of high-tech sensors and underwater robotics, Koa the bottlenose dolphin and others like her may still be the Navy’s best line of defense against terrorists in scuba gear.

WASHINGTON — In a child’s buffet of food commercials, more than 40 percent of the dishes are candy, snacks and fast food. Nowhere to be found: fresh fruit, vegetables, poultry or seafood.