Copperfield’s Books in Bel Aire Plaza has canceled the May 4 book signing for “48 Hours” producer Paul LaRosa, author of “Nightmare in Napa,” about the double-murder committed by Eric Copple.

The trial of Napa resident Joben Lombardi, 26, accused of murdering of a 13-year-old Vallejo runaway has been postponed until Sept. 12 because Lombardi’s attorney, Merv Lernhart is recovering from hip replacement surgery.

A 7-year-old Napa boy suffered a broken leg and cuts in a crash on Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Jefferson and Second streets.

The Register is collecting information about summer camps for children.

Napa Valley College trustees may conduct a poll to gauge community support for another college bond measure or a tax extension to help the school complete several planned upgrades.

Plans for employee layoffs and reduced funding for community programs drew a standing-room-only crowd Wednesday night to hear Napa City Manager Mike Parness present a grim budget picture.

Although the city of Napa is facing major budgets cuts, public safety officials have vowed to do their best to make sure police and fire services do not suffer.

The widespread cutbacks proposed by Napa City Manager Mike Parness would have significant impact on services including the main library, the Napa Valley Conference and Visitors Bureau and local community access television.

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.

BLACKSBURG, Va. —  Midway through his murderous rampage, the Virginia Tech gunman went to the post office and mailed NBC a package containing photos and videos of him brandishing guns and delivering a snarling, profanity-laced tirade about rich “brats” and their “hedonistic needs.”

NEIVA, Colombia — The long-dormant Nevado del Huila volcano erupted late Tuesday and early Wednesday, provoking avalanches and floods that swept away houses and bridges and prompted thousands to evacuate.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority upheld a nationwide ban Wednesday on a controversial abortion procedure in a decision that sets the stage for additional restrictions on a woman’s right to choose to end her pregnancy.

NEW YORK — The hot spot du jour of Manhattan nightlife looms large over Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, where crowds of stylish YoCos — young cosmopolitans — were jostling inside one evening last week for the right to pay the $15 cover. Rather than crossing the velvet ropes for a rave, house party or disco, the hip patrons were packing into a controversial lecture at the New York Public Library on the modern meaning of feminism.

NEW YORK — Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie “A Night at the Opera,” died after a battle with pneumonia, her son said Wednesday. She was 96.

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — A teenager shot and killed himself Wednesday shortly after pointing a handgun at two other students in a high school parking lot, police said.

TRENTON, N.J. — It was an ominous tale — an erratic driver in a red pickup racing wildly along the nation’s busiest toll road sends the governor’s sport utility vehicle careening into a guard rail.

NEW YORK — A writer accused of posing as a city firefighter and sexually abusing a woman was declared medically fit for trial despite three skull fractures, a judge said Wednesday.

TIJUANA, Mexico — Police and soldiers battled gunmen at a hospital in the border city of Tijuana Wednesday in violence that left at least three people dead before the authorities subdued the attackers, officials said.

ATLANTA — Research on two continents signaled more bad news for menopause hormones, offering the strongest evidence yet that they can raise the risk of breast cancer and are tied to a slightly higher risk of ovarian cancer.

WASHINGTON — A break-in targeting State Department computers worldwide last summer occurred after a department employee in Asia opened a mysterious e-mail that quietly allowed hackers inside the U.S. government’s network.