Napa school board members are encouraging Vintage High School administrators to consider switching to a seven-period day to help solve troubles over adding additional classes.

A Napa woman reported missing by her family Thursday night was found unharmed in a Sonoma County vineyard this morning.

If any of the more than 5,000 Oat Hill Mine Road Trail visitors veer too far north or south on their way from their cars at Highway 29 and Silverado Trail near Calistoga to the trailhead, they aren’t visitors anymore. They’re trespassers.

There have been three confirmed cases of E. coli in Napa County, affecting children who ate at two Little League baseball snack shacks, according to the county department of health and human services.

A front page story on April 13 about local banks misstated two facts about Napa Community Bank.

Faced with a surge in hotel construction with the promise of more projects to come, Napa will study how many more rooms the market can handle.

A plan by Kendall-Jackson founder Jess Jackson to build a winery and visitor’s complex in bucolic Knights Valley continues to drive a wedge between neighbors in the Franz Valley/Knights Valley area.

Howell Mountain School, the only campus in the smallest public school district in Napa County, could become a lot larger under a plan proposed by Pacific Union College.

Spanish outreach coordinator Luis Juarez; Edgar Avina, 15; and Jose Carrasco, 19, pray with the St. John’s Catholic Church youth group during a candlelight vigil Thursday night in response to the shootings at  Virginia Tech. Lianne Milton/Register

WASHINGTON — Time and again, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claimed a hazy memory Thursday about his role in the firings of eight federal prosecutors. Seventy-one times, in fact.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian engineers began filling a new dam Thursday as archaeologists warned that its reservoir will flood newly discovered antiquities and could damage Iran’s grandest site, the ancient Persian capital of Persepolis.

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Police used tear gas and stun grenades Thursday to disperse thousands of opposition protesters who had marched to the president’s office in the Kyrgyz capital to demand his resignation.

BLACKSBURG, Va. — In high school, Cho Seung-Hui almost never opened his mouth. When he finally did, his classmates laughed, pointed at him and said: “Go back to China.”

SELMER, Tenn. — A preacher’s wife who claimed her husband abused her was convicted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday for killing him with a shotgun she said fired accidentally as she aimed at him.

WASHINGTON — On the 10th floor of a Tysons Corner, Va., high-rise populated mostly by law firms and software companies is an office where travel agents book multimillion-dollar jaunts to outer space.

GENEVA — Car crashes are the leading cause of death worldwide for people between 10 and 24, the U.N. health agency said Thursday, adding that most such fatalities occur in developing countries with poor road safety conditions.

REDWOOD CITY — A judge on Thursday approved a plea agreement in the case of a San Bruno man accused of planning to kill a Planned Parenthood doctor who performed an abortion for his girlfriend.

Man sets himself on fire inside Long Beach City Hall

YUBA CITY — Schools in Yuba City and neighboring Marysville tightened security Thursday while law enforcement authorities searched for a man they said had threatened a Virginia Tech-style massacre.

SACRAMENTO — The California Senate on Thursday approved the largest expansion of Indian gambling in the state since tribes were given the authority to operate casinos.

WASHINGTON  — Rep. John Doolittle, whose house was searched by the FBI in an influence-peddling investigation, said Thursday he will step down temporarily from the House Appropriations Committee.