A Vallejo man is sitting in a Napa County jail facing assault charges at more after being arrested at an American Canyon hotel.

After being trapped in an underground pipe for years, a stretch of Tulocay Creek has been raised to the surface to the benefit of birds, fish, turtles and baseball players alike.

The Register is collecting information about summer camps for children. If your organization operates a local summer camp or your family has a favorite camp, please send information about the camps — including schedule, location, types of activities, cost and contact info — to Jillian Jones, c/o Napa Valley Register, 1615 Second St., Napa, CA 94559 or e-mail jjones@napanews.com. Information must be received by April 30./Register

EARTH DAY CELEBRATION — “Earth Day Napa Valley — Building Awareness and Inspiring Change” unfolds today, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Napa Valley College soccer fields.

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 bill designed to ease development pressure on Napa County agricultural lands has run into opposition in American Canyon and a slowdown in Sacramento, where Assemblywoman Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, was hoping to see the measure pass this year.

A decade ago Carole Wilson was a single mom in pursuit of a college degree so she could support her two children.

A 35-year-old Sonoma County woman suffered a broken ankle when the car she was driving collided head on with a big rig on Friday morning.

The Chico father of a 2-year-old girl was arrested on Thursday after hotel employees found the toddler roaming the hallway of the Marriott Hotel in Napa.

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

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Three days of fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops backing the government has killed at least 113 civilians, a local human rights group said on Friday. The U.N. said hundreds of thousands of residents had fled.

Utter the word “fitness,” and most people imagine demanding, time-consuming routines that seem incompatible with busy lives.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Helen Robson Walton, widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, died Thursday evening at her home, the company said in a news release. She was 87.

TULARE — Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, who chronicled the lives of her fellow Dust Bowl migrants working in Central California, has died. She was 88.

BLACKSBURG, Va. — The family of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho told the Associated Press on Friday that they feel “hopeless, helpless and lost,” and “never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence.”

KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan — The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive’s head to cries of “God is great!” and hoists it in triumph by the hair.

HOUSTON — A NASA contract worker took a handgun inside an office building Friday at the Johnson Space Center and fatally shot a hostage before killing himself, police said. A second hostage escaped with minor injuries.

CHICAGO — A newly released court document details four decades of alleged Chicago mob killings, including the slayings of six men accused of robbing the vault of the Mafia’s biggest boss.

PHOENIX — A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an attempt to halt implementation of Arizona’s requirement that residents prove they are U.S. citizens when they register to vote.

BERLIN — U.S. diplomatic buildings in Germany have increased their security in response to a “heightened threat,” and the U.S. Embassy warned Americans in the country to take precautions, officials said Friday.

Finding the perfect Jesus was no problem for Carl Amari — he just called up Jim Caviezel, who starred in “The Passion of the Christ” — but making a deal with just the right devil has turned out to be harder than hell.

FRESNO — When school officials announce the name of the Fresno High School prom king on Saturday, Cinthia Covarrubias will be wearing a tuxedo just like the six boys vying for the honor.

SAN FRANCISCO — Within hours of Pat Tillman’s death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connections at a base in Afghanistan, posting guards on a wounded platoon mate, and ordering a sergeant to burn Tillman’s uniform.

BAKERSFIELD — The parents of a fourth-grader injured at a track meet when he held a lighter near a starter pistol cartridge that exploded filed a claim against the school district.

SAN DIEGO — Military prosecutors have granted immunity to at least seven Marines connected to an attack that killed 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, the deadliest criminal case against U.S. troops in the Iraq war.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration said Friday that it has stopped building a new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison because of cost overruns and objections from state lawmakers, who say they were not properly notified before work began in March.