Victor Manuel Robledo was on his way to work in St. Helena Friday morning when he died in a head-on crash that also killed his fellow worker, Jose Santos Saucedo Valenciano.

People in society’s mainstream, those with jobs and houses and a life partner, they don’t have a clue about Napa’s homeless, said Eric Honodel, a self-taught expert.

Gordon’s Cafe and Wine Bar in Yountville, a popular haunt for Napa Valley locals and tourists alike, is getting a new owner.

The former general manager of Ehlers Estate Winery in St. Helena was taken to jail Thursday morning and charged with embezzlement.

Antonio Serrano was supposed to go to work on Saturday morning at his job in Sonoma-based St. Francis Winery. Instead, he traveled from his Napa home to St. Helena and joined 100 or more protesters in the latest demonstration for immigration reform.

A 44-year-old Napa man jumped off the First Street overpass onto Highway 29 Sunday morning and lost his life, according to the Napa Police Department.

It was his first day of school. Dressed in a blue Old Navy long sleeved shirt, jeans and white Nike tennis shoes, he appeared ready for America. Unlike other students in his situation, 11-year-old Hector Ramirez-Garnica was confident.

Angelo Ventura, an energetic 6-year-old, doesn't fit the image of a typical English learner. He speaks English well, reads well, and is too shy to speak more than a couple words in his family's native tongue, Tagalog.

In 1980, the first newcomer center in the Napa Valley Unified School District opened at Silverado Middle School. The center -- which looks from the outside like just another classroom -- wasn't just for teens new to the school. It was for people new to the country.

Teaching English learners is costly.

Confetti, cards and ice cream contributed to a festive atmosphere at the Napa Chamber of Commerce Business Expo Thursday evening.

The developer of a south Napa County property has gone to court in an attempt to force the city of American Canyon to turn over records regarding the city's decision-making on water service.

­By CARLOS VILLATORO
Register Staff Writer

A Napa man was caught literally with his pants down along Freeway Drive Friday evening.

WASHINGTON -- When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a pre-Earth Day news conference last week to promote her plans to "Green the Capitol," she promised a number of steps to make the congressional campus a model of environmentalism.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Iranian police shoved and kicked them, loaded them into a curtained minibus and drove them away. Hours later, at the gates of Evin prison, they were blindfolded and forced to wear all-enveloping chadors, and then were interrogated through the night.

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Anne Payne, program manager for Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Center -- part of Adult Day Services of Napa Valley -- is a great resource for memory issues.

SAN FRANCISCO -- As cartography projects go, Christian Nold's approach to charting the peaks and valleys of urban landscapes is decidedly unconventional.

SACRAMENTO -- Faculty at Sacramento State University overwhelmingly lack confidence in campus president Alexander Gonzalez, according to the results of a new referendum.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A French aid worker tearfully thanked the Taliban for releasing her Saturday after more than three weeks in captivity, and pleaded for the freedom of four colleagues still held in southern Afghanistan.

BAGHDAD -- A car bomb exploded Saturday in the Shiite holy city of Karbala as the streets were packed with people heading for evening prayers, killing at least 58 and wounding scores near some of the country's most sacred shrines. Separately, the U.S. military announced the deaths of nine American troops, including three killed Saturday in a single roadside bombing outside Baghdad.