A motorcyclist suffered massive head injuries when his bike was hit by a construction utility truck on Soscol and Maplewood avenues in east Napa during the evening commute hours on Tuesday.

A May 8 news brief on page A2 reported the wrong location of road work that could affect traffic near downtown Napa this week.

County officials said Tuesday they have no clue whether a program designed to house farmworkers in 120 private parcels has been effective — or if it has been used at all by farmworkers.

At New Technology High School in Napa, computers outnumber pencils. Across the ceilings and down the walls of nearly every room in the alternative school on Yount Street, purple conduits carry thick bundles of cable connecting seven hulking servers to more than 420 computers campus-wide.

A Napa woman is behind bars after a St. Helena winery notified the sheriff’s department they suspected she had passed a bad traveler’s check for $500, sheriff’s Capt. John Robertson said.

A community meeting to discuss plans for the Soscol Avenue gateway redevelopment project is tonight.

Who selects the city-county library’s new DVDs, anyway?

An off-duty Napa County sheriff’s deputy and his service weapon were reunited after a customer found the loaded firearm in the bathroom of a restaurant in Cotati last Friday.

GREENSBURG, Kan. — A police officer who was critically injured in the tornado that tore apart Greensburg was removed from life support early Tuesday, a few hours after his daughter was married at his bedside.

FORT DIX, N.J. — Six foreign-born Muslims were arrested and accused Tuesday of plotting to attack Fort Dix and slaughter scores of U.S. soldiers — a scheme the FBI says was foiled when the men asked a store clerk to copy a video of them firing assault weapons and screaming about jihad.

HERODIUM, West Bank — Under a baking sun, pieces of limestone carved with borders of rosettes and geometrical designs lay in three excavated pits Tuesday — a desert site Israeli archaeologists say is the tomb of King Herod, who ruled the Holy Land when Christ was born.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 Army soldiers to be prepared to deploy to Iraq beginning this fall, a move that would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing buildup of troops through the end of the year if needed.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas militants have enlisted a figure bearing a strong resemblance to Mickey Mouse to broadcast their message of Islamic domination and armed resistance to their most impressionable audience — children.

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration and Kansas’ governor started Tuesday pointing fingers at each other over the response to last week’s devastating tornado. By lunchtime, both sides had backed down.

SACRAMENTO — The endorsement of a controversial procedure by the state Board of Chiropractic Examiners’ undermined the usual regulatory process, according to the Legislature’s lawyer.

A registered sex offender is accused of molesting a 5-year-old boy in a restaurant restroom while the boy’s mother waited to be seated.

FRESNO — Police on Tuesday arrested a college student suspected of opening fire in an off-campus apartment during a dispute over a video game console, killing one man and wounding two others.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.  — Heavy rain from an already deadly storm system sent the Missouri River and other Midwest waterways over their banks Tuesday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate and bringing warnings that the region could see flooding close to the devastation of 1993.

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration and key senators are struggling to agree on draft legislation to secure the U.S.-Mexico border before putting millions of illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship that could take 13 years.