Police say Yvonne Lynn Cramer was taking home more than just her paycheck from her job at the Target Store in Vallejo.

The recent opening of the roadway realigning Soscol Avenue so it intersects Trancas Street at Big Ranch Road completes a long-planned circulation improvement, but the temporary closure of Old Soscol Avenue near Trancas has caused difficulty for drivers.

Police pulled Will Tyler Harding over on his bicycle at the corner of Jefferson Street and Old Sonoma Road around 1 p.m., Tuesday.

Martin Andrew Bartlebaugh was given a free ride to the county jail after he allegedly forced his way into a former girlfriend’s house on Oak Street early Wednesday morning, police said.

Challenged by an environmental organization, the Napa Sanitation District has agreed to do additional studies of how its operations might contaminate local waterways.

A Napa family was awakened abruptly  early Thursday morning by gunshots fired at their home and vehicle. A witness said the gunfire came from a vehicle passing the residence. No one was hurt.

The Napa teen who told police he was attacked by four men as he walked along First Street on May 4, admitted he made up the story, according to police.

A Napa man was booked on suspicion of felony DUI Wednesday evening after the sport utility vehicle he was driving rear-ended the car in front of him on Highway 29 near Madison Avenue in Yountville.

Two hotels in north Napa phoned police about an unwanted person hanging around their businesses late Wednesday night.

The motorcyclist seriously injured in a crash Tuesday evening on Soscol and Maplewood avenues has been identified as Gregory Sabin, 26, of Napa.

The Soscol Gateway redevelopment project to improve Auto Row and surrounding areas will have a slower start than Napa officials had hoped.

The Living Rivers Council will ask for an injunction to block construction of St. Helena’s flood control project unless the city agrees to major changes.

On Saturday the National Association of Letter Carriers and Napa Valley Food Bank will work together to “Stamp Out Hunger” in Napa Valley. Letter carriers will pick up food donations left near mailboxes while on their delivery routes.

BAGHDAD — Radical Shiite politicians pressed Thursday for legislation demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops and a freeze on the number of foreign forces already in the country — even as the U.S. Congress debates the fate of the troubled mission.

TOKYO — A Japanese hospital opened the country’s only anonymous drop box for unwanted infants Thursday despite government admonitions against abandoning babies.

MILAN, Italy — It would take one very large fig leaf to restore modesty to Milan’s main park after the installation of a 70-foot floating sculpture of a naked man.

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to pay for military operations in Iraq on an installment plan, defying President Bush’s threat of a second straight veto in a test of wills over the unpopular war.

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Northern Idaho’s rate of a potentially deadly skin cancer is twice that of the rest of the state, and medical experts say that’s because the region is so attractive to Californians and residents of other sunny southwestern states.

LOS ANGELES — The four firefighters had dug in beneath a pedestrian bridge and trained their hoses on a wildfire chewing through canyon brush when the winds picked up and the fire suddenly roared closer.

SACRAMENTO — A coalition of California business leaders said Thursday they would like to see health care reform accomplished this year, essentially signing onto Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s universal coverage proposal.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A victims’ rights group released documents Thursday that showed the Jehovah’s Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually abused by church elders or that church officials failed to act on abuse allegations.

SACRAMENTO — The state Assembly on Thursday approved legislation that would allow farmers to grow hemp, narrowly overcoming objections that it violates federal drug laws and could put growers behind bars.

LONDON — Tony Blair announced his resignation Thursday in a poignant — almost apologetic — speech to the nation, thanking his compatriots for his successes during more than a decade as prime minister, and seeking understanding for leading Britain into an unpopular war in Iraq.

SANTA ANA — Jurors convicted a Chinese-born engineer Thursday of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable.

WASHINGTON — Future eastern United States summers look much hotter than originally predicted with daily highs about 10 degrees warmer than in recent years by the mid-2080s, a new NASA study says.

LONDON  — If it really is what’s on the inside that counts, then a lot of thin people might be in trouble.

AVALON — A 500-acre wildfire erupted on Santa Catalina Island on Thursday and churned toward Avalon, the major city on the resort isle more than 20 miles off Southern California. Evacuations were under way.

LONDON — There was a long pause when Gordon Brown was asked once whether he, like Tony Blair, would have joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.