To hear Napa Valley Unified School District lawyers tell it in court Wednesday, chaos would ensue if the Redwood Middle School dress code is overturned by a court injunction.

Vintners can’t make Champagne in the Napa Valley. Now, vintners in any of the 27 states that make up the European Union can’t make Napa or Napa Valley wines.

The temperature inside the black Honda where a 10-month-old Angwin baby was left for six hours Friday could have reached up to 120 degrees, according to authorities.

It could have been one big party. But it wasn’t the right place or the right time.

Napa County’s chief deputy district attorney has been honored by a group of his peers.

From Register Staff

A crash involving two big rigs, one of which overturned, closed Silverado Trail for at least two hours on Thursday afternoon.

Summer is on the way and sunny days are beckoning Napans to enjoy more outdoor activities. But many locals are battling runny noses, scratchy eyes and sinus headaches — all because of Mother Nature.

As Bank of Napa prepares for a “next phase of growth,” two top executives are saying goodbye.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to cut $39.1 million in money supporting property tax breaks for agricultural land owners died before it was even considered in the state Legislature this week.

A fire burned an outbuilding on Ross Circle in Napa, Thursday afternoon.

This year’s was Napa Valley College’s 64th annual commencement.

The following is a list of Memorial Day Weekend events around Napa County.

A “smart growth” expert will talk Wednesday about ways Napa County can better tie together transportation and land development policies.

A Napa couple was taken by ambulance to Queen of the Valley Medical Center after the motorcycle they were riding went down on Highway 128, east of Silverado Trail on Wednesday evening.

On Saturday River School hosts a Generation Green Expo, at First Presbyterian Church in downtown Napa.

Donald James Walker rented a car from Hertz Rent A Car last October and headed off to Pacific Union College.

From the Associated Press

WASHINGTON — For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers’ eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.

WASHINGTON — An estimated 820 million people around the world do not get enough to eat, despite delivery of 2.5 million tons of American food a year worth more than $1 billion, the U.S. Office of Food for Peace told Congress on Thursday.

ATLANTA — Hundreds gathered Thursday to mourn Yolanda “Yoki” Denise King, the eldest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who carried his legacy through her art and activism.

WASHINGTON — What city, divided by a river of the same name, was the imperial capital of Vietnam?

SAN FRANCISCO — Installing a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would not compromise the famous span’s ability to withstand fierce winds, according to a report released Thursday.

SACRAMENTO — State air quality regulators on Friday will consider a sweeping mandate that would clean up or replace some of the most polluting equipment driven at construction sites, airports and ski resorts.

WASHINGTON — Proponents of a broad immigration measure narrowly beat back potentially fatal challenges Thursday, including an effort to phase out the temporary worker program.

BAGHDAD — A bomb hidden in a parked car struck the funeral procession of a Sunni tribal leader who was gunned down earlier Thursday, killing at least 26 mourners as al-Qaida appeared to turn up its campaign of frightening its growing opposition into submission.

MOSCOW — Rescuers pulled the bodies of 38 workers from a southern Siberian coal mine after a methane explosion Thursday in what was the latest accident to hit the ailing industry.

WASHINGTON — The system for delivering badly needed gear to Marines in Iraq has failed to meet many urgent requests for equipment from troops in the field, according to an internal document obtained by the Associated Press.

EUGENE, Ore. — Declaring that fires set at a police station, an SUV dealership and a tree farm were acts of terrorism, a federal judge Wednesday sentenced a member of a radical environmental group to 13 years in prison.

RENO, Nev. — Incident commanders called in reinforcements Wednesday to battle a stubborn forest fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills west of Reno.

WASHINGTON — A former Justice Department official told House investigators Wednesday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tried to review his version of the prosecutor firings with her at a time when lawmakers were homing in on conflicting accounts. Gonzales has testified he hasn’t spoken with witnesses.

WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats placed strict new conditions on a broad immigration measure Wednesday, as the White House and the bipartisan group that crafted it fought to keep their compromise intact.

SANTA ROSA — A funeral service was held Thursday for Sgt. Anthony Jason Schober, one of four soldiers killed in an ambush on May 12 south of Baghdad.

ATLANTA — When Tobin Hilliard moved in with his nonsmoking fiancee 10 years ago, he abandoned the pleasure of smoking a cigarette at the kitchen table, on the living room couch or in the bedroom.

RIO VISTA— Marine biologists temporarily halted efforts to coax two lost, injured whales back to the Pacific on Thursday morning, after the sounds of clanging pipes, feeding humpbacks and killer orcas failed to induce the pair to head back to saltwater.

WASHINGTON — Five months after taking power, congressional Democrats are still looking for an elusive change in course in Iraq.

WASHINGTON — America’s lowest-paid workers won a $2.10 raise Thursday, with Congress approving the first increase in the federal minimum wage in almost a decade.

SAGINAW, Mich. — A kitchen fire engulfed a house early Thursday, killing five children and their stepfather, who ran back into the flames to try to save them, authorities said.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s only hydrogen station opened Wednesday for the first U.S. fleet of Ford shuttle buses powered by the alternative fuel, testing a technology that can lower greenhouse gases and eventually help wean the nation off foreign oil, Gov. Charlie Crist said.

Last year, "Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II" provided a good example of how a real-time strategy game could succeed on a game console.

From the Associated Press

From the Associated Press

From the Associated Press

BAGHDAD — A body recovered by Iraqi police from the Euphrates River south of Baghad Wednesday was identified as one of three American soldiers abducted in an ambush claimed by al-Qaida, relatives and officials said.