A 34-year-old Napa man was killed early Wednesday morning when his car hit a tree on Main Street.

Tobacco is one of the most addictive drugs, even more addictive than heroin. 

American Canyon police responded around 7:30 p.m., Tuesday to a report of man with a gun in the 300 block of Kimberly Drive.

Russell Altman tried to make a break for it, but his sprint for freedom was short lived.

Drug agents contacted the driver of a 1991 Nissan on Tuesday morning in the 1000 block of Central Avenue.

Maree Leonard smoked her first cigarette when she was 13. Just two years later, she was a habitual smoker. 

Michael Peter Antonini was taken into custody after a woman accused him of assaulting her at a residence in the 3000 block of Solano Avenue, police said.

Police detained two girls for questioning about a grass fire at Alston Park.

Traffic from Vallejo, Napa and points beyond create most of the traffic jams in American Canyon, according to a preliminary traffic study by the city.

The Meadows, Napa’s largest private licensed facility for seniors, is planning a major expansion, including a unit for Alzheimer’s care.

Following recent union pickets at Napa State Hospital, workers here and at other California mental health institutions celebrated a victory last week.

Napa County Sheriff’s detectives have wrapped up their investigation into the death of a 10-month-old Angwin girl who was left in the back seat of her mother’s car for at least six hours.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently appointed Napan Thomas Powers, former executive director for Napa’s Wolfe Center, to the position of chief deputy director for the Division of Addiction and Recovery Services with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

A Southern California man lost his life in the Napa Valley Thursday evening when he lost control of his sedan on Conn Creek Road south of Highway 128 near Rutherford.

BRUSSELS, Belgium — More than half of adults in European Union nations are obese or overweight and the young are increasingly making Europe a fat continent, the EU’s top public health official said Wednesday.

ATLANTA — Health officials in North America and Europe sought passenger lists Wednesday for two trans-Atlantic airline flights in their effort to find about 80 people who sat near a man infected with a dangerous drug-resistant form of tuberculosis.

SAN ANTONIO  — In the blur of smoke and blood after a bomb blew up under his Humvee in Iraq, Sgt. Tawan Williamson looked down at his shredded leg and knew it couldn’t be saved. His military career, though, pulled through.

SANGER — In the 1960s, farm labor leader Cesar Chavez rallied fieldhands to speak out against a guest worker program that recruited millions of Mexicans to pick crops at low wages.

SACRAMENTO — California will face a shortfall of 12,000 full-time registered nurses if colleges don’t increase enrollment and reduce dropout rates, according to a report by the state’s nonpartisan budget analyst.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. Critics of the detention center said the death showed the level of desperation among prisoners.

SAN FRANCISCO — More than two weeks after they were first spotted far up the Sacramento River, two lost humpback whales appeared to have finally found their way home Wednesday.

BAGHDAD — Dozens of U.S. Humvees and Bradley fighting vehicles took up positions around Sadr City at nightfall Wednesday, as American forces pressed the search for five Britons kidnapped in a mock police raid that Iraqi officials said was carried out by the Mahdi Army Shiite militia.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a request to halt the criminal case against the woman accused of running a prostitution ring in the nation’s capital.

WASHINGTON — President Bush envisions a long-term U.S. troop presence in Iraq similar to the one in South Korea where American forces have helped keep an uneasy peace for more than 50 years, the White House said Wednesday.