After more than a month’s surveillance, drug agents made their move and arrested a suspected drug trafficker in Napa.

Authorities have identified the victim of an Upvalley fatal crash that happened Thursday night on Conn Creek Road, south of Highway 128.

A back-to-basics budget reining in millions of dollars of city spending has a City Council public hearing Monday night.

If enthusiasm could sell shirts, these young entrepreneurs would make a mint.

The county released its proposed budget Friday, revealing a balanced budget with a kick: The county expects to be able to pay down more than $40 million in money it will owe on employees’ retirement health care benefits within 14 years.

Why is Napa in a budget pickle?

For a short time Friday afternoon, street construction conspired to create near total gridlock in downtown Napa.

Calistoga police received a call Thursday afternoon of a man yelling and throwing furniture and other items out of the window at his residence in the 2400 block of Foothill Boulevard.

FRUITLAND, Iowa — A tornado flattened dozens of homes in three rural eastern Iowa towns Friday, leaving an eight-mile path of destruction through businesses and neighborhoods in Muscatine.

PERRIS  — Grad Week at Perris High School was supposed to be about exchanging yearbooks, trying on caps and gowns and partying with classmates on the annual senior trip.

GALESBURG, Ill. — Caisha Gayles graduated with honors last month, but she is still waiting for her diploma. The reason: the whoops of joy from the audience as she crossed the stage.

PARIS — A French naval frigate conducting a surveillance mission off Malta discovered the bodies of 18 people floating in the Mediterranean Friday, a navy spokesman said.

WASHINGTON — In the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor logs, declaring them to be presidential records.

BOGOTA, Colombia — The government transferred jailed leftist rebels to a holding center Friday as part of President Alvaro Uribe’s bid to win freedom for 60 rebel-held hostages, including three U.S. defense contractors and former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.

BEIJING — Vice Premier Huang Ju, a key ally of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin who climbed the ranks of Shanghai politics to join the Communist Party’s inner sanctum of power, died early Saturday, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was 68.

WASHINGTON — Even as troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are serving longer and more often — three, four, even five times — roughly half of Americans in uniform have not been sent at all.

SANTA BARBARA — Mark Harris, best known for baseball novels that included “Bang the Drum Slowly,” narrated by the fictional Henry Wiggen, has died. He was 84.

WASHINGTON — Kids watch fewer food television ads than they did in 1977, a federal agency said Friday — but there’s a catch.

SAN FRANCISCO — Preston Martin, the onetime No. 2 officer at the Federal Reserve who advocated for fair lending practices, has died. He was 83.