Napa County Supervisors are scheduled today to review the Napa Pipe proposal — the largest residential development proposal ever to hit Napa County.

Since January 2007, the city’s budget team, department managers, and City Council have been developing a budget for 2007-08/2008-09. Five months of work culminates over the next few weeks, as the council moves toward final approval on June 19.

Law enforcement officers were pleased with the way things went at Lake Berryessa over Memorial Day weekend, when authorities blocked off parts of the lake to limit injuries and disorderly conduct.

A gargoyle worthy of Notre Dame Cathedral. Half of an archer’s bow. A small bear, head against the wall. The illuminated interior of Davies Symphony Hall.

As the number of homes in foreclosure rises in Napa County, American Canyon finds itself at the center of the storm.

Someone used a street barricade to smash a front window of a downtown Napa store, and stole $100 worth of lingerie off mannequins in the display, Napa Police reported.

A 10-acre grass fire broke out Tuesday afternoon near the corner of Silverado Trail and Oak Knoll Avenue, Cal Fire reported.

WASHINGTON — Ruth Bader Ginsburg has no need any longer for her “I’m Ruth, Not Sandra” T-shirt. She could, however, use Sandra Day O’Connor’s vote.

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — A man previously charged with impersonating a police officer pleaded not guilty Monday to allegations of using that ploy to rape a woman, molest teenagers, scam a bus driver and commit other crimes.

NEW YORK — Search terms related to music and technology are most likely to return sites with spyware and other malicious code, a new study finds.

LOS ANGELES — The jury in Phil Spector’s murder trial on Monday heard e-mails and letters in which shooting victim Lana Clarkson said she was “at the end of my rope” and expressed despondency about her acting career, but the judge rejected a defense effort to introduce her writings about living in a home where an actress committed suicide in the 1930s.

SACRAMENTO — A former Laotian military general and a former officer in the California National Guard were charged Monday in federal court with plotting a violent overthrow of Laos’ communist government.

PHOENIX  — An increasing number of illegal immigrants who left their children back home are hiring complete strangers to bring the youngsters into this country by bluffing their way past U.S. border inspectors.

BAGHDAD — Insurgents linked to al-Qaida issued a video Monday claiming they killed all three U.S. soldiers captured in an ambush last month. “They were alive and then dead,” a voice said during a sequence of images that included the military IDs of two Americans still missing.

BEIJING — China rejected international pressure Monday to adopt mandatory caps on greenhouse gas production as it unveiled its first national program to help combat global warming.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A military judge dismissed terrorism-related charges Monday against a prisoner charged with killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, throwing up a roadblock to the Bush administration’s attempt to try Guantanamo detainees in military courts.

WASHINGTON — Louisiana congressman William Jefferson received more than $500,000 in bribes and sought millions more in nearly a dozen separate schemes to enrich himself by using his office to broker business deals in Africa, according to a federal indictment Monday.