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.

Four weeks ago, Diego Cazares wouldn’t touch fruits or vegetables. Instead, the 13-year-old ate chips, pizza, burgers and cookies.

Agricultural officials plan to spray an organic pesticide in Napa County in an effort to wipe out the Australian light brown apple moth recently discovered in the county.

The Napa County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to send the largest development proposal the county has ever seen down a public path of inquiry, setting in motion environmental studies for the residential and commercial development of the 152-acre Napa Pipe site.

American Canyon’s proposed Town Center development should have a new post office, a big community center with a kitchen, an arts and cultural center, and maybe a new Boys and Girls Club.

A bill to allow Napa County the right to purchase Skyline Park passed the state Senate this afternoon by the narrowest of margins.

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

For many city residents, the biggest impact from Napa’s budget cutbacks may be what happens when they call police to report vandalism and thefts.

A computer and electronics recycling drive is Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Napa Valley College soccer field parking lot.

A male subject was arrested Monday after he wandered onto the Harvest Middle School campus during school hours and passed out, according to Napa Police.

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.

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby wrapped their client in the flag Tuesday, but the tactic didn’t work.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A surveillance video shows a missing 18-year-old being forced into her car at a Target store where she had stopped for an errand over the weekend, police said.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The patient lay on the operating table, prepped for transplant surgery. In the air over Lake Michigan, a twin-engine plane sped his way, carrying a team of surgeons and technicians, along with a donor organ on ice.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s nuclear program cannot be stopped, and any Western attempt to force a halt to uranium enrichment would be like playing “with the lion’s tail,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Bush drew sporadic, startling criticism Tuesday night from Republican White House hopefuls unhappy with his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style and his approach to immigration.

MUSCAT, Oman — Thousands of people fled low-lying areas as the strongest cyclone to threaten the Arabian Peninsula in 60 years blasted Oman’s eastern coast early Wednesday with strong winds and waves, Civil Defense officials said. Southern Iran and the oil-rich Persian Gulf were next in its path.

SANTA BARBARA — The county needs to do a better job of tracking its population of up to 75,000 illegal immigrants, a grand jury said.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — City officials approved a plan Monday to offer illegal immigrants identification cards that would let them open bank accounts and use other services that may be unavailable without driver’s licenses or state-issued IDs.

SAN FRANCISCO  — A hefty bill came due for San Francisco employers Tuesday as a deadline arrived for complying with a voter-approved law requiring paid sick time for almost all workers.

COLEVILLE — Winds gusting up to 65 mph fanned a Sierra wildfire that forced the evacuation Tuesday of up to 200 people near the California-Nevada line and the closure of a 40-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 395.