Napa police were kept hopping the past two days with reported gang activity.

In making their 3-2 decision Tuesday to allow the 3,200-dwelling Napa Pipe proposal to undergo environmental studies, Napa County Supervisors sounded more united on another idea: The city of Napa needs to be involved in the process.

Robert Bradley walks to work at Copperfields Books from downtown Napa. “I've been walking the last couple of days because the weather has been so nice. (Playing the bass along the way) passes the time,” said Bradley. Jorgen Gulliksen/Register

Looking a bit like large bumblebees and hoping to create some buzz, a group of about 75 Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers wearing yellow and black jerseys will pedal through Napa Sunday.

William Otterman was taken into custody after a woman told police he assaulted her late Wednesday night.

Napa police are trying to find the owner of a golf cart that was recovered on Villa Lane in north Napa last January. It is a tan Club Cart.

It’s graduation season — a time when some Napa Valley seniors battle anxiety about life after high school.

Napa’s replacement Maxwell Bridge was the toast of Sacramento Wednesday, winning statewide “Project of the Year” honors from the California Transportation Foundation.

Maintaining that you have to spend money to get money, the Napa County Flood Control District will pay lobbyists $258,000 next year to sway lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington.

Curtis Leray Vroman allegedly tried to pull a fast one at the Target store in Bel Aire Plaza, but his plan was foiled when security guards caught his every move Wednesday on a surveillance tape.

Cal Fire has announced beginning Monday, all permits for open burning within the California Department of Forestry jurisdiction are suspended due the danger of a wildland fire.

Jovan Arias chose to attend New Technology High School because he knew it would look better on his college application. He found out there was a reason for that.

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.

San Leandro to pay family of man

OMAHA, Neb. — Building hope for one pill to prevent many cancers, vitamin D cut the risk of several types of cancer by 60 percent overall for older women in the most rigorous study yet.

 Sept. 7: Officers arrest Paris Hilton in Hollywood for investigation of driving under the influence after she was spotted “driving erratically.”

PAW PAW, Mich.  — A man was taken on a wild ride when his wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a semitrailer and was accidentally pushed down a highway for four miles at about 50 mph, authorities said.

WASHINGTON — U.S. military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with disabling wounds are still being evaluated by a system set up decades ago and which urgently needs upgrading, the Institute of Medicine said Thursday.

WASHINGTON — A broad immigration bill to legalize millions of people in the U.S. unlawfully suffered a stunning setback in the Senate Thursday, costing President Bush perhaps his best opportunity to win a top domestic priority.

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is poised to suspend a major post-9/11 security initiative to cope with increasingly angry complaints from Americans whose summer vacations are threatened by new passport rules.

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled Congress passed legislation Thursday to loosen restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but the bill’s supporters lacked the votes needed to override President Bush’s threatened veto.

HARTFORD, Conn. — A girl who vanished a year ago and was found hidden in a room in a man’s home assumed a new identity that made her part of his family, authorities said Thursday, as they investigated whether the man had inappropriate relationships with her and other girls.

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany — Group of Eight leaders including President Bush agreed Thursday to call for substantial global emissions reductions to fight global warming and cited a goal of a 50 percent cut by 2050.

CLEVELAND — Surgeons trying to separate 3-year-old conjoined twins halted the operation because of swelling in the brain of the larger, stronger girl, but the doctors and parents said Thursday that they would try again.

WASHINGTON — A reading score that rates a fourth-grader “proficient” in Mississippi would be a failing score in Massachusetts, according to a report Thursday by the Education Department.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge Thursday froze the assets of Rep. William Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who was indicted this week on charges of soliciting bribes.