Officers discovered Eduardo Aguayo Marquez behind the wheel of flatbed truck that had been reported stolen, police said.

Auction Napa Valley 2007 got off to a roaring start Friday when about 3,000 people invaded Trinchero Estate in St. Helena for Taste Napa Valley, the festive event that combines food from the area’s top restaurants and wines from the valley’s finest vintners.

It’s summer break, and Redwood Middle School students still don’t know if the dress code they’ve been living by all year will survive a legal challenge brought by a handful of parents.

Rene Alvarez didn’t count on a second set of car keys.

A June 8 front page article about a Journey of Hope bicyclist visit to Napa misstated the timing of the visit. The Push for America riders will arrive Sunday.

Memorial Stadium was awash in cheers as the last row of students jumped to their feet at the Napa High School graduation ceremony Friday afternoon.

A rear-end crash injured a St. Helena mom and her 6-year-old child on Friday afternoon.

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

Dustin Jones had a sleepness night Thursday night. As he sat wide-eyed in the early morning hours, graduation was on his mind.

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.

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

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.

LONDON — A new meningitis vaccine promises to end devastating epidemics that have plagued West Africa the last century, according to recent studies.

CONCORD, N.H. — A soldier was granted leave from the Army on Thursday to head to Florida and donate his kidney to his mother.

WASHINGTON — A cascading computer failure in the nation’s air-traffic control system caused severe flight delays and some cancellations Friday along the East Coast.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The $60 billion pledge by the world’s leading industrial nations to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases in Africa falls short of expectations and is a major setback in the fight against the epidemics ravaging the continent, activists and campaigners said Friday.

SARASOTA, Fla. — A doctor’s office employee who thought she was going to be fired fatally shot the office manager Friday morning, then went home and killed herself, authorities said.

BAGHDAD — Dozens of gunmen swooped into a police chief’s home Friday, killing his wife and two brothers and kidnapping three of his grown children. The senior officer wasn’t there, but the bold attack provided a grisly example of the dangers facing Iraqi forces as they try to take over the country’s security so American forces can leave.

LOS ANGELES  — She was taken handcuffed and crying from her home. She was escorted into court disheveled, without makeup, hair askew and face red with tears.

PARIS — The CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate key terrorist suspects, shackling and handcuffing inmates, keeping some naked for weeks and reducing contact with the outer world to masked and silent guards, a European investigator said Friday.

GENEVA — Ernest Hofstetter, part of the Swiss team that first traced the route to “The Roof of the World” used by Sir Edmund Hillary to conquer Mount Everest, has died, his son said Friday. He was 95.

ROME — President Bush signaled Friday the United States will press ahead with a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe despite Russia’s heated objections. Poland’s president expressed support for installing interceptor rockets in his country.

MADISON, Wis. — Edwin Traisman, a food scientist who created the process for freezing McDonald’s french fries and helped develop Cheez Whiz, has died at age 91.

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.