Charles Wilson feels good about his drive off the sixth tee at the Napa Golf Course in Kennedy Park, despite the pre-swing heckling of his friends.

American Canyon’s first senior center should have room for arts and crafts, meetings, a library, counseling, a food pantry, computer and exercise classes, and a travel office.

Community members have only a few chances left to speak their minds on Napa County’s grand plan for the next few decades.

A group of Calistoga residents are drumming up support for their run at a possible impeachment of President Bush.

A 17-year-old being held in connection with the  death of Anthony Gee last January said in court Monday that another 17-year-old from Vallejo fired the shot that killed Gee.

Agricultural officials plan to spray an organic pesticide in Napa County starting Monday to try and eliminate the Australian light brown apple moth recently discovered in the county.

Three young men worked to steal a woman's purse on Lincoln Avenue yesterday afternoon, Napa police said.

Owners of an east Napa winery have agreed to pay nearly $550,000 in fines and to remove 750 vines to settle charges that they violated state and local zoning and land use regulations in developing their property.

A house renovation on Vallejo Street turned in to a hazardous materials response this evening.

WASHINGTON — President Bush is putting his influence within his own party to the test Tuesday as he pleads personally with skeptical Senate Republicans to resurrect his immigration bill.

LOS ANGELES — The family of a mentally disabled man who was recently deported to Mexico sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Monday, claiming the agencies mistakenly removed an American citizen and that the U.S. government should help find him.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A 10-year-old boy who weighed just 35 pounds when he knocked on a neighbor’s door pleading for food was being treated Monday for malnutrition, while his mother was held on child neglect charges, police said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An F-15 fighter jet crashed Monday after colliding in mid-air with another military jet during a training exercise, Air Force officials said. The other jet landed safely, and no one was seriously injured.

WASHINGTON  — Republicans blocked a Senate no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday, rejecting a symbolic Democratic effort to force him from office amid blistering criticism from lawmakers in both parties.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld a California man’s murder conviction Monday even though jurors did not hear from a witness who overheard someone else confess to the killing.

CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh  — Mudslides caused by monsoon rains buried bamboo and straw shacks in shantytowns and collapsed brick houses in southeastern Bangladesh Monday, killing at least 67 people.

ATLANTA — A former high school football star who became a national symbol for the extremes of getting tough on sex offenders was ordered released from prison Monday by a judge who called his mandatory 10-year sentence for consensual teen sex “a grave miscarriage of justice.”

HONG KONG — China should not punish people for expressing their political views on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. said Monday, a day after the mother of a Chinese reporter announced she was suing the U.S. company for helping officials imprison her son.

BAGHDAD — Suspected al-Qaida bombers stepped up attacks on key transportation arteries, striking a bridge north of the capital Monday a day after shutting the superhighway south of Baghdad with a huge explosion that collapsed an overpass and killed three U.S. soldiers.

WASHINGTON — As the baby boomers begin to ease into their 60s, most expect to delay retirement longer than their parents or grandparents.

WASHINGTON — Shade your kids. Strong new evidence suggests overall sun exposure in childhood, not just burns, is a big key to who later develops deadly skin cancer.