Dry Creek Road homeowner Bonnie Stanislawski testified Monday she unloaded the five shells from her .38-caliber gun before she gave it to accused killer Onesimo Garcia. The gun is the one used to kill Sandra Hernandez in July 2005.

Findings of soil and groundwater contamination from an old gas station are delaying construction of a five-story hotel on First Street.

A slow-growth Angwin group wants to burst the so-called Angwin urban bubble, a decades-old zoning area at the center of a controversy over the future of Angwin.

Fire crews battling a 35-acre brush fire west of Calistoga had the blaze 20 percent contained within a few hours.

Fire crews are working throughout the day to try and control a brush fire about five miles west of Calistoga.

Every day, millions of California drivers illegally hit the road without car insurance coverage. To help alleviate this problem locally, state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is proposing to bring a state-run reduced cost car insurance program to Napa County.

The fate of a San Diego man on trial for the stabbing death of a Vintage High School graduate will soon be in the hands of the jury.

A fire ripped through an attic in a two-story house in the 200 block of Jefferson Street late Monday night.

SAN RAFAEL — A Novato man charged with killing his neighbor’s Chihuahua by slitting its throat pleaded not guilty to charges of animal cruelty Monday.

PARIS — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s European mini-tour stopped Monday in France, where he discussed trade, global warming and politics with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

ROME — An Italian accused of killing his American girlfriend after he kidnapped their daughter suffered a heart attack and died on the stand Monday as he testified in court for the first time, his lawyer said.

BAGHDAD — A stealthy suicide bomber slipped into a busy Baghdad hotel Monday and blew himself up in the midst of a gathering of U.S.-allied tribal sheiks, undermining efforts to forge a front against the extremists of al-Qaida in Iraq. Four of the tribal chiefs were among the 13 victims, police said.

MEYERS — Residents of Lake Tahoe’s south shore huddled beneath a smoke-filled sky Monday after fleeing a raging forest fire that destroyed more than 225 homes and outbuildings and clouded the lake’s famously clear water with falling ash.

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Something wonderful has begun happening with this new column of ours. Folks are starting to e-mail me news of events that sound very exciting for us seniors. For instance, how would you like to join a group of seniors, 60 years and older, taking a new class through the Napa Valley College Community Education Program on riding adult tricycles?

Matthew Ringard, a professional actor attending Napa High School in the fall, says there is nothing like being on stage.