Napa County voters on Feb. 5 will make their pick in the presidential primary, but now there will be at least one local issue: Whether Billy Wilcoxson should be able to have winetasting and a full-service deli at his Stanly Lane Marketplace.

Deluged with an outpouring of concern from Napa Creek residents wanting flood protection, the local flood control board promised Tuesday to make the creekside neighborhood a higher priority.

Plans for a center turn lane on Highway 29 have been creeping along like the St. Helena traffic they are supposed to alleviate.

Until at least Thursday, baseball players and fans at Kennedy Park won’t hear ‘batter up.’

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.

Firefighters hope to have a wildland fire that is burning on Mountain Home Ranch, near Petrified Forest Road, west of Calistoga, contained by Wednesday morning. The blaze, which broke out around 5:15 p.m., Monday, had burned about 45 acres as of Tuesday afternoon, according to a CalFire spokeswoman.

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

A wildland fire west of Calistoga on Home Mountain Road near Petrified Forest Road, has been extinguished, according to fire officials.

Following an almost two-month investigation, drug agents arrested a Calistoga man on suspicion of selling drugs Upvalley, according to a press release from the Napa Special Investigation Bureau.

NEW YORK — Don’t expect to see the calorie count for Burger King’s Double Whopper with cheese on the menu anytime soon.

UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council examined the role of natural resources such as diamonds, poppies and oil in driving conflicts and destabilizing nations, angering some countries that accused the U.N.’s most powerful body of trying to undermine their sovereignty.

WASHINGTON -- A new public school teacher in North Dakota works for a year on probation before getting job security. For a teacher in Missouri, it’s five years.

BAGHDAD -- American military commanders now seriously doubt that Iraqi security forces will be able to hold the ground that U.S. troops are fighting to clear — gloomy predictions that strike at the heart of Washington’s key strategy to turn the tide in Iraq.

QUETTA, Pakistan — A tropical cyclone lashed Pakistan’s coastline with heavy rains and strong winds, killing at least 10 people and forcing thousands to flee to higher ground, their possessions loaded onto cars and camels.

WASHINGTON — The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday on agency misconduct that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s over domestic spying.

SCOTT CITY, Mo. — Two southeastern Missouri inmates who used pancake batter to cover a hole they cut in a wall between jail cells will at least have a plate the next time they try such a culinary trick.

WASHINGTON — The Senate resurrected the immigration bill that could legalize millions of unlawful immigrants Tuesday, but the delicate compromise still faces the same threats that derailed it earlier this month.

MEYERS — Firefighters suffered a setback while trying to tame a raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe Tuesday after flames from a backfire they set to keep the blaze from reaching more houses jumped a fireline, trapping two firefighters and prompting a fresh round of evacuations.

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