Students seeking to knock down Redwood Middle School’s strict, no denim, no logos, no stripes dress code won the first round Monday, when Napa County Superior Court Judge Raymond Guadagni ruled the students and their families “established a substantial likelihood of prevailing on their constitutional and statutory claims.”

The shadow of a skateboarder at the busy skate park in downtown Napa on Monday afternoon.

The Sunday afternoon phone call brought grim news to Napa resident Emil Corky Meyers.

A vacant stretch of land south of American Canyon Road may soon grow into a small commercial center and a large park to honor the nation's veterans.

The American Canyon Wal-Mart Superstore has been in the news for years without selling a single item.

NEW YORK -- The percentage of Americans who consider children "very important" to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990, and more now cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal, according to a sweeping new survey.

SACRAMENTO -- The debate over how much to restrict government's use of its eminent domain powers to obtain private property for shopping malls and other developments resumes this week in the state Assembly.

RICHMOND, Va. -- The federal appeals court widely considered the nation's most conservative also has the most judicial openings, in part because of national politics, prompting concerns about its ability to continue resolving cases promptly.

OSAWATOMIE, Kan. -- Flooding worsened Sunday across parts of Kansas and Missouri, forcing more people from their homes, and meteorologists said it could be days before rivers return to normal following days of drenching rainfall on the Plains.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- In the past nine months, passengers have been kicked off airplanes or detained at airports for uncontrolled coughing, joking about hijacking, breast-feeding a baby, kissing and other amorous activities, cursing at flight attendants who denied them alcohol, failing to get a screaming child buckled in for takeoff, and carrying a sippy cup of water.

I've always enjoyed role-playing games, even ones that follow the same standard rules and stories as every other basic role-playing game. Every once in a while, though, one comes along that plays around with the norm.

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.

NEW ORLEANS -- The government's repairs to New Orleans' hurricane-damaged levees may put the French Quarter in greater danger than it was before Hurricane Katrina, a weakness planners said couldn't be helped, at least for now.

CARROLL, Ohio (AP) -- Abe Bluck studies business in college and hauls grain and operates farm machinery in his spare time.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- On a one-acre site alongside a string of shrimp boats docked on the Brownsville ship channel stands a $2.2 million assembly of pipes, sheds, and humming machinery -- Texas' entree into global efforts to make sea water suitable to drink.

LOS ANGELES -- Just a few years ago, the idea of bankrolling starry-eyed ventures to fly ordinary people into space was laughed off as science fiction.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday he was ready to go to court if the White House resisted congressional subpoenas for information on the firing of federal prosecutors.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Bay area was reeling Sunday from at least 10 murders over the weekend, including the slayings of at least three teenagers and a bystander cut down in a barrage of bullets.

GLASGOW, Scotland -- British officials intensified the hunt Sunday for what they called an al-Qaida-linked network behind three attempted terrorist attacks, announcing a fifth arrest and conducting pinpoint raids across a country on its highest level of alert.