With temperatures expected to soar past 100 degrees this week, Napa County Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith urged residents on Tuesday to prepare for hot weather.

With federal funding for the St. Helena flood project not a done deal, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D- Calif., and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, toured the St. Helena project site Tuesday, praising each other and the community for support of the project.

The fate of accused killer Onesimo Garcia will soon be in the hands of the jury.

Rodney Friedrich’s campaign to build a hotel on his Vineland Station property in St. Helena  has been stymied by criticism from the St. Helena City Council, limitations on the city’s infrastructure and debates over whether a hotel would help or hurt the city.

An early Monday morning crash landed one man in the hospital with major injuries and another man behind bars.

On Sunday deputies stopped the car Thomas Christopher Madsen was driving for expired registration tags, according to Napa Sheriff’s Capt. John Robertson.

Two drivers were arrested in separate incidents for suspected misdemeanor DUI after they nearly clipped police cars.

They don’t have dress codes at the Napa County Fair in Calistoga, where Flo the clown was decked out in a wild costume as she twisted up balloon sculptures for kids on Sunday.

Students seeking to knock out Redwood Middle School’s strict 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 winning their constitutional challenge to the code.

Over the last year or so, the number of construction projects in Downtown Napa has been on the rise. In addition to the flood wall work on the west side of the river from First Street to the Napa Mill, we now have six major private projects underway. (Details on these projects can be found at www.cityofnapanews.com on the “Downtown Projects Map” page.)

A July 1 Community Bulletin Board item about a Dalcroze Eurhythmics workshop conducted by Louis Milota, Dalcroze specialist, for musicians ages 12 and up at Villa Del Rey on Saturday misstated the surname of the instructor. She is Louise Milota.

Caminanle Acaguato hangs on tight during El Charreada Sunday at the Napa County Fair. The fair continues through Wednesday.

A homeowner on Coombsville Road has filed a lawsuit against the city in connection with a sidewalk built in 2004 to serve students walking to Silverado Middle School.

The preliminary plan for the 33-acre Trancas Crossing Park on the Napa River will be presented to the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission on July 11.

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.

WASHINGTON — President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak investigation Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in the highly charged criminal case. Bush said the sentence was just too harsh.

WALNUT CREEK — Contra Costa County officials asked residents to avoid playing with illegal fireworks to prevent fires over the July 4 holiday.

MILWAUKEE - Tap it, don’t scrap it.

WASHINGTON — The ATF no longer routinely checks addresses of some buyers at gun shows after being accused of chilling sales at one show in 2005, the Justice Department reported Monday.

PHILADELPHIA — In a case that involves issues as lofty as the First Amendment and as basic as which cut of meat was served, a restaurant critic is being sued for libel for describing a $15 piece of beef as “miserably tough and fatty.”

SAN’A, Yemen — A suspected al-Qaida suicide bomber plowed his car Monday into a group of Spanish tourists visiting a temple linked to the ancient Queen of Sheba, killing seven Spaniards and two Yemenis in a part of Yemen known for its lawlessness.

WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain struggled to keep his deeply troubled campaign afloat Monday, laying off dozens of staffers after lackluster fundraising and excessive spending left him with just $2 million for his second presidential bid.

LONDON — An Iraqi physician and a Palestinian doctor working at British hospitals were identified Monday among those held in the failed car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow, while authorities said the latest suspect had been arrested in another country.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon plans to destroy its dozens of retired F-14 fighter jets to deny Iran a source for desperately needed spare parts, a dramatic move though one that national security experts say is of more symbolic than practical value.

CHICAGO — Difficulty identifying common smells such as lemon, banana and cinnamon may be the first sign of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study that could lead to scratch-and-sniff tests to determine a person’s risk for the progressive brain disorder.

WASHINGTON — Providers of medical equipment in two hotbeds of Medicare fraud — Los Angeles and South Florida — will have to reapply to do business with the government and undergo inspections, officials said Monday.

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.

Iraqi civilian death toll

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.

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.