The Napa dentist convicted last year of murdering his wife may not be out of the woods in Napa County Superior Court.

Security guards working at Mervyns department store in downtown Napa observed a man leaving the business Monday afternoon with clothing he did not pay for, police said.

Jorge Gutierrez was taken into custody Monday evening after he went to the home of woman who has a restraining order against him, police said.

The future of the county’s largest development proposal will be worked through by the county and the city of Napa, following a Tuesday vote by the Napa County Board of Supervisors.

Napa County and the majority of its workers will remain at an impasse for at least a month.

Firefighters report a 60-acre fire near Atlas Peak Road is no longer immediately threatening any structures and is 100 percent contained.

A downed tree branch is suspected of causing the traffic death of a Napa man early Tuesday morning.

A Vallejo 17-year-old charged as an adult with the shooting death of a teen at an American Canyon birthday party has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

Until now, facilities for motorists got the big bucks. Bicyclists were lucky to get a stripe of paint to mark their route.

A ruptured natural gas line at a downtown Napa intersection Tuesday afternoon closed Jefferson Street from Clay to Third streets.

An American Canyon woman was robbed and assaulted in the driveway of her home on West Park Lane early Monday morning.

Napa residents are now eligible for the state’s Low Cost Automobile Insurance program.

And the billions just keep on comin’, 25 of them to be precise.

KGO-TV’s ABC7 news director Kevin Keeshan said Wednesday he would be pressing criminal charges and filing a civil lawsuit against Napa County Sheriff’s Deputies for briefly detaining two of his colleagues.

WASHINGTON  — Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to cut off funding for Vice President Dick Cheney’s office in a continuing battle over whether he must comply with national security disclosure rules.

CRAWFORD, Texas — Leaving her former peace camp near President Bush’s Texas ranch, well-known war protester Cindy Sheehan began a nearly two-week trek toward Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to challenge U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

LOS ANGELES — A pizza deliveryman was sentenced to death Tuesday for murdering 10 women and a fetus during the 1980s and ’90s in Los Angeles neighborhoods plagued by a crack cocaine epidemic.

BAGHDAD — Ali Ahmed is living “the garden life,” as a new bit of Iraqi slang puts it. Two years after earning his engineering degree, the 27-year-old is among Iraq’s teeming numbers of jobless with nothing to do but hang out in Baghdad’s parks.

EDINBURGH, Scotland — Al-Qaida’s deputy leader threatened a jittery Britain on Tuesday with more attacks, accusing London of defying the Islamic world by honoring novelist Salman Rushdie.

WASHINGTON  — Democrats raised new questions Tuesday about whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales knew about FBI abuses of civil liberties when he told a Senate committee that no such problems occurred.

BARNSTABLE, Mass. — A Cape Cod man who claimed he was homophobic, racist and a habitual liar to avoid jury duty earned an angry rebuke from a judge on Monday, who referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges.

WASHINGTON — U.S. counterterror officials are warning of an increased risk of an attack this summer, given al-Qaida’s apparent interest in summertime strikes and increased al-Qaida training in the Afghan-Pakistani border region.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — It was a ginormous year for the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster.

SANFORD, Fla. — A small plane carrying the husband of a NASCAR executive crashed into a neighborhood Tuesday and engulfed two houses in flames, killing both people aboard the aircraft and three others on the ground.

WASHINGTON — The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani commandos battled die-hard Islamic militants holed up in a radical mosque Tuesday, killing an extremist cleric and dozens of his followers in a daylong assault that ignited fiery protests and calls for revenge by Islamic extremists.