California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has pulled the plug on Napa County’s electronic voting machines, but Napa County Registrar of Voters John Tuteur is not ready to go back to paper ballots.

Renaldo David Dominguez, a former Napa foster parent, is looking at 200 years to life in prison.

Many people make decisions that affect the life of a vineyard, but Mother Nature is still the one with a thousand votes.

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For something old, the Napa Town and Country fair opens Wednesday for a five-day run, with a return visit by the disco hit machine, The Village People, and cover bands of Chicago and Journey.

The photo caption accompanying an Aug. 6 front page story about the St. Helena tree tunnel misidentified the highway where the trees are located. It is Highway 29.

Napa Police have arrested three more suspects who were involved in a June 9 fight at a Quinceanera party.

Two teens on skateboards are in juvenile hall after police say they robbed another teen on Sunday evening in downtown Napa.

Strong winds caused large swells on Lake Berryessa, causing three boats to sink on Sunday afternoon.

Unless a successful legal challenge is mounted against the Secretary of State’s office by California counties, Napa County will be voting largely by paper ballot this election season, according to Napa County Registrar of Voters John Tuteur.

Calistoga police and the California Highway Patrol gave chase to a driver who decided to make a break for it up St. Helena Mountain late Monday night.

The harbor porpoise — or two — spotted last week and throughout the weekend downtown Napa in the Napa River may have moved on.

HUNTINGTON, Utah — Hundreds of rescuers struggled with falling rock and debris Monday in a desperate race to reach six coal miners trapped 1,500 feet below ground by a cave-in so powerful authorities initially thought it was an earthquake.

CAMP DAVID, Md. — President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday began a search for answers to the deteriorating security and sporadic rule of law in Afghanistan.

SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly seven years after President Bush won the closest presidential election in U.S. history, a federal appeals court ruled Monday that California officials wrongly shut down “vote-swapping” Web sites in the days before polls opened.

NEW YORK — American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday and two other mortgage lenders said they were not accepting new applications, signs that the worst housing crunch in decades could be widening.