A Napa man is behind bars after allegedly roughing up his girlfriend, attempting to kidnap her daughter and taking the woman’s pickup.

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In an effort to keep Napa safe, the Napa Police Department provides the following information about recent property crimes involving homes, businesses and vehicles. Residents are encouraged to report any suspicious activity in their neighborhoods in the city. Please call 257-9223.

Motorists on Partrick and Browns Valley roads can expect a stream of trucks hauling dirt for another couple of weeks, said Barry Martin, a city spokesman.

Redwood Middle School at 3600 Oxford St. in Napa will serve as a collector of electronic waste 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 18. The school will take residents’ unwanted items like TVs, computers, monitors and other electronic devices, while raising much-needed funds for the Napa Saints football and cheer teams.

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The truth of it is this: Joanne Mannel ate a corn dog at the Napa Town and Country Fair.

An Aug. 10 page one article about a Napa car accident misstated the name of the man hit by a car. He is Steven Alarcon.

The Napa Pipe City-County Study Group will hold its first public meeting Wednesday at the Napa Pipe property, 1025 Kaiser Road, 6:30-8:30 p.m. The meeting will take place inside the building at the entrance to the Napa Pipe site.

In preparation for construction of the new city-county parking garage, workers will close Main Street between Third and Fifth streets Tuesday, said Barry Martin, a city spokesman.

Officers contacted Jesus Ortiz Martinez as he sat in a parked vehicle at Hilltop and Devita avenues on Thursday because he is on probation, subject to search and seizure without a warrant.

While public attention always focuses on violent or sensational crimes, more routine kinds of criminal activity tend to affect more of us on a daily basis.

The days of traditional school buses — diesel fuel guzzlers featuring scant safety characteristics — are coming to an end.

David Ries was taken into custody after his grandmother reported him as an unwanted person at her house on Frederick Street in Napa on Thursday evening.

A Napa father held police at bay with his 15-year-old daughter inside an apartment in the 3400 block of Villa Lane for about half an hour on Thursday night.

PRINCETON, Ind. — A group of people being carried in a construction bucket plunged 500 feet down an air shaft at a coal mine Friday, and three men died, authorities said.

Yaderlin Jimenez was an illegal immigrant facing deportation. Her husband, a U.S. citizen and soldier, couldn’t help her because he was missing after an insurgent attack in Iraq.

SAO PAULO, Brazil — A reputed leader of Colombia’s biggest drug cartel radically altered his facial appearance with repeated plastic surgeries. But his own words gave him away, thanks to advanced voice recognition technology that has become a key tool in the war against drugs and terrorism.

LOS ANGELES — Summer’s annual meteor shower promises to put on a dazzling show when it peaks this weekend — provided you’re far from city lights.