The city of Napa is going to find out if it has the water to serve a new development of 3,200 homes and major industrial development at the former Napa Pipe site.

For the first time in 19 years, local schools will open this month without police D.A.R.E. officers in elementary classrooms.

Efren Segura, 9, of Los Charros de Zacatecas, leaps through a lasso during the Napa Town and Country Fair Parade. Floats that glided their way around First and Second streets this year included living gold trophies from Doc’s Trophy Shoppe, the new Soda Canyon fire truck and the Napa Saints Cheerleading squad. Jorgen Gulliksen/Register

Even though there’s still more than a month left of the summer season, local merchants have marked down and moved out warm weather supplies in favor of long pants, backpacks and other back-to-school goods. Local shoppers are already scanning the aisles for that perfect lunchbox, new pair of shoes or other school supplies.

A brawl that originated inside a Napa billiards parlor and spilled out into the streets ended with the arrest of a Napa man.

An argument between a Napa husband and wife turned ugly early Sunday morning when the husband assaulted the wife and threatened to kill her.

A Napa man was arrested Sunday afternoon after things turned fishy with his wife. 

A Napa resident got an unexpected visitor on Monday afternoon.

In the bedrooms of teens across the land, bulging backpacks still sit where they landed last June, amidst strewn T-shirts, crumpled shopping bags, old term papers and half-done Sudoku puzzles. Shelves sag with cast-off clothes and outgrown toys. Dresser tops are spilling over with ticket stubs, CDs and nail polish.

LOS ANGELES — Merv Griffin, the big band-era crooner turned impresario who parlayed his “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune” game shows into a multimillion-dollar empire, died Sunday. He was 82.

PHILADELPHIA — Obese elementary schoolchildren miss a couple more school days on average than their normal-weight classmates, according to a study that says being fat is a better predictor for absenteeism than any other factor.

The findings are stunning: Offering simple training to people struggling to care for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease not only eases their burden — it can even keep patients out of nursing homes for an extra 1 1/2 years.

HONOLULU — Hurricane Flossie packed 135 mph wind as it spun closer to Hawaii on Sunday, but forecasters predicted the Category 4 storm would weaken before passing by the islands later this week.

ANNVILLE, Pa. — Brittany Vojta survived boot camp. It was high school she couldn’t make it through.

RICHMOND — A daylong eruption of violence left 12 men injured, three critically, in a spate of shootings over a span of less than 24 hours.

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s most senior Sunni politician issued a desperate appeal Sunday for Arab nations to help stop what he called an “unprecedented genocide campaign” by Shiite militias armed, trained and controlled by Iran. The U.S. military reported five American soldiers were killed, apparently lured into an al-Qaida trap.