Gulfstream at Napa County Airport raises eyebrows
Spy craft, or just another private jet at Napa County Airport?
Bubble meeting bursting at seams
It was wall to wall — to wall to wall — people at a Wednesday meeting of the Napa County Planning Commission, where the subject was the future of Angwin.
Man arrested on charges of violent fight for car keys
Napa police arrested a parolee after a woman accused him of assaulting her at her Napa home.
Juvenile booked on bilking parents
The parents of a 17-year-old boy brought their son to the police station on Tuesday night, where he confessed to stealing more than $1,000 from their checking account, police said.
Misting the apple moth
Airplanes will be releasing a pheromone over the Monterey/Santa Cruz area next month to confuse an invader bug when it looks for a mate.
Wine burglar nabbed for hitting Upvalley businesses
A man convicted for stealing about $100,000 in wine last fall has a couple of new charges to add to his rap sheet — he’s being charged with the burglaries at Pacific Tree Care and Rainbow AG.
Renters left out in cold as vacancy rate hits four-year low
Napa’s apartment vacancy rate is at the lowest level in at least four years, making it harder for renters to find a home, city officials report.
Napan gets double whammy
Frank Ford Smith won’t be behind the wheel of a car anytime soon.
Crowds anxious to hear Napa Pipe proposal
Analytical eyes are about to peer beneath the pretty pictures to see if the residential/industrial development proposed for the sprawling Napa Pipe site makes planning sense.
Berryessa group trying to block home removal plan
A group of Berryessa mobile home owners and tenants are taking their lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Reclamation one step further.
Glaser's comments on Redwood dress code
John Glaser, Napa's school district superintendent, released this statement to parents and the public after the district revised its dress code for Redwood Middle School.
Redwood's interim dress code
Redwood Middle School in Napa devised an interim dress code as of Aug. 9 in response to a judge's ruling on a lawsuit filed over the dress code.
6 Italian men shot to death after birthday party as organized crime feud spills into Germany
DUISBURG, Germany— Six Italian men died in a hail of gunfire early Wednesday after a pizzeria celebration of one victim’s 18th birthday — a Mafia-style massacre that officials said grew out of a long-running feud between two organized crime clans in southern Italy.
Strong earthquake near Peru’s capital; at least 17 reported killed
LIMA, Peru — A powerful earthquake shook Peru’s coast near the capital on Wednesday, reportedly killing at least 17 people as it toppled buildings and caused many residents to flee homes. Authorities said the quake had generated a small tsunami but it wasn’t destructive.
NYPD study warns of mounting threat by homegrown terrorists
NEW YORK — They preferred bookstores or hookah bars to mosques. They stopped listening to pop music and instead surfed Web sites promoting radical Islam. They threw away their baseball caps and grew beards.
California students show only minimal gains on annual tests
SACRAMENTO — After several years of steady progress, California students made only slight gains in English and none in math on academic achievement tests last year, according to the latest results released Wednesday by the state Department of Education.
Study: Parents in denial, despair as teens’ drug use at school grows
WASHINGTON — Teenagers say drug problems at school are getting worse, and parents express doubts about ever making such schools drug free, a new study says.
Toll from bloodiest attack of Iraq war rises to at least 250 — and perhaps as high as 500
BAGHDAD — Rescuers used bare hands and shovels Wednesday to claw through clay houses shattered by an onslaught of suicide bombings that killed at least 250 and possibly as many as 500 members of an ancient religious sect in the deadliest attack of the Iraq war.
