Listed in the table below is every Napa County school and the percentage of students who tested "Proficient" or above (at grade level) in the 2007 STAR tests.

The courtroom erupted with cheers, clapping and sobbing when Napa County Superior Court Judge Rodney Stone sentenced convicted murderer Onesimo Garcia to 54 years to life in state prison on Wednesday morning.

After a year’s delay, an ordinance toughening controls on dogs deemed potentially dangerous or vicious is about to come up for adoption by Napa County and the city of Napa.

A Vallejo man who knew police were looking for him turned himself in at the Napa County jail on Tuesday.

• An Aug. 21 article about the victim of Jet Ski accident misstated the city of residence of victim Nicole Injayan. She lived in San Rafael.

An argument over a probation search at a Freeway Drive residence on Tuesday afternoon turned ugly, when Glenn Roger Frye punched a woman in the face after she dumped his booze, police said.

Napa County prosecutors are going after what they say is an illegal farmworker housing operation just south of Calistoga.

Edward Albert Pierce was carted away to the county jail after police served a search warrant at his west Napa residence on Tuesday.

Register Staff

The Town of Yountville has a new top administrator.

Napa's downtown Chefs Market is officially moving to Thursday nights starting next year, the head of the Napa Downtown Association announced this afternoon.

From now on, Vallerga’s Markets shoppers in search of a nicotine fix will have to go elsewhere to buy cigarettes, chewing tobacco or cigars.

FINDLAY, Ohio — Firefighters and a volunteer armada navigated boats through streets awash in waist-deep water Wednesday, plucking neighbors and pets from porches as flooding that has swamped the Upper Midwest and Plains settled in Ohio.

WASHINGTON — Technology that prevents a drunken driver from starting a vehicle holds the promise of greatly reducing alcohol-related deaths, the government and auto safety groups said Wednesday.

BALTIMORE — The Texas Rangers became the first team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game, setting an American League record Wednesday in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles.

An unprecedented study of sex and seniors finds that many older people are surprisingly frisky — willing to do, and talk about, intimate acts that would make their grandchildren blush.