Russ and Margaret Hale arrived at Nancy Courtney’s east Napa mobile home dressed as if they were about to play a game of croquet at Meadowood.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzennegger may have ended the pain over state budget negotiations by cutting $700 million through his line-item veto powers last week, but what was a lawmakers’ problem is now a problem for children, mentally ill and elders.

American Canyon police stopped a vehicle on Highway 29, near Rio Del Mar because the driver was driving erratically on late Thursday night.

One lane on First Street, next to Napa City Hall, will be closed to traffic next week as part of a gas line project, said Barry Martin, a city spokesman.

An Aug. 23 front page story about a criminal case against Jeffrey Brice Ogle misstated the age range of the girls who police say are victims of Ogle. The girls ranged in age from 16 to 18.

Jay Nicolas and his 3-year-old miniature pinscher Paris roll along the sidewalk at Pacific Union College under clear blue skies. “She likes it,” said Nicolas. “She’s trying to lose some weight.” Jorgen Gulliksen/Register

Fire investigators believe “bug bombs” set off in a Browns Valley home may have contributed to a kitchen fire on Friday morning that did extensive damage to the kitchen and living room.

A Vallejo man arrested by Napa police for more than 30 counts of child pornography has been held to answer to four felonies and a laundry list of misdemeanors.

A crash along Highway 29 Saturday afternoon in American Canyon, north of Green Island Road, sent a female driver and her male passenger to the hospital.

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Friday announced a set of modest proposals to deal with an alarming rise in mortgage defaults that have contributed to turbulent financial markets over recent weeks.

SANTA BARBARA — Two men and a cattle ranch were charged Friday with felony crimes for allegedly recklessly starting a fire that has burned 375 square miles of wilderness in Central California and injured 44 firefighters.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Navy can use high-powered sonar during exercises off the Southern California coast, despite the technology’s threat to whales and other marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday.

RALEIGH, N.C. — In 1981, rookie congressman Bill Hendon left a Capitol Hill intelligence briefing convinced that there were American prisoners of war from Vietnam still alive and in captivity in Southeast Asia.