A Napa man is in stable condition at Queen of the Valley Medical Center after his girlfriend, a 49-year-old Napa woman, shot him several times early Saturday morning, police said.

A Santa Rosa man charged with attempting to molest two women in the bathroom of the Rutherford Grill earlier this year has pleaded guilty.

It has a clean you can see and smell.

Jeanette Mulgrew, secretary to the assistant principal at Napa High, remembers the good old days, a time “when things were slow.”

The man behind a push to get complaints noticed at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville has been a controversial figure.

Work to improve and extend the life of the pavement on Wooden Valley Road will affect traffic through much of September, according to the Napa County Public Works Department. Beginning Monday, a contractor will apply an asphalt overlay to 6.5 miles of Wooden Valley Road from Highway 121 to the Solano County line.

The Register wants to know about 9/11 memorial events Napa County residents are planning.

How to be a good grandparent? No problem, said Vera Trinchero Torres, who is good enough at it to have been honored recently as Napa County’s Grandparent of the Year.

Napa Police officers arrested Carlos Yussell Estrada, 18, of Napa, on suspicion of criminal street gang activity Friday night. At the same time, police arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of violation of probation.

Consumers: Are you trying to buy a home in Napa County? Sell your home in Napa County? Register reporter Jennifer Huffman would like to hear your story. As a consumer, what has your experience in the real estate market been? Please send a short summary of what’s happening to you to jhuffman@napanews.com or call 256-2218./Register

Inside the 550-acre complex of the Veterans Home of California at Yountville, Holderman Hospital stands as a hallowed center of medical services, a guarantee of health care at the state’s largest and oldest veterans home.

For many, retirement and growing older bring about an interest in new hobbies, traveling or just relaxing. But for many, aging is marred with depression, anxiety and isolation.

The Napa woman who is accused of shooting her boyfriend several times in the torso early Saturday morning is a long-time educator at Pueblo Vista Elementary School, is highly respected among her peers and is popular with students, according to Patrick Warfield, the school's principal.

BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-packed Mercedes near a row of stores in the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, police and hospital officials said.

WASHINGTON — At her lowest moments during more than three months in solitary confinement in Iran’s most notorious prison, Haleh Esfandiari wondered if anyone remembered her or if she had been swallowed without the world noticing.

HONOLULU — President Bush met with wounded soldiers and military commanders Saturday before heading for the White House and a renewed fight with the Democratic-run Congress over future U.S. involvement in Iraq.

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