NAPA — The Napa schoolteacher charged with shooting her live-in boyfriend five times “was terrified for herself and her family,” according to her attorney Merv Lernhart.

LOS ANGELES — The jury in Phil Spector’s murder trial has resumed deliberations for a third day.

SAN JOSE — Office Depot Inc. has agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that California customers in Napa and other California counties were overcharged by faulty scanners at the checkout line, prosecutors said Tuesday.

NAPA — Concerned about global warming and millions of plastic water bottles, the Napa City Council won’t let Crystal Geyser tap into a city aquifer for mineral water.

ALAMEDA — Quarterback JaMarcus Russell finally signed his record rookie contract with the Oakland Raiders today and joined his new team for practice, ending the longest holdout in more than two decades by the league’s top pick.

Widening Jamieson Canyon Road to four lanes can be done in a way to cause no significant environmental impacts, a Caltrans study reports.

American Canyon elementary school students who live in a new apartment complex on the east side of town won't be able to attend American Canyon's newest elementary school, even though it's the easiest to get to, school officials said Thursday.

Solar panels are becoming increasingly popular in Napa County, as they are installed on rooftops everywhere from the newest subdivisions of American Canyon to Calistoga wineries.

MOSCOW -- The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world's most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, Russia's state television reported Tuesday.

PITTSBURGH -- A man who used the Internet alias "Iceman" stole credit card and identity information from tens of thousands of people by hacking into the computers of financial institutions and credit card processing centers, federal authorities said Tuesday.

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. -- They arrived in late August on a flatbed truck from Missouri. The three long, arcing, silvery shapes were rough to the touch, their sheen buried under a mottled layer of crusted, cooled steel.

PETALUMA -- The City Council has rejected a water conservation plan that would have required home sellers to pay for plumbing inspections, appliance upgrades and expensive repairs.

NEW YORK -- A judge struck down a New York City rule Tuesday that required fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus, but he suggested that expanding the rule to include more restaurants could make it legal.

CAIRO, Egypt -- Two messages from Osama bin Laden in a matter of days have revived the game of questions over his health and whereabouts, but they also made clear he is al-Qaida's propaganda "top gun," able to draw attention in the West and strike a chord among sympathizers.

NEW YORK -- Victims' families huddled under umbrellas Tuesday in a park to mark the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the first remembrance ceremony not held at ground zero, an event that failed to evoke the same emotions as the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center site.

MEXICO CITY -- More than 60 percent of Mexico's steel production was halted and two major auto plants, including Volkswagen's only manufacturing facility in North America, shut down Tuesday after explosions claimed by a leftist group cut natural gas supplies.