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.