Napa Police officers were busy over the weekend responding to domestic violence calls.

LOS ANGELES — As jurors returned to deliberations in Phil Spector’s murder trial Monday, the record producer’s defense filed a motion asking the judge to give the panel more guidance to clarify controversial new instructions he issued last week to help break a deadlock.

Napa police took into custody on Monday a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old Napa girl.

Napa County Most Wanted criminal fugitives list, appearing daily of napavalleyregister.com, has helped law enforcement take off the streets a suspect accused of rape.

When it comes to butt-kicking bravado and alien-stomping muscle no one is bigger than Master Chief, protagonist of the wildly popular Halo series of video games available on Microsoft’s Xbox gaming rig.

As leader of Children's Health Initiative Napa County -- an agency dedicated to providing health care for children in low-income families -- Mark Diel knows that navigating the social services maze can be time-consuming and frustrating.

Three Napa city firefighters are looking to put out fires and reduce greenhouse gases at the same time.

The Napa Valley Unified School District board of trustees is working to clear up a mistaken enrollment boundary that allowed students from at least 90 homes to enroll at American Canyon's Canyon Oaks Elementary School.

Brian Altizer needs a few more proverbial cards to make his hand, and he's hoping Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will deal them his way.

Arriving at a gym in Gaithersburg, Md., Clare Kearney bounds inside -- 13 years old, petite, with fine brown hair and delicate glasses. Excited. This is a place where competitive cheerleaders practice, girls who can pull off perfect roundoffs and handsprings and back tucks.

WASHINGTON -- After encouraging gains in the 1990s, populations of loggerhead sea turtles are now dropping, primarily because of commercial fishing, according to a federal review.

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii -- Robin Baird's research team gazes for hours into the horizon, searching for rarely seen beaked whales.

LOS ANGELES -- Nearly two dozen private hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties are in danger of bankruptcy or closure, according to hospital administrators, industry experts and state data.

MAHOPAC, N.Y -- It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool -- and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country.

CAMARILLO -- Gas prices on average dropped 2.03 cents over the last two weeks, according to a national survey released Sunday.

YANGON, Myanmar -- About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed hope Sunday that key Arab nations, including Syria, will attend a Mideast peace conference this fall hosted by President Bush.