Police have arrested three American Canyon teens who they believe are responsible for at least 11 residential burglaries in Napa and the south city.

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

The Modesto man who blasted a shotgun into a Napa residence where his wife and children were staying has been charged with five counts of willful and premeditated attempted murder.

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.

Roxanne Laverne McWilliams, the Napa third-grade teacher charged with trying to kill her boyfriend, is in court tomorrow for a bail hearing.

Napa resident DeAnna Moore said she turned to Cope Family Center more than two years ago when homelessness and domestic violence proved to be more than she could handle on her own.

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

With the Oxbow Public Market scheduled to open this fall, some neighboring residents and businesses are worried about a potential parking shortage in the emerging Oxbow District.

Napa County Realtors have spotted some good news out there in the slumbering residential real estate market. While the market is still slow-moving, vineyard properties and higher-end homes are attracting attention.

August's "mortgage meltdown" led to much hand-wringing from buyers and mortgage brokers, but "things are looking better," in September, said Martha Pedroza Ramos of Cal Bay Mortgage in Napa.

LOS ANGELES -- Charles "Sid" Heal stands excitedly in the parking lot of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's station in San Dimas, tinkering with a prototype for the ominously named "Active Denial System."

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his current foreign and defense ministers as part of an expected shuffle before crucial parliamentary and presidential elections.

SACRAMENTO -- When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger traveled to Europe in June to visit his hometown and meet with the leaders of France and Britain, a little-known group led by two of the state's most influential business leaders picked up the tab.

WASHINGTON -- A senior California lawmaker on Monday said the administration was trying to "stack the deck" against his state's proposal to impose tough standards on motor vehicle emissions, and urged the White House to repudiate what he called a questionable lobbying effort.

UNITED NATIONS -- With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming emissions.

WASHINGTON -- Violent crime rose nearly 2 percent last year, the FBI reported Monday in nationwide data that show a slightly higher increase than expected.

WASHINGTON -- This week's votes on a children's health program go to a key issue in next year's elections: How much should the government spend to insure families with modest but not poverty-level incomes?

NEW YORK -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Holocaust revisionists and raised questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown Monday at Columbia University, where the school's head introduced the hard-line leader by calling him a "petty and cruel dictator."