The Napa Valley Register publishes monthly statistics on arrests and convictions for driving under the influence in Napa County. Statistics are published the first Monday of each month.

Voters may get the chance to weigh in anew next year on policies that have defined growth and land use in Napa County for decades.

A battle between good and evil was brewing at the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga Saturday. Just as former World Wrestling Entertainment Wrestler The Tonga Kid was about to slam a wrestling vixen to the mat, another former WWE wrestler, Jon Heidenreich, ran inside the ring and saved her.

Kay Wilson’s stomach ties up in knots when she hears her teenage daughter’s stories of drug and alcohol use among St. Helena students. Her heart sinks when she hears about kids camping on private property and binge drinking until they pass out.

MARDI GRAS COMES TO TOWN — Harold Wilson, of the Wild Apache Mardi Gras Indians, performs in a parade with his brother, Louis Wilson, and cousin, Ray Blazio. The trio wore handmade costumes, which pay homage to the Apache Indians of the Bayou, at Napa Valley’s first Wine Country Cajun Food and Music Festival in downtown Napa. Lianne Milton/Register

Napa County and the Napa County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association, which represents 99 sheriff’s deputies, sergeants and district attorney investigators, have reached a tentative agreement in their efforts to negotiate a new labor contract.

A Los Gatos woman is facing serious charges of felony DUI after police said she caused a wreck at the intersection of Jefferson Street and Lincoln Avenue.

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A key Darfur rebel leader warned Saturday his movement will not attend peace talks with the government this month unless the United Nations and the African Union can persuade a rival group to unite its splinter factions for the negotiations.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A court must still rule whether Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s landslide win in Saturday’s presidential election is valid, but one loser was clear before the voting even began: public faith in Pakistani politics.

MADRID, Spain — A senior member of the Basque separatist movement said Spain’s government had effectively declared war by arresting most of his outlawed party’s leadership while thousands demonstrated Saturday to demand independence for the northern region.

There are cosmological truths to the universe of sports memorabilia — the authenticity issue, the personality factor, the Splinter of the True Cross beliefs — that pull the galaxies of Peyton Manning, Tiger Woods and Babe Ruth into eternity.

The Napa County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office has scheduled an agricultural plastic container recycling event Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Napa County Corporation Yard, 7292 Silverado Trail, Yountville.

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