OAKLAND — Mild summer temperatures produced lower smog levels in the San Francisco Bay area.

A Napa man escaped serious injury after colliding with a power pole Saturday night. Police said that alcohol played a role in the wreck.

Two employees of V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena, along with a third man, were taken to jail Sunday after their employer learned that they were stealing cases of wine from the company police said.

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.

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.

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.

The Napa Police Department has been busy over the weekend working a string of strong-arm robberies, and one attempted robbery, that began on Friday evening. Officers responded to three more robberies Saturday and one on Sunday morning, bringing the total to seven confirmed crimes.

Napa drivers who ignore their parking tickets may get the boot right where it hurts the most — in the wallet.

A small but spirited crowd made its way through the streets of Napa Sunday morning in support of immigration reform. The marchers, mostly Latinos, were marching in support of two pieces of pending immigration legislation. One bill, if enacted, would grant a pathway to citizenship for agricultural workers, and the other to students.

XENIA, Ohio — When Maureen Birdsall took her disabled, 92-year-old grandfather to a California hospital, she lost the only available handicapped-parking spot to a woman in a red corvette.

WASHINGTON — Call it the health insurance companies and nursing homes versus doctors and the AARP, a classic, inside-the-Beltway struggle that erupted when House Democrats sought changes to Medicare.

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — New York City, with its convoys of cabs, miles of subway track, fleets of fume-belching trucks and hordes of harried commuters, is a long way from Davis, Calif., with a University of California campus and not much else.

WASHINGTON — To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state’s plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.

AMHERST, Mass. — There is just enough space for Lisa Rivera’s family to sleep at Jessie’s House homeless shelter.

Tribute paid

SANTA BARBARA — In Southern California, where the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay victims of pedophile priests $660 million, the archdiocese is ordering nuns out of convents so the buildings can be sold to fund the out-of-court settlement.

For the Associated Press

PATROL BASE HAWKS, Iraq — When U.S. sentries fatally shot three guards near an Iraqi-manned checkpoint south of Baghdad, they thought they were targeting enemy fighters planting roadside bombs, according to the American commander of the region.