Six mornings a week, Matilda, or Tilly for short, stylishly dressed according to the season, is carried along Tainter Street to Oak Avenue in St. Helena. Children at a nearby school wave and call out their hellos as she takes her usual place in front of the St. Helena Catholic Church. Unless there’s a funeral that day. Then she’ll stake out a claim around the corner.

This week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that will bring the pay of nurses at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville to the same level as their counterparts at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

More than ever, technology is a mainstay of our day-to-day routines. On the job and at play, you probably rely on a cell phone, computer, or — to shave prep time from a home-cooked meal — the microwave in your kitchen. But how would you feel if a surgeon enlisted the help of a robot for your next surgical procedure?

Two men face serious charges of possession of drugs, and possession for sale of a controlled substance in Napa.

The Napa Police Department’s Gang Unit is investigating the stabbing and beating of a 28-year-old Napa man. Police reports show that the assault occurred 11 p.m., Saturday in the area of Soscol and Pueblo Avenues. When police arrived on the scene, they discovered that the man had been stabbed in the lower back and struck in the head with a baseball bat. The persons responsible for the assault had left by the time police arrived.

A brawl landed a Napa man in jail Friday evening.

A man and woman were taken to jail over the weekend in two separate bouts of domestic violence, police said.