The focus of the contest is ... Can You Beat Randy? ... and with two games left in Week No. 1, 104 of you are beating Register.com Sports Editor Randy Johnson in the weekly napavalleyregister.com NFL Challenge Pro Football pool.

The national business slowdown is finally hitting wine country, with 11 of the city of Napa’s 15 major shopping zones reporting declining sales in the first half of 2008.

As a whole, Napa Valley Unified School District is improving, but it is still on the equivalent of probation under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Robert P. Peebles of St. Helena has been indicted for fraud by federal prosecutors for failing to report to tax officials that he’d transferred $4 million from his aunt’s trust to another trust in his own name.

The year was 1909. On the back of a postcard depicting Napa’s “State Hospital for the Insane,” a Randolph Street woman dashed off a line to a farmer in Browns Valley.

On Friday night, two Napa residents were arrested on suspicion of possession and transportation of a controlled substance, Napa Police reported Saturday.

Napa Police responded to a 911 call Friday night in the 3100 block of Encanto Drive. While they were at the scene, Michael Green, who is known to live at the house, drove by in a truck, police said.

Have you checked out the RegisterOnline election section, with article and polls on every race that is going to appear on the November ballot in Napa County.

Splashed cooking oil ignited a kitchen fire in downtown Napa Saturday evening, causing an estimated $75,000 in damages, according to Napa Fire.