SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area Rapid Transit officials are looking at charging more to use trains during peak hours to get riders to travel at other times.

Three Napa residents were given quite a scare when they were held at gunpoint by a man and woman who forced their way into a Napa home late Thursday night.

Two Napa men didn’t get a chance to find out if they were big lottery winners. Instead, they ended up sitting it out on a jail bunk on Thursday night.

Danny Chris Miller was arrested on drug charges when American Canyon police pulled over the car he was driving for a traffic violation, Sgt. Joel Wilson said.

Racing to meet a tight construction deadline, the city of Napa will be allowing the contractor on the new First Street bridge over the Napa River to work long hours this weekend.

In accordance with state regulations, Napa Valley Unified School District is replacing math textbooks and workbooks for grades kindergarten through eighth-grade this year. The district’s used textbooks will be free to the public from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 at the district warehouse, 1340 Menlo Ave. Recipients must sign a statement indicating that they will not re-sell the books. For more information, call Kate MacMillan, coordinator of library services for NVUSD, at 259-8441

A new kind of creature is soon to inhabit the Napa River riparian habitat: The Napa County biology teacher.

Don Long stops to chat while walking along the Napa River trail at Kennedy Park Monday afternoon. Long — who along with his dog Rascal make the jaunt a semi-regular habit — feels good about the changes made to the river over the 15 years he’s lived in Napa. “I really like what they’re doing with the river,” said Long.

Internet giant Amazon.com will begin selling U.S. wines this fall, vintners announced this week, a move that many believe will modernize the tradition-bound wine industry.

Associated Press