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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A juror’s illness has interrupted the third day of deliberations in the retrial of music producer Phil Spector, accused of killing a woman who grew up in Napa County.

WASHINGTON — A preliminary report released Thursday on the Montana plane crash that killed a Napa County family of five and nine others two weeks ago said the pilot twice asked air traffic controllers to divert from the flight’s original destination but gave no reason either time.

The environmental study of the proposed Angwin eco-village, a key document in getting the project before Napa County officials and the public, is on hold pending the outcome of the county’s bubble debate.

The Napa County Planning Commission voted on Wednesday to reschedule the second meeting in a series of public workshops on the Napa Pipe development proposal.

Main Street will be closed all day between Third and Fifth streets, starting before dawn Friday and lasting until about 4 p.m. for paving around the Riverfront commercial/condo project, city officials said.

The Napa City Council picked Jay Golik, a local architect with deep roots in the community, to serve on the Planning Commission Wednesday.

They may not have been throwing tea over the Third Street Bridge, but in downtown Napa Wednesday a group of about 40 locals engaged in the centuries-old tradition of gathering in public to protest tax policy.

A Napa man kept police at bay in his home for 15 minutes Tuesday night after a woman said he had threatened her with a knife.

Police arrested a Napa man Tuesday afternoon after a woman said he had dragged her from her car and into a home during a domestic dispute.

A woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon after a Napa police officer reported spotting her smoking metamphetamine in a field near the 1100 block of Imola Avenue.

LOS ANGELES — Deliberations in music producer Phil Spector’s murder trial were suspended Thursday until next week due to a juror’s illness.

Members of the Napa County Planning Commission duked it out Wednesday during a three-hour-long hearing on the Angwin urban bubble, a divisive Upvalley issue that will ultimately land before the Napa County Board of Supervisors later this month.

Detectives from three counties announced Thursday afternoon that they believe there is a connection in four local bank robberies that occurred over a 14-day period last month.

The party was at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville on Wednesday, when locals enjoyed an ice cream social with a few hundred of their best friends for the Vets Home’s 125th anniversary.

Napa’s new shopper shuttle service for seniors is off and running after a kick-off event Thursday at the Napa Senior Center.

Workers remove the last letter from the Mervyns sign on the north side of the building on Wednesday morning. Kohl's department store began interior demolition work on the building earlier this year and is expected to open in October 2009. J.L. Sousa/Register