It began in kindergarten. That’s when Jacolby Martin received his first certificate for perfect attendance.

A Napa winery has agreed to pay $550,000, pull out 750 creekside vines, plant 160 trees and make other concessions to settle charges that it violated county and state land use regulations on its east Napa property.

Two witnesses testified Tuesday that 17-year-old Junor Douglas most likely pulled the trigger of the .22-caliber handgun that killed Anthony Gee at an American Canyon birthday party in January.

Three young men worked to steal a woman’s purse on Lincoln Avenue Monday afternoon, Napa police said.

As part of a speakers series on Napa County’s transportation options, a Metropolitan Transportation Commission planner will talk about “livable communities” Wednesday.

A block of Vallejo Street was cordoned off Tuesday after gusts of wind blew insulation material from a house under renovation all over the neighborhood. The call came at around 4 p.m., according to the city of Napa Fire Department.

A 21-year-old Napa man was arrested Tuesday afternoon near Trancas and Jefferson streets after a witness watched him allegedly kick his dog, lift it up by the collar and choke it, Napa Police reported Wednesday.

A decision on the fate of 27 former employees at St. Helena’s Charles Krug Winery will be made public sometime Thursday.

One of two Vallejo teens is going to be tried as an adult in the murder of an American Canyon 16-year-old, a Napa County judge ruled this afternoon.

AMMUNITION SUPPLY POINT 8, Iraq — The voice bellowed the customary alert over the radio: “Fire in the hole!”

WASHINGTON — President Bush prodded rebellious Senate Republicans on Tuesday to help resurrect legislation that could provide eventual citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hundreds of Hamas fighters firing rockets and mortar shells captured the headquarters of the Fatah-allied security forces in northern Gaza on Tuesday, scoring a key victory in the bloody battle for control of the seaside strip.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Mistaking each other for the enemy, Afghan police fired four dozen grenades and U.S.-led coalition troops fought back with helicopter gunships in a fierce battle that left eight officers dead before dawn Tuesday, officials said.

CHICAGO — Doctors ought to quit using fuzzy terms to define children’s weight problems and instead refer to truly fat kids as overweight or obese, a committee of medical experts recommended.

HOUSTON — The international space station’s newest power source — a set of solar wings — made its debut Tuesday.

BEVERLY HILLS — Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to 13 new counts stemming from an investigation in which women and girls accused him of sexual assault.

WASHINGTON  — An executive branch official contacted at least one House member to oppose California’s greenhouse gas emissions law, according to a Democratic House chairman who deemed the outreach improper and demanded an explanation.

WASHINGTON — The time limit for suing a company for pay discrimination should restart each time an employee gets a reduced paycheck, House Democrats said Tuesday, taking issue with a recent Supreme Court decision.

LOS ANGELES — The Police Commission on Tuesday approved a proposal to buy a software program that would allow witnesses with cell phone cameras to take pictures of accident and crime scenes and transmit the images to 911 call centers.

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest death at San Quentin Prison marked a gruesome landmark that underscored just how jammed up the state’s capital punishment system has become: Suicides have now supplanted executions as the second leading cause of death on California’s death row.