reuters at least twenty civilians were killed and many wounded when gadhafi forces bombed a number of homes western bombing campaign has also reportedly killed a number of civilians in recent bombings at the capital tripoli the top vatican official said he had heard credible reports that new air strikes have killed at least forty civilians deputy commander of nato forces canadian lieutenant charles were charged said he is taking the report seriously he said we are very careful in prosecution of any of the possible targets that we have we have very said the forces loyal to libyan leader colonel moammar gadhafi are not hearing not near a breaking point despite being weakened by the bombing of allied forces and he said we have actually fairly seriously degraded his military capabilities his air defense capabilities his command and control capabilities we've attracted over overall forces to about twenty to twenty five percent level that doesn't mean that he's about to break from a military standpoint because it's just not the case there has been speculation over whe including the head of the libya's de facto parliament and a former prime minister are said to have fled to neighboring tunisia meanwhile libya's former foreign minister at a tricky has said he had turned down a request to represent t at the united nations libyan government has apparently also asked nicaragua's former foreign minister miguel discard all brockman to serve the united nations on its behalf but there is is confusion around whether the request has been formalized the news follows the defection of libyan foreign minister who is now in britain after crossing over from libya to tunisia the gadhafi spokesperson confirmed gooses defection but insisted the libyan government remained intact the spokesperson said they are here they are doing their jobs and if some of them left in the last few hours maybe i did not hear about him leaving you know it would usually be on a mission because we try to negotiate with the world our officials do travel daily by the way and they do come back daily by the humanitarian access to civilian victimized by the conflict said i also would like to say how concerned we are with the humanitarian situation in libya there is a lot of discussion in the world a lot of coverage of the military and political aspects of the conflict but very little attention to the humanitarian dramatic situation in the country ohio's republican governor john kasich has signed into law a major stripping public workers of collective bargaining rights and barring them from striking legislation will affect over three hundred sixty thousand workers making ohio the biggest state so far to curb the rights of public sector employees in addition to i'm doing collective bargaining the flaw forces public workers to pay at least fifteen percent of their health care premiums  their most of the automatic pay increases makes it more difficult for you needs to collect dues opponents attempt to undo the law by putting it to a public referendum wisconsin republicans have announced they will stop trying to enforce their anti union laws following the judge's ruling that it is not yet taken effect on thursday dane county circuit judge mary ann sumi reinforced a temporary restraining order she had initially issued last month blocking the measures implementation sunni sunni had ruled republican lawmakers were likely in violation of state open meeting laws when they pushed the legislation through earlier this week republican ten top officials had said they ignored the order and enforced the law provisions the push to pass anti union legislation is being mirrored in states across the country on thursday lawmakers in new hampshire and oklahoma advanced measures that would weaken public sector unions in maine republican lawmakers are pushing two bills that would roll back parts of the state's child labor laws the major would let employees pay workers under the age of twenty eight for two dollars twenty five cents less per hour than maine's minimum wage for the first two hundred eighty days on the job the bill would eliminate the maximum number of hours of a minor sixteen years of age or older can work on a school day the second would allow sixteen and seventeen year old teenagers to work one hour later on school nights  agreed to cut thirty three billion which would be the largest one time reduction in u s history but on thursday republican leaders said no commitment have been made if they shut down for like a month and don't pay all these politicians we balance the budget republicans want to impose drastic funding cuts on long term right wing targets such as national public radio planned parenthood and u s environmental protection agency foreign aid would also take a significant hit the nation's top foreign aid official is  republicans budget bill would lead to the deaths of seventy thousand children who rely on u s assistance worldwide testifying before a house panel u s aid administrator rajiv shah said the republican major known as h r one would force cutbacks to spending on malaria controls immunization in child birth attendants shot called the seventy thousand estimate a conservative figure displaced residents of the areas near japan's stricken fukushima nuclear power plant have been told their evacuation may last for months thousands of people have been living in temporary shelters since the march earthquake and tsunami badly damaged the plant announcement comes on high levels of radiation have been found in groundwater near the plant for the first time radioactive iodine was found at ten thousand times the legal limit japanese government meanwhile is reportedly considering using public funds to buy a controlled stake in the plant's own or tokyo electric power company in order to exert greater control withdrawn and offered to step down by the end of the year following the collapse of talks with the opposition and at least six u s soldiers have been killed in eastern afghanistan over the past two days pentagon says the troops are part of the same operation but were killed in three separate incidents his former manager at california's san on a fray nuclear power plant is suing the facilities owner for allegedly firing him in retaliation for reporting safety concerns paul at the southern california edison fired him shortly after the u s nuclear regulatory commission ordered the company to address what is called a chilling effect on addressing workplace safety yes this lawsuit says the n r c at first invest in first to get the plant after it received anonymous reports of infractions including short cuts on testing new generators on reported safety violations falsifying records promoting a culture of cover up and ignoring chronic fatigue among overburdened workers that's it vandalism to a picnic table and the side of the building but forty three am several callers from midnight waiting for him and one reported a man panhandling in the middle of the street trying to stop cars to ask for money and multiple callers reported the dog again it could not be found and seven fifty seven p m a man pushing a shopping cart on north church street in richardson street was questioned a man was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance possession of a syringe and violating probation its second man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a syringe ten zero seven pm caller from two want to block a george report of a burglary with a screen door broken and items taken and thursday twelve fifty five am a caller from one hundred block of glass in a way reported a woman looking into cars she was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance an nine thirty four am it woman from twelve thousand block of robinson road reporter dave reckon resinous had been damaged inside and out possibly by an ex tenant in one forty eight a m a woman from highway one seventy four  patio set and it's six thirty eight p m caller from twenty four thousand block of camilli way reported a burglary to an auto last night with just golf equipment worth one hundred fifty dollars taken six forty eight p m caller from western gateway park reported a juvenile was bitten by a dog on a bike trail and six fifty six p m a man from thirteen thousand block i was forty nine reported to physical fight with a girlfriend whom he recently evicted situation was mediated eight was located at another neighbor's residence and given a ride home looking fifty six p m and man from sixteen doesn't walk patricia way reported his son took his car keys and other items the keys were return van a city police department on wednesday twelve sixteen p m a caller from coyote street reported a person yelling for help who then left and one eighteen p m a caller from four hundred block broad street report vandalism and seven twelve p m a caller from commercial in north pine streets reported a man in argument with himself using profanity and that's it for the blotter today now another thanks to one of our underwriters who supports your with another trash fashion show circus not what we need to wonder if we see train bears or elephants i don't know but this is a must show for anyone who's in the know in nevada county you better act fast in this tonight on four hundred seats of don't wait too long in today's local news headlines questions arise after a vehicle hits about a unique student and more on the barry bonds trial still trying to get his story in today's first local store and by this color of the union and follow store yesterday seventy year old nevada union high outpouring of concern about safety issues on the busy road fronting the campus brown was transported to sort of roseville medical center treated and released the identity of the female driver has not been released and the accident remains under investigation he says second event a union student struck on ridge road in the last four months greg trujillo was seriously injured while in a cross walk at about six pm december night he was in a coma for a week said andrea rocco whose daughter carly pruitt was with trujillo at the time of the accident he's still recovering pruitt trujillo were walking back from briarpatch market to baptist church parking lot across the street because it was getting dark they hit the button that lights up the flashing strips on the cross walks she said there most all the way across the street when trujillo was hit by a vehicle and thrown forty feet the car missed carly by inches she had it and improve remains traumatized to the point where she is hardly able to cross the street at night to a hero doesn't remember the accident at all rocco said he was transported to sierra nevada memorial hospital and then airlifted to sutter roseville medical center he later spent time recuperating in the brain trauma center in san francisco and you're still undergoing occupational therapy ra called for an investigation into the history of the pedestrian injuries on ridge road what steps came into play for them to put across why are there she said why no stop sign why no like it's obviously a chronic problem former grass valley city council member chauncey poston who said and city's traffic safety committee for six years could not recall any instances of people being hit on a stretch of road during his tenure and he said the bigger problem what has was parked in market visibility said we had to do a lot in terms of speeding and parking out of the high school grass valley police captain dave remillard said five vehicles versus a lot of traffic and take that into consideration he said thursday afternoon principal marty matheson was escorting students across the street he did not return a call for com maybe call me back i tried grass valley city councilman dan miller an alternative on the city traffic safety committee noted that grass valley police and nevada county sheriff's deputies often patrol the area when schools let out there is a crosswalk  flashing lights miller said you can't monitor everybody in a car i don't know what the remedy would be well i do put a stop light in that it has story about brian hamilton and such a press after a friend called on a sunday morning asked if he had seen a newspaper story about greg anderson how his cock picked up the sports section and could hardly believe his eyes anderson with him has got played baseball while growing up in grass valley area was under investigation for and a hundred sixty pounds when i saw his picture in the newspaper i didn't recognize it like boom recognize me when i'm not on the news when i saw that picture i thought that's not the same guy but in fact it was anderson forty five year old personal trainer who graduated from the very unit in one thousand nine hundred four was or has remained in newspapers print for nearly a decade at the center of the steroids in sports scandals involving the bay area laboratory cooperative balco and his long time friend and client barry bonds wives major league baseball's all time later in home runs and owner of the single season home run record is the trial this week in san francisco he is charged with lying to federal grand jury when he said he had never clothes for a trip when the seven time national league m v p and anderson came into the room anderson expressed concerns about her presence but bond said not to worry about hoskins because she's my girl  if i did she then watched anderson inject bonds she said she didn't ask about injection but bonds volunteered that it was a little something for when i go on the road you can't detect it anderson who spent three months in prison and three months in home confinement after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering in two thousand and five he's currently incarcerated in federal correctional facility in dublin calif to be confused with ireland after refusing to testify in the case