woman purse allegedly found in the search of a pen valley area home this week could help police break the miriam sprat murder case the suspect in the slaying of thirty four year old steven medline was out of custody at the time of sprats yes on a plea agreement that postponed his sentencing from a year old crime until next month that no one had been arrested in may two thousand and six and a drug sting operation about a county superior rehabilitation program but that was ten days after spread death in may of this year according to the records investigators on thursday found sprouse purse madeline's home and arrested him on suspicion of burglary and murder seventy five strangled in her grass valley apartment on may fourth after noticing her door standing ajar police suspected the assailant strangled sprout with a cord of some kind in her empire street home but had no early leads to arrest came after madeleine and his wife dawn i don't thirty seven were questioned thursday by grass valley police detective sergeant doug grant and call on nelson don madeleine was released after the questioning pending further  investigation brennan said we're happy to start getting some closure going on this it's been too long said with anyone we spoke to everything led back to them armed with the search warrant police went to the madelein county narcotics task force officers snared mr medlin in a sting drug sales and grass valley parking lot according to court records the officers had contacted stephen medlen to trade one eight of  methamphetamine to him for one hundred dollars and six oxycontin pills that one was arrested at the springs seen for possession and transport of oxycontin possession of oxycontin for sale and possession of methamphetamine he allowed officers to search his apartment on sutton way once that his home office which found more oxycontin that had been prescribed to medline they also found a fully loaded forty caliber handgun with a round in the chamber underneath the pillow and metal and bedroom court showed return when don madeleine returned to the apartment about midnight police arrested her and her husband on suspicion of child endangerment because of two children were in the home along with the gun signed the agreement which put the other charges in abeyance according to spokesman at the nevada county courts clerk's office the deal gave deferred entry of judgment for eighteen months during which he was supposed to complete drug counseling and obey all laws with the possibility of the meth charge being dismissed of conditions were met haven't entered the chapel indian health program outpatient drug treatment program in auburn may fourteenth of this year ten days after the murder of miriam spratt the deferred judgment is up for review in august twenty fourth according to court records at that time the district attorney could refer to the current murder case as an infraction of the judgment according to the spokes person the court clerk's office after the slayings sprats aunt betty mcclanahan of wisconsin said her niece may have been involved with drugs and alcohol abuse at one time but doubted that was the case at the time of her d i'm glad they got somebody for it mcclanahan said late friday it's just a horrible feeling to know what happened to her she was a very talented lady and now in another local story at two thirty p m friday grass valley had the highest ozone also in northern california according to w w w dot spare the air dot com that and one hundred three degree heat that helps foremost on kept and doors for much of the day with her two young children the owner is one of the founders of save the air in the bad a county recently formed by the parents and doctors alarmed by the growing number of people moving away to find cleaner air the air that oversees nevada sea air and plymouth county has recently awarded save the air in the bad economy eighteen thousand five hundred dollars for education and outreach programs and to identify solutions to always own problems the group wants to use grant monies to organize school carpooling this fall to reduce vehicle emissions within the county on bad days like friday burner said she seriously considered moving away herself even though she and her family recently purchased their first home and love the community she says she feels duped but nobody told her how bad the air was when she moved here earlier this year the american lung association rated air area the thirteenth worst in the nation for ozone levels this summer she plans to beat the poor by vacationing for weeks out of the county if we do that we can cut our exposure bernheimer said an air quality advisor was advisory was issued on thursday but also on levels several points beneath the levels for sensitive groups we have a lot of days that are just below the standard said sam long one of the northern syria air quality management district and sort of shifting win will cause the ozone levels to drop to moderate over the weekend s t a and c sent a letter to the california air resources board on june twentieth that some members have called a precursor to litigation the the state look at air quality on the statewide level think consider stricter standards jested by the environmental protection agency the e p a s proposal would drop the standard from point zero eight parts per million to point  seven parts per million such a reduction would double the number of unhealthy days in the photos said long wiring sta in n c recently ordered a pair of political ozone monitors costing four thousand dollars each hitting thousands of donated dollars the air quality district will help the group calibrate the machines to be sure their data collected is valid people are just throwing money at it said bernheimer the group also hopes to buy a permanent monitor for penn valley as recommended by a two thousand and nevada county grand jury report to better understand how ozone and particulates moved into the area from the sacramento valley now one permanent modern or monitoring station on the little building in grass valley provides th western county with ozone levels readings we want to have a better picture of how ozone functions in various places burnam are said on july twenty third sta in n c will hold an evening meeting for parents living with ozone keeping children safe the location of the meeting will be announced on the group's web site at w w w dot s t a i n n c dot org and another local news there are marks from the local congress you know representative calling the iraq war a quagmire received mixed reactions friday in nevada county where support for troops remains high even as some call for their return home on thursday representative john doolittle republican of rockland said u s troops should be pulled back from the front lines and restricted to training and advisory iraqi advising iraqi forces little's comments made during a town hall meeting and rockland come as other prominent republicans have distanced themselves from president george w bush's plea for pay as for the war effort they also show a continuing shift in the little disposition on the american involvement in iraq  april he told the union that we need to get ourselves off the frontline in june he called for iraqi troops to be in control of the conflict by that years and but expressed hope for some stability  ravaged nation just took a view for doolittle's latest comments county residents cheered clapped and waved little flags during the independence paper raid in grass valley featuring the families of servicemen and women carrying photos of their loved ones veterans carrying banners and national guard reservists and it camouflaged vehicle with american troops come home from iraq before iraqi forces can defend their nation then the terrorists win and we lose vatican republican central committee member tony hill chris said i'd like to see the troops get out of there tomorrow but i'd like to win though chris also said if we don't fight them there will be friday we will be fighting them here others remain skeptical of doolittle who had compared with president bush in sponsors a sparsely supported the war before offering his first reservations on the matter congressman doolittle is nothing more than a yes man who been swayed by the wave of public sentiment said lorraine like of the nevada county peace center it is appalling that this district has such a lack of leadership in its congressional representative said private stenhouse spokesman for charles brown the democratic congressional candidate from roseville who beat the incumbent in november nevada county in the november general election when house call doolittle's change of opinion an act of political desperation we've got to get off the front line to soon as possible do it was said at a meeting with constituents at rocklin city hall and in my in mind that means something like the end of the year we just can't continue to tolerate these kinds of losses he called the war a quagmire his senate majority has republican colleagues have become skeptical of the administration's iraq policies and that's a big change too little said support among republican senators is considered crucial to bush's iraq policy democrats hold a narrow fifty one to forty nine majority and return we fall shy of the sixty votes needed to cut off debate and advance most anti war legislation but new mexico have announced they can no longer support bush's iraq strategy and have called on the president to start reducing the military role there their announcement took many by surprise because most republicans have said they're willing to hold until september to see if bush troops build up it's working i have carefully studied their reactions to the situation and believe we cannot continue to ask our troops to sacrifice indefinitely the iraqi government is not making measurable progress to move its county forward to me she told reporters from new mexico this weekend instead don't mince let me see embraced a bipartisan bill by colorado democrat can salazar that would put u s troops on track to leave by the end of march two thousand and eight report at four thirty p m officers arrested a twenty seven year old woman and one hundred block of south church street on an outstanding warrant at seven thirty seven a m p m a woman from the one hundred block of westbury or drive reported a man who she said was harassing her was standing in the parking lot officers were unable to locate demands but the woman said she would like him removed if he were on the property again friday at eight o nine a m officers arrested a twenty one year old man an intersection of richardson and north school street on suspicion of being drunk in public and on outstanding warrants at nine o seven a m a caller from the one hundred block of carpenter street reported the dog lying under a brown truck and appeared to be in distress the dog was picked up by animal control nevada county sheriff's office on thursday at twelve o three p m the caller from the one hundred block of argyle reported spray painting at various locations around the building in the parking lot the c requested extra patrol at night at twelve thirty eight p m a caller from the thirteen thousand block of hemlock drive reported theft of a mail over the past month third party person said the cash gift cards possibly have been stolen from the mailbox on friday at twelve fifty three a m a woman from the seven hundred block of the linda lee kavanagh reported her roommates have been banging on her door and not letting her sleep at three thirty nine a m call from the twelve thousand block in nevada city highway said he was going to kill its son as he was out of control the phone went dead and officers were unable to make contact on the landline and now here we are with the weather another hot days expected over northern california but not as hot as it was this past week this is mainly due to increase in the delta breeze that many of us felt pick up late yesterday afternoon look for the most sunny skies to start the weekend near sacramento with afternoon highs in the upper ninety's lower one hundred should be felt by many portions of the san joaquin valley here's a little reprieve the g v t v news has brought for afternoon portions of the sierra need to be aware again of the possibility of afternoon thunderstorms and dry lightning this threat in the afternoon remains through the weekend for much of the next week and now our final story the former u s vice president and global warming activist was rated at fourteen to one outside in a list of american celebrities likely to be arrested next on wednesday the day after the betting went live on patty powers website gore's twenty four year old son how dublin based company and that statement the betting question was publicly her publicity hound paris hilton as a favorite thing to do when i was based on our recent spell in los angeles jail microsoft billionaire bill gates came in a distant fifty to one on friday paddy power had switched his celebrity betting back solely to help him slightly two thousand and seven fortunes merited a five to four chance of ending up in  rehabilitation clinic by the end of the year while a return to jail was rated to ten to one appearing in an episode of prison break was twenty five to one becoming gallant climbs new face for the profane me skate forty to one and releasing a cover of jailhouse rock sixty six to one oh that's it for today this is your lucky day that's seven seven o seven day for the news and i hope everyone is very lucky thanks a lot for watching and we will see you