you like international style watches you get you need food for a party or get together and this is a place you can have kids all your their contract amount from their clients prosecutors said we have alleged that they violated one of the statutes which limits how much a contractor can take against for contract price deputy district attorney tim kent tribune said they also took some of those amounts and expanded them elsewhere in a process they declared bankruptcy charges stern from step i'm sorry stem from their business dealings with five client according to the court records which also indicate they own  long because they have been local business owners from an hears defense lawyer stephen monk out of nevada city declined to discuss the case or say where as clients who have not seen any of the documents the prosecution has seen  guilty to all accounts out of order then said a felony conference at one p m august twenty first a law enforcement officers will be on the lookout for laura mr holt after the grass valley woman failed is accused of taking money from a memorial fund she set up for robbery johnston her former brother in law who died in a car accident holly twenty penn valley in january the star hope pleaded not guilty to a charge of grand theft people and steven horner was surveying the eagle scout project on monday when a sixty turned crane showed up for duty in about an hour the crane moved four pieces of historic mining equipment together wayne eighteen thousand pounds and gently set them on concrete pads behind a north star mine powerhouse museum in grass valley this is clearly a scout who thinks big it's been a good team experience for me said horner who watched the troop twenty four in nevada city i've worked on this project for about sixty hours and there's more to come than about a year students project is another step in the museum's plan to create a new visitors area on the property said bob shoemaker a doc and who is overseeing the work on the intersection of allison ranch and the courtney wrote in grass i want to get some things done and it came at the right time said shoemaker who has worked for seven years as a volunteer at the museum to clean this back on line and make it part of the museum when i got the idea for the project from scout master robert tro who was aware of the museum wanted to make improvements to go scot candidate said driver contacted museum officials and when they said they would welcome the help he turned it back over to the sixteen year old  e projects a real nice because they serve as an impetus for development in the community to do an eagle scout project a boy scout first need to earn twenty one merit badges warner has earned merit badges for environmental science first aid canoeing and most recently cycling having completed a fifty mile ride sunday biggest challenge for this project was finding business as one to contribute to they have to project answered rosa grass valley donated and poured the other boy scouts to clean and do other work his father tim orner who has helped on monday was helping on monday said the project has been great for his son is a very good program the elder owner said it teaches them self relian and they get good i get a good idea what it's like to work on a community project like this in five weeks after the uber river complex fires began in about a county ferns are sprouting from the scorche as the forest takes an estimated three years to return to its prefer our productivity dead trees he marred landscape and ash you know water or some of the negative consequences of fires before the fire fires were contained force hydrologist timber biddinger and ric weaver were studying the saw as part of their burned area emergency response be a iar for the top national forest team is studying what emergency measures need to be taken to protect water quality of life and property and minimise erosion in downstream flooding before the first one hundred storms hit we're looking at the watershed as a whole weaver said foresters are in the process of looking at long term restore  n work such as harvesting burnt forest or city burned areas if full environmental review is required will take time said forest spokes woman and west wing started by dry lightning on june twenty first fires  twenty thirty acres within the uber river watershed before they were contained on the american robber another twenty thousand five hundred forty one fires burned the government springs west hill fire along the north fork is ninety five five percent cont after flying over burned ridge starts collecting data from satellite images and testing the water retention of soil dug from pits and burned for his biddinger and we were at examine how severely the fires affected soils plants and waterways this summarize their findings in a national burned area report within a report the teams classified sort of burned so they're deep into three categories based on fires effects on environment it took as they look at the soil impacts by studying how severely severely the trees are burned if trees are enough dry needles and leaves or minute after the fire the materials will fall and protect the saw from the elements by decomposing and so they found seventy seven percent of soil and vegetation burned in a low sort of burn so ver category another eighteen percent of the burn was classified as moderate rain in the far scorched the trees and killed them but left the needles and leaves attached another five percent of the burned area was in the high salt burns a very category leaving nothing but black and sticks it could have been a lot worse said building here you know let it burn policy forcers want to see fires burn at lower temperatures to remove on want to brush ground cover and lower limbs without harming the trees it mimics a prescribed fire this is about what we try to do when we prescribe or burn it's beneficial to the forest whitaker had it's just as good for the saw that's why we don't  differentiate the trees are dead and we just want to know how many needles are retained unlike other forest lands in california the town national forest does not have a lot of burn policy because of a checkerboard pattern of private ownership up to forty five percent within its boundaries protecting utilities water sources resorts campgrounds houses recreation weights and timber lands are a priority one of the things about this area is we can't let it run there are commercial timber lands we have to stop it before it gets there we heard pacific gas and electric company and sierra pacific industries already have begun harvesting burned temper from their private holdings within areas of the fall fire the south yuba rivers water quality may be clouded shortly after the few first rain storms this winter luckily fires burned low and moderate canyon creek to arrange the water sources for the town of washington you're probably going to see some ashy water which will quickly wars through the system nevertheless life returns to the even harshest moves gets created by fire usually takes about three years for a blackened wasteland to reach a point where the saw is returned to its previous productivity gofers worms and rodents speed up the process already grant sprouts of appeared from oak stumps killed in the american river complex fires it could be completely burned down to the nub and it will sprout bigger had mass need to see and authors and old are specially adapted to fire next spring young green gras grasses and obstructed by brush will attract deer and quail and the predators that feed on them after a fire comes through it means more habitat for animals in the long term some animals really thrive after fire were sa and that's it today for our local  world news headlines today at least sixty killed in baghdad suicide attack and six die in u s missile strike in pakistan and iran seeking common ground with the u s and israel want to go sh gilani was in washington for meetings at the white house iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is claiming iran is making progress in international talks over the nuclear program in an interview with n b c news  said around would find common ground with the u s and five other nations he also said we are working to manufacture a bomb we don't believe we are not working the manufacture bomb we don't believe in nuclear bombs nuclear bombs planted twenty century we're living in a new century nuclear energy might not be quick to a nuclear bomb iran has until saturday to reply to an international offer to halt un sanctions and return for a nuclear freeze in israel and the occupied territories the israeli government has announced it will refuse to negotiate the long term status of jerusalem as part of an ongoing peace talks with palestinian leaders on monday israeli's prime minister you don't want said the deal could be reached on other issues but that jerusalem year or the expected heres israel backed by america is not intended to get palestinian people their basic demand by establishment of an independent state and for this reason we resorted to the military activities in order to push start end by our authentic after israel's decision coincided with another demolition of a palestinian residential building in east jerusalem israeli officials say they are having obtained the proper permits israel has demolished hundreds of palestinian homes over the last decade meanwhile israeli government has instructed several top officials not to visit spain after us banished judge approved an international arrest warrant against them for allegedly committing war crimes spanish human rights groups while the case over an israeli airstrike in two thousand and two sixteen palestinian civilians were killed and when israel bombed a crowded area in the heart of central gaza israel says it was targeting a senior hamas leader who was killed in t t and here in the united states bush administration has admitted it will leave behind a record budget deficit of around four hundred ninety billion dollars pretty much figure is moving more than eighty billion over president bush's forecast earlier this year dejection is likely too small because the white house hasn't requested war funding for the entire year and an internal probe has found top justice department officials practice routine political discrimination in hiring top positions applicants were disqualified for everything from links to democratic party politics and rumors of being gay or lesbian less express republicans were given priority including one lawyer who drew ready for his position on the white house internet search technique to vet the political views of potential employees and search for applicants names along with such keywords as abortion homosexual florida recount and gun and the environmental protection agencies and force me office has told employees to direct any outside inquiries to a small group of officials rather than answer the questions themselves according to the washington post and e p a memo sites and contact from reporters congressional investigators and the present specter general memo says please do not respond to questions or make any statements critics say the move will further endanger employees who speak out against political interference with their work a recent study survey found more than half of the e p a officials have encountered political interference in the past five years and in tennessee he said in sunday's deadly church shooting knoxville has told police he targeted the congregation because it was known for social liberal and gay friendly beers two people were killed eight others were wounded when jim adkisson walked into the church and opened fire with a shotgun knoxville police chief sterling own city taxes be treated as a hate crime surely owen said it appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job his frustration over that and his stated hatred for the liberal movement we have a recovery it four page letter in which he describes his feelings and the reason that he claims he c a government audit has found a private military company blackwater our favorite has obtained dozens of contracts meant for small businesses the inspector general of the small business administration says blackwater was awarded one hundred ten million dollars in small business contracts despite uncertainty over whether it qualifies as a small business from two thousand five hundred thousand seven blackwater was awarded thirty contracts intended for companies with revenues under six point five million blackwater dragon which exceeds two hundred million for each of those years meanwhile another government has found tens of millions of dollars have been wasted on a pentagon contract to build security facilities in iraq stuart bowen the special inspector general for iraq says contractor parsons delaware complete just one third of a nine hundred million dollar contract project and back in his federal regulations regulators have shut down two banks in california and nevada first national bank  baroda and a california first heritage bank were both folded for lack of sufficient capital closures come two weeks after the collapse of california's bank indeed and in louisiana prosecutors have announced they plan to seek the indictment of a white officer while the two adults responsible argued and took turns going inside the bar and sunday two or seven a m call from two hundred block of upper slate creek road reported a prowler moving moving around in front of the residents who was repeatedly frightened up by a sensor woman reported having weapons in the residence a man could be heard yelling in the background that shows office received another call from a never seen situation was escalating and five twenty five p m it woman from the eighteen thousand block a