nevada county but before these stories t v news would like to think aren't you the t v news broadcast monday through friday three p m at seven five three zero four seven seven three three zero nine or e mail us at news if you need to be dot org for more info year ago iraq war veteran lindsay campbell was going to school trying to land a job and looking for an apartment for herself and her baby thing she was chosen as a two thousand and seven recipient of the drew reynolds welder a scholarship when in two thousand dollars to use if she needed now the twenty four year old has a part time job would be a large force base in your book county she takes classes half time next year college an hour ways through that associate degree program in real estate she plans to seek a mentor and take the test to become a state certified fraser forge a new career she thinks will support her little family while giving herself time to spend hundred percent of these proceeds support scholarships education and leadership programs for the youth of our community nevada city rotary president nancy camp's struggling towards a new life scholarship was named after drew reynolds if either of two who was working full time and attending college when he was killed in grass valley crash caused by man i am nothing better means for lindsay campbell and her daughter ruby now a year and a half old the rotary scholarship has given the hope of self sufficient life when campbell got out of the army after three years of duty including a year in iraq she and her husband lived in germany but the marriage quickly fell apart campbell returned to grass valley i was pregnant and all by myself gamble recalled i had this shirt on my back a friend saw an ad for a scholarship in a newspaper the deadline was next day campbell's and i drove all over the county getting reference letters i told my friend over the phone what to write an an essay on his computer and printed it out for me i got it to them one hour before it was due when she learned she had been awarded the scholarship campbell could scarcely believe and never even been given anything that was huge for me and ruby campus that day after receiving the money she learned department she had been waiting for was available and now she has the money for the deposit she now also has cash to pay for a uniform and many other expenses for her new job at beale for gas to get to training in sacramento and for a babysitter for ruby scholarship help me get my job in my apartment i would have lost both without it it was the best gift ever she still faces daunting obstacles in two years she figures it will take to finish or a a if i can get through school this and get this appraisal license the work is of data gathering and comparisons and report writing that's my forte campbell said on really excited about getting it and it's going to be great as a good positive story for today i want to tell how is regional planning agencies fiercest critics has been appointed to the state organization governor arnold schwarzenegger announced yesterday his appointment of former state assemblyman tim leslie to the top whole regional planning agency governing board with twenty years of service and california legislator woman for the governor as well as familiarity with the region itself and his time representing tara leslie became want to talk as regional planning agency's most vocal critics in two thousand and six then some of the and hosted a survey that gauge public sentiment of the t r p a result showed eighty five percent responded felt by state agency needed to be held more accountable to the public placer county supervisor bruce kranz who also sits on the t a r p board said that leslie will not be the only governing board member who is critical of the agency he serves he said but now that he is a part of it he can be part of the solution i think there's nothing wrong with that frankly that's one of the positive things i like about lesl he knows what the issues are crowd said he's ecstatic about leslie's apartment especially considering leslie's early dialogue about fire prevention particularly police because when we're dealing with the wild fire issue he's the one who actually started talking about the issue crips said now he'll be there to help us leslie will bring with him a long list of achievements in the lake tahoe region local officials said tim wesley has been tremendous sense approaches to solving problems last year resident business and those in the construction trade recycled sixty percent of all the county's combined garbage a new report shows in less than a decade nevada county has attracted  of california officials reversing prior arrests fines for failure made to state recycling requirements the county has surpassed both the state recommended diversion rate of fifty percent of all materials heading to landfills and the state's average fifty four percent diversion it's a victory for county sanitation defra climbed from the wall fully twenty two percent recycling rate low in two thousand and one about a county as one of the leaders said jamie cameron harlee information officer from california integrated waste management board two thousand and seven waste generation study by r s three consulting group inc of sacramento from the county diverted fifty nine percent or fifty one thousand tons of recycled material from its waste stream two thousand and seven  from fifty two percent county diverted in two thousand and six easier curbside recycling has caused reticence to recycle double what they did a few years ago said steve porter the county's solid waste manager while recycling bottles and cans is considered importance only  represents thirty percent of recycled material in the county said tracy harper a recycling coordinator for the county manufacturing businesses also are recycling more funding it means a boost to their bottom line a number of programs including workshops to teach landfill a construction and demolition center opened in june two thousand and six a transfer station a record you rode in it took forty three hundred thirty four tons of debris last year of the state waste board provide significant diversion credits for the materials i think that pushes us over the top order had recycled construction waste is ground up then transported to the ostrom landfill in yuba county there it is used as an alternative daily cover to keep rats flies and seagulls out of the mountain of trash state officials are looking for a better use of material that is a big issue we are discussing cameron harley added for now the county lacks an industry that prosperous from recycling construction ways but harper of is an opportunity where right for a salvage mindset in this county we need a market to develop in coming years air quality and environmental concerns are expected to accelerate the tightening of disposal laws in the state the air laws are getting much stricter and that's going to drive a lot of things including how we deal with way said cameron hourly the county has visions for recycling more including offering a weekly curbside pickup in sixty four gallon wil recycling could become state law in future years now that we have momentum we want to keep going we're not going to let our foot off the gas we're going to keep encouraging people to recycle more p and that's like a trip to trash they recycle reuse all the stuff they use in their event and that's it for local news today torturing iraqi prisoners democratic congressional candidates call for immediate iraq withdrawal and court orders new sentencing for mumia abu jamal black panther alabama governor to be freed on bond puerto rico governor charged in corruption case and israel accused of new extrajudicial killings a nigger party denies pressuring pakistani leaders and tibetan monks chinese press briefing pentagon orders nucular inventory to crack down on siders mahdi army and tuesday earlier today malaki said he would extend deadline to mahdi i'm sorry as a father's escalated president bush continued to sound off the white house theme of violence in iraq marks a sign of u he said this often see builds on the security gains of the surge and demonstrates the iraqi people that the government is committed to protecting them there is a strong commitment to the central government of iraq to say that no one is above the law this operation is going to take some time to complete and the enemy you know will try to fill t v screen to violence but the ultimate result will be terrorists and extremists in iraq will know they have no place in a free and democratic society despite president bush's claims ports on the ground say u s military is still waging much of the fighting according to washington post an iraqi battalion mostly stayed on the outskirts of souter's city as u s troops led the attack u s armored vehicles supported by helicopters and drones were seen battling mahdi forces thursday's clashes mahdi army commanders corps corps begun corroborated i'm sorry the account saying that they had been mostly fighting u s forces insider city one senior mahdi army member said if there was no americans there would be no fighting mahdi army members said several iraqi groups had late troops would lay down their arms rather than fight and as i said we are members of the mahdi army we thank the soldiers who headed out their weapons and equipment we thank them as they did not fight their brothers and m without even consulting washington administrative could fishel said to be struggling to understand the situation on the ground the violence also continues to hit the u s controlled green zone on thursday an american contractor was killed by one of twelve mortar rounds fired inside zones heavily fortified was meanwhile the death toll from what wednesday's u s bombing of the town of healing remains unknown witnesses reported anywhere from ten to eight eighty casualties and local residents said he has not been used for insurgent activity a resident there is a white this is the reason behind this attack in us we did not fight them or attacked police on our military base we did not threaten anyone to participate in demonstrations no military action in our area in other iraqi news a newly disclosed memo warning of the deplorable conditions and to present a full loser and according to the consortium news western iraq u s commander major general john kelly writes that the jail is so overcrowded and dirty that it does not meet minimal nine iraqi prisoners in two thousand and three that mission could lead to compensation payments to the eight surviving prisoners and a family of the knights who died from beatings by british jailers slain victim iraqi hotel worker bob moves suffered ninety three in to his body moves in was twenty six years old and father of two children his wife had died just two months earlier of a brain tumor meanwhile back in the united states more than three dozen democratic congressional candidates have pledged to make an immediate iraq withdraw centerpiece of their upcoming campaigns probably was all dubbed a responsible plan to end the war in iraq which still keep the troops in iraq to guard the u s embassy but it differs from democratic leaders in both presidential candidates in refusing to keep tens of thousands of troops in iraq to train iraqis or to gauge and so called end of terrorism operations ephedrine appeals court thursday refused to overturn the conviction of imprisoned journalist and former black panther john wall and rejected his call for a new trial however its long awaited ruling said bowser mall who has been on death row for twenty six years deserves a new sentencing hearing because of the flawed jury instruction if he is reasons he will face either death or life in prison without parole conviction on corruption charges siegelman is currently serving seven years four months prison sentence on charges of bribery conspiracy and mail fraud critics say he is now a target of political witch hunt more than fifty former state attorney generals have called for a congressional investigation siegelman case the release was ordered just hours after the house judiciary committee said it would call siegelman to testify over whether his prosecution was politically motivated meanwhile in puerto rico governor an said israel troops deliberately murdered four palestinian militants in bethlehem earlier this month there at my shower a visit to him says israeli troops made no effort to arrest the victims according to the israeli high court is not permissible to intentionally kill a palestinian suspect if there is a possibility of using less extreme measures such as arresting or trying him based on our research it appears that the forces on the operation acted as if it was an assassination operation they did not make any attempt  dismissed the speculations he said the suggestion that somehow pakistan that we expect pakistan to carry out activities on our behalf around the b s to on our behalf there are not in pakistan's interest is simply wrong so i think that anything that is done in this area has got to be in our mutual interest and judged to be a mutual benefit and of course we will respect whatever decision is taken by the pakistani authorities and to guard your party spoke hours after the washington post revealed the u s has increased military attacks against what  to targets in pakistan admits concerns pakistan's new government will try to limit future u s operations u s military aircraft have struck three targets over the past two months killing about forty five foreign fighters near the mr largely deploying poor women of chinese forces and back in the united states pentagon has ordered a complete inventory the national nuclear arsenal wake up to recent mission of four nuclear parts were mistakenly sent to taiwan in two thousand and six it was the second major nuclear blunder in the military in the last six months last year their force and normally flew nuclear warheads between north dakota and louisiana that's right it's time for the police blotter new pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid only grass valley police department on thursday at nine fourteen a m officers and released to thirty four year old man on suspicion of driving on a suspended license and north on sided in released a forty eight year old man all to zero on suspicion of driving on a suspended license and on friday at two fifty two a m a caller from the three hundred block race reported people talking