anywhere in the world just give us a call five three zero four seven seven three three zero nine or e mail us at news a g v t v dot org in vicki downs members of the coalition a drug free nevada county exchange bright red party while pant playing the role of teenage daughter and mother talking about girls night out downs questions her daughter bought her friend's admonished user for alcohol advisor to return home at eleven thirty p m role playing part of a youth led town hall meeting on binge drinking last wednesday night so over sprays high schools shine a spotlight on a parent parenting era can lead to alcohol abuse and the damage it brings among teens low intensity parenting and early age drinking can be fast tracked to state prison said judge roberts amitie spoke at the meeting yet few parents local students attended which were disappointed said t xan program director of coalition a drug free nevada county it's a town hall meeting was part of the coalition's first quarter meeting comes on the heels of nevada county district attorney cliff newell charging the mother with providing  alcohol another story nevada county residents are known for the random acts of kindness february joyal is in disbelief that our four people reached out to him this week on tuesday joyal picked up his heart medicine at a most pharmacy in nevada city and walked across to s p d supermarket parking lot to turn in his recyclables at nevada county waste management then he made a mistake he carelessly tossed his prescription into the bin with his recycled magazines figured gives long gone problem was relayed to doc was worker coley party too didn't want to forget about it i ran over there and mentioned it to waste management's fred actives and and he dived right in the bin partridge said we searched but we couldn't find it and he said the band would be gone wednesday morning when partridge got back to the pharmacy she called waste management and recycling manager tim will it was notified we contacted our drivers well it said wednesday and they brought their recyclables into the firm's plant near the nevada county airport and dumped on this picture is not worth the time to buy them just to show you what the garbage looks like our crew sorted it and we found it well it said it took about fifteen minutes on wednesday morning well that returned the prescription to the pharmacy if there is any way we can feasibly help the public we do he said the materials are moved daily and when people think they have lost something in the trash or recycling they need to let waste management know right away well it said it has been today if if it had been today it would have been gone he said it happened about two to three times a year a and said at his recycling site someone lost their taxes once and we did the same thing for them the response by waste management for joy moved partridge to remark when somebody does something for somebody they don't even know it's nice i guess they felt sorry for this old guy joyal said when something like this happens to you your faith in humanity is restore the number of suicides in the bad guy hit an all time high last year and this year already is off to a sad started according to public health and safety officials who say the increased good stem from depressed economy and other ongoing problems in  a total of twenty four nevada county residents purposely took their own lives in two thousand and seven according to statistics compiled by the nevada county chief deputy coroner kathi belich she the number of local suicides last year is higher than any other year since one nine hundred ninety four when the sheriff's office begin compiling computerized suicide records the union found the second highest occurrence was in two thousand when there was twenty two suicides just a suicide in about a county only if it is clear the person meant to die illustrated by suicide note a gunshot to the head or the gestures of entire bottles of pills for example had if someone dies after taking a mixture of prescriptions or recreational drugs and  on average the number of suicides in nevada county usually however is are around sixteen according to statistics like most newspapers do you know generally does not report individual suicides out of private concerns unless they're involved in public figure it's pretty bizarre said villa to me who was a worker for their nevada county coroner's association could be economics the economy can play a part in suicides going up seems like a lot of folks the reason is either financial or they think they can't live with someone without someone and increasing numbers of patients by doctors and therapists that her clinic have expressed hopelessness about their financial situations within the past year or so said jennifer sale a licensed clinical social worker in behavioral health director in sierra family medical clinic north san juan ridge so agreed that the theory that money woes might be influencing local suicide rate i think it has  to do with financial issues sales said my patients are expressing more and more despair if you will not being able to provide for their families many of sales patients said they are frustrated with sick in can grooms of high living expenses and low reimbursement rates from disability insurance patients on disability increasingly are unable to make ends meet financial street and loss of loved ones to death or break ups do influence people to take their own lives while drug and alcohol abuse lots of play a major part in occurrence of suicide locally said dr chris doug crist of nevada county behavior health department the medical director there are a lot of people who commit suicide are alcohol are on alcohol when they inhibitions suicide rates also are higher with younger man than they are with middle aged men and women she said because the abuse drives more often than them often than other demographics though young man may be more prone to suicide than some the highest rate of suicide occurs with men over the age of sixty five including many with health problems and dr peter van houten medical director at the sierra family medical clinic up in north san juan in addition  economist designation to rural area may be a factor in increasing suicides chris falls away world counties also have a higher suicide rate there is a lot of stigma in more rural counties and getting help with mental issues and not as many services available world counties van agreed many people are hesitant to seek help for depression or other mental health issues while pointing out the stigma absurdity what a person wandering around wheezing with pneumonia and a fever of one hundred  agrees have a problem getting help then i don't say no to health issues are comparable it's easier to treat if you catch it early the general perception is that you should have control over your mind chris said it's too bad because the brain an organ just like your heart chris was involved in a publicized movement in the vatican on his community leadership institute last year to create a local suicide taskforce to raise awareness about mental health issues while the movement has sense fizzled out everyone gets excited about it when the excitement starts to wane then disappear crazed which is true that a county seems to drop the ball quite often the effort needs to be more widespread it takes a group of people and strong leaders someone to keep sending out to troops and getting articles in the paper if you don't have dynamic force to push it's not going to work chris dad crafts sale and van hollen also the best way to prevent suicide is for people facing  stigma going out and say it can appear you're just coming in to see the doctor if a person is showing signs that they are suicidal but in are resistant to seeking out family members can be instrumental in getting out for them van allen said the first thing i would do is have an upcoming visit with a primary care provider and go make sure these issues get voiced you said remind your relative he needs to speak up be really proactive don't wait seven u s pressure abbas to resume talks with israel and obama and clinton expressed support for israeli's action in gaza iraq moves toward signing deals with foreign oil  hundred food prices forces cuts and food and bipartisan senators pushed to block media ownership he said we have won decisively in a whole number of states and senator clinton her campaign have tended to cherry pick which states they think are important but the bottom line is that we are very strong position senator clinton barely dented the delegate count yesterday we're going  mississippi and wyoming where we feel confident that we can do well and this process is going to ultimately be about who's got the most delegates and we think we'll be in that position although senator hillary clinton won popular vote in texas on tuesday obama's campaign is now predicting obama will actually won the delegate battle in texas once the primary in the caucus results are combined despite being be i did pledge delegates quick to say she expects to prevail as the nominee senator clinton said obviously i believe that i'm going to win and i'm going to be the nominee because i think two things will happen i think that now that the race is really joined on who can be commander in chief and who can be the president to deal with the economy and health care and other important issues facing america new questions are being raised over the role of florida and michigan will play in choosing the nominee the democratic party stripped to two states of their delegates after they moved up their primaries in january on wednesday the governors of florida and michigan issued a statement calling on the democratic party to resolve the issue and ensure that the voters of the two states are full participants in forma selections of their party's nominee on the republican side president bush met with john mccain wednesday and officially endorsed year resign senator for president president bush said it has been my honor to welcome my friend john mccain as the nominee of the republican party a while back i don't think many people would have got to john mccain would be here as a nominee of the republican party so peter knew he'd be here and so did  wife cindy john showed incredible courage strength in character and perseverance in order to get to this moment and that's exactly what we need as a president senator john mccain said i'm very honored and humbled to have the opportunity to receive the endorsement of the president of the united states a man who i have great admiration respect and affection he and i as is well kno advisor assured the canadians that obama's public critique of nafta was more political positioning than clear articulation of his policy plan in other words he was lying on wednesday harper said the leak of the memo was blatantly unfair to obama should come out a coalition of human rights groups say the humanitarian situation in gaza is not the worst since one thousand sixty seven amnesty international save the children care international and christian aid have joined together to criticize israeli's blockade on gaza as illegal collective punishment which far fails to deliver security more than one point one million gays gazans are now dependent on food aid g r free didn't desert care international said unless blockade is now it will be impossible to pull gaza back to the brink out of the brink of disaster and any h peace in the region will be dashed since last week israeli forces have killed more than one hundred twenty palestinians in gaza during the same period for israel you have been killed in a mosque just keeps alive and those rockets on wednesday palestinian president mahmoud abbas agreed to resume negotiations with israel the new york times reported he did so only after coming under heavy pressure from the white house meanwhile palestinians gathered in northern gaza to mourn the death of a month old infant who was shot dead by israeli troops on tuesday obviously a mistake campaign trails both senator barack obama and hillary clinton have voiced support for israel's following its attack on gaza obama said the violence in gaza is the result of hamas his decision to launch rocket attacks on israel civilians and israel has a right to defend itself clinton issued a similar statement seen i deplore and condemn the hamas rocket attacks on southern israel including the city of ashkelon israel has the right to defend its citizens iraq's cabinet or i might say that they just have better game than the other side i mean it's not count isn't the point rex cabinet has given the green light to the oil ministry to sign agreements with international oil companies to help increase the nation's out crude output royal dutch shell exxon mobil chevron and total are among the international companies that ever submitted proposals to develop five new oil fields iraqi parliament still not agreed on law to determine how to keep the country's oil wealth will be divided meanwhile many sunni iraqis are expressing outrage after acquittal of two shiite officials accused of running deaths watched this year as were both former high ranking health ministry officials they were the first suspected shiite death squad leaders to face prosecution the men were freed from u s custody on wednesday two days after the iraqi court dropped kidnapping murder and corruption charges against them the sunni led iraqi islamic party said the acquittal was a grave setback in the history of iraqi judiciary system in other news from iraq turkey carried out a new series of airstrikes in northern iraq on tuesday week after turkey pulled its ground forces from the area the organization of american states has approved a resolution accusing the colombian military of violating ecuador's sovereignty for attacking a group of fark rebels inside ecuador but the major stopped short of condemning colombia for the raid that killed twenty four rebels including raul raise one of the park's top commanders on wednesday defense secretary robert gates has asked if the u s military played a role in the colombian attack gets responded by saying well i would have just say that we are very supportive of president uribe efforts to deal with the foreign terrorists we have a good relationship with them a colombian defense minister told agents france press that a u s intelligence agency provided information about ray's satellite telephone that helped colombia pinpoint his  wednesday ecuador's president rael refuge korea defended his decision to cut off diplomatic ties with colombia he said we had to break relations not with a brother the brother live nation nation like our colombian brothers and sisters but with the government was a government that doesn't deserve any credibility that has lied and lied and lied over and over again and who wants war not peace both ecuador venezuela have sent troops to the colombia border colombian border on wednesday white house press secretary dana perino portrayed venezuela as the grass or in the situation she said we do think it's curious that a country such as venezuela would be raising the specter of military action against a country who was defending itself against terrorism in economic news the chief economist of the national association of home builders says the housing market is in the deepest most rapid since the great depression the group is projecting to do new home sales will drop twenty two percent this year there are now two million vacant homes for sale across the country somebody give me one f b i director robert mueller has admitted the f b i improperly used national security letters in two thousand and six to access americans telephone records credit reports and internet traffic miller confirmed the privacy bruce during the testimony before the senate judiciary committee national security letters a lot of the f b i to obtain secret personal information about u s citizens without a court warrant american civil liberties union accused the f b i of ignoring both the law and international guidelines that deal with national security letters the washington post reports the u s agency for international development of united nations are significantly scaling back emergency food aid to some of the world's poorest countries this year because of soaring global food prices u s aid officials said that forty one percent surging price for wheat corn rice and other cereals over the past six months has generated one hundred twenty million dollars budget shortfall that will force the agency to reduce emergency operations u s aid operates emergency programs in almost forty countries including easy opium iraq somalia on doors in sudan jos that shirin executive director of the world food program said this is really the first emergency we've faced without a drug war or national natural disaster and news from capitol hill a group of fourteen democrats and republican senators of introduced a resolution to block the federal communications commission from easy media ownership rules in the nation's twenty largest cities democrat senator byron dorgan criticised the f c c for ignoring thousands of comments from citizens opposing further media consolidation and also net neutrality and here in and here in new york police cordoned off much times square early this morning after an explosion blew a hole through front door of our port recruiting center no one was injured in the blast which occurred around four a m the recruiting center has been the site of regular anti war protests over the past five years and that's a wrap on the world news today and that's right it's time boy the police blotter and the pictures in the blotter are not from these actual events but used as physical aid only grass valley police department on tuesday five thirty three p broad street reports she had a fight earlier and someone who showed you know if had pushed her down the woman was not injured did not want to press charges twelve fourteen p m caller from two hundred  woman kicking and screaming into street police contacted woman in a parking lot on the two hundred block a commercial street and arrested her on suspicion of public drunkenness resisting arrest willfully violation of a court order police called an ambulance to transport