and i'm randy anson and in today's local headlines art and living history combine forces and woman pleads not guilty and fun theft and narcotics agent arrests five and a meth bust what a day this will be sending artist painting outdoors demonstrations of all kinds live country music in the mountain laurel and live in history and act minutes and all expectantly on a glorious warm spring day this is one of the biggest events bridgeport has ever presented according to herb lindbergh who is in charge of the park's publicity four hundred people attend plus we have about eighty people fifty artists as many live in history who are helping to put this song there will be plenty of all ages to see blacksmithing basket we when and about a dozen artist painting in real time also to do by art jewelry gourds photographs around makes prints and wood pieces and raffle tickets rides and all done wagons and best  of all gold panning for the kids this is the highlight of the day according to doug leach you volunteers for the park teaching children california history of which gold panning is a big part of the area you put into the trough sunday everything you find in the river including p fool's gold garnett's tiny not worth much and gold flecks but at one thousand dollars an ounce we can't put a lot maybe some of the seventy five or so kids who are expected to come to their with their families to sunday's event could strike it rich adults too are spreads it will be an annual event families can look forward to aggressed valley woman accused of taking money from the memorial fund of her former brother in law robbie johnston he penned valley car accident victim has been accused of the same offense before according to court records l style is charged with felony grand theft and a case of taking money from a memorial fund she set out for johnston as a favor to his family johnston was killed january fifth in a car accident hardly twenty with his fiance tool of middleton county superior court records show the stockholm has recently taken was taken to small claims court in a similar matter nevada city man for a complaint with the court in december twenty sixth two thousand and seven claiming he loaned mr hope five hundred dollars so she and her two children could move into a residence the money was supposed to be repaid within a week but mr hope stopped read turning the man's phone calls and refused to pay according to court records visiting judge charles compton ruled in favor of the man march nineteenth and ordered mistah to pay back the loan plus court fees five hundred forty five dollars robbie johnson stepfather lance smith said the stockholders stopped returning his phone calls in february after he discovered he could not access the wednesday after keeping tabs on the residence for a year sure fisher said armed with a search warrant nevada county narcotics task force officers raided the home on the ten thousand block of mooney flat road at about seven thirty a m nevada county sheriff's lieutenant frank kohler said wednesday they found a quarter of an ounce of mouse digital scale small plastic bags and pay zero she's which are slips of paper with names of alleged meth buyers and the amount they owe the alleged dealers twelve gauge shotgun also was located inside the house it wasn't a bad score for us caller said adding officers had intelligence gathered from informants for a while but only recently gathered enough information to obtain a search warrant from a judge the officers also avoided doing surveillance on the house prior to the raid because they would have stuck out like a sore thumb in the area gerald wayne dodging fifty three who rents a room at the house was arrested on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance possessing a controlled substance for sale and being under the influence of a controlled substance digests has a only thirty criminal history involving drug related crimes koehler said dodgin remained in custody of wayne brown correctional facility wednesday after all in an afternoon in lieu of thirty six thousand dollars bail jail staff reporter cheryl corley waiter not pictured here by the way fifty three grass valley showed up at the house while officers who were there officers arrested club we're on suspicion of possessing a controlled substance being under the influence of a controlled substance and driving on a three sylvia foster forty three and caroline grandel forty four were each arrested on suspicion of being under the influence for controlled substance and possessing drug paraphernalia fosters in grand isle were released from jail late wednesday morning on  own recognizance jail staff reported because of the shotgun was located at the residence investigators may formally complained of possessing a firearm against guards foster who was convicted of a misdemeanor battery in two thousand and three anyone convicted of misdemeanor battery is not permitted to possess a firearm for ten years and i think it's just say no and here we go again to skate park at condit park in grass valley was reopened wednesday after having been closed due to vandalism for five and a half days city officials said the park was paint slippery surface said grass valley public works director tim kaiser workers were finally successful in their attempts to remove the paint at about two forty five p m public works staff reporting it's simply a shame to see the skate park treated this way grass valley police captain rex marks said this is a wonderful facility which was largely constructed through the generosity of many in the community this is truly disappointing marks ask anyone with information about the skate park vandalism to call the grass valley police department for seven seven four six zero zero graffiti can also be reported the public works at two seven four four three on the campaign trail democratic candidates hillary clinton and barack obama have turned their focus to indiana following clinton's win in a pennsylvania primary campaign says it raised ten million on online donations following her victory on wednesday clinton insisted her string  big time primary once proved she is more electable just said absolutely you know more people have now voted for me than i have voted for my opponent in fact i now have more votes than anybody has ever had in a primary contest for nomination and also clear that we've got nine more important contests to go could naso was including her victory in both michigan and florida primaries as part of her calculation but need a primary will count because of a bridge of democratic party rules none of the candidates complained in florida while senator barack obama and john edwards stayed off the ballot in michigan i will they could be raining on capitol hill senate republicans have blocked a bill that would have overturned is supreme court ruling limiting pay discrimination lawsuits senate fell four votes short of considering the lilly ledbetter fair pay act named for a female ploy of the goodyear tire and rubber company who was paid forty percent less than her male colleagues during doing the same job led better last year suit against goodyear after the court ruled she did not file a complaint you time publican presidential candidate john mccain joined forty nine other republicans in voting against the meanwhile the house has voted to stop bush administration from cutting thirteen billion dollars in medicaid healthcare spending over the next five years and three forty nine to fifty sixty two vote would override is threatened be told from president bush if the senate follows suit bush administration plans to promote to military commanders who have led the u s occupation of iraq general david petraeus will be promoted from u s commander in iraq to head of all u s operations in milly's tress would also be replaced by  is warning they could be forced to suspend humanitarian aid to the gaza strip because today because of that israeli blockade the united nations works and relief agency is responsible for reading nearly two thirds of gaza one point four million people cease fire in the occupied territories meanwhile israeli government is claiming the bush administration has secretly endorsers longstanding policy of expanding the west bank settlements it ultimately intends to keep this week israeli prime minister olmert said president bush agreed to let israel expand settlements even though his so called peace plan officially calls for a free was ariel sharon's former chief of staff  to solidify its hold over the west bank u s officials are denying weiss glasses count secret agreement the news comes as palestinian president mahmoud abbas is in washington today to meet president bush said mr mason officials bosses criticize the u s for not and he said he was surrounded here in gaza by much suffering and chose to turn his eye on a daily basis on sides that few of us could bear to see in a lifetime and yet for girls gentle focus on all that was beautiful in the world is among our strongest memories of him five palestinian civilians were also killed in the attack took janice life and leaders from venezuela bolivia cuba and nicaragua have announced a joint program to fight rising food costs in latin america meeting in caracas the bolivian alternative for the americas or the l b j says it will create a hundred million dollar food security for on cuban vice president carlos log said the food crisis underscores society with food it is an irrational world in which we live today this is the world that we have to transform and that we are going to transform the declaration came hours after the world food programme declared the global food crisis  that threatened to plunge more than one hundred million people in every continent into hunger and poverty among their clean the rising food prices the scene new consequences back in the united states on wednesday of the two largest u s warehouse chains said they would raid ration sales of rice because of dwindling supplies sam's club and cosco say the rationing rationing will apply to book sales not retail sizes and a new survey shows sixty percent o environmental protection agency scientists have witnessed political interference in their working during the past five years what was promised to union concerned citizen scientists says nearly sixteen hundred scientists responded to it voluntary questionnaire died just complained of seeing data selectively used to justify agency ruins and political appointees forcing the exclusion and altering the scientific findings also as a committee chair henry waxman says he plans to question top e p a officials next month and the cia has acknowledged it holds more than seven thousand documents dealing with the secret prison intervention program at least nineteen have been withheld from disclosure because white house has claimed presidential communication privileges in one of the documents  by some measures china has tied the united states's online population leader with its government reporting that the number of internet users there has soared to two hundred twenty one million the figure reportedly thursday by the zing now news agency reflects china's explosive growth in internet use despite government efforts to block access to materials considered subversive or pornographic it was a sixty one percent increase over one hundred thirty seven million internet users reported at the start of two thousand and seven but the numbers alone can be deceiving yale's an online estimates the u s online population of two hundred twenty one million as well but it counts only those with home or work access as the vast majority of u s internet users do but contrast one third of chinese internet surf through cyber cafes to china's internet penetration is still low and with sixteen percent of people online compared with the world average of nineteen percent denial said the pew internet and american life project places u online penetration at seventy one percent too bad we don't have d s l or broadband everywhere china still lives in united states south korea and other markets and online commerce and other print your measures through e commerce video sharing and other businesses are growing quickly companies have raised millions of dollars from investors will see this growth continuing to duncan clark german of b d a china ltd a beijing technology company even though china might overtake the united states until internet population is still lags in size of its internet industries and there will be a lot more opportunities raising promotes internet use for business and education but operates extensive on line censorship web surfers have been jailed for posting or e mailing materials that criticize communist rule or is deeply violation of vague national security laws most recently chinese web surfers have been blocked from scene google you tube and other foreign sites with videos about protests and bet and this security crackdown there in march the government said it would shut down twenty five chinese video sites and punish thirty two others for violating new rules against carrying content that is deep pornographic violent or a threat to national security  now report cited february data from the government's china internet network information center and it is the spokesperson who would not give her surname zane declined to give more details she said the agency would release a report in july the us online population was largely stabilized has largely stabilized meaning that the march figures for china are released they may show that the country has already overtaken the united states p d s clark said the chinese online population should keep growing by eighteen percent annually reaching for i did ninety million by two thousand and twelve he number larger than the entire u s population the boom has produced chinese success stories such as game site ten cent dot com and search engines bay do dot com which are completely competing with foreign rivals for market share and as mushrooming popularity has been driven in part by regulatory quirk fixed line phone companies are losing potential new customers to mobile phone services but are barred from getting into that market themselves so they are trying instead to bring in new revenues by promoting low cost broadband internet access which has brought high speed service to nuns and homes but it doesn't do that here phone companies are also are experimenting with internet based cable television where businesses are looking for another boost when beijing takes the long anticipated step of issuing licenses for third generation or three g mobile technology to support video web surfing and other services no date has been set with the world's largest mobile phone market at five hundred twenty million accounts china has a vast potential pool of wireless internet users there will be a lot more paid the water bill last week public works was advised then called police back to say the bill had not been paid and at nine o eight p m police stopped a vehicle on a six hundred block of south average street and arrested a forty six year old man on suspicion of drunken driving nine forty three p m call from store in six hundred block of freeman lane reported having a one thousand year old male shoplifter in custody police cited a man on suspicion of shoplifting and thursday six o seven a m a woman called reports she saw a man trying to get into the back door of a building one hundred block of south arbor street police arrested a twenty one year old man on suspicion of public drunkenness caller from thirteen thousand block a ridge road reported a person kicked in her door and left in a green ford explorer deputy took a report card vandalism ten twelve a m a woman called in twenty two thousand block of nepal lane to report a trespasser shot  possession of drug paraphernalia being under the influence of a controlled substance and possessing a controlled substance and at seven fifty three p m a call from twelve thousand block a judge lane reported hearing he very heated fight  here comes our weather report mostly cloudy and some of the coming days in highs in the low seventy's but still a little chilly at night