a monday through friday at three p m and also at seven thirty pm and college channel fifteen on comcast on saturdays sometimes at five o'clock we will also be welcoming truckie and colfax public access channels in a few weeks knows one man has been arrested in four suspects remain at large after a group where the ski mask and aunt was crowbars baseball bats and at least one handgun invaded the south county home looking for marijuana and cash according to the county sheriff's office it for ten a m sunday a neighbor called the report from suspects head into home on a twenty thousand block of woodbury drive demanding money and marijuana the sheriff's office said the home located in a row residential area near bar road this is one hundred percent marijuana rip off this is not a random access lieutenant bill evans told the nevada county sheriff's office when deputies arrive at the residence they found eight people beaten and bound on the floor including one young woman they beat these women these people severely haven't said one person was able to exclude from the home and  neighbor's house when the sheriff's deputies arrived the mass suspects left their weapons behind and ran into the woods it's our guess they probably had another vehicle par around the corner twenty seven year old victim is in critical condition with possible broken neck was was airlifted to sutter roseville trauma center according to evans two more were taken by ambulance to auburn face hospital with serious to moderate injuries one of the occupants of the home james beckett age forty five to fifty has not been located the sheriff's office said on a press release evans did not know why becket was a den of light in the public statement but said his involvement in disappearance is a mystery we don't know if he's a victim every advantage was left at the scene full of newly cut marijuana believed to be from the homeowner's extensive indoor and outdoor gardens narcotics several miles away on piccoli drive with evidence linking him to the home invasion powers is being charged with conspiracy and armed robbery four other suspects remain at large at least one of the suspects had a prior affiliation with the residence deputies used a crime docs to search for evidence later sunday and found discarded rubber gloves and other items there's all kinds of stuff we're going to find d n a on haven't stated but two weeks ago your stand one resident dusty back forty two shots john scott shelton thirty one of linda at close range with a shotgun the alleged home invasion was motivated by harvest time theft of increasingly valuable part the chairs office said the very county's assistant district attorney is it is too early to know whether the incident was an attempt to steal marijuana as you put it by the victims and the sheriff's office he reference of violence over marijuana is nothing new in nevada county but evans said he expects the numbers of cases to rise i think we're going to see the trend get worse and worse because of the in another local story when gary cooper his nine year old son first ask him about sex and childbirth cooper talked about it and tell the boy said he'd heard enough for cooper principal of pleasant ridge school outside of grass valley imparting such  delicate information wasn't difficult but most parents feel uneasy telling their children how they came in to be october is the national family sexuality education month and the very county educators are encouraging parents to teach their children about sex and sexuality at home i don't think as a society we talk enough about sex because of the embarrassing moments and the hush  from the one nine hundred twenty s thirty's and forty's cooper said but as a parent and a principal i feel if we educate young children when they are ready it provides them a better understanding of sex later in life susan rogers of nevada county citizens of choice agreed she stated our cow country comes from a puritan stock and i peered into heritage still permeates the american attitude towards sex you might not notice that when you watch movies on t v but if you saw how sexuality is treated in europe you really really see the difference while the european media is more sexually explicit to pregnancy rates are lower in europe than in the us when parents discussed sets in the context of love and relationships young people are better able to make healthy decisions in their lives she contended research demonstrates talking to children about sex doesn't result in their becoming sexually active in an earlier age it actually delays it although schools offer sex education as part of the curriculum lyman gilmore school principal brian buckley thinks there is a greater need for our parents to help children navigate these issues nevada county citizens for choice is hosting two free workshops for the public at lyman go school in pleasant ridge union district office next week books on sex education are on display at local libraries and bookstores including the bookseller in grass valley and harmony books in nevada city place campaign has no agenda other than to say that parents should be talking to their children about sex rogers added what parents choose to say in the privacy of their homes is their decision we just recommend whatever they say is comprehensive research based and medically accurate the nonprofit group sponsors a local clinic offering information about birth control and pregnancy options it for our local news today and now are most wanted from the nevada county sheriff's office files you see any of these people call the sheriff's hotline at five three zero two six five one seventy four zero zero or dial nine one one do not  approach as some of these people might be considered dangerous attempting to destroy the entire opposition movement in burma you an envoy it brand can bari described a recent arrest as extremely disturbing meanwhile the chinese state run oil company can look has announced it won't pull out of burma the company claims it is making people's lives better by developing resources in the country a california based company chevron and the french oil company total have also valid to state in burma in another story tensions continue to escalate between the united states and turkey following the house committee vote calling the nine massacre of armenians by ottoman turks genocide the commander of the turkish armed forces warned that u s turkish military relations will be irrepairable damage if the full u s house of representatives approves the resolution turkey has been one of the closest u s allies in the region seventy percent of the u s air cargo headed for iraq goes through turkey the white house as opposed to genocide resolution and has dispatched a team to turkey to deal with the crisis eric edelman under secretary of defense stated we had a good and constructive discussion in which our colleagues expressed their disappointment and the hurt of both the government of turkey and to turkey's public meanwhile turkey has amassed sixty thousand troops along the country's border with iraq and turkish forces have begun showing kurdish regions across the border turkey's parliament is expected to soon approve a government request to authorize a ground invasion of northern iraq in order to attack pretty troubled bases on saturday a kurdish rebel commander predicted turkey would face a long and bloody conflict if it launched a large scale of things in iraq it washington post correspondent was shot dead in baghdad on sunday the thirty two year old is the first washington post reported to be killed during the war according to the committee to protect journalists at least one hundred eighteen journalists have been killed in iraq while on duty and in another story the former u military commander in iraq retired lieutenant general ricardo sanchez has described the war as a nightmare with no end in sight he blames the bush administration for developing a catastrophe catastrophic flawed and realistically optimistic war plan he stated who will demand accountability for the failure of our national political leadership involved in the management of this war they have unquestionably been derelict in the performance of their duties in my profession these types of leaders would immediately be relieved or court martial the best we can do with this flawed approach is and the african country of the maybe he has ordered two americans deported after they tried to recruit new baby and to work for privacy curity company in iraq and afghanistan to americans work for the nevada based company special operations consulting securities management group local newspapers reported the company was trying to recruit at least three thousand maybe arms to work in iraq and afghanistan for a promise salary of one thousand dollars per month and the founder of blackwater usa erik prince has dismissed a new lawsuit against his company as politically motivated last week the center for constitutional rights filed a suit in u s courts on behalf of the wounded survivor and relatives of the three iraqi killed in last month's last month by blackwater forces in baghdad the lawsuit charge that blackwater violated u s law by committing extrajudicial killings and war crimes pr questioned about the lawsuit on c n n he stated the lawyers the trial lawyers that file this lawsuit are the same guys that defended the world trade center bombings in one thousand nine hundred three the blind sheikh and defended a bunch of killers of f b i agents and other cops so this is very much politically motivated lawsuit for media attention that's what he said meanwhile the los angeles times reports some bush administration officials are now concerned that private contractors could be considered unlawful combatants under international agreements naval war college professor michael smith said it is a war crime to kill civilians unlawfully in an armed another story noble peace prize winner al gore has said he plans to use that honor in recognition of the award as a way to speed up the change in awareness about global warming he said it truly is a planetary emergency and we have to respond quickly there is an old african proverb that says if you want to go quickly go alone if you want to go far go together we have to go far quickly and that is we  that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world consciousness about exactly what we are facing and how we have to work to solve it you would secretary general ban ki moon praised gore and the u intergovernmental panel on climate change for one in this year's nobel peace prize he said this is recognition by the international community in general and noble in particular the urgency in significance of this global warming phenomenon phenomenon of the international community this says there is an unprecedented momentum in the world to take necessary action and i pay my tribute to mr al gore as a good example of how civil societies and individuals can raise awareness of this important global challenge the former chief executive at qwest communications says his company lost hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts after it refused to participate in a secret national security agency's spy program that the company  was illegal former chief executive just of not you said the n s a approached qwest about to participate in a surveillance program six months before september eleventh attacks in july nacho was sentenced to six years in prison for insider trading but he is a free on appeal court documents released last week showed a federal judge rejected multiple requests from nacho to introduce information about the government's controversial phone tapping program as part of his defense against insider trading charges meanwhile the vermont law firm of ginsberg at weill and was warned its clients that it believes the federal government has tapped its phones and hacked into its computer system the burlington free press reports if a rising technician recently found the law firm's phone lines were crossed the forensic examination of one of the firm's computers down an application that disabled all security software and would have given someone access to all information on the can because computer to fund represents a client in afghanistan as well as one of the prisoners held at guantanamo  doing bombs the chief of voting rights section of the department of civil rights division at the justice department has admitted the elderly voters might be disenfranchised by new restrictive voter i laws john tanner made that comment earlier this month at the national the teano congressional tenor went on to say white elderly voters would be harmed most by the voter id laws because most minorities died before becoming elderly john tanner's stated i think it's probably true that among those who don't it's primarily elderly persons and that's a shame of course that always ties in with racial aspect because our society is such that minorities don't become elderly the way that white people do they die first so anything that does push portion that really impacts the elderly has the opposite impact on minorities just the math is such as that and the psychology department in smith college in massachusetts has passed a resolution urging the united psychological association to band its members from designing or taking part in interrogations at guantanamo  cia black sites the psychology department at two quaker colleges earlham college in indiana and guilford college in north carolina have passed similar resolutions chico's as the last dictator in europe police reportedly detained five hundred opposition activists and rampant war veteran has returned all of his war medals to protect what he describes as illegal invasion of iraq to an occupation of iraq specialist mike sanger returned to metals on friday to the office of democratic congressman dennis moore of kansas center said he chose to target moore's office because the democrat has  continued funding of the war since returning from iraq center has been a vocal war critic and now serves as president of iraq veterans against the war in kansas city during the war saying our received national defense medal the war on terror medal and a combat me and our our last story here a native american activist vernon bellecourt has died at the age of seventy five he was a leader of the american indian movement and longtime supporter of political prisoner leonard peltier in recent years he served as president of the national coalition on racism in sports and media the group fought against teams have a native indian names as mascots bellecourt had recently returned from a meeting and then to willing to discuss president hugo chavez program for providing heating assistance to native american tribes and that's it for our world news today and now for our weather mostly cloudy skies this afternoon 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