clifford macdonald's rage over his wife's infidelity and thwarted hopes of starting a new life with her led him to confront a man who slept with her and eventually beat him so severely the man died of the injuries the prosecution alleged in the opening arguments of grass valley man's murder trial wednesday cindy mcdonnell and clifford macdonald's wife was the main witness in a band of county court wednesday i care about him worry about him she told deputy district attorney dave walters had bought her current relationship with her husband but he wasn't a very good providers he said i needed stability she said but we had none we had lost had bad credit and struggled getting into place a place clifford mcdonnell is being charged with second degree murder his friend later said said the same night in court clifford macdonald appeared neatly dressed in a light gray tweed suit as lawyers argued their points to the jurors and interrogated his wife he showed no emotion clifford and cindy mcdonnell were living separate lives in october two thousand and seven whenever he approached her wanted him to reunite clifford mcdonnell had just been released from when brown correctional facility after being arrested a few days before on suspicion of battery he wanted to make the marriage work and asked her if she had sexual relations with donald sullivan walters said she said she didn't though she had then he asked for a ride home while cindy mcdonald was inside the house to put went to put on her shoes sullivan who lived across the who arrived on the scene and then came back to his wife's residence and allegedly assaulted her he hit me in the face about six times kicked me in the stomach ribs and legs cinema donna said he said he was in shock i was sleeping with mcdonald's i asked him if john and a man robbed the pleasant valley pharmacy at gunpoint thursday night making off with as many as six hundred powerful painkiller pills still shaken pharmacists and agents from the nevada count and major crime task force work coming to the area around a shopping center late thursday undersheriff richard campbell said they were may walk in the complex looking in garbage cans going up the little trails and making visits to people and probation in the area campbell expected canine units from placer county derive later in the night or dug wells was out of store in pleasant valley road out after hours doing some paperwork going to big rock came busting through the front window at about seven twenty p m a man in his late teens or early twenties stuck a gun in my face and wanted some oxycontin well said he made off with six bottles some of them full containing a total of forty five to six hundred tablets well said it's worth a lot on the street he said had an estimated street value about forty dollars for a forty milligram pill called in to doug drug policy alliance network the heist could have a street value of at least sixteen thousand dollars the robbers severe pain that first appeared in one thousand nine hundred six according to drug enforcement agencies website people use it recreationally to create a sense of if you for you but the drug can also cause headaches and respiratory depression that could lead to death d e h said the drug has enjoyed growing popularity among teenagers including a significant increase in the abuse of oxycodone among twelfth graders according to two thousand and six national drug threat assessment cited by the dea and federal and local investigators are searching for a large amount of explosives stolen from an explosives magazine in turkey the federal bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms is offering a ten thousand dollar reward for information leading to the rest of the person or people responsible for the and or for the recovery of the materials the explosives taken from my location near interstate eighty could have been stolen within the past ten days according to  guy who wants a magazine notice the door was breached and called authorities and sheriff's deputy said the owner used the material for various construction projects investigators from the sheriff's office are working with the a t f on the case anyone with information can call the sheriff's crime tip hotline five three zero four seven zero two four zero zero zero or visit my nevada county dot com slash sheriff and click on online services to get crime to perform in fears of an unstable economy have sparked an increase in domestic violence cases and more people are seeking help for substance abuse problems local officials said wednesday some young adults are turning to highly addictive opiate based drugs which are now surpassing alcohol and treatment needs in january is said jan spree or drug and alcohol service coordinator for nevada county when there's stresses people may turn to alcohol and they may turn to drugs said suzanne miller executive director of domestic violence and sexual assault coalition people are losing their jobs in their homes people are breaking down it's very hard right now family violence among fathers and sons mothers and daughters also appears to be on the rise so it county sheriff's office the drug treatment referrals from the court are not down slightly the number of people seeking help for themselves or family members is on the rise a minimum of five calls a week coming into the office from people seeking self help up from a year ago when she received as many calls in an entire month the number of referrals for opiates talks is going to swell speer added has been getting to be a real problem we're seeing more and more young people who are having real issues with it it's so bad the courts are looking at how we can deal with it she does not believe the a spike in opiate use is related to economic slump drugs including pharmaceuticals such as morphine coding and methadone the drugs are used to treat pain or to reduce the effects of her one withdrawal they may be in tablet capsule or liquid form on the street one pill is on for around forty dollars recent once more people have sought public assistance such as medic out food stamps and cal works employment training said allison lehmann county's director of social services the state budget hold ups are also putting a strain on services at a time when they're needed most attention is across the board miller said it comes as a critical time when there is an increase in need to community suffers when these people these types of services become strapped the number of people who have sought help in various programs offered by community recovery resources grew from eight hundred forty five clients a year ago did nine hundred and thirty now said bill walker this could stem from a combination of factors including a stepped up marketing campaign in addition of a handful of new programs addiction is a disease that is consistent walker added but stress such as financial worries can send a recovering alcoholic back to the bottle that could definitely be a relapse and that's it today for our little telephone calls from her daughter's ex boyfriend the woman said she had no restraining order against the man ten fifty five a m a person from k haste k street boarded receiving annoying phone calls and was advised how to get a restraining order twelve o two hundred block of hall would blame reported receiving harassing phone calls from her ex boyfriend she was advised in how to get a restraining order and a three forty two pm me person from three in a block of pleasant street reported a man had his hand crushed a caller from two hundred block of arcadia drive reported an illegally parked motorcycle on a sidewalk the caller said this was an ongoing problem and at eight fifty one p m a person from the one hundred block of south open street wanted her eleven year old son counsel about running away ten thirty p m a man from the eight hundred block of morgan ranch drive reported tempting to call his wife for the past few hours the man said she was supposed to be at home but the call was going directly to the answering machine which was unusual betty county sheriff's office on wednesday nine o nine a m a caller from rough and ready highway reported hearing a popping noise coming from the woods behind the school level twelve a m a call from the fifteen thousand block to lewis road reported a burglary at his residence eleven eighteen a m i woman from the twenty one thousand block of highway twenty reported a burglary she wanted deputy to search residence for fingerprints she said she called back when she was ready for officers to contact her and at eleven twenty three a m a man from eleven thousand block of alpine line ported to juveniles entered in an abandoned house across the street from officers started to use for using marijuana and trespassing and released them to their parents and at one twenty two p m i want to from the ten thousand block of oak street reported receiving numerous sexual calls phone calls and text messages the woman said she believed the calls were coming from her ex fiance officers contacted woman sex fiance he denied making the calls when the police called the number she was getting the calls from it went directly to voicemail and at two forty seven p m a woman from the thirteen thousand block of wheeler acres road reported a neighbor who was trespassing on her property and a five twenty five p m a man from his twelve thousand block of valley view reported someone husband rejects subpoena and trooper firing probe and they are on about one in forty five states and d c standoff in true contractor immunity jeopardizes u s iraqi agreement and soldier jailed for seven months in iraq prisoner shootings to u s troops killed and fellow sit by his fellow service members and rise rejects hypocrisy allegations in russia criticism israel settlers attack palestinian probably property and state pentagon retaliating for pollution clean up calls and senator dodd protested for plan colombia support in our first story the bush administration says is preparing for a new massive new intervention in the u s financial system under the proposed movement of the government would buy up distressed loans from troubled banks and other lenders the plan is said to be similar to the federal buyout leftover properties or savings and loan scandal in that one nine ninety s cost could end up working in the book multibillion dollar government bailouts of financial institutions bear stearns fannie mae and freddie mac and american international group democrats also say they are pushing for greater relief for struggling homeowners facing foreclosure of what policy has to earlier on thursday the federal reserve also announced it would inject some one hundred eighty billion dollars in loans on the global financial market through foreign central banks is not clear about what he's saying and what he believes well i have a message for senator mccain you cannot just run away from your long held views or your lifelong record you can't erase twenty six years of support for the very policies and people who help to bring it in and some of the problems that we're seeing you can't just erase all that with one week's worth of france what we need is honest talk and real solutions and senator john mccain responded senator obama's own advisers are saying that the crisis will benefit him politically my friends that's the kind kind of the first country second politics is broken in washington my opponent seen my point sees an economic crisis crisis senator obama isn't change he's part of the problem in washington meanwhile a new analyst of his donors and advisers has found mccain has extensive ties with eighty three lobbyist for the financial industry he's been criticizing according to mother jones magazine an eighty three include political adviser charlie black his national fiance cochairman wayne berman and his video presidential search director arthur covert house and other campaign news there has been a republican vice presidential nominee sarah palin is refusing on surpassed the thirty four states in two thousand and four and forty four states in two thousand long term agreement on keeping u s troops in iraq is said to be in danger of collapse u s and iraqi officials said there had a stalemate over iraqi's refusal to accept and unity  if iraqi asked the u n to have for an extension it would be different terms we will attach conditions to u s sideward for years u s forces would be without legal cover and will have no choice but to pull out from iraq or stay and be in contravention of international law and other iraqi news a u s soldier who admitted involvement in the shooting of iraqi prisoners has been sentenced to seven months in prison specialist valma ramos has prayed that was present was for handcuffed and blindfold prisoners who were shot dead near baghdad canal last year several other troopers face charges in the killing meanwhile u s soldier is in custody after shooting dead two sergeants at a base near baghdad the pentagon has refused to release his name and rank and secretary of state  has escalated u s rhetorical against russia on thursday rice said that west should stand up to what she called moscow bully she also said russia intimidation of its sovereign neighbors its use of oil and gas as a political weapon its unilateral suspension of the its threat to target peaceful nations with nuclear weapons is arms sales to states and groups that threaten international security and its persecution and worse a russian journalist and dissidents and others the picture emerging from this pattern of behavior is that of russia increasingly georgian attack which ended up back in the georgian government the white house has been widely ridiculed over the protests and russia's response to the attack rice has questioned on how could such an the bush administration hypocrisy and a lot of its own invasion of iraq right said if you look at iraq that will not seek weapons of mass destruction like saddam hussein's regime that will live in peace and security for its neighbor with its neighbors and that will give its own people a chance for a democracy democratic governance i don't think the lessons  democratic neighbors whose only crime apparently was it was to be part of the emerging trans atlantic world there are other differences that russia georgia conflict led to several hundred deaths the us invasion of iraq has led to deaths of anywhere between hundreds of thousands to more than one million iraqis in iraq has rail and the occupied territories palestinian villages on the west bank are accusing israeli settlers of burning and all of girlfriend damaging property then attack took place in the village of m palestinian villagers some sellers went down to hell and set a number of trade trees ablaze over the water well which serves the village it's called the she era well they attacked people's belongings and broke and uprooted trees and the fire as you saw when it arrived a little while ago it was still burning israel continues to expand west bank settlements says if you ultimately plans to keep back in the united states state officials are accusing the pentagon of punishing them over the cause to enforce environmental laws environmental council estate says that the pentagon has reduced or withheld federal oversight re money in response to requests for cleanup of polluted military bases environmental officials say they've been to colombia and mexico for years dad has supported selling black hawk helicopters made by the cannot connecticut based company so gorski to columbia dispute concerns on human rights groups and activists henry disrupted d v would like to thank the union amy goodman so she had a press and many others for the sourcing of our news if anyone's interested in underwriting and getting exposure locally on television daily