channel it's at five o'clock on saturdays if you have newsworthy items please email them to is it news at g v t v dot org in today's local news when she was shooting drugs into our brains maria sullivan's idea of a normal day was more like a living nightmare thirty three year old mother of two girls spent eighteen years of her life using intravenous drugs family medicine but i mean and heroin on a daily basis my habit i was an eight ball one eighth of an ounce per day and i spent anywhere between one hundred to two hundred dollars a day sullivan said sitting under a shady tree outside the manzanita family center in grass valley where she lives the nightmare manifested in myriad ways including using meth continuously throughout her young mother lied cheated stole to get money to fund her drug use he never ending cycle of shame inducing behavior these are places she never meant to go she said but the demon of drug addiction took over and dominated her every move i'm in extremis sullivan said trying to explain how and why she started using drugs i was always curious her childhood and captain bill was relatively happy and free of abuse or trauma that it's an unusual past for habitual drug user i was just never quite comfortable in my skin she said sullivan had diagnosed attention deficit disorder when she was used now it's for the first time at age thirteen it made her feel more focused i was really into the punk rock scene she said she moved to new york in her late teens to be around the band and the partying she shared needles with other drug users but never thought about possible consequences such as aids she dodged a bullet although she did contract hepatitis c she worked as a stripper to support yourself in cebu and her ballooning habit that's when the chaotic life she led just wasn't fun anymore i'd wake up and that i was going to get more drugs and do it all over again she s sullivan managed to stop doing drugs when she was pregnant with her first child unknown are now eleven she white knuckled to clean lifestyle in san francisco for four years probably get dating a man who sold maps was inevitable it was going to happen sooner or later she said there'd be four ounces of speed sitting there in the house it was only a matter of time before i'd go back to the needle sell it was life again quickly spiraled out of control i was staying in hotel rooms i couldn't hold down a job i was jumping from relationship to relationship she said i did whatever i had to do to pay for the dope help she was born baby phoenix went to live with sullivan's parents were unknown also was taken refuge at one point amid the fog and drug abuse so one had what some people in recovery call a moment of clarity i couldn't be around my kids and i couldn't see myself going to prison she said things were getting really ugly i had wasted away to one hundred eight pounds and i couldn't find a vein anymore she worried her luck would run out and she would lose legal custody of her girls child protective services staff were lingering keeping a close eye on her the one thing that brought me back was the bond i had with my children she said i always had a strong connection with my kids with a nudge for eight months she has been living in a manzanita family center for four months and she now whole works at whole powers she also sponsors sick so the woman helping them get through the twelve steps she is  success story said joyce peterson a case manager at the family center she was a role model for other recovering addicts and she's got the right attitude at sixteen months sober solid one still wears her hair was short ban and colored hot pink and she supports several tattoos they mean finding your way home she said referring to rethink her three now article stars died in her shoulders and upper chest the same woman who used to spend her days coping copying dope from gun toting dealers now makes lunch for her children takes her youngest child to the park picks up her older daughter from school it's time to focus on my kids she said she's getting to know them all over again i've learned that they're really cool so even said with mock surprise they're fun to be around and they're interesting sullivan still gets a little nervous doing normal things such as standing in line to register her daughter for school but the support she has from other recovering addicts gets her through these awkward moments she even enjoys what she calls dorky things like drinking a soda at the movies goofing off with her children are and in another story in about a county another law enforcement weeded out three non compliant people this week during a county wide sex offender registry sweep finding this new registrants out of compliance shows that our law enforcement agencies are doing a great job of tracking these high risk individuals and out of county district attorney could be all said friday numbers of non compliant sex offenders have been traditionally low in nevada county law enforcement officials said have said due to its share of tracking system sheriff investigations administrative assistant nancy anderson keeps track of every registered sex offender in the sheriff's jurisdiction and calls to remind them several days before they are due to reregister on their birthdays or when they move it total of one hundred seventy four sex offenders live in nevada county including thirty four in the nevada city area which sheriff's office oversees anderson said friday at last count twenty six offenders lived in grass valley city limits police department personnel said kill in july the sheriff's office does not oversees sex offenders in grass valley or police department state parole agents and federal marshals formed a task force to contact residents across the county the task force started with a group of twenty eight registered offenders and a list of high risk felony probationers discovered during operations further investigation will be done on those who were out of compliance and the report will be forwarded to the district attorney for possible prosecution but the passing of the borders initiative proposition eighty three jessica's law in november two thousand registered sex offenders paroled from person will not be permitted to live within two thousand feet of a school or park the law does not apply to people paroled from prison before november seventh two thousand  to find out whether registered sex offenders live in nevada county go to riggins law dot ca dot gov up and burn his house down the brother called from another home on french avenue to report the first caller and threatened to beat him up police contacted the brothers and mediated situation at two fifty nine pm a caller from the dial nine one one from the neil street reported a boy wearing a white baseball cap and begbie white shorts shirt was looking into car windows and trying to get into cars police checked the area and were unable to locate the boy at five forty five pm a c drunken man the sole of the caller trying to leave and was driving in a blue toyota towards one thousand block of robin way police stopped the forty six year old man arrested him on suspicion of battery and drunken driving and on friday at twelve o five a m a woman called from the one thousand block of said worth way to report a drunken man was standing outside her apartment police arrested a twenty five year old man on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia under the influence of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance and at a county sheriff's office on thursday at eleven fifty nine a m a caller from the twenty thousand from the ten thousand block of mooney flat road reported someone drove by and shot paintballs at him he requested exter patrol at eight forty nine pm a woman reported to juvenile told her daughter she was going to bring a gun to school the next n woman was in his driveway and shots were fired deputies were unable to locate the woman and they were unable to determine where the shots came from five am a caller from the eleven thousand block a new town road reported a person was using a camera with infrared lighting to film his property at night to call or believe this was a restraining order violation to call or would go to court next week to address the police department thursday at seven twenty one p m a call from broad street and nevada street reported someone was bitten by an animal paramedics responded ranch was a new one even for her worth putting in a freezer it from curious onlookers canny and believe she may have the head of the mythical bloodsucking chupacabra it is one ugly creature kenyan said holding the head of the mammal with its big ears and blue mostly hairless skin canyon and others in our neighborhood discovered the forty pound bodies of three of their animals over four days in july outside her ranch in kiro eighty miles southeast of san antonio kenneth said she saved the heads many as twenty six of her chickens in the past couple years i've seen a lot of nasty stuff i've never seen anything like this she said kenyan to the possibility that this was no ugly coyote but perhaps a vampire like pleased is that the chickens weren't eaten or carried off all the blood was drained from them she said chupacabra means goat sucker in spanish and it is said to have originated in latin america specifically puerto rico and mexico canyon thinks recent heavy rains ran them right out of their dams i think it could have been it canyon said it has to be a cross between two or three different things she said the findings has captured the imagination of locals just like reported sightings of bigfoot or laci and their sponsors have elsewhere but what people are calling it is probably just a strange breed of dog so venton arion travis share of the main street animal hospital in nearby victoria we're not going to tell you that it's not a typical i just think in my have preference for blood letting is pretty bleed out and look it up chuck a car broke or not to discover it was beyond a local and international craze canyon has started selling teachers that read two thousand and seven that doing it she said it's good for carroll and out of new york hillary rodham clinton has already had to forgo one potential running mate her husband asked by talk show host david letterman if bill clinton could serve as her vice president should she be elected to the white house something our first lady acknowledged that he could not believe me she joked he looked into that she also remarked that if the constitution didn't forbid a president from a third term he might be running the winter olympics in norway on thursday clinton recounted his summer in alaska during which she donned boots and an apron to get salmon with a spoon the best preparation for being in washington that you can possibly imagine she joked couldn't talk shop to discuss the need for campaign finance reform how to pull troops out of iraq and the importance of caring for wounded veterans she said that while resistance to a female commander in chief was diminished it hasn't disappeared i think it's not so much that people don't think a woman can do the job this is that we've never done it before she said i'm not running because i'm a woman i'm running because i think the best qualified and experienced person who can do the job but i know that it's a big deal that i might be the first woman president clinton also read a top ten list of tongue in cheek campaign promises including number three we will not only have a president who doesn't want pulling over and asking for directions of afghanistan the suicide bomber in a car blew himself up near the gates of the afghan capital airport friday killing one afghan soldier and one hundred six other people officials and witnesses said the blast apparently aimed a convoy of cars carrying foreigners missed its intended target and tore into a group of soldiers waiting at a checkpoint outside the military wing of kabul's international airport witnesses say the soldiers were is scheduled to fly to italy for training at a nato base so the soldier who declined to give his name because he was not authorized to speak to the media here has the me the defense minister's spokesman said at least one afghan soldier was killed and two others were wounded in the attack the latest in a wave of insurgent violence in the country other officials at the site of the blast said one soldier was killed in at least six others four soldiers and two civilians were wounded drove fast and blew up next to a crowd of people including afghan national army soldiers said monsour eyewitness only give a single name a lot of people were left laying on the ground ambulances ferried those injured while nato and afghan troops secured the site of the blast so the breeze of the car destroyed in the blast was scattered around a wide area next to the heavily protected entrance of the airport's military wing and afghan noncommissioned officers said the bomb tried to ram a convoy of cars carrying foreigners instead most hit are members of the afghan national army on their way to training in italy all of shrapnel came towards us said the officer who also declined to give his name another soldier walked away from the scene all the new pair of bloodied boots and two green berets worn by an national army members taliban militants are leading an increasingly bloody campaign against afghan and western troops in the country almost four thousand most of them insurgents have been killed this year alone according to associated press accounts most of the violence has been in the south and east where the taliban are historically strongest but there has also been a series of suicide attacks against foreign and afghan security forces in the capital and out of lansing michigan the prison parolee and sex offender was a den killing five women in the city in a little more than a month and he could face charges in the six deaths from two thousand and four authorities said friday we're going assault charges are being pursued against matthew emanuel making twenty seven years old of lancing who was patrol paroled from state prison june twenty six said police chief mark kelly taken had been in prison off and on since two thousand and one returned twice for par violations after serving more than a year in a house for larceny from a person so the state corrections department spokesman russell marion macon also had an extensive juvenile criminal history including two criminal sexual conduct offenses breaking and entering larceny and on foot while fully driving away and automobile moreland said he spent most of his life in and out of foster care and taken was arrested tuesday on suspicion of not reporting to his parole officer not registering ounce of sex offender and breaking her home her dog charged him and causing him to flee authorities said police credited the woman with providing key details to tell focus their investigation and lead to a sketch of the suspect taken is not listed in the state public sex offender registry but is on a sex offender registry and used by law enforcement it was not a minute it would clear out make an violated parole in two thousand and three and two thousand and six according to michigan state police criminal history website bacon was sentenced to a year in jail in two thousand and five after pleading guilty to third degree home invasion and resisting arrest and lighting the icon of burning man for days before the main man scheduled emulation was a prank with a message says a san francisco man who faces a felony arson charge in connection with the torching paul david attias was arrested tuesday on felon charges of arson and destruction of property as well as misdemeanor possession of far worse and resisting a public officer after the forty foot burning man figure was set ablaze at ten fifteen a m that day the fire was doused within half an hour and the figure was rebuilt in time for sure burning plan for ten tonight this is the twenty first year for burning man bestival in an interview friday at this said that while he was not claiming responsibility for the blaze in self i'm facing charges i'm not stupid he didn't characterize himself as the representative of the sole surviving member of this a turk a group that was responsible he called the group black rock intelligence  or the cia of burning man as plans to plead not guilty when he is scheduled to appear september twenty fifth the nevada person's county courthouse burning man organizers did not respond friday to requests for comments to remarks satire aside how does said there were more serious point behind the early burning celebration of the individual expression and the community building at the core of the burning man has been lost in recent years as the even has become too suburban a spontaneous act by prematurely burning the man was an attempt to recapture some of the original spirit of the event and in our weather it's going to be a hot holiday weekend  thanks a lot for watching and we will see you tomorrow