some county fees are going up this summer frustrating businesses that are already struggling with an economic slump and rising cost of gasoline and other commodities county supervisors approved fee hikes some of them double digit increases for the building environmental health and planning departments as well as for offices agriculture commissioner and county surveyor fees typically apply to our early rates for inspections and processing applications everything is expensive enough as it is said local contractor gray gallup who runs a business here since one nine hundred eighty with the county mandating higher prices we have to pass them on to the homeowners they're the ones who ultimately paid gallop already is coping with high fuel prices for his large diesel truck and top of existing or pending government medication fees starting august fourth hourly building fees will rise from one hundred fifteen dollars and forty cents to hundred twenty five dollars and seventy eight cents environmental health fees will increase from one thirty to sixty two to one forty three twenty two per hour in planning department fees were bumped from one of levon forty two to one hundred nine hundred sixty two hour early agriculture fees will change from seventy three dollars to eighty six forty four in count from one to one to one twenty eight at the county transfer station the cost to dispose of untreated would waste is going up fifty percent this year from about twenty to fifty to thirty a ton for about four dollars extra per load on a truck about a fifty percent increase we haven't had raises in prices in fifteen years we've got way behind explains stephen porter solid waste manager at an operating cost escalated in recent years county gets credit for twenty thousand tonnes of wood waste received each year the material is used to generate power or cost of labor we don't like raising fees said supervisor any reason but he added they're collecting the fees from people who are course the services prefer bill to subsidizing them with money from the gut general fund as occurs in some neighboring counties and the fattest city residents will get to vote on november third on whether they want to court city clerk and city treasurer to be elected rather than appointed after action taken by the city council on wednesday night the city council also approved by waste management to raise garbage rates by four point one percent effective july first according to the waste management the rate for one thirty two gallon trash bin will increase from twelve dollars  thirty six cents dollars and seventy two cents a month while the rate for a ninety six gallon ben will go from twenty six twelve to twenty six seventy four a month in addition to voting for to put the city clerk and city treasurer question on the ballot to council as expected approved holding th special election on november third the vote means nevada city residents also will vote on a candidate to finish the term of sheila stein who resigned earlier this year from the city council sally harris who city council term expires in july will serve as an interim city council stained replacement is elected and sworn in after the november third election and then a van to carry fairgrounds rolled out its schedule thursday for the county fair from august sixth through tenth new exhibits in the fair this year includes showcase of nevada county wineries and the main building you manage your dog race and a special educational section where children can now artificial cows saddle artificial ponies and create artificial scare crows create scarecrow some said sandy would stephanie manager at the fairgrounds there's more at the fair than you can see in five days we said we have so many wonderful exhibits great music and food on treat street it's a per theme of this year's various barnyard buckaroos some of the general tractions include a daily parade at five pm rodeo bull riding motor sports magic shows curiosity and puppetry the hot trash fashion show will take place and points trees to the stage and the opening and closing night musicians scheduled to perform include shane dwight band from the bay area steel breeze from reno gold canyon arizona the fair will showcase about three hundred venders are expected to draw nearly one hundred thousand visitors at present we've tagged all the market animals that will be sold on sunday tenth she said people who are interested in displaying their artworks collectibles agricultural products and livestock at the fair can fill out the paperwork in person or on line at nevada county fair dot com price of general admission tickets have gone up by a dollar this year to eight dollars per person but those buying tickets in advance can get them for four dollars each entry fees remain the same for seniors and children seniors pay six dollars per person tickets for children ages six to zero cost three dollars children five years and under can come in for free kids day is on thursday august seventh when children twelve and under are admitted for free between ten a m and five p county fairground is located at one one two two eight courtney road in grass valley so see you there it probably isn't search may have uncovered a major drug ring in the vatican on a thursday with possible ties to consul confiscated two pounds of methamphetamine one quarter pound of cocaine one pound of processed marijuana keefe forty eight thousand dollars in cash two rifles in a pump shotgun according to sergeant bills and others of the narcotics task force working on information of a possible large cache of drugs and cash task force officers and deputies raided the residence of eric sutter forty nine years old about three p m he was arrested at the scene  gerald font fifty on a local misdemeanor warrant shortly after their arrest officers learned that cash and drugs might be buried on the property smother said following trails officers on earth eighteen thousand dollars one pound of met for allegedly violating his probation just after a gardener and taylor were arrested two more men drove onto the property spotted the officers and allegedly tried to police its mother said officers caught and arrested alfonso corales twenty four and hilarious on suspicion of drug charges federal drug enforcement officials think corrales and kuranda may have big drug operation time as royal added we found this out made with find that this was a major distribution linked to nevada county and link at first sale or embraced by grass valley residents delaware merope debate has quieted an artist john pugh is busy with the project construct the studio i'm going to create a great merrill view said better be for twenty thousand it about the heritage and substance of the area not just the past nationally known artist design will wrap around the back and side walls of city's historic delora theater takes place the old merrill of miners working inside the heart of the heart which adorned the back wall for twenty seven years before it faded the numeral integrates the area's mining history recent commitment to your business rivers ecology and the strong sense of community here pugh added the dominant feature will be miners on the old fashioned skip while the river runs beside them as well as dramatic mining is grass valley history whether some people like it or not he said the miners will be dropping down to a new level of shifting environmental consciousness is the story of grass valley city officials are enthusiastic but think it's going to be a great asset to the city said mark mair mark johnson many great art works are controversial but i think we're working through the controversial part of this now when it's l it's going to be something the mineral preparation of the walls and a lot of it will cost seventy thousand dollars according to howard vine executive director of the grass valley downtown association we've got about forty two thousand dollars in donations and sixty five hundred in pledges le vine added working with three assistants pugh welcome pleat about seventy percent of the project in the studio on canvas trips before coming to grass valley for the final touches later this summer he h paint to finish touches is the only way to go with meryl's producing when finished the artwork will be thirty five feet high on both walls with a thirty foot wide area across the back and twenty five foot wide porch and on the that is a rap today for our local news in a major rebuke of the bush administration the supreme court has ruled going to animal behavior prisoners have the constitutional right to challenge their detention in civilian court the military commissions act of two thousand and six and stripped the prisoners of their hideous corpus rights five to four ruling mark the third time in four years the supreme court has ruled against the bush administration concerning the rights of guantanamo prisoners speaking in italy president bush said he opposed to decision he also said first of all it's a supreme court decision will abide by the council's decision court's decision that doesn't mean i have to agree with it it's a deeply divided court and i strongly agree with those who dissented and that their dissent was based on serious concerns about u s national security and the white house has suggested it may turn the congress to pass legislation to curb the prisoners new rights jamal jaffer of the american civil liberties union praised the supreme court's decision he also said it was the first done that this court has said clearly that prisoners held at guantanamo have the right to challenge their detention in court under the constitution and that's important it's especially important because the bush administration in late two thousand and one in early two thousand and two made this is easy to hold prisoners at guantanamo precisely because they thought they would deny prisoners held there their right to challenge their detention so this is something this decision is something that just pulls the rug out of the administration central reason for opening up this prison in the first place as the supreme court ruled in favor of the guantanamo prisoners it dealt with new setbacks for american citizens being held in iraq and the unanimous ruling justices ruled two americans cannot use the u s court system to challenge their transfer into iraqi military forces in his bed at home he's been accused of harboring insurgents and in economic news new figures show home foreclosures are up nearly fifty percent over the same period last year foreclosure listing company reality real trac says more than two hundred sixty thousand homes received foreclosure filing may up from hundred seventy six thousand in the same month in two thousand and seven the news comes as the nation's top banking regulatory is  and mortgage firms of providing misleading information on loans and foreclosure stemming from the subprime mortgage crisis john dubin the comptroller of the currency says the financial industry has failed to provide accurate information on who they are helping and the rates of foreclosure doogan says the information is crucial to determine the same verity of the housing crisis and the effectiveness of the response and on capitol hill house has approved a measure to expand jobless benefits for unemployed americans for an additional three months democrats got an exact two thirds majority to pass the vote enough to withstand a threatened white house veto the vote came as labor department figures show the number of americans filing new unemployment claims increased by twenty five thousand last week the unemployment rate rose half a percent point last month to five point five percent the biggest gain in more than two decades and iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki is claiming talks on a long term agreement with us have free choice he calls it a day and u s demands have included maintaining a fifty eight not realize the u s demands would go so it would deep so deeply affected iraqi sovereignty and this is something we can never accept the independent of london reported last week the us is leveraging tens of billions of dollars in seized iraqi assets to push through their demands bush administration has angered iraqi officials by refusing to live support for iraqi's u n delegation as a threat to international security the new york times reported iraqi officials will ask the u n security council today to expand its protection of iraqi iraq against compensation claims meanwhile in iraq the u s is being accused of killing two civilians in a raid in hillah earlier today the u s says the kill killed five suspects shiite fighters that's what they said they killed in cuba the cuban government has announced plans to remove limits on annual rages for decades cuba has always have been separated by incremental amounts of wide range of jobs it's the latest in serious economic reforms and acted in cuba since raul parallel convention when republicans meet in september and i said no out of washington tim russert host of n b c s meet the press and its washington bureau chief collapsed and died at work friday after suffering an apparent heart attack he was only fifty eight russert of buffalo new york took the helm of the sunday news show in december ninety ninety one and turned into it into one last widely watched programs obvious type in nature his signature cherry there was an unrelenting style of question should tony and magazine once dubbed dresser the best journalist in town and described meet the press as the most interesting and important hour on television he also wrote bestselling books big rest and me in two thousand and four and wisdom of our fathers in two thousand and six this year time magazine named him one of the most one of the one hundred most influential people in the world russert also was a senior vice president at  and that is a wrap today for our world news brunswick road business responding officers found the subjects had left the area and at ten thirty nine a m a person walked into a department to report a vehicle had struck his vehicle and said wait person who hit his vehicle so they would pull over to exchange made street between a honda and a jaguar eleven seventeen a m a person came into the department to report a fraud to her bank account and eleven forty four am and i know one one caller reported her vehicle was eleven twenty nine pm and twenty seven year old man was pulled over on i hope maryland road at the on ramp of gold standard freeway here's arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and driving with this is branded and revoked license he was booked into brown correctional facility and then on thursday two forty eight am he caller from sierra nevada memorial hospital reported a vehicle pulled up emergency room with an intoxicated person in receipt the driver caller from morgan ranch subdivision reported someone had eight vehicles on the property in the neighborhood and at nine o eight a m a call from a church on eight hundred block a ridge road reported finding drugs behind a building responding officers to corey port sheriff's office on wednesday at eight forty three a m a woman called from the fifteen thousand block a black berry lane to report a theft of her medicinal marijuana plants six fifty four p caller from the intersection highway twenty nominee ridge road reported a vehicle accident accident with more cycle and car on the roadway and officers arrested the forty eight year old man at the interception last two lupin zero horton street on suspicion