television broadcast the first internet visual t v and brings you t v t v news with local and world news from nevada county california if you have newsworthy items please e mail them to us it news at j v t v dot org now for some local knows how to attend a year and a half of court hearings dennis was seen of grass valley said he's relieved the judge handed down a long awaited prison sentence friday to his former wife who hired a hitman to kill be six hundred ninety one days in prison with credit for time served and good behavior according to the judge's calculations i spent more than a year in court and it's been tremendously tasking goodness racine's said after the sentencing referring to eleven for seventeen months as ten we had to encourage defense attorney monica lynch to seek alternative sentencing options including finding a secure mental health facility willing to take the defendant is or about receiving has bipolar disorder but cannot afford to pay for her own treatment according to court records she divorced her husband while she was in jail and was granted a fourteen thousand dollars settlement which cannot cover costs of a yearlong treatment program lynch said she has researched every possible avenue and has repeatedly brought it back to court to no secure mental health facility that would take a defendant without pay she advocated friday for a sentence of probation the district attorney's office had consistently pushed for a prison sentence the union has reported dennis received growing frustration with the delays he has been publicly supported by nevada county victim and witness assistance which takes the position at all victims are entitled to a resolution within a reasonable period of time confounded to sentencing delays in his advocacy for alternative sentencing using large poster paper and displaying his mouth at the front of the courtroom friday the judge attempted to show is are but ricin would have spent more time in custody with his preferred sentence a year in jail plus a year in a secure mental health facility in addition to time already served the prison sentence he said these are scenes spends less time behind bars walls likely get no psychological counseling from  when the deputy district attorney katherine francis asked denise dennis racine if he wanted to say anything in open court he declined he apologized as a great recession for not finding any plausible alternative sentencing this  ricin i'm sorry we couldn't put together a treatment deal he said and a short comment from t v t v news it seems we have a judge that understands the injustice that the current system provides for those mentally ill let's hope in a near future t nevada county can come up with a patient treatment program for people like us were seen locked up with no treatment is deplorable and in another story bear river high school teacher karen de pillow believes in having a positive learning climate in her class and works hard to make it happen she comes from the school half an hour early so students can meet with her to discuss any problems you get into the teaching profession because you'd like children to polo said that part of me hasn't changed over seventeen years of teaching and bear river i could just early because one school started to get real busy and there's not a lot of time for discussion at a time when local high schools are coping with drug use teenage pregnancy and low academic scores for some students among other problems the pill has learned to reach out by embracing it countywide program called forty develop developmental house sets the so called assets are positive qualities and experiences that are supposed to help raise successful young people according to the search institute in minnesota based on profit organization they include internal factors in a student's life such as family support care and school climate and parent involvement as well as a way children use their time in creative creative activities and programs in time at home values such as honesty restraint and integrity also are mentioned i think the forty development to all houses teaches me to look at the positive attributes kids have and work from there said diplo who teaches children with learning disabilities said by river high school i think they teach me acceptance and inspire me to work on the strength of the students to educate themselves a concept administrator teachers and other staff members of the high school district recently convened for our workshop in nevada union high school a member of the search institute was present at the event many of our teachers commented that they that there is a culture on our campuses that reflects the philosophy of the forty developmental abscess said ralph swanson the new high school district superintendent the reason why we brought everyone together for the meeting is because all adults play any role in supporting this effort the service was a good way of learning how to interact with kids said terry cannon operations manager of the nevada union high school greeting a kid in a friendly manner is after all a better way to approach a kid as spouse in the forty hours concept is something as simple as learning all of your students names he can be listening to them when they arrive in the morning he can be saying a kind word to them or praising them when they do something well the poll added i think it raises the teacher's consciousness as to what a positive influence she can be in the lives of students this program was introduced to nevada county through the substance abuse advisory board a couple years ago by philip lester and sad story ruth bedwell passed away peacefully at her home and co i on august seventeenth two thousand and seven she was sixty five she was the wife of the controversial nevada county supervisor drew bedwell who died december twentieth two thousand and five after a battle with hodgkin's disease after his death this is bedwell moved to co i to be closer to her daughters and grandchildren a dream she and her husband had shared before his death  army and when the iron curtain fell and this is better on her family were forced to leave their home in hungary and live in germany for a short time during the war and missed bed while lost her younger brother to a stray grenade an american citizen  burger gathered her family and they left the vast ation of the war in europe behind them moving to the united states in one nine hundred forty nine to live with mrs some burgers family in chicago missed bedwell was seventy one of most cherished memories was traveling the atlantic ocean and on a ship bound for america and seen the statue of liberty as she arrived going up in hungary to transition into m culture and language was difficult for mrs bed while but s was making the honor roll her school she enjoyed being active in whatever community she was in whether it was school or home she served in various elective student body roles during high school including class secretary she also enjoyed being a cheerleader mentored by family physician dr rosen one of the few fair women doctors of that time as was bed was soon discovered her passion in the world of nursing but mainly in the idea of helping anyone who needed it this is bad well went on to attend a university of illinois inner city school she graduated in one nine hundred sixty five with a bachelor of science degree in nursing fulfilling an exceeding her lifelong dream of becoming a nurse she helped numerous positions in the chicago and san francisco bay area throughout her career her jobs included staff nurse at the university of illinois hospital with a straight of nursing supervisor at good samaritan hospital in santa clara and there's director at south valley hospital in she was also an instructor and assistant director of the healthy end program at the santa was a regional vocational center how could being a health facility evaluate her nurse for the division of licensing and certification for california department of health facilities she ended our career with gusto and partnered to design and implement the county's first ever nurse to patient ratio for me using freely using her nursing skills to help people where she could mrs bed while i was involved in multiple volunteer organizations and was recognized by the president of the united states for an act of heroism she also volunteered as a sunday school teacher was on a church council red cross court appointed special advocates north of the   counting republican central committee and spent hours helping her husband get elected and serve as a net nevada county supervisor what we did california in the late one sixties mrs bedwell met her husband at a singles dance in  seventy six although mrs bed was passion was in nursing her heart was her family along with how they successful career she raised two daughters caring for her parents and her in laws managed and honored and loved her husband she was known for being an exemplary mother wife daughter and friend by all those close to her constantly giving herself she quickly became an inspiration to everyone in her life her daughter saw her as a pillar of strength as mrs be would often surprise your girls with little tokens of her record album and a coffee mug filled with chocolate kisses her desires in life was to bring a smile to reach children's faces point to grandmother extraordinary by her daughters this is bed was later love and life was her two grandchildren making dresses or trips for ice cream and pancakes on weekend mornings this is bed well was filled with childlike excitement when spending time with their children mrs bedwell is survived by deputies rated own home rapper d m x on friday sees him several pick bulls and finding the remains of three other dogs but in making no arrest the maricopa county sheriff's office received a tip more than a week ago about dogs being kept in the inhumane conditions of the phoenix area home so which sheriff joe arpaio detectives visited the home and then called one of the rappers lawyers and told him the condition for the animals at the property needed to be improved or deputies would take action perr the dogs were not being fed or given water authorities returned to the home friday the thirty six year old musician an actor whose real name is earl simmons was not at home during the raid simmons lawyer murray richmond and simmons hasn't been in arizona said he hadn't been in the two months and was extremely disturbed to hear the animals weren't being cared for properly we had a caretaker that wasn't taking care that's what happened recent saying he loves dogs he loves these animals those dogs are practically his family richmond said he friday sees twelve pit bulls tied up on the property and took them to an old jail that has been converted into an animal shelter deputies found the buried dogs when they dug up the backyard one had apparently been burned and cause of death on the others w because the bodies were decomposing there police also found a variety of firearms are pale say thirty additional warrants so they could check the guns to determine if they were illegal albums include it's dark and the hell is high and is my flesh blood of my blood and you're the dog again and out of washington no calls from lawmakers to begin withdrawing u s forces from iraq mean trouble the white house but are not too out of step with ariel's invasion by war commanders the disagreement mainly is about how deeply to cut now when to begin anti war democrats and some republicans want to bring all combat troops home in a matter of months generals in iraq favor starting the transition next year from the predominantly combat role but only gradually this approach would leave a six figure force in iraq for the next president to command about one hundred sixty two thousand u s troops are in iraq some thirty thousand were added between january and june as the main element of president bush's revised strategy to stabilize baghdad the first of five army brigades in that build up it's exploded expected i'm so to go along by april if not a few months earlier but then it general ray odierno the top day to day commander of u s forces in iraq said this month that all five brigades probably would be out of iraq and not replaced by august two thousand eight that would take to troop total back down to roughly one hundred thirty two thousand it is not clear how much lower the total might goal by the time bush leaves office in january two thousand and nine for some military officials the hope is below one hundred thousand by then a war fighting contain troop numbers or withdrawal schedules rather it sets a goal of achieving so spendable security by the summer of two thousand and nine leading to some degree of political reconciliation often lost in a washington talk about troop cuts it's a fact that security conditions in iraq vary widely by region and that some less contested areas may be ready for transition to control by iraqi security earlier next year that's a modest cut of five thousand troops as senator john warner republican from virginia urged on thursday to then by christmas is within the range of what commanders may have in mind to recommend to bush i could be done without affecting the outlook for improved security in the baghdad area  mccaffrey a retired army general who was a division commander during the one nine hundred ninety one gulf war said in an interview friday that he would has no doubt the u s will begin pulling some forces early next year we're going to drawdown one way or another and will and they'll direct the army or the rep the armed forces mccaffrey added and sided strains on troops and their families from repeated and lengthy deployments the only right answer is what we've got to be down to temper again by next november for end of two thousand described a forced total somewhat below one hundred thousand and that's from a military not a political protest perspective major general benjamin mixon commander of the american forces in northern iraq said in a recent interview that he has proposed reducing his troop levels starting in january and shifting to missions focused less on direct combat against insurgents and more on supporting the operations of iraqi security forces there are nearly twenty four thousand u s troops in mixed in syria which stretches north from baghdad to turkey's borders and said he might be able to reduce the total by one half in the twelve months of to eighteen months after beginning the transition this january to our commanders in anbar province in province in western iraq also have suggested they could begin with reducing troops next year those are examples of troop cutbacks can be tailored and timed in accordance with regional security conditions the transition to iraqi security control may be impossible at var speeds around the country rather than waiting to be done across the board so the big risk is putting the iraqis in charge before they are ready u s commanders have tried to hand off security responsibilities to iraqis in the past only to see their rocky forces crumble or stumble on any major general rick lynch commander of the u s forces in the volatile swath of territory south of baghdad told reporters friday that he will not allow that to happen again when we started operations back in june there were four enemy sanctuaries and we fought hard and major cost to human life to deny the enemy those sanctuaries now we're sitting on those sanctuaries and only when the iraqi security forces can come forward and say ok here i am i'm trained and and out of miami at the official word on cuba is that fidel castro's still very much alive but you'd never know that in the streets of miami premature rumors of castro's death are a staple in his heavily cuban exile city but their frequency has intensified in recent days after his eighty first birthday came and went aug thirteenth with pictures letters now recorded from friday of the rumors were pushed into overdrive by a meeting of local officials to go over their plan for when castro really dies and a road closure in the florida keys that was actually due to a police standoff is circular game insured and sued with radio stations reporting the rumors citing t v stations which cited the rumors on the street sandra via an executive of the desert design firm in miami's coconut grove neighborhood said clients and vendors called all day asking about the rumors i've heard rumors before but there's a different feeling this time like this time it's real she said t off a year ago when the cuban leader announced he would turn power over to his brother raul because of the intestinal of an intestinal illness since then castro who has ruled trouble for nearly forty eight years has not been seen in public  celebrity blogger perez hilton he can't win an american who normally deals with lindsay lohan and paris hilton jumped in for a friday reading the sources were saying the miami police were poised to announce castro's death never mind the question of why the miami police department and not that van a government or at least the u s state department would let the world know and cuba officials remain tight lipped about castro's condition for dell is doing very well and is disciplined in his recovery process foreign minister philippe perez roque told reporters in brazil on thursday present roag insisted castro maintains permanent contact with members of the government party in marquez the last two weeks have been nonstop chronicle of the death foretold for us it's not so much the waiting for the death of a person said joanne who goes spokesman for the miami based races of nonpartisan youth group that advocates for a free and democratic cuba it's much more than waiting for the opportunity for young people in ireland to have a chance to live freely and hopefully that might give them an open door to do so and vicious and troubled woman who was once an style icon charity worker and tabloid celebrity the anniversary will be marked by televised memorial service special prayers and soul searching in a country still unsure whether its sudden outpouring of emotion was people lined the route of her funeral procession as papers exhorted the royal family to return from scotland and make a display of mourning it's a perfectly recreated in the film the queen's and which newly elected prime minister tony blair gently one arc to the eddies in motion for the woman he called the people's princess people thought they knew her because she shared her thoughts and feelings which no one in her position ha ever done before said ingrid seward author of the queen and die the untold story in grieving for diana seward said people were mourning some aspect of themselves when she died diane was diana was the world's most famous woman between her son's charity work for people with aids sick children landmine victims all the while she made frequent appearances on newspaper front page and gossip columns official commemoration of diana's death would be somber and subdued and moral s friends and family at the guard chapel in london's wellington barracks diana's sons are officers an army regiment the house told calvary days before the anniversary a few branches of roses are stuck through the gilded ga kensington palace a trickle of tourists now pictures then move on officials attempt to commemorate diana have been troubled a memorial front in hyde park was opened by queen elizabeth the second in two thousand and four but shut to the public the next day after flooding and had to undergo months of renovation diana's legacy is hotly debated some see a narcissist who courted media attention others recalled warm generous woman who focus your energy on charitable causes and dared to hug aids victims diana was shared was ahead of her time said word the former bodyguard when she took on the challenge of dealing with aids it was a real problem for the royal family i remember the queen saying why do you get involved in all these nasty things why don't you do something nice diane as most enduring legacy may be your impact on the monarchy which was widely viewed as stiff and aloof just after her death