a science woman's purse allegedly found in a search of a pen valley home this week could help police break the miriam's murder case the suspect in the slaying thirty four year old steven medline was out of custody at the time of specs death on a plea agreement that postponed his sentencing from a year old crime until next month now glenn had been arrested in may two thousand and six in a drug sting operation nevada county superior court records we reviewed by the union showed a loaded gun was found at the time of his arrest and at the time medline and his wife also were arrested on suspicion of child entered a drug rehabilitation program but that was ten days after sprats death in may of this year according to the records investigators on thursday found sprach of some kind and her empire street home but had no early leads the arrest came after madeleine and his wife dawn medlen thirty seven were questioned thursday by grass valley police detective sergeant doug wren and calling nelson don medline was released after questioning pending further investigation ramsay we're happy to start getting some close you're going on this it's been too long said with everyone anyone we spoke to everything led back to them armed with the search warrant police went to the meddlers home after the questioning and found sprats purse and other identifying items in a hidden spot said stephen madeleine w subsequently arrested solon steve medlen appeared in nevada county superior court friday afternoon but his arraignment was postponed after a public defender don lone house appear in court judge thomas anderson for more time to see if any conflicts existed with his office drugs and gun in the past the melons were arrested may eleventh two thousand and six after nevada county narcotics task force officer snared mr meddling  medline they also found a fully loaded forty caliber handgun with a round in a chamber underneath a pillow and metal and bedroom the court records show when don medline returned to the apartment about midnight police arrested her and her husband on suspicion of child endangering because of two children were in the home alone with the gun at the time of the drug sting don madeleine's in ranger meant charge was dismissed at a preliminary hearing when the district attorney's office failed to provide enough evidence to bind her over for further proceedings according to court records stephen medline was also charged with child endangerment and he was gone over for further court proceedings on that and drug charges and a preliminary hearing last judgment for eighteen months during which he was supposed to complete drug counseling and obey all laws with the possibility of the meth charges being dismissed if the conditions were met that one entered the  health program outpatient drug treatment program in auburn on may fourteenth of this year ten days after the murder of miriam spratt the deferred judgment is up for review on august twenty fourth according to court records at that time the district attorney could refer to the current murder case as an infraction of the judgment according to the spokesperson at the court clerk's office after the slaying suspect aunt betty mcclanahan of wisconsin said her  may have been involved with drugs and alcohol abuse at one time but that a doubt was the case at the time of her death i'm glad they got somebody for it mccown mcclanahan said late friday it's just a horrible feeling to know what happened to her alarmed by the growing number of people moving away to find cleaner air fare district that oversees nevada sierra and plymouth counties recently awarded the air in nevada county eighteen thousand five hundred dollars for education and outreach programs and to identify solutions to ozone problems the group wants to use grant money to organize school carpooling this fall to reduce vehicle emissions within the county on bad days like friday bern seriously considered moving away herself even though she and her family recently purchased their first home and love the community and they love the community she said she feels duped that nobody told her how bad the air was when she moved  here earlier this year the american lung association rated the air the thirteenth worst in the nation for ozone levels this summer she plans to beat the poor air by vacationing for weeks out of the county if we do that we can cut our exposure bern er said an air quality advisory was issued on thursday but ozone levels several points beneath the unhealthy level to sensitive groups we have a lot of days that are just below the standard  northern sierra air quality management district he said a shift in wind will cause the ozone levels to drop to moderate over the weekend there could be a possible lawsuit  nevada county sent a letter to california air resources board on june twentieth that some members have called a precursor to litigation the letter demands of state look at the air quality on the statewide level and consider stricter spinner suggested by the environmental protection agency the e p a proposed proposal would drop the standard from point zero eight parts per million two point seven parts per million such a reduction would double the number of unhealthy days in the foothills said long  see recently ordered a pair of portable ozone monitors costing four thousand dollars each using thousands of donated dollars the air quality district will help the group calibrate the machines to be sure the data collected is valid people are just throwing money out of said bernheimer the group also hopes to buy a permanent monitor from penn valley as recommended by two thousand and four the valley county grand jury report to better understand how ozone in part har apes move into the area from the sacramento valley now one permanent monorail station in the little building and grass valley provides the western county would pose on level readings we want to have better picture of our ozone functions in various places burn on july twenty third sta and c will hold and even in meeting for parents living with ozone to keep children safe the location of the meeting will be announced on the group's website at for troops remains high even as some call for their return home on thursday representative john doolittle republican from rockland said u s troops should be pulled back from the frontlines and restricted to training and advising iraqi forces  little comments made during a town hall meeting in rockland come as other prominent republicans have distanced themselves from president george w bush's pleas for patience with the war effort  show a continuing shift in doolittle's position on american involvement in iraq in april he told the union that we need to get ourselves off the frontline in june he called for iraqi troops to be in control of the conflict expressing hope for some stable stability in their ravaged nation just a day before do it as latest comments county residents cheered clapped and waved a little flags during the independence day parade in grass val featuring the families of servicemen and women carrying photos of their loved ones veterans carrying banners and national guard reservists and it camouflaged if american troops come home from iraq before iraqi forces can defend their nation then the terrorists win and we lose nevada county republican central committee member tony gilchrist said gilchrist's i'd like to see the troops get out of there tomorrow but i'd like to gilchrist said if we don't fight them there will be fighting them here others remain skeptical of do little who had campaigned with president bush and supported the war before reservations on the matter congressman doolittle is nothing more than a yes man who has been swayed by the wave of public sentiment said lorraine wright nevada county peace center it is appalling that this district such a lack of leadership in its congressional representative said todd stenhouse spokesman for charles brown the democratic congressional candidate from rosewood who beat incumbent in nevada county in the november general election stenhouse called doolittle's change of opinion an act of political desperation we've got to get off the front lines as soon as possible doolittle said at the meeting with constituents at rockland city hall and in mind that means something like the end of the war we just can't continue to tolerate these kinds of losses he called the war a quagmire and sort of majority of his republican colleagues have become skeptical of the administration's iraq policies and that a big change and that's a big change the little say support among republican senators is considered crucial to bush's iraq policy so should press reported democrats hold a narrow fifty one to forty nine majority in return only fought shy of sixty votes needed to cut off debate in advance of most anti war legislation but new cracks in bush's support base have begun to show in the past two weeks three republican senators richard lug of indiana george voinovich of ohio and pete the mench c c t of new mexico have announced they can no longer support bush's iraq strategy and have called for the president start reducing the military rolls there their announcement took many by surprise because most republicans have said they're willing to hold out of temper to see if bush's troop buildup is working i have carefully studied the iraqi situation and believe we cannot continue asking our troops to sacrifice indefinitely while iraqi government is not making measurable progress towards to move its county country forward the men see me told reporters from new mexico this weekend instead of doma seen embraced a bipartisan bill by colorado democrat can salazar that would put u s troops on track to leave by the end of march two thousand and eight his spokesman from the white house tony fratto said the position of miles to the same approach sought by the democrats which is in fact  on thursday at eight twenty four a m officers cited and released the forty seven year old man on colfax avenue at memorial park for driving on a suspended license how the eleven thirty two a m a caller from the nine hundred block of mccourty road reported the janitor had found drug paraphernalia in the bathroom the police took a report at four thirty p m officers arrested a twenty seven year old woman on a one hundred block of south church street on an outstanding warrant at seven thirty seven p m a woman from the one hundred block of west  l drive reported the man who she said had been harassing her was standing in the parking lot off was running able to locate the man but the woman said she would like him removed if he were on the property again on friday at eight o nine m officers arrested twenty one year old man at the intersection of richardson and north schools free on suspicion of being drunk in public and on outstanding warrants at nine o seven a m a caller from the one hundred block of carpenter street dog line under a brown truck and appeared to be in distress the dog was picked up by animal control about a county sheriff's office on thursday at twelve o three p m a caller from the one hundred block of  mail over the past month reporting person said to cash gift cards possibly had been stolen from a mailbox on friday at twelve fifty three a m the woman from the seven hundred block of li avenue reported her roommate had been banging on her door and was not letting her sleep at three thirty nine a m a call from the twelve thousand block in battersea i would say he was going to kill his son and was out of can troll the phone went dead and offices were unable to make contact on the landline and here we go with the weather as our next segment another hot day is expected over northern california but not as hot as it was this past week this is mainly due to the increase the delta breeze that many of us felt pick up late yesterday afternoon look for mostly sunny skies to start the weekend near sacramento with afternoon  one hundred should be felt for many portions of the san joaquin valley there's a little reprieve with brought together for you for g p t v news anybody that wants to cool off a little bit is there to screen  mainly ninety's with some spots in the lower hundreds climb toward the upper eighty's this afternoon portions of sierra need to be aware again of possibility of afternoon thunderstorms and dry lightning this threat in the afternoon remains through the weekend and for much of the next week