got you like international style nature you get you need food for a party or get together and this is a place you could have catered all your  open seven days a week he just moved to downtown grass down to a six west clearing even more monday as crews continued making major progress on the uber river complex of wildfires but an air quality advisory has been extended for today by local officials while the blazes raged almost one thousand firefighters support with banners from locals thanking them for their efforts cookies will be baked by the dozen for the weary fire troops one of the bands greeting firefighters as they reenter camp was created by jamie miller of grass valley and her friend dulls of nevada city women gathered signatures at area grocery stores for a van or before taking it to the fairgrounds for display i live just past the fairgrounds and i noticed how many forage trucks environmental were camping there and thought it would be nice thing to do that part time local music promoter john colter got barbara lynn and roger schmidt off i'm sorry she not to play jazz standard sunday night with their lynn and ocean three they really liked it when said monday they came in and we could see a little white teeth from all those black and faces who played for about three hours you should see the smiles on their faces coulter's added they c in looking like coal and they said some of the rain they were on was so steep they had things rolling on them i personally thank them a culture said just letting them know everybody in nevada county appreciates them coult his next plan is to put on a benefit concert for local musicians with local musicians for non profits and civic groups that will lose money by not being able to sell fireworks in grass valley and nevada city this year both cities have banned their sales and use for the rest of the year because of the red flag fire conditions colter was unsure when the concert would be but would make it public when details are higher now while the yuba river complex in three thirty four hundred forty five getting more intense and could endanger blue canyon on interstate eighty these fires and many others in northern california could easily bring additional smoking to nevada county as part of the progress here particulate levels are dropping as the smoke dissipates but harder ozone level continues putting air quality and unhealthy for sensitive individual range fish into district said monday as a result elderly children pregnant women athletes as medics and others with preexisting lung and heart conditions should avoid or limit outdoor activities fish said others might want to follow suit because the possible residual effects from weeks of worth of bad air on sunday firefighters beg setting back fires in the scotchman and fall fires which allowed for more containment according to todd national forest also the amount of predicted lightning strikes over the weekend did not develop their stop and no new fires started the fall fire temporary plant to mix fire retardant has been set up in bear valley just below the highway twenty an interstate eighty intersection large helicopters are dropping twelve hundred to fifteen hundred gallons of retardant on the of the complex places to slow firearm criminal threats and intimate nation of a victim were dropped against their god because further investigations by the sheriff's detectives indicate we won't be able to sustain those charges in a trial so delgado forty seven was initially arrested on suspicion of firing several shotgun rounds at his twenty one year old son during an argument has been found he hadn't shot at the victim newell's delgado appeared in court last week at a felony conference and was represented five drug sales and your legal weapons charges made potentially more serious by four prior convictions for felony drug related crimes bandies be represented by tom rio a private attorney and the city valley decided late thursday to ban the sale and use of consumer far worse this year because of the fire danger decision comes amid mounting criticism from some residents and business says and officials including the governor's office about the wisdom of allowing the sale fireworks while cities such as grass valley are blanketed in six mile from ongoing fires how do you suppose it looks to an idaho firefighter who is sleeping in a tent at the fairgrounds and fighting fires twelve hours a day on our behalf only to see us supporting and placing fireworks stands woods in our cities while we have all these fires going said walt with its property manager of the follower center an email seen by you was an who confirmed his e mail on thursday night was writing to save mart management to object to a fire would stand in the fall or center in short the followers want to fire would stand removed from their property the poor air quality created by the snow is the worst in decades forcing many people indoors the ground has been turned into a staging area to fight the fires some people wishing the decision had come sooner nonprofits depending on the money from farming cells for school programs but critics complained about the risks the stands were due to open at noon on saturday city officials led by fire chief jim marcus will see seek to each and emergency order prohibiting the use of consumer fireworks within the city service has issued a fire weather watch for the next three days suggestion a higher probability for additional lightning caused fires and further drawdown of firefighting resources during the past year the city conducted  review of its policy on allowing the sale and use of consumer fireworks the city council voted to approve the firewood sales under so called controlled conditions which fire officials contend our city nonprofit groups showed out in force iraq and mccain tax cuts to save corporations hundred seventy five billion dollars a year protesters at the democratic national convention in denver to be fenced in thirteen arrested a coal plant protesting virginia in california's death penalty is dysfunctional in maryland prisoner strangled to death in county jail before because we'd like to think  you get you need food for a party or get together and this is a place you can have catered all you're open seven days a week he just moved to downtown grass down to a six west save your gas and shop locally come in and say hi it top united nations human rights official has said the u s military caribbean owes at guantanamo are flawed and falls short of international standards for fair trials philip alston the special report or on the u n human rights council also called on the u s to open its files on the five prisoners who died in his custody guantanamo for prisons or so doing committed suicide with their autopsies have never been released president bush has signed into law in the hundred sixty two billion dollar war funding bill passed by the democratic led congress the bill provides enough funding for the wars in iraq and afghanistan to last well into night two thousand and nine president bush also said i appreciate the republican and democratic congress agreed to provide these vital funds without trying tying the hands of our nic commanders and without enough artificial timetable of withdrawal from iraq the law and also includes increased educational benefits for veterans and the pentagon has announced it will send six additional combat units totaling some thirty three thousand in marines to iraq in early two thousand and nine which is said the unit would replace troops currently serving in iraq this will allow for the u s to cover over one hundred forty thousand u s troops in iraq until the end of president bush's term and other iraq news and iraq's are open the world's third largest oil reserve to foreign firms and money putting u s and british companies in the position to return to iraq for the first time since saddam hussein nationalized iraq's oil over three decades ago or oil iraqi oil minister hussein share astonied listed eight oil and gas field areas open to foreign firms for long term development contracts he also said though these initial offers were through these initial offers hope to him to increase production of these  current production which is two point five nine per day and mistress you can do increase production from now until contracts are put into effect until it reaches four point five million barrels per day in the next five years iraqi government has already pre qualified forty one foreign firms to bid for the contracts iraq postponed announcement of a series of no bid contracts that are expected to be given to exxon mobil shell total and b p and check to services iraq's largest oil fields of the point is an iraqi former said he was caged beaten threatened and with dogs and given electric shocks during more than four years of u s detention the iraqi farmer was released in march without being charge and without any she just told process and other news of federal appeals court has dismissed  lawsuit filed by not her arar the syrian born canadian citizen who was seized by u s officials and kennedy airport in new york and rendered to syria where he was tortured interrogated detained for tiny underground cell for nearly a year feels court ruled that arar was never technically inside the united states so his claim could not be heard in federal courts judge robert sack issued a scathing does sent in said the argument that arar was never in the united states was a legal fiction and a statement arar described the court's decision as outrageous he before his firing in two thousand and four the former operative says he was repeatedly ordered to either falsify his report on w m d's in the middle east or not to fall is reported all for the second month in a row more international troops have died in afghanistan and iraq forty four u s and allied troops died in june in afghanistan fourteen more than died in iraq and in campaign news a new report is estimating republican presidential candidate john mccain's proposed tax plan will produc windfall for corporate america the center for american progress estimates mccain's plan would save corporations one hundred seventy five billion per year the country's largest two hundred corporations along would save forty five  information has been revealed about denver's plan to control protesters during a democratic national convention in august local and federal officials are setting up a so called public demonstrations zone that they plan to fence off with chicken wire or chain link american civil liberties union has criticized the blank comparing it to set up in boston during the the democratic national convention in two thousand and four when processed don't was inside a cage and embrace environmental news thirteen activists were arrested monday as they blockaded the offices of dominion power in richmond virginia to protest the company's decision to build a new coal fired power plant in virginia the group blue ridge earth first said it would continue to protest at dominion and tell the company kansas plans to build a coal plant stop burning coal mine to mountaintop removal and in news from california state commission says california's in ministration of the death penalty is dysfunctional and close to collapse panel concluded state could save more than one hundred million a year if the state replaced the death penalty with sentences of life in prison without possibility of parole and in maryland the state's medical examiner's office has concluded a nineteen year old man was strangled to death w and it eight sixteen p m police made contact with the man on a one hundred block of being streamed rest of him on a warrant for suspicion of drug violation weapon was taken from him for safekeeping as well and at ten o five p m officers responded to a verbal confrontation  a caller from north star mine and pelton wheel museum put it appeared someone tried to push a vehicle off the edge of the parking lot towards a greek officers had the vehicle towed to the vatican to sheriff's office on sunday twelve forty eight a m a woman from twenty thousand block of penn valley drive reported that the headlights of her jeep which were parked in the driveway came on and then turned off by themselves she wanted officers to check it out twelve twelve twelve pm a man from twenty two been struck in the face by a man possibly in his mid twenty's the man ran up to reporting the man ran up to the reporting person's car screaming a racial slur struck the reported person then fled to