at a former national hotel clerk and a twenty three year old man suspected of stealing nearly five thousand three hundred dollars from historic nevada city establishment earlier this year are scheduled for trial in december the michelle king eighteen years old and jamie lee holman have pleaded not guilty to charges of felony grand theft and conspiracy to commit a felony trial is set for nine a m on december fourth and about a county superior court and judge robert but he didn't offer details on friday earlier this year police said king told law enforcement she stepped away from her tel desk at about four a m for nearly fifteen minutes when she returned she found all the cash register hotel's owner tom cole men could be reached for comment friday despite several phone calls the money was taken from three spots including a cash register and the place where the daily receipts and change were kept at the front desk area c n said earlier this year king continued working at the hotels so short period of time after the incident toronto said but he added he didn't know the specifics of the key of king's departure a third defendant in the case masters eighteen years old originally faces felony charges of receiving stolen property from the theft according to court documents the church has been reduced to a misdemeanor and masters is being tried separately deputy district attorney keim holeman and masters were charged by the nevada county district attorney in august and estimated one hundred to two hundred of that accounting property owners have called the county assessor to challenge a two percent increase on their tax bill cases the property owners bought their houses house several years ago when the market was higher and they can no longer sell at the same price tony assessor dale slippin set next month and will address the issue during a presentation of of supervisors meeting people who already are struggling to keep up with mortgage payments often get a shock when they find a higher property tax bill as well knowing their home often is worth less money than it was several years ago only adds to the misery the current property tax bill lending and doorsteps now comes ready for the holidays some residents also complain the county didn't warn them of the increase and they were caught off guard  thirteen as a safety valve to cap property taxes at a maximum of two percent each year based on the original assessment made when a person first acquired their property starting on january first the assessor's office will look more closely at the real estate market the large number of homes that aren't selling and the drop in home value we certainly are aware of the changes in the market opens and the county is required by law to implement an increase but can look at each individual house and temporarily withhold an increase the value of the home has dropped since it since the owner has person purchased it but he added the bills going out now reflect the property values as of january two thousand and seven one nine hundred ninety s the real estate market dropped sharply and the county just to tax rates until the market recovered called flippin doesn't believe the county will hit rock bottom like it to ninety three in property tax revenue have negative growth i just don't think the economy job market and interest rates will be there again yet it about a county has about fifty seven thousand assessed parcels according to open september the county remains optimistic that they can weather the fall out from the fall in property tax revenue although the exact drop off is hard to predict for the two thousand and seven through two thousand a tax year the county anticipates receiving thirty eight point one million and property taxes representing eighty six percent of the counties just discretionary revenue as much as sixty six percent of discretionary revenues is for the public safety including money for sheriff and jail expenses the district attorney's office and other expenses the property in the county is still assessed at well below market value according to supervisor john spencer because many people bought their homes a long time ago two thousand and five county supervisors began setting money above the project projected six to seven percent growth rate aside and the general purpose reserves and kissed the market fell flat said joe crystal deputy county executive officer we could weather roughly ten percent of the downturn kristof's all said world news today and washington the bush administration and new york agreed saturday on a compromise creating a more secure driver's license for u s citizens and allowing illegal immigrants to get a version new york is the fourth state to reach such an agreement after arizona from aren't in washington the issue is pressing for border states where new entire rules are soon to go into effect for crossings to deal comes about one month after new york governor eliot spitzer and else to plan whereby illegal immigrants with a valid foreign passport could obtain a license their agreement with the homeland security department will create a three tier lives and system in new york the largest state to sign on so far to the government sponsored ten or eleven effort to make identification cards more secure spitzer who has face much credit thinks much criticism on the issue said the deal means new york washer in the most secure licensing system in the nation homeland security secretary michael ch said he was not happy that the new yorker intended to issue ids to illegal immigrants but he said there was nothing you could do to stop it i don't endorse giving licenses to people who are not here illegally but federal law does not allow states to make that the license will meet new federal standards of the real i d act a law designed to make it much harder for illegal immigrants or would be terrorists to obtain licenses a third type of license will be available to undocumented immigrants  has said this idea will make the state more secure by bringing those people out of the shadows and into american society and by learning lowering auto insurance rates new york has between five hundred thousand and one million undocumented immigrants many of whom are driving without a license and car insurance or with fake driver's licenses spitzer in september when he announced his executive order said the ministration has not finalized standards for real i d compliant divers arsons license of the u s attempts to mediate peace in the region plunging into the diplomatic analysts and sticking out the major players responsible for both successes and failures she's trying to egypt the first between the jewish state and arab nation carter has been a vocal critic of the bush administration's middle east policies and wrote a recent book called palestine peace not a  either she has reached out to include former secretaries of state henry kissinger and james baker and to a one time u s peace negotiators like dennis ross who played a key role in the clinton administration and then ministration of former president george  readings and conversations or discuss any conclusion she may have drawn from them but he noted that rice especially given her background as an academic has intense interest in studying the past diplomacy for clues about what might work as a n meeting approaches we view the situation as quote qualitatively different than it has been the history moves on people change roles situations mccormick said that said you can take that lesson of history and apply them he it should contain a timeline for progress and eventual negotiations the israelis want the statement to be as vague as possible while the palestinians are pushing for deadlines and specific references to the key issues in the conflict among them wednesday with indecent exposure which is honest in the criminal complaint against mccullough says he was discovered and public questioned by an agent for the u s immigration and customs enforcement agency which is one of the federal agencies that rent space in the hotch warrant against mccullough has an outstanding warrant and some but the reason for that weren't was not immediately clear hamilton said he was still in jail friday morning and it wasn't clear if he had an attorney call is criminal record includes a two thousand block of idaho maryland road police can contacted the woman and took a report at three hundred him a woman from one hundred block of highland corey reported a twenty six year old man has made threats to kill her and he was attempting to purchase a gun p contacted the woman and turman threats against her were heard by another person the woman and her family were advised of the restraining order process and police told her to contact them as she was contacted by the man in the future  on a local warrant at ten eleven pm a caller from the olympic park road in certain way reported a bearded man wearing glasses was hanging a back up on the optometrists sign and talking about doing something to the business at nine a thursday goose contacted sarah fifty nine year old man and arrested him on suspicion of drunken driving eleven forty three p m please stop the car in the thousand block of east main street and arrested the female passenger on suspicion of being under the influence man and a woman were fighting in a parking lot it really took a report for battery and transporting the man to placer county and i'm forty four p m a woman from the eleven thousand block of northfield drive reported a person came to her house to sell a household cleaner the woman gave the person a check for hundred twenty five dollars the person left without handing over the cleaner the woman said she stopped payment on the check and she would call back if she received the printer on thursday at one forty six p my caller from ported to vehicle went into a ditch on any drive and about it your nation district sign was damaged about a city police department on wednesday at nine fifty a m police arrested a person on the three hundred block of