local merchants auction every local merchant can have an online store or shopping presence the grand opening launches in february nevada county mall that com or shopping locally is the smart choice in a union story by david the folks that makes lumber are doing their best to rebuild business during a down economy after laying off for employees last month the lumber yard and hardware store is recognizing that times are definitely tough they could be getting tougher like local competitors lumber company and beans each year value hardware which also have laid off employees in the past year and  that they now also face a new home depot store opened earlier this year in auburn so meeks manager dean crucial and his twenty or so remaining employees at the store in nevada city highway down from forty in two thousand of are shutting their focus as the market changes from one driven by new construction to one driven by home upgrades and remodeling makes traditionally has focused on serving the general contractor eliminates estimates that seventy percent of the store's business comes from professional builders involved in new construction in the past it was a great grade to a new home cruz said now it's upgrade what you have that means more customers are focusing on remodelling projects which traditionally have lower profit margin than all inclusive services means provides the store has outside sales consultants who work with contractors to help them with the building materials and hardware for home from footings to finish work these days the customer walking in the door is more likely to do it yourself customer than a licensed contractor the grass valley store is part of a chain of forty one stores in california missouri and arkansas owned by descendants of charles meek we're just trying to stay competitive if it's a come if it's a customer with a specific request we do what we can we have what i feel is a loyal following said cruz thirty who has worked at that store for nine years chris tries to match a competitor's price on an item a clerk asked if they would match the price on a twelve foot two for farm and ranch use and he said he said he would for one hundred seventy nine dollars we're definitely a relationship driven business i think we're going to pull out of it and they'll do it with familiar touches like free coffee first names and old popcorn machine that keeps the waiting customers happy while their load of lumber is filled in union story by liz keller grass valley police detective colin nelson with keeping a close eye on the qadri of investigators going over a crime scene set up behind the fire station number two on sierra college  they had witnesses to question or where they actually were they actually perpetrators they had shell casings and blood spatter to mark they had an s u v to dust for fingerprints they had bodies to find we have a classic what happened and who done it nelson said the thirty plus students working in four groups on two crime scenes were at the fire station recently for citizen police academy and this year the grass valley police department did something a little different the cademy was just five weeks long and focused on crime scene investigation it's a community outreach we also have been trying to make you volunteer all volunteers for the academy volunteers who have attended the had me have a better understanding of the functions of the police department and gets to know some of the officers the graduates will be presented with such as the kids at tuesday's city council meeting finding the body during the last class the students got to apply what they learned at the mock crime scene a carjacking scenario the driver picked up a buddy and came up here he said he got into a scuffle with the victim in the back seat and he gets cut whew winds up shooting her then gets back in the friend when the cop shows up he takes off after firing at the op sees passenger reaching for a gun he can go after the driver but this scenario was kept a complete mystery to the purchaser parents the premise was to have them be really confused when they got after all he said police officers often show up at the scene of a crime and have to figure out what happened we didn't want to hand them everything on a golden platter and we had to set it up to look like an officer involve shooting as they continue along they see blood loops their dead body in the car ideally the investigators would check the victim's id and the car registered registration which would provide a hint as to the scenario blood on the ground and on the victim's hands provided more clues nelson gave each class several potential suspects which they cross referenced with the fingerprints they lifted from the s u v if they collected the right evidence they would identify who the suspect was and figure out exactly what happened or at least come very close all for good participants identify the suspect but only one group came close to figuring out the whole scenario i put a lot out there there was three shell casings of the lighting wasn't the best there was blood splatter everywhere and i was showing them how to collect fingerprints so they didn't get into searching the car it finally dawned on them wait there's someone back here it was so much fun said participants in the griffin i think my favorite part was being able to lift up fingerprints off the vehicle and identify the suspect i've always been fascinated with crime scene investigation especially looking for evidence i think felt very fortunate to be able to participate her group of investigators should have asked a lot more questions we were able to figure out what crime actually happened we had come up with ideas but we needed to ask a lot more questions she said there is a lot involved and a lot more than just going out and lifting fingerprints bruce johnson grass valley detectives steve johnson's uncle was taking that as the citizen police academy for the third time prompted by his desire to learn more about how the police department works until it took this class i was a c s i junkie but now i realized ninety five percent of what's on t v is bogus now johnson says he has a better understanding of the inner workings of law enforcement during the five week sessions speakers from the f b i discussed d n a evidence high tech crime am such as identity theft and fingerprinting nevada county assistant district attorney and the ferguson laid out courtroom procedures and kim  from the sheriff's office discussed her work as a sketch artist the final class was putting what we supposedly learned into practice i got into changing the way i was looking at the scene my thought process changed i got caught up in the action and did my best to follow what i remembered that's right stunt for the police blotter pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only sammy grass valley police department on tuesday night seventeen am from highway twenty at courtney road reported a man driving a white ford explorer was smoking marijuana and then gave it to a female passenger the man was cited and released on suspicion of one four six zero one ten or nine a young woman from three hundred  block of north star place reported possible identity theft ten fourteen a m a caller from fowler center bus stop reported a man was harassing people and kicking objects around twelve fifty two portage on the mall and at two thirty three p m a woman from three hundred block of north church street reported noise to keep her daughter awake all night the people at the property agreed to try to keep it down circling the house when nobody was home then leaving as soon as someone returned home five fifty one p m a man from the four hundred block of french avenue reported his daughter gave money to a fraudulent account to buy a dog at work saying he wanted money that her husband ost him and at seven twenty four p m a caller from richmond hughes wrote reported an elderly man walking in the middle of the road seven fo p m a man from three hundred block of sutton way reported that juveniles swindled his daughter and wednesday twelve thirty am he called from the twenty four hundred block of ridge road reporting two boys and two girls were walking in possibly breaking items and at five forty five a m a call from taylorsville road reported a person rub it in through trash nevada county sheriff's office on tuesday at eight fifteen a m caller from twenty three cell block of rolling hills court reported the area was let out of the vehicles tires and i did forty seven a m a woman from the one thousand ten thousand block of north ponderous way for forty p m cola from thirteen thousand block of pascali road imported someone took a hammer to a vehicle sometime within the last week and at five twenty p m a caller from the twenty thousand block of brewer road reported someone selling stak out of a vehicle another color reported six twenty one p m that someone was selling meat out of the back of a black pickup truck and found twenty seven p m i went from the ten thousand blankets last drive reported cash was stolen from  and a five thirty six p m a man from the ten thousand block of luna drive reported two dogs were in his chicken pen and it killed his chickens and eleven fifty six p m a man from fifty thousand block of highway twenty reported his father had just beat him up and was leaving the residence and went straight for twenty one a m a call from the sixteen thousand block of nellie show lane reported loud vehicles and loud music and six forty representative waters in a distance bill to end minimum drug sentencing and new mexico in financial markets to three trillion and increase of fifty percent that's right fifty percent the new mortgage securities purchase will account for more than half of the new spending so at seven hundred fifty billion not top about five hundred billion  to hand out one hundred sixty five million in bonuses after receiving its hundred seventy billion dollars taxpayer bailout treasury secretary timothy geithner says he didn't know until last week and only told white house officials two days after finding out but t o edward liddy said government officials were informed three months ago the washington post reports treasury was told at least one month ago libby meanwhile also defended the bonuses saying that they were you central to distasteful to have to make these payments but we concluded that the rest of the company and therefore the financial system and economy were right and except the police hi larry says he asked for a few hundred a r g executives and employees to give back at least half of the extra pay but refused to give details on who is keeping their bonuses he is also facing questions on billions of dollars in taxpayer money he used to repay other financial firms poor little he's get stuck in the middle making a dollar a year and he didn't even start this but getting our ways around in those days back before leading questions meanwhile are also surrounding the treasury officials lawmakers for political maneuvering that effectively authorized the executive bonuses with the passage of the stimulus bill last month democratic senator ron wyden said he introduced a provision that would be forced bailout recipients to cap bonuses at one hundred thousand and tax those exceeding it at thirty five percent the measure passed through senate but was n he says he would have wouldn't have done so had he known it would have allowed the bonuses at aig g e courses is his second story his first story was even anything about as the controversy over the payments grown t government backed mortgage giants fannie mae has announced plans to get four top protective sleaze one million dollars in what it calls retention bonuses the bonuses are being added out admit spanish requests for some fifteen billion in government meanwhile a new york judge has ordered to disclosure of employee bonuses paid out at merrill lynch just before bank of america bought them out in the government backed deal the ruling came in new york attorney general andrew cuom attempt to subpoena several top merrill lynch executives who were each paid more than ten million in cash and stock overall merrill lynch added out over three billion in bonuses just before bank of america deal for its part bank america has received forty five billion in government it's almost become a comedy meanwhile at the white house president obama invoked controversy surrounding the a g to call for charges to the financial system and he said as we get out of this crisis as we work towards getting ourselves out of recession i hope that wall street and the marketplace don't think that we can return to business as usual the business models that created a lot of paper wealth but not real wealth in this country and have now resulted in crisis can't be the model for economic growth going forward oh well i guess we have to get rid of the monetary system because that's how it works so i guess again them watch obama later travel to california for a tour of promote his economic stimulus plan speaking at a town hall style event in costa mesa obama said he takes responsibility for the g controversy president obama said i know washington is all in a tizzy and everybody's pointing fingers at each other and saying it's their fault the democrats fault republicans fault listen i'll take responsibility i'm the president so we didn't draft contracts and we've got a lot of our on our plate but it is appropriate when you're in charge to make sure this stuff doesn't happen like this so we're going to do everything we can to fix it like maybe read it before it was passed there might help the iraqi government has ended a further concessions for international oil corporations are pretty in iraq on wednesday iraq's oil minister told opec gathering in vienna that vienna friends who are here have that iraq will consider granting foreign companies to share in oil products production profits rather than the current system of receiving fixed fees earlier combatant jailed in the united states mari has been held in isolation at the naval brig in south carolina for more than five years he has never stood trial or been convicted of any crime the obama administration charged him last month to avoid supreme court aaron challenges indefinite jailing mari won't be transferred to peoria illinois for an arraignment hearing on monday and back at capitol hill a bipartisan group of senators is voicing support for obama administration plan to increase u s contributions to international monetary officials senator john kerry said we are convinced that the i m f needs to have additional funding secretary getting or has made a proposal for additional funding all great glad he's thinking about it i speak for myself and i say that i support that i think it is essential ingredient of our ability to send a message regarding stability and regarding our prepare yes to help countries faces the banking challenges and the consumer and food challenges that we face across the globe it's unclear what kind of condition recipient nations would face for accepting the new i m f aid african leaders are warning of renewed conflict of their continent if they're not a during the global economic meltdown we're going to have next month the g twenty summit several african officials issued stark warnings on the consequences of price drops in africa goods wasa tourist and a sharp reduction in foreign remittances the head of the african development bank donald can baracoa said the potential fallout from the global economic crisis is an emergency in africa the justice department has confirmed plans to end the bush administration's policy of raiding distribute distributors of medical marijuana on wednesday attorney general eric holder said drug law enforcement would be restricted to traffickers falsely posing as medical dispensaries under bush medical  were ready to even if they complied with state law meanwhile democrat congress member maxine waters house and against a bill to end mandatory minimum sentences in drug related cases the major drug trafficking prosecution act would repeal mandatory minimum sentences and grant judge's discretion to determine sentences a new mexico has become the fifteenth state to outlaw the death penalty on wednesday governor bill richardson signed a bill barring capital punishment following the approval in a state legislator so later new mexico is the second state to end the death penalty since the supreme court restored it in one nine hundred seventy six and there you have it for our world news today i'd like to thank him a good man of the union and associated press for the sourcing of news and thank you for watching and i hope to see you tomorrow or monday