in a union story written by a tree nickel ice nevada county firefighters gain control over a structure fire about half hour after the blaze was called in at eleven o six a m friday by a captain and nellie burley who of grass valley interagency commander center said the fire had engulfed about a quarter of a detached garage that stands two hundred feet from the main house  road the fire appears to have started in the area of the wonder him which is connected to the garage and which contained a propane tank and the vatican consolidated fire protection district firefighters said a line from the tank to the clothes dryer may have leaked to start the blaze the fire fire added the firefighters from grass valley in about a city hagan's pin valley and over a hill fire departments were on the scene along with those from consolidated and another story from union from the union by laura brown the arizona and arizona man was arrested at gun point early sunday morning outside of nevada city after he was found behind the home where he had attempted a burglary the attempted theft in the quiet neighborhood just outside of the city limits is the latest holiday season robbery case the residents in the eleven thousand block of pittsburgh mine road were home at the time of the break in and call the county sheriff's office when they heard what sounded like a brick thrown threw down this window said sheriff's office lieutenant shannon moon it was pretty fortunate the homeowners called moon said william odom thirty four a dishwasher from mara moran a arizona is being held on a twenty five thousand dollars bail at the county jail for fellow felony charges of brutally forty five deputies in the sheriff's office responded along with two officers from nevada city police department they formed the perimeter around the quiet neighborhood until the suspect was found in the dark forest behind the house he had entered pittsburgh mine road is located between banner lava cab angled flat road they initially detained him again points to make sure he wasn't armed him and said odom apparently had cut holes in the window screens to enter the house it sounded like the initial call came because the residence heard something thrown through the window and said there were some items located just outside the house no other individuals appeared to be connected to the crime and no other homes in the neighborhood were broken into as far as investigators can tell sheriff's deputies fingerprinted and photographed the interior of the residence the incident is still under investigation and it is unclear if the burglaries if other burglaries during the holidays are related and december twentieth a woman on lytton lane reported her checkbook a computer and all the presents under her christmas tree were stolen on december twenty second an estimated ten thousand dollars worth a big screen televisions d v d players and power tools were solon in an early morning raid of a sears warehouse and grass valley we have not been able to connect anything certainly during the holiday season we have had other burglaries in and said and another story written by laura brown and nineteen year old man was arrested this weekend after he allegedly destroyed fifty mailboxes with his collar nely wildwood student mobile alabama mobile alabama was arrested for charges of felony vandalism at three fifteen a m saturday and released and released his bail was set for ten thousand dollars he was suspected of doing this with his vehicle and moving them over said lieutenant shannon and security guards at the gate a gated community had some video surveillance of some of the damage estimated at eight thousand to ten thousand dollars and said crush mailboxes were seen along lake wildwood drive sheffield drive during the weekend according to one resident who is also is a security officer there by sunday afternoon signs of the destruction were sent scant except for a few propped up mailboxes according to one resident last month about a dozen south county residents woke up to find their mailboxes smashed by what appeared to be a baseball bat chunks of concrete and rocks others reported having their car key and hit by a paint balls vandalizing mailbox is considered a federal crime and is punishable by a fine and as many as three years in prison at one fifty three a m saturday lake wildwood security called the nevada county sheriff's office to say they believe they have located the suspect vehicle near the main gate according to the dispatch records gil was apprehended when he attempted to get back into lake wildwood and said in another story in the union written by liz keller a twenty two year old rough and ready man died in a solo vehicle collision saturday in placer county michael just seen morris and was driving westbound in forest hill road west of baltimore on mine road at about forty five miles per hour ten twenty five p m december twenty ninth when for an unknown reason he left the housing prices nevada county still lacks affordable homes for many working class people but three local men have joined forces to meet the need though they are still perfecting their philosophy and about accounting finance or a builder and a realtor have come together to build a smaller homes with and with an accent on energy saving design and materials the first home recently funded by greg zoller built by jerry van hearing hair engine and marketed by toll sold for three hundred forty thousand on you bet road they now are building another twelve hundred square foot home in the rough and ready and are hoping to charge three hundred thousand for three bedrooms two bathrooms a kitchen and eating area didn't utility room an attached garage perceiving it's all about survival and in a brave new world in two thousand and four in two thousand and five everything sold seeding said today only five or six percent of the county's inventory sells in a month and back then it was thirty percent the question is do you want to be part of that five percent and the answer is yes in the past years all or any van hearing her engine would build a home and turn it into over to turn it over to real estate agent who had nothing to do with it with its planning these days and dan harrington bring c v in out to the house while it's still under construction to tell them what might be changed or added to make it more marketable and in normal time the buzzword is location location location but now it's price in condition and you have to be superior with the conditions even said people want energy efficiency with the cost of energy going up and we're marketing that solar industry people have told see being the homes with solar systems often sell quickly which is what the team is looking for an investor i have to run things tight to to be ready if the market moves zoller said mansions aren't offering us anything anymore but that they're too big and consume amounts of too much energy these are simple solid homes that are highly energy efficiency all added the single most effective difference in making the houses energy efficient is windows the homes are designed w eleven percent of the space and smaller windows as opposed to about twenty percent in most homes because windows let more heat out of the house than anything else the garage and utility room of the home are being built with will not be heated i asked he will also be using special light bulbs that last twice as long as fluorescent bulbs throughout the house we're planning to put a solar air heater in this house seller said along with the solar water heater the men will also offer a solar package if the buyer wants to include it some of these things are designed things like not having to having the overhangs come out over the windows fan hearings here engine said at a dollar there's a lot of opportunity after the economy did it did we don't think it will come back the way it was to contact zoller and learn more about the homes he and his partners are selling call him at two six five two three four five to remote control and a clock from the inside of their car and at three thirteen p m caller in a three hundred block of certain way reported the sept of medications from their house caller said that guests took medications and other county sheriff's office wednesday nine fifty eight am he caller in a thirty dollars black breast circle said that someone showed up at their home in the morning demanding one hundred dollars payment on an american bulldog the caller said that no payment was due the dog was given to the c court reported that they heard six shots fired in a five four five am a call from the eleven thousand block of mars john wrote said that their son was sleepwalking and was trying to break down a door that he was foaming at the mouth they at eighty one in our first story israeli war planes and helicopters have attacked the gaza strip for the third day that role more than three hundred ten palestinians have been killed since saturday fourteen hundred have been wounded saturday was the deadliest day gaza since israel's occupation threaten to launch a ground invasion on israel troops in texas to move on the border on sunday israel's cabinet called five hundred reserve forces overnight israel's warplanes bombed gaza's interim ministry and islamic university of gaza city separate israel bombing killed four young palestinian girls from the same family palestinian officials say at least twenty two children have been killed more than two hundred thirty five children have been wounded since saturday israel says attacks are necessary to order to stop hamas from firing rockets into southern israel earlier today one israel died from  community for foreign rockets into israel also said excuse me i cannot accept something like we call both sides to halt the violence or to stop notes or action there is no both sides in this there's one designated terrorist organization which controls gaza strip which spreads its agenda of internationally and regionally campaigned for so she can commit to this holocaust and this massacre this is public massacre of our palestinian people in gaza all the casualties and police men women children elderly and civilians on saturday exiled political leader of hamas to lead michel called for a third in for time into fatah or uprising against israelis forces hospital officials in gaza say they are overwhelmed by the number of casualties hospitals have been unable to get  the needed medical supplies to gaza strip more than a year because of the israeli blockade protest against israel attacks have been held throughout the arab world europe and united states united nations security council sunday issued a non binding statement calling for immediate halt to all violence in the gaza strip and for israel to open the border crossing for aid supplies never injure reeky u n security council president said members of the council called for all parties to address the serious humanitarian and economic ne and to take necessary measures including opening all border crossings to ensure the continuous provision of humanity and supplies including supplies for food fuel and provisions of medical treatment here in the united states republican and democratic these people are nothing but ducks israel is going to defend its peoples against terrorism like hamas the jerusalem post reports israel air force has been using a new u s made bunker buster missile to attack in gaza earlier this year congress allowed bush administration to the test showed elevated levels of lead and they want him in the water near the prince you know environmental protection agency reports of very high levels of arsenic were found and water samples collected from the affected area and that several heavy metals have also been found in quantities slightly above the drinking water afghanistan to its border in india in east pakistan officials told the nerve damage they have received intelligence that's just india could soon arch an attack inside pakistan pakistani troops have been reportedly sent near the bone boundary that separates pakistan he and indian controlled kashmir as well as areas surrounding lahore about twenty miles from the border with india tension between the two nucular on rival to has been mounted since last month's deadly attack in mumbai where which india blamed on pakistani militants meanwhile in afghanistan fourteen children died sunday after a suicide bomber blew himself up near an afghan primary school presence of somalia's un backed government resigned today saying he had lost control of country to islamic insurgents of doula use of announced his resignation on a nationwide radio broadcast and said most of the country is not in our hands after seeing all these things i have to be quick and in brazil new questions about his involvement were raised in a documentary film they killed sister dorothy stang spent thirty years in brazil trying to prevent tragedies from take taking the land of poor amazon so in domestic news the working post reports at least thousand states have made cuts to medicaid benefits the government health insurance program for the poor state from florida to california have lowered payments to hospital and nursing homes and eliminated coverage from as much some treatment and for some recipients out of the insurance program completely many of the states are holding payments for services not required by the federal government such as physical therapy eyeglasses hearing aids and hospice care federal health officials set minimum rules about who can enroll in what care must be covered but the states are free to add to the  a new study has found teenage years who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are likely to less likely to have premature marital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth katyn dawson who is long time member of that white only country club in south carolina and a noble prize money british playwright harold pinter died wednesday at the age of seventy eight the new york times described him as the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation purges best known plays a good birthday party the caretaker and the homecoming and the singer and actress eartha kitt has died at the age of eighty one she was blacklisted in one thousand sixty eight after she spoke out against the vietnam war at the white house munch and hosted by lady bird johnson when johnson asked her about the vietnam war to report you see on the best of this country ought to be shot and maimed the rebel in the street they don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be your first shot and being first lady reportedly burst into tears for four years afterwards kid performed almost exclusively overseas and was investigated by the f b i and cia as a kid said my greatest challenge was to be able to survive a business and to be able to survive according to what i was doing not according to what others people were doing and therefore i just got stuck in my own good i just stuck to my own guns and i think that one of the ways i have survived is that i didn't follow th