county schools could reap as much as eight hundred thousand dollars extra each year simply by ensuring students show up to class with this school district struggling to find money to pay for teachers and keep programs intact a new game plan is being launched to make sure the students are in accounting because state payments to schools are paid to the average daily attendance that increase could raised at least six hundred fifty thousand and as much as eight hundred thousand dollars flyers banners newsletters will be sent to each of the county's ten school districts encouraging parents to ensure their children go to school each day when they're healthy each girl parent teacher club will be informed of the program as well the campaign cost fifteen hundred dollars wor fifteen hundred dollars matched by the nevada county superintendent of schools a single absence of one student cost districts about thirty seven dollars a day rota group estimated one percent increase in intended to grass valley schools for example means an extra seventy thousand dollars more than enough to pay teachers it's unprecedented the cuts we're going through have said rudiger this is a way to increase funding and student learning this is a way for parents to help us out grass valley school district as rewarding parents and students who make the effort to have their children sure to class each month that hennessy school for example you pancake breakfast is held to celebrate students with perfect attendance program and to teach parents that in eleven am dentist appointment doesn't have to mean a full day of school missed the school child must miss the day parents are encouraged to take children to class first and children are counted as present in the school can collect a daily attendance money it's just better for the kids to be in school it's better for the achievement rudiger said we have wonderful teachers who are working hard and parents to feel bad about the cuts this is a very doable this is very doable for them more on the antioch investigators are working tuesday to examine one small bone fragment found on the property next door to the home of the man charged with kidnapping the little girl and i dinner in his backyard for eighteen years dora has revealed the discovery after in the san francisco bay area finished combing phillip garrido's property and antioch in one next door for possible links to unsolved crimes in area fifty eight and his wife nancy fifty four were arrested last week and charged with twenty nine coun connected to kidnapping rape and imprisonment of jaycee lee dugard who was snatched outside her own when south lake tahoe nine hundred ninety one they have pleaded not guilty the bone fragment was found sunday in the next door neighbor's backyard so contra costa county sheriff's department spokesman jim usually greedo want to lived on that property in a shed never said he wanted to work as the property character now doubt an elderly man who lived there several years ago he said it would take several weeks of testing to determine if the recovered charred shard belonged to an animal or human investigators recover several other pieces of evidence during the four days they spent searching the two parcels with charles and cat ever cadaver sniffing dogs and contra costa county authorities have not provided many details about what they're seeking at the properties in relation to other cases the land included backyard compound of tents and sheds were greeted his wife allegedly had dinner and her two daughters now eleven and fifteen fathered by a radio police in a nearby city of pittsburgh hours have said that they are investigating whether greedo who served over ten years in federal prison for raping and kidnapping in nevada woman in one nine hundred seventy six was involved in murders of prostitutes in the nine hundred ninety s always looking for a way to get away greta is victim in the rape case katie callaway hall said during an interview on larry king live monday that she was scared and distressed when she found out he was paroled from prison eight under the terms of this fifteen year life sentence she thought the soon as he could get out was two thousand and six callaway hall said that when guerriero surfaced last week in dugard kidnapped and she traveled for hours with relief and anger the only thing i can think of worse than what happened to me is it happening to my child she wrote in a blog that accompanied the television interview you can't imagine what jaycee is going through you had me for eight hours and you had her pretty teen years i was an adult with an instinct to help me deal with the situation she was a child this is going to be with her for the rest of her life i can only wish you the best another woman from greta's past also came forward with a harrowing tale christine murphy said she was we didn't have anything remotely was closely to these people camping said we can tell you several thousands of people that didn't the secret so they go read a home surfaced early last week when greta arrived for a meeting with his parole officer with his wife dugard now twenty nine and the two girls who are you say he confessed to snatching degree in one thousand nine hundred one over the years camping  he made a point of calling diverge mother every year on david's birthday he was the one who called to give her the news that her daughter was alive and he was present last week when they were reunited it was very emotional seeing both of them were just overjoyed to be with each other again he said there's going to be a period of adjustment no doubt but they're going they're doing very well at this point and the two daughters are probably as happy as jaycee is to be part of this family as well and that chop gun jumped a fence two fifty one p m a caller from business and six hundred block of freeman lane reported a man possibly had embezzled from a business he was arrested on suspicion of investment four hundred five pm a call from certain way reported a vehicle rolled out of the parking lot down an embankment landed on its roof vehicle was unoccupied by twenty three p m caller from rattlesnake road reported a man lying on the side of the road when the caller went to assist him the man jumped up and said he just scored the winning touchdown for the raiders and my coach told me to pretend like i did not know seven p m the color from three hundred block of east main street ported door knobs had been tampered with and required extra patrol winning christmas decorations were stolen from the front of a garage during the night one twenty three p m a man from fifteen thousand block of retrack way reported eighteen horses and broken the fence and were on his property wonderfully actually counted three fifty nine pm a call from ten thousand block will drive reported physical fight it was mutual combat no charges requested ride was provided to the hospital five fifty four p m a man from fifteen thousand block shelby road reported he had been in a ten forty four pm caller from twenty thousand block a woodpecker raveena road reported ongoing burglaries to cabins over the last few months eleven fifty five p m caller from eleven thousand block of glen meadow drive reported people walking around the area with a flashlight husband was chasing suspects from a burglary committed earlier in the week of be on the lookout advisories issued for a small white pickup occupied with two man and a woman possibly from marysville nevada city police department  six thirty five p m one hundred five hundred block of silver ave reported her neighbor screamed at her for leaving her porch light on all night she said she left down because poop had been left on her porch friday night eight fifty nine caller from gold run school reported possible vandalism to sprinklers near the playground and monday seven thirty nine a m a woman from the one hundred block of martin street pulled her fourteen year old son was outside with no shoes and was refusing to go to school and that's it today for blo world headlines stories bomb i could expand the afghan war based on mcchrystal report cia report detailed rolls of medical professionals play torture an interim iraqi commission to probe case of innocent rendi and iran a protester beaten to death in a jail in turkey and i mean to establish diplomatic relations and holder says justice department to recharge enforcement of civil rights special election in massachusetts set for report called for overall u s war strategy in afghanistan could form the basis on which president obama decides to send more troops to fight a classified assessment submitted by mcchrystal on monday did not request additional u s troops but officials and analysts said it  groundwork for such a great question coming weeks michael o'hanlon of the book brookings institution said we're going to have to find some additional resources in other ways and that may mean more afghan troops it may mean more nato troops from other countries or it may also mean more americans the u s currently has about sixty five thousand soldiers in afghanistan more than half of whom have been deployed since president obama took office in january august was the deadliest month of the war in u s troops since the invasion of afghanistan almost eight years ago in the first eight months of this year hundred eighty two u s personnel have died compared with one hundred fifty five during all of two thousand and eight a new report by physicians for human rights has found that physicians and psychologist a greater role than previously understood indeed sanny implementing and legitimizing the bush administration's torture program the recently declassified cia inspector general report detailed how medical professionals collected data on the reactions of prisoners to encourage waterboarding which approach an ethical unlawful human input experimentation visit physicians and human rights is calling for the health professionals who have violated ethical standards or the law to be held accountable for criminal prosecution loss of license and loss of professional society membership reporting that a young man died from abuse by iranian prison authorities in the wake of a post election unrest in the iranian government had originally claimed twenty five year old most known meaning had died from meningitis last month a state forensic doctor rights division by restoring the divisions focus on voting rights housing employment bank lending practices and a redistricting after the two thousand and ten census as part of this shift the obama administration is planning a major revival of high impact civil rights enforcement policies in areas ranging from housing to hiring massachusetts governor deval patrick has said general nineteenth for the state's first ever special elections to fill senator edward kennedy's turn ended to twenty twelve patrick also backed a proposal to appoint an interim successor to the seat and move that would help democrats retain a critical margin for the senate the governor said let me be clear i hold a supports a special elections in the democratic process to build remaining two years of senator kennedy's term but i will continue to work with the legislature  legislation authorizing the internal apartment to the united states senate for the five months until the special election happens california governor arnold schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency in four counties as wildfires continue to and southern california fires drive more than fifty buildings and burned through more than one hundred five thousand acres in the mountainous brush might be trick of the u s forest service said the coming days remain treacherous told the los angeles times this is a very angry fire until we  change in the weather conditions i'm not overly optimistic the fire is headed just about anywhere it wants in london twelve activist good their hands to the floor of the royal bank of scotland headquarters in protest of the bank's investment in fossil fuel projects the actors were taking part in a weeklong climate camp that has been holding a series of demonstrations across london this week in west virginia to anti mining activists were arrested monday after that ended a week long treece it actually forced review the conqueror's of federal court ruling that will allow more mountaintop removal coal mining petition was filed by the earth justice and appalachian center for the economy and the environment and other environmental news new evidence has  merged linking natural gas drilling to drinking water contamination pro publica reports federal officials in wyoming have found at least three water wells contained chemicals used in natural gas drilling processes of hydraulic fracturing the wyoming study marks the first on the e p a has undertaken its own water analysis in response to complaints of contamination in drilling areas residents and pavel on wyoming have complained for years that their water wells turned sour and reek of fuel vapors shortly after drills to switch from the can that can incandescent bulbs to more efficient ones will bring energy saving to twenty five to seventy five percent compared to traditional bulbs and in vermont to states new law allowing same sex marriage has gone into effect several couples married shortly after midnight vermont is one of the five states and now allows same sex couples to marry massachusetts connecticut new hampshire and iowa are the others to mark the occasion vermont based ben and jerry's ice cream is renaming their chubby hubby flavored to  to keep this information as current as possible however the information provided should be verified through taking any action once each suspect has a picture  dixon dickenson takes twenty seven grass valley burglary threats felony bail thirty five thousand