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 for shopping locally is the smart choice damaged by a fire that is believed to have started on the back porch firefighters from grass valley and about a county consolidated fire departments where dispatched to fight the blaze at six forty three a m the bla collapsed part of the roof and left a charred mess of belongings which were strewn in front of the house lawn sunday afternoon the cause of the fire at six seventy eight south street was still under investigation and the homes three occupants were able to get out of the home an injured and were being provided temporary shelter by western nevada county chapter of the american red cross the fire spread quickly to the homes attic which eventually led to the heart of the roof collapsing said grass valley police sergeant steve johnson by the time fire crews arrived johnston said the home was fully engulfed in flames one witness who lived a few houses away said he smelled smoke as early as five a before noticing flames to fight the fire south auburn street from empire street to whiting street was closed to allow emergency crews to bring fire trucks in a husband and wife who returned home their fifteen year old daughter were home at the time of the blaze according to the home's owner bill dane who did not identify the occupants of the home by name there were no injuries reported  charge debris from the homes living room through the open windows living had purchased the home just one year ago and had installed new windows doors appliances plumbing and structural material to the home which of which was originally bill in one thousand thirty six with the dane said he would work to rebuild the home obviously it will need a whole new roof i don't need to rebuild the whole thing but it's going to be a lot of work he says melted computer equipment and charred pictures were placed on the front lawn with most of the homes other belongings covered by a large tarp another story in the union written by j there's always an upside and then upside down economy oh no i've always an upside to an upside down economy and the upside for plaza tire and auto service is that people will always need to drive and if they can afford a new  they'd better take care of the one they have that's where the fifty year old locally owned and operated out of service company threads first opened in one thousand nine hundred eighty plus a tire and out of service was purchased by fred and virginia hauser in one nine hundred seventy eight fred was an executive with sears and bay area and decided he'd had enough of the rat race in the bay area and in the bay area twenty years and two new locations later the couple would pass the company to their sons mike and mike mike and i are two different people says younger brother mark hauser who can be found most days in the nevada city location that by three one settles avenue mike runs the books and he handles the people mark is really a mechanically inclined he can fix anything says mike hauser who spends most of his days at pin valley location one seven three one seven pin valley j m or two of an administ the ministry of type mike hauser attended college at california state university hayward where he earned a business degree and went to work out of college for the crocker bank as a management trainee but my parents really needed me here working on the book so i made the move keys to success according to the brothers it's simple great employees a great service and great community stewardship we are a complete auto repair business says mark hauser who also is president of nevada county joint unified high school and union high school district board and has been announcing the bad it union high school football games for a decade or so we cover all aspects of vehicle maintenance plus the tire and auto employees thirty five people in employees thirty five people in their nevada city in valley and colfax locations we have some wonderful homegrown employees who best thing about our business is our staff continued mike hauser they ran the place they are connected to the community and the customers most of whom are on first name basis it's not about managers anymore it's about the front line employees who handle our customers we empower them to make decisions to solve customer problems the company can complete with any national can compete with any national company on price things and it's a large part to its membership in a group that includes thirty thousand in the pennant leone shops i warranties are better and are more are more exclusive than our direct competitors we meet the our best our most of our competitors prices the two brothers were and handed their father's company when we started it was pretty much just the family my hauser recalls we worked our tree tails off all day and then dragged our butts home in the evening and started all over again in the morning i remember the parking lot filled with logging trucks meeting new tires wondering when we'd ever get done the nevada county district attorney's office announced today that jerry  twenty in grass valley was sentenced to prison by judge robert tammy eddie in early two thousand and eight delgado was convicted of marshall berkeley car theft and threatening a police officer when he was initially sentence just last june the corps allowed filled out o to go to the salvation army for drug rehabilitation as an alternative to prison a program he walked away from last fall on friday delgado was sentenced to two years and eight months  california department of corrections deputy district attorney catherine francis says it's a shame when a young person makes such a mess of his life that prison incomes are only way to keep the public call his vehicle and then that there would followed into a parking lot and were prepared in by several vehicles seven fifty nine a m a caller near the intersection or empress and newtown reported that there were loose c two dogs were roaming the area and barking in attempting to break people including part of reporting the incident in a poor alec ten fifty eight a m call from twelve thousand block along a record drive so they moved into a house in the previous ten padlocked a garage with new tenants belonging to inside the new tenants were advised to break the twelve thirty six pm a caller from intersection of highway one seventy four and durango drive reported that they had made contact with twelve last japanese tourists who needed help finding the bear river retreat and at five thirty two pm he percent and casco on corporate executive pay these people are getting despite economic crisis state shrink welfare rolls and our wars and our first story in afghanistan twenty one police officer who died after a suicide bombing dressed in a dress or your bomber dressed in a police uniform blew himself up inside a police training center in southern afghanistan an attack occurred in the city of  pakistan's northwest frontier province in southwestern pakistan gunmen have kidnapped american u n workers killed his driver john so lucky is the regional head of the u n high commission for refugees later this week richard holbrooke plans to make his first trip to the region as president obama's new envoy for afghanistan and pakistan and in economic news the government has reported the gross domestic product declined three point eight percent in the last quarter it was the worst contraction since nine hundred eighty two during this week leave radio address president obama said new efforts are needed to boost the economy he said soon my treasury secretary tim geithner you know the guy will announce a new strategy to reviving our financial system that gets credit flowing to businesses and families will help to lower mortgages new cars and extended loans to small businesses so they can create jobs will ensure that c e o s are not draining funds that should be advancing our recovery and we will insist on unprecedented transparency rigorous oversight in clear countability so taxpayers know where their money is being spent and whether in the city of yourselves to me it's pretty funny on capitol hill democratic senator claire mccaskill of missouri has proposed new pay limits for wall street executives casco wants any company taking federal bailout money to limit compensation for all employees to four hundred thousand dollars a year and the same salary as they're kicking sand in the face of the american taxpayer these financial institutions on the brink of extinction come to the american taxpayer for hundreds of billions of dollars which they gave them after very same time they think they're going to buy fifty million dollars corporate jet they did and they're going to pay out eighteen billion in bonuses they did that do they paid an average of two point six million to every executive in the first hundred sixteen banks that got taxpayer money under tarp no questions are being raised over how the welfare system is helping people affected in the economic crisis reporting new york times found a number of people receiving cash assistance to welfare programs is at or near the lowest in the more than forty years despite soaring unemployment hastings states cut their welfare roles roles last year many of the states hardest hit by economic crisis have made drastic cuts michigan cut its catch rolled thirteen percent rhode island for its roles by thirteen percent infrastructure to get them going to be moving in a sustainable direction and put people back to work in iraq prime minister nouri al maliki and his allies look poised for a sweeping victory in provincial polls official results will not be published for weeks but leaders of the rival shia parties acknowledge day that maliki state of law coalition appeared to be heading for a strong warning some shia areas just over half of iraq's fourteen million registered voters went to the  saturday the lowest turnout election held that since the u s led invasion tens of thousands of internally displaced iraqis were unable to cast their votes on sunday president obama said substantial number of one hundred forty thousand u s troops in iraq would be home within a year and in sri lanka at least thirty people have died after three tillery shell attacks hit an overcrowded hospital ward of mostly women and children local medical officials said the shells appeared to have been fired by the sri lankan military its red cross reports hundreds of civilians including children have been killed or wounded in fighting since last week as the sri lanka military has intensified its offensive against the separatist tamil tigers meanwhile she the government is threatening to expel foreign diplomats and agencies and journalists from the region on sunday sri lanka's defense secretary kids c n n the b b c and al jazeera have been sympathetic to the tamil tiger confirmation as secretary of health and human services is now in doubt after revelations that the former senate majority leader failed to pay one hundred twenty eight thousand dollars in back taxes until after he was nominated for the post yes you also failed to report eighty three thousand dollars in consulting income and overstated the size of some charitable deductions questions are also being raised about dishes close ties to health care for years in recent years data was paid tens of thousands of dollars to give speeches before the health industry distributors association the national association of board of pharmacy and american health insurance plan what can i say president obama is expected to nominate republican senator judd gregg of new hampshire to be commerce secretary if confirmed gregg would become the third republican in obama's cabinet if gregg left the senate new hampshire's democratic governor which would choose his replacement craig has reportedly assured fellow republicans that he would not take the job unless he was certain his replacement in the senate would line up with the g o p caucus maybe they should get you to kind of help that going around in other political news republican officials have elected former maryland lieutenant governor michael steele to be the party's next chair steele becomes the first african american to ch the republican party journeys victory speech speech steele said the republican party has an image problem and has been misidentified as a party unconcerned about minorities he also said we're going to bring this party to every corner every bedroom every neighborhood every community and we're going to say to friend and foe alike we want you to be a part of us we want you to work with us and for those who wish to obstruct get ready to get knocked over the los angeles times reports obama administration has decided not to end the controversy on policy of extraordinary rendition which gives the cia authority to abducting anyone throughout the world and secretly transfer them to another country as an illegal instrument used by the united states and israeli prime minister he would own word has threatened to use disproportionate response if palestinian militants continue to far rockets into israel on sunday one of our a casa martyrs brigade claimed responsibility for firing two rockets their group is a militant wing of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas is fatah faction meanwhile israel continues to carry out air strikes united nations top officials in gaza john king so did humanitarian situation remains dire he said it's almost two weeks since the declaration of the cease fires here gaza and i can tell you that the mood has very definitely moved from one of overwhelming grief to a persuasive sense of anger people here are of course coming to terms with their new reality tens of thousands of them have no homes anymore it's just politics and also the aid effort is hampered by lack of access john getting also accused israel of blocking humanitarian aid from entering gaza he said shamefully there are thousands of tons of aid waiting on the borders of gaza that need to be connected right now with the people here the donors have been very generous you know the operation and getting it from all over the world to this part of the world has been a success and very quick but now that we have the bottleneck and of course it has to be that the government of israel in the first instance has a fine operational solutions to get the crossing point  over the weekend president obama released twenty million dollars that's dollars on the u s emergency refugee and migration assistance fund for use in the palestinian region bombers middle east envoy george mitchell  million to provide emergency food and medical assistance to the wounded and displaced in g twenty million dollars in aid is a fraction of over the three billion the us sends annually to aid to israel what about aid to our own welfare in the united states spanish government has announced plans to amend its laws to make it harder for spanish judges to investigate torture and war crimes committed outside of spain in recent years spanish courts have investigated several prominent cases under the principle of universal jurisdiction ninety nine need to form investigation into seven current or former israeli officials ordered two thousand to bomb in gaza it killed a top hamas leader so last ship and fourteen other people including nine children israeli foreign ministry zippy livny praised spain's