in today's local news ed rogers a grass valley treats his employees as if they were family so he felt especially betrayed when the manager of his business allegedly spent more than five years and doesn't two hundred fifty thousand dollars from roger story is not uncommon in nevada county were white collar crime is on the rise due to aging population was savings to spend the better county district clifton to determine he could newell said on wednesday although rogers case is not a case of elder abuse the sting of the alleged breach of with money he earned as a local gas station foreman then cologne in september the district attorney's office judge kevin believe was lee plant manager bra just company for eight years with four counts of felony embezzlement and one count of felony fraud wisely plate pleaded not guilty to the charges in court october twenty second was lee who now works as a tow truck driver in grass valley did not return a call wednesday from the union while slowly ran the place when i wasn't here roger said we were friends was way fifty three in about a city is a charming man by all accounts who made seventy five dollars a year as a plant manager and allegedly covered up cash sales to coins illegibly build clients himself pocketed the money forge up daily report to tape it back together and it showed a cashier seat was only later turned in a similar report to the clerks but the one showed no cash was received young one said we were so upset human said it was really really needed the money and a former bookkeeper for rogers was pregnant rogers converted a conference room eddie's office into a nursery for her to use when she returned from maternity leave rogers fired was leave and hired auburn accounting firm francis  at one point in the criminal investigation officers secretly taped wellesley in rogers office allegedly many into the embezzlement was we thought if he talked to me about all this he might get his job back ri roy harper said was when he denies all the charges against him we think the investigators made a mistake harper said rogers accounting and bookkeeping is full of errors and mistakes harper said he requested a copy of the outcome of a guilty verdict but he did say his office would aggressively pursue restitution and a prison sentence i'd rather have was doing present then having him pay the money back roger said he would not do well fraud investigation could result in any criminal charges against hastert more than one hundred people have contacted police on the probe still waiting now come on this story and another story on october twenty fifth linda ball was arrested in on suspicion a follow up story it's been that grass valley city council has given away a chunk of money to an acting city administrator despite the slumping economy nowadays it seems money is no object with the city and city council as they patted mr fuld pockets with some care jumping from seventy five dollars an hour to eighty five dollars per hour at a thirteen percent increase in salary even though they say it's closer to his old job salary it's not mentioned that he's receiving benefits from his last job maybe more as double dipping or triple dipping or quadruple dipping since to be the norm nowadays with a dip in that hourly wages could be closer to one hundred twenty dollars per hour seeming like monies from other existing it is in the county the  are spending with ease the following is the story the union had on in the thirty's to pay so i did a more difficult job than the city leaders and dissipated the exit with an excellent results grass valley city council members granted in terms city administrator jeff folds it thirty percent raise this week to raise approved at tuesday night's meeting as part of a contract extension for the former uber city manager who started to grow in started with grass valley in march replacing the fired gene heralds i offer the motion with many cents for a wonderful job done so councilwoman lisa's work it hasn't been easy as we thought it would be sort out then go into detail during the meeting and other council members didn't make statements beyond emphatic yes during their vote approving the internes administrators raise and six month contract extension falls will make eighty five dollars per hour or thirteen thousand six hundred dollars a month under the new plan he had been making only seventy five dollars an hour will never be able to thank jeff faults enough for the job he's done to council man chauncey posting after tuesday's meeting at eighty five dollars an hour it's in two days market itself bargain city can't afford to increase in term administrate just be because city leaders budgeted for permanent replacement at ninety six dollars an hour starting in july said finance director karen fish prior to tuesday's vote city leaders have acknowledged grass valley is tight financial situation was an ongoing lawsuit with denver based newmont mining corps sewer treatment plant upgrades needed and road improvements but their fault turner has lasted longer than anticipated in the pay boost is needed to come closer to what he was making in yuba city said mary mark johnson earlier this week grass valley has had trouble finding a permanent replacement after foreign herenton in early february the city hard rock on based round anderson and associates for twenty two thousand five the first round of candidate didn't garner placement who is a good fit for the city johnson said recently second round of candidates is a dissipated soon he adds and that's the end of the quote in the newspaper well if eighty dollars an hour is a bargain then i guess most of us in nevada county are in the wrong business i would do that job for fifty dollars an hour and work overtime for free i would also bring the city council coffee and donuts for their meetings and another story to host city is really in the winter season with the tar host city holly days and you believe in more 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species rulings reversed over political lobbying broadway stage chant and their labor strike but before these stories we would like to thank our underwriters once welcome back president bush wrapped up a three day mid east summit wednesday with a pledge to increase to u s role in future peace talks bush spoke at the white house after a meeting with israeli prime minister huge homered and palestinian president mahmoud a he said it's very important for the international community to support these two leaders during the bilateral negotiations that will take place and one thing i've assured both gentlemen gentlemen is that the united states will be actively engaged in the progress and we will use process and we will use our power to help as you come up with necessary decisions to layout a palestinian state that will live side by side in peace with israel and the annapolis summit launched a new round of talks between israeli collapses and we face a south african style struggle for equal voting rights then as soon as that happens the state of israel is finished omar has yet to accept a longstanding arab league offer for a two state agreement on israel's internationally recognized borders we are ready to shoulder all our responsibilities as arab countries including normalization but in the right context and when we are convinced israel is serious because intel this moment we are not convinced the bush administration appears to be focused efforts on shaping the palestinian security forces on wednesday six secretary of state condoleezza rice pointed retired marine general james jones to coordinate security arrangements in the occupied territories meanwhile in the west bank dozens of people were arrested when palestinian president mahmoud abbas security forces raided a funeral in the city of hebron the victim was killed in a protest today annapolis talks funeral goers threw rocks at police who were turned open fire disperse the crowd and romola a group of palestinian journalists rallied against a series of police raids al arabiya correspondent the lead alka seen criticized abbas forces he said i do believe that all journalists agree with having law and order but put freedom of news coverage and what happened yesterday was crossing the red line by the security system with dealing with protesters in jails and in iraq family members of an exiled another story clinton made to claim tuesday while campaigning for is wife senator hillary rodham clinton you know iowa but a look at clinton's public statement from two thousand to really never unequivocally opposed the war and at times voiced n loans to prove it in march two thousand and three clinton criticized france for opposing the invasion integrated prime minister tony blair for taking part meanwhile a former senior administrative official is now claiming white house officials personally believe clinton to be the lead up to war and the clinton voiced his support the official hillary mann leverett is a former white house director persian gulf affairs she says she was shocked in astonished that clinton's claim to oppose the bourse leverage says former administrative official elliott you reap remains head of state religion soured last week when you rebranded job as involvement in hostage talks with colombian rebels group says she has ignored his demands and he has not contacted the colombian military directly on wednesday  of state have to think not about their own dredges not about their own vanities but in the primary need of respecting the people who they represent as a way life has withdrawn is ambassador from colombia and in argentina an incoming lawmaker is set to make history when she takes office next week twenty eight year old victoria donda will join congress as the first member born to political prisoners during argentina's so called dirty war daughters parents were disappear disappeared shortly after birth in argentina's most infamous torture center yes and me they had been arrested for their involvement in leftist political groups donda only discovered the past four years ago with the help of victims rights group grandmothers of the  down me victoria donna said for me when more than feeling pride i feel a big responsibility and representing the grandmothers being a recovered granddaughter is being a living result of the struggles of the grandmothers on december fifth i'm going to assume office with my father and mother present but also with a bunch of elderly women waiting for me to do the right thing donder was speaking right outside the e u as am a prison where she was born she is one of the estimated four hundred people born to women political prisoners in argentina and in bolivia opposition group stages a general strike wednesday six oblivious nine provinces at issue are several government backed constitutional changes opposed by oil rich areas bolivian president evo morales says the plan will give bolivia's indigenous and poor communities a greater voice in running the country the proposal will go before the national referendum in the coming months beaking from the presidential palace in the past relatives urged his opponents to cooperate with his plans bolivian president evo morales said i hope that tomorrow morning those five governors are going to hear to have a dialogue i hope that five or nine of them are departments that we can lay down new social policies together for bolivia because this is a government for all bolivians not a government for just one sector of them as some of our companions have said morales made the call as he a guaranteed pension for bolivia's elderly all revenues from bolivia's richer province will fund the monthly steeping and in saudi arabia a lawyer for the gang rape victims sentenced to the woman was kidnapping gang raped by at least seven men she was convicted of violating sheria law on contact between men and women the saudi court upheld the ruling last back in the united states glad i'm here republican presidential hopeful rudy giuliani is facing new questions over hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable billing expenses during his time as mera new york city the political newspaper is reporting giuliani built obscure agencies for cost related to his visits to the hamptons where he began his affair with a future wife judith missing hotel gas and other expenses were charged to city agencies task in task was aiding the disabled providing public defenders and regulating laughed apartment juliana's campaign denies he tried to hide expenses and a government agency has reversed seven rulings nine endangered species protection for a probe found evidence of political interference from former seniors interior department official julian mcdonald a former and deputy assistant secretary overseeing the fish and wildlife service was found to have pressured agency scientists to alter their findings mcdonnell stepped down last may  addition to pressure and scientists he was also found to have leaked agency information to industry groups and the curtains are on broadway broadway stage hands up there up on broadway that's it  producers have reached an agreement after more than two weeks strike show resumes this evening and there you have it for our world news today it's time for the police blotter and pictures in the blotter not from these actual vans but used for a visual aid only police department on tuesday at ten forty nine am a person in the police station lobby wanted to talk to an officer backed up the horses in arizona police would follow up to fifteen p m a woman who works as a holiday charity bellringer on these main street report ordered a woman approached her with a hypodermic needle a day before and ask her if she wanted a flu shot when she said no the woman said she could have it for free the woman wanted to talk to an officer at three fifty six pm a call from the three hundred block of south tower street reported a man was assaulted by another man who drives this chevrolet tal line reported the possible stalking her ex boyfriend was refusing service out of business and had been parking nearby in his dodge neon for the past thirty minutes police contacted the woman and were unable to locate the man at six fifty seven pm a male from the seven hundred block of doors drive reported his father was out of control and throwing things police arrested the forty five year old man on suspicion of battery of a police officer and while waiting probation and wednesday at one thirty two pm a call from i don't maryland road at brunswick world reported that a vehicle went over an embankment an ambulance responded well police determine no injuries were involved the c h p would handle the incident devalue county sheriff's office on tuesday it two or six p m the man from the eleven thousand block of view a vista reported someone threw a throwing eggs at his house friday and saturday night it's three fifty p m and nine one one caller from the nineteen thousand block of pen valley drive reported a woman busted windows in a residence she left in the chevrolet silverado truck heading towards rough and ready officers stopped the woman on rough and ready highway and the c h p evaluated her for drunken driving the woman was arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana while driving a vehicle in battles three fifty four p m a caller from the green valley road reported lake of the point security would not provide extra patrol after some recent vandalism deputies were notified of the request in the grounds ridge boman lake area with a man who was visiting her from georgia or ghana the woman was supposed to have returned home before dark and apparent did not find her at the grows ridge parking lots which it had a city police department on