sites if you have newsworthy items please e mail them to us at news at g v t v dot org in today's local news laura freeman seventeen years old a new nevada union senior from chicago park died saturday night in a fiery crash when a car she was riding in slammed into a tree at high speeds and highway one seventy four she was my best friend and she was very lonely girl said cassie noon also seventeen  grass valley she lived alone with your grandma's house that she had inherited others who knew the teen remember her as a quiet loner who was struggling to get her studies back on track laura struggled to be at school every day said in you assistant principal bruce cancer her attendance was not always great but this year she was trying to work things around and be at school more frequently berman was taking u s history economics english business math algebra one and ceramics hurt taking two mathematic courses together probably meant she was trying to accrue enough mass credits to graduate freeman was an alumni of chicago park school before attending high school she was very very quiet and quiet into herself said denzil zizou her principal superintendent of chicago park school she used to live with her grandmother at the time she chose to spend time on her own rather than with her peers she was a loner counsellor was made available at n u i monday at the science lecture hall to talk to students coping with the loss of their colleague freeman was riding in the front passenger seat of a nine hundred ninety three jeep cherokee at around six thirty p saturday when the vehicle struck a tree at a high rate of speed on highway one seventy four in cedar ridge the vehicle was driven by joshua jaeger twenty two of las vegas if you fifteen year old boy whose name was not released was riding in the back seat p officer dinner hernandez reported both survivors were flown to sutter roseville medical center from the scene with serious injuries jaeger was in fair condition monday a hotel hospital spokesman said information about the boy was not available we suspect alcohol was part of the collision jeff piggery officer for the c h p said we're waiting on blood test results from the driver before we make recommendations to the d for any possible prosecution a grass valley motorist came upon the absence scene to find jaegers nine hundred ninety three jeep cherokee on fire robert guthrie said another man managed to throw enough get on th man was dave oliver of sacramento who frequents the grass valley area i got out and saw flames underneath the car in the hood oliver said he ran back to his car grabbed two soft drinks and poured them on the fire but to no avail so i just started scooping and dirt from the ditch and started throwing underneath and then on the hood area on both sides as the fire was going out all over it said he spotted freeman in the front seat of the vehicle but he could not see is a teenage boy in the backseat because of the twisted wreckage i didn't even realize that someone was in the back seat oliver said when he learned of it monday now he said he realizes he may have saved the boy's life that makes me feel pretty good running to the rock got through said each tried to get freeman out of the car with eight of another woman but she was pinned inside of the wreckage emergency crews had to cut her out of are pending it's a very sad thing i wish everyone would slow down grass valley man who accidentally killed his father april first by injecting heroin into his body was sentenced monday to five years of probation six months in a residential drug treatment program plus six months in an outpatient program i've had a lot of time to think about things and i want to apologize to my family and the community for any harm i've caused calling more twenty three said the prison gallery in about a county superior court on monday a few of moore's family members sat in court many of their heads lowered morris father john moore forty nine was too intoxicated denied of his death due to heroin into his own veins so the younger more did it for him said defense attorney dan geffen are the two were doing the drug together police said john moore a former firefighter for the city of long beach died from a cute alcohol and heroin ingestion according to the past ologist report assistant district attorney anna ferguson charged more with involuntary manslaughter geffner said father and son were both heroin addicts and it's not clear which one of began doing the drug first caught him or had no criminal history before his father's death geffner said and he had been an emergency medical technician before drugs took over his life this is a tragic turn of events here judge robert riady said in court monday this particular one got to me the father son thing makes it troubling though he did not order it to me that he recommended more seek mental health counseling in addition to his drug treatment this may be probation a judge could sentence him to the maximum term of four years in prison going into court records while he would actually spend less than two years behind bars with time credits geffner said as a correctional officer led more from the courtroom ferguson wished him good luck and then another trouble spot in our county patrick cronin who admitted he too using his skateboard to whack another man across the head attorneys presented to him in july would be declared unconstitutional on appeal if he sentenced going into the upper prison term of four years the judge just hesitancy is based on the april supreme court decision that brings into question the court it's fine if they want to take it to trial said harkins mother luana hearkens there are a lot of witnesses the defendants intelligence is at a lower end of the normal range which would make high school no piece of cake  college very very difficult the psychologist testified cronin is also prone to misinterpreting social cues roeder said cronin would likely respond to therapy for his psychological challenges cronan also spoke in open court saying he feared his victim josh harkin's who had just broken up a fight involving several young people a conman par parks's skate park when cronin encountered him hearkens kenny right in the middle of everybody and started barking orders i guess you would say cronin said his friend was bigger than me i felt threatened and became scared on cross examination by system district anna ferguson admitted hearkens was never physically violent with him and harkins was facing away from him when cronin swung his skateboard crown and also admitted to running from the crime scene ditching you skateboard in the woods and lying to police because he was afraid park and sat in the third row of the audience surrounded by friends and family including his brother eric on leave from the marines and wearing his military uniform after hearing the testimony and he said probation would not be an appropriate sentence this is an unprovoked from the back surprise attack to me and he said if you're scared to fight your way out instead of going to the middle of everything outside the courtroom tempers flared and a sh deputy had to order the victim's father dan hearkens who was yelling and pointing at cronin supporters to walk away that's right it's time for the police blotter new pictures in the blotter not from these actual vance but use for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday at three fifty three p m a caller from the one hundred block of east made for you put it a tall man with bushy eyebrows and one carrier appeared to be flashing a fault law enforcement badge he was last seen headed up west main street police check the area were unable to locate the man for twenty eight p woman called from the store on a one thousand block of sutton way to report her wallet was stolen by an employee police cited in one thousand year old woman and a twenty seven year old woman on suspicion of step at nine forty six pm a caller from el street reported a woman was crying police contacted the woman and she was fine police advised the bartender to refrain from serving alcohol to two other people and on monday at five fifty two am a caller from the one hundred block of two o nine p m woman called from the fourteen thousand block of frontier lane to report her husband left the house while under the influence of medication and alcohol the man was on parole for drunken driving conviction deputy took a report deputies arrested demand four hours later on suspicion of violation of parole and to forty four p m a man called from the eleven thousand block of ball road to report woman hit him several times and was tearing up the residence he said she left with the dog he deputy took a report three sixteen p m a woman called from the eleven thousand block of torrey pines drudge report multiple items were stolen from the trunk of her vehicle last night at three forty two p m a man called from the eleven thousand block of ball road to report a woman was scratching herself to make it look like the caller had hit her the man said the woman hit him with an open fist and a close fist deputies cited the man on suspicion of calling nine one one with intent to annoy or harass at seven thirty four p m call from highway forty nine a street a road reported to have reset woman was hitchhiking in the middle of the road with a baby stroller c h p was unable to locate the woman eleven fifty nine p m a caller reported a man an emergency room with a human blight on his ear and officer responded to the business on the one thousand block of highway twenty and determined that there would be no report taken at the time monday at nine fifty nine am a caller from the thirteen thousand block of burma road reported three tires on her car were slashed last night deputy would contact the woman eternal seven am a woman reported her juvenile son was assaulted on thursday at school and ten thousand block a rough and ready highway you had a city police department on wednesday at two thirty six p m a call from brock road reported the water line broke in front of the market public works employee was on his way to fix the leak six twenty seven pm a call from commercial street reported a man in a red and black ski jacket was harassing people on the street and in a business eleven thirty p m a woman called from the two hundred block  commercial street to report a woman was refusing to leave and a cab company would not take her home police arrested the woman on suspicion of public drunkenness now for some world knows seventy three thousand workers at general motors walked off their jobs monday in the company's first nationwide strike in three decades the united auto workers said it called for the strike after g m refused to accept the unions demand to protect workers jobs and benefits according to the detroit free press general motors is pushing the u a w to allow it to lower labor costs by transferring responsibility for retiree health to an independent trust freezing cost of living increases and instituting a new level of benefits for the new hires the strike has shut down eighty general motors facilities in thirty states the union has nearly nine hundred million dollars in its strike fund enough to cover a two month walkout and in burma tens of thousands of monks and protesters are marching through the city of ragu today in defiance of military orders on monday burma's military gender warned that it was already to take action against  government protests to have rapidly spread across the country the protests are the largest in burma since the one nine hundred eighty eight when the military genter quest a popular uprising and killed some three thousand people president bush is expected to announce news sanctions against burma today state department spokesman tom casey said we certainly would call on the regime to exercise restraint in the face of these protests and also to release those that they've imprisoned for peaceful expressing their views over the course of the last few days meanwhile in italy buddhist monks held a rally on monday to show the salada verity for the protesters in burma a buddhist monk said we would like to give our gesture of solidarity and support for a peaceful resolution to this very difficult situation and that the people can be free and have a democratic process that they can earn a livelihood without being oppressed and  we are one of the countries that are cooperating most with the i a e a they've had hours and weeks and days of inspections in our country and over and over again the agency reported could they have not detected a deviation they have received positive cooperation from iran or regretfully two or three modern political selfish powers want to force their word on the iranian people and deny them their right i am edina jobs appearance sparked widespread protests in colombia during th jobs was asked about iran's attitude toward homosexuals he replied in iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country we don't have that in our country he also will be appearing at columbia's dominated his appearance dominated the news media on monday the headline in the daily news read the evil has landed fox news ran a screen shot that read is war the only way to stop mahmoud middle east against iran ahmadinejad is therefore been configured as an enemy head of state while ahmadinejad's spoke at columbia un secretary general ban ki moon kicked off the session on climate change at the united nations moon said governments must take unprecedented action to reverse the trend of the global warming ban ki moon we hold the future in our hands together we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we have failed to do right things and left them to suffer the consequences so let us send a clear and collective signal to people everywhere today let the world know that you are ready to shoulder this responsibility and that you will address this challenge head on over eighty heads of states attended monday's meeting but president bush chose not to attend bush who opposes international treaties to address global warming has organized a can climate change form later this week in washington global discussion you voted bore said the united states is still the largest emitter worldwide of greenhouse gases for that reason and for a number of others the participation of the u s is essential at the same time the larger developing countries like china india and brazil south africa are growing very fast and to develop a future regime that also doesn't engage them in terms of limiting emissions of greenhouse gases would be pretty much meaningless vote divorce stressed the urgency of reaching an agreement on a plan of action that would replace the kyoto protocol john coote of greenpeace said well what's on the table right now and what's really needs to happen is we need to have negotiating mandate a very clear binding mandate it comes out of discussions in indonesia and from that we need to see much larger greenhouse gas emission reductions from the developed world we need to see expanded participation participation from the developing world and we need to see a global agreement that in the long run we're going to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half in order to solve this problem meanwhile newly released government documents show that the bush administration directed a behind the scenes effort to block california's attempt to develop its own standard to gas greenhouse gases reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles e mails show secretary of transportation mary peters product or staff to lobby members of congress and state governors to oppose california's afterwards in news from iraq up to twenty five people died on monday one is suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque during  between shiite and sunni militia the suicide bomber struck in a mixed village of shift outside well cuba but cuba's police chief died in the attack meanwhile in baghdad residents of the shiite neighborhood of solder city so u s forces have raided a number of houses once a billion died in the raids iraq residents said we are poor people we do not have oil we do not have anything they took everything from us and in addition all these things they attacked us repeatedly why did this do why did they do this to us what did those innocent people do they burn out this generator which supplies us with electricity to more iraqi journalists have was killed on thursday in a northern city of mosul protest against president bush's plan today outside the united nations ahead of his speech to the general assembly is citywide coalition of anti war activists are forming a funeral procession to march through the city to the united nations the demonstrators say they will commit civil disobedience by attempting to gain entry to the general assembly in order to serve borders with a warrant for his arrest in education news more than thirty two hundred students faculty and alumni at stanford university have signed a petition to protest the appointment of former defense secretary donald rumsfeld to become its just don't waste visiting fellow at the hoover institution the hoover institution is located the stanford campus but is an independent think tank and research institution the petition effort is led in part by theme to psychologist philip zimbardo and news from guantanamo bay u s military appeals court has reinstated terrorism charges against a canadian citizen who was first detained in afghanistan when he was only fifteen years old in june a military tribunal judge dismissed murder and conspiracy charges against omar c because qatar had not been designated and unlawful enemy combatant but on monday a military court overturned that decision qatar has been held in guantanamo for five years he turned twenty one years old last wednesday and the national lawyers guild has called for the release of mychal bell and for all charges to be dropped against the jenna six the lawyer group urged the justice department to immediately convene an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the arrest and prosecution of the genesis ix and the bush administration has given the housing authority of new orleans the go ahead to demolish the city's four largest public housing complexes the department of housing and urban development approved the demolition of the forty five hundred housing units on friday democratic senator mary landrieu criticized relate but other lawmakers have endorsed such moves shortly after hurricane katrina hit new orleans republican congressman richard baker said we finally cleaned up the public housing in new orleans we couldn't do it but god