brings you give you t v news with local and world news from nevada county california if you have newsworthy items please e mail them to us at news at g v t v dot org and now for some local news came oxer right now forty six years old was a drug dealing mom whose spend every day locked in her dark bedroom smoking meth hiding from police and knowing her behavior was hurting her disabled son never one else who had ever loved her she kept her windows covered in a string of shady characters filtered in and out of her grass valley home at all hours police arrested her twice and oxer art tried to stop using deadly drug but she played to system and she said and each time went back to her old habits until one night in may two thousand and four police knocked on her door handcuffed her and handed her son christopher then fifteen over to child protective services it had to be done said police officers sat me down and brought my son out that's when i started to cry in just hit the floor asteroids one shot showed a gaunt strung out woman was greasy hair and scabs on her face who looked much older than her years it was a far cry from the straight a student she was in  younger days god since the cops are so right said recently sitting in her sunlit home surrounded by pictures of her smiling granddaughter bailey four years old i truly believe that with more than three years  clean and sober living under her belt archer art has regained her son in her health and she went to other women recovering from mass addiction people who knew her when she was using drugs don't even recognize her anymore she said sometimes people who knew her where is it go do double takes in the grocery store and she has to remind them of her past to pass to health however was not an easy one she had to fail a few times before she had  consequences before her last arrest weren't great enough said she is hot she was high when she completed proposition thirty six court she said she quit again during the ninety day stay at home pos residential treatment center for twenty days after her departure she hooked up with an old friend it took them about an hour to score some math i didn't know any other way she said field abuse twelve steps doused it everybody's stopping point is different officer wright said hers was losing her son you have to really want it she said i had a little experience with twelve steps so i went back and i just did what i was told she learned to dismiss any notion that she knew what was best she let go of the hook that always brought her back to using those old feelings of guilt and shame a lot of women let guilt and shame sustain their diction and let her run their lives s workers she met with the day she got out of jail told her to stop dwelling on her failure is something she'll never forget she said you got to knock it off she said kick yourself in the head as much as you have to today but tomorrow a woman from an earlier twelve step meeting and asked the woman then and there to become her sponsor the woman agreed after art went to a twelve step meeting daily sometimes twice she volunteered to make coffee at one meeting every week she made frequent contacts with c p s to show them she was making progress she would do anything to get her child back she said unlike many moms recovering from meth oxer i did regain custody of her son just after twenty two days now she devotes herself to tending to his physical disability living on the mere home health care wages she earns for christopher's care in addition volunteers in the community contend ceramic classes with her son at sere college and dreams of becoming a nutritionist but it was in those early days that she took one of the toughest steps that many of the recovery community say is key to staying off drugs strengthened by her twelve step support and determined to keep her child ochs right scream her head off at old using buddies who would show up at her doorstep she cut them out of her life she with the adopted state budget to county would face losing up to seventy five to one hundred thousand in proposition thirty six funding for drug rehabilitation programs like the ones provided to community resources for recovery resources the county back failed or subsidized funding for those programs one supervisors passed a final two thousand and seven zero eight budget in june we should have be able to maintain a level of service we are providing in that area said christopher all california voters passed a substance abuse and crime prevention act also known as prop thirty six which the majority of sixty one percent november two thousand but when a state budget gets slashed for state mandated programs state officials and lawmakers leave counties holding the bag forcing layoffs in the loss of needed services we try to steer clear of what kind of stuff whenever we can we always ask the question right up front does it look like this program is going to be sustainable said john spencer chairman of the county board of supervisors  about a county six libraries will receive twelve thousand dollars less from the state than they did last year a reduction that would could put repairs on old buildings on hold said county librarian marianne tree the funding distributed by the public library foundation is unpredictable triggs said this funding has gone up and down it's not something we can count on understood stain from year to year also in the last as are increased cruises expected in sales tax revenue year one eighth of a cent of all sales tax collected from retail purchases in accounting goes to the library system this year the libraries will receive two million dollars up from last year's one point nine million bright spots in the state budget include preservation of the williamson act which helps ranchers keep their land in agriculture funding for county roads was also left intact funding caps in home health supportive services didn't occur as feared in our medical managed care rate restored to pretty two thousand and three levels krista falls said adult protective services for the elderly independent adults who are physically or financially abused were not augmented by twelve million dollars as had been hoped c of this would have been first funding increase since two thousand said allison lehmann director of department of social services each here adult protective services reaches one thousand are pros for abused and neglected to adult tap which require investigation and case management lehman added and grass valley city council members have a democrat a leading city administrator candidate and could name the person in the next month according to marin mark johnson each council member interviewed the candidate and the city search firm is checking references city leaders also may decide to review additional candidates johnson added one has risen to the top for sure he said the city council could discuss the outcome of the interviews at its september eleventh city council meeting it but it's unlikely the council would make a final decision in that meeting according to the marriage this is a little bit slower than we anticipated city officials originally anticipated naming their choice by early september it's a dynamic field out there with changes in other towns adding to the variable city administrator candidates johnson at a gras valleys previous city administrator jean heralds was fired earlier this year after fifteen years in that position former uber city manager jeff folds is serving as in turn leader until a permanent replacement  council demand at four thirty two pm a man called five hundred block of butler street reporters neighbors pit bull terriers were loose and had cornered his wife the man was unable to return to his residence animal control was hit five fifty two her daughter gave her dog away at nine thirty p m call from gas station on east main street reported two male juveniles with bandanas on their faces and wearing sunglasses were running towards downtown grass valley with eighteen back of be report for burglary at eight thirty five a m a call reported in an injury accident highway forty nine over basta mcknight way california highway patrol responded and the bad account of sheriff's office on sunday at three thirty three p m fire department called from the scene of an apartment fire on a ten thousand block of broken open court to put children had been left on attended at ten thirty p m a caller from washington road reported a physical fight between two and on monday at twelve twenty one a m a call from the gas station on twenty nine thousand block a highway forty nine north san juan reported eleven to fifteen people were yelling at each other deputies were unable to locate a group of people yelling at each other five fifty three am call reported a tree was blocking darbar road road the department of transportation responded that's it for the blotter now for some around the world news new figures highlight a worsening humanitarian crisis in iraq associated press reports the death toll for iraqi civilians is double what it was a year ago estimates show iraq has suffered an average iraqis are now internally displaced up from four hundred fifty thousand this year the number of prisoners u s jails in iraq has also increased by fifty percent under the so called s u s military is now holding some twenty four thousand five hundred prisoners up from sixteen thousand earlier this year and three hundred are from countries other than iraq military spokesperson captain john fleming says the primary motivator for imprisoned insurgents is economic because they don't have jobs sounds like the united states and other iraqi knows iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki has lashed out i don't agree with hillary but say that it seems that mrs hillary and mr carl levin haven't had the misfortune during their political lives for dealing with deep political disputes and problems such as those iraq has had to deal with  day make judgments being made down from a position of ignorance of what national reconciliation requires therefore i excuse them and say national reconciliation is taking place and it might seem as a slow process is fast compared with other processes in other countries and in puerto rico a call for a u s withdrawal from iraq earned a standing ovation saturday at a conference of more than four thousand national guard speaking at the opening of the national guard toll of americans and their allies has caused him repairable anguish here in puerto rico and throughout the country the same could be said for the people of iraq and the bush administration's new rules for questioning cia prisoners are raising international jags are said to have told us senator president bush order appears carefully worded to allow humiliating and degrading interrogation techniques bush orders outlaws such practice but not unequivocally it says they're only banned if used for the purpose of the malay dinner degrading to individuals the jag say they could interpreters off the hook for torture if they claim to act in the name of national security the army's top jag major general scott black went so far to send a memo to soldiers emphasize enough cia rules do not apply to the military the questions are being raised about efficiency and brought privacy breaches in the government's terrorist screening database f b i documents show the database flagged some twenty thousand people as suspects a terrorist last year but only a handful of those screens lead to any arrest critics say the figures show that threshold for dental find suspects is too low and leaves thousands at risk of civil rights violations in afghanistan three british troops were killed friday in an accidental attack from u s forces to soldier died as u s troops battled taliban insurgents in other news from afghanistan new figures show record levels of opium smuggling and all saft in southern region alberto alberto palma was shot multiple times last week while eating out in a town in may or a time when he was forty eight years old winston pace of the paragon journalist union condemned as killers vincent page said they had themselves to an entire panorama panorama of terror across paraguay periodical he makes threats and pressure and intimidate the press mostly in border regions this is the fifth outside her home last october she was a fierce critic of russia's president vladimir putin and the chechen war putin caused an outcry when he tried to downplay her influence in russia  comments after her death iran is accusing us of using a recent terrorist as nation as a tool to derail ongoing nuclear talks iran says it made progress with the international atomic energy agency when the bush administration announced it would label iran's revolutionary guard a foreign terrorist group iran's foreign ministry spokesman mohammad ali hosts seanie accused the administration of playing politics mohamme hussein there was nothing else to be expected from america other than this the trend of the talks between iran and agency was successful other countries welcomed it as well the americans are making efforts to harm this trend kayyem was already been arrested twenty times this year for organizing rallies against the military john he recently organized a rare protest against rising prices on fuel and in louisiana a judge has denied requests to reduce the bail bond for the six member mychal bell was one of the six black students arrested after school fight in which a white student was beaten and suffered a concussion and multiple bruises the fight followed months of escalating tension after nooses were hung from a tree in the schoolyard where the black students had sat the jenna six as they have been come to be known were charged with attempted second degree murder and conspiracy and all white jury convicted to seventeen year old bell last month he faces up to twenty two years in prison his family has been unable to raise the ninety thousand dollars bail bond for his release bell will be sentenced september twentieth  called the case an example of different judicial standards in ritual related cases and is demanding federal intervention and in mississippi a former member of the ku klux klan has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murder of two black teenagers in one nine hundred sixty four james ford seale was first arrested shortly after the killings but the charges were thrown out after the f b i turned the case over to local authorities the justice department to reopen the case two years ago seale was arrested in january more than forty two years after the killings he had been dead but was discovered by the brother of one of the victims during the trial seals cousin charles marcus and want to testif and seal had abducted and attacked the black teenagers edwards and seal and other klansman and then drove the teenagers across the louisiana border they put down tape over their mouse and dumped them into the mississippi river alive the victims henry has a d and charles anymore were both nineteen years old their bodies were found about two months later when authorities were docked in an intensive search for a slain civil rights worker andrew goodman james chaney and michel nebraska author and psychologist has returned an award from the american psychological association over the group's indorsement of professional involvement in cia and military interrogations of u s prisoners mary peiffer author of reviving f with pain and sorrow i do not want an award from an organization that sanctions its members participate to haitian and enhanced interrogation of cia black sites and kuantan m m and in media news media giant time warner has reported spending nearly two million dollars in government lobbying so far this year the funds are spent to sway politicians on issues including high speed internet access patent reforms and digital television go this year time warner back to postal rate hike that raised mailing costs for small periodicals following tenure denial a poll cancel finkelstein's classes and the academy academy freedom controversy over the denali tenure for professional normal figures chicago's de paul university has intensified on friday depaul administrators announced that they canceled finkelstein's remaining classes for the upcoming fall quarter think it has one year left in his and the university board and promotion in ten years recommended against it critics say deposed ministry to pressure from outside groups opposed to finkelstein's criticism of israelis government policies second major anti war rally to hit cambone port this summer speakers included the peace mom cindy sheehan addressing the crowd democratic presidential hopeful dennis has called for congress to take action to end the war representative dennis because said the democratic leaders can end the war now they can go to president bush and say mr bush we appropriate now is them going dollars at the beginning of december for the war that money can be used to bring the troops home and set in motion an international security and peacekeeping forces to stabilize iraq does not take another vote i want you to know that the democratic leaders has a responsibility now to end the war now and more than a thousand people marched to newark new jersey this weekend in one of the largest demonstrations there in decades demonstrators were protesting the war in iraq and violence at home earlier this month a triple murder rocked new york when three college students were executed in a new work schoolyard and now it's time for the weather is sunny and hot today was highs in the upper ninety's to near one hundred west wind ten miles per hour tomorrow three p m and seven thirty p m you can also get our seven day a week news on the internet at w w w dot t v dot org or you can subscribe to our podcast for free through i tunes or many other