your support if you want to underwrite to do this and get a mention on the news just give us a call at five three zero four seven seven three three zero nine or e mail us at news it g v to be dead or for more info catastrophic wildfire danger in about a county has prompted allstate insurance to threaten cancellation of some residence policies if they don't thin brush around their homes but agency coverage is still offered if they comply more than one hundred fifty homeowners recently received postcards in the mail from allstate asking them to make changes to their properties to ward off while far or lose coverage we are a little upset said leon owens of ulta you're one of the residents who received a postcard i've been with allstate for thirty years with little or no claims at all owens learned from is also an agent that he couldn't get any coverage from the firm until he cut all trees back at least one hundred feet from the house including once and he's on his neighbor's property line fishelson also have been same you for years and also syria is extremely far a problem because of the heavy force fields in the area the homes in the steep slopes we can't deny it's an issue in nevada county said allstate agent who's also vice president of the county's fire cif council people have to do their own work and they're going to find it harder for companies to insure here about a county has been drafting a fire plan for more than five years but it hasn't been approved by the board of supervisors much of the contentious debate was focused on clearing brush allstate wants homeowner policy holders here to have two hundred feet of defensible space around their homes according to  es woman patty kelley in sacramento if the two hundred feet includes trees on the other side of the property line and they still have to come down to the policy to be renewed each of them is inspected for renewal and studied on a case by case basis kelly said properties that need to be thinned are given ninety days to complete the work the company will still work with its policyholders most homes inside cities such as nevada city grass valley are exempt because they are not within one thousand feet of the wildfire material residents who haven't cleared at the outskirts of town near heavily wooded areas or outside of town are more likely to get a notice and some get none at all if their home is dee safe allstate is no longer offering homeowner policies in california as of may of last year because of fire danger we want to be financially strong for the next catastrophe the problem is not insurance company that they were not selling policies here it was astonishing they wouldn't do it betts said i've got a fire hydrant one hundred feet from my house within the city limits but backing up to the ridge of tall p hartford regional headquarters in san diego agent roger heath many confirmed beck's experience when he's been in or grass valley and been a street into his computer for homeowners insurance response generated an instant denial due to brush fire and wild fire exposure he said and said we're not currently writing homeowners policies they're at the americans auto association in grass valley homeowners policies are still being written and sold according to spokeswoman jenny mack in the bay area customers are encouraged to keep brush at least one hundred feet from the house which is the same as california law enacted a few years ago for rural homeowners mack said on occasion when a renewed renewal comes up policyholders lose their coverage for not clearing the brush ten years ago we didn't have the high fire losses but oakland hills was a wake up call dunning said the fires in san diego took eight thousand homes in four years and then angora last summer and like to hold people here are in denial they have deadly northwinds in september and october that cause the fire to spread dunning and fellow allstate agent lori straka said their clients because still get homeowners insurance is from them but it might come from a different company a pen value registered sex offender convicted of molesting a five year old girl is fighting in the bad economy superior court for custody of his two children after their mother died of an accidental drug overdose according to friends of the children's family to protect the children involved in the case we're not naming the offender the forty eight year old man was convicted in ventura county on august tenth two thousand and four of lewd act upon a child according our an online ventura county superior court record he was sentenced to one hundred twenty days of work for a low find of five hundred seventy five dollars in order to register as a sex offender every year for the rest of his life according to court records in the better county sheriff's investigations administrative assistant nancy anderson anderson who oversees registration and also expanders in the shares gers diction said the man began registering in nevada county in august of two thousand and five parents said in nevada county charter school attended by the man's daughter were alarmed and began posting the man's picture around town i went to school and talked to the parents and answered their questions anderson said after her discussion with the parents they stopped posting the man's picture the man's estranged wife died june fourteenth two thousand and seven after she accidentally overdosed on prescription drugs at her nevada city home said the woman landlady susan was before her death the mother had so custody of the children and the father had weekly supervised visitation you friend of the family said after the woman's death child protective services c your children with other family members however the father is fighting c p s is involvement according to wallace and the family friend i was told by family that there are court proceedings in juvenile dependency court to determine whether the father will get custody wallace had a juvenile dependency court is a confidential process and the public does not have access to case files judge sean dowling presides over juvenile dependency cases court executive officer sean metrocard said monday the father is seen he doesn't pose a threat to the children the family friend said he supposing c p s has custody of the children doll and has heard the case and is expected within the next few weeks stand down his decision regarding reunification of the father and his children neither child wants to live with their father the family friend a survey of one hundred fifteen residents and business owners reveals that concern about drug abuse have gone down while worries about youth crime has increased the tenth annual grass valley police department citizen attitude survey was completed earlier this month and gave residents and business owners an opportunity to rate crime problems and departments ability to handle the issues the surveys were mailed to six hundred random residents and businesses located within the city only ninety percent responded with one hundred fifteen completed surveys greater than a typical average return of ten to fifteen percent here is sold did not come as a surprise to police chief john foster it just gives you a general idea of what perceptions are we take this information then we utilize it to set up priorities for the year foster added put people who were surveyed rated drug abuse to be the biggest serious problem at sixty eight percent down from seventy three percent two thousand and seven in seventy two percent the year before domestic violence ranked second highest concern at thirty eight percent up from last year's thirty five percent down from two thousand and six at forty seven percent alcohol abuse well same as drugs followed to third place with thirty eight percent down from thirty nine percent last year concern about use crime showed a steady three year increase in two thousand and six fifty percent of those surveyed noted it was a concern followed by nineteen percent in two thousand and seven and now twenty three percent this year that concern doesn't indicate growth in used crime said police chief john foster it's not like a dramatic jump it's more crimes of annoyance loitering downtown disrespectful attitudes no place to go use a fall language no place to call and find you have been considered among residents and business owners we need somewhere for the used to do something concerns about burglary dropped from twenty percent two thousand seven to  percent this year sexual assault concerns dropped from twenty eight percent last year in one thousand percent this year and eighty four percent excellent to good rating was given to overall public services animal control showed a growth in its excellent rating from five percent in two thousand and seven to thirty nine percent two thousand and eight of the problem surveyed include neighborhood vandalism tobacco use by minors truancy vehicle violations animals a large graffiti gamin waiting for election results and one hundred indian workers marched to d c to protest conditions and code to better activists protest at white house military issues new rules on recruiters on campuses toll from iraqi government's attack on shiite militias in basra and baghdad has reached at least four hundred sixty according to agent france france press more than love a hundred people are injured while claims while the calm has returned to the streets of basra analysts say the u s back this represents the largest fall out in europe from the u s economic crisis so far meanwhile in washington treasury secretary henry paulson unveiled a sweeping new plan to overhaul u s financial markets are regulated he said some ma view these recommendations as a response to the circumstances of the day yet this is not how they are intended this blueprint addresses complex long term issues that should not be decided in the midst of stressful situations and should not be implemented to have greater burden to market already under strain these long time ideas require thoughtful discussion and will not be resolved this month or even this year and quick possum's plan was power of the securities and exchange commission parts of the plan call for further deregulation the new york times reports pass recommends that investment advisors know want to be directly regulated by the f c c but instead by the industry regulatory organization the consumer federation of america issued a statement saying rolling out this plan in the middle of the current crisis is like telling her king katrina victims stranded on their rooftops in new orleans don't worry if you can hold on a few years we've got a really great product plan to restructure the federal emergency response system and other economic news independent truckers plan to stage a field strike so do mice today protesters soaring price of diesel which now cost almost four dollars a gallon fifty cent increase in the past month some clear how many truckers will pull their some eyes off the highways but some truckers say they will strike for several days in harrisburg pennsylvania scores of truckers took to the highways in streets around the state capitol on monday and blasted their horns in protest in medical news a new survey shows nearly sixty percent of u s doctors today support national health care plan such as single payer system the survey of two thousand doctors was published monday at the annals of internal medicine and dr ronald ackerman the coauthor of the study said across the board more physicians feel the day that our fragmented and for profit insurance system is obstructing good patient care ending majority now support national insurance as the remedy in media news your questions are being raised over the relationship between the pentagon and bloggers wired dot com has uncovered a two thousand and eight study written to the u s special operations command that suggests the military should clinton's clandestinely recruit or hire prominent bloggers report slated hiring the blah blah blah has to burble the attack a specific person to promote a specific message may be worth considering the report also suggests pentagon hacks blogs that promote messages that are settlements she said we continue to state america's position the settlement activity should stop and its expansion should stop and that is indeed not consistent with roadmap obligations palestinians charge that the ongoing construction is sabotage the peace efforts if nothing happened especially in east jerusalem we saw an increase in the construction minimum of the ongoing construction when we are going to peace agreement we are in a peace process in negotiation is to vastly devastating for the peace process maybe some of the arab countries should just carve off a little piece and give it to palestine in zimbabwe tension is rising in the county country awaits the release of vishal election results guardian newspaper reports evidence in m he said i think there are two things that are important is that the results come forward soon and we're not delayed and secondly the election is seen to be fair and representative and i think to tell whole eye of the world is  wanting to be sure that everything is done fairly and everything is done in the right way and in washington nearly one hundred workers from india marched in white house monday to protest the treatment of guest workers in the united states the workers accuse their former employers signal international of treating them like slaves after they were brought to the united states to help rebuild the gulf coast after hurricane katrina workers a father major class action anti rocketeer and suit against cigna one of its u s and indian recruiters in federal court in another protest the white house hundreds of proto but activist gathered on monday as part of the global day of action for tibet to say aaron pride in president of tibet and use congress of new york in new jersey called the u s government to boycott the opening ceremony of the olympic games in beijing in august he also said you can u s government can ask the olympic team to at least boycott the opening ceremony and that way the astley at least they get to play the game they don't miss the games but it still gets some pressure on china also gives us gets that the u s is not happy with what china is doing with tibet now states has always recognized tibet is not good by country so i think that they should keep up with that point and they should pressure china for in education news colleges and universities may soon be forced to hand over more information about students military recruiters according to the marine corps times the military recently announced a new get tough policy with schools that interfere with the work of military c sea programs under roads that will take effect in this month's military official said they want to exact the same access to student directories as is provided to all other prospective employers the new policy also no longer allowed schools banned military recruiters from working on campuses federal funding can be cut off if colleges and universities do not give recruiters an r o t c programs campus access another recruiting news a press conference in scheduled berkeley california today to announce a closing of a monitor and disrupt c n n on sunday sea shepherd activists said one of its ships was ran twice by canadian coastal guard icebreakers good job candidate that's a wrap today for our local news world news i'm sorry he had it and retainer against just showed up at his residence the man was banging on the door callers door and shouting profanities he had been drinking and driving a red durango he collar told the police a man was headed back to the residence on one hundred block west empires street police stopped she is taking care of it for a block watching street was burglarized and that is it 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