today's local news and now opening statements in the nail gun murder trial of richard williams originally scheduled to begin tuesday afternoon and now most likely will start thursday morning when are likely to start opening statements on wednesday defense attorneys stephen monk said before going into the judge's private chambers for a conference at the criminal courthouse in downtown napa on tuesday on tuesday was second day of jury selection the trial was moved from nevada county to napa after celt requested a change of venue granted by nevada county superior court judge robert mcalpin deputy district attorney katherine francis earlier this month to try to have jury selection wrapped up in napa by tuesday afternoon however to me he was disqualified from the hearing from hearing the trial because of social relationships linking him to the victim hendrika williams and out of county superior court judge thomas anderson is now hearing the case more than eighty potential jurors found filled out questionnaires tuesday morning juror was excused because the court cannot accommodate her disability anderson said among celt and francis were scheduled to review the questionnaires tuesday night then began oral questioning of jurors at nine a m today at bailiff outside the courtroom on tuesday commented that nevada county criminal justice appeared to him to move slower than napa county's courtroom proceedings if napa county superior court was handling this we would have had a julie jury selected by now the bailiff a grass valley police officer injured in a vehicle accident involving an alleged drunken driver has returned to work police officials said kyle show bird has recovered from his injuries and went back to patrol in grass valley on friday city pleased captain rex marks said this week sjoberg is doing very well marks added sjoberg was injured september twenty ninth when his police cruiser collided with a vehicle allegedly driven by anything else edward taylor of grass valley sjoberg had been working as a police officer for five weeks before the accident sjoberg was responding to a report of a fight on east main street when taylor's vehicle allegedly struck the right rear of showboats cruiser at the intersection of east main and any accident involving an officer be annulled by another agency the california highway patrol is investigating the incident mike said but c h p as it investigation will take at least two more weeks of a county district attorney charged with driving under the influence causing bodily injury and run with injury to another and violating probation taylor pleaded not guilty to the charges on october fourth but he is scheduled for a pretrial hearing at one p m nov twenty ninth and the spirit court about a county's new voting system has been approved by the state that results from february as presidential primary still could be slow in arriving on election night because they will have to be driven to nevada secretary of state dept were going now prohibit that due to concerns about maintaining the integrity of the transmitted information the greatest impact is that voting results can no longer be electronically sent to main computer is said that means results from polling places located in icing one washington in truckee may be slow to arrive at the road administrative center for the primary election on february fifth two thousand and eight do has warned that if we have  occur despite the information flow problem that county now can put its new one point three million dollars heart enter into your civic voting system into place to meet need to meet new federal got voting are the ones who are disabled  jones office has been struggling for counties to review and certify several new voting systems but meet the federal standards she sent to us a letter last week saying about a county's new system so to satisfy his her requirements for security against people trying to hack into the system each of the counties polling places will include an optional electronic voting machine that can be used by anyone who wishes at the county's fifty five polling places most people will still use the paper one issued but if they stick with their original the overvote for that particular race account will be counted as no vote at all in that case we can't determine the intent of the voter  want to vote early in the primary can do so at the elections office and the rude centering nevada city beginning january seventh assistant clerk reporter susan german said that twenty one thousand absentee ballots will be mailed that same day those ballots will not be called absentee anymore due to a new state law german indios said they will now be called by mail ballots and recent elections fifty three percent of all county ballots cast came from  the county has six hundred sixty thousand registered voters and augustine has told the board of supervisors he eventually would like to see all mail balloting to save money and ensure a secure paper trail of votes and that's you know he also would open about five strategically placed polling places around the county for the disabled and those who insist on casting their ballot in the traditional way and recent letter to d r s bill and said she liked this plan but still have reservations the same people might not trust the postal service and others might insist on voting at a traditional polling place spurred by state concerns over storm runoff and water quality the town of truckee is ready to begin rigorous monitoring of truckee river water quality next they could use a partners to help pay for the added tests  plans to meet the stricter standards but the a hunting regional water quality control board handed down over this year the board require the town of truckee and placer county which oversees a portion of marty's valley to create storm water management programs to deal with runoff and contamination and the truckee river watershed there are no earth shattering revelations it's more about education outreach and additional enforcement said bob cost a public water quality monitoring program for the truckee river watershed according to danielle constructor of the public works for the town of turkey the biggest deal is low hunton wants us to implement an aggressive monitoring program throughout the area wilkins added looking for money because such an ambitious program could costly can also be costly one question truckie will ask is if such other public agencies as caltrans the u s forest service and california state parks will be required to chip and there's the interstate highways and other properties in town but the town has no jurisdiction over it and that puts us in a difficult position if we are asked to develop a program for the entire community wilkins said as expected of our taxpayers or are part of the funding mix during the public process many truckee residents suggested the caltrans contribution to a runoff from interstate eighty particularly in the donner lake area should be taken into account caltrans has its own strong modern management program which is currently up for the public comment the proposed caltrans program can be viewed on at that link hunting website where comments signed agreements that read in part i further understand that neither my statements nor any information or evidence again by reason of my statements can be used against me in a criminal proceeding the state department says blackwater guards can still be subjected to future prosecutions but legal aspect experts say convictions could be difficult because prosecutors would have to prove they did not use the sworn statements to prove their case the protections are said to be commonly used in official investigations of incidents involving government employees but democratic senators say extending the immunity to private contractors is unprecedented meanwhile the pentagon has announced the u s military will now increase its control over private security contractors in iraq but it remains unclear which laws if any could be used to hold blackwater guards accountable meanwhile the iraqi government continues to take its own steps toward challenging the free rein of to die by lethal injection the seven to seven to two judge men all but assures the supreme court will block all executions until it issues a final ruling on a case challenging how courts should evaluate the constitutionality of lethal injection justices antonia scalia and seminole to a close decision the nomination of attorney general hopeful michael moore casey is in further doubt today after your fuse democratic calls to acknowledge that waterboarding is a form of torture and a letter to senate democrats knew casey said he finds waterboarding repugnant but maintained he doesn't know if it violates u s laws against torture several senate democrats have vowed to hinge their confirmation vote on new cases waterboarding suggested that he will not sign legislation that includes any tax increase such as the energy bill currently before congress bush's comments marco hardening as you slow down as this showdown with democrats over spending the state children's health insurance program his comments come as a new study shows s chip is facing a crippling shortfall the congressional research service says twenty one states will run out of money for children's health insurance in the next year none of those will run out by march local officials in california say they will be forced to began cutting off health insurance for sixty four thousand children each month beginning in january and the report pushes to ensure administrative orders to evade congress meanwhile the washington post is reporting the bush that elder elderly voters would be harmed most by voter id laws because most minorities died before becoming elderly john tanner made their case in an earlier this month the national congress john tanner said i think it's probably true that among those who don't it's partly primarily elderly persons and that's a shame of course that's also ties in with the racial aspect because our societies such that minorities don't become elderly the way th director of national intelligence mike mcconnell has disclosed the government intelligence budget for the first time in several years on tuesday and mcconnell said congress has approved forty three point five billion dollars on spying over the past year the number does not include money spent on military intelligence but bringing actual total to more than fifty billion and he and prime minister m his controversial nuclear deal with the u s is on track despite domestic opposition saying spoke tuesday and new delhi met him and singh said the one to three agreement that we have signed with the united states is an honorable deal good for india good for the world and good for the cause of nonproliferation we have run into some problems domestically which were which we are trying to resolve but as far as our government is concerned we remain committed to see that this process is car this we need to involve a broad based consensus and our country efforts are on in that direction critics say of the agreement would encourage nuclear production regionally and worldwide because it effectively rewards india after developing nuclear weapons blindness the fifteen resolutions adopted by this general assembly calling for the lifting of the blockade against cuba the blockade is today the main obstacle in development and wellbeing of the cubans and a blatant massive and systematic violation to the rights of our people the vote comes just days after president bush vowed to maintain the embargo on cuba through the end of his presidency and israel and the occupied territories israeli defen under any conditions except the collective or individual punishment of innocent people because there are people who are responsible for them first and last back in the united states police in los angeles say a child has admitted to starting one of the mass wildfires that raged last week in california the child reportedly confessed to starting the fire with a pack of matches prosecutors are considering pressing charges and campaign news democratic presidential candidates gathered in philadelphia last night for their first debate and over a month front runner senator hillary rodham clinton came under repeated criticism for her record on the iraq war trade agreements and torture senator barack obama accused clinton of changing her stance when politically that's right it's time for the police blotter and the pictures in this blotter are not from these actual events but use for visual aid only police department on monday at nine thirty seven a m a caller from the idaho maryland road at sutton way reported locating a stolen vehicle the keys were in the ignition the caller said the two girls and one boy accident theo call earlier in the day one girl had brown hair and was wearing a record sweat shirt the boy had longer curly hair pleased to report and the owner picked up the vehicle and i'm fifty eight i am a caller from the store on the one hundred block of west but night way before it is shot blonde woman in a fast food restaurant uniform still two bottles of rum she left in a ford focus police contacted the twenty three year on tuesday at two ten a m an officer contacted a twenty three year old man in a parking lot i don't know maryland road and advised him of the city's camping ordinance he would be moving out at two thirty one a m a woman called from the three hundred  black vehicle pulled into a driveway and knocked on a front door he looked around the property got into his vehicle and drove up the road man was about twenty five years old with blond hair and medium build and deputy contacted the collar and located the man at the market on tuesday at nine forty seventy's southwest winds at ten miles per hour tomorrow will be mostly sunny with highs in the mid seventy's 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