if you want to underwrite the news to get a mention on news just give us a call at five three zero four seven seven three three zero nine or e mail us at newsy g v t v dot org for more info members of the placer county republican central committee are steamed about a mailer that depicts their favorite congressional candidate tom mcclintock as a bird feathering his nest and having complained to the federal elections commission they allege republican rival doug jose failed to report the expense or contribution of the avian artwork on campaign finance will statement committee leaders have come out and support mcclintock the state senator from southern california both men along with part time cedar ri could not be reached for comment cartoon as both city sell it and demand you plaster republican said in a statement the question is who paid for this work and why wasn't it reported properly the cartoon is adenike all to the graphic art work used against mcclintock by then opponent dean and in the two thousand and two republican primary campaign for state controller nearly temple and associates is the consultant for both of us and a called a liberal millionaire neither man lives in the fourth district california law law only requires that representatives reside in the state and through family members though family members couldn't see her because of thousands of china protesters nevada union high school graduate jill mason was able to participate in the olympic torch relay wednesday she actually got to carry the torch on her w proud father larry mason we couldn't get there because of all the protesters so we watched her on t v the protesters were so thick that the route was changed for security reasons jill thirty years old who graduated from menu in one thousand nine hundred five had to wait three hours before she was allowed to be in the really larry madsen added it was pretty amazing she was very happy about it very mass and said she said it was a really humbling experience torchbearer now living in sacramento will be back in the area today for a meeting and will this be yesterday starting at eleven forty five at the mines for a foundry in nevada city she will be she was of the guest speaker for the fifth annual crime victim awareness month and put on by the nevada county victim witness assistance center child abuse prevention council and western nevada county and the law enforcement and fire protection council on easter in two thousand and four jill was riding a bicycle with her boyfriend alan lou and some on account county when they were hit by a drunk driver allen was killed in jail was left with a head injury and his suit severed spinal cord which put her in a wheelchair since then she has spoken in northern california high schools for the every fifteen minutes program to teach the repercussions of drunk driving to teens and then another local story if your inner circle includes teenagers you may be familiar with alt the alternative rock band cracker i endured this salt this band has made on the english language by painfully listening to the lyrics of their hit teenage angsty this song addresses young adults struggle to enter the real world is central message i don't know what the world may need but ideate engine is a good start for me life after high school can be frightening as many of us in older generations have come to know well for the senior members of this year's bear river high school graduating class the fear of entering the real world  lessened by something known as the senior project the project was designed to prepare graduating seniors for what lies ahead it is a graduation requirement and allows the student to work on practical skills such as writing resume interviewing for a job and applying for college and also require students do it floor through pass by making contact with professionals in the working world students select a topic then job shadow a professional and gain a working knowledge of their chosen field jeff caro a social science and teacher and senior project coordinator at bear river is looking for local volunteers to sit on the panel and evaluate the oral presentation of the graduating seniors as jeff put it in an open letter to the community this is a wonderful opportunity to see some of the exciting and valuable accomplishments of our talented graduating seniors by becoming part of our communities effort to prepare these students to meet new challenges we can help make them aware that beyond the reality of every v eight engine is a greater financial reality fueled by the job the project judging will take place on may fifteenth and sixteenth each p panel consists of five six people who will be getting training prior to the evaluations you can go on tech jeff a two sixty eight thirty seven hundred extension forty five fifty three to volunteer another opportunity to participate in a like a prize community event is the upcoming fire bells home to are also on may fifteenth this year it seemed features the southern belles hosting gone with the bells to include five homes from one p m to five p m the festivities began with ten dollars luncheon featuring barbecue cornbread if the menu doesn't fluff your petticoat then perhaps the afternoon depression is a scarlet o'hara cranberry juice and southern comfort will entice you to join also the gents and bells are welcome so you'll come said christine jenkins the event coordinator and agent for century twenty one real estate which is a co sponsor for more information you can contact christine at nine o six four seventy one for another area event will be taking place may thirtieth at the office here country club the higgins dickens lions at two six eight one zero three seven lines of actively supported the l a p community in many areas the club also sponsors and or roy peterson scholarship to benefit deserving bear rivers students and then another story about a county superior court judge ruled this week u penn valley registered sex offender convicted of molesting a five year old girl will not get custody of his two children he friend of the man's family said he didn't want he didn't get what he wanted the friend said the kids didn't want to live with him so the kids got what they wanted as part of the juvenile dependency court process the ruling was written and submitted this week by nevada county superior court judge sean downs said the family friend who asked not to be named and additional sources confirmed and was not held to announce the judge's decision the union reported on april first that the forty eight year old registered sex offender had been fighting the involvement of child protective services in a case regarding his two children both under fourteen years of age i would have just been horrified if he had been given custody said nancy anderson in charge of the sex offender registration for nevada county sheriff's office this is a very good thing child molester urges to victimize children never fade anderson added the desire doesn't go away and is that this is the first case she knows up in about a county in which a convicted registered sex offender tried to get custody of his juvenile children to protect the identities of the children the union and t v t v news will not name the father the man was convicted in ventura county on august tenth two thousand and four of a lewd act upon a child according to online ventura county superior court records he was sentenced to one hundred twenty days in jail fined five hundred seventy five dollars and ordered to register as a sex offender every year for the rest of his life according to the court records and anders the offender was granted work for low in place of his jail time the family friend said the man moved to nevada county in two thousand and five and what has always been in compliance with his court obligation to register every year on these birthday  anderson said he is scheduled to reregister next month child protective services became involved in the case after the man's strange wife died june fourteenth two thousand and seven she accidentally overdosed on prescription drugs at her nevada county home the family friend said before her death the mother had so custody of the children and the father had weekly supervised visitation the source said after the woman's death child protective services placed to children with other family members the public does not have access to case files for juvenile dependency court judge presides over juvenile dependency cases court executive officer sean matoaca said and that's it for our local news today iraq's sectarian conflict as escalated with the killing of a top aide to shia cleric mcdonogh al saud are the in riyadh al nouri was killed friday and the job no group has claimed responsibility on the area was sutter's top baghdad neighborhood of solder city what is to say a series of clashes this week marked the heaviest fighting since the crackdown began light late last month in baghdad saturday hundreds of demonstrators turned out in baghdad to protest the u s occupation she many of the iraqi farmers organization condemned ongoing attacks and iraqi civilians meanwhile the iraqi government says it's fired some thirteen hundred soldiers and police officers who refused to take part in last month's crackdown on the shia militia in basra the designers included more than one hundred officers among them the commander in deputy commander of an entire brigade elsewhere in iraq a u s soldier was killed in baghdad saturday capping the deadly is week for u s troops in iraq this year one thousand nine hundred members were killed since last sunday and the bush administration has escalated its rhetorical good start ran this week senior u s officials told the washington post and iran now poses the primary threat to our rock future said iran has increased its support occupy the country in other iraq news there iraq's oil ministry has released a list of thirty five all companies it says have qualified for chances to bid on future contracts the list includes british petroleum chevron core exxon mobil core and world dutch and shell president bush has confirmed that he was aware top administration officials personally discussed and approved how top seven suspects in the so called war on terror would be interrogated by the cia last week d v c news revealed principles committee of the national security council agreed on controversial interrogation techniques including physical assault sleep deprivation and waterboarding the fishelson vald included vice president cheney then national security advisor connally's rise to france secretary donald rumsfeld and secretary of state colin powell in an interview with a b c news friday bush said he had approved the meeting but did not take part he said we started to connect the dots in order to protect the american people and yes i'm aware our national security team met on this issue and i proved in a separate interview powell said he could not remember the details of the meetings the american civil liberties union is calling on congress to appoint an independent prosecutor a c l u executive director anthony romero said it is very sad they want to present a united states subverts the constitution throws of law an american values of justice and invents a way of life tens of thousands of people gathered in caracas sunday to mark the sixth anniversary of the u s backed coup against president hugo chavez chavez briefly overthrown by a group of business and military leaders who returned to the national palace following a groundswell of protest and a counter revolt by loyal soldier is on sunday chavez again address supporters outside the palace and he said six years ago not only was venezuela's destiny at stake but like the dell cast of believe the destiny of all latin america was at stake and haiti has brought to a standstill last week in a series of protest over the rising cost of food on saturday president rene preval announced subsidies he said would cost cut the costs rise by more than fifteen percent in response to the crisis haitian senators voted to remove haitian prime minister jackson eduardo alexis who has been blamed for mishandling haiti's  meanwhile the world bank has announced a series of emergency measures to address rising food costs worldwide this weekend finance ministers gathered at the bi annual world bank i m f meetings endorsing a series of measures including a ten million dollars grant to curbs on wages and ownership thousands of cubans will now be allowed to get title to state owned homes the government also says it plans to do away with limits on state wages the measures are the first approved by role castro since succeeding his brother fidel earlier this year and in mexico two women journalists have been killed in southern state of those aka teresa but the stuff laura's and first phyllis c t s martina's were returning from reporting this summer when they were ambushed by attackers the victims both worked in indigenous communities station called the voice that breaks the silence the trick indigenous community has archives sad one kampala launched the station earlier this year news the dalai lama said he does not want to punish china as a whole for the actions of its government and b c's news and curry asked do you want the world to boycott the olympic games to support your efforts in tibet and the d responded no courage then asked do you wish the president of the united states and other world leaders might consider not attending the opening ceremonies in support of your efforts in tibet and the dalai lama responded that's up to them it's very important to make clear not only just that tibet case but in china proper the record of human rights is poor and in gaza strip fourteen palestinians have been killed since palestinian militants crossed the gaza border and killed two israeli civilians last week six palestinians including at least two children killed friday in the latest israeli attack and back in the united states criticism is mounting of outgoing housing secretary alphonso jackson handling of the national housing crisis jackson is said to have ignored repeated warnings from within his agency the department of housing and urban development or hood that the rise in subprime mortgages was increasing the risk of home foreclosures during jackson's tenure foreclosures on the government insured housing loans and default rates have hit a record high in interviews with watching oppose tired officials revealed jackson used agency money for perks including a personal chef a full time security detail jackson's office also opened a seven million dollar auditorium in cafeteria at hud headquarters despite calls to use the money for low income housing jackson also solicited an emergency bid for oil portraits of himself and four other hard secretaries at the taxpayer's cost of a mere one hundred thousand dollars housing experts say jackson will be remembered as so committed to president bush's stated goal of increasing homeownership that he brought mortgage rates to new highs and new figures show congressional lobbying reached a new high last year according to the center responsive public politics corporation's industries and other interests band a record of two point seventy nine billion dollars last year it is the eight percent rise over two thousand and six amount to an average of seventeen million dollars for every day of congress the drug industry saw the highest rise of increase its lobbying spent by twenty five percent center for respons politics executive director sheila krumholz said at a time when our economy is contracting washington's lobbying intercity has been expanding oddly seems to be a recession proof industry the bush administration is r a congressional challenge of department of homeland security's new satellite surveillance system last week democrats threatened to shut down the program unless privacy concerns could be addressed so i program is designed to provide federal state local fishel swith extensive access to spy satellite imagery to assist with emergency response and other domestic security needs but critics say the bush administration hasn't created legal safeguards to ensure that the program won't be used for domestic spying and a letter to law have said the system poses no civil liberties concerns and will be slowly activated in the coming weeks and supporters of the jailed palestinian professor sami al arian have issued a new warning over his health after years begin placed in solitary confinement just days before his scheduled to release al arian is a second month of a hunger strike to protest his ongoing his original trial a florida jury failed to return a single guilty verdict on any of the seventeen charges brought against him because he had a good lawyer and that's it for our world between two teen boys to a large group was gathered police cited thirteen year old boy on suspicion of assault and for all three p m a woman called the parking lot of sierra college to report two passengers both with white beards had been threatening her and taking was advised by his attorney to call the sheriff's office and at eleven twenty nine a m a call from jenkins street reported to do it all ran away because you reported the girl got into a vehicle with the man because you didn't know deputy took a report and law enforcement would be on the lookout for the girl and at twelve p m he called her from the ten thousand block a luthier drive reported his ex girlfriend stole his dog one fifty seven p m a  cheese in her eye he managed to house also call the sound as if he'd been drinking and he said woman was throwing cheese all over the house news wife was acting up so the man said the fight was not physical the woman said yes in the background and i get the age of ten and if i