friday has three p m and also at seven thirty p m you can get a free podcast on the internet through i tunes or other podcast sites soon we will also be on truckee public access public access and see our college channel fifteen were on the dimmed monday when the case was thrown back into the law for the lawyers involved judge robert tell me as he was expected to sentence cronan twenty but instead decided to bring it back to the vatican two superior court one p m on september twenty fourth tell me entered he was leaning toward sending corn into the upper term sentence of four years in state prison instead of granting probation ten we had said he had been criticized recently for going easy on some drug case defendants but in criminal cases involving drugs  mental health issues he was inclined to grant sentences where we were both was possible but that did not apply to quantum to me and he said because drugs and mental health were not involved he attacked the victim from behind and really hurt him to me and he said conan also wasn't on probation at the time for property crime and punishment apparently did not get his attention but he told assistant district attorney in a f n and the defense attorney stephen long killed he feared the plea bargain they presented him would not allow the opera term because it would be declared unconstitutional on appeal ferguson said she thought this situation could be cleared up but tell me where he said she should have filed special circumstances in the case to get the four year prison term after hearing monk old ten reality had essentially given him two options one was to let the sentence proceed with the possibility it would be overturned by a higher court the other was to withdraw chronos original plea of guilty to felony assault and go to trial hearkens twenty five years old was breaking up a fight at the skate park at carleton park on june seventh when cornered struck him from behind the boards truck's hit park and skull and you suffered brain damage headaches and hearing problems and has been unable to work since attack expecting a final sentence friends and family of both men packed the emotion filled courtroom representing the victim's family civil attorney craig diamond said cronin inflicted a callous attack because harkens to sociopath the dumbing made him out to be but was a normal young man who thought he was threatened at the skate park and reacted wrongly i apologize for the pain and suffering i put his family and my family  said i apologize to mr harkins in mr harkins family but he said conan's apology was eleventh hour statement to carry little weight with him in grass valley residents can comment on a controversial plan to reopen the gold mining operation off of maryland road at a meeting on possible environmental hazards next week an environmental review session on idaho maryland mining corp's plan is set for six p eight p m so temperate twenty is at the low building at condon park also city leaders on tuesday could approve a plan to spend nearly thirty nine thousand dollars to clean up an eyesore at three thirty one bennett street which may have been vacant for decades said mary mark johnson city planning officials aren't certain who owns the property and haven't known about the properties ownership for its hears transient and squatters occasionally stays there and trash in dead vegetation pile up city officials said the cleanup could start as early as september seventeenth if the city council approves the abatement plan the council meeting starts at seven p m it's city hall one twenty five east main stre idaho maryland mine corp proposed to reopen a gold mining operation using one hundred percent of the mind ways for ceramic tile the mine recently laid off six of the fourteen employees at the mine who are part of the go old embarrassing remix operation and plan to build the first ceramic tile plant outside grass valley despite the layoffs the company still plans to build a productive plant in grass valley david watkins president of the idaho maryland mine corp said last month at the time watkins said the ceramics plants will split from the mind to placate shareholders who wanted to invest in one business or the other golden bear is looking for independent funding and the six people may get their jobs back in one or two months if the funding is secured why can some say that the time why clinton soon could not be reached for comment monday residents in the area have opposed the company's plan for years citing concerns about the mine's impact on surrounding wells draining water from the mine would impact wolf creek noise added traffic and much more energy but ceramic tile plant would need and how much more energy would be to potential impacts of reopening t marilyn mining corps pays pays for the cost of the environmental review which could take up to a year to finish and what do you do when you combine five hundred people zillion trash bags two beautiful rivers and two lovely cr if it's a third of saturday in september it could only be the perfect combination for the south where river citizens lee circle tenth anniversary annual great cleanup on saturday september fifteenth two thousand and seven from nine a m to twelve noon volunteers will work together in gathering trash throughout the uber river bear river wolf creek and deer creek watersheds has the nevada county representative for the california coastal commission state why the effort on the same day other communities communities state and national agencies organizations and businesses to support clean up will join the circle sites will cover the entire watershed including the south middle north and the lower you are as well as bear river and wolf creek watersheds volunteers will also have the opportunity to participate in an ongoing program of non native plant removal at bridgeport in the past eight years approximately twenty eight hundred volunteers have collected nearly seventy thousand pounds estimation of trash of recyclables including cars scrap metal a derelict cabin and old wine and equipment all of the river cleanup volunteers are also invited to a thank you celebration afterwards memorial park in grass valley from twelve thirty to two thirty p m there will be free barbecue lunch or a raffle tom mcdonald in the ground will perform is it during and after the luncheon in the park hot trash which on my thirty minute show modeling outfits they've made out of trash one outfit will be a bathing suit made out of lime green float tubes founded purdon crossing last year so you were cleanup is a great opportunity for friends and families to do community service together helping out a river that they enjoy says marian limahl of circles volunteer director and event coordinator on september fifteenth all over the state of california the california coastal commission to help organize these river creek lake and beach cleanups since the program started in one thousand nine hundred five nearly seven hundred fifty thousand californians have removed more than ten and a half million pounds of debris from our state's shorelines and watersheds circle has been the cause also commissions county representative for the event since two thousand and one this year's cleanup marks the twenty third anniversary of the california coastal cleanup day program making this one of the longest running and the largest volunteer event in the state the only way a program like this stays in business all these years is because the people of california love to participate says statewide outreach coordinator for the california coastal commission it's more than a cleanup it's an event that helps bring every californian together to set a benchmark for what environmental stewardship can mean to south river citizens lee has been successfully protecting the uber watershed for nearly twenty five years since nine hundred eighty three the group has helped to achieve state wide wild and scenic status on thirty nine miles of the south yuba fleet half a dozen proposed dams reached thousands of students in their education program created the largest environmental film festival through these victories and paralleled community support circle has become one of the nation's most prominent world community based environmental organizations with more than five thousand supporters five hundred supporting businesses and over five hundred active volunteers generous agency an organization sponsors include california coastal commission the county of nevada california state parks bureau of land management waste management of nevada county army corps of engineers nevada irrigation district u s forest service cal trans county water agency wolf creek community alliance sierra club out of one such society friends of deer creek odwalla clif five nine six one extension to a one or email her and miriam at circle dot org the clean up sites will be south to uber river crossing edwards crossing jones bar forty nine cross in bridgeport that's right time for the police blotter in the pictures in a blog are not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday at nine forty two a m a woman called from three hundred block a certain way to report that her ex husband was outside her apartment and refused to leave if officers contacted both parties and advised the man to leave and not return or face trespassing charges at five fifty four p m officers arrested a forty eight year old man in memorial park on suspicion of writing a bicycle under the influence of drugs or alcohol and booked him and we brown correctional facility it's seven forty five pm a man called from a business on the one hundred block of new street saying his ex wife was supposed to meet him at the located for a child exchange suspended license at nine o two p m officers arrested a fifty four year old man in a three hundred block of second street on suspicion of drunk driving and booked him into the county jail on monday at twelve twenty a officers arrested a twenty two year old woman at the intersection of courtney road and mill street on suspicion of violating probation and booked her into the county jail two forty nine a m officers arrested eighteen year old woman and they are a section of south auburn street in mohawk on suspicion of drunk driving and booked her into the county jail nevada county sheriff's office on sunday at ten twenty four a caller from the twelve thousand block of brattle snake road reported that a dog in a neighborhood had killed a recruit and was walking around with the carcass in its mouth the caller said the dog is frequently allowed to roam free and thinks it's a danger the caller requested contact with the and now for some around the world knows the two leading u s officials in iraq before congress money to praise the so called troop surge while asking for more time to achieve its promise goals and speaking alongside u s ambassador ryan crocker were commander general david petra the coalition and iraqi security forces have achieved progress in the security arena patris also recommended that he called what he called a very substantial withdrawal of two thousand troops the wall street journal reports the pullback plan is essentially the smallest he could offer because many of the troops are already scheduled to be rotated out of iraq next august democratic lawmakers offered a less critical response than some had expected one criticism came from california democratic congressman tom lantos republican tom lantos said ministrations myopic policies in iraq have created if you ask oh it isn't is it any wonder that on the subject of iraq more and more americans have little confidence in this administration the fact remains gentlemen that the administration has sent you here today to convince the members of these two committees and the congress that victory is at hand with all due respect to you i sworn in before testifying and i'm others were also arrested including cindy sheehan and code pink media benjamin meanwhile in iraq signs indicate the bush administration is expecting iraqi government to s iraqi government the job description includes assisting in developing a tax environment conductive conducive to domestic and foreign investments in iraq's key economic sectors starting with the resources t there would also review all draft oil laws created by iraqi agencies including those setting basic regulations for all sector job appears long term it runs through july two thousand and eight with an option to extend to july two thousand and ten and the news comes as u s oil companies continue to gain a foothold in iraq the texas based hunt oil has announced a production sharing agreement with the kurdish regional government will begin or oil exploration later this year the deal is the first for the kurdish provinces passed its own oil law last month hunt c e o of ray hunt's c e o has been a key republican fundraiser he sits on a board of directors for the contracting nine israeli soldiers have been wounded in a palestinian rocket firing on a base near the gaza strip it was the highest ever injury toll from a single palestinian rocket attack the israeli army says it has already struck back at the site of the firing but the local officials say four palestinian civilians including children were left the wounded in the israeli attack in a joint statement facts to reporters the militant group islamic jihad and popular resistance committees claimed responsibility for the attack and in indonesia the us space time magazine has been ordered to pay more than one hundred million dollars in damages to the former indonesian president suharto in one nine hundred ninety nine article detailed that suharto family's rampant corruption and alleged it pocketed more than seventy billion dollars while in power the ruling overturned two previous lower court judgments that dismissed the damages claim the court ruled the article was has damaged the reputation and honor of the grand general of the indonesian armed forces and the former president of indonesia and a government audit has found the bush administration allowed insurance companies to hold on to tens of millions of dollars that should have gone to medicare consumers the government accountability office says the companies kept the money because the administration failed to perform mandatory audits and recover wrongly paid funds the money could have been used for either reducing payments or providing more benefits to senior citizens who have very little medical insurance as it is the part portion of audited medicare companies fell to fourteen percent to twenty four percent in two thousand and one the bush administration has pushed corporate involvement in medicare and encouraged beneficiaries to enroll in private plans i suggest you see sicko and in environmental news a new study is warning two thirds of the world's polar bears could be ext global warming continues apace over the next fifty years the u s geological predicted predicts the bears will die but warm weather continues to melt the ice sheets where they live the u s fish and wildlife service is considering whether to designate polar bear threatened species and a group of medical professionals in anti torture activists have compared doctors involved in interrogations in guantanamo bay to those covered up in the murder of south african anti apartheid leader steve biko thirty years ago in a letter published in the medical journal lancet two hundred sixty signatories write the failure of the us regulatory authorities to act is damaging to reputation of the us military medicine the health care worker in the war on terror has been charged or convicted of any significant off and despite a finance despite numerous instances documented to the letter also says the american medical association has failed to respond to their original according to the sacramento bee ninety six percent of more than a thousand companies that asked to export their products by failing u s safety standards were given the approval to ship thousands of these goods including toys violating the same child safety guidelines to lead to the last month's massive recall of chinese made products toys were sent to countries including those away and jamaica experts say that shipments danger is higher in those countries because fewer local resources for consumer protection and safety shipments were not announced at the time they were made and guatemala the county's country's presidential race is headed for a second round following sunday's vote three indigenous woman to run for president of guatemala finished in sixth place with three percent and former defense secretary donald rumsfeld felt has signed up to join stanford university's hoover institution as when her term ends in two thousand and nine and on a sad note in britain dame anita roddick has died at the age of sixty four she was founder of the cosmetic firm body shop she was well known environmental campaigner and a pioneer of cruelty free beauty products commemorations are being held around the country and worldwide today on the sixth anniversary of the nine one one attacks here in new york for a moment of silence will be held to mark the times to two hijacked planes hit the towers and when the towers collapsed it's the first time the anniversary falls on a tuesday the day of the attacks t ground zero ceremony will be held in a nearby park because of increased construction at the trade center site firefighters who rescued victims are nine one one will read victims names the ceremonies will mark the first time  did not die in the attack will be recognized attorney felicia dunn jones died five months after nine one one from toxic exposure to the trade center dust other ceremonies include commemorations near the pentagon and  pennsylvania field where the other planes crashed and also on this date of september eleventh one nine hundred seventy three respect forces rose to power in chile to overthrow the democratically elected salvador africa founder of the black conscious movement was being beaten in the back of a van by apartheid forces he died early morning hours of september twelfth one nine hundred seventy seven one nine one one in one thousand nine hundred three in the midst of the u s in haiti and one answer any was dragged out of the church by forces and murdered in broad daylight he had been commemorating the massacre of parishioners at st john basco church that had occurred five years earlier on september eleventh