nevada county california on randy hanson and today's news the album of grass valley musician aaron ross shifter just debuted at number twelve on the college radio chart c m j and the category of recordings added by radio stations and local producer said thursday this is exciting news said mark smith c e o of grassroots records company grass valley his first week out twenty eight stations nationwide out of his album looks good feedback on the recording has been glowing and he expects to see a lot more movement on it and coming weeks ross who earns his living as a butcher has performed with the band the band hello he just returned from a very successful five week west coast tour with grass roots and expects a tour nationwide this fall the last will throw his album release party at minus foundry nevada city on july twenty sixth tickets are available in advance at the foundry and at the door for more information call two six five five zero four zero or visit grassroots record seo dot com and click on artist also you can get its cd ran through all records to a six desperate west main street in downtown grass valley and another story sally harris began her one year term as nevada city marriage this week promising regular discussions with residents and well as continued improvements in city government city council members you now know you now know them asli appointed communicating this regularly harris said the new succession plan allows the most senior council member who hasn't already served as mayor to be appointed to the top post to merit chairs council meetings appoint committee members if you proclamations and represent the city and ceremonial events harris promise to lead orderly and fair council meetings i will endeavor to lead meetings in a fashion that is polite respectful to all and that balances efficiency with the need to fully explored agenda items prior to making decisions harris said we have a lovely historic town the beautiful sarah photo setting but what truly makes it a great city is the people who choose to live here steve cottrell who had served as mayor for the past year also praised the city's residents and said he was grateful for the opportunity i'm not sure what brought me more enjoyment throwing batting practice to willie mays for a few fleeting minutes in the summer of one nine hundred sixty one or sitting in the middle of the table for the past year said countrol a former minor league baseball player how long the mare has limited authority control said he was able to accomplish some key objectives he pointed average residents onto city committees previously were composed only of council and city staff members top and city treasurer george foster to direct the city's finance committee in issuing clock park proclamations to to develop city living treasures had tyson and utah phillips also t celeste on july eleventh two thousand and seven the district attorney's office hosted a training at the nevada county sheriff's department for all area law enforcement on financial investigation of the training was done by a special adams criminal investigator from the internal revenue service the information we received from this training while it was prosecute commercial growers and drug dealers to the fullest extent of the law allows this kind of investigations can be especially helpful in cases that more serious charges lewd and leverage x words a child fourteen or under the crime is a registerable offense which means the defendant must register as a sex offender wherever he lives but klaten was already a registered sex offender at the time of his arrest according to sheriffs and the court records would show clinton was convicted of indecent exposure in two thousand and one the possible sentence for the new charge ranges from publishing to three years in state prison judge anderson ordered a psychiatric evaluation of cl set to be complete before the sentencing evaluation made determining whether clinton could potentially strike again this was not a good case for probation ferguson said after the hearing writing that she advocates for prison time she opted not to take the case to trial she said because it may have been difficult to prove the girl did not give consent proving lack of consent would have been very troubled issue for the jury grasp police sergeant doug wren the cases lead investigator the best possible resolution clinton should get prison time rand said the fourteen year old victim was a runaway stain at a grass valley used to enter the girl went to a sexual assault crisis center the day after the attack and it counselors notified police the girl picked out of a photo lineup she said she met clinton outside the delora movie theater on mill street at about ten thirty pm on a friday night the two took a walk they ended up at clinton's tent in the woods behind brighton green's business complex the girl was examined the following day at zero nevada memorial hospital as part of the police sexual assault response teams protocol please try to climb into the parking lot at condon park disc golf are not from actual events but used for visual forty one p m not woman from the sixteen thousand block of green one reported she was in the middle of a divorce it's a man who just threatened to burn her and is now in the driveway removing belongings at six thirty four pm someone called requesting a response so far it works hearing five shots fired in the area the second caller reported hearing two shots grass valley police department on wednesday at eight sixteen a m a caller from the eight hundred block of even with the extra patrol requested the night before the address still was hit during the night by subject stealing gatling no property was reported missing but extra patrols were still requested nine thirty a m call from the four hundred block of brunswick road put it to suspicious man in the bushes at the back side of the business who was carrying out the business at nine forty seven a m a caller from the four hundred block of crown point circle reported a missing person after an employee living out of his vehicle did not return to work the caller said the man was working for the company for eight years and did not show up as usual it was unusual at one or two p m a call from the one hundred block overstreet reported that she came home from lunch if someone had been on the back deck because some plants were knocked over in her cat with kittens look afraid police found the man was an out of state law enforcement officer and a fire call at four forty six p m wednesday all fire departments were notified off highway forty nine and not a whole maryland road was on fire when crews reached the scene they discovered the smoke was from a brit and now for around the world news the house has approved a measure that would begin to draw in combat troops from iraq within the next three months the final vote was two hundred twenty three to two hundred and one mostly along party lines before the vote house speaker nancy pelosi urged lawmakers to vote yes  pass this bill and those that will follow in the coming weeks and provide a new direction on iraq that the american people demand but it's so urgently needed i urge a yes vote on this bill while congress member dennis  bush released an interim progress report that says the iraqi government has failed to meet most key benchmarks set by congress these include the passage of the u s backed oil law heavily criticized by iraq unions speaking at the white house bush dismissed recent polls showing seventy percent of americans back to withdraw and call on congress to continue funding the war the president also repeated his iranian's linkage of the iraq war to nine eleven president bush said the same folks that are bombing innocent people in iraq were the ones who attacked us in america on september the eleventh and that's why but it happens in iraq matters to security here at home which on the libby decision fair and balanced we don't but you also addressed his commuting of the sentence of former vice president dick cheney's chief of staff lewis scooter libby for the first time the president publicly acknowledged someone in his administration likely leaked the name of cia operative valerie plame but bush called his decision fair and balanced because said he is moving on president bush i'm aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration would disclose the name of that person and i've often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said i did would we have had this you know endless hours of investigation and a lot of money being spent on this matter but it's a tough issue for a lot of people in the white house and it's run its course and now we're going to move on and another story in the news from iraq at least sixteen people were killed thursday in clashes between u s troops and shiite militia in baghdad the dead included a photographer for the router's news agency and his driver of a parent it came out of fall fire from a children and agents france press journalist who interviewed witnesses on the scene said the helicopter appeared to indiscriminately fire on any gathering of people in the area and another story privacy concerns are being between five and ten thousand baghdad residents have been scant since march iraqis face is being barred from their neighborhoods with thirty three was the biometric scans and other iraq news the united nations high commissioner for refugees has issued an urgent appeal for more funding to iraqi refugees nearly four million iraqis have been internally displaced or left iraq the u n says the number is growing via round two thousand people fleeing their homes  campaign knows senator hillary clinton and former senator john edwards have been caught discussing an apparent plan to exclude other democratic candidates from future greats i'm thirsty edwards and clinton were speaking privately after and bubble a presidential forum in detroit unaware their microphones were still on edwards was overheard saying we should try to have a more serious and more smaller and smaller group clinton agreed responded we've got to cut the number when they're not serious clinton also indicated the two had discussed the plan before telling edwards we've got to get back to and response ohio congressman and democratic candidate dennis kucinich said no matter how important or influential they perceive themselves to be candidates do not have should not have the power to determine who is allowed to speak to the american public and who is not in peril candidates are as repugnant american people and to our democracy as an imperial me he was a leader that he was a leader for the leaders leading up to that and another farther i wish i could put him on the stand where he would be have to put his hand on the bottom swear to tell the truth and a fifth one he's not a leader he's running on and in peru hundreds of people gathered outside the chilean embassy thursday to protest the chilean supreme court's rejection of an extradition request for former peruvian president alberto f former white house counsel harriet miers miers refused to appear before congressional hearing on the firing of u s attorneys after president bush invoked executive privilege to prevent her testimony georgia prosecutors faces faces possible american was serving a ten year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex was another teenager he was seventeen years old and she was fifteen when a sexual encounter took place wilson was convicted of felony a gravitated child molestation has already spent two years behind bars this week district attorney david mcknight distributed some thirty five copies of video allegedly showing a teen sexual encounter georgia's chief federal prosecutor david mack hammy us said the video constitutes child pornography and called material under seal and finally back at the white house president bush reported to a presidential press conference tradition he has long ignored the first question to veteran correspondent helen thomas helen thomas the question mr president you started this war a war of your choosing and you can end it alone today at this point bring in the peacekeepers you want peacekeepers two million iraqis have fled their country as refugees two million more or displaced thousands and thousands of dead don't you understand he brought the al qaida on into iraq president bush responded actually i was hoping to solve the iraqi issue diplomatically that's why i went to the united nations and work with the united nations security council which you  passed a resolution that said disclose disarm or face serious consequences that was the message the clear message to saddam hussein he chose the course thomas responded didn't we go into iraq and  his decision to make and now here's our weather sunny slightly warmer today with highs in the low ninety's southwest winds ten to fifteen mph tomorrow and sunday will be sunny with highs in the mid ninety's and that's it for today thanks a lot for watching and we will see you