the forty year old grass valley man rescued by nevada county fire personnel after he fell into the uber river is expected to recover from a leg injury the fire official said tuesday the man fell twenty feet from a rock into the river under highway forty nine bridge at about four fift after his fall the man was able to climb out of the water onto some rocks and his brother called nine one one firefighters from nevada count a consolidated fire district in north san juan along a tear farm department responded along with the caliph but i would patrol helicopter the helicopter was dispatched to case the man had to be flown to a trauma center firefighters used ropes to lift the man to safety the man who had suffered a possible broken upper right leg was transport by ambulance to sierra nevada memorial hospital monday's incident was the first uva river rescue of the year in nevada county it was a good one he said we just finished training for the entire department on low angle cliff rescue the boys did well we spent the last sixty days focusing on this kind of thing and here it is another story eric england egland the lone republican running for john doolittle's congressional seat who lives in the district full time said wednesday he would bow out if powerful state senator tom mcclintock from southern california enters the rate edwin's remarks are the latest twist in crowded fourth district race which also includes longtime politician thomas recall all or and doug ose a as front runners for the republicans and former air force officer charlie brown running who came close to being doolittle two years ago for the democrats the primary will be held june and general election in the winter i enthusiastically encouraged senator mcclintock to enter the race he is a true conservative whom we can trust to represent us in congress staff member for a glimpse campaigning with senator mcclintock i see no need to continue my campaign should he enter the race i will immediately withdraw and begin helping him raise the funds necessary to bring his message to the voters of the fourth congressional district mcclintock it will no one state politicians are strongly considering a run for a seat be left vacant by doolittle in an announcement likely would come by the end of the week and aides say tuesday republicans are eager to retain the fourth district seat that is being vacated by doolittle in a democratic controlled congress congressional candidates must live in the state they're representing but state law does not require them to live in the district most congress members live in their districts however oh say in all or the sacramento area both have said they would look for a place to live in the district theodore terrible izzard a conservative republican lives in cedar ridge most of the week but is registered to vote in alameda county doolittle's under federal investigation for his ties to jailed lobbyist jack abramoff to little spent seventeen years in congress aaron park a blogger on the conservative republican website red county dot com said in a mcclintock has been preparing for a run including paying for recent polling in the district bill clinton arcs crew have called media to arrange buys called state mailers and have called donors park road meanwhile a spokesman for democrat brown called the republican jostling the same old recycled politics the contrast in this race has always been about patriotism on the one hand and partisanship on the other bro spokesman todd stenhouse said we put to county the country loyalty ahead of party loyalty what's best for the country what's best for the district who could talk represents california's nineteenth district an state senate and area including the northwest corner of los angeles county including the cities of stevens stevenson ranch and santa clarita and part of ventura county including thousand oaks simi valley moorpark am a real ventura in ohio vatican city resident linda ball accused of embezzling more than one hundred thousand dollars from her homeowners association where she was treasure is expected to withdraw her as a not guilty plea next week the district attorney said tuesday the change in plea comes as the judge hearing the case disqualified herself because of personal ties to box husband former nevada city mayor tom bach but of all pleaded not guilty nov twenty first in three charges of felony investment and one count of theft from an elder but she is scheduled to change her plea to either guilty or no contest february twenty eighth district attorney cliff newell said he tentative plea agreement has been reached you will said tuesday the charge will remain the same i will be reducing the felonies to misdemeanors or anything like that newell has been engaged in extensive discussions with box attorney thomas loop of auburn he said and the two have reached an unofficial agreement on the terms of the plea change ball was arrested october twenty fifth two thousand and seven after a two week investigation by the grass valley police who allege paul used to position as associate treasure to embezzle more than one hundred thousand dollars from the woodbridge homeowners in the kate after issuing subpoenas to citizens bank and bank of america newell recently received complete records of box transactions on the behalf of the homeowners association  comment tuesday on the details of the plea agreement including possible restitution for box alleged victims many of whom are elderly the vatican county superior court judge julie mcmanus disqualified herself february that's it for our local news today clinton forty one percent and hawaii obama won in a landslide winning more than seventy five percent of the vote rock a bomb a celebrates his victories with a campaign rally in houston texas he said it is my central premise that the only way we will bring about real change in america is if we can bring new people into the process if we can attract new people if we can attract independents if we can stop fighting with republicans and try to bring some over to our side i want to form a working majority for change that's how we win elections that's how we will govern i want to reach out to everybody both senator hillary clinton and republican front runner john mccain took shots at obama during their speeches last night senator hillary clinton said it is about picking a president who relies not on just words but on work on hard work to get america back to work that's our goal john mccain also appeared to target obama during his victory speech he said i will fight every moment of every day this campaign to make sure americans are not deceived by eloquent but empty calls for change john mccain won in wisconsin and hawaii pushing him closer to the personally wrapping up the republican nomination the democratic race is now focused largely on march fourth contests in texas and ohio which are seen as mu win races for the clinton campaign the supreme supreme court has refused to hear a lawsuit challenging the bush administration's domestic spying program american civil liberties union has bought the case on behalf of prominent journalists scholars attorneys and nonprofit sue say that the unchecked surveillance program is just refuse their ability to communicate effectively with sources and clients the supreme court declined without comment to hear the case u said it shouldn't be left to executive branch officials alone to determine what limits apply to their own surveillance activities and whether those limits are being h president bush is in ghana today on the fourth leg of his five nation african trip on tuesday goners president john called for welcome bush as a friend but he declared that gone i would not host the u s military's new african command known as african president hoover said our sovereignty is something we cherish on thursday bush will visit liberia the only african nation that has offered to host african on in news from iraq a bomb blast in eastern baghdad has killed fifteen iraqi police officers they died while they were trying to defuse rockets meanwhile the associated press reports shiite cleric matar sardar has threatened to lift  six month cease fire the cease fire was declared an obvious news due to expire this months and u s military says the cease fire is a major factor in why violence declines in the second half of last year in iraq in other news from iraq more than seventy companies have registered to compete for the new all contracts to help develop iraq's oil reserves companies including royal dutch shell and b p in economic news the financial times reports u s banks have quietly borrowed nearly fifty billion dollars from federal reserve in recent months as part of a new effort by the fed to loan money to the banks at discounted rates the move has sparked unease among some analysts of but the bank's growing reliance on indirect forms of government support meanwhile the price of oil has risen to one hundred dollars a barrel for only the second time in history the latest price jump came a day after an explosion in a fire at a texas all refinery that injured four workers the explosions occurred at a plant only lightly by the israeli energy company a lawn israel oil the bush administration used to find calls to lift its embargo on cuba following the announcement of fidel castro's resignation on tuesday more than one hundred members of congress urged the united states to review its policy of isolation towards cuba the letter stated our policy leaves us without influence at this critical moment and this serves neither the u s national interest  or average cuban's the intended beneficiaries of our policy the us has maintained an embargo on cuba since one nine hundred sixty president bush addresses the cuban situation during a stop at ronda said the international community should work with the cuban people to begin to build institutions that are necessary for democracy and eventually this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections and i mean free i mean fair not these kind of staged elections that the castro brothers try to foist off to be true democracy and we're going to help the united states will help the people of cuba realize the blessings of liberty meanwhile leaders in the south america pay tribute to fidel castro on tuesday this is bolivian president ev statement personally i felt a lot i felt a lot deeply because i have known most as marius and for him for dell taught us solidarity for they all taught us how to work for life for humanity and for solidarity i learned that was initial lula does silver said i think this is important for harmony in latin america because the process happened in a calmer way with fidel's initiative as it should have happened to great mess continues fidel as the only living myth in the history of humanity and i believe he built down with a lot of competence character will and also with a lot of conflict and a lot of controversy the department of homeland security is coming under criticism over where it's building a new border wall between texas and mexico according to the texas observer the bush administration is suing many poor landowners along the border in an effort to force them to give up property for the eight hundred foot steel wall steel and concrete wall but at the same time the department of homeland security is leaving large gaps in the wall to avoid building the wall on property of wealthy residents in a small town grand general of the wall abruptly ends at the property of dallas billionaire ray l hunt whose family runs hunt oil hunt is a close friend of president bush and serves on the foreign intelligence advisory board the national black justice coalition is reporting connecticut state representative jason bartlett has become the first and only openly gay or lesbian african american state set legislator bartlet recently announced his sexual orientation in interviews with two newspapers in media news the wonders of the george polk award have been announced winners include chauncey bailey the oakland post editor who was murdered last year while investigating a local bakery with criminal thomas bailey was the first journalist since one thousand nine hundred three to become a victim of a targeted killing in the united states blogger joshua marshall want to polk award for legal reporter you for covering the u s attorney scandal on his website talking points memo and democracy now correspondent jeremy one of the george polk book award for his bestselling blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army a former defense contractor and prominent republican fundraiser has been sentenced to twelve years in prison brant wilkes was convicted of bribery former republican congressman randy duke cunningham with money and prostitutes in exchange for ninety million dollars in pentagon contracts prosecutors had asked for works to receive up to twenty five years in jail but the federal judge sentenced him to less than half of that brant wilkes raise more than one hundred thousand dollars for president bush's election in two thousand and four news that's right stan for the place but only pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only about a county sheriff's office on monday in one fifty one p m a call from the ten thousand block a will of valley road reported a building was vandalized a deputy took a report for trespassing and bandoliers at three forty p m a woman from the ten thousand block of alters your driver put her mailbox was damaged and it was an ongoing problem scuse me about a city police department on monday ten fifty am caller from the five hundred block of north pine street reported a sewage pipe was backed up and flowing into the colors yard public works was notified seven forty two pm police a juvenile at a store on the seven hundred block of zion street on suspicion of shoplifting grass valley police department on monday one of seven pm a woman called to report she could hear a lot of screaming near the want to block a west at about one hundred mph the c h p was notified ten twenty seven p m to callers an eight hundred block of fourth grade reported hearing a fight between a man and a woman that sounded physical police arrested a thirty year old man on suspicion  domestic battery and violating parole and emergency protective order was issued and served to the arrest report lunar eclipse from seven zero one december fifty one that was the other night mostly cloudy with scattered showers for highs in the fifty's no levels near four thousand five thousand feet tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with chances the showers highs and fifty showers will be continue through the weekend one hundred twenty years ago they claim it confirmed that would make her the oldest person in the world the guinness book of records currently listen one hundred fourteen year old edna parker of shelbyville indiana is holding that title sabina has died a spokesman person for the israeli interior ministry confirmed in a march from the is israel arab village of jews or as arca is listed in the population registry as having been born in eight hundred eighty eight we're just not sure if it's correct identity to listen was based on issued by turkish authorities who ruled the region at the time she said ministry clerks in an israeli city near misses village found out about her claim this week when she came in to replace your debit card she lost relatives said she has ten sons and one daughter woman she watched each day and make sure she drinks at least one glass of olive oil she was a pampered second wife who married relatively late explaining the age of her children how much said her house was always full of people said people like to come to her house she talks to us about the old days she knows the history since the turkish times turkish control of the land ended with world war one a devout muslim she has made for pilgrims to mecca the last one fifteen years ago when she would have been over a spouse and children desert to focus ghouls into because of medical examinations anything that helps reconstruct a time like of the person back to the age that age has been it was explained there is a lot of documentation that needs to be prepared before we could announce that person is the oldest person and out of washington a frock the size of a bowling ball with heavy armor and teeth lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the reasons before or devil toad but it's size ten pounds and sixteen inches long isn't the only curiosity researchers to decrease his ball going to madagascar yet it seems close relatives normal sized frogs who did a live half a world away in south america challenging assumptions about ancient geography the discovery led by powell and tele just david cross at new york's stony brook university was published monday by the journal proceedings of the national academy of sciences this frog if it has the same living habits as i living relatives in south america was quite for racers ferocious crafts it even conceivably that it could have taken down an hatchling dinosaurs yemi cross began finding fragments of abnormally large related to the african frogs it seems to be a relative of south american one frogs known scientifically as sera tough for us popular as pests they're sometimes called pac man frogs for their huge mouse like those modern time and frogs can survive long in salt water across no he contends the giant frogs provide evidence for competing theories that some bridge still connected to land masses that late in time perhaps via an antarctica that was much warmer than today and that's it thanks a lot for watching t v t v news would also like to think the union amy goodman associated press and others for outsourcing of our news and don't 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