gateway parks baseball fields didn't stand a chance when local exterminator ron graham arrived recently with his road and gopher problems have long played depend valley park along with yards and gardens throughout western nevada county to prepare the fifty thousand dollars renovation of the park's four ball fields the offers had to be eliminated said district business manager mary lee allen we have a major goal for problem in the park there's nothing but go for mt allen said they'll destroy anything you're spending money on graham who owns a gauge company and an acronym for graham's anti gopher enterprise said the road nader is a hand held device that injects a mixture of ninety eight percent of their hearing dynamite like explosions during the process two hours later sheriff's deputy appeared at the scene graham said this extermination method is considered humane and eighty to ninety percent effective graham said killed by concussion they never know what hit him the rest of the park's grassy fields were not treated and there is a chance of rain infestation whole preschool creek will be a natural barrier there multiply worse than rabbits i understand alan said graham said he may return in the spring for his second wave of attack at imaginary and science museum in nevada city to award chambers who is a member of the boy scout troop eight fifty five chambers used his flair for science in mechanics to design and build hands on exhibit that demonstrates the interactivity of gears he worked with museum director judy nielsen to design durable safe and age appropriate display raised funds to build it and recruited more than twenty skilled volunteers to build the project  gears rotated cruelly and shots attached to magnetic bases that can be moved around in a metal tabletop a crank tops one gear by arranging the gears appropriately and turning over a crank a user can generate enough energy to live in a day light display to finish exhibit as well used to imaginary and by children and adults alike chambers earned thirty two merit badges held numerous leadership positions and it cumulated nearly one hundred campaign nights during his seven years as a boy scout in the boy scouts this is assistant scout master in the group jabers graduated from the union high school in june as a class valedictorian with a four point two g p a is now majoring in mechanical engineering at the university of california berkeley he is a son of keystone carol chambers appeared in a jury will continue deliberations today to decide whether clifford mcdonnell is guilty of murder and another man who slept with his estranged wife  closing arguments wrapped up thursday in nevada county jurors deliberated intel five p m sisson district attorney and ferguson said cheers then decided to break for the weekend the defendant is charged with second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter for allegedly beating donald sullivan on october twenty second two thousand and seven in grass valley saloon died of many injuries the next day etc roseville memory wore hospital four hours before the beating macdonald had been released from jail on his own recognizance in connection with a misdemeanor battery charge mcdonnell went to his wife's home on robben avenue and sought to reconcile with her but she didn't want to start a new life with him according to the trial testimony while cindy mcdonald went inside the house to get a pair of shoes to give her husband a lift elsewhere so and who lived in a trailer across the street saw mcdonnell so then went over and told macdonald they needed to talk to defense lawyer dan geffner of the public defender said girls also saw photographs of the bloody scene inside sullivan's trailer donald thirty eight is in custody at the county jail we'll keep you informed  in speeding cars flying by terrorists lax plays on wall street in grass valley interrupted calm in his neighborhood i've seen them come through here at forty five mph slack said thursday they get it on through here that's a common complaint in city neighborhoods according to the memo police chief john foster sent to the city's traffic safety review committee earlier this year letter proposed a neighborhood traffic calming pilot project which has been quietly implemented in slacks neighborhood in the hilly area west of downtown called not heal the project's main two only a series of fifteen mile per hour advisory speed limit signs in the in the bell hill nob hill and scotch appliance and towns in neighborhoods designed to get driver's attention a normal speed limit through the area is twenty five miles per hour but it is often ignored people drive up and down the street so fast you wouldn't believe it said loria stracke who also lives in los st it's been a problem for years the traffic calming project is a right step in the right direction striker said but she would like to see speed bumps as well like the ones already installed on neighboring streets while slacken struck out said people approach the intersection of walsh in pleasant street and high rates of speed often run the stop signs that scares neighbors tom mukherjee who lives in pleasant lot of these people have children and people drive up and down the street pretty fast in march police officer alex gammel guard and deborah bear's met with neighbors who said they wanted a program we picked a high populated area with busy streets to see if we could make it better traffic safety guards said the bush big push is to educate people in the neighborhood and the community to drive safely we're trying to see if it works up there and if it does we'll try it in other neighborhoods chief john foster said departments also attempted to dissuade motorists from using the area as a shortcut to get from main to church and mill street to avoid downtown another objective  the program is to reduce law enforcement in the area whatever the outcome it's like now is that anything is better than the norm just last week a friend of slacks was crossing walsh you know his wiltshire and almost got hit by a car that keeps beating around a nearby corner that's redstone for the police blotter in the pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid only nineteen am a caller came through the lobby the grass valley police department requested officers to contact her after she led her children who were at the movies was jumped by lindsay lohan and drake the giant the reporting person alleged low and was running a prostitution ring in hollywood one fifteen p m a caller from north ridge restaurant advised that they had lost their wallet somewhere between noon and one thirty p m a person's driver's pine cone circle party that he had found a home safe in his pond three or nine p m a caller from ten thousand block of huber crest drive reported that she was assaulted by a female of the callers was that process server who said she had an unknown object thrown at her face and she illegal activities with underage subjects and on friday eight thirty nine a m a woman from the two hundred block of sutton were reported vandalism to her one thirty eight p m a caller from the first reported waste management had not been able to pick up at two away to am a caller from the intersection of school street main street reported someone screaming and yelling and i'm a big white house nearby houses check to area and everything was quiet on their arrival ten seventeen am a call from two hundred block a certain way reported th saw them three thirty p m and woman from to want to block a subway reported receiving text messages from her brother's ex girlfriend as she was using her brother's phone officer contacted the ex girlfriend adviser not to contact the woman by twenty three p m a woman from the one hundred block of south church street reported two women shoplifting various items called back say she saw the two women get into a dark green jeep and headed east on west main street officers arrested a fifty three year old woman on suspicion of possession of stolen property and grand theft and more than four hundred dollars and booked her into jail seven forty four p m officers cited released a twenty four year old managed intersection a northbound on highway forty nine in brunswick road on suspicion of driving on a suspended license and violating probation and a dado two p reported her neighbors horse damaging her property and harassing her horses and the woman said she had talked to several county agencies but the issue was not getting resolved she wanted to speak to an investigator or a sergeant ten thirty four am a caller from the ten thousand block  violent woman said she was now working he was now working in the yard and it's six fifty nine pm a woman from the ten thousand block of dolomite court reported that her neighbor came into her house when she was not home the woman said she'd been receiving threatening phone calls from her neighbors regarding a letter she wrote about a neighbour's barking dog and i nine forty four pm a security officer in one thousand block of marble or away reported a man who had been locked out of the house and was threatening to burn it down withdrawn force drive said someone set a paper on four fire on her porch which burned down part of her porch nine fifty seven a m a man from ten thousand block of bartlett drive reported a man threaten to kill his family caller said he had restraining road reported suspicious activities at a neighbor's house color said the neighbor grows medical marijuana has several dogs and a proper name was shooting firearms the day before and sat upon his head to avoid pm a call from sixteen thousand block of garden bar road this juvenile daughter ran away again caller said that this was an ongoing problem and sunday twelve thirty one a m officers arrested thirty one year old man a fourteen thousand block on a corner road on suspicion of drunken driving a book came into the jail and at five twenty four a m a caller from the twelve thousand block of highway one seventy four put it a woman was standing in the caller's drive when turning to kill a college friend caller said the woman was bipolar and was off her medications and it now battered city police department on friday seven fifty a m a man from the seven hundred block of lindley avenue reported his neighbor threatened to shoot him although the neighbor didn't display any firearms report in person said the neighbor owned one financial industry the biggest bailout in u s history one that tentative support presidential candidates john mccain and barack obama the house will vote on the bailout well this was today i don't know what outcome house speaker nancy pelosi described seven hundred billion dollars package as a buy and not a bailout she said the party's over there a golden parachutes for high flying wall street operates are over no longer will the u s taxpayer bailout the recklessness of all street and that's what they're doing right now and that's the news alleged as you brings again we want to insulate the american taxpayer main street every day americans from the crisis on wall street people that know that this isn't about a bailout of wall street it's a buy and so that we can turn our economy around the democrats back the bill on the demand to give bankruptcy judges authority to alter the terms of mortgages for homeowners facing foreclosure democrats also failed in their attempts to steer portions of any government profits from the package to affordable housing programs according to the economist dean baker the bailout includes no serious restrictions on c e o pay however the democrats succeeded in securing some oversight for the program and some control of the finances put it in your pocket under the proposed bill how would you propose to help the seven hundred billion will immediately be available but the other half would be held back by congress agreement on a bailout comes as a financial crisis continues to spread across the globe early today britain seized one of the country's largest mortgage providers the bradford brinkley bank meanwhile belgium the netherlands and luxembourg have announce sixteen billion dollar bailout for the financial services giant fortis here in the united states citi group is reportedly preparing to buy ritual you bank and on friday night at the university of mississippi senator john mccain and barack obama squared off in economy and foreign policy in the first of three presidential debates and third party candidate was invited to participate senator barack obama tied the current government economic crisis to the republican party's economic fears and you're just if it it justice department investigation has recommended former attorney general alberto gonzales not to be referred to in the grand jury or for his role in the two thousand and six firings and nine u s attorneys but the new york times reports the probe offor is a blistering critique critique on the political motivations that led to the pirates the purported is expected to produce evidence that gonzales chief of staff karl sampson was carrying out directives crafted by more senior officials including gonzales white house adviser karl rove and former white house counsel harr announced capitol hill senate has approved a six hundred thirty four billion dollars spending bill there were legislation includes twenty five billion bailout on the auto industry the elements of long standing ban on offshore oil drilling and a record pentagon budget totaling nearly half a trillion dollars meanwhile the house voted saturday to approve a deal to lift three decade ban on u s nuclear trade with india the deal will allow india to expand nuclear power industry without requiring it to sign nonproliferation treaty as other nations must and the new york times reports  the u s army has deployed in advance u s radar system in israel so allowing early detection of incoming ballistic missiles the system is being set in the gap desert and will be operated initially by american crew in syria a car bomb in a suburb of damascus killed at least seventeen civilians on saturday the bombing occurred near a shiite shrine frequently visited by iranian and iraqi pilgrims earlier today at least five people died in a suspected car bomb attack on a military bus carrying soldiers in the northern lebanese city of tripoli and afghanistan's most prominent female police officer has been assassinated in the city of kandahar a car was head of the city's department on crimes against women and taliban cl credit for the killing about seven hundred fifty police officers have been killed in afghanistan in the past six months and in new york and paul's new prime nepal's new prime minister protests and spoke on friday night and first time since successfully leading the decade abolish the monarchy and in mexico police have arrested a man for raping and killing an american activist named marcella grace eller she had spent time in old soccer and international human rights observer photographer journalist and translator she was also butch cast in the sundance kid and the color of money no one was a long time anti war anti nuclear women's rights activist paul newman once said being named on richard nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor i've ever received in one sixty nine he spoke out in favor of the moratorium to end the war war in vietnam he said we're here in support of one of the main themes of the moratorium which is business as usual we're actors but i don't remember that anybody asked us to give up our citizenship papers when we became actors and so we're here obviously as citizens protesting what we feel is a tragedy of the vietnamese war so we're asking respectfully that people just don't go to our films on november fourteenth and that's it today for the california