hi my name is alex and welcome to the nevada county mall we're bringing the community to you and a revolutionary way to save you time money and before we know it can be frustrating driving all around town spending time on the a union story by dave mahler one of grass valleys busiest intersections could get busier if a proposed mixed use building with a small restaurant against final approval at brunswick road and certain way developers reg rescuing of gregory creek l l c got a preliminary ok this morning from the city's development review committee for a four thousand square foot two story building on the north east corner of the intersection the building would sit between brunswick road and the existing two story building at the corner that has a tall five pole from which a large american flag is flown the area is now a parking lot across the street from the flyers exxon convenience store that has seen temporary ice cream and katie sales in the recent years we have to jumpstart this economy somehow risking told the panel referring to the small amount of projects currently going through the city's planning process  world's fiscal downturn it's a mixed it's a mixed use infill project the type city has been seeking in recent years the first floor would be a sandwich and or juice restaurant king said with room upstairs for several tenants who are interested in the building already king said but he wouldn't name them reg king told the panel at that starbucks has expressed interest in the drive through facility for the building the project is scheduled for final approval or modifications at the february seventeenth meeting of the city's playing commission and another story by dave mall in grass valley finance director carol fish resign monday ective feb thirteenth in a letter to city's officials city minister dan hauler said he would now evaluate fish's position to see if it needs to be reconfigured for efficiency in light of the cit budget deficit problem will have to rely on existing staff until then he says in her letter fish said she wanted to change after twenty years in government accounting in nevada county including the last tenant grass valley city hall the last couple of years has been especially challenging as well as we're trying to do more with less predict the future and withstand three administrators in a two year period has been difficult fish says after city administrator jean harold sin was fired by the city council city council in february two thousand and seven he was replace by in term leader jeff bolts before dan hauler took over last year the period has been fiscally punctuated by declining tax or veneers for the city which have resulted in a seven hundred fifty thousand dollars deficit layoffs worker furloughs and the closure of city hall on friday knowing how the state budget cuts could alter what cities had already done the outgoing director said in her letter she would be available for the city through june depending on the city's need as time permits though she did not say exactly what the future holds one of my long term goals has been to work for the federal government and i am actively exploring options on this line she says fish did not return repeated phone calls to city hall she's done a great job and we're sorry we're losing her said how'd she has agreed to take us through the budget process which will start soon and concluded in june in another story by the union in the union by liz keller the sentencing  continued for grass valley woman accused of taking money from the fun of her brother in law laura now is set to be sentenced at one thirty p m january twenty sixth on charges of felony grand theft she pleaded no contest to the charges after being accused of taking money from the moral fund she set up for robert or robbie johnston as a favor to his family johnston was killed in january two thousand and eight in a car mistah told investigators she used about twenty five hundred dollars from the johnson's memorial account to pay her rent she recommended sentence is four months in the county jail and probation she also have to pay two thousand four hundred five hundred dollars in restitution for the embezzlement on monday judge robert tell me eddie agreed to continue the sentencing in part because prosecutors also are looking at the prior misdemeanor  charge because some of the victims want to make statements at the sentencing to me and he noted that has not made much progress progress towards making restitution but mr hose court appointed attorney said she is expecting to inherit a life insurance policy that she will use for restitution in another story by liz keller a spray paint welding ban spray for vandal a number of science and businesses idaho mail and road causing an estimated twenty five hundred dollars in damage the tiger deface a number of signs belong to the city and caltrans as well as a sign for the alternative building center and cement walls and significance of the words there was no real damage from the weekend incident johnson said just the time needed for cleanup it's more of a nuisance he said estimating and cleaning and repaid seeing what all costs twenty five hundred dollars tagging is fairly infrequent ingress valley johnson said it's certainly not a rampant problem he says the community is always quick to clean up which is good if it's it's  almost like it's contagious another tagging incident reported the same day was not believed to be related johnson said since the paint color and the message were different that's right it's time for the police blotter new pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday hit a twenty eight am it caller from a business eight hundred block of whispering pines line report mill street near courtney road reported a possible transient camp it was unoccupied twelve fifty five p m a woman from six hundred block wall street reported fifteen men threatening her about her brother twenty couple was wearing biker clothing for forty one p m call from business on two hundred block of east main street ported to teens tried to steal a snickers bar seven forty nine pm a woman from two hundred block dorset drive boarded the people she was dana with were plotting to kill her by drugging her and making it look like an accident she was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia monday at four o four a m a woman from the one hundred block of buffers street reported her tires had been flagged possibly by a neighbor that a county sheriff's office on friday two twenty nine p caller from the eleven thousand block of vista avenue reported m p three player and p three player was stolen from the vehicle during the night two fifty seven p m a call from twelve thousand block of gold way reported three hundred  river rocks through his window three thirty two am woman from ten thousand block of wolf drive reported a man called three times and made sexual comments about his her juvenile child nine sixteen a m call from twelve thousand block of black road reported to six year old child out of control ten thirty seven a m a woman from seventy thousand block of lawrence way to demand said her grandson was in an accident needed four thousand dollars wire transfer she did transfer twenty five hundred forty five p m call from twenty three thousand block of darkhorse drive reported two men and a truck with a trailer dumped concrete and refute material on private property five thirty p a woman from thirty thousand block of barker lane reported hearing multiple gunshots six twelve p m call from brook view drive and brooks road reported hearing gunshots one thirty one a woman from walker drive reported hearing women and girls screaming was found to be a guitar hero party eleven thirty six p m a woman called to report her ex boyfriend in eighteen thousand block of carney drive certain her and might have shot at her as she was leaving the man called to report someone was breaking into his house he was advised sheriff's deputies were at his door and he needed to answer it he told deputies he did fire a warning shot in the air with a shotgun sunday one thirty nine a m a caller from garden bar and clayton rhodes reported a physical fight in the road and it's a thirty six am a call from fifteen thousand block of names drive reported a car was covered with peanut butter and coleslaw in a case of vandalism loan a four am a call from ten thousand block while sere drive reported to unlock vehicles were rummaged through but nothing was taken and at eleven  am a call from the fifteen thousand block a little valley road reported property was stolen from a car busy fellows about twelve forty nine a m a call from the fourteen thousand block a kneebone drive reported medication was thousand block of old danielle high went reported a radio face plate was stolen and monday five fifty pm a caller from sixteen thousand block of mountain park court reported cash  cities were stolen from a vehicle and the battered city police department on friday ten forty nine am it caller from the two hundred block of spring street reported vandalism to a vehicle length thirteen p m i woman from the four hundred block of factory street reported loud music was disturbing her peace and at eleven thirty six p m a call from three hundred block of broad street reported a physical fight and saturday ten twenty one am a caller from a business in a two hundred block of broad street forty two men in a physical fight one of the men did not want to press charges and police could not lo until trial and bush does not have any weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment and roland burris to be seated as new illinois senator ended first story president residents of gaza suffered the most intense bombardment of the eighteen day war last night as israel carried out air and air artillery strikes throughout gaza strip israeli tanks backed by attack helicopters have moved into several southern neighborhoods or the densely populated gaza city hospital report dozens of calls for ambulances have been received but they could not to be dispatched because of the fighting palestinian president mahmoud abbas accused israel of aiming to wipe out the palestinian people in gaza by refusing to end its attacks the palestinians death toll is now at nine hundred thirty five more than forty three hundred palestinians have been injured thirteen israelis have died over the past eighteen days an estimated ninety thousand palestinians have fled their homes but many residents of gaza have nowhere to go because of all the gaza border crossings are closed and tone grand head of the international committee of the red cross in gaza said there is no safe place in gaza for civilians they're afraid to stay home their friend to move there are also frayed to go down the street to try to find some water or try to buy some food no electricity no water difficult access to hospital and ambulances that are not able to reach some places to collect wood on monday united nations human rights council adopted a resolution condemning israel to non binding resolution said israel's attack had resulted in massive file legions of human rights oh the palestinian people israeli prime minister you know mark has publicly claimed that he had personally called president bush last week  him not to support the u n security council cease fire resolution that was partially drafted by secretary of state condoleezza rice after all much call now to states change the course and abstained from the vote which passed fourteen to sea two norwegian doctors who have just returned from gaza have accused israel of testing new experimental weapons known as dense inert metal explosives or dimes and me the weapon cause a tissue to be torn from the flesh doctors mads gilbert said we have seen a number of very brutal amputations without shrapnel injury such we strongly suspect must have been caused by the dye weapons dr eric fosse said i have seen and treated a lot of different injuries in the last thirty years in different words ons and this looks completely different to raise israeli newspaper haaretz reports an israeli soldier has been jailed for fourteen days for refusing to fight in gaza the soldier who has not been identified was the first member of the i d f to be tried for refusing orders since the war on gaza began activists with the free gaza movement are vowing to try again to bring humanitarian aid to by sea yesterday free gaza boat had to return to cyprus after it suffered a mechanical failure free gaza activists who why they are off said we can't wait till israel decides to stop killing and then open for gaza's international for the international community and aid workers to come to pick up the pieces now we must insist on the right to enter and so in that sense we are not going to let the violence that israel used against us or what they might use against us again stop us in other news aides to barack obama say the president elect plans to issue an executive order his first full day in office directing the closing of guantanamo prison camp in cuba but experts say it could be as long as a year to empty the prison which still holds two hundred forty eight men on sunday obama said it would be a challenge to close guantanamo in his first one hundred days many of the prisoners are expected to be transferred to the countries to other countries officials who it's obama's transition team are also reportedly committed to ordering an immediate suspension of the bush administration's military commission system for trying prisoners in the latest news from point tunnels military officials are reporting forty two prisoners are now on hunger strike thirty one of the prisoners are being force fed the washington post reports president  intends to sign off on pentagon plans to send up to thirty thousand more u s troops to afghanistan which will nearly double the current force of thirty two thousand this comes as more signs that the u s military is planning to stay in afghanistan for years to come the army is spending up to four billion to build new barracks training areas headquarters warehouses and airfields to help the surge of u s troops and president elect a broch a bomb a house watched an aggressive campaign to persuade congress to permit him to spend another three hundred fifty billion of the financial bailout program just stabilize the u s financial system on monday the bush white house formally notified lawmakers of obama's intention to use the second half of the seven hundred billion dollars bailout package congress as fifteen days to approve the resolution blocking the funds obama vowed his administration would do a better job to track our money from the troubled asset relief program is spent he also said i think many of respect to areas like housing consumer credit so that we can maintain credit flow small business students who need student loans people who are interested in buying a car getting loans car loans and all sorts of main street w trial for stealing fifty billion from investors federal prosecutors have asked just to revoke made a spare because he attempted to give away valuable jewelry to family and friends and president bush held his final final news conference monday he rejected the idea that the nation's moral standing has been damaged over the past eight years and defended the government's response to hurricane katrina which has asked if he had made any mistakes over the past eight years and he said there have been disappointments abu ghraib obviously was a huge disappointment during the presidency not having weapons of mass destruction was a significant disappointment i don't know if i want to call those mistakes or not but they were things didn't go according to plan let's put it to put it that way and anyway i think historians will look back and they'll be able to have a better look at mistakes after some time has passed our along jake's question was there is no such thing as short term history i don't think you can possibly get the full breadth of the ministration talk time has passed in news from capitol hill senate democratic leader said monday that roland burris would be seated as a new senator from illinois and in two weeks of drama the senate leadership had initially vowed not to see anyone named by the embattled illinois governor rod blagojevich who was arrested last month on