internet t v and brings you g v t v knew this was local and world news from nevada county california if you have newsworthy item please e mail them to us at news t v dot org i'm randy hanson and in today's news it curious raccoon broke into a pacific gas and electric company substation on the eleven thousand block of second way early thursday morning cutting power to ten thousand one hundred sixty six customers in grass valley in nevada city it was almost all of our custom in the grass valley nevada city area east spokesman paul marino said at three thirty seven a m the record got into a breaker causing it to malfunction a broken breaker often can cause an electrical spark which triggers a loud cracking sound it call it from certain way reported a large explosion and to substation at three forty two a m police logs show one witness said it looked like lightning and lit up nearby apartments to customers awake at the time of the outage called p g and e to report power had failed it were clear responded and found a dead determined incurious merino added the substation on certain way houses electric quitman receives high voltage transformers in the substation reduce the voltage level and then distribute electricity to neighborhoods the malfunction breakers has been serving a bank of transformers which powered three electrical circuits it's not unusual for one circuit to serve three thousand customers he added adding that the raccoon must have been counted a very high voltage poor guy and another story grass valley man known to gauge and says one of the areas main methamphetamine dealers is behind bars after officers thought of him throwing meth out of his car window allegedly trying to get rid of evidence there dixon thirty six years old is in custody away in brown correctional facility on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine transporting methamphetamines for sale he committed a crime while out on bail there was a short pursuit evidence added he was tossing math out the window and i caught it officer pursued dixon as the second officer stopped along the way and picked up the baggies of math off the street dixon was allegedly carrying a total of about eight to one ounce of an eight ball of our information is that dixon is one of the people around here supplying large quantities of meth evans added at the time of his arrest dixon was out on bail for separate drug related charges and another story after believing he cracked the case involving the one nine hundred seventy disappearance of donald last possible victim of the zodiac killer by using satellite imagery from the casino owners who vanished after her shift ended in state line due to the postcard detailing of sierra nevada seen sent to the san francisco chronicle and a christmas card delivered to last a sister mary poker  police department and san francisco chronicle the zodiac took credit for five murders two attempted murders and a kidnapping in california nine hundred sixty nine in one nine hundred seventy there was even a movie this year titled zodiac that delved into the calvinist wouldn't mind reaping the rewards of solving that last case and is eager to find a resolution to the riddle he believes he solved after three months earlier this year so he's been hounding authorities and media representatives representatives with details of his investigation last week on tuesday here run south lake tahoe due to the angora fire authorities were not able to meet and the company has to the site into a home county has became frustrated he took off on his own he drove through the site using highway eighty nine but there was a blockade due to the fire so the morgan hill residents satellite map from google earth he used in his investigation when he was on adult way the crucial street in his theory got a chill and a postcard sent to the chronicle one mind read peek through the as get to chill was the standing in the middle of the road and seen ruby can peek through the trees if you draw a line down an alleged way right to the summit of peak passes right through the trees it read best which is saint donna and guardian of the pines county has even took a photograph of where he believes last his body was buried to celebrate his find these guys went to mcdonald's and purchased a big  police department said authorities remain interested in what caravans has to say we're planning on seeing what leads we have there after initial digs zodiac killer theory turns up nothing but dirt using shovels and directions from an amateur authorities searched a four foot end of the earth for the body of donna last it disappeared thirty seven years ago they found nothing a large tree off temporal drive was the focal point of the dig and calvin is pointed to the exact spot where he believes the nurse was buried was used a postcard depicting a sierra condominium complex incline village that was sent to the san francisco chronicle and a christmas card sent to last a sister mary picker the coo got the site but had to wait for roughly an hour while determining who owned the land in order to get permission to dig then after getting the green light from california conservancy despite the fact the house he uses as a focal point for angles determining the location was not built on nine hundred seventy six six years after the last murder still believes last is buried in the area i was disappointed but even at this point i think that's the place he said somewhere around that tree no doubt about it south lake tahoe police sergeant jeff reagan said it's already of wanted to dig soon and asked where he believes last his body might be buried decided to do it and where they are going and now the police blotter and the pictures in the blotter are not from the actual events but used for visual aid only twelve thirty nine p m the vehicle on sutton way brunswick road and arrested a forty six year old man on suspicion of drunk driving driving on a suspended license violating probation and a local warrant at five fifteen p m a call from business on the one hundred block of west mcknight way you put it in man was in custody for making a fraudulent return please cited the thirty eight year old man on suspicion of burglary six fifty seven i want to call from a business some seven hundred block of television to report things were stolen from a purse in the employee's break room she did not want police to contact her for a report at ten forty dorsey drive reported a person was throwing orange cones from a grade van in a parking lot an officer was advised one twenty three a m a caller from the three hundred block of bennett street reported it partially closed and was running through the woods sheriff's office on wednesday at one fifty six p m a caller from business on the sixteen thousand block of penn valley drive called to report a shoplifter was on the premises deputies arrested the alleged shoplifter unsuspicio burglary at five forty five p m a caller from the twelve thousand block of lake shore north reported credit card fraud deputy took a report eleven thirty four p m a call from business in the seventeen thousand block of highway twenty reporting a video camera wire was vandalized twice in the last month deputies would contact the caller later at a live in thirty nine pm a call from red dog wrote above quaker hill road reported a disturbance involving four or five meals deputies were unable to locate in a disturbance they did locate a house that had been toilet papered at eleven forty seven pm a caller from the two hundred block of main street reported a man without a shirt just broke a window at an office and he was covered in blood officers cited the man on suspicion of vandalism and an me to the emergency room on thursday at twelve forty one a m caller from the hospital emergency room reported a woman in the e r said she was assaulted by her husband an hour before an eighteen thousand block  affair folks drive took a report for spousal abuse and arrested thirty nine year old man of suspicion of inflicting corporal injury to a spouse looks like a turner at seven twenty six am a caller from thirteen thousand block of metal lock lane reported vandalism to construction equipment equipment was painted with profanities the paint was water based and it washed off the vatican city police department at four fifty four p m caller from coyote street reported a nine injury accident in front of the post  blotter and now for around the world news the white house congressional dispute over testimony on the firings of u s attorneys and what was domestic spy program has intensified fo democratic members of the senate judiciary committee want a special prosecutor to investigate whether attorney general alberto gonzales committed perjury in testimony this week gonzales told a senate panel tuesday there was no internal white house dissension over the spy programs legality he also denied trying to pressure them attorney general john ashcroft to sign off on the program as he lay drugged and recovering from major surgery in his attorney testimony meanwhile the senate judiciary committee subpoenaed senior white house adviser karl rove and presidential aide j scott jennings for testimony about dismissal of federal prosecutors and in the story in iraq at least sixty people were killed in violence around the country on thursday twenty five people were killed and seventy five wounded in a massive car bombing in central baghdad eight u s soldiers were killed including four in dialla were tens of thousands of troops are launching an attack more allegations have emerged of physical abuse and poor conditions of workers buildings in the massive u s embassy in baghdad on thursday two american civilian contractors told the house oversight committee foreign workers were tricked into coming to iraq and then barred from leaving after contractors took their passports the kuwaiti firm first kuwaiti is overseeing the six hundred million dollars project it slated to be the largest u s diplomatic mission in the world american contractor john owens said he found a working and living conditions for the workers deplorable owen says the workers lived in tightly packed trailers and were denied basics including shoes and gloves they work twelve hour days seven days a week and as little as two hundred forty dollars a month always says workers were verbal bully and physically abused and dark to pay for minor infractions and in another story the parents of a u s soldier who killed himself after returning home from the military duty in iraq have sued the u s government for negligence joyce and kevin lucey say their son jeffrey hanged himself after the u s military ignored his depression and late may two thousand and four jeffrey was involuntarily committed to a military veterans hospital after he ignored his family's pleas to seek help the hospital discharged him after a few days he killed himself three weeks later his father came home to find his son had hung himself with a hose in the  to iraqi prisoners he said he was forced to shoot unarmed lay on his bed the loosies suit followed another case in which two veteran rights groups say the department of veterans affairs delayed and denied veteran help one of the hostages was killed wednesday after a deadline passed the taliban wants to exchange the workers for the release of rebel prisoners meanwhile in south korea activists gathered in seoul to call for the hostage anti terrorism war that's the main reason why the hostage situation happened and the taliban should immediately free the twenty two south korean hostages promptly and safely and in another story in the occupied territories a longtime  insider has resigned his post as the chief palestinian security official mohammad dahlan says he is resigning on the medical grounds but the critics say his departure is linked to his failure to prevent the hamas takeover of gaza last month allen has also faced accusations of corruption and human rights abuses during his time in the palestinian government and in australia an indian doctor detained over the failed car bombing in britain has been freed after prosecutors admitted his arrest was a mistake prosecutors have withdrawn all charges against mohamed haneef after finding he had no connection to the case and in cuba more than one hundred thousand people gathered in the central city of come out again to mark the fifty fourth anniversary of the attacks that ignited the cuban revolution acting cuban leader raul castro said cuba had suffered major setbacks since his brother fidel castro handed out power last year well castro also said cuba would negotiate with the us once the bush administration leaves office raul castro stated for that date a year from now we will be better prepared to resist and overcome on all fronts including the defensive also by then there will be elections in the united states and the terms of the current president of the country will have ended as well as his interested ministration characterized by backward and fundamentalist thoughts which do not allow for rational analysis of the world this year's advance also marks one year since fidel castro last public appearance pakistan as for the bush administration for recent comments asserting the u s would attack areas inside pakistan if deemed necessary to fight al qaeda militants pakistani foreign minister three said statements are irresponsible and they should have not have been made in fact they are counterproductive to disordered efforts and cooperation pakistan and the united states are making jointly this may be election season united states but it should not be at our expense in burma a human rights activist yang has been sentenced to eight years in prison the military led regime accused him of inciting under arrest in an incident that he saw him and other activists attacked by a pro government mob was on his way to a human rights training session nine of our government has been accused of scores of human rights abuses in arbitrary detention since taking power and the wall street journal is reporting the u s has opted to take a hands off approach to saudi bank u s intelligence is linked to the financing of militant islam militants the disclosure comes as the bush administration is facing criticism for prosecuting the largest islamic charity in the u s and the trial begins this week prosecutors accuse the texas based holy land foundation for relief and development of providing millions of dollars in funding to militant activities by hamas the charity says the money has gone to palestinian victims of israelis attack and close years in the occupied territories the case it's the largest if it's current u s history prosecutors have the scrutiny for the heavily reliant on secret evidence supplied by the israeli government meek of the muslim legal fund of america said the bush administration is arguing that providing medical and nutritional assistance to sick and starving palestinian to supporting terrorism and economic news the justice department has launched an investigation into several alleged cases of discrimination tory practices in mauritius lining the national community reinvestment coalition recently founded to african americans were twice as likely as white applicants to receive loans with expensive above market rates investigation follows a class action suit from the dead  prime mortgage lenders have been institutionalized systematic racism lenders named in the suit include wells fargo citigroup and washington mutual and immigration news a federal judge has struck down a series of controversial after immigration laws in pennsylvania town of hazleton over the last year the town has adopted ordinances aimed at barring undocumented immigrants from working or renting homes there judge james m subverted federal immigration laws and violated due process rights of employees landlords and undocumented immigrants observers say the ruling could have a strong effect and barring other towns from passing similar anti immigration measures and finally here is the weather sunny today with highs in the mid ninety's southwest winds five to ten miles per hour tomorrow  sunday will stay seasonable with highs in the mid to upper ninety's under sunny skies that's it for today enjoy your weekend thanks for watching we'll see you tomorrow and for all you new people from and see t v channel eleven again we welcome you to our broadcast