a tenacious bug in affected vaccines and late flu season mixed with springtime allergies have many about a county residents wondering what hit and we recent weeks there part of a national wave of influenza the national center for disease control has reported widespread flu activity since january in forty four states number of annual flu victims may not be higher than usual but this season is definitely different and could even be pushed by the current economy health officials here said this week there is a series that we're in there is a recession people come in to work instead of staying home when they are six and sharon said sharon turner a nurse at the house services coordinator the nevada county superintendent of schools feel like they have to come to work because not everybody has a sick time and if they call in sick somebody might take their spot turner said how did you get docs walking clinic in grass valley forty seven of one hundred  fifty patients have tested positive for flu since december according to office manager kim said gently the cases have involved patients of all ages although a number of sick people are normal for the season our staff took a looking so this season she thinks she may know why maybe it's lasting longer and they can't get over it and that's why they're coming in to work the resnick said it seems to be lasting longer than usual but actually been recovering from the flu myself said dr peter van houten at this year a family medical clinic and on of san juan ridge rather than your standard time of three to five days people have been coming back after two to three weeks and asking what is wrong the link with flu may result from one of the influenza strains that was not considered when this year's flu vaccine was developed and hound said he you know lots of patients he vaccinated got to feisty  despite getting their annual flu shots the vaccine has been forty percent effective this year according to dr justifies or nevada county public health director during normal flu season is about seventy percent effective the problem is that health officials and pharmaceutical companies have to decide one year ahead which strange their vaccine will fight for the next season eiser said the northern hemisphere vaccine is based on what had to southern hemisphere the year before because the maladies tend to move north this year's vaccine well for three kinds of influenza strains a and b eyes are say a wisconsin of solomon island and it be malaysia that it's not killing and a brisbane ten which is what seems to be h most people those who are not hit too hard are being told to skip work get plenty of rest drink fluids some of this fear cases are getting antiviral medicines top of the flu some suffers also are feeling spring turner said there are many kinds of flu viruses and paul analogies can exasperate them the county no longer has any flu vaccine but patients can check with their doctors if they still want it chicken soup it's what i say substance abuse and binge drinking are some of the topics that will be discussed at a meeting to coalition for drug free in nevada county today from three to six p m read this was yesterday at the silver springs high school gymnasium part of the program area of us will lead a town hall discussion on binge drinking and said the coalition program director touches son sean it's part of a nationwide effort in march to spread awareness of the problem she added the town hall meeting starts at five p m cliff newell nevada county's district attorney will also make a presentation about children and alcohol the problem of underage drinking in nevada county came into spotlight in january one fourteen one of sports athletes from the bear river high school w suspended after attending a party in granite they were alcohol was consumed last week to county district attorney's office filed charges against the mother who allegedly provided alcohol to the minors it was a story we brought you yesterday it's not legal to give minors out calls said no member of the coalition's law enforcement action group it's irresponsible for adults to supply alcohol to minors my office will follow through with these kinds of charges according to the california health kids survey fifty percent of nevada county 's high school youth consumed alcohol within the past thirty days and seventy percent of state that alcohol is easily accessible john in a recent column for the union most teens get a call from social sources including parents parents with other teens older siblings and other relatives and friends the mission of the coalition of drug free nevada county is to address substance abuse among young people by looking at the minimizing social factors that contribute to the problem so for springs high school is located at one forty park avenue or grass valley and the death of a fifty year old grass valley man found wandering by police on halloween night was the result of a bad fall police reported tuesday it is determination from the medical examiner that paul market sustained head trauma consistent with falling grass valley police captain rex marks and tuesday what continues to be a mystery is what led up to respond to a burglary alarm at a business on the three hundred block of idaho marilyn road at two twelve thirty a m november first two thousand and seven police found marquette with the scrape on his forehead perhaps from trying to find shelter for the night mark said police arrested market on suspicion of public drunkenness and took him to zero in about a memorial hospital to get checked out it that medical staff determine market had suffered major trauma to the back of his head and he was transported to the nearest trauma center so to roosevelt medical center market died at the rosa hospital anything here to distinctly say it was a result of foul play mark said the markings on markets body were consistent with falling his level of intoxication could have come into play with this balance and coordination placer county chief deputy coroner dennis watt could not be determined from the autopsy report when market received they had trauma marks at a market ex wife came carly told the union in november she and market had been drinking heavily together halloween evening they were in her car together at sunset when she pulled she pulled over he got out and walked away she said that was the last time she saw police have tried to place together a halloween night with no correlation between market and then the more san juan but we checked it out police will continue to seek to expertise for pats all exist and follow the leads to determine how market fell a motorcycle and a football and diseased market was originally from san jose and had lived in the sierra foothills since and high school district officials will meet thursday to consider how many employees they must lay off to balance their stricken budget after only one person took advantage of their early retirement incentive only one employee had taken advantage of the b incentive by february twenty ninth deadline said kareen pereiro a trustee of the nevada joint union high school district late tuesday night school officials learned in january the governor arnold schwarzenegger x about four billion dollars from core california's budget for education translating to one hundred twenty four thousand dollars for western nevada county high schools for the current school year in two point three million for the coming year for administrative head offered fifty thousand dollars to senior employees who would agree to retire early save in a district significant personnel costs they have budgeted up for ten such buyouts when asked what the consequences would be of the lower than hoped for participation perella replied i don't know but we have a special meeting this thursday or we will look at layoff numbers employees must be notified of a layoff by march fifteenth for the coming school year and that's it today for our local in today's world headlines clinton wins in a while texas and rhode island with cancer care is needed delegates to become to the g o p nominee and a report nearly impossible for clinton to overtake obama's delegate lead and his senate and paul win contested congressional primaries and bush backs colombian attacks inside ecuador bush urges congress to pass a colombian free trade deal and u predator drones at secret base in pakistan as palestinian death toll tops one hundred twenty rights defense israelis israelis offensive and connally surprised voice port for israeli actions in gaza and u s profiling immigrants based on nationalities and global warming denies deniers gather in new york city f c c to probe alabama senator hillary clinton run for the white house again steamed third tuesday as she won three primary races ending barack obama string of twelve victories clinton won decisively in ohio rhode island and narrowly beat senator barack obama in texas primary she said you know that what we say as a while goes so goes the nation well this nation is coming back and so is this campaign the people of ohio said it loud and clear we're going on we're going strong and we're going all the way on our way to winning this nomination record turnouts were reported for all four states some all iowa voting sites ran out of paper ballots due to overwhelming demand with clinton's victories and tuesday the democratic race is expected to continue until at least april twenty second when pennsylvania holds its primary in the republican race senator john mccain won all four states and one in after iowa gets to secure the party's nomination he said i understand the responsibilities i incur with this nomination i give you my word i will not evade or slight a single one our campaign must be and will be more than another tired debate of false promises empty sound bites and useless arguments from the past that are due to address not a single americans concern for their families curity cain is scheduled to travel to washington today this is yesterday to receive endorsement of president bush former arkansas governor m huckabee dropped out of the race last night after the networks called ohio for mccain and for the democrats the focus on the delegate count intensifies despite clinton's victories on tuesday obama maintained his significant lead in delegates the washington post reports that it's nearly impossible for clinton to secure more pledged delegates than obama before the convention clinton would need to win more than sixty percent of the vote in each of the dozen contests remaining between now and june seventh however clinton could still win the nomination by securing enough superdelegates and another potential setback by two clinton the dallas morning news reports a bomb might emerge as one or of pledged delegate race in texas even though clinton won the popular vote then other election news congress members dennis kucinich an ohio and ron of ohio and ron paul of texas both won primaries for their house seat tuesday after facing challenges from within their own party who want town tabak indictment of bush and cheney and in vermont voters in the town of brattleboro and marlborough approved measures tuesday calling for the indictment of president bush and vice president dick cheney for crimes against the constitution symbolic vote instructs the police department in each town to arrest bush or cheney or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere if they ever step foot in towns tensions remain high in south america days after colombian troops crossed into ecuador and kill twenty members of fark the revolutionary armed forces of colombia on tuesday nicaraguan president daniel ortega criticized colombia for carrying out attacks inside ecuador he said this attitude taken by the colombian government of bombing ecuador an territory three kilometers inside president referral korea said that it was a prepared operation to assassinate the man who had worked in favor of negotiation and peace colombia is becoming a factor does of destabilization and  certainly for a latin america meanwhile in washington president bush publicly defended the actions of colombia a close u s ally president bush said i told the president that america fully supports colombia's democracy and that we firmly oppose any action of aggression that could destabilize the region i told him that america will continue to stand with colombia as it confronts violence and terror and fights drug traffickers on monday ecuador in venezuela broke diplomatic ties with colombia and moved troops to the colombian border in bogata colombia officials have begun making several new accusations about the fark rebels colombia's vice president claimed farmer was trying to acquire radioactive material to make dirty bombs colombian president of arrow you reap threatened to bring venezuela president hugo chavez before the international criminal court for sponsoring and financing genocide you read accuses chavez of financing fark accuse colombia being the israel of latin america for carrying out said an assassination strike in a foreign country meanwhile president bush is using a tenuous situation in south america to push congress to pass a free trade deal with colombia a news from pakistan admiral mike mullen the chair of the joint chiefs of staff met with pakistani president pervez musharraf tuesday for the second time in a month the meeting comes as the washington post reports the u s has moved predator hunter killer drones into a secret air base located in pakistani city of chicago bad the pentagon is preparing to send about one hundred u s military trainers to pakistan to assist dipper a paramilitary force that is operating along the border with afghanistan targeting al qaida in the mill middle east israel is continuing attacks in gaza strip despite promising to hold back while secretary of state connelly's arrives visits the region on tuesday a palestinian baby girl less than a palestinians have been killed and around half of them civilians palestinians have killed three israelis one civilian two soldiers on tuesday secretary kerry of state connelly's arise said israelis have a right to defend themselves i have also said to the israelis that it is extremely important that they remember that there is has to be a day after he partner to work with and that innocent people who have the bad fortune of having to live under hamas control should not be subject to injury and death they should really be a very strong effort to spare innocent life after meeting rice and tuesday palestinian president mahmoud abbas refused to commit to renewing negotiations with israel bost side of the latest continuing israeli settlement expansion in the west bank the middle class the newspapers report federal law enforcement agencies have secretly established profiling techniques to screen immigrants based on their nationalities according to a leaked memo federal agencies have created an internal list of thirty five countries that are of special interest for national security reasons most of the nations have significant muslims or arab populations almost twenty percent of the world's countries are on the list including key u s allies such as jordan turkey and egypt the government is proposed to classify him a as so called special interest aliens simply if they have ties our sympathies with any of these listed countries and leading global warming deniers have wrapped up a three day conference in new york the slogan for the gathering was global warming is not a crisis organizers described it as the first major international conference to focus on issues and questions not answered by the advocates of the theory of manmade global warming the heartland institute organized the conference the free market public policy think tank received nearly eight hundred thousand dollars from exxon mobil between one thousand nine hundred eight and two thousand and five board members of the heartland institute include thomas walton director of economic policy general motors and james johnson former senior economist for the oil company a mochel the federal communications commission had begun investigating allegations that alabama television stations censored the transmission of recent sixty minute expos but to stay in prison former governor don siegelman the station w h n t in huntsville alabama went black during most of the segment the station claims that there was an equipment failure sixty minute investigation examined how the bush administration targeted sago mine for political reasons the f c c has taken action on a case of censorship in the past the new york times reports that nine hundred sixty nine the f c c revoked the license of w l b t in jackson mississippi after the commission established a systematic effort by the broadcaster to suppress information about civil rights movement white america by m and m and staying alive by the bee gees and the sesame is treat same and the barney seems song and commercial for meow mix at least one of the artists is happy their song was used during interrogations steve of the drummer of the group deicide said it's cool if for up to military standards of audio because it makes me feel like dio sites doing our part for the troops and that's a wrap for world  that's right done for the police blotter the pictures in blood are not from d's actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on monday at eleven thirty eight a m a call from six hundred block of freeman one reported a woman was carrying an infant who was wearing only a diaper the color was concerned for the child's welfare and one twenty nine p m call from one hundred block west mcknight way reported a red one nine hundred ninety accurate integra was doa somewhere between saturday and monday three seventeen p m a woman from the five want to block a why he's reported people were banging on her door in the morning looking for a prior tenant and when she went outside she noticed there was blood on her porch three fifty five p m call from two hundred block a certain way reporting the pair was on a row of animal control was unable to catch the bird seven six p m a caller from wall street reported a man in his early twenty's driving a white mazda are export up next to caller he pointed  taser at him when the man was unable to tase the caller he pulled forward and backward as if you were going to try again then he drove away police contacted goller seven to six p m a call from two hundred block of eliza and place forty two boys broke into his residence through a window in february twenty ninth leaving drug related items condoms and burn marks on the carpet color said the house had been injured daily since then and the grads door opener had been stolen on and off they took a report for residential burglary and trespassing ten twenty one p m a call if not spittle said a man in emergency room reported he had been assaulted in khan and park thirty minutes before by two males man an emergency room refused to press charges county sheriff's office on monday eleven a m the woman reported her purse was done out of her locked vehicle on eleven thousand block of polaris drive deputy took a report two fourteen p m a woman the alleged incident occurred that day and the victim did not want any medical attention and at six twenty four p m officers were looking for a thirty five year old man was red hair and blue eyes suspected of domestic battery he was last seen in north san juan he'd been drinking white p t cruiser with the sunroof and big chrome wheels vehicle was stolen and was involved in a homicide earlier today this is yesterday in eldorado county nine thirty pm a caller from ten thousand block out syria drive reported receiving annoying phone calls from a man she saw the puppy to the past week one thirty one pm a call from malta sera drug party she was given a sick dog and she was unsure what to do with it now the person who gave it the dog was refusing to take to dart back and drunkenness go forty one am a woman from the ten thousand block a welsh lane reported a man was outside the resident yelling banging on a door and trying to break it down to deputies responded inject a grudge an area around the house they were unable to locate anything