upheld the charges and the case will move to try to pull out pines me and also had a cool friendly manner that disarmed twenty four year old alleged victim when he allegedly picked her up two months ago near the intersection by reed twenty an interstate eighty she had some for years in snack he said she got away by cutting the ties around her ankles with her pocket knife kept in her cargo pants pocket after her attacker left her alone to retrieve something from his minivan investigators say the young woman told investigators so of and picked her up at september fifteenth near highway intersections he took her to get coffee at a gas station in the yap and told her about a place where they could find hot springs in turquoise sh to go with them after the two had walked about three hundred yards for more so haven't had parties minivan off bowman lake road near canyon creek she bent over to tie her boot lace she told investigators she felt his hand on her shoulder she looked over and that's when she gun don't make me hurt you sullivan allegedly told the woman everything is going to be ok we're going to have sex they appear and have some fun she understood illegibly told the woman it was ok to cry but she couldn't speak or look at him if she the hearing the woman was not present in court for thursday's preliminary hearing although she is in communication with investigators ferguson said prosecutors may not require an alleged victim's presen if they believe it is possible to present evidence of a crime without the alleged victim's testimony the woman is set to testify at the trial for instance the alleged victim told the union in september t very calculated and calm while he threatened her life in tied her up like he had done just before so and has no known previous a record of arrest or conviction for kidnapping or sex crimes thousand dollars bail local animal welfare groups now have to chance to improve their services with grants being offered by the nevada county land trust the land trust sold thirty six acre property on brittany springs road for six hundred thousand dollars in may said marty coleman hunt executive director of nevada county land trust the property was owned by the late alfred salter one of the tries to convert his estate into a dog park or sell it to help animal welfare organizations right now there is no organ it's major funders of animal welfare in the county said i am a state director emily snow this could help us considerably to improve animal welfare in our area eligible for a grant includes ones often in space and neuter programs dog training programs in veterinary services common added soldiers britney springs road property was transferred to the interest in march of two thousand and three when members of the trust realized they weren't capable of developing and managing a dog park they requested proposals for nonprofits that could handle the project though the proposals received had merit they didn't meet the level of expectation of the evaluation committee committee includes land trust board members and communities representatives and in another story otto dismantle or kilroy settled his twelve year feud with them about a county it's thursday from the public eye in recent months kilroy has built a six to seven foot fence to screen off highway forty nine at the back of his property which fronts on the bar meadows road just outside grass valley he also added landscaping for a cost of seven thousand dollars to meet county's conditions commissions unanimous approval came after more than a decade of haggling with the county over his business use permit which was almost yanked in the process the problems began when the area residents complained about the unsightly nature of his business which included stacking smashed cars above the fence lines kilroy was cited for violations of his business use permit based on the complaint in may respond it was a plan for the highway forty nine french with a fake waterfall in it the waterfall was deemed too much like las vegas or disneyland in the county staff report commission's chairperson laura duncan said she didn't see las vegas in the water fall but the rest of the commission disagreed although i received criticism some business neighbors and friends came to his defense kil kilroy and the county have made the peace commissioners and the staff members made it clear that they would continue to monitor his site at thursday's meeting kilroy also criticized the commissioners for not visiting the of doing drive by there you have it pretty days in the local  neil bush is education for and under don't investigation five percent of homeless are better patterns anti war groups barred from long beach veterans day parade tombstone a dead soldier is louisiana and ben nelson of nebraska the vote came hours after malcolm nance a former navy interrogation instructor testified before the house committee that the practice of waterboarding is torture and should be banned marine lieutenant colonel stuart end she also said i haven't seen the speech but it's a little vague to say it will be held by february there's not an election scheduled that's not an election date we want an election date we want to date for retirement it's yet another vague it's like in two thousand and four he said i'll thursday for pakistani to face were charged with treason for making antonio sheriff speeches they would be sentenced to death penalty if convicted and on capital hill the house rep of representatives has approved a new trade deal with per one hundred nine democrats joined republicans in backing president bush's deal despite opposition from labor and environmental groups congressman peter de fazio of oregon was one of the democrats who voted against the deal  this agreement is by far and for in about wall street plain and simple it doesn't address our current economic crisis is not in the best interest of the american workers u s economy or national security amazon watch says the trade he predicted service easy economic growth will slow noticeably in coming months testified before the joint economic committee he said incoming information on the performance of mortgage related assets intensified concerns about credit market developments and the implications of the downturn and housing market for economic growth in addition for the sharp increases in crude oil prices have been renewed upward pressure on inflation in may impose further restraint on economic activity the price of a barrel of oil is now approaching a record one hundred dollars meanwhile the national debt has hit nine trillion dollars for the first time the dollar is also hit a fresh record low gives your all in a new twenty six year analysis to remove any dissenting judgments about our alleged nuclear weapons program cheney has also accused of pressuring intelligence analysts prior to the invasion of iraq this comes as the u s would release nine of the twenty iranian citizens it has detained in iraq the men were released after the u s military concluded they pose no security security risk and i figured grand jury in new york as reported you voted to indict former new york police commissioner bernard kerik on corruption charges kerik is a close friend and business partner with republican presidential contender giuliani less than three years ago president bush nominated kerik to head the department of homeland security but  withdrew from the confirmation process amid several scandals kerik is expected to surrender to authorities today to be arraigned company he has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds under the no child left behind act president signature education bill and news from burma burmese pro democracy leader under house arrest for twelve of the past eighteen years on thursday through an envoy and again bari read a written statement from su quite to the press i am committed to pursue the path of dialogue constructively and invite the government in all relevant parties to join me in this spirit i believe the stable prosperous and democratic why i'm our living in peace with itself and with full respect for human rights offers the best prospect for my country to fulfill fully contribute to development said this is a process it is not designed to be fair it is designed to produce convictions and it is designed around a specific set of cases for the government to convince people based on evidence they convict people on evidence they couldn't use to convict him and any other court that is why we have military commissions and so i don't expect a fair trial from the market or during thursday's hearing it was revealed that there is a secret government witness who is might be able to help could ours to france and there is military attorney o be exploited he did not receive that treatment headquarters through the numbers as it did happen once before with the presidential race anyway in business in this the pharmaceutical company merck has agreed to pay nearly five billion dollars to settle a twenty seven  so this totals four hundred show includes four hundred soldiers who fought in afghan iraq war in other military news veterans for peace in iraq veterans against the war and military families speak out have been barred from watching in saturday veterans day parade in long beach california parade coordinators said their patients were rejected because the group's political views meanwhile the parents of a marine who was killed in iraq poured in their son's grave stone has been watada the first army officer to refuse to deploy to iraq to federal judges ruled the army cannot hold a second court martial for an iraq war resister in told the court results were told it is claimed that it would violate his rights against double jeopardy  california wildfires karen walker secured coached female staffers to act like reporters during the fake news conference walker has defended his actions he told the washington post there was no way for to misinform to put on a charade it was simply a poor choice across the board of a method to get some information out and in louisiana a judge who just did a motion to dismiss juvenile charges against michael bell one of the jenna six meanwhile another one of the jen and now we have a little bit more local news that just came in richard williams is expected to take a stand in napa county today in his trial for allegedly murdering his wife two years ago with a nail gun case is moved to never counted or nevada county because a pretrial publicity defense attorney stephen mungo said williams would draw from an anti depressant in finding out that his wife was having an affair drove him to kill her the case is expected to go for another week facilities space is still inadequate we need a new library said joe's child president of the friends truckee library a nonprofit profit dedicated to supporting the local branch it has been a topic of discussion over the years on thursdays those libraries support group will host a workshop for residents who support the libraries expansion to two thousand three consisted of an addition of new children's wing alone staff to offer six story times more books in summer and what you're reading programs nonetheless she said the limited space continues to limited facilities potential coding to charles standard library plenty of suggest town the size of truckee requires at least a twenty three thousand square feet for a branch library even after the two thousand and three facelift the truckie library in classes is five thousand square feet the bookshelves are crammed in there is only for public internet access terminals and there's no staff to work spaces staff work spaces friends of the truckee library will host a facility in workshop on tuesday for residents of interest in the new library we want to gather the essential qualities that are important to the community child so we don't have a particular plan and we're just going to try to get support quality terry really in the truckie children's center librarian funding of the two thousand and three renovation came from nevada county friends of the truckee library has already committed ten thousand dollars to the anticipated expansion but child said she is unsure where the rest of the money will come from it's going to come from wherever it is in the universe and if i have an idea where that is child say i have no idea where that is the non profit group has considered several options of the new facility including partnering with the sara college to build a library on the school's new tri campus expanding current building or simply finding some land and building something despite the organization's monetary short companies child said she remains hopeful there's always been a committed group of people who want