afternoon sharing stories of holiday no one too many as pops he was really connected to this town said former city councilman paul matheson who paused to choke back his emotion while the bell tolled whose role time  nevada city he will be missed former firefighter craig fuller relayed memories of how it old yellow rig a slow moving fire engine how it always parked at his home on broad street in case of fire broke out fire fighters in dress uniform stood on the old nevada city fire engine surrounding hallett's simple wooden coffin as the line of fire trucks and vehicles slowly proceeded past grieving on lookers he was always a very fair man said fr a member of the forty nine year fire department auxilary he taught me to treat people like you want to be treated some people who didn't even know how it such as nevada city mayor sam harris took the time to attend the procession this is a wonderful ceremony she said hallet you survived by his wife dilema hallet of sixty years two daughters two sons and their families and the washington state convicted murderer now charged with one thousand nine hundred eighty nine murder a fifteen year old south lake tahoe girl told a judge in placerville on friday that he wants to represent himself during future proceeds joseph am nice and so on fifty seven years old was arrested in connection with the slaying of kathy graves after serving a prison term in washington for one nine hundred ninety one second degree murder conviction in washington prosecutors said a conviction stemmed from neeson songs stabbing of to d a forty six year old woman after a drug fuelled night of sex in a van near tacoma with his soon to be wife watching eldorado county officials named nascence son as a suspect in graves murder in february t alone minutes later his former wife also reportedly said he was involved in two killings in oklahoma and one in nevada but court documents provided no further details on or a county detective said neeson son also is under investigation in the killing of two girls ages thirteen and fourteen whose decomposed bodies were found in a remote rural area near seaside in one nine hundred eighty one nuisance on was has was not as outspoken in court friday as he was at an  said in in that county former n b a player charles barkley has lived up to his promise to donating one hundred thousand dollars to community disaster resource center c d r see for ngor fire victims according to news carey writer of the c d r see the organization received barclay's check last week to donate he comes on the heels of a one hundred thirty three thousand plus check from horizon and harvey's this additional aid is coming at a time when the plight of this virus has passed from many minds and the need is greater than ever he said c d r c board chairman dick schwartz there are so many families in the throes of trying to rebuild their lives so that they can stay here in south these additional funds will enable us to assist those individuals in response to their request barkley took time in july while participating in the american century celebrity golf tournament to tour the fire zone and host a dinner for public safety personnel after seeing the  devastation barkley promised to send a generous donation back to south lake tahoe to support and glorifying the victims and gore far victims still need assistance should contact carrie writer of to cd r c to complete an application for additional information to register your help to call five three zero five four two four six five six in the c d r see is it twenty four ninety four like to hope all of ours we'd be five hundreds of people lined highway fifty in emerald bay road near the y on monday afternoon to honor fallen army sergeant south shore resident timothy m smith as his body was brought home from iraq red white and blue signs reading we will never forget and timmy smith is a hero were scattered among the numerous american flags waved by members of the crowd made up of both those who knew the twenty five year old and those who did many of the supporters had tears in her eyes and reached for hugs after their hearse carrying smith's casket drove slowly past preceded by members of the patriot guard and followed by vehicles from the south lake tahoe police department california highway patrol south lake tahoe fire department and to hold douglas fire department at one point the funeral procession stretched from to the exit blake talk airport where dozens of supporters had gathered earlier to witness the arrival of smith's casket although brief applause came from the airport balcony as the plane carrying smith's body touched down crowd soon stood quietly as his castle skit was carefully unloaded from the plane and placed into hers the solemn silence of the crowd was broken only by muffled sobs monday's howling wind and haunting cries family members as they ran to the plane and wept over smith's american flag draped casket smith's body was accompanied on its journey from iraq by sergeant brandon lord's who was among the soldiers who came to smith's after he was critically injured in a roadside bomb attack in baghdad in april seventh said smith's wife shayna richardson and lloyd's and timothy smith had an agreement that if either one of them a ways to die overseas the other soldier would accompany the body of that seized on his trip home as miss finner was set for eleven a m friday as sera community church eleven sixty five sarah boulevard south like to hold the ceremony is open to the public according to statement from the nevada national guard and that's it for our local news today and world news headlines today seventy die in iraq bus bombing kills forty and cuba and cider movement largest humanitarian organizations right and home foreclosure  in iraq more than seventy people died tuesday in one of the deadliest days and weeks in baquba a bomb exploded inside a bus killing forty people and injuring seventy many of the dead were reportedly women and children another thirteen people died in ramallah when a suicide bomber struck a cabal restaurant where local police officers were eating meanwhile u s aid airstrike killed four iraqis in basra and northern iraqi turkish warplanes have carried out another raid targeting creature areas new report from refugees international says the iraqi government has failed to respond to the needs of estimated two point seven million internal refugees and internal issue groups have moved in to fill the void refugees international says the largest human it manager in organisation in iraq is now the solder movement boy it was shiite cleric also matter if you're just critic of the us occupation site or has set up a program modeled on hezbollah's work in lebanon to offer shelter food and non food items to hundreds of thousands of shiites in iraq and in economic news home foreclosures violence surged fifty seven percent twelve month period ending march and bank repossessions sort of hundred twenty nine percent from a year ago the real estate data f really ality really track is predicting the number of foreclosures will continue to rise in the coming months want to nearly every five hundred u s households living in a single family dwelling receive a foreclosure filing last month the hardest hit states have florida the new york times reports a new senate bill meant to help american homeowners in danger of foreclosure will actually provide billions of dollars to tax breaks to automakers airline companies alternative energy producers and othe r industries consumer groups and labor leaders say the tax breaks amount to government handouts to big business one lobbyist said the companies that have so it's a tax breaks included ford general motors american airlines northwest airlines and goodyear tire and rubber meanwhile a new washington post a b c news poll has found seventy percent of the counties country disapprove of the way president bush has handled the nation's economy government researchers a warning that a controversial chemical used in baby bottles and other hard plastic containers could be harming the development of children's brains and reproductive organs the nach national toxicology program said that there was some concern that fetuses and babies and children were in danger because of bio a or b p a harming animals in low levels b p a is the most widely used synthetic chemical in industry today los angeles times reports that some scientists respect exposure of early life to b p a it disrupts hormones and alters genes programming a fetus or child for breast or pro stay prostate cancer premature female puberty intention deficit disorders and other reproductive neurology evolved reporters that put up files will be kicked out of priesthood also said we are deeply ashamed we will do all that's possible so that this cannot happen in the future i think we have to act on three levels the first level is just as a political level we are now also norms to react to the just way i would not speak in this moment about homosexuality but pedophile is pedophilia is another thing and we will absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry is have to get rid of  quite a few of those guys in environmental news researchers are predicting global sea levels could rise by as much as five feet by the end of the century because of the melting glaciers disappearing ice sheets and warming water this could displace tens of millions of people the findings were presented this week at a european geosciences union conference meanwhile he washington president bush is scheduled to give a speech on his afternoon this afternoon well as yesterday afternoon on climate change according to the washington post bush will endorse an intermediate goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions but he will not put forward any specific legislation or proposal on how the goal should be met bush is also expected to reiterate his longstanding opposition to managerial mission regulations and federal investigators have obtained phone records of the new york times reporter who helped uncover the government's secret domestic surveillance program the not times reports that former government officials have recently been called before a federal grand jury and confronted with phone records documenting cause with the reporter james rice to justice department is trying to identify rice's source for the books date of war and for article he wrote for the times about the nation's spy agencies it is unclear how the federal investigators obtained the phone records the government may have subpoenaed the phone company to hand over resumes records and our former president jimmy carter in an audi boy has said syria and hamas must be involved in any future peace deals in the middle east carter made a statement during a stop in the west bank and also said i don't think it's possible to have an ultimate peace agreement was here without the involvement of syria the golan heights issue has to be resolved syria has to be friendly towards israel not an enemy and i don't think it's possible without involving hamas i don't care if hamas represents ten percent of the palestinian people or forty two percent or forty four percent it doesn't matter to me but being faced with maybe if you get a grade three rockets and blowing up people things would be better meanwhile in gaza at least three israeli soldiers and four palestinians died in fighting earlier today and lobbying is a group of prominent jewish liberals formed a new lobbying group and political action committee that they hope will be a counterpoint in a i p a c the american israeli public affairs committee the new initiative will be called j street part of his mission will be to push for an arab israeli peace settlement democratic fundraiser alan solomon said we have heard the voices of neo cons and the right of center jewish leaders and the christian evangelist and the mainstream views of the american jewish community have not been heard the washington post reports  be hard pressed to match a i p a sees influence in washington the i p c c you see has more than one hundred thousand members eighteen offices around the country and an endowment of more than one hundred million the first year budget of j street will be about one point five million and i may report from amnesty international have to terminate at least twelve hundred people were executed in the world last year eighty eight percent of the executions took place in five countries john iran saudi arabia pakistan and united states amnesty international secretary general irene khan said china remains of one of the topics accused there she also said well we published today our annual death penalty statistics and those statistics show that china is still the top excuse year of the world and iran is one of the leading executioners there are still too many executions death penalty cases in those countries and last year we campaigned successively to get the united nations to call for a moratorium on the death penalty and we would like to see the european union to put in its dialogue with china iran and countries like that and that is street in one thousand year old man was arrested on grand theft warrant a forty eight year old woman was arrested on suspicion of violating probation and a juvenile was booked into juvenile hall and a forty eight year old real woman was arrested on a warrant for possessing drug paraphernalia memorial park police checked on a person who was just enjoying the sun and it's three fifty eight p m a woman from the three hundred block of pleasant street reported her ford escort was broken into previous night as the change in her ashtray had been stolen six thirty four p m a woman from the one hundred block east empire street reported her twenty one year old son was in a fight at her house on friday and she wanted a restraining order police advise the woman on process of getting a restraining order and i in thirty four p m a call reported a man wrapped in a blanket was walking very slowly and k street a caller sort of play should check on him police contacted in one thousand old man who was fine was not drunk he had walked to the store he was cold so he used a and on tuesday one fifty four am forty nine year old woman at the police station lobby reported running out of gas and freeways she requested a ride back to the vehicle with police provided three twenty seven a m a caller from the east main street drive reported the high dog sign was in the roadway police found the sun and brought it back to the restaurant where it belonged and then back out to sheriff's office on monday at nine twenty admonished the people with the fireworks and told them to destroy the remaining fireworks and the baddest city police department on monday at six thirty eight pm a caller from seven hundred block ready for the raincoat as we will have cloudy and rainy weather friday through tuesday at this point and here we are another breaking story just came in jersey city new jersey heidi in a ring in a book a just wasn't enough  computer programmer decided to pop the question bernie paying reprogram tammy lee's favorite video game be jeweled so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score lee reached the needed score and said yes the word of the romanic feat last december filtered out of after paying a financial software programmer post the details on his blog the route the program he was a tricky task  most video game companies would frown on people manipulating their game said garth show today a spokesperson for pop gaff but it won him a woman as a bunch of geeks we have to say bernie hats off to you the company is also supplying copies of bureau to hand out as favors to the wedding guests in the hugely popular game players score points by swapping gems to form vertical and horizontal chains and thirty 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