d the only one of the two nevada city community service officers is patrolling downtown streets to the dismay of local merchants who have seen some improvements with patrols but even with patrols some store owner said problems that prompted the added vigilance are continuing people smoking marijuana openly spitting on the sidewalk so in garbage under the street feeding are even abusing their dogs forcing other pedestrians to step into the roadway and acting with hostility towards those who asked them to shape up our problems getting little response from his stories emergency they use the street as their living room said great cook owner of talks restaurant and on north pine street to see it out in front of my business all day long ruth byrne and her owner of j j jackson's on a commercial street catty corner from far talks how to run in with the throng of young people smoking marijuana up the street earlier this month but no help from police i've always been very sensitive to citizens rights people do have a right to gather said berliner who has been then i have to locate you nearly two years but tolerance towards the groups that gather has not resulted in respect for the needs of pedestrians and store owners berliner added it's hard to address the group when no one takes responsibility but everyone claims their rights she said the city's scaled back to patrol because officer jack were usually a little more lenient anyway gervasio said community policing is a very worthwhile program the police chief that if it's so successful that people would like to see more of it next year if your boss said he would be looking at ways to possibly extend t service officer hours without requiring the city to pay retirement benefits even with two officers the program could be more effective for lerner added haven't a copy of the patrolling officer schedules and a pro ol to follow when the department receives an emergency call would help she suggested less than two weeks ago two teenage girls ran into jay jay jackson's felina rassmann on the street berliners employ call nine one one she was grid was what is your birthdate berliners part of the problem is lack of a play and response the city is limited in what it can do with loitering concerns because it doesn't have the street typically have a doctor's recommendation berliner said are they allowed to share their prescription medicine there needs to be a city ordinance yet andrew repaired joe owner of tortilla grill at two thirty nine commercial street noted difference between people on the sidewalk having a cup of coffee or a small can use cigarettes and people who are living garbage and doing stupid things when they do patrol community service officers have a significant impact on a lot later group of obviously doing a good job issue it's been said partly need to cook agreed but the city hasn't been as strict about citing parking violators for several weeks i haven't seen a community patrol officer in several months berliner added  resident george miller's the last question has was not injured pingree said the investigating officer had reason to suspect alcohol was involved no one else was injured in the crash office have confirmed she could not be reached for in nevada county spirit court december thirteenth citing miscommunication between himself and long judge julie mcmanus denied prosser his motion after mcmanus made her growing loan asked to postpone process preliminary hearing originally scheduled to begin this morning lowing did not return a phone call from the union monday prosser sixty five years old pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in october to murdering his sixty seven year old brother gerald prosser found dead august twenty court records nevada county district attorney cliff newell standing in for the assistant district attorney in a ferguson did not object to lowndes request mcmanus granted lawrence motion presiding judge hearing and trial before time you hear chord lines motion in the court file preemptory challenges are very common in our court and each attorney gets one challenge in each case for his and said what court staff have said the challenges have increased in his recent months prosser amazing custody when brown correctional facility in nevada city without bail he has a violent criminal history about a county sheriff's investigator said  the senate has postponed a vote that would could have permanently expanded the government's ability to carry out domestic surveillance and give immunity to telecommunications companies that have assisted in the government illegal spying after a day long debate senator majority leader harry reid pulled the bill the opposition to the telecom immunity provision was led by democratic senator and presidential candidate christopher dodd who threatened to filibuster the bill senator dodd also said this administration has equated corporations with our nation's security follow that reasoning obviously to attend and you come to the conclusion the larger the corporation the more lawless it can be if we accept mr mcconnell's premises we could conceive of a corporate is so wealthy so integral to our liberties and more than three hundred turkeys ground troops entered northern iraq earlier today less than forty eight hours after turkish warplanes bombed ten iraqi villages it is believed to be the first major turkey's deployment of troops in iraq since the turkey's cabinet backed the ground invasion last month the turkish army accuses rebels from the kurdistan workers party of using bases inside iraq to watch attacks on turkey meanwhile pentagon officials have revealed the u s is providing the turkish military with real time intelligence on the northern on northern iraq the washington post reports u s military personnel have set up a center for sharing intelligence and  providing imagery and other immediate information gathered from u s aircraft and unmanned drones flying over northern iraq one u s military official said the united states is essentially handing them their targets and russia has beg case if the russians are willing to do that which i support the iranians do not need to learn how to linger which iran said it has no intention of suspending its uranium enrichment program despite the field shipment from russia iran also confirmed plans to build a second nuclear power plant in southern iran and in campaign news republican presidential candidate ron paul hasn't set a new fund raising record by raising six million dollars in online contributions in a single day more than fifty eight thousand people donated money during a special fund raising drive on sunday the two hundred thirty fourth anniversary of the boston tea party and other news in the g o p race independent senator joe lieberman has endorsed republican senator john mccain for president lieberman said mccain is a leader who can break through the partisan gridlock lieberman was a democrat up until two thousand and six and was al gore's running mate in two thousand meanwhile the past writings in comments republican mike huckabee are coming under increasing scrutiny now that he has become the republican front runner in iowa in one thousand nine hundred had to be published a children's book that equated environmentalism with planner for the book was titled kid kill confronting our culture of violence huckabee wrote abortion environmentalism aids pornography drug abuse and homosexual activism have fragmented and polarized our economy energies huckabee also equated on with sexuality t new jersey governor jon corzine has signed a bill to abolish the state's death penalty making new jersey the first state to ban the death penalty in more than forty years and he speech from his office at the state capital corazon declared an end to what he called state indorsed killing he also said thank you all for being here today december seventeenth two thousand and seven is a momentous day it is a day of progress for the state of new jersey and for the millions of people across our nation and around the globe who reject a death penalty as a moral and practical billion dollars to palestinians international donors and pledged seven point four billion dollars to the palestinians during a one day conference in france aimed to help stabilize a palestinian economy palestinian president mahmoud abbas said the financial support is needed to politically political monetary and media support to the palestinian people to all the palestinian people but we refuse for this wanted to resupport to be politicized and money that comes with conditions and follows the american and israeli agenda had to be tied with the progress of the palestinian authority on the ground we need to carry out security roles as part of the road map which means the destruction of mars and the resistance tough meanwhile thousands of mourners took to the streets gaza earlier today to bury their dead after israeli airstrikes killed twelve palestinians including the senior commander of the group islamic jihad israel claims all of the thousands killed were militants and in cuba fidel castro has suggested he might give up his formal leadership post this march the first time castro spoken of his possible retirement in a letter read to cuba on cuban television castro said my elemental duty is not to hold on to positions and less to obstruct the path of younger people sixteen months ago castro handed over power to proly to his brother raul after undergoing stomach surgery for an undisclosed illness fidel castro has not been seen in public confiscated and that for years they were subjected to beatings with brooms colleen's and with hot water water and being forced to eat a lot of chili peppers as well as carrying out household duties one of the woman was found by authorities in may wandering the streets dressed only in pants in a towel after escaping from the couple's home and mutton town new york where they ran a multimillion dollar perfume business she was treated at a local hospital for injuries to her ears face arms neck  that's right stand for the police blotter pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on sunday at three twenty eight p m a call from the hospital on one hundred block of glass might reported a woman needed a place to stay the call i want to police to check on a woman and possibly give her a ride to a homeless shelter place attempted to contact woman but she was gone at three fifty eight p m a call from six hundred block of freeman line reported a woman shoplifter police arrested a fifty four year old woman on a warrant and on south suspicion of shoplifting four sixteen p m a man from a one hundred block of over your street reported a woman possibly was violating a restraining order she had dropped off ultrasound images previous night there was no permanent damage he said he was has ongoing problems with friends of his juvenile son the man requested extra police patrol during the evening hours and on weekends one of seven p for forty nine p m a call from the ten thousand block of paradise drive reported someone nearby was young for help and for someone to call nine one one was a promo fight the same block of paradise drive a man's ex wife showed up and caused a fight and left no rest six o four p m a call from twenty thousand block of wood pecker room the road reported a physical fight a juvenile broke a mirror in a residence and was going into the woods the deputy arrest is juvenile on suspicion of vandalism assault and violating residential drug treatment facility on a one hundred block of boast ave reported a man was trying to break and they ran up towards a cemetery deputy cited a man on a warrant from outside the county and on monday at eight twenty six a m called present it's only open till mid afternoon but after all the customers and an activity it just may expand the hours and time in the future when you wake up in the morning hearing that rooster crowing you can rest assured your first thought be to drive down to the  it for our news today thanks a lot for that's right it's time for the police blotter the pictures in the blotter not from these are but useful visual aid only