officers showed up at their father's home on monta vista drive outside of nevada city around twelve twenty five a m after a search warrant katherine hempel forty six years old told them she had been clean for years however when i female had been investigated for drug related offenses in two thousand and two and underwent a drug treatment program in recent months investigators received information that temple was keeping the company of a known drug user in addition to the meth officers found in a federal aviation administration supervisor allegedly prevent prevented controllers from monitoring their emergency distress calls from an aircraft that crashed sunday near nevada city killing a grass valley man the national air traffic controllers association said friday the crash killed stephen wilson fifty seven years old a businessman owner in homebuilt aircraft enthusiasm to controllers work at the oakland air route traffic control center which monitors airspace above all of northern california the f a a said the incident was under investigation but added that the supervisors decision has no effect whatsoever on the tragic outcome because the pilot had called a flight station in the sacramento valley for help not to oakland center f a a spokesman ian gregor said the facts of the case don't support the union's melodramatic retort gregory said suggesting the complaint stemmed from the unions on happiness with the latest labor contract the association disagreed during an actual emergency where someone needs help and their life may depend and on the response it is completely unconscionably said and a t c a local facility representative in twenty years of air traffic control experience i have never heard of anyone turning off the guard general during an emergency it is so completely against what we are trying to restrain retrained and reinforced to do that any normal person would find it unthinkable gandhi said the supervisor turned down the volume of the facilities emergency frequency and large scale speakers to an an audible level claiming i do not want my controllers detracted distracted the union alleged there is absolutely no justification for this supervisor to turn down the guard general this frequency is required to be continuously monitored at every ever eight air traffic facility and area according to conduct this is to ensure coverage and allow controllers to try and gather information on aircraft in distress controllers can pinpoint locations and relay information to emergency services this can dramatically reduce the time that it takes to get assistance to a down d aircraft the f a a spokesman countered that the volume was turned up very high and transmissions were distracting the controllers from handling another aircraft for which they were responsible he called this the more important task because the pilot of the grass valley plane had reported the problem to someone else the supervisor involved in the incident had been questioned by the f a a condie said he said to the system air traffic manager at oakland center michael mele told him we're looking into it but declined to elaborate calls to meall were redirected to the f a a spokesman men in los angeles before the plane crash you may judge a stress call came over the guard emergency frequency understand the cause signs involved according to the association then according to one of the controllers the supervisor came over and turned down their lives speakers the controllers responded it was their job to always monitor this frequency and they were trying to hear the call signs in order to eliminate the possibility that the aircraft was one in which these controllers had under their immediate control the union said air traffic controllers are required by the f a a to collect all available information from this guard frequency they are given refresher training annually to never assume that someone else is aware of an unsafe situation or an emergency but rather to bring that situation to the attention of the proper controller or jacks road located between bannerman and highway twenty the silver aircraft with black and white stripes and military type star insignia was upside down on the ground a resident of the neighborhood said he heard the plane crash ran out to the scene saw no movement inside the plane and ran back to his house to call nine one one said situation sorry  western nevada county schools are considering eliminating about twenty six teaching positions across ten school districts to deal with the budget cut next year according to hawley hammonton the nevada county superintendent of schools of the superintendent schools  teachers could lead to higher class sizes in third through eighth grade hermanson met with school district superintendents from the county thursday and discussed ideas that would be shared and districts throughout the state on how schools can trim their budgets she said during a visit to the union to close to a fourteen point five billion dollars shortfall projected by the end of the fiscal year two thousand in two thousand and nine the governor wants to slash funding sent to counties for education social services and other state pending and on an average school funding will be cut by seven point eight million per district if the reductions suggested in the governor's proposed budget are implement nevada joint unions high school district already has approved voluntary buyouts for up to ten teachers that pay fifty thousand per person the high school trustee also passed out a resolution this week or going to governor to reject across the board cuts that would damage our public schools and protect the voter approved minimum school funding law proposition ninety eight western nevada county has a student population of about twelve thousand schools are also considered other cost cutting measures such as reviewing contracted services annually spending restricted dollars first whenever possible and freezing nonessential purchases using unrestricted funds and in another local a plan to dismantle a popular go kart track at the forty nine er fun family fun park in order to build new offices isn't sitting well with community parents and children who frequent the only local business of the time grass valley is planning commissioners this week approved the plan which hails back to park calls for two new condominium style office buildings as well as conversion of to existing buildings incorporated offices arcades and games the owner of the property at three fourteen railroad avenue hasn't timetable for the work but any work started with the new plans would be too soon many parents and children said that's a really dumb idea said kurt fedor fifteen who was competing against his mom on the dance dance revolution supernova arcade game why should they take out something that people who go here really like the property owner certain way partners says the business is struggling and putting in the office space is a better use of the property this plan is a better should be expanded said collette hendricks who watched her two grandchildren play the cyber cycle's arcade game her two grandchildren were disappointed that they couldn't get outside and go to the go karts because of rainy weather hendr sandy this is just like a chuck e cheese but it's even better because the go karts said kerry jan twenty eight who was watching after her daughter julie jam five years so the long time national pizza business chuck e cheese with  stop by the park to enjoy the rides i think that should keep them carriers said the decision to target to go kart track for elimination was made because it's the best location for the office buildings not because there were perceived lack of interest in the go karting rubel said it had nothing to do with one outdoor activity be better than the other a miniature golf course and battery cages are retained according to the plans the new plan isn't a prelude to the elimination of the fun park roubles we're planning on keeping the fun park open forever when they made their decision this week commissioner sounded grateful regarding the new plan even if they were sad that amusement elements were scaled back when the business are in trouble we tend to get rid of it all said commissioner eleanor kennett's or i'm glad you didn't do that the  recrimination no use on the back of the property the arcade game used area will move from a larger forty five hundred square foot building to a converted three thousand and thirty square foot building the sixteen thousand forty six square foot building a two stor office building and a four thousand and twenty square foot one story office building are planned and that's it for today's local news ten thousand turkish ground troops have invaded northern iraq as part of an escalating offensive against kurdish fighters the troops entered iraq on thursday after turkish work planes and artillery bomb targets in northern iraq was easier reports turkey gave washington advance notice of its plans to send in ground troops the u s has been providing intelligence to turkey since november about the p k case the kurdish and workers party in northern iraq and at last night's presidential or the other night presidential debate in austin texas senator hillary clinton accused senator barack obama of plagiarizing part of his name being speech she said well i think that if your candidacy is going to be about words and they should be your own words that i think is very simple proposition and you know lifting whole passages from someone else's speech is not change that you believe in it's change stick you can xerox and i just don't think and then barack obama said come on that's not what happened and she says no but you know but bare rock it is because you know if you look if you look at the youtube on these pictures videos it does raise questions senator obama dismissed the criticism he said the notion that i had  plagiarized from somebody who's one of my national co chairs who gave me the line in suggested that i use it i think is silly and you know that this is where we can start getting in this silly season in politics and i think people start getting discouraged about it earlier in the debate obama and clinton sparred over whether the u s should hold talks with the next cuban leader hillary said i believe that we should have full diplomatic engagement where appropriate but a presidential visit should not be offered and given without some evidence that it will demonstrate the kind of progress that is in our interest and in this case in the interest of the cuban people surrounded senator barack obama said he would be personally willing to meet was roller coster zero or whoever becomes the of cuba he said the problem is if we think that meeting with the president is a privilege that has to be earned i think that reinforce the sense that we stand above the rest of the world at this point in time and i think it's important for underling the damage that has been done over the last seven years for the president to be willing to take that extra step that's the kind of step that i would like to take as president of the united states prior to the debate senator barack obama picked up another union endorsement this time from the change to win coalition obama has also won the global primary held by democrats abroad obama received sixty five percent of the expatriate american vote clinton won about thirty three percent twenty two thousand expatriates americans took part in the primary on the republican from senator john mccain tonight a report in new york times that he had an inappropriate relationship with a female tell a communications lobbyist according to the times mccain repeatedly wrote letters to the government regulators on behalf of the clients of the lobbyist vicki iseman at the time mccain served as the chair of the senate commerce committee the times a mccain were concerning concerned the senator was having a romantic affair with a lobbyist on thursday morning mccain held a press conference with his wife cindy he said i'm very disappointed in the article it's not true as has been pointed out i've served this nation honorably for more than a half a century when i was seventeen i raised my hand supported said i would support and defend this nation and i've been had the honor of serving it ever since at no time have i ever done anything that would be tray the public's trust or make a decision which in any way would not be in the public interest and would favor anyone or any organization the new york times article has been seen by many as a setback to mccain there's often rode against lobbyists and special interests in washington meanwhile the washington post reports that many of mccain's closest advisers are in fact washington lobbyist his campaign manager rick davis co founded in lobbying firm whose clients have included  airways senior advisor steve smith and mark mckinnon worked for firms that have lobbied for land o'lakes dell and fannie mae again tops fund raising official is former republican congressman tom loeffler who heads a lobbying law firm called the loeffler group he has counseled the saudis as well the south west airlines eight hundred eighty toyota and pharmaceutical researchers and manufacturers of america the cia has admitted the united garcia the cia continues to deny allegations that the u s maintains its secret prison on the island in the indian ocean british foreign secretary david miliband broke the news to the m p s on thursday he said contrary to earlier explicit o diego garcia the foreign secretary has made a very full statement in the house of commons about the circumstances surrounding it he's also ordered further investigation into what may or may not have happened and will report back to the house of commons and we've got to assure ourselves that those procedures will never happen again opposition politicians in britain said the case undermines the credibility of the british and the us government's conservative party politician andrew terry said that the matter will leave the british public unwilling to trust other assurances we have received from the us and in serbia some two hundred thousand demonstrators gathered in belgrade thursday to rally against kosovo's declaration of independence from serbia and their support from the west during a demonstration around one thousand protesters attacked the u s embassy smashing their way inside throwing flares through the windows and setting parts of the building on fire one protester ripped the u s flag off  detained in october and has been held without charge at the u s military base in afghanistan joel simon of the committee to protect journalists said the united states military must explain the reason for his detention and accorded him due process if he is not charged with any crime then he must be released immediately at least two other journalists were are currently being held by u s forces al jazeera carom and sami al haj is in prison at guantanamo bay and associated press photographer below i was saying is being detained in iraq and the news from new york a prisoner who once again already for shooting six new york police officers has died after being stabbed to death in prison there davis made headlines in one nine hundred eighty six when a team of police officers stormed his bronx he was a symbol of resistance in a dangerous and racially polarized city where white cops could and did kill black people with impunity at the time of his death davis was serving a sentence of twenty five years to life for the fatal shooting of a drug dealer and there reverend james orange has died at the age of sixty five he was a former aide to the reverend dr martin luther king jr in one nine hundred sixty five he was arrested in southwest alabama well organizing a voter registration drive he was charged with  orderly conduct and contributing to the delinquency of minors when protesters gathered outside the jail in marion alabama to demand his release they were brutally beaten by police one pro young protester jimmy lee jackson died after be judged by a state t rest of james orange sincere going of the colors for the historic selma to montgomery march reverend ornge later worked with cesar chavez in organizing the united farm workers two thousand and two he organized the immigrant workers freedom ride and that's it for low world news today age twenty three p m a woman called from a store on a twelve thousand block invested highway to report her purse was stolen from her online vehicle she said she ran into the store for a moment and when she returned her purse was gone police took a report on friday three thirty five police provided a ride to an apartment complex on the one thousand block of said work way for a person who was locked out of a vehicle at a gas station and the vatican county sheriff's office on thursday at four twenty p officers sheriff's deputies stopped a vehicle on george ski drive it not one drive and arrested a man on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance he violated probation another man was arrested on suspicion of false person asian of another violating probation possessing a controlled substance and on a local warrant demand were transported to the nevada county jail by grass valley police and on friday want thirty a m a call reported the vehicle rolled over north suspicious looking man was sucking on gas nozzles and scary customers and employees he was wearing a white and black book without pajamas police arrested a man on suspicion of trespassing and booked him into the jail jail would not accept a man he and he was released to the custody of behavioral health services for an evaluation at the hospital emergency room six thirty four p m a caller reported a dark toyota four runner crashed into a fire hydrant and read the road that's right it's time 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