v news i'm randy hanson in today's local headlines england out duels dynam to win forty eight nevada city bikeways and drug bust now to cash guns and seven arrests in former union editor somerville news if you have an interest in supporting the only visual local news for nevada county then please underwriters and get mentioned every day through over thirty thousand possible households in your county plus the internet just it became pretty clear with less than ten laps to go on the forty eighth winner of the nevada city bicycle classic was likely going to be two writers who would build a thirty second gap from the pack user b m c's scott knight among the king of the mountains this year's california tour was going to score one of the biggest wins of his cycling career or just in england about the city's two thousand and four champ was about to become the two timer in a race he considered to be simply the best in the cycling world rode together until there were three laps to go said knight and bite on the second left hand does left hander he had a little bit of a gap coming out of the corner he looked back and stepped on it and i just couldn't respond glinda tactic what turned out to be just the right mom in minnesota's two and cities crowd here is amazing the turnout is incredible of course as unbelievable the hard and of course there's always the death march at the end with the sun scorching the face of the fans period not bradstreet as the final lap  the two top tennis years found themselves all alone ahead of a group of cyclists really both the heat and the pressure of really the two riders back to the pack but it couldn't be done now to broke first and built what seemed to be a substantial  through the race yet england slowly narrowed the margin to join the race for the first place meanwhile a packed containing the two other past masters in vatican city and one of the top up and comers in the county country began to fight for six road race national champion the three remaining favorites for third place yet seemingly out of nowhere graham howard of team bissell won a full speed sprint down broad street to take the stage alongside england in one of them we have a a lot like this in michigan said howard who hails from grand rapids and made his first start in classics although it's a lot more mellow than man city i really like this race i like the heat i liked their little city streets and the crowd and the whole atmospheric atmosphere was fantastic and even though we already covered the story we will follow up more details and pictures of the alleged criminals in the drug bust a probation search may have uncovered a major drug ring and about accounting possible ties to mexican methamphetamine operation seven people were arrested thursday at a home and ten thousand block of brittany springs road suspicion a variety of drug charges and warrants according to share keyes well we about the case officers confiscated two pounds of methamphetamines one quarter pound of cocaine one pound of possessed marijuana processed marijuana keefe and forty six thousand dollars in cash two rifles a pump shotgun ammunition scales extensively for wayne drug according to sergeant bill smothers of the narcotics task force working on the information of a possible large cache of drugs in cash taskforce off officers and deputies raided the baby springs home residents of eric forty nine years old about three p m he was arrested to see in on suspicion of various drug possessions and sales charges and a probation violation stemming from an august two thousand and six arrest for marijuana cultivation the sheriff's office reported five in nevada city on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and friend gerald fonts fifty rough and ready on a local misdemeanor warrant and suspicion of possessing drugs young was still incarcerated late friday and on a ten thousand dollars bail and fonts had been released on a five thousand dollars bail shortly after their arrest officers learned that cash and drugs might be buried on the property smother said following the trails officers allegedly on earth sixteen thousand dollars one pound of methamphetamine and cocaine and to keep another sixteen thousand was found in pubs during the search just the smiths gardner thirty seven of auburn and glen taylor fifty seven a penn valley drove onto the property smith's guard and smith gardner was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs without a prescription and govern was suspended or revoked up on a license and he remained in jail late friday woods a five thousand dollars bond taylor was arrested on a local value warrant for allegedly violating his probation remains in jail with no bail just after smith's gardener and taylor were arrested two more men drove on the property spotted one officer spotted the officers and allegedly tried to flee officers caught and arrested  charges of possessing drugs for sale transporting drugs and possession of methamphetamine here imagine custody late friday with a five hundred thousand dollars bail commands a complaint of medical problems after his arrest and will be in custody in an undisclosed location and tell he can be jailed he throughout our share and i said now if we could time standard managing editor rich somerville known as a gifted conversationalist and passionate  journalist was found dead in his trinidad home late saturday night after being ill for several days he was sixty one somerville took over as the time standard manager editor of september two thousand in september two thousand and six after serving as president founder of media foresight associates in nevada county based newspaper consulting firm previously previous to his consulting work somerville was the editor of the union career journalist summer girl was editor of his high school newspaper and as mo at age sixteen and spent more than twenty years in pulitzer prize winning dead of morning register and his sister publication the des moines tribune in a career that took him from the newsroom to sioux falls south dakota honolulu hawaii and grass valley to academic pursuits in the university of hawaii and the university of missouri somerville was respected as a dedicated and innovative journalist where at the time standard are shocked and saddened by his loss of time standard city editor kimberly where he was a man who truly loved and lived for the newspapers and journalist professionals county coroner frank jagger said his death was probably heart related but that his conclusive cause of death would not be determined and tell today well this was yesterday we we still don't we he was found any time close to midnight saturday by a coworker who regard to check on him with an advanced degree in alternative futures summerville spent years studying the interest and habits the newspaper  palladian it that information into forward looking theories and applications he was a futurist always look for ways to adapt daily newspaper to changing times at the university of missouri somerville worked in a program called new directions for news teaching classes and brainstorming other leaders from other industries he also participated in the readership institute in this paper think tank launched by northwestern university in evanston illinois there he studied details of reader behavior in newspaper management looking for innovative ways to increase relevance and leadership in the interest in his tenure at the time standard somerville reached out to the committee inviting the public to join in on regular coffee and the editor and publisher discussions along with publisher great stevens rich was a big man who leaves big shoes to fill in the time standard stephen said i really enjoyed working with his strongest professional strengths came in part from his broad experience in newsroom leadership positions at many newspaper operations over the course of his long career not only a gifted writer summerville was an engage in inclusive conversationalist and natural verbal presenter stephen said he would have made an excellent professor somerville's time working for the newspaper industry think tanks and as newsroom consultant forty to him invaluable perspective on the relationship between news events and content writers and all importantly readers unlike so many editors who fall prey to the temptation to produce a newspaper for themselves or newsroom staff which always sought and paid special attention to feedback from our readership striving always to produce a newspaper in sync with our communities preferences and needs to know i'm going to miss rich stephen said and i know i'm not alone somerville is survived by his brother and sister in law gary and margaret somerville his niece is elizabeth and malia of buffalo new york and his cousin judy walker and her husband and that's it today for our local  disaster areas i was sitting in the home of the university of iowa has been hit the worst with flooding in its city's history sixteen billion city university are flooded as much as eight feet of water seven more of the risk of flooding in cedar rapids twenty four thousand people were forced to leave their holmes in the morning i was capital of the morning river broke through a levee and saturday more than two hundred homes and high school and three dozen businesses were inundated meanwhile across the globe and jonna more than one point three million people have been forced to evacuate following flooding across southern china at least seventy people have died and iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki has warned the iraq may not sign his status of forces agreement with the united states you will possibly ask u s troops to leave when their u n mandate expires at the end of the year bush administration is seeking to keep permanently more than fifty military bases in iraq also insisting on continuing military campaigns with their consultation with iraqi government and immunity for american soldiers and contractors during a visit to jordan allegedly said the bush administration is asking iraq to give up too much sovereignty and in other iraq news shiite cleric mcdonogh outside are has announced the is certain to send afghan troops into pakistan to fight members of the taliban over the past two years the u s has spent more than three billion training and equipping the afghan army ahmed karzai said answer to this is that this means that afghanistan has a right to defense when they cross territory from pakistan to come and kill afghans and to kill coalition troops it's exactly gives us the right to go back and do the same came two days after more than eleven hundred afghan prisoners escaped when taliban fighters attacked a prison in the southern city of kandahar you know the four hundred sixty eight prisoners were members of the taliban the taliban reported using suicide bomb bombs and bomb laden water tankers to blast open a prison earlier today president bush was questioned about cars i see president bush said it is in no one's interest that extremists have a safe haven from which to operate an obviously it's a test the situation there and if i'm the president a in a country and people are coming from one country to another allegedly coming from another country to another to kill innocent civilians on my side i'd be concerned about it meanwhile the number of u s and international troops killed in afghanistan has passed the monthly toll in iraq for the first time nineteen u s and coalition troops died in afghanistan and maybe seventeen in iraq the u s and allied forces now have a record fifty two thousand troops fighting in afghanistan and bush and president bush is wrapping up his european visit today with stops in london and belfast on sunday bush met with british prime minister gordon brown ahead of their meeting bush war brown not to announce a timetable for british pullout from iraq protesters met bush over the weekend in both london and paris and republican presidential candidate senator john mccain so the supreme court's recent ruling on guantanamo is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country last week the court ruled that president was held indefinitely at guantanamo have a right to challenge their detention in u s courts again said our first obligation is the safety and security of this nation and the men and women who defended its decision will harm our ability to do that again also criticised his main rival barack obama for supporting the court's decision in international investigators are concerned detailed information on how to build an advanced compact nuclear weapon may be circulating on the black market the digital brut blueprint have been tied to pakistani nuclear scientist a q khan khan's illicit nuclear network has broken up in two thousand and four but news of the digital blueprint only came to light in recent weeks and the los angeles school district has dismissed a high school teacher who was deemed to be afrocentric karen salazar was a second year english teacher in a jordan high school and what hers course material included the writings of malcolm x lang hughes and hip hop artist tupac shakur last week salazar spoke at a rally organized by dozens of her former students and reform activists randy's critical was arrested and spent a night in jail  after can frontin new york police officers who were arresting two teenagers for smoking marijuana challenged them to solve murders instead could it go is a curator of william asas kunstler fun for racial justice which fights to free prisoners who have been jailed under the m a caller reported a burglary of a business and a two fifty p m nine one one caller reported a friend tied trying to take her children in for forty four pm a call from seventy thousand block of blue ten school road reported tenants were having  tossing lead cigarettes out the window and at ten twenty pm a caller from city creek drive reported a person who may have a gun had attempted to run the car over with a vehicle and at eleven fifteen pm a c twenty two am a call from seventeen thousand block a blue tent school reported his missing tenant had been located in san francisco on his own or way back home and eleven ten a m a caller from green horn reported multiple a t v s in the creek b intoxicated juvenile was complaining of heart pains and at five o five p m a call from the highway twenty reported several men took two twenty four ounce bottles of beer from a store without paid for in a five zero six p from twenty one thousand block of pine needles lane reported someone was shooting what was believed to be any legal weapon and at five fifty eight p m the security guard from one thousand block a lake shore north reported juvenile tried to set a look at the ponds park bathroom on fire and six ninety pm a call from ten thousand block a carriage road reported a fight that left one person with a broken your driver and at six thirty nine pm a report of an individual lost and alone in a forest trail search and rescue conduct of areas search and located the hike yes in a six forty eight pm the caller from fifteen thousand block a green horn access road reported a fight in a group a fight in front of a store and a group of ten people who attacked a security officer then sped off at five vehicles and its seven