three p m and also at seven thirty pm and sometimes on sierra college fifteen on saturdays on kong calloused at five pm we will also be welcoming trucking in colfax public access channel in a few weeks you can get a free in today's local news fast growing retailer ashley furniture is expected to open in the former head when furniture building by thanksgiving go in the larger vacant business place in downtown grass valley if your face will be at the helm chilly peterson whose family ran headman before it closed in march i'm excited about it said peterson sixty one who couldn't stay retired from the furniture industry she was a part of for thirty five years i miss the business in most vacant building that wasn't selling as well as the success of the ashley furniture brought back peterson back to downtown grass valley she said headman had been a fixture in the city for fifty years actually furniture will joint test kitchen store in the  mill street building test opened its new location earlier this month from downtown down the street downtown hit with several vacancies this summer is filling up again blackjack a man store mostly due to high rents we're happy to have her back as part of our downtown said however the executive director of the grass valley downtown association twenty five thousand square foot furniture store will employ twelve people including five  former head men workers although wisconsin based ashley furniture is a national retailer is stores are independently owned and operated actually ranked second to wal mart in two thousand and six in furniture and bedding sales according to the furniture today trade publication it generated nearly two billion dollars in sales just behind wal mart's two point one billion wal mart security saw this store's sales grew to nearly thirty three per cent last year the paper said ashley furniture a privately owned manufacturer is designed as an affordable price to operation it also will be easier to run than head mint when i was in business at headman we had in ninety vendors say now we're down to one ashley and if you access three companies customers should be able to get their furniture more quickly it actually is compared with headwinds peters said we've told customers six to eight weeks delivery time referring to headman as business now we can be more specific actually these furnitures detail computer tracking system means delivery falls within a more definite and quicker timeframe people now want instant gratification and they'll get that peterson said customers will be able to move easily between the new we furnished store in tess's kitchen store after area property owners they voted down a fire assessment that would have paid for two full time firefighters in the area those will annually two hundred six dollars fifty you would have provided the front is to augment to twelve on call volunteer firefighters who serve of chicago park fire protection district fifty two percent of the residents voted against the proposal with forty eight percent voting in favor of said district secretary debbie beer wagons the assessment  or flat fee for all improved parcels we have applied to approximately sixteen hundred properties all votes were tallied at the fire district board meeting wednesday night chief bear wade and said he would like to wait a year to propose another assessment for his special tax we need to elicit a lot more community involvement he said adding that eight twenty four hour staff station the fire station now is staffed with one full time firefighter for ten hours per day with no coverage other than on call volunteers when a fire breaks out at night it takes balls and tears an average of eight minutes to get from their homes to the station to pick up the engine with a staff station he said the engine would be deployed within a minute that time difference is crucial he said adding that a residential structure fire doubles in size every seven minutes the average living room he said takes about forty five seconds to become fully involved there were going warrants residents to pay attention to fire safety particularly in communities where and another story this year in nevada memorial hospital foundation and world knows how to jerusalem israel's attorney general on sunday ordered a new criminal investigation into prime minister olmert and the latest in a series of probes that threaten to weaken israeli leader during ongoing peace efforts with the palestinians the justice ministry said the investigation would look into suspicions that olmert acts improperly while he he was trade minister earlier this decade the state controller comp a watchdog agency has allege that all mark's during a government grant to a friend in two thousand and one this is specious pertain mainly to all marines involvement in the investment center and political appointments and helping his political friends and public bodies police spokes person spokesman mickey rosenfeld said the police would in the coming days appoint a team to investigate to handle the case almost office swiftly denied the allegations the any wrongdoing last week he was twice interrogated by police on suspicion he tried to break the sale of israel's second largest bank in favor of two associates well he was finance minister he also directed of buying a jerusalem home from the real estate developer at a substantial discount in return for helping the builder obtain construction permits from jerusalem authorities omar has dismissed the various investigations as political witch hunt but the prolapse have threatened to undermine him just as his public approval ratings have begun to rebound from last year's inconclusive war with lebanon  attorney general's announcement came as olmert was hosting u s secretary of state connally said rice who is in the region trying to prepare for the next month's us hosted mideast peace conference in annapolis maryland and then another story out of washington senators from the plains states are trying to persuade colleagues to create a permanent disaster fund for farmers despite objections from some farm state senators environmentalist and the white house proponents have found a way to include five billion dollars in the senate version of the farm bill to reimburse growers for weather related crop losses while popular in the plains states the issue is troubling to some environmental and form groups that would like the money for other needs the real issue here is where it here is what is the government's responsibility can cook head of the environmental working group an advocacy group that has opposed the aid we are squeezing out the opportunity to invest in other things cook says the money would go to dro prone states such as the dakotas and montana that already get millions in farm subsidies the chairman of the senate finance committee senator max baucus of montana  disaster legislation it was approved by his committee october fourth to be part of the farm bill cook's group recently released a study that reports that government spent twenty six billion in emergency agriculture disaster between one thousand nine hundred five and two thousand and five pointed to the study eighty six percent of the chronic recipients or farmers who have received disaster aid for eleven or more years come from five states texas tops that list followed by south dakota north dakota oklahoma and georgia senator kent conrad a democrat from north dakota like it's a study to criticize you katrina aid because it would go to a place that floods conrad has spent much of his s career are going for disaster aid especially with an intense drought in the dakotas in recent years he has farmers need protection because their business is harsh and unpredictable bauc bill would require farmers and ranchers to purchase crop insurance in order to be eligible for the disaster assistance supporters say the proposal would help taxpayers by potentially reducing the amount of government aid needed legislation protects taxpayers by encouraging farmers to take care of themselves baucus says the critics disagree senator pat roberts a republican from kansas has said he is concerned that the program would be used for as well as fund for non agricultural programs we would consider disaster on a marriage and needs basis he said in a statement acting agriculture secretary chuck connor said the bush administration would refer to protect farmers by basing payments on one revenues are low and increasing direct payments to farmers sarah harper is foreign policy expert for environmental defense says the money should go instead to conserve conservation programs that protect environmentally sensitive farmland the money could prove to be a problem down the road the chairman of the senate agricultural committee senator tom harkin has never really liked the idea of a permanent disaster fund harkin a democrat from iowa has said he would prefer to use extra money for other priorities or priorities but he has conceded in recent weeks that the disaster program probably would be part of the farm bill baucus his proposal would raise money by cracking down on companies under the economic substance doctrine for a company to claim the tax deduction for a specific transaction the transaction must yield a profit or have some other clear economic benefits separate from the tax effect though the idea has the support of iowa senator charles grassley grassley the top republican on the finance committee most of the committee's other republicans voted against it but the disaster money is only one sticking point in the farm bill as senators continue to haggle over how much or to cut farm subsidies and the amount of money that will be distributed for conservation groups the senate agricultural committee is expected to consider the bill this month if negotiations goal well if the disaster money survives the senate it would face obstacles in negotiations with the house the chairman of the house agricultural committee republican call and peterson a democrat from minnesota decided not to include it in his version of the bill though peterson supports disaster aid he's if there was not enough money for it the house passed its version of the farm bill in july and a continuing story out of instant bull turkey turkey's top general warned that the ties with the us already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in iraq will be irreversibly damaged if congress passes a resolution that labels a world war one era killing of armenians a genocide which was turkey which is a major cargo hub for the us and allied military forces in iraq and afghanistan has recalled its ambassador to washington for committee is approval of the measure had already harmed ties between the two countries if this resolution passes in committee passes the house as well our military ties with the us will never be the same again  as quoted as saying by the million i'm the military chief idea was security issues i am not a politician by you can it said was quality seen by the million is in this regard the u shot its own foot president bush has said the resolution is the wrong response to the armenian deaths but house speaker nancy pelosi said the measures timing was important because many of the survivors are very old it is a statement  made by twenty three other countries we would be the twenty fourth country to make this statement genocide still exists and we saw it in rwanda we see it now in dar fur she told a b c this week cargo headed for iraq goes through turkey as does it about one third of the fuel used by the u s military there u s bases also get water and other supplies carried in overland by turkish truckers who cross into iraq's northern kurdish re to c seventeen cargo planes flying military supplies to u s soldiers in remote areas of iraq from encouraging avoiding the use of iraqi roads very vulnerable to bomb attacks u s officials say the measure which could be voted on by the house by the end of the year remarks were published today after a visit by dan fried assistant secretary of state for european affairs and erik l the man who was the undersecretary of defense for policy secretary of state rice asked before we came here to express that the bush administration is opposed to this resolution  saturday at issue in the resolution is the killing of up to one point five are many and by the ottoman turks many international historians contend the world war one era de genocide but turkey says the mass killings and deportations were not and that many turkish muslims died in the chaos of war the congressional resolution comes as the turkish parliament debates a military campaign into northern iraq to root out rebels who seek and unify independent nation for kurds in the region he also officials have urged turkey not to send troops and appealed for a diplomatic solution with iraq decrease self will region in northern iraq is one of the country's few relatively stable areas and the kurds here are also a long time u s ally a kurdish rebel commander on saturday said would face a long and bloody conflict if it launched a large scale offense in northern iraq speaking to the associated press deep in the one dale mountains straddle in the iraqi turkish border incursions would make turkey experience a vietnam war the p k k has been fighting for an autonomous in south east turkey since nineteen eighty four the conflict has claimed tens of thousands of lives turkey says the that's right it's time for the police blotter the pictures in the blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid only grass valley police department on thursday and will twenty one a m call from south church in yesterday reported a man on the bus was yelling at a driver please contact the demand and he would be walking to nor stand at a level forty five am a person in the police station lobby reported that a man from the bus accident at home marilyn road at east main street to drivers exchange information at two or four p m a call from the three hundred block of pleasant street report even if it did resident was trying to move out and she and another verbal they arrested a twenty one year old woman on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia and a warrant they were arrested a twenty eight year old man placer county warrant and a twenty year old woman on suspicion of been an accessory there was no drunken driving violation of that city police department on thursday at eleven thirty a m a call from the business on spring street reported an elderly woman got into an accident while trying to park  car behind the hotel at one forty six pm a call from a business on a three hundred block of spring street imported a wallet was stolen police took a report from petty theft   or three fifty eight p m it woman from the thirteen thousand block of robles drive reported her home was broken into but nothing appeared to be missing a man checked on before deputies arrived the woman would get an alarm system and and she had suffered severe brain injury the man said he also was bipolar the dispute was over property the man wanted to press charges then later said he did not want to press charges house an ambulance took the man to the hospital deputies determined no crime being committed the man was and was looking for his and that's it for the blotter today now for the weather it beautiful in to the we can't it's conditions similar to what we had on saturday there is a chance for some morning fog for portions of the delta sacramento valley and san joaquin valley otherwise some chance throughout the day with valley