it twenty four year old penn valley woman and her thirty five year old male passenger were killed this weekend in a three car accident in highway twenty just west grass fell to a middleton twenty four and a passenger were pronounced dead at the scene saturday afternoons two others involved in an accident received moderate minor injuries according to the c h p builtin was driving east on highway twenty eight east of rex reservoir road in sleep conditions but one tens of pm one or two thousand on the civic clockwise and rolled ones coming to rest in its wills off the north edge of the highway the atlas volvo spun and rolled once it was struck in the right rear by a kiya real behind it driven by amy norton mclaren thirty one of penn a middleton's coworkers a gym boys to marco's on nevada city highway in grass valley posted a makeshift memorial of the twenty four year old at the entrance of the business sunday and it said dear friends we were photo collage of middleton she handed up in a camera in a few pictures displayed next to her high school photo an image of her as a young child milton was friendly with her customers a gym boy tacos and knew many sometimes for fun she would put a children's toy inside adult to go order she mentioned she was a religious person she had been married and moved out of the state for sure don and recently moved back to nevada county after split from her husband she told one customer after her return she resumed her job at a restaurant recently she said she was happy and was dating a local man the cause of the accident is under investigation according to th at richard williams sentencing thursday his oldest daughter still crying in front of a packed gallery in the nevada county superior court and told her father she never wants to see him again a few minutes later judge thomas anderson sentenced williams to life in prison without possibility of parole for killing his wife who drink a heavy williams william strangled her and shot her three times with a high powered nail gun october twenty second two thousand and five william stared straight ahead to jury showed no emotion when the sentence was read jaso appeared unaffected when he his weeping breathless daughter stood just a few feet away from him and gave her statement look around sarah william said to her father between sobs there is no one here to support you if we don't mourn you're losing you you've been totally erased will never come in this evil she told her father she hadn't planned to make a public statement but then she reconsidered she wanted him to see how his actions affected her i hope they put you somewhere where you can never hurt anyone again she said sara williams younger sister brianna did not attend the hearing brianna could not look at her dad deputy district attorney catherine francis said after the sentencing richard heavy winds were going through a divorce at the time of the murder had a williams had moved out of the home the couple had shared an all to street but a week before she was killed on the morning of the murder had he williams kept a nine a m appointment at the altar zero home to talk with richard williams and bought some furniture she wanted to move into her rented cottage down the street williams ambushed his wife and dragged her into the bedroom worried low the loaded nail gun was waiting williams had drafted a suicide note on his computer that morning and print of a copy with a printed copy was laid by the bedside table after today's wife williams turns in their gun on himself he recovered from his wounds it set a roseville medical center visibly angry thursday he wins brother peter runnion told his former brother in law the murder tore apart his family you killed so much room and said richard williams you know gun murder has ravaged our entire family and exploded a bomb in our lives runnion looked williams in the eye and told him he we had no pity for him he said he does not believe the excuse gave during tr killing and withdraw from an anti depressant paxil made him kill haiti runyan reminded this dog williams that the convicted killer tried to convince his family soon after the murder that he had actually tried to shoot him with the nail gun not the other way around during the trial in november however williams admitted to planning and carrying out the murder don't pity yourself brennan said you accomplished your goal of murder in he speak to me when you can resurrect or have it williams friend jackie webber spoke about donda to children how do you help through her work as a teacher each child was valued loved and respected weber said i witnessed the loss of innocence in so many of their eyes when they learned of her murder she called williams is a very selfish hateful prideful empty shell of a man who takes no responsibility for his actions before their life sentence was handed down williams gave his own statement he said it was beyond my ability to express how sorry i am he said to his tearful family i cannot imagine suffering you experienced because of his bottom lip shook a few times he sniffed periodically and dab his dry eyes with a tissue continued to blame drug withdrawal symptoms for his actions i was not in control of my actions he said i woke up in the hospital with a morbid fear to know what i could have done such that i could have done such a cruel and brutal acts in no way did he deserve this he was my life partner i am atoning for my sins every day and i pray for for each and every one of us  attorney stephen monk out quoted bible verse twelve seventeen twenty one regarding revenge and said revenge is not just the role for the criminal justice system he accused prosecutor of catherine francis of jumping to an easy conclusion and refusing to consider evidence that withdrawal symptoms caused williams to murder his wife after sentencing francis said monk of statement was totally ghar total garbage self serving disingenuous and it's really disappointing the victim had to hear that statement she said adding that she was sad for the williams and runnion family members the dedication and energy they put towards this trial and this case really speaks of deadly weapon tax on another mandatory year williams you see the life in prison without parole because he was found guilty of enhancement francis said outside the courtroom sheriff investigators she graduated in  francis for her hard work williams is going to be just another miserable guy's been in his life in prison wishing he got a divorce said some nevada county sheriff captain wet weather will likely continue this week as the cleanup for the powerful storms continues and thousands of customers wait to get their power restored daryn severe overnight weather students return to school today after the holiday break putting more vehicles on icy roads as of monday morning school had opened as planned more than seventy three hundred local customers remained without power as of sunday night  were mountain people he said we've got a portable heater flashlights and candles some wild water residents who lost power resorted to unusual tactics such as hauling buckets of water from nearby pond to flush the toilet others just went to their relatives some die hard football fans missed their we can n f l playoff games because their comcast cable t v was out even though the power worked and p g needed has sixty one crews contracted with neighboring utilities throughout he said while the phone rang in the background local residents without are included four thousand in grass valley twenty one hundred in nevada city and twelve hundred ten valley the mandolin allen library lost power and remain closed the wayne brown correctional facility lost power and was running on a generator public works crews worked during the weekend to clear trees limbs and branches from public roadways said county public workers director doug vera cruz have been working round the clock for all said weekend snow complicated matters some roadways remain closed such as the pine street bridge in nevada city highway twenty from nevada city two one eighty was closed off and until noon sunday it attracted a few dozen people but no overnight guests some public house staffers came to work on the weekend to make sure people who depended on power for life support for oxygen for example were all right if it's of said the program is is safe or special assistance for emergencies the wet weather is expected to continue through friday a thirty percent chance of showers exist today with the highs and forty one cording to the weather service periods of rain will continue tuesday through thursday while clearing on friday winds will remain by to moderate a break from the gusts to downed trees and power lines and election news all eyes are on new hampshire today want to head of the state primary several new polls suggest as senator barack obama has received a major boost in new hampshire following his victory in iowa caucus on saturday for the democratic candidates were invited to take part in debate hosted by a b c news senator barack obama repeated his assertion that he would authorize the u s military to carry out unilateral attacks inside pakistan without the support of the pakistani government if there was actionable intelligence against treasure and we have fanned the anti american sentiment one of the most heated moments of the debate came when senator john edwards teamed up with senator barack obama and accuse senator hillary clinton of represented the status quo senator edwards said but both of us are powerful voices for change and i might add we finished first and second in iowa caucus i think it's part of the result of that now what i would say is this any time you speak out powerful for change the force of status quo attack that's exactly what happened senator hillary clinton responded she said i want to make change but i've already made change i will continue to make change i'm not just running on a promise of change on running for thirty five years of change i'm running on to having taken on the drug companies and health insurance companies taking on the oil companies so you know i think it is clear that we need what we need is somebody who can deliver change and we don't need to be raising the false hope of our country about what can be delivered the best way to know what change i will produce is to look at the changes that i've already made democrat candidate dennis kucinich filed a complaint with the federal commission communications commission over his exclusion from the debate kissin it pointed out to a b c s parent company what disney had contributed to the campaign and for candidates invited former senator mike gravel was also excluded from the debate g o p polls sponsorship of debate to protest exclusion of ron paul meanwhile the republican party pulled its sponsorship of the sunday's night debate on fox news because of the network have excluded texas congressm ron paul former new york mayor rudy giuliani who was invited to the debate even though he lost to paul in iowa in other campaign news republican senator john mccain admitted he would be fine if the united states military stayed in iraq for a hundred years mccain said we've been in japan for sixty years and i we've been in south korea for fifty years so as long as americans are not been injured or harmed or wounded or killed that's fine with me in other news the new york times reported president bush senior national security advisor are debating whether to expand the authority of the cia and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of pakistan pakistan military rejected the idea of covert u s actions inside pakistan military spokesman said it is not up to the us administration it is pakistani government who is responsible for this country and israeli prime escalate israeli attacks in gaza where at least fourteen palestinians have died since thursday already printed israel's actions saying they were needed to stop rocket attacks israel has also sharply reduced fuel supplies to the only electric plant in gaza power is now being cut off eight hours a day inside the territory israel is coming under increased criticism from palestinian leaders and the arab league arab league secretary general amara mo says israel recent action in gaza and the west bank jeopardize talks that began in annapolis president bush is scheduled to visit israel on wednesday as part of the regional tour that will cover seven nations refused an offer by president can be key to form a government on national unity or doing it said so i think is an insult the intelligence of people has got rid of somebody who knows clearly that he did not win the election is inviting people to a government of national unity but a spokesperson for the opposition said event is willing to discuss a coalition government with young one power sharing and economic news more signs are emerging indicating the country might be heading towards a recession report unemployment hit rate hit five percent in december it was the biggest jump in unemployment since a month after the september eleventh attacks president all briefly topped one hundred dollars a barrel for the first time ever last week on wall street the dow jones industrial average suffered its worst start to a new year since one thousand nine hundred four the nasdaq can posit index dropped over five percent last week it's the worst start a new year ever and the new york and the times of london reported the living standard in britain arse set to rise above those in the united states for the first time in the nineteenth century as an heiress to chief economics of lehmann brothers predicted two thousand it would be a difficult year for u s economy former presidential candidate george mcgovern has publicly called for the impeachment of president bush and vice president cheney in an article in the washington post senator mcgovern writes the case for impeaching bush and cheney is far stronger than was the case against nixon and vice president spire agnew after the one nine hundred seventy two election mcgovern ran against nixon in one nine hundred seventy two but lost mcgovern accused bush of repeating violating the constitution and lying to the american public he wrote to conduct and that barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world and news from washington former republican senator trent lott has confirmed he is planning to establish a new one before becoming paid capitol hill lobbyist it is unclear if lott may have broken as dick rules by didn't go shooting terms of the lobbying firm while he was still the senate the hill now as newspaper has revealed that in october a lot son purchased a website domain name i want to tell you who cares and finally his new york times reports the international committee of the red cross says determined the united states has held dozens of prisoners incommunicado fo weeks or even months at the bronner military base in afghanistan the red cross said the prisoners were kept from its inspectors and sometimes subjected to cruel treatment in violation of the geneva convention the u s is now holding six hundred thirty prisoners of pictures in a blotter not from these actual events but use for visual aid only grass valley police department on friday at eight thirty one am two colors reported a road rage incident both parties reported each other as a drunk driver one driver was going slow and the other was swerving and hocking trying to get the person to drive faster they're both transferred to the c h p nine thirty one a m a caller from two hundred block of arcadia drive reported two cars were broken into and wallets and credit cards were stolen and officer two am a call from one hundred block of solar drive reported a tree fell into a house fire department responding one p m a call from the business east main street reported sign was dangling from a hook public caller from a bar on the one hundred block of mill street reported a drunken man would not leave and he's threatened the caller police responded in the man would take a taxi home and not return to the bar that night and on saturday eleven forty two a m a call from the store in a six hundred block a certain way reported a female shoplifter who had asked to leave was causing a disturbance ten fifty five p m a woman called from the two hundred block of dorsey drive to report a man was in her house and would not leave police arrested the forty seven year old man on suspicion of violation of probation sunday nevada county sheriff's office on friday oh i'm sorry on friday that wasn't mailbox was found by the side of the road one on one p m a caller from twelve thousand block of pine wood road reported an injured bear on the side of the road the department of fish and game responded