out of the union the city of grass valley is poised to declare financial hardship as a precursor to additional staff cuts needed to balance its budget declaration is a formality the city council expected to vote on tuesday night to alert city employees bargaining units about probable cuts in hours and positions units may become aware of the expected cuts during the recent negotiations balancing the budget will result in service level reductions cost shift deferred purchases change in how we provide services and a reduction of personnel levels hauler wrote in a memo to for the meeting to counsel learned this week that the declining sales tax revenues have put the city five hundred twenty five thousand in the hole for the current two thousand and nine fiscal year city minister downhaul are also projected a hundred one point fifty five million deficit for upcoming two thousand and nine to ten fiscal year which begins july first the next fiscal year deficit comes from expected to dish no sales tax losses scuse me and potential loan to state property taxes to balance california's budget council meeting will be seven p m tuesday grass valley city hall in a story written by this killer a ten year old friend valley boy was taken by helicopter to u c davis medical center wednesday night after being out to gently run over urgency responder said thursday several nine one one calls were received from the residence and the twenty one thousand block of darcy lane in penn valley at about six thirty p m wednesday penn valley firefighters arrived to find a boy who had been who had not been dead a fight had been run over by a full sized ford bronco he sustained multiple abrasions but was conscious and talking also was complaining of increased abdominal pain an official at the penn valley fire protection district said no additional information was available at the time and we'll follow the story up tomorrow with more info opie's ok and another story written by liz keller an elderly local couple got a nasty surprise when they're hired someone to clear the overgrown property and the legal marijuana grow complete with onsite caretakers homeowners in the substantial property of fourteen thousand block of north nearly seven thousand marijuana plants ranging in size from six inches to twelve inches at the site which was bisected by kentucky creek they also discovered three hutus or tents one for cooking one for living and one for processing marijuana as well as counselors clothing and a pellet gun this appears to have been a mexican national growth has been there for several years well said they were they are brought in to grow marijuana for a portion of the profits it is the growing season and it is typical define marijuana grows at this time of year but this is the first large scale operation this deputy has found on private property they usually are stablished and b l m or forest service land and this particular instances the property had become so overgrown that the growers were able to excrete detection ironically it wasn't too far from the house carrying calling nine one one is preferr confrontation rule stressed we always find weapons he said so if you see something that seems to be an illegal grow back away and give us a call they will defend the gardens in a story written by liz keller the black pickup truck belonging to isaiah march in about a county man missing since april fourteenth has been found in southern california nevada county sheriff keith ross said all the evidence points to foul play and urged anyone with information to come forward we believe we are dealing with homicide rule set there is to even law enforcement personnel in riverside county contacted the sheriff's office may fifteenth when they located march's ford f three fifty truck sheriff's detectives flew down accompanied by criminalists from the state department of justice and examined the truck before it was transported back to nevada county we know some of the events leading up to his disappearance ross said there's been no activity in his bank account no contact with his family everything points to homicide or some type of foul play marsh thirty and his black ford f one fifty pickup disappeared without a trace standing family and friends who said he number events are had been scheduled for this last week and it's celebration america's veterans those who give lives in service to the nation the staff of hooper and weaver in equal place small american flags and headstones every military person buried in the mortuaries for cemeteries during the memorial hosted a program to honor veterans at ten a m and again at six p m sunday may twenty fourth passing the torch of freedom is a musical draw offering stories and music from revolutionary ways through the war on terrorism featured speakers a vietnam war vet veteran patrick philip mission was free upon i scream was available for purchase after the evening performance got the church is was at one three zero one  highway forty nine just south of grass valley christian life where if that was another thing local members of veterans vietnam veterans of america laid wreaths in a simple ceremony butterfly poem memorial plaque at greenwood memorial gardens armistice ending world war one barbecue hosted by american legion was followed that by in a nearby park and that's pretty much it for today and weekends and four fourteen p m a woman from the one hundred block south office reported her ex threaten to kill or threw her telephone yet yesterday when she tried to call nine one one four thirty four pm a caller from butler street reported a man wearing a backpack and caring a neither was walking on the street man did not look like he only did we did here and for fifty four p m i woman from the business in a twelve thousand block of nevada city hardware reported another woman ambushed her outside tenders want second woman called seven thirty six pm to report receiving harassing reported to driver was in a parking lot with a woman who would not pay she was arrested on suspicion of defrauding an innkeeper and thursday two fourteen am he one from two in a block a certain way reported hearing someone yanking on her gate  injuries were sustained eleven thirty seven a m a caller from scott's flat road reported hearing someone yelling for help deputies were unable to locate anything two thirty one p m a caller from borrelli road reported t us in a physical fight six forty five p m a woman from twenty three thousand block a longtime drive reported several juveniles broke into her house and at seven twenty one pm a call from the fourteen thousand block media trail reported injured dear oh dear it was found to a new point five pm call from met away and jones ridge road reported being attacked by two pit bull terriers and was going to the emergency room and thursday five forty three pm the caller from the eighteen thousand block of indian springs rose reported dog had been barking all night and appeared to be in distress it was found to be a raccoon issue ninety seven zero eight am a woman from one thousand doesn't block cherry creek road reported vandalism has publicly acknowledged for the first time he supports indefinite jailing of some prisoners without trial bomb admitted nation during a speech in the national archives thursday defending his plan to close guantanamo he also said let me begin by disposing of one argument as plainly as i can we're not going to release anyone if it would in danger our national security know what we released again is within the united states were in danger to american people obama also went on to repudiate several bush administration counterterrorism policies  criticizing media and his own party for failing to oppose them and said but i also believe that too often our government made decisions based on fear rather than foresight that all too often our government trying to face facts and evidence to fit ideologies predispositions instead of strategically applying our power and our principles too often we set those principles aside as luxuries that we could no longer afford and during the season of fear too many of us democrats and republicans minutes after obama spoke former vice president dick cheney delivered a speech at the american enterprise institute defending bush's ministrations policies cheney said obama is in danger in the united states the former vice president said the ministr to pride itself in searching for some kind of middle ground in policies addressing terrorism they may take comfort in hearing disagreement from the opposite ends of the spectrum if lowell's are unhappy about some decisions and conservatives are unhappy about other decisions that it may seem to them that the president is on the path of sensible can promise but in the fight against terrorism there is no middle ground and half measures keep you happy exposed the senate has approved a ninety one billion dollar major funding the occupation of iraq and afghanistan t measure passed by a vote of eighty six to serie a former u s soldier has been sentenced to life in prison for a two thousand and eight rape and murder of an iraqi teenager and killing of her family steven green was found guilty earlier this month  three of the soldiers have also been sentenced to life in prison in the case and in pakistan the u n is appealing for more than five hundred million and made to help the hundreds of thousands displaced by clashes between government troops and taliban fighters some two million people have fled their homes in the swat valley following last month's collapse of the government taliban troops un humanitarian coordinator martin marg want john said the displacements have caused incredible suffering meanwhile the chair of the joint chiefs of staff admiral michael mullen has admitted the escalation of the us occupation of afghanistan could end up worsening pakistan's internal unrest speaking before the senate foreign relations committee once said we may end up further destabilizing pakistan without providing everywhere else there and was briefly interrupted by four anti war activists protesting not present afghanistan protests or through whining stained with blood and shouted stop pouring blood money into will fair one demonstrator stood up to repeat the words many chairs senator john kerry when he testified as an anti war veteran during the vietnam nam war saying how do you ask someone to be the last american soldier to die for a mistake activists are members of a national campaign for now violent resistance president obama is expected to sign a to impose any new regulations on the credit card industry the final measure exclude stronger proposals that would have kept interest rates and fees which would have probably done something the bills drawn criticism from gun control advocates over the amendment that would allow people to carry loaded guns in national parks in other news from washington fifteen people were arrested thursday protesting democrat congress member rick boettcher over his support for the coal industry the activists say vote your has led efforts to weaken the de camp over what he called new evidence initial charges were dropped after spain's national court dismissed the case was a coup says brother how the arc was so welcome to reinstatement and he also said the success of what's happened today is that thanks to a joint effort not only in the justice system but in the civils testament of our country this case was very important here was they gave face to the victims of the iraq war made many very indignant and we all saw it it was an attack against the press the judge santiago pederasts says the new evidence includes eye witness testimony contradicting u s claims that tainted tactic palestinian hotel came under fire one year ago former army sergeant adrian conning told democracy now she saw a palestinian hotel on a tar military target list and said she frequently intercepted calls from journalists to him there and bolivian president evo morales is calling for a new phase in relations with the united states the bush administration funneling tens of millions dollars to morality as opponents in an effort to destabilize the government bolivia expelled the us ambassador last year over allegations of conspiring with opposition groups on thursday morale is held dr thomas shannon the assistant secretary of state for the western hemisphere affairs and the bolivian president said on the issue of cooperation whatever cooperation that is undertaken must be from state to state an issue of investment investment must be orientated towards having partners and investment banks not just be made to guarantee the plunder of groups without any benefit for the people bolivia in israel and the occupied territories israeli prime minister benjamin not want to you know has declared israel will never seed control over all of jerusalem the palestinians have called over easter isn't this part of any future peace deal but on thursday not to yahoo said jerusalem will remain undivided and he said a united euro zone is the capital of israel jerusalem was and will always be ours it shall never be divided or split again it's in your house comments come just three days after his white house meeting with president obama where he pledged to seek peace with palestinians back in the united states watching posters report and bombing ministration plans to steer general motors into bankruptcy as early as next week the move will enable g m to take out nearly thirty billion in additional government loans meanwhile the government has increased the bailout of g m financial on g m a c was an additional seven point five billion in taxpayer money on top of the five billion it already poured you him federal regulators have shut down the florida based savings bank bank united f s b the bank was a large bank institution headquartered in florida 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