a proposal to increase traffic fees for regional projects inside or near grass valley city limits was put on hold tuesday night by city council mark johnson said earlier today that to city officials are still looking at the fees to consider for commercial projects the fee would be levied against anyone building in the city or the city's fear of influence areas just beyond the city including areas set for future and access to defeat would help raise nearly forty four million dollars this cost a project estimated to be needed to deal with the future growth including several new projects it includes the building of the long proposed dorsey drive in a change at the golden center freeway additional cost would be borne by the city the city still would work with nevada county transportation commission on regional impact for years according to a report written by city engineer and public works director tim about a county judge awarded the eldest daughter of a convicted child molester lewis ponce one point two million dollars in damages after her mother testified ponts molested her at the victim and her attorney said tuesday this is really just about taking a stand and saying this is not ok and i'm not just going to take it said the victim carrie ponce that was empowering twenty six year old was one of the several children molested by ponce who taped the activity him self woman's the woman was between the ages of six months and six years kids and it was a slam dunk case so there was no need to throw carrie's abusing doing plant was sentenced to sixty three years to life in prison for molesting the other girls would carry poncelet her father had told her mother he didn't think he did what he did to her was wrong she decided to sue his civil suit was on my only option as far as getting any validation and power back carrie pound said ponces mother ponce his first wife used to footage of ponce molesting her daughter and testified against earlier this month in the video footage carrie ponce appeared to be drugged during the abuse according to the lawsuit because of the heinousness of this conduct we asked for earlier this month carey price attends a california university and will receive a masters degree in social work in about four weeks good for she works troubled teens and needs to attend therapy herself to deal with the feelings about her own wife who needs child support for their six foster children kerry bonds may not see any of the money she was awarded it's a likely scenario is that because of the divorce from his second wife they're going to split community property and his share is your mark to pay for that child support for the six kids whether or not kerry pontus entitled to your market funds we're not sure at this point he points his response to the civil suit he wrote he did not have any assets according to the court records i don't think we'll be able to collect but still said this was really about closure carry ponce who agreed i just want other victims to know that if it happens to them they can do something about it she said people will listen to you and then another local story state mental health patients group is considering legal action against nevada county after the board supervisors implemented laura's law to state the state law was named after laura wilcox one of the three people killed by mental health patient scunthorpe in the infamous january two thousand and one shooting in a bad county the law backed by her parents nick and amanda wilcox of penn valley calls for the involuntary treatment of mental health patients who are deemed by a judge to be a threat to themselves or others the involuntary aspect is the hang up for the california network of mental health clients who unsuccessfully sued los angeles county for implementing a similar law on a trial basis earlier in a decade even though it called for involuntary treatment we have the same objections we always had said network executive director laura mildred from her sacramento office it sets a dangerous precedent we're definitely exploring legal action we have a fundamental difference in our belief said amanda wilcox this group is in denial about severely mentally ill people who do not have insight into their condition and don't seek treatment you have to address that population we always expected it said nick wilcox this is around the state for several years for fear of lawsuits and because the state did not funded that change when the prop sixty three mental health service act approved by california voters began pouring millions of dollars into state coffers for  patients when michael haggerty took over the reins at the county's behavioral health department several years ago you figured out a way to implement laura's law using the proper sixty three funds but is taken up until now to fully set up and it is the first full implementation of the law in the state when average is prop sixty three spending plan for nevada county was approved by the state or as law was legitimized the wilcox's said the possible lawsuit is a way to scare off california counties away from implementing the law they are defined funds will go for eighteen concept for four to five severely mentally ill people per year who are placed in the program by said he knew of no lawsuits against laura's law but felt that the county was in good shape to defend itself lori's law is essentially voluntary showmance said because of patients refusing its use upon him cannot be held in contempt of court or be civilly committed to an institution t v news commands nikken amanda works and others for fighting for this much needed legislation we spend far too little time on this major mental health problem in our society it is time for us to focus on trying to help the last forty with mental illness and sometimes they will need help whether they know it or not this organization that is planning to sue is ignorant of the true facts this is not the patriot act the vet account is still more deaths cost from the two thousand and one scott dorp incident and by us except in laura's law we can hear a little more from this tragic and world news headlines today clinton wins pennsylvania primary bigtime almost impossible for obama to lose pledged delegate lead but he might and why do you blast clinton's negativity in the world food program warns about son tsunami rising food prices force world vision to cut aid to one point five million people colombia's president arrested for ties to death squads and bush chief can't be held liable for nine eleven statements and murdoch bids five hundred eighty million to buy newsday former army engineer arrested for spying for israel and three members of move denied to indiana and north carolina and both hold primaries on may sixth senator broke a bomb a spent tuesday night in evansville indiana where he addressed supporters in a speech largely focused on presumptive republican nominee john  senator boxer said we can't afford to play the same washington games the same washington players and expect different results not this time not now we already know what we're getting out of the other party's nomination john mccain has offered this country a lifetime of service and we respect that but what he's not offering is any meaningful change from the policies of george w bush although clinton won by ten percentage points in pennsylvania she only gained about nine pledged del tactics in an editorial tided the low road to victory yesterday wrote it is past time for senator hillary rodham clinton to acknowledge that she that the negativity for which she is mostly responsible does nothing but harm to her and her point the party and the in other news the world food program has begun scribing the global food crisis as a sound tsunami that threatens to plunge more than one hundred million people on every continent you know hunger and poverty world food program executive director joe said sharon said a large scale global response is needed to combat what she described as the biggest challenge ever faced by the world food program she also said we're seeing the rise food prices affect virtually every market in the world the difference is that the richer countries there's more resiliency we can give up desserts we can give up meat once and twice a week but people making less than a dollar a day there is no way to retreat and so now we are seen and places where people are not we're not desperate for more people hungry more people cutting out vital parts of their diet including going to one meal a day and so in these cases we really feel we need strategy to work with the government in communities to help people meet this increased ne affect donations by thirty five to thirty five of the one hundred countries which the agency it works world vision has already been forced to limit its food programs in east timor and sri lanka and rejections have been made in aid sent to r political asan so that his crime and acts in maine unpunished in colombia meanwhile at security and prosperity partnership in north america summit in new york lanes president bush urged congress to pass the colombian free trade deal president bush said an agreement with colombia would level the playing field and the failure to pass an agreement would send a terrible signal to our neighborhood the speaker of the united states congress has killed this bill unless she gives us a date certain for a vote it's a bad decision on her part and it's bad for our hemisphere to have the united states of america turn its back on that your friend like colombia the washington post reports at least two dozen former and current prisoners at guantanamo bay and elsewhere say they haven't been given drugs against their will or witnessed other inmates being drugged the allegation have resurfaced after release this month of two thousand and three justice department memo that explicitly condone the use of drugs on detainees in the memo former justice department lawyer johnny you rejected a decade old u s ban on use of mind altering substances on prisoners instead he argues that drugs could be used as long as they did not inflict permanent or profound psychological damage legal experts and human rights groups say the forced drugging or death of detainees for any non therapeutic reason would be a particularly grave breach of international treaties banning torture and news from africa it turns you into official said the death toll in sudan over the past five years may now be as high as three hundred dowson john holmes u dollars and had lost their lives from the combined effects of the conflict the figure must be higher now perhaps half as much again yet we continue to see goal post receiving to the point where peace in dar first seems further away today than ever s total number does not exceed ten thousand i guess how many fingers and toes you could be used anyway federal appeals court ruled tuesday that former e p a chief christie dean todd whitman cannot be held liable for telling residents near the world trade center site today it was safe to breathe after the second eleventh attack when it came in response to a lawsuit by residents students and workers in lower manhattan brooklyn who said were exposed to hazardous doesn't the breeze from the fall into it hours after september in media news report murtha has put forward five hundred eighty nine bid to buy the new york york based newspaper newsday if the deal is approved this would give murdoch control of three of the nation's ten largest circulation papers the wall street journal new york post and newsday meanwhile on tuesday the wall street journal's top editor marcus brauchli resigned in a move that will give murdoch more power to remake the paper she bought in december and a new jersey man has been arrested for four counts of conspiracy in espionage for melman said the rest will stain israel's reputation also said the significance of this affair is that clear now the polar was not the only spy israel operating in united states on american soil as israel had claimed it time terms of the quantity and headquarters during the raid police officers was shot dead nine members of the group were convicted of third degree murder seven years after the nine hundred seventy eight raid philadelphia police bombed the movie headquarters killing eleven members of the group including five children sounds like a mosque and a federal judge has dismissed charges against the university of buffalo art professor was charged with mail and wire fraud have to the f b i found harmless spector a used in art displays in his apartment the judge said the charges against steve kurds were insufficient in his face cards has recently investigated for bioterrorism and that is a wrap for our world news aged nineteen pm police arrested a thirty seven year old woman on three hundred block of carroll drive for a warrant and on suspicion of violating probation and add eleven thirty five p m a caller from three hundred block pleasant reported a verbal fight with an ex boyfriend police arrest her son's vehicle was parked in front of the residence with bundle of an open mail in the front seat mail was not hers and and was addressed to neighboring st given it took a report from petty theft attempted on a burglary a girls detained for shoplifting they were accused of trying to take bottled water fruit drinks coconut body cream and a bag of carmel's alter took a report released the girls to their parents it was less than an acre in size and that's it for the blotter and now for our weather report partly cloudy and sunny at times through next