shortly after telling emergency dispatchers he couldn't get the motor of his small aircraft started and was going down aggressive element crashed and died between banner mountain and i we twenty near nevada city on sunday that a county sheriff's officers and crews from the county of grass fellow according to the sheriff's office fairly certain it was one of those homemade crafts said some resident of the neighborhood said he heard the plane crash ran out of the scene saw no movement inside the plane and ran back to his house to call nine one one he made a real rackets of the man who declined to give his name the silver aircraft with black and white stripes and military type star insignia was upside down on the ground emergency responders had to cut it apart from with the jaws of life to get the victim out said sheriff sergeant john cassidy who was on  that he was going to crash and would try to find an impact site that had no residences the plane did not hit any buildings did not come close to home and but he did come close to home and h know the local story a local mother of a gay couple prays nevada county clerk recorder gregory diaz for the reception his office gave to same sex couples gathered in his office on valentine's day pat pac sun and male partner were among those who applied for marriage license knowing they would be denied and what has become an annual ritual across california and some other states since two thousand and four flurry of legal wranglings over the issue diaz greeted the same sex couple who have been  long term committed relationship for many years with warm handshakes for everyone to grass valley woman wrote of the experience the staff was happy to make an appointment and welcome us with decorations and refreshments and the best of all smiling friendly faces and sincere apologies for being unable to comply with the request wrote paddock who is a founding member of the national organization of parents and friends of lesbians and gays on saturday local marriage equality activist christine allen marks the fourth anniversary of her marriage to her long term partner in san francisco during a brief period of legalization the four thousand ceremonies performed there were declared invalid six months later since then it's been a roller coaster regarding marriage equality and i like thousands of others became marriage equality activists said allen who is a leader is the leadership coordinator for marriage equality seventy four on suspicion of drunken driving i have read hundreds and hundreds of comments online about this matter wrote terrible lizard who is doing most of his campaigning on the internet and reaching out to groups that he said are the future of politics in public order forms this news has sparked incredible discussions about laws punishment drinking and driving collective property personal property contract rights duress and more all of us including myself learned tremendously from these interactions trouble is a roach in a message titled trouble those are called self calls self insensitive bozos and drunken idiots i made a series of mistakes i've learned many things from this event i'm taking full responsibility for my of lizard thirty nine wrote of his online community about his arrest early february tenth i will do my best to comply with the law as this court process continues yet he would continue complaining despite the routine traffic misdemeanor turmel lizard who lives part done cedar ridge also said he has refused to sign a voluntary document promising prayer campaign practices because it would constrain his campaign where already are highly regulated elections which cost even without staff or ad campaigns significant amount of dollars just on filing fees to build as a road all of this means we do not have free elections in the united states basi campaign platform in support of personal rights and small government and a strict reading of the united states constitution he added he would be challenging fellow republicans doug oh so and thomas we go over on constitutional issues this week and a traffic light remains dark an intersection ridge road zero college morgan ranch drives almost two months after poles were installed because engineers for the project didn't take into account overhead power lines the electrical contractor hired to do the work is modifying the signal on top of the traffic light pole to get clearance for overhead power lines owned by puts up a gas and electric company said travis baker general manager of gray electric company an engineer hired by the developer did not take into account the power lines when drafting the original design for the traffic like baker said we built according to the plans we were provided baker said the poles were lifted around christmas with faults projections that the busy four way stop would be lit soon after frequent storms that followed also have slowed down the process one of occasions to the light should be resolved this week so that p g and e can supply the power necessary after that the city and the contractors will make final test of the intersection before the traffic light can be officially turned on we're getting close we should have done it within a few the next few weeks i hope baker had the traffic study  area found a light was needed because of the number of vehicles using the road and the wait time at the intersection said tricia tillotson a senior civil engineer for the city the intersection becomes congested with students on their way to and from nevada union high school in the morning and afternoon residents of morgan ranch have complained that students ignore the intersection stop signs the city is providing inspection for the project and officials said there are growing frustrated with the delays it's not a city contract so we don't have the usual provisions in place to ensure the timely delivery of the project toilets and said developer tom has your card to install two hundred fifty eight thousand dollars traffic signal as part of his agreement with the city to build the morgan ranch west subdivision twenty five home extension of the development began more than two decades ago  valley will repay most of the front cost over seven years and studio two used to be showcasing local artists but when it closed a few years ago the town of the troupe of nevada county residents who feel this was with their work no longer had a venue sunday their resurrected they resurrected their efforts at the center for the arts in grass valley with a show entitled love an artist eleven perspectives with photography painting sculpture i really like susan chelsea's work says artist eileen blodget of nevada city and one art work of the acrylic and watercolor painter she's always challenging herself here by george cloud of nevada city also an artist was admiring the black and white photography of leslie elias it's good to see these people have another venue after they lost their gallery said clive before losing himself again and he rises landscapes i do a ton of color work but i decided to present my black and white stuff here to city life as a portrait photographer we had a wonderful gallery for many years in this group said let's figure out other venues to show our work looking around at the large crowd inside the art center she said i'm sure we'll keep doing it i'd love to see the evolution of these artists send a show is one of the eighteen put on during the year by susan berry you curator of arts centers gallery most of the shows have sunday receptions for the artists gives an opportunity to go through the process of putting on a show and then they get to see their artwork on the wall perry said if they sell anything we get twenty percent to help pay for the lights the show allowed tom divine of nevada city to display his landscape to oil paintings i've been painting all my life pretty much divine said i do a lot of drawing and at the moment outdoor painting also featured the show which will be displayed until march third is one that avery's watercolor carol bellamy wire sculpture chuck s got metal and jewelry jan headman photography ginger looters digital painting marries the lander oil and acrylic robin wallace oil and pastel merry thrusted well oiled and we've known each other for years had been thrust well as she viewed the crowd this was a great way to get together again because we miss each other great show you're going on and that's it for our local news today and government suppressing report on toxic toxicity in the great lakes region and cia shuts down fake companies intended for spying and f b i mistakenly access e mail accounts based on house democrats have followed through on a god has let us surveillance log spiral refusing to authorize a new bill before a saturday deadline president bush had been pushing house to marry a senate vote making last year's revisions to the foreign intelligence surveillance act perm nt change expanded government authority to eavesdrop on international telephone calls and e mail messages of u s citizens without warrants house democrats say their objection centers around a provision granting immunity for telecommunication companies that help the government his weekly radio address president bush took aim at democratic opposition he said by failing to act congress has created a question about whether private sector companies who assist in our efforts to defend you from the could be sued for doing the right thing now these companies will be increasingly reluctant to provide this vital cooperation because of their uncertainty about the law in fear of being sued by class action trial lawyers bush went on to repeat his accusation that the will effect on government spying the national security agency will retain the same surveillance powers they held before the revision were approved last august visuals will only have to seek a court warrant if they want to spy on a previously unknown target and the department of agriculture culture has issued the largest beef recall in u s history more than one hundred forty three million pounds of rotten frozen beef from california based on mark west one meat say some of the meat was distributed likely consumed at several schools through a federal meat mail program health if you just say there is a remote possibility of serious health concerns and in afghanistan more than one hundred people were killed and another hundred were wounded sunday in a suicide bomb at a crowded dogfighting event it was the worst single bombing attack since the u s invasion of afghanistan in two thousand and one afghan officials blamed the taliban for the attack but the taliban denies responsibility kosovo has declared independence from serbia for the latest chapter a decades long breakup of the former yugoslavia because a false prime minister has seen sackey spoke up before the course of our parliament sunday after lawmakers unanimously approved the independent decree he said all the men and women who have made huge sacrifices for a better future for kosovo firstly we are the leaders of our nation elected in a democratic way though this declaration serbia's territorial tauriel integrity serbia is backed by russia which has called a closed door emergency session of the un security council but it will likely face opposition from the united states communities of kosovo we're very much pleased that the declaration also reflects the position of the united states that's longstanding that is that we are for implementation of the u n special envoy marty at this is  planned because of war issue was split the european union britain and france say they support a declaration while several countries including spain greece in romania are opposed pakistan is holding a parliamentary election today mr ongoing this was the other day once an allegation of fraud the vote was initially scheduled for last month but delayed after assassination of former prime minister benazir bhutto because pakistani people's party is expected to win a majority of parliamentary seats but opposition members are voicing fears of a lot torah fraud by supporters of pakistani president pervez musharraf violence has continued in the run up to the elections forty six people were killed and at least one injured saturday in a bombing i le in north west frontier province and in israel the occupied territories more than ninety palestinians were seized and brought back into israel sunday in an israeli raid one of the palestinian civilian and three  were killed twenty people were wounded before israeli forces withdrew raids came as israeli prime minister you'd omari announced israel has a right to attack everyone if the power if palestinians fire rockets israel's prime minister said we have completely a free hand to respond to reach out and attack everyone which is having any kind of responsibility on behalf of hamas in the southern part of our country where it went on to say he doesn't expect to reach a peace deal with the palestinian authority this year only a set of basic principles he said to palestinian president mahmoud abbas has agreed to do a talks on the status of jerusalem and tel last very last stages but palestinian officials are denying the claim israel has announced two major settlement expans back in the united states scientists involved in government report on public health risks from industrial contamination through the great lakes region say their study has been suppressed the report says health indicators and levels of toxic releases in the great lakes should raise questions about medical effects lead author christie rosa if former top official at the agency for toxic substances and disease registry says he was demoted because of his report findings to rosa says he also believes he's be punished for raising public concern about levels of formaldehyde gas in trailer housing hundreds of thousands of hurricane katrina evacuees the federal emergency management agency has found to have routinely suppressed internal warning joining the gas levels threatening the evacuees health and safety and the new york times says reveals an episode in which the f b i inadvertently gained access to hundreds of e mail counts rather than the lone e mail address that was authorized to spy on the two thousand and six incident occurred after an unnamed internet provider mistakenly turned over hundreds of other e mail addresses from the same domain as the account the f b i intended to monitor and intelligence official says records of the on also right accounts were destroyed but that inadvertent spying remains calm and that's around today for that's right stand for the police blotter in pictures in a blotter not from these actual best but use for visual aid only valid police department on thursday ten fifty three a m a man from doing a block of horizon circle reportedly left his keys in ignition on with the motor running while delivering a package his things beyond and at four forty five p m the man from the trying to block a church street reported his house was broken into when he went to the store and at eight thirty p m a business on mr reported catching shoplifters on videotape and at nine twenty six p m a woman from the three hundred block a certain way reported her distraught neighbor had been yelling for two hours and at nine thirty nine pm a caller from one hundred block of empire street reported being assaulted and dragged out of the store county sheriff's office i want to state nine fifteen p m a woman called report her seventeen year old destructs son jumped out of a vehicle and headed up the road without a sure enough nine twenty one p m about reported juvenile son who was threatened on my for something out of the window any hit another vehicle three twenty two p m a call from rough and ready highway and ranch road reported a vehicle in a ditch with a person inside and at four fifty p m a call from the thursday at four thirty one p m call from the national alley reporting a group of juveniles harassing another juvenile in the parking lot and a fifteen a taxicab driver on a four hundred block of north pine street reported person refuse to pay a fair and that's it for the blotter now for more of a late report on the plane wreck family man business owner in a homebuilt aircraft enthusiasm steve wilson was engaged with one of his life's passion sunday afternoon when he crashed his plane outside nevada city he died doing what he loves it was daughter katie was and he lived life to the fullest a preliminary report by the f a a outlining the cause a crash will be available in a few weeks wilson's family reported was an in his friend gary googly had spent the past three years building wilson's experimental vans r v dash seven payne plane it was exact  built plane which he keeps at a hangar it's an american airport wilson had logged twenty seven point three hours of test flights in his plane after forty hours he would have been permitted to take a passenger along said juliet who is it retired airline periodically assist in the building process he said the f a a inspected the approved wasn't planned before he began logging is test flight hours ivette a county airport service worker sherman handley said he was l listening to air traffic radio at about four fifty sunday when he heard wilson tell dispatchers his plane engine stopped and he couldn't get it started again it could mean any number of things including malfunctioning engine or low fuel has no reason to believe they are any more dangerous than a standard aircraft but before he crashed wasn't also told dispatchers he wanted to find a site to land where he would not impact any residence as the plane did not hit  also an avid golfer his family said i'll miss him more than anything julie and that's it for our news today thanks for watching and we'll talk to you to