Marysville Yuba Appeal Democrat (Newspaper) - June 26, 2008, Marysville Yuba, California Kids try to get a PAGE B4 INSIDE THURSDAY Attic finds anew home at Page CI Countrywide OK takeover A4 Kansas cries foul over housing Guantanamo prisoners Page C4 June 26,2008 California ingle copy 470 + tax My It came with the garage Area developer's gimmick gives free Toyotas to boost Knights Landing home sales By Andrea Koskey In the market for a How about a brand new Toyota Yaris with the purchase of a new home? That's the deal developers of the River's Edge community in Knight's Landing are offering potential buyers this The There isn't prices are reduced said Mark owner of Westphal find a need and fill a Westphal said the worth about will be given to buyers with no added fees when they close on is rolled into the price of the Westphal A Yaris gets 36 miles per according to River's Edge is a 67-lot community that offers three home styles of to five bedrooms in Knights Knights Landing is a tiny farming community of 846 on Highway 113 MORE HOME NEWS Home prices keep tumbling A4 Foreclosure rescue plan stalls over taxes Page A4 California sues Countrywide over deceptive loan practices Page A3 just across the Sacramento River from Sutter Westphal said his a sales and marketing firm based in San works with builders like tle which developed River's to solve consumer people purchase a car first and then can't afford the house he need a little coaching on If they purchase the home say then many people can only afford a car and with they get Westphal said with the state of the a Yaris is more cost effective to the This is the first incentive of its kind Westphal said his company is offering as a result of the housing but its not the first by Crews Development in Escondido offered two homes for the price of one earlier this month to reduce The San Diego reported the developer gave away a bedroom home valued at with the purchase of a 2-acre estate The U.S. Commerce Department reported a drop of 2.5 percent in new home sales nationwide from April to Turn to GIMMICK AS Valley left gasping for air Ill California Water Service employee Stephen Piceno wears a mask to help keep out the smoke in the air while he works in The Yuba Nick County Health Department recommends using masks labeled and P100 to keep out smoke instead of paper Smoke choking Northern California only getting worse By Amanda Fehd Associated Press Hundreds of homes in the scenic community of Big Sur were threatened by a wildfire that already had burned 16 residences and was just 3 percent contained About 700 many of them sparked by a severe electrical storm over the burned across much of the a home for Arnold Schwarzenegger as he traveled to central California to assess the damage just took off with the plane down from Los Angeles literally from Los Angeles all the way up there was so you can see that there's fire Schwarzenegger noted at a news conference in Monterey Firefighters scrambled to tame the wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest that has burned nearly 30 square miles near the coast about a mile south of Big this fire is in an area that is going to be very difficult to and expectations are there won't be any stopping this fire any time said Mark a spokesman for the Forest Firefighters from the are part of the The Office of Emergency vices engine from the Yuba City Turn to By Katy Sweeny Smoke casting an orange hue on the will linger today creating unhealthy air quality until winds disperse the gray clouds or the Northern California fires are put More than 1,000 fires ignited last weekend in Northern pumping smoke into the The plumes settled in the causing bad air said David air pollution control officer for Feather River Air Quality Management Valler said he's unsure when conditions will basically a fire he Air quality levels measuring for a harmful form of oxygen when in high reached 199 in Yuba City on according to the California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Air quality higher than 151 is unhealthy for 201 is very Good air quality is lower than 50. In air quality rose to 139, an unhealthy level for sensitive The Colusa County Air Pollution Control District expects similar levels for a few said Harry air pollution control Krug said he has never seen so Turn A6 death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a Justice Anthony Kennedy Excerpt from the majority opinion Court bans death for child rape By Mark Sherman Associated Press WASHINGTON - No crime against an individual short of not even the brutal rape of a merits the death the Supreme Court said in a ruling that drew criticism across the political In a 5-4 the court struck down a Louisiana law Wednesday that allows rapists to be executed if their victims are Louisiana's Republican governor denounced the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said disagrees with it. The decision added a wrinkle to the court's death penalty further limiting who may be executed in the same Turn to RAPE AS Man was shot in torso with rifle By Rob Young A Yuba County foothills man died of gunshot wounds to his a spokeswoman for Yuba County Steve Durfor said Billy David 61, used a 30-30 rifle to shoot his 55-year-old Keith according to a complaint filed in Yuba County Superior The shooting was reported about 9:30 p.m. Sunday from the 16200 block of Wildrose an isolated road southeast of Mulkey and Hendricks had been arguing about dogs encroaching on their respective according to the Sheriff s Spokeswoman Melanie Oakes Turn to AUTOPSY pr SMOKY SUNNY Calendar Classified DS Movies A2 Nation C4 D3 Obituaries C2 Classic Comics DJ Opinion Comics Crosswords finance Local Lottery 17 a Sports B1 If State A3 K Sodoku - DS A4 Weather AC Weekend El A2 Worid C3 Want to be in the know? 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