daily courier january 26 2010

Storm backup forces woman from house — Page 6A Sports Saints march in The New Orleans Saints battled Minnesota in overtime Sunday to advance to the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010, Forest City, N.C.

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Dentists complain about a new clinic

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Rutherford County Department of Social Services Social Worker Lauren Roberson opens one of many files cabinets used to store case files for children who are in foster care.

Currently, there are 101 children in foster care in Rutherford County.

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are centered on the fact new operation funded by public money

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Derwood Henderson Forest City Jean Allen Ellenboro Bertha Bennett Page 5A

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DSS says economy part of high numbers in foster care

To our readers: The Rutherford County Department of Social Services currently has 101 children in foster care. And while there are many individuals willing to go through the training and steps to open their homes to children in need, the department said there’s always a need for more. In a three-part series, The Daily Courier looks at the aspects of foster care in Rutherford County, from how to become licensed, to what it’s like to be a foster parent and how one county woman’s personal experience in foster care led her to a career in social space here for them. work.

“It’s domestic violence and it’s drugs,” Horne said. “We’re

By ALLISON FLYNN full. We’re just full.”

Daily Courier Staff Writer When Foster Care/Adoptions SPINDALE – In four Intake Supervisor Kathy months – between March Kaylor began in social servicand June 2009 – Rutherford es, the trend was that children County Department of Social were taken into custody and Services took as many chilthen returned to their pardren into legal custody as ents. Now, though, Kaylor said they did for the entire year for there are more children who 2008. are not going back home. And During the department’s with more children in custoNovember board meetdy, the need for foster parents ing, Social Work Program is greater than ever.

Manager Lorie Horne report“I’ve done child welfare work ed that in seven days, 12 chil- consistently for the last 19 dren were removed from their years,” Kaylor said. “As long homes – six of which was a as I can remember, having sibling group. That group of enough placement resources children had to be placed has always been a challenge.” outside of Rutherford County That’s not to say there aren’t because there wasn’t enough people willing to step up and

take in children who need a home. It’s just that a lot of times those foster parents are opting to adopt the children they’ve been caring for when the opportunity comes up, depleting resources, Kaylor said.

“It’s a pretty double-edged sword,” she said.

Why the increase?

Unemployment in Rutherford County is 16.6 percent. In addition to the increase of children in foster care, DSS has also seen an increase in food and nutrition services as well. More and more families are struggling just to survive, Kaylor said.

“I think the economy and substance abuse has played a significant part in that (the dramatic increase),” Kaylor said. “When parents are struggling to make ends meet you see an increase in dependancy and substance abuse ... it’s a domino effect.”

According to Child Protective Services Supervisor Lynn Hoppes, about 75 percent of the reports taken by the department involve parents using some sort of substance.

“And a lot of times substance abuse leads to violence in the family,” she said.

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SPINDALE — Several dentists approached the Spindale Town Council Monday night to voice opposition to what they call taxpayer funded competition.

The group, led by Dr. Michael Jackson spoke against a grant to help set up a new dental clinic in the town, at the former home of Caldwell-Banker Real Estate in White Oak Plaza.

In November, the town agreed to be the fiscal agent for a $156,000 North Carolina Rural Center grant as part of the Rural Health Initiative. Dest Family Dentistry has said it is looking to set up the new clinic in Spindale to help serve the Medicaid patients in the county. Rutherford County’s Economic Development Commission has been helping Dr. Richard Dest seek grant funding for this project.

But several dentists in the county signed a petition to oppose the project and said the EDC had not contacted them about the number of Medicaid patients they serve or the need for such a new clinic.

In a fact sheet prepared by the EDC, Rutherford County Smart Start Director Barry Gold said 27 percent of all students entering kindergarten in the county had an untreated dental disease. The state average is 23 percent of students.

“We only have one dentist that will occasionally see Medicaid children in the county,” Gold said in the report. “For the most part, all low-income children either go to Columbus to the Collins Dental Center or to Asheville.”

As part of the grant proposal, Dest has promised to create 13 full-time jobs at the clinic, post the want ads for those positions in Rutherford County and set a pay rate between $11 and $17 per hour. The jobs would include full benefits including health insurance and a 401k retirement plan.

“There seems to be some confusion about the access to care of Medicaid patients in this county,” Jackson said. “Out of the 10 practices in the county, at least five see Medicaid patients. This is more than adequate for the 20 percent of county population on Please see Dentists, Page 3A

Rains bring flooding to parts of county

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Tonight, clear.

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Mountain Creek ran over its banks off NC 108 Sunday, flooding the property of the Bobby Horne family. Flood waters reached the house, which was engineered and elevated to avoid major damage.

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FOREST CITY — “The day after, everything looks pretty good,” Roger Hollifield said Monday afternoon from Lake Lure, where he was completing a weather damage assessment report. Heavy rains drenched Rutherford County Sunday and overnight minor rock slides were reported in the Hickory Nut Gorge areas and along U.S. 64 near Cane Creek.

More than three inches of rain was reported at the Lake Lure Fire Department Monday morning and at the Broad River Water Plant in Union Mills, about 2.5 inches of rain was collected.

Fire Coordinator Ron Morgan said all the area’s fire departPlease see Flooding, Page 6A

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Wilmington developer resigns from toll board

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Medicaid. Due to the state of the economy, all the practices I know have plenty of open time to see patients of any kind.”

Jackson mentioned several recent dental school graduates who wanted to come home to start their own practice, but were unable to because of a lack of demand and went on to say this stimulus wasn’t wanted or needed and wouldn’t have a beneficial effect on the county’s economy.

Kerry Giles, marketing manager for the EDC, spoke and said the clinic would help the town’s tax base not only through the building, but also equipment installed in the clinic.

Dest defended his project and pointed to statistics that showed a need for Medicaid dentistry in the county.

“I respectfully disagree with Dr. Jackson about the need for Medicaid services in Rutherford County,” Dest said. “Only about 25 percent of your adults that qualify for Medicaid are being seen and only about 30 percent of your children that qualify are being seen. It is not my intent to come in here and take people’s jobs and run people out of business. There are dentists in this community serving Medicaid patients, but only two dentists are accepting new patients on Medicaid at this time.”

Dest said he would like to meet

with the newly graduating dentists Jackson referred to, to interview them for the clinic and that he was not trying to take any jobs away from the town.

Commissioner Nancy Walker said she was bothered that dentists in the county weren’t taking care of school children in the area. “There is a bus that comes from Asheville to treat our school children,” Walker said.

“Why aren’t the dentists here treating this group of children?”

“The bus that comes to treat the students is funded by taxpayer dollars,” Jackson said. “And they handle the sealing products and leave the hard work to us local dentists. You can’t get the parents to get up and get out of bed and bring these children in for their appointments. There is some miscommunication here because, does this need really exist or is there somebody that is not doing their job when it comes to recommending dentists? We don’t like our tax money taken to subsidize a business that will compete against local offices.”

Dest said he was only here to try and service a need he saw.

“You’re talking about local money here and what I see is you have patients leaving the county for dental services,” Dest said. “You have tax money leaving the county everyday.”

The grant award will be announced Feb. 24.

Contact Baughman via email at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.

Voting rolls changing

RALEIGH (AP) — A new analysis of North Carolina voter registrations shows it has been a decade of change for the state’s electorate.

Numbers released Monday by elections watchdog Democracy North Carolina shows that the number of independent voters in the state has jumped by 83 percent since 2000.

largest increase, up 63 percent.

The numbers also show a 57 percent increase among nonwhite voters, compared with a 15 percent increase among whites.

By comparison, the number of registered Democrats has grown by only 11 percent while the number of Republicans has grown by 16 percent.

There are now more than 6 million registered voters in North Carolina, an increase of nearly 1.2 million from 10 years ago. Onslow County showed the

RALEIGH (AP) — A Wilmington businessman politically connected to former Gov. Mike Easley resigned Monday from the state toll road authority, days after a former Easley aide was indicted on charges of unlawfully profiting from a development involving the businessman.

Lanny Wilson sent his letter resigning from the North Carolina Turnpike Authority board of directors to Senate leader Marc Basnight, D-Dare, who had picked him for the panel. Wilson, who was the authority’s vice chairman, didn’t give a reason for his departure in the threesentence letter.

Last Thursday, Wilson resigned from the state Board of Transportation because he wanted to “avoid further unnecessary distractions” that would impede Gov. Beverly Perdue’s transportation reforms, according to his resignation letter.

The Board of Transportation letter was released hours before a federal grand jury indicted former Easley aide Ruffin Poole on 51 federal corruption charges, including extortion, bribery and money laundering. Poole was Easley’s former special counsel and aide during the governor’s two terms.

Government prosecutors allege Poole accepted gifts from a “Wilmington financier” unidentified in the indictment. The indictment said Easley appointed the financier to the transportation board in 2001, just as Wilson was. Wilson was the only board member from Wilmington.

Poole also used his position to help expedite coastal developments while making returns of at least 25 percent on investments in two of the same properties the financier had invested in as well, according to prosecutors.

Wilson had been identified years ago as helping finance the sale of Cannonsgate in Carteret County, one of the developments named in the

indictment.

Wilson’s lawyer didn’t return a phone call seeking comment. Poole hadn’t turned himself to federal authorities as of Monday.

Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, had released a statement Monday before Wilson’s resignation calling on him to step down from the turnpike authority or Perdue to force him out.

“This resignation is long overdue, and should have been demanded

by Governor Perdue long ago,” state GOP chairman Tom Fetzer said in a news release.

Wilson had raised money for Easley and Perdue’s campaigns. At a news conference, Fetzer called on Perdue to look further at Wilson’s campaign fundraising activities and asked why Perdue hadn’t called on Wilson’s resignation from the Board of Transportation months ago.

Wilson was reappointed to the Board of Transportation during the Easley administration but Perdue had never acted on whether to appoint him again, so he remained on the board in the meantime.

During a State Board of Elections hearing in October investigating Easley’s campaign committee, Wilson testified he wrote a check for the state Democratic Party believing it would go to help Easley’s campaign. Donations can’t be earmarked or funneled to another campaign.

Wilson hasn’t been charged with any crimes. The elections board didn’t accuse the state party of wrongdoing but the party had to forfeit a Wilson donation.

Fetzer’s comments “are nothing more than an attempt to score cheap political points,” state Democratic Party Chairman Young said.

Perdue spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson said that Perdue has made it clear she would force the governor’s appointees to boards and commissions to resign if they are indicted or

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Our Views Opportunity key for America

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resident Barack Obama put forth ideas Monday to help America’s struggling middle

class.

The proposals include a bigger child care tax credit, caps on federal college loan payments, and requiring some employers to allow direct deposit for Individual Retirement Accounts.

These are ideas that will help many Americans, but they are not ideas that will save this nation’s middle class.

The decline of the middle class began with the departure of the jobs that allowed people to secure their own economic fortunes and plan for a better future for their children.

While the ideas to help middle class Americans will be welcome, there will be no great celebrations until the people see real opportunity to improve their fortunes.

One of the things that made America great has been the fact that people had a chance to move up the economic ladder. Until that opportunity is back, the middle class will remain am endangered species.

Our readers’ views Offers some thoughts on state of politics To the editor: I am voicing my concerns to fulfill an obligation and responsibility as a U.S. citizen.

At last, after reading hundreds of conflicting commentaries and listening to a ridiculously number of opinionated speeches, I have become truly frightened. The greatest flaw of the democratic form of government has been exposed. It’s the right and privilege to vote. There is no guard against the short term tendency to vote for the candidate that promises the most to you regardless of the cost to others, including your future heirs.

Why voters continue, with very few exceptions, to persist in choosing the bait that looks most enticing is perhaps born of ignorance and wishful thinking.

If the promises don’t materialize, blame somebody else. Should a candidate’s platform be based on what is right for the future of the nation with a deaf ear to special interest, he might finish dead last. At least he will have given us a choice by which to measure our convictions.

The most recent debacle over the health care reform is a classic example of our systemic solutions for solving major problems facing the government.

1. Partisan politics: How could 100 people agree on almost any issues (60 vs. 40)? No question, some simply swallowed their pride. It is unbelievable that they would be accused of “treachery” had they not voted with the “par-

ty.” When they joined the party they seemingly relinquished their right to vote their personal convictions!

2. The anticipation of bi-party politics was at its lowest level reflecting a major absence of worthy leadership. By worthy, I mean people who are capable of bringing about compromises that allow for progress in an orderly manner. They surround themselves with wise counselors whose judgments, experience and past record justify their stature.

They search for the truth even if it violates their allegiance to the party. Speaking of compromise, the greatest example that comes to my mind was the Civil War. What a ghastly compromise!

Perhaps we have progressed to the “less severe whereby-money replaces blood in achieving an agreement.

3. There is something terribly wrong with our economic system that allows or better causes gigantic gyration over the years.

Most recently, the cure has the distinct possibility of being more damaging than the illness.

Not only does it appear that the amount of spending is out of control, but it is certain that the control of where and how it is being spent is sorely lacking.

Corruption was to be expected and in turn appropriate remedies and safeguards be put into place. As it was urgency and to a degree, panic ruled out deliberation. Congress proved to be unable to deal with the situation, partly because of party lines and partly because of ineptness.

4. As much as I disagree with many of President Obama’s edicts, it is the responsibility of

Congress to monitor and control his actions. When a vote can be controlled by federal appropriations, the system is at fault. Truly a shame when elected officials place their own interests above the very future of the country.

The old rationale, if the money has been appropriated, and if I don’t get my share somebody else will. To think you could be elected if you turned it down?

Some few have and I believe were praised by their electorate.

Summary Strong differences of opinion have existed from the beginning of our nation. Fortunately, whether it was divine intervention or great wisdom, a constitution was agreed upon, followed by a Bill of Rights. Our history is replete with tragic events, most of which can be attributed to human failings. We have survived, to become the most powerful nation in the world. How we manage the already waning position is in the hands of our leaders. We cannot shirk our personal responsibilities. The weakness of our “leaders” is to a degree a condemnation of our failure to recognize the importance of character. We need to promote and promulgate the basic values of honestly, truthfulness, caring for others and the courage to stand for the right against the easy wrong.

I have said nothing new. I have taken the time and thought to express my concerns. I hope others will do the same. We need to right the ship before it goes aground.

James T. Tanner Rutherfordton

1948 Law school study group had impact on N.C. About 65 years ago in the winter of 1946, a group of World War II veterans enrolled in the class of 1948 at UNC Law School and formed a study group that, some of us believe, had a important and positive influence on North Carolina’s history.

One of the members of that group, former state senator John Jordan, explained some of that history the other day at a luncheon hosted by the North Carolina Bar Association.

The Bar Association invited its Board of Governors and other leaders to honor former UNC President William Friday.

These days most North Carolinians know President Friday not as the university president, but as host, since 1971, of UNC-TV’s interview program, “North Carolina People.” Every week Friday introduces us to prominent and interesting fellow

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citizens, most of whom we would otherwise never get to know. Even more important, Friday’s interviews and the way he conducts them makes his guests into our neighbors. His program builds on and maintains a sense of community that is one of North Carolina’s important strengths. It is a precious asset that is increasingly threatened by modern pressures that tend to drive us inward and away from connections to a statewide community.

If there were nothing else on Friday’s list of contributions, this weekly gift would be enough.

But there is so much more — too much to try to sum-

marize here, including 30 years as a university president and another post retirement career as the leader of the Kenan Trust and William Rand Kenan Fund.

What does all this have to do with the law school Class of 1948 Study Group? And what does it have to do with the Bar Association’s honor for Friday?

Something very few North Carolinians know is that William Friday was a lawyer and that he was a member of that Class of 1948 Study Group.

John Jordan explained that, although Friday had passed by a career in law, he used the skills of advocate and mediator over and over again to meet the challenges that faced the university.

There were many, including several that could have ruined the University like the Speaker Ban Law, a season of scandal in collegiate athletics, and a battle with

the Federal Government about the management of the desegregation of the University’s multiple campuses.

Another thing that many North Carolinians do not know is that Friday could always call on members of the Study Group for help.

Jordan and the late William Dees were long serving members of the University’s Board of Governors, and each served as Chair, standing by Friday in the toughest of times.

Another member of the Study Group, William Aycock, taught law and, at Friday’s request, served as Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill during the tumultuous 1960s.

Another member, Dickson Phillips, was dean of the UNC Law School before becoming a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Acknowledging the Bar Association’s honor, Friday explained how the members

of the Study Group were part of the World War II generation that Tom Brokaw described as “The Greatest Generation.” “We grew up in the depression and after four years in the military, we knew we were the lucky ones that got to come home…and we just decided to contribute.”

Then, Friday looked out over the group of lawyers and said that North Carolina lawyers, like the ones in his Study Group, were part of a profession with a long tradition. “There is an added ingredient. We must do something extra to leave this place a little better.”

If more of us followed Friday’s admonition and the example of the Class of 1948 Study Group, North Carolina could look forward to another long season of progress.

D.G. Martin is hosting his final season of UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 p.m.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Murder trial to be moved

JACKSONVILLE (AP) — A former North Carolina-based Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague has been granted a change of venue for his murder trial.

Onslow County Superior Court Judge Charles Henry issued an order Monday, saying the trial of Cesar Laurean should be moved because pretrial publicity surrounding the case might influence jurors. Laurean’s attorney had requested a different venue, and prosecutors did not object.

Laurean is charged with murder in the death of 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach of Vandalia, Ohio. He fled to Mexico shortly before her charred remains were found buried in his backyard in Jacksonville in January 2008.

Four admit case tampering

SMITHFIELD(AP) — Four North Carolina defense attorneys have pleaded guilty to illegally maneuvering to have tickets for drunken driving and other traffic offenses dismissed.

Multiple media organizations reported the four Johnston County lawyers were sentenced Monday.

Chad Lee and Lee Hatch each pleaded guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy and to multiple counts of felony obstruction

Obituaries of justice and altering official case records.

Hatch was sentenced to up to eight years in prison. Lee is a former Johnston County prosecutor who received a four-year sentence.

Attorneys Vann Sauls and Jack McLamb pleaded guilty to misdemeanor obstruction of justice charges.

Former prosecutor Cyndi Jaeger and former deputy court clerk Portia Snead were also charged in the case.

House fire victim is slowly improving

FOREST CITY — Brenda McEntyre, the victim of a Jan. 8, house fire on Chase High Road, is listed in fair condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center, Augusta, Ga. McEntyre has been at the burn center since the house caught fire at 4 a.m. Her husband, Don McEntyre, also sustained injuries and was treated at Rutherford Hospital.

The house was a total loss and McEntyre is staying with friends.

The fire was accidental and apparently caused by an electrical lamp that may have turned over and ignited combustible materials, fire officials said.

The couple, in their 70s, apparently tried to put the fire out before calling for help.

The house was engulfed with flames when the firefighters got to the scene.

Man arrested after high-speed chase

FOREST CITY — Officers arrested a man who reportedly fled from them and reached a speed of 90 miles per hour early Monday morning.

Cody Edward Cantrell, 19, of 5604 U.S. 221 South was arrested and charged with felony flee/ elude arrest, possession of stolen goods, provisional licensee, 90 in a 35 mph zone, fictitious registration, no registration, reckless and careless driving, improper passing and failure to reduce speed.

He was placed under a $14,000 secured bond in the Rutherford County Jail.

According to a Forest City Police Department report, a 1994 Nissan Altima passed an FCPD vehicle in a nopassing zone doing 60 in a 20 mph zone on West Main Street near Church Street.

When officers gave chase, the driver reportedly reached a speed of 90 mph in a 35 mph zone.

The chase went into Spindale, and the pursued vehicle wrecked on CallahanKoone Road, where the driver was captured.

The incident began at about 1:20 a.m. Monday.

Jean Allen

Jean P. Allen, 77, of Harmony Hills Apts., Forest City, died Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, at Autumn Care Center.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Ed and Carrie Morgan Allen.

She was a retired textile employee and a former paper One killed as storms hit carrier for The Daily Courier.

She was a graduate of Harris CHARLOTTE (AP) — A North Carolina woman was killed when high winds toppled a High School Class of 1951 and a member of Holly tree onto her car.

Springs Baptist Church.

The Gaston Gazette reported that 72-yearSurvivors include her brothold Doris Rowland of Stanley was killed er, J.C. Allen of Forest City; a Monday afternoon. sister, Jolaine Allen Greene of The state Highway Patrol said Rowland Rutherfordton; and a number was driving her 2002 Cadillac near Dallas around 1:49 p.m. when the tree fell, smashing of nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews. the windshield and crushing the car.

Graveside services will Storm systems moving across North be conducted at 11 a.m.

Carolina brought heavy rain, flooding and Wednesday in the Holly some wind damage to much of the state.

Springs Baptist Church cemIn Charlotte, fire department officials etery with the Revs. Wade reported at least a half dozen water rescues involving people trapped by flooding sparked Huntley and Marion Duncan officiating. Visitation will folby the storms late Sunday. Spokesman Rob low at the cemetery.

Brisley reported several homes were evacuPadgett and King Mortuary ated because of the flooding. is in charge of arrangements.

Police Notes

FOREST CITY — An electrical problem at a vacant house on Hardin Road, Forest City, ignited a fire at 3:30 a.m. Monday.

Fire Chief Mark McCurry said the home belonged to Carolyn Baynard and the fire resulted in about $15,000 to $20,000 in damages.

He said although the home was vacant, there was electricity there and a short in the wiring caused the fire.

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Vacant house damaged by fire

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Sheriff’s Reports n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 247 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday. n Rachel Shirley Rumfelt reported the theft of a wood chipper and two weed cutters. n Jonathan Logan Cope reported the theft of an iPod and other items. n Elvis Christopher Kennison reported vandalism to door glass. n Christian Fender Taylor reported vandalism to a vehicle. n Jennifer Kathlyne Fisher reported the theft of a vehicle.

Rutherfordton n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 49 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Spindale n The Spindale Police Department responded to 40 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Lake Lure n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to 12 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday.

Forest City n The Forest City Police Department responded to 98 E-911 calls Saturday and Sunday. n Caroline Baynard reported an incident of a suspicious fire. The incident occurred on Hardin Road. n Robin Walker reported a stolen motor vehicle. n An employee of WalMart, on Plaza Drive, reported a larceny. n Juan Varela reported an incident of found property. n An employee of Ace Hardware, on East Main Street, reported a larceny. n An employee of Cool Springs Rent to Own, on West Main Street, reported an incident of obtain property by false pretense. n An employee of Ingles, on South Church Street, reported a larceny.

Arrests n Nathan Allen Mullinax, 23, of 172 Cliffside St., Mooresboro; charged with inhale toxic vapors and possession of toxic vapors substance; placed under a $2,000 secured bond.

(FCPD) n Kimberly Leanne Kerr, 26, of 230 Johnson Rd.; charged with simple possession of schedule II controlled substance, driving while impaired and driving left of center; released on a $1,500 unsecured bond. (NCHP) n Christopher Andrew Glawson, 18, of 400 Rock Corner Rd.; charged with driving while impaired and drive after consuming under 21; released on a $2,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD)

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n Tracy Annette Skipper, 29, of 2369 Ferry Rd.; charged with assault and battery; placed under a $5,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Brian Nathaniel Roberson, 22, of 193 Academy St.; charged with misdemeanor probation violation for injury to personal property, misdemeanor probation violation for misdemeanor larceny, failure to appear on no operator’s license and motorcycle/ moped violation, driving while license revoked, fictitious information to officer and two counts of resisting a public officer; placed under a $300 cash bond. (RCSD) n Chris Anthony Dewberry, 40, of 127 Ragtown Rd.; charged with resisting a public officer; placed under a $500 secured bond. (RCSD) n Dion Jerrod Hines, 39, of 639 E. U.S. 74; charged with resisting a public officer; placed under a $500 secured bond. (RCSD) n Andra Mae Hines, 39, of 639 E. U.S. 74; charged with resisting a public officer; placed under a $500 secured bond. (RCSD) n Brian Nathaniel Roberson, 22, of 193 Academy St.; extradition/ fugitive from other state.

(RCSD) n Kenneth Rene Ratlifff, 40, of 213 Wilkins St.; charged with failure to comply on child support; placed under a $500 cash bond.

(RCSD) n Donald Richard-Shane Hudson, 22, of 196 Ezra Lane; charged with felony larceny; placed under a $5,000 secured bond.

(RCSD) n Franklin Michael Parris, 52, of 110 Monroe Rd.; charged with assault on a female; placed under a 48-hour hold. (RCSD) n David Earl Higgins, 44, of 112 Hyder St.; charged with assault on a female and two counts of communicating threats; placed under a 48-hour hold. (SPD)

Bertha Bennett Bertha Mae Norville Bennett, 90, of Bedford Creek Road, Ellenboro, died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 at Rutherford Hospital.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late John Edmund and Ina Cowens Norville, and the widow of Conway Bennett.

She was a homemaker and a member of Harmon Street Baptist Church.

She is survived by seven sons, J.E. of Sandy Mush, Bruce, Timmy and Scott, all of Ellenboro. and Calvin, Teddy and David of the home in Ellenboro; three daughters, Martha Nan Tesseniar of Bostic, Diane Bennick of Gilkey, and Patsy Boone of Mooresboro; three sisters, Mary Willie Campbell of Statesville, Geneva Hutchins and Virle Wells, both of Rutherfordton; 15 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Harmon Street Baptist Church in Forest City with the Revs.

Charlie Blackwell, Bobby Hedgpath and Brian Melton officiating. The body will lie in state 30 minutes prior to the service. Burial will follow in the Pisgah United Methodist Church cemetery.

Visitation was held Monday at Crowe’s Funeral Home.

Online condolences www. crowemortuary.com.

Derwood Henderson

Derwood J. Henderson, 70, of Rutherfordton, died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, at his home.

A native of Polk County, he was a son of the late Robert Henderson and Mapher Harris Henderson.

He was a member of New Hope United Methodist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Jean B. Henderson; four daughters, Kimberly Janney of Roanoak, Va., Linda Taylor of King’s Mountain, Dena Jefferson of Harrisburg, EMS/Rescue Penn., and Karen Brown of n The Rutherford County Charlotte; three sons, Keith EMS responded to 22 E-911 Henderson of Columbia, calls Saturday and Sunday.

S.C., Robert Henderson of n The Volunteer Life Saving Rutherfordton, and Randy and Rescue, Hickory Nut Henderson of Spindale; one Gorge EMS and Rutherford sister, Wilda Joe Shultz of County Rescue responded to Rutherfordton; four brothers, two E-911 calls Saturday and Clayton Henderson of Rock Sunday.

Hill, S.C., Jerry Henderson of York, S.C., and Russell Fire Calls Henderson and Bill Harris, both of Rutherfordton; 14 n Ellenboro firefighters responded to a motor vehicle grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. accident.

The funeral service will n Forest City firefighters be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at responded to a house fire.

Harris First Baptist Church n Green Hill firefighters responded to a motor vehicle with the Revs. George accident, to a vehicle fire and Whitmire and Randy Blanton officiating. The body will to a house fire, assisted by lie in state 30 minutes prior Rutherfordton and Shingle to the service. Interment Hollow firefighters. will follow in the church n Sandy Mush firefighters responded to a smoke report, cemetery. Visitation was held Monday at McMahan’s assisted by Forest City and Funeral Home.

SDO firefighters.

The family will be at n Union Mills firefighters the Henderson home in responded to a power line Rutherfordton. fire.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

Online condolences www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com.

Deaths Earl Wild NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winning pianist Earl Wild, who became one of America’s masters of the keyboard, has died at age 94.

Despite his advanced age, Wild continued to teach until last week — he listened to a pupil play his “Porgy and Bess Fantasy,” said Michael Rolland Davis, his companion of 38 years and sole survivor.

Wild’s last public performance was at age 92 at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, where he was presented with the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences’ Presidential Merit Award.

In 2005, he gave a robust recital at Carnegie Hall to celebrate his 90th birthday.

Months earlier, his 57th album — “Living History” — was released. In all, Wild recorded more than 35 piano concertos and 700 solo pieces.

Born in Pittsburgh, Wild started playing the piano at age 3 and learned his craft from students of Liszt and Ravel. His earliest musical memories dated to 1918, when his mother brought home a recording of the opera “Norma.”

James Mitchell LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Mitchell, who for nearly three decades played gruff patriarch Palmer Cortland on the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” has died, his longtime partner said Sunday night.

Mitchell appeared in more than 300 episodes of the popular soap from 1979 until a 40th anniversary episode this month. He was a regular on the show until 2008.

Born in Sacramento in 1920 and trained as a dancer, Mitchell had leading roles in the Broadway musicals “Brigadoon” and “Paint Your Wagon,” and danced on stage with the American Ballet Theater.

Robert Mosbacher Sr. HOUSTON (AP) — Robert Mosbacher Sr., a Houston oil multimillionaire who served as U.S. Commerce secretary under his close friend, President George H.W. Bush, died Sunday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He was 82.

The Texan was a powerful Republican fundraiser who served at the top echelons of Bush’s presidential campaigns and most recently served as a general campaign chairman for 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain.

As commerce secretary, Mosbacher helped lay the foundation for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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Schools/education Financial Aid Night: Thursday, Jan. 28, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., East Rutherford High School commons area; all juniors and seniors and their parents encouraged to attend; sponsored by Isothermal Community College, ERHS Guidance Department, and the Robert and Janice McNair Educational Foundation.

Meetings/other Senior Dance: Thursday, Jan. 28, 7 to 10 p.m., at the Moose Lodge; dances are held the second and fourth Thursday of each month; all senior citizens welcome; for more information call 289-5852.

Raw sewage began spraying out of every drain in this house at 306 Johnson St. in Spindale on Sunday night.

Town officials have said it was caused by a line blockage, but for residents Jaime Rawlins and her two young sons the waste spill was a catastrophe.

Annual membership meeting: Saturday, Jan. 30, 3:30 p.m., at Union Mills Learning Center, 6495 Hudlow Road, for all UMLC members and potential members to review the 2009 activities and for an update on what is planned for 2010; for information, call 287-2191.

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Athletic Boosters: Chase High Athletic Boosters will meet Monday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in the office conference room.

Sewage backup puts family out of house

SWEEP meeting canceled: (Solid Waste Environmental Education Panel) will not meet today. The next meeting is Friday, Feb. 5, at GDS, 141 Fairgrounds Road, Spindale.

The meeting begins at noon. To learn more about SWEEP visit www.sweeprecycles.com.

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN

Shag Club: Rutherford County Shag Club will meet Friday, Feb. 5, at Club LA from 7 to 10 p.m. Free beginner lessons start at 7:30. For more information call 287-9228.

HNG meeting: “Conservation Conversation”; Wednesday, Feb. 17, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., at Old Rock Café (beside the entrance to Chimney Rock Park); topic “The Green Issue”

by Michael Pollan; anyone interested in the protection/preservation of the natural beauty of Hickory Nut Gorge is welcome to attend; call 828-685-8798 for more information.

Miscellaneous Free clothing: Coats and blankets will be given away Saturday, Jan. 30, from noon to 3 p.m. at Holy Ground Community Church, (beside Forest City Post Office).

Soup will also be served free of charge.

Military group: 82nd Airborne Division Association, Inc., offers Airborne history, meetings, activities, parades, National Convention and much more with 100 civilian chapters across the US. Memberships include veterans from the 11th, 13th, 17th, 82nd, 101st and today’s special forces. For further details call 937-898-5977 or email srgabn@aol.com.

Fundraisers Spaghetti Supper: Friday, Jan. 29, 6 to 8 p.m., Long Branch Road Baptist Church, 621 Long Branch Road, Forest City; no set price, donations accepted; proceeds for Team Kids.

Soup, chili dinner: Saturday, Jan. 30, noon to 5 p.m., Union Hill AME Zion Church; no set price, donations only; sponsored by the Stewardesses Board.

Ham, chicken pie supper: Saturday, Jan. 30, begins at 4:30 p.m., Mt. Vernon Clubhouse; adults $8; ages 6-12, $5; children 5 and under; all proceeds go toward the children and youth programs at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church.

Spaghetti supper: Saturday, Jan. 30, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Union Mills Learning Center, 6495 Hudlow Road, Union Mills; adults $6, and children younger than 12, $4; allyou-can-eat.

Daily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE — Raw sewage began spraying into Jaime Rawlins’ home Sunday night about 6 p.m. The untreated waste started by filling the bath tub and soon was spraying out of the back of her washing machine and oozing from every sink in the house.

“It was horrible,” Rawlins said.

“The smell was just unbelievable. My son had flushed the toilet and it just wasn’t going down. I told him to turn on the sink and that’s when we moved the shower curtain and saw the tub.”

Every drain in the house began to bubble with a thick black sludge and soon the levels in the house at 306 Johnson St. were high enough to flow into the family’s dressers and the children’s toy box.

“My two sons have lost all kinds of things,” Rawlins said. “They’re eight and 10 and we just had Christmas.

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ment volunteers were out from Sunday evening until Monday with reports of mud slides. The Department of Transportation’s maintenance crew was also dispatched to help with some minor mudslides.

Morgan said the heaviest rain occurred between 6:30 and 7 p.m.

Sunday, and a few hours later the Lake Lure flood gates were open at least three inches. “Fortunately, we

They lost all kinds of toys, video games, and we lost almost all of our clothes. All except the ones hanging in the closet.”

A single mom, Rawlins said the worst loss in the immediate future were her school text books and her children’s school books.

“I’m a student at Isothermal Community College and Cleveland Community College trying to get my bachelor’s degree in nursing,” Rawlins said. “That is going to make class pretty hard.”

For Sunday night, the family was able to stay at the local Holiday Inn thanks to a donation from landlords Chris and Alissa Milam of Morganton.

“We have seen some run-off in the past when it rains,” Alissa said. “But it usually is just in the yard. And it has backed up once or twice before, but it has never been this bad.” were able to absorb a lot of the heavy rain,” Morgan added.

Hollifield, Rutherford County’s Fire Marshal and Emergency Management Coordinator said there had been “no major problems” and the Broad River was running good Monday.

“I saw a lot of rivers out, the most I’ve seen in a long time,” Hollifield said of his assessments in other areas of the county.

At the home of Bobby Horne, Parker-Jamison Lane off N.C. 108 above Rutherfordton, Mountain Creek ran over its banks flooding the

MORGANTON — Anne Nosworthy Fischer has announced her candidacy for the 10th district Congressional seat from North Carolina in this year’s election cycle.

The 10th district consists of 10 counties including Avery, Mitchell, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, about one half of Iredell and Rutherford, and five precincts in Gaston County Ms. Fischer states she has the skills and talents to serve the people of the 10th district where she has lived since 1973. She has served the area‘s residents in diverse capacities including high school teacher; social worker in Catawba County; entrepreneurial

Singing: Sunday, Jan. 31, 6 p.m., Plain View Baptist Church, east of Ellenboro; featuring the Blood Brought Trio from Bostic.

Religion Guest speaker: Sunday, Jan. 31, Bethel Baptist Church in Ellenboro; GWU baseball coach Rusty Stroupe will speak during the 11 a.m. worship service.

Revival: Feb. 15-19, 7 nightly; Welcome Home Baptist Church; Pastor Handley Milby will preach.

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Horne’s home and property.

The home was built in 2004 in a flood plain but was engineered to withstand flood damage. The family could not be reached for comment Monday.

“This is not the first time this has flooded,” one realtor said. “Sometimes it is referred to as the flood house.”

Across the highway from ParkerJamison Lane, acres of farm land were completely under water.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.

small business owner, and community activist.

Regarding her concern and desire to help people, she states that it “comes thru the umbilical cord as my mother was a social worker in New York City in the 30’s, of course during the depression — not unlike what many people are going through today.”

Ms. Fischer declares her reasons for running are “my abilities and extensive knowledge of the district and its resources to get things done and to restore integrity and trust to the people.”

Fischer started her career as a teacher in California in the area of vocational education as a fam-

ily and consumer sciences teacher after earning the BS degree from Cornell University. She also served as department chair. She then earned her Masters in Child Development & Family Relations at UNC-G in 1974.

She then came to Morganton to establish child daycare centers for Burke County DSS to support low income working parents and provide quality child development programs.

Currently she operates two small businesses: Master Gardener Pro, landscaping service, and CLEEAR, a stress release practice. She also provides landscaping services and manages Community Gardens for Morganton Parks & Recreation.

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Singing: Sunday, Jan. 31, 2 p.m., Faith Baptist Church, 149 W. Main Ext., Forest City; featuring Blood Brought Trio.

Singing: Sunday, Jan. 31, 2 p.m., Piney Mountain Baptist Church in Ellenboro with Jerry Hooper and The Borrowed Time Band.

Rawlins said the town’s response was swift, but that she felt the situation was deplorable. McHargue said the town’s insurance company would send out an appraiser to look at the home to determine the damage to the property and the family’s belongings.

Fisher will try again for Congressional seat

Music/concerts

Simple Faith will be in concert Sunday, Jan. 31, at Walls Baptist Church. Music begins at 6 p.m.

Rawlins and her children had only moved into the house about a month ago, she said, but they were in the process of looking for a new place to live. The family will stay with friends for the time being.

“We’re looking for a blockage down there and I’m not aware if it has been found at this time,” Spindale Town Manager Cameron McHargue said.

“They have run that line over the last 24 hours several times to try and find the blockage. We’re continuing to look into it.”

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County subscribes to Fair Housing rules, policies FOREST CITY — Rutherford County is committed to fair housing opportunities for all county residents.

The Board has adopted a policy in support of Fair Housing, which finds the denial of equal opportunities because of religion, race, color, sex, handicapped, familial status or national origin legally wrong and socially unjust.

The County has established a complaint procedure by which to

receive and document complaints regarding housing discrimination in the County. Such complaints will be referred to the North Carolina Human Relations Council for investigation, conciliation and resolution.

If you have a complaint please contact Judy Toney at Rutherford County Human Resources at 2876145. Hearing impaired persons can call the North Carolina number for the deaf at 1-800-735-2962.

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Saturday – January 30th 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. at East Rutherford High School Cafeteria • Great Entertainment • Light Refreshements • Free copies of our 2010 “Travel Holidays catalog • Drawings for door prizes & gift certificates Everyone Invited – No Reservations Required

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DSS files on cases fill boxes and folders in the office. In four months – between March and June 2009 – Rutherford County Department of Social Services took as many children into legal custody as they did for the entire year for 2008.

“Bottom line, the question is ‘A re the children safe?’”

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There are other circumstances that can lead to a child being placed into DSS’ custody, like a case where a child was at the center of a dispute between relatives and a family friend who was serving as power of attorney for the child’s father.

Rutherford County isn’t the only county to see an increase in children in foster care. Neighboring Cleveland County has 190 children in custody; McDowell, 57; Polk, 39; and Henderson, 109.

And children who are currently in care did not necessarily come from homes where DSS has been involved before.

“Most of the children in care are not generational,” Kaylor said.

When does DSS intervene?

When a suspected abuse or neglect call comes in to DSS, information is taken by an intake worker, who gathers as much information as possible, Kaylor said.

“They check to see if it falls into the legal definitions of abuse, neglect or dependency,” Kaylor said. “Having those definitions help us to determine the difference in abuse, neglect or dependency versus parenting choices.”

Horne said there is a two-level review for either screening a case in or out. If screened in, an investigation is begun.

“We utilize a multiple response system,” Horne said. “We either conduct a family assessment or a traditional investigation.”

During a family assessment, a social worker contacts the family and sets up a time for a home visit, whereas a traditional investigation, Horne said, involves a social worker visiting the child first, usually by going to the child’s school, then speaking with parents.

“It’s hard to categorize reports,” Horne said. “Parents are often viewed as perpetrators when they might not have been. With the multiple response we don’t necessarily substantiate every case but we do find many in need of services.”

Those services could include mental health services, appropriate housing, parenting classes through Family Resources and financial counseling through Consumer Credit Counseling.

“With a family assessment, we are trying to frontload those services,” Horne said.

In the period between July and Nov. 30, 2009, 11 percent of reports to DSS were substantiated; six percent were found in need of services.

Social workers have not always had a good public image, and have been seen as “those people who come and take people’s kids away,” Horne said.

“Safety is our priority,” Hoppes said.

Who will care for the children?

New state guidelines in 2009 now require social workers to go even further in trying to reach family members of those children taken away from their parents or guardians.

In the past, workers were only required to ask parents if there were any family members who might be willing to take their children. If parents did not provide a name, workers did not have to pursue it.

“It’s a continuous effort to find family even when children are in foster care,” Horne said.

The state also expects DSS to have a permanent plan in place for each child in care within two years of entering the system.

“Unless parents are cooperative, its a very difficult goal to reach,” Kaylor said.

In the interim, the department relies on people in the community to open their homes and serve as foster families. In order to become a foster parent, individuals have to go through courses and licensing.

Currently there are 30 foster families in Rutherford County.

State regulations once allowed for up to five children and no more than seven in a home, Kaylor said. Now it’s no more than five total.

“If there’s two birth children, then a family can only be licensed for three foster children,” she said.

Those children who cannot remain in Rutherford County are sent to surrounding areas. It’s not an ideal solution, Horne said, and the state would rather have children remain in their own communities and schools if they can do so safely.

“This is our passion, otherwise we couldn’t do it,” she said. “We always need people who will love them, care for them and treat them like their own and then be willing to watch them walk out the door when it’s time.”

In order to find people willing to be foster parents, the department has relied mainly on word of mouth.

“It’s our best recruitment tool, and that depends on how we work with our licensed homes,” Horne said.

Horne said social workers have also presented information on foster parenting to church and civic groups.

And even though nationwide signs have indicated the economic recession is ending, Kaylor said it’s not been seen yet in Rutherford County.

“Our worry is the numbers of those in care will continue to go up,” Horne said.

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GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The National Park Service says a 39-year-old woman was killed in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park when trees fell on the car she was riding in.

The park service said Tonya Renee Eichler of Sevierville was in the passenger seat of a 2003 Nissan Altima on Newfound Gap Road when several large trees fell on the car Sunday evening. The driver and a juvenile passenger were able to escape.

A passing motorist used a chain saw to try and free Eichler, but she was pronounced dead on the scene by emergency medical responders.

The area had high winds reported earlier in the day gusting at 70 mph, but those had diminished significantly. The park service said the soils were highly saturated from rainfall and snow melt.

Game over for inmate

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man serving life in prison for first-degree intentional homicide lost his legal battle Monday to play Dungeons & Dragons behind bars.

Kevin T. Singer filed a federal lawsuit against officials at Wisconsin’s Waupun prison, arguing that a policy banning all Dungeons & Dragons material violated his free speech and due process rights.

Prison officials instigated the Dungeons & Dragons ban among concerns that playing the game promoted gang-related activity and was a threat to security. Singer challenged the ban but the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld it as a reasonable policy.

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ate fictional characters and carry out their adventures, often working together as a group, with the help of complicated rules.

Skater’s father dies WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — Daniel Kerrigan, who rushed to his sobbing daughter Nancy and carried her into the locker room after an attack at a skating competition nearly derailed her Olympic dreams, died after what authorities said was a violent struggle with his son in their family home.

Mark Kerrigan, 45, pleaded not guilty Monday to assaulting his 70-year-old father at the home in the Boston suburb of Stoneham where he had been living with his parents.

Nancy Kerrigan, a two-time Olympic medal winner, arrived at the family home shortly before 2 p.m. Monday and left a couple of hours later. She did not say anything to reporters and photographers waiting outside.

Texas oil spill separated PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — The Coast Guard used sheets of plastic and skimmers Sunday to contain and clean up a crude oil spill in a southeast Texas port. The spill was contained in a 2-mile area and was not believed to have hurt any local wildlife, the Coast Guard said.

The spill happened Saturday when an 800-foot tanker collided with a towing vessel pushing two barges near Port Arthur. The tide lifted the two ships and they separated shortly after midnight Sunday without more oil being spilled.

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James J. Kelley II, left, an attorney with Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP, and Barton R. Stichman, right, of the National Veterans Legal Services Program, discuss developments in a class action lawsuit by Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans claiming denial of benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder, at the National Press Club in Washington Monday.

Suit could get many vets benefit upgrade WASHINGTON (AP) — A military review could bring millions of dollars in benefits to thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans discharged with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The military has agreed to review the records of recent veterans discharged with PTSD to decide whether they were improperly denied benefits.

The agreement stems from a judge’s order in a class action lawsuit originally filed by seven combat veterans.

They alleged the military illegally denied benefits to those discharged, at least in part, because of the disorder during a six-year period that ended Oct. 14, 2008.

Legal notices are currently being mailed to about 4,300 veterans informing them they can “opt-in” to the lawsuit until July 24 to be part of the expedited review. Attorneys for the veterans estimate that millions of dollars could be paid to veterans under the agreement, with some veterans receiving hundreds or more dollars in increased monthly benefits.

Former Army Sgt. Juan Perez, 36, of Owosso, Mich., said the development in the suit, filed in 2008 in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, was a relief. Perez, a father of five who did two tours in Iraq, said he has migraine headaches and an eye injury related to a head injury sustained in Baghdad. He also has nightmares and takes medication for his mood related to PTSD. Since he left the military, he said, he and his wife were laid off from their jobs and declared bankruptcy,

in part because of medical bills from the birth of his two youngest kids.

“I’m glad that they are finally moving forward and reevaluating the soldiers that need to be reevaluated and doing the right thing,” Perez said.

Another of the veterans who filed the suit, former Marine Cpl. Tyler Einarson, 28, of Moorhead, Minn., who was shot twice while serving in Afghanistan in 2005 and has PTSD, said Monday he expects his monthly government benefits to increase from about $117 to more than $1,100 because of the suit.

“It’s a fight every day. Something like that changes a person, and not necessarily in a good way,” Einarson said of his war experience.

PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can develop after a terrifying event in which the person was physically harmed or felt threatened. Symptoms can range from flashbacks to problem drinking.

At issue is the disability rating given by the military to veterans discharged with PTSD. Each of the seven plaintiffs was given a rating of 10 percent or less.

The law requires the military to assign a disability rating of at least 50 percent to those discharged for PTSD, said Bart Stichman, co-executive director the National Veterans Legal Services Program, a nonprofit organization that represents the veterans. Since October 2008, the military has given the 50 percent rating to those discharged with PTSD, Stichman said.

S.C. candidate’s welfare comments criticized COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When things looked their darkest for Gov. Mark Sanford — when he was in danger of being impeached for running off to Argentina to see his mistress — his best insurance policy may well have been South Carolina’s lieutenant governor, Andre Bauer.

Lawmakers knew if they removed Sanford, they would end up with Bauer, a fiercely ambitious Republican with a reputation for reckless and immature behavior.

Now Bauer has folks shaking their heads again, after he likened government assistance to the poor to feeding stray animals.

At a town hall meeting Thursday, Bauer, who is running for governor in his own right now that Sanford is term-limited, said: “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed! You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that.”

Democrats and others railed at him.

“I am disgusted by these comments.

They show an unbelievable lack of compassion toward the unemployed workers in our state who are hurting during these hard times,” said state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, a Democrat who is also running for governor.

“His comments were immoral and out of line.”

South Carolina schools Superintendent Jim Rex, another Democratic candidate for governor, called Bauer’s comments “reprehensible” and said he should apologize.

Bauer said Monday that he regrets his choice of words but that government should expect welfare recipients to try to better themselves. He wants to require them to take drug tests and attend parent-teacher conferences if they have children in school.

A child of divorce who benefited from free lunches himself, Bauer insisted he wasn’t bad-mouthing people laid off from work in the recession or advocating taking food from children, but rather emphasizing the need to break the cycle of dependency.

“Do I wish I’d used a different metaphor? Of course I do,” the 40-yearold said. “I didn’t intend to offend anyone.”

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Technology shares could get a boost Tuesday from Apple Inc., which said after the closing bell that its profit jumped nearly 50 percent for the final three months of 2009 as it sold more iPhone devices.

The Dow rose 23.88, or 0.2 percent, to 10,196.86 after being up as much as 84 points. The fluctuations were modest, however, after a five straight days in which the Dow moved by more than 100 points.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 5.02, or 0.5 percent, to 1,096.78, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 5.51, or 0.3 percent, to 2,210.80.

Bond prices fell, pushing yields higher. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.64 percent from 3.61 percent late Friday.

In other trading, the dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold rose.

Crude oil rose 72 cents to $75.26 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Three stocks rose for every two that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.1 billion shares, compared with 1.5 billion Friday.

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Bernanke’s gains bring markets back

NEW YORK (AP) — Major stock indexes rose Monday as momentum shifted in favor of the reappointment of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Investors want a sign that Bernanke will remain in control of the Fed because that would make a big shift in interest rate policy far less likely.

Key senators including Max Baucus of Montana and Dianne Feinstein of California said Monday they would support Bernanke’s confirmation, and presidential adviser David Axelrod said Bernanke has enough votes to be confirmed. Last week several senators expressed doubt about Bernanke’s reappointment, which had seemed assured, contributing to a sharp drop in the market.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 24 points after losing 552 points over the previous three days. The Dow skidded from Wednesday to Friday of last week as President Barack Obama stepped up his campaign to tighten oversight of banks and on worries about Bernanke’s tenure.

Bernanke’s term expires on Sunday, and the Senate is expected to vote on his reappointment this week.

Many traders don’t want to see a change because that would bring another set of unknowns for a market already burdened by uncertainty about the economy.

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In this Jan. 5 photo, a home is seen advertised for sale in Alameda, Calif.

Sales of previously occupied homes took the largest monthly drop in more than 40 years last month, plunging far more than expected after lawmakers gave buyers more time to use a tax credit.

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Housing news good and bad WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of previously occupied homes rose in 2009 for the first time in four years, despite a December slump that was due to a tax credit that had caused many buyers to complete sales earlier.

Still, prices plunged more than 12 percent last year — the sharpest fall since the Great Depression. The price drop for 2009 — to a median of $173,500 — showed the housing market remains too weak to help fuel a sustained economic recovery.

Total sales for 2009 were nearly 5.2 million, up about 5 percent from 2008.

Concerns remain that the housing market will weaken after March 31, when the Federal Reserve is set to end its program to buy mortgage securities to keep home loan rates low.

Once that program ends, mortgage rates could rise. Adding to the worries, a newly extended homebuyer tax credit is scheduled to run out at the end of April.

The numbers “clearly indicate that the rebound in housing demand observed so far has been largely supported by government programs,� Anna Piretti, senior economist at BNP Paribas, wrote in a research note

Monday.

The poor December showing occurred after Congress extended the tax credit, easing pressure on buyers to act quickly. The credit of up to $8,000 for firsttime homeowners had been due to expire Nov. 30. But Congress extended the deadline and expanded it with a new $6,500 credit for existing homeowners who move.

December’s sales fell 16.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.45 million, from an unchanged pace of 6.54 million in November, the National Association of Realtors said Monday. Sales had been expected to fall by about 10 percent, according to economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

The report “places a large question mark over whether the recovery can be sustained when the extended tax credit expires,� wrote Paul Dales, U.S. economist with Capital Economics.

The median sales price for December was $178,300, up 1.5 percent from a year earlier and the first yearly gain since August 2007. But some of that increase could be due to a drop-off in purchases from first-time buyers who tend to buy less expensive homes.

Sales are now up 21 percent

from the bottom a year ago. But they’re down 25 percent from the peak more than four years ago.

A healthy real estate market is needed to help the economy continue recovering from recession.

Last year, first-time buyers were the main driver of the housing market. But their role is shrinking. They accounted for 43 percent of purchases in December, down from about half in November, the Realtors group said.

The inventory of unsold homes on the market fell about 7 percent to 3.3 million. That’s a 7.2 month supply at the current sales pace, close to a healthy level of about six months.

Lawrence Yun, the Realtors’ chief economist, cautioned that the recovery will depend on whether the economy starts adding jobs in the second half of the year.

Total sales for 2009 closed out the year at 5.16 million, up about 5 percent from a year earlier.

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DETROIT (AP) — Ed Whitacre Jr. is dropping the interim from his CEO title at General Motors Co. and he reaffirmed Monday the automaker would repay in full its loans from the U.S. and Canadian governments by June.

Whitacre said GM’s board asked him to become permanent CEO last week, ending a seven-week search for a new top executive.

“The board looked at the potential candidates and decided this place needs stability. We don’t need any more uncertainty,” Whitacre told reporters at a hastily called news conference at GM’s Detroit headquarters.

Whitacre also said GM will repay its $8.1 billion in loans from the U.S. and Canadian governments all at once and could pay them even earAssociated Press lier than June.

“This is a significant General Motors Co. milestone in our journey chairman and interim back to being profitable,” chief executive, Ed he said.

Whitacre Jr., announces The U.S. government he will become the permanent CEO of the provided GM with $52 automaker during a news billion in assistance — conference in Detroit including about $6.7 bilMonday, lion in loans — that the automaker used to survive and emerge from bankruptcy protection last year. Much of that will be repaid when the company goes public again. Whitacre wouldn’t give a timeline for an initial public offering Monday, saying GM will take that step “when the market conditions and internal conditions are right.”

Whitacre, 68, is a former CEO of telecommunications giant AT&T Inc. He has been serving as interim CEO since the board ousted former CEO Fritz Henderson on Dec. 1. GM had hired a firm to conduct a global search for a successor.

Whitacre wouldn’t name any candidates the board had considered. He said he intends to stay two or three years, or “long enough to get it done.”

He wouldn’t say what he will make as CEO, saying details will be released shortly.

Whitacre said he hadn’t planned to become CEO when he was named chairman, but feels comfortable at the company and knows what changes need to be made.

“I think this company is good for America. I think America needs this,” he said.

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Obama airs middle class proposal WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday offered help for people struggling to pay bills and care for their families, appealing to a middle-class he says has been “under assault for a long time.”

In a partial preview of a State of the Union address that aims to answer voter angst about the economy and reconnect with the public, Obama outlined the series of proposals from the White House.

ally Democratic Senate seat in Massachusetts to Republican Scott Brown.

White House advisers see Wednesday’s State of the Union speech as a key opportunity for Obama to recalibrate his message and reset his presidency after that stinging setback, which took away the Democrats’ 60-vote supermajority in the Senate and put his main domestic agenda item, a health care overhaul, in doubt.

The product of a middle class task force headed by Vice President Joe Biden, the proposals will also be included in Obama’s budget request due to be submitted to Congress next week.

Among the initiatives: a doubling of the child care tax credit for families earning under $85,000; a $1.6 billion increase in federal funding for child care programs and a program to cap student loan payments at 10 percent of income above “a basic living allowance.” The initiatives will be part of the president’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011.

Obama and fellow Democrats are trying to regroup to stem more losses of congressional, gubernatorial and legislative seats in this fall’s midterm elections. Obama’s poll numbers are also off — primarily because of the slow economic recovery and double-digit unemployment.

“Too many Americans have known their own painful recessions long before any economists declared that there was a recession,” Obama said in remarks to the task force, gathered around a horseshoe-shaped table.

His initiatives also include expanding tax credits to match retirement savings and increasing aid for families taking care of elderly relatives. That program would also require many employers to provide the option of a workplace-based retirement savings plan.

Obama is seeking to offer some attractive options to taxpayers, mindful of the painful implications of the loss of a tradition-

The president said that creating new jobs and reducing unemployment is the “singlemost important thing we can do to rebuild the middle class.” “I won’t rest until we’re doing just that,” he said.

But, Obama said, “We also need to reverse the overall erosion in middle-class security, so that when this economy does come back, working Americans are free to pursue their dreams again.”

The White House says the new proposals are aimed at just that

— the “sandwich generation” that is now struggling to care for both children and parents.

The theme fits into the planned economic message of Obama’s prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday, which promises to provide a sharper focus on jobs and is likely to cover financial regulations, energy, education, immigration and a push to change the political tone in Washington.

Under the president’s proposals, families making under $85,000 a year would see their child care tax credit nearly doubled.

Families making under $115,000 would also see at least some increase in their tax credit as well. Obama will also call for the allocation of $100 million to assist families caring for aging relatives by providing help with transportation, adult day care and in-home aids.

The initiatives also focus on savings, requiring employers that don’t offer work-based retirement plans to enroll their employees in a direct deposit retirement account, unless the employee opts out.

The cost to employers would be offset by new tax credits, and the administration says the smallest firms would be exempt.

Obama will also call for caps on some student loans, limiting a borrower’s payments to 10 percent of his or her income, and forgiving all remaining debt after 10 years of payment for those in public service work — and 20 years for all others.

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Teen embarrassments are fondly recalled Dear Abby: I had to respond to “Blushing in San Francisco” (Nov. 21), the 11-year-old girl who’s embarrassed because her mother sings and dances in the mall. I was that mother a few years ago.

My daughter and I shopped in trendy stores where the music was really loud, and when she saw me bob my head and move to the music, she would shake her head “no.” I’d do it again — just to torture her. As she tried on clothes, she would pop out and say, “Have you been dancing again? This is a no-dancing zone!”

We laugh about it now. When I teach, I tell my students what I did. They tell me unanimously that they would die if I were their mom — to which I respond that it’s my job to make them miserable. As the Bee Gees sang, “You should be daaaancin’, yeah!” — Still Dancing Dear Still Dancing: Your letter was among hundreds I received pointing out that “Blushing in San Francisco’s” dilemma is universal.

Read on: Dear Abby: My husband is a contractor, and his office is in our home.

He enjoys playing music while he works, and we often hear him singing happily along.

One evening when my daughter was 11, she had some friends over and was trying her best to ignore the fact that her dad waas singing while

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he worked, and hoping her friends wouldn’t notice. All went well until Shania Twain came on and he started singing along to “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” We all laughed hysterically, and it’s still one of our favorite memories. My daughter saw that her dad could laugh at himself, and that her friends enjoyed the humor without losing respect for him. Not to take oneself too seriously was the lesson learned. It’s one we all need reminding about occasionally. — Still Laughing Dear Abby: When my daughter was about 8, I was walking her to the door of her school and thought I’d have some fun with her, so I started acting like a cross between the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dracula and the Mummy. When I asked if I was embarrassing her, she responded: “Why would I be embarrassed? You’re the one acting silly!”

I immediately stopped because she was right. What she understood at her tender age was that you can only be responsible for your own actions.

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Weight loss may help hypertension Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 57-year-old male with hypertension, for which I take Levatol. Nine years ago, when I weighed 338 pounds, I was treated for the hypertension for the first time. I managed to lose 138 pounds by mid-2002, and the problem went away. Since then, I have gained back half the lost weight and am once again hypertensive. Will losing that weight again result in the loss of the hypertension?

A second concern I have is with the prostate. As you are aware, we are bombarded with advertisements hawking drugs to resolve BPH. In the ads, symptoms are listed. Based upon the symptoms, when should I seek a doctor’s advice? I have some of the symptoms but not nearly to the extent spoken of or written about in the commercials. For instance, I don’t fully empty my bladder and may have to urinate twice at night, but that often depends upon how tired I am and what I have con-

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sumed. I have my PSA checked each year, and it’s always found to be within normal limits. Physical exams have also proved negative.

Dear Reader: Let’s consider your issues one at a time. I assume you have been placed on Levatol, a prescription medication designed for combating high blood pressure and other conditions. The drug slows down the heart, thus allowing it to pump more efficiently.

It should not be prescribed for people who already have a slow heartbeat or other specific cardiac conditions or asthma.

Being overweight or obese raises the risk of hypertension.

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Your Birthday, Jan. 26; Improving your knowledge in your chosen field of endeavor will pay large dividends.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — When doing business with a new and unfamiliar firm, get everything in writing.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Usually, you’re thoughtful about not telling a down-and-out friend about the good things happening in your life.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Chances are you’ll have little patience for handling small details.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’ll have little patience for details so be extra careful when dealing with business involvements.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Don’t put on affectations because it could blemish your image.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You might withhold something important from another out of spite.

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22) — Your mobility and independence might be more important than usual.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Be smart, and don’t talk critically about someone in front of others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — When put in charge of a group involvement, creating pointless rules will only make you look foolish.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — If you pretend to be knowledgeable about something that you’re not, prepare for a rude awakening.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — If you are enthusiastic about some exciting plans you’ve made, avoid telling a negative friend.

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37 killed in Iraq as ‘Chemical Ali’ reported hanged

BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombers struck near three hotels popular with Western journalists and businessmen Monday just as Iraq announced the execution of Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin known as “Chemical Ali.” At least 37 people were killed and more than 104 injured, security officials said.

The blasts — coming in a span of about 15 minutes in downtown Baghdad — came shortly before state television announced that Ali Hassan alMajid had been hanged.

There was no claim of responsibility for the latest major attacks in Baghdad — about six weeks after a series of blasts killed 127 and brought outcry against Iraq’s government for repeated security lapses as U.S. troops withdraw.

Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the latest bombings “represent an extension” of the activities of insurgents linked to Saddam’s regime.

But he stopped short of declaring the blast as possible revenge for the execution.

The first explosion struck at about 3:40 p.m. local time in the parking lot of the Sheraton Hotel, toppling high concrete blast walls protecting the site and damaging a number of buildings along the Abu Nawas esplanade across the Tigris River from the Green Zone.

Two other blasts followed minutes later, striking near the Babylon Hotel and Hamra Hotel, which is popular with Western journalists and foreign security contractors.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity.

According to initial tallies, 15 of the victims were at the Hamra, 14 at the Sheraton, and the remaining 8 died at the Babylon, including two policemen.

Outside the Sheraton, a high-rise tower with views of the Tigris River and the fortified Green Zone on the other side, the blast left a 10-foot-deep (three-meter) crater in the parking lot. Cars were torn apart by the spray of metal and glass, which littered the lawns and courtyards of the popular fish restaurants along the river.

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A United Nations soldier from Uruguay speaks to a man who was injured during a food distribution in Port-auPrince Monday. People waiting in line for food began to loot the aid supplies in front of the National Palace, as a United Nations security force of Uruguayans tried to stop them.

Aid workers saying need for shelter in Haiti urgent

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The collapse of much of Haiti’s capital has a large part of the nation struggling just to find a place to sleep.

As many as 1 million people — one person in nine across the entire country — need to find The force of the explosion was strong enough to new shelter, the United Nations topple a row of 10-foot (three-meter) concrete blast estimates, and there are too few walls along the road. tents, let alone safe buildings, to Iraqi police sealed the area and Iraqi helicopters put them in. circled overhead.

That leaves about 700,000 At the Hamra, two men in a car opened fire on other people living on the streets guards at the hotel checkpoint, a third police offiaround Port-au-Prince under cial said. The guards took cover and returned fire whatever they can salvage. In when the car exploded, he said. the case of Jean Anthony’s family, that’s a blue plastic tarpaulin for a ceiling and a faded pink sheet with a floral print border for two walls.

“I’m not sure what you’d call it, but it’s much more than terrible,” said Anthony, the 60-year-old BEIRUT (AP) — An Ethiopian Airlines plane owner of a collapsed restaucarrying 90 people crashed into the Mediterranean rant. Thousands of people were Sea in flames early Monday just minutes after camped around him Monday takeoff from Beirut, authorities said. across from the National Palace, Four bodies were recovered in the hours after the amid piles of trash and the crash as authorities combed through the choppy stench of human waste. waters under gray skies, a Lebanese military offi“We live like dogs,” said cial said. He spoke on condition of anonymity Espiegle Amilcar, an unembecause he was not authorized to speak publicly. ployed 34-year-old who has been The cause of the crash was not immediately living under a sheet of plastic known, but a police official said it was likely nearby. weather-related. Beirut has seen heavy rain and Aid organizations say they lightning since Sunday. are collecting tents, but few so Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said terror- far are in evidence. And the ism was not suspected. “Sabotage is ruled out as of International Organization for now,” he said.

Migration, an intergovernmental The Boeing 737-800 took off around 2:30 a.m. agency, says it could take experts (7:30 p.m. EST) for the Ethiopian capital Addis weeks to search out suitable sites Ababa, said Ghazi Aridi, the public works and for enough tent cities to hold transportation minister. earthquake refugees.

“The weather undoubtedly was very bad,” Aridi Vincent Houver, the Genevatold reporters at the airport. He added that the based agency’s chief of mission plane went down about 2 miles (3.5 kilometers) off in Haiti, said Sunday that the the Lebanese coast. agency’s warehouse in Port-auPrince holds 10,000 family-size The Lebanese army said in a statement saying tents, but he estimates 100,000 the plane was “on fire shortly after takeoff.” are needed.

The wife of the French ambassador to Lebanon The organization has appealed was on the plane, according to an embassy official. for $30 million to pay for tents Helicopters and naval ships were scrambled for a and other aid needs and has rescue effort amid intermittent rain, thunder and received two-thirds of that so lightning. far, he said.

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Haiti’s government wants many of the homeless to leave the capital city of 2 million people, to look for better shelter with relatives or others elsewhere.

Officials estimate that about 235,000 have taken advantage of its offer of free transport to leave the city, and many others left on their own, some even walking.

An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 have returned to the region around the coastal city of Gonaives in northern Haiti, a city abandoned by many after two devastating floods in six years.

“Living in Port-au-Prince is a problem. Going to Gonaives is another problem,” said Maire Delphin Alceus. “Everywhere you go is a problem. If I could, I would have left this country and been somewhere else by now.

But I have no way to do that.”

Her daughter, Katya, was among the thousands killed in Gonaives and the surrounding Artibonite area by the floods of 2004’s Tropical Storm Jeanne.

The family moved to Port-auPrince, where the earthquake killed her 26-year-old son and her half-sister, who provided for them by importing clothes and perfume from Miami for resale in Haiti.

What’s left of the family is back in Gonaives, which is overlooked by mountains denuded by over-farming and rampant tree cutting for firewood that have cleared a path for destructive floods.

“I’m scared, but I’m living by the will of God,” said Alceus, dressed in white after attending Sunday services at an evangelical church.

At least 55 sizable aftershocks have followed the magnitude-7.0 quake of Jan. 12, adding to the fear of survivors.

More than 150,000 quake victims have been buried by

the government, an official said Sunday, but she said that doesn’t count the bodies still in wrecked buildings, buried or burned by relatives or dead in outlying quake areas.

“Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble,” said Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said. Asked about the total number of victims, she said, “200,000? 300,000? Who knows the overall death toll?”

Lassegue told The Associated Press that the government’s figure of 150,000 buried from just the capital area was based on figures from CNE, a state company that is collecting corpses and burying them north of Portau-Prince.

An estimate of 200,000 dead was reported last week by the European Commission, citing Haitian government sources. As of Monday, the United Nations was reporting at least 112,250 confirmed deaths, based on recovered bodies.

The final toll will clearly place the Haiti earthquake among the deadliest natural catastrophes of recent times. That list includes the 1970 Bangladesh cyclone, believed to have killed 300,000 people; the 1974 northeast China earthquake, which killed at least 242,000 people, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, with 226,000 dead.

Attending to the living, meanwhile, an army of international aid workers was getting more food into people’s hands, but still falling short.

Food aid has reached 500,000 people at least once, the U.N. reported Sunday, but as many as 2 million people are in need.

“We wish we could do more, quicker,” said Josette Sheeran, the U.N. World Food Program chief who was visiting Port-auPrince.

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What Are The Days of the Week?

A week is a period of time that is made up of seven 24-hour periods called days. Each day of the week has a designation or a Circle the words hidden in the puzzle below. name. The seven-day week is an ancient concept which was first put into practice in ancient Mesopotamia, but it has not always been used. In Ancient Rome, an eight-day week was used up Days, Event, Freya, Friday, until the takeover of the Christian church in the 4th Century AD. Holiday, Monday, Moon, Today, we observe the seven-day week which includes: Monday, Norse, Roman, Saturday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Saturn, Sun, Sunday, Thor, Most all calendars consider Sunday to be the first day of the Thursday, Tuesday, Tyr, week, but it is often referred to as the last, due to the professionWednesday, Week, Woden al work week of Monday to Friday, with Saturday and Sunday as common days off.

The origins of the names of the week vary between two ancient cultures, the Romans and the Norse, or Vikings. Most commonly used among cultures were variations of planet names. During ancient times, the moon and sun were both considered to be planets, hence the days Monday and Sunday, and Saturday is a reference to the planet, Saturn. The remaining four names are believed to have been derived from the names of Norse gods. Tuesday from the god Tiw or Tyr, Wednesday from god Woden, also known as Odin, Thursday from the popular god Thor, and Friday from the goddess Frigga or Freya.

Many holidays and important dates are named after the days of the week on which they fall. Black Monday is the name given to the stock market crash which occurred on October 19, 1987. Fat Tuesday is the literal translation of the French term Mardi Gras. It is the celebration which occurs the day before Each of the words below is a day of the week written in a different lanthe Catholic season of Lent. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. On this day, many Catholics attend church guage. Try to pick out which language it comes from and which day it to celebrate the start of Lent and receive a mark of ash on the forehead. Good Friday and Easter Sun- is. You may use each language and day of the week more than once.

Languages: Spanish, French, Dutch, German day are also two more Christian holidays denoted by the day of the week on which they fall.

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3. French term which literally translates to Fat Tuesday.

4. Number of days in a week that were once used in ancient cultures.

6. Popular Sunday holiday.

7. Romans named Monday after?

8. Combination of Saturday and Sunday is called the what?

9. Saturday is named after what?

11. Historic event which refers to a stock market crash.

12. Commonly referred to as the last day of the weekend.

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1. How many days are in a week?

2. The day before Lent is called?

3. First place where the seven day week format was used.

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10. This day was named by the Romans after the sun.

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Kentucky is No.1; UNC out of poll

US Ski Team pushes back announcement NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Ski Team pushed back the announcement of its Vancouver Olympics roster until Tuesday to see if any extra spots become available.

The team’s international results dictate how many skiers it can bring to the Olympics in each event. Some nations may not use their full quota, making additional spots available.

The Americans currently have 18 spots to divide among the men’s and women’s squads.

The delay doesn’t affect skiers such as Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller. For those two, it’s simply a matter of how many events they are likely to compete in while at Whistler. Vonn could easily earn a spot in all five of the women’s disciplines.

Reigning Olympic champions Ted Ligety and Julia Mancuso also appear set to defend their crowns. Mancuso captured the giant slalom title at the Turin Games in 2006 and Ligety won gold in the combined.

But there are those U.S. skiers on the bubble who will be anxiously awaiting the announcement.

Coach hits half-court shot, foils prank KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Joel Branstrom figured he was about to be the butt of some kind of joke when he was blindfolded at a pep rally and told he would win tickets to the NCAA’s Final Four if he could hit a half-court shot.

But the popular girls basketball coach played along and sent the Olathe (Kan.) North High School gym into a frenzy Friday by hitting the improbable shot.

“I’ve been around long enough and done these kinds of practical jokes,” said Branstrom, who also teaches biology at the suburban Kansas City school.

“I figured they were trying to punk me.”

Before launching the shot, Branstrom figured he was about to be hit in the face with a pie, so he held the ball up as protection for a few seconds.

“I knew they would cheer regardless to make me think I hit it,” Branstrom said. “I let it go, they cheered, I heard laughter. I seriously didn’t know I made it for a while.”

Unfortunately, there were no tickets, but after hearing he story, several people are trying to rectify that.

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On TV 7 p.m. (ESPN) College Basketball Michigan State at Michigan.

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By JIM O’CONNELL AP Basketball Writer

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Fans react after the NFC Championship NFL football game in New Orleans Sunday. The Saints defeated the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 to advance to the Super Bowl against the Indianapolis Colts.

Saints are still soaking in their landmark win METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Sean Payton still hadn’t gone home yet when the New Orleans Saints returned to work the day after the biggest win in franchise history.

Drained after an emotional overtime triumph that set off celebrations all across the city, Payton joined family and friends for dinner downtown and then relaxed in a hotel.

“There was just so much emotion,” Payton said Monday at the team’s suburban training center. “You know, when you finish with the locker room ... you just try to find your family. My son’s concern is the confetti’s going to keep us from being able to play catch on the field. That was his concern. It was just good to hug them

and be around the family and enjoy the time. There never seems to be enough of it.”

“For them to have a chance to be part of it I think it makes it really special,” Payton continued. “Obviously, the same goes for this upcoming game.”

The upcoming game happens to be the first Super Bowl involving the Saints in the franchise’s 43 years of existence.

This is only the ninth winning season the club has had. The 31-28 overtime victory over Minnesota on Sunday night marked the first time the Saints had hosted an NFC championship game. So Please see Saints, Page 2B

Colts counting on experience

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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning (18) holds the Lamar Hunt Trophy.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts started this season with one goal: winning another Super Bowl.

Now they are a victory away from a championship and headed back to the site of their previous one.

No, the plans haven’t changed much from Indy’s last postseason trip to Miami.

This week will be spent putting in a game plan, and next week, first-year coach Jim Caldwell is taking a page right out of Tony Dungy’s playbook. The Colts will stay at the same hotel, practice at the same facility and follow almost the same routine that they did before beating Chicago in the rainiest Super Bowl on record.

“We’ll change some things. We’ll tweak them and adjust them a little bit, according to how we envision some things, and it depends on what happens to us this week,” Caldwell said Monday. “We’ll make some adjustments, it’s not an iron-clad sort of routine. But, overall, we’ll probably be fairly Please see Colts, Page 2B

Kentucky is back in a familiar place, and so is its coach.

The Wildcats, the last unbeaten team in Division I, were a unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll on Monday, their first time on top since the final poll of 2002-03.

Only three schools have been No. 1 more often.

For first-year coach John Calipari, Kentucky is the third school he has taken to No. 1. He led Massachusetts to the top spot in 1994-95 and 1995-96, and Memphis in 2007-08.

The Wildcats (19-0) moved up one spot, replacing Texas (17-2), which was No. 1 for two weeks before losing to Kansas State and Connecticut, both on the road. The Longhorns, who were ranked No. 1 for the first time in school history, dropped to sixth.

Kentucky’s first game as the nation’s No. 1 team will be at South Carolina on Tuesday night.

This is Kentucky’s 89th week at No. 1, which trails only UCLA (134), Duke (111) and North Carolina (105).

Kansas, the only other No. 1 team this season, Villanova, Syracuse and Michigan State all moved up one place from last week to be second through fifth.

After Texas, Georgetown, Duke, West Virginia and Purdue rounded out the top 10.

North Carolina (12-7), the defending national champion and loser of three straight and four of five, did not receive a vote and dropped out of the poll for the first time since January 2006. The Tar Heels were sixth in the preseason poll.

Clemson, Northern Iowa and Mississippi State also dropped out of the Top 25 while Connecticut, Vanderbilt, New Mexico and UAB, all of whom were ranked earlier this season, moved into the rankings.

Kansas State and BYU led the second 10, with the Cougars’ No. 12 ranking their highest since being 11th in February 1988.

Gonzaga was 13th, followed by Tennessee, Temple, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Mississippi, Connecticut and Ohio State. The last five teams were Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, New Mexico, Baylor and UAB.

For Favre, questions come again NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Brett Favre staggered to the podium, an abrasion between his eyes, welts on his forehead and tears in his eyes from the beating he took at the hands of the New Orleans Saints and the realization that his quest to get back to Super Bowl fell just short again.

For a quarterback who derived so much joy during an improbably successful season for the Minnesota Vikings, Favre sure didn’t look or sound like a player who had much left after a heartbreaking 31-28 overtime loss to the Saints in the NFC championship game on Sunday.

Favre wasn’t quite ready to make a decision on his future immediately following the loss, but he said he wouldn’t take long to make his plans known this time.

“Just wondering if I can hold up, especially after a day like today,” Favre said after throwing for 310 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions. “Physically Associated Press and mentally. That was pretty draining.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre sits on the field after being hit during I am going to go home, a couple of days the first quarter of the NFC Championship NFL football game Sunday, and just talk it over with the family.”

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Scoreboard FOOTBALL NFL Playoff Glance

Wild Card Round Saturday, Jan. 9 N.Y. Jets 24, Cincinnati 14 Dallas 34, Philadelphia 14 Sunday, Jan. 10 Baltimore 33, New England 14 Arizona 51, Green Bay 45, OT Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 16 New Orleans 45, Arizona 14 Indianapolis 20, Baltimore 3 Sunday, Jan. 17 Minnesota 34, Dallas 3 N.Y. Jets 17, San Diego 14 Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 24 Indianapolis 30, N.Y. Jets 17 New Orleans 31, Minnesota 28 OT Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Miami NFC vs. AFC, 7:20 p.m. (ESPN) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7 At Miami Indianapolis vs. New Orleans, 6:25 p.m. (CBS)

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Boston 29 13 .683 — Toronto 23 22 .511 7 New York 17 26 .395 12 Philadelphia 15 30 .341 14½ New Jersey 3 40 .070 26 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 28 14 .667 — Orlando 29 15 .659 — Miami 23 20 .535 5½ Charlotte 21 21 .500 7 Washington 14 29 .326 14½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 34 11 .756 — Chicago 20 22 .476 12½ Milwaukee 18 24 .429 14½ Indiana 17 29 .356 18 Detroit 15 28 .349 18 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Dallas 29 15 .659 — San Antonio 25 17 .595 3 Houston 24 19 .558 4½ Memphis 23 19 .548 5 New Orleans 23 20 .535 5½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Denver 29 14 .674 — Portland 27 18 .600 3 Utah 25 18 .581 4 Oklahoma City 24 20 .545 5½ Minnesota 9 36 .200 21 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers 33 11 .750 — Phoenix 26 19 .578 7½ L.A. Clippers 20 24 .465 12½ Sacramento 15 28 .349 17½ Golden State 13 29 .310 19

Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers 92, Washington 78 Dallas 128, New York 78 Toronto 106, L.A. Lakers 105 Monday’s Games Indiana 109, Philadelphia 98 Boston 95, L.A. Clippers 89 Cleveland at Miami, late Orlando at Memphis, late Atlanta at Houston, late Chicago at San Antonio, late Charlotte at Denver, late Phoenix at Utah, late New Orleans at Portland, late Tuesday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Washington, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Dallas, late.

Charlotte at Phoenix, late Golden State at Sacramento, late.

Wednesday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Miami at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Chicago at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Denver at Houston, 8:30 p.m.

Atlanta at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Utah at Portland, 10 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Monday’s College Basketball EAST Saint Joseph’s 85, Penn 64 Syracuse 73, Georgetown 56 SOUTH Delaware St. 63, Coppin St. 59 Furman 63, Samford 58 Jacksonville 72, Savannah St. 68 James Madison 67, Radford 63 Morgan St. 91, Md.-Eastern Shore 54 Tenn.-Martin 68, SIU-Edwardsville 52 W. Carolina 100, Coll. of Charleston 90 Wofford 78, Chattanooga 63 SOUTHWEST Texas A&M-CC 66, Texas-Pan American 51 Monday’s Women’s College Basketball SOUTH Alcorn St. 59, Alabama A&M 45 Bethune-Cookman 48, Howard 47 Charleston Southern 67, Radford 61 Chattanooga 78, Wofford 72 Coll. of Charleston 64, Elon 57 Coppin St. 58, Delaware St. 37 Davidson 75, W. Carolina 65 Gardner-Webb 80, Presbyterian 39 Georgia Southern 63, UNC-Greensboro 55 Hampton 67, Florida A&M 54 High Point 77, UNC Asheville 63 Liberty 57, Coastal Carolina 38 Morgan St. 65, Md.-Eastern Shore 51 N. Carolina A&T 79, Winston-Salem 53 North Carolina 81, N.C. State 69 S. Carolina St. 74, Norfolk St. 73 Samford 60, Furman 49 Southern U. 55, Alabama St. 39 MIDWEST Purdue 63, Ohio St. 61 S. Dakota St. 83, IPFW 62 UMKC 54, W. Illinois 46 SOUTHWEST Prairie View 83, MVSU 62 Texas Southern 90, Ark.-Pine Bluff 82, OT

HOCKEY National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF New Jersey 50 34 15 1 69 138 Pittsburgh 54 33 20 1 67 172 Philadelphia 51 26 22 3 55 155 N.Y. Rangers 53 24 22 7 55 137 N.Y. Islanders 52 23 21 8 54 139 Northeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Buffalo 50 30 13 7 67 143 Ottawa 53 28 21 4 60 147 Montreal 53 25 23 5 55 140 Boston 51 23 20 8 54 127 Toronto 53 17 26 10 44 139 Southeast Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 51 33 12 6 72 195 Florida 52 22 21 9 53 144 Atlanta 51 22 21 8 52 156 Tampa Bay 51 21 20 10 52 132 Carolina 51 16 28 7 39 132 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 52 35 13 4 74 170 Nashville 51 29 19 3 61 143 Detroit 51 25 18 8 58 131 St. Louis 51 22 21 8 52 135 Columbus 54 20 25 9 49 142 Northwest Division

GP W L OT Pts GF Colorado 51 30 15 6 66 153 Vancouver 51 31 18 2 64 167 Calgary 51 26 19 6 58 132 Minnesota 52 25 23 4 54 145 Edmonton 50 16 28 6 38 133 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 53 35 10 8 78 179 Phoenix 52 29 18 5 63 139 Los Angeles 51 29 19 3 61 151 Anaheim 52 24 21 7 55 148 Dallas 52 22 19 11 55 148

GA 110 152 144 145 157 GA 122 154 144 131 182 GA 143 153 166 157 172 GA 120 142 133 146 180 GA 136 125 132 156 172 GA 128 135 143 164 168

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 1

Saints Continued from Page 1B

already acts on any excuse for a party spilled into the streets and toasted the Saints’ success.

Bourbon Street was mobbed with revelers in Saints jerseys letting out high-pitched howls of delight and stirring up impromptu chants of “Who dat say dey gonna’ beat dem Saints!”

Some exchanged watery-eyed embraces after watching their team pull out a high-stakes thriller that appeared to be going the Vikings’ way before Tracy Porter intercepted Brett Favre’s pass in Saints territory in the last minute of regulation.

“When I got outside this morning, I saw the city was still standing so that was a good thing,” Sharper said.

“I didn’t get a chance to go out and celebrate last night because I was a little bit too sore to enjoy myself. I couldn’t have been celebrating if I couldn’t move my head to see who was around me.”

Saints defensive players were

Carolina 5, Boston 1 Colorado 4, Dallas 0 Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 2 St. Louis at Calgary, late Buffalo at Vancouver, late Tuesday’s Games Los Angeles at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Detroit, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Montreal at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games New Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Washington, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

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bound to be exhausted and sore. The Vikings had the ball for nearly 37 minutes and ran 82 offensive plays to the Saints’ 55, including overtime, when only the Saints had the ball and ran 10 plays on their winning drive, which was capped by Garrett Hartley field goal.

Hartley wasn’t about to live a young kicker’s dream without celebrating a little. He joined friends and stayed downtown for a while, shaking hands with countless appreciative fans.

The team gathered Monday for meetings, some light workouts and treatment for players who were banged up. Payton said there did not appear to be any serious injuries. He said kick returner Courtney Roby’s right knee was “dinged,” that running back Lynell Hamilton’s left ankle injury appeared minor and that tight end Jeremy Shockey did not have any setbacks with his bruised right knee.

Payton also gave players Tuesday and Wednesday off before they return Thursday to prepare for the next biggest game in Saints history against native son Peyton Manning and the favored Indianapolis Colts.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Kris Joseph scored 15 points, Wes Johnson added 14 and No. 4 Syracuse rallied from a big early deficit to beat seventhranked Georgetown 73-56 on Monday night.

Syracuse (20-1, 7-1 Big East) has won seven straight since a home loss to Pittsburgh and has defeated Georgetown (15-4, 6-3) six consecutive times in the Carrier Dome.

It was the 819th career win for Orange coach Jim Boeheim, breaking a tie with UConn’s Jim Calhoun for sixth in Division I. Boeheim also extended his Division I record for most 20-win seasons to 32 in his 34 years at his alma mater.

Austin Freeman led Georgetown with 23 points and Jason Clark had 15. Greg Monroe had eight points and only four rebounds before fouling out with 6:27 left. Chris Wright, averaging 15 points, finished with seven.

Syracuse, which trailed by 14 just 3 minutes into the game, started the second half with an 18-8 surge to take command as the Hoyas failed to find the openings in the Orange’s zone defense that they did early.

After only attempting two shots in the first half, Rick Jackson converted a lay-in, a deft hook over Monroe along the baseline, and a follow after a steal by Johnson — all in a 79-second span — to give the Orange a 43-33 lead with 16:10 left.

Western Carolina 100, Coll. of Charleston 90 CULLOWHEE (AP) — Richie Gordon scored 19 points to lead four other players in double figures as Western Carolina defeated College of Charleston 100-90 on Monday night.

Jake Robinson added 16 points for the Catamounts (16-4, 6-2 Southern Conference), who have won four of their last five games. Mike Williams scored 14, Keaton Cole had 11 and Brigham Waginger added 10.

Western Carolina shot 59.4 percent from the field (38-for-64) and outrebounded the Cougars 30-20.

The game was the first meeting between the two teams since the Cougars defeated the Catamounts 67-48 in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Southern Conference Tournament.

Andrew Goudelock finished with 24 points and 11 assists for College of Charleston (13-7, 8-1). Tony White Jr. added 23 points.

Furman 63, Samford 58 GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Darryl Evans scored 18 points and Bryson Barnes added 11, leading Furman past Samford 63-58 on Monday night.

Evans was a perfect 4-for-4 from beyond the arc and all three of Justin Dehm’s field goals were 3-pointers for the Paladins, who finished 8-for-15 from long range (53.3 percent).

The Bulldogs were just 6-for-21 from 3-point range (28.6 percent).

In a back and forth game, Josh Davis had a layup to put Samford up 46-44 with 10:44 to play. But Dehm hit all his 3-pointers in a 14-4 Furman run that made the difference, and the Paladins held on despite hitting just one field goal in the last 4 minutes.

Furman (10-10, 4-5 Southern Conference) outscored Samford by one at the break and 32-28 in the second half.

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close to what we’ve done previously.”

Some of the changes are not by choice.

Four-time MVP Peyton Manning and his Pro Bowl teammates, who include Dallas Clark, Dwight Freeney and Reggie Wayne, are expected to be in town Sunday afternoon for a pregame news conference — a full day before the rest of the Colts arrive.

Team president Bill Polian called that rule “distasteful” and a “fiasco” on his weekly radio show Monday night.

Indy’s team plane also is expected to arrive a little earlier than it did three years ago because of new rules implemented in 2008.

But with nearly half of Indy’s roster having Super Bowl experience, Caldwell will rely on his veterans to help younger players cope with the countless distractions of the next two weeks. Players, like fans, are scrambling to make travel plans, fill countless ticket requests and answer all kinds of e-mail and text messages. Caldwell said he had about

250 e-mail and more than 150 text messages after Sunday’s 30-17 victory over the New York Jets.

Pro Bowl center Jeff Saturday offers some advice.

“Make a list of how many tickets you’re going to have, set a priority, and tell them the tickets will be there at will call when you get there. Let them find their ways down, because it can become a madhouse,” he said.

“Truthfully, it falls a lot to our wives and family members who help us out.

It can get anybody stressed.”

Preferably, the Colts (16-2) would like everything resolved before returning to practice Wednesday.

The reason? Once Indy reaches Miami, Saturday recalls, players will study film and do additional prep work for the Saints (15-3) in unfamiliar surroundings or hotel rooms. New Orleans is in the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history.

Another possible problem: Most people who come to town want to vacation or party. But the Colts have a job — completing a mission deemed so essential they threw away a chance at perfection to win a title.

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Archie’s boy awaits Super-Bowl-bound Saints

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer

Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?

Well, Archie’s boy might have something to say about that.

In a stunning turn of events, the team led through its formative years by a strong-armed quarterback named Archie Manning has finally made it to the Super Bowl. And look who’s standing in the way of the first NFL championship in New Orleans’ largely forgettable 43-year history as a pro football city.

None other than Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts.

Archie’s son guided the

Colts into the Super Bowl with a 30-17 victory over the upstart New York Jets in Sunday’s AFC championship game. About four hours later, the Saints stamped their ticket for South Beach by beating Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 in an overtime thriller.

The winners will face off for the ultimate prize Feb. 7 in Miami.

Sounding like the doting father, Archie Manning made it clear last month that he’d root for either of his quarterback sons, Peyton or Eli of the New York Giants, should they face the Saints in the playoffs. But the family subplot hovering over this game will give everyone plenty to talk about for the

next two weeks.

Archie Manning was a hotshot quarterback out of neighboring Mississippi when was selected No. 2 overall by the Saints in the 1971 draft. Everyone in New Orleans thought he was just the sort of player who could break the shackles of expansion ineptitude and turn around a franchise that went 14-40-2 over its four seasons in the NFL. That might have been the case — if the Saints had bothered to bring in some linemen who could block or some receivers who could catch.

Playing nearly a dozen years in New Orleans, Manning became the pitiful face of a team that couldn’t

seem to do anything right.

He spent more time sprawled out on his back than a Bourbon Street reveler. The Saints never cracked .500 during the Manning era — in fact, near the end of his career, the team plunged to 1-15 and fans took to wearing paper sacks on the heads, calling themselves the ’Aints.

Manning moved on to Houston, then finished up his career in Minnesota, of all places.

The Saints didn’t post a winning record until 1987, their 21st season in the league. But that’s all in the past now, erased by a highscoring team that won its first 13 games this season, wiped out Arizona in the divisional round, then ended

the twice-retired Favre’s hopes of getting back to the Super Bowl at age 40.

It didn’t come easy. The Vikings were in position to win it at the end of regulation before Favre improbably tried to pull off a tough throw back toward the middle of the field while rolling to his right, the ball was picked off to send the game to overtime.

Then, the team that spent a year on the road after Hurricane Katrina pummeled their city, then became a rallying cry for its rebirth, drove into Vikings territory to set up Garrett Hartley’s 40-yard field goal. The kick sent a celebrating crowd pouring out onto Bourbon Street for a party.

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For Title Reference see Deed recorded Book 827, Page 574 Rutherford County Registry.

Address of property: 763 E US 74 Highway Business, Ellenboro, NC 28040 Present Record Owners: James M. Baldwin The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.In the event that the Owner and Holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee's Deed, and any Land Transfer Tax. The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale "AS IS, WHERE IS" and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in his sole discretion, if he believes the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009.

Dated: January 13, 2010 David A. Simpson, P.C. Substitute Trustee By:__________________________________ Attorney at Law Rogers Townsend & Thomas, PC Attorneys for the Subsitute Trustee (704) 442-9500 Posted:___ Witness:____ Assistant/Deputy Clerk of Superior Court

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4B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TUESDAY, January 26, 2010 NORTH CAROLINA RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE BEFORE THE CLERK 09 SP 551 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY DAVID SALL AND WIFE, AMY SALL DATED December 9, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 875, PAGE 594, RUTHERFORD COUNTY REGISTRY, TO BB&T COLLATERAL SERVICE CORP, TRUSTEE. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by DAVID SALL AND WIFE, AMY SALL dated December 9, 2005 to BB&T COLLATERAL SERVICE CORPORATION, Trustee for BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY, recorded in Book 875, Page 594, RUTHERFORD County Registry; default having been made in payment of the indebtedness thereby secured; and the necessary findings to permit foreclosure having been made by the Clerk of Superior Court of RUTHERFORD County, North Carolina; the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the property conveyed in said deed of trust, the same lying and being in the County of RUTHERFORD and State of North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: Situate, lying and being in Gilkey township, Rutherford County, North carolina and being all of the 2.670 acre tract shown as Lot #112 on plat entitled “Clearwater creek Phase 7, “Sheet One of Five, as shown on plat of record in Plat Book 26 at Page 297, Rutherford County Registry.

Being a portion of that property conveyed in Deed from SFG Dragonfly, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company to Mtn. Creek Land Co, Inc., a North Carolina Corporation by deed dated November 15, 2004 and of record in Deed Book 860, at Page 146, Rutherford County Registry.

Subject to all notes shown on plat hereinabove referred to and further subject to any restrictions or rights of way of record and subject further to all provisions and restrictions of record as set forth in Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions of Clearwater Creek dated May 4, 2005 and of record in Deed Book 872, at Page 309, Rutherford County Registry.

Being the same and identical property which was conveyed by Mtn. Creek Land Co., Inc., a North Carolina Corporation to David Sall by deed dated December 9, 2005 and of record in Deed Book 890, at Page 648, Rutherford County Registry.

PROPERTY ADDRESS/LOCATION: Lot 112 Phase 7 Clearwater Creek Subdivision, Creekside Circle Rutherfordton NC 28139 DATE OF SALE: February 4, 2010 TIME OF SALE: 10:30 A.M. LOCATION OF SALE: RUTHERFORD County Courthouse RECORD OWNER(S): David Sall TERMS OF THE SALE: (1) This sale will be made subject to: (a) all prior liens, encumbrances, easements, right-of-ways, restrictive covenants or other restrictions of record affecting the property; (b) property taxes and assessments for the year in which the sale occurs, as well as any prior years; (c) federal tax liens with respect to which proper notice was not given to the Internal Revenue Service; and (d) federal tax liens to which proper notice was given to the Internal Revenue Service and to which the right of redemption applies.

(2) The property is being sold "as is". Neither the beneficiary of the deed of trust, nor the undersigned Substitute Trustee, makes any warranties or representations concerning the property, including but not limited to, the physical or environmental condition of the property.

Further, the undersigned Substitute Trustee makes no title warranties with respect to the title to the property.

(3) The highest bidder will be responsible for the payment of revenue stamps payable to the Registerof Deeds and any final court and/or auditing fees payable to the Clerk of Superior Court which are assessed on the high bid resulting from this foreclosure sale.

(4) At the time of the sale, the highest bidder will be required to make a cash deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or $750.00, whichever is greater, with the remaining balance of the bid amount to be paid on the day following the expiration of the applicable ten (10) day upset bid period.

(5) Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

(6) An order for possession of the property being sold may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession, by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

This the 6th day of January, 2010.

SMITH DEBNAM NARRON DRAKE SAINTSING & MYERS, L.L.P. ____________________________ Jeff D. Rogers, Substitute Trustee P. O. Box 26268 Raleigh, NC 27611-6268 (919) 250-2000 KMA 97392067

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Special Proceedings No. 09 SP 545 Substitute Trustee: Philip A. Glass NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

Date of Sale: February 9, 2010 Time of Sale: 1:30 p.m.

Place of Sale: Rutherford County Courthouse Description of Property: See Attached Description Record Owners: Charles Eric Billings and Mary Ann Billings Address of Property: 113 Red Leaf Lane Forest City, NC 28043

Deed of Trust: Book: 574 Page: 50 Dated: August 13, 1999 Grantors: Charles Eric Billings and wife, Mary Ann Billings Original Beneficiary: State Employees’ Credit Union

EXHIBIT “A” Being the same property as described in deed dated April 18, 1997 from Chad Haynes and wife, Susan Haynes to Vivian Boggs recorded in Deed Book 690, Page 314, Rutherford County Registry and described according to said deed as follows: Lying and being in Sulphur Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being bound on the west by the property of Ray L. Pittman, Jr. and wife as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 636, Page 419, Rutherford County Registry, on the North by SR 2150, on the East and South by the remaining lands of the Grantor, and being a part of the lands composing Lot 25 of the Upstate Grading, Inc. property as shown in plat recorded in Plat Book 16, Page 98, Rutherford County Registry, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point lying in the centerline of SR 2150, said beginning point being the common Northwest corner of the tract herein described and common Northeast corner of Pittman, and running thence from said beginning point with the centerline of SR 2150, North 50 deg. 25 min. 13 sec. East 112.52 feet to an iron pin; thence leaving said road a line running south 44 deg. 14 min.

39 sec. East (crossing an iron stake at 20 feet in the line and another iron pin at 190.10 feet in the line) 240.10 feet to an iron stake; thence South 50 deg. 54 min. 07 sec. West (crossing an iron stake at 87.56 feet in the line) 107.56 feet to a point in the centerline of a private drive; thence with the centerline of said road North 45 deg. 26 min. 42 sec. West (crossing an iron stake at 249.66 feet in the line) 269.66 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 0.6032 acres according to amp and survey by Jack H. Davis, Registered Land Surveyor.

The Grantees herein acknowledge and agree that a community well is located on the tract of land herein above described, which community well will serve adjacent properties so long as water is available from said community well and the provision of water remains feasible in the discretion of the grantors. The Grantees will not in any way interfere with rights of adjacent land owners to obtain water from said community well pursuant to rights previously granted to said adjacent land owners by the grantors.

That the foregoing conveyances are made subject to all easements, rights of way and restrictions of record.

Being the same and identical property, which was conveyed by Joe Robbins and wife, Emma Robbins to Chad Haynes and Susan Holland by deed dated November 27, 1995 and of record in Deed Book 662, Page 112, Rutherford County Registry. (DESC\Kilby.John\amj) CONDITIONS OF SALE: Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

This sale is made subject to all unpaid taxes and superior liens or encumbrances of record and assessments, if any, against the said property, and any recorded leases. This sale is also subject to any applicable county land transfer tax, and the successful third party bidder shall be required to make payment for any such county land transfer tax.

A cash deposit of 5% of the purchase price will be required at the time of the sale. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price so bid at that time, he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes Section 45-21.30 (d) and (e). This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.

Residential real property with less than 15 rental units: an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Dated: 11/19/09 ______________________________ Philip A. Glass, Substitute Trustee Nodell, Glass & Haskell, L.L.P. Posted on 1/12/10

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TUESDAY, January 26, 2010 — 5B NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 -SP-578 Under and by virtue of the power of safe contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by SHERRY B. GILLIAM to CB SERVICES CORP. Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of June, 2001 and recorded in Book 632 , Page 69, RUTHERFORD County Registry, North Carolina, Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, F.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duty recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of RUTHERFORD County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of RUTHERFORDTON, RUTHERFORD County, North Carolina at 11:00 o'clock a.m. on February 3, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of RUTHERFORD, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County. North Carolina and being the same property as conveyed by deed dated May 15, 1998, from Cindy M. Alley Ingle, Widow to David M. Edwards, recorded in Deed Book 711, Page 733, Rutherford County Registry, and described hereinafter according to said deed as follows: Being Lots 14-17 of the Sandy Mush Subdivision as shown by plat recorded in Plat Book 5, Page 78 and being the same properly as conveyed by deed dated October 19, 1962, from Bate Womick and wife, Eva Womick to Henry Lee McGinnis and wife. Alma McGinnis, same being recorded in Deed Book 266. Page 573, Rutherford County Registry, and hereinafter described according to survey dated August 10, 1992, by Nathan Odom, Registered Land Surveyor, entitled "Andy G. Ingle" as follows: Lying on the west side of Chesnee Highway (State Road No. 2210). BEGINNING at an existing iron pin located in the western margin of Chesnee Highway, same being the Northeast corner of the property of Ronnie D. Alridge, Deed Book 580, Page 695, Rutherford County Registry, said beginning iron being located also North 23 degrees 20 minutes 59 seconds West 98.00 feet from a nail located in the centerline of the intersection of Chesnee Highway (State Road No. 2210) with Walker Drive, and from the beginning running with the line of Ronnie D. Aldridge South 89 degrees 54 minutes 25 seconds West 165.62 feet to an existing iron pin in line of James Campbell, et als, 92-E-245; thence with the Campbell line North 26 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds West 100.15 feet to an existing iron pin, same being the Southwest comer of W. Paul Street and wife in Deed Book 220, Page 438: running thence with Street's line North 88 degrees 53 minutes 41 seconds East 172.47 feet to an existing iron pin located in the west margin of Chesnee Highway; thence with the western margin of said highway, South 21:degrees 44 minutes 58 seconds East 50 feet to a point and South 22 degrees 41 minutes 38 seconds East 50.13 feet to the point and place of the BEGINNING, containing 0.35 acres, according to said survey hereinabove referred to.

This being the same and identical parcel of land as conveyed to Andy G. Ingle and wife. Cindy M. Allen Ingle from Henry Lee McGinnis and wife, Alma McGinnis in deed dated August 27, 1992, as recorded in Book 599, Page 53. The said Andy G. Ingle is now deceased. Refer to Estate File No. 96-E-207, Rutherford County Clerk of Court.

Said property being located at: 288 Chase High Road, Forest City, North Carolina 28043

SUBSCRIPTION SPECIAL AVAILABLE! CALL 245-6431 TODAY FOR MORE DETAILS NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09 SP 575 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ray Charles Bristol to Frances Jones, Trustee(s), dated the 16th day of July, 2008, and recorded in Book 1016, Page 83, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina at 1:30 PM on February 9, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Cool Springs, in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being the same property as described in deed from Ruth D. Blanton and husband, Cecil E. Blanton, to William A. Blanton and wife, Shirley S. Blanton, dated June 27, 1985, and recorded in Deed Book 472, Page 573, Rutherford County Registry, the property hereby being described according to said deed as follows: Lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being the same property as described in deed dated March 10, 1978, from Michael H. Dawson, et ux., to Donald E. Toney recorded in Deed Book 392, Page 683, Rutherford County Registry, and being further described as follows: Situate, lying and being in the Town of Forest City, Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, NC, and being designated as Lot No. 11 on a plat entitled "River Hills Subdivision" prepared by John F. Padgett, Registered Land Surveyor, on April 26, 1974 and of record in Plat Book 9, Page 28, Rutherford County Registry, reference to which plat is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; Said property being located at: 206 Riverhills Drive, Forest City, North Carolina The above lot is part of the property described in deed recorded in Dee Book 357, Page 700, Rutherford County Registry. Reference is also made to Trustee's deed from Nancy H. Jones, Trustee to Ruth D. Blanton, dated June 26, 1985.

Being the same and identical property which was by Wayman W. Love and wife, Lillian S. Love to Ray Charles Bristol by deed dated December 28, 1992 and of record in Deed Book 605, at Page 29, Rutherford County Registry.

Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

PRESENT RECORD OWNER BEING: SHERRY B. GILLIAM Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of forty-five cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ( $100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308 (a) (1), and any applicable county and/or state land transfer tax and/or revenue tax.

Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid, in cash or certified check, at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

A cash deposit or cashier's check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

That an Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

This the 13th day of January, 2010.

Michael W. Strickland, as Attorney for and President of ANDERSON & STRICKLAND P.A., Substitute-Trustee 210 East Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 (910) 483-3300 PUBLISH: January 19, 2010 and January 26, 2010

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A cash deposit or cashier’s check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days’ written notice to the landlord. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 19th day of January, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE BY: Attorney at Law The Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A. Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 http://sales.hsbfirm.com Case No: 1022352

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6B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TUESDAY, January 26, 2010 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE CLERK 08 SP 269 In the Matter of Foreclosure Of Claim of Lien filed against Michael T. Chandler and Joann Chandler under Power of Sale

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of DONNIS ONEIL BROOKS MORROW of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said DONNIS ONEIL BROOKS MORROW to present them to the undersigned on or before the 26th day of April, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 26th day of January, 2010.

Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of LOIS BAYNARD ALLEN TATE of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said LOIS BAYNARD ALLEN TATE to present them to the undersigned on or before the 19th day of April, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.

All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

This is the 19th day of January, 2010.

Randy Joe Morrow, Administrator 130 Birdsong Lane Forest City, NC 28043

Rebecca Katherine Allen Kuhn, Administrator 9236 Stonecrop Court Charlotte, NC 28210

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Association’s Declaration of Restrictions, Conditions, Easements, Covenants, Agreements, Liens and Charges and as subsequently amended for Riverbend Property Owners’ Association, Inc., and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Book 400, Page 265, and pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. §§47F-3-116 and because of default in the payment of association assessments, the undersigned Trustee, Dorinda Watford shall on February 5, 2010 at 10:00 A M., at the door of the Rutherford County Courthouse, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lot 180, Riverbend at Lake Lure, Section 2, a subdivision located in Chimney Rock Township as recorded in Plat Book 10 at Page 76-81, and as more specifically described in that deed recorded in Deed Book 510 at Page 144, in the Rutherford County, North Carolina Registry The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinabove described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder and that the undersigned may require the successful bidder at the sale to immediately deposit cash in the amount of ten (10%) percent of the high bid up to $1,000.00, plus five (5%) percent of any excess of $1,000.00. The real property hereinabove described will be sold subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, restrictions and easements of record, tax liens and assessments.

The sale will be held open for ten days for upset bids as by law required. The record titleholders to said property, ten (10) days prior to posting of this Notice, are Michael T. Chandler and Joann Chandler.

This the 26th day of January, 2010. _____________________________ Dorinda Watford, Trustee

FOURTH AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 09-SP-189 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by NOELIA DEL RIO and ANA PAGAN RIOS (now deceased) to CB SERVICES CORP., Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of September, 1999 and recorded in Book 576, Page 115, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina at 10:00 a.m. on February 9, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: SITUATE -on the north Side of the Old Coopers Gap Road, and on both sides of U.S. Highway 74 and on the west side of the road leading from U.S. Highway 74 to U.S. Highway 221 and being about 2 1/2 miles west of the Town of Rutherfordton and being the same property conveyed by Clyde C. Taylor and wife to Lila. H. Lewis by deed dated December 3, 1937 and recorded in the Rutherford County Registry in Deed Book 146 at Page, 151, and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING on an iron pin in the Old Coopers Gap Road (formerly old State Highway No. 20) , said beginning point being the southeast corner of the 1 3/4 acre tract conveyed by Howard Ledbetter and wife to Fred Hodge and wife by deed recorded in Deed Book 210 at. Page 539, and running thence with line of Fred Hodge, and crossing U.S. Highway 74 and continuing with line of Howard. Ledbetter, North 19 cast 24 1/3 poles to an iron pipe, Howard Ledbetter's northeast corner; thence with line of the tract purchased by N.H. Watson and wife from Luther Edwards and wife. South 57 East 20 poles, to a stake in the edge of the Highway leading from U.S. Highway 74 to U.S. Highway 221; thence with the said Highway, South 24 1/2, West; 18 1/2 poles, recrossing the present U.S. Highway 74 to a stake in the Old Coopers Gap Road (formerly part of N.C. Highway 20) ; thence with said road, general course, North 73 1/4 West about 19 Poles to the beginning, containing 2.3 acres, more or less.

Being the same property as that described in Deed Book 214, Page 521.

HOWEVER, THERE IS EXCEPTED from the above described 2.3 acre tract that parcel conveyed in Deed Book 224, Page 332.

The above described description of the 2.3 acre tract includes the property described in Deed Book 336, Cage 375, The property herein described in this deed comprises Tax Lots: 127-1-39A and 39B. Said property being located at: 794 US Highway 64/74 A, Rutherfordton, NC 28139 PRESENT RECORD OWNER BEING: NOELIA DEL RIO and UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ANA PAGAN RIOS, deceased and possible record owners being: LYDIA GONZALEZ, MINERVA DEL RIO, HECTOR DEL RIO, MARIA DEL RIO and AIDA A. DEL RIO. Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of forty-five cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ( $100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308 (a) (1), and any applicable county and/or state land transfer tax and/or revenue tax.

Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid, in cash or certified check, at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

A cash deposit or cashier's check (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale.

That an Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

This the 19th day of January, 2010.

Michael W. Strickland, as Attorney for and President of ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., Substitute Trustee 210 st Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 (910) 483-3300 PUBLISH: January 26, 2010 & February 2, 2010

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245-6431 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE 09-SP-568 UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Bernard Graves, a single person, dated the 24th day of March, 2005, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, in Book 832 at Page 272 and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale in the County Courthouse of Rutherford County, in the city of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, at 10:00 am on the 3rd day of February, 2010, all that certain parcel of land, more particularly described as follows: IMPROVEMENTS: House and lot/Condominium/or Lot LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Being the same property as described in deed dated June 20, 1963, from Joyce Corn Buckaloo and husband, William F. Buckaloo to Joseph L. Carter and wife, Mary W. Carter recorded in Deed Book 270, Page 462, Rutherford County Registry, and described hereinafter according to said deed as follows: Being a part of the land conveyed to Joyce Corn Buckaloo and husband, William F. Buckaloo by Creola T. Corn, widow, by deed recorded in Book 237, Page 383; an a part of the land conveyed to Buckaloo's by Joe Robbins and wife, Shirley Robbins and described in Deed Book 241, at Page 62 in the Rutherford County Registry; reference to which is hereby made.

BEGINNING on an iron at a point where the southeast corner of Oak Street intersects with the southeast corner of Trout Street; the said iron pin being the extreme northwest corner of the lot conveyed to Buckaloo's by Creola Corn as referred to above; running thence with the southeast side of Oak Street North 52 deg. 30 min. East 70 feet to an iron pin, corner of William Harton lot; thence with Harton's line South 37 degrees East 125 feet to an iron pin in Clyde Green's line; thence with Green's line South 52 degrees 30 minutes West 70 feet to an iron pin on the northeast side to Trout Street; thence with the northeast edge of Trout Street North 37 degrees West 125 feet to the place of BEGINNING. Being the same and identical property conveyed by Joseph L. Carter and wife, May W. Carter to Kimothy M. Bivens by deed dated April 2, 1996 and of record in Deed Book 668, Page 178, Rutherford County Registry.

ADDITIONAL POSSIBLE STREET ADDRESS FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY: 211 Trout Street, Forest City, NC 28043 Notice & Disclaimer: The listed street address may be incorrect and is stated hereby for informational and reference purposes only. The Substitute Trustee makes no certifications or warranties that said street address is accurate or correct. It is each potential bidder's duty to determine with his/her own title examination that said street address is correct and matches the above legal description. The above legal description describes the property being sold and shall be controlling.

PRESENT RECORD OWNERS as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds not more than 10 days prior to posting the notice are Bernard Graves and Spouse, if any.

Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

In the event that this sale is one of residential real property with less than 15 rental units, an order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to NCGS §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the County in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. That upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of forty-five (45) cents per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308 (a)(1). This sale is also subject to any applicable county and/or state land transfer and/or revenue tax, and the successful third party bidder shall be required to make payment for such tax. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS". Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust/Security Instrument, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee of the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, encumbrances of record, including prior Deeds of Trust.

The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to require a cash deposit or certified check made payable to the Substitute Trustee (no personal checks) for five percent (5%) of the purchase price or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, at the time of the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all remaining amounts are due immediately. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT AS STATED BELOW IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This the 13th day of January, 2010.

The Caudle Law Firm, P.A., Substitute Trustee David R. Caudle President & Attorney at Law State Bar Number 6075 2101 Rexford Road, Suite 165W Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 http://www.caudlelawfirm.com

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Haas gets first PGA victory LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Golf forced patience upon Bill Haas over the last half-decade, and then it rewarded him on the final hole of a marathon week at the Bob Hope Classic.

After playing 140 PGA Tour events without a victory, Haas persevered through six days and five rounds across four courses before going to the final tee Monday in a three-way tie for the lead. That’s where a slightly impatient shot clinched his first trophy — and put him next to his father in Hope Classic history.

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Vera Zvonareva of Russia returns to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus during their Women’s singles fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Monday.

Top seeds end Aussie dreams

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Lleyton Hewitt and Sam Stosur faced the best in the business and could be excused for wishing they had skipped work when a half million other Aussies took a day off.

Roger Federer and Serena Williams ended local hopes of breaking a three-decade drought at the Australian Open. The topranked Federer beat former No. 1 Hewitt 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 Monday night at Rod Laver Arena.

Federer said he’d been playing Hewitt since they were 14 and they were old friends and rivals, but it didn’t stop him from beating the Australian a 15th straight time.

Williams, ranked No. 1 and the defending champion, defeated No. 13 Stosur 6-4, 6-2 in the previous match on center court at Melbourne Park.

Williams lost to Stosur in their last meeting and decided from the start to make sure the fans were not a factor. She kept everybody quiet, conceding only seven points on serve in the 65-minute match.

“It’s important when you’re playing a local girl to not let the crowd get too involved or else they’ll kill you,” Williams said.

The main evening news broadcast broke into the WilliamsStosur coverage. The match was pushed back because Nikolay Davydenko’s win over 2009 semifinalist Fernando Verdasco went to five sets, undoubtedly longer than programmers banked on.

And so the marquee matches featuring the last two Aussie hopes for a first winner since

the late 1970s fizzled the night before Australia Day, the national holiday.

News reports estimated that one-third of employees across Australia on Monday took a “sickie” — Australian slang for a work absence without a proper excuse — to give themselves a four-day weekend through Tuesday’s holiday.

The day’s play brought a record crowd of 49,073 for the second Monday at Melbourne Park, and these story lines: Federer will play Davydenko and 2008 champion Novak Djokovic will meet 2008 runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the quarterfinals; Serena and Venus Williams are each a win away of setting up a sisters semifinal.

Venus Williams advanced 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 over Francesca Schiavone, the first time she’s dropped a set in six matches dating back eight years against the Italian.

Venus will play No. 16 Li Na, who ousted U.S. Open finalist Caroline Wozniacki 6-4, 6-3 and joined 2008 Wimbledon semifinalist Zheng Jie to give China two players in the quarterfinals of one Grand Slam tournament for the first time.

Li beat Venus in their only previous match — the quarterfinals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Serena, who has won the Australian title each odd-numbered year since beating Venus for the 2003 championship, will play seventh-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, who beat No. 9 Vera Zvonareva of Russia 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 in a late match.

On the men’s side, Tsonga,

seeded 10th, had to go five sets for the first time in a career that has spanned 11 Grand Slam events to edge Spaniard Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-7 (6), 9-7.

Djokovic had a 6-1, 6-2, 7-5 win over Poland’s Lukasz Kubot, who was ranked No. 101 at the end of last season and got a walkover in the third round when No. 20 Mikhail Youzhny withdrew with an injured wrist.

Davydenko held off No. 9 Verdasco 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 6-7 (5), 6-3, dropping a set for the first time in the tournament but extending his winning streak to 13 matches, including wins over both Federer and No. 2 Rafael Nadal at the 2009 season-ending championship in London and the 2010 season-opener at Doha.

Nadal, the defending champion, takes on No. 5 Andy Murray, the Scot seeking his first major, on Tuesday night. In the preceding match, No. 7 Andy Roddick plays No. 14 Marin Cilic, who is coming off an upset of U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro.

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“Patience isn’t one of my key virtues,” Bill Haas said. “It’s something I’m still trying to learn. This week, we were forced to be patient. Who knows?

Maybe the rainout was good for me. It obviously was. It worked out for the best.”

Nobody was more impressed than Jay Haas, who benefited from the rain that washed out Thursday’s second round at the Hope Classic and pushed the finale to Monday. He was able to make it back to the mainland from his Champions Tour event in Hawaii in time to see his son in competition for the first time in about two years.

GREENVILLE (AP) — New East Carolina coach Ruffin McNeill has added two assistants to his staff.

School officials said Monday that John Wiley will be McNeill’s associate head football coach and Brian Mitchell will serve as defensive coordinator.

Justine Henin resumes her Wiley also will coach the Pirates’ linebackers, Grand Slam comeback in a quar- while Mitchell would coach the defensive backs. terfinal against Nadia Petrova, who has already ousted two Mitchell coached four seasons at Texas Tech with reigning major champs — U.S. McNeill, and had been named cornerbacks coach Open winner Kim Clijsters and at Memphis on Jan. 18.

French Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Wiley spent 19 seasons at Appalachian State, China’s Zheng faces Maria taking over as defensive coordinator in 1993 Kirilenko, who beat fellow and helping the Mountaineers win three Bowl Russians Maria Sharapova, Championship Subdivision titles from 2005-07. the 2008 champion, and No. 2 Last week, McNeill was named head coach at his Dinara Safina, last year’s losing alma mater. He replaced Skip Holtz, who left for finalist, in earlier rounds.

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Haas gave himself a short birdie putt on the 18th by executing an aggressive approach shot after his two co-leaders couldn’t do it. With his hands cold and shaking, he hit the 1-footer to finish one stroke ahead of Matt Kuchar, Tim Clark and Bubba Watson with an 8-under 64.

“I’d been wanting to win from the first tournament I played, but it’s a process, and there’s a lot to it,” said Haas, a touted rookie in 2006. “It’s special, but I don’t know if it’s a monkey off my back. I know how hard it was to win, and I’m grateful.”

The 27-year-old son of 1988 Hope Classic champion Jay Haas was the last of three co-leaders to play the par-5 18th. Kuchar and South Africa’s Clark had both missed birdie putts at the Arnold Palmer Private course, with Kuchar lamenting his inexact approach shot before Clark laid up.

Determined not to come up short, Haas expertly dropped a 3-iron behind the pin, allowing him to two-putt his way to a 30-under 330 finish, the $900,000 winner’s share of the $5 million purse — and the chance to scratch his name off the list of good players with no wins.

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