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FOREST CITY — “It’s all the temperatures,” said Matt Taylor, Department of Transportation’s maintenance supervisor Friday morning, as a downpour of rain was melting ice and snow on unpaved roads and secondary roads in north Rutherford County. Temperatures hovered around 34 degrees Friday morning, easing a threat of icy or snowy conditions. Rutherford County Schools were closed Friday for the third day of the week and for some students who live on unpaved roads, they were off school all week. Buses did not operate on unpaved roads Wednesday or Thursday. Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy also closed schools Friday. “When it turns over to rain and the temperature warms up, the ice goes away pretty soon,” Taylor said. “Rain does a pretty good Please see Rain, Page 6
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Cynthia Surratt with her Wal-mart plastic bag on her head to protect herself from the rain arrives at the store Friday afternoon for weekend shopping.
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tractor. Davis only lives a few miles from the hospital, but said the trip took about 15 minutes. “It was bumpy and the Kubota was only going about 20 miles per hour,” Davis said. But holding up traffic wasn’t a problem as
RUTHERFORDTON — The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently upheld the conviction of a Rutherford County man found guilty of first-degree murder in October 2008. Scott Randall Reich, was convicted in the Oct. 30, 2006, shooting death of Adam Kay, a neighbor to Reich. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Reich’s appeal alleged that the trial court judge should not have allowed evidence of explosive devices found on Reich’s property by law enforcement officers. Reich had sought a new trial in the case, but the Court of Appeals ruling denied a retrial. An unpublished opinion of the Court of Appeals filed on Tuesday of this week says, “Defendant contends that Kay was killed with a pistol and that the presence of explosives on his property was irrelevant to the murder. He further asserts that the admission of this evidence ‘created a reasonable possibility that the jury would return a verdict of guilty of firstdegree murder, based on fears for safety in the community and not on evidence relevant to the shooting.” But the court said such evidence “is admissible under Rule 404 (b) so long as it is relevant for a purpose other than to show that defendant had the propensity to commit the crime for which he is being tried.” The opinion notes, “In the instant case, given the nature of the longstanding dispute between defendant and his neighbors, evidence of the explosives was relevant to defendant’s state of mind and to show his motive and malice toward Kay.” In the appeals process, the defendant bears the burden of proof to show that the trial court erred and to show that he was prejudiced by the error, and that the jury likely would have reached a different result had the error not occurred. But the Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 that, “We hold that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the explosive devices found on defendant’s property.”
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FOREST CITY — Unable to get her car out to go to work Monday, Amy Davis didn’t let it stop her from getting there. She took a tractor instead. Davis, a PRN at Rutherford Hospital, traveled to work on a four-wheel drive Kubota
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A group of students at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy performed a dance choreographed from their experiences watching dances from different cultures. The dance was part of the sixth grade classes international day.
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HENRIETTA – Colorful costumes, flavorful foods, music and dance, all with education at its heart. Sixth grade students at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy took part in an international day Thursday. Each student was assigned a home country, and via a cross-curricular effort with teachers, had to create passports and posters and prepare native meals. They could even dress in local costume. The event began five years ago as a social studies project, said sixth grade teacher Kathy Blanton. At first, the event was held in the sixth grade hall of the school, said social studies teacher Eric Scruggs, but it soon grew and is now held in the gym. “Social studies is the umbrella we all do things under,” Scruggs said. Students chose their countries at Please see Students, Page 6
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local Church News Lenten services announced in Spindale
SPINDALE — The churches of Central Rutherford County formerly known as Churches of Spindale, announce the Eleventh Annual Community Lenten Services beginning on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, at the First Baptist Church of Spindale, 105 East Wilson St. The services will be held each Wednesday from Feb. 17 to March 31. The worship time will begin at noon and last for only thirty minutes. Lunch is promptly at 12:30 p.m. The cost of lunch is $4. (Those who attend during their lunch hour are served first). Participating churches this year are First Baptist of Spindale, New Zion Missionary Baptist, Spindale United Methodist Church, Advent Lutheran, Spindale Presbyterian Church, Well Springs United Methodist Church, Mount Vernon Baptist, Mount
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Special service: Sunday, Feb. 7, 3 p.m., New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God; guest speaker, Bishop Eddie Lockheart of Blacksburg, S.C.; church located at 601 E. Main St., Spindale.
Spiritual Valentine program: The New Beginning will sponsor “Love Never Fails” on Friday, Feb. 12, at Green Creek Missionary Church, Cobb Family Life Center; program begins at 6 p.m., guest speaker, Rev. Juanita Staley; Rev. Arnie Twitty, pastor of the church. 100 Women in White: Sunday, Feb. 14, 3 p.m., St. Luke Holiness Church.
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Hebron United Methodist Church, and Spencer Baptist. The theme for this year is “The Emotions of the Cross.” The speakers and their topic are: “Suffering” — Jim Pyatt, Spindale UMC “Pain” — Bill Kirk, Spindale Presbyterian “Agony” — Donald Brown, New Zion Baptist “Sorrow” — Ron Fink, Advent Lutheran “Rejection” — Alfonza Everett, Wells Springs UMC “Loneliness” — Andy Evans, First Baptist, Spindale “Abandonment” — Billy Vaughn, Spencer Baptist Church. The public is invited to attend these services of preparation for Lent and Winners Either Way will sing Sunday, Feb. 7, at Riverside Baptist Church, Hogan Easter hosted by the churches of Road, Harris. Music begins at 7 p.m. Public invited. Central Rutherford County.
Stroupe to speak at Bethel Baptist GWU baseball coach Rusty Stroupe will speak Sunday, Feb. 7, during the 11 a.m. worship service at Bethel Baptist Church in Ellenboro. By profession, Stroupe is a college baseball coach but his hobby is writing. He pens a weekly column which appears in three newspapers and has written two complete books and in the process of a third. His first published book, “Embracing the Chaos: Wit and Wisdom From the Self-Proclaimed Hopeless Amateur,” Special service: A Sanctity of Life service will be held Sunday,
Church; guest speaker, Wendy Duke, pro-life speaker and missionary. Revival: Feb. 15-19, 7 nightly; Welcome Home Baptist Church; Pastor Handley Milby, speaker. Revival: Feb. 22-26, 7 nightly, St. Luke Holiness Church; guest speaker, Rev. Jackie Elliott of Mt. Olive.
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Fish Fry: Wednesday, Feb. 10, 5:45 to 6:45 p.m., prior to the evening service at Long Branch Road Baptist Church, (Shiloh Community); no set price, donations accepted; proceeds for building fund. Barbecue supper: Saturday, Feb. 13, begins at 4 p.m.,
Forgive All Injuries Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
R.S.V. Colossians 3:12-13
Notice that the sixth act of spiritual mercy says to “forgive all injuries.” Thus, we are called upon to forgive all those who wrong us, no matter how large or small the injury. Not only is this good spiritual advice, but it is also good from the mere perspective of human relations. At times, this can be incredibly difficult, especially if we have been wronged gravely or repeatedly by someone who seems intent on harming us. However, by forgiving those who have harmed us, we “bury the hatchet” and thus end the conflict and any associated animosity. Otherwise, we are sure to keep the conflict running and thus increase the possibility of being injured in the future. Great acts of forgiveness are some of the most morally beautiful actions, and often lead to reconciliations which were not thought to be humanly possible. Consider that in places like Rwanda, where acts of genocide were carried out, victims who had their entire families murdered have somehow found it within themselves, and with the help of God, to forgive their enemies. We too should reflect on whether we are carrying around any old grudges and thus have not forgiven all injuries. And then, with God’s help, truly Spindale United Methodist Church forgive them.
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Music/concerts Singing: Sunday, Feb. 7, 2 p.m., Village Chapel Church, 141 Huntley St., Forest City; featuring Servants Call. Gospel Showcase: Friday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m., at Chase High School auditorium; featuring The Millwood Family, In His Glory, Mercy’s Touch, and the Golden Valley Crusaders; $10 at the door. Cross Reference will be in concert Sunday, Feb. 21, at Sandy Level Baptist Church. Singing begins at 6 p.m.
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from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at Cornerstone Fellowship Church, 1186 Hudlow Rd., Forest City. The group is open to anyone who wishes to find healing no matter what you’re going through. For more information call 245-3639. Mom’s Hope is a ministry that offers hope and support for mothers who face daily struggles and fears when their children are addicted to drugs or alcohol. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Missionary Wesleyan Church, 811 Doggett Rd., Forest City. Next meeting Feb. 11. For more information contact Chris at 287-3687. “The Way Home”: A support group for anyone recovering from an addiction; meetings are held each Monday at noon, in the basement of Harvest House Church, Big Springs Ave., Forest City; call Sheila at 828-447-1880 for more information.
Soup Kitchens Samaritan Breakfast: Thursdays from 6 to 8 a.m., at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 395 N. Main St., Rutherfordton. Carryout breakfast bags. St. Paul AME Zion Church, Forest City, each Monday at 6 p.m. St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 330 N. Ridgecrest Ave., Rutherfordton. “Helping Hands Outreach”: Members of Caroleen Congregational Holiness Church hold a monthly soup kitchen each Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The church is located on Walker Store Rd. First Baptist Church in Spindale, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. each Tuesday. New Beginnings Soup Kitchen, Thursdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Green River Baptist Association, 668 N. Washington St., Rutherfordton.
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Carolina Today Chicken plant fined RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s environmental agency has fined a chicken processing plant $27,410 for a fatal ammonia release in June. The Division of Air Quality said Friday that Mountaire Farms Inc. of Lumber Bridge was given the maximum fine for not properly handling and storing hazardous materials. The ammonia release killed Clifton Swain of Fayetteville. The government’s investigation found that Mountaire did not have a proper risk management program though the company was fined $4,506 for the same thing in March 2008. The North Carolina Labor Department also fined the company $73,325 for almost two dozen health and safety violations related to the ammonia release. Phone and e-mail messages left for a company spokesman Friday were not immediately returned.
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Nancy M. Hoopes (above) with some of the photographs on exhibit at the Norris Library during February and March. Susan Brooks (right) arranges gourds on the mantel at the Norris Library, Rutherfordton. Brooks also has jewelry on exhibit. Contributed photos
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RUTHERFORDTON — Two members of the Rutherford County Visual Arts Guild have combined their works in a new exhibit at the Norris Library, 132 N. Main Street, Rutherfordton. Nancy M. Hoopes of Lake Lure takes extreme close ups of flowers in her garden as well as landscapes. “I think of photography as visual poetry,” she says, “and I try to paint with the camera by capturing beauty and unusual visual perspectives.”
Also on exhibit are works by Susan C. Brooks, who has recently returned to Rutherford County to build a house on property near the Pumpkin Center that has been in her family for
over 100 years. Her studio name “Earthly Treasures” comes from her love of nature and “appreciation of the natural gifts we enjoy from the earth.” In her jewelry she works with pearls, crystals, silver, and other natural elements. In her gourd art, she uses natural shapes, textures, and colorations to “speak” to her about the design calling to come forth. The artists will host a reception on Friday, Feb.5 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The exhibit will continue through March. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 5:30 Monday -Friday; 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
Storm brings mixed bag to N.C.
ASHEVILLE (AP) — Power outages were reported in North Carolina’s mountain counties as a winter storm brought snow and sleet to much of the state and rain to the rest. North Carolina’s two major utilities — Progress Energy and Duke Energy — reported a total of about 40,000 outages late Friday afternoon, mostly in the mountains.
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JACKSONVILLE (AP) — The North Carolina parents who slept while a pit bull gnawed off their baby’s toes have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to child abuse charges. The Daily News of Jacksonville reported that Robbie Lynn Jenkins, 20, and Tremayne Jerel Spillman, 23, pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony child abuse charge and a misdemeanor involving their 4-month-old son. Jenkins was sentenced to between eight to 11 months in prison, while Spillman was sentenced to between 10 to 13 months. The couple also received five months credit for time served and were ordered to complete parenting classes while in prison. Prosecutors say the couple was dogsitting the puppy, which chewed the toes off of Tremayne Jerel Spillman Jr. after the couple took sleeping medication the night of Aug. 31. The child was sleeping on a foldout couch when he was attacked. The parents’ actions amounted to a “total disregard for human life,” Assistant District Attorney Matt Silva said. The child will never be able to run, suffers from night terrors and phantom pains, has extensive scars on both legs and has to take pain medication every day, the child’s guardian told the court. He remains under treatment at the
Shriners Hospital in Greenville, S.C., and is in the care of Jenkins’ family members. Jenkins’ attorney, Suzanne Popkin of Jacksonville, told the court her client was a young, inexperienced mother, was taking a new medication and that what happened to the child was a terrible accident. “That evening will haunt her for the rest of her life,” Popkin said, asking the court for probation for her client so Jenkins could begin to put her life back together. Jenkins said she was responsible and that she was asking for mercy from the court. Superior Court Judge Ken Crow commended Jenkins for taking responsibility but said she also should be punished for her crime.
Judge wants sex tape PITTSBORO (AP) — A judge declared Friday that a former aide to John Edwards was in contempt of court, demanding that he turn over a “personal” videotape being sought by Edwards’ former mistress. Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones reprimanded Andrew Young in a court hearing Friday but declined to put him in custody. The contempt ruling will be lifted if Young turns over a videotape “of a personal nature” and other items by Wednesday, Jones said. “These items are to be produced and turned over to the court,” Jones said. “The court will put them under lock and key — and under seal — until the lawsuit is resolved.” Edwards’ former mistress, Rielle Hunter, had won a temporary restraining order against Young that sought the return of what she called a private video she made in 2006, but when deputies went to retrieve the item, Young’s attorney declined to release it. Young has said he has a copy of a video showing Edwards in a sexual encounter with a woman he believed to be Hunter. Hunter has also filed a lawsuit accusing Young of invasion of privacy. Young’s attorneys had disputed whether he even had the tape in question. They contended that the woman in the video was pregnant, but Hunter had written in an affidavit that the tape was made in 2006, some 17 months before her child with Edwards was born. It’s not clear whether the discrepancy was resolved Friday. J
SAVING WITH THE COUPON QUEEN Jill Cataldo saves hundreds on groceries by making the cost of the common coupon count. You can, too.
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This week, I’m happy to answer another question from a reader like you who is learning to Super-Coupon: Q: “In reading your column, I’ve not seen how to organize my coupons. In one of your early columns, you suggested keeping the entire booklet of coupons together. So I do. But then when I’m shopping I don’t know what I have. If we don’t clip the coupons out and categorize them, how do we know what we have on hand?” A: Thankfully, using coupons is easier than it’s ever been. Much of that is due to the method that I use, which I call a “clipless” system because you clip less! I only cut the coupons that I need for each week’s trip. All of the other coupons stay in the insert, where they are easy to find when I’m planning my next shopping trip. In the past, in order to match coupons to sales, people would cut absolutely every coupon that they received in their newspaper inserts and carry them all around, usually in a big binder or box. This method, though, is the reason that many people give up on using coupons. It’s incredibly time-consuming and tedious. Most of us want to save money without investing hours in cutting and sorting little pieces of paper each week. Here’s how I organize and use my coupons. When my coupons arrive in the newspaper each week, I take all of the inserts and write the date on the front. Then, I store them in an expandable file. These are inexpensive and can be found at any department or office-supply store. I use one pocket for each month and a typical accordion file can hold six months’ worth of coupons or more. When I’m ready to plan my shopping trips and cut the coupons I’ll need, I head to the Internet. There are many coupon Web sites that help you match coupons to sales. On my Web site, www.supercouponing.com, I’ve got a free coupon lookup utility that’s very easy to use! You type either the name of the product you’d like to find coupons for (such as “Kellogg’s”) or a general category of product (“dog food,” for example) and the coupon lookup returns a list of all of the coupons currently in your inserts along with the values, purchase requirements and expiration dates. This database also delivers information about exactly where to find your coupon. When your inserts arrive, perhaps you’ve noticed that each one has a name at the top, such as Procter & Gamble or SmartSource. The database will tell you the name and date of the insert that contains the coupon you’re looking for. At that point, you simply pull that insert out of your file, cut the coupon you need and return the insert to the file for use another day. This is a quick, easy system to use. You’ll be surprised how quickly you can plan your shopping trips with it. On an average trip, you might use 10 to 15 coupons. Wouldn’t you rather just cut those few rather than the 40 or more that arrive in the inserts each week? Using the “clipless” method, you’re only cutting what you need - and if you don’t need a coupon, you’re not spending time or energy cutting it out or carrying it around. Jill Cataldo, a coupon-workshop instructor, writer and mother of three, never passes up a good deal. Learn more about couponing at her Web site, www.super-couponing.com. E-mail your couponing coups and questions to jill@ctwfeatures.com.
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here has been much talk about small business lately in Washington. It is long past time for these kinds of talks to be held in Washington. Small business is a crucial part of our economy and every effort must be made to help these home town and regional entrepreneurs succeed. Small businesses provide jobs which is important. Beyond that they provide services that might otherwise not be available in their communities. Much of the talk now is on how to make capital funds available for small business owners or how to push them to create jobs in an uncertain economy. It is one thing to provide help in a crisis, but small business would benefit more from a focus on more long-term help. For example, can we expand the services that provide training for small business owners? Or, can we boost opportunities for people who have business ideas? We should be looking at not only how to handle the current crisis, but how to improve conditions long term.
Our readers’ views Offers thoughts on current school lawsuit To the editor: This letter addresses the lawsuit which Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy has recently filed against the Rutherford County Schools over funding issues. Let me state at the beginning that this is not a criticism of the students, parents or staff of the charter school, but of the specific issues related to this lawsuit and its potential impact on the schools of the Rutherford County system. TJCA is, under state law, entitled to a portion of the school system’s budget allotment based on the charter school’s enrollment (as calculated from the school’s average daily enrollment for this first month of the school year). What TJCA’s administration and board now claims is that the charter school is entitled to that same portion of the RCS budget from restricted funds specially designated for programs like More at Four, ROTC, Head Start, Smart Start, grants and others. This claim is frankly bizarre. The funding in question is awarded to RCS for specific designated uses and the county is legally obligated to use these funds in precisely defined areas of expenditure. To do otherwise would, of course, be illegal and cause for legal action by the state or federal government or those private entities who provided the funds in the first place. As TJCA does not offer these services (or was not a party to the original grant proposals), they are not entitled to the funds nor any portion thereof. Indeed, what
TJCA is asking in its lawsuit amounts to asking the courts to compel RCS to violate the law on the charter school’s behalf. I am confident that the Charlotte law firm that TJCA’s board has retained for this case has a legal loophole that they are planning to use to make things look considerably different. Their intent is to use Rutherford County as a test case to force expansion of funding for all charter schools. But the bottom line remains that TJCA is asking RCS to provide it with a portion of the money that RCS has received for specific programs that TJCA does not offer and regardless of the legal technicalities, there is no clear rationale as to why this money should be shared. If TJCA wins this case — which could only occur on a legal technicality and not on its merits or fairness — there will be serious consequences for the faculties, staffs and students in Rutherford County’s traditional public schools. The $900,000 award TJCA seeks will not come from the restricted use funds of which TJCA is claiming a portion; that money must be spent on the specific uses stipulated by the funds’ providers. RCS will therefore have to find this money from its traditional programs thus causing elimination of teaching and administrative positions and/or reduction of services in many areas. This lawsuit obviously comes at a time when budget constraints are already severe—and the very funds which will have to be expended to defend against this frivolous lawsuit could well be used for educational purposes —
and the additional damage done to traditional schools and their programs (not to mention the careers of faculty, administration and staff) could be catastrophic. Indeed, if this suit should succeed, expect the charter school association to file more of them across the state—with similar negative impacts elsewhere. Moreover, the lawsuit would require RCS to continue to pay TJCA funds equaling a portion (approximately $300,000 based on earlier accounts of the suit) of these restricted funds as long as the County schools receive these funds. This would force RCS either to cancel the programs (hence the funding and thereby removing the obligation) or to continue the programs and pay TJCA’s additional funding out of the general budget. In either case, the outcome is clear: a TJCA success in this suit means that per student expenditures in Rutherford County’s traditional schools will be permanently reduced while TJCA’s would be increased. How can that be considered fair, beneficial, or even ethical? It certainly violates the principle behind the original charter school funding laws. I implore the citizens of Rutherford County to familiarize themselves with this matter and to make their views known. This lawsuit has the potential to severely and negatively affect our traditional public schools which still educate over 90 percent of our children and they do not deserve to be shortchanged in this manner. David K. Yelton Rutherfordton
Being one of ‘worst people in world’ is not so bad RALEIGH – I was tucking my sons in bed a few nights ago when MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann named me as one of the worst people in the world. When a left-wing friend later informed me of the honor, I admit to being a bit underwhelmed. Since Olbermann hands out the honorific frequently, and presumably doesn’t want to bore his audience by naming Dick Cheney every night, it was only a matter of time before he got to me. Plus, I’ve seen MSNBC’s ratings so I figured it was statistically unlikely that I’d meet very many people who had actually watched the show. So I just went to bed. But it turns out that being named one of the worst people in the world comes with responsibilities that aren’t easy to shirk. There are character flaws to be hidden, prejudices to be denied, and
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conspiracies to be explained away. Still, it’s pretty silly to ascribe made-up beliefs and attitudes to individuals who write and speak for a living. In my case, there are literally tens of thousands of columns, blog posts, audio files, and TV snippets freely available on the web to anyone who might wonder what I think. It should be pretty obvious by now. But I’ll offer the following as a handy time-saver: I hold it to be self-evident all that persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of
their own labor, and the pursuit of happiness. Sound familiar? It should. This is a direct quote of Article 1, Section 1 of the North Carolina Constitution. With a couple of small differences, of course, the passage also appears near the beginning of America’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence. That language was, in turn, lifted with just a few other alterations from a famous passage in Two Treatises of Government by, as it happens, an English chap named John Locke. Many have heard these words so often that they’ve become a catechism. Let’s look at each phrase in more detail. To say we are all created equal is not to say that we are indistinguishable. We differ widely in size, shape, hue, talents, culinary preferences, and the hand-eye coordination necessary to
master the Wii. Left to our own devices, we won’t all develop the same interests, earn the same wages, rear identical children, or adopt the same beliefs. What the phrase really means is that, whatever our differences of status or wealth, we all enjoy equal rights under the law. And what are those rights? They include the right to own ourselves and our decisions (life & liberty), to acquire property by mixing our labor with natural resources (the fruits of our labors), and to acquire property by voluntary exchange with other people (the pursuit of happiness). To say I have the right to pursue happiness is not, of course, to say that I have a right to force you to make me happy. I don’t have a right to force you to give me food, clothing, shelter, or health care. I can ask. I can offer something you value in exchange.
When the Left tries to misuse the concept of rights to justify theft via welfare and income-transfer programs, I snort. I take a dim view of politicians who think their job extends beyond carrying out the few, core, constitutional duties of government. I also take a dim view of people who won’t mind their own business, in all senses of the terms. And I take a dim view of anyone who thinks that personal freedom doesn’t come with personal responsibility, and that it is the job of government to force taxpayers to bail out profligate households or businesses. If that makes me one of the worst people in the world in the eyes of a few deluded nincompoops, fine. I’ll just wish them a speedy recovery and go play with my kids. Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.
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Two plead not guilty Obituaries in racing accident Troy Mayse
Troy Hicks Mayse, 88, of Forest City, died Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, at his residence. A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Alexander William Mayse and Fordie Champion Mayse. He retired from Stonecutter Mills Corporation with 39 years service. In his retirement, he worked as a driver for Charlie Hardin and lastly at Horn’s Home and Garden for 13 years. He was an Army veteran of World War II, a member of Crestview Baptist Church, and a member of the VFW Post 5204. Survivors include his wife, Estelle McCombs Mayse; a daughter, Carolyn M. Burgess of Forest City; four grandchildren; and four 3464. great-grandchildren. Damage to the drive-thru Funeral services will be window is about $2,000. held at 2 p.m. Monday at Crestview Baptist Church Sheriff’s Reports with the Revs. Kevin Rohm n The Rutherford County and Bob Philbeck officiatSheriff’s Office responded to ing. Interment will follow in 109 E-911 calls Thursday. the Sunset Memorial Park n David Matthew Laughter with military honors by the reported a breaking and Rutherford County Honor entering and larceny. Guard. Visitation will be held n Dorothy Campbell one hour prior to the service Lookadoo reported the theft at the church. of a heat pump and vandalMemorials may be made to ism. Crestview Baptist Church, n The theft of a license 630 South Church St., Forest plate was reported by J. City, NC 28043; or to VFW Randy Fields Inc. Post 5204, Forest City, NC n Donald Christopher Reel 28043. reported a theft from a motor The Padgett and King vehicle. Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
CHARLOTTE (AP) — A South Carolina woman and a North Carolina man have pleaded not guilty to murder charges in connection with a street racing crash that killed a mother, her baby and a teenager. The Charlotte Observer reported that 45-year-old Carlene Atkinson of Lake Wylie, S.C., and 21-year-old Tyler Stasko of Matthews pleaded not guilty Thursday to three counts each of second-degree murder. Police say the two were racing at speeds of up to 100 mph on N.C. 49 last April when Stasko’s car hit a car driven by a Winthrop University professor, Cynthia Furr. Furr, her 2-year-old daughter and a teenager in Stasko’s car were killed. Atkinson was charged even though her car wasn’t involved in the wreck. Prosecutors say she has been convicted 15 times for speeding and left the crash scene without calling for help.
Police Notes Man flees from sheriff ’s officers
RUTHERFORDTON — A Rutherford County man has been placed under a $50,000 bond on a charge that he ran from officers while being booked at the Rutherford County Detention Facility. William Andrew Lynch, 41, of 234 Silver Plate Grill Road, Rutherfordton, reportedly was being booked at the jail on Jan. 26, when he was allowed to enter the magistrate’s office from the adjoining processing location at the jail to have a bond set. While there, he allegedly went through another door into the lobby and ran. Sheriff Jack Conner said Lynch was found 35 minutes later at a house on New House Road, Ellenboro, and arrested. The sheriff said Friday the two jailers who were processing the man at the time resigned Thursday. He said because it is a personnel matter, he could not comment further. Lynch is facing a number of charges, including drug counts. He is charged with five counts of resisting a public officer, possession of drug paraphernalia, flee/elude arrest, misdemeanor escape from local jail, three failure to appear counts, true bill possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, true bill felony sell/ deliver cocaine, assault on a government official and two counts true bill habitual felon.
Suspect sought for break-in attempt
SPINDALE — Police are looking for a person who attempted to break into the drive-thru pharmacy window at Spindale Drug some time Wednesday morning, Feb. 3. Employees arriving for work Wednesday at 7:20 a.m. discovered a block had been thrown through the window and someone had entered the business. When police viewed the surveillance tape, it appears a man attempted to gain entry at the drugstore for about 30 minutes just before 6 a.m. Wednesday. Once inside, he didn’t steal anything, but apparently tried to climb through the ceiling. A firewall prevented his entry. Police say the suspected is possibly a white male, 5-feet, 8-inches to 6-feet, 1-inch, wearing glasses, a noticeable two-toned winter jacket and possibly had some type of facial hair. The surveillance tape also indicated he arrived at the drugstore window on foot and left on foot. Police believe the suspect could be connected to the Granny’s Bakery and Greene Boat & Motor breaking and entering recently. Det. Sgt. Brett Hooper asks anyone who might have been out between 5:30 and 7 a.m. in the area on Feb. 3 and noticed anything suspicious is asked to call the Spindale Police Department at 286-
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n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 28 E-911 calls Thursday.
Bobby Vickers
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Bobby Dean Vickers, 74, of 110 Vine St., Forest City, n The Spindale Police died Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, at Department responded to 24 Rutherford Hospital. E-911 Thursday. Born in Rutherford County, he was a son of the late L.R. Lake Lure “Pete” Vickers and Lucille Reinhardt Vickers. n The Lake Lure Police He worked as a master Department responded to mechanic for over 44 years one E-911 call Thursday. and retired from Stonecutter Mills. He was a member Forest City of the Forest City Masonic n The Forest City Police Lodge #381 and a 32nd Department responded to 68 degree Scottish Rite Mason. E-911 calls Thursday. He also attended Sandy Mush Baptist Church most Arrests of his life and was a charter n Carla Louise Bridges, 42, member and deacon of New of Ledbetter Road, Spindale; Beginnings Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife charged with obtaining of 47 years, Jean Anders property by false pretenses; Vickers; one son, Michael released on a $10,000 unseKevin Vickers of Forest City; cured bond. (FCPD) two daughters, Elizabeth n Pamela Bright Greene, Vickers Gettys of Asheville, 52, of Hildebrand Drive, and Crystal Denise Tate Rutherfordton; charged of Rutherfordton; two siswith harassing phone calls; ters, Teresa Hutchins and released on a $500 unseSusan Martin, both of cured bond. (FCPD) Rutherfordton; one brother, n Michael David Ronald Baxter Vickers of Thompson, 26, of Turner Shelby; and five grandchilRoad; charged with obtain dren. property by false pretense; Funeral services will be placed under a $15,000 conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday secured bond. (RCSD) n Chad Everett Metcalf, 28, at Harrelson Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Paul Simpson of Bennett Street; charged and Charles Battle officiatwith assault with a deadly weapon; released on a $1,000 ing. Interment will follow in the Southern Baptist Church unsecured bond. (SPD) cemetery. The family will receive friends two hours EMS/Rescue prior to service at the funeral n The Rutherford County home. EMS responded to 41 E-911 Memorials may be made calls Thursday. to Hospice of Rutherford n The Volunteer Life Saving County, P.O. Box 336, Forest and Rescue, Hickory Nut City, NC 28043; or to New Gorge EMS and Rutherford Beginnings Baptist Church, County Rescue responded to seven calls Thursday.
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Violet Newton Violet Scruggs Newton, 84, of Cliffside, died Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at Holly Springs Rest Home. A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Hollis and Odessa Padgett Scruggs. She retired from Cone Mills, Cliffside Plant, and was a member of Goodes Grove Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, Sam Newton; one son, Roger Newton; two brothers, Hollis Scruggs Jr. of Forest City, and Jerry Scruggs of Shelby; one sister, Madeleine Hardin of Forest City; and one granddaughter. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at The A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel of McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home with the Rev. Ernie Cole officiating. Burial will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Online condolences www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com.
Gary Terry Gary Wayne Terry, 58, of 144 Horse Trail Dr., Ellenboro, died Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wasburn & Dorsey Funeral Home.
Willie Montes Willie Mae Montes, 73, of Forest City, died Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, at Henderson Care. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Harrelson Funeral Home.
of Choctaw Indians, was remembered Friday as a visionary who lifted the tribe from stifling poverty with casinos and other businesses. Martin died Thursday night at a Jackson hospital with his family by his side after suffering a massive stroke a few days earlier, said his niece, Natasha Phillips. He was 83. Martin’s 28-year tenure saw the construction of an industrial park and the $750 million Pearl River Resort, complete with two casinos, a golf club and a water park, on tribal land in rural east central Mississippi, about 65 miles northeast of Jackson. He was praised for creating thousands of jobs. He also set up a scholarship that pays 100 percent of college costs for tribal youth. First elected chief in 1979, Martin promoted economic development long before the casinos opened. In 1981, he persuaded his hometown of Philadelphia, Miss., to issue bonds to lure American Greetings to an industrial park on the Pearl River Reservation. The operation employed 150-250 people at its peak. Martin’s influence reached beyond Mississippi. He was the first president of the Board of Regents of Haskell Indian Junior College, now Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence Kan. He also served as president of the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association and president of United South and Eastern Tribes Inc. Martin spent a decade in the U.S. Air Force, and began a career in tribal leadership in 1957. He was married to Bonnie Kate Bell, a former Indian princess who retired after 52 years with the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Deaths Phillip Martin JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Phillip Martin, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band
Bobby Dean Vickers
Violet Scruggs Newton Mrs. Violet Scruggs Newton, 84, of Cliffside, died on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at Holly Springs Rest Home. A native of Rutherford County she was born May 18,1925 and was a daughter of the late Hollis and Odessa Padgett Scruggs. She was retired from Cone Mills Cliffside Plant and was a member of Goodes Grove Baptist Church. Violet loved to travel, cook, and listen to country music. In addition to his parents she was preceded in death by a brother, Jack Scruggs. Violet is survived by her husband, Sam Newton; one son and daughter-in-law, Roger and Barbara Newton; two brothers, Hollis Scruggs Jr. of Forest City and Jerry Scruggs of Shelby; one sister, Madeleine Hardin of Forest City, and one granddaughter Michelle Morgan of Asheville. Funeral services will be held at 3:00 P.M. Sunday, February 7, 2010 at The A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel at McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home with The Reverend Ernie Cole officiating. Burial will follow in Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Rutherford Co., PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043 or Holly Springs Senior Citizens Home, 1881 Big Island Rd., Rutherfordton, NC 28139. McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home is serving the Newton family. An online guest register is available at: www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com
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Bobby Dean Vickers, age 74, of 110 Vine Street, Forest City, NC, died Friday, February 5, 2010 at Rutherford Hospital. Bobby was born June 1, 1935 in Rutherford County to the late L.R. “Pete” Vickers and Lucille Reinhardt Vickers. He worked as a master mechanic for over 44 years and retired from Stonecutter Mills. He was a member of the Forest City Masonic Lodge #381 and a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason. He also attended Sandy Mush Baptist Church most of his life and was a charter member and deacon of New Beginnings Baptist Church. He enjoyed all types of woodworking, the outdoors and car racing. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and friend. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Clara Wood. Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Jean Anders Vickers; one son, Michael Kevin Vickers and his wife, Cindy, of Forest City; two daughters, Elizabeth Vickers Gettys of Asheville, NC and Crystal Denise Tate of Rutherfordton; two sisters, Teresa Hutchins and Susan Martin both of Rutherfordton; one brother, Ronald Baxter Vickers of Shelby, NC; five grandchildren, Shane Gettys, Lauren Gettys, Aaron Vickers, Ashlyn Vickers and Danielle Griffin. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 7, 2010 in the Harrelson Funeral Chapel with Reverend Paul Simpson and Reverend Charles Battle officiating. Interment will follow in the Southern Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends two hours prior to service time at the funeral home. The family suggests memorial donations to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043 or to New Beginnings Baptist Church, 864 Bostic-Sunshine Highway, Bostic, NC 28018. Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the Vickers Family. An online guest registry is available at: www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com Paid obit.
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Spring break may cost some Saturdays Health/education Health ministry: The First Tuesday Club of Salem United Methodist Church will offer free blood pressure checks on Feb. 9, beginning at 10 a.m. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Afterwards, Kirk Wilkerson, of Covenant Advisory Group, will give instruction on the Family Love Letter booklet. Each participant will receive a free booklet. For information call 245-8518. Community Health Clinic of Rutherford County provides access to primary medical care, wellness education, medications and preventative programs. The clinic, open Monday through Thursday, is located at 127 E. Trade St., B 100, Forest City. Patients seen by appointment only. The clinic does not accept patients with private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare. Call 245-0400.
Meetings/other SWEEP rescheduled: The (Solid Waste Environmental Energy Panel) meeting scheduled for Feb. 5, was cancelled due to weather. The meeting will be held at noon Friday, Feb. 12, at GDS at 141 Fairgrounds Road. Photographers meeting: Carolina Nature Photographers Association, Foothill Region, Rutherford County, will meet Monday, Feb. 8, at the county annex. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Robert Phipps will speak on “Techniques for Night Photography and Painting with Light.” Call 828-429-5096 for more information. 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 Foothills Harvest Outreach Ministries will hold a sale on all shoes and clothes Feb. 8-13. Fill a plastic grocery bag for $5, or a tall kitchen bag $7. The store is located at 120 E. Trade St., Forest City.
Students/youth Little League sign ups: Chase Little League; Saturday, Feb. 6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 7, 2 to 5 p.m., at Chase High gym; Monday, Feb. 8, 6 to 8 p.m., old Harris School concessions; Tuesday, Feb. 9, 6 to 8 p.m., Cliffside Park concessions; $40 per child, $15 each additional children; birth certificate required. Little League sign ups: Rutherfordton Little League; Feb. 4 and 5, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and Feb. 6, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; all sign ups at The Spindale House; $35 per child, $15 second child, $10 each additional child; birth certificate required. Walk-in soccer registration: Spring recreational season; Saturday, Feb. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day; bring birth certificate; $40 first player, $35 each additional sibling; call 286-0073 for more information.
Fundraisers Hearts for Hospice: Hospice of Rutherford County is hosting a Valentine luncheon Friday, Feb. 12, from noon to 1 p.m. at Carolina Event and Conference Center, 374 Hudlow Road; Chicken Rossini is the main course; cost $10 per person; proceeds will be used for Hospice home care patients; to obtain tickets, contact Karen Jarson at 245-0095 or stop by the Conference Center. Bingo: Friday, Feb. 12, 6 to 9 p.m., at the Spindale House; $1 per card; ‘98 Rutherford Rumble Team fundraiser. Benefit ride: For 12-year-old Hayden Clark (diagnosed with Myoepithelioma); Saturday, March 20, at Rutherford County Moose Lodge; yard sale begins at 7 a.m.; barbecue plates, 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; benefit ride starts at 2 p.m., $15 per single rider, $20 for doubles; music by Bandana and Double Cross, 6 to 9 p.m.; door prizes, T-shirts, 50/50 tickets and more; for information call 429-5195.
Reunions 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. McNair 20th anniversary: The Robert and Janice McNair Educational Foundation will celebrate its 20th year anniversary on May 14, 2010. If you are a McNair ROPE recipient, contact the foundation at rope2010@att.net or www. mcnairedfoundation.org.
FOREST CITY — In order to protect the five-day spring break, Rutherford County Schools may go to school on Saturday, should there be any more days missed due to inclement weather. Superintendent John Kinlaw e-mailed faculty and staff Friday. The action is being considered, Kinlaw said, based on the assumption that RCS employees, students and parents would prefer even Saturday school as
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job of melting the ice and helping it slush-up and make the roads passable,” Taylor said. If the temperatures hovered around 34 degrees as predicted, there was the chance a lot of the snow and ice across the county would be melted. Taylor said if Saturday’s forecast of snow, mixed with rain, was met with warmer temperatures, the rain would take care of the snow. That would be a good thing, he said. “The county was pretty much cut in half. The south and the north,” said Curtis Hodge, Rutherford County Schools Transportation Director of Friday’s weather. “South of highway 64 in Rutherfordton roads were good, north of Rutherfordton past R-S Central High School, roads got gradually worse and worse. “We do not know what the weather is going to do and the weatherman doesn’t know either. We had to work with the cards we were dealt,” he said. “We always err on the side of safety,”
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there was only one car out, she said. “I felt safe because it’s so big so I wasn’t worried about anyone sliding into us,” Davis said. Davis’ friend owns the Kubota and brought her to her job, one that doesn’t stop even in bad weather.
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By finding no error, the appeals court did not need to determine the matter of prejudice that might merit a new trial. Reich also had alleged other errors in the trial, but because they were not argued before the appeals court, they were considered abandoned. District Attorney Brad Greenway,
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random, Scruggs said, and from there did research on the country using the Internet, almanacs and encyclopedias. As part of the project, students also had to present information on their country orally. “Some of them will be saying hello in the language native to their country,” Scruggs said to the group of parents in attendance. Students used lessons from other classes in doing the project, including dance.
an alternative to losing any of the five day break. Kinlaw said students cannot go to school past June 10, meaning days cannot be added at the end of the school year to make up for bad weather days. Saturdays, he said, seem to be the only option. “Should you consider that to be a false assumption and the use of spring break week would be preferable to holding school on Saturday, I would appreciate your sharing that opionin
with me,” Kinlaw said to employees in the e-mail. Kinlaw said the Saturday make up day would occur in the same week as the missed day due to weather. For example, should any school day be missed next week, school would be closed for students and employees that day and would be made up Saturday. Spring break for Rutherford County Schools will be April 5 through 9.
The county was pretty much cut in half. The south and the north. South of highway 64 in Rutherfordton roads were good, north of Rutherfordton past R-S Central High School, roads got gradually worse and worse. We do not know what the weather is going to do and the weatherman doesn’t know either. We had to work with the cards we were dealt. — Curtis Hodge School Transportation director
Hodge continued. “At 5 a.m., about an inch of ice was on the roads in the northern part of the county,” Hodge said Friday. “They were ice covered,” he said of roads in Lake Lure, Union Mills, Cane Creek and Golden Valley, making them unsafe for school buses. “We hate to miss another day of school and if we were going to miss a day of school, I wish it was a nice, pretty sunshiny day,” Hodge continued. “We don’t want to travel on icy roads. If we have to in order to get back home, we will,” Hodge said. “It’s best to err on the side of safety,” he added. Schools were closed Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 1 and 2, and buses did not travel on unpaved roads
Wednesday or Thursday. Hodge said only a few students reside in homes off unpaved roads and hopefully only a few have missed school because of no bus transportation. By about 10 a.m. Friday, Hodge said there was already a big difference in road conditions from five hours earlier. DOT’s Taylor said the first shift Friday had not received any calls about road problems. “We have some folks checking different sections of the county, making sure we don’t have problem spots and so far we have not heard of any,” Taylor continued. Contact Gordon e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
“I was proud of her for being dedicated because we need people,” said Marti Harbby, director of environmental services for the hospital. “She’s in housekeeping and we have to clean. These jobs are important because without it the hospital wouldn’t run.” Harbby said some people called in to work before the snow started, and having absences means double the work for those who do arrive. The hospital does allow employees to stay
overnight in the event of bad weather, Harbby said. “We had eight people between my two departments stay the night here, from Friday night to Sunday night,” she said.
who prosecuted the case, said Thursday that because the appeals court decision was unanimous, the only way the case can receive further review in the appellate court system or by the Supreme Court is for the Supreme Court to grant a discretionary review. There is no automatic right to appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court at this point.
take made in the course of the trial, and you have to retry it,” Greenway said, “it is extremely difficult for the family members and those who have to sit through it a second time. “The first trial was difficult enough, and they saw justice reached. It is gratifying on behalf of the state and family of the victim that it looks like that case will not have to be tried again.”
Greenway said the appeals court decision is gratifying. “You try one and then there is a mis-
“The goal of this project,” said dance instructor Keith Darby of the presentation, “was to look at different types of folk dance from across the world. What you see may not be exact, but it will be choreographed around their experience.” Presenting the projects provided students an opportunity to practice for one much bigger, and that is the senior project they’ll complete in several years, Scruggs said. “It gave them the opportunity to do academic research and get up in front of people,” he said. “Some of the goals also were to gain an understanding of different cultures and see not only
Harbby has been in management for 30 years and spent part of her career in New York. “This is the first time anyone’s come in on a tractor,” she said.
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how big the world is, but also how small it is.” Student Emily Qualls, who read a letter from her English class in front of the group, said the project would help students better relate to other students who might wear different clothes or eat different foods from them. “Hopefully we will all walk away with the understanding we need to make the world a better place not just for you and me, but future generations.” Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.
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Tigers’ Stitt may play against Virginia Tech COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Clemson coach Oliver Purnell says he hopes to have injured point guard Demontez Stitt available to face Virginia Tech. Purnell said Stitt has gradually increased his activity at practice this week.
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Connecticut associate head coach George Blaney, left, rubs his brow during the second half against Louisville in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. With an 82-69 loss to Louisville, Connecticut has now lost three consecutive games. North Carolina’s Deon Thompson (21), above, covers his head as he leaves the court a 82-69 loss to Wake Forest on Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010, in Chapel Hill. UConn and North Carolina are both 13-9 and in danger of missing the NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament.
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College bluebloods taking their lumps NEW YORK (AP) — Listening to Rick Pitino talk about playing Connecticut sounded awfully familiar to Edgar Sosa. If he closed his eyes, the Louisville guard could almost imagine that it was last spring and all of college basketball was watching his team. “Coach told us, ’Play this game like this game is to get to the Final Four,”’ Sosa recalled Monday night. “That’s how bad we needed it.” Except that this was early February, not late March, and the Cardinals — a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament a year ago — were already in must-win mode. Their 82-69 victory over the
Huskies gave them a winning record in the Big East and improved them to a modest 14-8 overall. A similar story is unfolding at UConn (13-9) and North Carolina (13-9), putting three of the game’s bluest blue bloods in danger of missing the NCAA field one year after finding their names on the top lines of office brackets everywhere. Barring some remarkable runs the rest of the season or through their league tournaments, all three could be lending the NIT some serious star power. “We have to play our way into it,” Pitino said of the NCAA tournament, lamenting his team’s many close calls.
“We played Villanova to the wire, we played Pitt to the wire and then some, and (West Virginia) and then some. I feel like killing myself right now.” Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Since the NCAA tournament began seeding teams in 1979, there’s never been a time when three No. 1s failed to make the field the following year, according to STATS LLC. Only twice has it happened with two programs: Ohio State and Florida in 2008, and Temple and Purdue in 1989. It would be even more stunning for three programs that have combined Please see Bluebloods, Page 9
Hilltoppers nipped by Shelby in OT Editor’s note: Due to inclement weather in Lenior, where the Daily Courier is printed, the Courier went to press early. As a result, Thursday’s game recaps were not available. This is the report of those Thursday games.
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The Hilltoppers’ Darrien Watkins (34) looks to go up for a shot against Shelby during the basketball game at R-S Central, Thursday.
RUTHERFORDTON — Denzel Hosch scored 31 points and was perfect from the free throw line in overtime for Shelby as R-S Central lost a heartbreaker on Senior Night, 81-76, Thursday. “All the kids played hard and shot well tonight,” R-S Central basketball coach Greg Wright said. “Corey Jimerson, Kyle Holmstrom and Darrien Watkins all had good nights, especially Watkins towards the end of the contest.” In overtime, Central (12-8, 5-6) was thwarted when Zac Gualette of Shelby hit a free throw to begin the frame and Hosch buried a 3-ball, which strung the Golden Lion lead to four. Central would never find the lead again, but after Shelby (16-2, 9-1) increased the lead to six points, Holmstrom (21 points) hit his seventh 3 of the game to cut it back to 79-76 with eight seconds to play. Unfortunately, Hosch nailed both free throws after being fouled on the inbounds play and was 6-for-6 in overtime from the line to seal R-S Central’s fate. “We had chances late, but we made timely turnovers on both possessions in being aggressive during regulation and I can live with that,” Wright said. One could attest to Wright’s conclusion. At the end of regulation, and tied at 69-all, Central’s Holmstrom corralled a loose ball with 40 seconds to go and flung an outlet pass to Shaquille Wilkins. The pass was thrown too long, Please see Prep Report, Page 9
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RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes placed forward Chad LaRose on injured reserve Friday and called up two players from their AHL affiliate in Albany. LaRose suffered an upper body injury during a 4-2 win against Chicago on Jan. 30, the team said, and did not travel with Carolina on its four-game road trip. He previously missed 17 games with a lower body injury. Carolina brought up goaltender Justin Peters and forward Zach Boychuk from Albany. The Hurricanes picked Boychuk with the 14th overall selection in 2008, and called him up for the fourth time this season. The 20-year-old has one assist in nine games. Peters has yet to play in an NHL game, but has been recalled five times in his career. The Hurricanes play at Buffalo on Friday night.
Scoreboard New Jersey at Boston, late Milwaukee at New York, late Houston at Memphis, late Philadelphia at New Orleans, late Chicago at Atlanta, late Minnesota at Dallas, late Phoenix at Sacramento, late Denver at L.A. Lakers, late Saturday’s Games New Orleans at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Washington, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. New York at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Miami at Chicago, 8 p.m. Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Indiana at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. Denver at Utah, 9 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Portland, 10 p.m. Oklahoma City at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Sunday’s Games Sacramento at Toronto, 12 p.m. Orlando at Boston, 2:30 p.m.
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
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Pro Bowl Sunday, Jan. 31 At Miami AFC 41, NFC 34
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South Carolina’s Devan Downey (2) shoots for three points over Georgia’s Ricky McPhee, bottom, during their NCAA college basketball game at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, S.C., in this Jan. 30, 2010 file photo.
Double Downey: SC star scoring like Pistol
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Shortly before the Southeastern Conference’s start last month, Devan Downey met with South Carolina coach Darrin Horn, who clicked on tape of his star guard’s allout play from a year ago. Back then, the 5-foot-9 Downey played each game with something to prove and convinced all who watched of his enormous talent as he led the Gamecocks to a surprising tie with Tennessee for the league’s Eastern Division title. That Downey, the relentless, fierce competitor who would back down to no one, hadn’t yet shown up this year. “You need to go find that guy,” Horn challenged. “Hopefully,” Downey says with a grin, “I’ve found him.” That’s apparent to anyone who watched Downey and the Gamecocks take down No. 1 Kentucky. The smallish senior point guard — described by announcers as “5-9 in heels” — has been all but unstoppable in the SEC. The league’s leading scorer overall at 22.9 points a game, Downey’s gone for nearly 32 a game in seven SEC contests, a rate rarely seen since Pete Maravich averaged an NCAA record 44.5 points for LSU in 1970. Downey scored 30 against Kentucky on Jan. 26 while outplaying Wildcat freshman star John Wall. He followed that up four nights later with 33, including nine of South Carolina’s final 11 points in a 78-77 comeback win over Georgia. Downey’s presence alone was enough to change the game, as Georgia coach Mark Fox kept three defenders back to stop a coast-to-coast charge when Dustin Ware stood at the foul line for the Bulldogs in the closing moments. Instead, Ware missed and South Carolina easily rebounded to secure the win. And don’t forget Downey’s dramatic shot at Florida — he spun out of a sideline double-team and hit an impossible banker with 5 seconds left — that would’ve given South Carolina a victory on Jan. 23 had the Gators’ Chandler Parsons not hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer. Downey has gone for 30 or more in five of South Carolina’s seven SEC games, throwing in an assortment of floaters, banks and drives against defenses geared to stop him.
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 31 16 .660 Toronto 27 23 .540 New York 19 29 .396 Philadelphia 17 31 .354 New Jersey 4 44 .083 Southeast Division W L Pct Orlando 33 16 .673 Atlanta 31 17 .646 Charlotte 24 24 .500 Miami 24 26 .480 Washington 16 32 .333 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 40 11 .784 Chicago 23 24 .489 Milwaukee 21 26 .447 Indiana 17 32 .347 Detroit 16 31 .340 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct Dallas 31 18 .633 San Antonio 28 20 .583 Houston 26 22 .542 Memphis 26 22 .542 New Orleans 26 23 .531 Northwest Division W L Pct Denver 33 16 .673 Utah 30 18 .625 Portland 30 22 .577 Oklahoma City 28 21 .571 Minnesota 11 38 .224 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Lakers 38 12 .760 Phoenix 30 21 .588 L.A. Clippers 21 28 .429 Sacramento 16 32 .333 Golden State 13 35 .271
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Thursday’s Games Cleveland 102, Miami 86 Portland 96, San Antonio 93 Friday’s Games Detroit at Indiana, late Washington at Orlando, late
EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF New Jersey 55 35 18 2 72 146 Pittsburgh 57 35 21 1 71 180 Philadelphia 55 28 24 3 59 163 N.Y. Rangers 58 25 26 7 57 149 N.Y. Islanders 57 23 26 8 54 145 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Buffalo 55 32 16 7 71 155 Ottawa 58 33 21 4 70 164 Montreal 58 27 25 6 60 149 Boston 55 23 22 10 56 133 Toronto 57 18 28 11 47 152 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF Washington 57 39 12 6 84 224 Tampa Bay 56 24 21 11 59 145 Florida 56 24 23 9 57 149 Atlanta 55 24 23 8 56 166 Carolina 56 19 30 7 45 148 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF Chicago 56 37 15 4 78 182 Nashville 56 31 21 4 66 156 Detroit 57 27 20 10 64 147 St. Louis 57 25 23 9 59 148 Columbus 59 23 27 9 55 152 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF Vancouver 56 34 20 2 70 181 Colorado 56 31 19 6 68 164 Calgary 57 28 21 8 64 147 Minnesota 57 28 25 4 60 159 Edmonton 56 18 32 6 42 144 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF San Jose 57 37 11 9 83 193 Los Angeles 57 35 19 3 73 174 Phoenix 57 34 18 5 73 155 Anaheim 58 27 24 7 61 162 Dallas 57 25 21 11 61 162
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Thursday’s Games Montreal 3, Boston 2, SO Washington 6, N.Y. Rangers 5 Columbus 2, Dallas 1 Tampa Bay 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 Ottawa 3, Vancouver 1 San Jose 4, St. Louis 2 Nashville 5, Colorado 3 Minnesota 4, Edmonton 2 Los Angeles 6, Anaheim 4 Friday’s Games Toronto at New Jersey, late Atlanta at Washington, late Carolina at Buffalo, late Calgary at Florida, late Phoenix at Chicago, late Saturday’s Games
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MLB — Suspended Baltimore Orioles minor league pitcher Brian Parker for 50-games after a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. American League DETROIT TIGERS_Agreed to terms with RHP Justin Verlander on a five-year contract. National League CHICAGO CUBS_Agreed to terms with RHP Carlos Marmol on a one-year contract and INF Kevin Millar on a minor league contract. NEW YORK METS_Agreed to terms with INF-OF Jolbert Cabrera, INF Luis Hernandez, LHP Bobby Livingston and LHP Travis Blackley on minor league contracts. Named Edgar Alfonzo manager, Phil Regan pitching coach, George Greer hitting coach and Jose Carreno coach for the St. Lucie Mets of the FSL. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS_Recalled G Jermaine Taylor from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL). LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS_Announced Mike Dunleavy will step down as head coach and will remain general manager. Named Kim Hughes interim coach.
FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS_Signed LB Stevie Baggs to a one-year contract. BUFFALO BILLS_Named George Edwards defensive coordinator. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS_Named Rob Boras tight ends coach, Earnest Byner running backs coach, Ben Albert assistant defensive line coach and Matt Griffin and Ron Heller offensive staff assistants. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES_Named Phil Savage player personnel consultant. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS_Named Ray Brown assistant offensive line coach. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS_Named Sherman Smith running backs coach, Kippy Brown wide receivers coach, Art Valero assistant offensive line coach, Luke Butkus quality control/offensive line coach, Dave Canales quality control/offensive coach, Jerry Gray defensive backs coach, Kris Richard assistant defensive backs coach, Rocky Seto quality control/defensive coach, Jeff Ulbrich special teams assistant, Chris Carlisle strength and conditioning coach and Mondray Gee and Jamie Yanchar assistant strength and conditioning coaches.
HOCKEY National Hockey League ATLANTA THRASHERS_Traded F Ilya Kovalchuk and D Anssi Salmela to the New Jersey Devils for RW Niclas Bergfors, D Johnny Oduya, F Patrice Cormier and a first-round pick. CAROLINA HURRICANES_Reassigned F Jiri Tlusty to Albany (AHL). MINNESOTA WILD_Recalled G Anton Khudobin from Houston (AHL). Placed G Niklas Backstrom on injured reserve. PHOENIX COYOTES_Recalled C Joel Perrault from San Antonio (AHL). Re-assigned F Mikkel Boedker to San Antonio.
Goodell hopes union is wrong about lockout chances FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell says he hopes the pessimism from the players’ union regarding labor talks doesn’t become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Speaking on Friday at his annual Super Bowl-week news conference, Goodell said fans “expect solutions ... and we should deliver” on a new collective bargaining agreement. NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith said Thursday the union views the chance of a lockout in 2011 as a “14” on a scale of 1 to 10 after the current labor agreement expires. “I sure hope he’s wrong,” Goodell said. “Right now, we don’t need a lot of focus on that.” Goodell has also said he doesn’t agree with the union’s claim that owners are insisting on an 18 percent player pay cut. “The players should be paid fairly and they should be paid well. And I assure you that they will,” Goodell said. The commissioner said there is no contingency plan for the 2012 Super Bowl, on the chance that no football is played in 2011. “We still have a lot of time and a lot of important opportunities here to structure something that makes sense for everybody,” Goodell said.
ing drunk. n The culture in the league is changing regarding concussions, and there’s now more awareness that such injuries are serious. There’s more work to do to deal with concussions, Goodell said, but the league has made progress to ensure that players who suffer such injuries receive immediate medical help. n Attendance at Jacksonville Jaguars’ home games remains a concern, and with crowds of around 40,000, “you can’t continue to have an NFL franchise.” n Extending the season to 17 or 18 games will be part of the discussion when talks with the union resume.
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No. 10 Duke wins; Heels fall
DURHAM (AP) — Kyle Singler went to the bench and clutched his banged-up right wrist. Then he came back onto the court, rattled in a 3-pointer to beat the halftime buzzer and kept making those long-range shots during the second half. That pesky wrist injury certainly couldn’t slow the Duke star. Georgia Tech’s defense didn’t stand a chance, either. Singler had career highs of 30 points and eight 3-pointers to lead the 10th-ranked Blue Devils past the 21st-ranked Yellow Jackets 86-67 on Thursday night. “I just got into a rhythm,” Singler said. “I took open shots ... and started knocking them down.” Jon Scheyer added 21 points for Duke (18-4, 6-2), which was Garrett Byers/Daily Courier strong inside and outside — hitThe Hilltoppers’ Jacob Kinlaw (9) looks to put up a ting nearly 67 percent of its 3s shot against Shelby during the basketball game at R-S and dominating Georgia Tech’s Central on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. foul-plagued front line. Duke held a 40-32 rebounding edge and remained atop the Atlantic Coast Conference by claiming an easy win in a matchup of the Continued from Page 7 league’s only ranked teams. “In this type of game,” coach but Central got a stop on Shelby’s next possession. Mike Krzyzewski said, “it’s a However, Wilkins bounced the ball off his foot, spectacular shooting perforresulting in a turnover as he was driving the lane. mance.” Shelby, with under 10 seconds to play, had two Zachery Peacock scored the opportunities for a potential game-winner, but Yellow Jackets’ first 11 points, both rattled out of the cylinder, the final one as but was shut out after that. time expired. Leading scorers Gani Lawal and Central held a 18-15 lead after the first period on Derrick Favors were in foul troufour Holmstrom 3s, but Shelby had just two turnble all night for Georgia Tech overs in the second quarter to take the lead back (16-6, 4-4), even though coach by the half, 37-33. Paul Hewitt refused to use that Shelby led by eight, 54-46, at the end of the third as an excuse. quarter when Gualette swished a 15-foot jumper. “I don’t think the fouls had However, the contest was far from over. anything to do with anything,” The Hilltoppers garnered two 3s by Sharrod Hewitt said. “We had three days Hines and one more from Jimerson to open the to prepare. I was sure we were fourth period before falling behind again and then ready. We spent more time prerecovering late to force overtime. paring for them than we did Watkins, who scored seven of his 20 points in anybody this year, and obviously, the fourth quarter, added 12 rebounds for the it didn’t do any good.” Hilltoppers. Shelby had double-figure games from Nolan Smith had 14 points Gaulette (15 points), Andre Moon (12 points) and for Duke, which led by double Ryan Cannoy (10 points). figures for the entire second half in bouncing back from an East Rutherford 71, Freedom 67 embarrassingly lopsided loss at MORGANTON — East Rutherford’s head coach Georgetown and avenging last month’s 71-67 loss to Georgia Brad LeVine reported the Cavaliers came away Tech. with a hard-fought 71-67 win over Freedom, “We wouldn’t be 18-4 unless we Thursday. played really well,” Krzyzewski Due to early press times, caused by inclement said. “We’ve had a couple of poor weather, the Courier missed LeVine’s call, but wishes to extend gratitude to the coach for the call. games, and we’re not going to define ourselves by a poor game. East improved to 17-1 overall, and 9-1 in conferWe’re going to define ourselves ence with a potential showdown with Shelby on by the full body of work, and tap for Tuesday. Once more weather could play a role as the extended forecast is calling for potential we’re just in a situation where a lot of people like to define us by icy conditions. whatever we don’t do well. Our The winner of the East-Shelby game will probably claim the 2009-10 South Mountain Athletic Conference championship.
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Girls Basketball Shelby 66, R-S Central 51
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RUTHERFORDTON — Kelantra Allen (13 points) and Matrice Sweezey (10 points) were nearly unstoppable in the first half leading Shelby to a 66-51 win, which wrecked R-S Central’s Senior Night showing, Thursday. Central also had trouble against the 3-2 zone defense that Shelby played, as the Lady Hilltoppers were 2-of-16 from 3-point range in the first half and shot 7-of-29 from the field during that stretch. R-S Central gained a 2-0 lead off the opening tip with an assist by Mercedes Davis to Taylor McDaniel. However, Central’s shooting woes started early and Shelby scored on four straight fastbreak opportunities pushing the Lions out to an 8-2 lead. Shelby held a 20-5 lead at the end of the first period. After Shelby built the lead to 25-5, Central started a 10-0 run with McDaniel’s cut to the hoop for a deuce and ended on Shannon Hines 3-pointer. Although that trimmed the Shelby lead to 25-15, Sweezey answered with a 3-point play pushing the visitors to a 36-18 advantage at the half. Shelby went up by 37 at the end of the third period to slam the door completely shut. Hines led Central in scoring with 26 points, most of that coming in the second half.
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the indefinite medical leave of UConn coach Jim Calhoun to a few bad bounces and brutal schedules. But the biggest culprit may be that it’s simply more difficult to stockpile talent. Pitino lost athletic 6-foot-10 forward Earl Clark a year early, while UConn lost the nation’s most intimidating big man in 7-3 Hasheem Thabeet. The Tar Heels and coach Roy Williams may have been the hardest hit, watching Wayne Ellington and Ty Lawson — the nation’s premier point guard — skip their senior seasons to join Tyler Hansbrough in the NBA. “We’ve had a lot more team meetings,” North Carolina guard Larry Drew II admitted Wednesday. “It’s tough. It can be pretty depressing, but it all comes with the territory.”
It doesn’t help that talent is spread more evenly across the college landscape. Waiting for the chance to wear Carolina blue may no longer appeal as much to a prospect who could play right away at one of the other 346 schools in Division I hoops this season. The rise of the mid-majors two decades ago has been followed by the rise of the low-majors, and the name across the front of the jersey means less than ever before. “Now even the Harvards and Cornells and William & Marys that you wouldn’t normally think about are playing really good basketball,” Blaney said. “When you go in to play a team that has a losing record, it doesn’t mean that’s an automatic win anymore.”
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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Five consecutive losses against North Carolina, including two in the final seconds, left Virginia Tech not caring which Tar Heels team they had beaten. “The name on the jersey is big,” Hokies forward Terrell Bell said Thursday night after grabbing 11 rebounds in the Hokies’ 74-70 victory against the reeling defending national champions. “Everybody knows Carolina, so to beat Carolina, it always feels good.” Malcolm Delaney scored 21 points, including two key free throws with 36.6 seconds left, and Virginia Tech extended North Carolina’s worst tailspin since a five-game skid in 200203. The Hokies (17-4, 4-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) came into
the game seeing it as a mustwin after feeling like they gave one away in a weekend loss at Miami, and made it happen even after the Tar Heels went on a big run to take a first-half lead and quiet the sellout crowd. “Today we stuck with it,” Delaney said. “They went on a run and we just rebounded right back from it. We didn’t let it affect us. That’s what’s good about this team.” Delaney’s free throws doubled Virginia Tech’s lead to 71-67, and the only basket the Tar Heels could manage thereafter came at the buzzer, sealing their fifth loss in six games. North Carolina fell to 13-9 and 2-5 in the league, and even though guard Marcus Ginyard said the team gave a better effort as coach Roy Williams has asked, it still fell short. “It was definitely a lot better than it has been in the past,” said Ginyard, who did not start for only the second time in the 18 games he’s played. “Can it be better? Yeah.”
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Nation Today Cartel chief gets 17 years
DENVER (AP) — It started with a forgetful hotel guest — $42,000 left in a room in Boulder, Colo. It ended two decades later with the leader of a fearsome Mexican cartel sent to prison for 17 years. The discovery in 1988 eventually led authorities to hundreds of pounds of marijuana and sparked an investigation of the leader of a drug ring that authorities say smuggled more than 100 tons of marijuana into the U.S. between 1985 and 1988. That case reached its climax Thursday with the sentencing of Miguel Angel Caro Quintero to 17 years in federal prison for racketeering in Colorado and conspiracy to distribute marijuana in Arizona.
Shuttle launch cleared
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — With many still in shock over this week’s space exploration shake-up, NASA managers insist the launch team is focused on safely launching Endeavour on Sunday. Endeavour and its crew of six will deliver a new room to the International Space Station, as well as a one-of-a-kind observation deck. The room, named Tranquility, and window-encircled dome were built in Italy at the behest of the European Space Agency. Tranquility cost more than $380 million, while the dome tallied $27 million.
Swine flu threat abates
ATLANTA (AP) — Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won’t go so far as to say that, but on Friday they report-
ed for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity. U.S. cases have been declining since October. An official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says swine flu cases are still occurring and are likely to continue a while longer at some level. But another expert said a future large wave of cases now seems very unlikely. The expert, Vanderbilt University’s Dr. William Schaffner, said the epidemic has “one foot in the grave.”
Plane panel falls at mall MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a panel from a cargo plane has fallen outside a Miami mall. No one was hurt. The Federal Aviation Administration says the piece fell about 11:30 a.m. Friday from an Atlas Air flight en route to Miami from Santiago, Chile. Christina Baguer is a public information officer for the city of Doral. She says the debris is about 17 feet long and landed in front of a Dillard’s department store at the Miami International Mall.
Blood loss killed victim WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A shark up to 9 feet long likely intended to eat the man it fatally attacked off South Florida, a shark expert said Friday. Stephen Schafer, 38, was kiteboarding about a quarter-mile offshore in Stuart, 100 miles north of Miami, when he went into the water Wednesday and was surrounded by at least three sharks.
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Snow storm scramble hits Mid-Atlantic area WASHINGTON (AP) — Stores ran low on milk, bread and snow shovels and federal workers were sent home early Friday as the second major snow storm in less than two months bore down on a winter-weary MidAtlantic. Up to 28 inches of heavy, wet snow accompanied by powerful winds were forecast in Washington, Baltimore and surroundings. That could be a historic snowfall for the nation’s capital, where the record stands at 28 inches in January, 1922. Airlines canceled flights across the region and school districts closed for the day ahead of the winter storm forecast from Virginia and West Virginia across Maryland into southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It was already snowing hard in Richmond, Va., on Friday morning. Residents in the Washington area scrambled for food and supplies, but many found they were too late. “As you see, I’m in front of Whole Foods and half of the food is gone already,” Denise Wright said on a shopping trip for staples. Colleen Sport, who just moved to the area from Atlanta, was at the Home Depot in Falls Church, Va. “I was looking for salt and shovels and of course they’re out,” said Sport, 42. “Now I’m just hoping to get shelving and work inside.” In Alexandria, Va., James Ivery, 60, and his wife had already bought supplies but were back at a Harris Teeter supermarket Friday morning to get out of the house one last time before the storm. Many shelves and bins were emptied of milk, vegetables, eggs and cold cuts. “It just seems like people are panicking. I don’t think it’s going to be too bad,” Ivery said. “As long as I got power and satellite service, I’ll be fine.” The federal government, the region’s largest employer, told workers they could take Friday off as unplanned leave and prepared to shut offices four hours early. Metro, the Washington-area rail system, warned it would likely have to close all but the underground portions of the system during the storm. Trains cannot operate outside when snow accumulations reach 8 inches because the snow cuts off access to the electrified third rail that powers the trains. Across the region, state officials were deploying thousands of trucks and employees and had hundreds of thousands of tons of salt at the ready. “This is not a good mix,” said Joan Morris, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Transportation. “Heavy, wet snow with gusting winds is going to make it a very tough storm for us. I expect visibility will be very poor in spots, and we’ll have to deal with drifting snow.” The National Weather Service warned snow accumulations of 18 inches to 28 inches are expected
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from Baltimore to northern Virginia and parts of West Virginia. Blizzard warnings were in effect in much of Delaware and southern New Jersey from Friday afternoon to Saturday night, with strong winds and blowing, drifting snow. Philadelphia could get about a foot of snow and 12 to 20 inches are expected in the Pittsburgh area. The combination of wet snow and strong winds could make conditions even more treacherous than the Dec. 19 storm, which dumped more than 16 inches of snow on Washington. Snowfalls of this magnitude — let alone two in one season — are rare in the area. According to the National Weather Service, Washington has gotten more than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870. The biggest snowfall is believed to have occurred in 1772, before official records were kept. As much as 3 feet fell in the Washington-Baltimore area during that storm, and both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson mentioned the event in their diaries, according to the weather service. Virginia’s General Assembly canceled Friday’s floor sessions and committee meetings, the first time anyone could remember that the threat of snow had sent the whole legislature home. Officials urged people to stock up on supplies Thursday night and warned of a tough evening commute Friday. Virginia Del. Tim Hugo was hurrying out of a Thursday afternoon committee meeting so he could get home to Fairfax County, a Washington suburb that’s supposed to get hit. “I’m heading out of here now because I don’t want my wife stranded at home with 2 feet of snow in the drive,” he said. Southwest Airlines canceled Friday afternoon flights at Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington airports. Amtrak canceled most trains heading south from Washington, D.C. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has been in office less than a month, declared his second snow emergency, authorizing state agencies to assist local governments. The assistance includes deploying National Guard soldiers and emergency response teams. Between the December storm and several smaller snowfalls, the region’s road crews have had plenty of practice in the past two months. Maryland highway officials said they have spent about $50 million so far clearing and treating roads this winter. That’s almost twice the $26 million that had been budgeted. The Virginia Department of Transportation said it already spent the $79 million budgeted for statewide snow removal and was tapping into emergency maintenance funds. Once that $25 million reserve is exhausted, the department said it will have to dip into other programs to cover its costs.
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Stocks rally late but lose for a 4th week
NEW YORK (AP) — A battered stock market recovered from a sharp drop in late trading Friday but still posted its fourth straight weekly drop. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 170 points in afternoon trading, clawed their way back to finish with a gain of 10. But more stocks fell than rose on the New York Stock Exchange as investors contended with another series of troubling signals about the global economy. Investors are concerned that European governments will have trouble getting their massive deficits under control. The Labor Department, meanwhile, offered only scant hope of improvement in the jobs market in its closely watched monthly report. “Clearly we’ve entered the worry, fear camp,” said Rob Lutts, president and chief investment office at Cabot Money Management. “It’s a very fragile investor psychology today. It doesn’t take much ... to send them running for the hills.” The market pulled off its lows in the last hour of trading as the dollar came of its highs. A rising dollar hurts commodity prices, which become more expensive for foreign buyers when the dollar climbs. The Federal Reserve also said during afternoon trading that consumers borrowed less for an 11th straight month in December but that total borrowing fell far less than expected. The drop of $1.8 billion was less than the decline of $9 billion analysts had expected. That fueled hopes that consumer spending will increase. But for the second straight day, other economic news was unsettling. On Thursday, the Dow fell 268 on growing worries about the global economy. The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in January to 9.7 percent from 10 percent, the government reported, even though analysts expected an uptick. Timothy Speiss, head of Eisner LLP’s Personal Wealth Advisors group, said the improving unemployment rate was a good sign, but investors are well aware that the problems in the economy that have stocks falling in recent weeks are still there. The jobs report came as more troubling news emerged in Europe that Portugal and other weak economies were falling behind in their efforts to control their deficits. Portugal’s opposition parties defeated a government austerity plan Friday and passed their own bill allowing the country’s autonomous regions to rack up even more debt. That raised new questions about European countries’ ability to control their swollen budget deficits, which are undermining faith in the region’s euro currency. Greece and Spain are also grappling with massive budget deficits. The worries about Europe are another bullet point for investors who for weeks have been concerned about China’s efforts to keep growth in check as well as plans in Washington to place more restrictions on big banks. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow rose 10.05, or 0.1 percent, to 10,012.23. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 3.08, or 0.3 percent, to 1,066.19, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 15.69, or 0.7 percent, to 2,141.12.
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Jobless rate drops to 9.7 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak with January’s unexpected decline in the unemployment rate, which fell to 9.7 percent from 10 percent. Still, Friday’s unemployment report showed just how deep the job crisis remains: 8.4 million jobs vanished in the Great Recession. Economists say the nation would be lucky to get back 1.5 million jobs this year. And they say it will take at least three to four years for the job market to return to anything like normal. The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since August because a Labor Department survey of households found a sharp rise in the number of Americans with jobs. The survey found that 541,000 more Americans had jobs last month. But those gains resulted from seasonal adjustments to the data. Without those adjustments, the data show fewer people had jobs last month. Such adjustments are made each month and are especially large in January because of heavy seasonal changes in hiring, according to Tom Nardone, at the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. A separate survey of businesses found that employers shed 20,000 jobs last month. That was worse than the 5,000 gain analysts expected. January’s report offers hope that employers may start adding jobs soon. Excluding the beleaguered construction industry, the private sector as a whole added 63,000 positions.
John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo, said the drop in the unemployment rate wasn’t a result of a shrinking labor force, which has held the rate down in previous months. “It simply was, people found jobs,” he said. The report is “consistent with continued improvement in the labor market.” But Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, noted that the economy has been growing for six months, yet company payrolls are still shrinking. “Based on what we’ve seen so far, we think it is fair to characterize this as another jobless recovery,” Ashworth said. Left behind are people like Aimee Brittain, 31, who said she can’t get employers to return her calls. She’s hunting for work as a secretary after being laid off from a commercial real estate firm near her home in Atlanta. “I’m fighting against people with master’s degrees for receptionist jobs,” Brittain said. “I can’t compete.” President Barack Obama said the unexpected drop in the unemployment rate was “cause for hope but not celebration.” Speaking at a small business in a Washington suburb, Obama said the figures show modest progress but cautioned that the data will continue to fluctuate for months. Seasonal adjustments tend to have a big effect on the January employment data. Retailers typically lay off temporary employees who were hired over the holidays. Construction companies temporarily cut jobs as work stops due to cold weather. The
data are adjusted to account for such factors so the figures will illustrate underlying trends. The department uses separate surveys of households and businesses to measure employment. The two differed this month. Households showed a large jump in employment. But businesses reported a 20,000 drop in jobs. Over time, the two surveys generally track each other. The household survey is more volatile than the business survey, Nardone said, and often shows large swings. In December, it reported a 589,000 drop in employment. The manufacturing sector added jobs for the first time since January 2007. Its gain of 11,000 jobs was the most since April 2006. Retailers added 42,100 jobs, the most since November 2007, before the recession began. Temporary help services gained 52,000 jobs, its fourth month of gains. That could signal future hiring, as employers usually hire temp workers before permanent ones. The average work week increased to 33.3 hours, from 33.2. That indicates employers are increasing hours for their current workers, a step that usually precedes new hiring. The number of part-time workers who want full-time work, but can’t find it, fell by almost 1 million. That lowered the “underemployment” rate, which also includes discouraged workers, to 16.5 percent from 17.3 percent. That could be a result of some part-timers moving to full-time work, economists said.
Obama calls for beefed up small business loans
LANHAM, Md. (AP) — Seeking to create more jobs, President Barack Obama on Friday asked Congress to temporarily expand two lending programs for the owners of small businesses. Obama said he wanted to bolster the impact of the businesses that are the chief creators of new jobs in a struggling economy. Just hours before he spoke, the nation’s jobless rate finally dipped below 10 percent — to a still stubbornly high 9.7 percent — in the latest government figures. With
the president’s poll numbers falling and punishing levels of unemployment lingering, Obama has stepped up his focus on the economy and job creation. Obama said he wants businesses to be able to refinance their commercial real estate loans under the Small Business Administration and he wants that government agency to increase loans used for lines of credit and capital. “The truth is, the economy can be growing like gangbusters for years on end and it’s still not easy to run a
GMAC cuts 115 NC jobs
CHARLOTTE (AP) — GMAC Financial Services is eliminating 115 jobs as it closes two offices in North Carolina. The Charlotte Observer reported Friday that the Detroit-based home and auto lender is closing offices in SouthPark in Charlotte and near Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. GMAC advised the state this week of the closings. Spokeswoman Gina Proia says the call center and collections work done at those offices is being transferred to larger GMAC locations. State and local officials approved more than $4.5 million in incentives in March to persuade GMAC to expand in Charlotte. In return, the company said it planned to add 200 jobs over two years. The federal government owns GMAC, which said Thursday it lost $5 billion in the last quarter.
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also expand the SBA’s program to support refinancing for owner-occupied commercial real-estate loans. To be eligible, business owners must have first mortgages and be current on all loan payments for the previous year. The White House said the proposal would help refinance up to $18.7 billion each year in commercial real estate that might otherwise be foreclosed and liquidated. The move, however, requires Congress to act — something of an open question, given that Democrats
lost their supermajority only a day earlier when Republican Sen. Scott Brown took office to replace the late Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. “What I hope, what I strongly urge is that we work quickly and that we work together to get this done,” Obama said. Obama wants to send $30 billion from the bank bailout program to community banks for lending to small businesses that need loans to increase their output and hire additional workers.
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Brown’s independence could face Senate test
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scott Brown says he’s a different kind of Republican, a centrist willing to work with Senate Democrats to fix health care and the ailing economy. But his independent bent is likely to be sorely tested in a bitterly divided Senate where party loyalty is often at a premium. As it is, Brown was sworn in Thursday a week earlier than he had planned. He spent his earliest minutes as a senator facing questions on whether he will stick with the GOP in the partisan fight over President Barack Obama’s choice of a union attorney, Craig Becker, for a top labor job. Brown tried to maintain a middleof-the-road posture. “I’m going to look at everybody’s qualifications and make my own decision,” he said. Brown can expect more tough balancing acts like that as he seeks to put his own stamp on a Senate seat held for nearly a half-century by the late liberal lion Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. For New England Republicans in Congress, whose ranks have thinned in recent years, it is the only way to survive. Just ask Maine Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. Their independent ways and support for measures such as Obama’s economic stimulus have stoked sharp criticism from some conservatives. “He’s clearly independent-minded and I cannot wait to get him here,” Collins said. “I think this is going to be a terrific development for our party.” Or ask Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent and former Democrat whose strong support for Republican John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign had Democrats fuming. It nearly cost Lieberman a key committee chairmanship. “It won’t always be easy because sometimes when you’re independent, you make people on all sides unhap-
py,” Lieberman said. Republicans are aglow over the fact that Brown, a 50-year-old, little-known state senator, captured Kennedy’s old seat last month in a stunning upset over Democrat Martha Coakley that ended the Democrats’ supermajority and gave Republicans the 41 votes they could use to block Obama’s agenda. Brown won with a “big tent” coalition of supporters, including backers of the Tea Party protest movement. Party leaders have greeted Brown with open arms. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, praised Brown for backing lower taxes, smaller government and strong national security. The party’s conservative base, however, has clashed with GOP leaders over party litmus tests and whether there’s room for moderates, who often are mocked by conservative bloggers as RINOs — Republicans in Name Only. “The problem for (Brown) is the Republican Party that will welcome him in Washington is the Republican Party that will prevent him from getting re-elected in Massachusetts in a couple of years,” said Wendy Schiller, a Brown University political science professor. “If he goes into that party and he toes the line with that party, he can’t get re-elected.” On the way to his win, Brown was careful not to refer to himself as a Republican too often in Massachusetts, where more than half the voters are not connected to a party. Since winning his seat, Brown has struck a more conciliatory tone on Obama’s health care overhaul, too. Snowe and Collins have turned their moderate brand of politics into popularity in Maine, where pragmatism often takes a back seat to partisanship with voters. Snowe was an important player last year as the health care bill was crafted, working with Democrats.
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This undated picture provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a prototype of a tower for a virtual fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at a test facility in Playas, N.M.
‘Virtual’ border fence is plagued by glitches, delays PHOENIX (AP) — An ambitious, $6.7 billion government project to secure nearly the entire Mexican border with a “virtual fence” of cameras, ground sensors and radar is in jeopardy after a string of technical glitches and delays. Having spent $672 million so far with little to show for it, Washington has ordered a reassessment of the whole idea. The outlook became gloomier this week when President Barack Obama proposed cutting $189 million from the venture. Ultimately, the project could be scaled back dramatically, with the government installing virtual fences along a few segments of the nation’s 2,000-mile southern boundary but dropping plans for any further expansion, officials said. “The worst that happens is that we have a system which gives us some value but we conclude that it’s not worth buying any more of it,” said Mark Borkowski, the government’s director of the project at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The first permanent segment of virtual fence — a 23-mile stretch near Sasabe, Ariz. — was supposed to be turned over to the Border Patrol by the main contractor, Boeing Co., for
testing in January, but the handover has been delayed by problems involving the video recording equipment. The Bush administration launched the project in 2005 to help secure the border against illegal immigrants, drug smugglers and other intruders. It was conceived as another layer of protection, in addition to thousands of Border Patrol agents and 650 miles of real fences. The system was supposed to let a small number of dispatchers watch the border on a computer monitor, zoom in with cameras to see people crossing, and decide whether to send Border Patrol agents to the scene. Although there are sensors, cameras and radar at many points along the border, they are not connected to cover large expanses. Originally, the virtual fence was supposed to be completed by 2011; that date has slipped to 2014. The Homeland Security Department and Boeing said the early problems were fixed, but other glitches keep popping up. The latest: a software bug that causes video recording devices to lock on to the wrong cameras, hindering agents trying to collect evidence against illegal bordercrossers.
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Bomb suspect has turned on radical cleric
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Nigerian suspect in a failed Christmas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher and has helped the U.S. hunt for the radical preacher, a law enforcement official said Thursday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-yearold Nigerian who faces terrorism charges in the Christmas bombing, has been cooperating with the FBI for days, providing information about his contacts in Yemen and the al-Qaida affiliate that operates there. His cooperation talking about U.S.-born Yemeni radical Anwar al-Awlaki is significant because it could provide fresh clues for authorities trying Associated Press to capture or kill him in the remote mountains of Yemen. Al-Awlaki has emerged as a promiThis video frame grab image provided by the Census Bureau shows a scene from their advertisement to be nent al-Qaida recruiter and has been tied to the shown during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Faced with record levels of red ink into the foreseeable future, Washington 9/11 hijackers, Abdulmutallab and the suspect is spending $2.5 million to create buzz for the census — by advertising during the Super Bowl. in November’s deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas. The law enforcement official would not say what information Abdulmutallab provided, but al-Awlaki himself said in a recent interview that he and Abdulmutallab had kept in contact. A senior U.S. intelligence official said al-Awlaki represented the WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced officially began last month in voted Thursday to increase biggest name on the list of people Abdulmutallab with record levels of red ink rural Alaska, and most of the America’s debt by $1.9 trillion might have information against. into the foreseeable future, U.S. will receive their forms by — to $14.3 trillion — or over Abdulmutallab’s cooperation with U.S. authoriWashington is spending $2.5 mail the week of March 15. $40,000 for every man, woman ties is at the center of a political dispute in million to create buzz for the Not everyone is happy about and child the Census Bureau Washington. Democrats say it proves the Obama census — by advertising during spending taxpayer money to hopes to catch in its count. administration was correct to handle the case as a the Super Bowl. tout the census during the Super In the ads, actor Ed Begley Jr. criminal matter. Republicans accuse the adminisThe Census Bureau is hoping Bowl. plays a film director in the ad to exploit the strong ratings from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., spots, where he announces with tration of leaking details for political purposes. Abdulmutallab agreed to cooperate after FBI this annual attraction, aiming to tweeted this week that the govflourish a new project that will agents flew to Nigeria and returned to the U.S. get more participation from peo- ernment “shouldn’t be wasting create a portrait of “every man, ple who now seem disinclined to $2.5 million taxpayer dollars to woman and child in this beauti- with Abdulmutallab’s family members. In a federal mail back a government quescompete with ads for Doritos!” ful country of ours ... a snapshot prison outside Detroit, Abdulmutallab’s father and tionnaire or even answer the Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., of America.” Looking quizzically, uncle persuaded him to cooperate with the FBI. A month before the attack, Abdulmutallab’s door. called on the Census Bureau to two onlookers whisper, “Isn’t father warned the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria that his Census officials call it a good justify every dollar of its $133 that what the Census is doing?” son might be dangerous, a warning that officials investment, saying the front-end million ad campaign, citing the failed to connect to other evidence that intelligence costs of purchasing the ads can tight economic times. It’s an ad buy the Census officials had gathered. President Barack Obama be quickly recouped if they sucThere’s no such lack of interest Bureau believes worked well has said the U.S. had enough information to preceed in encouraging people to on the part of the mayors, counduring the 2000 census, when vent the attack. mail back their census forms. A ty commissioners, governors, it ran similar spots during the Al-Awlaki, who once preached in mosques in recent poll found nearly 1 in 5 Congress members and state Super Bowl for the first time. California and northern Virginia and posted residents said they may not fill legislators — a host of public This year’s $2.5 million deal, fiery English-language Internet sermons urging them out, mostly because they figures ranging from city hall to which the agency says could Muslims to fight in jihad, said in an interview were unfamiliar with the census the U.S. Capitol — who hang on reach 45 percent of all U.S. released Thursday that he taught the Christmas or weren’t interested. every census because the head adults, includes two 30-second bomber and supported his efforts but did not call The government relies on the count determines the size and pregame spots, two or three for the attack. census not only to learn about shape of legislative districts and, on-air mentions by sportscaster Americans and their lives but equally critical, just how much James Brown and a 30-second also to parcel out federal dolmoney the various localities get ad during the third-quarter. lars and, as required by the from some $400 billion in fedThe Census Bureau says few Constitution, to determine the eral aid. events can match the Super number of U.S. House seats repPlans for the Super Bowl comBowl’s reach of 100 million TV resenting each state. 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Teen doesn’t want to disappoint mom Dear Abby: I am a 16-year-old girl who is starting to seriously consider colleges and plan for the future. I found an amazing school close to home that I’d love to attend — but there’s a problem. Two years ago, after much thought and consideration, I decided I wanted to be a doctor. My mother completely supported my choice and was more than a little happy about it. I recently accepted a position as a tutor, and now I realize that I love being able to teach children and help them with their studies. The college I want to attend is a teaching college, not a school for premed studies. I am confident in my decision to become a teacher, but I’m afraid my mother will be disappointed and upset that I no longer want to be a doctor. How can I tell her that my dreams have changed? — E.D. not M.D. Dear E.D.: This is something that should be discussed with your guidance counselor at school. You set your goal of obtaining a medical degree when you were only 14. While your aspirations of becoming a teacher are admirable, it is possible that once you reach college and are exposed to a broader range of intellectual opportunities your goal may change again. This is why many college students declare their major upon completing their sophomore year.
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As to talking about this to your mother, remember that careers in medicine and education have some things in common — among them dedication and determination. So start practicing now. Dear Abby: My best friend and I are talented artists. She receives a lot of attention for her work. She sells whenever she wants to, shows her work in New York and teaches at a prestigious school. I have many successes in my career, but I have had to work very hard for everything. She hasn’t. I am beginning to resent it because I’m growing exhausted from trying to accomplish my dreams. Is there a chance to save this friendship, or should we part ways? Or, am I too selfish and jealous? — Talented Artist Dear Talented Artist: Let me put it this way — unless you are able to find it within yourself to forgive your friend for her success, then I doubt your friendship will continue much further.
Smoking habit is harmful Dear Dr. Gott: Please write an article on smoking. Dear Reader: Smoking is the most common form of drug addiction in the United States. In fact, according to the American Cancer Society, studies have determined that nicotine in tobacco products is as addictive as alcohol, cocaine and heroin. Cigarette smoke is a complex blend of such chemicals as cyanide, formaldehyde, acetylene, benzene, methanol and ammonia. Using any form of tobacco causes the combination to reach the brain within seconds, where it works on the central nervous system to provide a seemingly pleasant, relaxing, satisfying sensation. Furthermore, those enjoyable effects wear off rapidly, so the smoker reaches for yet another cigarette or nicotine-containing product to maintain that euphoric “high.” Unfortunately, nicotine also increases a person’s blood pressure, the rate at which the
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Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010
In the year ahead, get out and socialize with many new people. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Once Lady Luck sees that you will work hard to achieve material rewards, she will multiply these earnings for you. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — It may be easy to let negative thinkers discourage you from trying to achieve, they’re not likely to do so. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — The only thing that can successfully stop you from competing is a lack of faith in yourself. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Although you may not realize it, the impression you make on others is both favorable and lasting. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Lady Luck could be guiding you toward some new sources that will meet your present needs. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Good always comes to those who show a willingness to cooperate LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — By taking care of things that have slipped through the cracks, you can make this a productive day. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Adopt an outgoing, optimistic attitude, and it’ll help you immensely to deal with people. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — You will clarify some issue that has previously given you fits. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Don’t discount a flash of inspiration. Develop it first before you get into usual business. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — When it comes to material prospects, take the bull by the horns. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Let the adage “If you want something done right, do it yourself” guide you.
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Boy, 15, shot in head at Ala. middle school
MADISON, Ala. (AP) — A school official says a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head by another student inside an Alabama middle school and is in critical condition. Madison City Schools Superintendent Dee Fowler said no one else at Discovery Middle School was hurt. She says it’s unclear what prompted the gunfire Friday afternoon. Fowler says the accused shooter was arrested in the school, where police regularly are stationed Madison, which is in northern Alabama, has about 38,500 residents. Many of them work in technology jobs related to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal.
Superstar farewell for USborn, China-bound pandas
WASHINGTON (AP) — They were treated like pop idols — except for being stuck in travel crates. Adoring crowds and television viewers watched Thursday as American-born giant pandas Mei Lan and Tai Shan were loaded onto a special cargo jet for a flight to their new homes in China for breeding. Normally placid, 3-year-old Mei Lan from Zoo Atlanta whirled and paced in her crate as flashbulbs popped. Tai Shan, a 4½-year-old born in Washington, hid at first but was drawn into view as his longtime keepers at the National Zoo knelt silently at his crate to say goodbye, hand-feeding him slices of apples and pears. One zookeeper wiped away tears. Federal police officers escorted Tai Shan to the airport, and FedEx workers transporting the pair buzzed around in “Panda Team” jackets to go with the huge panda emblem painted on their jet. News networks provided live coverage of the plane waiting on the tarmac and taking off. As the Boeing 777’s giant engines rumbled to life, tears started to flow for panda lover Mara Strock of Burke, Va., who looked on with other invited guests. “I love Tai Shan so much, I don’t know how I’m going to handle it,” she said, watching the plane pull away. Clutching a stuffed black-and-white bear, 10-year-old Caleigh Davis of Springfield, Va., said she was sad to see Tai Shan go but glad he could go with his cousin. “The thing I’m most afraid of is that he’s going to eat too much food,” she said, “and have a sick stomach.” Millions of people fell in love with the pandas as star attractions in zoo exhibits and by watching them grow up via online panda cams. And in Washington, the animals have a particularly long and symbolic history. The first panda couple at the National Zoo, LingLing and Hsing-Hsing, arrived in 1972 as a gift to the American people from China after President Richard Nixon’s historic visit. The pair lived more than 20 years at the zoo and produced five cubs — but none survived. That’s partly why Tai Shan, the first cub to grow up in the nation’s capital, is so adored.
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A Marine stands sentry as the snow falls while President Barack Obama works in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Friday. Shoppers jammed aisles and emptied stores of milk, bread and shovels Friday as a massive snowstorm blew into the Mid-Atlantic with forecasters predicting a record 30 inches or more for the nation’s capital.
Snow gets Obama’s respect WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential quips about Washington’s supposed lack of winter toughness have disappeared as snow accumulations mounted. Barack Obama had been in office for about a week in 2009 when he expressed disbelief that many schools had canceled classes one day because of ice. “As my children pointed out, in Chicago, school is never canceled,” he said then. “We’re going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness.” Well, here comes more than a little ice: an estimated 20 to 30 inches of snow in Washington. “I think even a transplanted Hawaiian-to-Chicago has sufficient respect for a forecast of nearly two feet of snow,” spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday. For all his recent talk of relating to the struggles of real life,
Obama is in his own world on this one. As Gibbs said, “He doesn’t even have to shovel the walk.” The president’s snow-weekend plans were set: politics and football. On Saturday, Obama is set to speak at the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee. Gibbs said Obama would likely be able to keep his scheduled appearance, despite the ominous forecast, because the DNC delegates were already in town and meeting at a hotel just a few blocks from the White House. On Sunday, Obama plans to host a Super Bowl party, as he did last year. His guests will include lawmakers of both parties, military service members and members of his Cabinet. Democratic Reps. Xavier Becerra and Barbara Lee of California and Rick Boucher
of Virginia got invites. So did Indiana’s Andre Carson, Brad Ellsworth and Baron Hill. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is joining the White House for what could be his final Super Bowl in Washington; he announced he would retire rather than seek another term.
The lone Republican to land the invite: Rep. Joseph Cao, the only member of the GOP who supported a procedural vote that allowed the House to move forward on Obama’s health care overhaul that has since stalled. Obama’s daughters, Sasha and Malia? Expect them to be out playing in the snow, which started falling at the White House on Friday morning. Washington has endured a particularly snowy season, including a mid-December storm that brought about 20 inches in many areas.
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Lying on the Southwest side of Tanner Street in the Town of Rutherfordton, North Carolina, and being Lots Nos. 23 and 24 in Block 1 as shown on plat recorded in Plat Book 5, on Page 111, of the Rutherford County Registry, and Lots Nos. 47 and 48 in Block K as shown in Plat Book 5, on Page 120, of the Rutherford County Registry, and herein described in one boundary according to survey and plat by R. A. Terrell, Civil Engineer, in July 1955, as follows:
INJECTION MOLDING TECHNICIAN BEGINNING at an iron pin on the southwest side of Tanner Street, the Northeast corner of Lot No. 23 above mentioned, which stake is 550 feet South 33 deg. 40 min. East from the intersection of the Southwest side of Tanner Street with the southeast side of Hodge Street, and runs thence with the common line of Lots No. 22 and 23 South 54 deg. West 151 feet to an iron pin; thence South 33 deg. 40 min. East 100 feet to an iron pin, the southwest corner of Lot No. 47 above mentioned; thence with the common line of Lots Nos. 46 and 47 North 54 deg. 1 min. East 151 feet to an iron pin on the southwest side of Tanner Street; thence with tthe Southwest side of Tanner Street North 33 deg. 40 min. West 100 feet to the BEGINNING. Being the same and identical property conveyed by Virginia Moore Dobbins to J. Lance Dobbins by a deed recorded in Deed Book 544 at Page 581, Rutherford County Registry. See also Separation and Property Settlement Agreement recorded in Deed Book 547 at Page 293, Rutherford COunty Registry. Tracy Dobbins Matthews is the sole heir at law of J. Lance Dobbins, deceased in Rutherford County on January 3, 2007. See estate filed in 07 E 11, Rutherford County Clerk of Superior Court. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as: 163 Tanner Street, Rutherfordton, NC 28139 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (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. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations 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. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Michael Eric Fall and wife, Lisa Fall. 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. 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. 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 confirmation of 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 request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-19916-FC01
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Having qualified as Collector Of Affidavit of the estate of FLORENCE DEYTON of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said FLORENCE DEYTON to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th 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 30th day of January, 2010.
Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Risbeth Horne, of Rutherford County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of April, 2010, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms, and corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Co-Executor of the estate of VIRGINIA M. BLANTON HARRIS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said VIRGINIA M. BLANTON HARRIS to present them to the undersigned on or before the 30th 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 30th day of January, 2010. Diane R. Giddings, Co-Executor PO Box 335 Forest City, NC 28043 Rhett B. Giddings, Co-Executor PO Box 1346 Forest City, NC 28043
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People gather at the site of a bombing in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Friday. A twin car bombing targeted a crowd of Shiite pilgrims packing a highway as they walked to a holy city south of Baghdad for a major religious ceremony.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Ten Baptist missionaries are facing kidnapping charges in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country, and the lawyer for all the defendants is putting the blame on the group’s leader. Attorney Edwin Coq said Laura Silsby knew the group couldn’t remove the youngsters without proper paperwork, while he characterized the other nine missionaries as unknowingly being caught up in actions they didn’t understand. “I’m going to do everything I can to get the nine out. They were naive. They had no idea what was going on and they did not know that they needed official papers to cross the border. But Silsby did,” Coq said Thursday after a magistrate charged the 10 at a closed hearing.
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HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland will take over its own lawand-order powers from Britain by April 12, the British and Irish leaders announced Friday as they unveiled a breakthrough that saves the province’s Catholic-Protestant government. A specific date for the handover of justice powers was the key commitment in a wider compromise plan to improve Northern Ireland’s argument-prone coalition and change how the province’s divisive Protestant parades are mediated. The Irish Catholics of Sinn Fein had threatened to withdraw from the power-sharing government — triggering the collapse of the key achievement of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace accord — unless Protestants accepted a deadline for the power handover.
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Bombs target Shiite pilgrims BAGHDAD (AP) — Twin car bombs tore through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims packing a highway as they walked to a holy city south of Baghdad on Friday for a major religious observance, killing at least 40 people and wounding 154 others, Iraqi officials said. It was the third deadly bombing this week hitting the ceremony in which hundreds of thousands of Shiites have been converging on the city of Karbala. Friday’s attack struck during the culmination of the pilgrimage. This week’s violence took place as Iraqi politicians argued over an effort to bar hundreds of candidates from running in the March 7 parliamentary elections because of suspected ties to Saddam Hussein’s former regime. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he would not allow the U.S. ambassador to meddle in the dispute, which Washington fears could hamper Sunni-Shiite reconciliation. Friday’s attack began shortly after noon when a parked car bomb exploded just east of one of three main entrances to Karbala, two Health Ministry officials said. The explosion sent throngs of pilgrims running
down the highway and straight into the path of a suicide car bomber who detonated the vehicle, they said. At least 154 people were wounded in the consecutive blasts, the officials said. However, an Iraqi police official reported it was two mortar rounds that struck the area, followed by a suicide car bomb. Such conflicting accounts are common in the chaotic aftermath of bombings in Iraq. The attack came at the height of the pilgrimage when roads around Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, were clogged with people trying to reach the city by Friday. The crowds made it difficult for ambulances to get to the wounded, another police official said. The officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information. Al-Maliki blamed al-Qaida and Saddam loyalists for the bombings, saying in a statement that the attacks against the pilgrims have failed to ignite sectarian strike and destabilize security. There was no formal claim of responsibility. The Arbaeen holy day, preceded by days of mass marches
to Karbala, marks the end of 40 days of mourning after the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, a revered Shiite figure. The concentration of Shiites makes the annual ceremony a prime target for suspected Sunni militants. Iraqi security forces have increased protection for pilgrims but face huge challenges trying to find a single attacker in the crowds — and this year’s Arbaeen commemorations have been the deadliest since 2007. Friday’s twin bombing in Karbala was just a short distance from where a bomb exploded two days earlier, killing around two dozen people. And on Monday, a female suicide bomber killed at least 54 pilgrims heading for the city in an attack just north of Baghdad. In another attack Friday, a roadside bomb struck a bus carrying pilgrims through Baghdad, killing one and wounding 13, police and hospital officials said on condition of anonymity for the same reason as the others. In each of the past two years, attacks during the ceremonies killed around 60 Shiites, a drop from the more than 340 killed in 2007.
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People mourn after a bomb explosion in Karachi, Pakistan, on Friday. A bomb tore through a bus carrying Shiite Muslim worshippers.
Bus, hospital bombed in Pakistani capital KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected Sunni militants bombed a bus carrying Shiite worshippers and two hours later attacked a hospital treating the victims, killing 25 people and wounded 100 on Friday in a strike on Pakistan’s largest city. The blasts in the southern city of Karahi were the latest sign of the instability tearing at the nucleararmed nation, which the United States regards as key to its hopes of defeating a related Taliban insurgency across the border in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani appealed for calm in the city, which is the country’s commercial heart. It has a history of religious violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and has been tense in recent weeks due to clashes between rival political parties that have left dozens dead. No group claimed responsibility, but Pakistan is home to many alQaida-linked Sunni extremist groups with a history of attacking Shiites. In late December, extremists in the city detonated a bomb that killed 44 Shiites attending a procession to mark Ashura, the anniversary of the death of revered Shiite figure Imam Hussein, sparking the city’s worst riots in recent years. Friday’s blasts coincided with Arbaeen, the final day of the annual 40-day mourning period for Hussein.
Shiites marking Arbaeen were also attacked in Iraq on Friday. A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb alongside a crowd of pilgrims walking to the holy city of Karbala, killing at least 27 people. It was the third deadly bombing this week against Shiites. Police officers in Karachi gave conflicting accounts whether one or both of the bombs there were suicide blasts. Both were apparently attached to motorbikes and were packed with nuts and bolts, an investigator said. The first bomb targeted a bus carrying worshippers, most of them women and children, killing 12 and wounding 49, officials said. The bomb was attached to a motorcycle and detonated as the bus drove to an Arbaeen procession, witnesses said. One witness said it may have been a suicide bombing, but that could not be confirmed. The second bomb exploded outside the entrance to the emergency ward at Jinnah Hospital, which was packed with victims and relatives of those killed and wounded in the earlier attack. It was either hidden on a motorbike or in or close to an ambulance, a witness and a government official said. Provincial health minister Dr. Sagheer Ahmad said 13 people were killed in that blast and 50 wounded.