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FOREST CITY — Earth Day celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and Rutherford County has seen a resurgence of green efforts, too. The Solid Waste Environmental Education Panel (SWEEP) has encouraged recycling and energy saving efforts in the county, and beginning in 2009, started an energy conservation project in Rutherford County Schools. “With budget cuts looming in the spring of 2009, aggressive energy reduction and recycling programs were introduced last summer for the current school year,” said Frank Chyz of SWEEP. “As a result of these efforts, significant savings in energy consumption and waste disposal costs have been realized. While the economy may have been the catalyst, the scholastic budget and the environment are the direct beneficiaries.” The improvement recycling efforts go hand in hand with the energy saving agenda. Electricity consumption at the schools was cut by about 25 percent saving about 3.2 million kilowatt hours of power — or enough energy to power the average household for 300 years. “Turning off lights in unoccupied rooms, Please see Earth Day, Page 6
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A Time To Take It Down A former office building off U.S. 221, south of the former Childer’s Truck Stop, was taken down Tuesday morning by Steve Gowan Construction and will have its new home at Chase High School. Shown Tuesday on the job site were (l-r) Josh Swink, RCS maintenance department, Michael Dobbins and Steve Gowan, Gowan’s Construction. Working on the trailer to help maneuver the trestles were Wayne Curtis, Rutherford County Schools and Harold Maness of Gowan’s.
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RUTEHRFORDTON — The Economic Development Commission looked at the ones who got away during their April board meeting Wednesday. A few industrial companies have chosen locations other than Rutherford County after lengthy reviews in the past few months, and board members were hoping to look at the final outcomes of those arrangements for ways to close the deal in the future. “Is there a common denominator in the industry that is looking at us and deciding not to come?” board member Sally Lesher asked. “It may not be, maybe each one is a different case. If there are things that can be changed, can we help change them?” “We track projects through when they pull the plug (here) and beyond,” said EDC Executive Director Tom Johnson. “We know why companies aren’t locating and it is a variety of reasons. Each project is different.” “Are there two or three things that really stand out?” Lesher asked. Johnson replied, “I don’t see Please see EDC, Page 2
Sheriff calls for action By LARRY DALE Daily Courier Staff Writer
RUTHERFORDTON — A ruling by a Superior Court judge this week returned some video gaming machines for now in Burke County, and Rutherford County Sheriff Jack Conner, who cites the problems the machines cause, said it is time for the General Assembly to act on the issue. Judge Beverly Beal, senior resident judge in Superior Court District 25A, which includes Burke County, ruled Monday on a complaint filed by 13 Burke businesses concerning video gaming. Beal ruled that law enforcement officers in Burke are restrained and enjoined from seeking charges in the operation of video devices to sell long-distance phone cards, an article in the News Herald of Morganton reported on Tuesday. The News Herald article also said Beal told officers to adhere to a May 2009 injunction by Superior Court Judge John O. Craig in Guilford County on Please see Sheriff, Page 6
DSS prepares for food stamp changes By ALLISON FLYNN Daily Courier Staff Writer
SPINDALE – At a time when the number of applications for the food and nutrition services program has already risen, the Rutherford County Department of Social Services expects the number to continue to increase. Especially when
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changes to the program begin in July. “There are huge changes effective in July,” said Income Maintenance Program Director Kandi Bridges to the DSS Board during its April meeting Wednesday. Bridges explained that as of July, the poverty level will increase from 130 to 200 percent, meaning more people will be eligible for FNS. Currently the gross
income is approximately $1,100 and it will increase to $1,800 for a household. In April the number of applications taken for food and nutrition services increased by 22 percent over March, reported DSS Director John Carroll. “There are more and more people com-
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a common thread. There are a variety of reasons. Unless you can make this an urban area, unless you can bring an Interstate through the middle of the county or provide financing to companies, there isn’t a common thread. Other than Charlotte or Greenville or Hickory I don’t see a lot of things happening. Many times people hear this and they think we’re making excuses or being defensive but these are the facts.” Board Chair Keven McCammon said the transportation issue highlighted the importance of the U.S. 221 widening project and Rutherfordton by-pass. “In regarding U.S. 74, I’ve had a conversation with NCDOT and we’ve always said U.S. 74 is not an Interstate but it meets Interstate standards, but that isn’t true because the shoulders are not the right width,” Johnson said. Johnson related a story of trying to lure another military manufacturer to the county from Europe, saying he had filed over 600 e-mails, hosted five visits by the company officials and set up inspections of the former Mako Marine building for their engineers. The firm
decided to relocate their corporate offices during the deal. “When they decided to relocate corporate offices they said they didn’t want to be in a rural area, period,” Johnson said. “They ended up in Greenville, S.C., because that is where they wanted to be. So, what could we do? We had mega-dollars on the table with $500,000 from Golden LEAF, money from Duke, money from all these places and they decided they didn’t want to live in a rural area.” Commissioner Paul McIntosh countered, “But that is an opportunity. We don’t live in never-neverland. We live an hour from Charlotte and when I lived in Charlotte it took me an hour to get anywhere in the city. It is an opportunity to educate and change perceptions of where we live.” The board also reviewed a proposed operating budget of $155,000 — not including salaries, benefits or capital items. County Manager John Condrey and the finance department will review the EDC budget requests and may make changes before submitting a recommended budget to the county commissioners later this year. Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier.com.
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GAIL MCBRAYER STRICKLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONER BIOGRAphY
• Lifelong resident of Rutherford County • Daughter of Minnie McBrayer and the late Blanton McBrayer of Forest City • Married to Doug Strickland – Co-owner Strickland Grading in Ellenboro • Daughter – Brooke Strickland Kelly, married to Tim Kelly – Two grandchildren
EDUCATION AND ExpERIENCE
• Graduate of East High School • Graduate of Isothermal Community College, Associate of Applied Science Degree Information Systems and Network Management • Rutherford County, Information Technology Director – 30 years
COMMUNITY INvOLvEMENT
• Member of Corinth Baptist Church, Ellenboro • American Cancer Society Relay for Life, Luminary Chairperson • Rutherford County Junior Miss, Past Chairman • Beta Sigma Phi – Theta Mu Chapter
“COMMON SENSE LEADERShIp” WITh A FOCUS ON JOBS: County commissioners should work closely
with our state elected officials to ensure Rutherford County’s interests are being heard. We must continue to explore new ways to expand both large and small businesses by utilizing the Economic Development staff, advisory board and knowledge of the private sector.
EDUCATION: I believe in the importance of
education and will back our schools and community college. This means, among other things, that our schools must have the technology that will prepare young people for the demanding jobs of the 21st century.
pUBLIC SAFETY: The public safety sector is a critical service for our county and I will support the training, equipment and technology that are essential to these services.
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local/state Authorities investigate unusual crash Woman Injured In Crash By JEAN GORDON
Daily Courier Staff Writer
FOREST CITY — One man was taken to the hospital Wednesday morning for treatment of injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle crash Tuesday night. Justin Keith Robbins, 30, of US 221, south of Rutherfordton, was apparently a passenger in the front seat of a 2000 Dodge Ranger that crashed off Harris-Henrietta Road Tuesday night. Late Wednesday, the identify of the driver of the truck had not been found, although North Carolina Highway Patrolman James Henson reported the driver is injured, according to the total demolition of the truck. Henson also said Robbins was sitting in the front passenger seat of the truck, due to his injuries. “This is very strange,” Henson said. The wreck occurred Tuesday night off Harris-Henrietta Road. The pickup truck’s driver rounded a curve in the rain, ran off the road to the left struck six fence posts, overturned and came to a rest in the pasture, on its wheels. Henson reported someone got back into the truck and drove it to a residence off Boiler Road, Mooresboro, where Robbins apparently spent the night unconscious and hurt from the
wreck. The truck was parked at a Dalton residence off Boiler Road, although no one at the residence was involved in the crash. A resident at the home said she heard the wreck but thought someone had car trouble. When a second resident came home Wednesday after being out of town and discovered Robbins lying in the floor hurt, officers were called, Rutherford County EMS and Cliffside firefighters. “This guy showed up and didn’t know anything about the wreck and said it was his cousin,” Henson said. He said Robbins does not remember anything and was unconscious when he was brought into the house. Although Dalton wasn’t owner of the truck, it was registered to another person, he had possession of the keys and left the keys at home in case anyone needed the truck while he was away. “Whoever the driver is, he is hurt,” Henson said. Regional hospital emergency rooms were contacted to find out if anyone had received treatment from wreck injuries related to the truck wreck. The investigation is continuing. Contact Gordon via email:jgordon@thedigitalcourier.
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Forest City firefighters and Rutherford County EMS assist Joyce Mitchem, 69, of Old WAGY Road, Forest City, injured in a motor vehicle crash Wednesday at about 5:30 p.m. Mitchell was traveling east on W. Main Street in her 2005 Buick Park Avenue, when witnesses said she appeared to be making a left hand turn onto Smith Grove Road and apparently had a medical problem and traveled forward and struck a utility pole at the intersection. She was taken to Rutherford Hospital for treatment. The utility pole was broken in two places. Also assisting were Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department and NC Crime Control.
Clarification
A story in the The Daily Courier on Wednesday about the Forest City Board of Commissioners meeting may have given an incorrect impression.
The vote Monday night to ask David Lloyd, Forest City’s town attorney, to pursue legal action against
United Southern Industries for unpaid utility bills was unanimous. The vote, however, was 4-0. Commissioner Dee Dee Bright did not attend the meeting due to the death of her father, so she did not vote. The Daily Courier regrets any confusion this may have caused.
RALEIGH (AP) — Democratic and Republican leaders in North Carolina state government agree keeping the public safe doesn’t necessarily require locking up more convicts and building more prisons. Gov. Beverly Perdue and lawmakers from both parties announced Wednesday the state will participate in a comprehensive effort to crunch prison data to determine how to lower recidivism rates and manage the offender population better.
The initiative is called Justice Reinvestment and will last one to three years. The Council of State Governments and other groups will provide policy options to elected leaders. Perdue says it’s a great opportunity to find innovative ways to keep the public safe while using tax dollars more wisely. House Republican Leader Paul Stam says incarceration isn’t the only solution to dealing with crime.
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resident Barack Obama is preparing to make his second nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court and once again everyone is clamoring about what kind of justice he will appoint. At the same time, the great majority of people agree that judges should not be legislating from the bench. Which begs the question, if they are not to be legislating, why are politics even a factor? The appointment of judges should be made on the basis of legal training, experience and the intellectual ability of the person. If anything, judges with strong political opinions on either side of the spectrum should be disqualified from serving. What the country needs in a Supreme Court justice is a person who can examine the facts of any case and render thoughtful judgments as those facts relate to the Constitution. We may not agree with judges all the time, but if they do the job correctly, we would have little to complain about. This nation has to get back to the basic concept of our three-part government and the roles for each which are clearly spelled out in the Constitution.
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Our readers’ views Questions candidate’s church membership To the editor: I would like to write concerning Ramona Hall, who is running for Clerk of Court in this election. On her original cards, she had that she was a member of Word of Faith Church; but when she did a mass mailing, there was no mention of being a member of a religious organization at all. This leads me to wonder: Is she still a member of Word of Faith? Is she a member in good standing there or has something happened to alter her membership status? Is she ashamed of where she worships? Being up front and honest are important as we decide who to vote for. I know this is a short letter, but these were just a few questions I had. Linda Gellner Rutherfordton
Agrees with writer about growing hemp To the editor: Thank you Don Higgins for a thought provoking article! I agree that growing hemp would
help create jobs not only in our county, but in other counties and states as well. With the unemployment rate so high we need to be thinking of new markets and actively pursue them. The demand for tobacco has been lessening due to non-smoking laws and anti-smoking campaigns. By creating a market for hemp we would be helping farmers by creating a new market to seriously consider. The U.S. is leaving the biggest carbon footprint in the world therefore growing hemp should be thought of as a viable option. The fibers of hemp are lustrous, soft, fine and creamy white. Both the fibers and the waste are used in multiple ways. Hemp fibers are extremely strong which is why they are used in making rope, twine and sailcloth, as well as a useful fiber used in the making of sheeting, toweling, carpets/rugs and cloth. Waste fiber has its uses as well. Called Oakum it is used in caulking and paper making. The seeds are used as bird food and hemp
oil is used in paints and soaps. And as you pointed out, the Hemp seed oil can be converted into fuel. Because the uses are multiple and this is a versatile plant, why not let this be one of the main crops for North Carolina to produce? Nancy B. Hartley Rutherfordton
Happy to see standings in Sunday sports pages To the editor: Don’t do that to me. I passed out and had to be revived when opening the Sunday sports page and saw high school conference standings. For some reason the Courier has had a decades-old tradition of not routinely including this important part of the sports page. In this era of change let’s hope this sticks. It was nice to see Chase, East, and R-S Central on or near the top of the old SWC in baseball and softball. Tommy Hicks Forest City
So, just what will health care markets look like? In economics we often talk about markets. Markets are simply where buyers and sellers come together to trade. In the old days, these transactions occurred in a physical market. Today, they can also occur in electronic markets, where buyers and sellers don’t even see each other. Any economic market answers three questions: (1) What is produced and sold? (2) What is the price of the items sold? And (3) How much is sold? In an unconstrained, or free market, these questions are answered by the interactions between buyers and sellers and the competition among sellers. In determining what is sold, sellers have an incentive to provide what buyers want. Competition between alternative sellers keeps prices at levels that cover costs, compensates for risks and gives the seller a sufficient return to stay in an uncertain market. The resulting price is that which equates the amount sellers want to provide to the amount buyers want to purchase. With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – the health care bill – each of these three questions in the health care market will be directly influenced by the
You Decide Dr. Mike Walden
federal government. Here’s how. The legislation gives the federal secretary of Health and Human Services the power to set the provisions and coverage in health insurance plans. In other words, the HHS secretary will have a strong role in saying what is produced and sold in the health insurance market. The new bill also gives the HHS secretary some direct power over the prices (premiums) charged for health insurance policies. Specifically, the legislation says the secretary can review “unreasonable” increases in premiums for health insurance coverage. Finally, the new act mandates that everyone have health insurance, and if not (with a few exceptions), a penalty will be levied for not having coverage. This restriction obviously puts a floor on the third market question of how much is sold; now everyone must have at least some standard health insurance policy,
where “standard” is defined by the secretary of HHS. These expanded powers of the federal government in the health care market are obviously controversial – some say they go too far, while others say they don’t go far enough. Rather than take sides, let me raise some issues and questions – some pros and cons – that might clarify the debate and help you decide where you stand. Giving the HHS secretary the power to say what health insurance policies will cover is based on the notion that everyone should be guaranteed some minimal level of health insurance protection. But left unsaid in the legislation is how the secretary will determine what’s in health insurance policies. Also, if changes are made to the standard policy over time, will those changes apply only to newly written policies or all policies – new and existing? We don’t know. The new power given to the HHS secretary over insurance premiums is in response to public displeasure with some of the increases in premiums that have occurred in recent years, although it should be pointed out that government data show health insurance prices have actually risen slower than the average of all
consumer prices since 2005. Still, there are many unanswered questions related to this new authority. For example, how will the secretary define unreasonable premium increases? Will there be coordination between the allowable premium increases and the required insurance provisions, especially when new provisions are mandated? Like any private business, if insurers can’t recover their costs, they won’t remain in business. The mandate that everyone have health insurance has sparked some of the most heated debates about the new health care bill. Indeed, there may be a constitutional challenge to this requirement. Opponents say the federal government doesn’t have the power to require anyone to purchase a private product. Leaving this constitutional question to the lawyers, supporters of the mandate say it is necessary for two reasons. First, as a compassionate society, no one will ever be denied health care. Thus, without a mandate, there is the likelihood some individuals would simply not purchase health insurance and then rely on the free provision of care when needed.
Second, one of the goals of the new health care bill is to moderate the increase in insurance premiums that can occur as an individual ages and uses the health care system more. However, to accomplish this objective, young and healthy individuals must be part of the health insurance pool. The young insured persons would pay somewhat higher premiums than their health condition would indicate. In essence, the payments for health insurance would be “front-loaded,” higher than needed when young but lower than needed when older. Health care and the new health care bill will continue to be discussed and debated. There remain many unanswered questions about implementation of the government’s new powers and effects of those powers that will have to be decided. How the bill is applied may be just as important what the bill does! Dr. Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Professor and North Carolina Cooperative Extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of N.C. State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He teaches and writes on personal finance, economic outlook and public policy.
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County woman sentenced Obituaries on state tax charge From staff reports
RALEIGH – A Rutherford County woman pleaded guilty Monday in Wake County Superior Court to a felony tax charge filed by the North Carolina Department of Revenue. Debra Jean Fair, 42, of 239 Cherry Mountain St., Forest City, pleaded guilty on Monday, April 19, to one count of Aid and Assist in the Preparation of a Fraudulent Tax Return by a Non-Preparer. Superior Court Judge Donald W. Stephens sentenced Fair to an 11-month minimum, 14-month maximum prison term. The sentence was suspended and she was placed on supervised probation for 24 months, six of which is to be intensive probation.
Fair agreed to testify truthfully and cooperate fully with the State with regard to cases against co-defendants. Restitution was not ordered in this case due to the NCDOR successfully stopping the refund requested on the false tax return prior to it being issued. Fair’s case was the result of her aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a 2008 N.C. Individual Income tax return that she knew was false and fraudulent. Fair and two men from Shelby were arrest-
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Terry Allen Cobb, 28, of Spindale, died Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at Mission ed in January on felony tax charges filed by Hospitals in Asheville. the North Carolina Department of Revenue. He was a member of Gray’s The co-defendants are Clarence Harris Creek Baptist Church and a Daniels Jr., 35, of 326 Grice St., Shelby, heavy equipment operator. charged with four felony counts of aiding and He is survived by one assisting in the preparation of filing of fraud- daughter, Cheyenne ulent N.C. individual income tax returns; Crawford of the home; and Lee Charles Whisnant, 47, of 419 Orange mother and stepfather, Amy Street, Shelby. Barner Williams and Ronald Daniels has not yet been to court on his Williams of Chesnee, S.C.; charges. Lee Whisnant pled a few weeks grandparents, Donald and ago. He was ordered to serve 16 months Mozelle Barner of Spindale. minimum, 20 months maximum in the N.C. The family will receive Department of Correction. Whisnant agreed friends from 11 a.m. to noon to testify truthfully and cooperate fully with Friday in the family life centhe State with regard to cases against coter of Gray’s Creek Baptist defendants. Church. A graveside service The charges against the individuals resultwill be held at noon in the ed from an investigation by the Department’s church cemetery with the Discovery and Special Projects Unit and a Rev. Bryan Cooper officiatspecial agent with Department’s Charlotte ing. Criminal Investigations Office. McMahan’s Funeral Home When the three were arrested in January, and Cremation Services is in Daniels was placed under a $20,000 bond charge of arrangements. and Whisnant a $5,000 secured bond. Fair appeared before a Rutherford County condolences www.mcmahMagistrate and was given a $10,000 secured Online ansfuneralhome.com. bond.
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FOREST CITY — 12-year-old Chase Middle student, Ethan Pearson, of Mooresboro, remains in Spartanburg Regional Medical Center recuperating from injuries he sustained Sunday afternoon in a single-vehicle on Hines Road. He was a passenger in a 1993 Honda driven by his 16-year-old brother, Shane Pearson, a Chase High student. Shane did not sustain injuries. Ethan reported he is enjoying receiving mail from his peers at Chase Middle.
Sheriff’s Reports
The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 128 E-911 calls Tuesday. n Brannon Mitchell Freeman reported a breaking and entering. n Chris Stone reported the theft of sunglasses.
Rutherfordton
The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 28 E-911 calls Tuesday.
Spindale
The Spindale Police Department responded to 26 E-911 Tuesday.
Lake Lure
The Lake Lure Police Department responded to one E-911 call Tuesday.
Forest City
The Forest City Police Department responded to 81 E-911 calls Tuesday. n An employee of Advance Auto Parts reported a larceny. (See arrest of Parker.) n An employee of O’Reilly Auto Parts reported a larceny. (See arrest of Parker.) n An employee of Dollar General reported a larceny. n An employee of Wal-Mart reported a larceny. (See arrest of Dale and Lattimore.) n Trevor Harris reported the theft of a motor vehicle. The incident occurred on East Main Street.
Arrests
n Mario Marquelle Bell, 20, of Mountain View Street, Forest City; arrested on a warrant for larceny; released on a written promise to appear. (FCPD) n Leslie Dawn Parker, 29, of Chesnee Road, Columbus; charged with two counts of larceny; released on a $1,500 unsecured bond. (FCPD) n Donna Bailey Conner, 39, of 1494 Jack McKinney Road; charged with felony probation violation and worthless check; placed under a $15,000 secured bond. (Probation) n Thomas Ralph Watkins, 30, of 124 Cowan St.; charged with resisting a public officer; placed under a $500 secured bond. (RCSD) n Mashonda Renee Miller, 37, of 111
Farmside Drive; charged with assault and battery; released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD) n Dawn Shameka Miller, 34, of 2856 N. Ridgecrest Ave.; charged with assault and battery; released on a written promise to appear. (RCSD) n Kathy Faye Friday, 21, of 136 Floyd St.; charged with financial card theft and obtain property by false pretense; placed under a $50,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n Kevin Lee Cole, 18, of 159 Wells Drive; charged with two counts of simple assault and with assault and battery; placed under a $300 secured bond. (RCSD) n Ricky Tyrone Camp, 22, of 159 Wells Drive; charged with two counts of assault and battery; placed under a $200 secured bond. (RCSD) n Joe Nathan Bristol, 45, of 159 Wells Drive; charged with three counts of simple assault and with communicating threats; placed under a $300 secured bond and a $500 unsecured bond. (RCSD) n Joshua Nathon Cole, 19, of 159 Wells Drive; charged with two counts of simple assault, with injury to personal property and with communicating threats; placed under a $200 secured bond. (RCSD) n Danny Hoyle Lynch, 48, of 221 Dockridge Road; charged with habitual felon; released on a $25,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD) n James Tyler Flynn, 18, of 194 Fairfax Drive; charged with break or enter a motor vehicle, misdemeanor larceny, possession of marijuana more than one-half ounce to one and a half ounces and assault with a deadly weapon; placed under a $10,000 secured bond. (RCSD) n James Adam Murray, 25, of 188 Monfreado St., Rutherfordton; charged with assault on a female and resist, obstruct and delay; placed under a $2,000 secured bond. (RPD)
Citations n Ashley Brooke Dale, 17, of Dale-Summey Road, Rutherfordton; cited for shoplifting/ concealment; released on a written promise to appear. (FCPD) n Mariah Lynn Lattimore, 17, of Old Charlotte Road, Rutherfordton; cited for shoplifting/ concealment; released on a written promise to appear. (FCPD)
EMS/Rescue n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 26 E-911 calls Tuesday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to two E-911 calls Tuesday.
n Ellenboro firefighters responded to a structure fire, assisted by Bostic and Cherry Mountain firefighters. n Rutherfordton firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident.
“It appears to be, we’re in excellent shape,” said Mayor Barbara Meliski. Council plans to request some money from capital improvements for the village’s amphitheater under construction, located just above the town owned parking lot below the fire department. Meliski said the town engineer has been asked to study the cost of providing 200-250 seats at the natural bank.
The town received a grant from Hand Made in America’s NC Step funds and NC Rural Center money to construct the amphitheater. The cement slab has already been poured, the area seeded with grass and landscape is being added to disguise power lines. Meliski said the village may have some money left over from the grant to assist with the seating. Once completed, the village will be a gathering place for community events and concerts. “When you’re sitting in the amphitheater, you are looking at the most beautiful scenery,” she said. Meliski also talked about the Village’s new recycling program, in partnership with Lake Lure. Recycling containers have been placed at the public rest rooms, the entrance to the Rocky Broad Riverwalk and at the
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Deaths Juan Antonio Samaranch BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Juan Antonio Samaranch, a reserved but shrewd dealmaker whose 21-year term as president of the International Olympic Committee was marked by both the unprecedented growth of the games and its biggest ethics scandal, died Wednesday at a hospital. He was 89. Samaranch, a courtly former diplomat who served as Spanish ambassador in Moscow, led the IOC from 1980 to 2001. He was considered one of the defining presidents for building the IOC into a powerful global organization and firmly establishing the Olympics as a world force. Samaranch was admitted to the Quiron Hospital in Barcelona on Sunday after experiencing heart trouble. The hospital said he died at 1:25 p.m. “If there is a good way to die, I guess it was this way,” Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. told The Associated Press. IOC president Jacques Rogge will be among the dignitaries attending a special ceremony on Thursday.
Madeline Padgett Madeline Padgett, 66, of Rutherfordton, died Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at Hospice House in Forest City. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Harrelson Funeral Home.
Jimmy Poole Jr. Jimmy Franklin Poole Jr., 84, of 1125 10th Street Blvd., NW, Hickory, died Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at the Lutheran Home in Hickory. Born in Cleveland County, he was a son of the late Jimmy Franklin Poole Sr. and Lima Beaver Poole. He was a salesman for the Rawleigh Company, a member of Polkville Baptist Church, and served in the Army. Survivors include a son, Gene Poole of Hildebran; two brothers, Donald Poole and Sonny Poole, both of Ellenboro; three sisters, Janet Honeycutt of Mooresboro; Lillian Toney of Ellenboro, and Wilma Jones of Ellenboro; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, April 23 at Stamey Funeral Home Chapel in Fallston with the Rev. Rick Hamrick
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Chimney Rock gets first look at new budget
CHIMNEY ROCK — Village Council received its first look at the 2010-2011 fiscal year budget Tuesday night and expect very little changes from last year. Taxes are not expected to be raised on property owners in the village or for business owners in the Municipal Service District. MSD taxes are 6 cents per $100 property valuation. Property taxes are 7.5 cents per $100 property valuation.
Kenneth Eugene Davis Sr., 66, of Rutherfordton, died Friday, April 16, 2010, at Mission Hospital, Inc. Survivors include two sons, Kenneth Eugene Davis of Marion, and Jerome Hardy of Vale; two daughters, Zarrida Davis of Durham, and Karen Renee Davis of Morganton; one sister, Hattie Davis Roberts of Shelby; one brother, Theodore Nelson Davis Jr. of Columbus; five grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Thompson’s Mortuary with the Rev. Tom Carpenter officiating. Burial will follow in the Gold Hill Baptist Church cemetery. The body will lie in state one hour prior to the service.
officiating. Burial will follow in the Polkville Baptist Church cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday from 1 to 2 p.m., prior to the service at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the donor’s choice.
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Dr. Charles Lee Griffith
Dr. Charles L. Griffith, age 78, of Magnolia Street, Forest City, died Monday, April 19, 2010, at his residence. A native of Yancey County, he was born September 12, 1931, a son of the late H. Lee Griffith and Elma Pemberton Griffith. He was a 1953 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 1960 graduate of the University of Louisville Dental School. Dr. Griffith practiced dentistry in Forest City for 30 years. He was one of the founders of the Rutherford Vocational Workshop and received a Citation of Merit from the North Carolina Rehabilitation Association. He was a recipient of the Kiwanis Club Citizen of the Year Award, and was a US Army veteran of the Korean Conflict. Dr. Griffith was the first Eagle Scout in Troop 1 of the Daniel Boone Council of Western North Carolina. He was a member of First United Methodist Church of Forest City. He is survived by his wife, Clara Dee Banner Griffith of the home; two sons, Charles H. Griffith of the home and Dr. Scott B. Griffith and wife, Stacey of Rutherfordton; two daughters, Teresa Chandler and husband, Ted of Burlington,NC and Dr. Dee Dee Bright and husband, Matt of Forest City; 12 grandchildren, Taylor, Lee, Laurie, David and Amanda Griffith; Trey, Clara, and Griffith Chandler; and South, Sawyer, Deecon, and Sully Bright. Funeral services will be held at one o’clock Thursday, April 22, 2010, in the First United Methodist Church, Forest City with Reverend K. Wesley Judy officiating. Interment will be private in the Cool Springs Cemetery. Visitation will be held immediately following the service in the church narthex on Thursday. Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, 341 E. Main Street, Forest City, NC 28043 or to Rutherford Life Services, 230 Fairground Road, Spindale, NC 28160. The Padgett and King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements and an online guest registry is available at www.padgettking.com. PAID OBIT
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Miscellaneous Clothing give away: Saturday, April 24, 9 a.m. to noon, High Shoal Baptist Church, 284 High Shoals Church Road, Henrietta; children and adult clothes will be given away free to those in need; for more information call 657-6448. Informative presentation: Spindale Neighborhood Watch Group; Tuesday, April 27, 6:30 p.m.; The Spindale House, 100 W. Main St.; Spindale Presentation (Approximately 45 minutes) “Gang Awareness in Communities” with Starr Barbaro, a member of North Carolina Governor’s Crime Commission; members of local law enforcement agencies will be present. Geneology class: “Climbing Your Family Tree”; every Tuesday in May from 5 to 6 p.m., at Mountains Library, Lake Lure; the guest speaker will show participants how to access the N.C. Live sites.
Fundraisers Ham/chicken supper: Friday, April 23, 5 to 8 p.m., at Second Baptist Church, 191 Green St., Rutherfordton; adults $9; ages 4-10, $5; under 4 free, accompanied by an adult; all you can eat, included dessert and beverage; proceeds to benefit youth camp; take outs available, call 286-9662 to place an order. Car Show: “Show and Shine for Jesus”; Saturday, April 24, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant Church Rd., Forest City; car, motorcycle and tractor show; registration ends at noon; judging at 1 p.m.; free registration; awards given; barbecue, hot dogs, roasted corn. Fish fry: Saturday, April 24, 4 to 6 p.m., Calvary Baptist Church, Ferry Road, Cliffside; no set price, donations only; proceeds for missions. Barbecue dinner: “6th Annual 4-H Betsy Ross Barbecue”; Saturday, April 24, begins at 4:30 p.m.; Union Mills Clubhouse; chicken and pork — adults $8; ages 7-10, $5; 6 and under free; all you can eat. Yard sale: Saturday, May 1, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., New Harvest Church, 131 Countryside Dr., Forest City; church-wide yard sale. Pancake breakfast: Saturday, April 24, 7 to 11 a.m.; Harold Hawkins VFW Post 5204, beside the National Guard Armory), 940 Withrow Road, Forest City; adults $5; ages 3-12 , $3; ages 3 and under free; ladies auxiliary will hold a bake sale. Cancellation: The community-wide The Red Cross yard sale has been postponed until May 15, due to forecast of storms this weekend.
Music/concerts Singing: Sunday, April 25, 6 p.m., New Beginnings Baptist Church, 864 Bostic-Sunshine Hwy., Bostic; featuring The Gospel Travelers. “Concert for Christ”: The Gold Hill Missionary Baptist Association Choir will host a concert Sunday, April 25, at the Gold Hill Assembly Building, Spindale. Music begins at 3 p.m. The Mystery Men Quartet will be in concert Friday, April 30, at Forest City Foursquare Church, 178 Cornwell St. Forest City. Music begins at 7 p.m. Gospel music concert: Sunday, April 25, at 7 p.m., Bethel Baptist Church, Ellenboro; featuring Rick Strickland; a love offering will be received. Sacred Music Festival: Sunday, April 25, 3 p.m., Oak Grove United Methodist Church; sponsored by the Lucille Wall Music Club in efforts to promote National Music Week; six church choirs will participate, (two selections each); LWMC is a member of the National and NC Federation of Music Clubs; open to the public. Singing: Sunday, April 25, 2 p.m., at The Church of the Exceptional in Henrietta; featuring Living By Faith.
Religion Lay revival: April 25-28, 7 nightly, at Spindale Church of the Brethren, Midland St. Spindale; different speaker each night. Revival: April 25-28, Plainview Baptist Church, 389 J.M. Lovelace Road, Ellenboro; different speakers each service; Sunday services 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.; MTW, 7 nightly. 225th church anniversary: Sunday, May, 2, Bill’s Creek Baptist Church; festivities begin at 9 a.m., with coffee; special music at 10 a.m., featuring The Pattons of Hendersonville; worship service 11 a.m.; lunch afterwards.
adjusting thermostats and shutting down computers overnight are some of the things we can all do at home to reduce our energy consumption,” Chyz said. “With hundreds of classrooms and over 4,000 computers in 19 facilities, these simple actions have made a considerable environmental impact in Rutherford County alone.” Teachers have continued to encourage students to engage in more recycling at school. “The real challenge has always been transporting the collected material to a recycling facility on a continuing basis,” Chyz said. “Remarkably, 56 tons of material originally destined for area landfills has already been recycled this year. RCS is well on the
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behalf of Hest Technologies and International Internet Technologies, which prohibits filing criminal charges against anyone using the companies’ software systems or seizing their equipment or property. Those same two companies became the focus of a Rutherford County case last year. Law enforcement officers raided an apparent video poker operation at Commerce Business Center, at 132 Commercial Drive in Forest City. During the raid, computers were seized by officers, and an arrest was made. Donald Lee Hall was initially charged with two felony counts of possession of video poker equipment, but those charges were later dismissed and Hall was charged with the misdemeanor violation of operating a lottery. In November, District Attorney Brad Greenway and Sheriff Conner were ordered to appear in Superior Court in High Point. They were to respond to a show cause order in connection with the computers seized in the raid. But the order was later rescinded by Craig, leaving Rutherford County in possession of the disputed computers
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ing in,” he said. Bridges said in its presentation to local departments of social services, the state department of social services said it estimated an increase of 10 to 20 percent in the amount of applications that would be submitted. However, Bridges said, other states have changed the levels for FNS, including Delaware, which saw an increase of 30 percent in the first year. “We are already understaffed in this area, but the good news is we have been given $103,000 by the Department of Defense to hire additional staff,” she said. The funding is through a Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bridges said two people would be hired. How many more people could receive food assistance is unknown, but Bridges said the department did know it would mean an influx of applications. “I really hope it will help elderly who have not been eligible before,” she said. The state has been encouraging local departments to tell people who are applying that even if they do not receive a large allotment, being FNS
way to recycling close to 100 tons before the school year is over.” Getting the school system to approach that total was a key focus of SWEEP this year. “With a state grant obtained by SWEEP and additional funds from Rutherford County, almost all schools were supplied with roll-out recycling carts for the collection of paper generated in the classrooms and the large metal cans from the cafeteria,” Chyz explained. “The high schools received a recycling bin for every classroom and a large ‘Pro-Tainer’ Recycle Trailer in which to store their paper, plastic bottles and metal cans. Once filled, the trailer is hauled to the GDS Material Recovery Facility in Spindale.” Students have collected 29,000 pounds of paper and 4,800 pounds of beverage containers for recycling so far this year. “Enough metal cans
have been collected to build six midsize cars,” Chyz said. “That’s about 10,900 pounds. And, since Easter, all schools now have the ability to recycle the large volume of cardboard generated each week.” Improvement is always sought. “A couple of elementary and middle schools still lack equipment for paper recycling and the collection of beverage containers at sports events remains a challenge,” Chyz said. “This week SWEEP was awarded a $500 grant from Keep N.C. Beautiful to help purchase recycle bins for the school stadiums and is awaiting word from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources on another grant application requesting a little extra funding to keep and improve upon a very successful program. All RCS students, faculty and staff can be proud this and every Earth Day.”
for now. Conner, in looking at the Burke County action Wednesday, said, “I still don’t think it is law yet; the General Assembly hasn’t adopted anything into law. And I think these injunctions across the state, such as Guilford County, and now with this video thing in Burke County, maybe it will really make legislators act on this and determine a law. Businesses in Rutherford County are mad at me (over the issue of video gaming). “We keep getting complaints from families where the husband or mother or son, or whoever, is losing their paycheck, gambling it away. We have to respond to citizens’ complaints. It is definitely a problem, and it is something I hate to see roll back in here. I know years back people were losing their homes and vehicles. “A good, honest businessman, I can understand he wants to make money, and there is no problem with making money. But with the economy the way it is in Rutherford County right now, to me, it (video gaming) is going to add to more depression and more downhill movement for Rutherford County, so I don’t think we need them here. “But if a law is enacted that says they are legal, it’s going to be up to the individual person as to whether they want to play them or not.” Conner doubts the rationale of the
gaming operations. I know they say it is not gambling; they are saying phone cards for longdistance time,” the sheriff said. “I guess that’s fine. But when they are paying out money, cash money to you, if you play that machine, that’s gambling. “And that’s the way I see we would probably have to address this, is send people in and do undercover work. We need a statute governing this. We need a law that will clarify. If you go in with $20 and walk out with $100, that’s gambling. If you walk in with $100 and walk out with nothing, that is still gambling. That’s what hurts, is when you walk in with $100 and walk out with nothing.” Greenway on Wednesday said there is a basic difference between the Burke sites and the raided site on Commercial Drive in Forest City. “Their operation was not four machines, like this (Beal ruling) talks about, they had 25 or so and these aren’t machines, they were computers.” The Beal ruling said operators can have no more than four sweepstakes machines in their business. The judge said law enforcement officers can’t take the machines from the 13 businesses that sought the injunction, and added that any machines seized from those businesses had to be returned.
eligible also makes children eligible for free or reduced lunches at school. Board member David Reno asked if there would be any impact to the county’s cost for hiring the two additional positions. Carroll told him no; the positions are temporary through 2011 when funding ends. “We could get more funding, but we don’t know that yet,” Bridges added. Another change coming for DSS is an EBT (electronic balance transfer) program coming for the child care program in August. Carroll explained that parents and caregivers who qualify for the subsidized child care program will swipe the card at the child care center and “all attendance and check writing will be done in Raleigh.” The state will also purchase point-of-sale machines for child care providers.
“The total weekly salary on the employed positions is $19,624.30,” Carroll said. “That’s a good weekly salary and hopefully those folks are spending their money in Rutherford County.” The board was also updated on the department’s budget, which Finance Officer Terri Morgan described as “OK.” “Our administrative revenue is lower than expected, which means the county cost is higher,” Morgan said. Many of the funding streams, she said, have changed from annually to quarterly, so the state streams have been used but county funding is still available.
The department is currently awaiting a second allocation for the subsidized employment program, which is funded as part of the TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Emergency Contingency Fund through the American Recover and Reinvestment Act. DSS has partnered with PSU (Personnel Services Unlimited) to provide job training for those individuals who meet criteria to take part in the program. Currently there are 54 positions established through 38 employers, and there are 45 people actively employed.
Some of the areas where revenue has been cut, Carroll said, are child support incentives, TANF returns and the state aid to administration. Board members also received information on policies DSS staff have been receiving training. Rebecca Kennedy, the department’s program integrity worker and security officer, showed board members information on the department’s intranet site. Those training opportunities included proper protocol for staff on using Facebook, which along with other social networking sites are no longer accessible on the department’s computers. Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.
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Braves Don’t Like The ‘Halla’-days Wade Moore returns to McNair Field FOREST CITY — Wade Moore, the All-Star centerfielder for the Forest City Owls, returns to McNair Field Thursday night when Catawba takes on CarsonNewman in the first round of the South Atlantic Conference Tournament at 7:30 p.m. Moore is batting .448 with 14 home runs, 19 doubles, and 53 RBI this season. Moore played in 97 games for the Owls in the 2008 and 2009 seasons. Catawba finished the season tied for second place in the SAC with a 34-10 record and a 16-8 conference record. The Indians lost the tie breaker to Mars Hill and will be the third seed in the SAC tournament. Moore transferred from N.C. State to Catawba for his senior season. “We are excited to host the SAC tournament, and it is great to welcome a former Owl back to McNair Field” said Owls general manager James Wolfe. “Wade was an important member of our organization our first two seasons in Forest City. I hope our fans will be able to welcome him back and see him play at McNair a final time.” All-Tournament tickets will be available at the gate for $15 for adults and $7 for children and students. Daily ticket prices are $6 for adults and $3 for children and students. For a complete tournament schedule visit www.forestcitybaseball.com or www.thesac. com.
Settlement appears likely in Bush lawsuit SAN DIEGO (AP) — Reggie Bush apparently has reached an out-of-court settlement with a fledgling sports marketer who is trying to recoup nearly $300,000 in cash and gifts the star running back and his family allegedly accepted while he was playing at the University of Southern California. Depositions involving the two former marketers who wooed Bush while he was at USC have been called off, attorney Brian Watkins told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Asked if Bush was still scheduled to be deposed on Friday, Watkins said: “I have no comment.” Settlement documents could be filed in court within days. If Bush is found retroactively ineligible, he could lose his 2005 Heisman Trophy.
Local Sports BASEBALL 7 p.m. R-S Central at Freedom SOFTBALL 4 p.m. R-S Central at Freedom TRACK & FIELD 4 p.m. Central/Chase at Shelby (boys) 4 p.m. R-S Central at E. Henderson (girls) MEN’S TENNIS 4 p.m. R-S Central at E. Rutherford COLLEGE BASEBALL South Atlantic Conference Tournament at McNair Field 12 p.m. Game 1 3:45 p.m. Game 2 7:30 p.m. Game 3
On TV 8 p.m. (ESPN2) MLS Soccer Seattle Sounders FC at FC Dallas. 8 p.m. (TNT) NBA Basketball First-Round Playoff. 10:30 p.m. (TNT) NBA Basketball First-Round Playoff.
Philadelphia Phillies starter Roy Halladay, left, delivers to Atlanta Braves’ Martin Prado, right, during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, at Turner Field in Atlanta. Associated Press
Phillies ace, defense blank Atlanta ATLANTA (AP) — Roy Halladay threw a five-hitter for his first NL shutout — getting a couple of big assists from his defense — and the Philadelphia Phillies blanked the Atlanta Braves 2-0 on Wednesday night. Halladay (4-0) was acquired in the offseason from Toronto to lead the staff of the two-time defending NL champions, and he’s certainly lived up to the hype in his first four starts. Doc has worked 33 innings, allowing only 26 hits and three runs for an ERA of 0.82.
Raul Ibanez and Jayson Werth both hit RBI doubles against Tim Hudson (1-1), but Halladay’s latest masterpiece wouldn’t have been possible without a pair of brilliant defensive plays. Center fielder Shane Victorino stole away a likely homer from Troy Glaus with a leaping catch in the second, and second baseman Chase Utley made a diving stop on a shot up the middle to start an inning-ending double play with the bases loaded in the seventh. The Phillies didn’t make the same mistake as the night before, when they
pulled Kyle Kendrick after eight scoreless innings with a 3-0 lead. Ryan Madson squandered it away, giving up back-to-back homers to Glaus and Jason Heyward with two outs in the ninth, and Nate McLouth homered off Jose Contreras in the 10th to give Atlanta an improbable 4-3 win. Halladay went all the way this time for his 16th career shutout, getting another big play from his defense leading off the ninth. First baseman Ryan Howard made a diving stop on
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Big Ben suspended for six games NEW YORK (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was suspended for six games without pay Wednesday for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy and ordered to undergo behavioral evaluation. Commissioner Roger Goodell handed down the punishment a week after prosecutors decided not to charge Roethlisberger in a case involving a 20-year-old college student who accused him of sexually assaulting her in a Georgia nightclub in March. Goodell said the league’s conduct policy gave him the right to impose discipline regardless of whether he broke the law. “I recognize that the allegations in Georgia were disputed and that they did not result in criminal charges being filed against you,” he said in his letter to the
Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger.
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When disappointment isn’t strong enough The other day, some young men I know got themselves into some trouble. I felt bad for the situation they were in, but also disappointed that they put themselves into the situation. I guess that is just the parent in me. I don’t have teenagers, yet, but I was one once. I got into trouble a time, or two, or three. I kind of lost count. I had thought very highly of the Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger from the moment his name was called at the 2004 NFL Draft. The Steelers hadn’t drafted a QB in the first round since Terry Bradshaw and entering the 2004 season Tommy Maddox was penciled in as starter. Maddox got hurt in game one and Big Ben reeled off 15 straight wins, a rookie record that may stand for a very long time. I was sold. Pittsburgh had its man. Two Super Bowl wins later and with a $100 million contract, I assumed the Steelers were settled at QB for a long time. Big Ben bought bullet-proof vests for police dogs all across the country. Big Ben treated his mom and dad to an all-expense paid European vacation to see the family’s roots and explore their heritage.
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Big Ben sang the praises of his young sister, Carlee, a forward on the University of Oklahoma’s women’s basketball team. He even bragged, with a little wink, about how his sister could beat him in backyard basketball games. My kids would get excited watching the Steelers and yell out loud every time Big Ben lead the Steelers to a touchdown. I haven’t told my kids anything about the trouble Ben is in now. I change the channel every time it pops up. I still feel they are too young to grasp something as adult as sexual assault. I may be too old to grasp it. Officially, Roethlisberger is guilty of nothing, charged with nothing. Officially, he faces a civil suit in Las Vegas that boils down to a ‘he said, she said.’ There was a time, not that long ago, that I believed the ‘he said’ part. Even now, I’m not so sure that I don’t.
But, as we learned as kids, or should have learned — trust is the first thing to go. It is the first thing that is broken when we lie, or get caught up in a situation for which our explanation leaves a little to be desired. I would like to trust Ben’s version of events. I would like to know that he is telling the truth. In the NFL, that doesn’t matter. Ben was suspended not for lying, or being arrested or anything else — he was suspended for bringing a dark cloud onto football, the Steelers, himself and the people who have supported him. That part is the lesson for young men across the county — you don’t have to be in the wrong, just the wrong place to bring down a dark cloud of suspicion and distrust around yourself or your teammates. You don’t have to break a law to be a bad guy. Be very careful of the people you hang around with; be careful of who you call, ‘friend.’ In the end, Ben now seems, at best, like a very immature young man; at worst, he has serious issues with women that require help. I hope I can cheer for Ben again. Only time will tell.
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sports
Scoreboard Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. Cleveland at Oakland, 10:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.
PREP SPORTS South Mountain Athletic Conference (thru Tues. April 20) E. Rutherford Patton R-S Central Chase Burns Shelby Freedom
BASEBALL Conf. W L 7 1 7 1 4 4 4 4 2 5 2 5 1 7
W 16 15 8 7 4 5 3
R-S Central Chase E. Rutherford Burns Freedom Patton Shelby
SOFTBALL Conf. W L 7 1 6 2 6 2 3 4 3 5 2 6 0 7
W 11 10 7 6 6 7 4
GIRLS SOCCER Conf. W L T W Burns 6 0 1 10 Shelby 5 0 2 10 Patton 6 1 1 9 R-S Central 5 3 0 7 E. Rutherford 1 6 1 1 Freedom 1 7 0 1 Chase 0 7 1 2
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BASKETBALL L 2 3 8 8 11 11 14 L 1 3 6 6 12 9 10 T 2 2 2 0 1 4 1
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Charlotte Bobcats forward Gerald Wallace (3) makes a move to the basket around Orlando Magic forward Rashard Lewis during the first half of Game 2 in a first-round of the NBA basketball playoff series in in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday.
Magic edge Bobcats, take 2-0 series lead
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Dwight HowardVince Carter combo again wasn’t perfect — just good enough to win. Carter finished with 19 points, Howard scored 15 and the Orlando Magic took a 2-0 series lead with a 92-77 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Wednesday night. The Magic’s star duo was less than stellar but took over when it counted most. They combined for 21 second-half points to help Orlando build a 20-point lead and hold on late. Stephen Jackson showed no effects from his hyperextended left knee to score 27 points, and Gerald Wallace had 15 points for the Bobcats. But their 21 turnovers are a big reason why they’re heading home still searching for the franchise’s first playoff win. Game 3 in the best-of-seven series is Saturday in Charlotte. This one wasn’t the prettiest playoff basketball. The Bobcats went more than eight minutes to start the game with only three points, and had just one field goal with six turnovers during the stretch. The goods news for them: The Magic were almost as bad early. The first half was a turnover fest for both teams, and nobody could consistently hit a shot. Things were so out of sorts that the normally sharpshooting J.J. Redick even badly missed the free throw from Charlotte coach Larry Brown’s technical foul in the second quarter.
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a sharp grounder by Chipper Jones, then flipped backhanded to Halladay covering the bag. Last season, Halladay led the majors with a career-high four shutouts. Hudson worked six solid innings and got out of several jams. The Braves, though, couldn’t do much with Halladay, who retired the first 11 hitters, struck out seven and walked only one.
Werth and Ibanez led off the second with back-to-back doubles against Hudson, giving Philadelphia a quick lead. Juan Castro followed with a single to put runners at first and third, but the Atlanta right-hander got Carlos Ruiz on a short fly to right, struck out Halladay and retired Victorino on a liner to center. After Hudson worked around Utley’s double and an intentional walk to Howard in the third, the Phillies added to their lead in the sixth. Howard led off with a single, and Werth brought the big man all the way home with a double to left. Again, it could have been worse for the Braves.
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National League East Division W L Pct 9 5 .643 8 6 .571 8 6 .571 8 7 .533 6 8 .429 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 9 5 .643 Pittsburgh 7 6 .538 Milwaukee 6 7 .462 Cincinnati 6 8 .429 Chicago 5 9 .357 Houston 4 9 .308 West Division W L Pct San Diego 9 6 .600 San Francisco 8 7 .533 Colorado 7 8 .467 Los Angeles 6 7 .462 Arizona 6 8 .429 Philadelphia Atlanta Florida Washington New York
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National Basketball Association Playoff Glance FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 2, Chicago 0 Saturday, April 17: Cleveland 96, Chicago 83 Monday, April 19: Cleveland 112, Chicago 102 Thursday, April 22: Cleveland at Chicago, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 25: Cleveland at Chicago, 3:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD x-Thursday, April 29: Cleveland at Chicago, TBD x-Saturday, May 1: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD Orlando 2, Charlotte 0 Sunday, April 18: Orlando 98, Charlotte 89 Wednesday, April 21: Orlando 92, Charlotte 77 Saturday, April 24: Orlando at Charlotte, 2 p.m. Monday, April 26: Orlando at Charlotte, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Charlotte at Orlando, 8 p.m. x-Friday, April 30: Orlando at Charlotte, TBD x-Sunday, May 2: Charlotte at Orlando, TBD Atlanta 2, Milwaukee 0 Saturday, April 17: Atlanta 102, Milwaukee 92 Tuesday, April 20: Atlanta 96, Milwaukee 86 Saturday, April 24: Atlanta at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. Monday, April 26: Atlanta at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7:30 or 8 p.m. x-Friday, April 30: Atlanta at Milwaukee, TBD x-Sunday, May 2: Milwaukee at Atlanta, TBD Boston 2, Miami 0 Saturday, April 17: Boston 85, Miami 76 Tuesday, April 20: Boston 106, Miami 77 Friday, April 23: Boston at Miami, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 25: Boston at Miami, 1 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Miami at Boston, TBD x-Thursday, April 29: Boston at Miami, TBD x-Saturday, May 1: Miami at Boston, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Lakers 2, Oklahoma City 0 Sunday, April 18: L.A. Lakers 87, Oklahoma City 79 Tuesday, April 20: L.A. Lakers 95, Oklahoma City 92 Thursday, April 22: L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24: L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, TBD x-Friday, April 30: L.A. Lakers at Oklahoma City, TBD x-Sunday, May 2: Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, TBD Dallas 1, San Antonio 0 Sunday, April 18: Dallas 100, San Antonio 94 Wednesday, April 21: San Antonio at Dallas, late Friday, April 23: Dallas at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25: Dallas at San Antonio, 7 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: San Antonio at Dallas, TBD x-Thursday, April 29: Dallas at San Antonio, TBD x-Saturday, May 1: San Antonio at Dallas, TBD Portland 1, Phoenix 1 Sunday, April 18: Portland 105, Phoenix 100 Tuesday, April 20: Phoenix 119, Portland 90 Thursday, April 22: Phoenix at Portland, 10 p.m. Saturday, April 24: Phoenix at Portland, 4:30 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Portland at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m. x-Thursday, April 29: Phoenix at Portland, TBD x-Saturday, May 1: Portland at Phoenix, TBD Denver 1, Utah 1 Saturday, April 17: Denver 126, Utah 113 Monday, April 19: Utah 114, Denver 111 Friday, April 23: Denver at Utah, 10:30 p.m. Sunday, April 25: Denver at Utah, 9:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Utah at Denver, 9 or 10:30 p.m. x-Friday, April 30: Denver at Utah, TBD x-Sunday, May 2: Utah at Denver, TBD
HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) (x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Washington 3, Montreal 1 Thursday, April 15: Montreal 3, Washington 2, OT Saturday, April 17: Washington 6, Montreal 5, OT Monday, April 19: Washington 5, Montreal 1 Wednesday, April 21: Washington 6, Montreal 3 Friday, April 23: Montreal at Washington, 7 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Washington at Montreal, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Montreal at Washington, TBD Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 1 Wednesday, April 14: Philadelphia 2, New Jersey 1 Friday, April 16: New Jersey 5, Philadelphia 3 Sunday, April 18: Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 2, OT Tuesday, April 20: Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 1 Thursday, April 22: Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, April 25: New Jersey at Philadelphia, TBD x-Tuesday, April 27: Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Boston 2, Buffalo 1 Thursday, April 15: Buffalo 2, Boston 1 Saturday, April 17: Boston 5, Buffalo 3 Monday, April 19: Boston 2, Buffalo 1 Wednesday, April 21: Buffalo at Boston, late Friday, April 23: Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Buffalo at Boston, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 28: Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh 3, Ottawa 1 Wednesday, April 14: Ottawa 5, Pittsburgh 4 Friday, April 16: Pittsburgh 2, Ottawa 1 Sunday, April 18: Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 2 Tuesday, April 20: Pittsburgh 7, Ottawa 4 Thursday, April 22: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. x-Saturday, April 24: Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE Colorado 2, San Jose 2 Wednesday, April 14: Colorado 2, San Jose 1 Friday, April 16: San Jose 6, Colorado 5, OT Sunday, April 18: Colorado 1, San Jose 0, OT Tuesday, April 20: San Jose 2, Colorado 1, OT Thursday, April 22: Colorado at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24: San Jose at Colorado, TBD x-Monday, April 26: Colorado at San Jose, TBD Nashville 2, Chicago 1 Friday, April 16: Nashville 4, Chicago 1 Sunday, April 18: Chicago 2, Nashville 0 Tuesday, April 20: Nashville 4, Chicago 1
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Thursday, April 22: Chicago at Nashville, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24: Nashville at Chicago, 3 p.m. x-Monday, April 26: Chicago at Nashville, TBD x-Wednesday, April 28: Nashville at Chicago, TBD Los Angeles 2, Vancouver 1 Thursday, April 15: Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Saturday, April 17: Los Angeles 3, Vancouver 2, OT Monday, April 19: Los Angeles 5, Vancouver 3 Wednesday, April 21: Vancouver at Los Angeles, late Friday, April 23: Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m. x-Sunday, April 25: Vancouver at Los Angeles, TBD x-Tuesday, April 27: Los Angeles at Vancouver, TBD Phoenix 2, Detroit 2 Wednesday, April 14: Phoenix 3, Detroit 2 Friday, April 16: Detroit 7, Phoenix 4 Sunday, April 18: Phoenix 4, Detroit 2 Tuesday, April 20: Detroit 3, Phoenix 0 Friday, April 23: Detroit at Phoenix, 10 p.m. Sunday, April 25: Phoenix at Detroit, 2 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 27: Detroit at Phoenix, TBD
RACING 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule and standings Feb. 6 — x-Budweiser Shootout (Kevin Harvick) Feb. 11 — x-Gatorade Duel 1 (Jimmie Johnson) Feb. 11 — x-Gatorade Duel 2 (Kasey Kahne) Feb. 14 — Daytona 500 (Jamie McMurray) Feb. 21 — Auto Club 500 (Jimmie Johnson) Feb. 28 — Shelby American, Las Vegas (Jimmie Johnson) March 7 — Kobalt Tools 500 (Kurt Busch) March 21 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. (Jimmie Johnson) March 28 — Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500, Martinsville, Va. (Denny Hamlin) April 10 — Subway Fresh Fit 600, Avondale, Ariz. (Ryan Newman) April 18 — Samsung Mobile 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Denny Hamlin) April 25 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala. May 1 — Heath Calhoun 400, Richmond, Va. May 8 — Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. May 16 — Autism Speaks 400, Dover, Del. May 22 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord May 22 — x-NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Concord May 30 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord June 6 — Pocono 500, Long Pond, Pa. June 13 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400, Brooklyn, Mich. June 20 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma June 27 — Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Loudon July 3 — Coke Zero 400 Powered By CocaCola, Daytona Beach, Fla. July 10 — LifeLock.com 400, Joliet, Ill. July 25 — Brickyard 400, Indianapolis Aug. 1 — Pennsylvania 500, Long Pond, Pa. Aug. 8 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 15 — Carfax 400, Brooklyn, Mich. Aug. 21 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. Sep. 5 — Labor Day Classic 500, Hampton, Ga. Sep. 11 — Richmond 400, Richmond, Va. Sep. 19 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. Sep. 26 — AAA 400, Dover, Del. Oct. 3 — Price Chopper 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 10 — Pepsi Max 400, Fontana, Calif. Oct. 16 — NASCAR Banking 500, Concord Oct. 24 — TUMS Fast Relief 500, Martinsville Oct. 31 — AMP Energy 500, Talladega, Ala. Nov. 7 — Lone Star 500, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 14 — Arizona 500, Avondale, Ariz. Nov. 21 — Ford 400, Homestead, Fla. x-non-points race; winners in (). 2010 Driver Standings 1. Jimmie Johnson, 1,248 2. Matt Kenseth, 1,140 3. Greg Biffle, 1,120 4. Kevin Harvick, 1,107 5. Jeff Gordon, 1,028 6. Kyle Busch, 1,020 7. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 1,013 8. Jeff Burton, 1,005 9. Kurt Busch, 999 10. Mark Martin, 994 11. Denny Hamlin, 973 12. Joey Logano, 941 (tie) Tony Stewart, 941 14. Clint Bowyer, 940 15. Carl Edwards, 937 16. Ryan Newman, 932 17. Martin Truex Jr., 918 18. Paul Menard, 869 19. Brian Vickers, 835 20. Scott Speed, 831
TRANSACTIONS Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Claimed LHP Pedro Viola off waivers from Cincinnati and optioned him to Norfolk (IL). Transferred OF Felix Pie to the 60-day DL. LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Activated LHP Brian Fuentes from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Francisco Rodriguez to Salt Lake (PCL). National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Optioned LHP Jordan Norberto to Reno (PCL). Recalled OF Cole Gillespie from Reno. CINCINNATI REDS—Named Joe Morgan special adviser for baseball operations. LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Activated RHP Ronald Belisario from the restricted list. NEW YORK METS—Placed RHP Ryota Igarashi on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Manny Acosta from Buffalo (IL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Placed 2B Mark Ellis on the 15-day DL. Recalled C Landon Powell from Sacramento (PCL). PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Recalled INF Argenis Diaz from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned LHP Brian Burres to Indianapolis. FOOTBALL National Football League NFL—Suspended Pittsburgh QB Ben Roethlisberger six games for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. BUFFALO BILLS—Claimed TE Michael Matthews off waivers from Detroit. CHICAGO BEARS—Announced the retirement of chairman Michael McCaskey and named George McCaskey chairman. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS—Traded DE Quentin Groves to Oakland for an undisclosed draft pick. COLLEGE BIG EAST CONFERENCE—Named Paul Tagliabue special adviser. APPALACHIAN STATE—Named Jason Capel men’s basketball coach.
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger leaves the field after an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Pittsburgh in this Dec. 27, 2009 file photo.
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two-time Super Bowl winner, a six-year veteran. “My decision today is not based on a finding that you violated Georgia law, or on a conclusion that differs from that of the local prosecutor. That said, you are held to a higher standard as an NFL player, and there is nothing about your conduct in Milledgeville that can remotely be described as admirable, responsible, or consistent with either the values of the league or the expectations of our fans.” Roethlisberger must undergo a “comprehensive behavioral evaluation by medical professionals” and may not attend any team offseason activities until that evaluation is completed. The suspension could be reduced to four games for good behavior. Sitting out all six games would cost him an estimated $2.8 million. Before acting, Goodell said he interviewed Roethlisberger on April 13 and talked to current and former players and the players’ union. He also reviewed information from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Milledgeville police and talked privately with Georgia district attorney Fred Bright. In addition, Goodell said he listened to recommendations from the quarterback’s representatives and took into account information learned by the NFL office regarding the alleged assault. “Your conduct raises sufficient concerns that I believe effective intervention now is the best step for your personal and professional welfare,” Goodell said in the letter. “In your six years in the NFL, you have first thrilled and now disappointed a great many people. I urge you to take full advantage of this opportunity to get your life and career back on track.”
Appalachian State hires Jason Capel as new coach
BOONE (AP) — Appalachian State turned to a familiar coaching family on Wednesday, making Jason Capel the youngest men’s basketball coach in NCAA Division I. At 30 years, three months, Capel, who was born in 1980, is three months younger than Wisconsin-Green Bay coach Brian Wardle. Capel replaces Buzz Peterson, who left for UNC Wilmington last week after his second stint with the Mountaineers lasted just one season. Capel was an assistant to Peterson last year — his only experience as a coach. It didn’t stop athletic director Charlie Cobb from promoting Capel, whose older brother, Jeff III, coaches Oklahoma. His father, Jeff Jr., is an assistant with the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats. “Coach Capel’s wealth of life experiences have led to him developing many of the qualities that we were looking for in a head coach, including maturity, humility and a presence that impresses anyone that comes in contact with him,” Cobb said. “I look forward to Coach Capel helping us achieve the championship aspirations that we have.” Capel played at North Carolina and was a two-time allAtlantic Coast Conference selection. He led the Tar Heels in scoring at 15.6 points as a senior in 2001-02. After playing professionally in the NBA Development League and in Serbia, Japan and Italy, Capel worked as a television analyst for ESPNU and Raycom Sports for two years before joining the Mountaineers’ staff last season. Capel was selected for the job ahead of longtime Appalachian State assistant Matt McMahon. “We have a great group of guys in place in our program and I’m really proud to be able to coach them,” Capel said. “I know that we’re all in this together and I’m ready to work hard.”
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Congratulations, Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle. History is on your side. Sure there are 18 races and five months left before the Chase for the championship field is set, but the top three drivers in the points after the spring race at Texas have always made NASCAR’s postseason since it was implemented in 2004. “Hopefully, it’ll be true this year,” Biffle said. Take that Texas theory a little further, and there may be only three spots left in the championship Chase for drivers who aren’t already in the top 12. Over the past six years, 74.2 percent of the drivers (49 of 66) who left Texas in April positioned for a spot in the Chase made it into NASCAR’s season-ending, 10-race playoff. “Momentum has a lot to do with it,” said Biffle, who has finished outside the top 10 only once this season. “Just like you see a guy win a race or get a pole, the next week, for some reason, they run well or better. Being in the top 10 or top 12 after this race certainly means that, one, the odds are with you. You’re above all the rest of the cars, so you obviously have to go down and they have to come up to pass you.” The rest of the top 12 after eight races are Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Burton, Kurt Busch, Mark Martin, Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano. Even so, all the drivers know that a lot can happen to help them maintain a spot or keep them from capitalizing on their early position. “That’s set after the Richmond race, I believe, yes?” Earnhardt said when told about the post-Texas standings often forecasting the Chase contenders. “Really? I don’t think that’s how it works,” he said, before adding with a laugh that if
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NASCAR’s Jimmie Johnson driving his Lowe’s No. 48 Chevrolet during Monday’s race in Texas.
it does, “I’m in the Chase if I can finish this race!” Earnhardt finished eighth at Texas and is seventh in points heading to Talladega this weekend. “It’s a long summer. I don’t buy it at all,” he said. OK, but there is another factor that favors Earnhardt in 2010. He has qualified for the Chase three times — making it in the even-numbered years and missing it in the odd ones. Even the hobbling Denny Hamlin, who is 11th in points, seemingly increased his odds of making the Chase for the fifth consecutive season by winning at the 1 1/2-mile, high-banked Texas track; every winner of the spring race at Texas has gone on to make the Chase. There is a 307-point gap separating four-time defending Sprint Cup champion and points leader Johnson from Logano and Stewart. It is a much tighter margin for the drivers below that trying to get into the top 12. Clint Bowyer, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman and Martin Truex Jr., in the 14th through 17th spots, are all within 23 points of Logano and Stewart. Even 22nd-place Kasey Kahne, in his final season with Richard Petty Motorsports and already set for a future with Hendrick Motorsports, is only 120
Eight notch wins at Harris Speedway HARRIS — Harris Speedway reported the results from the season’s first points race on Saturday, April 17. Racing was conducted in eight catagories and the top five finishers from each race are as follows: Front Wheel 4 1. Michael Staton 08 2. Mike Spencer M5 3. Jacob Bridges R80 4. Brandon Swink 18 5. Josh Melton 777 Pure Stock 1. Mitchell Coggins T2 2. Steve Penson 33 3. Michael Nelon 23 4. Josh Ayers 35 5. Eric Jackson 11 Limited Sportsman 1. Donnie Atkins 8 2. Josh Wilkerson 25W 3. Greg Dimsdale Zero 4. David Ayers 27A 5. Danny Laughter 65 Super Stock 4 1. Scott Morgan 9 2. Jamie Mattison 11x
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3. Brett Cooper 84 4. Ray Storay 04 5. Stacy Brock 96 Stock 8 1. Bubba Smith 29 2. Chris Lytle 31 3. Kenneth Bowers 55 4. Larry Self 61 5. Jason Edmonds 9 Street Stock 4 1. Shannon Barnhill X 2. Scott Morgan 19 3. Kevin Cooper 28 4. Justin Ward 117 5. James Frashier 61 Renegade 1. Jason Jolley 12 2. Willie Teems 11 3. Eric Jackson 3 4. Jimmy Chappell 5 5. Gary Tucker 14 Young Guns 1. Amanda Odom 32 2. Rodney Stepp 14 3. Wendy Smith 18 4. Jesse Wall 00 5. Elizabeth Ledford 13
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away from being in the top 12. Maybe he can have a reversal of fortune. Kahne is a two-time Chase participant, but also the only driver to twice miss the Chase after being in position to make it after Texas. Logano finished 28th in Texas to maintain his spot in the top 12. The 19-year-old driver has already been in and out of the top 12 a couple of times this season, but that is far better than what his position as a rookie last year. Hamlin, still recovering from knee surgery he had less than three weeks ago, took the lead on the final restart at Texas and held off Johnson in a 12-lap sprint after avoiding a racechanging nine-car crash. He moved up seven spots in the points after his second victory in three races — the other being another raindelayed Monday race, at Martinsville, two days before his surgery. Hamlin returned from surgery after the Easter break to drive 376 miles at oddly shaped Phoenix International Raceway where braking is often at a premium. “I didn’t feel like we were that good where we could just give up a month and still make the Chase,” Hamlin said. “I knew we still had to perform well, but I did it for the long run.”
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Nation Today Oil rig explodes in La.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Rescuers in helicopters and boats searched the Gulf of Mexico for 11 missing workers Wednesday after a thunderous explosion rocked a huge oil drilling platform and lit up the night sky with a pillar of flame. Seventeen people were injured, four critically. The blast Tuesday night aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig 50 miles off the Louisiana coast could prove to be one of the nation’s deadliest offshore drilling accidents of the past half-century. The Coast Guard held out hope that the missing workers escaped in one of the platform’s covered lifeboats. Nearly 24 hours after the explosion, the roughly 400-by-250-foot rig continued to burn, and authorities could not say when the flames might die out. A column of boiling black smoke rose hundreds of feet over the Gulf of Mexico as fireboats shot streams of water at the blaze.
Elian still divides
MIAMI (AP) — When federal agents stormed a home in the Little Havana community, snatched Elian Gonzalez from his father’s relatives
General Motors Co. CEO Edward Whitacre Jr., claps during a news conference at the GM Fairfax plant Wednesday, near Kansas City, Kan. Associated Press
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and put him on a path back to his father in Cuba, thousands of CubanAmericans took to Miami’s streets. Their anger helped give George W. Bush the White House months later and simmered long after that. Ten years later, the Little Havana home — for weeks the epicenter of a standoff that divided the U.S. — is a museum dedicated to Elian’s brief time in this country, but visitors are rare. Almost no one involved in the international custody case wants to talk about Elian, who is now a teenager back in Cuba. Even most Cuban-Americans have moved on. “It was a very sour taste left in their mouths,” said Andy Gomez, a senior fellow at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. “But, realistically, it was a battle to be lost.”
Bristol Palin testifies KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol testified Wednesday against a former college student charged with breaking into her mother’s e-mail account, saying she got anonymous phone calls and hundred of text messages after her cell phone number was posted online.
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GM repays $8.1B in loans WASHINGTON (AP) — Fallen giant General Motors Co. accelerated toward recovery Wednesday, announcing the repayment of $8.1 billion in U.S. and Canadian government loans five years ahead of schedule. The Obama administration crowed about the “turnaround” at GM and fellow bailout recipient Chrysler LLC, saying the government’s unpopular rescue of Detroit’s automakers is paying off. Much of the improvement comes from GM slashing its debt load and workforce as part of its bankruptcy reorganization last year. But the automaker is a long way from regaining its old blue-chip status: It’s still losing money — $3.4 billion in last year’s fourth quarter alone. And while its car and truck sales are up so far this year, that’s primarily due to lower-profit sales to car rental companies and other fleet buyers. Chrysler, now run by Italy’s Fiat Group SpA, said Wednesday it lost almost $200 million in the first quarter. But it said it boosted its cash reserves by $1.5 billion, reducing the likelihood that it will need more government aid. “This turnaround wasn’t an accident of history,” said White House economic adviser Larry Summers. “It was the result of considered and politically difficult decisions made by President Obama to provide GM and Chrysler — and indeed the auto industry — a lifeline.” Vice President Joe Biden said President Barack Obama “took a lot of heat” to keep GM alive. “And this has even exceeded our expectations.” Biden said GM is now in a better position to “make what the market demands: energy-efficient vehicles for a cleaner world.” GM CEO Ed Whitacre, a former telecommunications executive who was tapped to lead the automaker’s revival, announced the loan playback at the company’s Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Kan. He also said GM is investing $257 million in that factory and the DetroitHamtramck plant in Michigan. No new jobs will be added, but workers at both plants are gaining job security because they will build the next generation of the popular midsize Chevrolet Malibu. Whitacre said GM was rebuilding
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through the sale of gas-sipping midsize cars and crossovers and investing more than $1.5 billion in 20 plants since leaving bankruptcy protection, preserving 7,500 jobs. “We’ve developed a healthy, clean balance sheet and we’ve developed a cost structure that allows us to be competitive,” Whitacre said before leaving for Washington to provide an update on GM’s progress to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Michigan’s congressional delegation. A GM official said Whitacre was paying for the chartered flight from Kansas City to Washington out of his own pocket. U.S. auto executives received a scolding from Congress last year when they took private jets to Washington to seek a taxpayerfunded bailout. Bruce Clark, senior vice president of Moody’s Investors Service, said the loan payback is one step in a longer improvement process for GM. It’s also a sign of positive changes that include GM reducing its debt load and rolling out better vehicles. “I wouldn’t cite that as sort of the bellwether, but things certainly are? moving in their favor,” Clark said. He said the biggest threat to GM’s recovery is another slowdown in auto sales. GM lost $88 billion between 2004, when it last turned a profit, and last year when it declared bankruptcy. It endured years of painful restructuring, closing 14 factories and shedding more than 65,000 blue-collar jobs in the U.S. through buyouts, early retirement offers and layoffs. GM received $52 billion from the U.S. government and $9.5 billion from the Canadian and Ontario governments starting in 2008. At first the entire amount of U.S. aid was considered a loan as the government tried to keep GM from going under and pulling the fragile economy into a depression. But during bankruptcy, the U.S. government reduced the loan portion to $6.7 billion and converted the rest to company stock that gave it a 61 percent ownership control. Canadian governments also converted part of their debt to shares, reducing its loan balance to $1.4 billion. The final installments on those loans were repaid Tuesday, comfortably beating a 2015 deadline.
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THE MARKET IN REVIEW
STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS
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GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last CPI 25.12 FredM pfN 2.00 FredM pfM 2.01 W Holding 7.61 CastleAM 17.90 IDT Corp 8.82 GrayTvA 3.70 IDT Cp C 7.25 HovnanE 6.32 CenPacF 2.66
Chg +4.31 +.28 +.26 +.96 +2.21 +1.09 +.40 +.78 +.67 +.28
%Chg +20.7 +16.3 +14.9 +14.4 +14.1 +14.1 +12.1 +12.1 +11.9 +11.8
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name Last Synovus 3.46 PiperJaf 39.63 AMR 7.77 AirTran 5.31 BkA BM RE 2.06 TrinaSol s 24.34 UnvHR 33.40 StratABK37 2.25 NBkGreece 3.33 SemiMfg 5.72
Chg %Chg -.36 -9.4 -4.05 -9.3 -.79 -9.2 -.49 -8.4 -.19 -8.4 -1.78 -6.8 -2.37 -6.6 -.15 -6.3 -.22 -6.2 -.37 -6.1
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg Citigrp 9454933 4.93 -.04 BkofAm 1988074 18.28 -.33 S&P500ETF1808219120.66 -.22 SPDR Fncl 1664928 16.64 -.10 FordM 1162380 14.13 +.22 WellsFargo 931042 33.01 -.68 DirFBear rs 831881 11.50 +.14 AmbacF h 769607 2.01 -.12 Keycorp 745519 8.94 +.36 Pfizer 673739 16.60 -.16 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume
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Chg %Chg +.71 +31.0 +2.74 +14.4 +1.50 +9.1 +.39 +7.8 +.18 +6.9 +.46 +4.9 +.12 +4.8 +.95 +4.2 +.10 +3.7 +.94 +3.5
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
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MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg NA Pall g 67927 4.92 -.34 NwGold g 41389 5.26 +.02 Talbots wt 39875 4.18 ... GoldStr g 24960 3.95 ... VantageDrl 23798 1.71 +.01 Taseko 22711 5.85 -.10 RexahnPh 22365 2.36 -.16 TwoHrbInv 20389 8.85 -.13 YM Bio g 20292 1.42 -.14 Rentech 19550 1.11 -.01 DIARY
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Chg +1.11 +2.04 +6.28 +.49 +2.35 +.81 +.50 +1.54 +.48 +.54
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LOSERS ($2 OR MORE) Last 9.54 4.47 3.01 4.16 18.26 4.00 2.06 40.76 2.93 3.30
Chg -3.02 -1.18 -.74 -.84 -3.07 -.57 -.26 -4.31 -.31 -.34
%Chg -24.0 -20.9 -19.7 -16.8 -14.4 -12.5 -11.2 -9.6 -9.6 -9.3
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
Name Vol (00) HuntBnk 1150215 Intel 727863 GileadSci 696773 Yahoo 685158 PwShs QQQ665849 SiriusXM h 622813 ETrade 596067 CybrSrce 528491 Microsoft 510034 Cisco 419637
Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume
Last Chg 6.59 +.76 23.80 -.32 40.76 -4.31 17.45 -.93 50.03 +.28 1.10 -.03 1.82 +.05 25.72 +6.28 31.33 -.03 27.24 +.06
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1,420 1,272 122 2,814 287 8 2,526,699,964
AP-GfK Poll: Americans shifting back to US cars
CINCINNATI (AP) — Buy American? That’s suddenly a good idea again to more car buyers. Toyota’s safety problems and a buffed-up lineup of offerings from Detroit’s Big 3 are rubbing the tarnish off car buyers’ perceptions of U.S. models. An Associated Press-GfK Poll shows that 38 percent favor U.S. vehicles while 33 percent prefer Asian brands, a significant improvement for U.S. automakers compared to four years ago. “Really, the American car industry has opened its eyes,” said Jose Nunez, 24, a customer at Planet Dodge Chrysler Jeep in Miami on Wednesday. “And it’s really giving the people what they want, what they need. I think after all we’ve been through, definitely the three big companies are responding to it.” The findings provide fuel for U.S. automakers who are getting sales and swagger back after a bleak period of huge financial losses, job cuts and market share declines. General Motors Co. and Chrysler LLC needed government help just to survive. Watching an iconic American industry beaten down amid the Great Recession may be one reason Americans are giving U.S. automakers a closer look. “I think Americans are beginning to realize the significance of America’s auto industry to its history and to its future, and we’re a bit more sensitive now to what will be its fate,” said John Heitmann, an auto historian at the University of Dayton. Veronica Sullivan, 41, typified that approach as she finalized the paperwork at a suburban Buffalo, N.Y., dealership on her new Ford Focus. “Keep the wages in the American hand, supplying jobs for Americans. Why not keep the cash flow where we are and benefit for ourselves?” Sullivan said. “And I think also that Ford, for myself, builds a really good car.” The poll results are encouraging to Tom Gill, who owns a Chevrolet dealership just off Interstate 75 in Florence, Ky. — in the heart of the so-called “Auto Alley” region loaded with auto-related businesses and plants. The veteran dealer often uses the American flag and patriotic pitches in his advertising. “With all that said, the General Motors product line, the Ford product line, have just really been producing hit after hit,” said Gill, citing the Chevrolet Malibu and Camaro as current hot sellers. He says his sales are up 30 percent so far this year. General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre noted the optimism Wednesday at a factory in Kansas City, Kan., where he announced that GM was paying $8.1 billion in U.S. and Canadian government loans early. He also announced that GM will pump $257 million into expanded production at the Kansas plant and another in Michigan.
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Stocks muddled as Apple fades NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market stalled Wednesday after the glow of strong results at Apple Inc. and a few other companies faded. The Dow Jones industrial average rose about 8 points, while broader indexes were mixed. Technology and industrial shares drew buyers after Apple Inc. and Boeing Co. delivered results that topped expectations. Health care stocks lagged on concerns that new health care laws will hurt the industry’s profits. Financial stocks also fell after traders speculated on the fallout from a potential overhaul of government regulations. The good news on earnings wasn’t enough to give the market much of a lift. Analysts caution that investors are starting to become accustomed to better earnings so even stellar numbers might not inject energy into stocks. “This market is overbought and it really does need a little bit of a pullback. We’re priced for perfection,” said Burt White, chief investment officer for LPL Financial in Boston. Some selling could come Thursday after a profit forecast from eBay Inc. disappointed investors after the closing bell. Shares of the online auction company fell 8 percent in afterhours electronic trading. Futures contracts for technology-dominated Nasdaq 100 index fell 0.3 percent after eBay’s report. Apple’s earnings blew past analysts forecasts thanks to strong sales of iPhones, sending its stock up 6 percent. Apple was the latest in a string of technology companies to report improving profits as the economy recovers. Industrial stocks rose after Boeing’s first-quarter profit was stronger than expected and the aircraft maker said it plans to deliver its 787 by the end of the year. The stock rose 4 percent. United Technologies Corp.’s profit jumped and the parent of Otis elevators and Sikorsky
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In this file photo taken March 8, 2010, the the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, is seen. Stock futures were mixed Wednesday, April 21, 2010, with Nasdaq futures rising after strong earnings from Apple boosted the technology industry.
Aircraft raised the lower end of its profit forecast. United Technologies climbed about 4 percent. Boeing and United Technologies are both among the 30 stocks that make up the Dow industrials. Economic concerns eclipsed some of investors’ enthusiasm over the improved earnings. The stock market has been rising for 13 months since major stock indexes hit 12-year lows. For more than two months there have been few interruptions in the advance. Many analysts say some break is needed to keep stocks from getting overheated. The Dow rose 7.86, or 0.1
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percent, to 11,124.92, its third straight advance. The Dow has risen nine of the past 10 days. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index slipped 1.23, or 0.1 percent, to 1,205.94. The Nasdaq composite index rose 4.30, or 0.2 percent, to 2,504.61. Bond prices were mixed. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.74 percent from 3.80 percent late Tuesday. The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold rose. Crude oil 17 cents to settle at $83.68 per barrel.
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85 years ago, you were born on April 21. Anyone who knew you remembers how special you were in many ways. We think about your ability to never give up. You always had beautiful gardens that would fill the cabinets. We admire your devotion to your country in World War II. You were loyal to your wife, family and friends. We love and miss you. Our memories are many all of which will keep you in our hearts. We miss you to pieces while Jesus keeps you in our hearts. Being your 86th birthday we send our thanks for the time with you we shared. You left your light to guide us until we meet again.
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AP Analysis: Tensions ease between US and Iran By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON — For the time being, at least, everyone can take a deep breath. A senior defense official says the U.S. has ruled out a military strike against Iran anytime soon. A Pentagon spokesman says the U.S. military is confident it
could protect the U.S. from an Iranian missile strike, if and when Tehran develops longrange weapons. Also, Iran has proposed variations on a deal in which its capacity to make a nuclear bomb might be curbed. The calm may not last long. Iran is ready to hold large-scale
maneuvers in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. But President Barack Obama seems determined to reduce tensions with Iran. Now it’s up to Iran to take the cue or not. The latest glimmers of hope in the tense standoff with Iran came Wednesday. In Singapore, Michele
Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy, publicly ruled out a military strike on Iran at least for now. Instead, she is putting the emphasis on negotiations and U.N. sanctions to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons. “Military force is an option of last resort,”
she told reporters. “It’s off the table in the near term.” In Washington, meanwhile, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell offered assurances that the U.S. defense system based in California and Alaska was “sufficient to protect us” if Iran developed a missile capable of striking the
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United States, something it may have the hardware to do by 2015. And in Tehran, Iran suggested variations on a U.N.-backed plan that offers nuclear fuel rods to Iran in exchange for Iran’s stock of lowerlevel enriched uranium. It’s not clear what Iran is suggesting yet, but the swap is intended to curb Tehran’s ability to make a nuclear bomb. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday a fuel agreement could boost trust with the West. Nothing may come of the offer. Then again, it could be a basis for negotiations while Iran slowly progresses with its nuclear program, one it insists is designed for medical and other civilian purposes. Amid these developments, though, tensions intensified between the United States and Syria. The top U.S. diplomat for the region, Jeffrey Feltman, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. has warned Damascus several times in recent weeks that transferring Scud missiles to Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia could lead to a war in the Middle East. While Feltman did not confirm reports Syria had sent Scuds to Hezbollah, he said providing such weapons to the militia would be “an incendiary, provocative action” that could affect war and peace in the region. Israel and Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in 2006 against Israel that left some 1,200 Lebanese and 160 Israelis dead. EDITOR’S NOTE — Barry Schweid has covered diplomacy for The Associated Press since 1973.
Obama, Olympians meet indoors WASHINGTON (AP) — The weather problems of the Vancouver Games followed the U.S. Olympians to the White House. Steady rain forced the pleasantries indoors when the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams visited President Barack Obama on Wednesday. Instead of hanging out on the South Portico for the customary public words of support from the president, the 225 or so athletes clustered about in several rooms in the executive mansion to hobnob privately with the first family and Vice President Joe Biden. “It never gets old coming to the White House,” said short-track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno, whose three medals in Vancouver gave him a U.S.-record eight career Winter Olympic medals. “We get to see something new every time. We actually got to see Obama’s dog today.” The spring showers were reminiscent of the weather at the so-called “Spring Olympics” two months ago in Vancouver, where the snow turned to slush and some events had to be postponed. The rain didn’t dampen the spirits of the athletes, who presented gifts and took photos. “This experience has been out of this world,” said short-track speedskater Katherine Reutter, a double medalist in Vancouver. “This is it. This is America.”
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Obama seeks court nominee who backs women’s rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, treading carefully in the explosive arena of abortion and the Supreme Court, said Wednesday he will choose a nominee who pays heed to the rights of women and the privacy of their bodies. Yet he said he won’t enforce any abortion rights “litmus tests.” Obama said it is “very important to me” that his court choice take women’s rights into account in interpreting the Constitution, his most expansive comments yet about how a woman’s right to choose will factor into his decision. He plans to choose someone to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens within “the next couple weeks,” he told CNBC. Obama accelerated his political outreach and his conversations with candidates, positioning himself for one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency. He invited Senate leaders — Republicans as well as Democrats — to discuss the issue at the White House and commented briefly to reporters before their private meeting.
His rejection of the idea of “litmus tests” was standard presidential language, keeping him from being boxed in and protecting his eventual nominee from charges of bringing preconceived decisions to the bench. Obama’s pick is not expected to change the ideological balance on the court, though Stevens, the leader of the court’s liberals, has played a major role in the court’s upholding of abortion rights. Stevens, who turned 90 on Tuesday, is retiring this summer. Whoever Obama picks has the potential to affect the lives and rights of Americans for a generation or more. The president is considering about 10 people, including a newly confirmed name, federal appeals court Judge Ann Williams of Chicago. Among the others are appeals court judges Diane Wood, Merrick Garland and Sidney Thomas, former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow. When asked if he could nominate someone who did not support a woman’s right to choose, Obama said: “I am somebody who believes that women should have the ability to make often very difficult decisions about their own bodies and issues of reproduction.” He said he would not judge candidates on a single-issue abortion test. “But I will say that I want somebody who is going to be interpreting our Constitution in a way that takes into account individual rights, and that includes women’s rights,” Obama said. “And that’s going to be something that’s very important to me, because I think part of what our core constitutional values promote is the notion that individuals are protected in their privacy and their bodily integrity. And women are not exempt from that.”
Such a detailed answer raised the question of whether Obama had, in fact, spelled out a fundamental test over abortion. The White House rejected that. “I think a litmus test is when you say, will you ask a direct question about — do you believe this? Do you believe that?” White House press secretary
Robert Gibbs said. “I think the president will ask any nominee discuss how they view the Constitution and the legal principles enshrined in it.” The Supreme Court declared in 1973 through its Roe v. Wade decision that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion,
and close questioning on the issue has been a feature of Senate confirmation hearings for some time. Federal courts have battled with the ramifications of the landmark decision, although the core ruling has gone untouched. Obama’s language largely meshed with what he said during
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days. Before deciding what revenue options are best for dealing with the deficit and the economy, Obama said in an interview with CNBC, “I want to get a better picture of what our options are.” After Obama adviser Paul Volcker recently raised the prospect of a value-added tax, or VAT, the Senate voted 85-13 last week for a nonbinding “sense of the Senate” resolution that calls such a tax “a massive tax increase that will cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America’s economic recovery.” For days, White House spokesmen have said the president has not proposed and is not considering a VAT. “I think I directly answered this the other day by saying that it wasn’t something that the president had under consideration,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters shortly before Obama spoke with CNBC. After the interview, White House deputy communications director Jen Psaki said nothing has changed and the White House is “not considering” a VAT. Many European countries impose a VAT, which taxes the value that is added at each stage of production of certain commodities. When CNBC asked Obama whether he could see a potential VAT in this nation, the president said: “I know that there’s been a lot of talk around town lately about the value-added tax. That is something that has worked for some countries. It’s something that would be novel for the United States.” “And before, you know, I start saying ‘this makes sense or that makes sense,’ I want to get a better picture of what our options are,” Obama said. He said his first priority “is to figure out how can we reduce wasteful spending so that, you know, we have a baseline of the core services that we need.”
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Gov’t goes high-tech on $100 bills WASHINGTON (AP) — The folks who print America’s money have designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill. It’s part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says. The makeover, unveiled Wednesday by Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, may leave people wondering if there’s magic involved. Benjamin Franklin is still on the C-note. But he has been joined by a disappearing Liberty Bell in an inkwell and a bright blue security ribbon composed of thousands of tiny lenses that magnify objects in
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EU keeps eye on US financial regulation bill An airplane takes off at the Duesseldorf airport, western Germany, on Wednesday April 21,2010. Air controllers lifted all restrictions on German airspace on Wednesday, paving the way for more flights into some of Europe’s busiest airports. Associated Press
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LONDON (AP) — As volcanic ash cast a shadow over millions of lives, Londoners and other city dwellers across Europe were treated to a rare spectacle of nature: Pristine, blue skies brighter than any in recent memory. The remarkable sight happened in part because mass flight groundings prevented busy airspace from being crisscrossed with plumes of jet exhaust that create a semipermanent haze — and other effects beyond the white contrails themselves. Just as city lights make it necessary for us to go to the desert to appreciate the true glitter of stars, so has modern aviation dulled us to what the noontime sky can really look like — until the erupting volcano in Iceland offered a reminder. Britain’s poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, was inspired to write verses about the unusually clear skies above London: “Five miles up the hush and shush of ash/Yet the sky is as clean as a white slate/I could write my childhood there.” Scientists cast the phenomenon in more prosaic terms. Without aircraft contrails, “the skies have been particularly blue,” said meteorology professor Chris Merchant of the University of
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Edinburgh. The clearer skies are primarily due to a high pressure system in the region, but Merchant said the blue tone has been deeper than normal because of the lack of vapor from aircraft engines. Depending on weather conditions, the vapor trials can expand into thin cirrus clouds. It’s as if somebody suddenly ripped a veil away, exposing the true colors of the heavens. Amid frustration at the travel disruptions caused by the volcano, some European urbanites have also found something eerily pleasant in the sight of a sky without planes. In fact, part of the surreal quality of the whole affair has been the illusion of going back to a calmer, less complicated age in which the air was cleaner, life was less harried (no crossplanet shuttles for oneday meetings in Hong Kong), and jets didn’t rumble constantly in our ears. “It’s definitely quieter without the planes,” said Margaret Mellard, a 63-year-old retiree in London’s Regent’s Park. “You really do see the difference. It’s been really pleasant.” The crisis has caused some to reflect, perhaps nostalgically, on the age when people spent weeks or months en route to their destination. Hopping on a plane, popping an Ambien and waking up 10 hours later in a different time zone and
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culture seems somehow less romantic. There was also introspection in the notion of humankind’s vulnerability to the whims — or is it laws? — of nature. Would even the climate be affected? In an era of unprecedented concern about the environment, that, too, captured attention. For skygazers, the ash cloud produced another fringe benefit: spectacular fiery sunsets caused by dusk light filtering through ash. At least for now, the powerful eruptions from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull (ayyah-FYAH-lah-yerkuhl) volcano have not knocked the global climate off balance like past eruptions. The ash has not fallen to earth in any significant amounts outside Icelend. The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed a massive cloud of sulfur dioxide that quickly spread across the globe, blocking enough sunlight to reduce average global surface temperatures by about 1 degree Fahrenheit (half a degree Celsius). In 1783, a toxic ash cloud released by a
volcanic eruption on Iceland killed tens of thousands of people and had a strong cooling effect on Europe and North America. Unlike those eruptions, the Icelandic plume has not climbed into the stratosphere, about 40,000 feet (12,000 meters) above the Earth’s surface. That layer of the atmosphere is more stable than lower levels where rain clouds rinse the dust particles from the air. “Once the volcanic material comes up to those altitudes, it can stay for a year or so,” said Eigel Kaas, a climate expert at the University of Copenhagen. “Because once the particles are up in the stratosphere there is no precipitation.” Should the Icelandic eruption persist and grow stronger, however, there is a chance that the summer could become a tad cooler in Europe, Kaas said. “If it continues for a month with a rather high altitude, 8-10 kilometers (5-6 miles), then it will definitely impact climate in a regional manner, mainly Europe,” he said.
LONDON (AP) — The European Union is hoping the financial overhaul moving through Congress will converge with EU calls for more regulation to fix the failures that led to the 2008 banking and credit crisis. The U.S. overhaul is being welcomed by EU leaders from French President Nicolas Sarkozy to British Prime Gordon Brown, who have long argued for the need to reign in the financial system — but trans-Atlantic accord starts to falter however when leaders move from broad goal-setting to implementation and details. In particular, European officials are skeptical of proposals to ban banks from risky trading on their own behalf. They fear it would handicap global European financial players such as Deutsche Bank AG and France’s BNP Paribas SA. If enacted, the Volcker rule — named for Obama adviser and former Federal reserve chairman Paul Volcker — could force European banks to change the way they operate in the U.S., according to analysts including Richard Portes, president of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. “There is opposition to that in Europe and in particular on the continent,” he said. “It’s very unlikely to be emulated.” Deutsche Bank chief Josef Ackermann has called the proposal “problematic,” saying giving up integrated financial markets would hurt Germany economically. The ban on proprietary trading, proposed by President Obama, has found resistance from some legislators and there have been proposals to soften it. Chantal Hughes, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, says that the European banks have a different model to their U.S. counterparts and “solutions adapted to the US market are not necessarily suitable for the EU.” Beside plans to restrict bank’s trading activities, House and Senate bills would govern previously unregulated derivatives blamed for helping spread the troubles, create a mechanism for liquidating large firms, and establish a consumer protection agency to police lending, credit cards and other bank-customer transactions. Europe is also keeping its eye on U.S. moves to change the way derivatives — complex financial products whose values are based on the values of other investments — are bought and sold. The proposal is designed to increase transparency by putting the trades through exchanges.
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Cleaning plates could be hazardous Dear Abby: “Milwaukee Grandma” (Feb. 16) was “appalled to see the number of adults who forced their children to eat” in restaurants. “Grandma” is absolutely right. Children will eat when hungry and stop when they have had enough. The old saying “Clean your plate” is contributing to the obesity epidemic. Children are born with the ability to self-regulate their food intake. Notice how many babies move their heads away from the bottle or breast when they are full. The obesity epidemic is based on many factors, including excessive meal portions, decreased physical activity, abundance of junk food, and lack of available and affordable healthy foods in some areas of the country — to name a few. Parents can make a difference by involving their children in the shopping for and preparation of meals, eating as a family with the TV shut off and making activity fun and a part of the everyday routine. — Dietitian Dear Dietitian: Thank you for enlightening me regarding the obesity epidemic. A number of other readers weighed in on the topic with interesting insights. Read on: Dear Abby: I was raised by parents who forced me to “clean my plate or else.” They were the ones who fixed my plate or decided what to order us
Dear Abby Abigail van Buren
kids in restaurants. Eating became a negative experience as I was growing up. It wasn’t until I got counseling prior to my gastric bypass surgery that I learned to stop eating when I was full instead of feeling guilty unless I cleaned my plate. But by then I weighed 400 pounds. It’s better to teach children to eat at mealtime, be responsible when it comes to snacking and “listen to your body” when it says, “I’m full.” — Happy Dear Abby: As a family and consumer sciences educator, one of the courses I teach in child development is “division of responsibility.” This means it’s the parents’ responsibility to offer nutritious food choices to their children, and the children’s responsibility to decide how much to eat. By forcing children to “clean their plate,” we are overriding the natural programming they are born with that tells them when they are full and to stop eating. When we teach children to eat past natural satiation, obesity is the natural consequence. — Laura
Gait abnormality needs attention Dear Dr. Gott: I have been having balance problems for almost a year. I’ve seen an ear doctor for possible vertigo, a cardiologist for possible heart/circulation problems and a general practitioner with my concerns. I have to hold on to the wall to turn around when I take a shower and always feel pressure at the base of my neck. I tend to feel off balance even when walking. I have no other sensation when I’m sitting, and I sleep quite well. Please help with at least a suggestion, because I have had no diagnosis from any of the five doctors I’ve seen. I even saw a neurologist, who only suggested physical therapy. I’m hoping for a response. Dear Reader: It’s time for a second — or sixth — opinion. Something is being missed, and I am concerned about the complaint of constant pressure at the base of your neck. There are a number of balance disorders that can be caused by a variety of medical conditions. The
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first consideration is the inner ear and Meniere’s disease, followed by but not in any specific order: hematoma from a fall, brain tumors, poor vision, advanced age and medicationinduced problems. Normal balance requires three systems working in harmony — visual, somatosensory and vestibular. When one fails to function properly, balance can be dramatically affected. Make an appointment with a new otolaryngologist and neurologist to help you get to the bottom of the issue. You always have the right to return to your team of physicians, but a second opinion won’t hurt. And you deserve to function normally.
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Your Birthday, April 22;
A realization that others need you as much as you need them will go a long way in the year ahead. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Try to seek refuge from the demands of the outside world. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Hopefully a lesson you’ve learned from a past painful experience will come to mind when you find yourself in a similar situation. CANCER (June 21-July 22) - If you fall into making some unexpected money today, remember: “Easy come, easy go.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - Make sure there is something in it for others if you want them to do your bidding today. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - Don’t think you need a good reason to be well organized today. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - Be careful that you don’t unthinkingly give one friend more attention than you do another. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - An important objective can be achieved today, but not without a script or organization. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - When you least expect it, you will be tested on knowledge you claim to have. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - Should you be subjected to some undesirable changes today, don’t fight it. If you’re inflexible, it will work against you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Others will have little hesitation to chip in and lend a hand. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - If an objective of significance to you is not important to others, don’t cram it down their throats. ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Just relax and be yourself. It is likely to be hard to hide your true feelings.
The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Thursday, April 22, 2010 — 17 The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, THURSDAY, April 22, 2010 — 17
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Recriminations erupt in ash-fueled aviation crisis
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Airlines toted up losses topping $2 billion and struggled to get hundreds of thousands of travelers back home Wednesday after a week of crippled air travel, as questions and recriminations erupted over Europe’s chaotic response to the volcanic ash cloud. Civil aviation authorities defended their decisions to ground fleets and close the skies — and later to reopen them — against heated charges by airline chiefs that the decisions were based on flawed data or unsubstantiated fears. The aviation crisis sparked by a volcanic eruption in Iceland left millions in flightless limbo, created debilitating losses for airlines and other industries and even threatened Europe’s economic recovery. An aviation group called the financial fallout worse than the three-day worldwide shutdown after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. It was a lesson in mankind’s dependency on air travel, the vulnerability of a vital industry, and the confusion that can ensue when each nation decides for itself how to handle a problem that crosses borders. The air space over most of Europe opened Wednesday after the vast, invisible ash-laden cloud dispersed to levels deemed safe. Restrictions remained over parts of Britain, Ireland, France and the Scandinavian countries. Electronic boards in Europe’s biggest hubs — London’s Heathrow, Paris’ Charles de Gaulle and Germany’s airport at Frankfurt — showed about 80 percent of flights on schedule as airlines began filling vacant seats with those who had
been stranded for days. But with 102,000 flights scrapped worldwide over the last week, it could take over a week to get everyone home. In Iceland, the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAHlah-yer-kuhl) remained active Wednesday — throwing magma chunks the size of cars into the air, bubbling lava and producing tremors. But it was not shooting ash and smoke four to six miles (6 to 10 kilometers) into the air like it did previously. “There is much, much less ash production and the plume is low,” said Gudrun Nina Petersen, meteorologist at the Icelandic Met Office, adding that mild winds kept the ash away from crowded air flight corridors. But scientists at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology said an initial analysis of samples collected over Zurich last weekend by special weather balloons concluded that safety concerns were warranted and the volcano could be getting more dangerous. The concentration of particles was “very high” at up to 600 micrograms per cubic meter, according to Professor Thomas Peter. The composition of the volcanic magma also appeared to be changing into a form that could become more explosive. Peter Ulmer, a professor of petrology, said the magma has been gaining in silicate content. If it continues, or if the nearby Katla volcano also erupts, “this could lead to the most feared of all eruptions: A Plinian eruption,” Ulmer said. That kind of eruption is named for
Pliny the younger, who witnessed the devastating of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. that destroyed Pompeii. Such an event could last for weeks or months, he said. Civil aviation officials said their decision to reopen terminals where thousands of weary travelers had camped out was based on science, not on the undeniable pressure put on them by the airlines. “The only priority that we consider is safety. We were trying to assess the safe operating levels for aircraft engines with ash,” said Eamonn Brennan, chief executive of Irish Aviation Authority. “It’s important to realize that we’ve never experienced in Europe something like this before,” he told the AP. “We needed the four days of test flights, the empirical data, to put this together and to understand the levels of ash that engines can absorb.” Despite their protests, the timing of some reopenings seemed dictated by airlines’ commercial pressures. British Airways raised the stakes in its showdown with aviation authorities Tuesday by announcing it had more than 20 long-haul planes in the air and wanted to land them in London. Despite being told the air space was firmly shut, radar tracking sites showed several BA planes circling in holding patterns over England late Tuesday before the somewhat surprising announcement that air space was to be reopened. “We were circling for about two hours,” said Carol Betton-Dunn, 37, a civil servant who was on the first flight to land at Heathrow, from Vancouver. She said passengers were initially
told the flight would be going to London, then that it was heading for an unspecified European airport, then that Shannon airport in western Ireland would be their destination. “It’s been exhausting,” Betton-Dunn said. BA chief executive Willie Walsh said by Tuesday it had become clear the lockdown was excessive. “I don’t believe it was necessary to impose a blanket ban on all U.K. airspace last Thursday,” he said. “My personal belief is that we could have safely continued operating for a period of time.” KLM Royal Dutch Airlines also sent aircraft toward Amsterdam before Dutch air space officially reopened, said Edwin van Zwol, president of the Dutch Pilots Association. Lufthansa demanded and received a waiver from German authorities that allowed them to bring 15,000 passengers back to Germany on Tuesday, flying at low altitude. Other Germany-based airlines also received waivers, for a total of 800 flights, even though German airspace was not officially opened until Wednesday. Van Zwol, a veteran Boeing 777 captain, was critical of European authorities for failing to consult with the airlines or pilots. “They put all the experts on the sidelines,” he said. “(Airlines) are used to this. They deal with volcanic situations all over the world on a daily basis, so they are quite capable of making decisions.” The European decision to partially reopen airspace did not come until the fifth day of the crisis.
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18 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, THURSDAY, April 22, 2010 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE NO. 10 CVD 246 THE COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD PLAINTIFF, VS. JAMES W. KEETER, MATTIE KEETER, all assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of MATTIE KEETER, together with all her creditors and lien holders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of MATTIE KEETER, ANTHONY PAUL KEETER, all assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of ANTHONY PAUL KEETER, together with all his creditors and lien holders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of ANTHONY PAUL KEETER, JOYCE ANN KEETER GREENE, JAY WILLIAM "BUSTER" LOGAN, all assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of JAY WILLIAM "BUSTER" LOGAN, together with all his creditors and lien holders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of JAY WILLIAM "BUSTER" LOGAN, SHIRLEY MAE LOGAN LEWIS, MARTHA JEAN LOGAN THOMPSON, JACQUELINE LOGAN, SHERMAN WILLIAM LOGAN, JAY VAN LOGAN, JEANETTE LOGAN DAVIS, all assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of JEANETTE LOGAN DAVIS, together with all her creditors and lien holders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of JEANETTE LOGAN DAVIS, RAMONDA BANKS, ADRIENNE INGRAM, KENYA SCOTT, SHALONE DAVIS, CORTESE DAVIS DEFENDANTS,
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IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION File #: 09 CvD 1695 BRANDON SMITH, Plaintiff, vs. LAURA SMITH, Defendant. NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: LAURA SMITH 116 Twin Pond Trail Bostic, NC 28018 Take notice that a Complaint seeking relief has been filed against you in the above entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than May 31, 2010, and upon failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. This the 22nd day of April, 2010. Brian R. Oglesby, Attorney for Plaintiff PO Box 1312 Rutherfordton, NC 28139 828-453-7543
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DEFENDANT LIENHOLDER. NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION TO: JAMES W. KEETER, MATTIE KEETER, all assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of MATTIE KEETER, together with all her creditors and lienholders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of MATTIE KEETER, ANTHONY PAUL KEETER, all assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of ANTHONY PAUL KEETER, together with all his creditors and lien holders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of ANTHONY PAUL KEETER, JOYCE ANN KEETER GREENE, JAY WILLIAM "BUSTER" LOGAN, all assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of JAY WILLIAM "BUSTER" LOGAN, together with all his creditors and lien holders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of JAY WILLIAM "BUSTER" LOGAN, SHIRLEY MAE LOGAN LEWIS, MARTHA JEAN LOGAN THOMPSON, JACQUELINE LOGAN, SHERMAN WILLIAM LOGAN, JAY VAN LOGAN, JEANETTE LOGAN DAVIS, all assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of JEANETTE LOGAN DAVIS, together with all her creditors and lien holders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of JEANETTE LOGAN DAVIS, RAMONDA BANKS, ADRIENNE INGRAM, KENYA SCOTT, SHALONE DAVIS, and CORTESE DAVIS Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Complaint for foreclosure on real property for delinquent ad valorem taxes owed to Rutherford County, North Carolina which is more completely described in the Complaint. Plaintiff seeks to extinguish any and all claims or interest that you may have in the subject real property as more particularly described in the Complaint. You are required to defend such pleading not later than May 18, 2010, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. This the 8th day of April, 2010. _______________________________ Elizabeth T. Miller, Attorney for Plaintiff 346 North Main Street Post Office Box 800 Rutherfordton, North Carolina 28139 Telephone: 828-286-8222 Facsimile: 828-286-8229
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE 10 SP 127 Pursuant to an Order of Sale by the Clerk of Superior Court of Rutherford County, North Carolina, dated APRIL 7, 2010, which has been entered in the above special proceeding file, and under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by THE HOMES AT FIREFLY COVE, INC., to CB Trustee, LLC, Trustee, dated JUNE 12, 2008, and recorded in Deed of Trust Book 1011, at Page 452, Rutherford County, North Carolina, Public Registry, and under and by virtue of the authority vested in the undersigned Substitute Trustee, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will on APRIL 29, 2010, offer for sale at 11:00 o’clock A. M. at the main entrance of the Rutherford County Courthouse in RUTHERFORDTON, County of Rutherford, State of North Carolina, the following described tract of land, including improvements, if any, located thereon: BEING the same property described in that Deed of Trust recorded in Deed of Trust Book 1011, at Page 452, Rutherford County Public Registry. The record owners of the above-described real property as reflected on the records of the Rutherford County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this Notice are THE HOMES AT FIREFLY COVE, INC. This sale will be subject to prior liens, taxes, easements, restrictions, reservations and rights of way of record. The property, including the improvements and fixtures thereon, if any, to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS". Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security instrument, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property, including improvements and fixtures thereon, if any, being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. The highest bidder at said sale may be requested to post a cash deposit of five (5%) percent of the amount of the bid or $750.00, whichever is greater. The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to withdraw and discontinue the sale at any time prior to the delivery of a deed to the highest bidder.
4 FAMILY FC: 217 Stoneybrook Dr. Sat. 7A-until Furniture, appliances, clothing, tools, household items and much more!
4 FAMILY YARD SALE Rfdtn 179 Baber Rd. (off Poors Ford Rd.) Fri. 8A-2P & Sat. 7A-until Clothes dryer, match box cars, children and baby clothes, baby toys, Christmas items, movies, games. We’ve got it all! BIG YARD SALE Henson Building Materials in FC Fri. 8A-5P & Sat. 8A-12P Doors, windows, flooring, misc. items. Great deals! Friday 4/23 Only Yard Sale Sat. 8AM! Henderson Care Center 125 Henderson Circle (across from Hospice on Hudlow Road). All proceeds will go to the Activity Department for a raised garden and fountain in the courtyard. All donations will be greatly appreciated. HUGE 4 FAMILY Rfdtn: Tri City Tire (Railroad Ave. & 64) Fri. & Sat. 7A-until Furniture, baby stuff, clothes, toys HUGE Rfdtn: 167 Harris St. Sat. 8A-12P 1965 Chevrolet Truck, Bay Sailor, clothes, household, misc. Rain date 5/8/10!
Indoor Garage Sale Rutherfordton: 139 Still Meadow Dr. Sat 7Auntil Household items, tools, chrome wheels, christmas decor and more! MOVING Rfdtn 394 Collett Street Sat. 8A-until Antique dining room set, furniture, household and decor, family clothing. Rain or shine! MOVING SALE Rfdtn 2368 Cove Rd. in Shingle Hollow Fri. & Sat. 9A-until Power tools, furniture, household items, clothing, golf equipment, books Cash only! 288-7153 MOVING Sandy Mush 285 Chase High Rd. (below Key Largo) Fri. & Sat. 8A-til Selling house, household items, some furniture MOVING SALE FC: 121 South Woodland Ave Fri 1P5P & Sat 9A-2P Tools, office equip., desk and files, household items pictures, coffee and end tables and lots more!
This the 7th day of April, 2010. FLAT CREEK PROPERTIES, LLC Substitute Trustee 138 Charlotte Street, Ste. 200 Asheville, NC 28801 (828) 255-7772
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — They were never routed, no matter what Pakistan claimed. Instead, the Taliban and al-Qaida fighters have merely relocated. They’re still near the Afghan border. Months after Pakistani troops chased them from South Waziristan, these militants have established a new base farther north under the protection of an insurgent leader who has cut past deals with the Pakistani army, according to residents, militants and reports
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