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By LARRY DALE Rachael Bradley, volunteer precinct worker at Sandy Mush, presents Michael Ledbetter his “I Voted” sticker Tuesday night. Bradley, a senior at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, worked about 13 hours Tuesday in conjunction with a government class at TJCA.

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FOREST CITY — Primary Election voting ended at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday but any absentee ballot arriving by mail at the Board of Elections office by 5 p.m. Friday will be counted.

Elections Director Debbie Bedford said all absentee votes received by Monday at 5 p.m. were counted and posted Tuesday night, but any other absentees votes arriving by Friday

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at 5 p.m. will be counted Tuesday, May 11, during canvassing of all votes.

The 36 provisional votes cast on Tuesday will also be counted during the canvass.

Provisional votes were cast at the various polling places.

“Everyone is allowed to vote and if they (precinct worker) didn’t find them on the voter list, then they could vote,” Bedford said.

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RUTHERFORDTON — Foothills Connect has received $300,000 from the N.C. Rural Center for a methane gas recovery and greenhouse project in Rutherford County.

The grant is part of $27.7 million in grants awarded by the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center to address critical water and sewer needs and to create jobs.

The grant to Foothills Connect Business & Technology Center is from the Economic Innovation Grants Program, which “supports innovative local and regional economic development projects that spur business activity, create jobs and further public and private investment in rural North Carolina.”

The Rutherford County project has both job creation and “green” aspects.

Jim Brown of Foothills Connect explained the project Wednesday.

“We received $300,000 from the Rural Center for our project that will capture the methane gas at the Rutherford County landfill and essentially use it to heat 33 small greenhouses in an area close to the landfill that will grow winter vegetables,” he said. “And we are also looking at other uses for that power for other months out of the year.”

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Back from the Arctic

By ALLISON FLYNN

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SPINDALE – A former banker has found herself at Isothermal Community College leading a program designed to help dislocated workers create their own businesses.

Faye Bishop is the new GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) Counselor.

GATE is a cooperative venture of the state Department of Commerce, the N.C. Community College System’s Small Business Center Network, the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, North Carolina REAL Enterprises, local JobLink Career Centers and the Rural Center.

GATE is designed to help those who have lost their jobs to start and run their own business. The scholarship program currently has more than 100 enrolled at Isothermal.

Bishop took over the position March 18 and has been busy interviewing prospective applicants on their business ideas.

“I’m a former banker and have done everything from teller to

Naval Reserve HM2 Timothy Owen recently returned from a humanitarian mission in Alaska.

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Corpsman helps out in Alaska

By ALLISON FLYNN Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY – Even though he was still in the United States, HM2 Timothy Owen felt as though he’d entered a whole new world during a recent humanitarian trip to Alaska.

Owen, a hospital corpsman second class with the U.S. Navy Reserve, took part in Operation Arctic Care, April 10-24, in Kotzebue, Alaska.

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Owen was one of more than 26 Navy Medical Reservists from Operational Health Support Unit Camp Lejeune who were handselected to take part in the mission.

Operation Arctic Care is an Innovative Readiness Training exercise where military medical personnel team up with civilian authorities providing expert medical care to

FOREST CITY — Nearly 30 performances are scheduled at iPraise 2010, a Christian music festival, on Saturday.

The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the city-owned parking lots along Trade Street in downtown.

Organizers say the purposes of the event are:

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n To provide an exposure opportunity to some quality independent/ unsigned Christian artists. n To promote unity in worship by including artists and bands of many different styles. n To increase awareness to small churches of opportunities for special events at/for their churches without the need for a large budget.

n To increase activity in Rutherford County and to bring residents of surrounding areas to the community.

Jamie Thietten, one of the scheduled performers, said, “I hope in this 12 hours of time that we will be an example to those around us, coming together for one day, putting aside our different musical Please see Music, Page 6

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the under-served populations.

Owen applied for a humanitarian mission last year, but he opted not to go because a co-worker left and he did not want to leave his employer, St. Luke’s Hospital, in a bind.

“I found out in February I was going,” Owen said. Owen served in the Navy on active duty for five years and has been a Reservist for nine years.

“I enjoy it still,” he said. “Hopefully, I’ll retire at 20 years.”

From Kotzebue, which served as the base camp for the mission, Owen traveled to Buckland and worked alongside other doctors and nurses and served in a dental and medical clinic, providing screenings for children and responding to sick calls.

“It’s remote,” Owen said of Buckland. “It’s not like Anchorage and other cities. There’s not a lot there. There are native stores and some other stores and a school and an airport that brings flights in.”

Owen said residents of Buckland spend from spring to fall hunting, fishing and gathering.

“They live on the land,” he said.

“It’s not like our society where we go to the grocery store to get what we need.”

Another difference between there and home, Owen said, is there is not as much concern for dental care.

“We did a lot of teeth extractions,” he said. “They are not as educated about taking care of their teeth as we are.”

In addition to the cultural differences, Owen said it was an adjustment getting used to the harsh landscape.

“The average temperature when I was there was around 21 degrees,” he said. “The day I left it was 1.”

It didn’t get dark in Buckland until around 12:15 at night either.

“By July they’ll have around 23 to 24 hours of daylight. It was strange for it to be 10:30 at night and still

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A two-vehicle collision (above) on U.S. 74A Wednesday morning resulted in the transport of one driver to Rutherford Hospital for evaluation. Jimmy Edgerton was driving a 1993 Ford F150 east when Stencil D. Quarles was driving a 2006 Cadillac and didn’t see Edgerton was stopped in front of him at the traffic light near The Contributed photo Sonic. There was minor damage to one vehicle. No charges were filed. Forest City Naval Reserve HM2 Timothy Owen police and firefighters and Rutherford County EMS responded. Also Wednesday at work during the recent humanitarian morning, a two-vehicle collision on Piney Ridge Road resulted in a another driver mission to Alaska. Owen traveled to going to Rutherford Hospital. A 1997 Dodge van driven by Carla Jenkins struck the Buckland and worked alongside other rear end of a 2000 Ford Tarsus driven by Candy Yelton. Yelton was making a left doctors and nurses and served in a hand turn of Piney Ridge Road onto a dirt road near Isothermal community College dental and medical clinic, providing when Jenkins failed to stop and hit the Ford. Spindale firefighters, North Carolina screenings for children and responding Highway Patrol and Rutherford County EMS responded to the call. to sick calls.

light,” he said. “They told me in the summer they put blinders on the house so people can distinguish when they are supposed to go to sleep.”

During a typical two-week duty, you work a normal day, Owen said.

But during a humanitarian mission, the hours vary and you often work six days a week rather than five. You can choose to go to various missions, some of which are overseas.

“There’s always opportunities to do things,” he said. “It makes you grow as a person.

“I always look forward to going and serving my country.”

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.

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Prom bus drinking gets Charlotte teens into trouble CHARLOTTE (AP) — Several high school students in North Carolina face citations and school suspensions after being accused of drinking vodka on a prom bus rented by a local school board member.

The Charlotte Observer reported that Rhonda Lennon is a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board who rented the bus to take 34 North Mecklenburg High School students from dinner to the prom

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manager,” Bishop said. “I was also a trainer for Dale Carnegie courses.

Everything I’ve ever done has been in client services.”

North Carolina is only one of four states to offer the program. The program began at Isothermal last summer and is set to run through June 2011.

“It’s amazing the businesses they (those enrolled) have in mind,” Bishop said. “Many of them link to their passions and where their passions lie – which is where it should be.”

Applying for the program is free, Bishop said, and once accepted, participants can still receive their unemployment benefits and in some cases, waive the job search portion of receiving the benefits since they are actively pursuing to start their own businesses.

“I would venture to say pretty much the ones who apply, normally three

Saturday. Lennon says she rented the bus so the teens wouldn’t be driving.

Among those charged with underage drinking is Lennon’s daughter, whom Lennon says was suspended for 10 days. She says authorities acted properly and the students should face the consequences.

North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement cited seven students for underage consumption and one for possession of alcohol. out of four get scholarships,” Bishop said.

Those scholarships help to cover the cost of classes applicable to their business ideas.

Bishop said small businesses, Name like those being created through GATE, will help bolster the economy.

“Many start with a husband and a wife who are definitely looking to expand when they can,” she said.

Those who are interested in the program can visit www.ncprojectgate.org or attend an orientation program the first Wednesday of each month at 9 a.m. in the Willow Room at The Foundation.

Bishop is the wife of WCAB Owner Jim Bishop. They have two children, Caron and Jay, and three grandchildren and one on the way.

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.

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Brothers die in murder-suicide

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — North Carolina officials say a Winston-Salem city employee has been shot to death on the job by his brother, who then killed himself.

Multiple media outlets reported the shooting happened Tuesday afternoon at a construction site.

City Manager Lee Garrity identified the employee as 59-year-old Randy Buchanan, a construction inspector in the city’s engineering division.

Garrity says Buchanan had worked for the city for 25 years.

Police identified the other victim as 50-year-old Tony Guy Buchanan of Mocksville.

Police Capt. David Clayton says the brothers had fought before the shooting, but he didn’t know what caused the dispute. Clayton says investigators recovered one weapon from the scene.

Inmate’s death being investigated

ELIZABETH CITY (AP) — State authorities are investigating the death of a North Carolina jail inmate who was found unresponsive in his cell after he and another inmate fought.

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reported that 29-year-old Trenton Nathaniel McGilberry died Monday morning. Pasquotank County Sheriff Randy Cartwright says McGilberry died after a fight with Mareese Lindsey as the two were released from their cells for breakfast.

Cartwright describes the altercation as resembling “a wrestling match” and says neither man appeared to be badly hurt.

Five arrested for protest GREENSBORO (AP) — Five people who complained of what they call a “subculture of corruption” in a North Carolina police department have been arrested after they protested at the Greensboro City Council meeting.

The News & Record of Greensboro reported the protesters from a group called the Spirit of the SitIn Movement took over the council members’ seats during a break in the meeting.

The protesters were charged with trespassing when they wouldn’t disperse. Arrest records show they were released on a written promise to appear in court June 9.

City Council members defended the police department and called some of the group’s accusations false.

Police shoot, kill clinic gunman

DURHAM (AP) — Investigators believe a man killed in a confrontation with North Carolina police officers was the suspect in a shooting at a medical clinic that left a woman dead.

Durham police say 49-year-old Charlene King of Durham was shot and killed shortly before 3 p.m. on Tuesday at a Duke University Health System clinic. Police say they were involved in a shooting with 51-year-old Burnett Taylor of Durham near the clinic about 40 minutes later.

A police spokeswoman said Taylor died Tuesday evening from injuries received in the shootout.

Police say the shooting appears to have resulted from a domestic issue.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, center, gives a thumbs up as he greets supporters at his campaign headquarters in Lexington Tuesday.

Cunningham will face Elaine Marshall in a runoff election.

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Five House members lose primaries RALEIGH (AP) — Five North Carolina state House members — four of them Democrats — won’t be returning to the Legislature in 2011 after losing primary elections Tuesday that saw the total number of contested race soar.

Unofficial results showed Democratic Reps. Nick Mackey of Mecklenburg County, Bruce Goforth of Buncombe County, Ronnie Sutton of Robeson County and Earl Jones of Guilford County all lost to challengers.

Republican Rep. Pearl Burris Floyd of Gaston County also failed to keep her seat after winning her first term in 2008.

No state Senate incumbents lost.

Mackey, who also won his first term in 2008, lost to challenger Rodney Moore, who snared 62 percent of the vote. Mackey’s defeat came a day after a North Carolina State Bar disciplinary panel ordered Mackey’s law license suspended for up to three years for failing to disclose late tax filings and troubles while a police officer on his Bar exam application.

Moore will face Michael Wilson, who won Tuesday’s GOP primary, in the November election. Other Charlotte-area House Democrats — Reps.

Beverly Earle and Becky Carney — won their primaries. Earle and Carney had challengers with personal or professional connections to Mackey, raising questions of Democratic infighting.

Sutton, a nine-term House member and Lumberton lawyer, narrowly lost to Charles Graham, the former special education director in the Robeson County Schools. Sutton, a chairman of a House judiciary committee, received 49 percent of the vote compared to 51 percent for Graham.

Goforth, a four-term House member, lost handily to former congressional candidate Patsy Keever. Keever had 60 percent of the vote compared to 40 percent for Goforth.

Jones lost to Marcus Brandon by a similar margin. Jones has been a strong supporter for backing stem-cell research in North Carolina, making video poker legal again and permitting medical marijuana use.

Real estate agent Kelly Hastings, who is white, defeated Burris Floyd, the Legislature’s lone black Republican, 53 percent to 47 percent.

The incumbents lost during a primary election in which there were 81 contested House and Senate races, an increase compared to the 51 contested races in both the 2006 and 2008 primaries.

The GOP had 47 contested races for the Legislature on Tuesday, more than double the 22 races two years ago. The number of Democratic races rose from 29 to 34, caused in part by the departure of eight Democratic senators either through upcoming retirements or recent resignations.

House Democratic incumbents who won their primary challenges included Rep. Winkie Wilkins of Person County; firstterm Reps. Rosa Gill and Darren Jackson of Wake County; and Reps. Edith Warren of Pitt County.

Former Rep. Mary McAllister lost her Democatic primary rematch to Rep. Elmer Floyd, D-Cumberland, who beat McAllister two years ago.

GOP Reps. Jeff Barnhart of Cabarrus County, Jerry Dockham of Davidson County and John Blust of Guilford County withstood primary challenges, while Rep. Roger West, R-Cherokee, defeated challenger and distant cousin Tim West.

In the Senate, former House Co-Speaker Richard Morgan lost by a nearly 2-to-1 margin to Sen. Harris Blake, R-Moore, while GOP Sens. Andrew Brock of Davie County, Jim Forrester of Gaston County and Don East of Surry County easily won.

Kathy Harrington beat current Rep. Wil Neumann of Gaston County by a 2-to-1 margin in a four-candidate race for the GOP nomination for the seat being vacated by powerful Democratic Sen. David Hoyle of Gaston County. Harrington faces Democrat Annette Carter in November.

Sen. Clark Jenkins, D-Edgecombe, co-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, won a three-way primary by receiving almost 50 percent of the vote.

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Our Views Start preparing for Nov. election

T

he primary election is almost over (there is at least one runoff) and candidates and voters can take a break, but it will be short.

Everyone’s attention soon will turn to the general election in November.

We would like to congratulate all the winners in the primary election and we want to congratulate their opponents also.

All of these people entered these races because they wanted to serve the people of Rutherford County. We should all appreciate their desire to serve and the effort they put forth in the campaign.

Now, voters can turn their attention to learning all they can about the candidates who will be competing for election in November.

There is plenty of time to do the homework and get the answers to all the questions they have. That is what will be critical as voters make their choices.

It is May. That means there are six months until the election. The candidates will be out and about so we urge voters to study them. No one should go to the polls in November complaining they do not know anything about the candidates.

Our readers’ views Says we have to put country back in order To the editor: Some of you may remember me from when I got a check in the mail from the Social Security Administration for one penny.

Yes, a whole check for one cent.

I want people to remember in November.

Remember what President Barack Obama promised us when he was a candidate. He was calling for change and that is certainly what we got, but it is not the kind of change people were wanting.

We have fought against communism all our lives, but now we owe communist China more money than we can ever pay.

That debt has to be paid someday and they’re just going to come and take us over.

Now, I’m an independent so I don’t need people writing letters back to curse at me. You can vote however you want - Democrat, Republican or independent - but we need to pay attention to the politicians that keep laying up there and continue to get voted back into office.

They’re stealing money from the taxpayers and taking cash from the lobbyists. The way I see it, it would be a real wake-up call to vote all the incumbents out of office and throw them out on the street this November.

We’ve got to get this country back in order. They say they’re bailing us out but they’re just putting us deeper in debt.

Ronnie “Zeke” Weatherman Rutherfordton

Says thanks to Obama for visiting N.C. To the editor: May I comment on Ms Cascino’s letter to the editor. She

is quite critical of President and Ms. Obama for the two day vacation taken in North Carolina.

I feel that the President did us a big favor coming to N.C for a short vacation. N.C supported him in the election; perhaps he was returning the favor.

Since our state, especially the Western part, depends more and more on tourism for survival; this incident had to be good. No way and no where could we have bought the publicity for our tourism industry that was brought by the President’s visit. I’m sure that your reason for being so critical is simply not your dislike for the President, but I do believe that if you think about it, you will know that our state got the better deal.

Thank you Mr President for visiting North Carolina. Please come back.

Ray Crawford Rutherfordton

Says clinic appreciates help of volunteers To the Editor: As I lay here flat on my back with legs aching and blisters on my hands from a hard day’s work of hauling debris and ripping up old carpeting, I am awe struck at the generosity of spirit of the individuals who worked tirelessly all day with me and who are aching and sore, just as I am this evening.

Only 12 hours earlier, these remarkable people were but acquaintances and strangers, yet they came together for a cause and a belief. They are the hardworking team members of The First United Methodist Church of Rutherfordton and the First Baptist Church of Rutherfordton who participated in the Operation Inasmuch campaign.

Their community project was

demolition at the new site of the Community Clinic - the Daniel Furniture building in Spindale.

At 8:30 Saturday morning, they arrived smiling and determined and worked diligently through the afternoon. Great progress was made as friendships flourished.

As the clinic director, I am appreciative of the hard work put forth toward readying the building for renovation. Personally, I am grateful for the gift of unselfish caring demonstrated by so many of our volunteers.

I am thankful for those who give of themselves and their time.

I thank them for myself, but also for all of those who have benefited from their generosity in the past and the future recipients of their good will.

On this day, Bill Miller, Bill Morris, Nancy Morris, Bruce Waddingham, Caroline Beam, Michael Gibson, Vanessa Harbison, Joan Watson, Linda Armentrout, and two very hardworking young men earned jewels in their crowns by bringing the new clinic site closer to operational. Thank you and be blessed.

Sandra McGriff Executive Director, Community Clinic

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Lessons from Mother keep her close to my heart This Mother’s Day marks the sixth since my mother passed away. And there’s not a day I don’t think about her — and often I think of her a dozen or more times.

On Monday night, it was no different.

I got a stain on my blouse and after washing and drying it realized the top button had popped loose in the process.

I fished it out of the dryer and headed to the bedroom to gather up needle, thread and scissors. I am blessed my mother sewed and that I still have an abundance of colorful threads left over to search through when I have buttons pop off clothes.

My mama loved sewing like I love to knit or cross stitch.

I’m sure it was her love of doing crafty things that led me to try all kinds of crafts before landing on a few that I do on a frequent basis.

Total Mom Sense Allison Flynn

Because she was a teacher, our summer vacations were often spent not only taking a week out to go to the beach or mountains, but to catch up on all kinds of cleaning projects she didn’t have time to tackle when school was in session. We would wash windows, blinds, shower doors .... we’d trim shrubs (I still bear a scar on my hand to prove that), add mulch and garden.

As a preteen, I despised all of these chores. Especially washing windows. Because I was always the one in the 90-degree heat outside lifting screens.

On days we’d finish early (we did all the outside stuff early to avoid the most of the heat), I knew I was going to get a reprieve when my mom would drag out her sewing machine and pull from the linen closet patterns and yards of cloth.

Mama made many of her clothes and some of mine, too. There was one outfit in particular I remember she made me – a yellow jumper with wide legs.

I’ll be honest – I hated it.

And I didn’t wear it very often. And even though I showed ultimate disrespect by dissing something my mom worked hard on, she managed to let it slide off and agreed to make a dress for me for my eighth grade graduation. She later took material from the skirt of the dress and made a pillow for me to keep.

With me standing on a

chair, Mama would pin the hem of her recent project or adjust the sleeves to just the right length. Never using one of those pin cushions with the strap so you could slide it on your wrist, instead she’d line up rows of straight pins between her lips, managing to tell me to turn or hold out an arm without dropping very many.

She’d let me cut patterns, although not often, because I wasn’t the most patient child and would get in a hurry. I think my lack of patience was one reason I never learned to sew. I think Mama enjoyed it far too much to want to spend her free time trying to teach me, her impatient child, to sew.

When I got older, my mom continued to sew for me, adjusting my jeans to the right length and making me pocketbooks long before I discovered Vera Bradley.

The last gift my mother ever gave me was for my 28th birthday, just a few weeks before she died.

Using her talent yet again, she made me a Strawberry Shortcake blanket – and not the new Strawberry Shortcake either, the original from my 80s childhood.

As I finally decided on the shade of pink closest to my blouse Monday night, I thanked my mother in my mind again for just one of many things she taught me how to do.

From the simple act of stitching on a button to greater lessons in life – such as treating others as you want to be treated – my mother’s never far from my mind, and even closer to my heart still.

Contact Flynn via e-mail at aflynn@thedigitalcourier.com.

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Obituaries

Alert teller thwarts stolen check bid

Libby Henson

Rash of vehicle break-ins reported

FOREST CITY — The Forest City Police Department is dealing with another rash of vehicle breakins.

The department report for Wednesday includes 15 such break-ins, including eight people who reported that items were stolen.

Jimmy Whitlow, Daniel Greene, Carolyn Crosland, Sheri Wilson, Travis Smith, Billy Jo James, Robin McDowell and Kathy Key all reported vehicle break-ins and theft.

Those incidents occurred on Charles Street, Butler Road, North Magnolia Street, Carolina Avenue and East Main Street.

Also, five people, Matthew Brian James, Carolyn Johnson, Ellen Smith, Tracey White and Lori Hankinson reported vehicle break-ins but not stolen items. Forest City Police officers found and reported two more vehicle break-ins.

Officers are urging area residents to lock their vehicles at their homes and to report any suspicious activity.

Man charged with sex offenses

FOREST CITY — A Forest City man charged with sex offenses is under a $100,000 secured bond in the Rutherford County Jail.

Thomas Quintel McCoy, 20, of 248 Dogwood Lane, was arrested on warrants and is charged with statutory rape/ sex offense where the defendant is more than four but less than six years older than the victim and with indecent liberties with a child.

He was arrested by the Forest City Police Department on Tuesday.

Sheriff’s Reports

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 142 E-911 calls Tuesday. n Lana May Belcher reported the theft of cash. n Becky Louise Gilliam reported the theft of a GPS. n James Nathan Oaks reported an attempt to intimidate a witness. n Dennis James Harmon reported a breaking and entering and the theft of a flat-screen television. n The theft of an all-terrain vehicle was reported at Thompson’s Contractors. n Brenda Julia Brown reported a breaking and entering and the theft of a debit card and money. n Darius Lee Carson reported the theft of a pit bull dog. n Martha B. Davis reported the theft of jewelry and other items. n Teresa Hill Wood reported the theft of medication. n A breaking and entering was reported at Parton Lumber Co.

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Police Notes

RUTHERFORDTON — The Rutherfordton Police Department is investigating a case where a woman reportedly tried to cash a stolen check Tuesday morning.

An RPD report indicates that a white woman in a blue truck tried to cash a check for $250.75 at the drivethrough window at BB&T, 134 Charlotte Road.

The check belonged to an Ellenboro woman, and the police incident report says that the teller knew the woman and called her to OK the transaction.

The Ellenboro woman reportedly told the teller that the check had been stolen.

At that point, the teller asked the woman trying to cash the check to step inside the bank. She said she would, but then drove off.

The woman trying to cash the check left a South Carolina driver’s license, but it is uncertain if the person identified on the license is actually the woman who handed it over at the bank.

There were two white females in the truck.

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n Jack A. Rich Jr. reported the theft of an all-terrain vehicle. n Jim Varlon Weaver reported the theft of a meteorite.

Neida “Libby” Henson, 74, of 155 Crawley Dr., Caroleen, died Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

Born in Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Rutherfordton William Theodore Luckadoo n The Rutherfordton Police Sr. and Carrie Elizabeth Department responded to 45 Greene Luckadoo.

She was a member of E-911 calls Tuesday.

Caroleen Baptist Church, and the owner and operator of Spindale Libby’s Beauty Shop most of n The Spindale Police her adult life.

Department responded to 30 In addition to her parents, E-911 Tuesday. she was preceded in death by first husband of 20 years, Dan Edward Calton, and by Lake Lure her second husband of 33 n The Lake Lure Police years, Herman Henson.

Department responded to She is survived by two three E-911 calls Tuesday. daughters, Connie Padgett and Tammy Hodge, both Forest City of Spartanburg, S.C.; three n The Forest City Police stepsons, Steve Henson Department responded to 65 of Dixon, Okla., Kenny E-911 calls Tuesday.

Henson of Caddo, Texas, n Joshua Campbell report- and Timothy Henson of ed an incident of fraud.

Wisconsin; one stepdaughter, n Thomas Callison report- Gloria Henson of Spindale; ed vandalism to a mailbox. two sisters, Reba Ford of Forest City, and Louise Toney of Ellenboro; four grandchilArrests dren; one step-grandchild; n Jamal Michael Gray, and eight great-grandchil18, of 571 Poors Ford Road; dren. charged with two counts of Funeral services will be felony probation violation; held at 11 a.m. Friday at placed under an $8,000 Caroleen Baptist Church secured bond. (Probation) with the Rev. Lanny J. n Cameron Michael Moore, Funchess officiating. Burial 16, of 421 Cleghorn Mill will follow in the Holly Road; charged with assault Springs Baptist Church cemand battery; placed under a etery. The family will receive $500 secured bond. (RCSD) friends Thursday from 7 to n James Boatright, 43, 9 p.m. at Harrelson Funeral of 651 N. Washington St.; Home. charged with two counts of Memorials may be made simple possession of schedule to Caroleen Baptist Church, IV controlled substance, two P.O. Box 489, Caroleen, counts of possession of drug NC 28019; or to Hospice of paraphernalia, possession of Rutherford County, P.O. Box methamphetamine, felony 336, Forest City, NC 28043. possession of schedule II controlled substance, maintain Online condolences www.harrelvehicle/ dwelling/ place for sonfuneralhome.com. controlled substance, possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver schedule Chesley Searcy Chesley Clyo Searcy, 95, IV controlled substance of Lake Lure, died Tuesday, and resisting a public offiMay 4, 2010, at his home. cer; placed under a $3,000 A native of Rutherford secured bond and a $10,500 County, he was a son of the unsecured bond. (RCSD) late George Washington n Brian Kevin Cole, 32, of Searcy and Mattie Belle Hall 170 Patches Lane; charged Searcy, and the widower of with attempted larceny and Rachel Parker Searcy. injury to personal propHe was a member of the erty; placed under a $2,000 Bill’s Creek Baptist Church, secured bond. (RCSD) n Holly Grace Hayes, 51, of where he had served as a deacon.

1116 U.S. 221 Alley; charged He is survived by two with harassing phone call; daughters, Ina Jane placed under a $1,000 Pritchard and Vickie secured bond. (RCSD) Schappert, both of Lake n Maria Ann McDowell, 26, of 119 Summerdale Lane; Lure; three sons, Raymond Searcy of Pilot Mountain, charged with assault and Troy Searcy of Greensboro, battery; released on a $500 and Larry Searcy of Lake unsecured bond. (RCSD) Lure; one brother, Fred n Oree Grant Shipman, Searcy of Marion; 14 grand18, of 1351 Stateline Road; children; 33 great-grandchilcharged with assault on a female; released on a $1,000 dren; and one great-greatgrandchild. unsecured bond. (RCSD) Arrangements are being n Emily Daffanie Hensley, 22, of 1377 Harris Henrietta handled by McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Road; charged with two Services, where the family counts of misdemeanor will receive friends Thursday probation violation; placed from to 8 p.m. A funeral under a $10,000 secured service will be conducted at bond. (RCSD) 2 p.m. Friday at Bill’s Creek n Byron Lewis Singleton, Baptist Church with the Rev. 26, of 219 E. Second St., Rutherfordton; charged with Terrell Dillingham officiating. Interment will follow in contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile; released the church cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorion a written promise to als may be made to Hospice appear. (RPD) of Rutherford County, P.O. n Rodney Teris Boykins, Box 336 Forest City, NC 32, of 212 Mountain View 28043.

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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 three E-911.

Fire Calls n Ellenboro responded to a vehicle fire and to a residential fire alarm. n Rutherfordton responded to a motor vehicle accident. n SDO responded to a residential fire alarm. n Union Mills responded to a motor vehicle accident.

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The family will be at the Searcy home in Lake Lure.

Online condolences www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com.

Susan Tipton Susan Rollins Tipton, 51, of 140 Rome Court, Cliffside, died Wednesday, May 5, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of Bill F. and Margaret “Cricket” Black Rollins of Cliffside. She was retired from Cone Mills, Cliffside Plant, and a member of High Shoals Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she is survived by one sister, Cindy Huskey of Cliffside; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Friday at The A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel of McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home with the Revs. Michael Pardue and Joey Cantrell officiating. Burial will follow in Cliffside Cemetery.

Visitation will be held two hours prior to the service.

At other times, the family will be at the Tipton home in Cliffside.

Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Online condolence www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com.

Marvin Splawn Marvin Guy Splawn, 83, of Boiling Springs, died Tuesday, May 4, 2010, at Hospice House in Forest City.

A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Seaboard Splawn and Ethel Hudginson Splawn, and the widower of Doris Bridges Splawn.

He worked at Dover Mill, Cleveland Regional Hospital, and Crawley Memorial Hospital.

He is survived by a daughter, Donna VanDyke of

Jessie Coker Webb Jessie Coker Webb,, age 90, of Forest City, North Carolina, died Monday, May 3, 2010 at Fairhaven Home where she was a resident.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas and Bertha Carter Coker.

She was also a faithful member of the Florence Baptist Church where she was a former Sunday school teacher in the children's department and was a member of the Ladies’ mission group. Jessie was a wonderful cook and dearly loved her family. She was the widow of the late Virgil Webb who died in 2008 and was also preceded in death by brothers, Charlie Coker, James "Bud" Coker, and Thomas Coker, and sisters, Mary Edna Melton and Frances Dotson.

Survivors include her daughter, Carolyn Webb McCraw of Forest City; a grandson, Scott McCraw and his wife, Sandra of Union Mills; a granddaughter, Vicki McCraw Mitchem and her husband, Kelly of Rutherfordton; two great-grandchildren, Chris Buckner and Hannah Mitchem; a brother, Frank Coker of Bostic and a sister, Grace Coker of Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Funeral services will be held at three o'clock Thursday, May 6, 2010 in the Florence Baptist Church with Reverend Dr. Bobby Gantt officiating. Interment will follow in the Sunset Memorial Park. Visitation will be held from two until three o'clock Thursday in the Church Narthex.

Memorials may be made to Florence Baptist Church, 201 South Broadway Street, Forest City, NC 28043 or Hospice of Rutherford County, Post Office Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

The family will be at the home of the daughter on McDade Road, Forest City.

The Padgett and King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements and an online guest registry is available at: www.padgettking.com Paid obit.

Talmo, Ga.; two brothers, Larry Splawn and Eddie Splawn, both of Forest City; a granddaughter; and two great-granddaughters.

Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in the Cleveland Memorial Park with the Rev. Jimmy Black officiating. Visitation is Thursday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Cleveland Funeral Services, Shelby.

Memorials may be made to Hospice House of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

Online condolences www.clevelandfuneralservice.com.

Deaths Ernie Harwell DETROIT (AP) — Nobody knows better what Ernie Harwell meant to baseball in Michigan than Kirk Gibson.

Beloved by generations of fans who grew up enraptured by his rich voice, Southern cadence and quirky phrases on the radio, Harwell died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 92.

A Hall of Fame announcer who was acquired by the Brooklyn Dodgers for a catcher in 1948, Harwell spent 42 of his 55 years in broadcasting with the Tigers, joining Mel Allen, Jack Buck, Harry Caray and others among the game’s most famous play-by-play voices.

Neida “Libby” Henson Neida “Libby” Henson, age 74, of 155 Crawley Drive, Caroleen, NC, died Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at Rutherford Hospital.

Libby was born on January 31, 1936 in Rutherford County, NC to the late William Theodore Luckadoo, Sr. and Carrie Elizabeth Greene Luckadoo.

She was a faithful member of Caroleen Baptist Church and owner and operator of Libby’s Beauty Shop most of her adult life. She enjoyed cooking, shopping, but most of all was known for her loving service to many.

She touched her family and many other lives with her willingness to give of herself. She was truly an angel of God. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband of 20 years, Dan Edward Calton and by her second husband of 33 years, Herman Henson; two sisters, Lucille Campfield and Muriel Short and one brother, William Theodore Luckadoo, Jr. Libby is survived by two daughters, Connie Padgett and husband, John, of Spartanburg, SC and Tammy Hodge and husband Jerry White of Spartanburg, SC; three stepsons, Steve Henson and wife Eydie of Dixon, OK, Kenny Henson of Caddo, TX, and Timothy Henson of Wisconsin; one stepdaughter, Gloria Henson of Spindale, NC; two sisters, Reba Ford of Forest City, NC and Louise Toney of Ellenboro, NC; four grandchildren, Doug Francis and wife Sharon, Danny Francis and wife Jennifer, Eddie Hodge and wife Betsy, and Missy Hodge Epps; one step grandchild, David Epps. She is also survived by eight great-grandchildren, Christopher Francis, Brittany Francis, Blake Francis, Madison Francis, Jared Francis, Jacob Hodge, Harley Sprouse and Dalton Harvey.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, May 7, 2010 at the Caroleen Baptist Church with Rev. Lanny J. Funchess officiating. Burial will follow in the Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Thursday, May 6, 2010 at the Harrelson Funeral Home.

Memorial donations are suggested to Caroleen Baptist Church, PO Box 489, Caroleen, NC 28019 or to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043 Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family of Libby Henson.

An online guest registry is available at: www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com Paid obit

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Red Cross The following blood drives are scheduled: May 7 — Forest City Fire Department, 186 S. Church St., Forest City, 1 to 6 p.m., call 2452111; May 8 — Cliffside Masonic Lodge, 7:30 a.m. to noon, call 245-7606; May 11 — Harris Elementary School, Forest City, 1:30 to 6 p.m., call 248-2354; May 12 — Rutherford Hospital, 288 S. Ridge Crest Ave., Rutherfordton, noon to 5 p.m., call 286-5338; May 17 — Red Cross Rutherford Chapter, 838 Oakland Road, Forest City, 2 to 6:30 p.m., call at 2875916; May 24 — Spindale United Methodist Church, 3 to 7 p.m., call 245-8554; May 27 — Rutherford County Government, 289 N. Main St., Rutherfordton, noon to 4:30 p.m., call 287-6145; May 31 — Lowe’s, 184 Lowes Blvd., Forest City, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., call 351-1023; All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a cruise for two.

Classes Adult/Child & Infant CPR: May 8, 8:30 a.m.

Adult CPR: May 10, 6 p.m.

Child, Infant CPR: May 11, 6 p.m.

First Aid: May 15, 8:30 a.m.

Preventing Disease Transmission All classes must be paid in advance.

Call 287-5916 for information.

Health/education Life Line Screening: Saturday, June 17, at Forest City Foursquare Church, 121 Mitchell St., Forest City; packages start at $139; all five screenings take 60-90 minutes to complete; appointments begin at 10 a.m.; Pre-registration required; call 877-237-1287 or visit www.lifelinescreening.com.

Meetings/other Rutherford County Shag Club will meet Friday, May 7, at Club LA in Spindale. Visitors welcome. DJ Mike McDaniel. For information Call 287-9228.

SWEEP meeting: (Solid Waste Environmental Education Panel) meets at noon on the first Friday of each month. The next meeting is May 7, at GDS, 141 Fairgrounds Road. If you are concerned about the environment and want to help promote recycling in Rutherford County, please attend. Website www.sweeprecycles.com.

Miscellaneous Family Fun Day: Hosted by Union Mills Learning Center; Saturday, May 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Thermal City Gold Mine, 5240 US 221 Hwy., Union Mills; gold panning, gem fluming, hot dog lunch; call 2863016 for further information.

Low-cost rabies clinic: Saturday, May 8, noon to 1 p.m.; Thunder Road Animal Hospital; $10 cash, one-year rabies; $12 cash, threeyear rabies; other discounted vaccines available; call 286-0033.

Fundraisers Car wash: Saturday, May 8, begins at 8 a.m., at Spindale Express; proceeds for the youth basketball league.

Hot dog lunch: Saturday, May 8, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mt. Hebron United Methodist Church; proceeds for a community family in need.

Yard sale: Saturday, May 8, begins at 7 a.m., in the U-Haul parking lot, US 221, Rutherfordton, (near McMahan’s Funeral Home); large number of miscellaneous items; sponsored by New Beginnings Church.

Hamburger, hot dog sale: Saturday, May 15, 4 to 7 p.m., at Gantt’s Grove Baptist Church; adults $5; children $3; proceeds for the charity fund.

Festival on the Field: Saturday, May 15, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Crowe Park; lots of activities; guest appearance by children’s author, Lois Chazen (1 to 3 p.m.); pet contest and pet show; proceeds for the Community Pet Center.

Yard sale, hot dogs: Saturday, May 15, begins at 8 a.m., at Rosia Flower & Crafts, US 64/74, Green Hill; laege number of yard sale items, hot dogs and baked goods; proceeds for Missionary Society youth.

Church-wide yard sale: Saturday, May 15, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., First Wesleyan Church, Church Street, Forest City, (beside Hardin’s Drug); breakfast available.

Car wash: Saturday, May 15, begins at 9 a.m., One Stop (BP) Service Station, 111 S. Washington and US 221, Rutherfordton, across from Domino’s Pizza; sponsored by Sunbeam Lodge No. 46.

Church-wide yard sale: Saturday, May 15, begins at 7:30 a.m., at Green River Baptist Association, 668 North Washington St., Rutherfordton; large number of yard sale items, bake sale, car wash; sponsored by the youth of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church; all proceeds for summer camp at Fort Caswell.

Sometimes an address change hasn’t been cleared or perhaps the Division of Motor Vehicles didn’t get a registration posted, Bedford explained, therefore people were allowed to vote provisional ballots.

All provisionals will be checked for validity and then counted if confirmed.

Also next Tuesday, Bedford will have the break down of party affiliation voting. She will release the number of Independent voters who cast ballots for Republicans and those who voted Democrat.

“There really weren’t races close enough to call for a second primary for local candidates,” Bedford said.

There will be a Democratic runoff vote in the U.S. Senate race.

Top vote-getter Secretary of State Elaine Marshall who got 36 percent of the Tuesday vote, will be pitted against Cal Cunningham, a former state senator.

Cunningham finished second place with 27 percent of the Democratic votes. The winner will face incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Burr in November.

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The Rural Center grant is one of two major grants that Foothills is seeking for the project.

“We’re also seeking $400,000 from the North Carolina Office of Energy,” Brown said. “And we should hear about that shortly.”

Brown detailed the project and the economics of it.

“We have a partner, Environmental Credit Corp. of Chicago, who has the equipment that can capture the methane and convert it into both heat and electricity,” he said. “We have tentative approval from the county that will give us the rights to the methane and also use of three acres near the landfill on which this community of hoop houses will be constructed.

“I think that we are going to need both grants to really get it going. In addition, the county has only given

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tastes and faith backgrounds and taking some time to worship our God together.”

The festival will have two stages.

Stage 1 times, performers and their styles are: n 11 a.m., A Cry for Truth, Rutherfordton, Christian rock. n 11:35 a.m., Hope and Faith Singers, Asheboro, Southern gospel. n 12:20 p.m., No Name Higher, Forest City, praise and worship. n 12:55 p.m., Reggie MaGee, Franklin Park, N.J., urban gospel. n 1:55 p.m., Katalyst, Lubbock, Texas, Christian rock. n 2:55 p.m., Deidra Hughes, Nashville, contemporary. n 4 p.m., David Coffin and Element Band, Forest City, contemporary worship.

There will also be a runoff in the 11th Congressional District for the Republican party nominee. Jeff Miller received 35.16 percent of the votes, almost 5 percent less than needed to claim the win. Gregory A. Newman received 12.56 percent; Kenny West, 7.26 percent; Ed Krause, 5.65 percent, Jake Howard, 9.15 percent and Dan Eichenbaum, 30.22 percent.

The winner will face incumbent Heath Shuler, Democrat.

Across Rutherford County 17 percent of the nearly 43,000 voters went to the polls.

“That was a little better than expected,” Bedford said.

Voter turn out was the highest in Rutherfordton #1 precinct with 23.06 percent and the lowest in CaroleenCliffside with 10.09 percent.

Other precinct voting percentages were: Bostic-Sunshine, 18.31 percent; Camp Creek-Mt. Vernon, 17.87 percent; Chimney Rock, 14.31 percent; Danieltown-Sulphur Springs, 17.42 percent; Duncan Creek-Golden Valley, 18.69 percent; Ellenboro, 16.46 percent; Forest City #1 16.32 percent; Forest City #2, 14.63 percent; GilkeyMorgan, 20.36 percent; Green Hill 18.87 percent; Haynes, 11.70 percent; Rutherfordton #2, 13.50; Sandy Mush

13.50; Spindale, 17.64 percent; and Union, 20.78 percent.

Bedford also said the Primary went well with only routine inquiries for election staff to deal with.

“We had a lot of people calling and wanting to vote,” said Angela Tesseneer, elections official. “Some people didn’t know Early Voting was over and wanted to vote here.”

Bedford said more voters cast ballots at the polls Tuesday than in the past.

“In a lot of ways it appeared the Primary surprised voters. We got a lot of telephone calls,” she said.

There were 1,500 early voters.

Canvassing will be held at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at the Board of Elections.

The Second Primary will be June 22 with all polling places open in the Rutherford County.

Bedford said the cost of the second primary could be between $12,000 and $15,000 since all precincts have to be open.

At least three precinct workers will be at the polls for the second primary from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. June 22 and could literally see only one or two voters.

us tentative approval. They make it tentative dependent on the funding.

The next grant, we’re hearing good things, but we won’t know for sure for a couple of weeks.”

The participation of Environmental Credit would be crucial to getting the project going.

“We would start by working with Environmental Credit Corp. to truly understand how they are going to capture the methane,” Brown said.

“They are going to install the collection equipment and the cogeneration equipment.

“In return for that, we work out an agreement with them for what is called carbon credits, for which they will receive a certain percentage as payment for that equipment.”

because not only does it prevent a very potent polluting gas from going into the atmosphere, but it also turns it into an economic fuel.

The project will create jobs and help the environment too, Brown said.

“The estimate is that the county landfill is generating 20 metric tons of landfill gases every year,” he noted.

“To us, this is really a great project

n 5:15 p.m., dRenauld, Washington, D.C., holy hip-hop. n 6:15 p.m., Jaime Thietten, Nashville, adult contemporary. n 7:20 p.m., Guy Franklin, Buckhannon, W.Va., Christian rock. n 8:05 p.m., Kevin Cabe, Canton, contemporary. n 8:55 p.m., Viktor, Atlanta, Christian rock.

On stage 2 are: n 11 a.m., Keil Nathan Band, Canton, contemporary. n 11:45 a.m., Caleb Blanton, Forest City, contemporary. n 12:20 p.m., Predestined and Key Facta, Gaffney, S.C., holy hip-hop. n 1:10 p.m., James Radford Band, Cowpens, S.C., contemporary worship. n 1:55 p.m., Angel McGinnis, Forest City, praise and worship. n 2:35 p.m., 2-R-More, Spartanburg, S.C., Southern gospel. n 3:25 p.m., Falling Down Broken,

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

We’re proposing that there could be as many as 25 to 26 people who will lease these greenhouses to go ahead and grow those vegetables. And we think a lot of the farmers associated with the Farmers Fresh project, and also some of the students graduating from the agriculture program at R-S Central, will be great candidates for these small greenhouses.”

He also noted, “We’re going to encourage the folks involved to go through an entrepreneurship program that Kim Gold and Kim Alexander at ICC have put together.”

Foothills Connect has been a leader in returning agriculture as a viable option for more area residents.

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigitalcourier.com.

Marietta, Fla., Christian rock. n 4:10 p.m., Gee Risen, Spartanburg, S.C., holy hip-hop. n 5 p.m., Carolina Family Quartet, Hickory, Southern gospel. n 6 p.m., BeaTendo, Atlanta, holy hip-hop. n 6:50 p.m., 3 Nailz, Duncan, S.C., Christian rock. n 7:35 p.m., Hezekiah Robinson, Spartanburg, S.C., Christian rhythm and blues. n 8:20 p.m., Daniel James, Denver, Colo., contemporary. n 9:10 p.m., Empire State, Sumter, S.C., holy hip-hop.

The event is being organized

by Krucifyd Ministries, which is designed as Christian outreach to Rutherford and Polk counties and the surrounding areas by offering a variety of Christian music.

For more information on the festival, visit www.ipraisefest.com

Outgoing director at ‘Lost Colony’ already has new job MANTEO, N.C. (AP) — The man who said last week he was resigning as executive director and producer of North Carolina’s outdoor drama The Lost Colony has a new job, starting in October.

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., reported that the Elizabeth Gardens

said Carl V. Curnutte III has been chosen as the gardens’ new executive director. Curnutte will start after he completes his work with The Lost Colony on Oct. 20.

The Elizabeth Gardens are Englishstyle gardens that memorialize the 1587 Roanoke colony that mysterious-

ly disappeared and the Elizabethan heritage of the island.

The Waterside Theatre, where The Lost Colony play has been staged since 1937, and the gardens are located within Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on the north end of Roanoke island.

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Chase coach James Sosebee arrested From staff reports

Central spills Burns LAWNDALE — In a late report Tuesday, R-S Central’s baseball team defeated Burns, 9-4.

The Hilltoppers (8-4, 12-9) struck for eight runs in the top of the fifth. The outburst included a two-run double from catcher Jordy Rumfelt.

Central’s JM Spangler settled down after a rough start to pitch a complete game for the win.

The Hilltoppers will be the No. 2 seed from the 3A-side of the South Mountain Athletic Conference when the playoffs begin.

FOREST CITY — Chase High Assistant Football Coach James Sosebee was arrested on allegations that he illegally accessed the e-mail of Greenville High’s principal during his employment at the South Carolina high school.

Sosebee was the head football coach at Greenville for four years and resigned in April 2009 for undisclosed reasons.

Sosebee was arrested Friday at the school by Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies acting on a warrant from the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.

The charge is a misdemeanor and carries a maximum prison sentence of one year.

As of press time Wednesday, Sosebee was working at Chase High, according to Principal Greg Lovelace, and had not been suspended by Rutherford County Schools.

“It is a personnel matter and we stand by the statement from Dr. Janet Mason,” said Lovelace.

Mason, who took over as the system’s interim superintendent Monday, said “It is a personnel matter and is under investigation. He is currently an employee and not under suspension.”

Scott Bowers and Allison Flynn contributed to this report.

Lady Griffs shut out Owen, 1-0

By JACOB CONLEY Daily Courier Sports Reporter

Hamstring injury sends Jurrjens to DL WASHINGTON (AP) — Atlanta Braves right-hander Jair Jurrjens is headed to the 15-day disabled list because of a left hamstring strain.

The Braves announced the move before Wednesday’s game against the Washington Nationals.

The 24-year-old Jurrjens, who was scheduled to start Saturday at Philadelphia, sustained the injury April 29, when he left a start at St. Louis after only one inning.

Braves manager Bobby Cox said right-hander Kris Medlen would take Saturday’s start.

Jurrjens was 0-3 with a 6.38 ERA in five starts.

To replace Jurrjens on the 25-man roster, the Braves purchased the contract of righthanded reliever Craig Kimbrel from Triple-A Gwinnett. The 21-year-old Kimbrel was 0-0 with a 1.20 ERA in 11 outings.

Saints, Evans agree to 7-year, $57m deal METAIRIE, La. (AP) — The New Orleans Saints and AllPro guard Jahri Evans have reached an agreement on a seven-year contract worth nearly $57 million.

A person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press the deal was for $56.7 million. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the financial terms were not disclosed by the club.

General manager Mickey Loomis announced the length of the deal on Wednesday.

Evans, who has been a restricted free agent for the past two seasons, has started all 64 games at right guard since being drafted in the fourth round in 2006 out of Bloomsburg. Last season, he was named both All-Pro and to the Pro Bowl after as part of a unit that made Drew Brees among the least sacked quarterbacks in the NFL.

O.J. McDuffie wins $11.5M in toe lawsuit MIAMI (AP) — A jury has awarded former Miami Dolphins wide receiver O.J. McDuffie $11.5 million in his lawsuit against a prominent physician over a career-ending toe injury.

On TV 7 p.m. (TS) MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Washington Nationals.

7 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Baseball Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Pirates.

8 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal, Game 2.

9 p.m. (ESPN2) College Volleyball NCAA Tournament, First Semifinal: Teams TBA. 10:30 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal, Game 2.

AVONDALE — Thomas Jefferson rebounded from Monday’s loss to Hendersonville with a 1-0 shutout of Owen in girl’s soccer action Wednesday.

“Give credit to the Owen keeper, she made some great stops,” said TJCA soccer coach Brian Espinoza. “Having said that, we left them in the game for too long. We needed to finish our shots.”

The action was fast and furious early in the match as both teams had scoring opportunities within the first five minutes. TJCA’s best scoring chance during that span came on an Anna Dedmon breakaway, but the speedy freshman fired high and wide of her mark.

Please see TJCA, Page 8 Associated Press

Atlanta Braves’ Omar Infante, left, is congratulated by third base coach Brian Snitker as he rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run against the Washington Nationals during the second inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, in Washington.

Braves battle Nationals WASHINGTON — The Atlanta Braves’ struggles on the road appeared to be turning around as they held a 6-4 lead over the Washington Nationals going into the eighth inning.

The Nationals struck for two runs in the home-half off of beleaguered Braves relief pitcher Takashi Saito to tie the game, 6-6.

In the 10th, Atlanta’s Brandon Hicks, pinch-running for Troy Glaus, who reached on a single, came into score one batter later when Matt Diaz singled into right field. The run lifted the Braves to a 7-6 win.

The win ended an eight game road losing streak. It had been a tough day for Atlanta. The team announced that starting pitcher Jair Jurrjens was going on the DL and later lost RF Jason Heyward to a right groin injury. Heyward is listed as day-to-day.

Atlanta’s Tommy Hanson drew the start and worked six innings, allowed nine hits and four runs.

Atlanta Braves pitcher Tommy Hanson.

Chase blows past East, 3-0

By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter

HARRIS — Chase and East Rutherford girls soccer teams had tough seasons, but Dulce Martinez ended the 2010 campaign with a hat trick for Chase in a 3-0 win over the Lady Cavs, Wednesday.

The win also comes on senior night where Erica Lamb, Brittany Enriquez and Katherine Murray all celebrated their final game in a Chase uniform as victors.

“Our expectations were higher this year and I thought we would improve a lot more than we did from the previous years, but we struggled mid-season,” Chase girls coach Greg Deshommes said. “I am proud of the girls though; we played hungrier today and I want to thank the fans and administration for

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Run on field, get tased — what a game “Don’t tase me bro,” was the catch phrase of 2007 and, like much in pop culture, what goes around comes back around.

The other night an unidentified 17-year old ran onto the field in Philadelphia and was tased for his meager efforts.

Now, there is a huge debate all across the nation on whether or not the teen should or shouldn’t have been tased.

Memories of Monica Seles being stabbed and the attack on Kansas City first base coach Tom Gamboa are still fresh in the minds of many. Those incidents are being cited as examples of fans gone wild. Buying a ticket does not give anyone the right to run out onto the field.

The merits of this incident and whether or not the teen should or shouldn’t have been tased are for others to discuss.

Me? Well, it is called Off the Wall.

Now, I think baseball is missing an excellent opportunity to make some green off of this.

There are two possibilities that come to mind.

The first is Free Taser Night. The first thousand fans each get a free

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taser and then you can use it at one point during the evening.

I would use my one free shot on Atlanta Braves pitcher Kenshin Kawakami. I am feverishly searching the Japanese language for new ways to say, “You stink,” to Kawakami.

The other possibility is a new extreme sport — Taserball. It would be like Laser Tag meets Baseball on steroids. Hmm, wait a minute, scratch that. Let’s just go with Laser Tag meets Baseball and leave out the steroids part.

Arm all the defensive players with tasers — you try and steal; you may get tased.

Back to the serious side for a moment.

I have been tased before just to see what it felt like — I wasn’t being pursued by law enforcement at the time —and, no, it doesn’t feel good.

But, I bet it feels better than being shot.

In a hyper-sensitive age where crazy people leave SUVs with explosives in Times Square, the young man ought to consider himself lucky.

Running onto a field during this the Age of Islamic Terrorism (yes, I wrote it) is not a wise idea. All it will take is one moron to scream something akin to yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre and it wouldn’t end well.

Calling a penalty on myself: I incorrectly identified Dr. Janet Mason in my column on Wednesday. Dr. Mason didn’t call me or anything to offer a correction, I am simply calling a penalty on myself (think golf) for forgetting that Mason earned her doctorate.

Sorry, Dr. Mason.

Kick a man when he’s down: Sports Illustrated’s new issue is going to detail all the ugly moments of Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger’s young life.

Every time he failed to say ‘please,’ or ‘thank you,’ is carefully detailed by unidentified sources. And they say yellow journalism is dead.

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Orlando Cabrera led off the 10th inning with a home run just inside the left-field foul pole on Wednesday, sending the Cincinnati Reds to a 5-4 victory over the New York Mets.

Cabrera’s fifth game-ending homer, a drive off Pedro Feliciano (1-1), gave the Reds their second last-swing victory in the series.

Blue Jays 5, Indians 4

CLEVELAND (AP) — Adam Lind hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to send the Toronto Blue Jays to a three-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians with a 5-4 win on Wednesday.

Lind homered after Cleveland shortstop Luis Valbuena’s error on a grounder that could have ended the game.

Yankees 7, Orioles 5

NEW YORK (AP) — Nick Johnson and Nick Swisher homered, Mark Teixeira hit a two-run double and New York’s depleted bullpen barely held on.

Twins 5, Tigers 4

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Denard Span had three singles and a walk, and Minnesota earned its first sweep in nine series this season.

Athletics 4, Rangers 1 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Eric Patterson homered and Trevor Cahill won in his second start since moving up from the minors for Oakland.

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From that point, the Lady Gryphons kept the pressure on Owen earning four corner kicks in the rest of the period, but the Warlass keeper made a series of spectacular stops to keep the contest scoreless.

The home team cracked the scoreboard in the 22nd minute when Dedmon took a beautiful cross pass into the box and scored from in close to put TJCA up 1-0 and the score remained the same at the break.

The contest turned physical in the second half with numerous fouls called on both teams. It was on a free kick after a foul that TJCA almost notched their second goal, but Lynsie Steven’s shot was stopped by a leaping goalie.

Owen had a number of opportunities to tie the score late in the contest, but senior keeper, Murphy D’oyen was up to the challenge and made several nice stops down the stretch — the final one with 3:10 left to preserve the win on senior day.

TJCA (14-2, 10-2) closes out the season with conference leader Avery in Newland on Friday.

Chase Continued from Page 7

being so faithful to us again this year.”

Both teams only had five shots each in the first half, but it was Martinez who cashed in, in the 35th minute.

After receiving an outlet pass from Anna Bross, Martinez whisked around a Lady Cavs defender and placed a great ball over the head of the East keeper Paige Gettys and into the right post for a 1-0 Chase advantage.

Chase had a little bit of luck in the first half as well.

During the 25th minute, Hannah Smith set up the Lady Cavs’ Tala El-Amoor who skated past a defender and the Chase keeper Erica Lamb.

El-Amoor was looking at a free shot at that point, but she pushed the ball a shade too far ahead, resulting in an out-of-bounds.

In the 27th minute, East looked at a corner kick from Tamara El-Amoor. Margaret Ireta smashed a shot from inside the box. However, the ball clanged off the crossbar and was cleared away, as Chase led by one at the break.

Although the match was fluid at times, it was also very physical as East was called for 11 fouls overall and Chase 17.

Chase took command of the match in the second half.

Following an outlet assist from Mollee McKinney, Martinez worked around two East defenders and forced Gettys to come out of goal. Martinez then hit the right post to go up 2-0 in the 65th minute.

Martinez added another goal just two minutes later from the right side on an unbelievable shot from a wide-angle that netted the left post to finalize the three goal decision.

Chase (3-12-2, 1-10-1) and East Rutherford (1-131, 1-10-1) are likely not to make the postseason with playoffs hopes being slim this season from the 2A side.

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Tuesday’s Games Washington 6, Atlanta 3 Pittsburgh 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 1, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 5, Cincinnati 4 San Francisco 9, Florida 6, 12 innings Arizona 1, Houston 0 San Diego 3, Colorado 2 Milwaukee 11, L.A. Dodgers 6 Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati 5, N.Y. Mets 4, 10 innings Atlanta 7, Washington 6, 10 innings Pittsburgh 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 0 San Francisco 3, Florida 2 Arizona at Houston, late Colorado at San Diego, late Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, late Thursday’s Games St. Louis (Lohse 0-1) at Philadelphia (Halladay 5-1), 1:05 p.m.

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Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 3-0) at Pittsburgh (Duke 2-3), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Cain 1-1) at Florida (Nolasco 2-1), 7:10 p.m.

Arizona (Haren 3-1) at Houston (W.Rodriguez 1-3), 8:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Bush 1-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Ely 0-1), 10:10 p.m.

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Florida at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

San Diego at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

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Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 4, Baltimore 1 Toronto 8, Cleveland 5 Boston 5, L.A. Angels 1 Minnesota 4, Detroit 3 Kansas City 7, Chicago White Sox 2 Oakland 7, Texas 6 Tampa Bay 5, Seattle 2 Wednesday’s Games Toronto 5, Cleveland 4 N.Y. Yankees 7, Baltimore 5 Minnesota 5, Detroit 4 Oakland 4, Texas 1 Boston 3, L.A. Angels 1 Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, late Tampa Bay at Seattle, late Thursday’s Games L.A. Angels (Kazmir 2-1) at Boston (Matsuzaka 0-1), 7:10 p.m.

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Baltimore (Bergesen 1-2) at Minnesota (Pavano 3-2), 8:10 p.m.

Toronto (Eveland 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 3-0), 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Niemann 1-0) at Seattle (RowlandSmith 0-1), 10:10 p.m.

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Kansas City at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Toronto at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association Playoff FIRST ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, Chicago 1 Cleveland 96, Chicago 83 Cleveland 112, Chicago 102 Chicago 108, Cleveland 106 Cleveland 121, Chicago 98 Cleveland 96, Chicago 94 Orlando 4, Charlotte 0 Orlando 98, Charlotte 89 Orlando 92, Charlotte 77

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 1, Boston 1 Cleveland 101, Boston 93 Boston 104, Cleveland 86 Friday, May 7: Cleveland at Boston, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 9: Cleveland at Boston, 3:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 11: Boston at Cleveland, TBD x-Thursday, May 13: Cleveland at Boston, TBD x-Sunday, May 16: Boston at Cleveland, TBD Orlando 1, Atlanta 0 Orlando 114, Atlanta 71 Thursday, May 6: Atlanta at Orlando, 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 8: Orlando at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Monday, May 10: Orlando at Atlanta, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 12: Atlanta at Orlando, TBD x-Friday, May 14: Orlando at Atlanta, TBD x-Sunday, May 16: Atlanta at Orlando, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Phoenix 1, San Antonio 0 Phoenix 111, San Antonio 102 Wednesday, May 5: San Antonio at Phoenix, late Friday, May 7: Phoenix at San Antonio, TBD Sunday, May 9: Phoenix at San Antonio, TBD x-Tuesday, May 11: S. Antonio at Phoenix, TBD x-Thursday, May 13: Phoenix at S. Antonio, TBD x-Sunday, May 16: San Antonio at Phoenix, TBD L.A. Lakers 2, Utah 0 L.A. Lakers 104, Utah 99 L.A. Lakers 111, Utah 103 Saturday, May 8: L.A. Lakers at Utah, 8 p.m.

Monday, May 10: L.A. Lakers at Utah, 10:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 12: Utah at L.A. Lakers, TBD x-Friday, May 14: L.A. Lakers at Utah, TBD x-Monday, May 17: Utah at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.

HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance FIRST ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal 4, Washington 3 Montreal 3, Washington 2, OT Washington 6, Montreal 5, OT Washington 5, Montreal 1 Washington 6, Montreal 3 Montreal 2, Washington 1 Montreal 4, Washington 1 Montreal 2, Washington 1 Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 1 Philadelphia 2, New Jersey 1 New Jersey 5, Philadelphia 3 Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 2, OT Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 1 Philadelphia 3, New Jersey 0 Boston 4, Buffalo 2 Buffalo 2, Boston 1 Boston 5, Buffalo 3 Boston 2, Buffalo 1 Boston 3, Buffalo 2, 2OT Buffalo 4, Boston 1 Boston 4, Buffalo 3 Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 2 Ottawa 5, Pittsburgh 4 Pittsburgh 2, Ottawa 1 Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 2 Pittsburgh 7, Ottawa 4 Ottawa 4, Pittsburgh 3, 3OT Pittsburgh 4, Ottawa 3, OT WESTERN CONFERENCE San Jose 4, Colorado 2 Colorado 2, San Jose 1 San Jose 6, Colorado 5, OT Colorado 1, San Jose 0, OT San Jose 2, Colorado 1, OT San Jose 5, Colorado 0 San Jose 5, Colorado 2 Chicago 4, Nashville 2 Nashville 4, Chicago 1 Chicago 2, Nashville 0 Nashville 4, Chicago 1 Chicago 3, Nashville 0 Chicago 5, Nashville 4, OT Chicago 5, Nashville 3 Vancouver 4, Los Angeles 2 Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Los Angeles 3, Vancouver 2, OT Los Angeles 5, Vancouver 3 Vancouver 6, Los Angeles 4 Vancouver 7, Los Angeles 2 Vancouver 4, Los Angeles 2 Detroit 4, Phoenix 3 Phoenix 3, Detroit 2 Detroit 7, Phoenix 4 Phoenix 4, Detroit 2 Detroit 3, Phoenix 0 Detroit 4, Phoenix 1 Phoenix 5, Detroit 2 Detroit 6, Phoenix 1 CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Pittsburgh 2, Montreal 1 Pittsburgh 6, Montreal 3 Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 1 Pittsburgh 2, Montreal 0 Thursday, May 6: Pittsburgh at Montreal, 7 p.m.

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San Jose 3, Detroit 0 San Jose 4, Detroit 3 San Jose 4, Detroit 3 San Jose 4, Detroit 3, OT Thursday, May 6: San Jose at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. x-Saturday, May 8: Detroit at San Jose, 10 p.m. x-Monday, May 10: San Jose at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 12: Detroit at San Jose, TBD

TRANSACTIONS Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Optioned LHP Alberto Castillo to Norfolk (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Recalled RHP Henry Rodriguez from Sacramento (PCL). Optioned RHP Vin Mazzaro to Sacramento.

American Association EL PASO DIABLOS—Signed RHP David Whigham, INF Hector Burnal and INF Matt Imwalle.

Can-Am League BROCKTON ROX—Re-signed 2B Melvin Falu, 3B Phillip Cuadrado, RHP Buster Lussier, C Chris Grossman, CF Chris Valencia and LHP Brad Hertzler.

PITTSFIELD COLONIALS—Signed C Zane Chavez, RHP Chance Corgan and RHP Kurt Hayer.

SUSSEX SKYHAWKS—Signed RHP Duaner Sanchez.

WORCESTER TORNADOES—Signed LHP Steve Cadoret.

Eastern League ALTOONA CURVE—Announced LHP Corey Hamman has been assigned to the team by Indianapolis (IL).

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Signed RHP Kyle Barry and LHP Chris Peters. Placed RHP Steven Brock on the retired list.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES—Signed 1B Mike Avery and SS Robert Ninfo. Released OF Kevin Koski.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS—Signed INF Zach Messer, OF Jason Patton, and RHP Chris Smith.

OAKLAND COUNTY CRUISERS—Released RHP Arshwin Asjes.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Signed RHP Quinn Bright, 2B Denny Duron, and RHP David Trivett. Signed 2B Michael Parker and catcher Alan Robbins to contract extensions. Traded 1B Cory Wine to the Amarillo (UL) for a player to be named.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS—Released RHP Miles Morgan.

Golden Baseball League CALGARY VIPERS—Signed OF Julio Ramirez, RHP Anastacio Martinez and C Luis Taveras.

United League AMARILLO DILLAS—Acquired INF Cory Wine from Washington (FL) for a player to be named.

Signed OF Terrance Warren.

RIO GRANDE VALLEY WHITEWINGS—Signed LHP Jason Moody, RHP Wilton Garcia, RHP Freddy Ballestas, RHP Miguel Matos, RHP Luis Montano and RHP Andres Rosales.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS—Named Darrell Moody national scout. Promoted Matt Hand to an area scout.

Announced college scouting assistant Michael LaFlamme will add pro personnel assignments to his duties.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Signed Darren Hinds and DT LaDarien Scott.

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HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Signed G Gustaf Wesslau to a one-year contract. International Hockey League IHL—Suspended Muskegon D Jason Lawmaster indefinitely for his actions and throwing a broken stick into the stands during a May 4 game against Flint.

COLLEGE HOFSTRA—Named Mo Cassara men’s basketball coach and agreed to terms on a multiyear contract.

IOWA—Announced the dismissal of sophomore wrestler Montell Marion from the team after being charged with drunken driving.

NORTHERN ARIZONA—Announced G Cameron Jones has withdrawn from the NBA draft and will return for his senior season.

RHODE ISLAND—Announced the retirement of golf coach Tom Drennan at the conclusion of the 2010-11 academic year.

SAINT MICHAELS—Promoted Gus Macleod to men’s and women’s alpine ski coach.

SAN FRANCISCO—Named Katy Steding and Blair Hardiek women’s assistant basketball coaches.

SOUTH CAROLINA—Promoted women’s assistant basketball coach Lisa Boyer to associate head coach.

TEMPLE—Agreed to terms with men’s basketball coach Fran Dunphy on an eight-year contract extension through the 2018 season and with football coach Al Golden on a five-year contract extension through the 2014 season.

TENNESSSEE—Named Mickie DeMoss women’s assistant basketball coach.

XAVIER—Signed women’s basketball coach Kevin McGuff to a five-year contract extension through the 2016 season.

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Estranged wife, children suing Wade’s girlfriend

MIAMI (AP) — Adding to an already contentious divorce battle, Dwyane Wade’s estranged wife says his relationship with actress Gabrielle Union is causing her and the star Miami Heat guard’s two sons emotional distress.

Dwyane Wade called the lawsuit “baseless and meritless,” and Union issued a statement insisting the allegations are false.

Siohvaughn Wade filed the suit in Chicago this week, the latest chapter in the lengthy, often-nasty divorce saga between the former high school sweethearts who separated in 2007.

She and Dwyane Wade had two sons, ages 8 and 2, who are listed as plaintiffs.

An attorney for Siohvaughn Wade did not immediately respond to an interview request.

“Each and every allegation made is entirely false,” said C. Anthony

Mulrain, an attorney for Union.

The lawsuit alleges Union “engaged in sexual foreplay” in front of the boys, which “severely inflicted the Plaintiffs emotionally and mentally.”

It also claims that the boys received “medium size gifts” from Dwyane Wade for Christmas last year, while Union got “the biggest gift of all.”

“Defendant has played sexually explicit roles, including roles as a seductress,” the lawsuit reads.

“Defendant has apparently decided to take her role beyond the films and into the home of a married man, Dwyane Wade, in the presence of his two minor children.”

Damages in excess of $50,000 are being sought by Siohvaughn Wade.

Mulrain, Union’s attorney, said the accusations were first made about a month ago in court, although the actress was not named as a defendant at that time.

Holmstrom to Lenior-Rhyne

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R-S Central’s Kyle Holmstrom, seated center, signs his letter of intent to play baseball for Lenior-Rhyne University. Joining Holmstrom were his parents, Kristin and Mark (front, l to r). Joining the Holmstroms were R-S Central’s athletic director, assistant baseball coach and head baseball coach of Rutherford Post 423, Sam Hooper, Principal Phil Rogers and head baseball coach Chadd Fowler.

Tigers hit the field, with Harwell memories fresh

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Last September, Ernie Harwell came to Comerica Park in Detroit for a formal farewell. It was Harwell’s voice that made him famous, and the Detroit Tigers were focused on every word.

Harwell addressed the team before that game, giving a stirring speech that is still remembered fondly in the clubhouse.

Manager Jim Leyland called it “priceless” and “fulfilling.” Shortstop Adam Everett was one of several players motivated and moved by Harwell’s talk.

“Nobody said a word,” Everett said Wednesday, the day after the Hall of Fame broadcaster died at age 92 after fighting cancer. “I don’t think anybody blinked the whole time. That’s how intense it was.”

The speech wasn’t Associated Press Tiger Woods, Pat Perez, J.J. Henry and caddie Steve Williams walk to the picturesque 17th green during a prac- so much “win one for Ernie” as it was about tice round for The Players Championship golf tournament Tuesday, May 4, 2010, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. his thoughts on life and baseball, his appreciation of the game.

Harwell also spoke to Harwell the crowd that day,

By DOUG FERGUSON finishes out of the top five. do deserve to win in comfort,” a clip catcher Gerald Woods has made that possibility Harrington said. “But the golf AP Golf Writer Laird said he watched seem even more real by misscourse isn’t boring.

That is the online three or four times during the offseason.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. ing the cut last week at Quail last thing you could ever accuse “It’s inspirational. It’s unbelievable,” Laird said.

— Padraig Harrington would Hollow with the highest 36-hole it of being.”

“That guy left his mark on this game, and he’s defibe among the thousands of fans score of his career.

The opportunity is always there nitely going to be remembered forever — as long as surrounding the island green on Henrik Stenson is the defendfor the unexpected, especially this game’s going on.” the TPC Sawgrass if he came to ing champion, and Europeans with the strongest and deepest Leyland’s eyes teared up Tuesday night when The Players Championship as a are trying to win this event for field in golf. talking about Harwell, and he shared more of his spectator instead of a three-time the third straight year. Those Mickelson doesn’t blink when thoughts Wednesday about the man who spent major champion. hopes lie with players like Rory comes to daring plays, yet he 42 of his 55 years on the air calling Tigers games Is there any other place to McIlroy, who celebrated his says it was only until he stopped before retiring in 2002. watch?

21st birthday on Tuesday just trying to make a birdie on the “He was like the grandfather telling the grandPerhaps no other golf course two days after winning at Quail 17th hole and settled for a par son, ’I would’ve made it if I hadn’t hurt my elbow is more defined by a single Hollow with a round of 62 that — rare for him with a wedge pitching horseshoes,’ or the mother giving her kid hole than the par-3 17th at the will be talked about the rest of in hand — that he won his first an extra pork chop for the future Al Kaline listenPlayers Stadium Course, which the year.

Players Championship in 2007. ing to the game,” Leyland said. “That was Ernie. is not to suggest it’s one of the But despite having the course “It’s an exciting finish because He was something. Not many guys have that much great holes in golf or among the for a spectacular finish, the 16 poses eagle possibilities as impact on a team like he did. That just doesn’t most beloved. tournament hasn’t delivered too well as birdie,” Mickelson said. happen.”

Exciting? Usually. Pivotal? many of those lately.

The tournament for years As he sat in an office before a game at Sometimes.

“Be the right club today” — the was held two weeks before the Minnesota, Leyland was handed the daily packet It is part of one of the more famous line Hal Sutton uttered Masters, until the PGA Tour of newspaper and online articles about the team, dynamic closing stretches on in 2000 when he beat Woods moved it to May in 2007 to give a stapled stack of papers much thicker than usual the PGA Tour, coming after the with a one-shot lead and a it more identity and the golf cal- to include all the Harwell tributes written of his reachable par-5 16th with water 6-iron into the 18th green — has endar a little more separation death. Leyland started reading intently. framing the right side of the been replaced by casual stroll with its biggest events.

“It’s rare that you go 47 years in professional final 200 yards, and before the

by Stenson on his way to a fourA month after the Masters, baseball and you never hear one negative remark tough 18th hole, where the wind shot victory. there is at least one lingering about Ernie Harwell,” Leyland said. “Never. That typically comes in from the left Craig Perks finishing with an parallel with Augusta National just doesn’t happen.” off a lake that runs down the eagle, birdie and a chip-in for — no lead is safe on the back The Tigers wore black circular patches bearing entire side of the hole. par has given way to Stephen nine. the initials “EH” on their uniforms Wednesday.

“But 17 is the one because there Ames playing such brilliant Players can make up ground And tributes to Harwell stretched throughout the is glory and some horror shows golf that he won by six shots. at the Masters with birdies and country. there,” Harrington said. “And Even the time two years ago lose ground just as quickly by Kaline, the Hall of Fame former Tigers outfielder, we all, as spectators, that’s what when Sean O’Hair hit two balls going after the par 5s and hitting was in New York to accept the Vin Scully Lifetime we want to see. We want to see in the water on the 17th hole into the water. Still, it ends with Achievement Award for sports broadcasting on the highs and lows and the emo- (which cost him nine spots on two strong par 4s, and while Harwell’s behalf. tions. You’ll see a lot of them on the leaderboard and $747,000), there are sloppy finishes, train The YES Network, which is usually all Yankees, 17.”

Mickelson had a two-shot lead. wrecks are rare. all the time, aired a video tribute to Harwell before There should be plenty of In the last four years, the only The TPC Sawgrass offers a lit- Wednesday game. action, for sure, when The time the tournament had sustle of everything.

In Detroit, fans left flowers outside Comerica Players Championship gets pense over the closing holes “Both back nines are filled the Park and tied them to a fence at the site of the old under way on Thursday. was when Sergio Garcia made a drama, and drama is highs and Tiger Stadium.

The PGA Tour’s version of a clutch par on the 18th to get into lows,” Sutton said. “It’s eagles major championship has all a playoff, then won on the 17th and double (bogeys), you know? the ingredients for a big show when Goydos hit into the water.

I think the difference here is that this year. Phil Mickelson has Such things are cyclical. the drama can be on the last a chance to go to No. 1 in the “Yeah, OK, if you played the three holes, and the drama usuworld for the first time in his first 66 holes and you’re so far ally unfolds at Augusta before it career, provided Tiger Woods ahead of the field, maybe you gets to the last three holes.”

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Nation Today Atlantis’ last flight set

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space shuttle Atlantis is set to blast off on its final flight next week.

NASA’s top managers voted Wednesday to set May 14 as the launch date. Liftoff would be at 2:20 p.m.

Atlantis will fly to the International Space Station, carrying up a crew of six and a load of supplies. It’s scheduled to be the last mission for Atlantis. NASA is retiring its three shuttles at the end of this year.

But Atlantis won’t be dismantled and head to a museum when the flight is over. Instead, the spaceship will be prepped for a potential rescue mission for NASA’s very last shuttle flight. That final trip,

by Endeavour, is scheduled for November at the earliest.

After Atlantis, there are only two flights left.

Hummer recalls H3s

NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors said Wednesday that it is recalling all Hummer H3s produced since the 2006 model year to fix a portion of the hood that can detach during driving.

The voluntary recall affects 164,190 Hummer H3s and H3Ts in the U.S. and 198,404 worldwide.

Hummer spokesman Nick Richards said a device on the hood

called a hood louver can come loose and possibly detach while driving.

A louver is a panel located on the hood that allows air to enter the engine compartment and prevent overheating. It actually helped to cool the engine on older Hummer models but is decorative on the H3.

In a recall documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, GM said the tabs holding the louver could fracture, causing it to rattle against the hood and become loose. GM warned the louver could strike another vehicle if it came off while driving.

Blackwater chief cheered HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince said Wednesday his values of hard work and personal responsibility “have gotten me a few detractors along the way, and I’m OK with that.”

The Holland native’s criticism of government spending and regulation won him a standing ovation from the crowd of more than 700 people at Hope College’s basketball arena for the annual Tulip Time Festival luncheon.

Holland, about 30 miles west of Grand Rapids, is in Michigan’s most reliably Republican county. Home to many residents of Dutch descent, the area is known for its strong Dutch Reformed faith and conservative values.

AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Billy Calzada

Smoke billows from the AGE Refinery Wednesday in San Antonio, Texas. An 18-wheeler being loaded with fuel at a San Antonio refinery has exploded, setting off a chain reaction of smaller blasts and leaving some workers hurt.

Crews prepare to take oil trap to ocean floor PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) — A 12-man crew was making final preparations Wednesday to take a 100-ton contraption 50 miles off the Louisiana coast in an unprecedented attempt to help funnel out oil spewing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

The giant-concrete-and-steel box is the best short-term solution to bottling up the disastrous oil spill that threatens sealife and livelihoods along the Gulf Coast.

BP PLC chief operating office Doug Suttles said it would take about two days to put it precisely on the seafloor.

“It is very complex and we’ll likely have challenges along the way,” he said.

The pipes and tubing were to be hooked to a ship over the weekend, and if successful, the oil would eventually be brought to shore. The boat, a 280-foot vessel named the Joe Griffin, was expected to start its 100-mile trip around the Mississippi Delta later Wednesday.

The box is the latest idea engineers from oil giant BP PLC are trying after an oil rig the company was operating exploded April 20, killing 11 workers. It sank two days later.

Capt. Demi Shaffer said the trip would take 10 to 11 hours at a speed of 11 knots, or about 13 miles per hour.

Shaffer, who lives in Seward, Alaska, said the ship would wait at the Deepwater Horizon site for the arrival of another vessel with cranes that will lift the containment device and lower it 5,000 feet to the seabed.

Rusty Ledet, an operations coordinator for the company that owns the Joe Griffin and was aboard for the journey to sea, was asked whether the device would work. “I guess we’re all going to find out together,” he told The Associated Press.

The Joe Griffin, which also helped fight the rig fire after the Deepwater Horizon exploded, is owned by Edison Choest Offshore and is under contract to BP. The vessel is named for a boat captain who worked with company founder Edison Chouest, when Chouest was still in the shrimping business.

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry cautioned about high expections for the containment system.

“So, please, I have to manage your expectations and just understand that our job is not done until this well is sealed, until this well is cemented, our job is not done ’til then,” she said.

She also said fires had been lit

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USING OSTEOPOROSIS DRUG TO TREAT OSTEOARTHRITIS

I wish Heaven had a telephone so I could hear your voice again.

I thought of you today, but that is nothing new.

I thought about you yesterday and the days before that, too.

I think of you in silence. I often speak your name.

All I have now are memories and a picture in a frame.

Your memory is a keepsake from which I will never part.

God has you in His arms, I have you in my heart.

I love and miss you so much Daddy and you will never be forgotten.

Love Always, Heather

where the oil is heaviest, near the area of the accident.

BP is in charge of the cleanup and President Barack Obama and many others have said the company also is responsible for the costs.

BP capped one of three leaks at the well Tuesday night, a step that will not cut the flow of oil but that BP has said will make it easier to help with the gusher.

Two satellite images taken Wednesday morning indicate oil has reached the Mississippi Delta and the Chandeleur Islands off the coast of Louisiana.

It’s not clear whether the oil is on shore, but it’s very close, said Hans Graber, director of the University of Miami’s satellite sensing facility.

U.S. Coast Guard Lt. James McKnight said crews remained at the Chandeleurs on Wednesday after officials got a report of oil coming ashore, but they have not located it.

Graber said the images also show oil drifting south, toward the Loop Current, which scientists say could carry it toward Florida and the Florida Keys. The northern edge of the current may have already picked up some oil.

Florida officials fearing tourists will cancel their vacations are trying to quash rumors that oil is already washing up on beaches there.

“We are not two or three days away from it hitting the shore,” said David Halstead, Florida’s emergency management chief. “The beaches are still open.”

The long-term effects of the spill on wildlife are not yet clear. Dead endangered turtles have been washing up on Gulf Coast beaches, but they have no signs of oil and federal fisheries officials are investigating whether aggressive shrimpers may have killed them.

Efforts to stop the oil before it gets to shore picked up Wednesday. Coast Guard crews said they were preparing to corral some and set it on fire, which they last tried April 28. A 28-minute burn then removed thousands of gallons, but weather had not allowed them to do it again.

In Plaquemines Parish, near the southern tip of Louisiana, officials loaded absorbent boom shortly after dawn to take out to the mouth of the Mississippi River. The barge will be used as a distribution point for local fishermen to lay the boom around sensitive marshes.

At a nearby marina, local shrimpers planned to use their boats to put down boom as part of a program BP is running.

Alendronate (Fosamax) is an anti-resorptive drug used to treat the bone-thinning disease known as osteoporosis. Normally, bone is resorbed and replaced continuously in a balanced process. However, when the turnover is unbalanced, and too much bone is lost, osteoporosis occurs. The anti-resorptive drug works by returning balance to the bone-remodeling process, thereby stopping the disease. According to research, it seems that alendronate may help to treat osteoarthritis of the knee, as well. According to a study of over 800 post-menopausal women who had symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee, use of alendronate seemed to reduce the occurrence of osteoarthritisrelated damage in the knee. This may have a beneficial effect on the course of the disease.

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“It finally happened, I’ve been waiting,” Raymond Towler, 52, said as he hugged sobbing family members in the courtroom.

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STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

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LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last USEC 4.90 ComfrtS 12.10 PhnxCos 2.96 CIBER 3.38 RadianGrp 11.31 ConsGph 37.35 Aircastle 10.34 StMotr 9.80 QuakerCh 27.97 ProUPacex27.65

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%Chg -16.7 -14.8 -12.7 -12.4 -11.8 -11.3 -11.2 -10.6 -10.5 -10.3

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Name Last Chg InterMune 11.38-34.06 MER Tle rs 2.10 -.72 MyriadG 18.49 -5.59 CEurMed 26.00 -7.04 CalumetSp 17.81 -3.56 Misonix 2.51 -.48 UFP Tch 8.86 -1.67 LECG 2.95 -.55 Lance 19.97 -3.58 SilicGrIn 8.34 -1.48

%Chg -75.0 -25.5 -23.2 -21.3 -16.7 -16.1 -15.9 -15.7 -15.2 -15.1

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg PwShs QQQ1198747 48.18 -.25 SiriusXM 1012997 1.12 -.06 Intel 952795 22.17 -.23 ETrade 803005 1.65 -.01 Microsoft 663289 29.85 -.28 NewsCpA 575252 14.60 -.80 Cisco 487663 26.55 -.01 HuntBnk 423683 6.55 -.13 InterMune 393650 11.38-34.06 MicronT 365877 9.26 -.26 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

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690 2,051 106 2,847 51 68 2,905,699,032

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EU debt issues continue to drag markets NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market extended its slide Wednesday after investors couldn’t shake their concerns about European countries’ big debt loads.

The Dow Jones industrial average ended with a loss of 60 points to put its two-day drop at 285 points. The Dow halved its loss by the close but finished off its highs.

Treasury prices rose and pushed down interest rates in the bond market for a second day.

A drop in the euro and a rise in the dollar continued to ram markets around the world. The stronger dollar hurts U.S. stocks by cutting into profits of U.S. companies that do business abroad. A higher dollar also hurts commodity prices by reducing demand from foreign buyers.

Investors are concerned that a $144 billion aid package for Greece won’t be adequate to keep debt problems in Europe from spreading. There were also questions about whether the bailout would amount to more than a short-term fix for Greece Investors fear that if a tourniquet for Greece’s financial problems doesn’t hold, it would be harder to help larger countries like Spain and Portugal that also face big deficits.

Swings in global stock markets have intensified in the past week. Wednesday was the sixth time in seven days the Dow moved by more than 100 points. Investors have questions about Greece but they’re also awaiting the government’s April jobs report on Friday and monitoring Washington’s overhaul of the rules that govern financial companies.

According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 59.94, or 0.6 percent, to 10,866.83. It had been up as much as 20 points and down nearly 112 points.

The Dow is down 2.6 percent in two days, its steepest back-to-back drop in three months.

The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 9.42, or 0.8 percent, to 1,164.18, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 24.14, or 1 percent, to 2,400.11.

Bond prices rose. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 3.56 percent from 3.60 percent late Tuesday.

Gold rose. Crude oil fell $2.77 to $79.97 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The drop in commodity prices hurt energy and materials stocks. Retailers also fell ahead of April revenue reports on Thursday.

Investors looking for continued signs of a domestic recovery received another encouraging sign on employment Wednesday. Payroll company ADP said private employers added 32,000 jobs last month. That was slightly above expectations.

The ADP report is seen an early indicator of the government’s closely watched monthly employment report, though there are often wide variations because the ADP only accounts for private-sector jobs.

The Labor Department is expected to report on Friday that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.7 percent last month while employers added 200,000 jobs. Unemployment is considered the main obstacle to a sustained recovery of the U.S. economy.

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Customers looks at wide screen TV sets in a Costco store in Mountain View, Calif. Tuesday. Consumers bought less clothing and footwear in April than they did in the same month last year but opened their wallets for electronics, major appliances and status goods, purchase data released Wednesday show.

Shoppers took breather in April NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers bought less clothing and footwear in April than they did in the same month last year but opened their wallets for electronics, major appliances and status goods, purchase data released Wednesday show.

The month’s rainy weather contributed to mixed results, including a sharp increase in online sales, according to the latest numbers from MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse.

It was the ninth-straight month that online sales rose compared with a year earlier.

The figures, which include transactions in all forms including cash, signal that spending is recovering but remained sensitive in April to one-time factors.

Another factor dampening April’s sales was a drop in tourism resulting from travel restrictions after Iceland’s volcanic eruption, said Michael McNamara, vice president of research and analysis for SpendingPulse. He said spending is stabilizing and there wasn’t any broad-based heavy discounting. In clothing, the average transaction amount rose 3.5 percent from a year ago. “(April) was lumpy,” said McNamara, adding that it was “OK” combined with March.

Because an early Easter — like this year’s on April 4 — can boost March’s results and depress April’s, analysts combine the two months when trying to

gauge consumer behavior.

April figures benefited from relatively easy comparisons to April 2009, when consumers also cut their spending.

Consumers’ confidence in the economy rose in April 2010, but the Conference Board business group’s index remains below the level that’s considered healthy.

And unemployment remained high.

Here are SpendingPulse’s figures comparing sales April 4 through May 1 with the same period a year earlier, by product category. n Clothing: Sales fell 3.9 percent from April 2009, and sales that month were 8.2 percent below April 2008. The dip includes a 4.1 percent drop in women’s fashions and a 0.5 percent decline in men’s. n Footwear: Sales in this more resilient category fell 1.7 percent. n Luxury: Excluding jewelry, sales rose 15.5 percent from April 2009, when they dropped 18.1 percent from the year before. n Appliances: Enjoying increases since September 2009, this category rose 3 percent for April, possibly reflecting the benefit of the housing tax credit and the federal appliance rebate program. n Electronics: Sales rose 9.7 percent from a year earlier, helped in part by product launches, including Apple Inc.’s iPad tablet computer on April 3.

n Online sales soared 15.6 percent.

The data comes a day before selected major retailers report on sales at their stores that have been open at least a year, considered a key indicator because it excludes results from stores that open or close during the year.

Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters predict a 1.6 percent increase for April, following a 9.1 percent gain in March. The estimate for March and April combined is 5.4 percent. That would be the eighth straight increase.

Ken Perkins, president of RetailMetrics, a research firm, expects sales rose 2 percent for April, following an 8.7 percent increase in March. He estimated the early Easter boosted sales up to 3 percentage points in March and depressed them in April by the same amount. Both firms use different methodology.

Perkins said he expects the biggest winners to be discounters and certain mall-based clothing stores like AnnTaylor and Chico’s FAS Inc., both of which are seeing a rebound in sales because of dramatically revamped fashions.

Teen retailers like Abercrombie & Fitch continued to struggle, though, he said.

“Consumers took a breather” compared with February and March, Perkins said.

But he said the figures don’t signal a pullback in the recovery.

“The recovery isn’t robust,” Perkins said. “It is just chugging along.”

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Obama wants to start this year on immigration WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he wants to begin work this year on legislation overhauling the nation’s immigration system, firming up his commitment on a key priority for Latino voters and lawmakers.

Obama’s comments at a Cinco de Mayo celebration at the White House reaffirmed his long-held support for immigration reform. He went a step further than he has in the past by calling for the work to begin this year.

Latino groups have been calling for Obama to deliver on his campaign promise of making immigration reform a top priority, with some activists and lawmakers in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus complaining he wasn’t doing enough.

Obama clouded the issue last week by saying “there may not be an appetite” in Congress to deal with another hot-button issue immediately after grueling fights over health care and financial regulation.

There also may not be enough time left on the legislative calendar to take up a contentious issue with midterm elections looming in November, but by making the commitment Obama may at least be able to tell Hispanic groups he tried.

Obama acknowledged immigration reform would be difficult to achieve and would require bipartisan support — something that’s lacking in the Senate right now. And he made no commitment to finishing the process this year.

From left, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday discuss Wall Street accountability legislation.

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GOP offers its consumer plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans offered a weaker alternative to consumer protection measures that are central to President Barack Obama’s Wall Street regulation plan, opening a new front Wednesday in the Senate debate over how to rein in financial institutions.

The Senate pivoted straight into that confrontation after reaching a compromise on how to dismantle large failing firms.

In that agreement, senators voted 93-5 to eliminate a contentious $50 billion fund that But he said it was the only way to deal with the would have been used to pay for nation’s immigration problems.

“The way to fix our broken immigration system is a firm’s liquidation.

The Senate also voted 96-1 to through common-sense comprehensive immigraprotect taxpayers from losses. tion reform,” the president said.

But the government would still “I want to begin work this year and I want have to put money up front to Democrats and Republicans to work with me.” cover the costs of a firm’s orderly Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., dissolution. That money would who’s up for re-election in a state with a growing be recovered through the sale of Latino population, also recently said he wants to the failed firm’s assets and by tackle immigration overhaul this year, although pending energy legislation — another divisive issue forcing shareholders and creditors to take substantial losses.

— would likely come first.

“While we have had our difReid last week released draft immigration legferences in other areas, we have islation with Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and always shared a commitment Robert Menendez, D-N.J., that calls for more federal enforcement agents and other border security- to ensuring that taxpayers will never again be forced to bail tightening benchmarks before illegal immigrants out giant Wall Street firms that could become legal U.S. residents. fail,” Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., Obama praised that proposal Wednesday. But said of his agreement with the the one Republican who’s been willing to work with Democrats on the issue recently, Sen. Lindsey committee’s top Republican, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama.

Graham of South Carolina, has balked at moving Treasury Secretary Timothy ahead this year.

Geithner said the bipartisan vote “demonstrates the growing momentum for passing comprehensive financial reform.”

But the Dodd and Shelby agreement, and the quick succession of votes that followed, belied the remaining partisan disputes. And no disagreement displayed partisan differences more than the divide over consumer protections. The Republican plan would limit the enforcement power of a proposed consumer protection bureau and make its rules subject to approval by a top banking regulator.

The White House was quick to object. Spokeswoman Amy Brundage called the Republican proposal “nothing more than a lobbyist-influenced defense of the status quo and an attempt to water down the consumer protections” in the bill.

The GOP plan would create a division of consumer protection within the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to oversee nonbank mortgage companies and write consumer regulations. The FDIC would have to sign off on those rules.

In contrast, the Democratic plan backed by the Obama administration would create an independent bureau within the Federal Reserve to police lending and other customer financial

service transactions. It would have a freer hand to enforce its regulations.

In another departure from the pending Democratic bill, the Republican plan would continue the practice of having federal laws override state laws. Under the Democratic proposal, states would be allowed to write and enforce tougher laws, a provision opposed by the financial industry.

Creating a new consumer financial protection entity within the government is a central piece of the Obama administration’s regulatory package.

Obama has said he would veto legislation that contained consumer protections he deems too weak.

Republicans have complained that the Senate Democratic proposal, which is not as ambitious as the administration’s, would be too sweeping and create a patchwork of state rules.

The consumer measure is one of an array of hurdles facing the legislation. Despite Wednesday’s votes, the endgame for the bill was far from clear.

“The Republicans have stopped us from doing anything on this bill,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said earlier Wednesday, before the Senate’s votes.

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Wealthy farmers still get biggest share of the aid WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers crafting a sweeping farm bill in 2008 promised it would cut government payments to wealthy farmers. Two years later, little appears to have changed.

Data being made public Wednesday shows that the wealthiest farmers in the country are still receiving the bulk of government cash, despite claims from lawmakers that reforms in the bill would put more money in the hands of smaller farms. At the same time, a series of exemptions written into the bill has made it more difficult for the public to find out who is receiving what.

Lawmakers writing the $290 billion bill included several provisions aimed at cutting down on government subsidies to the wealthiest farmers. They sought to eliminate a loophole that allowed farmers to collect higher payments and they set income limits for those who received subsidies. Though those new laws may have cut down on payments to some farmers, others have been able to find ways around them.

Such subsidies to the nation’s largest farms are a mainstay of congressional politics and an eternal frustration to those who want to eliminate them.

A powerful coalition of farm-state members of Congress have successfully defended their constituents’ interests in farm bill after farm bill.

“They are well dug in,” says Ken Cook, head of the Environmental Working Group, a Washington advocacy group that has long pushed for more equitable distribution of farm subsidies. “They have a strong interest in defending the status quo.”

Cook’s organization publishes a database every several years based on a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to the Agriculture Department, which collects data on subsidies but doesn’t organize it for the public to search. The group’s most recent database, released Wednesday, shows just 10 percent of farmers received 62 percent of federal farm payments in 2009, roughly the same amount as in 2007 and 2008, before the farm bill was enacted.

One reason for this may be that some farmers have found ways around the new rules. Those who exceed the income limits, established with the aim of eliminating subsidies for millionaires, could speed up purchases of equipment or otherwise alter their accounting to adjust their income. They may also add family members to their farm corporations to qualify for higher payments.

Randolph Rogers, a Hartsville, S.C., farmer who saw his subsidy payments drop after the 2008 farm bill eliminated a loophole that allowed him to collect more money, said he recouped some of the money by adding his children and his wife to his farm corporation, called Rogers Bros.

“The rules have changed and we have to change with them,” said Rogers, who grows cotton, soybeans, peanuts, corn and wheat. “We don’t have a lot of choice.”

According to the Environmental Working Group’s database, Rogers Bros. received $807,299 in federal subsidies last year, placing the company 56th on the list of top recipients. But Rogers says those who want to change the way payments are made don’t understand the high cost of farming.

“Everybody just acts like we just put our money in our pockets,” he said. “But it takes that money to operate.”

Just how much the government is paying the individual members of Rogers Bros. and companies like it has become harder to figure out, according to the Environmental Working Group.

While the Agriculture Department previously released data that showed which individuals received subsidies through business entities and how much they received, the group was not able to get that information this time after Congress wrote a series of data exemptions in the farm law.

Whether all of that information will be available again is unclear.

Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., a leading liberal Democrat and chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday where he announced that he intends to retire at the end of his term this year.

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Wisconsin’s Obey calling it quits WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. David Obey, a leading liberal Democrat and chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term this year, dealing Democrats defending their majority another blow in an election season of voter discontent.

“There is a time to stay and a time to go,” the Wisconsin lawmaker told reporters. “And this is my time to go.”

Obey won the first of 21 terms in 1969 — when a special election was held after President Richard Nixon tapped Melvin Laird to be his defense secretary.

He faced a potentially bruising re-election campaign this fall, and his retirement is likely to make it easier for Republicans to pick up his seat.

Obey, among a handful of veteran House Democrats who had been bracing for competitive races this fall, has routinely won re-election. In 2008 he did so with 61 percent of the vote. But voters this year are souring on Washington.

“I think, frankly that my district is ready for someone new to make a fresh start,” he said.

Democrats, who hold a comfortable majority in the House, expect to lose seats in November, a typical trend for the president’s party in the first round of midterm elections. But complicating Democratic prospects are a

slide in support for Congress and President Barack Obama as well as the party’s agenda.

Sean Duffy, 38, a Republican district attorney, is seen as the favored candidate in the GOP primary, and his candidacy has attracted the backing of Republicans in Washington as well as the party’s 2008 vice president nominee, Sarah Palin, and tea party activists.

Obey came to the House during the tumult of the Vietnam War, when it was dominated by Southern conservative Democrats. He is a longtime ally and confidant of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

He earned a reputation as a reformer over the years, chairing a task force that wrote rules requiring lawmakers to disclose their personal finances to limit the potential for conflicts of interest. More recently, he has been an architect of reforms of the earmarking process, requiring greater transparency and blocking House members from directing earmarks to for-profitcompanies whose executives often return the favor with campaign cash.

He also can have a gruff, sometimes prickly demeanor and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. In a 2007 incident, he was captured on camera by an anti-war group telling activists who confronted him outside his Capitol Hill office that “idiot liberals” don’t

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understand Democrats’ strategy for leaving Iraq.

“I didn’t come here to win any charm-school award,” he said at the time.

Once a Republican, Obey was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 1963. He is a protege of Sen. Gaylord Nelson, an ironic Wisconsin progressive who was the founder of Earth Day. He first became chairman of the Appropriations Committee in 1994, and was a top architect of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill. He also has been a reluctant backer of the administration’s efforts in Afghanistan, giving the president the benefit of the doubt a year ago when fashioning a war funding bill while saying he would revisit the decision this year.

As chairman of Appropriations, Obey has been an ardent defender of domestic programs such as education and community health centers, as well as less popular causes such as foreign aid.

“For more than 40 years, Chairman Dave Obey has been a tireless voice for progress on behalf of his constituents in Wisconsin and middle-class families across America,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., chairman of the House committee trying to get Democrats elected.

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Klutzes reach out to help Dear Abby: “Just Clumsy in Amarillo” (March 24) could be my twin. I am also a klutz who bruises easily. When I was an EMT, my arms were so bruised and purple from lifting stretchers that coworkers asked if my husband was beating me. Luckily, he was a submariner and on patrol at that time so it let him off the hook.

I can walk through the house and trip over nothing at all. I once broke all the toes on one foot sliding off an exam table in a doctor’s office.

Tell “Clumsy” she’s not alone. There are a lot of us klutzes out there and she’s in good company. As long as she can keep a sense of humor about her condition, she’ll be fine.

— Another Klutz Dear Another Klutz: I received many responses regarding being accidentprone. While many readers shared their “graceless” moments, others pointed out that it could be caused by a medical problem.

Dear Abby: I have an inherited neuromuscular disorder called CharcotMarie-Tooth disease, also known as CMT. It is also called motor sensory neuropathy or peroneal muscular atrophy.

CMT affects the peripheral nerves.

A common symptom is short wide feet with very high arches, weak ankles, and tripping over our own feet. Falling UP the stairs is what we do best. At family reunions, we sit around comparing our funny feet and the bruises from our frequent falls.

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

“Clumsy” should see a neurologist for nerve conduction testing. The extent of her frequent “accidents” and bruising is not normal, and she needs to know what the problem is.

— Esther Dear Abby: You were right to tell “Clumsy” that she shouldn’t avoid her friends as that would only increase their suspicions. However, she also needs to include her fiance more in their social activities. If her friends get to know him and discover that he is a kind and compassionate person who respects boundaries and knows how to control his temper, their suspicions of abuse will be allayed.

— Carla Dear Abby: As a child, my mother always chided me to “watch out, pay attention and look where you are going.”

I had bruises all over from bumping into things. At 45, I learned from an ophthalmologist that I had no depth perception. Now I understand why I must look down when stepping off curbs or drive five car lengths behind other cars, etc. “Clumsy” needs to have her depth perception measured.

— Made Sense Of It

Use compounding pharmacies Dear Dr. Gott: Recently, you addressed the difficulty of obtaining Armour Thyroid.

Tell your readers they can get porcine thyroid capsules. Have them made by a compounding pharmacy. Unfortunately, the cost is about three times higher (about $1 a day), but for those of us who choose a more natural way, it is worth it.

Dear Reader: You bring up a point I neglected to mention in my original article. Becoming more and more popular, compounding is a method by which physicians can prescribe and pharmacists can produce tried-and-true medications. I congratulate you for thinking outside the box on this matter.

As a point of information, Armour Thyroid in 1 grain (60 mg) and 1/2 grain (30 mg) doses has been manufactured and shipped since February 2010, according to the manufacturer. They apparently selected these two doses because up to 70 percent of all people take the medication in one dose or the other, or through a combination of both.

As I previously indicated, Armour

PUZZLE

Ask Dr. Gott Dr. Peter M. Gott Thyroid underwent reformulation.

There was a decrease in the amount of dextrose and an increase in the amount of cellulose, and cornstarch was added.

As you might imagine, some users have reported problems with the new formula. Because the tablets are taken by many people sublingually, they don’t appear to dissolve as easily (perhaps because of the cornstarch), and they aren’t as sweet as before, making them unpleasant to taste. Other users report palpitations, fatigue, weight gain, hair loss and more.

Readers experiencing any unusual side effects not present prior to the reformulation should speak with their physicians to determine whether compounding or conversion to an alternative is the correct way to proceed.

IN THE STARS

Your Birthday, May 6

You’re likely to meet a new group of people with whom you’ll have much in common.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Strong urges to get things done and out of the way will overtake any thoughts of playing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Projects that call for the full scope of your talents will be the type of tasks you’ll relish working on.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - Your instincts could be more dependable than your logic. Follow what your intuition is telling you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Someone close to you may need tender treatment, so appeal to his/her emotions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - Because of the pride you’ll take in performing a task for another today, no supervision will be needed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Know how to keep your emotions under control. If you don’t, you could drive everybody else crazy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Even though you’re likely to have lots of things to do today, give family more attention.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Communication with someone in particular might become more important than usual.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - You’ve always had a good eye for a bargain, and today your vision will be especially keen.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - It might be more important than usual to do what you want to do when you want to do it.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Today you may be called upon to make a big sacrifice for a good friend in need.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Treating everyone in a friendly manner makes you an enjoyable person to be around today.

The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Thursday, May 6, 2010 — 15 The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, THURSDAY, May 6, 2010 — 15

Nation

Judge behind prayer ruling in spotlight

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Since U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional, critics have declared what they think of her: A Marxist. A moron. A disgrace.

One person wrote that he was praying God removes her from office. Several warned she is headed to hell. GOP Rep. Ted Poe of Texas took to the House floor to taunt: “What’s next, Judge Crabb? You going to ban Thanksgiving and Christmas as national holidays?”

Crabb, a 31-year veteran of the bench in this liberal state capital, has faced harsh criticism before.

Those close to her say she isn’t afraid of it.

In her ruling last month, Crabb said the law creating the tradition being observed Thursday is an unconstitutional call to religious action. She quickly became a magnet in the contentious debate over the role of religion in public life — denounced by Christian activists for overstepping but hailed as courageous by atheists, agnostics and non-Christians who feel excluded from the day.

“BABS, we Americans and veterans will be praying on the public square on May 6,” one Vietnam veteran from Cleveland wrote. “Try to stop us.”

President Barack Obama, whose administration is appealing the ruling, has urged citizens to “pray, or otherwise give thanks” for the nation’s freedom and blessings. And Crabb put enforcement of her ruling on hold pending the appeal.

But advocates for the separation of church and state plan to gather Thursday as well, rallying in front of the state Capitol to praise Crabb’s ruling and call for an end to the National Day of Prayer.

The 71-year-old judge, who declined an interview request, has never been afraid to make rulings unpopular with “Joe Blow on the street” when she believes the law calls for it, said Krista Ralston, who was Crabb’s first law clerk.

Crabb, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin law school in 1962, served in the 1970s as a federal magistrate under the late U.S. District Judge James Doyle, the father of Wisconsin’s Democratic governor. Appointed to the bench in 1979 as Wisconsin’s first female federal judge, Crabb is called thoughtful, fair and hardworking by lawyers who appear in her courtroom.

In 1997, she upheld a Wisconsin law that requires women to wait 24 hours before having an abortion, saying U.S. Supreme Court precedent required her to rule that way. She helped fix inhumane conditions at Wisconsin’s maximum security prison.

Yet she hands criminals the stiff prison terms called for by federal guidelines even when she would like to be more lenient, said her husband of 50 years, Ted Crabb.

In the National Day of Prayer decision, Crabb found Congress violated the First Amendment by passing a law directing the president to encourage citizens to pray, and said the law amounted to a government endorsement of a religious exercise. She emphasized that her conclusion was not a judgment “on the value of prayer or the millions of Americans who believe in its power.”

But she said the government can no more encourage citizens to pray than to “fast during the month of Ramadan, attend a synagogue, purify themselves in a sweat lodge or practice rune magic.”

“In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual’s decision on whether and when to pray,” she wrote.

William Weimer, vicepresident of Phantom Fireworks, speaks to members of the media at the company’s store in Matamoras, Pa. on Wednesday. Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of trying to detonate a car bomb in Times Square on Saturday was videotaped buying at this Pennsylvania store, consumer-grade fireworks.

Associated Press

Store has bomb suspect on video NEW YORK (AP) — The suspect in the Times Square bombing attempt was caught on video at a Pennsylvania store legally buying consumer-grade fireworks that were made mostly of paper and were so weak they wouldn’t blow up a watermelon, let alone an SUV, the company president said Wednesday.

Each of the 36 M88 fireworks bought by the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, at the Matamoras showroom near the New York border has pyrotechnic powder equal in size to less than a sixth of an aspirin, according to officials of Ohio-based Phantom Fireworks.

New Yorkers are lucky that the fireworks were bought legally, because illegal pyrotechnics can be up to 1,000 times more powerful, company president Bruce Zoldan told The Associated Press.

“There’s no doubt, had he bought this on the black market, that the outcome in New York would have been totally different,” Zoldan said.

Shahzad was charged Tuesday with trying to blow up a crude gasoline and propane device inside a parked SUV amid tourists and Broadway theatergoers.

He was in custody after being hauled off a Dubai-bound plane he boarded Monday night at Kennedy Airport despite being under surveillance and placed on the federal no-fly list.

“I was expecting you. Are you NYPD or FBI?” Shahzad told customs officials who came aboard the jet to arrest him, an official with knowledge of the investigation told The Associated Press Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case.

Authorities say Shahzad has admitted his role in the botched bombing plot and is cooperating with investigators, but don’t yet know whether others were involved in the plan to blow up

the SUV. U.S. officials in Washington said Wednesday they’ve been unable to verify statements that Shahzad trained at a Pakistani terror camp, according to the complaint against him, and haven’t linked him to any terror group.

Meanwhile, the official who divulged Shahzad’s comments aboard the plane told the AP that investigators now believe the video released right after the botched bombing of a man shedding his shirt near the SUV had the unintended effect of falsely reassuring the real suspect he wasn’t a target.

The unidentified man was never referred to as a suspect, but Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in his first briefing after the failed bombing that police sought to interview him.

Investigators believe he is not involved with the attack, the official said. Police have not interviewed the man.

Authorities said Shahzad was not expected to appear in federal court Wednesday, and it wasn’t clear when a hearing would be held. His appearance was canceled Tuesday in part because of Shahzad’s continuing cooperation with investigators, but authorities said they had shed little light on what might have motivated him.

Until recently, his life in the U.S. appeared enviable. He had a master’s degree from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, a job as a budget analyst for a marketing firm in Norwalk, Conn., two children and a well-educated wife who posted his smiling picture and lovingly called him “my everything” on a social networking website.

But shortly after becoming a U.S. citizen a year ago, he gave up his job, stopped paying his mortgage and told a real estate agent to let the bank take the house because he was returning

to Pakistan.

Once there, according to investigators, he traveled to the lawless Waziristan region and learned bomb making at a terrorist training camp.

In court papers, investigators said Shahzad returned to the U.S. on Feb. 3, moved into an apartment in a low-rent section of Bridgeport, and set about acquiring materials and an SUV he bought with cash in late April.

Shahzad had to show his driver’s license and fill out an application to buy the fireworks, Zoldan said. On the form, “the individual put his last name first, and his first name last, probably intentionally,” Zoldan said.

Phantom Fireworks requires proof of age and out-of-state residence to enter the store because of laws that prohibit Pennsylvanians from buying most fireworks. The store is off an interstate near the New York border.

“The M88 he used wouldn’t damage a watermelon,” Zoldan said. “Thank goodness he used that.”

Court papers said that after his arrest, Shahzad confessed to rigging the bomb and driving it into Times Square. He also acknowledged getting training in Pakistan, the filing said.

His landlord told the AP on Wednesday that Shahzad called him the night of the bombing attempt saying he had lost his apartment key and needed to be let in the building. In reality, authorities say, he had left his keys in the SUV’s ignition.

“He said he was hanging out with a friend in New York and he must have lost the key somewhere,” Stanislaw Chomiak said, adding that Shahzad lived alone.

Authorities eventually identified Shahzad through the previous owner of the SUV and put him under surveillance.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity is seeking a full-time executive director with proven experience and management skills to assume leadership of this non-profit organization. Responsibilities include: overall day-to-day affiliate administration and Board coordination, fundraising, public relations, recruiting and managing volunteers, coordinating activities of committees, grant writing and program development.

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Interested candidates please submit a cover letter and resume by May 14, 2010 to Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity P.O. Box 1534 • Rutherfordton, NC 28139 or e-mail to rutherfordhfh@bellsouth.net RCHFH is an equal opportunity employer

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Spindale will conduct a public hearing at their regular meeting on Monday, May 17, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in the Commissioners Room of the Spindale House located at 119 Tanner Street in downtown Spindale.

The purpose of this meeting is to consider a request from Habitat for Humanity of Rutherford County to rezone a 5.28 acre parcel of property located off Reservation Drive and Carriage Place, legal description being Tax Map 98, Block 1, Lot 30, from General Commercial to R6 Residential.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Collector of Affidavit of the estate of TERI JOAN SEAY of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said TERI JOAN SEAY to present them to the undersigned on or before the 6th day of August, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment.

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Nation/world World Today Somali pirates board oil tanker

An election observer whispers to a colleague at a re-counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday.

The re-count of roughly 2.5 million votes cast March 7 in the capital was demanded by Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who narrowly lost to a coalition which enjoyed heavy Sunni support. It has further stalled any formation of a government, raising fears that violence will increase as U.S. forces withdraw this summer.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somali pirates armed with automatic weapons boarded an oil tanker with $50 million of oil on Wednesday but the ship’s Russian crew locked themselves into a safe room to wait for a Russian warship rushing to the scene, a European Union Naval spokesman said.

The pirates launched the attack on the Liberian-flagged ship, which is named the Moscow University, at dawn. Cmdr. John Harbour, the EU Naval Force spokesman, said the crew evaded the pirates for several hours while sending out distress calls. They locked themselves in a secure room when the pirates boarded.

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DUBLIN (AP) — A new wave of dense volcanic ash from Iceland snarled air traffic Wednesday in Ireland and Scotland, stranding tens of thousands of people but narrowly missing England and key London air hubs.

Dublin Airport canceled all flights until 4 a.m.

(0300GMT) Thursday, marooning more than 30,000 passengers in the process.

More than a dozen other airports throughout the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland shut down, too, as unseasonable winds pushed the engine-wrecking ash southwest back toward the Atlantic. Britain’s National Air Traffic Service said the densest ash clouds skirted the western coast of England and North Wales but posed no threat to airports there.

Taliban suicide attack kills 13

KABUL (AP) — Taliban suicide bombers disguised as police attacked a government compound Wednesday in southwestern Afghanistan in an assault that left 13 people dead, including a provincial council member and all nine attackers, authorities said.

Eight of the bombers blew themselves up and police shot the ninth, President Hamid Karzai’s office said.

3 dead as anti-austerity riots erupt

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Riots over harsh new austerity measures left three bank workers dead and engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings. Police responded with barrages of tear gas.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in a nationwide strike to protest new taxes and government spending cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund and other European nations before heavily indebted Greece gets a euro110 billion ($141 billion) loan package to keep it from defaulting.

Shiite deal gives clerics final say BAGHDAD (AP) — An agreement signed by the two main Iranian-backed Shiite blocs seeking to govern Iraq gives the final decision on all their political disputes to top Shiite clerics, according to a copy obtained

by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

If the alliance succeeds in forming the next government, the provision could increase the role of senior clergy in politics.

The provision would likely further alienate Iraq’s Sunni minority, which had been hoping the March election would boost their say in the country.

The newly announced alliance between the Shiite blocs practically ensures they will form the core of any new government and squeeze out the top vote getter, Ayad Allawi’s Iraqiya list, which received heavy Sunni support.

But the terms of the alliance show the deep distrust between the two Shiite partners and seek to limit the powers of the prime minister.

A leading member of the prime minister’s coalition who signed the agreement on Tuesday confirmed it gives a small group of clerics led by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani the last word on any disputes between the two allied blocs. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the

sensitivity of the situation.

“The marjaiyah has the final say in solving all the disputes between the two sides and its directives and guidance are binding,” the agreement said, referring to the religious Shiite leadership based in the holy city of Najaf.

The provision only applies to the alliance, not officially to any new government. But if the Shiite alliance dominates the next government, clerics would potentially have a direct say in policy.

In the past, Shiite politicians have often turned informally to al-Sistani for advice and to resolve disputes and the agreement would enshrine that role in writing. Al-Sistani’s office declined to comment.

The Iranian-born cleric, who is in his 80s, is the most revered religious figure among Shiites in Iraq — and many abroad. He offers his counsel behind the scenes to senior politicians who privately seek his guidance and support. But he has shunned a public role and opposes a Shiite philosophy governing Iran that gives direct rule to clerics.

Al-Sistani has played a major role in keeping stability while ensuring the unity and domination of the Shiites. But his inability to stop the brutal Shiite-

Sunni violence of 2006 and 2007 has shown the limitations of his authority.

The deal is between Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition and the conservative Shiite Iraqi National Alliance, which comprises the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and followers of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Neighboring Iran, a Shiite theocracy where clerics have the final word on all matters of state, carries great influence with both groups and has long pushed for such an alliance.

Iraq’s Sunnis have been sidelined since the 2003 U.S.led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein. The community threw its weight behind Iraqiya, which won 91 seats in the election — more than any other bloc but far short of the majority needed to govern.

Sunnis already were warning that excluding them from government could fuel new sectarian violence.

Abdul-Ilah Kazim, a Sunni lawmaker with the Iraqiya list, rejected the political influence of the Shiite clerics. “There is a sectarian flavor to this one-sect agreement from start to finish and certainly all the world and Iraqi people will get his message,” he said.

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