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Motivational speaker and author, Jay Block addressed a group of workforce development professionals at ICC Wednesday. The gathering was part of Workforce Development Professionals Month as proclaimed by Gov. Bev Perdue for the month of May.

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Training for the trainers

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

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SPINDALE — Who trains the trainers?

Workforce development professionals from across Western North Carolina were asking that question as part of a professional development seminar Wednesday at Isothermal Community College.

The event saw 120 workforce development counselors, trainers, high school career counselors and Employment Security Commission workers meet together to lean more about how

they can best help train today’s workers for tomorrow’s careers.

“This is a chance for us to get better acquainted with each other and network,” said Bill Robertson, Workforce Development Director for ICC. “Gov. Bev Perdue has declared all of May to be Workforce Development Professionals Month.”

Special guests for the event at The Foundation were motivational speaker and Please see Training, Page 6

FOREST CITY — A 29-yearold former Rutherford County woman was shot and killed last Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn., during an attempted home invasion.

Holly Ann Repasky, who lived in Knoxville, attended R-S Central High School and Adaville Baptist church when she lived here, died as the result of the failed home invasion attempt.

According to reports in the Knoxville News Sentinel, someone knocked on the door of Scott and Penny Knight’s home on Rustic Circle, outside of Morristown, and a woman outside the house told the homeowners she had car trouble. The woman at the door was identified as Repasky.

Scott Knight was armed with a .22-caliber pistol when he responded to the 1:20 a.m. knock at his door. When two suspects tried to force their way inside his home he exchanged gunfire with the suspects, Hamblen County Sheriff Esco Jarnagan told reporters.

Repasky was struck twice during the shootout and killed.

Investigators say she was caught in the crossfire and wasn’t armed.

Sheriff Jarnigan told reporters the suspects “attempted to push themselves into the house and shots were being fired, so he Please see Woman, Page 6

Meth lab busted in county From Staff Reports

FOREST CITY — A traffic stop Tuesday at about 6 p.m. off Island Ford Road, resulted in the arrests of four people charged with felony methamphetamine issues.

The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department narcotics team was conducting the traffic stop and those charged were driving into their driveway at the Island Ford Road home.

Charged are Billy Wayne Kearse, 53, of 714 Island Ford Road, Mooresboro, one count manufacture methamphetamine, one count possession with intent to sell/deliver

Law enforcement officials wear hazmat gear as they clean out a meth lab found on Island Ford Road Tuesday night.

Larry Dale/ Daily Courier

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Annual CPC Festival will celebrate pets FOREST CITY — The 4th annual Community Pet Center’s Festival on the Field will be held Saturday, May 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Crowe Park in Forest City.

This event is to celebrate pets, promote responsible pet ownership, and help out the pet community.

There will be activities for pets, their owners, and the family. Admission is free.

People are asked to bring a donation of dried pet food.

“Pounds for Pets” is the collection of dried pet food for the CPC’s food pantry.

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During the economic problems, the food pantry has been utilized to help those unable to afford pet food. There are a number of groups whom help people get back on their feet through food assistance. The CPC’s food Pantry is a unique service that provides free food to owners who are having financial struggles.

Featured activities at the clinic will be a pet show will at 1:30. There are many fun categories with winners receiving a gift certificate. The categories include funniest looking, shortest, tallest, shortest tail, longest tail, shortest hair, best costume,

best unusual trick, best smile, best kisser, loudest bark, best singer, owner look-alike, most behaved, most unusual.

The fee is $9 for two categories and $2 for each extra entry. Registration at the festival.

Fireside Books and Gifts will host children’s author Lois Chazen 1-3 p.m. They will be giving away copies of her book Loving Ruby.

A number of activities are set for pets, including a rabies clinic; a pet can be micro chipped; pet massages and pet venPlease see Pets, Page 6

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Camp Invention coming to Forest City this summer

HAGGARD TRIBUTE

FOREST CITY — The Camp Invention program is coming to Forest City this summer.

Camp Invention isn’t just your average summer camp. In this exciting program, children are immersed in a week long experience, where the fun of imaginative play leads them through inquiry-based activities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), as well as in history and the arts.

Forrest Hunt Elementary School is hosting the Camp Invention INNOVATE program on June 1-June 15 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

To learn more about how to secure a spot in the program, visit www.campinvention.org or call 800.968.4332.

Renowned for the opportunity it extends to elementary-aged children to explore the unknown, tinker with ideas, and satisfy an innate sense of curiosity, the Camp Invention program provides a safe, creative outlet for them to experience extended summer learning taught by familiar local educators, which builds on their year-long studies. Each day, children rotate through five integrated mod-

Musician Ron Shepard performed a selection of Merle Haggard hits for visitors at the Senior Center in Spindale Wednesday.

The Tribute show is one of several that Shepard performs for audiences, others include Conway Twitty, Alabama, and many other county hits. Shepard first met Haggard in Fairbanks Alaska in the late 80’s and decided then to plant his roots in country music. Information about Shepard’s CD’s and music can be found at cmaronshepard.com Garrett Byers/Daily Courier

ules that employ creative thinking to solve real-world challenges. Working together, they learn vital 21st century life skills such as problem solving and teamwork through hands-on activities designed to be informative and fun.

“We’re getting to the root of innovation by providing motivation to learn, create and excel — particularly in the critical areas of math and science,” says Michael J. Oister, president of Invent Now Kids. America is currently facing a critical talent gap in these areas, known as the international “language” of innovation. The country’s economic and productive future depends on how well we educate our children and youth. The Camp Invention program strives to meet the need for innovators and inventors by helping children understand that science is everywhere and fostering “whole system” thinkers.

Since its inception in 1990, the Camp Invention program, the premier program of the nonprofit Invent Now Kids, has grown to include nearly 1,500 sites in 49 states. In 2009, more than 65,000 children participated nationwide.

Lawmakers back in Capitol for short session

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina legislators returned to Raleigh on Wednesday to focus on fixing a state budget that still can’t keep up with flagging revenues and to find ways to encourage job creation among small businesses.

The gavels fell at noon Wednesday in the Legislative Building, bringing the House and Senate officially back to work after a nine-month absence.

Their main business will be to adjust the second year of the two-year budget approved by lawmakers last summer. Democrats estimate between $800 million and $1 billion in additional revenues or spending cuts are needed to balance the budget for the year starting July 1.

But Democratic leaders, who control both chambers, have made clear they don’t want to stick around too long after the budget adjustments are made and signed

by Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue. Senate Democrats say they’re still on track to pass their version of the budget adjustments by May 20.

Their main business will be to adjust the second year of the two-year budget approved by lawmakers last summer. Democrats estimate between $800 million and $1 billion in additional revenues or spending cuts are needed to balance the budget.

“We don’t have money to fix most problems, so there’s not a whole lot of reasons to stay around here,” said Senate Majority Leader Martin Nesbitt, D-Buncombe.

Lawmakers also will consider campaign finance and ethics bills and reforms to the state’s liquor sales system. Lobbyists and advocates for a host of interest groups and legislation swarmed the legislative complex downtown to prepare to push — or push back on — legislation that has a chance to pass before adjournment.

“Our goals for this session are to have an expeditious session ... but also to have a thorough session,” House Speaker Joe Hackney, D-Orange, said while releasing the House Democrats’ four-point agenda to help small businesses create jobs, protect public education to keep teachers in the classroom, root out government waste and fraud and pass

ethics and state contract reforms.

Republicans, who are aiming to win back both chambers in November and control the once-a-decade redistricting in 2011, were unanimous in voting against last year’s budget bill. That could change this year if Democrats find real savings and don’t use scare tactics of severe cuts to generate new revenues, House Minority Whip ThomTillis said.

“You can’t sugarcoat what is a poorly run operation that has lots of costs that should be driven out before we ask for another dime from taxpayers,” said Tillis, R-Mecklenburg.

Hackney said he wants to work with Republicans on issues but wouldn’t consider GOP legislation he considers political in nature. That would appear to include bills Republicans want heard that would exempt North Carolina from the federal

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health care law.

Dozens of conservative activists gathered behind the Legislative Building to denounce the health care law and its mandate for everyone to buy insurance or pay a fine starting in 2014.

Republican congressional hopeful Bill Randall, who faces a runoff next month for the right to represent the GOP in November’s election against incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Miller urged the crowd to face the building and shout their demand for greater freedom now.

Others wore red shirts while lobbying senators to approve changes to the state’s involuntary annexation rules.

“My question is how long are these senators going to sit on their hands while the cities continue to abuse the law?” asked Tony Tetterton with the Fair Annexation Coalition.

Wednesday was largely about ceremony, renewing acquaintances and recognizing new members.

Democratic Reps. Diane Parfitt of Cumberland County, John May of Franklin County and

Chris Heagarty of Wake County took their seats for the first time, while new Democratic Sens. Michael Walters of Robeson County and Margaret Dickson of Cumberland County were recognized. Six other House members who lost in last week’s primary began what will be their final regular session.

The arrival of Dickson, a former House member, highlighted a changing of the guard in the Senate. She replaced Majority Leader Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, who resigned in December to join the state parole commission. Nesbitt now sits in a front row seat next to Senate leader Marc Basnight where he and Rand had helped rule the chamber for most of the last decade.

Basnight wouldn’t speculate this week about when this year’s session would end.

“Welcome back to your summer home,” Basnight, D-Dare, told colleagues before the Senate adjourned for the day after a 20-minute session where only one bill was considered. “Hopefully we do not spoil our vacations that may occur or may not occur.”

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Charlotte could lose 500 teachers CHARLOTTE (AP) — About 500 teachers in one North Carolina system will get preliminary layoff notices after the local school board approved a budget that prepares for cuts of up to $78 million.

The Charlotte Observer reported the notices will go out Wednesday, hours after the school board approved the 2010-11 budget. The plan includes five scenarios, with options that include laying off hundreds of employees.

Chief Operating Officer Hugh Hattabaugh says 170 teachers will lose their jobs because of low job ratings and/or the lack of proper licenses.

Another 20 in that category have resigned.

Also getting preliminary notices are 240 teachers who are working on short-term contracts and 99 whose skills don’t match available jobs. Those 99 could be placed if jobs open up. Layoffs aren’t final until a board vote, scheduled for June.

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The winners of the poetry, photography and essay contests for the 2009 Anuran were recognized in May at a ceremony in the Isothermal library.

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ICC literary journal published, winners feted

SPINDALE - The 2010 edition of Anuran, Isothermal Community College’s literary publication, has been released.

This year’s Anuran features essays and photography from 20 Isothermal students, along with poetry from five students and members of the public.

In addition to their work being published in the journal, the winners were recognized at a ceremony last

Insurers target tort reform idea

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s leading property and liability insurers are taking their case to the public to impede an effort in the Legislature to change how monetary awards are determined when somebody gets hit by a car while crossing the street or slips on an icy sidewalk.

The Insurance Federation of North Carolina said it began running radio ads Wednesday — the opening day of this year’s legislative session — it says will educate listeners on how a proposal to change the rule for negligence cases would raise their insurance rates if approved.

While supporters of the tort reform argue rates essentially won’t change, opposition resulting from ads could reach legislators’ offices and help derail a House bill approved last year that would allow an accident victim to recover damages even if the person is slightly to blame for what happened.

The federation’s statewide media blitz, which it says will cost roughly $30,000 a week, reflects the high stakes for trial lawyers, insurance companies and other businesses should the state switch to what’s called a “comparative negligence” standard.

“Given the current economic climate ... we’re just trying to open the public’s eyes to the potential costs,” said Jennifer Cohen, the federation’s executive director.

North Carolina Advocates for Justice, the group representing the state’s trial lawyers, want North Carolina to join 46 other states that follow a variation of the comparative negligence or comparative fault standard.

Under comparative negligence, if a judge or jury determines the plaintiff is entitled to $100,000 in damages but finds the injured person 30 percent at fault and the defendant 70 percent to blame, the plaintiff is awarded 30 percent less, or $70,000.

In the current system using a “contributory negligence” standard, a plaintiff could recover nothing even if the person is only slightly to blame for what happened.

spring in the Isothermal Library’s Old Tryon Room.

Copies are available from the Anuran coordinators, Elisabeth Barrows at 286-3636, ext. 351, and Tom Tucker at ext. 360.

Quantities are limited.

The Anuran Winners for 2009 are: Essays First place – “My Life with Ed” by Sharyn RobbinsKennedy; second place

– “Connections” by Karen Taylor; third place – “My Aunt Rosie” by Tammy Laughter; honorable mentions – Went to Hell to Become a Saint” by Antonio Davila, “School Days, School Days” by Amy T. Willard, “Please Pass the Wrinkle Cream” by Candice Quilty Poetry First place — “Splintered Heroes” by Lucinda Hynett; second place — “Something Like” by Laurianne Ross;

third place — “Rhythm and Blues” by Jonathan Byers; honorable mentions – “Turning” by Deborah Keller, “Speck of Blue” by Lucinda Hynett, “Come Around” by Deborah Keller, “The Horse”

by Darryll A. Devine Photography First place — “Brotherly Love” by Kristi Morrow; second place — “Sunset by the Tree” by Brandon Murray; third place — “Untitled” by Karen Robinson; honorable

mentions – “Tunnel for Two” — Gina Durko, “Praying” — Mark Edwards, “The Struggle” — Renee Vickers Ferree, “Sisters” — Jessica Arledge, “Surfside” — Carole Brooks Cover Design First place — Niki Coffin; second place — Josh Hall; third place — Benediktas Krikshtanas; honorable mentions – Carol Boissier, Jessica Arledge

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Our Views Short legislative sessions needed

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orth Carolina’s state legislature went back into session Wednesday for what is commonly referred to as the “short session.”

For recent legislatures, the second year session has been anything but short.

This year, just how long the lawmakers will be at work is anybody’s guess.

There is certainly going to be much debate and discussion about the budget which is always the primary business of the session. Budget shortfalls have to be addressed and that could take some time.

On the other hand, there is little chance the lawmakers will take up many other pieces of legislation, especially those that involve additional spending so they may be able to cut their time down. That would be good news since the cost to taxpayers when the lawmakers are in session is not cheap.

In fact, the next legislature needs to take a hard look at ideas that might even save taxpayers more money by shortening legislative sessions.

North Carolina has long celebrated its part-time, citizen legislature. In recent years, the time lawmakers spend in Raleigh has grown and that generally is not a good thing for anyone.

Our readers’ views Is disappointed that Helton lost election To the editor: I was very disappointed on election night when I learned that Margaret Helton was not reelected to her county commission seat.

Margaret is a friend of mine, although I had never met her before she was elected as a county commissioner.

But after watching her in the monthly meetings, which I always attend, I felt she was a friend to all who lived in Rutherford County.

If ever there was a vote coming up that she was unsure about, she always asked questions and, or did research in order to make the best decision for our county.

She was never afraid to cast the lone vote whether it was yea or nay instead of just “going along with the rest of the crowd.”

I hope that whoever is elected to that seat In November will show the same care and leadership that Margaret has shown.

Thank you, Margaret Helton.

Judy Patterson Rutherfordton

them to ask for such proof.

Having fought to protect our American freedoms, I take them very seriously and become distressed when I see a freedom such as voting treated so lightly as to invite fraud, abuse and compromise.

Shortly after my wife and I moved here in 2002, we registered to vote and were given Voter Registration Cards.

So far, those cards have served no purpose. The previous states in which we lived and voted required that we show our Voter Registration Cards in order to vote.

I fail to see how asking for proof of identity in order to vote would constitute a legitimate threat to anyone’s freedom — and, in fact, I see it as protection of this precious freedom to vote that we all enjoy as Americans.

Perhaps someone can respond through this column and help me understand the reasons for our voting system not requiring positive identification.

Robert B. Bourne Rutherfordton

Laments passing Says voters should have of two key leaders to prove their identity To the editor:

To the editor: I voted this past Tuesday and was again disappointed that I was not asked to show any proof that I was who I claimed to be.

All I had to do was state my name and address, and I was taken to a booth to vote.

Said differently, anyone reading this column today could get my address from the phone book and vote as if they were me.

When I inquired as to why I wasn’t asked to prove my identity, the response from a poll worker was that it is “against the law” for

Rutherford Life Services, Inc., which began as Rutherford Vocational Workshop, recently lost two of its founders, Dr. Charles L. Griffith and Chas. Z. Flack Jr..

Dr. (Charlie) Griffith served in 1966-67 as the first Board President and again in 196869/1992-1994.

Chas. Z. (Chuck) Flack served as chairman of the first finance committee as well Board President 1967-68.

Chuck Flack was the last original Board Member who remained

on the Board of Directors. (44 years).

These two men along with several others saw a need for a facility to serve those persons disabled by physical and/or mental conditions.

Many young people were completing school with no where to go to be productive or receive training.

Because of the vision and commitment of Dr. Griffith and Chuck Flack, thousands of lives of those with disabilities, as well as their families, have benefitted from the services provided by Rutherford Life Services.

On behalf of these special people and their families, we would like to express our appreciation and gratitude for their commitment.

Rutherford County lost two exceptional men and Rutherford Life Services will continued to honor their vision in continuing to assist individuals and families with special needs to enhance the quality of their lives both personally and within the community.

We will miss them and are grateful to have had them be a part of our lives.

The Clients, Board of Directors and Staff of Rutherford Life Services

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This is one campaign loophole that needs closing RALEIGH – Coming soon to a town relatively near you: Legislato the Magnificento, the greatest magician alive..

Watch as he dazzles with one hand, holding up another round of eye-catching ethics reform.

In the other hand, he’ll quietly and deftly shuffle hundreds of thousands of dollars through various campaign accounts, a sleight of hand accomplished with a tricky loophole that he’ll never reveal or give up.

Yes, the North Carolina General Assembly is coming back to the state capital this week, convening for what legislative leaders hope will be a session lasting just a couple of months.

The biggest order of business will be passing a state budget in another year where

Today in North Carolina Scott Mooneyham

money is scarce, tax collections down.

Other than the budget, another batch of ethics reform awaits legislators.

The focus is likely to be on bills already passed by the House last year, with a few modifications, that would require state board and commission appointees to disclosure campaign fund-raising activities and prohibit some vendors holding state contracts from giving to the politicians who oversee those contracts.

Action is also likely on

a House proposal to keep high-level executive branch employees from registering as lobbyists immediately after leaving their positions.

Some additional ethics requirements that Gov. Beverly Perdue has placed on her board and commission appointees, including meeting attendance requirements, also may be put on all state appointees.

It’s hard argue against most of those proposals. But it’s really nibbling around the edges.

In fairness to our legislators and the current legislative leadership, they did pass significant ethics reforms in 2006 and 2007, helping to change the culture of the legislature.

Gift bans and conflict of interest laws mean that legis-

lators no longer troll around following floor sessions in search of a lobbyist to treat them to a fancy steak dinner.

Legislators aren’t converting their campaign accounts into their personal kitty to buy cars. Lobbyists worry about whether their actions could represent conflicts that could run afoul of the law and damage their clients.

Still, legislators on both sides of the aisle have shown no interest in closing the campaign-giving loophole that allows large sums of money to be passed through the political parties, circumventing a $4,000 donation limit.

It’s a loophole that is central to the ongoing scandal surrounding former Gov. Mike Easley. Donors connected to Easley gave fiveand six-figure donations to

the state Democratic Party at the same time they sought development-related regulatory approvals from his administration.

That loophole also allows legislative leaders, particularly the Democrats in power, to easily target swing districts critical to keeping or winning majorities in the legislature. And it makes the legislators from those districts obligated to the leaders who raised the money.

If legislative leaders want to get serious about a true source of corruption in North Carolina, they’ll stop the magic show, acknowledge the sleight of hand and agree to no longer perform this little trick.

Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.

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Obituaries

FOOD COLLECTED

Holly Repasky Holly Ann Repasky, 29, of Knoxville, Tenn., formerly of Rutherfordton, died Saturday, May 8, 2010.

She was a native of Rutherford County and attended R-S Central High School.

Surviving are her parents, Joyce Bryant and John Repasky; three sons; a daughter; two brothers; and two sisters.

A memorial service will be conducted at 4:30 p.m.

Saturday at Long Branch Baptist Church, Forest City, with the Rev. Jerry Ruppe officiating. Visitation will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m, prior to the service at the church.

Crowe’s Mortuary & Crematory is in charge of arrangements.

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Rutherfordton Post Office city and rural carriers (above) collected more than 2,500 pounds of nonperishable foods for people in Rutherford County through “Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive,” sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers. Saturday postal carriers in Rutherfordton and throughout the county collected the food donations from homes as they delivered mail along their routes. Rutherfordton city carriers are (front, l-r) Berry Ray, Ed Medford and Lynn Wells. Rural carriers are (standing, l-r) Paula Gorman, Joe Frazier, Jackie Condrey, Shirley Smith, Wanda Roach, Melissa Shaffer, Anita Street, Christy Henderson, Mike Bright and Dwayne Craig. Postmaster Gary Richardson said the food from Rutherfordton’s carriers will be donated to Yokefellow Service Center for distribution to needy families.

Carolina Today Bi-Lo emerges from bankruptcy process

GREENVILLE (AP) — South Carolina-based grocery chain Bi-Lo has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Bi-Lo president and chief executive Michael Byars said Wednesday that the company had successfully completed its financial restructuring and was emerging from bankruptcy stronger and leaner.

In March, Bi-Lo filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 protection to address an upcoming debt maturity.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of South Carolina approved a reorganization plan last month, and the company says it has reduced its funded indebtedness by approximately $60 million.

Gov backs out of group’s fundraiser

RALEIGH (AP) — Gov. Beverly Perdue has backed out of an appearance at an event sponsored by ethics

reform advocates for North Carolina government after she learned it was a fundraiser for the group.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that Perdue was one of several elected officials invited by the North Carolina Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform. The governor was set to attend but spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson says Perdue now feels it would be inappropriate to do so.

Tickets cost $50 for next week’s event, hosted by several legislative lobbyists. The coalition received a State Ethics Commission opinion that says elected officials can eat and drink at the event for free.

UNC sets salary range for president CHAPEL HILL (AP) — A committee searching for the next president of the University of North Carolina system has set a salary range that goes up to $550,000.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported the committee met Tuesday and

Sheriff’s Office

Lake Lure

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 133 E-911 calls Monday.

n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to one E-911 call Monday.

n Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy reported a larceny of a 1990 Dodge Ram Truck. n Twiana Poole Humphries reported breaking and entering and larceny from a residence.

Forest City

n Ervin Ernest Trent reported damage to personal property and criminal damage to property. n Lisa Freeman Blecher reported misdemeanor larceny. n Albert Willard Hart reported a breaking and entering.

Rutherfordton

n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 17 E-911 calls Monday.

Spindale

n The Spindale Police Department responded to 35 E-911 calls Monday.

Betty Humphries Betty Humphries, 72, of Old Wagy Road, Forest City, died Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at Hospice House in Forest City.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced

by Cecil M. Burton Funeral Home & Crematory.

Fern Sutton settled on a salary range of $495,000 to $550,000 for the person who succeeds retiring President Erskine Bowles. Bowles earns just over $478,000.

One UNC leader says the committee wasn’t comfortable offering a higher salary, even though leaders of similar university systems earn more.

Fern John Sutton, 82, of Martinez, Ga., died Wednesday, May 12, 2010, at her daughter’s home in Rutherfordton.

She was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church, Augusta, Ga. She is also survived by two daughters, Margaret “Peggy” Gardner of Martinez, and Catherine J. Biggerstaff of Rutherfordton; two sons, The next president will Rev. Thomas F. John of oversee a 16-campus system Martinez, and James W. with a total budget of $7.4 John of Hephzibah, Ga.; one billion. The schools have brother, Bryce Cooper Yuma more than 220,000 students City, Calif.; eight grandchiland 47,000 faculty and staff dren; five great-grandchilmembers. dren.

Graveside services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday Mansion gets in the Belleview Memorial historical marker Gardens, Grovetown, Ga. The family will receive RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s Executive Mansion friends from 3 to 5 p.m. at will be open to the public for the Sutton home, 323 Old Evans Road, in Martinez. several special events.

In lieu of flowers, memoriA state highway historical marker will be unveiled at 10 als may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. a.m. Wednesday on Blount Box 336, Forest City, NC Street near the intersection with Lane Street in Raleigh. 28043.

Arrangements are being The public is invited to the handled by McMahan’s unveiling and to the open house and garden tours from Funeral Home & Cremation Services.

9 a.m. to noon.

Online condolences www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com.

Police Notes

n Cindy Pratt reported a breaking and entering and lareny of two HDTVs. n Mary Elizabeth McGinnis reported a misdemeanor larceny of jewelry. n Brandi McSwain Davis reported injury to personal property and criminal damage to property.

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n The Forest City Police Department responded to 17 E-911 calls Monday. n Charles Wendell Shelton reported an incident of breaking and entering to a motor vehicle and larceny. n An employee of Food Lion reported an incident of larceny.

Arrests n Justin Lowery, 24, of South Broadway Street; charged with larceny; placed under a $3,000 secured bond. (FCPD) n Roy Mileus Hutchins, 55, of 696 Old 74 Highway; charged with communicating threats; released on a 48-hour hold. (RCSD) n Michael Jason Midgett, 37, of 333 Main St.; charged with violation of a domestic violence protecetion order; released on a 48-hour hold.

(RCSD) n Bobby Richard McEntyre, 47, of 118 S. Cleghorn St.; charged with violation of a domestic violence protection order; released on a $500 secured bond. (Court) n Robert Stevens Davis, 59, of 350 Hardin Road; charged with misdemeanor

probation violation; no bond.

(Probation) n Justin Keith Lowery, 24, of 1026 S. Broadway St.; charged with misdemeanor larceny; released on a $3,000 secured bond. (FCPD) n Darren Eugene Hixon, 44, of 45 Old Spring Drive; charged with driving while impaired and driving while license revoked; placed under a $500 secured bond.

(NCHP) n Owen Penton, 28, of 363 Long St.; charged with misemeanor larceny; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RPD) n Austin Ray Green, 20, 126 Tate St.; charged with misdemeanor probation violation; placed under a $10,000 secured bond.

(Probation)

EMS/Rescue n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 23 E-911 calls Monday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to four E-911 calls Monday.

Fire Calls n Cliffside responded to a smoke report. n Ellenboro responded to a smoke report. n Rutherfordton responded to a powerline fire. n S-D-O responded to a fire alarm.

Deaths Charlie Francis TORONTO (AP) — Charlie Francis, who coached Ben Johnson when the sprinter became the first athlete to be stripped of an Olympic gold medal for using banned drugs, has died. He was 61.

Johnson tested positive for the steroid stanozolol after winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

Athletics Canada banned Francis from coaching for life after he told a 1989 inquiry

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into the scandal that he had introduced Johnson to steroids. At the inquiry, Francis said the use of performanceenhancing drugs in track and field was rampant.

Johnson was 15 when Francis began coaching him at the Scarborough Optimists track and field club. Francis was himself a champion sprinter for Canada in the early 1970s and reached the second round of the 100 at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

While he was banned from coaching in Canada, he worked with American sprinters Tim Montgomery and Marion Jones in 2003.

Both later confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs during their careers.

Bob Mercer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Music industry executive Bob Mercer, who signed the Sex Pistols while at EMI Music in the 1970s and most recently successfully marketed hitsingle compilation albums, has died. He was 65.

While at EMI, Mercer signed Queen, the Sex Pistols, Olivia Newton-John, Kate Bush and Marc Bolan.

In 1980, he moved to EMI Films before becoming manager for artists such as Roger Waters.

He moved to Nashville in the early 1990s to help launch and run Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Records.

He later became chief executive of the Now That’s What I Call Music! album compilation venture that sold 77 million albums in the United States since its 1998 debut.

Doris Eaton Travis NEW YORK (AP) — The last Ziegfeld Follies Girl has died.

Doris Eaton Travis, one of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies chorus girls, who wore elaborate costumes for the series of lavish Broadway theatrical productions in the early 1900s, died Tuesday at age 106.

Travis, who was from West Bloomfield, Mich., also was a supporter of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraising organization and appeared often in its Easter Bonnet Competition.

She continued to work long after her Follies days ended, with annual appearances on Broadway, a small role in a Jim Carrey movie and a memoir, The Days We Danced: The Story of My Theatrical Family From Florenz Zieg feld to Arthur Murray and Beyond.

Fern John Sutton Fern John Sutton, age 82, of Martinez, GA, died Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at her daughters home in Rutherfordton, NC. She was the widow of the late Donald Sutton and was first married to the late William T. John.

She was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church, Au-gusta, Georgia.

She is survived by two daughters, Margaret (Peggy) Gardner of Martinez, GA and Catherine Biggerstaff and husband, Larry of Rutherfordton, NC; two sons, Rev. Thomas F. John and wife, Tammy of Martinez, GA and James W. John and wife, Karen of Hephzibah, GA; grandchildren, Nanci Stott and husband, Jon, Kelly Earp and husband, Tracy, Will Biggerstaff, Donnie Childers, Marty John and wife, Amy, Mandy John, Ashley John and Emily John; great-grandchildren, Caitie Stott, Emma Stott, Maggie John, Morgan Earp and Matthew Earp and one brother, Bryce Cooper of Yuma City, CA. A graveside service will be at Belleview Memorial Gardens in Grovetown, GA. at 1:00 PM, Saturday, May 15, 2010 with Rev. Thomas F. John officiating. The family will receive friends from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M Saturday following the service at the home, 323 Old Evans Road, Martinez, GA. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City NC 28043.

McMahan's Funeral Home & Cremation Services in charge of arrangements.

An online guest register is available at: www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com Paid obit.

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Calendar/Local

Prospects for wind turbine rules wane 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 Annual membership dinner: Rutherford County Historical Society; Tuesday, May 18, 6 p.m., at Hickory Log Barbecue, West Main St., Forest City; all members of the society invited to attend; Dutch meal; for more information contact Robin S. Lattimore at 447-1474.

Sports awards program: Chase High School will hold its spring sports recognition program on Thursday, May 27. Refreshments in the commons area at 6:30 p.m.

Awards program begins at 7.

Memorial Day service: Sunday, May 30, 2:30 p.m., Rutherford County Memorial Cemetery, in the Chase community.

Reunions Hollis School reunion: Saturday, June 5, at Big Springs Baptist Church FLC; doors open at 3 p.m.; meal served at 5 p.m.; $10 person; deadline May 15; call 453-7457 for more information.

Harris, Longan family reunion: Saturday, July 3, at Crowe Park, Forest City; meet at 10:30 a.m., cook out begins at 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, July 4, family members will gather at New Zion Baptist Church in Henrietta; call 828-980-2075 for more information.

Fundraisers Deaf camp fundraiser: Saturday, May 15, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Dream Weavers Dance Studio, 149 W. Trade St., Forest City; cake walk, face painting, karaoke contest, games, 30-minute dance classes for kids, hot dogs, baked goods, homemade ice cream and more; all proceeds for Strength of His Hands Ministry, a camp for hearing impaired children; call 247-1900 to sign up for dance classes.

RALEIGH (AP) — As the Gulf of Mexico darkens from a deep-sea oil leak and the push for offshore oil drilling slows, some North Carolina lawmakers say state legislation to regulate large-scale wind farms is likely to die this year.

Facing conflicts over funding education and other priorities, boosting job creation and balancing a state budget amid flagging tax collections, legislators said Tuesday they have yet to find a compromise on wind farm regulations.

As lawmakers prepared to start their annual session on Wednesday, a pending proposal would establish regulations for where wind turbines

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(Knight) returned shots.”

The homeowner’s wife said that her husband was defending his family when he fired his gun.

The Knights are reality TV stars on the CMT show “Strictest Parents.”

Their national exposure may have played into the crime, Sheriff Jarnigan said.

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author Jay Block and Dr. Scott Ralls, president of the North Carolina Community College System.

Ralls has previously held workforce development leadership positions at the state and national levels, including vice president of economic and workforce development for the North Carolina Community College System where he helped with collaborative initiatives with the state’s biotechnology and information technology industries.

Block was on hand to speak and talk

can be built. It passed the Senate last year 42-1 with a provision banning energy-generating windmills from Appalachian ridges, a move seen as protecting mountain vistas key to the region’s tourism industry.

“I think we plan to leave it alone because anything we try to do, the Senate will put a ban in it,” the House Energy Committee chairwoman, Rep. Angela Bryant, D-Nash, said Tuesday.

“So we are hoping that nothing will happen.”

But advocates for the state’s growing alternative energy sector want to keep from walling off territory that could be exploited to generate clean energy.

The House Energy Committee’s vice chairwoman, Rep. Pricey Harrison,

believes the ridge-top ban is a bad idea at a time when wind-power companies want to operate in North Carolina and electric utilities are required to get more of their energy from renewable sources.

“You would have to think that the home was probably targeted,” he said.

“You know, it’s not just some home you tell someone to go to. It is pretty difficult to find the location.”

Deputies are still investigating two male suspects who left Repasky dying in the street. She apparently was used as bait to get the homeowners to the door.

The homeowner will not be charged with a crime, Jarnigan said, because Knight was acting in self defense.

Deputies found Repasky’s body in

the road at the end of the cul-de-sac.

She had been shot in the throat and chest.

about his latest book “101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times” which is his tenth work.

“Basically this was about saying thanks to our high school career counselors, Employment Security Commission workers and all those workforce development professionals,” said Elizabeth Kurzer of the N.C. Division of Workforce Development.

“These are the people out there trying to keep our workers educated and prepared for tomorrow.”

“Dr. Ralls spoke on where we are as a state and as a nation,” ICC Spokesman Mike Gavin said. “We have a long way to go to see if we’re going to stay competitive with foreign

markets like Singapore, China and others. We need to keep educating ourselves and look at where we’ll be ten years from now.”

Block spoke about his book and his experiences as a motivational speaker and how he has been working in the workforce development field for more than ten years.

“People must understand how important it is to keep training, keep updating your skills and keep up on the latest technologies,” Robertson said. “That is key to keeping yourself ready for a job.”

charged with one count manufacture methamphetamine; in jail under a $100,000 unsecured bond; Thomas Roy Whitesides Sr., 64, of 714 Island Ford Road, Mooresboro, was charged with two counts manufacture methamphetamine and one count maintain a vehicle/dwelling or place for methamphetamine; released under a $110,000 unsecured bond.

Chemicals used to make meth were found in the vehicle, and one of the suspects reportedly said they had cooked meth Monday night. Receipts for chemical items that had been pur-

chased were also found at the scene, officers said.

The meth lab was in the back of a garage-type structure next to a mobile home at 714 Island Ford Road.

Those arrested did not own the home.

Agents with the State Bureau of Investigations Forensic Response Unit and Special Response Unit responded to the scene. Rutherford County Sheriff Jack Conner said another unit from Spartanburg, S.C., will clean up the site.

Cliffside Fire Department and the Rutherford County EMS were also at the scene.

Events are planned for the entire family. A variety of playground items will be available. Barbecue and other lunch food will be available. Desserts and other fun snacks will be for sale.

“This is a unique opportunity to show our support for pets in our area

and to celebrate how they contribute to our lives,” said Fred Bayley CPC Board Chair. “Well-behaved owners are welcome with their pets. Pets on a leash please.”

For more information contact Fred Bayley, 429-5209.

“I think we are reluctant in the House to move a bill that is perceived as being anti-wind at a time when our energy policies are attracting a lot of interest in renewable energy providers,” Harrison, D-Guilford, wrote in an e-mail. “ The bill would require a state permit to build wind farms. They could be blocked if they harm navigation, wildlife or the views from any state or national park.

Memorial services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Long Branch Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerry Ruppe officiating. Family will receive friends from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Holly Repasky is survived by four children.

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20th Annual Vidalia Onion sale: Saturday, May 15, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the old Forest City Fire Department, East Main; 10 lb. bag $10, 25 lb. bag $19; sponsored by the Rutherford County Republican Party.

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.

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.

Music/concerts Singing: Sunday, May 16, 6 p.m., Faith Baptist Church, 149 W. Main Ext., Forest City; featuring Joe Kinney.

The Pathfinders will be in concert Sunday, May 16, at Piney Knob Baptist Church. Music begins at 6 p.m.

Singing: Sunday, May 16, 6 p.m.; Sandy Level Baptist Church; featuring The Royal Quartet.

The Chuck Wagon Gang will be in concert Friday, May 21, at Concord Baptist Church, Bostic. Music begins at 7 p.m. Other guest singers include The Royal Quartet, Miles Cooper, Buster Kendrick and Ernie Phillips. Barbecue dinner beginning at 5 p.m. Cost $8 per person.

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methamphetamine and one count maintain a vehicle/dwelling. He remains in the Rutherford County Detention Center under a $125,000 secured bond; Aimee Anne Barr, 34, of 714 Island Ford, Mooresboro, was charged with one count possession of methamphetamine; in jail under a $10,000 secured bond; Robert Nelson Tessnear, 29, 714 Island Ford Road, Mooresboro, was

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Singing: Sunday, June 6, 7 p.m,, Riverside Baptist Church, Hogan Road, Harris; featuring the Land of the Sky Boys from Asheville.

Singing program: Sunday, June 13, 4 p.m., Angel Divine Faith Church, Rutherfordton; featuring the Kings of Joy from Forest City, and other groups from North and South Carolina.

Religion Revival: May 16-21, Sisk Memorial Free Will Baptist Church; guest speaker, Rev. Dean Cox; Sunday service 6 p.m.; Monday-Friday, 7 nightly; Special music each evening.

Guest speaker: The Rev. Stencil Quarles will speak Sunday, May 16, at Owens Chapel in Union Mills.

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Revival: May 16-19, Harris Baptist Church; Sunday service 6 p.m.; MTW, 7 nightly; different speakers each night including Tim Hodge on Sunday; Ronald Roberts, Monday-Tuesday; Jonathan Watson, Wednesday.

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Soccer Playoffs Begin Attendance drops slightly in college basketball INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — College basketball fans are still flocking to men’s games by the millions.

They’re just not setting records.

With 334 men’s teams playing 5,251 games last season, both all-time highs, more than 27 million people attended Division I games — the fourthhighest total ever but a slight decrease from 2008-09.

Some of the numbers released by the NCAA on Wednesday looked familiar.

The top five home drawing cards were Kentucky, Syracuse, Louisville, Tennessee and North Carolina. The Wildcats had an average attendance of 24,111 at 18 home games in John Calipari’s first season.

Syracuse was next at 22,152 in 19 home games.

Either Kentucky or Syracuse has led the nation in home attendance for each of the past 34 seasons, but Kentucky has been No. 1 each of the past five seasons and 14 times in the last 15. Kentucky also led the nation in total attendance at home, road and neutral court games, playing 38 times in front of 724,145 fans.

But even the Wildcats couldn’t offset the decline in other areas.

Last season’s Division I total of 27,539,459 was down 227,652, or 133 fans per game, from the previous season.

The trend was also evident when Divisions II and III teams were included. Total attendance for all three divisions was 32,820,701, fourth all-time but down slightly from 290,319, or 91 per game, in 2008-09.

Five conferences had more than 2 million fans attend games, including the Big East, which led the nation’s conferences in total attendance, and the Big Ten, which led the nation in average attendance for league games.

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R-S Central’s Alli Pugh (4) battles for possession against West Henderson in this Courier file photo. The Lady Hilltoppers were in Kings Mountain Wednesday for the opening round of the NCHSAA playoffs.

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Thomas Jefferson’s Courtney Flack (14) traps the ball with her knee to retain possession during the game against Avery, in this Courier file photo. The Lady Gryphons faced Highland Tech Wednesday in the first round of the NCHSAA playoffs.

TJCA advances; Central ousted

By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter

GASTONIA — Score one for the girls in yellow and burgundy.

It only took 85 seconds for Thomas Jefferson’s girls soccer team to score the first of their four first-half goals, ousting Highland Tech with a 5-1 win, in the first round of NCHSAA 1A playoffs Wednesday.

The win is Thomas Jefferson’s first postseason win of any kind in school

Local Sports BASEBALL 2A NCHSAA 1st Round Playoffs 7 p.m. Forest Hills at East Rutherford

On TV 8 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Basketball Conference Semifinal, Game 6: Cleveland at Boston 9 p.m. (ESPN2) MLS Soccer Houston Dynamo at Real Salt Lake. From Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah.

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Facebook, Twitter & MySpace, Oh My!

Drivers use social media to gain All-Star support

Yanks call Berra to wish him a happy birthday DETROIT (AP) — Yankees manager Joe Girardi joked he got Yogi Berra a doubleheader for his birthday.

The Hall of Fame catcher turned 85 on Wednesday and talked to Girardi before New York played the first of two games against the Detroit Tigers.

Girardi says Berra laughed when he told him the team was going to play two so that he could watch a game before and after going to dinner with his grandkids.

Berra helped the Yankees win 10 of their 27 championships from 1947-62 as a player and later was a coach and manager. He’s credited with coining the phrase, ‘It ain’t over till it’s over,’ and is one of baseball’s most likable icons.

Jefferson with a corner kick and Leah Lineberry sent the offering that Victoria Bennett drop kicked in the air for goal with just 1:25 off the clock for a 1-0 lead.

Thomas Jefferson sent five more shots in the next 20 minutes, but that only set up three more Gryphon goals in less than three minutes.

In the 22nd minute, Courtney Flack’s outlet assist to Ryanne Corder,

history.

“It means a lot to be the first team to win a playoff game in school history, but this was about our school and what this presents for the future,” Thomas Jefferson Soccer Coach Brian Espinoza said.

Thomas Jefferson broke the tension in the first minute of the match. Anna Dedmon came up with a shot off a quick steal and the ball was thwarted over the goal by the Tech keeper.

The play rewarded Thomas

Associated Press

Nascar Sprint Cup driver Brian Vickers signs an autograph during a Twitter gathering to raise money for flood victims in Tennessee at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C., Saturday, May 8, 2010. Fellow driver Elliott Sadler, third from left, also signs autographs.

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — From Tweet-Ups to YouTube ads, chasing the fan vote for a NASCAR All-Star spot has gone viral.

Richard Petty Motorsports teammates A.J. Allmendinger and Elliott Sadler took part in Twitter gatherings at Darlington in which fans waved signs urging others to vote their driver into the May 22 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Martin Truex Jr. has a series of YouTube spots for his “Tried and Truex” campaign.

And social media sites are filled with race teams not yet in the elite field attempting to get out the vote.

“If you’re lucky enough and your fans vote you in,” Clint Bowyer says, “that is awesome.”

It can also be lucrative.

Kasey Kahne had missed all chances to make the All-Stars in 2008 and was on his way home when he learned he’d won the fan vote.

The result? Kahne won the All-Star

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22-year-old accused of posing as student released ODESSA, Texas (AP) — A 22-yearold man accused of posing as a high school basketball player in Texas was released from jail Wednesday.

Guerdwich (GURD-which) Montimere posted $500 bond a day after he was arrested on a charge of failure to identify himself to a police officer, said Ector County sheriff’s Sgt. Debbie Bruce.

School officials said Montimere admitted posing as Jerry Joseph, a 16-year-old sophomore who led Permian High School to the state playoffs. Permian is the same school made famous in the football movie “Friday Night Lights.”

Suspicions about the player’s identity first arose when three Florida basket-

ball coaches familiar with Montimere recognized him last month at an amateur tournament in Little Rock, Ark. Montimere graduated from Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale in 2007.

The 6-foot-5 Montimere Montimere presented himself as Joseph after moving to Odessa in February 2009 and enrolling as a ninth-grader at a junior high, said school district spokesman Mike Adkins.

He showed officials a Haitian birth certificate indicating he was 15 and

claimed he was living with a halfbrother in the dorm of a local university, Adkins said.

Montimere eventually admitted the person was a friend, not his halfbrother, when the friend left the state last summer. Montimere then moved in with Permian boys basketball coach Danny Wright, Adkins said.

Permian administrators said they received an anonymous e-mail April 27 that alerted them to Montimere’s true identity. Officials initially rejected the allegation, and a judge granted Wright legal guardianship that allowed Montimere to remain enrolled at the school, Adkins said.

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lofted Thomas Jefferson’s next true goal from the right side for a 2-0 lead.

A minute later, Lineberry dished off a nice pass to Eleora Albala, who passed an even better ball to Dedmon. Dedmon ran through the box, right footing it, but the ball was saved. She then gathered her own rebound to put it away for a 3-0 Lady Gryphon lead.

Following the midfield kickoff, Thomas Jefferson’s Sarah Thompson stole the ball and lofted a shot with her right foot from 20 yards to score the final goal of the first half as they led 4-0 at the half.

Lynsie Stevens cleared the only real first half threat that Highland Tech (6-12-2) posted.

Tech would score in the 54th minute on the final foul of five called on Thomas Jefferson to reduce the lead to 4-1 in the second half.

While Thomas Jefferson out-shot Highland Tech 10-3 in the second half, they couldn’t answer until late.

That score came on the only foul called against Highland Tech all day in the 77th minute. Wendy Harmon took advantage of that with a wide direct kick that netted into the goal, finalizing the score at 5-1.

Although, the Lady Gryphons built a 4-0 lead in the first half and out-shot the Lady Rams by a 24-5 overall margin, Coach Espinoza explained that there was more work to do. “We did exactly what we needed to do in the first half and that was to punch them in the mouth.�

Espinoza said. “We could do about anything we wanted in the first half, but I was a little disappointed in our second-half effort. We let up and we can’t let up in the playoffs.�

Thomas Jefferson (16-3), who scored the historic first round win in total dominance, will play North Moore on Saturday in the second round.

Kings Mountain 10, R-S Central 0

KINGS MOUNTAIN — R-S Central’s girls soccer playoff run ended where it began as Kings Mountain blasted Central, 10-0, in the first round of the 3A playoffs Wednesday.

Meagan Reynolds and Caroline Baker each scored hat tricks in the match for last year’s 3A state runner-ups.

R-S Central finishes 8-8 on the year.

Woods says he has inflammation

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods said tests Wednesday showed an inflamed neck joint that causes pain and makes it hard to turn his head, an injury that will require little more than medicine, massages and rest.

Woods had an MRI that revealed inflammation in a facet joint of his neck. He said on his website that when facet joints are inflamed, it causes pain in the area along with headaches and difficulty rotating the head.

He withdrew from the final round of The Players Championship on Sunday after a week in which he was seen stretching and rolling his neck.

Woods said his neck had been bothering him since before he returned from a five-month layoff at the Masters, and that it was not related to the Nov. 27 car accident when he ran into a tree, setting off revelations of infidelity. “I now need to take care of this condition and will return to playing golf when I’m physically able,� Woods said.

Woods said treatment will include physical therapy, such as soft-tissue massage, rest and antiinflammatory medicine. He said the prognosis was for a full recovery, and while the layoff is not expected to be long, rehab can vary.

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Philadelphia Washington New York Atlanta Florida

National Basketball Association Playoff

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Central W 20 19 15 15 14 11

GB — 1 1/2 2 1/2 4 1/2 4 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati 9, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Mets 8, Washington 6 Florida 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Atlanta 11, Milwaukee 3 Houston 6, St. Louis 3 Philadelphia at Colorado, ppd., rain L.A. Dodgers 13, Arizona 3 San Diego 3, San Francisco 2 Wednesday’s Games Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 0 Atlanta 9, Milwaukee 2 Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 4 Chicago Cubs 4, Florida 3 Colorado 4, Philadelphia 3, 10 inns., 1st game Houston at St. Louis, late Philadelphia at Colorado, late, 2nd game L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, late San Diego at San Francisco, late Thursday’s Games Houston (Norris 1-4) at St. Louis (Carpenter 4-0), 1:40 p.m.

San Diego (Latos 2-3) at San Francisco (J.Sanchez 2-2), 3:45 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 3-2) at Florida (Jo.Johnson 3-1), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Lannan 1-2) at Colorado (J.Chacin 2-0), 8:40 p.m.

Friday’s Games Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Florida, 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

Arizona at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Washington at Colorado, 9:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:05 p.m.

Houston at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

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Tampa Bay New York Toronto Boston Baltimore

Minnesota Detroit Chicago Cleveland Kansas City

Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle

East Division W L Pct 23 10 .697 21 11 .656 20 16 .556 18 17 .514 9 24 .273 Central Division W L Pct 22 12 .647 19 14 .576 14 20 .412 12 18 .400 11 22 .333 West Division W L Pct 18 15 .545 18 15 .545 15 20 .429 13 19 .406

GB — 1 1/2 4 1/2 6 14 GB — 2 1/2 8 8 10 1/2 GB — — 4 4 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Seattle 5, Baltimore 1 N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, ppd., rain Boston 6, Toronto 1 Oakland 7, Texas 6, 13 innings Chicago White Sox 5, Minnesota 2 Cleveland 8, Kansas City 2 Tampa Bay 7, L.A. Angels 2 Wednesday’s Games Detroit 2, N.Y. Yankees 0, 1st game Minnesota 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Toronto 3, Boston 2 N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, late, 2nd game Seattle at Baltimore, late Tampa Bay at L.A. Angels, late Oakland at Texas, late Cleveland at Kansas City, late Thursday’s Games Seattle (F.Hernandez 2-3) at Baltimore (Millwood 0-4), 12:35 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 4-1) at Detroit (Verlander 3-2), 1:05 p.m.

Oakland (Sheets 2-3) at Texas (C.Wilson 3-1), 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland (D.Huff 1-4) at Kansas City (Greinke 0-4), 2:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Boston at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Texas at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Seattle at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

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L.A. Lakers 4, Utah 0 104, Utah 99 111, Utah 103 111, Utah 110 111, Utah 96

HOCKEY National Hockey League Playoff Glance CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal 4, Pittsburgh 3 Pittsburgh 6, Montreal 3 Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 1 Pittsburgh 2, Montreal 0 Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 2 Pittsburgh 2, Montreal 1 Montreal 4, Pittsburgh 3 Montreal 5, Pittsburgh 2 Boston 3, Philadelphia 2 Boston 5, Philadelphia 4, OT Boston 3, Philadelphia 2 Boston 4, Philadelphia 1 Philadelphia 5, Boston 4, OT Philadelphia 4, Boston 0 Wednesday, May 12: Boston at Philadelphia, late x-Friday, May 14: Philadelphia at Boston, 7 p.m.

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Rockies 4, Phillies 3, 10 innings

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BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Assigned OF Nolan Reimold to Norfolk (IL). Selected the contract of OF Corey Patterson from Norfolk.

DETROIT TIGERS—Selected the contract of RHP Alfredo Figaro from Toledo (IL). Optioned OF Ryan Raburn to Toledo.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Recalled RHP Blake Wood from Omaha (PCL). Designated Josh Rupe for assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Optioned C Wilson Ramos to Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Placed RHP Alfredo Aceves on the 15-day DL. Called up OF Greg Golson from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS—Placed SS Jack Wilson on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Matt Tuiaososopo from Tacoma (PCL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Recalled RHPr Carlos Rosa from Reno (PCL). Optioned RHP Daniel Stange to Reno.

COLORADO ROCKIES—Reinstated OF Carlos Gonzalez from the bereavement list. Placed LHP Franklin Morales on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 6.

American Association SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CAPTAINS—Signed C Glenn Wilson and RHP Kyle Medley.

Can-Am League PITTSFIELD COLONIALS—Signed RHP David Wasylak and RHP Chris Rollins.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS—Released C Matt Combs, 3B Kevin Hoef, 2B Josh Huebner, RHP Jacob Jones, LHP Michael Kellar, RHP Nick Lambert, OF Matthew Maher, 3B Travis McCleary, and SS Jose Sanchez.

KALAMAZOO KINGS—Released 2B Aljay Davis, OF Scott Dunham, OF Erik Kanaby, and INF-OF Matt Rigoli.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS—Traded OF Jason Patton to Gateway for future considerations.

OAKLAND COUNTY CRUISERS—Released SS Derek O’Reilly.

RIVER CITY RASCALS—Signed OF Eric Williams. Released RHP Jake Edwards.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Signed INF Kyle Surprenant. Released INF Rich Michalek and INF Devin Murphy.

United League RIO GRANDE VALLEY WHITEWINGS—igned INF Brad Menadier, INF Jose Fulgencio, OF Arlon Quiroz, OF Bobby Brown, OF Javis Davis and RHP Andrew Miller.

BASKETBALL Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY—Acquired G Nikki Blue from Washington for G Ashley Houts.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS—Released RB Walter Mendenhal and C Kyle Mutcher.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS—Claimed WR Kole Heckendorf off waivers from Detroit. Released WR Chris Duvalt.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Signed RB Cadillac Williams to one-year contract. Claimed G Michael Shumard off waivers from Denver.

Released OT Robert Okeafor. Canadian Football League HOCKEY National Hockey League ST. LOUIS BLUES—Signed F Tyler Shattock.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Signed DB Bernard Hicks and OL Andre Douglas.

ECHL ECHL—Suspended Reading D Scott Fletcher indefinitely pending an investigation into an off-ice incident that took place during Tuesday’s game at Cincinnati.

COLLEGE ILLINOIS STATE—Named Sheila Roux women’s assistant basketball coach and recruiting coordinator.

IONA—Named Garee Bryant men’s assistant basketball coach.

JOHN JAY—Named Kamal Haruna women’s soccer coach.

MONTANA TECH—Named Aaron Woliczko men’s basketball coach.

NAVY—Dismissed SB Marcus Curry from the football team for violating team rules.

PURDUE—Reinstated QB Justin Siller to the football team.

SETON HALL—Named Shaheen Holloway, Chris Pompey and Dan McHale men’s assistant basketball coaches, Stephen Sauers director of basketball operations and Grant Billmeier and Casey Stanley coordinators of basketball operations.

WESTERN NEW MEXICO—Named Adam Clark football coach.

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Texans’ Cushing keeps AP rookie award in revote

Tryon Estates Hit The Links

NEW YORK (AP) — Houston Texans linebacker Brian Cushing won a revote Wednesday to keep The Associated Press NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award, despite his positive drug test.

The second vote was taken after the league suspended Cushing without pay for four games last week for violating the NFL’s drug policy. He tested positive in September. Although Cushing said he took a non-steroid substance, the league still considers it a performance-enhancer.

The AP decided to have a revote, with a Wednesday noon deadline.

That revote gave Cushing 18 votes from a nationwide panel of 50 sports writers and broadcasters who cover the league. Buffalo safety Jairus Byrd received 13 votes, and Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews III got 12.

Washington linebacker Brian Orakpo earned three votes, and St. Louis linebacker James Laurinaitis got one.

Contributed Photo “I’m good,” Byrd said, referring to Gordie High (l to r), Phil Goree and Marshall Edwards claimed first place at the the result. “Yeah, I’m fine with it.”

Tryon Estate’s spring golf tournament at the Tryon Country Club, this past week.

One voter was not available to cast The tournament combines employees and seniors who reside at Tryon Estates. a ballot, and two voters abstained. In all, 19 voters switched from Cushing to another player, and one voted for Cushing after picking Byrd originally.

In the original balloting in January, Cushing received 39 votes to six for NEW YORK (AP) — Final Four The series opens Nov. 29 with Byrd, three for Matthews and two for teams Duke and Michigan State will Virginia at Minnesota. Also on Nov. Orakpo. face off in the 12th annual ACC/Big 30 are Michigan at Clemson, Georgia Cushing did lose his spot on the Ten Challenge.

Tech at Northwestern, and Iowa at All-Pro second team, for which he The Spartans, who lost in the Wake Forest. originally had five votes and now has semifinals to Butler, will play at The final three games Dec. 1 are just one. the national champion Blue Devils N.C. State at Wisconsin, Indiana “If I had known in January when Dec. 1. Other marquee matchups at Boston College and Maryland at we initially voted that Brian Cushing announced Wednesday include Penn State. had tested positive for a banned subPurdue at Virginia Tech, also Dec. The games will be broadcast on stance, I might not have voted for 1, and North Carolina at Illinois and ESPN networks.

Ohio State at Florida State on Nov. The Big Ten won last season for the him,” said Charean Williams of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and presi30. first time in 10 years. dent of the Pro Football Writers of America. “However, Cushing won the award in January, and I don’t feel like we should revise history. I am concerned about the precedent.”

John McClain of the Houston Chronicle voted for Cushing the first MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brooks time and had “no problem” voting for Conrad homered, doubled and drove him again. in four runs while subbing for injured “In good conscience, I couldn’t not Chipper Jones, and the Atlanta vote for him after voting for Julius Braves roughed up Milwaukee’s bullPeppers in 2002 knowing he’d tested pen once again to beat the Brewers positive (and won the same award), 9-2 Wednesday for a three-game and for Kevin Williams on the Allsweep.

Pro team knowing he’d tested posiJason Heyward hit a hard shot off tive (in the StarCaps case). first baseman Prince Fielder’s glove “I also believe taking the award for a go-ahead double in the seventh from Cushing would have opened inning.

Associated Press With Jones out of the starting lineAtlanta Braves’s Brooks Conrad (26) up because of a sore groin, Conrad and Jason Heyward celebrate after the hit a two-run homer in the eighth ninth inning of a baseball game against and added a two-run double off the Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday, Trevor Hoffman in the ninth. Jones Continued from Page 7 May 12, 2010, in Milwaukee. pinch-hit in the ninth and had an RBI single off Hoffman. race, $1 million and a 10-year exempIt was 2-all in the seventh when early on, holding the Brewers hitless tion into the event. He also parlayed the Braves scored twice off reliever through the first four innings before the momentum into a Coca Cola 600 Manny Parra. allowing a leadoff single to Casey victory a week later.

Another late-game outburst by the McGehee in the fifth.

“I love it,” Kahne said of the vote.

Braves squandered a solid start by Gallardo pitched a strong six “Hey, the weekend is all about the Yovani Gallardo and continued the innings, giving up two runs and six fans.”

Brewers’ woes at home. They are 4-11 hits despite being hit hard in the Drivers who’ve won a Sprint at Miller Park this season. left leg by a batted ball in the fourth Cup race in the past year, former The Braves, a team not known for inning.

NASCAR champions and past Alltheir potent offense this season, outA shot off the bat of Heyward Star winners make the exclusive scored the Brewers 28-7 in the series. smacked into Gallardo’s leg just field.

Eric Hinske and Troy Glaus conabove his ankle. After being briefly The top two finishers in the prelimtinued to bother the Brewers. Hinske examined by the Brewers’ medical delivered yet another RBI double staff, he threw a few warmup pitches inary Showdown race also advance to the final field. The last spot goes and Glaus, who homered in each of and stayed in the game. the first two games, adding an RBI Trailing 2-0, Milwaukee finally got to the leading fan vote-getter from those not already in and who also single. to Lowe and tied the game in the finished the Showdown.

Milwaukee got a pair of runs to sixth — but squandered a chance to As of May 4, the top 10 — which tie the game at 2 in the sixth, but take the lead.

NASCAR gives in alphabetical order Atlanta immediately reclaimed the Rickie Weeks opened with a single to preserve the suspense — were lead. Pinch-hitter Matt Diaz doubled and Jody Gerut followed with an Allmendinger, Marcos Ambrose, off Parra (0-2) and moved up on a infield hit off the glove of Glaus at Greg Biffle, Bowyer, Jeff Burton, sacrifice. first base. Jim Edmonds singled up Carl Edwards, Juan Pablo Montoya, After a groundout by Martin Prado, the middle, scoring Weeks and cutHeyward hit a ball that Fielder ting the lead to 2-1. Fielder hit a deep Sadler, Truex and Michael Waltrip.

Voting continues until an hour couldn’t handle. Brian McCann then fly ball to right field that hit just foul had an RBI single to give Atlanta a off the wall, then Lowe got him to fly before the All-Star race.

“I think the fan vote is a great 4-2 lead. out. thing,” Bowyer said. “It is a great tool The Braves didn’t stop there, Gerut was caught trying to steal to get the fans involved.” as Conrad homered off of Carlos third — meaning McGehee’s subseAnd websites such as Twitter, Villanueva in the eighth. Atlanta quent RBI double only tied the game.

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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia quarterback Logan Gray has decided to remain with the Bulldogs after considering a transfer.

The junior wasn’t sure he wanted to remain at Georgia after redshirt freshman Aaron Murray was named the No. 1 quarterback coming out of spring practice.

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up a Pandora’s box when it came to players and awards. I think the AP should make it a rule that a player who tests positive is going to be subjected to a revote.”

A person familiar with Cushing’s case told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Cushing tested positive for HCG, a fertility drug that is on the NFL’s banned substance list. The person said Cushing had one positive test last September, then subsequently tested negative several times. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the test results were supposed to remain confidential.

Cushing is suspended without pay until Oct. 4, although he can participate in offseason workouts, training camp and preseason games. He will not be eligible for next season’s Pro Bowl — he made the AFC team last January, but did not play, citing several injuries — or any NFLsponsored awards.

“A player who tests positive for a performance-enhancing drug, especially a masking agent for steroids, should not be honored with a prestigious award,” said Adam Schein of Sirius NFL Radio and foxsports.com, who also votes. “He failed the test in September. His season is tainted.

This is wrong.

“I am very disappointed in the results of the revote and my fellow voters who voted for Cushing.”

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Other border states shun Arizona’s law

Nation Today Utah man beat boy

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police records say the Utah man arrested in the slaying of a 4-year-old boy beat him for days before the child died, then used a hammer to disfigure his face and teeth.

The Layton Police Department released probable cause statements Wednesday in the case of Ethan Stacy, whose body was unearthed by searchers Tuesday.

Detectives say Stacy’s stepfather, 31-year-old Nathanael Sloop, buried the boy Sunday in a northern Utah canyon.

Sloop is being held on suspicion of aggravated murder. He and Stacy’s mother, 27-year-old Stephanie Sloop, also face charges of desecration of a corpse, felony child abuse and obstruction of justice. Charges are expected to be filed Friday.

The documents say the Sloops found Stacy dead in his bed on Sunday and made a plan to dispose of the body.

Portland chief fired

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Mayor Sam Adams fired the city’s police chief Wednesday, a day after the city agreed to pay $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a mentally ill man in police custody.

Adams said at a City Hall news conference the factors that went into his decision were “cumulative” but that he made up his mind Tuesday night and met with Police Chief Rosie Sizer on Wednesday morning.

He praised Sizer for her four years as chief, saying she “has accomplished some remarkable reforms” at the Portland Police Bureau.

But the mayor added: “Too often though, the reforms have come after, or in reaction to, failures at the bureau. I want to put the bureau on a more proactive reform path.”

Adams named Mike Reese, the Central Precinct commander, as the new chief, effective with the announcement.

Adams said Sizer would take her remaining vacation time until she can officially retire on July 15 to preserve her full benefits.

Sizer could not immediately be reached for comment following the announcement.

The mayor also said he would take over immediately as police commissioner, a traditional role

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for the Portland mayor but one that Adams had delegated to City Commissioner Dan Saltzman.

On Monday, Sizer criticized the mayor’s proposed budget, and was joined by Saltzman. Adams said Wednesday the dispute over the budget “forced the timeline” of his decision to fire Sizer and take over as police commissioner. He did not elaborate.

Adams also said budget cuts in many social service agencies are forcing Portland police officers to act as social workers, and they will have to take on more of that role as a practical matter.

“We are overwhelmed with the demand for services,” Adams said.

“That’s the reality. They are the first responders. And with $2.8 billion in anticipated additional cuts from the state budget, I wish I could say that’s going to change, but it’s not.”

Jason Renaud, co-founder of the Mental Health Association of Portland, said police in Portland are following a national trend.

“Cops are social workers,” Renaud said. “They manage people with mental illness and addiction problems every day. They don’t bring down bank robbers and murderers every day.”

Two musicians charged ATLANTA (AP) — Two gospel singers are facing multiple charges after authorities say they played uplifting music for several Georgia churches, then stole some $100,000 worth of speakers, microphones and other musical equipment.

Washington County Sheriff Thomas H. Smith said Tuesday that 28-year-old Deshawn Rico Thomas, of Augusta, and 28-yearold Rico Pionegro Blackshear, from Dublin, have each been charged with nine counts of theft by taking and nine counts of burglary.

Wal-Mart plans push NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to significantly ramp up its donations to the nation’s food banks to total $2 billion over the next five years, the retail giant said Wednesday.

The company is more than doubling its annual rate of giving as the number of Americans receiving food stamps has risen to one in eight, and food banks are straining to meet demand.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — New Mexico’s governor says it is a step backward. Texas isn’t touching it. And California? Never again.

Arizona’s sweeping new law empowering police to question and arrest anyone they suspect is in the U.S. illegally is finding little support in the other states along the Mexican border.

Among the reasons given: California, New Mexico and Texas have long-established, politically powerful Hispanic communities; they have deeper cultural ties to Mexico that influence their attitudes toward immigrants; and they have little appetite for a polarizing battle over immigration like one that played out in California in the 1990s.

But perhaps the biggest reason of all is that the illegal flow of people across the border is seen as a more acute problem, and a more dangerous one, in Arizona.

In the 1990s, the U.S. government added fences, stadium lights and more agents to the border in Southern California and Texas, forcing a shift in the flow of illegal immigrants that has now turned Arizona into the single biggest gateway for people sneaking into the country from Mexico. The influx has led to a sharp increase in kidnappings, home invasions and other violence tied to drugs and human smuggling.

“The flow has moved east, and the debate has moved east as well,” said Dan Schnur, director of the University of Southern California’s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.

Arizona’s population of illegal immigrants has increased fivefold since 1990 to around 500,000. The Tucson region replaced San Diego as the top place for Border Patrol arrests in 1998 and accounts for nearly half the total. And Phoenix has been dubbed the kidnapping capital of the U.S., with an average of one abduction per day in recent years.

The other border states have older, larger and more culturally entrenched and politically connected Hispanic populations.

California and Texas were forced to deal with illegal immigration decades ago. Both states saw surges in the 1980s because of Mexico’s shaky economy and the civil wars that wracked Central America. But many who entered illegally became voters under a 1986 federal law that granted amnesty to 2.7 million people.

That political clout is evident today, with city councils from Oakland to San Diego condemning the Arizona law and 50,000 people demonstrating in Los Angeles on May 1 in support of immigrants. On Wednesday, Los Angeles became the nation’s largest city to boycott Arizona over the law, when the City Council voted 13-1 for sanctions that could include canceling some $8 million in contracts.

The New Mexico Legislature is 44 percent Hispanic, followed by California at 23 percent, Texas at 20 percent and Arizona at 16 percent, according to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

Angelica Salas, who came to the U.S. illegally from Mexico as a girl and later obtained legal status, noted that Los Angeles is filled with families with members in the country both legally and illegally.

“In the end it’s political suicide if you launch an attack on the undocumented,” said Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

“You’re basically attacking the very electorate that you want to get you into office.”

Similarly, in Texas, “Hispanics and people of Spanish or Hispanic descent have lived among us since the beginning of time. We’ve all sort of shared this state together and the dream of what it means to be a Texan,” said Eric Bearse, a former aide to Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

LA OKs Arizona boycott over law LOS ANGELES (AP) — The City Council voted Wednesday to boycott Arizona businesses, making Los Angeles the largest city to take such action to protest the state’s tough new law targeting illegal immigration.

The 13-1 vote, which came after emotional discussion in which several council members recounted their immigrant ancestors, was largely symbolic since only a small percentage of the city’s business dealings are affected.

“An immigrant city, an international city, (Los Angeles) needs to have its voice heard,” Councilman Ed Reyes said. “It is crucial this great city take a stand.”

Some polls have shown strong popular support for the Arizona law, and critics are concerned that other states may follow up with their own versions.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said the boycotts are unfortunate and misguided, primarily because the law mirrors a federal requirement that legal immigrants carry immigration papers.

“It’s already the law in the United States, and I have a responsibility to stand up and protect the people of Arizona and we will do that,” Brewer said Tuesday.

Charges that the law will lead to racial profiling are “just pure rhetoric,” Brewer said.

“I find it really interesting that

we have people out there that are attempting a boycott in favor of illegal actions in Arizona. That to me is just unbelievable.”

The resolution is expected to be signed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. It bars the nation’s second-largest city from conducting business or reaching new contracts with Arizona businesses unless the immigration law is repealed, and also prohibits most city business trips to the state.

Los Angeles has investments and contracts in Arizona worth as much as $58 million, much of which involve airport, port and energy service that can’t lawfully be affected by the boycott. That leaves about $7.7 million in city contracts that could possibly be affected, said Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who coauthored the resolution.

Some of those contracts include helicopter services, Taser guns, waste management, engineering and surveillance equipment.

The resolution claims that Arizona’s new law encourages racial profiling and is unconstitutional. The law, set to take effect July 29, requires police enforcing another law to question a person about his or her immigration status if there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the United States illegally and makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.

Several lawsuits seeking to block its implementation are pending.

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Chg %Chg -.93 -7.0 -.16 -6.8 -.19 -6.1 -.15 -5.8 -.19 -5.6 -.27 -5.5 -.13 -5.1 -.27 -4.7 -.15 -4.7 -.69 -4.5

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Rising oil price pushes trade deficit higher

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit rose to a 15-month high as rising oil prices pushed crude oil imports to the highest level since the fall of 2008, offsetting another strong gain in exports.

The larger deficit is evidence of a rebounding U.S. economy.

Analysts expect this year’s deficit to be up significantly from 2009, when it hit an eight-year low.

But U.S. exports should keep growing, providing a major source of strength from American manufacturers, and will only be marginally affected by the European debt crisis.

The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that the trade deficit rose 2.5 percent to $40.4 billion in March compared to the February imbalance. It was the largest monthly trade deficit since December 2008.

Exports of goods and services were up 3.2 percent to $147.87 billion, the highest level since October 2008. Imports were up 3.1 percent to $188.3 billion.

U.S. manufacturers, the standout performers so far in this recovery, will continue to get a boost from rising demand for their products, economists predicted. Their sales are being helped by a rebound in the global economy and declines in the value of the dollar against other major currencies.

The dollar has strengthened this year against the euro, the common currency of 16 European countries. That is largely the result of the debt crisis in Greece that could spread to other European countries, such as Spain and Portugal. The dollar is now about 15 percent stronger against the euro than it was in December.

Economists said this will dampen U.S. export sales to Europe and also increase demand for European products, such as cars.

But the changes had not been significant enough to derail their expectations for steady gains in exports this year. That should continue as long as the debt crisis doesn’t worsen and threaten to derail Europe’s recovery.

“Greece is a small economy. The big countries, Germany and France, are still doing okay,” said David Wyss at Standard & Poor’s in New York.

Wyss said export growth would add to the overall economy this year, providing a key boost to American manufacturers. But Wyss and other economists said that outlook could prove too optimistic if the debt crisis in Europe intensifies.

Greece, which uses the euro, accounts for only 0.2 percent of U.S. exports. But the 16 European nations that use the euro account for 15 percent of U.S. exports.

So far this year, the U.S. deficit is running at an annual rate of $467.2 billion, 23.4 percent higher than last year’s imbalance of $378.6 billion.

For March, the rise in exports reflected increased sales of American farm products, led by gains in sales of corn, dairy products and rice. Sales of heavy machinery from electrical generators to earth-moving equipment also posted big increases as did sales of semiconductors.

The increase in imports was led by a 25.5 percent jump in crude oil shipments, which rose to $22.3 billion March, the highest level since October 2008. That increase reflected higher volume and higher prices. The average price for a barrel of crude oil rose to $74.32, up from $72.92 in February.

Prices have been falling since oil hit $87.15 a barrel in early May. In trading Wednesday, oil dipped to near $76 a barrel.

The deficit with China rose 2.4 percent to $16.9 billion in March, the highest level since January and the largest trade gap with any country. The Obama administration is facing growing political pressure to impose trade sanctions on China if Beijing doesn’t allow its currency to rise in value against the dollar.

Associated Press

Specialist Michael Jones works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. Market turbulence continued to ease Wednesday after more than a week of wild swings tied to fears about growing European debt problems.

Stocks move sharply higher NEW YORK (AP) — A dose of good economic news sent stocks sharply higher Wednesday and erased the Dow Jones industrials’ big plunge of last week.

The Dow rose 148 points to return to where it stood before Thursday’s tumble that briefly took the average down nearly 1,000 points. The technologydominated Nasdaq composite index led major indexes with a 2 percent gain. Investors moved into tech stocks ahead of earnings from network gear maker Cisco Systems Inc. and following upbeat forecasts from Intel Corp. and IBM Corp.

Analysts say the market’s rebound from last week’s drop reflects investors’ growing confidence that Europe’s debt problems are contained for now.

Fears that Europe’s problems would spill over to the U.S. fed the market’s plunge.

Economic reports from the U.S. and Europe helped reassure investors that the global recovery is intact. The Commerce Department said exports rose in March to their highest levels since 2008. That was a welcome signal for the manufacturing industry, which has been strengthening since last year.

Increased demand could eventually lead to more hiring.

Most European markets posted big gains after better economic numbers signaled that a rebound is occurring in many parts of the continent. A round of spending cuts in Spain bolstered hopes that debt-strapped countries in Europe would take steps to slash costs. Stocks surged around the world Monday after European leaders agreed to a nearly $1 trillion bailout to contain fears of a debt crisis that pounded markets last week.

While stocks have stabilized,

currency markets are still in flux. That signals that investors are still somewhat uneasy after last week’s slide. The euro edged higher against the dollar Wednesday but is still hovering near a 14-month low.

Uncertainty over the long-term health of the euro helped lift gold to a record high. Investors worry that the euro could still lose value as European countries try to work though debt problems by taking on more debt.

Investors have turned to gold as an alternative to holding currencies.

Gold settled up $22.80 at $1,243.10 an ounce after hitting a record high of $1,247.70 an ounce. That lifted shares of gold producers FreeportMcMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. and Newmont Mining Corp.

Max Bublitz, chief strategist at SCM Advisors in San Francisco, said the swings of the past few weeks spooked investors who had become overconfident. Now, the focus can return to the U.S. economy. Expectations of a recovery have driven the market higher since major stocks indexes hit 12-year lows in March last year. The market made steady gains from February-April before concerns about Greece briefly erased stocks’ gains for the year.

“We got a lot of the bullishness and complacency out of the market,” he said. “As long as we have doubters out there, then I’m a lot more comfortable saying the trend that’s been in place the last 14 months stays there.”

According to preliminary calculations, the Dow rose 148.65, or 1.4 percent, to 10,896.91. The Dow stands at its highest level since May 4. The Dow is up 5 percent in three days, its best gain since July.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 15.88, or 1.4 percent, to 1,171.67, while the Nasdaq rose 49.71, or 2.1 percent, to 2,425.02. The index has gained 5.5 percent in three days, its best showing since July.

Bond prices fell, pushing yields higher. The yield on the benchmark 10-year note rose to 3.58 percent from 3.53 percent late Tuesday.

Crude oil fell 72 cents to $75.65 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after the International Energy Agency said global oil demand is expected to rise less than previously expected in 2010.

The Commerce Department said that the nation’s trade deficit rose to a 15-month high in March as higher oil prices pushed import costs higher. The report also showed exports rose 3.2 percent to their highest level since October 2008, a sign the economy continues to get stronger.

Tech stocks led the market higher. Cisco rose 78 cents, or 3 percent, to $26.74 ahead of its report, which was released after the end of regular trading. Intel rose 81 cents, or 3.6 percent, to $23.09 after the chipmaker forecast that rising demand would increase revenue and net income in the coming years.

Morgan Stanley shares fell after The Wall Street Journal reported that the investment bank is facing an investigation into its dealings in mortgage securities. The stock fell 58 cents, or 2 percent, to $27.80.

A Morgan Stanley spokesman said the bank hasn’t been contacted by the Justice Department about the deals in question and that he isn’t aware of an investigation.

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Kagan makes rounds on Capitol Hill

Gas prices are advertised in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Tuesday, May 11, 2010.

Experts who had been allbut-guaranteeing a national average of more than $3 per gallon by Memorial Day now say prices have probably peaked.

Associated Press

As summer nears, expect gas prices to go ... down?

NEW YORK (AP) — Gas prices are poised to fall as Memorial Day approaches, a welcome change for motorists who have gotten used to seeing increases cut into their summer vacation money.

Experts who had been predicting a national average of more than $3 per gallon by Memorial Day now say prices have likely peaked just beneath that threshold. Rising supplies and concerns about the global economy have helped send wholesale gasoline prices plummeting by 22 cents a gallon since last week.

“Gasoline supplies are about as good as they’ve ever been going into the summer driving season,” says oil analyst Phil Flynn of PFGBest in Chicago.

The decline in prices is starting to filter down to motorists, but it will take several weeks for the full effects to be reflected in pump prices, which average $2.90 nationwide.

By summer, the nationwide average could be below last summer’s peak of around $2.70 a gallon, says Tom Kloza of Oil Price Information Service. In

July 2008, the retail price of regular gasoline peaked at $4.11.

Economists say the coming drop in energy costs will not have a significant impact on overall consumer spending or economic growth. But motorists will feel better having a little more money to save or spend on clothes, dinner or a summer vacation.

Chrystal Harned, who paid $3.01 a gallon the other day, says she will be more likely to take a road trip this summer if prices fall.

“It’s good to go see people and get out of the town and spread your wings a little bit,” says the 36-year-old waitress and bartender, who lives just outside Rochester, N.Y. She says business is picking up these days, but “you don’t want to put it all in the gas tank.”

From their peaks on May 3, oil prices have declined by 13 percent to $75.65 a barrel.

Wholesale gasoline prices have declined by 9 percent to $2.21 a gallon.

Analysts were forecasting a nationwide retail average well

above $3 a gallon just a few months ago. So what changed?

— The European debt crisis escalated. This undermined confidence in the strength of the global economic recovery and prompted analysts to lower their energy demand forecasts.

The crisis also sent institutional investors flocking to the dollar, a relative safe haven. And, these days, when the dollar goes up, the price of oil goes down.

— Supplies of gasoline have risen steadily. As of Friday, the U.S. had 222 million barrels of gasoline in storage — about 5 percent more than a year ago.

Output from refineries has been growing at a faster pace than demand.

— Political unrest in oil-producing nations has been muted.

This is a wild card that could change quickly. But lately, violence in Nigeria and tensions in the Middle East have been relatively minor, traders say.

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has had no impact on fuel prices because it’s had only minimal impact on petroleum production, analysts say.

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“It’s my hope that the Obama administration doesn’t think the ideal Supreme Court nominee is someone who would rubber stamp its policies,” McConnell said. “Americans want to know that Ms. Kagan will be independent, that she won’t prejudge cases based on her personal opinions, that she’ll treat every one equally, as the judicial oath requires.”

Kagan said little publicly Wednesday as reporters and photographers trailed her through the Capitol and senators’ office buildings, shuttling from meeting to closely watched meeting.

“Haven’t I seen you someplace before?,” she joked with reporters as she entered her eighth and final meeting of the day, with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a Judiciary Committee member.

“Everybody’s been very gracious,” she said.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Judiciary Committee chairman, said Kagan will get “a fair hearing.”

“I will guarantee that all Democratic senators and all Republican senators are able to ask all relevant questions, and I’m sure she’ll answer them,” he said after their visit.

And he suggested the former Harvard Law School dean could be a welcome counterbalance to what he called an “activist conservative majority” that currently dominates the high court.

“We’ve seen how a narrow conservative majority on the nation’s highest court has ignored in many instances congressional intent and the court’s own precedent to overturn decades of law, to limit protections for workers of all ages, to curb access to court, to muffle Americans’ voices in their elections,” Leahy said. Kagan, he added, “feels the law matters in people’s lives.”

Republicans, on the other hand, worry that Kagan will bring liberal extremism to the court.

“She does come out of a tradition of activist judges,” Sessions said, citing her clerkships for Abner Mikva and Thurgood Marshall.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan defended herself Wednesday against Republican charges she’s not fit to be a justice as she met for the first time with senators who hold the key to her confirmation.

Mostly mum in public as she made the rounds on Capitol Hill, Kagan sought during a series of private meetings to beat back GOP suggestions that she’d be a liberal rubber stamp for President Obama, who named her Monday to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

“She’s been politically active throughout her life, she’s identified with the American liberal position, she clerked for two activist judges,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel that will hold hearings on Kagan’s nomination.

Sessions said he asked Kagan during a lengthy meeting whether she understood she might be called upon as a justice to issue rulings that might disappoint her “fans and supporters.” The 50-yearold solicitor general responded “that she would be faithful to the law,” Sessions said, “but of course every nominee says that. Some of our most activist judges have said that.”

The exchange came on a day when senators in both parties promised a fair confirmation process for Kagan, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pledged as he welcomed her to the Capitol to make it “as smooth as possible.” Barring a surprise, Kagan is likely to be confirmed this summer by a Senate where Democrats have more than enough votes to prevail and Republicans are showing little appetite for a Supreme Court showdown.

Still, the debate is virtually certain to become a forum for the two parties to battle over the direction of the court and hot-button legal issues from abortion to political speech.

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said before visiting with her that Kagan must prove that her current post on Obama’s team wouldn’t skew her rulings to favor his policies.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Bad wiring and a leak in what’s supposed to be a “blowout preventer.” Sealing problems that may have allowed a methane eruption.

Even a dead battery, of all things.

New disclosures Wednesday revealed a complex cascade of deep-sea equipment failures and procedural problems in the oil rig explosion and massive spill that is still fouling the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and threatening industries and wildlife near the coast and on shore.

The public also got its first look on Wednesday of oil gushing from the broken pipe that rests nearly a mile under water as BP PLC, the well’s operator, released a video taken by a remotely controlled camera. Oil flowing from a break in the yellowish pipe becomes lighter in color as it mixes with natural gas. Over the past 21 days more than 4 million gallons of oil have been released.

A litany of worrisome events and findings that were at play on the night of the well explosion and pipe rupture was described in internal corporate documents, marked confidential but provided to a House committee by BP and by the manufacturer of the safety device. Lawmakers released them at a House hearing.

A senior BP executive, Lamar McKay, cautioned, “It’s inappropriate to draw any conclusions before all the facts are known.” But the documents established the firmest evidence to date of the sequence of catastrophic events that led to the explosion and worsening spill, a series of failures more reminiscent of the loss of the space shuttle Challenger than the wreck of the Exxon Valdez.

Like the 1986 Challenger disaster, the investigation into the Gulf spill may well show that complex and seemingly failproof technical systems went wrong because of overlooked problems that interacted with each other in unexpected ways. In the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, a captain simply ran his ship onto a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of oil.

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The Development Driller III oil drilling is seen as it is used to drill a relief well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Wednesday.

explosion 40 miles off the Louisiana coast killed 11 people. Oil continuing to flow into Gulf waters threatens sensitive ecological marshes and wetlands and the region’s fishing industry.

Congressional investigators revealed Wednesday that a key safety system, known as the blowout preventer, used in BP’s oil-drilling rig in the Gulf had a hydraulic leak and a failed battery that probably prevented it from working as designed.

They said that BP documents and others also indicated conflicting pipe pressure tests should have warned those on the rig that poor pipe integrity may have been allowing explosive methane gas to leak into the well.

“Significant pressure discrepancies were observed in at least two of these tests, which were conducted just hours before the explosion,” said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., at a House hearing on the rig fire and oil leak, citing documents his committee had received from BP. Asked about the tests, Steven Newman, president of Transocean, which owned the drilling rig, and Lamar McKay, president of BP America told the committee the pressure readings were worrisome.

They indicated “that there was something happen-

ing in the well bore that shouldn’t be happening,” said Newman. McKay said the issue “is critical in the investigation” into the cause of the accident.

The well explosion unleashed a massive oil spill that after three weeks remains uncontained.

But Waxman said important elements of what went wrong were beginning to surface.

While “we have far more questions than answers,” it appears clear that there were problems with the blowout preventers before the accident and confusion almost right up to the time of the explosion over the success of a process in which cement is injected into the well to temporarily close it in anticipation of future production.

In other developments Wednesday: n The White House asked Congress to raise the limits on BP’s liability to cover damage from the spill beyond the $75 million cap now in law. It also wants oil companies to pay more into a federal oil spill cleanup fund.

BP president Lamar McKay said the company will pay any legitimate claim of damages beyond cleanup costs despite the federal cap. n On the Gulf Coast, a new containment box — a cylinder called a “top hat” — was

placed on the sea floor near the well leak. Engineers hope to work out ways to avoid the problem that scuttled an earlier effort with a much bigger box before they move the cylinder over the end of the 5,000-foot-long pipe from the well. n The Minerals Management Service told a government panel of investigators in Kenner, La., that inspections of deepwater drilling rigs has turned up only “a couple of minor issues.”

The House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing into the spill was the third this week at which executives of BP and two other companies were questioned by lawmakers.

The committee produced one document from BP that provided the most detailed information to date on what led up to and may have caused the explosion and spill at the Deepwater Horizon rig, floating in miledeep waters 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana, and why equipment designed to stop a spill failed to do the job.

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said there were at least “four significant problems with the blowout preventer” — or BOP — including evidence that it had a significant hydraulic leak and a dead battery that was supposed to activate a

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In Kenner, La., where a separate hearing is being held as part of a U.S. Coast Guard and Interior Department investigation, Michael Saucier of the Minerals Management Service testified the government isn’t required to inspect the BOPs as they are built and when installed.

Operators are required to test the devices every two weeks, and Saucier said the MMS monitors those tests.

He said the agency relies on drillers to ensure the device is working properly.

A 2001 report by Transocean, which bought the BOP from Cameron, indicated there can be as many as 260 failure possibilities in the equipment, which is supposed to be the final safeguard against a well blowout by clamping down and sealing a gushing oil well, said Stupak, chairman of the panel’s investigation’s subcommittee.

“How can a device that has 260 failure modes be considered fail-safe?” asked Stupak.

Stupak said when an underwater remote vehicle tried to activate the blowout protector’s devices designed to ram through the pipe and seal it, a loss of hydraulic pressure was discovered in the device’s emergency power component.

When dye was injected “it showed a large leak coming from a loose fitting,” said Stupak, citing BP documents. He said officials at Cameron, the company that made the preventer, had told the committee the leak was not believed to have been caused by the blowout because other fittings in the system were tight.

Stupak also questioned why the BOP had been modified.

Newman, the Transocean executive told the committee that, indeed, the BOP had been modified in 2005 at the request of BP and with approval of the Minerals Management Service.

Stupak said the committee had been told that one of the BOP’s ram drivers had been changed so it could be used for routine testing and was no longer designed to activate in an emergency. He said after the spill BP “spent a day trying to use this ... useless test ram” which no longer was configured for emergency use.

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Mortgages get attention in Senate votes

Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., at a news conference, with industry leaders, announcing their climate change bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday.

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First health care defense filed

WASHINGTON (AP) — Critics who allege that Congress overstepped the U.S. Constitution by requiring Americans to carry health insurance are “flatly wrong,” the Obama administration said Wednesday in its first court defense of the landmark health care law.

Congress acted well within its power to regulate interstate commerce and to provide for the general welfare, Justice Department lawyers argued in a 46-page brief filed in federal district court in Detroit.

For the courts to overturn President Barack Obama’s signature domestic legislation would amount to unwarranted interference with the policymaking authority of Congress, they added.

The case could go all the way to the Supreme Court, since more than a dozen state attorneys general have also filed suit against the legislation on broadly similar grounds. Cases are pending in federal courts in Virginia and Florida, raising the possibility that different appeals courts could issue conflicting rulings that the Supreme Court would have to resolve.

The requirement that most U.S. residents carry health

insurance starting in 2014 is central to the law’s goal of coverage for all.

Since insurers would be forbidden from turning down sick people, the mandate assures that those who are healthy keep contributing to the pool. The law provides tax credits to help many middle-class households pay premiums, and expands Medicaid to help the poor. While exempting those facing financial hardship from the coverage requirement, it imposes a tax penalty on those who can afford a policy, but refuse to sign up.

Critics contend that Congress cannot require average citizens to purchase a particular good or service.

“Under the government’s theory, they could force anyone to purchase vitamins, join a health club, or buy a General Motors vehicle, for that matter,” said Robert Muise, a lead attorney for the Thomas More Law Center, the conservative group that filed the Michigan lawsuit March 23, the same day Obama signed the law.

The Justice Department said voiding the coverage requirement would gut the health care law.

“Congress determined that the

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health care system in the United States is in crisis, spawning public expense and private tragedy,” said the government’s brief.

“After decades of failed attempts, Congress enacted comprehensive health care reform to deal with this overwhelming national problem. The minimum coverage provision is vital to that comprehensive scheme. Enjoining it would thwart this reform and reignite the crisis that the elected branches of government acted to forestall.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking aim at deceptive lending, the Senate on Wednesday voted to ban mortgage brokers and loan officers from getting greater pay for offering higher interest rates on loans, and to require that borrowers prove they can repay their loans.

The Senate, however, rejected a measure that would have required homebuyers to make a minimum downpayment of 5 percent on their loans.

The votes were part of the Senate’s deliberations on a broad overhaul of financial regulations designed to avoid a repeat of the crisis that struck Wall Street in 2008.

President Barack Obama weighed in on the Senate debate Wednesday, criticizing a proposed amendment that would exclude auto dealerships that offer car loans from oversight from a consumer financial protection bureau that the broader legislation would create. Auto dealers — influential figures in their communities — have been aggressively lobbying for an exemption from the law, and the amendment, offered by Sen. Sam Brownback R-Kan., could win bipartisan backing.

“This amendment would carve out a special exemption for these lenders that would allow them to inflate rates, insert hidden fees into the fine print of paperwork, and include expensive add-ons that catch purchasers by surprise,” Obama said in a statement. “This amendment guts provisions that empower consumers with clear information that allows them to make the financial decisions that work best for them and simply encourages misleading sales tactics that hurt American consumers.”

The administration has fiercely tried to protect the consumer provisions of the bill. It has answered the political power of the auto dealers with an appeal on behalf of the military, arguing that soldiers and their families have been particularly targeted by deceptive dealers.

The Senate unanimously approved an amendment Wednesday that clarified any regulations or enforcement actions by the proposed consumer protection bureau would not affect merchants and retailers that do not engage in a financial services.

Critics, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, had argued that the bill could affect small business owners such as orthodontists, who allow patients to pay over time.

Separately, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to let the Federal Reserve retain its supervision of smaller banks. The underlying regulation bill would have given the central bank oversight only over the largest financial institutions.

Government lawyers argued that a decision to opt out of health insurance is not merely a matter of personal choice. It has consequences for everybody else.

Uninsured people will get sick, or have accidents, and someone must pay for their care if they can’t afford it.

“Individual decisions to forgo insurance coverage, in the aggregate, substantially affect interstate commerce by shifting costs to health care providers and the public,” the Justice Department said.

As for the tax penalty for refusing to get coverage, the Obama administration argued that it Regional Fed presidents have lobbied senators falls squarely within the author- to allow them to continue watching over smaller ity of Congress to levy taxes. bank holding companies and state-chartered community banks. Limiting the Fed’s supervision only to bank holding companies with assets of more $50 billion — as proposed by Senate Banking RETIREMENT SAVINGS MAY BENEFIT than Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. — would have left most of the Fed’s 12 regional banks without any institutions under their oversight.

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Man’s shame leads to thoughts of suicide Dear Abby: I have been married 19 years to a beautiful, accomplished woman. We have two wonderful children. I fooled around throughout my marriage because I could. I justified it by telling myself the women knew what they were doing, and I never made any false promises about leaving my wife. She suspected a couple of times, but always gave me the benefit of the doubt.

My last affair ended publicly with every gory detail exposed. My family, work, reputation — everything that mattered to me — have been destroyed. I can’t talk about any of it to a therapist because I am so ashamed. Friends, family and coworkers now shun me. I have hit rock bottom.

If you have a hopeful solution, please share it. Otherwise, please print this as a warning to other men like me that when they hit bottom — as will surely happen — there’s nowhere to turn. I want to end my life. — Shattered Dear Shattered: Suicide may seem like a solution to your problems, but your children need you alive and functional — and their needs must take precedence. Find a therapist — someone you can relate to, and feel safe enough with to discuss everything that has happened from the beginning. There is life after divorce.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - If your motivation and enthusiasm ebbs and flows, rather than begin something new, finish what was begun.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Say nothing about another that you wouldn’t want said of you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - If you’ve had no sense of the value of things lately, today is an excellent day to turn over a new leaf.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Usually that for which you work hard produces much more satisfaction.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - If others are saying unkind things about a new person on the block, don’t join in.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Half-hearted measures are likely to result in frustration and failure.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - Don’t expect others to be supportive of your ideas and opinions if you don’t honestly believe in them yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - A new venture in which you’re interested could be a trifle more complex than you realize.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - Making concessions or commitments under pressure today isn’t advisable.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Attempting to be first among equals isn’t advisable, especially with coworkers.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Social interactions and impulsive spending may not mix too well today. There is nothing wrong with engaging in some fun activities, but spend what you can.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama warned on Wednesday, but he declared his plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year remains on track.

Standing alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Obama said, “What I’ve tried to emphasize is the fact that there is going to be some hard fighting over the next several months.” The two leaders spoke at a White House news conference as U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan prepare to push hard into the Taliban’s birthplace in Kandahar province in June. The campaign for Kandahar, already under way in districts outside the city, is expected to be among the bloodiest of the nearly 9-year-old war.

“There is no denying the progress,” Obama said.

“Nor, however, can we deny the very serious challenges still facing Afghanistan.”

Karzai’s warm White House welcome followed months of sniping and frustration over management of the war and about fraud allegations surrounding Karzai’s re-election last year. Both leaders said disagreements are normal with so much at Obama invited Cameron to visit stake.

Washington this summer.

“There are moments when we speak frankly to Both Cameron and Clegg have each other, and that frankness will only contribute acknowledged that Labour’s to the strength of the relationship,” Karzai said. government under ex-leader The United States has taken “extraordinary meaTony Blair was too closely tied sures” to avoid civilian deaths in the war, Obama to Washington’s interests. Both said, a nod to Karzai’s loud complaints last year men back the Afghanistan misthat U.S. airstrikes were killing innocents and sion, but Cameron hopes to making enemies of those who might be friends. withdraw British troops within “I do not want civilians killed,” Obama said, addfive years. Clegg has said he’s ing that he is ultimately accountable when they uneasy at a rising death toll. are.

Leaner coffers may also mean Heavy restrictions on when U.S. warplanes can less money to enter foreign-led fire at suspected militants are among the changes military operations. to war policy installed by the general Obama sent The new foreign secretary, last year to turn around the war.

William Hague, told the BBC Gen. Stanley McChrystal, facing Obama and that the new government wanted Karzai in the front row Wednesday, has said he a “solid but not slavish relationis willing to let a few killers slip away if it means ship” with the United States saving civilian lives. Insurgents often hide among and described the so-called spe- civilians, taking over homes or using refuge procial relationship between the vided willingly by sympathizers. Obama accepted two countries as being of “huge McChrystal’s argument that either way, killing the importance.” other people in a house only breeds resentment “No doubt we will not agree on and makes it harder to argue that the U.S.-backed everything,” Hague said of the government in Kabul is on their side.

United States. “But they remain, “After all it’s the Afghan people we are working to in intelligence matters, in nucle- protect from the Taliban,” Obama said. ar matters, in international In announcing a major expansion of the war last diplomacy, in what we are doing year — one that will bring a record 98,000 U.S. in Afghanistan, the indispensforces to Afghanistan by the end of this summer able partner of this country.”

— Obama also said he would begin bringing some Hague is expected to speak by forces home in July 2011. The date was meant to telephone later to U.S. Secretary reassure Pakistan and Obama’s anti-war supportof State Hillary Clinton, and ers at home that the war was not open-ended. It soon travel to the United States was also intended as a signal to Karzai that the and Afghanistan.

United States expected something for its commitRelations with European ment, namely progress in establishing a real workneighbors could also become ing government and attacking endemic corruption. problematic. Cameron’s party is “We are not suddenly as of July 2011 finished deeply skeptical over cooperation with Afghanistan,” Obama said. “After July 2011 in Europe and has withdrawn we are still going to have an interest in making from an alliance with the parties sure that Afghanistan is secure, that economic of Germany’s Angela Merkel and development is taking place, that good governance France’s Nicolas Sarkozy. Clegg, is being promoted.” once a member of the European Addressing Americans, Obama said they should parliament, has long been proknow “we are steadily making progress. It’s not European. overnight.”

Unlikely partners rule Britain

LONDON (AP) — Former rivals David Cameron and Nick Clegg hailed their new coalition government as the coming of a new era in British politics on Wednesday, glossing over policy differences but pledging to tackle the country’s most pressing problem — the looming deficit.

The Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders stood in Downing Street’s sun-dappled garden and promised that their partnership was united by common purpose and will survive for a full five-year term. They pledged sweeping reform to Parliament, civil liberties laws and on ties to Europe.

With handshakes, wide smiles and a sprinkling of jokes, Clegg and Cameron showcased their extraordinary pact, which ousted ex-leader Gordon Brown, whose Labour Party held power for 13 years.

The one-time foes banded together after Britain’s election last week denied all parties a majority — leaving the country with its first hung Parliament since 1974.

Britons struggling to make ends meet during a punishing recession gave no single group a mandate, and many were left enraged at politicians of all stripes after a damaging lawmakers’ expense scandal last year.

“Until today, we have been rivals: now we are colleagues,” said Clegg — the surprise upstart of Britain’s election campaign, who won a newly enhanced profile but saw his party lose seats in the vote.

Side by side, Clegg turned to

his new partner and spelled out their joint message. “This is what the new politics looks like,” he said.

Cameron has appointed their joint Cabinet — including four other members of Clegg’s Liberal Democrat party — and the men laid out a draft program for the next five years.

They pledged to keep Britain out of the euro currency until 2015 at least; agreed immediate 6 billion pounds (US$9 billion) cuts to government waste and vowed House of Lords members would be elected, rather than appointed.

Cameron said the government will immediately begin tackling Britain’s record 153 billionpound ($236 billion) deficit — and convene a first meeting Wednesday of a newly created a National Security Council, focused on the Afghanistan war.

Both look deeply relaxed in each other’s company.

Reminded he had once been asked “What’s your favorite joke” and answered “Nick Clegg,” Cameron responded with an exaggerated grimace while Clegg asked, “did you really say that?”

— and pretended to walk away from the podium.

“Come back,” Cameron implored, adopting a comic tone, predicting former rivals on both sides will “have things that we said thrown back at us.”

One of the first calls of congratulation to the new prime minister came from President Barack Obama, an acknowledgment of Britain’s most important bilateral relationship.

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CLASSIFIEDS! IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RUTHERFORD COUNTY 10 SP 148 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JANE ELLEN YOUNG RICKETTES AKA JANE ELLEN YOUNG RICKETTS DATED SEPTEMBER 28, 1999 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 577 AT PAGE 394 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 1:00 PM on May 26, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all the remaining lands of Rash Young and wife, Gertrude Young, both now deceased, as same is more fully described in Deed Book 338 at Page 197 of the Rutherford County Deed Registry, hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set out and to which reference is hereby made and being further described hereinafter below. Said remaining lands are believed to contain 1.5 acres.

Tract I: All that certain tract of land situate in Morgan Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and lying South of Sate Road No. 1328 adjoining the lands of F.V. Harris, D.N. Ledbetter, Clyde Flynn, Wayne Hall, U.V. Patton and the Montford Cove Baptist Church property and being the greater of part of the 53 acres tract conveyed by F.V. Harris to Early Lytle and wife, by deed dated January 2, 1968, recorded in Deed Book 305, at Page 294 of the Rutherford County Deed Registry and three-fourths (3/4) undivided interest having been conveyed to William M. Jordon and wife, by deed dated May 10, 1968, recorded in Book 309 at Page 34, Rutherford County Deed Registry, and described herein as surveyed by Clyde Sorrells, January 1968.

Beginning on a stone on the South edge of Highway No. 1328. which is the Northwest corner of the Fred Flynn 4/10 acre tract and which is located, North 52 West 76 feet from a concrete post which marks Fred Flynn's original purchase of the 1 1/2 acre tract and runs thence, along the South edge of said highway, North 58 West 305 feet and North 62 West 200 feet to an iron pin in Wayne Hall's line;t hence, with his line, South 15 West 210 feet to a stake; thence, with another of his lines, North 65 West 210 feet to a stake, Clyde Flynn's corner; thence, with Flynn's line South 15 West 100 feet to a stake. his corner; thence with the Southern line of Flynn's 4/10 acre tract so as to exclude it from this conveyance (1) South 89 West 179 feet to a hickory; (2) North 60 West 300 feet to an iron pin, corner of D.N. Ledbetter's 1/2 acre tract; thence with the Southern line of same so as to exclude the same from this conveyance, North 60 degrees West 287 feet to a stoke, Ledbetter's corner of F.V. Harris' line; thence with Harris' line North 73 degrees WEst 29 feet to two persimmon trees about 12 feet south of the branch; thence with Harris' line South 61 degrees West 563 feet to a stone, corner of 1.1 acre tract conveyed by Earl Lytle to the trustees of the Montford Cove Baptist Church; thence with the East line of same so as to exclude the same from this conveyance, South 27 West 650 feet to a stone in the outside line; thence with the old line, South 100 feet and crossing the branch to a stone; thence, South 73 East 358 feet to a sycamore tree; thence South 30 East 565 feet to a stone, old corner of 10.8 acre tract formerly owned by George Harris; thence, with his line, South 78 East 940 feet to a dogwood on a ridge; thence North 10 East 640 feet to a point in the center of Cove Cree; thence with the center of Cove Creek as follows: North 9 West 280 feet; North 72 East 375 feet to a point in the creek with a cherry tree pointer on the West bank; thence with the western line of Fred Flynn's 4/10 acre tract so as to exclude it, North 30 degrees East 451 feet to the beginning, containing 50 acres, more or less.

Tract II: Adjoining Tract I above described, and the lands of Montford Cove Baptist Church and situate, lying in Montford Cove Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being formerly a part of the Montford Cove Baptist Church Property.

Beginning at a stone the Southeast corner of the Montford Cove Baptist Church property, said stone being located South 65 degrees East 264 feet from a point in the center of Cove Road, said Cove Road being known as "Rural Pave Road No. 1001" and runs thence, with a new line, North 27 degrees East 20 feet to a stone; thence North 65 degrees West 312 feet to a point in the center of the Cove Road (aka RR #1001); thence with the center of said Road South 42 degrees East 48feet to a point in the center of the road; thence, leaving the road and running, South 65 degrees East 264 feet to the Beginning, containing .1 acre, more or less.

Courses and distances taken from a survey and map made by Clyde C. Sorrels, Surveyor, April 1986.

Saving, excepting and reserving from the operation of this conveyance are all the lands previousl y conveyed from the parent tracts above noted, included by not limited to the following for illustration and not for description: (1) 4/10 acre, more or less, conveyed to Clyde Flynn, et ux; (2) 4/10 acre, more or less, conveyed to Fred Flynn, et ux; (3) 1/2 acre, more or less, conveyed to D.N. Ledbetter, et ux; (4) 1.1 acres, conveyed to the Trustees of Montford Cove Baptist Church (5) Deed Book 349, at Page 392; (6) Deed Book 370, at Page 431; (7) Deed Book 510, at Page 192; (8) Deed Book 515, at Page 211; (9) Deed Book 525, at Page 110; (10) Deed Book 569; at Page 681; (11) Deed Book 644, at Page 316; (12) Deed Book 656, at Page 286 Subject to repairian rights of others and Cove Creek as the same may affect the subject property.

Subject to the right of way for RR #1001, "Cove Road" to its full legal width.

And Being more commonly known as: 5271 and 5279 Painter Gap Rd, Union Mills, NC 28167 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Jane Ellen Young Rickettes aka Jane Ellen Young Ricketts.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser.

Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is May 5, 2010.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Co-Executors of the estate of NELLIE ROBBINS OWENS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said NELLIE ROBBINS OWENS to present them to the undersigned on or before the 13th 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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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Lake Structure Appeals Board Town of Lake Lure The Lake Lure Lake Structure Appeals Board will hold its monthly meeting at the Town of Lake Lure Municipal Center, 2948 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure, North Carolina on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 1:30 p.m., or shortly thereafter, to consider the following: (1) LSA-2010003, a request by Tim Fisk to exceed the maximum projection into the water as required by section 94.05 (B) of the Lake Structure Regulations. The property (Tax PIN 230930) is located at 132 Tanner Drive, Lake Lure, North Carolina.

18 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, THURSDAY, May 13, 2010 IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RUTHERFORD COUNTY 10 sp 161 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY FRANK J. HARRIS AND JUDY HARRIS DATED MARCH 7, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 888 AT PAGE 778 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 1:00 PM on May 26, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain property situated in the Township of Cool Springs in the County of Rutherford and State of North Carolina, being more fully described in a deed dated 11/15/1996 and recorded 11/15/1996, among the land records of the County and State set forth above, in Deed Volume 681 and Page 57.

Situate, lying and being in Cool Springs Township Rutherford County, North Carolina and being all that property conveyed to James E. Rash as described and recorded in Deed Book 386 at Page 541, Rutherford County Registry and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at an existing iron at the edge of the right of way of Willow Run Drive, said existing iron pin lying North 43 degrees 08 minutes 02 seconds West 33.17 feet from a PK nail in the intersection of Willow Run Drive and Cherry Street, said existing iron pin also being the Northeastern most corner of the Ernest R. Allen as described and record in Deed Book 284 at Page 324, Rutherford County Registry, from said beginning point and running along and with the line of Allen South 76 degrees 50 minutes 39 seconds West 86.24 feet to an existing iron pin; thence continuing with the line of Allen North 15 degrees 42 minutes 08 seconds West 23.18 feet to an existing iron pin; thence continuing with the line of Allen South 78 degrees 21 minutes 42 seconds West 60.08 feet to a new iron pin in the line of the property of Gardner Webb College as described and recorded in Deed Book 454 at Page 51 and being Lot #3 as shown on plat duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds in Plat Book 6 at page 141; thence leaving the line of Allen and running along and with the line of Lot #3 North 11 degrees 28 minutes 33 seconds West 61.90 feet to a new iron pin, said new iron pin being the Southwestern most corner of the Margaret T. Scruggs as described and recorded in Deed Book 333 at page 457, and being Lot #2 of the aforementioned plat; thence leaving the line of Lot #3 and running along and with the line of Lot #2 North 77 degrees 47 minutes 04 seconds East (crossing an existing iron pin at 141.13 feet) a total distance of 150.00 feet to a point in Willow Run Drive; thence leaving the line of Lot #2 South 10 degrees 07 minutes 13 seconds East 84.27 feet to the point and place of Beginning, containing 0.259 acres more or less.

The above courses and distances taken from survey dated November 11, 1996, by Lattimore and Peeler Surveying Co., Dobbins Lattimore, RLS, Map # 96-424B. And Being more commonly known as: 348 Willow Run Dr, Forest City, NC 28139 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Frank J. Harris.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser.

Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of VIRGINIA DARE DILLASHAW LOWDERMILK of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said VIRGINIA DARE DILLASHAW LOWDERMILK to present them to the undersigned on or before the 13th 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.

This is the 13th day of May, 2010.

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.

This is the 6th day of May, 2010.

Judy D. Migala, Executor 470 Duncan Road Rutherfordton, NC 28139

Joan Stacey, Collector of Affidavit 763 Stacey Road Rutherfordton, NC 28139

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RUTHERFORD COUNTY 10 sp 73 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JOHNNIE B. DAVENPORT AND JOSIE DAVENPORT DATED SEPTEMBER 29, 1999 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 577 AT PAGE 822 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 1:00 PM on May 26, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being situated in RUTHERFORD County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: FIRST TRACT: BEGINNING on an iron stake, Southeast corner of Johnnie B. Davenport's own land and the Northeast corner of the aforesaid tract purchased from Robert P. Head, and running thence with the old line and Johnnie B. Davenport's line North 63-1/4 West 226 feet to an iron stake, Davenport's Southwest corner; thence two new line (1) South 42 East 198 feet to an electric pole; (2) South 57 East 52 feet to an iron stake in the old line; thence with the old line North 21 East 75 feet to the BEGINNING. SECOND TRACT: Being Lots Numbers 18 and 19 of the W. S. Moss property, as surveyed by J. A. Wilkie, Surveyor, and shown on a plat in the office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County in Plat Book 4, page 39, reference to which is hereby made for a full and complete description.

Lot #18 has a frontage of 50 feet on an alley and runs back 319 feet on the South side and 305 feet on the North side, and is 58 feet wide on the back line; Lot #19 has a frontage of 50 feet on an alley and runs back 226 feet on the South side and 200 feet on the North side, and is 50 feet wide in the back boundaries.

And Being more commonly known as: 1730 Highway 221A, Caroleen, NC 28019 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Roy S. Davenport.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser.

Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is May 5, 2010.

Grady Ingle Substitute Trustee 8520 Cliff Cameron Drive, Suite 300 Charlotte, NC 28269 (704) 333-8107 http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ 10-002978

The date of this Notice is May 5, 2010.

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A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board crashed on landing Wednesday at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli and a search and rescue operation was under way, the airlines said.

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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A Libyan plane carrying 104 people crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli’s airport, leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with the airline’s brightly colored logo. A 10-year-old Dutch child was the only known survivor.

The Dutch prime minister said everyone on the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 arriving from Johannesburg, South Africa was killed except the child, whose survival was hailed as a miracle.

The youth was taken to a hospital in Tripoli and was undergoing surgery for injuries including broken bones. Officials initially said the child was a boy, but the Dutch Foreign Ministry later said there was uncertainty over the survivor’s gender.

The Royal Dutch Tourism Board said 61 of the dead came from the Netherlands.

“This is a large group of Dutch nationals after all, so it’s a deeply sad message we have this day,” Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said.

Libyan TV showed video of the dark-haired child lying in a hospital bed with a bandaged head and wearing an oxygen mask.

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An embassy official planned to visit the survivor in the hospital later Wednesday, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ozlem Canel. She said officials were still trying to verify the identity.

The Libyans “say and think it is a Dutch child, but that must be determined by our colleague,” she said.

The crash left a large field scattered with small and large pieces of plane debris and dozens of police and rescue workers with surgical masks and gloves, some of them carrying at least one body away. They gathered small personal items such as wallets and cell phones from the wreckage.

Others sifted through debris — some of it still smoldering — including a flight recorder and green seats with television screens on them. A large piece of the plane’s tail was visible, bearing Afriqiyah’s brightly colored logo with the numbers “9.9.99,” a reference to the date of the founding of the African Union.

The plane was carrying 93 passengers and 11 crew.

“Afriqiyah Airways announces that our flight 771 had an accident during landing at Tripoli International airport,” a statement said. “At this moment, we have no information concerning

possible casualties or survivors.

Our information is that there were 93 passenger and 11 crew aboard. Authorities are conducting the search and rescue mission.”

Libyan Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zaidan said 96 bodies have been recovered from the wreckage and rescuers were searching for the rest of the victims.

The head of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek said the child’s survival was “truly a miracle.”

The plane was approaching the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli when it crashed at around 6 a.m. (0400 GMT, 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday) There was no immediate word on the cause, according to a statement by the airlines posted on its website.

The company that runs the Johannesburg airport said the flight departed at 9:37 p.m. local time (3:37 p.m. EDT) Tuesday.

The airline later issued a second statement saying a searchand-rescue operation at the crash site “has now been completed and casualties have been moved to various hospitals.”

It said Tripoli was the flight’s final destination.

The aircraft that crashed was delivered from the production line in September 2009.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister pledged to keep Jerusalem undivided despite Palestinian claims to its eastern half, as Israelis celebrated the 43rd anniversary Wednesday of the city’s reunification in the 1967 Mideast War. The Jewish section of Jerusalem took on a festive mood Wednesday with parades and speeches by political leaders, touching only lightly on the political explosiveness of the hotly contested city.

Hundreds of youths, many carrying Israeli flags, marched in the annual Jerusalem Day parade from a main square in Jewish west Jerusalem toward the Old City.

The city is a key issue in U.S.-mediated IsraeliPalestinian peace efforts that resumed last week after a 17-month standstill. Palestinians demand that Israel stop all construction in West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem. Israel has agreed to slow construction, but has rejected a total halt.

Taliban kill 2 alleged U.S. spies PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani Taliban shot and killed two men Wednesday whom they accused of spying for the United States, while a bomb ripped through a NATO oil tanker near the Afghan border and killed a passer-by, officials and residents said.

The slain men were from Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region which is effectively under militant control. The bodies were dumped in an open area in the town.

Local resident Ahsan Ullah said notes attached to the bodies warned others to learn from the fate of the so-called American spies.

Also Wednesday, a bomb ripped through an oil tanker carrying supplies for NATO forces based in Afghanistan, killing a passer-by, Pakistani border guard Fazal Bari said.

Four people also died in two separate attacks in and near the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Thai gov’t to cut water, power BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities prepared Wednesday to cut water, electricity and food supplies to anti-government demonstrators camped in central Bangkok, turning to siege tactics after a compromise offer failed to end their protest.

Officials originally planned to start the blockade at midnight, but then said it might be delayed because of problems for people not participating in the protest. A major hospital is almost adjacent to the protesters’ main stage, and numerous residential and commercial buildings are nearby.

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