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Budget request sparks town debate By JEAN GORDON
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RUTHERFORDTON — A request Wednesday night by two Town Council members for closer scrutiny on spending in the next fiscal year, irked one of their colleagues. Two council members asked the finance department for monthly copies of the 2010-11 budget performance, department by department, line for line. Stan Clements said the request for the
monthly report was in no way intended to be micro-management, but rather a way to help keep up with the department spending. Clements’ request was echoed by Councilman Bob Jones. Council member Christy Bare adamantly opposed the request, stating it was “micro-managing” a staff that is very conscious of the budget, adding the request was very frustrating to her. Clements said it wasn’t a move to “help
anyone run their jobs” but there could be a time “when we can help department heads ... maybe provide funds” when needed. The comments came at the conclusion of Wednesday night’s regular business when Mayor Jimmy Dancy asked council members if they had comments about the budget prior to next Wednesday’s public hearing at 6 p.m. at town hall.
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A heating and air conditioning unit is lifted from the roof of Rollins Cafeteria, Forest City, Thursday morning as work continues on the refurbishing of the building. Cafeteria owner Wayne Rollins expects to have the restaurant open toward the end of summer. The building sustained significant damage during an April 8 fire.
FOREST CITY — From classic automobiles to hoop cheese, and visiting historical Rutherfordton, about 35 folks participated in FAMilarization Tour Wednesday sponsored by the Tourism Development Authority. The FAM tour presented opportunities for tourism personnel from west Rutherford to receive a “Front Porch” view of Rutherford County’s eastern tourism attractions. After spending the day in the east, they return to their respective attractions and tourism places to share what they experienced east. The group toured Maple Creek Farms, Long Horn Steer Ranch owned by Keven and Kitty McCammon; Tanner/ Doncaster; and took a riding tour of Rutherfordton with its
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Forest City got lights 100 years ago today By LARRY DALE Daily Courier Staff Writer
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FOREST CITY — An historic event occurred 100 years ago today at 4:15 p.m. along the town’s streets. Forest City had electricity! For the first time ever, the town that night was lighted by electric lights. Thursday was Town of Forest City Night at McNair Field, and municipal workers were honored at the Owls game. Various mementos were handed
out at the game to mark the town’s special occasion. June is also historic for the town because municipal water service began on June 24, 1910. The book “Essays on North Carolina History,” by Clarence W. Griffin, explained the significance of the event. Griffin says that the North Carolina General Assembly in 1909 allowed the letting of contracts for
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Play premiere tonight at Chase FOREST CITY — Rutherford County Arts Council and Rutherford Community Theatre will present the world premiere of the new play “Beautiful, Crazy” by J. Patrick Moss on Friday, June 4, and Saturday, June 5, at 7 p.m. in the Chase High School Auditorium. Tickets will be available at the door for the “crazy” great price (recession special) of $5 per seat. Proceeds will benefit the Chase Drama Program, the Community Theater’s performing program, and the Arts Council’s after school program, Playing For Keeps.
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“Beautiful, Crazy” follows the twistings of a love triangle in the most unusual of locations; the psychiatric wing of a Hospital. Comical chaos ensues as patients masquerade as doctors, get access to medications, and love is left to find its own way.
Forest City Police and the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department confiscated 13.5 lbs. of marijuana from the home of John Bruce Neal, 40, at 241 Elizabeth Ave. in Forest City, Wednesday. The plants were discovered in Jorge Ziranda will be playing the lead role of the residence’s basement, where they were being grown using fluorescent lights. Chief Deputy Jeff Buchanan Jim; Jim’s best friend is Cindy, and he is the love of (above) puts one of the 78 seized marijuana plants into an evidence bag. Sheriff Jack Conner said charges are her life, although he doesn’t know it yet. Jorge is pending on manufacturing marijuana and maintaining a dwelling for marijuana. He said Neal is expected to be indicted at the end of the month by the grand jury. Street value of the plants is $5,000 per pound or $67,500 total. a product of the C.H.T.T. and has appeared in “My
cousin Lino,” and “Mad Scientists in Love.” He also appeared in the Wingate College performance of “Peggy the Pint Sized Pirate.” Jorge has been active in acting and has even competed nationally in the National Forensic Leagues interpretive events. Playing an autistic savant isn’t easy, but that’s exactly what Julia Morgan does as the character of Delaware won $600 million in grants to improve failing schools Alex. Julia is a veteran stage hand with 14 years of in the first round of competition experience under her belt. Her latest appearance was in the RCAC production of “Joseph and the for the “Race to the Top.” The Education Department plans to Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Julia is active award the remaining $3.4 billion in RCAC as well as the Afterschool of the Arts. to 10 to 15 states in September. Nurse Decker the overbearing boss of Cindy will Duncan noted that at about the be played by Laura Collins. time he was visiting Durham, Laura has had an active role on stage for the the State Board of Education last two decades having acted numerous producwas adopting national stantions with the Rutherford County Arts Council dards for math and English and the Rutherford Community Theater. Her for public school students. The last few performances for the RCT have included final version of the education “Lost Highway,” “Rebecca,” and “Murder in the benchmarks were only released Magnolias.” She’s also directed “Dracula” and Wednesday. “Deathtrap” for the RCT. Laura wears two hats “Wow!” Duncan said, holding as she’s also the assistant director for “Beautiful, up a newspaper describing the Crazy.” state school board’s impending vote. “Beautiful, Crazy” is a Directors Studio producStates are expected to use the tion, jointly sponsored by RCAC and RCT, and is a standards to revise their curriculum and tests to make learn- part of Artreach. ing more uniform across the The program is made possible in part by support country, eliminating inequities from the Grassroots Arts Program of the North in education between states and Carolina Arts Council. among districts. For more information call 245-4000.
Duncan touts teacher jobs bill
DURHAM (AP) — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and two top North Carolina Democrats warned Thursday that without federal funds, thousands of teachers would be laid off in the coming weeks. The jobs of 10,000 North Carolina teachers are at risk among 300,000 nationwide, Duncan said, as recession-hit state and local governments struggle to meet requirements to balance their budgets. Layoffs seem likely without federal support, Duncan said during a visit to Durham’s Southern High School with Gov. Beverly Perdue and U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge, D-N.C. Duncan and Etheridge said a $23 billion education jobs fund proposed in Congress was needed to keep teachers in the classroom and off the unemployment rolls at a time the economy
remains fragile. “We are strongly urging Congress to take action and take action this month,” Duncan said. “I don’t have a Plan B. Plan B is children around the country are going to get hurt.” A spokesman for the state Republican Party did not immediately return a call seeking comment. With billions more in federal education dollars at stake, Perdue and others lobbied Duncan to note the state’s efforts to claim a share of the U.S. Education Department’s “Race to the Top” grants. “Race to the Top came up frequently” during the meeting that also included state schools superintendent June Atkinson, said state said Sen. Floyd McKissick Jr., D-Durham, who said he also attended. North Carolina missed out in March when Tennessee and
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House moves quickly on budget
RALEIGH (AP) — The state House gave initial approval Thursday to a state budget that tries to preserve more public school jobs than the Senate’s version but delays how to handle a potential half-billion shortfall coming from Congress. The chamber voted in a largely party-line vote of 62-55 in favor of an $18.9 billion budget that was billed by Democrats as an austere plan for 2010 and by Republicans as one that leaves the state unprepared for a $3 billion shortfall in 2011. A second and final vote was expected just after midnight, setting up negotiations ahead with the Senate to get a plan to Gov. Beverly Perdue before July 1. House members debated more than six hours and considered more than 30 amendments to the budget, which Democrats said reduces spending by 3.5 percent compared with the plan already in place for the coming fiscal year. The University of North Carolina system would have to find another $139 million in spending cuts at its campuses and central office compared with the Senate plan. Public schools would benefit from $90 million more in North Carolina Education Lottery profits than the Senate used to preserve what House Democrats say are 1,600 positions in the classroom statewide. The lottery spending, billed as temporary, would represent the most marked changes to how revenues are distributed since the lottery became law in 2005. “This is a budget that I think everybody can support,” said House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman, D-Davidson, at the debate’s close. “This bill does protect teachers. I had to swallow real hard to redo the lottery distributions.” But four Democrats joined Republicans in voting against the budget. Rep. Sandra Spaulding Hughes, one of the four, said the plan doesn’t do enough to protect in-home personal care services for Medicaid patients, historically black uni-
The chamber voted in a largely party-line vote of 62-55 in favor of an $18.9 billion budget that was billed by Democrats as an austere plan for 2010 and by Republicans as one that leaves the state unprepared for a $3 billion shortfall in 2011. A second and final vote was expected just after midnight, setting up negotiations ahead with the Senate to get a plan to Gov. Beverly Perdue before July 1. versities and the public schools. “We need to pull money from wherever we need to pull it to provide the proper funding for our teachers and our assistants in the classroom,” said Hughes, a retired educator from New Hanover. While the bottom-line figure for the House plan is less than both the Senate plan approved two weeks ago and Gov. Beverly Perdue’s plan unveiled in April, Republicans argued that the spending is actually higher than what Perdue is on track to spend this year because she held back on money in this year’s budget to narrow a revenue shortfall. “We think that they fall far short for what we need to do to prepare for next year and what we think will be a protracted strained economy,” said Minority Whip Thom Tillis, D-Mecklenburg. Next year, federal stimulus money runs out and temporary income and sales tax increases will expire. Democratic budget writers who have worked for two months fashioning cuts lashed out at Republicans who have suggested spending should fall by an additional $450 million. “Tell us which teachers do you want us to fire, which correctional officers you want to cut,” said Rep. Rick Glazier, D-Cumberland, an education budget subcommittee leader. “The rhetoric that we can all
apply is an easy thing.” The spending plan still banks on having $490 million from Congress to extend a more generous formula from Medicaid for six more months through June 2011, even though the U.S. House approved a measure that leaves the additional $24 billion combined to the states. Michaux said House and Senate Democrats would delete that Medicaid money if there’s no clarity from Capitol Hill on the future of that money. The budget would then have to be rebalanced with “a few more drastic cuts,” Michaux said. Like the Senate, the House’s proposed budget doesn’t call for new broad-based tax increases and would freeze salaries for public schoolteachers and rankand-file state employees for a second straight year. The plan would provide tax breaks for small business investments and small firms that provide health insurance or create new jobs. Health care would take an 8 percent cut if the extra Medicaid money comes through. It restores less than half of the $40 million that community mental health offices lost last year. The chamber approved Republican amendments that would: n Extend the budget’s proposed repeal of the discount private foundations receive to pay tuition for out-of-state student athletes attending University of North Carolina campuses to cover academic scholars such as the Park scholars at North Carolina State University and MoreheadCain scholars at UNC-Chapel Hill. The $6.1 million saved would go to career technical programs in the public schools. n Eliminate funding for endof-course tests for American history, physical science, and civics and economics. About $2.1 million saved would go for school supplies for teachers. The three other Democrats who voted no on the budget were Reps. Earl Jones of Guilford County; Nick Mackey of Mecklenburg County; and Annie Mobley of Hertford County.
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Janet Cureton, center, looks through the used books for sale at the Rutherford Electric Membership Corp. office at 186 Hudlow Road on Thursday as REMC workers Christee Lovelace, foreground, and Karen Black put out more books. REMC employees are having the book sale to raise money for Rutherford County Relay for Life. The sale continues Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through June 11. Hardback books are $2 and softcover books are $1. Children’s books are 50 cents. Shelia Guffey of REMC said the sale has raised $520 so far.
Wrestling event set Saturday at Armory SPINDALE — Southern Wrestling Association will hold a show Saturday, June 5, at the National Guard Armory in Forest City. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8. The show – which will feature a ladder match – will be held in honor of Alice Faye Wages, who attended shows throughout the years. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for children ages 6 to 11 and free for children five and younger.
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Our Views Cavaliers learn how to succeed
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ast Rutherford baseball coach Bobby Reynolds is taking another team to the state championship series. The Cavaliers face off tonight against Graham in the NCHSAA Class AA finals in Raleigh. Reynolds has now taken seven East Rutherford teams to the state championship series. Going into this weekend he is 4-2 in the finals. That is a record any one would be proud to own. Everyone in Rutherford County should be proud of the success of Coach Reynolds and the Cavaliers team and cheer them on as they go for their fifth championship in the past nine seasons. The Cavs’ baseball program is a great example of what can be accomplished when teamwork and hard work come together. Win or lose in this championship series, this team has learned valuable lessons. They have learned that consistency is important. They have learned that honing skills is essential. They have learned that winning takes effort. And, they have learned that sometimes you swing for the fences. Those are lessons we should all master.
Our readers’ views Comments on court’s Miranda ruling To the editor: I see the Supreme Court is making more decisions regarding Fifth Amendment rights. Instead of simply remaining silent, you must invoke Fifth Amendment rights to keep the police from questioning you. That’s interesting, since the wording of the Fifth Amendment says that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. The Supreme Court has limited this to cases in which a person is under arrest, yet common law, from which the term “due process” has originated in our constitution, says that if the police so much as detain you on the street, it is imprisonment, subject to habeas corpus remedy. Therefore, by the simplest processes of reason, if the police detain you for any reason whatever, you are, at that instant, subject to the protection of “due process,” whether the police or the Supreme Court likes it or not. The very term “due process” as defined by Justice Joseph Story, is “lawful judgement of peers” by common law. It was taken from Magna Carta, and if you look in the courts section of the North Carolina Constitution, you will see Magna Carta quoted.
You judges out there, prove me wrong. Ralph Haulk Forest City
Says Ellenboro is not being well served To the editor: A question for my esteemed readership: What do you call a resident of Ellenboro? An Ellenboran? An Ellenborian? Neither quite sounds right. In the interest of being pleasing to the ear, accurate, and somewhat descriptive, I would like to propose that Ellenboro residents be known simply as, “RedHeaded Stepchildren.” No offense to anyone: it’s just an expression. Truly this term is accurate when it comes to cellular telephone and broadband internet. Cell phone reception is spotty basically from Puzzle Creek Road out to Mooresboro. The worst reception, which often causes dropped calls, is in the middle of “downtown” Ellenboro. I often find it easier to simply
tell people, “I’ll call you back when I get out of Ellenboro,” rather than try to have a conversation. Broadband internet? A complete joke for many of us. A certain cable company told me that they would have broadband available on my road (Walls Church Rd) by January 2006. Still waiting for that. A certain phone company provides DSL to residents who live at the other end of my road. Sorry, no help there, either. I have had pretty good success with a local wireless company, although I am currently down due to a lightning strike on my external radio on Friday, May 28. I am having to pay $125 for the replacement of the damaged unit, and if it gets hit five more times by lightning this summer, I will pay another $750. As I have mentioned before in this forum, the term “NC Certified E-Community” that graces our highway signs has an extra special meaning for me. Bill Coxe Ellenboro
As respected legal historian St George Tucker has stated, no branch of the federal government derives authority from common law, so any attempt by federal or state governments, under the Fourteenth Amendment, to detain you for any reason, is immediately subject to common law protections under the due process clause.
Looking down, you can see important things I love teaching my kids about new things. And I also enjoy having new experiences. This past Saturday was a great chance to do both, when Matthew, Joseph, Meda and I headed out to the Freedom Weekend Aloft festival in Simpsonville, S.C. This wasn’t just my first trip to the festival, it was also my first time riding in a hot air balloon. The kids were excited all day long and we actually ended up going a little earlier than I had anticipated. The balloons can only go up early in the morning or later in the evening — around sunset — due to the air temperatures. While waiting for the day to wear on, we also got to hang out and do carnival rides (and eat some corn dogs) at the festival. The boys had the greatest time riding rides. Matthew has emerged
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as our daredevil. Joseph enjoyed a NASCAR theme go-kart looking ride, the carousel and the frog hop ride. Both boys also liked several of the fun houses and were intrigued by the hall of mirrors. However, Joseph got a nice bonk on the head when he ran full tilt at what he THOUGHT was the exit and we heard him go “SMACK!” as he ran head first into a mirror. He was OK. But Matthew couldn’t convince him to ride the Scrambler, the Dragon Wagon roller coaster or the Round Up. The Round Up was the ride
where I became convinced that Matthew is going to be a daredevil like his aunt Stephanie. It’s one of those centrifuge looking rides that spins riders around and then lifts up on its side using the centrifugal force to keep you glued to your spot. It was about 15 to 20 feet up in the air and he rode it all by himself. About halfway through, when the thing began to lift up in the air on its side, I saw him hanging his head down. I just knew he was going to hurl, but he was fine. When he got off the ride, I asked if it made his tummy hurt. “No daddy,” my 9-year-old son said. “I just wanted to see how the bottom part worked.” He’s already deducing things from an engineering standpoint...I’m so proud of my geek in training. The time finally came to
get ready for the hot air balloon ride and the weather kept threatening to storm on us. But it held off long enough for us to get in line for the tethered balloon ride. I was sure that Joseph, my 6-year-old, was going to back out and want to stay on the ground with Meda. But he was all for it. When we approached the balloon, a mother and her two daughters apparently close to the same size as me and the boys were just landing. They had to time everything perfectly so that when the little girl got out, Joseph got in — then another girl and Matthew — finally, their mom and I switched places. And away we went. It was incredible. There was this feeling of floating on a cloud as the balloon gently, just sort of rose into the air — like a big bubble of soap.
In no time, we were 50 feet up. Matthew was a little skittish from the bursts of flame ever so often above our heads, but otherwise he was enthusiastic about looking over the side. Joseph peered down from just above the edge of the basket, almost too short to see anything, and declared, “Look, daddy, I can see our house from here!” He couldn’t, but isn’t it great to see a child’s mind at work? On the way home in the car, the boys pretended to fly in a balloon. For just a little while, riding in that balloon with Matthew and Joseph, they reminded me what it was like to soar again. And that’s some good news. Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaughman@thedigitalcourier. com.
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Police look to exhume body
Dessie Smith
DURHAM (AP) — Police plan to exhume the body of a woman killed five years ago in her North Carolina home as officials move forward with a case against her husband. Multiple media outlets reported Thursday that the family of Janet Abaroa will allow the remains to be exhumed. Abaroa was 25 years old and pregnant when she was fatally stabbed April 26, 2005. In February, police arrested her husband, 35-year-old Raven Abaroa and charged him with murder.
Family sentenced in marijuana case
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina family has been sentenced to prison for growing and selling marijuana from their home. The Winston-Salem Journal reported that 55-year-old Rickey Allen Longworth and his wife,
57-year-old Janeen Jay Longworth, were sentenced Wednesday in WinstonSalem. Their 28-year-old son, Wesley Allen Longworth, also was sentenced. The three pleaded guilty to various charges, including trafficking in marijuana. Each was sentenced to 25 to 30 months in prison on the trafficking charges and received a suspended sentence on other charges. A case is still pending against another son, Jason Longworth, and his girlfriend.
Highway worker struck, killed ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police are looking for the driver of the vehicle that struck and killed a highway contract worker in Anne Arundel County. Police say an ambulance crew returning to its base found 52-year-old Ghassen Sabra, of Goldsboro, N.C., on eastbound Route 50 around 1 a.m. Thursday. Investigators believe Sabra was putting out or retrieving traffic counting equipment when he was hit.
Police Notes Sheriff’s Reports
n The Spindale Police Department responded to 27 E-911 Wednesday.
of 5604 U.S. 221; charged with harassing phone call and assault and battery; released on a $2,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD) n Chrisy Marie Packett, 28, of 5604 U.S. 221 Alley; charged with harassing phone call and two counts of assault and battery; released on a $500 unsecured bond. (RCSD) n Larry Alfred Monteith, 33, of 1418 U.S. 221 North; charged with failure to work after being paid; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD) n Nicholas Adam Roper, 19, of 177 Crestview St.; charged with assault with a deadly weapon; released on a $2,500 unsecured bond. (RPD)
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n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 171 E-911 calls Wednesday. n Homeq Servicing, of Raleigh, reported the theft of an electrical panel/ circuit breaker box in Rutherfordton. n Clarence Bedford Holt reported the theft of a utility trailer.
Rutherfordton
n The Rutherfordton Police Department responded to 26 E-911 calls Wednesday.
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n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to 11 E-911 calls Wednesday.
n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 28 E-911 calls Wednesday.
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n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to 15 E-911 calls Wednesday.
n The Forest City Police Department responded to 40 E-911 calls Wednesday. n Whitney Greene reported the theft of WIC vouchers. The incident occurred at Wal-Mart.
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Fire Calls n Bills Creek firefighters responded to a power line fire. n Forest City firefighters responded to an industrial fire alarm. n Rutherfordton firefighters responded to an industrial fire alarm and to an outbuilding fire. n Shingle Hollow firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident. n Sandy Mush firefighters responded to a power line fire.
Dessie Waters Smith, 93, of Rutherfordton died Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital. She was born in Rutherford County to the late Joe and Nicie Green Waters. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Nelson Smith. She was a homemaker and member of Wilson Baptist Church, She is survived by her daughter, Doris Morrison of Bostic; sister, Leanna Johnson of Forest City; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. A celebration of life will be held Friday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Crowe’s Mortuary. A private burial will take place at Mount Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at www.crowemortuary.com
Johnny Lowery Johnny William Lowery, 65, of 1074 Goodes Creek Church Road, Mooresboro, died Thursday, June 3, 2010, at home. A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Paule Stanley and Lona Toms Lowery. He was a member of Victory Baptist Church and was a retired truck driver having served Salem Carriers, Rollins Oil and Ruan Trucking. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Belew Lowery; sons, Arthur Lowery of Shelby, Allen Lowery and David Lowery, both of Mooresboro, and John Lowery of Ellenboro; daughter, Joleen Myles of Sandy Mush; brothers, Robert Lowery of Sandy Mush, Ray Lowery of Mooresboro and Joe Lowery of Caroleen; 14 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Victory Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Spindale City Cemetery. Visitation will be held Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home. An online guest register and tribute video is available at www. mckinneylandrethfuneralhome. com.
Bobbie Roberts Bobbie Brackett Roberts, 81, died Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at her residence. A native of Forest City, she was a daughter of the late Donnie O. and Eva Waters Brackett. She was a member of First Baptist Church and the Friendship Sunday School Class. Survivors include her husband of 64 years, C.C. Roberts of Greeneville; a daughter, Sharon Roberts Susong of Greeneville; a son, John Charles Roberts of Madison, Ala.; five grandchildren; and three great-
Dessie Waters Smith Mrs. Dessie Waters Smith, age 93, of Rutherfordton, went to be with her Lord on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at Rutherford Hospital. A homemaker and member of Wilson Baptist Church she was born August 13, 1916 in Rutherford County to the late Joe and Nicie Green Waters. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Nelson Smith and three sons, Edward, George and Robert. Left to cherish her memory is her daughter, Doris Morrison of Bostic, NC; sister, Leanna Johnson of Forest City, NC; two grandchildren, one great grandchild and a number of other friends and relatives. A celebration of life will be held from 4 – 5:30 PM Friday June 4, 2010 at Crowe’s Mortuary. A private burial will take place at Mount Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at: www.crowemortuary.com Crowe’s Mortuary is assisting the Smith Family. Paid obit.
Shirley Hutchins Phillips Shirley Phillips, 57, of Myrtle Beach, SC, wife of 19 years and mother of three passed away Saturday, May 29, 2010. Shirley was born in Rutherfordton, NC to James Hutchins and Vandora Crain. She is survived by her loving husband, Donald Phillips and grandmother, Brite Jolly; a son, Kevin Suttle and daughters, April Suttle and Crystal O. Hensley. Shirley was a wonderful grandmother to 7 grandchildren. She is predeceased by a brother James William Hutchins (Wormy). She loved every living thing in life. She will be greatly missed. Paid obit.
grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Doughty Stevens Funeral Home with Dr. David Green officiating. Burial will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Doughty Stevens Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church Building Fund.
Charles Wyllie Charles Cuthill Wyllie, 78, of Tryon, died Thursday, June 3, 2010. A native of Westchester, N.Y., he was a son of the late Charles and Ellen Carnohan Wylie. He was a retired foreman for the New York Telephone Company. He was a member of the Board of Tryon Crafts and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and the N.C. Barbecue Festival held annually in Tryon. He is survived by his wife, Margaret “Peggy” Wyllie of the home; a son, Douglas Wyllie of San Francisco, Calif.; a daughter, Megan Peconis of England; a sister, Mary Burton of Forest, Va.; and five grandchildren. Memorial services will be scheduled at a later date. Online condolences at www. crowemortuary.com.
Joe Walker Joe Ed Walker, 72, of 953 Padgett Road, Shelby, died Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at Hospice at Wendover in Shelby. He was a son of the late Luther and Ruth Walker. He was a lifelong member of Sandy Plains Baptist Church where he served as deacon, choir member and Sunday School teacher. He retired from Hoechst Celanese in Shelby and worked for Turner Trucking as a long-haul driver. He was a scoutmaster and received the Silver Beaver Award. He also served in the Shelby Rescue Squad and later the Boiling Springs Rescue Squad. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Donnis Wright Walker; sons, Michael Luther Walker of Shelby and Braxton Wright Walker of Greensboro; and brother, Harry S. Walker. Funeral services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Sandy Plains Baptist Church with the Rev. Gavin Hill and Dr. Don McSwain officiating.
Johnny William Lowery Mr. Johnny William Lowery, 65, of 1074 Goodes Creek Church Road, Mooresboro, died on Thursday, June 03, 2010 at home. A native of Rutherford County, he was born on July 19, 1944, a son of the late Paule Stanley and Lona Toms Lowery. He was a member of Victory Baptist Church and was a retired truck driver having served Salem Carriers, Rollins Oil and Ruan Trucking. Mr. Lowery is survived by his wife, Shirley Belew Lowery; son and daughters-in-law, Arthur Lowery and wife, Wendy of Shelby, Allen Lowery and wife, Lisa of Mooresboro, David Lowery of Mooresboro and John Lowery of Ellenboro; daughter and son-in-law, Joleen Myles and husband Jerry of Sandy Mush; brothers, Robert Lowery of Sandy Mush, Ray Lowery of Mooresboro and Joe Lowery of Caroleen; grandchildren, Scott, Jason, Brent, Jamie and Jonathan Lowery, Dusty, John and Cody Ellis, Chris, Kasie, Jacob, and Celeste Lowery, Kristen Ledford and Billy Barnell; great grandchildren, Amber and Logan Ellis, Easton Lowery, Kelsey Aires, Riley Parker, and Emma Lowery. Funeral services will be held 2:00 PM Saturday, June 5, 2010 at Victory Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Spindale City Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Friday, June 4, 2010 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at McKinney – Landreth Funeral Home. McKinney – Landreth Funeral Home is serving The Lowery Family. An online guest register and tribute video is available at : www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com
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Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Stamey Funeral Home in Fallston. Memorials may be made to Sandy Plains Baptist Church, 2112 New House Road, Shelby, NC 28150 or Hospice at Wendover, 951 Wendover Heights Drive, Shelby, NC 28150.
Deaths Rue McClanahan NEW YORK (AP) — Rue McClanahan, the Emmywinning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 76. McClanahan died Thursday of a brain hemorrhage. McClanahan had an active career in off-Broadway and regional stages in the 1960s before she was tapped for TV in the 1970s for the key best-friend character on the hit series “Maude,” starring Beatrice Arthur. After that series ended in 1978, McClanahan landed the role as Aunt Fran on “Mama’s Family” in 1983. But her most loved role came in 1985 when she costarred with Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty in “The Golden Girls,” a runaway hit that broke the sitcom mold by focusing on the foibles of four aging — and frequently eccentric — women living together in Miami. McClanahan was born Eddi-Rue McClanahan in Healdton, Okla., to building contractor William McClanahan and his wife, Dreda Rheua-Nell, a beautician. She graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa with a degree in German and theater arts. McClanahan’s acting career began on the stage. She won an Obie — the off-Broadway version of the Tony — in 1970 for “Who’s Happy Now.” She had appeared only sporadically on television until producer Norman Lear tapped her for a guest role on “All in the Family” in 1971. She went from there to a regular role in the “All in the Family” spinoff “Maude.”
Bobbie Brackett Roberts Mrs. Bobbie Brackett Roberts, age 81, of Kenney Street, Greeneville, TN, died Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at home with her husband. A native of Forest City, she was a daughter of the late Donnie O. and Eva Waters Brackett. She was a member of First Baptist Church and the Friendship Sunday School Class. She was a loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was known for her good cooking which she loved to share. She also loved playing the piano and singing with family and friends. She will be greatly missed. Survivors include her loving husband of 64 years, C. C. Roberts of Greeneville; a daughter, Sharon Roberts Susong of Greeneville; a son, John Charles Roberts and wife Tina Moates Roberts of Madison, AL; five grandchildren, Michelle Susong Freeman of Greeneville, John Charles Roberts, Jr., James Michael Roberts, Hollie Marie Roberts, and Bobbie Eliese Roberts, all of Madison, AL; and three great-grandchildren: Ainsley Michelle Freeman, Colby Alan Freeman and McKinley Grace Freeman, all of Greeneville. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, at Doughty Stevens Funeral Home with Dr. David Green officiating. Interment will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers will be John Roberts, Jr., Michael Roberts, Jimmy Harris, Andrew MacDonald, Richard Keesee, Jr., and Mike Dawson. Honorary pallbearers will include Forrest Harrill, Charles Dawson, James Harmon, Richard Simpson, Robert Smith, and members of the Friendship Sunday School Class. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 Friday at Doughty Stevens Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church Building Fund.
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Hospice Hospice of Rutherford County offers the following services: CAMP Rainbows: June 5 and 6 for any child age 8 -13 who has lost a loved one. Call 245-0095 for more information. GRACE support group for anyone caring for a loved one: GRACE is conducted the first Tuesday of each month from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Rutherford Life Care and the third Friday of each month from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Rutherford County Senior Center. Adult Care services are available on Tuesday evenings. Friday, May 21, features Sgt. Mike Summers from the Sheriff’s Department discussing Project Life Saver; Tuesday, June 1, Kay Sheets, Gentle Yoga. HOPE Support Group: Mondays beginning July 6, at 6 p.m. at the Center of Living for any adult in the community who has lost a loved one. Offered at no cost. ON MY OWN series: June 24, 1:30 p.m., at the Carolina Event and Conference Center; Lt. Chris Adkins will conduct a personal safety course. PROMISE Support Group: Conducted quarterly for anyone who has lost an adult child. Call 245-0095 to find out more. Offered at no cost. Volunteer Training: July 12 through July 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Carolina Event and Conference Center. Call for more information. Widow/Widower’s Lunch Bunch meeting: Third Friday of each month at the Carolina Event and Conference Center. From 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. for anyone in the community who has lost a spouse. Cost for lunch is $5. Participants must register in order to reserve lunch.
Reunions Sims-Guffey reunion: Sunday, June 6, 1 p.m. Piedmont Pleasant Hill Clubhouse; bring well filled baskets; eating utensils will be furnished.
Miscellaneous Senior Dance: Thursday, May 13, 7 to 10 p.m., at the Moose Lodge; dances are held the second and fourth Thursday of each month; all senior citizens (ages 50 and up) are welcome; for more information call 289-5852. CPC Festival: Saturday, May 15, 11:30 to 3:30 p.m.; at Crowe Park; the Animal Shelter and Community Pet Center office will be closed on this day. Family portraits: Colorcraft will be at Mount Pleasant Church in Union Mills on Saturday, May 15. Family portraits $5 per sitting. Call 305-8817 for an appointment. Beginner Shag lessons: Sponsored by Rutherford County Shag Club, beginning Monday, May 17. For information or to register call 2879228. HARC book sale: Homeschool Association of Rutherford/Polk Counties annual used book sale on Monday, May 24, 6:30 p.m., at Second Baptist Church in Rutherfordton; great deals on homeschool materials.
Fundraisers Porch Bag Sale: Saturday, June 5, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Washburn Community Outreach Center; All you can put in a bag for $2. Golf tournament: Sponsored by VFW Harold Hawkins Post 5204; Saturday, June 5, shotgun start 1 p.m., Dogwood Valley Golf Course, 328 Dogwood Valley Road, Forest City; captain’s choice; entry fee $40 per player; contact Jimmy Reynolds at 657-5645 to sign up; rain date June 12; all proceeds will be used to assist local veterans. Fishing tournament: Saturday, June 5, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m, at the old Robbins Catfish Farm, 777 HarrisHolly Springs Road; $100 cash prize given every hour; sponsored by the Brotherhood group of First Baptist Church, Bostic; for information, call 289-2813, 447-3461, or 429-0583.
Religion Yard sale: Saturday, June 5, 6:30 am. until, Round Hill Baptist Church lower parking lot; baked goods, hamburgers and hot dogs for sale; to raise money for Vacation Bible School. Prayer breakfast: Saturday, June 5, Union Mills Clubhouse; sponsored by Mount Pleasant CME Church, Union Mills. Memorial Day service: Sunday, June 6, Harris Baptist Church; worship service 11 a.m.; Rev. George Whitmire, pastor of the church, will speak; lunch will be served at 1 p.m.; Afternoon singing at 2, with the Master Singers of Chesnee, S.C.
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Hickory Nut Gorge Chamber Visitors Center volunteers Dianne Ward (l-r) Janet Hutchinson, Joan Mead, Sonya Marks, Shirley Massman, Cheryl Sondak, (chamber membership coordinator), and Meghan Rogers, Events Promotions Director at Chimney Rock Park, lunching at Sunnyside Orchard Wednesday.
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history presented by Robin Lattimore. After lunch, provided by Mountain 1st Bank and home made ice cream provided by Sunnyside Orchard and Larry Crowe, the group traveled to Bennett Classic Auto Museum, Forest City. Visitors saw vintage cars and trucks hosted by Joe Bennett. The group toured McNair Field,
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Clements, the newest member on town council and going through the budget process for the first time, said he wanted to get a “closer financial look see” at the spending of the departments. Bare told Clements and Jones the job of Town Council was to set the budget and policy and it was up to the various departments and town staff to implement the budget. Clements said he wants to know how much money is being spent item by item. Finance Officer Rus Scherer explained to the Council that he, Town Manager Karen Andrews and the town’s department heads already see the budget month by month in order to keep them up to date of revenues and spending. He said it would not be a problem or any additional work to give copies to the Council.
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water and electric light plants. “Accordingly,” he writes, “the board executed a contract with J.C. Cook for installing water works and an electric lighting plant for the town. The contract was signed on January 22, 1910. Work was immediately started on both projects. Electric lights were turned on along the streets for the first time on Saturday afternoon, June 4, 1910, at 4:15 o’clock, and the town was lighted that night. Water was turned into the city tank on Friday, June 24, 1910, giving the city its first water system.” Griffin notes that prior to those
and enjoyed a view of historic Cherry Bounce Trail. At Washburn General Store, Bostic, visitors shopped in the authentic 1831 store where Ed Washburn showed the group the store and provided RC Colas, Orange Crush and Moon-Pies. TDA’s interim director Michelle Whitaker said the day was very successful for the visitors and the attractions owners. “They went out of their way to make
the people feel welcome,” Whitaker said. “I had a great time, too,” she said. “Whenever I get to introduce someone to something new, it rubs off on me too,” she said. The next TDA sponsored FAM tour will be June 15 as east volunteers head west. Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
Dancy said he would have concerns about the reports if town staff had to do additional work, but since there was no additional information needed, he was okay with the request. Andrews said there would a lot of paper being used to copy the reports, therefore all Council members will receive the reports via e-mail, except Jones, who doesn’t have a computer will receive paper reports. When Council meets at 6 p.m. next Wednesday, the public will have an opportunity to address the budget issues in a public hearing. Copies of the budget are on the town’s web site and also at town hall. In the final budget workshops two weeks ago, council agreed to cut $51,614 in the Community Planning and Development Dept. Department director John McWhorter will be retiring in the near future and council decided to restructure his position to part time, and also deleted items such as promotion, design, economic restructuring
community development, utilities and other items from the budget. Although McWhorter said he agreed in part to the reduction of the department because of the lack of revenues, and it is more important for town citizens to have garbage pick-up and fire and police protection, he would disagree to eliminate the department permanently. He said since most of the Community Planning and Development program is funded through state grants and without state money, there is no money for grants.
dates, individual wells and a public well on the square provided water, and kerosene lamps lighted individual homes, while the town’s streets were unlighted. Town Planner Danielle Withrow commented Thursday morning that Forest City has always been proud to be on the cutting edge of new technology. “We like to be ahead of the curve,” she said, adding that the town also had the area’s first telephone system. And she noted that the town’s current strategic economic development plan, for 2010 to 2020, includes making development of information technology infrastructure and connectivity a priority. The plan says, “Forest City will con-
sider technology infrastructure and telecommunication services in 2010 to be as critical to the success of the Town as the installation of infrastructure for electric service was to the Town in 1910 — 100 years ago.” The plan adds, “By 2020, Forest City will be known as a community with an extensive fiber optic and wireless network that is utilized by business, industry and residents.” But on Thursday, the fans enjoyed night baseball illuminated by banks of lights. And that all began when someone switched the lights on in Forest City for the first time 100 years ago today.
Council has also proposed to delete the purchase of a fire vehicle, but has proposed to increase the golf course allocation by $6,500. Council has also proposed to implement Solid Water User Fees to generate about $48,321 next year. Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitalcourier.com.
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Bling! S. Africa: Mandela to attend World Cup JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela met with South Africa’s national soccer team on Thursday, the same day the country’s ruling party said its most famous citizen will attend the World Cup’s opening game and the final. Mandela wore a yellow Bafana Bafana team jersey with the number four of captain Aaron Mokoena on the back when he appeared with players at his foundation in Johannesburg. Also on Thursday, African National Congress spokesman Jackson Mthembu said Mandela will make a rare public appearance at next week’s tournament opener, between the host and Mexico, and the July 11 final. The announcement came amid worries the 91-year-old icon would be too frail to attend South Africa’s biggest sporting event. “Madiba will grace both the opening and the closing of the World Cup,” Mthembu said, using the traditional clan name by which Mandela is affectionately known in South Africa. “We are very honored to have an icon of Mandela’s caliber to grace this important event. We are very happy that Madiba will come. The Madiba magic will add to the excitement.” A spokesman at Mandela’s foundation would not say if Mandela would attend next Friday’s match, saying they do not disclose his schedule ahead of time for security reasons. FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday World Cup organizers desperately hoped Mandela would make the opening game. Blatter said the World Cup would not be the same without Mandela, and that his presence would be the “highlight” of the event. South Africa’s former president retired from public life in 2004, but made a surprise appearance last year at an ANC rally before the national election. Mandela now makes very few appearances in public, but was photographed with the World Cup trophy last month. He has been credited by FIFA as one of the architects of Africa’s first World Cup. In December 2009, he recorded a video message on the significance of the event.
Local Sports BASEBALL 2010 NCHSAA 2A Baseball Championship Series at Doak Field, NC State 5 p.m. Graham (20-11) vs. East Rutherford (28-2), Game 1 (Best-of-3). Coastal Plain League 7 p.m. Forest City at Thomasville
On TV 7 p.m. (ESPN) College Softball NCAA World Series, Game 5: Teams TBA. 7 p.m. (FSS) MLB Baseball Cincinnati Reds at Washington Nationals. 7:30 p.m. (ESPN2) NASCAR Racing Nationwide Series: Federated Auto Parts 300, Final Practice. 8 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Baseball Chicago Cubs at Houston Astros. 9:30 p.m. (ESPN) College Softball NCAA World Series, Game 6: Teams TBA. 10 p.m. (ESPN2) Boxing Friday Night Fights. 10 p.m. (TS) MLB Baseball Atlanta Braves at Los Angeles Dodgers.
Members of the 2009 Forest City Owls, left, gather prior to receiving their Coastal Plain League championship rings at McNair Field Thursday. Above, the hands and rings of Spencer Patton and Wade Moore are shown. Garrett Byers/Daily Courier
FC Owls trounce Mustangs By KEVIN CARVER Daily Courier Sports Reporter
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The Owls Jake Koenig, above, keeps his eyes on the ball during the game against Martinsville Thursday at McNair Field. The Owls wore throwback hats for the game with “RC,” on the cap in honor of the Rutherford County Owls.
FOREST CITY — Forest City‘s Will Skinner posted four RBIs and made an incredible catch as the Owls won 16-1 over Martinsville on Owls Alumni Night, Thursday at McNair Field. The Owls piled on runs early thanks in small part to seven Mustangs’ errors, but Forest City also smashed 12 hits in the win. Skinner dumped an RBI single into left field during the third inning and later smashed a line drive three-run home run in the fourth.
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What does it take to take it all the way Champions. On Thursday evening, two of the most storied franchises in the history of the NBA, and perhaps all of sports, meet to begin a best-of-7 that will crown one of them as champ. Again. Between Boston and Los Angeles, half of all NBA championships belongs to one or the other. Champions. At 5 p.m., today, East Rutherford will run onto the field at Doak Field at NC State to face Graham for the 2A state title. East has slowly built a reputation, under Bobby Reynolds, of being one of the finest baseball programs in the state. A win will bring a fifth state title to the Boys of Puzzle Creek.
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Champions. Wade Moore and Spencer “The General” Patton stood, shoulderto-shoulder, in the Beer Garden, Thursday evening at McNair Field. Two of the leaders, two of the brothers, that made up the 2009 Forest City Owls’ incredible 51-9 run to a national title and a Coastal Plain League title. Each wore a ring to celebrate those
accomplishments. “This town gave us way more than we ever gave to them,” said Moore, his eyes covered with his nearly-trademark sunglasses. I can’t prove it, but I really believe there were some tears behind those glasses. There is so much that can be taken from you in a lifetime — money, spouses, children, jobs, and even freedom can be lost. The one thing that is never taken away is a championship. Once a champ, always a champ. Moore and Patton are waiting for the MLB Draft. There are no guaranPlease see Wall, Page 8
Strasburg looks ready for debut BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — By working himself out of a jam, Stephen Strasburg looks ready to make his major league debut with the Washington Nationals next week. In his final minor league start, the Nationals’ top pitching prospect allowed no runs, three hits and one walk through five innings for the Triple A Syracuse Chiefs against the Buffalo Bisons on Thursday. And he closed with a flourish, preserving a 3-0 lead by getting International League batting leader Jesus Feliciano to ground out to second with runners at second and third and two out in the fifth. That was all for Strasburg, who finished with five strikeouts. He improved his minor league record to 7-2 (4-1 with Syracuse, 3-1 with Double-A Harrisburg) with the Chiefs rolling to a 7-1 win The first player selected in last year’s draft’s next start is scheduled to be with the Nationals on Tuesday against Pittsburgh. That means he’ll leave behind all the buzz and attention the San Diego State product drew in 11 minor league appearAssociated Press ances, six with Syracuse. He’ll join the Syracuse Chiefs pitcher Stephen Strasburg throws against the Buffalo Bisons durNationals with a 1.30 earned-run averPlease see Strasburg, Page 9
ing an AAA International league baseball game in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday.
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Skinner added some magic with the leather in the field during the top of the fourth. Skinner, from his right field position, dashed over to make a sliding catch in the gravel along the first base side. The victory gives the Owls an overall 4-2 record as they remain undefeated at home in the early season (4-0). Owls pitcher Phillip Brannon grabbed the victory from the mound, going six innings and allowed five hits and one run in the contest. He accounted for four strikeouts and two walks. After the Owls fell behind 1-0 in the top of the first frame, the Owls punched up three runs on the scoreboard in the bottom half with Dusty Quattlebaum’s RBI double allowing the Owls to take the lead. Forest City added another run in the second to find a 4-1 lead, but lit up the scoreboard even more in the third and fourth frame. The Owls scored five runs on two hits, two errors and a ground out in the third inning. Mike Dvoroznak lashed a 2 RBI double into the left field corner as the Owls held a 9-1 lead after the third. In the next inning, Brian Burton’s solo shot to left on a 1-0 offering set up a five-run fourth. Skinner’s 3-run shot capped the inning. Forest City travels to Thomasville, today, for a 7 p.m., start.
AP: Brown to remain in Charlotte as coach
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Larry Brown has begun preparations for next season in Charlotte and is leaning toward returning for a third season coaching the Bobcats, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday. Brown has been at Time Warner Cable Arena this week and is expected to be on hand Friday when the Bobcats work out rookie prospects, the person said on condition of anonymity because the team has made no official announcement on Brown’s future. The 69-year-old Brown, who did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment, could address his plans as soon as Friday and end weeks of uncertainty for the Michael Jordan-owned Bobcats. A Hall of Famer and the only coach to win NCAA and NBA titles, Brown has coached 13 pro and college teams.
His well-traveled past has been in the spotlight since the Bobcats were swept by Orlando in the first round of their first playoff appearance and Brown declined to commit to returning in 2010-11. In an end-of-season meeting with reporters on April 30, Brown lamented the time he spent away from his wife and two teenage children, who live in the Philadelphia area. Brown has said numerous times he’ll only coach for Jordan, who hired Brown after his two-year exile following a miserable 23-59 season in New York in 2005-06. But Brown wouldn’t close the door on retiring or taking a front-office job — and there have still been numerous reports linking him to other coaching jobs.
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15 minutes of fame. I would have liked my 15 minutes to be a great call in the World Series. Hopefully, my 15 minutes are over now,” Joyce said. Bad calls are part of the mix in sports, witness the many mistakes last October in baseball’s postseason. But something about this one — the chance to right a wrong, the heartfelt emotions of everyone involved — reached way past the lines. “I’ve got to say we’ll never see it again in our lifetime,” New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. Galarraga, who was barely known outside Detroit before this week, and Joyce, whose career had flourished in relative obscurity, became hot topics on Twitter. At least one anti-Joyce Facebook page popped up and firejimjoyce.com was launched. Wikipedia blocked editing to the umpire’s page.
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BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS_Claimed RHP Kanekoa Texeira off waivers from Seattle. Designated RHP Brad Thompson for assignment. MINNESOTA TWINS_Recalled INF Danny Valencia from Rochester (IL). National League PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES_Signed OF Willy Taveras to a minor league contract and assigned him to Lehigh Valley (IL). Announced OF Dewayne Wise exercised the out-clause in his contract and is now a free agent. Eastern League READING PHILLIES_Called up RHP Ty Taubenheim from Williamsport (NYP). American Association EL PASO DIABLOS_Signed RHP Nick Renault. SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CAPTAINS_Released LHP Aaron Cunningham. Can-Am League PITTSFIELD COLONIALS_Released RHP Kurt Hayer. Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM_Signed OF Steve Bralver. Released OF Dan Maycock. TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS_Signed C Andrew Marshall. FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS_Signed PK Shayne Graham to a one-year contract. BUFFALO BILLS_Signed LB Danny Batten. CLEVELAND BROWNS_Announced the retirement of senior adviser to the general manager Paul Warfield. Signed WR James Robinson. Waived WR Dion Morton. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS_Signed LB Chris Smith. HOCKEY National Hockey League COLORADO AVALANCHE_Signed G Peter Budaj to a one-year contract. Agreed to terms with F David Koci on a one-year contract. COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS_Signed D David Savard to a three-year entry-level contract. COLLEGE CENTRAL MICHIGAN_Named Heather Oesterle women’s assistant basketball coach. RUTGERS-CAMDEN_Named Jason Curbison men’s basketball coach and Gail Gilchrist women’s basketball coach. TREVECCA NAZARENE_Named Dean Cole men’s and women’s cross country coach.
Joyce, a longtime ump with a solid reputation, declined comment on MLB’s statement after Thursday’s game, saying he hadn’t read it. “There’s no doubt he feels bad and terrible,” Galarraga said after Detroit beat Cleveland 12-6 on Thursday. “I have a lot of respect for the man. It takes a lot to say you’re sorry and to say in interviews he made a mistake.” Denied the 21st perfect game in history, the record third this season and the first for a Detroit pitcher, Galarraga still got a prize. The Tigers and Chevrolet presented him with a new Corvette. Opinions poured in from all over, on both sides. “I was thinking if the umpire says he made a mistake on replay, I’d call it a no-hitter, perfect game. Just scratch it,” St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa said Wednesday night.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The imperfect game stands. An umpire’s tears and admission he blew a call failed to move baseball commissioner Bud Selig to award Armando Galarraga the perfect game he pitched. The play and its aftermath quickly became the talk of the sports world and beyond, even to the White House. Selig said Thursday that Major League Baseball will look at expanded replay and umpiring, but didn’t specifically address umpire Jim Joyce’s botched Continued from Page 7 call Wednesday night that cost Galarraga the perfect game — 27 batters up, 27 batters down. tees for either one. No pre-determined future. Heck, even if they get the call, then fun is only just No hits, no walks, no errors. A baseball official familiar beginning. with the decision confirmed to Players who do hear their names called will be off to small towns all across America. None with a The Associated Press that the call was not being reversed. The field as nice as McNair. person spoke on condition of The moment to be a champ comes so rarely. The anonymity because that element time moves quickly. was not included in Selig’s stateThe next two days will fly by for the young men ment. in the red-n-black of East Rutherford. Joyce said he erred on what I believe they will return as champs. I have no would’ve been the final out reason to feel otherwise. in Detroit, when he called Teams build a collective confidence, or trust. Cleveland’s Jason Donald safe They rely on one another. The Celtics and Lakers have been there, over and at first base. The umpire personally apologized to Galarraga over again. This is the third straight visit for the and hugged him after the Tigers’ Lakers; second trip in three years for the Three 3-0 win, then took the field at Leafs. Comerica Park on Thursday in They are two teams that just know how to win. tears. They know how to get where they want to go. Tigers manager Jim Leyland The Cavaliers have built that same type of confipicked Galarraga to present dence in each other and in the program. They now Detroit’s lineup at home plate need two good games of baseball, or two games of before Thursday’s game to set better baseball than Graham plays. With that, they will get rings to share, to cherish. up the emotional meeting with Joyce. They shook hands, and The ring will dim in time, or even be lost as the the umpire gave the pitcher a pat players age, but they will remain champs. on the shoulder. And, no one can take that away. “I didn’t want this to be my
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FOREST CITY — East Rutherford High honored four students for with unique awards at the school’s Sprin Sports Banquet on Tuesday, June 1. Tamara El-Amoor received the school’s Corrie Jernigan Memorial Award for Female Athlete of the Year. Tyler Hamilton received the school’s Roger Jones Memorial Award for Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year. Drew Reynolds and Heather Horn were honored with the E.V. Seitz Memorial Award for Citizenship/Athlete. Tim Bird was honored with the Wanda Berry Unsung Hero Award.
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East Rutherford awarded student-athletes for their participation in spring sports at the school’s Spring Sports Banquet on Tuesday, June 1. Winners included: In Golf, Trent Jones, MVP; Tyler Fleetwood, Most Improved; Ben Park, Coaches Award. In Softball, Sally Harrill, Best Offensive Player; Sara Hoyle, Best Defense; Alison Ruppe, MVP; Chelsea Rush, Coaches Award. In Track & Field, Kaziah Miller, Girl’s MVP Track; Sha’na Watkins, Girl’s MVP Field; Rosland Lattimore, Girl’s Coaches Award; Tyler Hamilton, Boy’s Co-Field Athlete of the Year; Jason Johnson, Boy’s Co-Field Athlete of the Year; Adrian Wilkins, Boy’s Runner of the Year. In Boy’s Tennis, Mason Jolley, Rookie of the Year; Jacob Wilson, MVP; Austin Bailey, Most Improved. In Girl’s Soccer, Hannah Smith, Defensive Player of the Year; Tamara El-Amoor, Most Improved Midfielder; Peyton Seres, 110-percent Award. In JV Baseball, Brock Helton, Defensive Award; Ryan Green, Offensive Award; Ridge Beheler, MVP; Chandler Jenkins, Coaches Award. In JV Soccer, Susan Dodson, Most Improved; Cindy Flores, 110-percent Award.
Schiavone, Stosur in French final
PARIS (AP) — On a rainy, windy day 53½ weeks ago, at Roland Garros’ cozy, 259-seat Court 8, Samantha Stosur and Francesca Schiavone played each other in a run-of-the-mill, first-round match at the French Open. Stosur, then ranked 32nd, beat Schiavone, then ranked 50th, in straight sets. They’ll meet again at the clay-court Grand Slam tournament Saturday. Oh, how the setting and circumstances have changed. This time around, Stosur vs. Schiavone will be for the French Open championship, in the 14,845-capacity main stadium, broadcast live on TV around the world. In line with the topsy-turvy way this tournament unfolded, it will be the first Grand Slam final for each woman — only the fifth such double-debut in the 42-year Open era. “No matter what I’m feeling, she’s probably thinking it, too, so it’s a different, new situation for both of us. Who knows how we’re both going to feel? I’m sure there’s going to be some nerves out there,” Stosur said. “I mean, she hasn’t gone through it before, either, so that’s probably a little bit comforting.” The No. 7-seeded Stosur is the first woman from Australia to play for a major tennis title since Wendy Turnbull was the runnerup at the 1980 Australian Open. That’s nothing compared to the wait endured by the No. 17-seeded Schiavone’s nation: She’s the first woman from Italy to reach a Grand Slam final in the sport’s century-plus history.
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age in the minors, including a 1.08 ERA with Syracuse. Strasburg’s arrival could certainly provide the Nationals a needed boost in several ways. They began the day sitting last in the National League East — 5½ games behind Atlanta — and have been ranked in the bottom third in major league attendance this season. The game against Buffalo marked the seventh time he’s
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Neither finalist spent much time on court in Thursday’s anticlimactic semifinals. Indeed, Schiavone was sitting on her green changeover bench, toweling off after winning the first set of her match 7-6 (3) in 69 minutes, when her opponent, No. 5 Elena Dementieva, walked up while fighting tears to say she was quitting. Dementieva explained later that, unbeknownst to everybody else, she tore her left calf muscle during her second-round match. “It’s very painful to even walk,” said Dementieva, who isn’t sure whether she’ll be at Wimbledon. “Just couldn’t continue to play.” In the day’s second semifinal, not allowed an earned run, and followed a 3-2 loss to Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. In each of his 11 starts he’s had at least five strikeouts. The national focus on Strasburg hit a new high on Thursday, with the game broadcast nationally on Versus cable network. He drew three of the four largest crowds at Syracuse, and attracted an announced crowd of 14,744 in Buffalo. It was the second-largest crowd in Buffalo this season — and came on a
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger issued no apology. He didn’t ask for forgiveness from his fans, and he didn’t lobby NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to reduce his six-game suspension. What the Steelers quarterback said Thursday in his first comments since being suspended April 21 by the NFL were revealing: He’s ready to make major changes to a lifestyle that cast him as a role model for bad behavior by privileged pro athletes with a sense of entitlement. “I’ve spent a lot of time evaluating and looking at my life both on and off the field,” Roethlisberger said in brief remarks following a Steelers voluntary practice. “I think this is a time for me to kind of close the chapter of the last couple of years of my life and move on to a new one, kind of a new start. I’m kind of really excited about it.” Roethlisberger, accused twice of sexual assault in the last two years, pledged to make smarter decisions during what he called “the second chance” he’s received to turn around his life. He also said he’s working closely with Goodell to rehabilitate his lifestyle and repair an image that’s been tarnished by his boorish behavior. Roethlisberger, known for frequenting nightclubs with an entourage of friends, did not specify what changes he is making. “Well, a lot of them are personal things, which is just something that I need to do,” Roethlisberger said. “But it’s been neat being able to really reevaluate my life and spend time with my family and kind of reevaluate and refigure what’s important in life. ... It’s a new chapter and I’m looking forward to it and it starts with football and I’m glad to be back out here.” Roethlisberger did not apologize for his conduct in a Milledgeville, Ga., nightclub, where a college student accused him of sexually assaulting her March 5. But he said he has spent considerable time since then thinking about the type of person he wants to be. “I’ve put a lot of thought into my life, the decisions that I’ve made in the past,” Roethlisberger said. “I’ve been sitting at home thinking about things, and I’ve been working closely with the commissioner on ways to make changes, corrections. I’m looking forward to the second chance.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say a used car dealer is headed to prison for fraud, despite attempting to place a voodoo hex on prosecutors handling his case in Los Angeles. Thirty-four-year-old Ruben Hernandez was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years after being convicted of using false Social Security information and bank statements to buy properties. Hernandez was arrested in February 2009 after being a fugitive for a year. Authorities searching his home found a shrine with voodoo dolls dunked headfirst in cups of water with pins in their eyes. Officials say the case number and names of the prosecutor and investigators were written on the dolls. Hernandez was convicted in May on four counts of filing a false application and three counts of grand theft. He was ordered to return to court next Wednesday to face 28 additional counts.
Alligator caught in Mich.
TRENTON, Mich. (AP) — Police in a Detroit suburb have picked up an unusual suspect: a 3-foot-long alligator. Deputy Chief James Nardone (narDOH’-nee) says officers nabbed the reptile Tuesday as it strolled along a suburban street in Trenton, Mich. He says the gator is probably someone’s pet. He joked Wednesday that it likely didn’t swim into the suburb, which is perched on the shore of the Detroit River. Authorities are holding the alliga-
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SC agrees on voter ID COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Legislators have reached agreement on a bill that would require South Carolina voters to show photo ID at the polls and allow early voting. A committee of House and Senate members approved a compromise Thursday, less than two hours before the regular session was set to end. Both chambers still must approve it. The holdup had been early voting. House GOP leaders wanted only the photo ID requirement. But senators insisted that early voting be part of the bill.
Escaped inmate captured COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina prison officials say an inmate who walked away from a minimum-security facility has been captured in Georgia. The state Corrections Department said in a news release that 29-yearold Brandon McDonald was arrested Wednesday at a hotel in Toccoa, Ga. The agency said McDonald would be transferred to a mediumor maximum-security prison when he is returned to South Carolina. McDonald was less than a year into a four-year sentence for assault and battery in Greenwood County when officials say he walked away from the Lower Savannah PreRelease Center on March 1. McDonald faces a felony escape charge. If convicted, he faces a sentence of one to 15 years.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Like a candidate still running for office, a smiling and jovial Rod Blagojevich waded into the crowd — making upbeat statements, hugging and shaking hands with supporters holding signs. He’s not on a ballot anymore, though, and the only voters that matter are the 12 people who will be chosen from the potential jurors being questioned Thursday. They will decide if the former Illinois governor tried to sell President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat and leverage his power into a moneymaking enterprise. Since being ousted from office, Blagojevich has pleaded his innocence to the public on radio, in comedy shows and in a book, often playing the lovable goof. For one reality show, his wife went in his stead — making an impression on one potential juror, who told the judge she had seen Patti Blagojevich on TV eating a bug. Blagojevich himself was “on some kind of reality show, too,” she said. But the judge clearly tried to steer clear of political opinions. Some 18 months after FBI agents arrested him at his home at dawn, Blagojevich arrived at federal court, holding hands with Patti. He stepped into a gantlet of about 30 waiting cameras and reporters outside the courthouse. Of no more than 10 bystanders, three or four were vocal supporters. “I feel great,” said Blagojevich, who denies any wrongdoing. “The truth shall set you free,” he told one wellwisher as he shook the man’s hand. Blagojevich appeared to display at least a hint of anxiety at one point after walking through a metal detector, fumbling with and dropping his wallet several times as he retrieved it from a basket. In the courtroom, he took his place at a separate defense table from his brother and co-defendant, and sat with his attorneys to size up a pool of potential jurors for his corruption trial. They included a math teacher, an ex-Marine and a former precinct captain who said she would ask “for guidance from my heavenly father” in deciding guilt or innocence. U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel got off to a late start and questioned only seven potential members of the jury before breaking for lunch. Among the first questions he asked was whether they had read much about the case and whether they
NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) — The shooting death of a black man whose body was dragged for several miles is being investigated as a possible hate crime after the arrest of a white man he worked with, South Carolina’s state police chief said. Gregory Collins, 19, is charged with murder and made his first court appearance Thursday. No bond was set and he did not yet have an attorney, Newberry County Magistrate Ron Halfacre said. The FBI was in Newberry County in central South Carolina on Wednesday assisting in the investigation of the shooting death of Anthony Hill, 30, State Law Enforcement Division director Reggie Lloyd told The State newspaper.
could set aside any preconceived notions about Blagojevich. Jurors were referred to in the courtroom by numbers only, starting with 101, the math teacher. Zagel plans to keep the jury anonymous until after the trial. Zagel had denied a request from five news organizations, including The Associated Press, to reverse that, saying the motion came too late because he had already told the jurors that their names would not be released until the verdict. Once he got started, Zagel was brisk in his questioning and kept the mood light. Potential Juror 107 was a middle aged electrical engineer, a veteran of the Marine Corps who said he doubled as a manager and technical supporter for his wife’s business. “Is she a difficult employer?” Zagel asked, drawing a laugh from the courtroom. Federal prosecutors have 500 hours of secretly made FBI wiretap tapes in which they say Blagojevich is plainly heard saying that he wants something in return for the Senate seat. “I want to make money,” he says in a telephone discussion of the seat with a lobbyist friend, according to an FBI affidavit. And prosecutors say he refers to it as “golden” thing that he won’t give up for nothing. Prosecutors have also lined up numerous key witnesses, including political insiders such as Blagojevich’s former chiefs of staff John Harris and Alonzo “Lon” Monk. Blagojevich’s attorneys have said that the recordings, if played in their entirety, would show he did not try to sell the Senate seat. The former governor and his brother, Robert, a Nashville, Tenn., businessman, have pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired not only to sell or trade the Senate seat but also turn the governor’s office into a powerful machine to pressure people for campaign money and payoffs. They deny charges they used the governor’s power over the state pursestrings in an effort to squeeze hefty campaign donations out of a racetrack owner, a highway contractor, a children’s hospital executive and even top presidential aide Rahm Emanuel, then an Illinois congressman. Rod Blagojevich faces 24 counts including racketeering, wire fraud, attempted extortion and bribery. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 415 years in prison and fines totaling $6 million.
“We don’t yet have a definitive motive for all this,” Lloyd said. Hill’s body was found around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 176 and Newberry County sheriff’s deputies followed a trail of blood to the home of Collins. For several hours, Collins refused to come out and SLED agents fired tear gas into the home, prompting him to surrender, Lloyd said. Collins was not armed when he was arrested, but Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said he had an empty pistol holster on his side. Hill died from a single gunshot wound to the head, Newberry County Coroner Craig Newton said. Hill was dead before he was dragged, according to deputies.
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Stocks extend gains ahead of jobs report
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed higher for a second day Thursday after traders found room for optimism in mixed economic reports. The Dow Jones industrial average rose about 6 points a day after leaping 226. It was the first back-to-back gain for the Dow since late April. Stocks climbed on reports that business at the nation’s services companies grew in May and that the number of people seeking first-time jobless claims slipped for a second week. The gains faded at times as the day wore on, but stocks recovered by the close as traders looked to the Labor Department’s May jobs report on Friday. The employment report is the most closely watched item on the economic calendar. Economists predict that employers added 513,000 jobs in May. It would be the biggest jump in 26 years, but as many as 300,000 of the workers hired in May were expected to be temporary positions to help conduct the U.S. census. Still, even temporary hiring could bring a bump in consumer spending. The economic news gave a boost to much of the market but energy stocks posted some of the biggest gains after the price of oil rose. Range Resources rose more than 6 percent, while Noble Energy added more than 5 percent. Stocks have moved erratically in the past week after major indexes hit new trading lows for the year on May 25. It’s still not clear whether the market has finished a slide that began in late April after stock indexes touched their highest points of the year. The market has been vulnerable to swings because of worries about the economic fallout of the Gulf oil spill and the economic problems in Europe. Bill Schultz, chief investment officer at McQueen, Ball & Associates in Bethlehem, Pa., said the gyrations are keeping some everyday investors from putting money into the market. The Dow rose 5.74, or 0.1 percent, to 10,255.28. The Dow’s two-day gain was the first since April 28-29. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 4.45, or 0.4 percent, to 1,102.83, while the technologyfocused Nasdaq composite index rose 21.96, or 1 percent, to 2,303.03. About two stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.2 billion shares compared with 1.4 billion Wednesday. Bond prices slipped, sending interest rates higher. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.37 percent from 3.35 percent late Wednesday. Crude oil rose $1.75 to $74.61 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold fell. In economic news, the Labor Department said first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell by 10,000 to 453,000 last week. The drop coincided with a report from payroll company ADP that said private employers added 55,000 jobs in May. Both reports fell just short of economists’ forecasts, but still showed some improvement in the job market. The Institute for Supply Management’s report on services businesses provides some hope that more jobs will be added in the coming months. The ISM’s index remained steady at 55.4 last month. Any reading above 50 indicates growth. Its employment index signaled job growth in services for the first time in 28 months. While service industries recover slowly, manufacturing continues to show some of the most consistent growth. The Commerce Department said factory orders rose by 1.2 percent in April. That was below the 1.8 percent gain forecast by economists polled by Thomson Reuters. The slowdown came after orders jumped in March by their highest levels in six years.
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Job seekers wait on line to see potential employers at the Diversity Job Fair in New York Wednesday. New claims for unemployment insurance fell for the second straight week, fresh evidence the job market is slowly improving.
Economic news brings job hope WASHINGTON (AP) — A handful of economic reports released Thursday raised hopes for an improving job market with fewer layoffs and more hiring. Productivity slowed more than initially estimated in the first quarter of the year, a sign that employers are struggling to squeeze more work out of leaner staffs. The lower figure was expected after the government last week revised its growth estimate for the first quarter. The number of people filing first-time jobless claims dipped for the second consecutive week but remains elevated for the year. And an index that tracks activity in the U.S. service sector showed job growth in May — the first time in 28 months. Economists anticipate Friday’s employment report will show that 513,000 jobs were added in May. Still, many are approaching the report with caution, noting that a majority of those jobs are expected to be temporary census work. “The jobs data so far this morning haven’t screamed strength, but they continue to set an encouraging tone,” said Jennifer Lee, an economist at BMO Capital Markets. Adding to the picture of a slow recovery were reports Thursday showing modest increases in factory orders and retail sales. Orders to U.S. factories climbed in April, pulled up by
a surge in demand for commercial aircraft, the Commerce Department said. But the overall increase was smaller than the uptick in March orders. And when excluding transportation, orders actually fell in April 0.5 percent — the poorest showing in 13 months. Americans spent with caution in May after a tepid April, according to the International Council of Shopping Center index released Thursday. Cool weather and a quirk in the calendar — a late Memorial Day weekend — dampened May spending. But analysts also cited high unemployment, stock market jitters and the dwindling of government-funded rebates on energy-efficient appliances. Hiring may pick up if businesses find they’ve reached the limits on wringing work out of thinner ranks. Productivity advanced at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the January-March period, the Labor Department said Thursday. That is the slowest pace in a year and lower than the 3.6 percent rate the government initially reported last month. Labor costs declined, although slower than initially estimated. The downward revision in productivity reflected the government’s revised estimate of total output as measured by the gross domestic product. GDP was revised to show the economy growing at a 3 percent rate in
the first quarter, down from an initial estimate of 3.2 percent. Less output translated into slower productivity growth, which is a measure of the amount of output per hour of work. A separate Labor report Thursday showed layoffs fell for a second straight week. They dipped by 10,000 to 453,000 last week. Still, the declines come after a sharp increase three weeks ago and claims remain at elevated levels. Jobless claims are closely watched by economists because they are considered a gauge of layoffs and a measure of companies’ willingness to hire new workers. After falling steadily in the second half of last year, claims have leveled off and are now only slightly below the level they were at the beginning of this year. The four-week average, which smooths volatility, rose for the third straight week to 459,000. That’s down by only 8,000 from its level in mid-January. More hiring is happening in the service sector, which accounts for 80 percent of U.S. jobs excluding farmworkers. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, said Thursday that the service sector grew for the fifth consecutive month. And the group said its jobs measure increased, reversing 28 months of contraction.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Students graduating from high school this spring may be collecting their diplomas just in time, leaving institutions that are being badly weakened by the nation’s economic downturn. Across the country, mass layoffs of teachers, counselors and other staff members — caused in part by the drying up of federal stimulus dollars — are leading to larger classes and reductions in everything that is not a core subject, including music, art, clubs, sports and other afterschool activities. Educators and others worry the cuts could lead to higher dropout rates and lower college attendance as students receive less guidance and become less engaged in school. They fear a generation of young people could be left behind. “It’s going to be harder for everybody to get an opportunity to get into college,” said Chelsea Braza, a 16-year-old sophomore at Silver Creek High School in San Jose. “People wouldn’t be as motivated to do anything in school because there’s no activities and there’s no involvement.” The library at Silver Creek High is open for only an hour a day. The career center is closed. There is no more summer school. And student athletes must pay $200 each. State budget cuts will make things even worse next year. The school will probably have five fewer classroom days and lose three of its four guidance counselors and three of its four custodians, as well as its health aide, mental health coordinator and student activities director. The future of student government, clubs, pep rallies, homecoming and prom is in doubt.
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Head counselor Allen Roberts gestures on the phone at Silver Creek High School in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday.
The federal government’s $787 billion economic stimulus package saved an estimated 300,000 education jobs for this year, but many of those positions are once again in jeopardy as that money dries up. “Literally tens of millions of students will experience these budget cuts in one way or another,” said Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who is urging Congress to provide another round of emergency funding for schools. “If we do not help avert this state and local budget crisis, we could impede reform and fail another generation of children.” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has introduced legislation that would create a $23 billion fund to help schools retain teachers, principals and other staff members. The fate of the bill is uncer-
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word correctly to kick off the oral rounds of the 83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 273 spellers from across the U.S. and around the world are vying for the winner’s trophy and more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. The champion will be crowned Friday night in primetime on national television. Each of the youngsters — ranging in age from 8 to 15 — got to spell two words onstage under the bright lights of the Grand Hyatt ballroom. The results would be combined with their written test on Wednesday to determine the approximately 50 semifinalists. Thursday offered a chance to see spellers with different accents, senses of fashion and spelling styles that ranged from serious to somber to lively and even humorous. The speller from China, 13-year-old Jacky Qiao, grabbed a firm hold of the microphone with his right hand and intensely spelled “recidivist” — then celebrated with a huge wave of both arms as he headed back to his seat. Clark Hubbard, a 14-year-old from Franklin, Tenn., asked for a definition of “hippopotamus” — seemingly just for the fun of it. “The kids are just fun to watch,” bee pronouncer Jacques Bailly said. “Some are 13 and short. Some are 13 and tall. Some are 13 looking like 20. Some are 13 and look like 8.” For the second straight year, Bailly helped lighten the mood with his laugh-out-loud sentences.
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BP still trying to put cap on Gulf oil gusher explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast indicated that U.S. officials were warning of a leak of 336,000 gallons per day of crude from the well in the event of a complete blowout. The well didn’t have such a failure. But the volume turned out to be much closer to that figure than the 42,000 gallons per day that BP first estimated. Weeks later that was revised to 210,000 gallons. Now, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons of crude is believed to be leaking daily. The Center for Public Integrity, which initially reported the Coast Guard logs, said it obtained them from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The logs also showed early in the disaster that remote underwater robots were unable to
activate the rig’s blowout preventer, which was supposed to shut off the flow from the well in the event of such a catastrophic failure. BP has failed so far to plug the well. The damage to the environment was chilling on East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, where workers found birds coated in thick, black goo. Images shot by an Associated Press photographer show Brown pelicans drenched in thick oil, struggling and flailing in the surf. Anywhere between 21 million and 46 million gallons of oil has spewed into the Gulf, according to government estimates. BP’s Hayward promised Thursday that the company would clean up every drop of oil and “restore the shoreline to its original state.” “BP will be here for a very long time. We realize this is just the beginning,” he said.
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attack,” Gul said. “The relations between Israel and Turkey will never be the same again.” At Thursday’s funeral, 10,000 people prayed outside Istanbul’s Fatih mosque before eight Turkish and Palestinian flag-draped coffins lined up in a row. Seven Turks and American-Turkish dual citizen were honored, ranging in age Dogan, at 19, to over 60. A ninth victim, a Turkish man, was having a separate service on Friday. “Let them do what they want, we know how to be martyrs for Palestine and Jerusalem, and that’s what we became,” said Bulent Yildirim, the head of the Islamic charity group IHH, which organized the Gaza flotilla, before mourners carried the coffins through the crowd to cars to be taken for burial. “The whole world supports us,” he told the crowd. “We will shake the foundations of Zionism.” Before dawn Thursday, thousands of people had flooded Istanbul’s main Taksim Square to welcome home hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists from the aid boats who had expelled. Israel, which has faced strong international criticism for the botched military operation, decided not to prosecute the activists in an effort to limit diplomatic outrage. In all, 466 activists, including more than 50 foreigners, arrived in Istanbul early Thursday, along with Turkey’s ambassador to Israel, Oguz Celikkol. Israel maintains the commandos opened fire as a last resort after they were attacked, and released a video showing soldiers in riot gear descending from a helicopter into a crowd of men with clubs. Three or four activists overpowered each soldier as he landed. Israeli officials have insisted that their military is investigating the raid already and the country is capable of conducting a credible review. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, however, suggested that international observers could possibly be attached to an internal Israeli probe.
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Some seizures without a cause? Dear Dr. Gott: Six months ago, my husband began to have seizures. He was in ICU for three weeks with a diabetic specialist, an endocrinologist and a neurologist on his case. They ran every test possible to rule out this or that for the cause of the seizures. All tests came back negative. His glucose is under control. He continues to have symptoms of lead feet, sweating legs, headache and the smell and taste of burnt beef in his mouth. He takes synthroid, 175 mcg, once a day. I am wondering and have asked if there is a possibility of him having a reaction to this medication. I feel they are treating the effects without checking into the possibility of it being a reaction to medication. DEAR READER: Seizures are brought on by sudden, abnormal electrical activity of the brain. Causes include head injury, drug overdose, brain tumor, accidental poisoning, low blood sugar or sudden lack of oxygen to the brain. I would like to address your husband’s daily use of synthroid. When was he diagnosed as being hypothy-
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IN THE STARS Your Birthday, June 4; Although you won’t be the initiator of every change in your basic lifestyle in the year ahead, it doesn’t mean that theses changes won’t be successful. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — There’s a chance that neither you nor a person with whom you’re presently involved will be completely forthright with one another. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Take nothing for granted when doing business with an unfamiliar firm or individual. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — It’s good to be hopeful, but it is more important to be realistic. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Fretting about things that are likely to never happen is a lesson in futility. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Understanding that you are not perfect enables you to laugh at yourself. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Utilize your time productively, especially when it comes to your work. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — You understand better than most that not everyone is likely to be in accord. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Do your best not to get involved with any endeavor in which the management is taken out of your hands. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Others will cooperate with you if you first show them that you are looking out for their interests as well. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Large objectives can be achieved, but only if you persevere. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — It’s not like you, because you have your own trophies, but today you could be a trifle jealous. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Don’t set goals for yourself that are beyond your capabilities.
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Cabbie shot twin, lawyer, then went on killing spree
WHITEHAVEN, England (AP) — Derrick Bird killed his twin brother and the family lawyer, then traveled the roads he had worked as a taxi driver, shooting people — apparently aiming for their faces — killing 12 in all and wounding nearly a dozen before committing suicide. Detectives Thursday were trying to answer the elusive question: What drove the 52-year-old cabbie to commit the worst mass shooting in Britain since 1996? “There are 23 families out there who want to know why these events happened,” Detective Chief Superintendent Iain Goulding said. “Our communities want to know why this has happened. My officers and I are absolutely determined to get to the bottom of why this happened. However, it may not be possible to establish all the answers, because we cannot speak to Derrick Bird.” Goulding said detectives would investigate rumors that Bird had financial problems or domestic troubles. He refused to speculate on what caused Bird to shoot people he knew, like his brother David Bird and lawyer Kevin Commons, as well as others he apparently did not. In the traumatized town of Whitehaven, people described Bird as quiet and friendly. Known to some as “Birdy,” he was a divorced dad who’d reportedly just become a grandfather for the first time. He held licenses for both of the weapons — a shotgun and a .22-caliber rifle with a telescopic sight — that were recovered beside his body. Goulding said Bird had minor convictions for theft stretching back to 1990, but he had never been to prison
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A British policeman stands outside the Frizington home of Derrick Bird who killed 12 people during a shooting rampage in Cumbria, northwest England.
— people who have been imprisoned are prevented from holding firearms licenses. Bird had no known mental health problems and was not on any medication. Retired teacher Nan Wilson, 75, taught the brothers during their high school years, and said they were in the same class before leaving school at age 16. “The twins were like chalk and cheese, as Derrick was more of an introvert,” Wilson said. “There was no animosity between them. They just had a normal childhood.” A neighbor, Alan Fleming, said the family had lived in the area for two generations, and that Bird “never had so much as an argument” in his home village of Rowrah, about six miles (10 kilometers) east of Whitehaven. “There was no sign of what was to come. He worked hard, and I would often get
his taxi home on a night out,” Fleming said. “Most people are shocked it was him. Someone must have proper ticked him off for this to happen.” Cumbria, which is about 350 miles (560 kilometers) northwest of London, sits on the Irish Sea and borders Scotland. It contains picturesque areas such as the Lake District — where Beatrix Potter wrote her famous children’s books — and was immortalized in poetry by William Wordsworth. It also has winding roads — familiar to a cabbie like Bird — along which armed officers spent hours pursuing him Wednesday, assisted by a helicopter from a nearby police force. “Living in a place like this, we thought we were immune from this sort of thing,” Ida Gate, a volunteer with the local branch of the Women’s
Institute, a charitable organization. said Thursday. “Everyone is just trying to get on with life.” At West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, Charles Brett, the clinical director of emergency care, said five of the patients treated there had been shot in the face. Prime Minister David Cameron plans to visit the area Friday. “We must do absolutely everything to complete this investigation, to make sure that everything is done to make sure that events like this cannot happen again in our country,” Cameron said. Rules on gun ownership were tightened after two massacres in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1987, gun enthusiast Michael Ryan killed 16 people in the English town of Hungerford. In 1996, Thomas Hamilton killed 16
children and a teacher at a primary school in Dunblane, Scotland. In recent years, there have been fewer than 100 gun murders annually across Britain. Cameron ruled out any quick review of Britain’s stringent gun laws as a result of the killings. While mass killings are extremely rare in Britain, the phenomenon is more common in the U.S. and has been the subject of extensive study. Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, who has published books about multiple killings, said Bird’s case was unusual even within that category because Bird seems to have chosen some of his victims randomly. “Very rarely has this mass public execution been committed on this random basis,” Levin said, adding that only 17 percent of mass killings include completely random victims. “Most mass killings are selective and methodical. The killer targets only those individuals he blames for his personal miseries.” In most mass killings, the attacker usually works his way through a peer group or colleagues, whoever committed the perceived slight, Levin said. But Dr. Park Dietz, president of Threat Assessment Group Inc., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based violence prevention firm, said the killings appeared to be an example of a workplace shooting. “His workplace is driving around,” Dietz said. “In those instances there may be a few (victims) that are specifically targeted, but usually they end up shooting people at random.”
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1971 Chevy, short bed pickup, V-8, straight drive, asking $4,000 obo. 286-0202
M Brown & white Pit. Blind in one eye. Lost 5/27: Leonard Ln., Ellenboro. Reward! 453-0032 or 453-0367
3 FAMILY Ellenboro: 740 Oak Grove Church Rd. Sat. 7:30A-11:30A Coffee tables, end tables, exercise machine, household, children & adult clothes
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Boyscout Troop 120 Yard Sale Glenwood Baptist Church (follow signs to back) Sat. 7A-until Lots of stuff! Biscuits and Bake Sale items!
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Long Branch Rd. (off Poors Ford & 221) Fri. 2P-7P, Sat. 7A-3P Girls, womens, mens clothes, furniture, household, tools, more
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1995 Mazda B2300 Pick up Heat & air $3,200 or best offer Call 245-8829
Pets 6 ENGLISH MASTIFFS FOR SALE 7 weeks old $300 ea. 287-8088 or 289-0390
Lost Tan Male Dachshund, lime green collar. Lost 5/28: Leonard Lane in Ellenboro. Reward! 289-9838 or 453-8689
Found Male Chihuahua with red collar. Found 5/30 on Whitesides Rd. Call to identify 287-3001 or 245-9303
Miscellaneous Wanted vendors for a multi-cultural festival, items must be handcrafted, Sat., June 12, Hardin Park, FC. 289-9420 for info
ADVERTISE REGULAR MEETING OF THE ZONING AND PLANNING BOARD June 15, 2010 9:30 a.m. Lake Lure Municipal Center AGENDA 1. Roll Call 2. Approval of the agenda 3. Approval of the minutes from the regular meeting of May 18, 2010 4. Discussion - Chimney Rock State Park Master Plan 5. Approval of Consent Agenda (A) Subdivision Report (B) Monthly update of an active subdivision - LureWoods 6. Adjournment
3 FAMILY MOVING SALE Rfdtn: 122 Cricket Creek Dr. Sat. 8A-Noon Furniture, household, jewelry, books, etc. 3 Family Yard Sale: Ellenboro: 527 Pilgrim Road Saturday 7A-until. Baby items, kitchen items, maternity clothes, movies, books, electronics, more 3 Family Rfdtn: Taylor Rd. Saturday 7A-until Chest freezer, rocking chair, basketball system and more 4 FAMILY: 3377 Hwy 221 S. across from Harris Elementary Saturday 7A-until Closing estate sale. Clothes, toys, cedar wardrobes, odds/ends BIG YARD/MOVING SALE Rfdtn: 331 Ivy Dr. (Forest Hills) Saturday 7A-until Items from $1 to $200. Everything must go!
454 Sunset Memorial Rd., FC Sat. 8A-1P Patio furniture, household, men’s, women’s, children’s clothes and much more! Rain or shine! BIG Bostic: Bostic-Sunshine Hwy. 117 Biggerstaff Road Fri. & Sat. 8A-until Blue jeans, plus sizes, brand name junior clothes, household BIG YARD SALE FC: 490 Dixie Trail Sat. 7A-until Furniture, bikes, golf clubs, typewriter, toys, clothes and more! Bostic: 256 Gun Club Road Friday 4P-6P & Saturday 7A-Noon Furniture, dishwasher, miscellaneous HUGE FC: 276 Oakland Heights Rd. (off Oakland & Piney Ridge) Sat. 7A-until Like new bikes, junior name brand, miscellaneous
Bring Your Truck Ellenboro: 2142 US Hwy 74B Sat. 8A-1P Like new table & chairs, 2 sofas, 1 sleeper sofa, T.V., desk, pictures, furniture, sea shell decorations, towels, wedding stands, plenty of new & gently used boys clothes-size 3mo.-4T, plenty of toys, jewelry, ladies clothes L-XL, shoes, rolls of black drainage pipe. Canceled if rain! Community Yard Sale Bostic: Sunshine School Sat. 7A-until Furniture, baby items, clothes, household items. A must see! HUGE YARD SALE FC: 123 Springfield Dr. Sat. 7A-until Name brand junior clothes sizes 0-4, plus size men’s & women’s clothes, toys, landscape bricks, household items, pocketbooks, shoes and much more!
Funny pages umbrellas for sale
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD
HUGE Golden Valley 107 John Hudson Rd. (corner of Jones Town Rd., off 226) Fri. & Sat. 7A-1P Handyman tools, farm equipment, collectibles & misc. Rain or shine! HUGE Forest City 150 Low Bridge Rd. Saturday 7A-until Car seat, baby clothes, strollers, bouncy seats, toys, dining set, odds/ends Lodge on Lake Lure Surplus plus 2 Family Yard Sale Pearson Circle (turn at Point of View, follow signs) Saturday 7A-2P Furniture, resort items, linens, clothes MULTI FAMILY Spindale 1007 East Main Street (above Carolina Cafe) Sat. 7A-until Lots of furniture, toys, clothes, household, sink, doors Spindale: 724 Withrow Road Saturday 7:30A-Noon Assorted items, clothes, books, shoes, household items, etc.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK 10-SP-159 In the Matter of the Foreclosure of the Deed of Trust of NC MOUNTAIN INVESTMENTS, LLC
Having qualified as Executor of the estate of CHARLES ALEXANDER BLANTON of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said CHARLES ALEXANDER BLANTON to present them to the undersigned on or before the 4th day of September, 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 4th day of June, 2010.
TO: TRSTE, INC NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Trustee, As recorded in Book 971 at Page 447 of the Rutherford County Public Registry NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that Deed of Trust from the abovenamed Grantor to the above-named Trustee dated July 31, 2007 and filed for record on August 10, 2007 in Book 971 at Page 447 of the Rutherford County Public Registry, (the "Deed of Trust"), and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained and pursuant to the demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Rutherford County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, TRSTE, Inc., Trustee, by and through counsel, will expose for sale at public auction on the 8th day of June, 2010, at 10:30 A.M. at the Rutherford County Courthouse, 229 N. Main Street, Rutherfordton, N.C., the real property located in Rutherford County, North Carolina more particularly described on Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference (including any improvements thereon). The Trustee may sell any and all personal property located on the property described on Exhibit A in which the beneficiary of the deed of trust has a security interest in accordance with N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 25-9-604, 25-9-610 and 25-9-611, in whole, as individual items or together with the real property and improvements as the Trustee in its sole discretion determines is appropriate. Exhibit A Lying and being in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: TRACT 22 (FMU 6321) - Townes Tract: Being all that property conveyed by Henry Keith Townes, Jr. and wife, Marjorie Chapman Townes to Champion Papers, Inc. by instrument dated December 9,1966, and recorded in Book 296, Page 363, and by Charles Hard Townes and wife, Frances Townes by instrument dated December 8,1966, and recorded in Book 296, Page 107, Rutherford County Registry. The sale will be made subject to all prior and superior deeds of trust, liens, unpaid taxes, restrictions, easements, assessments, leases, and other matters, if any, which, as a matter of law, survive the foreclosure of the above described Deed of Trust; provided, however, that the inclusion of this clause in this Notice of Sale shall not be deemed to validate or otherwise give effect to any such matter or other right which, as a matter of law, does not survive the foreclosure. All items of real and personal property are to be sold "as is." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed. The buyer shall be responsible for the payment of any excise or transfer stamps required by law. The record owner of the real property described on Exhibit A as reflected on the records of the Rutherford County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this Notice is NC Mountain Investments, LLC. This sale is conducted pursuant to the provisions of N.C.G.S. § 45-21.30, and this notice is intended to comply with the requirements of N.C.G.S. §§25-9-604 and 25-9-613 providing for disposition of personal property in connection with the foreclosure of real property. The Grantor is entitled to and may request an accounting of the unpaid indebtedness. Pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes Section 45-21.10(b), and the terms of the Deed of Trust, any successful bidder may be required to deposit with the Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of an amount not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00). Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid at that time, the bidder shall remain liable on the bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes Section 45-21.30(d) and (e). This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.
MULTI FAMILY Rfdtn: Across from Oak Grove Health Care on Old 221 Saturday 7A-until Baby items, household, clothes and furniture MULTI FAMILY: 350 Oakland Heights Rd. (behind ICC) Fri. & Sat. 7A-2P Childrens, mens, womens clothing, electronics, furniture, much more YARD SALE, Breakfast Biscuits, Hot Dogs Bostic: Golden Valley UMC 1269 Golden Valley Church Road Sat. 7:30A-2P For missions/building fund Rain/shine! MULTI FAMILY Rfdtn: 527 E. 2nd Street (behind RS Middle) Saturday 7A-until Household, baby items, furniture, go kart, clothes & more
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YARD SALE Ellenboro: 223 East Park Rd. Sat. 7A-12P Baby clothes for boys and girls, toys, household items and more! YARD SALE Rfdtn 509 Railroad Ave. at Massey Ferguson Place Sat. 7A-until Lawn mowers, tools, household items and much more! Yard Sale Ellenboro: 368 Piney Mtn. Rd. Saturday 7A-until Stove, dryer, iron bed, household. Everything must go. Make offer!
YARD SALE PACKAGE AVAILABLE ONLY $20 Comes with a 20 word ad, 3 days in the paper, yard sale kit and a rain day guarantee! Deadline is Wednesday by 2pm
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FISCAL YEAR 2010 – 2011 BUDGET The proposed FY 2010–2011 budget for the Town of Rutherfordton has been presented to the Council and is available for public inspection in the Rutherfordton Town Hall, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm weekdays.
Margaret B. Roten, Executor 1217 Bamboo Rd. Boone, NC 28607
Grantor,
MOVING/GARAGE Bostic: 3709 Pearidge Rd. Fri. & Sat. 7A-until Banana plants, household items, furniture, mens and teens clothes, plants
NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE Rfdtn: Cardinal Road Saturday 7A-until Something for everyone!
Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of DOROTHY ELIZABETH PENSON FORD of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said DOROTHY ELIZABETH PENSON FORD to present them to the undersigned on or before the 28th 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 28th day of May, 2010. Beverly Ford Greene, Administrator 203 Burgin Street Spindale, NC 28160
There will be a public hearing on Wednesday, June 9, 2010, at 6:00 pm, in the Council room of Town Hall, 129 N Main Street, Rutherfordton, for the purpose of receiving comments on the proposed budget. Citizens are invited to make written or oral comments. The FY 2010-2011 budget may be adopted that evening following the public hearing.
Holly Davis Town Clerk Town of Rutherfordton 129 North Main Street Rutherfordton, NC 28139
North Carolina, Rutherford County NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 189 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Steven T. Keeter and Julie M. Keeter, husband and wife to William R Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated December 8, 2006 and recorded on December 20, 2006 in Book 933 at Page 106, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 16, 2010 at 11:30AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: Situated in the Township of High Shoals, County of Rutherford, and State of North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: And known as being all of the .94 acre tract shown as Lot #9 on plat entitled "Dogwood Valley Estates" as shown on plat of record in Plat Book 14 at Page 125, Rutherford County Registry. Tax ID #: 1639028 Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as: 289 Fairway Drive, Forest City, NC 28043 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS WHERE IS." There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Steven T. Keeter and wife, Julie M. Keeter. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
This the 18th day of May, 2010. __________________________________________ Amy Pritchard Williams John R. Gardner 214 North Tryon Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 Telephone: (704) 331-7429 Facsimile: (704) 353-3129 Counsel for TRSTE, Inc. OF COUNSEL: K&L GATES, LLP Hearst Tower, 47th Floor 214 North Tryon Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 Telephone: (704) 331-7400 Facsimile: (704) 353-3129
If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No. 10-07353-FC01, 706820 6/4, 06/11/2010
18 — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, FRIDAY, June 4, 2010 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD
North Carolina, Rutherford County
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK 10-SP-160 In the Matter of the Foreclosure of the Deed of Trust of NC MOUNTAIN INVESTMENTS, LLC
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 175 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by oseph B. Matheny and Barbara R. Matheny, wife to Doug Dixon, Trustee(s), which was dated April 29, 2000 and recorded on September 20, 2001 in Book 0642 at Page 0001, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 16, 2010 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit:
Grantor, TO: TRSTE, INC Trustee, As recorded in Book 978 at Page 630 of the Rutherford County Public Registry NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that Deed of Trust from the abovenamed Grantor to the above-named Trustee dated October 1, 2007 and filed for record on October 2, 2007 in Book 978 at Page 630 of the Rutherford County Public Registry, (the "Deed of Trust"), and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and failure to carry out or perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained and pursuant to the demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the Order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Rutherford County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, TRSTE, Inc., Trustee, by and through counsel, will expose for sale at public auction on the 8th day of June, 2010, at 10:30 A.M. at the Rutherford County Courthouse, 229 N. Main Street, Rutherfordton, N.C., the real property located in Rutherford County, North Carolina more particularly described on Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference (including any improvements thereon). The Trustee may sell any and all personal property located on the property described on Exhibit A in which the beneficiary of the deed of trust has a security interest in accordance with N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 25-9-604, 25-9-610 and 25-9-611, in whole, as individual items or together with the real property and improvements as the Trustee in its sole discretion determines is appropriate. Exhibit A TRACT 15 (FMU 6301) - Portion of Seagle Tract: Being Tract No. 1 of that property conveyed by George R. Morrow, Commissioner to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated March 19, 1952, and recorded in Book 218, Page 298, Rutherford County Registry. AND BEING the same property subject to that certain Deed of Trust and Assignment of Rents recorded at Book 978, Page 630 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County. TRACT 16 (FMU 6301) - Portion of Seagle Tract: Being all of Tract No. 2 of that property conveyed by George R, Morrow, Commissioner to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated March 19, 1952, and recorded in Book 218, Page 298, Rutherford County Registry. AND BEING the same property subject to that certain Deed of Trust and Assignment of Rents recorded at Book 978, Page 630 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County. TRACT 18 (FMU 6301) - Portion of Seagle Tract: Being all of property conveyed by Stonecutter Mills Corporation to U.S. Plywood - Champion Papers, Inc. by instrument dated June 23,1967, and recorded in Book 301, Page 345, Rutherford County Registry. AND BEING the same property subject to that certain Deed of Trust and Assignment of Rents recorded at Book 978, Page 630 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County. TRACT 23 (FMU 6300 AND 6301) - Portion of Seagle Tract: Being all of the First Tract of that property conveyed by T.R. Barnes and wife, Ida Barnes to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated May 14, 1946, and recorded in Book 194, Page 326, all of that property conveyed by Pink Kanipe to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated June 30, 1952, and recorded in Book 218, Page 471, all that property conveyed by J.W. Coveney and wife, Ardie W. Coveney to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated December 31, 1956, and recorded in Book 236, Page 91, all of that property conveyed by A.F. Weaver, Jr. and wife, Maggie S. Weaver to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated May 16, 1957, and recorded in Book 236, Page 435, and all of that property conveyed by G.P. Seagle and wife, Louise F. Seagle to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated August 30, 1951, and recorded in Book 212, Page 516, Rutherford County Registry. AND BEING the same property subject to that certain Deed of Trust and Assignment of Rents recorded at Book 978, Page 630 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County. TRACT 24 (FMU 6301) - Portion of Seagle Tract: Being all of that property conveyed by Mrs. R.F. Tate, Margaret Tate, Mary Willie Tate, Harvey F. Tate and wife, Ruth Tate, and Holt Tate and wife, Bert Tate to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated October 10, 1946, and recorded in Book 198, Page 188, all of that property conveyed by Wright-Bachman Lumber Company to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated September 16, 1946, and recorded in Book 198, Page 51, all of the Second Tract of that property conveyed by T.R. Barnes and wife, Ida Barnes to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated May 14, 1946, and recorded in Book 194, Page 326, and all of that property conveyed by Alvin Dixon and wife, Pantha Dixon to The Champion Paper and Fibre Company by instrument dated April 1946, and recorded in Book 194, Page 220, Rutherford County Registry. LESS AND EXCEPT so much of the above-described property conveyed to Camp Creek Baptist Church by instrument recorded in Book 202, Page 5, Rutherford County Registry. ALSO LESS AND EXCEPT so much of the above-described property conveyed to Camp Creek Baptist Church by instrument in Book 283, Page 385, Rutherford County Registry. ALSO LESS AND EXCEPT so much of the above-described property conveyed to Camp Creek Baptist Church by instrument recorded in Book 698, Page 710, Rutherford County Registry. The above-described property being a portion of the property (Tracts 15, 16, 18, 22, 23 and 24) conveyed by Champion International Corporation to Heartwood Forestland Fund III Limited Partnership by that certain deed dated September 28, 2000, recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina on October 19, 2000 in Book 763, Page 497. LESS AND EXCEPT: That portion of the above-described property conveyed by Heartwood Forestland Fund III Limited Partnership to Congaree Carton Limited Partnership by that certain Special Warranty Deed dated December 30, 2004, recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina in Book 862, Page 443-450, said property also being shown on that certain plat recorded on December 30, 2004 in Plat Book 25, Pages 241 and 242, aforesaid records. AND BEING the same property subject to that certain Deed of Trust and Assignment of Rents recorded at Book 978, Page 630 in the office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County. The sale will be made subject to all prior and superior deeds of trust, liens, unpaid taxes, restrictions, easements, assessments, leases, and other matters, if any, which, as a matter of law, survive the foreclosure of the above described Deed of Trust; provided, however, that the inclusion of this clause in this Notice of Sale shall not be deemed to validate or otherwise give effect to any such matter or other right which, as a matter of law, does not survive the foreclosure. All items of real and personal property are to be sold "as is." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the Deed of Trust nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representatives of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed. The buyer shall be responsible for the payment of any excise or transfer stamps required by law. The record owner of the real property described on Exhibit A as reflected on the records of the Rutherford County Register of Deeds not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of this Notice is NC Mountain Investments, LLC. This sale is conducted pursuant to the provisions of N.C.G.S. § 45-21.30, and this notice is intended to comply with the requirements of N.C.G.S. §§25-9-604 and 25-9-613 providing for disposition of personal property in connection with the foreclosure of real property. The Grantor is entitled to and may request an accounting of the unpaid indebtedness. Pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes Section 45-21.10(b), and the terms of the Deed of Trust, any successful bidder may be required to deposit with the Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of an amount not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00). Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid at that time, the bidder shall remain liable on the bid as provided for in North Carolina General Statutes Section 45-21.30(d) and (e). This sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law. This the 18th day of May, 2010. __________________________________________ Amy Pritchard Williams John R. Gardner 214 North Tryon Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 Telephone: (704) 331-7429 Facsimile: (704) 353-3129 Counsel for TRSTE, Inc. OF COUNSEL: K&L GATES, LLP Hearst Tower, 47th Floor 214 North Tryon Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 Telephone: (704) 331-7400 Facsimile: (704) 353-3129
Located on the West side of U.S. Highway #221-A between Clifside, N.C. and Chesnee, S.C., being all of Lot #3 and 1/2 of Lot #4 of the compton property in High Shoals Township as shown on a map of the same prepared by Clyde Sorrels in March, 1962 and being more fully described by metes and bounds as follows:Beginning at a stake in the corner of Highway #221-A at a point, South 30-15 West 400 feet from the center of the intersection of State Road #2102 with the center of Highway #221-A and running thence, North 59-45 West 300 feet to an iron stake, Southwest corner of Lot #2, thence running South 30- 15 West 150 to an iron pin, a new corner in lot #4 being the Northwest corner of Lewis Serratt; thence with Sarratt's Line, South 59-45 East 300 feet to the center of u.s. Highway #221-A; thence with the center of U.S. Highway 221-A, north 30-15 East 150 to the place of beginning. The above property being a composite of the tracts described by the attempted conveyances recorded in Book of Deeds 317 at Page 370 and Book of Deeds 301 at Page 192 of the Rutherford County Registry. Order #1501569090. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as: 5786 US 221A Highway, Mooresboro, NC 28114 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS WHERE IS." There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Joseph B. Matheny and Barbara R. Matheny. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No. 10-06888-FC01, 706776 6/4, 06/11/2010
North Carolina, Rutherford County NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 177 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Larry Preston Whiteside and wife Elizabeth Whiteside to Karen Delserone, Trustee(s), which was dated July 31, 2003 and recorded on August 6, 2003 in Book 0745 at Page 0631, Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Brock & Scott, PLLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on June 16, 2010 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: Beginning on an iron pin on the eastern edge of State Road 1008, and at the intersection of the O. C. Whitesides Farm Road with State Road 1008, said iron pin also being located 31 feet South 80 West from an electric power pole and running thence North 20 West 30 feet to an iron pin in edge of pavement; thence North 77 1/2 East 221 feet to an iron pin at fence; thence past an iron pin (offset 20 feet) South 40 1/2 East 254 feet to an iron pin; thence South 49 West 217 feet to an iron pin in the center of the J. C. Whitesides Farm Road, said iron pin being offset on the east edge of said road; thence with said farm road North 41 1/2 West 172 feet to an iron pin; thence, continuing with said road, North 35 West 160 feet to an iron pin on eastern edge of State Road 1008 at the intersection of said J. C. Whitesides Farm Road and State Road 1008, the said Beginning corner, and containing 1.45 acres, more or less and being the southwest part of the J. C. Whitesides 10-1/8 acre tract. And Being the same lands as conveyed in that certain deed dated April 17, 1972, from John C. Whitesides and wife, Pauline Whitesides to Larry Preston Whitesides and wife, Sharon Whitesides, and which is recorded in Rutherford County Deed Regsitry in Deed Book 342, at Page 184. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as: 113 Silent Forest Way, Lake Lure, NC 28746 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45¢) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS WHERE IS." There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Larry Preston Whiteside and wife, Elizabeth Whiteside. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No. 09-12706-FC02, 706825 6/4, 06/11/2010
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Dutch man long suspected in the disappearance of an Alabama teen in Aruba was arrested Thursday in the murder of a young woman in Peru. Stephany Flores, 21, was killed in a Lima hotel Sunday, five years to the day after Natalee Holloway disappeared. The suspect, Joran van der Sloot, was arrested in neighboring Chile, where he traveled the day after Flores died. Van der Sloot was taken in a dark vehicle to a police office in downtown Santiago. He made no comment as he entered, walking calmly and without handcuffs as journalists shouted his name. Van der Sloot was detained while traveling in a taxi, about halfway to the coast on Route 68, said Fernando Ovalle, deputy spokesman of Chile’s national investigative police. The suspect did not resist and has been calm under detention, Ovalle said. Chilean police are awaiting instructions from their counterparts in Peru, Ovalle said. Flores, who had been seen with van der Sloot early Sunday, was found Wednesday lying face down on the floor of the suspect’s hotel room in Lima, with her neck broken, Peruvian police Gen. Cesar Guardia told The Associated Press. She was fully clothed, with no signs of having been sexually abused.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A devastating fire raced through several apartment complexes in the Bangladeshi capital, killing as many as 77 people and injuring dozens, officials and local media reported. Fire official Nazrul Islam said the blaze started when an electric transformer exploded late Thursday, igniting a three-story apartment building in the Najirabazar area of old Dhaka. He said “many bodies” had been recovered, but would not specify the number. Local TV station Bangla Vision reported at least 77 deaths, while another station ATN Bangla reported at least 76 died in the fire.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop was stabbed to death in southern Turkey on Thursday, a day before he was scheduled to leave for Cyprus to meet with the pope, officials and reports said. Luigi Padovese, the pope’s apostolic vicar in Anatolia, was attacked outside his home in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun. Dogan news agency video footage of the scene showed the bishop lying dead in front of a building.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A medical official says at least 17 civilians have been killed during heavy shelling and fierce gunbattles between government forces and Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital. Ali Muse of Mogadishu’s ambulance service says the death toll includes six women and a family of five whose home was smashed by shelling on Thursday. Sixty-one other people have been wounded, he says.
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Authorities found no potential murder weapons in the room, Garcia said. Flores was killed exactly five years after the May 30, 2005, disappearance of Holloway during a high school trip in Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island where van der Sloot’s late father was a prominent judge. Prosecutors said van der Sloot is still their main suspect in the
case even though he was never charged. Guardia said the 22-year-old Dutchman was in Peru for a poker tournament and appears with the dead woman in a video taken at a Lima casino early Sunday. The two were later seen entering the hotel by one of its employees about 5 a.m. and the Dutchman departed alone about four hours later, he said. “We have an interview with a worker at the hotel who says she saw this foreigner with the victim enter his room,” Guardia said. The victim’s father, Ricardo Flores, 48, is a former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club who won the “Caminos del Inca” rally in 1991 and brings circuses and foreign entertainers to Peru. He ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets. A lawyer for van der Sloot in New York, Joe Tacopina, cautioned against a rush to judgment. “Joran van der Sloot has been falsely accused of murder once before. The fact is he wears a bull’s-eye on his back now and he is a quote-unquote usual suspect when it comes to allegations of foul play,” Tacopina said. Van der Sloot was twice arrested but later released for lack of evidence in the 2005 disappearance of Holloway in Aruba.
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