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DSS sees increase in applications — Page 3 Sports Winner take all Post 423 visited Cherryville for Game 3 of the Area IV American Legion Finals.

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Thursday, July 22, 2010, Forest City, N.C.

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Schools disclose preliminary AYP results

By SCOTT BAUGHMAN Daily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — One third of Rutherford County schools have failed to make adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind program for the 2009-10 school year, according to preliminary results disclosed Wednesday.

Chase High, Chase Middle, Forest CityDunbar Elementary, East Rutherford

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High, R-S Central High and the Rutherford Opportunity Center were the six schools out of the county’s 18 that failed to make adequate yearly progress.

“It varies from school to school as to what the schools are missing,” said Dr. Tanya Watson, director of research and accountability for Rutherford County Schools. “There is no real consistency or a particular sub-group of students.”

The premise of No Child Left Behind

— a federal program passed into law in 2001 — was that certain groups of students were being ignored or under served compared to the rest of a school’s population.

“Looking at the proficiency of a school, the students may be 90 percent efficient, but that could be because there’s a select group of children carrying everyone else,”

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An important mission Church spreading the work

SPORTS

By JEAN GORDON Daily Courier Staff Writer

Rutherfordton needed a win to stay alive Page 7

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FOREST CITY — When the Lebanon Road Church of Christ in Nashville, Tenn., heard reports about the Church of Christ on Clay Street ­— which has financial problems and other needs ­— the mission committee devised a plan to visit town this summer.

The Tennessee church voted to financially support Brother Milton Hopkins, the Church of Christ leader, and to provide hands-on support for the 25-member congregation.

Tuesday, the Lebanon Road volunteers performed physical labor inside and outside. As lunchtime approached, work began to stop.

In the church kitchen, Melony Hopkins, wife of Brother Hopkins, and their daughter, Mia, prepared sandwiches and snacks for the volunteers.

The team of men, women and youth spend the nights in the church sanctuary, sleeping on large air mattresses. They eat breakfast and lunch at the church building, and after the work, travel

Digging in the hard dirt, Austin Nicholas (left) and Joseph Barefoot, prepare the ground for fresh mulch around the plants.

The teenagers are a part of the Lebanon Road Church of Christ mission team in Forest City through Wednesday.

Photos by Jean Gordon/Daily Courier

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Brother Milton Hopkins of the Church of Christ (left) talks with Emory Buckner of Lebanon Road Church of Christ, Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday morning.

Courtney Roberts tediously scrapes old paint from a wooden church sign on Clay Street.

Today, partly cloudy. Tonight, mostly cloudy.

Complete forecast, Page 10

Roundtable discusses ways to use grant Daily Courier News Editor

leaders attended the meeting in the Rutherford County Office Building.

RUTHERFORDTON — Talk during Wednesday’s meeting of the Rutherford County Roundtable touched on ongoing projects and challenges, as well as the most efficient use of a $5,000 grant to look at best practices and leadership and planning opportunities.

About 30 community and business

The group has scheduled speakers and presentations in the coming months, including Thomas White in August.

White is executive director the Economic Development Partnership at N.C. State University. The Roundtable is scheduled to pay travel expenses for some of the presenters. These also include rep-

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resentatives of the N.C. Rural Center and the Leadership Development Institute, Pat Mitchell, an adjunct professor at Appalachian State, and Rick Davis, executive director of the Graham Revitalization Economic Action Team, as well other representatives from Graham County.

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to the Spindale House, where they shower in the gymnasium. At night they dine in local restaurants, adding dollars to the local economy.

Hopkins, who came to Forest City from California about 18 months ago, told Church of Christ personnel the small congregation could not support a pastor, and it began seeking help.

Lebanon supports eight other small churches in the U.S., said Wayne Davidson, a retired volunteer.

Emory Buckner, is working in the youth ministry in Nashville this summer alongside his brother, J.D. Buckner, the youth director at Lebanon.

“We do this work to help our brothers and to help the community,” Hopkins said.

“We want to spread the gospel,” he said. Volunteers are knocking on doors in the community, inviting people to church and to share the gospel with them, Buckner said.

“This week we are beautifying the landscape,” Emory Buckner added.

Volunteers have been mulching plants, trimming bushes, painting the church sign, as well as cleaning up the yard and the inside of the building.

“I’m just a deacon at the church, and I’m the oldest one here,” said 73-year-old Al Craves. He spent part of his day refurbishing the church sign. Courtney Roberts, 18, also worked outside in the heat, scraping paint off a sign near the roadway.

“I’ve been on mission trips like this before, and it is really exciting to help someone and to encourage them, and it is really exciting to see how excited they are,” she said.

Beginning Sunday and continuing through Wednesday, Lebanon youth pastor J.D. Buckner will lead the gospel meeting each day at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday morning service is at 11.

Austin Nicholas, 18, and Joseph Barefoot, 16, prepared outside plants for new mulch. Inside cleaning carpets and doing other chores was Jessica Markwood, 16. “It’s fun to hang out with others and to encourage others in this way,” she said. Pam Dunaway was helping Jessica put liquid in the carpet cleaner and trying not to spill any on the floor.

Dunaway travels with the mission team each year, and it has become a good part of her life.

Later this week, a second group of volunteers from Lebanon Road will join in to help with Vacation Bible School and to attend gospel meetings. The group will stay at the Carrier houses in Rutherfordton, owned by church members Dan and Lynn Hegeman.

The mission team is also helping with Royal Vacation Bible School from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the church site on Clay Street. There will be story time, puppets, singing, crafts and lunch, and all area children are invited.

Beginning Sunday and continuing through Wednesday, Lebanon youth pastor J.D. Buckner will lead the gospel meeting each day at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday morning service is at 11.

“There will be preaching, singing and testifying,” Buckner said.

The topic for the week is “Questions I Must Ask,” and the public is invited.

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

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Mia Hopkins (right) and her mom, Melony Hopkins, get ready to prepare lunch for the mission team.

Chimney Rock council updates its water plan From staff reports

CHIMNEY ROCK — The Village Council here updated its Water Shortage Plan during the regular business meeting Tuesday. The plan has already been approved by the state Department of Natural Resources, however, DHNR requested some word changes in the plans statewide.

Among changes were requiring town clerks be named as a local contact.

The council appointed its clerk, Bill Whitman,

as a contact. Also Tuesday night, the council discussed rules and permits for the Gathering Place Amphitheater once completed.

Mayor Barbara Meliski still hopes the construction will be completed sometime in August.

But even after contractors are finished with their work, the town will have to reseed the grass before it is open.

“We will have a ribbon-cutting once it’s finished,” Meliski said.

The rules and permit fees for the amphitheater

will be approved at the August meeting and will address issues of renting the spaces for family reunions, weddings and other events.

The council plans to hold a community meeting before its August meeting to discuss recycling efforts in Chimney Rock and Lake Lure.

The public will be asked to attend the meeting for input on providing some type of curb-side recycling in the future.

The meeting date has not been announced.

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DSS sees increase in applications for benefits

By ALLISON FLYNN Daily Courier Lifestyles Editor

SPINDALE — Changes to the income requirements for participation in North Carolina’s Food and Nutrition Services Program has meant an increase in the number of applications taken at the Rutherford County Department of Social Services.

“For the first 11 days of July 2009, there were 177 applications taken,” Kandi Bridges, income maintenance program director, said to the board during its July meeting Wednesday.

“For the first 11 days of July 2010, we have already taken 251 applications.

It’s a 51 percent increase.”

Effective July 1, the program expanded from household incomes at 130 percent of the federal poverty level to 200 percent. Bridges said the change has meant DSS no longer has to list accounts such as IRAs or

CDs when calculating an individual or family’s income level.

“If you’re under the 200 percent we don’t have to count your resources,” Brides said.

According to information provided by the state Department of Health and Human Services, the change means a family of four with an income of up to $44,100 may now receive benefits.

Of the applications that have been taken since the change, Bridges said, “We don’t know how many have been denied or approved.”

The purpose of the FNS Program, said DSS Director John Carroll, is to prevent hunger.

The change in eligibility should help more families, such as those who have suffered a job loss, to receive aid.

“It means people who lose their jobs can come and get food stamps and not lose everything they have

worked for their whole life,” Carroll said.

Carroll updated the board on the subsidized employment program, a federally funded program through the Temporary Assistance for Need Families Emergency Contingency Fund, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The program allowed DSS to partner with Personnel Services Unlimited to provide job training for people who met criteria for the program.

Forty-five people were employed through the program, which was set to end in September. Carroll said DSS received a letter from the state saying there would not be a third and final allocation for the program.

“We were able to spend the money we had remaining,” Carroll said.

Despite its early expiration, Carroll deemed the program a success.

“Throughout the two quarters we had 32 employers and 45 employes

with an average hourly wage of $9.75,” he said. “Eight people became permanently employed because they got involved through this program.”

Carroll said of the $248,725 funding to DSS for the program, a little more than $181,000 was paid in wages.

Board member David Reno asked Carroll if an explanation was given as to why the program ended early.

“The feds gave the money to the state prior to January, but we didn’t see any allocation until the second quarter,” Carroll said. Bottom line, he said, is the money was reallocated.

The board welcomed new member Margaret Helton, who replaced Chuck Hill, whose term ended June 30. Steve Bedford took over as board chair.

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

James Galloway, left, and his son Steven Galloway load bushels of oyster shells onto their Carolina skiff to be distributed in the marsh behind Wrightsville Beach on Tuesday through a program run by UNCW and the Coastal Federation. About 70 fishermen are being paid to scatter oyster shells in shallow waters along the state’s coast.

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Stimulus pays fishermen rebuilding oyster reefs

WILMINGTON (AP) — Federal stimulus funds have been doled out far and wide. And deep. Like the bottom of a North Carolina sound.

About 70 fishermen are being paid to scatter oyster shells in shallow waters along the state’s coast, said Ted Wilgis, education coordinator for the North Carolina Coastal Federation.

That includes a 1-acre area in the Middle Sound off Wrightsville Beach that fishermen James and Steven Galloway hope will keep their family business going for years to come.

The site will be closed for four years to allow the oysters to grow before they are harvested.

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James Galloway, 56, told The StarNews of Wilmington about 75 percent of his income comes from collecting and selling oysters.

“It helps us in more ways than one,” said Steven Galloway, 21. “It’s work for now. It’s good money. Then in a few years, we’ll have more oysters. It’s sort of win-win all the way around.”

Besides the fishermen, about 65 other jobs for barge operators, lab technicians, and tugboat captains are collecting paychecks from the coastal federation’s $5 million grant under the stimulus package, Wilgis said.

The project has also paid earlier this summer to create two large

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The work comes as oysters need to find a hard surface to grow on after drifting in ocean currents for the first several weeks of their lives. The stacks of old oyster shells provide the habitat they need.

Oysters also play an important ecological role, said Troy Alphin, a researcher at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Center for Marine Science. Oyster reefs shelter fish, crabs and other small marine

creatures, which provide food for larger fish. Oysters also filter and improve the coastal waters.

“Eventually, it will grow into a very vibrant, almost like a tropical rainforest under water, but it’s an oyster reef,” Wilgis told Wilmington television station WECT. James Galloway said he has participated in several oyster shell distribution projects over the decades.

“It works, but it doesn’t work overnight,” he said.

“Come back in three to five years, it will be loaded.”

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Our Views Sherrod case is a lesson for all

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hirley Sherrod’s saga is a sad commentary on our times.

Sherrod was forced to resign her job with the USDA when an Internet posted video clip showed her making what appeared to be racist comments.

When the full story came out and the entire video was shown, the brief Internet clip was shown to be completely misleading.

Sherrod’s admission during a speech that she wrestled with a problem of racial bias was part of a bigger story she was sharing with the audience. The bigger story was that while she had experienced these feelings, she had learned from the situation that race was not the critical issue.

The lesson she learned and that she shared is one that we all should take to heart.

This situation illustrates a critical problem we face, especially in the world of Internet communications. We must all be wary of what we see and read.

We must critically examine everything and look always, as Paul Harvey said “for the rest of the story.”

Our readers’ views Says critics should attend meetings To the editor: Regarding the letter about Rutherford912 Building Use: To all who assume and suppose about our group, I would like to invite you all to our next meeting. It’s at 7 p.m. on July 30 at the N.C. Cooperative Extension Building.

That way you can witness first hand what the group is and isn’t, and ask any questions you may be currently assuming the answers to.

I am certain that intelligent readers do not take seriously anyone who is willing to write comments about, or on behalf of, the Rutherford912 group without first attending one of our meetings and voicing their questions and criticisms directly to Jennifer or myself.

Zoran Naskov Rutherfordton

Says slogan now should be ‘Yes we did’ To the editor: During President Obama’s campaign his slogan was “yes, we can.”

This seemed to anger a lot of people — I’ll let you decide why.

Seems to me this is an appropriate campaign slogan for a politician who plans to make changes.

The first thing of significance the President did was to sign a bill that had been vetoed by Bush to provide health insurance for a great number of Children who had no insurance.

I also believe it is time to now change the slogan to “Yes we

did.”

President Obama came in to office as the economic breakdown had just begun.

The Bush administration had begun pumping money into failing big banks. Obama continued the practice and started a campaign to pass regulations to prevent this occurring again.

An enormous amount of money was put out that grew the deficit. No one in the opposition party supported this move even though it was begun by the Republican Party In fact with the exception of two Senators, no one has supported anything the Obama administration has purposed.

The thinking was that no one would support any proposal and this would become Obama’s “Waterloo.”

It also requires a super majority to pass legislation.

On July 14, the Senate passed the Wall Street reform with the super majority.

While the Republicans cry because the President stood up to the bankers and Wall Street, the Democrats can sing “Yes we Did.” No president in our history has been able to pass health care reform.

the Bush Energy policy (written primarily by Vice President Dick Cheney with lots of input by the energy companies).

This policy contained very few regulations and the enforcement of them became a joke.

Obama had 18 months to straighten it out, but got nothing done till the disaster in the Gulf.

One criticism of Obama from the beginning has been that he is too soft.

When he cracked on BP to include a $20 billion fund to pay damages, some Republicans apologized to BP and called it a slush fund.

These are some of the accomplishment of Precedent Obama.

Many things are left to be done; however, much has happened to his and the country’s credit.

It is time to change the slogan to “Yes we did.”

Ray Crawford Rutherfordton

Lacking many additions Health Care reform was passed

by Obama — another “Yes We Did.” It was passed in spite of more untruths spread about it than any bill in history.

How could a man with any compassion be opposed to health care for those who have none?

“Yes We Did” in spite of all the naysayers.

President Obama inherited

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New highway patrol commander has tough task RALEIGH – Randy Glover can hardly be held responsible for all the problems at the State Highway Patrol.

Glover had been in charge of the patrol for just 10 months.

Still, as the bad behavior of patrol troopers piled up, someone was going to be held responsible. Gov. Beverly Perdue was going to hold a subordinate responsible, or voters were going to hold her responsible.

Glover resigned on Friday during a meeting with Perdue.

Some critics of the patrol colonel say that his friendship with the governor undermined his credibility.

Other critics say declining hiring standards contributed to the problems.

Both criticisms ignore the individual circumstances of the bad behavior that has left the patrol’s reputation in tatters.

Most of the troopers

Today in North Carolina Scott Mooneyham

involved in highly-publicized incidents ranging from sexual assaults to back-seat infidelity to drunken driving were veteran officers. If hiring standards have declined, the long trek down must have begun a while ago.

As for Glover’s use of his political connections, perhaps he has contributed to longstanding leadership problems at the patrol. If so, he has plenty of company.

But does anyone really believe that a patrol troopers thought about Glover and his independence just before committing some act of onthe-job stupidity or criminality?

Can you hear that thought-process? “You

What would seem to be in order, for whoever takes the reins, is a recognition that the problems at the patrol can’t be explained away as a run of bad luck or a media blowing things out of proportion. know, the colonel didn’t do enough to earn that job. So, I’m going to get drunk and speed down the highway just like those folks I catch and charge with drunken driving.”

Obviously, no one person is responsible for the avalanche of trooper bad behavior.

The trouble can only be interpreted a couple of ways: It has either been encouraged by a longstanding culture of macho recklessness, or it is a few bad eggs who have tarnished the reputation of an 1,800-member law

enforcement agency.

A consultant’s review of the patrol before many of the latest incidents suggested the former.

After Glover’s resignation, Perdue spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson said the governor may be open to appointing an outsider to the job. A 1975 law would have to be changed for that to happen. It requires that the patrol colonel come from the ranks.

A top legislative Republican, state Rep. Thom Tillis of Mecklenburg County, said he believes Perdue should

leave open the possibility by appointing an interim replacement for Glover. That would allow the legislature to consider repealing the law in January, when it comes back into session.

But maybe an outsider isn’t necessary.

What would seem to be in order, for whoever takes the reins, is a recognition that the problems at the patrol can’t be explained away as a run of bad luck or a media blowing things out of proportion.

There’s nothing to blow out of proportion about an organization where a supervisor believes he can get away with a drunken, sexual escapade with a woman whose husband and his subordinate is sitting in the car seat in front of them.

That’s just not a widespread occurrence out there in the wider world.

Mooneyham is executive director of the Capitol Press Association.

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Police Notes

Obituaries

Sheriff’s Reports

Joyce Brackett

n The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office responded to 109 E-911 calls Tuesday. n John Joseph Harris reported the theft of house wiring and plumbing. n Janet L. Ervin reported damage to the right rear fender of a vehicle. n William Micheal Riley reported the theft of tools. n Elizabeth A. Harrison reported the theft of a mower and other items.

Spindale n The Spindale Police Department responded to 25 E-911 Tuesday.

Lake Lure n The Lake Lure Police Department responded to three E-911 calls Tuesday.

Forest City n The Forest City Police Department responded to 57 E-911 calls Tuesday. n An officer of the Forest City Police Department reported an incident of obtaining property by false pretenses that occurred on South Broadway Street at Food Lion. n An employee of Ivey’s Pawn Shop, on West Main Street, reported a larceny. n An employee of Morganton Eye Physicians, on Oak Street, reported injury to real property. n Jake Watson reported a larceny from an automobile.

Arrests n Mark Alan Morrow, 39, of Twelve Oaks Drive, Forest City; arrested on a warrant for assault on a female; placed under a 48-hour domestic hold. (FCPD) n David Michael Yoak, 29, of 1234 Campfield Church Road; charged with two counts of failure to comply on child support; placed under a $1,050 cash bond.

(FCPD) n James Fredrick Howard, 38, of 158 View Trail; charged with driving while impaired and drive left of center; placed under a $3,000 secured bond.

(LLPD) n Michael Lee Staton, 48, of 8525 Green Pond; charged with two counts of assault and battery; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond.

(RCSD) n James Marshall Rumfelt,

29, of 281 Jack McKinney Road; charged with misuse of 911 system; placed under a $3,000 secured bond.

(RCSD) n Julian Maurice Miller, 19, of 415 Maple Creek Road; charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, breaking and/or entering and injury to real property; placed under a $7,500 secured bond. (RCSD) n Angela Deshay Alexander, 34, of 137 Benton Lane, Rutherfordton; charged with driving while impaired, driving while license revoked and registration violation; freed on a custody release. (RPD)

Joyce Elliotte Brackett, 80, of Lake Lure, died Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at Hospice House in Forest City.

A native of Rutherford County, she was a daughter of the late Locke Craig and Cleo Frady Elliotte.

She was a graduate of St. Joseph School of Nursing and a retired teacher’s assistant for Rutherford County Schools, working for Green Hill and Forest City Elementary Schools.

She was a member of Chimney Rock Baptist Church, where she previously taught the children’s Sunday School class.

In addition to her parents, Citations she was preceded in death n Brandon Hamrick, 20, of by her husband, Henry Vaud Brackett.

Wright Circle, Cherryville; Survivors include a daughcited for consuming alcohol while underage; released on ter, Brenda Crawford of a written promise to appear. Lake Lure; a sister, Bonnie Blanche Elliotte of Chimney (FCPD) Rock and two grandchiln Luis Crispin, 18, of U.S. dren.

221A, Forest City; cited for Funeral services will be consuming alcohol while held Sunday at 3 p.m. at underage; released on a Chimney Rock Baptist written promise to appear.

Church with the Rev. Gene (FCPD) Daggerhart officiating. n Megan Hamrick, 17, of Burial will follow at the Wright Circle, Cherryville; church cemetery. The famcited for consuming alcohol while underage; released on ily will receive friends one a written promise to appear. hour before the service at the church.

(FCPD) Memorials may be made n Dennis Raymond to Chimney Rock Baptist Childress, 65, of 264 Church Cemetery Fund, Pinkwood Drive, Rutherfordton; cited for pos- P.O. Box 157, Lake Lure, NC 28746 or Hospice of session/ consumption of an Rutherford County, P.O. Box alcoholic beverage in the 336, Forest City, NC 28043. passenger area of a motor vehicle. (RPD) n Tywan Allan Vannoy, Online condolences may be made 29, of 2908 Conner Court, at www.crowemortuary.com.

Morganton; charged with possession/ consumption of an alcoholic beverage in the passenger area of a motor vehicle. (RPD)

EMS/Rescue n The Rutherford County EMS responded to 30 E-911 calls Tuesday. n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to no E-911 calls Tuesday.

RALEIGH (AP) — Changes to North Carolina’s liquor store laws should build confidence in taxpayers because there will be a better eye on store operations and the people that run them, Gov. Beverly Perdue said Wednesday as she signed the reforms into law.

The bill, developed after several months of hearings and negotiations by Perdue’s office, local government lobbyists and state and local ABC board leaders, makes clear local board members are barred from accepting gifts from vendors, set conflict-of-interest rules and must take ethics training.

Local ABC boards, which are essentially independent agencies, now must follow procedural rules that counties and cities must follow to create an annual budget.

Salaries for store administrators are capped, with some exceptions, and boards must meet performance standards or stores could close of boards merged.

Reforms gained momentum following news reports of the high salaries of local board administrators in New Hanover County and meals paid for by liquor companies to local ABC leaders, particularly one $12,700 gathering in Mecklenburg County.

Much of the law takes effect Oct. 1.

“We began to unearth some embarrassing stories about how some of our local ABC

Patrick Carr

Lionel Scruggs, 85, of 188 Oscar Justice Road, Rutherfordton, died Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at White Oak Manor.

A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Jackson and Vinnie Cantrell Scruggs. He was retired from the U.S. Navy, having served 20 years and in both World War II and the Korean Conflict. He was also retired from Cone Mills, where he worked as a security guard. He was a member of Prospect Baptist Church.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Flora Mae Martin Scruggs.

Survivors include two daughters, Bobbie Bridges and Judy Summey, both of Mooresboro; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and five great-greatgrandchildren Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel at McKinneyLandreth Funeral Home with the Revs. Ernie Cole and Todd Bolin officiating. Burial will follow at Cliffside Cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the National Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 200906011.

Patrick Thomas Carr, 67, of Chimney Rock, died Sunday, July 18, 2010, at his home.

A native of Jamestown, N.Y., he was a long-time resident of Homestead, Fla., and a graduate of South Dade High School.

He enjoyed spending time in Chimney Rock. Survivors include his wife of 38 years, Barbara Carr; two daughters, Amy Permenter of Charlotte and Cynthia Cauble of Asheville; two sisters, Alice Radice of Phoenix, Ariz., and Margaret Altman of Pompano Beach, Fla.; and three grandchildren.

Online condolences, and a video tribute, may be found at www. mckinneylandrethfuneralhome. com.

A celebration of life service will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. along the riverside at the Carr residence in Chimney Rock with the Rev. Lee Graham officiating.

Memorial contributions may be made in his name to the American Heart Association, www.heart.org.

Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors and Cremation Memorial Center is in charge of arrangements .

Online condolences may be made at www.thosshepherd.com.

Margaret Copeland Margaret Copeland, 79, of 153 Chelsea St., Moore, S.C., died Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Thompson’s Mortuary.

State attorneys arguing views over anti-bias plan

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s attorneys are arguing again over whether to encourage colleagues to keep personal prejudice out of their work by endorsing language designed to protect gays, and most recently, transgender people.

Fire calls A committee of the North n Ellenboro firefighters Carolina State Bar was responded to a grass fire, scheduled Thursday in two structure fires and a tree Pinehurst to consider whethdown, assisted by Cliffside er to add to the preamble of and Bostic firefighters. their Rules of Professional n Lake Lure firefighters Conduct a provision stating responded to a tree down. plainly that lawyers should not discriminate while working. But lawyers are at odds over whether the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” should be in a list of characteristics that shouldn’t evoke bias.

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after complaints. “As members of the Bar we have to look toward what access to justice for all (is and) what our duties are,” said Susan Dotson-Smith, an Asheville lawyer concentrating on bankruptcy proceedings and who helped work on this year’s proposed language.

The “revision does look at how can we ensure that our full population in North Carolina has access to justice that is fair and nondiscriminatory.”

Alice Mine, assistant executive director of the Bar, a state agency that regulates more than 20,000 attorneys practicing in North Carolina, said the preamble can’t provide the grounds for disciplining a lawyer by the Bar. Current rules already allow an attorney to withdraw representation in some situations. Lawyers opposing the change said they already treat clients with respect but believe it would be the first step toward forcing them

Patrick Thomas Carr Patrick Thomas Carr, 67, of Chimney Rock, died Sunday, July 18, 2010 at his home.

He was a resident of The Villages, FL, but spent several months each year in Chimney Rock, NC, a place he loved dearly. A native of Jamestown, NY, he was a long time resident of Homestead, FL and a graduate of South Dade High School.

He is survived by his loving wife of 38 years, Barbara Carr; his two daughters, Amy Permenter and her husband, Jason, of Charlotte; Cynthia Cauble and her husband, Frank, of Asheville; his three grandchildren, Andrew, Christina and Matthew; his two sisters, Alice Radice of Phoenix, AZ, and Margaret Altman of Pompano Beach, FL. A celebration of his life will be held at 9:00AM, Saturday, July 24 along the riverside at the Carr residence in Chimney Rock with Rev. Lee Graham officiating.

In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made in his name to the American Heart Association, www.heart.org.

A register book is available online for family and friends by visiting www.thosshepherd.com.

Thos. Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors and Cremation Memorial Center is in charge of arrangements.

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to take cases about issues they disagree with on moral grounds. They say they could be prevented from refusing to represent a same-sex couple who want to adopt a child or gay person seeking other redress that could run counter to their own views on homosexuality, for fear that they may be subject to punishment by the Bar.

Lionel Scruggs Lionel Scruggs, 85, of 188 Oscar Justice Road, Rutherfordton, died on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at White Oak Manor of Ruthefordton.

A native of Rutherford County, NC, he was born on August 27, 1924, a son of the late Jackson and Vinnie Cantrell Scruggs. He was retired from the U.S. Navy, having served 20 years and serving in both World War II and The Korean Conflict. He was also retired from Cone Mills where he served as a security guard. He was a member of Prospect Baptist Church.

In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his wife, Flora Mae Martin Scruggs; two brothers, Jack Scruggs and Bobby Scruggs and one sister, Gertrude Barnes.

He is survived by two daughters, Bobbie Bridges and husband, Wayne (Straw) of Mooresboro and Judy Summey of Mooresboro; five grandchildren, Jennifer Bowen and husband, Steve, Carla Bridges, Laura Waters and husband, Donald, Melissa Summey, Reggie Summey and wife, Jenny; great grandchildren, Alyssa Imped-uglia, Andrew Impeduglia, Mackenzie Talent, Kendall Talent, Adam Bowen, Thomas Winn, Leslie Mitchell and husband, Tim, Joey Brandel and wife, Vericara; great, great grandchildren Makayla Summey, Aiden Hawkins, Logan Hawkins, Georgia Mitchell and Natalie Brandle.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, July 23, 2010 at 2:00pm at The A.C. McKinney Memorial Chapel at McKinney - Landreth Funeral Home with the Rev. Ernie Cole and Rev. Todd Bolin oficiating. Burial will follow at Cliffside Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Thursday, July 22, 2010 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm at McKinney Landreth Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the National Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011.

A guest register and video tribute is available at: www.mckinneylandrethfuneralhome.com

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Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, Thursday, July 22, 2010

Calendar/Local AYP Continued from Page 1

Ongoing Foothills Harvest Ministry: This week, ladies’ slacks buy one get two free.

Book sale: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation; hardback books, $1, paperback books 50 cents and some miscellaneous books four for $1; proceeds go to benefit Relay for Life.

Washburn Community Outreach Center: Open Thursdays and Fridays, noon to 6 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; in store special posted at the store each day; this Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon there will be a backyard Bible school for children.

Red Cross Benefit: Spindale Drug is partnering with the Rutherford County Chapter of the American Red Cross by donating $5 to the Red Cross until the end of July with new prescriptions on certificates available at Spindale Drug or at the Red Cross Chapter House.

Rutherford County Adult Baseball League: Adult baseball registration for those 30 and older online at www.leaguelineup.com/ rcabl.

Saturday, July 24 First Aid class: 8:30 a.m. until, American Red Cross Rutherford County Chapter House; topic is preventing disease transmission; 287-5916.

Annual car wash fundraiser: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Bills Creek Volunteer Fire Department; hot dogs, chips, sodas and desserts will be sold; proceeds will go toward the refurbishing efforts at the Mary B. Mullen Bible Camp.

Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center; free to the public and geared toward children preschool through third grade who may not have access to a computer or the Internet at home; educational software and adult-supervised access to the Internet.

Monday, July 26 Democrat Club meeting: 7 p.m., Main Street headquarters in Forest City.

Tuesday, July 27 Relay for Life fundraiser: Courtside Steaks will donate 10 percent of its proceeds today to Pink Ladies for Mammograms, sponsored by the Rutherford Hospital Cancer Resource Center.

For more information, call Jaime Ingraham at 245-4596.

HOPE Support Group: Tuesdays, 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 by Hospice of Rutherford County.

R-S Youth Football and Cheerleading sign-ups: 6 to 8 p.m., Spindale House; open to all children ages 5 to 12; cost is $50 for first child and $25 for each additional child for football and cheerleading; please bring a copy of your child’s brith certificate; last registration of the season, after July 31 late fees will apply.

Little Detroit Museum meeting: 6:30 p.m, Bennett Classics Antique Auto Museum.

Isothermal Amateur Radio Club meeting: 7 p.m., Rutherford County Annex; all amateur operators are invited; if you would like information on how to become a ham radio operator you are welcome as well; for information, call Don Whisnant 453-1698.

Alanon meetings: Lake Lure Alanon Family Group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at Lake Lure Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure; call 625-0456 for additional information.

Homeschool meeting: 7 p.m., Cornerstone Fellowship Church; Classical Conversations of Forest City is holding an informational meeting for any parent interested in homeschooling thte classical way. Topics will include a curriculum that supports parents in their attempt to educate their children using the classical method, the opportunity to view books and guidebooks and meet next year’s tutors. For more information, call Lisa Eppinette at 245-4672.

Wednesday, July 28 Children’s summer reading program: Every Wednesday, 9 a.m., through Aug. 4, Union Mills Learning Center; for preschool and early readers as well as older children; poetry reading and storytelling will be featured as well; each week will feature a different subject and guest; everyone in attendance will receive at least one free book (all ages and reading levels).

Lunch and Learn: Noon, Ryan’s Restaurant; hosted by Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce; topic is “How can you make a profit and still run out of cash?;” 287-3090 or info@rutherfordcoc. com.

Watson said. “The whole concept of No Child Left Behind was that none of those sub-groups would be left out. The black students, the Hispanic students, the free-reduced lunch students, etc., were all looked at as standalone groups.”

For the failing schools, the Rutherford Opportunity Center had the lowest score at 66.7 percent, or meeting two of three targets. Chase High had a score of 76.9 percent, meeting 10 of 13 targets, East High had a score of 73.3 percent, meeting 11 of 15 targets and R-S Central High had a score of 88.2 percent; 15 of 17 targets.

Passing school highlights included R-S Middle, meeting 21 of 21 targets, East Rutherford Middle, meeting 21 of 21 targets, and Harris Elementary, meeting all 17 targets. All 12 of the county’s passing schools received 100 percent scores.

The state has not yet disclosed specific targets that schools made or missed.

Watson said it could be discouraging when an entire school fails to meet AYP because of a small group of students. But she stressed that Wednesday’s numbers were preliminary results.

“We’d certainly like for it to look a little better than it does,” Watson said.

“Last year we had 14 of 18 schools that did make it.

Sometimes the ability to make these goals has to do with the number of students in these subgroups. You can only count students that are enrolled in the school for 140 days, so we lose some that way.”

For schools that fail to make AYP, the penalties are not severe unless it is a Title I school. In Rutherford County, all elementary schools are Title I. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the purpose of Title 1 funding, “is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education and reach, at minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments.”

At least 40 percent of students at a school must enroll in the free and reduced lunch program for that

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GREAT, which Davis directs, is, according to the Graham Star, made up of seven committees: Economic Development, Business and Industry; Education and Workforce Development; Tourism and Mountain Culture; Revitalization and Infrastructure; Recreation, National Resources and Water Quality; Leadership and Government; and Health and Social.

The committees, the newspaper said in a January story, are interrelated, and members work on individual committee priorities and overall GREAT priorities. The organization has more than $75,000 in assets, the story said, but much of the funding is from grants. GREAT is scheduled to visit the Roundtable on Aug. 18.

The $5,000 Roundtable grant ­— from the Appalachian Regional Commission through the Department of Commerce — could also be “used as we try to come up with an action plan,” said Frankie McWhorter, a leader of the Roundtable.

McWhorter said the speakers and presenters not only offer information and insight, but also provide an opportunity to network.

“So they’re aware of who we are and what our needs are,” she said.

school to get Title I funding.

For Forest City-Dunbar Elementary, this means a year on the federal government’s watch list for Title I schools. Should the school fail to make AYP in the 2010-11 school year, it would become a “School of Choice.”

The designation would allow parents to request the school district pay the cost of transporting their child to another school in the county instead of enrolling in Forest City-Dunbar.

But Principal Sally Blanton said that’s not going to happen.

“We’re no longer a school of choice, and we will not be again,” Blanton

said. “I haven’t had a chance to see all of the data yet because the state hasn’t released it all, but when Dr. Watson gets that information we’re going to go over it and form a plan.”

Watson said the AYP numbers were just one part of a multi-faceted review process.

“It is important and is the way the federal government monitors us and rates us,” Watson said. “We tend to look at growth as a true indicator of how we’re doing.”

The N.C. Department of Public Instruction official results will be disclosed Aug. 5.

Mitchell, for example, will offer various economic development models.

Her presentation is tentatively set for August.

Keven McCammon chairs the board of the Rutherford County Economic Development Commission. “I’m pleased to see that people have heard things in the Roundtable, and they have gone out and done it.”

Said McWhorter, “There are things that are happening; there are things that are occurring.”

Rick Austin, executive director of the county Chamber of Commerce, talked about an effort to create jobs in the “green” sector, about a tour bus service from the western part of the county to the eastern section ­— that would pair with a county shuttle service serving the Chimney Rock area ­— and a postcard campaign to promote economic development and tourism.

The $5,000 Roundtable grant ­— from the Appalachian Regional Commission through the Department of Commerce — could also be “used as we try to come up with an action plan.

Sandra McGriff, director of the Community Clinic of Rutherford County, talked about plans for the clinic, which services the uninsured and under insured. The facility, which now operates out of a 1,400-squarefoot space, has served 8,000 patients since 2004 and is open about 50 hours each week. By year’s end, “if all goes well,” she said, the clinic will operate from the former Daniel’s furniture building in Spindale and will encompass some 10,000 square feet.

­— Frankie McWhorter, a leader of the Rutherford County Roundtable.

Patients will have access to both primary and dental care, as well as medical specialists.

The clinic has applied for several state grants, in addition to a federal New Access Point Grant.

As it stands, McGriff said, “We are bursting at the seams.”

The Roundtable began meeting in December 2009, when a group of state and regional officials visited the county at the invitation of former commissioner Chivous Bradley and McWhorter.

The group, through meeting with leaders in other counties and sharing ideas, is trying to identify best practices and, McWhorter has said, help to get people on track.

It is an open meeting, and anyone can attend.

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Post 423 battles Cherryville

Racing at Harris HARRIS — The Harris Motorspeedway reported results from the following races from this past weekend.

Young Guns: 1. Jesse Wall; 2. Wendy Smith; 3. Clint Dillard; 4.

Elizabeth Ledford; 5. Cory Skipper.

Pure Stock: 1. Mitch Sill; 2. Chris Jones; 3. Josh Ayers; 4. Steve Penson; 5. Brandon Staton.

Limited Sportsman: 1. Chris Jackson; 2. Donny Atkins; 3. Lamar Jordan; 4.

Carl Harris; 5. Lance Millers.

Super Stock 4: 1. Brayden Pruitt; 2. Brett Cooper; 3. Tony Adair; 4.

Cody Ussery; 5. Stephen McFadden.

Stock 8: 1. Chris Lytle; 2. Dale Edmonds; 3. Bubba Smith; 4.

Billy Vaughn; 5. Darrell Price.

Street Stock 4: 1. Bradley Weaver; 2. Kevin Cooper; 3. Taylor Hicks; 4.

Paul Butler; 5. Justin Ward.

Renegade: 1. Josh Burgess; 2. Jason Jolley; 3. Willie Teems; 4. Dustin Morris; 5. Kyle Westmoreland.

Front Wheel 4: 1. Josh Dawson; 2. Josh Ayers; 3. Michael Staton; 4.

Jonathan Surratt; 5. Mike Spencer.

By KEVIN CARVER Sports Reporter

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Rutherford County Post 423’s Jonathan Hamlet, above, tries to check his swing during the American Legion Playoff game against Cherryville Tuesday at R-S Central in this Courier file photo. Game 3 was Wednesday in Cherryville.

CHERRYVILLE — Rutherford County Post 423 faced Cherryville Post 100 in Game 3 of the American Legion Area IV Finals Wednesday.

In the 6th inning, the home plate umpire became ill. The delay lasted almost half an hour as officials looked after the striken umpire.

Post 423 (18-8) trailed, 16-8, in the 6th inning as the Courier went to press.

Rutherford struck for one run in the first as Kyle Holmstrom scored on Dylan Hipp’s RBI single.

Post 423 added two runs in the third, two more in the fourth and three runs in the fifth.

Visit www.thedigitalcourier.com for final game results or read Friday’s edition for a report.

Rutherfordton stays alive at Crestview

By SCOTT BOWERS Daily Courier Sports Editor

Davis Womble shares lead at U.S. Junior ADA, Mich. (AP)—Defending champion Jordan Spieth of Dallas shot a 5-under 67 on Monday to share the firstround lead with Stephen Behr of Florence, S.C., and Davis Womble of High Point at the U.S. Junior National Championship.

Womble’s mother is Carol King, formerly of Forest City.

Danielle Kang hangs on in opener PINEHURST (AP) — Strokeplay medalist Danielle Kang trailed after 15 holes in the opening round of match play in the U.S. Girls Junior Championship before prevailing on the final hole against Colombia’s Alejandra Cangrejo on Wednesday.

Kang, from Thousand Oaks, Calif., tied the match on the 16th hole and then used a par on No. 18 to pull out a 1-up victory at The Country Club of North Carolina.

She’ll be among 32 players in Thursday’s second round.

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Crennan “Bob” Davis, above, readies a bunt attempt during the All-Star softball game against Franklin at Crestview Park Wednesday. Davis drew a walk and came around to score a run.

RUTHERFORDTON — Brooke Moore drove in three as Rutherfordton’s 9- and 10-year old softball All-Stars advanced to the finals with a 5-1 win over Franklin at Crestview Park Wednesday.

Rutherfordton will battle Wilkes County for the title of North Carolina 9- and 10-year old champs, tonight at 6 p.m. It is a must-win for Rutherfordton, which emerges from the loser’s bracket, while Wilkes has cruised through the tournament unblemished.

Should Rutherfordton win, a deciding game would be played on Friday at 6 p.m.

In Wednesday’s game with Franklin, Rutherfordton struck for two runs in the first inning as Jori Whiteside and Moore each crossed the plate.

In the third inning, Crennan “Bob” Davis worked a free pass out of Franklin and two batters later on a Franklin error she upped the advantage to 3-0.

Please see All-Stars, Page 8

Local Sports BASEBALL Little League All-Stars 9/10 at Dunbar Park 6 p.m. SW Forsyth vs Boiling Springs 8 p.m. Teams TBD SOFTBALL Little League All-Stars 9/10 at Crestview Park 6 p.m. Wilkes vs Rutherfordton

On TV 12 p.m. (ESPN2) Golf Senior British Open, First Round.

1 p.m. (TS) MLB Baseball San Diego Padres at Atlanta Braves.

7 p.m. (ESPN2) WNBA Basketball Los Angeles Sparks at Indiana Fever.

8 p.m. (ESPN) Softball 2010 World Cup: Canada vs. United States.

10:30 p.m. (ESPN2) MLS Soccer San Jose Earthquakes at Los Angeles Galaxy.

11 p.m. (FSCR) Boxing Jose Navarro vs. Juan Jose Beltran.

Jeff Gordon climbs into his car as he prepares to start the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Aaron’s 499 auto race at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala., in this April 25, 2010 file photo.

Associated Press

Gordon guns for victory at Indy INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Don’t let the flecks of gray framing his stillboyish face fool you, Jeff Gordon still wants to win. Badly.

Though his balky back appears to be holding up this season, the fourtime NASCAR Sprint Cup champion is well aware he’s closer to the end of his brilliant career than the beginning. Gordon turns 39 next month, and Sunday’s race at Indianapolis will be his 601st Cup start.

While still considered one of the cleanest racers in the series, there’s an urgency to his driving these days as he tries to end a 49-race winless

streak, the longest of his career.

He angered seemingly half the field at Sonoma last month, Martin Truex Jr. in particular, while attempting to bull his way to the front. He called the move to dump Truex “a mistake” without exactly apologizing for it.

“We’re not out there to be all buddybuddy,” he said. “We’re out there to race hard, win races. If that puts on a great show for the fans, I think it’s a win-win for everybody. But it’s also going to make some enemies for you out there that you’re going to have to deal with going forward.”

It’s a scenario Gordon didn’t have to

deal with much a decade ago, partly because the rest of the field had trouble catching him.

Things are different now. It’s been nine long years since Gordon has won a championship. In the interim he’s ceded the stage as the face of Hendrick Motorsports to teammate and former protege Jimmie Johnson.

The two friends raised eyebrows earlier this year following a couple of highly publicized run-ins on the track.

They have since patched things up Please see Gordon, Page 9

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sports

Scoreboard BASEBALL National League East Division W L Pct 55 38 .591 49 45 .521 48 45 .516 45 48 .484 40 54 .426 Central Division

W L Pct St. Louis 53 41 .564 Cincinnati 53 42 .558 Chicago 43 52 .453 Milwaukee 43 52 .453 Houston 38 56 .404 Pittsburgh 33 60 .355 West Division

W L Pct San Diego 54 38 .587 San Francisco 52 42 .553 Colorado 51 42 .548 Los Angeles 49 45 .521 Arizona 36 58 .383

Atlanta New York Philadelphia Florida Washington

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Rutherfordton’s Haley White prepares to deliver a pitch during the softball game against Franklin at Crestview Park Wednesday.

All-Stars Continued from Page 7

Rutherfordton added two insurance runs in the fifth. The first was scored by Madison Crane, who came home on Moore’s infield single. Moments later, Moore crossed on a wild pitch.

Franklin touched the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth for one run, but Rutherfordton pitcher Haley White settled down to escape without further damage.

White, who earned the complete game win, allowed just three hits in the contest. The Rutherfordton hurler also struck out seven and received solid defensive support including a rare 9-4-6-5 put out at third.

Moore closed her day 2-for-3 with 3 RBI and she reached base in all three of her at-bats.

11/12 Softball East Surry 8, Forest City 1

PILOT MOUNTAIN — Forest City was eliminated by East Surry, 8-1, late Tuesday night at the 11- and 12-year old softball All-Star Tournament in Pilot Mountain.

9/10 Baseball

FOREST CITY — Morganton avoided elimination by downing Weddington National, 5-1, in play at Dunbar Park Wednesday.

In Wednesday’s late game, Rutherfordton was trying to avoid elimination as they battled Greenville. Greenville lead, 7-2, at press time.

Saban angry with agents

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Nick Saban didn’t pull punches Wednesday when discussing the improper contact with athletes by unscrupulous agents, comparing their behavior to that of a “pimp.”

The Alabama coach was upset about the rash of recent agent-related incidents that have resulted in NCAA investigations at several Southeastern Conference schools.

“I don’t think it’s anything but greed that’s creating it right now on behalf of the agents,” Saban said in a rant at the SEC media days. “The agents that do this — and I hate to say this, but how are they any better than a pimp?

“I have no respect for people who do that to young people. None. How would you feel if they did it to your child?”

Agents, not national titles, was the primary topic on Day 1 at the Wynfrey Hotel. Three SEC teams — Florida, Alabama and South Carolina — are investigating allegations involving improper contact with an agent. Saban and SEC commissioner Mike Slive both emphatically said it was time for a change to NCAA rules governing agents.

Saban confirmed that Alabama is looking into a trip defensive end Marcell Dareus took to an agent’s party at Miami’s South Beach.

South Carolina is looking into claims from the same South Beach party with tight end Weslye Saunders.

Georgia associate athletic director Claude Felton confirmed that the NCAA requested permission late Wednesday afternoon to conduct an inquiry on the Bulldogs’ campus.

Saban said he wants the NFL Players Association to get involved and suspend agents whose dealings help cost players eligibility, sending a message through their bank accounts.

“That’s the only way we’re going to stop this happening, because it’s ridiculous and it’s entrapment for young people at a very difficult time in their life,” the former Miami Dolphins coach said. “It’s very difficult for the NCAA to control it, and it’s very unfair to college football.”

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GB — 3 3 1/2 6 19

American League East Division W L Pct 58 34 .630 56 37 .602 53 41 .564 48 46 .511 30 63 .323 Central Division

W L Pct Chicago 52 41 .559 Detroit 48 44 .522 Minnesota 49 45 .521 Kansas City 40 53 .430 Cleveland 40 54 .426 West Division

W L Pct Texas 55 39 .585 Los Angeles 51 45 .531 Oakland 47 47 .500 Seattle 36 58 .383

New York Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore

GB — 2 1/2 6 11 28 1/2 GB — 3 1/2 3 1/2 12 12 1/2 GB — 5 8 19

Tuesday’s Games L.A. Angels 10, N.Y. Yankees 2 Baltimore 11, Tampa Bay 10, 13 innings Texas 8, Detroit 0 Cleveland 4, Minnesota 3 Toronto 13, Kansas City 1 Oakland 5, Boston 4, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle 0 Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 4 N.Y. Yankees 10, L.A. Angels 6 Minnesota 6, Cleveland 0 Kansas City 5, Toronto 2 Oakland 6, Boston 4 Detroit 4, Texas 1 Chicago White Sox at Seattle, late Thursday’s Games Toronto (R.Romero 7-6) at Detroit (Verlander 11-5), 1:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Chen 5-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 12-3), 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Pavano 11-6) at Baltimore (Millwood 2-8), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 9-5) at Texas (Cl.Lee 8-4), 8:05 p.m.

Boston (Lackey 9-5) at Seattle (Rowland-Smith 1-9), 10:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Kansas City at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Boston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

RACING 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule and standings Feb. 6 — x-Budweiser Shootout (Kevin Harvick) Feb. 11 — x-Gatorade Duel 1 (Jimmie Johnson) Feb. 11 — x-Gatorade Duel 2 (Kasey Kahne) Feb. 14 — Daytona 500 (Jamie McMurray) Feb. 21 — Auto Club 500 (Jimmie Johnson) Feb. 28 — Shelby American, Las Vegas (Jimmie Johnson)

2010 Driver Standings 1. Kevin Harvick, 2,745 2. Jeff Gordon, 2,642 3. Jimmie Johnson, 2,557 4. Denny Hamlin, 2,542 5. Kurt Busch, 2,524 6. Kyle Busch, 2,488 7. Jeff Burton, 2,465 8. Matt Kenseth, 2,446 9. Tony Stewart, 2,389 10. Carl Edwards, 2,345 11. Greg Biffle, 2,292 12. Clint Bowyer, 2,286 13. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2,271 14. Mark Martin, 2,249 15. David Reutimann, 2,190 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule, standings Feb. 13 — DRIVE4COPD 300 (Tony Stewart) Feb. 20 — Stater Bros. 300 (Kyle Busch) Feb. 27 — Sam’s Town 300, Las Vegas (Kevin Harvick) March 20 — Scotts Turf Builder 300 (Justin Allgaier) April 3 — Nashville 300, Lebanon, Tenn. (Kevin Harvick) April 9 — Bashas’ Supermarkets 200, Avondale, Ariz. (Kyle Busch) April 19 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 300, Fort Worth, Texas (Kyle Busch) April 25 — Aaron’s 312, Talladega, Ala. (Brad Keselowski) April 30 — Bubba Burger 250, Richmond, Va. (Brad Keselowski) May 7 — Royal Purple 200, Darlington, S.C. (Denny Hamlin) May 15 — Heluva Good! 200, Dover, Del. (Kyle Busch) May 29 — Tech-Net Auto Service 300, Concord, N.C. (Kyle Busch) June 5 — Federated Auto Parts 300, Lebanon, Tenn. (Brad Keselowski) June 12 — Meijer 300, Sparta, Ky. (Joey Logano) June 19 — Bucyrus 200, Elkhart Lake, Wis. (Carl Edwards) June 26 — New England 200, Loudon, N.H. (Kyle Busch) July 2 — Subway Jalapeno 250, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) July 9 — Dollar General 300, Joliet, Ill. (Kyle Busch) July 17 — Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250, Madison, Ill. (Carl Edwards) July 24 — Kroger 200, Indianapolis July 31 — U.S. Cellular 250, Newton, Iowa Aug. 7 — Zippo 200 at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 14 — Carfax 250, Brooklyn, Mich.

Aug. 20 — Food City 250, Bristol, Tenn.

Aug. 29 — NAPA Auto Parts 200, Montreal Sep. 4 — Atlanta 300, Hampton, Ga. Sep. 10 — Virginia 529 College Savings 250, Richmond, Va. Sep. 25 — Dover 200, Dover, Del. Oct. 2 — Kansas Lottery 300, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 9 — Camping World 300, Fontana, Calif.

Oct. 15 — Dollar General 300, Concord, N.C. Oct. 23 — Gateway 250, Madison, Ill. Nov. 6 — O’Reilly Auto Parts Challenge, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 13 — Arizona 200, Avondale, Ariz.

Nov. 20 — Ford 300, Homestead, Fla. 2010 Driver Standings 1. Brad Keselowski, 3,042 2. Carl Edwards, 2,874 3. Justin Allgaier, 2,545 4. Kyle Busch, 2,486 5. Kevin Harvick, 2,434 6. Paul Menard, 2,367 7. Steve Wallace, 2,204 8. Brendan Gaughan, 2,127 9. Joey Logano, 2,108 10. Jason Leffler, 2,088

11. Trevor Bayne, 2,040 12. Brian Scott, 1,991 13. Michael Annett, 1,973 14. Reed Sorenson, 1,957 15. Tony Raines, 1,932

TRANSACTIONS Wednesday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL — Suspended L.A. Dodgers RHP Clayton Kershaw five games and fined him an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing at San Francisco OF Aaron Rowand during Tuesday’s game. Suspended Dodgers manager Joe Torre and bench coach Bob Schaefer one game and fined them undisclosed amounts for Kershaw’s actions.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated LHP Michael Gonzalez from the 60-day DL. Recalled LHP Troy Patton from Norfolk (IL). Optioned INF Josh Bell and LHP Troy Patton to Norfolk.

Transferred RHP Jim Johnson to the 60-day DL. BOSTON RED SOX — Activated RHP Clay Buchholz from the 15-day DL and INF Jed Lowrie from the 60-day DL. Optioned LHP Dustin Richardson to Pawtucket (IL). Designated 1B Ryan Shealy for assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Jensen Lewis to Columbus (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Recalled INF Scott Sizemore from Toledo (IL). Optioned RHP Casey Fien to Toledo.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHP Jeff Manship to Rochester (IL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Activated OF Nate McLouth from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Gregor Blanco to Gwinnett (IL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled RHP Carlos Fisher from Louisville (IL). Optioned RHP Micah Owings to Louisville.

FLORIDA MARLINS — Designated LHP Nate Robertson for assignment. Selected the contracts of RHP Jorge Sosa and C Brad Davis from New Orleans (PCL). Placed C Brett Hayes on the 15-day DL. HOUSTON ASTROS — Claimed INF Anderson Hernandez off waivers from Cleveland and RHP Nelson Figueroa from Philadelphia. Designated LHP Polin Trinidad and RHP Gary Majewski for assignment. Announced RHP Casey Daigle has cleared waivers and accepted assignment to Round Rock (PCL).

NEW YORK METS — Extended their affiliation with Buffalo (IL) through 2012.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Selected the contract of RHP Vance Worley from Reading (EL).

Optioned RHP Andrew Carpenter to Lehigh Valley (IL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed INF David Eckstein on the 15-day DL. Reinstated OF Will Venable from the 15-day DL. Eastern League READING PHILLIES — Announced RHP Mike Cisco has been promoted to Lehigh Valley (IL) and RHP Nate Bump has been assigned from Lehigh Valley.

Midwest League QUAD CITIES RIVER BANDITS — Transferred SS Ryan Jackson and OF Ryde Rodriguez to Palm Beach (FSL). Announced INF Ted Obregon has been transferred from Palm Beach and OF Rainel Rosario from Batavia (NYP).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed G Jeremy Lin. MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Traded F Darnell Jackson and a 2011 second-round draft pick to Sacramento for F Jon Brockman.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed C Tony Battie.

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS — Signed G Wesley Matthews.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Re-signed G Richard Jefferson.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed RB Harvey Unga to a four-year contract. Released DT Jimmy Saddler-McQueen and WR Vic Hall.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed C Reggie Stephens. Placed G Jason Shirley on the nonfootball injury list.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL Kade Weston and QB Zac Robinson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Rejected the New Jersey Devils agreement with LW Ilya Kovalchuk on a 17-year contract.

BUFFALO SABRES — Agreed to terms with RW Patrick Kaleta on a two-year contract.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Re-signed F Nick Foligno to a two-year contract.

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Agreed to terms with F David Perron on a two-year contract.

American Hockey League MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed D Scott Lehman.

WORCESTER SHARKS — Re-signed F Cory Quirk to a one-year contract.

ECHL BAKERSFIELD CONDORS_Agreed to terms with LW Adam Chorneyko and D Erik Burgdoerfer.

COLLEGE BALDWIN-WALLACE — Named Keith Grabowski offensive coordinator and Mark Jochum offensive line coach.

CCNY — Named Grant Neary baseball coach.

CLEMSON — Named Lincoln LaRoe women’s assistant rowing coach.

DAYTON — Named Matt Talarico assistant baseball coach.

DELAWARE — Named Lyle Hemphill cornerbacks coach.

LA SALLE — Named Rita Welsh women’s assistant volleyball coach.

NEW JERSEY CITY — Promoted men’s interim soccer coach Nansha Kalonji to men’s head soccer coach.

SAN JOSE STATE — Promoted Matt Witty to associate athletics director for business operations, Jody Smith to associate athletics director for events and facilities, Michael Beaubien to assistant athletics director for marketing and promotions and Eric Howitt to director of equipment services, branding and licensing.

QB Parker returns to Clemson CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson quarterback Kyle Parker made his decision — and this one had a happy ending for Tiger fans.

Parker, the first Division I athlete to throw 20 touchdowns and hit 20 home runs in the same year, announced Wednesday morning that he will return to Clemson for his sophomore football season instead of immediately embarking on a baseball career with the Colorado Rockies.

He said he will continue to negotiate a deal with the Rockies, who picked him 26th overall in last month’s Major League Baseball draft.

“I am ready to get back to Clemson, work out with my football teammates and coaches and get ready for the season,” Parker said in a statement.

“The closer you get to football season the more you think about playing in Death Valley, running down the hill and being a part of the Clemson football tradition.”

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Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 11, Milwaukee 9 Colorado 10, Florida 0 Atlanta 4, San Diego 1 Cincinnati 8, Washington 7 Chicago Cubs 14, Houston 7 St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 1 Arizona 3, N.Y. Mets 2 San Francisco 7, L.A. Dodgers 5 Wednesday’s Games Houston 4, Chicago Cubs 3, 12 innings Pittsburgh 15, Milwaukee 3 Florida 5, Colorado 2 San Diego at Atlanta, late Washington at Cincinnati, late Philadelphia at St. Louis, late N.Y. Mets at Arizona, late San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, late Thursday’s Games Colorado (De La Rosa 3-2) at Florida (Jo. Johnson 10-3), 12:10 p.m.

Washington (L.Hernandez 6-6) at Cincinnati (Volquez 1-0), 12:35 p.m.

San Diego (Richard 7-4) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 9-5), 1:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 7-7) at St. Louis (Wainwright 14-5), 2:15 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 8-4) at Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 1-7), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 7-8) at Arizona (R.Lopez 5-8), 9:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Takahashi 7-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Kuroda 7-8), 10:10 p.m.

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

Colorado at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

San Diego at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Florida, 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 8:05 p.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

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(Jimmie Johnson) March 28 — Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500, Martinsville, Va. (Denny Hamlin) April 10 — Subway Fresh Fit 600, Avondale, Ariz.

(Ryan Newman) April 18 — Samsung Mobile 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Denny Hamlin) April 25 — Aaron’s 499, Talladega, Ala. (Kevin Harvick) May 1 — Heath Calhoun 400, Richmond, Va. (Kyle Busch) May 8 — Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. (Denny Hamlin) May 16 — Autism Speaks 400, Dover, Del. (Kyle Busch) May 22 — x-Sprint Showdown, Concord, N.C. (Martin Truex Jr.) May 22 — x-NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. (Kurt Busch) May 30 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. (Kurt Busch) June 6 — Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500, Long Pond, Pa. (Denny Hamlin) June 13 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Denny Hamlin) June 20 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. (Jimmie Johnson) June 27 — Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Loudon, N.H. (Jimmie Johnson) July 3 — Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Kevin Harvick) July 10 — LifeLock.com 400, Joliet, Ill. (David Reutimann) July 25 — Brickyard 400, Indianapolis Aug. 1 — Pennsylvania 500, Long Pond, Pa. Aug. 8 — Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. Aug. 15 — Carfax 400, Brooklyn, Mich.

Aug. 21 — Irwin Tools Night Race, Bristol, Tenn.

Sep. 5 — Labor Day Classic 500, Hampton, Ga. Sep. 11 — Richmond 400, Richmond, Va. Sep. 19 — Sylvania 300, Loudon, N.H. Sep. 26 — AAA 400, Dover, Del. Oct. 3 — Price Chopper 400, Kansas City, Kan. Oct. 10 — Pepsi Max 400, Fontana, Calif.

Oct. 16 — NASCAR Banking 500, Concord, N.C. Oct. 24 — TUMS Fast Relief 500, Martinsville, Va. Oct. 31 — AMP Energy 500, Talladega, Ala. Nov. 7 — Lone Star 500, Fort Worth, Texas Nov. 14 — Arizona 500, Avondale, Ariz.

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“I was in a situation where I couldn’t make a bad decision,” Parker said.

Parker is expected back on campus to work out with football teammates next week, athletic spokesman Tim Bourret said. The Tigers open fall practice Aug. 3.

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Judge: Cheerleading not a sport HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Competitive cheerleading is not an official sport that colleges can use to meet gender-equity requirements, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in ordering a Connecticut school to keep its women’s volleyball team.

Several volleyball players and their coach had sued Quinnipiac University after it announced in March, 2009 that it would eliminate the team for budgetary reasons and replace it with a competitive cheer squad.

The school contended the cheer squad and other moves kept it in compliance with Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in athletics.

But U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill disagreed in a ruling that those involved say was the first time the issue has been decided by a judge.

“Competitive cheer may, some time in the future, qualify as a sport under Title IX,” Underhill

wrote. “Today, however, the activity is still too underdeveloped and disorganized to be treated as offering genuine varsity athletic participation opportunities for students.”

Quinnipiac has 60 days to come up with a plan to keep the volleyball team through next season and comply with gender rules.

School officials responded to the ruling by saying they would start a women’s rugby team, but they refused to answer any questions, discuss the future of other athletic teams or say whether they would continue offering scholarships to competitive cheerleaders.

An activity can be considered a sport under Title IX if it meets specific criteria. It must have coaches, practices, competitions during a defined season and a governing organization. The activity also must have competition as its primary goal — not merely the support of other athletic teams.

Quinnipiac and seven other schools recently formed a governing body, the National Competitive Stunts and Tumbling Association, to govern and develop competitive cheer as a college sport.

Previously, competitive cheerleading championships were put on by two private organizations with ties to Varsity Brands Inc., which makes cheerleading apparel and runs camps.

Bill Seely, the executive director of USA Cheer, a national governing body for both sideline and competitive cheerleading, said he believes the ruling represents only a minor setback for the efforts to make cheer an intercollegiate sport.

“It’s an opportunity to look at what hasn’t worked and find what will work, so we are creating more opportunities for young women and not affecting other female sports,” he said.

“It’s an opportunity to tweak some things.”

Heisman Trust: No decision yet on Bush

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and find themselves side-by-side in the standings behind points leader Kevin Harvick. Gordon is in second, trailing Harvick by 103 points, with Johnson third another 85 points back.

Yet even though he’s arguably the hottest driver in the series at the moment after posting five straight top-five finishes, Gordon isn’t exactly satisfied. He knows barring a massive collapse he’s a lock to make NASCAR’s Chase for the Championship for the seventh straight year.

He also knows that until he finds a way to win, he’s going to be on the periphery of the title discussion.

“We know we’re capable of winning,” he said. “It’s definitely getting down to crunch time for us getting in the Chase. ... We need those bonus points (from winning a race) to really prove to ourselves and everyone else that we can compete for this championship.”

Indy would be a good place to start.

Gordon is the only driver to win at the historic 2.5-mile oval four times, yet it’s been six years since he and the members of his No. 24 Chevrolet crew have puckered up to kiss the yard of bricks after taking the checkered flag.

“It would be a huge, huge victory for us,” Gordon said. “We’re knocking on the door. The tim-

Associated Press

Southern California football player Reggie Bush picks up the Heisman Trophy after being announced as the winner of the award, in New York in this Dec. 10, 2005 file photo.

NEW YORK (AP) — The president of the Heisman Trophy Trust says a decision hasn’t been reached on whether to strip former Southern California running back Reggie Bush of the award he won in 2005 honoring college football’s top player.

The Trust said in a statement Wednesday that it is “considering the issues raised in the USC/ Reggie Bush matter” and will eventually publish its decision.

The statement came a day after USC said it is returning its copy of Bush’s trophy, among several measures the school is taking to distance itself from Bush in the wake of severe NCAA sanctions.

Bush was part of the focus of an NCAA investigation that involved improper benefits.

The school hired Pat Haden to take over for Mike Garrett as athletic director.

Associated Press

Pouncey denies he took money from agent at UF

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Gators standout Maurkice Pouncey denied allegations Wednesday that he took money from a representative of a sports agent while he was still at the university. best car in Texas, leading 124 “I did not accept $100,000, it is an absolutely laps before getting caught up in ridiculous claim. I have completely cooperated a crash with 17 laps to go. with the investigation and answered any and all Bad racing luck? Maybe. But questions put to me,” Pouncey said in a statement then again he knows the best released through his Gainesville attorney, M. way to take luck out of the equa- Stephen Stanfield. tion is by having a faster car.

Florida and the NCAA are investigating an alle“I’d like to get back to being gation that Pouncey was paid $100,000 between more dominant,” he said. “That’s the Southeastern Conference title game and the what’s going to get us back into Sugar Bowl last season, ESPN.com reported earVictory Lane. I feel like we’re lier this week. right there, though. We’re just so The offensive lineman was selected 18th overall close.” by the Pittsburgh Steelers in this year’s NFL draft.

His twin brother, Mike, will be a senior at Florida this season.

Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley has said the university became aware of the allegation in early June. He said the school reported the inforLamoriello believed it would mation to the NCAA, the SEC and the university’s meet NHL approval.

“There is nothing that we have police department.

Gators coach Urban Meyer and Pouncey’s brothdone wrong,” he said Tuesday. er were scheduled to speak later Wednesday at “This is within the rules. This SEC media day. is in the CBA. There are precThe investigation is one in series lately involving edents that have been set. But sports agent-related inquiries in college football, I would agree we shouldn’t including North Carolina and South Carolina. have these. I’m also saying that because it’s legal and this is something that ownership felt comfortable doing for the right reasons.”

Based on provisions in the collective bargaining agreement between the players’ association and the league, the union has Scott Jackson five business days to file a grievance on behalf of Kovalchuk.

289-3211 The deal would remain voided if no grievance is filed or if an arbitrator agrees that the contract is illegal.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Jeff Gordon waves as he signs autographs for fans at ChicagoLand Speedway in Joliet, Ill., July 10, 2010 file photo.

ing might just be right.”

Winning is the only thing Gordon hasn’t done this year.

He’s had his chances, most notably at Las Vegas, Phoenix and Texas.

He led 219 laps in Las Vegas, but a wrong call on tires late in the race cost him. He had an opportunity to steal one in Phoenix, but struggled off a late restart, relegating him to second. He appeared to have the

NHL says Kovalchuk deal circumvented salary cap

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Ilya Kovalchuk’s landmark 17-year, $102 million contract with the New Jersey Devils was rejected Wednesday by the NHL, which ruled that the longest deal in league history violated its salary cap.

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said in a statement posted on the league website that the Devils, Kovalchuk and the players’ association still have several options if they choose to restructure the deal.

Until then, Daly said “the player is not entitled to play under the contract.”

By tacking on years of low salary at the end of the deal when Kovalchuk would be well past his prime — if he was even still playing — the Devils lowered

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their salary-cap hit to $6 million per season.

The NHL wants to eliminate such “retirement contracts” and challenged this one after allowing others to stand.

Kovalchuk’s deal was likely rejected because the AllStar was slated to earn only $550,000 in each of the last five seasons of the contract that was to run through the 2026-27 season, when he would be 44.

Kovalchuk was to earn $98.5 million in the first 11 years of the deal.

Neither the Devils nor Kovalchuk’s agent, Jay Grossman, immediately returned messages after the contract was rejected. Before the deal was prohibited, Devils general manager Lou

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Nation Today Missing teen found dead

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities identified a decomposed body Wednesday as that of a 17-year-old girl who was likely kidnapped while walking home from school last week in Southern California.

An autopsy confirmed the identity of Norma Lopez, but investigators would not release a cause of death.

Couple to plead guilty

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska couple is expected to plead guilty Wednesday in federal court to charges involving domestic terrorism.

Prosecutors say Paul Rockwood, Jr., also known as “Bilal,” converted to Islam about a decade ago and began studying the teachings of American-born cleric Anwar alAwlaki.

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells reporters that he acted in haste in firing Shirley Sherrod, a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative Web site, during a news conference at the Department of Agriculture in Washington Wednesday.

White House, Vilsack apologize for firing WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House did a sudden about-face Wednesday and begged for forgiveness from the black Agriculture Department employee whose ouster ignited an embarrassing political firestorm over race. She was offered a “unique opportunity” for a new job and said she was thinking it over.

With lightning speed, the controversy moved from Monday’s forced resignation of a minor U.S. Ag official in Georgia to Tuesday’s urgent discussions at the White House amid a rising public outcry and then to Wednesday’s repeated apologies and pleas for Shirley Sherrod to come back.

Sherrod said she resigned under White House pressure after the airing of a video of racial remarks she made at an NAACP gathering about events that transpired more than two decades ago. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said repeatedly on Wednesday that the decision had been his alone.

“I asked for Shirley’s forgiveness and she was gracious enough to extend it to me,” he said after reaching her by telephone.

Sherrod, in a phone interview with The Associated Press, said, “They did make an offer. I just told him I need to think about it.”

The controversy threatened to grow into more than a three-day distraction for Obama’s administration, with important midterm congressional elections nearing and partisan feelings already running high.

President Barack Obama said nothing publicly about the developments while administration officials tried to simultaneously show his concern and to distance him from the original ousting.

It all began with the airing of a video on a conservative website of Sherrod’s remarks about not doing all she could to help a white farmer.

After she was told to resign — with the NAACP declaring its approval — the situation grew more complicated when the rest of the edited video was released by the NAACP and Sherrod insisted her remarks were about reconciliation, not the stoking of racism.

By Wednesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was apologizing to Sherrod “for the entire administration” and saying that officials did not know all the facts when she was fired and should have investigated more. He said he didn’t know if the president would talk to Sherrod himself.

The president had been briefed, Gibbs said, and “he talked about the fact that a disservice had been done, an injustice had happened and, because the facts had changed, a review of the decision based on those facts should be taken.”

Said Vilsack, who also met with the Congressional Black Caucus, “This is a good woman. She’s been put through hell. ... I could have done and should have done a better job.”

“Shirley and I talked about a unique opportunity at USDA,” he said. “With all that she has seen, endured and accomplished, it would be invaluable to have her experience, commitment and record of service at USDA. I hope she considers staying with the department.”

“I accept the apology,” Sherrod said on CNN after watching Gibbs talk to reporters on television. But she said the apology took too long.

Sherrod, appointed to her job last July, was asked to resign after conservative bloggers posted a video of her saying she didn’t initially give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago, when she was working for a farmers’ aid group. Sherrod said she used the story in her speech to the NAACP to promote racial reconciliation and that the edited video distorted her remarks.

Like the administration, the NAACP reversed its stance on Sherrod and called for her to be rehired.

Sherrod said officials showed no interest in listening to her explanation when she was asked to resign. She said she was on the road Monday when USDA deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook called her and told her to pull over and submit her resignation on her Blackberry because the White House wanted her out.

Blagojevich will not tell his version of story CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich’s surprise decision not to testify after all at his corruption trial is a high-risk gamble that spared the ousted Illinois governor from a possible ordeal on the witness stand but could backfire with the jury.

Blagojevich’s defense team rested their case Wednesday without calling a single witness.

Trial lawyers said the stunning move may have caught prosecutors off guard and could force them to adjust their strategy, which included cross-examining Blagojevich and potentially offering tough rebuttal witnesses.

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Blagojevich will not face embarrassing questions about evidence that he spent $200,000 on suits while going deep in debt, used profanities to describe some of the nation’s top leaders and hid in the bathroom to avoid meetings. But jurors are unlikely to overlook the fact that defense attorneys promised for months that he would testify.

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Business/finance

THE MARKET IN REVIEW

STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

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NYSE

6,731.16 -88.88

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Cytec 49.86 UtdRentals 11.85 ChinaDEd 4.67 IFM Inv n 5.75 SFN Grp 6.65 Textron 19.65 EthanAl 14.97 ChrisBnk 6.93 CompPrdS 17.64 MorgStan 26.80

Chg +7.07 +1.28 +.47 +.55 +.55 +1.57 +1.14 +.48 +1.22 +1.58

%Chg +16.5 +12.1 +11.2 +10.6 +9.0 +8.7 +8.2 +7.4 +7.4 +6.3

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last GlobalCash 3.88 SLM Cp 10.34 ProURgBk 36.01 Stryker 46.75 GencoShip 16.18 Sparton 5.34 Schawk lf 14.37 DeltTim 40.45 WilmTr 10.39 DrxBRICBr 39.42

Chg %Chg -3.11 -44.5 -1.32 -11.3 -3.51 -8.9 -4.54 -8.9 -1.55 -8.7 -.46 -7.9 -1.15 -7.4 -3.19 -7.3 -.82 -7.3 -3.08 -7.2

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg Citigrp 3968323 3.94 -.05 S&P500ETF2435030107.07-1.41 BkofAm 1972859 13.36 -.41 SPDR Fncl 982909 14.04 -.23 DirFnBear 686527 15.98 +.73 WellsFargo 680965 26.06 +.15 FordM 659536 11.55 -.20 GenElec 638985 14.84 -.10 iShEMkts 634707 39.67 -.41 iShR2K 614953 61.24 -1.12 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

DIARY

1,015 2,052 91 3,158 144 27 4,810,853,168

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AMEX

1,846.17 -24.22

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Engex 4.64 NTS Rlty 3.75 GerovaFn 5.60 Wstmlnd pf 18.00 ChinaNet 4.68 Vringo un 2.60 NovaBayP 2.09 BreezeE 6.00 PitWVa 11.00 SCEd pfE 22.48

Chg %Chg +.39 +9.2 +.18 +5.0 +.25 +4.7 +.75 +4.3 +.18 +4.0 +.10 +4.0 +.07 +3.5 +.20 +3.4 +.35 +3.3 +.72 +3.3

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last eMagin 2.09 AoxingP rs 2.70 BovieMed 2.12 SuprmInd 2.30 Tofutti 3.24 PacGE pfE 20.63 FstWV 13.26 Vicon 4.10 OrienPap n 5.00 EngySvc un 4.03

Chg %Chg -.50 -19.3 -.24 -8.2 -.15 -6.6 -.16 -6.5 -.21 -6.1 -1.33 -6.0 -.74 -5.3 -.23 -5.3 -.26 -4.9 -.20 -4.7

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg SamsO&G 49777 1.18 -.05 NwGold g 22609 4.99 -.04 GoldStr g 22587 3.98 -.06 VantageDrl 20446 1.08 -.01 NovaGld g 16558 6.39 -.05 TrnsatlPt n 15600 2.96 -.05 NthgtM g 10023 3.00 +.09 Taseko 9982 3.97 +.03 GranTrra g 9426 5.29 -.05 ParaG&S 9100 1.33 +.06 DIARY

Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

202 284 37 523 14 5 61,191,028

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DAILY DOW JONES

NASDAQ

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last SpeedUs h 2.48 Comarco 2.57 YadkinVFn 3.07 HaupgDig 2.09 VocalT rs 16.07 TASER 4.33 TecumsehB11.36 CitzSoBk 5.79 Funtalk n 7.99 MSB Fin 8.07

Chg +.30 +.31 +.37 +.24 +1.82 +.48 +1.25 +.63 +.86 +.87

%Chg +13.8 +13.7 +13.7 +13.0 +12.8 +12.5 +12.4 +12.2 +12.1 +12.1

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg Comtech 21.30-10.00 PinnaclFn 9.37 -2.84 TianliAg n 4.25 -1.10 HancHld 28.01 -5.24 ValleyFin 3.25 -.60 SptChalB 2.38 -.41 TecOpsSv 4.25 -.69 PrognicsPh 4.28 -.63 MidPenn 7.25 -1.05 DJSP un 6.80 -.97

%Chg -31.9 -23.3 -20.6 -15.8 -15.6 -14.7 -14.0 -12.8 -12.6 -12.5

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE) Name Vol (00) Last Chg PwShs QQQ791178 44.64 -.62 Yahoo 737583 13.91 -1.29 Intel 712233 21.26 -.39 Microsoft 691948 25.12 -.36 Cisco 448255 22.56 -.49 SeagateT 414199 13.14 -1.39 Apple Inc 394291 254.24 +2.35 Oracle 379875 23.56 -.36 MicronT 365539 8.17 -.28 Comcast 348022 18.35 -.51 Advanced Declined Unchanged Total issues New Highs New Lows Volume

DIARY

667 1,963 133 2,763 26 53 2,180,753,276

10,440

Dow Jones industrials

Close: 10,120.53 Change: -109.43 (-1.1%)

2,187.33 -35.16

52-Week High Low

11,258.01 4,812.87 408.57 7,743.74 1,994.20 2,535.28 1,219.80 852.90 12,847.91 745.95

10,200 9,960

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10 DAYS

11,200 10,800

8,745.90 3,312.35 346.95 6,038.11 1,622.48 1,890.00 940.99 590.02 9,647.09 518.59

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10,120.53 -109.43 4,143.10 -59.60 380.76 -5.29 6,731.16 -88.88 1,846.17 -24.22 2,187.33 -35.16 1,069.59 -13.89 731.22 -11.13 11,197.20 -150.21 612.64 -11.60

YTD %Chg %Chg

-1.07 -1.42 -1.37 -1.30 -1.29 -1.58 -1.28 -1.50 -1.32 -1.86

-2.95 +1.06 -4.33 -6.32 +1.16 -3.61 -4.08 +.63 -3.04 -2.04

12-mo %Chg

+13.95 +22.04 +4.42 +9.42 +12.38 +13.55 +12.11 +21.73 +14.23 +15.88

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Total Assets Obj ($Mlns) NAV

Total Return/Rank Pct Min Init 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt

CI 133,927 LB 58,508 LG 58,394 IH 52,393 LG 51,938 WS 47,349 MA 46,079 LB 44,145 LB 43,384 LB 42,830 LV 37,018 FB 34,013 LV 33,997 CI 33,304 FV 33,120 CA 29,810 WS 28,582 MA 28,053 LB 27,888 CI 27,822 LB 27,667 CI 27,417 MA 27,112 LB 26,583 FG 24,666 LG 24,664 FB 23,838 LB 23,746 LV 14,815 LB 8,239 LB 3,805 GS 1,452 LV 1,066 SR 445 LG 160

+2.0 +12.6/C -4.1 +15.5/A -3.4 +10.5/D +0.2 +10.4/C -3.7 +15.0/A -1.0 +9.7/D -0.7 +16.5/A -3.8 +14.2/B -3.8 +14.4/B -2.4 +11.0/D -4.2 +14.7/B -1.2 +9.6/B -2.6 +13.8/B +1.9 +12.4/C -1.8 +12.9/A +0.1 +19.9/A -2.4 +12.5/B -1.3 +12.8/C -3.2 +12.9/C +1.9 +12.2/C -4.1 +15.6/A +1.7 +12.4/C -1.1 +12.5/C -3.8 +14.4/B -1.9 +6.2/E -4.7 +17.0/A -1.0 +9.2/B -3.8 +14.4/B -4.3 +16.5/A -3.7 +11.2/D -4.0 +12.7/C +0.2 +2.8/D -2.7 +8.5/E -6.1 +55.3/B -3.9 +9.9/D

11.36 26.51 26.06 45.86 56.90 31.02 15.11 98.57 97.94 24.50 91.30 35.65 23.66 11.36 29.98 2.04 24.21 16.03 31.22 11.36 26.51 12.26 28.31 98.58 25.50 67.15 13.37 97.94 20.32 28.76 34.02 10.44 2.83 14.90 14.19

+7.9/A -0.2/B +0.8/B +2.8/C +3.0/A +3.7/A +2.3/B -0.7/C -0.6/C +0.2/B -2.2/D +5.3/A -0.8/B +7.6/A +3.4/A +3.6/B +4.2/A +1.7/C +2.3/A +7.4/A -0.1/B +3.4/E +4.2/A -0.6/C +1.2/D +2.9/A +3.3/B -0.6/C -0.2/B +1.5/A -0.3/B +4.9/B -2.7/D -0.2/C -1.3/D

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Investors fall back after Fed chief’s testimony

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed investors’ fears that the economy has weakened. Interest rates dropped in the Treasury market as investors sought safer places for their money.

Bernanke told a congressional committee that the economy is “unusually uncertain.� He said the economy is fragile, but he did not forecast that it would fall back into recession.

The Dow Jones industrial average, which was modestly higher before Bernanke’s prepared remarks, fell 109 points as investors absorbed his assessment of the economy, and his statement that the Fed is ready to take action if the economy worsens.

The Fed is still expecting the economy to expand this year, but the central bank has lowered its forecast for growth.

Oliver Pursche, executive vice president at Gary Goldberg Financial Services, said investors took Bernanke’s comments as “not exactly a ra-ra USA type of endorsement.�

Craig Peckham, market strategist at Jefferies & Co., said stocks fell not because of anything Bernanke said, but what he didn’t say about any plans to stimulate the economy. Although Bernanke said the Fed was “prepared to take further policy actions as needed,� he also said, “we are not prepared to take any specific steps in the near term� because the Fed is still evaluating the economy.

The market fluctuated for much of the day on another mixed batch of earnings reports. John Merrill, chief investment officer of Tanglewood Wealth Management in Houston said the day was like many others recently: Very little news but lots of professional traders reacting to it.

The Dow fell 109.43, or 1.1 percent, to 10,120.53.

The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 13.89, or 1.3 percent, to 1,069.59. The Nasdaq composite index lost 35.16, or 1.6 percent, and fell to 2,187.33.

Two stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Consolidated volume came to 4.8 billion shares, up from Tuesday’s 4.7 billion.

Treasury prices surged and their yields fell as investors sought out the safety of government debt after Bernanke’s testimony. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which helps set rates on mortgages and other kinds of loans, fell to 2.88 percent from 2.96 percent late Tuesday.

A television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows Federal reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, Wednesday.

Associated Press

Fed plan: watching, waiting WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday that the outlook for the economy remains “unusually uncertain� but that the Fed plans no specific steps “in the near term� to try to fuel the struggling recovery.

Instead, Bernanke said the Fed would monitor the strength of the recovery and consider action if matters worsen.

His comments to the Senate Banking Committee sent stocks tumbling downward. The Dow Jones industrial average had been up 20 points before he spoke. It fell as much as 160 points during his testimony, but recovered some losses to close down 109 points. “If the recovery seems to be faltering, we have to at least review our options,� Bernanke told lawmakers. But he said no further action is planned for now because the economy is still growing.

Record low interest rates are still needed to bolster the economy, Bernanke said. He repeated a pledge to keep them there for an “extended period.�

The recovery, which had been flashing signs of strengthen-

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Consumers have cut spending.

Businesses, uncertain about the strength of their own sales or the economic recovery, are sitting on cash, reluctant to beef up hiring and expand operations. A stalled housing market, near double-digit unemployment and an edgy Wall Street shaken by Europe’s debt crisis are other factors playing into the economic slowdown. “In short, it look likes our economy is in need of additional help,� said the committee’s chairman, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.

Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the highest-ranking Republican on the panel, said the economic outlook has become a “bit more cloudy.�

Bernanke downplayed the odds that the economy will slide back into a “double-dip� recession. But he acknowledged the recovery is fragile.

Given that, the Fed is “prepared to take further policy actions as needed� to keep the recovery on track, he said.

Bernanke said Fed policymakers haven’t settled on “lead-

ing options� but they are being explored. Those options include lowering the rate the Fed pays banks to keep money parked at the Fed, strengthening the pledge to hold rates at record lows and reviving some crisisera programs, Bernanke said.

Bernanke is trying to send a positive message that the recovery will last in the face of growing threats. At the same time, he wants to assure Americans that the Fed will take new stimulative actions if necessary.

With little appetite in Congress to provide a major new stimulus package, more pressure falls on Bernanke to keep the recovery going.

Bernanke and his Fed colleagues have cut their forecasts for growth this year.

If the recovery were to flash serious signs of backsliding, the Fed could revive programs to buy mortgage securities or government debt. It could cut to zero the interest rate paid to banks on money left at the Fed or lower the rate banks pay for emergency Fed loans. The Fed also could create a new program to spark more lending to businesses and consumers in a bid to lure them to ratchet up spending and grow the economy.

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Nation

Obama signs financial overhaul bill into law WASHINGTON (AP) — Reveling over a new milestone in his presidency, a triumphant Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression, adding safeguards for millions of consumers and aiming to restrain Wall Street excesses that could set off a new recession.

sharp, lasting imprints on the nation’s politics and in Americans’ homes.

In a heated midterm election season that has put a dent in his public support, Obama sought to put the complex law in pocketbook terms. Emphasizing provisions that guard borrowers from abusive lenders, he claimed “the strongest financial protections for consumers in the nation’s history.�

Not everyone agreed.

Republicans portrayed the bill as a burden on small banks and the businesses that rely on them and argued that it will cost consumers and actually impede job growth.

The law, approved by a Congress mostly divided along partisan lines, represents the most ambitious effort to clamp down on banks and the financial markets since the Great Depression. It attempts to catch up to a system that has sped ahead of regulation and that, in many instances, has allowed traders and others to benefit from decades of slackened rules.

are only at a midpoint.

Banking and market regulators will have up to two years to write many of the new regulations required by the law, extending uncertainty and ushering in a new phase of lobbying by financial firms. “Regulators will have to be vigilant,� Obama said.

The president sought to quell public anger over the $700 billion bank rescue fund the government created at the height of the crisis to reassure the markets. While the infusion is credited with providing stability, the public recoiled at the idea of taxpayer money being used to help prop up huge banks.

The law gives regulators new authority to liquidate large, interconnected financial firms that are failing. “Because of this law, the American people will never be asked again to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes,� Obama said. “There will be no more tax-funded bailouts, period.�

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Wall Street’s near collapse, Obama said, “was a crisis born of a failure of responsibility from certain corners of Wall Street to the halls of power in Washington.�

The new rules, however,

The law, however, does permit the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to borrow taxpayer money from the Treasury temporarily to help cover the costs of winding down a large firm. Other large banks would have to pay the Treasury back over time.

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DOJ: Prosecutor firing was politics, not a crime

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A poster that explains ways to file for unemployment insurance benefits is shown as job seekers look for work at the JobTrain employment office in Menlo Park, Calif., Tuesday. Legislation to restore unemployment benefits to millions who have been out of work for more than six months passed in the Senate Wednesday.

Senate passes jobless benefits extension bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — State unemployment agencies are gearing up to resume sending unemployment payments to millions of people as Congress moves to ship President Barack Obama a measure to restore lapsed benefits.

After months of increasingly bitter stalemate, the Senate passed the measure Wednesday by a 59-39 vote.

Obama is poised to sign the measure into law after a final House vote on Thursday.

It’s a welcome relief to 2 1/2 million people who been out of work for six months or more have seen their benefits lapse.

Under best-case scenarios, unemployed people who have been denied jobless benefits because of a partisan Senate standoff over renewing them can expect retroactive payments as early as next week in some states. In other states, it will take longer.

State unemployment and labor agencies have been preparing for weeks for Congress to restore jobless payments averaging $309 a week for almost 5 million people whose 26 weeks of state benefits have run out.

Those people are enrolled in a federally financed program providing up to 73 additional weeks of unemployment benefits.

About half of those eligible have had their benefits cut off since funding expired June 2. They are eligible for lump sum retroactive payments that are typically delivered directly to their bank accounts or credited to state-issued debit cards.

In states like Pennsylvania and New York, the back payments should go out next week, officials said. In others, like Nevada, it may take a few weeks for all of those eligible to receive benefits, said Mae Worthey, a spokesman for the Department of Employment, Training and

Rehabilitation.

In North Carolina, Employment and Income Department spokesman Andrew James says to expect a wait of two to six weeks.

The Senate continued debating the measure a full day after a GOP filibuster was defeated by a 60-40 vote.

Senate rules required 30 hours of debate, but missing no opportunity to seize a political edge, Democrats attacked Republicans for not waiving them and requiring an additional day of debate.

“Republicans are declaring an allout war on unemployed Americans,” said Jim Manley, spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. In fact, the measure could have been passed months ago had Democrats not insisted on coupling it with a host of other, more controversial legislation, such as tax increases on hedge fund managers and on some small businesses that were used to pay to renew a popular package of tax breaks for individuals and businesses.

The resulting delays required two temporary unemployment insurance extensions — one came only after a lapse in coverage because Reid adjourned the Senate for its two-week Easter recess rather than engage in a time-consuming battle with Republicans. Benefits were restored retroactively.

Democrats have become more aggressive in attacking the GOP for opposing the measure, which has been stripped down so that it’s essentially limited to a $34 billion, six-month renewal of unemployment insurance for the chronically jobless.

Republicans say they support the benefits extension but insist any benefits be financed by cuts to programs elsewhere in the $3.7 trillion federal budget.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration’s Justice Department’s actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges.

The decision closes the books on one of the lingering political disputes of the Bush administration, one that Democrats said was evidence of GOP politics run amok and that Republicans have always said was a manufactured controversy.

Investigators looked into whether the Bush administration improperly dismissed nine U.S. attorneys, and in particular New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, as a way to influence criminal cases. The scandal added to mounting criticism that the administration had politicized the Justice Department, a charge that contributed to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

In 2008, the Justice Department assigned Nora Dannehy, a career prosecutor from Connecticut with a history of rooting out government wrongdoing, to investigate the firings.

“Evidence did not demonstrate that any prosecutable criminal offense was committed with regard to the removal of David Iglesias,” the Justice Department said in a letter to lawmakers Wednesday. “The investigative team also determined that the evidence did not warrant expanding the scope of the investigation beyond the removal of Iglesias.”

Prosecutors also said there was insufficient evidence to charge someone with lying to Congress or investigators.

Iglesias was fired after the head of New Mexico’s Republican Party complained to the White House that Iglesias was soft on voter fraud. He asked that Iglesias be replaced so that the state could “make some real progress in cleaning up a state notorious for crooked elections.”

Harriet Miers, then White House counsel, told lawmakers that presidential political adviser Karl Rove was “very agitated” over Iglesias “and

wanted something done about it.”

Rove has said he played no role in deciding which U.S. attorneys were fired, that the firings weren’t politically motivated and that he never sought to influence prosecutions.

Dannehy faulted the Justice Department for firing Iglesias without even bothering to figure out whether complaints about him were true. That indicated “an undue sensitivity to politics on the part of DOJ officials who should answer not to partisan politics but to principles of fairness and justice,” the Justice Department wrote in its letter.

But that was not a crime, and was not an effort to influence prosecutions, the letter said.

Gonzales’ lawyer, George Terwilliger, called the conclusion long overdue.

“Those who made unwarranted allegations to the contrary owe him an apology,” Terwilliger said. “After having spent months cooperating with inquiries that produced no evidence of his wrongdoing, Judge Gonzales is pleased to be free to resume a career marked to date by service to the public.”

Former Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., also became a focus of the investigation because he made three phone calls to the attorney general and one to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty complaining about Iglesias. McNulty didn’t mention Domenici’s phone calls when questioned by Congress, leading to accusations over a coverup.

Dannehy concluded that Domenici’s push to have Iglesias fired was in part politically motivated but did not violate the law.

Iglesias also said Domenici called him and pressured him to bring charges in a public corruption case before Election Day 2006.

The Senate Ethics Committee said Domenici created an appearance of impropriety with that phone call, and he apologized.

Dannehy said there was not enough evidence to show that phone call was either an attempt to pressure Iglesias to accelerate the case or a threat that if he didn’t, he’d lose his job.

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Feelings are burden for bisexual Dear Abby: I am a 20-year-old female who has recently come to terms with the fact that I am bisexual. My problem lies in the fact that I am strongly attracted to one of my best friends. I have liked her for several years, and she is a large part of the reason I discovered I was bisexual. I know she is straight and won’t ever feel the same about me, but every time I’m around her, my romantic feelings for her start up again. Is there any way I can still be friends with her without being so intensely attracted to her? — Attracted Dear Attracted: You can do something about your actions, but not about your feelings. You will probably always be attracted to your friend. You will be less attracted — and better able to handle your feelings — once you have become involved with someone else.

Dear Abby: I have been seeing “Rodney” for four months. He is very nice, and we get along well. My problem is I am not totally attracted to him because of some dental issues. Shortly after we started dating he told me he chews tobacco, which has contributed to his yellowing teeth. Because of this I find it hard to kiss him. Rodney has noticed it, but I told him I am not big on kissing — which is really not

Dear Abby Abigail van Buren

the case.

How should I approach the subject with Rodney? This issue keeps me from completely falling for him.

Please offer me some advice if you can. — Turned Off Dear Turned Off: If you truly care about Rodney, confront the subject directly, because if he doesn’t do something about his addiction to tobacco, your romance won’t last.

Tell him you weren’t honest about how you feel about kissing and that his breath and yellow teeth have kept you from fully enjoying it.

Most people don’t realize how dangerous and addictive chewing tobacco is. Studies show that the amount of nicotine in the bloodstream of “chewers” is twice as great as for smokers. Chewing tobacco is a cause for cancer of the mouth, lip, tongue, cheek and throat, heart disease, tooth decay and receding gums, as well as halitosis (bad breath).

Nicotine gum can help Rodney quit and possibly save his life. So speak up — for his sake. And yours.

Differences between two diabetes Dear Dr. Gott: What is the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?

Dear Reader: Diabetes is a disorder in which blood-glucose levels are above normal. People develop diabetes either because the pancreas doesn’t produce adequate insulin or because the cells in the muscles, liver and fat don’t use insulin properly. This results is glucose remaining in the blood and elevating levels at the same time cells crave the energy necessary to function properly.

There are two types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, with the latter being most common. Type 1 indicates a person is dependent on insulin and requires regular injections that are self-administered because the body fails to produce enough, if any, insulin.

This form generally develops before the age of 30 and affects about 10 percent of all diabetics.

Type 2, on the other hand, signifies insulin resistance. These people produce adequate insulin levels, but the body is unable to use it properly. Some may

Puzzle

Ask Dr. Gott Dr. Peter M. Gott even need insulin injections in order to stimulate the pancreas. This form can occur in people of all ages and is more prevalent in obese people, Hispanics and Native Americans.

Some cases of type 2 diabetes have a strong genetic basis while others do not.

There does appear to be hereditary susceptibility, but this is not always the case in those who develop diabetes.

Symptoms include fatigue, an increase in hunger and thirst, blurred vision and skin ulcers that don’t heal well.

Complications can be serious and can include heart disease, stroke, poor vision, kidney failure, nerve damage, poor circulation and a host of other conditions.

IN THE STARS Your Birthday, July 22; You could reach new heights in your chosen field of endeavor.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) - This is one of those days where hard work could pay off.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) - You’ll enjoy life a lot better today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) - Don’t believe people who tell you profit is a dirty word.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) - You shouldn’t be intimidated.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) - Conditions that require you to prove yourself will awaken your ambitions today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) - That wonderful charm you possess will turn sour faces into smiles today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) - What you have going for you today is far greater than anything opposing you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) - You must first have confidence in yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) - Benefits you weren’t seeking might be granted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) - Get involved in some kind of social activity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) - Shift your needs to second place today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) - Steer clear of pessimistic people as much as you can.

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Lost

10 yr old Red/Brown Miniature Pinscher last seen near St. Francis Cemetary, Rfdtn. on 7/3/10 Tail is docked but ears are not. 864- 463-9043 or 828-438-5048

Male Brown & white pup with crystal blue eyes. Lost 7/17 in Forest City from Sycamore St. Call 447-7065 Missing 7/19 on Centennial Rd. black/white/brown, med size, m dog. Red collar w/blue ID. 287-0716 or 289-0730

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Found

FOUND in FC small mix brown and white Chihuahua, female.

Call 248-2161

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ARAGE /ESTATE SALES

0151 Garage/Estate Sales

2 FAMILY Shiloh Community: 1794 Poors Ford Rd. Sat. 7A-until Clothes for men/women & children, household items, furniture, toys, etc.

2 YARD SALES Union Mills: Coney Island Rd. (near UMFD) Fri. & Sat. 8A-until Clothes, household, furniture, and lots more!

BIG YARD SALE Rfdtn: 213 Youngs Dr. (behind Farm & Garden Center off 64) Saturday 7A-until Books, toys, clothes, etc.

0151 Garage/Estate Sales DRIVEWAY SALE Rfdtn: 116 Fox Meadow Dr. Saturday 7:30A-3:00P Furniture, household, kids games/toys, clothes, camping and exercise equipment, outdoor furn. lots more items!

Huge moving Sale: Rftdn. Fri. & Sat. 8A-5P. Furniture, men and women clothing, antiques, dishware, quilts, patio furn., everything in great cond, misc.

From Rfdtn take 221N to Gilkey School Rd turn left and follow signs.

HUGE FC: Lakeside Dr. (Near Bethany Church Rd) Sat. 7A Golf clubs, curio, plus size futon, games, DVD's lots more!

Huge: Yard Sale, FC, 158 South Ridge Dr., Fri. & Sat. 6A-1P. Call James for directions. 828-305-5228

Moving Sale: 1758 Chase High Rd near high school, Sat. 6:30A-until. Antiques, exercise equip., crystal, furn., toys and much more Multi-family: 212 Oakland Rd. Fri. 8A-until & Sat. 6A-until.

Too much to list Rfdtn: 177 Cherry Mountain St., behind RS Middle School, Fri. & Sat. 8A-Noon Bassinet, kids clothes, furniture, bedspread, pictures, etc

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MPLOYMENT

0208

Big Yard Sale: Ellenboro, 828 Beams Mills Rd. Sat. 7A-until Children's clothes, books, what knots, misc items

Sales

Marketing Asst, acct. helpful. PO Box 1000, Rutherfordton, NC 28139

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of MALON STEVE NEWTON of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said MALON STEVE NEWTON to present them to the undersigned on or before the 1st day of October, 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 1st day of July, 2010.

Christine Newton Wilson, Administrator 575 Cactus Lane Clover, SC 29710

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as Executrix of the estate of William Hartman Shapiro, deceased, late of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against said Estate to present them, duly verified, to the undersigned, c/o Kenneth F. Essex, Essex Richards, P.A., 1701 South Boulevard, Charlotte, North Carolina 28203, on or before the October 8, 2010, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said Estate will please make immediate settlement with the undersigned.

This is the 1st day of July, 2010.

Judith Calderwood Shapiro Executrix of the Estate of William Hartman Shapiro c/o Kenneth F. Essex Essex Richards, P.A. 1701 South Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28203

0212

Professional

Cliffside Area Fire Depart. seeking a FT paid firefighter.

Requirements: Level I, II, 1403, EMT State Certified, computer knowledge a plus.

Send resume to: PO Box 727, Cliffside, NC 28024 by Aug. 2 Families Together Inc. seeking provisional or licensed therapist to provide Intensive In Home Services to the community of Rutherford County. Flexible schedule, rotating on call, ability to work from home, salary and benefits. Please email resume to humanresources@ familiestogether.net or visit our website @ www.familiestogether.net

0220

Medical/Dental

St. Luke's Hospital is currently hiring for the following positions: Full Time Operating Room RN, strong OR experience required - Part Time Certified Surgical Tech, OR experience required Our service lines include: General Surgery, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology and Urology.

Minimum 2-5 years experience. Please forward resumes to: sandybulleit@saintlukes hospital.com Willow Ridge Rehabilitation Center needs a strong RN Staff Development Coordinator full time M-F Strong long term care management and SDC experience required. Must be an RN and demonstrate leadership, organizational ability and excellent interpersonal skills. Apply in person at 237 Tryon Rd., Rutherfordton, NC fax resume to 828-287-3668 or e-mail to admin@willowridge rehab.com EOE

0232

General Help

Volunteer Firefighter Opportunity Cliffside Area Fire Dept. which has served its community for more than 50 years is seeking to add volunteer firefighters to its roster. If you seek volunteering to serve your community in this area and willing to train as a firefighter, emergency rescue or emergency medical responder. Send resume to: Volunteer Firefighter, PO BOX 727, Cliffside, NC 28024 Requirements: Must be 21 years of age, have a valid NC Drivers license, and live within Cliffside Fire Tax District.

0236

Industrial Trade

Industrial Painters now available in Forest City area.

Call 704-671-2337 Fax 704-671-2334

0244

Trucking

Truck Service, Inc.

is hiring Part-Time & Casual CDL Drivers to join our fleet of Professional Drivers.

If you still have the desire and ability to travel the country but don't have the need to work on a full-time basis, we have the opportunity for YOU!! ONLY PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS with 2 yrs. verifiable experience & clean driving record need to apply.

Call Truck Service at 828-245-1637 ext.

125 & talk to Rita.

0272

0276

Business Opportunity

Ground Floor Home Based Business Opportunity.

828-453-9946 or http://www.longevity. akealife.com

0288

Elderly Care

Someone to sit w/healthy elderly lady. 3 days/wk., 24 hrs. day. Must be at least 60 yrs. old. 429-1382 lv msg.

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ETS

0320

Cats/Dogs/Pets

Free Male Kitten about 1 yr. or younger. Owner moved.

Part of tail is missing. Needs loving home. 704-469-8685

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ERCHANDISE

0518

Electronics

Lawn & Garden Equipment

Like new Gasoline String Trimmer $35 245-9987

0542

Building Materials

REMODELING? FOR SALE: 472 SQFT OF LAMINATE FLOORING STILL IN BOXES. Natural hickory plank. Made by Quickstep, 30 yr. warranty, 5 day water guarantee. Paid $1773 - $3.47 sqft., willing to sell for $1,000. Contact Jeremy 704-477-5857

0554 Wanted to Rent/Buy/ Trade

BUYING GOLD AND SILVER

People Seeking Employment

Work Wanted: In Home Sitter Mostly 1st shift, possible PT 3rd. 21 yrs. exp. 287-0473

Junk Cars Wanted Paying $200 per vehicle.

Call Jamie Fender (828) 286-4194 Want to Buy used mobile home in good condition!

Call 828-447-2948

0563 Misc. Items for Sale For sale: Canning Jars Quarts, Pints, Half Pints. No lids. Best offer! 828-657-6380 Used factory built cabinets, vanities, microwaves, sinks, kitchen stoves, oak tables.

828-305-0464

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EAL ESTATE FOR RENT

0620

PlayStation 2 w/8 basketball video games, Guitar Hero World Tour & Guitar Hero 5. $250 Call 245-8341

0521

0554 Wanted to Rent/Buy/ Trade

Scrap gold, coins, flatware, any cond.

Best prices in town!

Call 828-447-2530

NOTICE Pursuant to NCGS 160A-271, the Rutherford County Board of Commissioners announces its consideration of an exchange of an approximate 1.5 acre tract of land valued at approximately $6,000 per acre for a total value of approximately $9,000. This value is consistent with the appraised value from the North Carolina Department of Transportation for 5.737 acres at $6,000 per acre of county property on the contiguous tract. The 1.5 acre tract is located off of US Highway 221 on the northwestern boundary line of the real property owned by Rutherford County described in Deed Book 845, Page 550, Rutherford County Registry. The 1.5 acre tract will be offered to James Kenneth Cole, Jr. in exchange for a 20 year lease renewable for an additional 20 years for an approximate .76 acre tract of road frontage being a portion of the property owned by James Kenneth Cole, Jr. (Deed Book 704, Page 14, Rutherford County Registry) and said lease will include an option to purchase all or a portion of said property at any time for $1.00. In addition, James Kenneth Cole, Jr. shall grant unto Rutherford County a perpetual easement across the approximate .76 acre tract being leased and the remaining land of James Kenneth Cole, Jr. which lies between the leased premises and US Highway 221 which coincides with a control access point designated by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. In addition, Rutherford County shall be granted all rights to determine use of the referenced control access point. The County has determined that the .76 acre tract has highway frontage on the future four-lane Highway 221 of 500 feet plus or minus and additional invaluable access to Rutherford Countyʼs .76 acre potential future industrial park and has a value equal to or in excess of $9,000. A copy of a survey showing the properties to be exchanged can be viewed at the office of the Clerk to the Board of Commissioners at the Rutherford County Annex, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, North Carolina 28139.

The Rutherford County Board of Commissioners intends to consider authorizing said exchange at the next regular scheduled County Commissionersʼ Meeting on August 2, 2010 at 6:00 PM at the Rutherford County Office Building, 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton, NC.

2BR/1BA House in Spindale.

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE NO. 10-CVD-754 VANDERBILT MORTGAGE AND FINANCE, INC. Plaintiff vs.

IRENE BOONE, DAVID JAY HILL, Defendant.

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Money owed, attorney's fees, possession of a 1998 Horton manufactured home bearing serial no. H152606GLR together with air conditioner, range and refrigerator, and court costs.

You are required to make a defense to such pleading not later than 40 days after the first date of the publication of this notice yielding a deadline of August 24, 2010 and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought.

Dated: July 12, 2010 _________________________ Jay B. Green Attorney for Plaintiff 908 E. Edenton Street Raleigh, North Carolina 27601 Telephone: 919-829-0797

This is to inform the public of the opportunity to attend a public hearing on the proposed Rural Operating Assistance Program (ROAP) application to be submitted to the North Carolina Department of Transportation no later than August 13, 2010 by the county of Rutherford. The public hearing will be held on August 2nd, 2010 at 6:00 at the Rutherford County commissioners meeting in the Rutherford County Office Building located at 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton.

Rutherford County will provide auxiliary aids and services under the ADA for disabled persons who wish to participate in the hearing. Anyone requiring special services should contact Gene Adair, Transportation Director, 287-6153 as soon as possible so that arrangements can be made.

The programs included in the Rural Operating Assistance Program application are: Elderly & Disabled Transportation Assistance (EDTAP) Program provides operating assistance for the transportation of elderly and disabled citizens.

Employment Transportation Assistance Program is intended to provide operating assistance for the transportation of persons with employment related transportation needs.

Rural General Public (RGP) Program funds are intended to provide operating assistance for the transportation of individuals who do not have human service agency assistance to pay for their transportation and live in non-urbanized areas.

The period of performance for Rural Operating Assistance Program funds is July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. The FY2011 ROAP individual program totals are: PROGRAM EDTAP EMPL RGP Supplemental EDTAP Supplemental EMPL Supplemental RGP TOTAL

TOTAL $56,419 $14,613 $51,703 $32,521 $18,329 $45,809 $219,394

This application may be inspected at the Rutherford County Transit Office located at 294 Fairground Road, Spindale from Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. Written comments should be directed to Gene Adair at the above address before August 13, 2010.

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1 APARTMENT (3 UNITS) 2BR/1.5BA newly remodeled/updated Chase Middle area $450/mo. + deposit 828-980-1700

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Call 828-248-1681 2BR & 3BR in quiet park $350-$400/mo.

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Book Store For Sale on Main St., Rfdtn. Shelves and 10,000 books. Very old and new books. $5,000. Rent on space $550/mo. includes utilities.

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05 Infiniti G35 40,750 miles $13,500 828-429-6962

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2006 HONDA Rancher ES, asking $3,000. 828-748-2195

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Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of LARRY STEVEN SPLAWN of Rutherford County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said LARRY STEVEN SPLAWN to present them to the undersigned on or before the 1st day of October 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 1st day of July, 2010.

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Foreclosure of Real Property Under Deed of Trust from William R. Breen, Jr. and wife, Noelia Delrio-Breen, payable to MOUNTAINBANK - Forest City, dated September 16, 2003, and recorded on September 16, 2003 in Book 754, Page 300, Rutherford County Registry; Assignment to 2002 Burton Family Trust - Disclaimer dated December 31, 2009 and recorded on January 6, 2010 in Book 996, Page 85, Rutherford County Registry Current Owner(s): William R. Breen, Jr. Peter E. Lane, Substitute Trustee NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Pursuant to an order entered July 7, 2010, by the Assistant Clerk of Superior Court for Rutherford County, and the power of sale contained in the captioned deed of trust (the “Deed of Trust”), the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at auction, to the highest bidder for cash, AT THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY COURTHOUSE DOOR IN RUTHERFORDTON, RUTHERFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA ON JULY 28, 2010 AT 12:00 NOON the real estate and the improvements thereon secured by the Deed of Trust, the real estate lying and being in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Situate, lying and being in Chimney Rock Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being the same and identical property described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 773, Page 108, Rutherford County Registry, and being described according to said Deed as follows: SITUATE, lying and being in Chimney Rock Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and lying South of US Highway 64/74A and North of the Rocky Broad River and being a portion of Tract 2 of the property described in Deed Book 674, Page 491 and being described in accordance with a plat of survey done by Professional Surveying Services dated July 16, 2000 as follows: Beginning at an existing iron pin located on the Southern edge of the pavement of US Highway 64/74A, said beginning existing iron pin being located South 83 degrees 18 minutes 28 seconds East 271.59 feet from a control concrete monument set for Chimney Rock Village, and running thence from said beginning existing iron pin running along and with the Highway on the following calls: North 71 degrees 11 minutes 46 seconds East 20.22 feet to a point; thence North 69 degrees 35 minutes 40 seconds East 41.85 feet to a point; thence North 61 degrees 40 minutes 50 seconds East 228.10 feet to a point; thence North 62 degrees 05 minutes 48 seconds East 182.80 feet to a point; thence North 69 degrees 53 minutes 19 seconds East 16.39 feet to a point; thence North 79 degrees 34 minutes 45 seconds East 52.89 feet to a point; thence South 86 degrees 36 minutes 09 seconds East 104.22 feet to a point; thence North 87 degrees 16 minutes 38 seconds East 56.94 feet to a point; thence North 82 degrees 40 minutes 41 seconds East 111.08 feet to a point; thence North 88 degrees 45 minutes 36 seconds East 49.32 feet to a point; thence South 75 degrees 53 minutes 26 seconds East 47.23 feet to a point; thence South 57 degrees 08 minutes 24 seconds East 47.16 feet to a point; thence South 38 degrees 45 minutes 13 seconds East 57.18 feet to a point; thence South 49 degrees 26 minutes 48 seconds East 66.95 feet to a point; thence South 70 degrees 54 minutes 27 seconds East 58.62 feet to a point; thence South 68 degrees 51 minutes 19 seconds East 101.69 feet to a point; thence leaving the highway and running South 28 degrees 49 minutes 03 seconds West 155.82 feet to a point in Rocky Broad River; thence running along and with the River as it meanders on the following courses and distances: North 47 degrees 52 minutes 51 seconds West 136.36 feet to a point; thence North 48 degrees 00 minutes 12 seconds West 55.38 feet to a point; thence North 32 degrees 52 minutes 55 seconds West 116.86 feet to a point; thence North 87 degrees 50 minutes 51 seconds West 55.29 feet to a point; thence South 88 degrees 05 minutes 33 seconds West 180.48 feet to a point; thence North 69 degrees 37 minutes 21 seconds West 106.85 feet to a point; thence South 68 degrees 11 minutes 33 seconds West 51.28 feet to a point; thence South 38 degrees 34 minutes 09 seconds West 242.16 feet to a point; thence South 52 degrees 42 minutes 03 seconds West 273.22 feet to a point; thence leaving the River and running on the following calls: North 31 degrees 39 minutes 34 seconds West 102.70 feet to an existing iron pin; thence North 34 degrees 21 minutes 21 seconds West 41.28 feet to an existing iron pin; thence North 16 degrees 56 minutes 44 seconds West 72.14 feet to the point and place of beginning and containing 3.06 acres, more or less.

See copy of plat attached to Breen Deed in Deed Book 773, Page 108, Rutherford County Registry.

Property location: U. S. Highway 64/74A, Chimney Rock, North Carolina A five percent cash deposit, or a cash deposit of $750.00, whichever is greater, will be required of the last and highest bidder. The balance of the bid purchase price shall be due in full in cash or certified funds at a closing to take place within thirty (30) days of the date of sale. The undersigned Substitute Trustee shall convey title to the property by non-warranty deed.

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 will be made subject to all prior liens of record, if any, and to all unpaid ad valorem taxes and special assessments, if any, which became a lien subsequent to the recordation of the Deed of Trust. This sale will be further subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days following the date when the final upset bid period has run.

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AVISO DE AUDIENCIA PÚBLICA ROAP FY2011 Esto es para informarle al público sobre la oportunidad de atender una audiencia pública sobre la aplicación propuesta del Programa de Ayuda para el Operativo Rural (ROAP) que será sometido al Departamento de Transporte de Carolina del Norte a más tardar el 13 de agosto de 2010 por el Condado de Rutherford. La audiencia pública será el 2 de agosto de 2010 a las 6:00 en la junta de los Comisionados en el edificio de la Oficina del Condado Rutherford que está localizado en 289 North Main Street, Rutherfordton. El Condado de Rutherford proporcionará ayuda auxiliar y servicios bajo el ADA para personas discapacitadas quienes desean participar en la audiencia. Cualquier persona que requiere servicios especiales debe de comunicarse con Gene Adair, Directora de Transporte, 287-6153 lo más pronto posible para que los arreglos puedan ser hechos.

Los programas incluidos en la applicación para el Programa de Ayuda para el Operativo Rural son: Progrma de Ayuda con Transporte Para Mayores y Discapacitados (EDTAP) que provee ayuda operativa para el transparte de ciudadanos mayores y discapacitados.

Programa de Ayuda con Transporte para el Empleo que pretende proveer ayuda operativa para el transporte de personas con necesidades relacionadas al empleo.

Los fondos del Programa para el Público General Rural (RGP) son pretendidos para proporcionar ayuda operativa para el transporte de individuos quienes no tienen la ayuda de agencias de servicios humanos para pagar por su transporte y viven en áreas no urbanizadas.

El período de rendimiento para los fondos del Programa de Ayuda para el Operativo Rural es el 1 de julio de 2010 hasta el 30 de junio de 2011. Los totales de cada programa individual de FY2011 ROAP son: PROGRAMA EDTAP EMPL RGP Supplemental EDTAP Supplemental EMPL Supplemental RGP TOTAL

TOTAL $56,419 $14,613 $51,703 $32,521 $18,329 $45,809 $219,394

Esta aplicación puede ser inspeccionada en la Oficina de Tránsito del Condado de Rutherford localizada en 294 Fairground Road, Spindale de lunes a viernes, de 8:00 a.m. hasta las 5:00 p.m. Los comentarios escritos deben de ser dirigidos a Gene Adair en la dirección escrita arriba antes del 13 de agosto de 2010.

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CLASSIFIEDS! STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION FILE NO. 10 CVD 460 THE COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD PLAINTIFF, VS. All assignees, heirs at law, and devisees of CAROLYN W. BOYCE together with all her creditors and lien holders regardless of how or through whom they claim, and any and all persons claiming any interest in the estate of CAROLYN W. BOYCE, and BELINDA WATKINS LITTLEJOHN DEFENDANTS, and WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., and RUTHERFORD INTERNAL MEDICINE, P.A. DEFENDANT LIENHOLDERS. NOTICE OF SALE

If the Substitute 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 Substitute Trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee, in his sole discretion, if he believes 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.

Under and by virtue of an order of the Clerk of Court of Rutherford County, North Carolina, made and entered in the action entitled “The County of Rutherford vs. Carolyn W. Boyce, et al” the undersigned commissioner will on the 6th day of August, 2010 offer for sale and sell for cash to the last and highest bidder at public auction, on the steps of the Rutherford County Courthouse located on Main Street, Rutherfordton, North Carolina 28139, at 10:00 a.m. the following described real property, lying and being in Cool Springs Township, State and County aforesaid, and more particularly described as follows:

The purchaser of the property described above shall pay the Clerk’s Commission in the amount of $.45 per $100.00 of the purchase price (up to a maximum amount of $500.00), required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). If purchaser of the above described property is someone other than the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust, the purchaser shall also pay, to the extent applicable, the land transfer tax.

Situate, lying and being in Forest City, Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and lying on the eastern side of Astrid Lane and being Lot #17 of the Hidden Valley Subdivision as shown on Plat Book 10 Page 13 and being the same property as that described in Deed Book 516 Page 620 and being described in accordance with a new plat of surveying done by Jack Davis, May 11, 1994 as follows:

To the extent this sale involves residential property with less than fifteen (15) rental units, you are hereby notified of the following: a. An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to Section 45-21.29 of the North Carolina General Statutes 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; and b. 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. 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 sale will be made subject to all prior liens of record, if any, and to all unpaid ad valorem taxes and special assessments, if any, which became a lien subsequent to the recordation of the Deed of Trust. This sale will be further subject to the right, if any, of the United States of America to redeem the above-described property for a period of 120 days following the date when the final upset bid period has run.

This 7th day of July, 2010.

By:________________________ Peter E. Lane, Substitute Trustee 131 East Court Street PO Box 1519 Rutherfordton, NC 28139

BEGINNING at a new iron stake set on the eastern right of way edge of Astrid Lane, said beginning new iron stake being located South 36 degrees 45 minutes 28 seconds East 130.83 feet from a PK nail set in the centerline of the intersection of Astrid Lane with Mountain View Street, said beginning new iron stake also being the common westernmost corner of Lot 17 and Lot 16, and running thence from said beginning new iron stake along and with the Lot 16 boundary North 67 degrees 24 minutes 00 seconds East 141.79 feet to a new iron stake located in the Lot 19 boundary; thence leaving Lot 16 and running along and with Lot 19 South 33 degrees 44 minutes 32 seconds East 45.74 feet to a new iron stake, said stake being the common westernmost corner of tot 19 and Lot 20; thence leaving the Lot 19 boundary and running along and with Lot 20 boundary South 22 degrees 22 minutes 43 seconds East 50.00 feet to a new iron stake, said new iron stake being the northeasternmost corner of Lot 18; thence leaving the Lot 20 boundary and running along and with the Lot 18 boundary South 67 degrees 21 minutes 12 seconds West 150.44 feet to an existing iron stake located in the eastern right of way edge of Astrid Lane; thence leaving the Lot 18 boundary and running along and with the eastern right of way edge of Astrid Lane North 22 degrees 36 minutes 00 seconds West 95.00 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING and containing 0.3236 acres more or less. Tax Map 221-5-9.

The sale shall be made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, restrictions, easements, and covenants of record and special assessments, if any. A deposit of five (5%) percent of the successful bid or Seven Hundred Fifty ($750.00) Dollars, whichever is greater, will be required.

This the 13th day of July, 2010. ________________________________ Elizabeth T. Miller, Commissioner

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Abbas wants U.S. New N. Korea sanctions coming vision of borders JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wants the U.S. to spell out its views on the borders of a Palestinian state before resuming direct negotiations with Israel, an adviser said Wednesday, raising a condition that Israel is unlikely to accept.

President Barack Obama’s envoy, George Mitchell, has been mediating low-key indirect talks for weeks, but no progress has been reported. Israel and the U.S. believe direct negotiations should resume, but the Palestinians are reluctant.

Talks ended in late 2008 without agreement on an Israeli proposal for a Palestinian state that would comprise Gaza, about 95 percent of the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem, with exchanges of land to make up the difference and a corridor through Israel linking the two territories. Israel also agreed to take in some refugees, but not the millions Palestinians count.

Abbas has insisted that the negotiations must resume with the Israeli offer back on the table, but the current leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has withdrawn it.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Obama administration moved Wednesday to push new sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates showed solidarity with South Korea during a visit to the area that separates it from the North.

Clinton announced the new measures — targeting the sale or purchase of arms and related goods used to fund the communist regime’s nuclear activities, and the acquisition of luxury items to reward its elite — after she and Gates toured the heavily fortified border in a symbolic trip four months after the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the North.

The penalties are intended to further isolate the already hermetic North and persuade its leaders to return to talks aimed at getting it to abandon atomic weapons. The U.S. is also trying to forestall future provocative acts like the torpedoing of the Cheonan, which killed 46 South Korean sailors.

With specifics of the sanctions still being worked out, the more striking demonstra-

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Under sporadic downpours and the watchful gaze of curious North Korean guards, they paid tribute to the U.S., South Korean and international forces that patrol the world’s last Cold War-era border. Sixty years after the fighting began, the peninsula remains divided in a state of war because the conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

At one point, in the Military Armistice Commission building where officials from North Korea and the U.N. Command meet for talks, Clinton and Gates stood briefly on North Korean soil while a North Korean solider peered at them through a window.

Gates said the visit was intended “to send a strong signal to the North, to the region and to the world that our commitment to South Korea’s security is steadfast.”

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Both Gates and Clinton noted that since the Korean War, the South has become a major economic power while the North has stagnated under international isolation.

“Although it may be a thin line, these two places are worlds apart,” Clinton said, referring to the three-mile deep buffer zone that stretches from east to west and lies just 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the South Korean capital. She urged North Korea to turn away from the isolation that has left its people suffering.

“We continue to send a message to the North: There is another way. There is a way that can benefit the people of the North,” she said. “But until they change direction, the United States stands firmly on behalf of the people and government of the Republic of Korea, where we provide a stalwart defense along with our allies and partners.”

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