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The NC State Belltower can be seen behind a field of poppies erected for the NC State World War I Centennial Memorial Observance on Tuesday, May 1.
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Central American ‘caravan’ women and children enter U.S. Tijuana, Mexico Eight women and children from a caravan of hundreds of Central American migrants have sought asylum in the United States after officials allowed them entry from Mexico, fueling hope among others camped outside the border crossing. The group of 1,500 people started March 25 recruited by an open borders advocacy group to challenge U.S. immigration policy. It dwindled to less than 400 by the time it reached Mexico and then 100 at the U.S. border. The department of homeland security warned them that asylum for most would be difficult and they may be detained.
Poll shows Democrats losing ground with millennials Washington, D.C. Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among millennials as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/ Ipsos national opinion poll. The online survey of more than 16,000 registered voters ages 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about 9 percentage points over the past two years, to 46 percent overall. And they increasingly say the Republican Party is a better steward of the economy.
Horse owners advised to vaccinate Raleigh Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is encouraging horse owners to have their animals vaccinated against Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis and West Nile Virus. EEE is fatal 90 percent of the time in horses and WNV has a fatality rate of 30 percent. There were six recorded cases of EEE in horses in North Carolina in 2017, but officials say that the mild winter could cause that number to go up this year, The combination vaccination initially requires multiple injections for horses, mules and donkeys. Meckes recommends a booster shot every six months.
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Smithfield will appeal $50M verdict By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — A North Carolina jury awarded $50 million to 10 neighbors of a hog farm in eastern N.C. who claimed that the smell of the farm and the noise from its trucks amounted to a nuisance in their community. N.C.-based Murphy-Brown Farms and parent company Smithfield Foods say they will appeal the verdict. “I am very disappointed in the verdict and believe it will harm our hardworking farm families who produce food for the state, nation and world,” said N.C. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler. Lawyers for the defendants say it sets a dangerous precedent; the farms were never found to be in violation of their permits, prompting speculation that similar lawsuits can crop up against businesses even if they are operating within the law. “These lawsuits are an outrageous attack on animal agriculture, rural North Carolina and thousands of independent family farmers who own and operate contract farms,” said Keira Lombardo, senior vice president of corporate affairs for Smithfield Foods in a statement. “These farmers are apparently not safe from attack even if they fully comply with all federal, state and local laws and regulations. The lawsuits are a serious threat to a major industry, to North Carolina’s entire economy and to the jobs and livelihoods of tens of thousands of North Carolinians.” Neighbors told the jury that the smell from the 1,500-hog farm was so strong it permeated their neighborhood. They argued that the farm’s lagoon system for storing waste, while legal, are an outdated method of containing runoff and contributed to the problem. “We are pleased with the verdict. These cases are about North Carolina family property rights and a clean environment,” said See PORK, page A2
“Our farmers care deeply about the communities where they live and work. They remain committed to being good neighbors and addressing concerns that are brought to their attention.” — Andy Curlis, N.C. Pork Council
Fighter jets and poppies honor WWI Wolfpackers As the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1 approaches, N.C. State remembers its alumni and students who served in the Great War By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — On Tuesday afternoon, F-15 jets from the 335th fighter squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro roared over the NC State University Memorial Belltower. The display, along with a 21-gun salute, were part of a moving ceremony
commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I and those students and alumni who died serving in it. “I taught Army ROTC here, back in the ’90s, and we used to have ceremonies here and now, to be able to be here on the 100th anniversary of the ending of the war is very special,” said Si Harrington, who donned a historic World War I uniform in 80 degrees on Tuesday to present the colors during the ceremony. The observance was held on the steps of Memorial Belltower, where the names of 34 Wolfpackers who died in WWI are engraved See WWI, page A2
NC’s primary races enter the final week By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — Primary candidates are making their last push this week ahead of the May 8 primary election day. In N.C., only voters affiliated with a party can vote in its primary election. However, unaffiliated voters, the state’s fast-growing segment at 30 percent of the electorate, can vote in any primary. Over the last decade, more than 650,000 North Carolinians have registered as unaffiliated, nearly 2,000 voters ahead of the GOP. On the ballot are 50 candidates for U.S. House, including incum-
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bents who are working to make their case to voters to send them back to Washington. Republicans are talking tax cuts, while Democrats are focused on the White House. All seats in the N.C. General Assembly are up for re-election as lawmakers work with reshaped district maps. With traditionally low voter turnout for primaries, Republicans and Democrats are heavily invested in getout-the-vote efforts. To find out where to vote early or find your polling place, visit the N.C. State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement at ncsbe.gov or call 1-866-522-4723. For more on the election, see page 2A.
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NC’s 2018 primary election day is May 8 Early voting ends Saturday, May 5 for the primary election held next week on May 8. Visit ncsbe.gov to find an early voting site near you. On election day, you must vote at your assigned precinct. Polls will be open on election day from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voters who want to vote in the Nov. 6, 2018, midterms must register to vote by Oct. 12.
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Parties will be working even harder to get you to the polls. Historically, voter turnout is lower in midterms than in presidential election years, like 2016, with national and statewide offices at the top of the ballot. For primary elections in midterms, it’s even lower. In 2014, N.C. had a 15.79 percent voter turnout for the primaries. This low number means that every vote becomes even more critical, and you may have folks knocking at your door even more this year. Also new this year is the number of candidates. Every U.S. congressional district across the state, except District 1, currently held by Democrat G.K. Butterfield, has at least one primary. That includes a relatively unusual Libertarian primary in Congressional District 4 between Barbara Howe and Scerry Perry Whitlock. In several primaries there are a list of names to chose from; Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry has five primary challengers for the District 10 seat, and Congresswoman Alma Adams, a Democrat, faces three primary challengers for District 12. In the general midterm elections in November 2018, watch for the Green Party to show up on your ballot for the first time. In 2017, the N.C. legislature passed the Electoral Freedom Act that reduced the number of signatures needed to get on the ballot and allowed third parties to get on statewide ballots if they are on the ballot in 70 percent of states in the last presidential cycle. The Green Party doesn’t have any primaries this year but is expected to choose candidates for November at their party convention scheduled for June 23, 2018.
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PORK from page A1 Salisbury-based personal injury attorney Mona Lisa Wallace, who represented the 10 neighbors in the lawsuit first filed in 2014. “From the beginning, the lawsuits have been nothing more than a money grab by a big litigation machine,” said Lombardo. “Plaintiffs’ original lawyers promised potential plaintiffs a big payday. Those lawyers were condemned by a North Carolina state court for unethical practices. Plaintiffs’ counsel at trial relied heavily on anti-agriculture, anti-corporate rhetoric rather than the real facts in the case. These practices are abuses of our legal system, and we will continue to fight them.” Lawyers for the defendant say they will appeal the decision, but also say that the judgment is excessive and in violation of state law. Last year, the N.C. Gener-
District 1 No primaries District 2 Democrats: Wendy Ella May, Ken Romley, Linda Coleman Republicans: George Holding (I), Allen Chesser District 3 Republicans: Walter B. Jones (I), Phil Law, Scott Dacey District 4 Democrats: Michelle Laws, David Price (I), Richard L. Watkins Libertarian: Barbara Howe, Scerry Perry Whitlock
Several N.C. races have made national news, including the challenge to Rep. Robert Pittenger in the 9th District. Pittenger has a primary opponent in Pastor Mark Harris, who has run against the congressman before and fared well. However, Vice President Mike Pence was in town and spent some time campaigning for Pittenger, as did Housing Secretary Ben Carson and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. The winner of that Republican primary will face one of three Democrats, likely the well-funded Dan McReady, who has drawn a lot of out-of-state Democrat attention, including California billionaire Tom Steyer. Steyer helped secure Virginia’s executive mansion for Democrats in a special election this fall. He is also helping fund the N.C. Democrats’ get-out-the-vote effort in Congressional District 13, held by Republican Ted Budd. In the east, 12-term Congressman Walter Jones is challenged by Craven County commissioner Scott Dacey, who is hoping to unseat him by focusing attention on Jones’ votes against the federal tax cut bill and other Republican centerpieces. However, Congressman Mark Meadows of N.C.’s 11th District, and chair of the House Freedom Caucus has thrown his name, and conservative credentials, behind Jones. Meadows faces his own primary challenger in Chuck Archerd, who only filed to run on the last day of the filing period. Archerd told a local paper he’s putting his name in the mix just in case Meadows is tapped to join the Trump administration.
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All 13 seats representing N.C. in the U.S. House are up for re-election in 2018. The primary elections will determine who moves on to November.
District 5 Democrats: Jenny Marshall, DD Adams Republicans: Virginia Foxx (I), Dillon Gentry, Cortland J. Meader Jr. District 6 Democrats: Ryan Watts, Gerald Wong District 7 Democrats: Kyle Horton, Grayson Parker District 8 Democrats: Scott Huffman, Frank McNeill, Marc Tiegel District 9 Democrats: Dan McCready, Christian Cano Republicans: Clarence W. Goins, Jr., Mark Harris, Robert Pittenger (I)
The battle for Raleigh At the state level, all eyes next week will be on N.C. General Assembly races where all 120 House and all 50 Senate seats are up for re-election. Democrats launched a campaign to break the Republican majority in the state legislature, but even if they aren’t able to sweep the state at that level, they could break the Republicans’ supermajority by picking up four House seats and six Senate seats to do so. Incumbents are also campaigning with newly drawn district maps, that reshaped the home turf for both parties and brought a number of challengers. In Charlotte, House Minority Leader Joel Ford faces four Democrat primary challengers, while in the west, two Republican women, both incumbents, are battling it out to represent newly drawn N.C. Senate District 45. Republicans Shirley Randleman and Deanna Ballard were “double-bunked” in the new maps and face each other on May 8. It’s a similar situation in N.C. Senate District 31, where Republican Joyce Krawiec of Forsyth County and Davie County’s Dan Barrett in a GOP face off next week. For the judiciary there are no primary elections, but expect tough races leading up to November. There will be three N.C. Court of Appeals races on the November ballot, along with one N.C. Supreme Court seat. Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jackson already has her re-election campaign underway as she is expected to be challenged by social justice lawyer and Democrat Anita Earls. For more on the primary races in your area, and details on the May 8 election day, visit ncsbe.gov.
District 10 Republicans: Jeff Gregory, Patrick McHenry (I), Ira Roberts, Albert Lee Wiley Jr., Seth Blankenship, Gina Collias District 11 Democrats: Phillip G. Price, Steve Woodsmall, D. Scott Donaldson Republicans: Mark Meadows (I), Chuck Archerd District 12 Democrats: Gabe Ortiz, Patrick Register, Keith Young, Alma Adams (I) Republicans: Carl Persson, Paul Wright, Paul Bonham District 13 Democrats: Kathy Manning, Adam Coker
al Assembly passed a law capping the amount that neighbors could get from nuisance lawsuits against hog and poultry farms. The lawmakers later changed the law so it would not apply to pending litigation. “The North Carolina law on punitive damages controls this verdict,” said Mark Anderson of McGuire Woods, the firm representing Smithfield. “The indisputable provisions of North Carolina statute provide that punitive damages are limited to the greater of $250,000, or three times the amount of compensatory damages, which in this case were $75,000 per person. This means that each plaintiff should be awarded $325,000, for a total judgment for all 10 plaintiffs of $3,250,000.” The case is just one of five that Wallace is litigating against hog farms with the next one due to open May 29. SHAWN KREST | NORTH STATE JOURNAL
World War I Centennial Commissioner Jerry Hester, right, presents NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson, center, with an honorary coin with NC State Alumni Association director Benny Suggs (left). WWI from page A1
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in a small chapel at the base of the 115-foot tower. The Belltower, whose cornerstone was first placed in 1921, has been undergoing a renovation to repair water damage and finally add bells to the top of the 1,400-ton structure. “The Belltower is one of many monuments across the state of North Carolina that was erected after the World War I conflict was over to commemorate the veterans and those who sacrificed everything,” said LeRae Umfleet, director of education outreach at the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. The ceremony concluded with a wreath laying and the playing of taps. The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission coordinated the event with NC State Alumni Association executive di-
rector Adm. Benny Suggs (ret.) and Centennial Commissioner Jerry Hester, both military veterans and NC State graduates. “We often overlook our national heroes and what went on,” said Hester. “I think it is only appropriate that students, now 34,000 of them, become aware of what this university has done and how our Memorial Belltower has symbol to the nation and the university that those who sacrificed everything are not forgotten.” It is one of a 100 events held statewide this year recognizing the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, in November 2018. It is the only one held on a college campus. On hand for the event was top NCSU brass, including chancellor Randy Woodson. “To those who have served our great country, thank you. We are proud that you are part of our
Wolfpack family,” Woodson told the crowd of students, service members and supporters. “You all make our university stronger, more motivated and better equipped to solve global challenges because of your unwavering commitment to our forefather vision to this great nation.” This year, the N.C. Department of Transportation is also taking time and resources to honor the anniversary, planting red poppies that will bloom along the state’s highways. Interest in WWI history has spiked as the centennial anniversary of its conclusion nears. At the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh, an interactive display detailing the state’s role in the war has become the all-time most visited temporary exhibit with more than 300,000 visitors so far. It will be on display until Jan. 6, 2019.
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Wake Forest Rodeo tests skill of public power lineworkers PHOTOS BY LAUREN ROSE | NORTH STATE JOURNAL
“Each of the events are things that a lineworker would be expected to do as part of their job.” — Wally Haase, American Public Power Association chairman
The national championship for utility workers was held in N.C. for first time By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE POWER POLES stretched across the landscape near Holding Village in Wake Forest. Just days earlier, the grassy field had been vacant, but, seemingly overnight, this man-made forest had sprung up. The poles were arranged, side-by-side, in tight rows. Figures dangled from the top of several poles, giving the scene a look of a post-apocalyptic public execution. Upon closer inspection, however, they were life-sized dummies, patiently awaiting rescue by the contestants in the Public Power Lineworkers Rodeo. The event is a two-day test of knowledge and skill. It serves as the national skills championship for the nearly 100,000 public power workers — the men and women who climb the poles to keep electricity running to our homes and businesses. “They are the backbone of our community,” said Wake Forest mayor Vivian Jones. “Without them we wouldn’t have power.” For the first time in its 18-year history, the rodeo was held in North Carolina. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the first time many of the visiting workers had scaled utility poles in the state. “We talk about hometown heroes, and the people all across our state that really do make our communities work,” Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said at the rodeo’s opening ceremony. “You really do that. Many of you who aren’t from North Carolina have been here before. We’ve seen your trucks lined up for miles and miles and miles, traveling across our state to come help out our communities after hurricanes. You step up at times when nobody else would even think about it, to reach out and help people that maybe you never meet, never get to see, never get to know.” After spending Friday taking a written skills test, the veterans and apprentices competed in separate events on Saturday, testing the lineworkers’ ability to perform tasks such as scaling poles to change out insulators and amp switches. The dummies were part of the Hurtman Rescue event, requiring competitors to climb up and save an injured coworker, cut him loose from his protective harness and safely lower him to the ground within four minutes. “It’s something you hope you never have to do on the job,” said Cedric Vinson, an apprentice for the city of Gastonia who has been on the job since December. “But we have to be ready, just in case.” Gastonia spent about one day a week for the first few months of the year preparing for the event. It was easy to devote the time, since the tasks they performed at the rodeo were all critical skills. “Each of the events are things that a lineworker would be expected to do as part of their job,” said Wally Haase, the chairman of the American Public Power Association. “We don’t try to push them. It’s not based on who does it fastest but who demonstrates the skills properly and safely.” For an event billed as the industry’s national championship, the rodeo focused less on cutthroat competition and more on building camaraderie among the various power companies. Hugo Mier of the North Carolina Association of Municipal Electric Systems was invited to participate in the opening ceremony’s version of the Olympic torch lighting — scaling a pole to raise the flag — because he was a previous winner of the state competition. Underscoring the de-emphasis on winning, he had trouble remembering what year he’d taken the title. “I guess it must have been 2016?” he said. Mier’s four-man group also finished fourth nationally in last year’s rodeo, held in San Antonio. “They’re not just competing. They’re networking,” said Jones. “It’s a time to learn safety techniques.” Still, when it was time to scale the power pole, the lineworkers felt the competitive juices stir. “I think the biggest piece of advice I can give them is just to relax,” Haase said. “You can see them get nervous.” That was the problem afflicting Brandon Phillips, another one of Gastonia’s apprentices. Like Vinson, he was able to rescue his hurtman in the required time, but he wasn’t happy with his technique. “First round didn’t go too good,” he said. “I dropped the rope and made a few mistakes. Nerves got to me, and I got all jittery.” Vinson and Phillips then headed to event that most worried them — the rope toss, requiring lineworkers to knot a rope to an anchor on the ground, then throw it over the top of the pole so they can anchor it on the opposite side. “It’s not the same rope we practiced with,” Phillips said. Early reports from the venue warned that the rope was wet from morning dew, making it heavier and harder to clear the top of the pole. Despite the struggles, the new linemen were given a valuable learning experience, and one that was entertaining for the gathered crowd of Wake Forest residents to watch. “I’ve only seen these things on YouTube before,” Forest said. “So I’m excited to see it in person.”
Clockwise from top: As a part of the opening ceremony of the 2018 Public Power Lineworkers Rodeo, planes fly over the crowd before flying in a circle formation indicating what planes in search and rescue missions do while looking for a fallen lineman. Two apprentice linemen participate in the double deadend bell change out event. Lineman Hugo Mier ascending a pole in the flag-raising ceremony at the beginning of the rodeo. The Fallen Linemen Memorial is planted into the ground at the front of the main stage of the rodeo.
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RALEIGH — N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein is continuing the fight to keep Obama-era environmental laws in place. Stein recently joined 18 other Democrat attorneys general in filing comments calling the Trump administration’s proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan “unlawful and unsupported.” “The Clean Power Plan makes us safer and healthier,” said Stein in a press release. “Investing in clean energy creates jobs, makes us more secure from Middle East terrorism, and combats climate change.” The regulatory package makes mandatory cuts in all emissions from power plants, including those not proven to be harmful, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 32 percent by 2030 and requires investment in renewable energy. Critics say that it was executive overreach and would drive up energy costs and jeopardize the nation’s power grid. The Clean Power Plan was also the foundation for President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to protect the coal industry. After the plan was passed in 2007, 28 states filed lawsuits against the EPA in protest, including N.C., however in March of last year under the Cooper administration withdrew N.C. from the lawsuit. In an unusual ruling in 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court reached down into a lower
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Whether you are headed to mountains, the coast, or somewhere in between, N.C. has plenty of ways to soothe spring fever.
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First responders receive Shield Awards
Police search for pickup that hit trooper Ashe County A state trooper picking up debris in the highway was struck by a red Nissan Frontier pickup truck on Friday afternoon. The driver of the truck did not stop, and the highway patrol is still searching for the hit-and-run driver. The trooper, whose name wasn’t released, was hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries.
Henderson County Five first responders were presented with Shield Awards, recognizing their work protecting the lives of community members. The recipients of the 26th Annual Shield Awards were Hendersonville Police officer Michele Hoyle, Hendersonville Fire Lt. Jared Morgan, Henderson County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ricky Bishop, Dana Fire & Rescue Lt. Doug Henderson and Henderson County EMS paramedic Amy Carter.
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PIEDMONT Controversial beaver kill delayed Chatham County Residents near Chapel Hill protested plans by the Briar Chapel neighborhood HOA to trap and kill 35 beavers that were creating a nuisance for residents. The beavers live in Pokeberry Creek, and their dams have created floods that have swamped culde-sacs and washed over pedestrian bridges. It’s illegal to relocate the beavers, since they are considered a nuisance rodent. The HOA is now looking at other options to control the beavers.
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Preschool burned down in suspicious barn fire Orange County A barn at Peppermint Spring Farm that had been converted into the Wildflower Learning Community Preschool and Kindergarten in Carrboro burned down early last Wednesday in a fire that authorities are calling suspicious. There were no human injuries, although two goats were killed in the fire. The preschool has been involved in a dispute with the property owners, and police have had to respond to incidents in the past. WRAL
Beavers cause traffic-stopping sinkhole Beaufort County A sinkhole that closed Highway 33 near Chocowinty is being blamed on local beavers, the North Carolina Department of Transportation reported last week. The beavers built a dam underneath the highway, which caused water to back up and weaken the soil enough for a sinkhole to form. The hole was 8 feet deep and 6-7 feet wide. A detour will add six miles to local trips until the road is able to be reopened.
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School considers safety drone training Clay County The Clay County Board of Education is considering the use of surveillance drones to help improve safety at area schools. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will offer free training over the summer for school systems that are interested in the possibility of using drones, interim superintendent Scotty Penland reported. The courses will likely take place in July. CLAY COUNTY PROGRESS
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Farmer arrested for crop insurance fraud Wayne County A 43-year-old farmer in Wayne County was arrested and charged with making fraudulent crop insurance claims of more than $5.6 million over a five-year period. James S. Wiggins and other co-conspirators made claims from farms they owned or rented in Wayne, Lenoir and Greene counties, claiming that their crops had failed. Instead, they then sold the crops of soy, tobacco, corn and wheat on the black market. Wiggins has been charged with federal crimes after an investigation that involved the IRS and U.S. Department of Agriculture. WNCT
Madison County North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper visited Madison County last Tuesday to unveil a new program to strengthen rural communities. The program, called Hometown Strong, will create partnerships between state and local governments and local businesses, identify what rural communities need, and explore the best way to meet those needs. The program kicked off with a panel discussion involving 50 local leaders at the Madison County Library. WLOS
Rapper G$B arrested in drug bust Davidson County Police arrested Kason Hikeen Rasheed Harrington, a 25-year-old up-andcoming rap artist from Browns Summit in a major drug bust. Harrington, better known as G$B, was one of six people arrested as Davidson County Sheriff’s officers seized more than a kilogram of drugs, including heroin, a Fentanyl mix known as gray death, and marijuana. Harrington was charged with four counts of possession with the intent to manufacture, sell and deliver heroin, and five counts of trafficking in heroin. WFMY NEWS 2
Attorney general warns of pregnancy “distraction scam” Wake County The state Attorney General’s Office is warning of new scams targeting elderly homeowners in Wake County. The office has gotten several reports of people posing as flooring salesmen and stealing valuables from homes after they enter to demonstrate the flooring. Another scam involves two women, one of whom is claiming to suffer from a problem related to her pregnancy, allowing her companion to pocket credit cards and other valuable items. WTVD
Land deal may shed light on Lost Colony Bertie County The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust is borrowing $5.3 million to purchase a 1,000 acre tract of land near the coast. The land will then be turned over to the state, preserving it for future study. The purchase is the first of its kind in the last 26 years and will hopefully lead to information on the Lost Colony, which disappeared in the 16th Century. The land is believed to be the eventual home for some of the colonists. CTV NEWS
Stein wades into fight over Clean Power Plan replacement By NSJ Staff
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Fundraiser held for Angier deputy shot in face Hartnett County Deputy Eric Cook was shot in the face and chest while responding to a call about a missing teenager two weeks ago. He’s home from the hospital and recovering, but his friends and colleagues held a fundraiser for him on Saturday night to help with ongoing medical expenses. The event at Angier’s Vicious Fishes Brewery will help pay for an in-home nurse and physical therapist for Cook.
appeals court to stay the law pending a decision on its merits. It now sits before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to address the legal arguments made by the objecting states. In March, Trump directed the EPA to begin unraveling the plan and come up with a replacement. Stein’s action comes in response to the proposed replacement presented by EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt last week, who put it out for public comment. The proposed replacement plan narrows regulations on existing facilities and proposes policies on a plant-by-plant basis, not entire states. Supporters of Obama’s signature environmental law want to keep it in place, saying it would “eliminate as much climate change pollution as is emitted by more than 160 million cars a year — or 70 percent of the nation’s passenger cars.” In filings last week, Stein and his peers said the Trump administration’s position “completely ignores the dire threat climate change poses, the interconnected nature of power plants, and the nature of the pollutant (carbon dioxide) that is the subject of regulation.” Of the 18 states and the District of Columbia who signed onto the comments, 11 have energy prices above the national average of 10 cents per kilowatt hour. N.C. is below the national average at 9.2 cents per kilowatt hour.
Grant will provide Wi-Fi hotspots to loan from libraries By NSJ Staff RALEIGH — A two-year grant will pay for Wi-Fi hotspots to be loaned to students needing them to do internetbased homework. The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences awarded a $250,000 grant to the State Library of North Carolina and the state’s Broadband Infrastructure Office in an effort to close what they call the “homework gap.” The gap is considered those K-12 students who are assigned homework that requires the internet, but don’t have access to it at home. The N.C. Department of Information Technology (DIT) estimated that 10 percent of N.C. households with school-aged children don’t have internet access. “Most teachers assign homework that requires internet access, and many textbooks in North Carolina public schools are now digital,” said State Librarian Cal Shepard. “That puts those students without home internet access at a huge disadvantage. This project uses the great resources we already have in local libraries and public schools to begin
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to break down those barriers and close the gap for these students.” Starting in July, up to four North Carolina library systems will get the Wi-Fi hotspots to loan to students. The library systems will also work with local families and provide required digital literacy training. The project will work with a library system in one, as of yet unidentified, economically disadvantaged Tier I county during the first year and will expand to include up to three more library systems in year two. Each system will also work with local schools to identify up to 30 families without internet service each school semester. Over the two years, officials say that about 300 families will participate in total. According to a press release from DIT, additional partners include the Friday Institute Research and Evaluation Team, who will conduct the project evaluation and provide research assistance; the N.C. Department of Public Instruction; and Kramden Institute, a nonprofit computer refurbisher.
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Historically average economic growth will solve everything
You should be pulling for the recently passed tax cut package and the economy to work beyond everyone’s wildest dreams.
IF YOU ARE DESPONDENT about the state of modern American politics and the inability of both parties to engage in serious bipartisan efforts to balance our budget and start to dig out from underneath the Himalayan mountain of debt we are building, never fear: There is a way to get out from under it all without Congress ever taking any congressional action whatsoever. Historically average real economic growth of 3 percent per year in the United States for the next 30 years. Three percent real economic growth is not far from our historical average of 3.5 percent real economic growth in the U.S. since World War II. A combination of invention, patent and copyright protection, productivity gains and freedom has fueled the massive expansion of economic opportunity and advancement for millions of Americans since 1945. If a switch could be turned on to spit out a guaranteed 3 percent rate of annual real economic growth in the economy, Congress could adjourn until the year 2047 and all of our economic and fiscal problems would be solved. Including our exploding national debt. Congress would not have to pass any new tax laws; make any spending changes; start any new entitlement programs; or even attempt any politically painful efforts to reform the existing entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Just let the economy grow at or above the 3 percent real rate of growth annually. The Congressional Budget Office recently published their April update to the Budget and Economic Outlook from 2018-2028. Federal debt held by the public is expected to reach 100 percent of GDP by 2028 under current assumptions. “Debt held by the public” is the only debt CBO recognizes as being “economically significant” since it has to be serviced by monthly interest payments to holders of debt instruments. CBO does not recognize intragovernmental debt as being economically significant, mostly in Social Security, since interest on such debt doesn’t get paid each month but is rather “imputed” and will paid later by higher taxes or reduced spending. CBO forecasts a bump up in “real” economic growth this year and next but sees growth falling long-term back to the 1.9 percent average annual growth rates we saw under President Obama. Stephen Moore, an economist at the Heritage Foundation and adviser to the Trump Administration, says real GDP growth rates should far exceed 1.9 percent per year as long as Congress and administrations do not throw a wet blanket on the economy with higher taxes and more regulations.
He used CBO data to show what average economic growth rates of 3 percent annually could do to our national debt over time. Debt held by the public could fall to a relatively “measly” 50 percent of GDP in 2047 albeit at a level of about $32 trillion in an economy of $64 trillion. Even if you don’t like President Trump or Republicans in general, you should be pulling for the recently passed tax cut package and the economy to work beyond everyone’s wildest dreams. For the next 30 years really. Why? Because there is only one other way to pay down national debt if Congress will not address the rise in the cost of entitlements or raise taxes to balance the budget: Higher inflation. For centuries, kings, dictators and republics have used inflation to pay down national debt with cheaper currency over very long periods of time. European countries have only recently paid off debts incurred from World War I with money that is not worth anywhere near what it was worth before The Great War. Higher inflation hits the poor and elderly the hardest every time it happens. Real economic growth over 3 percent per year for the next three decades might be the only way out of the long-term American debt trap. Especially if Congress does nothing to curtail entitlement spending.
EDITORIAL | TROY KICKLER
Better technology does not guarantee freedom
Technology, however, is now so advanced that it can foster a mindset that deems the past useless.
TECHNOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY and more technology — it is all around us. One cannot nowadays live with it, or live without it. Even when you do not need a new phone — your old one works fine — you feel compelled, either through advertising or your phone maker’s helpful reminder that your device needs updates, to purchase a new device. Sure, the old model enabled you talk to friends and even do your work and finances. But, the newest model looks so chic. It’s useful, too; new apps can open up a treasure chest of beneficial possibilities. They can, however, reveal a lot of information about you while turning you into a smartphone zombie. (A friend told me how a college student, while looking at her phone, once walked into the side of his parked vehicle.) Don’t misunderstand me. I welcome technology. I do not want to live in a world before antibiotics. Neither do I relish the thought of using a chamber pot or heading to an outhouse in wintry weather. A couple decades ago, ACL tears ended professional athletes’ careers. Now, after surgery and intense physical rehab, most athletes are competing by the next season at the same, high level. Technology, however, is now so advanced that it can foster a mindset that deems the past useless. Think for instance, about the young child who taps the screen a few times and is able to use a smartphone. Meanwhile, her grandparents stand amazed and look
bewildered at the new technology. What good are they in this advanced technological world? Are processes of obsolescence also applicable to humans? If the 30-year-old has more electric razors, to borrow an example offered by economist Wilhelm Ropke, is he more free than his grandfather? If he has the latest smart TV and has hours of leisure time, is he more free than his great-grandfather? Maybe or maybe not. He is definitely more comfortable. But does he have more freedom? Some scholars, such as Francis Fukuyama, believed that technology would play a big role in the end of history. His was a very forwardlooking idea. Generally speaking, newer is better; progress is leading to no conflicts and a mutual and universal understanding of government — the end of history. This part of “capitalism creep,” as some have called it, would foster more democratic thought and more freedom. In contrast to Fukuyama’s “End of History,” many individuals and nations have used technology to undermine the civilizations that have produced capitalism and championed liberty. Technology and capitalism can be antagonistic. One must ask the following: What historical contexts produced capitalism? What is capitalism? Is capitalism tethered to other principles? Does it have a moral component? Can it exist untethered from those principles? That’s where genuine history — not
anachronistic propaganda or selective wielding of facts — has its usefulness in the modern world. The following has been repeated so much that it has unfortunately become cliché and has lost much of its meaning: “The present is influenced by the past.” And at times, the present is profoundly influenced by the past. Sometimes, in a collective narcissistic way, we think our technologically advanced generation is intellectually and morally superior to previous generations. There are, for sure, numerous examples of primitive civilizations committing atrocities. There are also numerous examples of “technologically advanced and culturally sophisticated nations,” writes Carl R. Trueman, descending rapidly into committing horrific atrocities. Maybe in some ways we are more advanced. Maybe in others, we are not. In advanced societies, there are also examples of people willing to give up liberty for more comfort. In a modern world, history can offer some sobering lessons regarding past human behavior, and what we might be doing wrong or incompletely today. As philosopher Dermot Quinn wrote: “Markets do not generate moral norms: they presume them.”
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GUEST OPINION | LUKE J. FARLEY
Electing judges still the best fit for NC The best way to address low turnout is to increase the information available to the public about our court system and judicial races.
THE N.C. JUDICIAL SYSTEM should be made up of the best judges we can find. No one disagrees about that. But how do you make that happen? Our current system allows our citizens to pick their judges through elections. But some think we should switch to an appointive system. While there might be some benefits to appointing judges, elections are still the best fit for North Carolina. How we select judges might seem like inside baseball if you’re not a lawyer. But for the average citizen, a judge is more likely to have a direct impact on your life than any other government official. Think of the serious matters handled daily by our courts: violent crimes, DUIs, divorces, child custody, will probate disputes. If you’re involved with any of these, it’s probably the most important thing going on in your life at that moment — and judges will play a huge part in the outcome. Jealously guard your right to have a say in who’s judging you. One of the main arguments in favor of appointing judges is that appointments make the process less political. They don’t. Instead, appointments just drive the politics into the dark. It’s been said the difference between an elective system and an appointive system is like the difference between a cowboy Western and a Greek tragedy: does the action happen on screen or off stage? An appointive system, like a Greek tragedy, will move the action off stage and out of public view. A judgeship is a public office and how we fill that office will always be part of the political process. The only question is whether the politics unfold out in the open as they do in an election or whether they’re confined to the halls of government as in an appointment process. Either way, the action still happens. All we have to decide is whether the public gets to see it unfold. Our system is best served by having the process play out in public. Sunlight is, after all, the best disinfectant. Elections also help keep judges in touch with citizens.
A good judge is, first and foremost, concerned with applying the law impartially and according to its letter. We’re a nation of laws and our system only works if judges interpret laws rather than write them. At the same time, our laws exist to protect people — real people — and property. Elections keep judges tied to those real people and keeps the process of judging from devolving into a purely academic exercise. Opponents of elections often point to the fact that there’s usually low turnout for judicial elections. That may be true. But it doesn’t follow that citizens who do care about judicial races and take the time to make informed choices should have their right to vote taken away. Lots of races have low turnout. Just think of your typical municipal runoff in an off-year election. No one’s suggesting we get rid of those elections just because of low participation. The best way to address low turnout is to increase the information available to the public about our court system and judicial races. Much work is already being done in this area. Justices of the N.C. Supreme Court travel our state teaching people about our court system. Various legal groups like the N.C. Bar Association, Federalist Society and N.C. Association of Defense Attorneys provide information on judges. We need to build on this good work, not abolish judicial elections. We’ll never come up with a perfect system for picking our judges. To riff on a phrase from Churchill, electing judges is the worst method of choosing judges — except all the other ways we can come up with. Elections allow citizens to have a direct say in who’s judging them. In a state that prides itself on being “First in Freedom,” that’s exactly how it should stay. Luke J. Farley is an attorney in Raleigh with the firm Conner Gwyn Schenck PLLC
COLUMN | WALTER E. WILLIAMS
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Former first lady Barbara Bush listens to her son, President George W. Bush, as he speaks at an event on Social Security reform in Orlando, Fla., on March 18, 2005.
Colleges: Anti-diversity and pro-exclusion
None of this professorial and student behavior is new at the nation’s colleges. It’s part of the leftist agenda that dominates our colleges.
JUST WITHIN the past week or so, some shocking professorial behavior has come to light. In the wake of Barbara Bush’s death, California State University, Fresno professor Randa Jarrar took to Twitter to call the former first lady an “amazing racist.” Jarrar added, “PSA: either you are against these pieces of s--- and their genocidal ways or you’re part of the problem. that’s actually how simple this is. I’m happy the witch is dead. can’t wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise the way 1.5 million iraqis have. byyyeeeeeeee.” In New Jersey, Brookdale Community College professor Howard Finkelstein, in a heated exchange, was captured on video telling a conservative student, “F-- your life!” At the City University of New York School of Law, students shouted down guest lecturer Josh Blackman for 10 minutes before he could continue his remarks. When Duke University President Vincent Price was trying to address alumni, students commandeered the stage, shouting demands and telling him to leave. None of this professorial and student behavior is new at the nation’s colleges. It’s part of the leftist agenda that dominates our colleges. A new study by Brooklyn College professor Mitchell Langbert — “Homogeneous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty” — demonstrates that domination. (By the way, Academic Questions is a publication of the National Association of Scholars, an organization fighting the leftist propaganda in academia.) Langbert examines the political affiliation of Ph.D.-holding faculty members at 51 of the 66 topranked liberal arts colleges according to U.S. News & World Report. He finds that 39 percent of the colleges in his sample are Republican-free — with zero registered Republicans on their faculties. As for Republicans within academic departments, 78 percent of those departments have no Republican members or so few as to make no difference. Langbert breaks down the faculty Democrat-toRepublican ratio by academic department, and there are not many surprises. Engineering departments have 1.6 Democrats for every Republican. Chemistry and economics departments have about 5.5 Democrats for every Republican. The situation is especially bad
in anthropology departments, where the Democratto-Republican faculty ratio is 133-to-1, and in communications departments, where the ratio is 108-tozero. Langbert says, “I could not find a single Republican with an exclusive appointment to fields like gender studies, Africana studies, and peace studies.” Later on in the study, Langbert turns his attention to Democrat-to-Republican faculty ratios at some of our most elite colleges. At Williams College, the Democratto-Republican ratio is 132-to-1. At Amherst College, it’s 34-to-1. Wellesley’s is 136-to-1. At Swarthmore, 120-to1. Claremont McKenna, 4-to-1. Davidson, 10-to-1. Only two colleges of the top 66 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 list have a modicum of equality in numbers between Democratic and Republican faculty members. They are the U.S. Military Academy, aka West Point, with a Democrat-to-Republican ratio of 1.3-to-1, and the U.S. Naval Academy, whose ratio is 2.3-to-1. Many professors spend class time indoctrinating students with their views. For faculty members who are Democrats, those views can be described as leftist, socialist or communist. It is a cowardly act for a professor to take advantage of student immaturity by indoctrinating pupils with his opinions before the students have developed the maturity and skill to examine other opinions. It is also dereliction of duty of college administrators and boards of trustees to permit the continuance of what some professors and students are doing in the name of higher education. Langbert’s findings suggest biases in college research and academic policy, where leftist political homogeneity is embedded in the college culture. The leftist bias at most of the nation’s colleges is in stark contrast to the political leanings of our nation. According to a number of Pew Research Center surveys, most Americans identify as conservative. These Americans are seeing their tax dollars and tuition dollars going to people who have contempt for their values and seek to indoctrinate their children with leftist ideas. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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Beware networks skipping their own polls WATCH NATIONAL NEWS outlets choose which opinion poll results they report and which ones they bury. It tells you everything you need to know about their political agenda. On the morning of Sunday, April 15, ABC anchor Paula Faris reported a new ABC News-Washington Post poll that showed President Trump’s approval rating “ticking up slightly” to 40 percent, “lifted in part by the strong economy.” The on-screen graphic also pointed out that 56 percent disapprove. Having established that America disapproves of her GOP president, it seemed fair to continue the narrative by connecting it to the next segment, with anchor Dan Harris and chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. Harris asked Stephanopoulos about his hourlong special that night that touted former FBI Director James Comey’s book: “To your eyes, do you, do you see anything in this Comey book and interview that could hurt that approval rating?” Stephanopoulos said it was “a scathing personal assessment of President Trump, a scathing assessment of his presidency and what he believes President Trump is doing to the institutions and the rule of law in the country.” But The Washington Post poll also had bad news for Democrats in Congress. That part of the survey was covered ... on page A-4. “Democrats hold an advantage ahead of the midterm elections, but a Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that edge has narrowed since January, a signal to party leaders and strategists that they could be premature in anticipating a huge wave of victories in November,” the Post reported. Forty-seven percent of registered voters said they prefer the Democratic candidate in their district, and 43 percent favor the Republican. “That four-point margin compares with a 12-point advantage Democrats held in January,” the Post said. That “blue wave” could still happen. This is just one snapshot. But it’s interesting that a shrinking advantage for Democrats didn’t get a lick of airtime on ABC. Pollsters also sought an approval rating for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — 32 percent positive, 44 percent negative — and ABC whistled past that disastrous number, too. That network is not alone. An April NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll found the Democrats are ahead by only five points, 44 to 39 percent, in the generic ballot question of whether voters would prefer a GOPor Democratic-controlled Congress. That’s a point more than the 3.9 percent margin of error. Neither NPR nor PBS reported that. The new April NBC NewsWall Street Journal poll found the preference of a Democraticcontrolled Congress leading 47 to 40 percent, a slip from the 10-point gap in their last survey. That was discussed on one show on April 15, “Meet the Press.” Host Chuck Todd reported that number but then used another to put a positive spin on it for Democrats and show that “the news gods have a sense of humor.” He said, “66 percent of Democrats say they’re highly interested in the midterm election, while just 49 percent of Republicans say the same thing.” He pointed out that in 2010, these numbers were exactly reversed, and we know about the wave election of 2010. No one expects these networks to report all of their polling results. But consumers should beware that these “facts first” networks have a tendency to pass over the results they don’t like and heavily emphasize the ones they do. Whether they are reporting on polls or policies or scandals or gaffes, everything the networks report sounds like dark clouds and stormy seas for Trump and the GOP. Disaster is always around the corner. The wishful thinking is palpable and incessant. L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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U.S. appeals court allows Texas to implement voter ID law New Orleans A U.S. appeals court on Friday allowed Texas to implement a law requiring photo identification at the ballot box, reversing a lower court decision that blocked the measure on the grounds it could be discriminatory against racial minorities. In a 2-1 decision, a panel from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, which was designed as a fix for previous voter ID legislation struck down for being discriminatory.
ISIS claims responsibility for twin blasts that killed 26, including nine journalists, 11 children Kabul Explosions in the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 26 people on Monday, including nine journalists who had arrived to report on an initial blast and were apparently targeted by a suicide bomber, officials said. Hours after the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 11 children studying in a nearby religious school, police said. The attacks, a week after 60 people were killed as they waited at a voter registration center in the city, underlined mounting insecurity despite repeated government pledges to tighten defenses. Taliban militants, fighting to restore their version of strict Islamic law to Afghanistan, announced their usual spring offensive last week, and there has been heavy fighting in several areas of the country since.
White House likely to back freezing fuel economy standards from 2020-26 Washington, D.C. The Trump administration is likely to propose freezing fuel economy standards from 2020 through 2026, according to three people briefed on the matter, a move poised to spark a fight with California and other states backing tougher vehicle emissions rules. The administration is circulating a draft proposal that would include freezing requirements after 2020 as the preferred alternative, but will include a series of other alternatives, the sources said. The formal proposal is expected to be unveiled in the coming weeks and has not been finalized.
South Korean trust in North jumps after feelgood summit Seoul, South Korea South Korean trust in North Korea has surged since last week’s feelgood summit at which their leaders declared an end to hostilities and to work towards denuclearization of the peninsula. A survey taken on Friday, the day North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met South Korean President Moon Jae-in, showed 64.7 percent believe the North will denuclearize and keep peace. Before the summit, only 14.7 percent of those polled said they did, research agency Realmeter said on Monday.
Palestinian forum convened after 22 years, beset by boycotts and divisions Ramallah A powerful but rarely convened assembly that calls itself the Palestinian “supreme authority” meets for the first time in 22 years on Monday, but boycotts and rifts suggest it will struggle to achieve its stated goal of unity against Israel and the United States. President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to use the four-day Palestinian National Council (PNC) meeting to renew his legitimacy and to install loyalists in powerful positions to begin shaping his legacy.
Migrants from caravan in limbo as U.S. says border crossing full By Frank Daniel Reuters TIJUANA, Mexico — About 50 people from a Central American migrant caravan including women, children and transgender individuals tried to seek U.S. asylum on Sunday but were not allowed to cross the Mexico border because officials said the facility was full. Authorities say people associated with the caravan have already been caught trying to slip through the fence. The group is part of a caravan of 1,500 people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador organized by the open borders political group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, or “People without Borders,” Over the course of their travels, the numbers in the group dwindled to 400 by the time it reached Tijuana, Mexico. “We demand of Mexico and the United States… that they open the borders to us because we are as much citizens as the people where we are and/or travel,” read a press release from the organization. The caravan is part of their work to challenge U.S. immigration law, the group distributed white armbands to the people in the caravan to distinguish themselves from others crossing at the San Ysidro checkpoint near San Diego. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said earlier this week that the caravan migrants should seek asylum in Mexico. A few hundred people decided to stay in Mexico, while others moved toward the U.S. About 20 people in the group were able to reach the final fence at the busy crossing, where they were watched by armed U.S. border guards who did not immediately open the gate. “We have reached capacity at the San Ysidro port of entry,” said Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan in a statement on Sunday, adding
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Members of a caravan of migrants from Central America wait to enter the United States border and customs facility, where they are expected to apply for asylum, in Tijuana, Mexico April 29. that the immigrants “may need to wait in Mexico.” It was not immediately clear whether the group would be turned back or allowed in later. At sunset the migrants decided to camp there. “We’ve been waiting so long that it doesn’t really matter whether it’s today, tomorrow or when they let us in,” said Irineo Mujica, director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras. About 100 set up an open-air camp in a small square on the Mexican side by the San Ysidro pedestrian bridge, saying they would stay there until they were allowed through. Most of the group has traveled 2,000 miles to the border, despite warnings to the organizers from U.S. immigration lawyers that odds were low for winning asylum for the group. They were also
warned early in the journey that there was a likelihood of detention, separation from relatives and deportation. Despite the warnings, organizers from Pueblo Sin Fronteras continued bringing the group toward the border since early April. “I’m nervous. I’m afraid,” said Linda Sonigo, 40, walking solemnly towards the U.S. gate with her 2-year-old granddaughter in her arms. “I’m afraid they’ll separate us,” she said, motioning to her two children and grandchild. However, U.S. officials rarely separate children from parents or grandparents seeking asylum, although immigration advocates have reported a few instances of it happening. Asylum seekers must demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution at home, and the overwhelming majority of those
from Central America are denied refuge in the United States. After border officials said the checkpoint was full, organizers of the caravan put forward what they called the “most vulnerable cases” to cross the border first, including children under threat and transgender people who say they face persecution in Central America. Sonigo said her family was fleeing gang violence in El Salvador. Others in the group who decided their cases were not strong enough to have a good shot at asylum tearfully said farewell to relatives and stayed behind in Mexico. After making a claim, asylum seekers are usually kept in detention centers. Women with young children are generally released to await their hearings. Those denied asylum are generally deported to their home countries.
Israel’s Netanyahu says Iran stored nuclear documents after 2015 deal An Iranian official said their nuclear capabilities have improved under the Obamaera agreement By Rami Amichay, Stephen Farrell, Ori Lewis and Ari Rabinovitch Reuters TEL AVIV, Israel/WASHINGTON, D.C. —Israel presented this week what it said was evidence that Iran had continued gathering nuclear knowledge after signing a 2015 agreement with world powers to curb it, calling on Washington to jettison the agreement. “Iran’s leaders repeatedly deny ever pursuing nuclear weapons,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a televised address carried by Israeli networks. “Tonight I’m here to tell you one thing: Iran lied. “First, Iran lied about never having a nuclear weapons program; 100,000 secret files prove it did. Second, even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowledge for future use,” Netanyahu said. “Third, Iran lied again in 2015 when it didn’t come clear to the IAEA as required by the nuclear deal.” The Israeli leader spoke in English and showed pictures and videos purporting to be of historic secret Iranian nuclear facilities, as well as Iranian documents and plans to develop atomic weapons.
“After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret files,” he said. “In 2017, Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in Tehran.” Netanyahu referred to a secret Iranian nuclear project, codenamed “Amad,” which he said had been shelved in 2003, but he said work in the field had continued. President Donald Trump has long criticized the 2015 agreement, negotiated by former President Barack Obama, under which world powers lifted economic sanctions on Iran in return for curbs to its nuclear program. Trump has threatened to pull out of the agreement in the coming weeks unless it is renegotiated. Netanyahu said he expected Trump would do “the right thing” in reviewing the Iran deal. Netanyahu met in Tel Aviv on Sunday with new U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and both men talked tough about Iran. “We remain deeply concerned about Iran’s dangerous escalation of threats towards Israel and the region,” said Pompeo. Netanyahu said: “I think the greatest threat to the world and to our two countries, and to all countries, is the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons, and specifically the attempt of Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.” Netanyahu also discussed Iran by telephone with Trump over the weekend. Israel has long opposed the agreement, while Washington’s
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Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference at the Ministry of Defence in Tel Aviv, Israel April 30.
“Technically, we are fully prepared to enrich uranium higher than we used to produce before the deal was reached. ... I hope Trump comes to his senses and stays in the deal.” — Ali Akbar Salehi
major European allies have urged the Trump administration not to abandon it and argue that Iran is abiding by its terms. The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy organization said on Monday that Iran has the technical capability to enrich uranium to a higher level than it could before the multinational deal was reached. “Technically, we are fully prepared to enrich uranium higher than we used to produce before the deal was reached. ... I hope Trump comes to his senses and stays in the deal,” Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by Iranian state television as saying. Israel is widely believed to be
the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, though it neither confirms nor denies possessing atomic weapons. In response to the announcement from Israel, Trump said that pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal would not have a negative impact on his upcoming nuclear talks with North Korea, and he said he would be open to negotiating a new nuclear accord with Tehran. “I think it sends the right message,” Trump told a news conference when asked if pulling out of the Iran deal would send the wrong message to Pyongyang. “You know in seven years, that deal will have expired and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons.” Trump declined to say whether the United States would pull out of the nuclear deal before a May 12 deadline for a decision, saying: “We’ll see what happens.” But he expressed his dissatisfaction with the pact. “That is just not an acceptable situation. They’re not sitting back idly. They’re setting off missiles, which they say are for television purposes. I don’t think so,” Trump said, adding, “That doesn’t mean we won’t negotiate a real agreement.”
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Former NC State defensive end Bradley Chubb speaks to the Denver media following a press conference held at the Pat Bowlen Fieldhouse. Chubb was selected fifth overall by the Broncos in the NFL Draft.
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Hurricanes part ways with Francis, hire Rick Dudley as VP Less than eight weeks after he was stripped of his title as general manager, Ron Francis is no longer with the Carolina Hurricanes. In a Monday press release, the Hurricanes announced Francis’ contract had been terminated, and he would no longer serve as president of hockey operations. Francis was given that title on March 7 when he was relieved of his GM duties. Interim GM Don Waddell was the Hurricanes’ representative when the team bucked the odds to earn the second overall pick during Saturday’s draft lottery. Joe Nieuwendyk, a Hockey Hall of Famer like Francis, also resigned as a pro scout and adviser to the team, the Hurricanes said in the release. On Tuesday, the team added four-time NHL GM Rick Dudley to the front office as vice president of hockey operations. Dudley, 69, had been assistant GM in Montreal, and has 45 years of experience as a player, coach, GM and other front office roles.
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Cowboys trade Switzer to Raiders Dallas The Dallas Cowboys continued to shake up their receiving corps Saturday, sending former Tar Heel Ryan Switzer to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for defensive lineman Jihad Ward. Switzer, a fourth-round selection last year, appeared in all 16 games for the Cowboys last season, totaled six catches for 41 yards. The 23-year-old made a larger impact as a returner on special teams, totaling 256 yards and a touchdown on 29 punt returns and 600 yards on 24 kickoff returns.
Former NC State DL Gray shot to death Pinson, Ala. Former NC State defensive lineman Carlos Gray was found shot to death in his home outside of Birmingham, Ala. Authorities in Pinson, Ala., said Gray’s body was discovered around 10 p.m. on Monday. He was 25. Gray signed with the Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2014. He played in all four preseason games but was released on the final wave of roster cuts as the team set its roster.
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school in a single year. The Pack’s big draft day started early, as defensive end Bradley Chubb was selected fifth overall by the Denver Broncos. The pick was a bit of a surprise to Chubb, who had only met with Denver once in the draft preparation process. “I had the phone on the table. I didn’t even have to look at it, and I saw a Denver number pop up, and I was like, ‘This is it,’” Chubb said. “It was just a great moment with all of my family as I was on the phone. It was a great moment, and a lot of emotions came out. Mom and Dad started crying and I tried to hold it together.” Chubb will pair with veteran Von Miller to give the Broncos a fearsome pass rush. “We just felt that where we were and with Bradley staring at us, we couldn’t pass him up,” Denver GM John Elway said. “He can rush the pass as well as what he can do defensively. He’s a great fit. He’s a hard worker, and he plays 120 percent all the time. He’s a great addition to the Broncos.” No other in-state players heard their names called during Thursday’s opening round, although two players with ties to North Carolina were chosen. Charlotte native Jaire Alexander, a playmaking cornerback and return man for Louisville, was taken by the Green Bay Packers with the 18th overall pick. “Jaire is a guy that we’ve targeted all along,” Packers’ scouting director Jon-Eric Sullivan said. “We’ve liked him really from the outset. The guy’s a really good football player.” New Bern’s Mike Hughes, who started his college career at UNC,
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By Shawn Krest North State Journal NORTH CAROLINA schools had their best showing in the NFL Draft in more than a quarter century. A total of 15 players from schools in the state heard their names called in last week’s draft, the most since a state record 23 were taken in 1992. It’s just the eighth time in NFL Draft history that 15 North Carolinians were
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Longtime Major League umpire Joe West, a native of Greenville, is one of 15 who will be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame on Friday.
15 headed into NC Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2018 will be enshrined Friday in Raleigh By Brett Friedlander North State Journal The variety of athletic options available in North Carolina are as diverse as the state’s geography and population. It’s a fact that will be on full display later this week, when the newest members of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame are inducted Friday at a ceremony at the Raleigh Convention Center. The 15-member Class of 2018 is comprised of players, coaches and officials from traditional pursuits such as baseball, basketball, football, tennis and golf. But there’s also a surfer and a speedskater in the group. “The achievements of this year’s class of inductees enrich North Carolina’s remarkable sports heritage, and the individuals have certainly earned the honor of joining the 336 men and women who have been previously enshrined,” Nora Lynn Finch, president of the state shrine, said in a statement. This year’s inductees include (*indicates posthumous): Donna Andrews A native of Lynchburg, Va., Andrews first made a name for herself as a college golfer at North Carolina who won the prestigious North and South Amateur at Pinehurst in 1988. After turning professional in 1990, she went on to win six LPGA tournaments, including a major title at the 1994 Nabisco Dinah Shore
while representing the U.S. at the Solheim Cup in 1994 and ’98. Now retired from competition, Andrews is a respected golf instructor at Pine Needles Resort. Scott Bankhead Bankhead enjoyed a standout amateur career at Reidsville High School and UNC, while also representing the U.S. in the 1984 Olympics, before becoming the 16th overall pick in the 1984 Major League Baseball draft by the Kansas City Royals. The righthander made his Major League debut with the Royals on May 25, 1986, and played 10 seasons with five different teams, going 57-48 with 614 career strikeouts. Hal “Skinny” Brown*
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Nicknamed by his parents because he was a chubby child, Brown was a knuckleball specialist who pitched for five Major League teams from 1951-64. He compiled an 85-92 record, with 3.81 earned run average, 47 complete games and 13 shutouts. Before his time on the diamond, the Greensboro native served as an Air Force gunner who was on a bomber that provided air support for the D-Day landings on Omaha Beach. Chris Cammack* Still considered one of the greatest hitters in NC State baseball history, Cammack was a four-time All-ACC selection at third base who led the Wolfpack to the 1968 College World Series and hit a school-record .429 the See HALL OF FAME, page B4
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Perhaps the Carolina Hurricanes’ luck is finally changing. The franchise, mired in a nine-year playoff drought, jumped from 11th to second in the NHL Draft Lottery, giving them the option to draft a top forward in June — perhaps Barrie Colts winger Andrei Svechnikov. B3
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Bruce Allen: The Redskins team president reportedly has interest in returning to the Raiders to reunite with new Oakland head coach Jon Gruden. Allen — who worked with Gruden in Oakland from 1998-2001 and in Tampa Bay from 2004‑08 — would serve in an “executivetype role” focusing primarily on business and without significant input on personnel decisions. Allen served as Washington’s general manager from 2009 until January 2015, when he took the title of team president after Scot McCloughan was hired to be the GM. McCloughan was fired in March 2017, and Allen has since served as de facto GM while former Washington QB Doug Williams was promoted from senior executive to vice president of player personnel. K.J. Malone: The son of Basketball Hall of Fame member Karl Malone signed with the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent this weekend. The 6-foot-4, 303-pound offensive tackle played college football at LSU. He started 18 games at left tackle over the last two seasons for the Tigers but missed six games in 2017 due to a knee injury. Malone reportedly ran 40 yards in 5.34 seconds at the NFL Scouting Combine. Lou Lamoriello: The Hall of Fame general manager will not return to that role with the Toronto Maple Leafs for 2018-19 season. Lamoriello, 75, will transition to a senior adviser role. Lamoriello, who guided the New Jersey Devils to three Stanley Cups as GM, helped oversee a rebuilding process that included landing 2016 first overall pick Auston Matthews.
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On Lap 166 of 188, Talladega took a bite out of Hendrick Motorsports when teammates Jimmie Johnson and William Byron got too close to each other as they rolled into Turn 3. Johnson slid sideways in dirty air and collected both Byron and Paul Menard, triggering a 14-car wreck. Joey Logano wound up earning the win.
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“We got Bradley Chubb! It’s crazy!” Broncos defensive end Von Miller in a Twitter video after Denver selected NC State’s Chubb to play opposite of him with the fifth overall pick.
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14 Players from N.C. colleges picked in the top five of the NFL Draft since its inception in 1937: Bradley Chubb, NCSU (5th, 2018); Mitch Trubisky, UNC (2nd, 2017); Aaron Curry, WFU (4th, 2009); Mario Williams, NCSU (1st, 2006); Philip Rivers, NCSU (4th, 2004); Julius Peppers, UNC (2nd, 2002); Mike Junkin, Duke (5th, 1987); Lawrence Taylor, UNC (2nd, 1981); Ken Huff, UNC (3rd, 1975); Ken Willard, UNC (2nd, 1965); Roman Gabriel, NCSU (2nd, 1962); Norm Snead, WFU (2nd, 1961); Steve Lach, Duke (4th, 1942); George McAfee, Duke (2nd, 1940).
Dodgers All-Star shortstop Corey Seager, a Charlotte native who attended Northwest Cabarrus High, will have Tommy John surgery and miss the remainder of the season. Elbow issues first surfaced for Seager, 24, last summer, though he was advised by the team not to undergo surgery after having an MRI in the offseason.
LeBron James scored 45 points as the Cavaliers beat the Pacers 105-101 in the decisive seventh game of their first-round playoff series Sunday in Cleveland. The Cavaliers were set to visit the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. James added nine rebounds, seven assists and four steals in the win.
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Cowboys tight end Jason Witten met with team owner Jerry Jones on Friday to discuss the likelihood that he would be retiring to join ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” as a replacement in the booth for Jon Gruden. ESPN reportedly offered Witten a salary of up to $4.5 million, compared to a base salary of $1.05 million with the Cowboys in 2018.
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Heels baseball back where it belongs After an uneven start to the season, UNC has climbed into the top five after a sweep of rival NC State By Brett Friedlander North State Journal RALEIGH — Rock bottom for the North Carolina baseball team arrived on March 14. That night, just 24 hours after eking out a 1-0 victory against NC A&T, the Tar Heels managed but five harmless singles against four Gardner-Webb pitchers in a shutout loss to the Bulldogs at Boshamer Stadium. The disappointing setback to a Big South Conference opponent dropped UNC to 9-8 — not terrible, but unacceptable for a team that started the season at No. 6 in the national rankings and favored to win the ACC’s Coastal Division. “After we got shut out by Gardner-Webb, I think they all got together and sort of had a ‘Come to Jesus’ meeting,” coach Mike Fox said. “They were like, ‘OK, that’s pretty unacceptable,’ so we’ve been better. We’ve got a mentally tough group. That’s allowed us to persevere and get on a roll.” Whether it was a heightened sense of urgency, a pitching staff that finally began to overcome the loss of injured ace Gianluca Dalatri or simply a few more hardhit balls that fell in for hits, the Tar Heels parlayed that Gardner-Webb loss and the meeting that followed into a dramatic turning point. The resurgence began with a weekend sweep at Pittsburgh and a blowout victory against former conference rival Maryland. It continued to build with two more unbeaten weekends, against Wake Forest and Georgia Tech, to go along with UNC’s first series win at Miami since 2008. Despite hitting a high-profile speed bump in an 8-3 loss to rival NC State at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in a game designated as a nonconference matchup, the Tar Heels got a measure of revenge — and more — last weekend by storming into Raleigh and winning three straight on the second-ranked Wolfpack’s home field. “We just keep picking each other up,” said junior third baseman Kyle Datres, the team’s leading
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UNC’s Kyle Datres slides safely into third base during the Tar Heels’ weekend sweep of rival NC State. hitter at .352. “That’s what you need from a team.” UNC’s first-ever series sweep at Doak Field solidified the Tar Heels’ lead in the Coastal Division and catapulted them all the way to No. 5 in the latest Baseball America rankings. “We’re just putting it all together,” said sophomore first baseman Michael Busch, who leads the team with 11 homers and 47 RBI. “We’re not just hitting one game and pitching the other, we’re hitting and pitching each game. “It’s really shown, because we knew we had it in us. It was just kind of a matter of time before we put it together. I’m just happy with the way we’re playing right now.” He should be. UNC is 22-5 in its 27 games since Gardner-Webb and was riding a seven-game winning streak heading into Tuesday’s midweek game against UNC Asheville. The Tar Heels’ growing confidence was on full display during their three games at State. On Friday, freshman righthander Joey Lancellotti stepped into the role usually handled by closer Josh Hiatt — who was suspended indefinitely earlier in the
“We just keep picking each other up. That’s what you need from a team.” Kyle Datres, UNC junior third baseman week for conduct detrimental to the team — and recorded a fourout save. Saturday, UNC’s pitching depth was on further display when sophomore right-hander Austin Bergner struck out 11 in eight strong innings. Bergner, now 5-1 and with a fastball clocked in the mid-90s, is rapidly growing into the primary mound role vacated by the injured Dalatri. At the plate, Busch, Datres and Cody Roberts roughed up Wolfpack ace Brian Brown for the first three homers he’s allowed all season. The tone for Sunday’s coup de grace came in the opening inning when Busch plowed into State catcher Jack Conley and knocked the ball loose while scoring on a short sacrifice fly by Ike Freeman. The 5-4 victory ended with a
Struggling Sabres, Hurricanes land top two picks in NHL Draft Lottery results could rejuvenate once fierce rivals who have each fallen on hard times By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — On June 1, 2006, the Carolina Hurricanes and Buffalo Sabres met for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final with a date for the Stanley Cup against the Edmonton Oilers awaiting the winner. That afternoon, Sabres defenseman Jay McKee was ruled out with an inopportune infected shin, joining fellow blueliners Dmitri Kalinin, Teppo Numminen and Henrik Tallinder on the shelf. The Hurricanes, as everyone knows, emerged victorious, led by three points from the future Mr. Game 7, Justin Williams. Eric Staal, in the second year of his NHL career and — thanks to the lockout — third pro season, only managed two shots on goal and a minus-2. Still, he finished the Cup-winning season as the Hurricanes’ top scorer and an emerging superstar. The Sabres returned to the conference final the next season and made trips to the playoffs in 2010 and 2011, but in the 21st century they were never as close to winning their first Cup as 2006. Carolina also returned to a conference final, in 2009, but that has been the team’s only playoff appearance since winning the Stanley Cup 12 years ago. So it seems fitting that the two franchises’ fates were reunited Saturday night at the NHL Draft
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Barrie Colts right wing Andrei Svechnikov is considered by most to be the second-best player available in this summer’s NHL Draft. The Hurricanes won the No. 2 overall pick during Saturday’s draft lottery.
While the Hurricanes certainly would have been thrilled with Rasmus Dahlin, they will happily pick second overall for the first time since they took Eric Staal back in 2003. Lottery. Buffalo held the best chance at earning the top selection come
June 22, having finished last in the league standings. Carolina was a long shot, having been ini-
save from another fill-in freshman, right-hander Ben Casparius, who got Stephen Pitarra to fly out to right with the bases loaded for the final out. “They’re a good team and they’re very, very hot right now,” Wolfpack coach Elliott Avent said of the Tar Heels, who snapped State’s streak of 13 straight series wins. “You saw (games) between two of the best teams in the country, two teams that I hope hook it up in Omaha (at the College World Series) like we did a few years ago.” If UNC does manage to make it that far, Fox said it will be because — not in spite — of his team’s rocky start. “We lost a couple of close games and were just trying to figure out our team,” the veteran coach said. “We had some young guys who had to just figure some things out and we lost Luca, so we all had to take a step back after the first two weekends. Our kids never wavered, though. We told them all along that this will help us down the road. “We were just saying keep the faith. I think the games we played on the road and the games we lost prepared us to get to this point.”
tially slotted to pick 11th overall. Once the ping pong balls fell into place, though, the former rivals were side by side. The Sabres got what they couldn’t get in 2015 when they had the best odds at picking first and selecting generational talent Connor McDavid. They instead picked second that year and landed Jack Eichel, a star player in his own right who has been unable to pull Buffalo out of its funk. This time around, they’ll get both the extra defenseman they could have used back in 2006 and the once-in-a-lifetime talent they missed out in 2015: Swedish defenseman Rasmus Dahlin. While the Hurricanes certainly would have been thrilled with Dahlin, they will happily pick second overall for the first time since they took Staal back in 2003. Most draft analysts have Russian Andrei Svechnikov, who played for the OHL’s Barrie Colts this year, as the best forward in this year’s class. He had 40 goals in 44 regular season games this season, earning Rookie of the Year honors in the OHL. There’s also Czech winger Filip Zadina — he also played in North America this year, with the Halifax Mooseheads in the QMJHL — who teamed up with Carolina’s 2017 first-round pick, Martin Necas, to star for their country at the World Junior Championships last winter. And Brady Tkachuk — son of Keith and brother of Flames winger Matthew — is the type of physical menace and scorer not often seen in the NHL anymore. The power forward who turns 19 in mid-September will be the oldest first-time player in the draft and captained Team USA to bronze at the World Juniors. Any of the three could have the type of impact Staal had in 2005-06 and beyond — perhaps leading Carolina back to the top of the Eastern Conference. Don’t be surprised if their old foes in Buffalo — led by Dahlin — are waiting to meet them if they do.
B3 NFL DRAFT from page B1 was drafted 30th overall by the Minnesota Vikings. The cornerback finished his college career at Central Florida. “He was the highest player rated on our board,” GM Rick Spielman said. “As Coach (Mike) Zimmer says, we can never have enough corners around here, and he fits all of the traits we look for at the position.” The other schools in the state got involved on Day Two of the draft, which consisted of rounds two and three. In the second round, Tampa Bay took UNC cornerback M.J. Stewart with the 53rd pick, and Cincinnati took Wake Forest safety Jessie Bates with the very next selection. “I got a little nervous after it got past the 50th pick,” Bates said. “I got really nervous. I don’t know why, but I just started questioning some things. I feel very confident now.” Fayetteville’s Harold Landry also went in the second round, after starring at defensive end with Boston College. The Tennessee Titans took Landry with the 41st pick. “I’m not going to let them down,” Landry said of his new team. “I’m going to show up, go to work and do what I’ve got to do my rookie year to help get this team, as much as I can, to a Super Bowl.” NC A&T tackle Brandon Parker went to the Oakland Raiders with the first pick of round three, the 65th pick overall. A&T is one of four schools in the state, along with State, UNC and Wake, to have players drafted each of the last two years. Chubb’s Wolfpack defensive linemates B.J. Hill and Justin Jones were also taken in the third round. Hill went to the Giants at No. 69, and Jones was selected by the Chargers with the 84th pick.
“I got a little nervous after it got past the 50th pick. ... I feel very confident now.” Wake Forest’s Jesse Bates on being picked by Cincinnati Hill and Jones began a run on NC State players, as they were the first of a half dozen Wolfpack players taken before any other in-state products were selected. In the fourth round, running back and return man Nyheim Hines went to the Colts with the 104th pick. End Kentavius Street, the fourth member of the Wolfpack defensive line, was taken by San Francisco at No. 128. Offensive tackle Will Richardson went to the Jaguars on the next pick. In the fifth round, running back/tight end Jaylen Samuels was taken by the Steelers at 165. Former Wolfpack wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, who transferred to South Florida, capped the NC State portion of the draft, going to Green Bay at 174, the final pick of the fifth round. Wake defensive end Duke Ejiofor was taken by the Texans in the sixth round, at 177. It’s the first time Wake has had multiple players drafted since four Deacs were taken in 2012. Wide receiver Braxton Berrios, who played at Raleigh’s Leesville Road High, was drafted by the Patriots at pick 210 overall. App State had its second player drafted in the last three years when offensive tackle Colby Gossett was selected by the Vikings at pick 213. Linebacker Andre Smith, who entered the draft after his junior year at UNC, will remain in state after getting selected by the Carolina Panthers in the seventh round, at pick 234. Western Carolina returned to the draft after a 24-year absence when cornerback Keion Crossen was selected by the Patriots at pick 243. Crossen was the first Catamount drafted since tight end Andrew Jordan was taken by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 1994 draft. UNC receiver Austin Proehl just missed immortality. The Buffalo Bills took Proehl with the second-to-last pick in the draft. The final NFL draft pick is honored with a parade and the title Mr. Irrelevant.
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Maryland wide receiver D.J. Moore was picked 24th overall by the Carolina Panthers in the first round of the NFL Draft.
Panthers fill needs, get faster in draft Carolina added receivers, corners, depth in other spots By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE CAROLINA Panthers addressed their biggest needs in the NFL Draft, bringing in wide receiver and secondary talent at the top of the draft, then adding to depth on defense later. The overriding focus for Carolina was speed, as each of the Panthers’ draft picks make the team faster. “I’ve always believed that you can’t teach speed,” general manager Marty Hurney said, “and I think that’s a big part of this game. Again, you have to be big and you have to be physical, but you also have to be fast, and I think coming into this offseason that was one of our general goals: to add speed to positions, especially the skill positions. When you get guys like that, guys who play fast, it’s something you just can’t coach.” The Panthers added a game-breaking wide receiver in the first round, selecting Maryland’s D.J. Moore with the 24th overall pick. In addition to his speed, Moore is a physical receiver who Hurney said, “turns into a running back” after making the catch. Moore was the Big Ten Receiver of the Year after setting a Maryland record with 80 catches. He is the highest-drafted receiver in team history, eclipsing previous first-rounders Kelvin Benjamin (28th overall in 2014) and Rae Carruth (27th overall in 1997). Steve Smith, the top receiver in franchise history, praised Moore while providing analysis on the NFL Network’s coverage of the draft, saying that he reminded Smith of himself. Moore joins a receiving corps that includes second-year speed-
HALL OF FAME from page B1 following season. In addition to his prowess on the baseball field, he was also a star point guard who helped the basketball team at Fayetteville High School to a 4A state championship. Joey Cheek A Greensboro native who began his career as an inline skater before switching over to ice, Cheek won three Olympic medals, including a gold with a dominating performance in the 500 meters at Turin, Italy, in 2006. Cheek was elected by his teammates to carry the U.S. flag in the closing ceremonies in Turin and has gone on to co-found Team Darfur, an international organization of athletes working to call attention to the humanitarian crisis related to the war in Darfur. Wes Chesson A star receiver and punter for Duke in the late 1960s, the Edenton native was the leading pass-catcher in ACC history when he finished his career with the Blue Devils. Chesson caught 164 passes for 2,399 yards and 10 touchdowns. His 74 receptions and 1,080 receiving yards in 1970 were also single-season confer-
ster Curtis Samuel and veteran Torrey Smith, acquired in an offseason trade. The Panthers went back to Maryland later in the draft to add linebacker Jermaine Carter in the fifth round. Devoting multiple picks to the same school has been a Hurney draft hallmark. In his first tenure as general manager, from 2002 to 2012, Hurney selected teammates in the same draft seven times, most recently 2011, when Auburn quarterback Cam Newton and tackle Lee Ziemba were selected in the first and seventh rounds, respectively. Carter and UNC’s Andre Smith, selected in the seventh round, give the Panthers depth at the linebacker spot, where AllPro Luke Kuechly has missed time each of the last three years. “At linebacker, we needed a young dynamic guy to come in and be part of what we do and be a special teamer as well,” head coach Ron Rivera said. While receiver was a need position, the most glaring weakness on the team roster was at cornerback. The team traded Darryl Worley in the offseason, then had their top free agent target, Brashaud Breeland, fail his physical. The Panthers added corners in the second and third round. LSU’s Donte Jackson was the choice with the 55th pick. Tennessee’s Rashaan Gaulden was taken with the 85th pick. It’s the second time in three years that the team has spent second- and thirdround picks on the position. The Panthers took James Bradberry and Worley in the 2016 draft. “To get into the playoffs you’ve got to win your division, whether you win it at 7-8-1 or 15-1,” Rivera said. “So, when you compare those teams that are in our division and what they have, we most certainly have to match up with those guys across the board. We saw that with the defensive back position going out and doing what we did with the two young
ence records at the time. Chesson played in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons and was a long-time analyst on the Duke radio network. Laura DuPont* DuPont holds the distinction of being the first woman to win a national championship in any sport at UNC, as well as the school’s first female All-American. In addition to winning singles tennis titles in 1968, ’70 and ’71, along with a doubles crown in ’70, the Charlotte product was also a member of the Tar Heels’ women’s basketball team and was named North Carolina’s AAU Athlete of the Year in 1970. She joined the women’s professional tennis tour after graduation, rising to a world ranking as high as No. 9. Mindy Ballou Fitzpatrick A four-time all-conference player in volleyball and All-American in basketball, Ballou Fitzpatrick is the only West Carteret High athlete to have his or her jersey retired. She then set a South Carolina school record for assists in a season while ranking second on the Gamecocks’ career list. Following her graduation in 1986, she became a surfing champion, with five Eastern Surfing Association titles to her credit.
“When you get guys like that, guys who play fast, it’s something you just can’t coach.” Marty Hurney, Panthers GM men we brought in. Both guys are quick, both guys have some foot speed, both guys I think can add something to what we want to defensively.” With tight end Greg Olsen nearing a post-playing career TV gig and Ed Dickson leaving in free agency, the team added depth at the position in the fourth round, selecting Indiana’s Ian Thomas. “He definitely has the abilities to come and contribute right away, but we think he has got a very high upside,” Hurney said. The Panthers also needed help on the pass rush, with longtime defensive end Charles Johnson’s offseason release. The Panthers spent a fourth-round pick on Ole Miss edge rusher Marquis Haynes, who broke former Panthers’ standout Greg Hardy’s school record for sacks. Haynes played outside linebacker in college and is undersized for an NFL end, but the team has had success with another undersized pass rusher in Mario Addison. “That’s exactly what we looked at and we said this is a guy that compares very favorably to Mario,” Rivera said. The Panthers finished off their draft by selecting Miami’s Kendrick Norton in the seventh round. Carolina still needs to add depth at running back and on the offensive line, but the team definitely filled several holes in the draft. “We think we filled some more needs today,” Rivera said. “We feel really good about filling those needs.”
“His win here in 2007 was one of the memorable moments in our tournament history.” Woods has been showing signs of progress recently in his By Brett Friedlander latest comeback from multiple North State Journal back surgeries. He posted a runner-up finish CHARLOTTE’S Quail Hol- at the Valspar Championship low Club isn’t hosting one of in Palm Harbor, Fla., in eargolf’s major championships this ly March and followed that up year, as it did a year ago with the following week with a fifthplace showing at the Arnold the PGA. But you’d never know it from Palmer Invitational in Orlanthe field that’s been assem- do. The former world No. 1 has bled for this week’s Wells Fargo not played since posting a disappointing 32nd-place Championship. result at the Masters The lineup is a four weeks ago. Who’s Who of golf, Woods will bewith virtually every “His win gin the tournament at big name in the sport other than world No. 1 here in 2007 12:50 p.m. on Thursday in a threesome Dustin Johnson and was one of with Reed and defendJordan Spieth lined up the memoing U.S. Open champiand ready to take on on Brooks Koepka. one of the most chal- rable moAmong the othlenging venues on the ments in our er notables, Thomas PGA Tour. It’s a list tournament will tee off along with that includes Justin Rickie Fowler and last Thomas, who won last history.” year’s Wells Fargo winyear’s PGA ChampionGarry Sobba, ner Brian Harman at ship at Quail Hollow, 12:40 p.m., North Carnewly minted Masters tournament olina native and forwinner Patrick Reed director mer U.S. Open chamand two-time Wells pion Webb Simpson Fargo champ Rory will start at 1:20 while McIlroy McIlroy. For all that star power, how- (7:30 a.m.) and Phil Mickelson ever, the main attraction is a (7:40 a.m.) drew early morning player that hasn’t had a tourna- tee times. The tournament features a ment victory of any kind in five $7.7 million purse, with $1.38 years. That player is Tiger Woods, million going to the winner. Harman scored his secthe 2007 Wells Fargo winner, who will be making his first ap- ond career victory at last year’s pearance at Quail Hollow since event, posting off a 10-under-par score that was one shot 2012. “Obviously we are excited to better than Johnson and Pat have Tiger coming back to com- Perez. The tournament was pete in our tournament but held at Eagle Point Golf Club in to also have him healthy and Wilmington while Quail Holcompeting on the PGA Tour low underwent preparations for this year,” tournament direc- the PGA Championship later in tor Gary Sobba said in a release. the year.
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Tiger Woods is the main draw in an impressive field at this year’s Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte.
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“The achievements of this year’s class of inductees enrich North Carolina’s remarkable sports heritage, and the individuals have certainly earned the honor of joining the 336 men and women who have been previously enshrined,” Nora Lynn Finch, N.C. Sports Hall of Fame president Bill Hayes Hayes became the first African-American football coach in the ACC in 1973 when he was hired as an assistant at Wake Forest. He got his first head coaching job at Winston-Salem State, where he won three CIAA championships and twice took his team to the NCAA Division II playoffs before moving on to NC A&T in 1988. A graduate of NC Central, Hayes earned a record of 195-104-2 in 27 seasons and finished his career as the winningest coach in the history of both Winston-Salem State and A&T.
A high school teammate of Roman Gabriel at New Hanover, Holley is best known as the winningest coach in North Carolina history. His teams won 412 games over 46 seasons, mostly at Wallace-Rose Hill and Tabor City high schools. Holley’s teams made 14 state championship game appearances, winning his only title in 2008 with Harrells Academy. Paul Jones* Another legendary high school coach, Jones won 662 games, 18 conference championships and two state titles during his 38 seasons from 1957-95 at Kinston High. A native of Thomasville and a graduate of East Carolina, he also coached a state championship baseball team. Mike Martin The longtime baseball coach at Florida State, Martin has the most wins and the highest winning percentage of any active college coach in the nation. He has won more than 1,900 games and led the Seminoles to 16 College World Series appearances. As a player, the Gastonia native was a junior college All-American at Wingate before hitting .354 as a
senior at Florida State in 1965. Frank “Jakie” May* A left-handed pitcher from Wendell, May won 72 games with a 3.88 ERA in a 14-year Major League Baseball career with three National League teams from 1917-32. His best season was 1927, when he won 15 games with the Cincinnati Reds. Joe West A former football star at Rose High in Greenville and in college at Elon, West is one of the most recognizable umpires in Major League Baseball. The longest-tenured umpire in the game with more than 40 years of experience, West has worked six World Series, nine league championship series and three All-Star Games. Fred Whitfield A friend and business partner of Michael Jordan, Whitfield is the president and CEO of the Charlotte Hornets. He was a captain and basketball team MVP at Campbell who was inducted into the school’s sports hall of fame in 1995. In addition to his work in sports, the Greensboro native has been active in numerous civic causes that have benefitted young people in the Charlotte area.
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By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir Reuters WASHINTON, D.C. — Business is coming in so fast and workers are in such high demand at AOW Associates Inc, an Albany, New Yorkbased construction firm, that its chief financial officer hired a guy six weeks ago for a job that didn't exist. “We keep our project management ads continuous, even if we are not looking to fill a particular role, and if someone does come along, we make a job for them,” AOW CFO Nicki Armsby said in a recent interview. The company is not alone in looking for creative ways to deal with a U.S. labor shortage that, according to recent economic data and doc-
uments from the U.S. Federal Reserve, may be getting worse. Policymakers at the Fed, which holds its latest policy meeting this week, must now decide what weight to give to signs that the economy is reaching a point where wages, inflation and other laggard indicators may turn higher. Data on Friday showed U.S. employment costs rose in the first quarter at an annualized rate of 4 percent, continuing what JP Morgan economists view as a steady march higher since the unemployment rate fell below 5 percent in 2015. Investors appear to be betting on that scenario playing out. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note breached the 3 percent level last week for the first time in more than four years. And labor shortages have been cited by analysts as being responsible for the growing backlogs for manufactured goods in recent supply manager reports. Add in the fiscal stimulus from the Trump administration's tax cuts and spending that is hitting the economy this year, and the higher prices for aluminum, steel and potentially other goods triggered by
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Upcoming Waynesville Festivals Celebrate NC Mountains It’s festival time in the western North Carolina public power town of Waynesville, and oh what fun is in store! This Sunday, May 6, catch the 86th Annual Ramp Festival. We’re not talking extreme sports here. Ramps are native wild onions that grow on the mountainsides in western North Carolina. They’re known for and celebrated for their pungent aroma and bold flavor. At the festival, which is sponsored by the American Legion Post 47, you can partake in a full meal featuring ramps, enjoy live music, check out some local crafts, try raw ramps and ramp seasonings, and participate in other fun activities. The following Saturday, May 12, is the can’t-miss Whole Bloomin’ Thing Spring Festival in Waynesville’s Historic Frog Level Shopping District. Sounds fun, right? Kicking off the growing season and celebrating all things local, the festival features fresh local produce, local artists with lots of nature-inspired handicrafts, local food vendors, local live entertainment, and all sorts of local plants, flowers, bushes and trees. Find more information about both events at: http://www.visitncsmokies.com.
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B6 U.S. economy slows in Q1, but wage growth accelerates Washington, D.C. The U.S. economy slowed in the first quarter as consumer spending grew at its weakest pace in nearly five years, but a surge in wages amid tightening labor market conditions and lower tax rates suggested the setback is likely temporary. Gross domestic product increased at a 2.3 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said in its snapshot of first-quarter GDP on Friday, also restrained by a moderation in business spending on equipment and investment in homebuilding. These factors were partially offset by a rise in inventories and a narrowing of the trade deficit. The economy grew at a 2.9 percent rate in the fourth quarter. Economists expect growth will accelerate in the second quarter as more households feel the impact of the Trump administration's $1.5 trillion income tax package on their paychecks.
U.S. top court turns away Google fight over business patents Washington, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Google's appeal of a lower court's ruling that narrowed the scope of patents that can be challenged before a federal tribunal whose proceedings have led to the cancellation of many patents. The justices let stand a 2016 federal appeals court ruling against Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, which had successfully challenged at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office a patent it was accused of violating. The appeals court said the patent had been wrongly reviewed in a proceeding reserved for business-related patents.
U.S. Treasury meets business groups on Chinese investment bill Washington, D.C. U.S. Treasury officials met with about 10 industry groups on Monday to discuss the latest draft of legislation that would tighten scrutiny of foreign investment in order to limit Chinese efforts to acquire sophisticated U.S. technology. The Treasury Department supports the bill, which is now in the Senate and a companion measure in the U.S. House of Representatives, that would broaden the reach of the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Corporate America has taken a keen interest in the bill because it would give CFIUS the power to further restrict Chinese investment in U.S. companies. It could also potentially lead the Chinese to retaliate and restrict U.S. company access to the world's secondlargest economy. Tightening the CFIUS process is one of several efforts supported by the Trump administration, including tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Marriott Vacations buys ILG in $4.7 billion timeshare merger Bethesda, MD Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corp will buy timeshare operator ILG Inc for $4.7 billion, the companies said on Monday, grabbing the chance to merge operations and brands spun out of Starwood and Marriott hotels. ILG serves some 2 million members through various networks and has faced pressure from investor FrontFour Capital Group, which has been urging a sale to cash in at a time when U.S. stock valuations are high and global travel demand is booming. The combined company will have 108 properties and seven upscale brands including ILG's Hyatt, Westin and Sheraton vacation ownership brands, giving it more scale to compete with Hilton Grand Vacations Inc and Bluegreen Vacations Corp.
E-Verify immigrant job screening is a game of chicken, politics and state laws By Tim Henderson Stateline AMID the Trump administration’s vocal efforts to crack down on the hiring of undocumented immigrants, little attention has been paid to a federal program that, if used uniformly, could go a long way toward stopping the practice. E-Verify — which is run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and matches job applicants and federal immigration data — has been touted as a solution to helping employers determine whether a potential hire is legally entitled to work in the United States. But Congress has spent years struggling to pass comprehensive immigration reform, and the E-Verify program remains voluntary across most of the country. Although President Trump included mandatory E-Verify use in his 2019 federal budget proposal, some traditionally Republican interest groups, such as agriculture, have concerns about mandating E-Verify without an overhaul to the U.S. guest-worker program. Stateline conducted a state-bystate analysis of E-Verify use, looking at Homeland Security data and hiring statistics from the federal Quarterly Workforce Indicators, and found that a critical tool for preventing the illegal hiring of undocumented workers hasn’t been used uniformly even in the states that require it. The deciding factor in how many employers use the federal E-Verify program might not be state law alone — but also whether a state’s leading industry is one that relies heavily on an immigrant workforce: namely, the poultry industry. Four of the five states with the highest rates of E-Verify use are also among the nation’s top producers of broilers, the chickens raised, slaughtered and packaged before being shelved in grocery stores across the country. Poultry plant workers are concentrated in Georgia and Arkansas, the top two states for E-Verify use, with a combined 60,000 employees, according to federal statistics. E-Verify use is most widespread in Georgia, with 94 percent of hires screened between July 2016 and June 2017, according to Stateline’s analysis. Georgia’s law isn’t the strictest, but it does require all government agencies and most private employers to use E-Verify. Poultry also is Georgia’s top agricultural commodity, with 1.4 billion broilers produced in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Alabama, another state requiring E-Verify use, had a 60 percent screening rate and produced 1.1 billion broilers in 2016. Perhaps most interesting is Arkansas, which has achieved the second-highest E-Verify rate without legislation, at 66 percent. Arkansas, home to Tyson Foods, produced a billion broilers in 2016. Delaware, home to Perdue, had a 65 percent screening rate. Maryland, home of Holly Poultry, was at 55 percent. Neither state requires E-Verify.
FED from page B5 between 1.50 percent and 1.75 percent. It currently forecasts another two rate rises this year, although an increasing number of policymakers see three as possible. The Fed's next policy meeting after this week is scheduled for June 12-13. Investors overwhelmingly see a rate hike then. The pace of rate increases has picked up since the central bank began its tightening cycle in December 2015. It raised rates once in 2016, but lifted borrowing costs three times last year amid a strengthening economy. Unemployment is at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent and the Trump administration's tax cuts and fiscal stimulus are expected to further juice the economy. Rising inflation pressures Ahead of this week's meeting, Powell has stuck to flagging a middle-of-the-road approach on rate increases in the face of data showing the robust economy had not yet triggered a jump in inflation. Data on Monday, however, showed that price gains are now near the Fed's 2 percent target. The Fed's preferred measure of inflation soared 1.9 percent in the 12 months through March, the biggest increase since February 2017, after increasing 1.6 percent in the year through February, the U.S.
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Members of a migrant caravan from Central America walk on a street at the end of their caravan journey through Mexico, prior to preparations for an asylum request in the U.S., in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 27. In only nine states did employers screen half of new hires in the year that Stateline studied, July 2016 to July 2017. All but Arizona and Rhode Island have significant poultry industries. The others — Georgia, Arkansas, Delaware, Tennessee, Alabama, Maryland and South Carolina — are among the top bird-raising states in the country. Tamar Jacoby, an E-Verify supporter and advocate for legal immigration who runs the group ImmigrationWorks USA, figures that major poultry producers have vivid memories of federal workplace raids a decade ago that resulted in legal fees and many of their workers being detained. “The meat and poultry industry started earliest and has gone the furthest down that road of seeing the value and the benefit of E-Verify,” Jacoby said. Tyson Foods — after being charged with smuggling unauthorized immigrants from Mexico and cleared by a jury in 2003 — is now a member of a federal immigration enforcement program that requires an audit of immigration documents for all current workers as well as use of E-Verify for new hires. Poultry processors may have more influence on smaller states like Arkansas and Delaware than larger states like Texas, said Matt Spencer, director of human resources for the American Poultry Association, a trade group. Industry giants like Tyson and Perdue have plants in many states and adopt the same E-Verify policy in all of them, regardless of local laws and politics, he said. Some members don’t use E-Verify, and the association does not take a position on it. Tyson has locations in many states and uses both E-Verify and a federal service to verify Social Security numbers, said Caroline Ahn, a company spokeswoman. Aside from the poultry industry, Stateline’s analysis found that us-
Commerce Department reported. "The real headache is that it is easy to be the Fed when inflation is below target ... a very important aspect as we go into this May meeting, is the tone of the debate changes completely as we get to 2 percent and beyond," said Torsten Slok, an economist at Deutsche Bank. Other data last week showed that while U.S. economic growth slowed to an annualized rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter, wages and salaries shot up 0.9 percent during the same period. That was the largest increase since the first quarter of 2007. Fed policymakers have also been wary about the potential negative impact of the Trump administration's protectionist trade policies. A U.S. trade delegation is expected to meet Chinese officials in Beijing on Thursday and Friday after weeks of tensions between the world's two largest economies. President Donald Trump has proposed imposing tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese exports and threatened to slap them on another $100 billion in Chinese goods. China, in response, has said it will impose its own tariffs on American products. However, few economists expect any mention of trade risks in the Fed's policy statement on Wednesday and see any tweaks as likely to be confined to upgrading the language on inflation to reflect that it is now effectively at target.
“The bigger restaurant chains got religion on this, to the point they’re now upset that the smaller ones are not doing it. They see it’s better to have a national mandate than 50 different state laws.” — Tamar Jacoby, an E-Verify supporter and advocate for legal immigration age rates often reflect state-based regulations. Georgia has had unparalleled success in getting employers to use E-Verify by requiring it for a business license. In California, where 23 percent of new hires are screened, E-Verify is discouraged, and local ordinances mandating its use are prohibited. Jason Fry, a senior director at Equifax, which handles about 4 million E-Verify screens a year for clients, said laws can be more important than politics, even in states that are politically hostile to unauthorized immigration. “Businesses in general will follow requirements — they’ll do what they have to do,” Fry said. “It’s not so much about the local politics.” In states that don’t mandate E-Verify screening, employers hiring workers with falsified paperwork can still comply with federal law, which says only that they cannot knowingly hire unauthorized workers. Nor can E-Verify be used to screen existing employees — only new hires. Stateline’s analysis, showing such an uneven use of E-Verify, “creates a case for a uniform,
LABOR from page B5 interest rates at the end of its twoday policy meeting on Wednesday. It also is not releasing updated economic forecasts and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is not scheduled to hold a press conference. The policy statement alone could show how policymakers have accounted for a range of recent developments, and how their thinking may have evolved since the last meeting in March, when the U.S. central bank raised rates. According to documents released in the interim, the wages and inflation debate within the Fed appears to be shifting. In the minutes from the March 20-21 meeting, released earlier this month, the word "slack" was jettisoned in the discussion of labor markets, a notable change in what has been a staple description of labor conditions during the current economic expansion. The Fed then said in its “Beige Book” report, also released this month, that entrepreneurs across broad sectors of the economy were struggling to fill both skilled and unskilled jobs. “The labor market is tight and continuing to tighten,” Erin Browne, head of asset allocation at UBS Asset Management, said on Friday after the Labor Department released the latest employment cost data.
50-state solution,” said Jennifer Pett, spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, a member of the Judiciary and Homeland Security committees. Smith, a Texas Republican, has sponsored a bill in multiple Congresses that would require universal E-Verify use. Smith’s bill creating a national E-Verify mandate was passed by the Judiciary Committee in October and folded into an immigration package sponsored by Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, Smith’s office said. Some E-Verify proponents have been disappointed to see it languish since then. Companies are mixed on E-Verify. Although the service is free, it costs businesses money through administrative time or hiring independent contractors such as Equifax. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, long an opponent of E-Verify, switched gears in 2015, testifying to Congress in support of the program. Jacoby, of ImmigrationWorks USA, said larger restaurants and homebuilders also have changed their minds and now support E-Verify. “The bigger restaurant chains got religion on this, to the point they’re now upset that the smaller ones are not doing it,” Jacoby said. “They see it’s better to have a national mandate than 50 different state laws.” Dallas Fed researchers determined in 2017 that state-based E-Verify mandates either reduced or slowed the growth of the population of unauthorized immigrants in Alabama, Arizona, Mississippi and Utah. No significant change was observed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Support for the study was provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which also funds Stateline.
“We are finally starting to see that translate into wage inflation.” Missing piece Although inf lation has remained below the Fed's 2 percent medium-term target for years, there appears to be growing confidence among policymakers that the pace of price increases will not collapse again and that the objective will be reached. “They no longer see downside risk to inflation,” said Ed Al-Hussainy, senior interest rate and currency analyst for Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Data from CME Group and Eurodollar futures still point to just two more rate hikes this year, though many economists argue the Fed will ultimately raise rates on a quarterly basis from here on, leading to three more hikes by the end of 2018. The direction of wage growth will be critical to the Fed's assessment, with Powell citing it as the missing piece in the discussion of whether "full employment" has truly been reached or exceeded. That, in turn, will shape the debate about whether the Fed may even need to move faster and further than expected with its monetary tightening. If the choice is coming between raising compensation and leaving money on the table in the form of unfilled orders, then the weight may be shifting.
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TAKE NOTICE RANDOLPH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 68 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Bonita E. Gagnon and Heather Gallagher, (Bonita E. Gagnon, deceased) (Heirs of Bonita E. Gagnon: Heather Gallagher, Gary P. Gagnon, Jr., Toby Gagnon and Unknown Heirs of Bonita E. Gagnon)(Toby Gagnon, deceased)(Heirs of Toby Gagnon: Unknown Heirs of Toby Gagnon) to Fields Law Firm, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of August, 2007, and recorded in Book RE 2040, Page 2023, and Modification in Book 2351, Page 1072, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on May 8, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the center line of S.R. 2634 (Old Coleridge Road), said point being 1/2 mile south of Manor Rock Road, said point also being the Southeast corner of W. Penn Spinks; thence with the center line of Old Coleridge Road South 13 degrees 2 minutes 48 seconds West 76.94 feet to a new point, the new Northeast corner of Clarice Spinks; thence with a new line of Clarice Spinks the following calls: North 80 degrees 4 minutes 13 seconds West, passing a new iron pipe at 30.04 feet, a total distance of 127.28 feet to a new iron pipe; South 87 degrees 2 minutes 32 seconds West 104.81 feet to a new iron pipe; South 30 degrees 41 minutes 24 seconds West 141.73 feet to a new iron pipe; and North 83 degrees 16 minutes 41 seconds West 481.51 feet to a new iron pipe west of a branch; thence with the line of W. Penn Spinks, the following calls; North 37 degrees 15 minutes 52 seconds East 145.33 feet to a new iron pipe alongside a marked Sweet Gum on the Western Bank of a Branch; and North 89 degrees 20 minutes 1 second East 710 feet to the point and place of beginning, containing 2.0000 acres. more or less and being according to a plat by William Donald Smith, R.L.S. dated July 12, 1996, and entitled “Survey for Gregory M. Fisher and wife, Sheila B. Fisher.” Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3358 Old Coleridge Road, Siler City, North Carolina. This property is also currently known as 3358 Old Coleridge Road, Siler City, NC 27344 and is assigned parcel identification number 8629877255. This property includes a manufactured home that is permanently affixed to the land and is classified as, and taxed as, real property by the Randolph County Tax Department and described as follows: 1996 Champion, RAD, TRA 335925,335926, serial number 23-97-774-0145AB, 23.5X56.5. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. 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.
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1234757 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: April 25, 2018 and May 2, 2018
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Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Federico L. Carbajal and Jova D. Carachure to Shoaf Law Firm PA, Trustee(s), dated the 22nd day of May, 2008, and recorded in Book RE2079, Page 1036, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on May 15, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tax ID: PIN#: 6796 32 9380 Lying and being in the City of Thomasville, Randolph County, North Carolina containing n/a acres more or less, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 66, Map 2 of 2, River Ridge, Phase 2, as per plat thereof recorded in Plat Book 81, at Page 58, Randolph County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6840 Crooked Stream Lane, Thomasville, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1233712 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 2, 2018 and May 9, 2018
STANLY AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 71 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ronnie K. Freeman and Edwina B. Freeman (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Edwina B. Freeman) to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of April, 2006, and recorded in Book 1135, Page 10, in Stanly County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Stanly County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on May 9, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in the City of Albemarle, Stanley County, North Carolina, and being all of Lot Number Eight (8), Phase 1 of Granview Subdivision, as shown on Plat thereof and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Stanley County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 18, Pages 106 and 109, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more complete Description of said lots by metes and bounds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 431 Anderson Road, Albemarle, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1213781 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: April 25, 2018 and May 2, 2018
6476, Page 0204, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on May 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Jackson, in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the Jackson Township, Union County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron located near the eastern edge of S.R. 1300, said iron being a corner of the Joseph Ganis property and running with the property line of Joseph Ganis the following 3 calls: (1) North 36 degrees 35 minutes 10 seconds East 178.34 feet to an iron; (2) North 17 degrees 33 minutes 50 seconds East 793.67 feet to an iron; (3) South 72 degrees 36 minutes 05 seconds East 333.05 feet to an iron, said iron being a corner of the Joseph Ganis property and a corner of the Wood property (now or formerly); thence with the line of the Wood property (now or formerly), South 35 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds West 1099.8 feet to an iron, said iron being located adjacent to the eastern edge of S.R. 1300; thence along and near the eastern edge of S.R. 1300 North 15 degrees 38 minutes 25 seconds West 100.6 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING and containing 4.14 acres, as shown by Plat of Survey by Walter L. Gordon, R.L.S., dated September 16, 1986. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4403 Tory Path Road, Waxhaw, North Carolina. Permanent Parcel Number: 05141012 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1237807 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 2, 2018 and May 9, 2018
UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 183 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Albert T. Helms, Jr. and Cynthia S. Helms (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Albert Thomas Helms and Cynthia S. Helms) to BB&T Collateral Service Corporation, Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of October, 2006, and recorded in Book 04368, Page 0557, and Modification in Book
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 166 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Exavier Moceton and Ursula Vanessa Faura to Angie Palmer, Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of June, 2006, and recorded in Book 4221, Page 706, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said
Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on May 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain parcel of land in Union County, State of NC, as more fully described in Book 3053, Page 565, ID# 09396048, being known and designated as Lot 22, Block 1 Clover Bend Subdivision, Phase II, filed in Cabinet C at File No. 86. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2109 Clover Bend Drive, Monroe, North Carolina. Being the same property conveyed by fee simple deed from Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, by Tony Hughes, it’s Attorney-in-Fact to Exavier Moceton and Ursula Vanessa Faura, dated 03/11/2003 recorded on 05/02/2003 in Book 3053, Page 565 in Union County Records, State of NC. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a) (1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including SingleFamily Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. 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. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1234498 (FC.FAY) PUBLICATION DATES: May 2, 2018 and May 9, 2018
WAKE NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA WAKE COUNTY IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FILE NO. 17CVS13769 222 GLENWOOD, LLC V. INDIO RALEIGH, LLC, KETAN M. SHAH, DAVID CHANDRAKANT PANDORIA, CHELLAPPA MOHAMMED YASIN, SITA’S BLUE MANGO INDIAN CUISINE, LLC, RAJENDRAKUMAR R. PATEL, SEETA KHOSLA, and JAYESH C. PATEL: TAKE NOTICE that a Complaint seeking relief against INDIO RALEIGH, LLC and KETAN M. SHAH has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is: Breach of Contract. You are required by law to make defense to such pleading within forty (40) days from the date of the first publication of this Notice. If you fail to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought therein. This is 18th day of April, 2018 by /s/ R. Daniel Boyce, Attorney, Nexsen Pruet, PLLC, 4141 Parklake Avenue, Suite 200, Raleigh, NC 27612. PUBLICATION DATES: April 18, 2018; April 25, 2018; and May 2, 2018
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