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Andrew Dedman, 16, walks through snow as he heads to a friend’s apartment about a mile away to drink hot chocolate on Monday Dec. 10, 2018 in Durham, N.C. A winter storm dumped a foot of snow in some parts of Durham County starting Sunday.

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Trump argues with Pelosi, Schumer over border wall Washington, D.C. In a heated Oval Office exchange Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he would be willing to see a partial government shutdown if funding for continued construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall is not included in a spending agreement. This unfolded in a press event with Democratic leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, where the Democrats argued with Trump over the wall in front of cameras. Trump said if Democrats won’t vote for the funding, the military can build it. Funding for some government agencies is set to expire Dec. 21, but military funding has already been secured. A partial shutdown would primarily impact Washington, D.C., area federal employees starting the week of Christmas. They would still be paid for that time when a spending deal is in place.

EPA to narrow Obamaera environmental regulations Washington, D.C. The Trump administration proposed narrowing the regulatory power of the Obama-era Clean Water Act on Tuesday by prohibiting the federal government from extending the “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) rule to rivers that only flow after rainfall or wetlands that are not connected to larger rivers or waterways. By limiting the definitions in WOTUS, acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler say that landowners can better understand which projects would impact water subject to state or federal protections. Environmental activists objected calling it a “rollback” of water protections.

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Refreezing still threatens roads after Southern snowstorm Wednesday could mean a third slick morning if melting snow turns to black ice after Sunday snow

By Jonathan Drew The Associated Press RALEIGH — Seesawing temperatures across several Southern states were gradually melting snow from a wintry storm but also “transforming slushy roads into treacherous ice,” one governor warned Tuesday.

Scores of schools in Virginia and North Carolina were closed for a second day, and tens of thousands of people were without power in several states. The storm that blew in over the weekend was blamed for at least three deaths in North Carolina. Some roofs buckled under the weight of the snow, with a building collapse killing three horses at a North Carolina farm.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper urged people in hard-hit areas

UNC instructors to withhold grades in protest Bill would set new of Silent Sam plan Trustees’ plan to build $5.3 million center for controversial statue draws backlash

By David Larson North State Journal CHAPEL HILL — After a plan was unveiled last Monday for a new “History and Education Center” to house the Confederate statue Silent Sam, students and faculty expressed their disapproval by protesting and by threatening strikes.

UNC Board of Governors member Thom Goolsby, a UNC Chapel Law School alumnus, opposes the plan for very different reasons than the protestors.

“The law in North Carolina General Statute 100-2.1 is clear,” Goolsby said in a video.

“Silent Sam should have been put back up in his place within 90 days of the outside radicals tearing it down, when our police stood down and our administration did nothing.”

The statute Goolsby cites says monuments of this kind “may not be removed, relocated, or altered in any way without the approval of the North Carolina Historical Commission.”

If “an object of remembrance” is moved, it must be given a place “of similar prominence, honor, visibility, availability, and access that are within the boundaries of the jurisdiction from which it was relocated.” This site cannot be a “mu-

seum, cemetery, or mausoleum unless it was originally placed at such a location,” which may create legal challenges by those charging the “center” is just a museum by another name.

This tightly crafted state law, as well as pressure from UNC Board of Governors members like Goolsby, leaves university administration with limited ways out of blowback from students and faculty. Administration leaders say the $5.3 million “center” was the best out of these options.

“This site most closely fits both the recommendations from the safety panel and the criteria established for relocation by the current monument law,” UNC Chancellor Carol Folt and Provost Robert Blouin said in a statement.

After hearing word of faculty strike plans, Blouin and Kevin Guskiewicz, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, sent an email to instructors on Thursday night saying, “Our students are entitled to receive their grades in a timely manner. It is especially critical for the students preparing to graduate next Sunday, as well as the thousands of students whose scholarships, grants, loans, visa status, school transfers, job opportunities and military commissions may be imperiled because lack of grades threaten their eligibility.”

The email also asked instructors not to influence student See UNC GRADES, page A2

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primaries for 9th District if new elections held Investigators would study decades of voter fraud allegations statewide in new legislation expected to be on the House and Senate chamber floors Wednesday

By Donna King North State Journal

RALEIGH — On Tuesday, leadership in the N.C. legislature announced a new bill that restores the State Board of Elections to its original 2016 composition and could allow for a new election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, pending the outcome of a fraud investigation into handling of absentee ballots in that race. The bill is expected to move through both chambers’ committee process and be on the chamber floors on Wednesday.

Deadlines, fraud allegations and court orders are driving the fast timeline but also bringing lawmakers and the governor’s office to the table to work out the details. A panel of judges ruled in October that the current nine-member elections and ethics board was unconstitutional because the process of making appointments prevented Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper from controlling an executive agency. Republican lawmakers say the proposed new measure is what the governor requested and leaves the current board in place until after the negotiations.

“Drastically restructuring the board during this investigation would not be productive,” said Rep. David Lewis (R-Harnett) in a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

It also delays implementation of the new voter ID constitutional amendment until Sept. 1, 2019 “We have engaged in good faith negotiations with the governor’s office for several weeks,” said Lewis. “Many of the things he asked for are in this bill. I wish he were standing here with us today and it were a done deal, but this is the very best we could do.”

In addition to returning the structure of the State Board of Elections and the State Ethics Commission to their original designs, the bill also allows the current board, though ruled unconstitutional, to continue investigating allegations of absentee ballot fraud in the state’s 9th Congressional District, even back to the race’s primaries.

It also calls for an investigation of alleged “ballot harvesting” statewide, going back five election cycles.

The term “ballot harvesting” refers to the illegal process of collecting absentee ballots on behalf of voters, without being one of their family members. Allegations have surfaced from people in Bladen County that they were paid to go door to door and collect unsealed absentee ballots.

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Man charged in kidnapping, death of NC teen The FBI announced an arrest in the closely watched Hania Aguilar case from Robeson County The Associated Press

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“We have received student and parent complaints,” the email stated. “Such actions have been interpreted as coercion and an exploitation of the teacher-student relationship and in fact are a violation of students’ First Amendment rights as well as federal law.”

The email ended with, “Failure to meet their responsibilities to their students, including timely submission of final grades, will result in serious consequences.”

Nicole Sotelo, a UNC senior history and political science double major, told the North State Journal she supports the action.

“Although the strike is most directly related to Silent Sam, the whole affair is indicative of the UNC administration’s failure to listen to what its students and faculty want,” Sotelo said. “The strike is an opportunity for grad students and instructors to advocate for themselves and their interests in a much more high-profile way. Hopefully, this will result in meaningful change.”

The movement to withhold grades is being organized through a website called silencesam.com. The site says until the

LUMBERTON — Police have arrested and charged a man with killing a 13-year-old girl who was kidnapped last month from a North Carolina mobile home park.

The FBI said early Saturday that Michael Ray McLellan has been charged in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Hania Noelia Aguilar. The announcement comes the same day that a memorial service for Aguilar is set to take place at a local high school.

The 34-year-old McLellan faces first-degree murder, rape and eight other felony charges. He’d been released from prison in June and was still on parole from a 2017 felony breaking and entering conviction, according to the News & Observer.

He was previously convicted in 2007 of assault with a deadly weapon and was released on parole in 2016, the newspaper reported.

He is being held without bond in the Robeson County Detention Center. He appeared in court at the Robeson County Courthouse on Monday.

McLellan was in custody at the time of his arrest on charges unrelated to the Aguilar case, police said.

On Nov. 5, police said Aguilar went outside to start a relative’s SUV to prepare to leave for the bus stop when a man forced her into the vehicle and fled.

Her disappearance sparked an intensive search. Drones, dogs

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Michael Ray McLellan, 34, sits in court for his first appearance fon charges of kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, in Lumberton, N.C. and scores of searchers on foot spent the following weeks combing the area. Police found her body several weeks later in a body of water about 10 miles south of the mobile home park where she was kidnapped.

“This is the outcome that we all feared,” Lumberton Police Chief Michael McNeill told reporters after the body was found. “We did not want to hear this. We wanted to bring Hania back home and bring her back home alive to our community. It hurts.”

Police said they followed more than 850 leads and conducted nearly 500 interviews. The FBI’s

lab at Quantico, Va., did a forensic exam on the stolen SUV, which was recovered a few days after Aguilar’s initial disappearance. The North Carolina State Crime Lab provided test results on Aguilar’s body. Police said the exams helped result in the charges against McLellan.

Hundreds of people attended Aguilar’s funeral Saturday at Lumberton High School. Her father, who lives in Guatemala, was denied an expedited visa to attend his daughter’s funeral.

Police said the investigation is ongoing and additional charges could be filed.

“This is the outcome that we all feared.”

Lumberton Police Chief Michael McNeill told reporters after the body was found

Vehicles pass a stranded Jaguar in the median of U.S. 1 in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018.

Gentle snow turned to sleet, then rain Monday, and was expected to freeze overnight.

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Secondary roads in some places haven’t been plowed, and temperatures were expected to dip into the 20s or teens again overnight, creating the potential for icy spots again Wednesday as melted snow refreezes even on roads that have been cleared.

“My message is simple: If conditions in your area are still dangerous, don’t take the risk,” the governor said. “Sit tight and wait for the sunshine and safety.”

The ice appears to have contributed to at least some crashes Tuesday morning, but no serious injuries were immediately reported. Overall, the North Carolina Highway Patrol has responded to 2,300 accidents since the storm blew in over the weekend.

“Frigid temperatures descended on North Carolina last night, transforming slushy roads into treacherous ice,” Cooper said Tuesday.

Cooper said 60 school districts remain closed after the storm dumped more than 2 feet of snow in western parts of the state. A National Weather Service map indicates that more than a third of the state’s 100 counties had accumulations of 6 inches or more.

Several roof collapses have been reported in the region. An equestrian building caved in at

plan is withdrawn, “We call on all UNC TAs and faculty to withhold grading final exams or assignments for the fall 2018 semester.”

The statement also says, “Grades will be released to the university upon meeting the aforementioned demand.”

A faculty meeting with Folt on the growing issue was interrupted by protestors. UNC Black Congress co-chair Angum Check confronted the chancellor, saying, “You handed me the Martin Luther King Student Scholarship Award this year. And I want to tell you, you are a disgrace. Never utter MLK’s words ever again.”

A statement from members of the School of Education in support of the action quickly received signatures from 196 UNC professors, instructors and TAs from multiple departments as of Dec. 11. The statement suggests withholding grades is only the beginning of faculty action, saying they would also refuse to teach the first week of the spring semester when students returned. Another statement, from UNC alumni and donors, has more than 2,000 signatories pledging to withhold all donations as long as Silent Sam is on campus.

The UNC system Board of Governors will meet Dec. 14 to discuss the plan.

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a Gaston County farm and killing three horses late Sunday, the owners told The Gaston Gazette.

The governor said crews have restored power to a half-million North Carolina customers, leaving only about 38,000 households without power Tuesday morning.

Another 29,000 or so outages remained in South Carolina and Virginia Tuesday, according to the website poweroutage.us.

N.C. authorities attributed three deaths to the snowstorm after a truck driver died while

DISTRICT 9 from page A1 investigation into illegal absentee ballot harvesting by directing the state board to look at absentee balloting statewide for the past five election cycles,” said Sen. Dan Bishop (R-Mecklenburg). “We still believe that the governor should allow a bipartisan task force to conduct this broader investigation given that all indications are that this alleged fraud has taken place for perhaps a decade and implicates both parties. But attempting to put into place a non-partisan investigation without the governor’s cooperation would be counter-productive.”

“Nevertheless, if fraud has been committed previously or in different locations and that is overlooked because the investigating authority is as partisan as the governor has sought, then the governor will have to answer to that,” he added.

Announcement of the new bill came the same day that state Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes called for a new election in the 9th District, citing one of the affidavits submitted by the N.C. Democratic Party.

In the affidavit, Bladen County precinct worker Agnes Willis alleges that the county’s early-vote tallies were printed at Bladen’s in-person early voting site the Sat-

working to free his rig that got stuck on an interstate. Yadkin County Emergency Services Director Keith Vestal says the driver had gotten stuck along Interstate 77 during the height of the storm Sunday and was shoveling out.

Vestal said that shortly after shoveling, the man experienced chest pains and was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Vestal said the death appears to be due to a heart attack and he considers it a storm-related death.

The state emergency operations center attributes two other deaths to the storm. On Sunday in Matthews, a man died while driving when a tree fell on his car.

His wife escaped with minor injuries. Also, on Sunday, a Haywood County woman in hospice care died when her oxygen was cut off due to power outages.

The weather will warm up through the week. Rains are expected over the weekend, raising concern that flooding could be a problem in low-lying areas.

urday before Election Day and were reviewed by people who are not election judges. That information conceivably could help political campaigns with Election Day get-out-the-vote strategies.

Hayes said that alone would be grounds for a new election in an unsettled congressional race in southeastern North Carolina.

In November, as the fraud allegations were becoming public, the current State Board of Elections was winding down, with the knowledge that the panel of state judges directed it to be redesigned by noon Wednesday, Dec. 12.

Now, the elections board’s chairman, Democrat Joshua Malcolm, asked those same judges for more time to investigate the fraud allegations.

In a letter to state judges on Monday, Malcolm wrote that some witnesses subpoenaed in the case need more time to gather documentation. The board already planned an evidentiary hearing on the district race on or before Dec. 21 to determine whether a new congressional district election is necessary.

The lawmaker’s bill echoes a request for more time for the current board to investigate, setting a new deadline of January, 2019.

The moving parts to the story gain more urgency as a new session

of Congress is slated to begin Jan. 3 under Democrat leadership. With the still-uncertified 9th District results showing Republican Mark Harris leading Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes, Harris has already attended freshman orientation to represent the 9th District.

McCready withdrew his concession in the race last week, and Harris said he would support a new election if it’s proven that fraud changed the outcome of the election.

If the state does not chart a course, the U.S. House could demand a new election in the 9th District. Last week, incoming-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hinted that the House may refuse to seat Harris in January.

“The House still retains the right to decide who is seated,” Pelosi said to reporters on Friday. “Any member-elect can object to the seating, the swearing-in to another member-elect. So, we’ll see how that goes.”

If the board determines that a new election is needed, according to Lewis, state law requires that it be a complete do-over including a new filing period, new primaries and a new general election. If that is the case, the staff of outgoing Congressman Robert Pittenger (NC-09) would remain in place to assist constituents.

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By Emily Roberson North State Journal DURHAM — A $2 million gift to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics from alumnus and entrepreneur Carl Ryden and his wife, Ashley — the largest private gift in the school’s history — will launch a program putting NCSSM on the leading-edge of public schools in America for learning about artificial intelligence and its place in society, NCSSM announced Thursday. The only high school program of its kind, the Ryden Program will share the stage with the few top AI university-level initiatives of similar scope which are currently at MIT, Cambridge University and Carnegie Mellon University.

“Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important in our lives,” Ryden said during a ceremony to launch the program. “Algorithms help us choose who to be friends with on social media, who to connect with on LinkedIn. They probably helped most of you get here today and will help you get home. They tell you what the right answer is on Google, whether it’s the right answer or not. AI is shaping our society in ways I don’t think we begin to understand …

We have algorithms shaping history, algorithms shaping politics, algorithms shaping how we interact with one another and how we interact with the world around us.”

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RALEIGH –State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, announced last week that according to S&P Global, North Carolina’s other postemployment benefit (OPEB) liabilities as a combined funded ratio, are less than five percent funded. The report confirms that the state’s unfunded retirement/health care costs as a share of personal income are one of the worst in the country, right behind Illinois.

The new report noted that “the majority of state plans fund these longterm liabilities on a pay-as-you-go (pay go) basis, which defers contributions until the moment benefits are due and is intensified by medical cost trends outpacing inflation.” The report places North Carolina’s total OPEB liability at $34.4 billion.

“This new report underscores our immediate need to get medical and pharmaceutical costs for the State Health Plan under control,” said Treasurer Folwell. “Every man, woman and child in the state would have to pay almost $3,200 each to cover our current promises of health care for state and local government retirees.

We’re having to act because others haven’t.”

The S&P Global analysis comes as the Plan is pursuing a new provider reimbursement strategy that will save the Plan $300 million and members more than $65 million. This effort is aimed to keep rising health care costs under control while promoting quality care, transparency and affordability.

The State Health Plan, a division of the N.C. Department of State Treasurer, provides health care coverage to more than 720,000 teachers, state employees, current and former lawmakers, state university and community college personnel and their dependents, including non-Medicare and Medicare retirees.​

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Chancellor Margaret Spellings with NCSSM students. its and the ethical considerations it raises. The Ryden Program will place a strong emphasis on ensuring students understand how to merge humanity with machine learning -- and how to use AI to solve complex, macro problems affecting society in a way that focuses on “not only what we can do, but what we should do,” said Ryden.

“We absolutely need to build leaders who are capable of driving that future in a way that gets us to a better place as a society,” Ryden said. “And I think the kids here and the faculty here have earned and deserve the chance to shape that future. I am incredibly humbled I could be a help in that.”

Ryden, a member of the IBM team that developed the first Thinkpad laptop and co-founder and CEO of Cary, N.C.-based PrecisionLender, a provider of applied banking insights technology to commercial banks worldwide, credited NCSSM with setting him on that path from his roots in rural eastern North Carolina.

“The school fundamentally changed the trajectory of my life,” said Ryden, who has remained closely involved with NCSSM, teaching an entrepreneurship course every Monday night and helping to launch the school’s fabrication laboratory. “It’s not a debt I can ever repay. This school was

an equity investor in my future, and whenever I have a chance to give back and pay it forward, I will take every opportunity to do so.”

The Ryden Program will have physical space at both NCSSM’s Durham, N.C., campus, as well as its Morganton, N.C., campus, which will open in 2021. Beyond the students who will have access to the AI curriculum and makerspace tools on campus, the curriculum will be available online, and its output will also be opensource, ensuring students and educators from around the globe can also benefit, a key component to the vision of the program, said Ryden.

Asked about the potential impact of the Rydens’ gift, NCSSM Chancellor Todd Roberts said, “Our institution has had over its history an amazing track record of producing people like Carl who have gone on to be successful entrepreneurs and who have worked to give back and helped to shape our state. The school was founded in 1980 for that very purpose to help lead North Carolina forward as it developed a new economy. Carl and Ashley’s gift is enabling us to create new possibilities for students not only at NCSSM but across North Carolina, beyond North Carolina, across the nation and the world.”

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Take a trip back in time at Tryon Palace’s 38th annual “Candlelight Christmas Celebration,” and experience how New Bern celebrated the holidays in the 18th and 19th century. Holiday festivities include tours of the Governor’s Palace, Stanly House, Dixon House, and Commission House with reenactors dressed in period clothing, to name a few. Visit https://www.tryonpalace.org/ masquerade to learn more.

Concord (Through Dec. 31) Speedway Christmas is one of the biggest holiday light shows in the country.

With more than 3 million lights spread over a 3.75-mile course, it’s sure to make your season bright. Visit https://www. charlottemotorspeedway.com/events/ speedway-christmas to learn more.

Tarboro (Dec. 16 from 2pm-4pm) Celebrate the spirit of the season at the 55th Annual Tarboro Christmas Parade.

A sampling of the 90 featured entries include the Musick’s Dance Arts Center, North Carolina Princesses, community and corporate floats, college mascots from UNC, NC State, ECU, Muddy from the Mudcats, and our famed local public power mascot Sparky! Visit http://www. discoveredgecombe.com to learn more.

High Point (Dec. 19- 21, 7:30pm) Come revel in the wonder and awe of a Triad family Christmas tradition, The Nutcracker. A joyful, magical performance that includes heroic toy soldiers, swordfighting mice, and the glittering Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Visit http://www. highpointtheatre.com for more info.

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Haywood County New charges against Derek Shawn Buncombe County Pendergraft were filed in federal court Deerpark pastry chef Julie Scheibel Y: 59.4 last week, which could pave the way and a 10-person team of bakers have for the government to seek the death spent the last six weeks creating a K: 6 penalty against the 21-year-old in gingerbread-house version of the Biltmore Estate mansion. The work is now on display in the Biltmore kitchen.

The roof of the house alone took a week of eight-hour days for pastry cook Deron Noel. The house is so big it needs a wooden framework skeleton to support the edible portions.

the murder of a hearing-impaired woman near the Pisgah Inn in Canton.

Pendergraft and 24-year-old Sara Ellis both worked at the inn when he allegedly killed her while on a hike in July. New sexual assault charges were added to the second-degree murder charge.

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Polk County Winter Storm Diego hit the wooded areas of five western North Carolina counties hard. Officials estimate that more than 1,000 trees are down in Polk, Jackson, Haywood, Transylvania and Rutherford counties. Polk County, which has more than 500 roadside trees, has seen many downed trees blocking travel on U.S. 74 and I-26.

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Man charged with abusing woman calls her 223 times from jail

Cumberland County Police are searching for a Hope Mills teacher who allegedly had illegal sexual relations with a student. Dmitri Pelaez was an assistant coach for the South View High School girls’ soccer team.

He is charged with taking indecent liberties with a student and sexual activity with a student and allegedly exchanged sexually explicit social media messages to female students.

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Buncombe County Lewis Robinson pleaded guilty to assault charges after he attempted to strangle a woman in May. The 54-year-old then picked up 28 more arrest warrants for violating a domestic violence protection order while he was in jail. In four months in Buncombe County Detention Center, Robinson called the victim 223 times. He has been sentenced to a minimum of 3½ years.

Iredell County Four officers were injured last week after being attacked by at least three prisoners at the county jail. The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said that Martevis Simpson hit an officer escorting him back from family visitation. He was allegedly assisted by Shyheim Millsaps and Rick Chambers.

The inmates were wearing makeshift gas masks to protect them from pepper spray. None of the four officers were hospitalized. The inmates all received additional charges for the incident.

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Holly died last week from injuries suffered in a house fire. Burch’s house, which is on church grounds, suffered extensive damage from the fire, which started in the carport. Burch was hospitalized and later died. His wife wasn’t seriously hurt. Police say the fire isn’t suspicious. They are investigating whether a car in the carport had some type of malfunction to spark the blaze.

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PIEDMONT EAST Green BLACK RULE: Western region: Piedmont ** All counties have a Pastor dies from fire Solid black, ptdiesweight Piedmont region: NState Red Activist Rosanell.5 Eaton at 97 Police search for teacher charged 1.5 pt. white stroke Gaston County with underage sex Pastor Clayton Burch of the Goshen Franklin County Eastern region: NState Navy Free Will Baptist Church in Mount Rosanell Eaton, who spent decades challenging voting restrictions in the state, died at 97 in her home in Louisburg. Eaton began working as a poll worker and precinct judge in Franklin County when she was a young woman, fighting Jim Crow laws. Her activism led to retaliation, as guns were fired at her house and crosses burned on her lawn. Eaton was invited to the White House by Barack Obama in 2016, in recognition of her lifetime of work.

Alamance County LabCorp, a medical company based in Burlington, announced that its Covance Drug Development business was honored with the Frost and Sullivan Asia Pacific CRO Customer Value Leadership Award for 2018.

This year, Covance has enhanced its operations in China, India, Korea and Japan and made new developments in oncology and cardiovascular research.

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Woman arrested after trying to strangle stepdaughter Onslow County Shoshanna Scarlett-Booth of Jacksonville was arrested and charged with multiple felonies after she allegedly tried to strangle her 6-yearold stepdaughter in late November. The girl suffered significant injuries and was hospitalized for nine days. Social service workers are handling custody of the girl. Scarlett-Booth was charged with child abuse and assault, as well as drug trafficking and possession charges.

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Smithsonian worker earns 30 under 30 honor Robeson County Ashley Deese of Red Springs earned an honor from Forbes Magazine for her work at the Smithsonian Science Education Center. The 29-year-old Deese was named to the eighth annual “30 Under 30” list. Deese has produced a series of educational apps for the Smithsonian, earning her the Forbes honor in the Games category.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump is eyeing one of his closest legislative allies to be chief of staff, N.C. Congressman Mark Meadows representing the 11th District in the western part of the state. The list of candidates to replace outgoing chief General John Kelly is also said to include Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Trump on Tuesday disputed news reports that he’s having a hard time finding someone to take the position.

“Fake News has it purposely wrong,” he claimed on Twitter. “Many, over ten, are vying for and wanting the White House Chief of Staff position. Why wouldn’t someone want one of the truly great and meaningful jobs in Washington?”

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday that Kelly would be staying on “at least” through Jan. 2.

“There are people vying for it. There are people under consideration. And it’s a personal decision for the president,” she told reporters.

Meadows, chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said Monday he had not discussed the role with the president, but one congressional Republican said Meadows has told others he wants the job.

“It’s not been anything that I’ve been out advocating for,” Meadows said in an appearance on Fox News, but he added that “my life changed” after Trump’s top pick, Nick Ayers, vice president Mike Pence’s chief of staff, decided to pull out of the job.

“The President has a long list of qualified candidates, not just this congressman from North Carolina,” Meadows told reporters outside his office on Capitol Hill.

“I know he’ll make the best selection for his administration and for the country.”

Trump is soliciting input on a long list of candidates and allies are pitching even more contenders, including former Trump deputy

campaign manager David Bossie, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, White House communications director Bill Shine and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Bossie, in an interview with Fox News Tuesday, did not deny interest in the job, but said he didn’t “foresee” Trump offering him the position. The job comes with a promise of high pressure and long hours as Trump’s day starts well before 5 a.m. and continues into the late night.

“In the best of times, it is relentless,” said Chris Whipple, an expert on chiefs of staff and author of “The Gatekeepers,” a book on the subject. “It’s 24/7. It’s thankless. You get all of the blame and none of the credit for everything that happens.”

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, a potential contender, said he was “entirely focused” on his current position. A person familiar with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s thinking but not authorized to speak publicly made clear he, too, is happy in his current post.

While some of the reactions may be strategic posturing, there is also ample reason for any aspiring chief of staff to give pause to the notion of taking the job.

Trump has already burned through two chiefs of staff — Former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’s departure from the White House was unceremoniously announced by tweet. Nearly 18 months later, Trump stepped on an orderly succession plan for Kelly, making a surprise Saturday announcement on the White House lawn that the retired general would be leaving by year’s end.

Trump has told confidants that he is eager to bring on someone he gets along with as his third chief of staff. His relationship with Kelly had long been frosty.

Trump has told allies he wants someone he can chat with — trading gossip and complaining about media coverage — as well as someone more attuned politically.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Fisheries failure NC legislator to run for lieutenant from Florence declared in NC governor NSJ Staff

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ASHEVILLE — A North Carolina state senator wants to become the next lieutenant governor. Democratic Sen. Terry Van Duyn of Asheville announced her campaign plans in a social media post Monday. Van Duyn is a retired computer systems analyst who succeeded Sen. Martin Nesbitt after he died in 2014. She is currently the Senate Democratic whip.

Van Duyn says she’s running in 2020 because Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper “needs a strong ally in his fight for working families.” Cooper is expected to seek re-election that year, too.

Former Davidson County Sen. Cal Cunningham announced two weeks ago that he is preparing his own Democratic bid for lieutenant governor. The current lieutenant governor, Republican Dan Forest, is term-limited and is planning a gubernatorial run. Governor and lieutenant governor are elected separately.

RALEIGH — The federal government has decided North Carolina’s coastal fishing industry took enough of a hit from Hurricane Florence that it now may qualify for congressional aid.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday that he declared that a “commercial fishery failure” occurred in the state. Cooper asked for the designation last month.

Officials say the declaration provides the basis for Congress to give financial assistance to the industry, particularly commercial fishermen with diminished landings and damaged equipment.

Cooper’s office says the Division of Marine Fisheries generated more than $96 million in revenues last year.

Cooper’s recent request to Congress for aid following September’s historic rains and flooding includes $20 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for fisheries help.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

So now there is election voting fraud in North Carolina

As long as there have been elections, people of all political persuasions have done everything under the sun to win the election for their candidate or their side.

FOR DECADES, people in the media and outside of the electoral process have been saying: “There is no election or voting fraud in North Carolina! None. Nada. Never.”

Last week, when allegations of “election irregularities” came to light in the 9th Congressional District race that led the N.C. State Board of Elections to deny certification of the election of Republican candidate Mark Harris to Congress, those same people erupted in a chorus of “See! There is election fraud … and the Republicans always do it!”

Please.

Can we all agree on the following basic principles?

There is no room for any illegal voting by anyone ever.

There is no room for any person who is not a legally born or naturalized citizen to vote ever.

If we can all agree on those two basic bedrock principles, we can take steps to reinstate full 100 percent faith in our electoral system.

Otherwise, confidence in our electoral system will continue to erode and further weaken our democratic republic. Which is precisely what we do not need right now.

As long as there have been elections, people of all political persuasions have done everything under the sun to win the election for their candidate or their side.

George Washington lost his first campaign for the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1756.

In 1758, he did what any candidate would have done back then to win the next election: He outspent the other candidate by buying enough booze on election day to win by a landslide.

Today he would go to jail for “bribing” voters.

There were 397 votes cast. George Washington got 309 of them.

Seventy-eight percent of the vote.

Here’s the bill his supporters sent to him before the election: 34 gallons of wine 3 pints of brandy 13 gallons of beer 8 quarts of hard cider 40 gallons of rum punch Total bill: 34 pounds, Virginia currency.

That is 1.16 quarts of alcohol for every vote cast for the “George Washington for House of Burgesses!” campaign, July 24, 1758. “My only fear is that you spent with too sparing of a hand,” he wrote to his supporters beforehand thinking maybe even a quart per vote would not be enough.

Talk about a shady unreported and unlimited “independent expenditure campaign.” With alcohol. On election day. George Washington!

Google “Zeno Ponder” of Madison County in western North Carolina. In the 1960s, he would routinely stuff one ballot box with “correct” ballots marked for Democrats just in case he needed them.

The real ballot box would be switched out for the stuffed one if his side was losing very late on election night.

Leslie McCrae Dowless is at the epicenter of allegations of election fraud in Bladen County which affects the outcome of the Mark HarrisDan McCready congressional race for the 9th District. It is alleged that his get-out-the-vote operation was in violation of state law related to the handling of absentee ballots. In other states — such as California — such “harvesting” of absentee ballots is legal.

Dowless has recently done work for Republicans. Care to guess for whom he may have worked prior to 2012?

Democrats. Democrats he may have helped might be feeling a tad bit woozy if investigators and reporters start going back beyond this year’s election. He sure didn’t learn his craft starting in the summer of 2018.

America put men on the moon 50 years ago. Isn’t it about time we use 21st-century technology such as digital certificates that are secured by identity management and blockchain software using multifactor authentication, including biometrics, to confirm the veracity of voter registration?

Now that both Republicans and Democrats are alleging that election voter fraud “actually exists,” both sides have the impetus to guarantee that it never happens again.

GUEST OPINION | JAMES CARAFANO

Media misses mark on Heather Nauert’s D-Day comment

Nations don’t build strong bonds of trust and confidence by burying the past and avoiding issues that don’t make for black and white bullet points.

HEATHER NAUERT has her history right.

The Washington Post and other media outlets have launched a lame effort to undermine President Donald Trump’s new nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

The best they could offer to ridicule Nauert, an undersecretary at the U.S. State Department, was a remark she made in June on U.S.-German relations. The Washington Post found it offensive that Nauert mentioned D-Day as one of the long list of milestones in our transatlantic relationship.

Apparently, the Post finds mentioning one of the great turning points in history as poor statecraft. That is dead wrong. Nations don’t build strong bonds of trust and confidence by burying the past and avoiding issues that don’t make for black and white bullet points.

In June 1944, the Nazi regime, an anathema to human liberty and decency, held a death grip on Europe. If Americans, Canadians and British troops had not fought their way ashore who knows how long Hitler’s hideous shadow would have dimmed the light of European liberty.

There should never be a day in any conversation, any forum, any speech, where an American statesman feels it’s inappropriate to mention one of the greatest days in the

campaign for human freedom.

Sure, the allies fought German troops on the beaches. So what? In the Army Staff College, in the War College, when I was stationed with NATO in Germany, I on occasion studied the campaigns of Normandy side-by-side with German military officers. No one was uncomfortable or insulted. It’s part of our common history.

Yes, it’s true the U.S. fought in Normandy driven by a single and unshakable animating idea: defeat Germany. Yes, America entered Germany as a conquerer and imposed a humiliating unconditional surrender. The U.S. then joined in the occupation Germany, but in a manner matched by few conquerers in America history. America helped Germany rebuild, recover and find its path among the world’s nations.

In Nauert’s remarks she also mentioned the Marshall Plan, America’s post-war recovery effort that help Europe rebuild. Germany was a key partner in making the Marshall Plan a success — one of the true miracles of postconflict reconstruction.

D-Day and Marshall Plan are the bookends that helped bring Germany back from the chaos of Nazism, famine, inhumanity and more. These events are intertwined. Nauert is more — not less — of statesman for

mentioning them.

This shows the media may have no sense of history. Or it’s just another desperate cheap shot.

What’s clear is that Nauert is well qualified for the task of U.N. ambassador.

First and foremost, the U.N. ambassador is America’s global spokesperson. She has been on the job at Foggy Bottom for nearly two years. She knows the issues extremely well.

The United States has a clear and sharp agenda at the United Nations — holding organizations and programs accountable; protecting America’s sovereignty and interests; rallying in support just causes; and naming and shaming the worst human right’s abusers and threats to global stability.

Nauert is committed to that agenda. She will be taking over a solid team. In short, she will pick up where Ambassador Nikki Haley left off. That’s an appointment and a promise Americans should look forward to.

James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.

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The charming cultural decency of Bush 41 I didn’t know the president well, though I always considered him one of the most decent men this country has produced in my lifetime.

EVERYONE SEEMS to have his own George H.W. Bush story. I’ll give one that gives an insight into this man’s character.

Some years ago, we were at his home in Kennebunkport after having sped across the water in his infamous speedboat for lunch (yes, with Secret Service chase boats hopelessly trying to keep up).

We were going to say our goodbyes when the former president asked me to accompany him upstairs to his simple office. He fired up his computer and entered an address. Howard Stern’s face popped up. The president hit some commands and a page opened with a perfectly obscene pictorial about his son. He pointed at it and then turned to me with a strained expression. “Do people really do this to people?” he asked. He couldn’t understand it. He opened a second link. More of the same, aimed at someone else (maybe himself; I can’t remember). Again the sad look. Again the question: “Why do people do this?”

He opened a third one. Same question, same answer.

There were those who had accused him of being hopelessly out of touch with the common man because he allegedly wasn’t familiar with bar codes.

In this sense, I suppose they were right. I was looking at a man who was innocent, to the point of ignorance, about this damaged element in the American cultural soul. The man who could laugh at himself so publicly couldn’t understand why anyone would find such viciousness to be amusing. This was the former leader of the free world and a warrior. He was also a husband and a father seemingly crushed by such incivility.

I thought about him while reviewing these recent quotes, from another publication. How would he have reacted to them?

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens on Sen. Ted Cruz: “(H)e’s like a serpent covered in Vaseline. ... he’s the type of man who would sell his family into slavery if that’s what it took to get elected. And that he would use said slavery as a sob story to get himself

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re-elected.”

CNN host Don Lemon on Trump supporters: “We’re up against people who will lie, steal and cheat, lie to their own mother, lie to themselves about what’s right for this country, about truth and about facts.”

On ABC’s “The View,” Joy Behar on President Trump: “(H)e realizes that women like him less than menstrual cramps,” and the women who still like him “don’t know the difference between a predator and a protector.”

On HBO, “comedian” Sarah Silverman on Trump: “In a time ... where anti-Semitic crime is up 57 percent since this douchebag has taken office, it is not lost on me that I am very lucky that I get a star and I don’t have to sew it on my clothes.”

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel: “I think there’s a compromise here, and ... hear me out on this.

So Kavanaugh gets confirmed to the Supreme Court.

OK. Well, in return, we get to cut that pesky penis of his off in front of everyone.”

Comedian and Viceland host Tom Arnold on Twitter: “Alcoholism stunts your emotional growth so if you start drinking alcoholically as a teenager you stay a teenager emotionally until you deal with it. Explains a lot about Brett Kavanaugh. From his combative behavior yesterday to his unusual bond with teenage girls basketball teams.”

I didn’t know the president well, though I always considered him one of the most decent men this country has produced in my lifetime. I’m glad I told him so directly. I never saw him again, so I don’t know to what degree he tuned in to that world of such human depravity. I hope he didn’t. I hope President George H.W. Bush remained hopelessly naive.

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.

Acceptable racism HOW APPROPRIATE would it be for a major publicly held American company to hire a person with a history of having publicly made the following statements and many others like them?

(In the interest of brevity, I shall list only four.) “The world could get by just fine with zero black people.” “It’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old black men.” “Dumbass f---ing black people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.” “Are black people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically only being fit to live underground like groveling bilious goblins?”

I think most Americans would find such blatant racism despicable and would condemn any company that knowingly hired such a person. Leftists of every stripe would be in an uproar, demanding the dismissal of such an employee.

College students and their professors would picket any company that hired such a person. I could be wrong about this, so I’d truly like any employer who’d hire such a person to come forward.

Most Americans would see such statements as racist, but consider this: Suppose we slightly changed the wording of each statement, replacing the word “black” with “white.” For example, “The world could get by just fine with zero white people.” Would you consider that statement to be just as racist? I would hope you’d answer in the affirmative.

They’re all racist statements!

According to the thinking of academia’s intellectual elite, a minority person cannot be a racist.

The reason is that minorities don’t have the political, economic and institutional power to adversely affect the lives of whites.

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Former President George H.W. Bush is pictured when he was vice president in 1984.

NUMBER OF THE DAY | SCOTT RASMUSSEN

64% of rural Americans live east of the Mississippi River

SIXTY-FOUR PERCENT of Americans living in rural settings make their home east of the Mississippi River.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that “Maine and Vermont have the highest proportions of population living in rural areas (about 61.0 percent) and California has the lowest (4.9 percent).”

Nearly half of all rural residents (47 percent) are found in the South.

Overall, “about 60 million residents of the United States live in areas designated as rural.” This term includes “the less-populated towns outside of large and small city centers to remote areas in the mountains, plains and deserts across the nation.”

The political gap between urban and rural America has become a significant issue in recent years, and the Census Bureau has provided new data

on this great divide. Among other things, they found that 704 of the nation’s 3,142 counties are completely rural. A total of 5.3 million Americans live in these counties.

Another 1,185 counties are classified as mostly rural. Two-thirds of the 36.8 million people living in these counties are in a rural area.

The vast majority of Americans — 274.4 million people — live in 1,253 mostly urban counties. In these areas, just 11 percent of residents are found in a rural setting.

Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics and technology and is published by Ballotpedia, the nonprofit, nonpartisan Encyclopedia of American Politics.

The full scoop on those statements can be found in an excellent essay by William Voegeli, “Racism, Revised,” in the fall edition of the Claremont Review of Books. The racist statements about white people were made by Sarah Jeong, one of the newest members of The New York Times’ editorial board. Jeong attended the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School. She decided to become a journalist specializing in technology and the internet. She has an active Twitter account with more than 97,000 followers.

One person excused Jeong’s tweets by saying they “were not racist” but merely “jokes about white people.” Leftists have been taught utter nonsense by their college professors. The most insidious lesson taught is who can and who cannot be a racist. Jeong was born in South Korea in 1988 and became a U.S. citizen in 2017, so she is a minority. According to the thinking of academia’s intellectual elite, a minority person cannot be a racist. The reason is that minorities don’t have the political, economic and institutional power to adversely affect the lives of whites.

Such reasoning is beyond stupid.

Here’s a test. Is the following statement racist? “Jews are money-hungry hustlers.”

Before you answer, must you first find out the race of the person making the statement? Would you suggest that it’s not a racist statement if the speaker is black but it is if he’s white?

Voegeli says that calling someone “racist” is one of the most severe accusations that can be made against a person but at the same time is among the vaguest. Years ago, one had to don a hood and robe to be a certified racist.

Today, it’s much easier. Tucker Carlson of Fox News questioned whether diversity is all that it’s cracked up to be. He asked: “How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Can you think, for example, of other institutions, such as ... marriage or military units, in which the less people have in common the more cohesive they are?” The Washington Post’s media critic declared that it was racist for Carlson to cast doubt on the proposition that diversity is good.

Voegeli’s article is rich with many other examples of how lots of Americans are losing their minds in matters of race.

Muhammad Ali had it right when he said: “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.”

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

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Tobacco fields near Lillington in Harnett County. This field is along U.S. Route 401 just south of town.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2018

SPORTS

Previews of all eight high school football championship games, B3

Freshman guard Tre Jones has relished being the Blue Devils’ defensive spark, making Duke a threat at both ends of the floor.

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Suffocating Duke defense keyed by Jones

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Duke moves up to No. 2, UNC 12th in AP poll New York Kansas, the preseason No. 1, is again the top-ranked team in The Associated Press Top 25.

The Jayhawks received 57 of 65 first-place votes in the poll released Monday, sliding into the top spot after previous No. 1 Gonzaga lost to Tennessee.

No. 2 Duke moved up a spot and received four first-place votes. No. 3 Tennessee, No. 4 Gonzaga, No. 5 Michigan and No. 6 Michigan also received first-place votes. North Carolina moved up two spots to No. 12.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Heels hire Bateman as co-defensive coordinator Chapel Hill North Carolina has hired Army’s Jay Bateman to serve as co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach, the school announced Sunday. Bateman spent the past five seasons at Army, with this year’s team ranking ninth in total defense by allowing 293.5 yards per game. Bateman joins the staff of new coach Mack Brown, who previously named Tommy Thigpen as the other codefensive coordinator and linebackers coach.

NHL

Plane carrying Hurricanes makes emergency landing Tulsa, Okla.

A Swift Air charter plane carrying the Carolina Hurricanes made an emergency landing in Oklahoma over the weekend after a noxious smell filled the cabin. The Boeing 737 landed in Tulsa about 4 a.m. Saturday while traveling from Long Beach, Calif., to RDU following the team’s game in Anaheim.

Mike Sundheim, the team’s vice president of communications, said passengers could smell something similar to burning plastic. Once on the ground, Sundheim says technicians replaced a malfunctioning air data computer and took off again after a delay of about two hours.

The freshman guard is the catalyst for the Blue Devils’ defensive success

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leader of App State football,” he said. “When you have a winning program, there is going to be outside interest in your coaches, as has been the case often since I arrived at Appalachian. I can assure you that we have a plan for this search process to find the right fit who understands our culture to lead this program.”

Satterfield compiled a 51-24 record in six seasons as the Mountaineers’ coach, including a 10-2 mark this year that includes a victory against Louisiana-Lafayette in the inaugural Sun Belt Conference championship game on Dec. 1.

He guided the program through a seamless transition from FCS status to the FBS, where his teams have qualified for bowls in each of their first four seasons at college football’s highest level. And the cupboard he leaves at his alma mater is anything but bare. Most of the Mountaineers’ key players — including quarterback Zac Thomas, running back Darrynton Evans, cornerback Clifton Duck and All-Sun Belt Conference linebackers Jordan Fehr and Akeem Davis-Gaither — are underclassmen who will be back next year.

According to AD Gillin, the criteria for the man he eventually hires to continue App State’s success include more than just a strong resume and winning record. Among them are a rep-

DURHAM — Late in Duke’s home win over Yale, freshman point guard Tre Jones limped off the floor. After getting attention from the medical staff on the bench, he checked back into the game, only to limp off again after one play. He headed into the locker room with a trainer in tow to get checked out, but his night was done.

“He banged knees,” coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “When he went in the next time, he still hadn’t gotten over it, and when he got to the bench he said, ‘I can still go in.’ I told him to just forget it.”

Jones’ shaky health seems to be something Krzyzewski has resigned himself to this season.

“He’ll be fine,” the coach said. “He’s just going to be somebody that has to recover after every game, because he plays so darn hard.”

Case in point: Jones’ knee bruise came when he dove on the floor for a loose ball, easily the sixth time in the game the freshman point guard had done so. While slapping the floor to prepare for a defensive stand has long been a tradition at Duke, this year’s team, led

by Jones, is doing so with their bodies, not their palms.

Zion Williamson, the team’s 285-pound future NBA draft pick, has also made a habit of throwing himself to the floor to corral loose balls. The effort has produced a suffocating pressure defense not seen in Durham since the heyday of the early 1990s.

The effort and production on the defensive end are a surprise from a freshman-laden team, especially in light of last year’s team, also led by future one-and-done NBA prospects who so often appeared lost on defense that Krzyzewski had to resort to a zone for much of the season.

This year, the only zone has been one marked “danger” for opposing ballhandlers.

Jones’ primary job is to disrupt the other team’s offense by harassing its point guard into submission.

Veteran Yale point Alex Copeland, who had five turnovers on the night and only one assist, was the latest victim.

“It all starts with his pressure on the ball,” Krzyzewski said. “Copeland is a really good guard, but he had to fight Tre the whole night.”

“He does that every game,” RJ Barrett said.

“He takes the point guard out every game.”

With the point guard neutralized, everything becomes harder for the opposing offense, which has been taken out of its rhythm.

“Our ball pressure, picking them up early, just pushes them out a little bit further from where they normally start their offense,” Krzyzewski said. “It gave us a chance to deny and switch, and not get hurt that much by it.

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Appalachian State’s next coach will benefit from the return of standout freshman quarterback Zac Thomas.

App State eyes in-house, outside candidates With Scott Satterfield gone to Louisville, the Mountaineers are searching for their next football coach

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THERE WASN’T any question of who would replace Jerry Moore when the legendary Appalachian State football coach retired in 2012 following a career that included three straight FCS national championships and one epic upset of Michigan.

Scott Satterfield was a former Mountaineer quarterback and offensive coordinator who was seemingly groomed for the job.

The line of succession isn’t as clear now that Satterfield has left Boone to take over the program at Louisville.

Defensive line coach and fellow App State alumnus Mark Ivey has been chosen to lead the team in this weekend’s New Orleans Bowl game against Middle Tennessee State and is a viable candidate to be Satterfield’s permanent replacement.

But according to a statement issued by athletic director Doug Gillin, the Mountaineers’ search for their next coach won’t be limited to the confines of Watauga County.

“We have already commenced a national search to find the next

“He does that every game. He takes the point guard out every game.”

RJ Barrett on fellow freshman Tre Jones

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TRENDING

Zach Hyman: The Toronto Maple Leafs forward was suspended two games by the NHL for a hit against Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy. Hyman was assessed a major penalty for interference and a game misconduct Saturday night for checking McAvoy behind the Boston net after he had passed the puck. Hyman will forfeit $24,194 in salary.

The Hurricanes were set to host Toronto on Tuesday night for the first game of Hyman’s suspension, and he will also miss Thursday’s game in Tampa Bay. Jim Harbaugh: Responding to speculation he’s returning to the NFL, the Michigan Wolverines coach told ESPN he is not going anywhere. Former Ohio State star receiver and Fox Sports analyst Cris Carter has said Harbaugh is a potential candidate to lead the Green Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns.

Michigan won 10 games this season for the third time under Harbaugh but dropped to 0-4 against the rival Buckeyes and fell out of the Big Ten and national championship races.

Reggie McKenzie: The Oakland Raiders fired their general manager less than two years after he was named the NFL’s executive of the year.

McKenzie’s status was in doubt ever since coach Jon Gruden was given a 10-year contract last January to take charge of the football operation for the Raiders. McKenzie’s influence had waned since then, with the Raiders cutting ties with several of the players he had acquired, most notably edge rusher Khalil Mack and receiver Amari Cooper.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

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NC State fifth-year senior center Garrett Bradbury was named to The Associated Press All-America first team Monday, four days after he won the Rimington Trophy as college football’s top center. Bradbury did not allow a quarterback pressure this season and was a key component in NC State’s high-powered offense. Wolfpack senior guard Terrone Prescod was named to the AP’s third team.

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“I better not see one player in this locker room give up on this team, give up on their brothers.”

Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis after Carolina’s loss at Cleveland, the team’s fifth straight.

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NFL

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“First game of my life. One free throw. No field goals.”

Wizards guard John Wall after he scored just one point in a loss to Cleveland while trying to play through a bone spur.

PRIME NUMBER

31.4 Points per game for Campbell senior guard Chris Clemons, tops in Division I basketball.

Clemons finished fourth in the nation in scoring last season with 24.5 points per game. This season, Clemons has scored at least 22 points in all eight of the Camels’ games, including two 40-point efforts, and the Raleigh native is shooting 50.3 percent from the field.

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The three-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors are the fourth team to be honored as Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year.

The Warriors join the 1980 U.S. hockey team, the 1999 U.S. Women’s World Cup soccer squad and the 2004 Boston Red Sox as the other team honorees.

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With seven seconds left and Miami trailing by five points, Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill threw a 14yard pass to Kenny Stills, who lateraled to the nearby DeVante Parker, who then flipped the ball to Kenyan Drake for a game-winning 69-yard stunner to beat the rival Patriots.

BASEBALL

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Harold Baines was a surprise pick for the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday after never coming close in any previous election. Reliever Lee Smith, who held the major league record for saves when he retired, was a unanimous pick of the Today’s Game Era Committee that met at the winter meetings, while Baines squeaked in with the required 12 of 16 votes.

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It’s championship weekend for high school football Sixteen schools will vie for state titles at three college football stadiums in the Triangle

game and then got the winning touchdown in the final minute to advance to its fifth title game in six years.

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3A: Jacksonville vs. Charlotte Catholic Dec. 15, 11 a.m.

Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill

The final weekend of the high school football season is here, and NSJ has a look at all eight state championship games that are set to be played this Friday and Saturday.

The games will all be played in the Triangle at the football stadiums for Duke, NC State and North Carolina.

1A: Pamlico vs. Murphy Dec. 15, 3 p.m.

Wallace Wade Stadium, Durham How they got here Pamlico (13-1): The Hurricanes coasted through their first two games in the playoffs, beating Southside and Gates County.

Pamlico’s semifinal matchup with Rosewood —which knocked off top-seeded Northampton County the week before — was 16-12 at the half, and that’s how it ended. The Hurricanes only loss on the season came to undefeated Tarboro, who is in the 1AA final.

Murphy (12-1): The Bulldogs have won 12 straight after losing their season opener 15-8 to Pisgah way back on Aug. 17. The 2016 1A champs won all their regular season games by double digits — and only one was closer than 21 points. In the postseason, the Bulldogs thumped Alleghany and fended off Mitchell before they beat Robbinsville 28-6 for a berth in the title game.

1AA: Tarboro vs. East Surry Dec. 15, 6 p.m.

Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh How they got here Tarboro (14-0): The Vikings had little problem reaching the title game, allowing just 52 points this season (3.7 per game). That includes wins over South Stanly (626), North Stanly (28-0) and John A.

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Devon Lawrence, now a freshman with the North Carolina Tar Heels, helped Wake Forest High School to the NCHSAA 4AA title in 2016. The Cougars will try and win their third straight championship Saturday, facing Vance at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Holmes (48-7) in the playoffs. The defending 1AA champs last loss in the 2016 semifinals to eventual winners Wallace-Rose Hill.

East Surry (11-3): The Cardinals lost their regular season finale to Mount Airy but have won three straight playoff games to reach the final. That included a 40-point win over Bessemer City followed by a 40-0 revenge blanking of Mount Airy. East Surry then took the semifinal 44-27 over Starmount.

2A: Northeastern vs. Reidsville Dec. 15, 11 a.m.

Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh How they got here Northeastern (14-0): The unbeaten and top-seeded Eagles didn’t face much of a challenge this season until the semifinals. Southwest Onslow got an early lead and stayed within a score most of the way, but Northeastern came away with a 4736 win. The Eagles were eliminated last year by eventual champion Wallace-Rose Hill.

Reidsville (15-0): The 2016 2A champions are looking for their second title in three years. The Rams

coasted through the regular season and won their first two playoff games by a combined 90-19 score.

But the last two rounds were tighter, with Reidsville beating Mountain Heritage 21-14 on Nov. 30 and Brevard 24-21 last week.

2AA: North Davidson vs. Shelby Dec. 15, 2:30 p.m.

Carter-Finley Stadium, Raleigh How they got here North Davidson (13-2): The Black Knights have been on a roll in the postseason, beating their four playoff opponents by a combined 191-54. That included knocking off the top seed (Ledford, 24-7 in the semifinals) and second seed (SouthWest Edgecombe, 56-28 in the quarterfinals) en route to a spot in the title game.

Shelby (12-3): After opening the season 1-3, the powerhouse Golden Lions have won 11 straight to earn a spot in the championship game.

Shelby trailed by seven points entering the fourth quarter in its semifinal game against defending champion Hibriten, but scored to tie the

How they got here Jacksonville (11-1): The sixth-seeded Cardinals avenged their one loss on the season, a 4528 defeat to Havelock on Nov. 2, by topping the previously unbeaten Rams 41-34 in the semifinals to advance to the championship game.

It was Jacksonville’s first win over Havelock since 2007. Jacksonville has scored at least 40 points in seven straight.

Charlotte Catholic (14-1): The Cougars waltzed through their four postseason games, allowing just 21 total points, and beat Kings Mountain 30-7 to advance to the title game. Charlotte Catholic is looking for its third title in four seasons — it beat Havelock in last year’s 3A title game after losing to eventual champion Dudley in the 4A semifinals in 2016.

3AA: Southeast Guilford vs. Weddington Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m.

Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill How they got here Southeast Guilford (14-1): The Falcons clawed their way through the 3AA playoffs to reach the championship game. They opened the postseason with a 9-3 overtime win over Eastern Guilford, then avenged a playoff loss last year to Dudley with a 21-18 win to reach the semifinals. A 37-33 victory over Cleveland punched Southeast Guilford’s ticket to Chapel Hill.

Weddington (14-1): The Warriors have only one loss on the season (to 3A finalist Charlotte Catholic) and have made quick work of their four playoff opponents — most recently a 45-12 win over Mount Tabor last week — to extend their winning streak to nine. Weddington won the

NCHSAA rules on high school athletics reclassifications as populations change High schools can appeal to be reclassified at the two-year point of the athletic association’s four-year cycle, but they must show a 10 percent change in enrollment

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal TO SAY THAT IT’S been a challenging fall for the North Carolina High School Athletic Association would like saying that Hurricane Florence brought a little bit of rain to our state.

Suffice it to say that things have been busier than usual for the prep sports governing body, thanks to a string of weather-related events that have created numerous unexpected logistical headaches — including the rescheduling of state championship football games to this week.

Even some routine matters have become more complicated, as was the case with the recent appeals process for schools looking to reclassify at the midpoint of the NCHSAA’s four-year alignment cycle.

Fifteen schools came before review board asking to move either up or down in classification because of changing enrollment numbers. That’s more than twice the number that filed appeals at the midpoint of the last cycle, in 2014.

It’s an increase NCHSAA commissioner Que Tucker said might be attributed to a new format that was used to determine how many schools are divided into each classification.

“I don’t know that you can necessarily pinpoint one (reason),” Tucker said. “Some of it may have to do with this being the first year of the 20-30-30-20 realignment format.”

The format uses percentages based on enrollment numbers (known as average daily membership, or ADM) to determine which schools are grouped into its four classifications.

The top 20 percent of the NCHSAA’s 417 member schools in ADM go into Class 4A. The next 30 percent are classified as 3A,

with the next 30 percent going to 2A and the remaining 20 percent 1A. Of the 15 schools that filed mid-cycle reclassifications, all were either 2A or 3A members.

“My thought is that you had more schools in each of those classifications,” Tucker said. “Which gave the opportunity for more schools to have seen some decrease in their numbers.”

Nine of the appeals were granted, six were denied. The NCHSAA’s bylaws state that appeals are to be judged on “special hardship considerations” that cause a significant increase or decrease in ADM. In the case of Montgomery Central and Vance County high schools, the hardship consideration was the consolidation of two schools into one. In the case of McMichael High and Morehead High in Rockingham County, it was the loss of several major employers that forced a large portion of the workforce to move to other areas.

Both McMichael and Morehead were dropped from 3A to 2A, effective for the 2019-20 school year.

“It gets you on a level playing field,” Morehead athletic director Jon Blackwell told RockinghamNow.com. “When you have 700 students in your building and you are fortunate enough to make the playoffs, and you go and play a football team that has anywhere from 1,200 to 1,400 kids, that makes a big difference. So yeah, we are happy with the decision of the high school association and glad that they listened to our presentation and approved it.”

Not everyone is as pleased with the NCHSAA’s decisions.

Southwest Randolph AD Chris Chapman, whose school had its bid for reclassification denied, said he respects the board’s decision but is disappointed his school’s athletes will have to spend the next two years playing at a decided numerical disadvantage.

“We’re at the low end of 3A and we’re going up against schools that have a lot more students to draw from,” Chapman said. “Our numbers have decreased every year and that’s not going to change. It’s about trying to compete against

“When you have 700 students in your building and you are fortunate enough to make the playoffs, and you go and play a football team that has anywhere from 1,200 to 1,400 kids, that makes a big difference.”

Jon Blackwell, Morehead High School athletic director

schools with the same number of students.”

According to James Alverson, the NCHSAA’s assistant commissioner for media relations, the schools whose appeals were denied did not meet the board’s criteria that defines “significant increases or decreases in ADM” as greater than 10 percent change in enrollment in one of the years since the most recent reclassification in 2015.

“They’ve set a percentage for this time,” Alverson said. “That’s the first time we’ve had that.”

Here is the rundown of all the appeal decisions: • Burns High School: Request to be reclassified from 3A to 2A was approved. Effective 2019-20, Burns will compete in the Southwestern 2A Conference.

• Christ the King High School: Request for conference placement in a 1A Conference was approved.

Effective 2019-20, the school will compete in the Southern Piedmont 1A and Football Only Conference A. • McMichael High School: Request to be reclassified from 3A to 2A was approved. Effective 201920, McMichael will compete as a 2A member of the Mid-State 3A Conference (creating a split conference).

• Monroe High School: Appeal to move from 3A to the 2A Classification was denied.

• Montgomery Central High School (West & East Montgomery): Approved placing the newly formed Montgomery Central High School in the 3A Classification for the 2019-20 year. Effective 2019-2020, Montgomery Central will compete in the Rocky River 2A Conference, as requested, but the board placed stipulations on their qualification for playoffs in team sports.

• Morehead High School: Request to be reclassified from 3A to 2A was approved. Effective 201920, Morehead will compete as a 2A member of the Mid-State 3A Conference (creating a split conference).

• North Forsyth High School: Request to be reclassified from 3A to 2A was approved. Effective 2019-20, North Forsyth will compete in the Western Piedmont Athletic 2A. • North Henderson High School: Appeal to move from 3A to 2A was denied.

• Parkwood High School: Appeal to move from 3A to 2A was denied.

• Southwestern Randolph High School: Appeal to move from 3A to 2A was denied.

• Tuscola High School: Appeal to move from 3A to 2A was denied.

• Vance County High School: Approved placing Vance County into the 3A Classification following the merger of Northern Vance and Southern Vance last year. Effective 2019-20, Vance County will compete in the Big 8 3A Conference.

• Warren County High School: Request to be reclassified from 2A to 1A was approved. Effective 2019-20, Warren County will compete as a 1A member in the Northern Carolina 1A/2A Conference.

• West Caldwell High School: Request to be reclassified from 3A to 2A was approved. Effective 2019-20, West Caldwell will compete in the Northwestern Foothills 2A Conference.

• Hillside High School: According to Articles of Incorporation Bylaw VI, Board approved Hillside be reclassified from 3A to 4A. Effective 2019-2020 Hillside will compete in the Triangle 6 4A Conference.

3AA championship in 2016.

4A: Scotland vs. East Forsyth Dec. 15, 7 p.m.

Wallace Wade Stadium, Durham How they got here Scotland (9-5): The Fighting Scots reached the title game last year, eventually losing to Harding University High, but have made a miraculous run to return in 2018.

Scotland, a No. 10 seed, was just 5-5 in the regular season, but it advanced in the first two rounds of the playoffs with one-point wins over both Jordan and Cardinal Gibbons, then beat Pine Forest (27-21) and Seventy-First (28-0) to return to the championship game.

East Forsyth (14-0): The Eagles are undefeated and hoping to finish the job in Durham. East Forsyth has been knocked out of the playoffs by the eventual champion twice in the last three years, but it outscored its three playoff opponents by a combined 115-27 so far this postseason. The top-seeded Eagles defeated Porter Ridge 32-14 to earn a title game berth.

4AA: Wake Forest vs. Vance Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m.

Wallace Wade Stadium, Durham How they got here Wake Forest (13-0): The Cougars continue to be a powerhouse in the state. Wake Forest hasn’t lost since Nov. 20, 2015, winning the 4AA title each of the last two years. The Cougars haven’t been truly challenged this season, with their closest game coming in a 31-18 win over Leesville Road back in early September. They amended that in their first playoff game, beating the Pride 41-10.

Vance (14-1): The battle of the Cougars was set after Vance defeated Myers Park 21-13 in the semifinals to reach the title game. Vance had lost in the semifinals each of the last two years, missing out on a matchup each time with Wake Forest. The Cougars are riding a 10game winning streak — their only loss was against Mallard Creek on Sept. 22.

DUKE from page B1 Also, with any dribble moves, there’s at least one extra dribble that they have to take. Our guys are learning this kind of stuff.”

They’re also learning what to do next when an opponent starts to get off kilter on offense. The opposing team needs to try to make something happen on the fly, which leaves it vulnerable to ball-hawking wings like Barrett and Williamson, who are able to turn a loose ball into a transition dunk in a blink of an eye.

Duke has already scored 283 points in transition this season, averaging 1.31 points per fast break. Both figures lead the nation by a large margin. The Blue Devils average 11.1 steals a game, a 49 percent increase over last year and on pace to shatter the school record, set by the 2001 national champions.

Duke is also forcing 16.7 turnovers a game, which is 36 percent more than last year and the most by a Duke team since the back-to-back national champions of 1991 and 1992.

It all starts with Jones at the point, grinding down his counterpart with the ball.

“That makes it easier for all of our other guys to play defense,” Krzyzewski said. “If we become the team that we’re going to be defensively, Tre will be as valuable a defender as there is in the country, because of what he does. Similar to when Wojo [Steve Wojciechowski] got Defensive Player of the Year, or Tommy Amaker.

(They) recognize the value of pressure and how we’re trying to put our team together.”

When Duke does it well, playing defense that way looks easy, as if the opposing team just doesn’t know what to do with the ball. It’s the end product of effort and energy, however, and it requires buy-in from everyone on the floor.

“It’s not just on Tre. It’s on everybody to pick up the defense,” Krzyzewski said. “If we’re not hitting, then we need to let the defense stir it up and give you energy. If we become the team that I hope we become, it’ll be because of the energy we have on defense that will lead to offense.”

It will also lead to one battered and bruised point guard, but no one seems hesitant to pay that price.

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Defensive failures doom promising Panthers season Opponents’ big plays and the inability to slow quarterbacks have undermined Cam Newton’s big season

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

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Hurricanes rookie forward Andrei Svechnikov is already a franchise cornerstone and will surely be protected in the 2021 expansion draft.

Looking ahead to the 2021 NHL expansion draft A lot can change in a couple years, but here’s a glimpse at how the Hurricanes could approach the Seattle franchise’s expansion draft

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — With the news last Tuesday that the NHL would be adding a franchise in Seattle to start play in 2021-22, so too will come the second expansion draft in just four years.

Last year, the Vegas Golden Knights parlayed their selections in the expansion draft to unforeseen and unprecedented success, reaching the Stanley Cup Final. As rumors of the addition of a 32nd team turned into an inevitable reality, many believed the NHL wouldn’t use the same parameters in allowing its next franchise to select players from each of its soon-to-be opponents.

While the league agreed Seattle was the right destination for its latest franchise, it turns out the NHL — fully embracing that the Golden Knights’ inaugural season’s success kickstarted the team’s acceptance in Las Vegas — will stick with the expansion draft rules from 2017.

That means 30 teams — Vegas will be excluded — will have the option of protecting either: • 7 forwards, 3 defensemen and 1 goalie; or • 8 skaters (combination of forwards and defensemen) and 1 goalie There are a few other rules the 30 teams must follow. Any first- or second-year NHL contracted player cannot be selected, and neither can any unsigned draft picks. Each team must expose one defenseman and two forwards who have either played 40 games in the previous season (which will be 2020-21) or a combined 70 games in the two prior seasons (2019-20, 2020-21).

Those three players must be un-

APP STATE from page B1 utation for high character and community engagement and a commitment to player development both on and off the field.

With the exception of head coaching experience, Ivey checks all the boxes.

A former linebacker and defensive lineman who recorded 166 tackles in 47 games with the Mountaineers from 1991-95, Ivey has been an assistant coach at App State for the past seven years.

Popular among his players, he has been an integral part of a defense that ranks sixth nationally this season, allowing an average of 15.7 points per game.

“I’m excited that (Gillin) and the university trusts me with this fantastic program,” Ivey said. “As always, I love being a Mountaineer, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to serve as interim head coach.”

Ivey isn’t the only current staff member that figures to get serious consideration for the permanent coaching job. The list of candidates also includes co-offensive coordinator Shawn Clark and co-defensive coordinator Dale Jones (Bryan Brown and Frank Ponce, the other co-coordinators, followed Satterfield for Louisville).

Among the outside names most prominently mentioned are:

der contract for the 2021-22 season. The other 30 teams must also make available one goalie (under contract or a restricted free agent who was tendered a qualifying offer). Players with injuries deemed “career-threatening” cannot be used to fulfill this requirement.

In last year’s expansion draft, the Hurricanes gave the Golden Knights a fifth-round draft pick to influence their expansion choice. Vegas selected forward Connor Brickley, who later signed with the Florida Panthers.

So who will the Hurricanes protect in the 2021 expansion draft? It’s hard to predict, given that any number of players could be added or subtracted from Carolina’s roster in 2½ years. But based on the team’s current roster and assets, here’s a best guess.

FORWARDS Protected (7): Sebastian Aho, Warren Foegele, Martin Necas, Jordan Staal, Andrei Svechnikov, Teuvo Teravainen and Janne Kuokkanen Exposed: Nicolas Roy and Lucas Wallmark For starters, Staal’s no-movement clause means the team has to protect him. Beyond that, there are only three players that would seem like must-protects for Carolina. Aho is the team’s best player and due a long-term contract, while Svechnikov is an emerging star. Necas hasn’t established himself as an NHL star yet, but it’s probably only a matter of time.

Beyond that, there’s plenty in flux. Teravainen could be signed to a long-term deal and thus protected, while Foegele, Roy, Julien Gauthier, Morgan Geekie or Wallmark all might establish themselves as worthy of protecting over Kuokkanen. And if he’s re-signed, Micheal Ferland is a player the team would likely want to keep. The team also needs to be sure to meet the parameters of the two forwards they are required to make available.

• Wisconsin assistant John Settle, a former NFL running back who was App State’s all-time leading rusher at the time of his graduation; • Georgia State coach Shawn Elliott, another alumnus who finished out the 2015 season as interim coach at South Carolina after Steve Spurrier walked away and who led his Panthers to a bowl game in 2017 before going 2-9 this season; • Miami offensive line coach Stacey Searels, an assistant under Moore at App State from 19942000; • Auburn running backs coach Tim Horton, another former Mountaineers assistant.

Although Gillin has not put a timetable on when he’d like to have a new coach in place, he’s confident in his ability to find the right fit.

“I am excited about the future of our football program,” he said in his message to his school’s fans.

“This year we reached Top 25 status and won the inaugural Sun Belt championship game on our home field. We have a great young nucleus of student-athletes returning. We have the privilege to represent a great university with a proud football tradition and a passionate fan base. This is a highly attractive job.”

DEFENSEMEN Protected (3): Jake Bean, Brett Pesce, Jaccob Slavin Exposed: Calvin de Haan There are a lot of variables on defense. Dougie Hamilton will be an unrestricted free agent the summer of 2021. If Carolina resigns him, he would need to be protected. Slavin is a lock, but Pesce — the subject of trade rumors — could potentially not be in Raleigh down the road.

Bean and Harvard’s Adam Fox are the team’s best defensive prospects. Bean, who started his professional career this season, would need to be protected and will be if he develops into what Carolina expected of him when they took him 13th overall in the 2016 draft. The Hurricanes likely won’t have to worry about Fox, since in all likelihood he would not be eligible to be selected. This scenario would leave Haydn Fleury, himself a former first-round pick, and Calvin de Haan unprotected. If Fleury trends upward, he could be protected — or the Hurricanes could influence Seattle’s choice with a draft pick. De Haan will be approaching the final year of his deal and might wind up being the most appealing player Carolina exposes.

GOALIE Protected (1): Alex Nedljkovic Exposed: Jeremy Helvig For now, Nedeljkovic is the goalie of the future. While he’s winning a lot of games behind the high-powered Checkers offense, his other numbers don’t really jump off the page. It seems unlikely any of Carolina’s current goalies — Scott Darling, Curtis McElhinney or Petr Mrazek — are a “three years down the road” solution in net, so for now it’s Nedeljkovic. It could very easily change with the addition of another goalie or emergence of either Callum Booth or Helvig. This is undeniably the hardest to prognosticate.

As the Carolina Panthers see their playoff hopes fade to what coach Ron Rivera said was a “5 percent” chance of making the postseason, Cam Newton continues one of his best seasons in the NFL. The eighth-year quarterback has thrived in coordinator Norv Turner’s offense. His completion percentage of 68.8 percent is more than 7 points higher than in any other season, and his touchdown percentage, interception percentage and yards per attempt are all his best since his MVP year of 2015. Furthermore, his 251 yards per game are the most since his rookie year.

Even during the Panthers’ fivegame losing streak that derailed a 6-2 start to the year, Newton has had (other than an increase in interception rate) very little dropoff.

Comp. TD Yds./ Yds./ Int Games % % Att. Comp. % First 8 70.9 5.0 7.7 10.8 4.4 Last 5 67.3 5.7 7.1 10.7 1.5 So what has led to the lost season in Carolina? A defense that has essentially forced the Panthers to face a Cam Newton on the other side of the field every week.

Comp. TD Yds./ Yds./ Int Player % % Att. Comp. % Rat. Newton 68.8 5.4 7.4 10.7 2.7 97.0 Opp. QBs 67.5 6.3 7.4 11.0 2.5 99.9 The problem has gotten progressively worse as the year has gone on. In their first eight games, only three opposing quarterbacks — Matt Ryan, Alex Smith and Carson Wentz — had passer ratings higher than their season average. Not coincidentally, Carolina lost two of those games and very nearly got swept in all three.

The Panthers held the likes of Dak Prescott, Eli Manning, Andy Dalton and Joe Flacco below their season average.

Starting with Ben Roethlisberger’s perfect passer rating in a Thursday night blowout, however, opposing quarterbacks have topped their season rating in four of the five games of the losing streak.

Rating 2018 Quarterbacks vs. Panthers rating Ben Roethlisberger 158.3 97.4 Russell Wilson 128.3 111.0 Jameis Winston 114.4 88.1 Baker Mayfield 126.9 93.4 The opposing passers have torched the Panthers secondary for big play after big play. Following Sunday’s loss at Cleveland, Rivera pointed out, “Four of their

“Some of it is routine stuff.

Some guy trying to do too much. Sometimes it’s guys not knowing how. Those are young guys.”

Ron Rivera, Panthers coach

plays accumulated almost 200 yards.”

Basically, every time the Browns fell behind, the Panthers defense allowed a big play to bring them back. After Carolina took the opening kickoff and scored a touchdown, Mayfield hit a 66-yard touchdown to Breshad Perriman on the first snap from scrimmage.

When the Panthers took a 14-7 lead, Mayfield hit Jarvis Landry for a 51-yard game-tying score. A 28-yard pass by David Njoku set up a game-tying field goal just before half, and a run of 51 yards by Landry wiped out the Panthers’ final lead and gave Cleveland its first.

The Browns added a 29-yard Nick Chubb run to set up a clinching score.

“I thought we played hard and played well,” Rivera said of the defense, pointing out that Carolina shut down Cleveland in the third quarter. “For the most part we contained their runner, Chubb.”

For the most part, but all it took was one breakdown here and there, both in the game and for the season.

“Some of it is routine stuff,” Rivera said. “Some guy trying to do too much. Sometimes it’s guys not knowing how. Those are young guys.”

The veterans have also been victimized, however. Captain Munnerlyn was the one that was beaten

by Wilson for long fourth-quarter gains in the home loss to Seattle. Eric Reid, another vet, was torched on the two 50-plus yard passes in Cleveland.

“It gave them momentum,” Reid said of the opening 66-yarder.

“Obviously, we don’t want to start a game that way. It gave them a lot of yards to start with. I know it gave them confidence. I wish we can have that one back. That’s one of the plays that I’m in position.

I’m trying to get my head around to find the ball. I had my hand on the ball, I just have to get it out. It’s unfortunate.”

Of the 51-yard pass, he said, “It dropped in there. I had my hand on him, but Jarvis did a good job bringing it in. Just a play I have to make.”

Four plays against Cleveland.

A handful against Seattle. It’s the difference between winning and losing, between a playoff berth and a hot seat for a coach. For the Panthers, it’s become a fatal flaw.

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Scott Satterfield’s decision to accept the Louisville job means Appalachian State will be hiring a new football coach for the first time since 2012.

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entertainment

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‘Ralph’ tops box office again, ‘Aquaman’ is a hit in China

By Jake Coyle The Associated Press NEW YORK — In the calm before the Christmas storm at the box office, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” remained No. 1 for the third straight week, while the upcoming DC Comics superhero film “Aquaman” arrived with a cannonball-sized splash in Chinese theaters.

For the second week in a row, no new wide releases opened in North American theaters, allowing Disney’s animated sequel to again lead domestic ticket sales with $16.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The top six films at the box office were all unchanged. Universal’s “The Grinch,” still a major draw in its fifth weekend, trailed in second with $15.2 million.

But the weekend’s biggest new arrival was in China, where Warner Bros.’ “Aquaman” debuted with $93.6 million in ticket sales.

That marked a new opening-weekend record for both Warner Bros. and DC in China. Considering the checkered recent history of DC films (“Justice League,” “Suicide Squad”), the big launch in China was a promising sign for the spinoff starring Jason Momoa.

“Adding to the success of ‘Wonder Woman,’ this is a really sol-

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Jason Momoa, left, and Amber Heard in a scene from “Aquaman.” id performance and portends big numbers for North America in two weeks when it opens,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore. “This is a movie, along with ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ and ‘Bumblebee’ and other movies, that’s going to

give December that boost that a ‘Star Wars’ movie would give us.”

“Aquaman” will expand to 40 international countries next week and arrive in North American theaters Dec. 21.

“Aquaman” wasn’t the only big-budget holiday season release

Todd Gurley of the Los Angeles Rams accepts the award for the AP Offensive Player of the Year at the 7th Annual NFL Honors at the Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

receiving a lift this week. Paramount’s “Transformers” prequel “Bumblebee” played a one-night sneak preview in 326 theaters nationwide ahead of its Dec. 21 release.

Paramount declined to share ticket figures, but domestic distri-

bution chief Kyle Davies said theaters were mostly sold out. Perhaps more importantly, the film directed by Travis Knight and starring Hailee Steinfeld aided its word of mouth with largely glowing reviews — a rarity for the “Transformers” franchise.

Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns,” due out Dec. 19, also helped its cause with four Golden Globe nominations Thursday, including best picture, comedy or musical, and acting nods for Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

A more traditional royal drama, “Mary Queen of Scots,” also opened strongly in limited release.

The Focus Features title, starring Saoirse Ronan as Mary Stuart and Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I, debuted in four theaters with a robust $50,045 per-theater average.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” Universal re-released the Holocaust epic in 1,029 theaters. But it failed to turn out large crowds, grossing a modest $551,000.

Next weekend, the box office is expected to be significantly busier with the release of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Once Upon a Deadpool” and Clint Eastwood’s “The Mule” and “Mortal Engines.”

Court TV network is being revived after decade away The Associated Press NEW YORK — Court TV is being revived, after dying in 2007 when its supply of high-profile trials ended.

Katz Networks said Monday it will start the network again in May, and already has commitments to show it in about half of the American homes with television service.

The 24-hour network will be devoted to coverage of trials.

Katz, which is a division of the

E.W. Scripps Co., has acquired programming and intellectual property from the old network.

Court TV was popular in the 1990s when the O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers trial absorbed attention, but it was folded and turned into the crime-oriented network truTV. Jonathan Katz, who is president and CEO of Katz Television, noted the popularity of crime-oriented programming and said there’s a void in the marketplace for trial coverage.

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Todd Gurley pays off layaway balances in Tarboro NSJ Staff TARBORO — Last week NFL star and Tarboro native Todd Gurley paid off layaway balances at the Tarboro Walmart in coordination with the Pay Away the Layaway organization. The former Georgia Bulldog spent more than $6,000 to pay off layaway balances for about 50 families in his home county of Edgecombe according to WTVD.

New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson spent more than $93,000 last week to payoff layaway balances at a New Orleans Walmart, according to WWL-TV in New Orleans.

Singer Kid Rock says he followed the lead of actor Tyler Perry by paying off the layaway items of hundreds of Walmart customers in Tennessee.

Walmart store manager Tom Meyer tells The Tennessean that

Kid Rock spent $81,000 to pay the balances of 350 customer accounts at his store in Nashville.

Meyer calls it a “pretty Nashville proud moment.”

On Twitter, Kid Rock said, “great idea!” in a nod to Perry, who had posted a video Thursday saying he had paid off layaway balances at two Georgia Walmarts.

Meyer said Kid Rock called the store Friday. Kid Rock’s manager later came into the store to make the payment.

Kid Rock is a partner in a bar in Nashville.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

Author Jon Krakauer sues over adaptation of ‘Into the Wild’ The Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. — Author Jon Krakauer has filed suit over a musical adaptation of his 1996 book “Into the Wild.”

The Boulder Daily Camera reported Friday that Krakauer originally agreed to let playwrights Nikos Tsakalakos and Janet Allard use his name and the book title but changed his mind because he objected to their script.

The lawsuit asks a judge to stop the playwrights from using

his name and the title. His attorneys say the agreement allows him to withdraw permission.

The lawsuit was filed Nov. 30 in state court in Boulder, where Krakauer lives.

The newspaper says the playwrights didn’t respond to requests for comment.

“Into the Wild” recounts Christopher McCandless’ death in the Alaska wilderness. Krakauer’s lawsuit also names the Christopher Johnson McCandless Memorial Foundation, which had also agreed to the adaptation.

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TAKE NOTICE CABARRUS NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 499

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by William Jonathan Henry to Ellen Tom, Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of December, 1997, and recorded in Book 2065, Page 114, in Cabarrus 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 Cabarrus 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 Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 621

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Kenneth W. Shade and Kathy L. Shade, (Kenneth W. Shade and Kathy L. Shade, both deceased) (Heir of Kenneth W. Shade: Sarah Shade and Unknown Heirs) to John C. MacNeill, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 25th day of April, 2003, and recorded in Book 4573, Page 107, in Cabarrus 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 Cabarrus 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 Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 653

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Janet M. Forrest (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Janet Forrest) to Angela Greenberg, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of December, 2007, and recorded in Book 07962, Page 0249, in Cabarrus 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 Cabarrus 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 Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as

16 SP 847 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Courtland L. Hamilton and Latricha K. Hamilton to Christina M. Bramhall, Trustee(s), which was dated March 18, 2011 and recorded on March 18, 2011 in Book 09515 at Page 0124 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on August 24, 2015 in Book 11555, Page 0261, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Sub-

CUMBERLAND 18 SP 492 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by George McGee Watson, III and Terese N. Watson to Lewis, Deese, Nance & Briggs, L.L.P., Trustee(s), which was dated May 3, 2013 and recorded on May 6, 2013 in Book 09182 at Page 0133, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder

JOHNSTON AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 449

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Henry Lowry and Vivian E. Lowry to NETCO, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of March, 2015, and recorded in Book 4577, Page 451, in Johnston 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 Johnston 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 Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina,

UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 669

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Philip E. Eason aka Philip Eason and Tonia S. Eason aka Tonia Eason (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Philip E. Eason and Tonia S. Eason) to Joan H. Anderson, Trustee(s), dated the 7th day of February, 2008, and recorded in Book 04809, Page 0003, 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 Cen-

BEING Lots 1 & 2 of Block 5, South Kannapolis, as recorded in Map Book 1, Page 33, and being more particularly described as follows:

improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1001 South Ridge Avenue, Kannapolis, 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 Single-Family 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.

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BEGINNING at a new iron pin in the eastern right of way of South Ridge Avenue, said pin being the Northwest corner of Lot 3, Block 5, South Kannapolis, common corner with Lot 2; thence with the right of way of South Ridge Avenue North 11 deg. 45 min. 00 sec. West 62.43 feet to a new iron pin in the northwest corner of Lot 1 at the intersection of the right of way of Plymouth Avenue and South Ridge Avenue; thence with the right of way of Plymouth Avenue, North 78 deg. 15 min. 00 sec East 155.00 feet to a new iron in the line of a 10 foot alley; thence with the alley South 11 deg. 45 min. 00 sec. East 62.43 feet to a computed point, said point being the Northeast corner of Lot 3; thence with Lot 3 South 78 deg. 15 min. 00 sec. West 155.00 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING. Being and containing 0.222 acres, more or less, as shown upon the map and survey prepared

by Ruby A. Nicholson, RLS, and dated June 17, 1994.

George Beaver died in 1951 leaving a life estate to said property to Vivian Minnie Mae Bost Beaver with remainder to his four children, Elizabeth, Mary Ellen, Harold, and Wilemina. Elizabeth passed away leaving one issue William Henry. Harold died having three sons, Mike Gary, and Tony. Tony passed away leaving two children, Brandon and Heather. All parties hereby conveying any and all rights that they may have or acquire in said property. Together with

estate situated in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 21 of GOVERNOR’S POINTE AT COPPERFIELD, as shown on map thereof recorded in Map Book 28 at Page 98 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2564 Governors Pointe Court, Concord, North Carolina.

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 Single-Family 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.

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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 Single-Family 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.

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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

stitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 28, 2018 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 343 as shown on Subdivision Plat of: The Farm at Riverpointe- Phase 4A, Map 2, recorded in Map Book 59 at Page 76 in the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Public Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 10906 Tailwater Street, Davidson, NC 28036.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are

immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Courtland L Hamilton and wife, Latricha K. Hamilton.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the

property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement 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 no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is chal-

lenged 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.

of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on December 27, 2018 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 117, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS ‘STEEPLECHASE SECTION FOUR’, AS PER PLAT THEREOF DULY RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 120, PAGE 112, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA; TO WHICH PLAT REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF SAME. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 4511 Cambray Downs Court, Parkton, NC 28371.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred

Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are George McGee Watson, III and wife, Terese N. Watson.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession

by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement 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 no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion,

if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on December 18, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 3, Sunset Ridge Subdivision, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 78, Page 170-171, Johnston County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 62 Ryland Drive, Clayton, North Carolina.

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 pur-

chase 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 Single-Family 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.

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 prop-

erty 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 Single-Family 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

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

follows: Being a lot in No. 11 Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina in the City of Concord on Main Street, House No. 37, shown as Lot No. 20 on map of CANNON HOLDING CORPORATION, Map 5, a copy of said map being on file in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County in Map Book 19, Page 55, specific reference thereto being hereby made for a more complete description thereof by metes and bounds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 691 Main Street, Concord, North Carolina.

Being the same property or a portion of the same property conveyed to Henry Lowry and wife Vivian E. Lowry by Instrument dated June 30, 2014 from Darryl D. Evans, Inc. filed on July 03, 2014 as Document Number 2014424082 and in Book 4469 at Page 557 in the Johnston County records.

Commonlyknownas: 62RylandDrive,Clayton,NC27520 Parcel Number: 06G05029N Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the

ter in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on December 20, 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: Being all of Lot 8 Block N of Beacon Hills Section III, as shown in Map Book 6 at Page 151 of the Union Co., NC Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 8406 Red Lantern Road, Indian Trail, North Carolina.

Restrictions recorded in Book 255 Page 355 in the Union Co. Registry. Rights of way and easements for roads and utilities that border or cross the subject property.

This is the same property conveyed to Philip E. Eason and wife, Tonia S. Eason by Deed of Joseph Earl Smith and wife, Gina Joy Smith filed 09/01/95 in Book 807 Page 725.

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

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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.

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TAKE NOTICE WAKE AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 15 SP 3019

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Cynthia Ryles and Camonti Ryles (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Cynthia Ryles) to North Sate BNK, Trustee(s), dated the 8th day of April, 2005, and recorded in Book 11314, Page 1901, in Wake 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 Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned

18-SP-2396 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Julien R. Touillet and Buzi A. Muki, in the original amount of $101,652.00, payable to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Guaranty Residential Lending, Inc., dated April 29, 2002 and recorded on April 29, 2002 in Book 009395 at Page 1802, and modified by Loan Modification dated March 27, 2014 and recorded on April 28, 2014 in Book 015642 at Page 00648, Wake County Public Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Stone Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 2516

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Precious V. Turner to Jeffrey Holiman, Trustee(s), dated the 4th day of December, 2015, and recorded in Book 016230, Page 01994, and Modification in Book 16994, Page 217, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 3059

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jesse Lee Fowler and Khadija Fowler, (Jesse L. Fowler aka Jesse Lee Fowler, deceased) (Heirs of Jesse L. Fowler aka Jesse Lee Fowler: Khadija Fowler, Hebba Fowler, Mariam Fowler and Unknown Heirs of Jesse L. Fowler aka Jesse Lee Fowler) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Khadija Fowler) to Matthews Law Group P.C., Trustee(s), dated the 13th day of December, 2012, and recorded in Book 015059, Page 00478, in Wake 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 Wake 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 Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County,

Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 17, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 210, Granite Ridge Subdivision, as shown on Plat recorded in Book of Maps 2003, Page 1207-1208, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2001 Red Quartz Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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 Single-Family 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.

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

in Wake County, North Carolina, on December 21, 2018 at 1:30 pm , and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: Lying and being situate in Wake County, North Carolina and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 36, Rutledge Landing Subdivision, Phase One, as shown on Map recorded in Book of Maps 2001, Pages 1256-1258, Wake County Registry. Tax ID: 1762072950 Said Property is commonly known as 5165 Julip Drive, Knightdale, NC 27545 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or major fraction thereof, of the the final sale price. If the Clerk of Court’s fee determined by the formula is less than Ten Dollars ($10.00), a minimum Ten Dollar ($10.00) fee will be collected. If the Clerk of Court’s fee determined by the formula is more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), a maximum Five Hundred Dollar ($500.00) fee will be collected. A deposit of

five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner of the property is Buzi A. Miku A/K/A Buzi A. Muki and Julien R. Touillet A/K/A Julien R. Tuilett.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement 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 no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes §4521.16A(b)(2)). Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute 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.

of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 587, Highland Creek Subdivison, Phase 14, as shown on the plat entitled “Highland Creek, Phase 13, Phase 14, Lot 5015 and Revised Lot 5050”, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2015, Page(s) 36-44, Wake County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description of same. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4364 Prairie Creek Trail, Raleigh, 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,

North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 19, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 2, containing 0.881 acre, as shown on survey map dated July 7, 1997, entitled “ Property of William Ray Parker and wife, Faye A. Parker” and recorded in Book of Maps 1997, Page 1762, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4344 Rockside Hills Drive, Raleigh, 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

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

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

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 Single-Family 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 agree-

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 Single-Family 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

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ment prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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