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NEWS BRIEFING

67,124 COVID-19 patients presumed to be recovered Raleigh The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services said that over 67,000 COVID-19 patients are presumed to have recovered from the virus as of July 13.

NCDHHS estimates a median time to recovery of 14 days for non-fatal COVID-19 cases who were not hospitalized and 28 days for hospitalized cases. Estimates are used since patient-specific data on the actual recovery time to resolution of symptoms are not available for all COVID-19 cases.

Gov. Roy Cooper announces NC schools will open using ‘Plan B’

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Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students Boston The Trump administration rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the pandemic.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said federal immigration authorities agreed to pull the July 6 directive and “return to the status quo.”

Universities argued the policy contradicted ICE’s March directive telling schools that existing limits on online education would be suspended “for the duration of the emergency.”

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Eric Holder-led group donates nearly $200k to state Democrats Raleigh Thirty-six candidates in state legislative races received maximum contributions from the National Democratic Redistricting PAC, campaign finance reports show. The PAC, headquartered in Chicago, has brought lawsuits against legislative leaders over redistricting since its formation and is led by former Obamaera U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

The PAC gave to both Democratic incumbents and challengers, with contributions totaling $194,400.

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Statue of antebellum NC chief justice at court removed Raleigh The statue of a 19th-century North Carolina Supreme Court justice was removed on Monday from the entrance of the state Court of Appeals building. Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin is known in part for a ruling in which he concluded the slave owner’s power over his slave was absolute.

The statue was removed following recent topplings of and damage to Confederate monuments in North Carolina and in other states. Gov. Roy Cooper earlier ordered three monuments removed from the Capitol grounds.

State Capitol Police recently told the Court of Appeals about safety concerns, state courts spokesperson Sharon Gladwell said.

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UK backtracks on giving Huawei role in 5G network London Britain backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a role in the U.K.’s new 5G network amid security concerns fueled by rising tensions between Beijing and Western powers.

Britain said it decided to prohibit Huawei after U.S. sanctions made it impossible to ensure the security of equipment made by the company.

The U.S. had also threatened to sever an intelligence-sharing arrangement with Britain because of concerns that Huawei’s involvement could allow the Chinese government to infiltrate U.K. networks.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told Parliament the decision would delay the rollout of 5G technology and increase costs, but that it had to be done.

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PHOTO VIA NC DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY

Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh.

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JOURNaL ELEVATE THE CONVERSATION

A look back at the Cooper administration’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline controversy Independent report found Cooper manipulated the permit process; $57.8 million never materialized

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal

per. The mitigation fund, which was detailed in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), would come to be characterized by some as a political slush fund.

The Cooper administration referred to it a “voluntary contribution,” however, Rep. Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford) stated that the MOU was “a condition of getting the permit granted.”

Donald van der Vaart, a former secretary of the N.C. Dept. of Environmental Quality who now serves on the state’s environmental rulemaking commission, proposed a rule this month that would make situations where money is exchanged for permits illegal.

RALEIGH — Earlier this month, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced the cancelation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project, which had generated years of controversy in North Carolina. The ACP cited court decisions and possible delays as key reasons for ending the project.

Over the last two years, a number of legal challenges to the project’s permits, both state Beginning and federal, have increased projThe history of the ACP starts ect costs from $4.5 billion to $5 billion to $8 billion. In ad- in 2014, with AGL Resources, dition, the project’s estimate of Dominion Energy, Duke Enercommercial in-service had been gy and Piedmont Natural Gas pushed to 2022, which is almost forming the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC. In mid-September a three-and-a-half-year delay.

The ACP was supposed to 2015, the ACP filed an applicabring an estimated 17,000 jobs tion with the Federal Energy and $2.7 billion of construc- Regulatory Commission to build tion economic activity. Around the pipeline. The FERC approv2,200 long term jobs were ex- als did not come through until pected to come out of the ACP October 2017.

The project moved along over along with annual local property the next few years and on May 9, tax revenue of $28 million.

Construction on the ACP vol- 2017, ACP filed for the required untarily halted in December Water Quality Permit with 2018. Counties that would have DEQ. The following month, in seen activity in North Carolina June, Cooper hired Jeremy Tarr included Cumberland, Halifax, as a policy adviser on energy, Johnston, Nash, Northampton, the environment and natural reRobeson, Sampson and Wilson. sources. Tarr previously worked Cooper and his family mem- at the U.S. Environmental Probers own properties in an area tection Agency. Cooper tasked of Nash County where the pipe- Tarr to get an updated timeline line would have run through. from DEQ for the ACP’s permit The governor owns two proper- on Aug. 17, which he does, with ties totaling 44 acres, while his a copy reaching Cooper’s sebrother, Pell, owns 13 proper- nior adviser Ken Eudy on Aug. ties totaling approximately 375 21. The memo is also shared with Cooper’s campaign adviser, acres.

The ACP has caused contro- Morgan Jackson of Nexus Stratversy within the state after the egies.

At the end of August 2017, revelation of a $57.8 million dollar “mitigation fund” that would Tarr emails Cooper’s chief of be placed in an escrow account chosen and controlled by Coo- See PIPELINE page A2

Says all children ‘from kindergarten through high school’ will be required to wear a mask

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — At Tuesday’s COVID-19 media briefing, Gov. Roy Cooper finally announced the plan for reopening the state’s schools, which will be directed to use “Plan B,” a hybrid of in-person attendance and remote learning.

“Today, we announce that North Carolina schools will open for both in-person and remote learning with key safety precautions to protect the health of our students, teachers, staff and families. This is the Plan B that we asked schools to prepare,” said Cooper.

“As a part of this plan, we want local school districts to provide a remote learning option for any child who chooses it. In addition, school districts will have the option of Plan C — all remote learning — if that’s best for them,” Cooper said, adding that all K-12 students and staff will be required to wear a mask.

“Face coverings will be required for every teacher, staff and student from kindergarten through high school,” said Cooper. Adding that, “The studies have shown overwhelmingly that face coverings reduce disease transmission.”

Up until this week, all guidance on masks in the state did not recommend masks for children under the age of 11.

Cooper also announced that phase two will continue after the expiration of the current order on July 17 and said that “North Carolina will continue to stay paused in ‘Safer at Home’ Phase 2 for three weeks.” That puts a possible Phase 3 transition at Aug. 7.

According to the school reopening guide created by the N.C. State Board of Education and N.C. Dept. of Public Instruction, Plan B involves “moderate social distancing.” The guide has been characterized as a “living document” which can be changed over time.

Plan B reopens schools but institutes limitations on the density of attendance in facilities to no greater than 50% of maximum occupancy. There are a number of See SCHOOLS page A2

US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades

By Michael Balsamo The Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The U.S. on Tuesday carried out its first federal execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.

The execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, over the objection of the victims’ relatives and following days of legal wrangling and delays, revived the debate over capital punishment during a time of widespread social unrest.

It also adds a new chapter to the national conversation about criminal justice reform in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, professed his innocence just before he was executed at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

“I didn’t do it,” Lee said. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I’m not a murderer.”

His final words were, “You’re killing an innocent man.”

The decision to move forward with the first execution by the Bureau of Prisons since 2003 — and two others scheduled later in the week — drew scrutiny from civil rights groups and relatives of Lee’s victims, who had sued to try to halt it, citing concerns about their attending during the coronavirus pandemic.

Attorney General William Barr said, “Lee finally faced the justice he deserved. The American people

have made the considered choice to permit capital punishment for the most egregious federal crimes, and justice was done today in impleSee DEATH PENALTY page A2

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RESTRICTIONS from page A1 staying on their properties if they are not year-round residents.

A similar situation to Surf City’s actionsfrom has page arisen PIPELINE A1in Dare and Currituck counties, resulting inKristi the filing of with a federal lawstaff, Jones permit insuit by sixandproperty formation details owners about a whose permanent residences company called Strata Solar are and in states. itsneighboring CEO, Markus Wilhelm. Cooper Law-enforcement and Wilhelm have acheckpoints conversation have been thereafter set up on roads sometime aboutleadDuke ing into and various towns and counEnergy solar power deal posties. sibilities. Several months later, on The28,town of Beaufort haswas a Nov. a memo from DEQ chokepoint repel received by near Jones I-70 that to discussed non-residents.

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Duke dispute with solar compaWrightsville officials nies together in Beach his meeting with already Good. closed beaches to the public but will now also be fining As reported

by Carolina Jourviolators up had to $500.

If one innal, Cooper personal dealings cludes court Solar costs, for theafine jumpsof with Strata number to $650. years.

As of April 2019, Cooper’s Officials in Wilkesboro and sister-in-law Meredith Cooper has North Wilkesboro announced on been listed as manager of the comApril 8 that only person per pany that owns theone Cooper family’s family will be solar allowed entry into Nash County farm property. any stores.

Children canCarrington only acCarolina Journal’s Don company wrote that,them “Thisifisno theother fourthsuitownable person can watch them. ership arrangement since 2012 of a Last week, Cooper issued a 40-acre site in Nash County where new executivesolar orderfarm containing a 5-megawatt leased to multiple layers Strata of newSolar restricDurham-based LLC tions on the few retail stores still resides.” allowed or able to remain open.

This new order begins at 5 p.m.

April 13 and runs for 30 days.

According to executive order 131, onlyPENALTY five peoplefrom perpage 1,000 DEATH A1 square feet of retail space or 20% of fire marshal posted menting the sentence foroccupanLee’s horcy limits can be in a store at one rific offenses.” time. must placed TheMarkings execution of Lee,be who died at 6 feeta.m. apart in areas where 8:07 EDT, went off afterpeoa seple gather, like checkout lines, ries of legal volleys that ended when and stores must the Supreme Courtobserve steppedcleanin early ing measures.

Additional Tuesday in a 5-4 ruling andrecomallowed mendations in the order include it to move forward. plastic shields at registers and Barr has said the Justice Departcontact-free checkouts. ment has a duty to carry out the The order overrides anycourts, losentences imposed by the cal prohibitions that set a differincluding the death penalty, and ent occupancy order and to provide closure rate for in families maintain acrosswhere the others in “uniformity” the communities state.”

As with Cooper’s previthe killings happened. ousBut executive orders, municipalirelatives of those killed by ties individual stores Lee and in 1996 opposed that can ideaenand act evenLee stricter measures argued deserved life inthan prisdescribed in the new on. They wanted to bedirectives. present to The North counter anyCarolina-based contention theFresh execuMarket grocery tion was being done store on theirchain, behalf. starting April require all “For us it is14,a will matter of being guests to wear a face-covering of there and saying, ‘This is not being some sort. done in our name; we do not want

THE WORD: DOUBTING THOMAS SEEDS AND WEEDS John (KJV) The Sunday approaches, LastSecond week we read about of theEaster sower of seeds, the first of eight parables Jesus taught beside the Sea of Galilee in Matthew 13.

The20:27-29 second parable is the Parable of the and theofTares.

While often misinterpreted, this parable is a simple story about good and evil and the impact of the seeds and Christians areWheat reminded the first Thenbefore saith he to of disbelief.

The parable has been used in support of religious tolerance, since Jesus shows that rooting out the tares from the27 wheat harvest Sunday following Christ’s resurrection.

Jesus Thomas, Reach hither time could damage the wheat. The disbelievers will be separated from those who believe at the end. had met with most of His disciples after Mary thy finger, and behold my Magdalene alerted them of His presence. hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it Thomas was not with them when they met 24 into my side: and be of not “Parable Another puthe he would forth unto saying, The kingdom Jesus, andparable he said notthem, believe in the faithless, but thebelieving.

Wheat of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his resurrection until heslept, hadhis seen thecame wounds of tares 28 And Thomas and the Tares” field: 25 But while men enemy and sowed the crucifixion himself. answered by andAbraham said unto among the wheat,for and went his way. 26 But when the blade was him, My Lord and my Bloemart sprung andafter brought fruit, then appeared the tares Eightup, days theforth resurrection, Thomas 27 God. 29 Jesus saith (1624) is unto a also.his Sodoubts the servants of the householder came and said unto had removed when he saw him, Thomas, because Baroque him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence Jesus andit examined His unto wounds. thou hast seen me, thou period then hath tares? 28 He said them,While An enemy hath done Jesus blessed who believed in then His that we go and hast believed: blessed painting inare this. The servantsthose said unto him, Wilt thou 29 they that have not seen, the collection gather them up?

But on he said, Nay; while ye gather up the resurrection based faith, Helest nonetheless and yet have believed. of the Walters tares,willing ye rootto upprove also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow was Himself to Thomas.

Art Museum, together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to Thomas had proven a devoted and loyal Baltimore, the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in disciple and Jesus did not condemn (c. DOMAIN 1601–1602, housed Maryland. bundles to burn them: but gather the wheathim intofor my barn. “The Incredulity of Saint Thomas” by Caravaggio PUBLIC | CC0 1.0currently in Sanssouci Picture Gallery, Potsdam, Germany). his skepticism.

ment on the organization’s webcision would be coming “soon” to the virus.”

SCHOOLS from page A1 TRAFFIC from page A1 major traffic down certain businesstransportation sales tax revenue, site. “There are waysbackups. to mitigate The American Academy of Pe- causing and was likely “couple weeks shutting that it is aces.

But some states have not. theFlorida risk. Itannounced will be costly but it’s diatrics has called for reopening. away.”also is down. options available within the state which work schedules by sevWashington, site offor theschool first celerating “We were three hopingmedia to bidoutlets it out The failed to produce worth every dime.

We will not AAP’s guidance At least level Plan B thatresults. attempt to adon about billion outbreak in the U.S., construction very soon, but coronavirus In the meantime, someforroad openweeks an unsafe school.$2Nothing re-entry “strongly advocates that eral on July 1 asked Cooper what had dress issues of childcare ele- for bridge and road projects. work on 92 of its COVID-19 and him all that, so suspended and bridgeand projects already else is of acceptable.” all policy considerations for 100 the worth changed that made renege mentary middle schoolhave lev- then In North Maryland, a westbound projects as astart rethat timeline is kind in the only air,” active been Carolina, pushback cominghighway school year should on the deadline, butofCooper els. put on hold. of the Bay stay-at-home for lane West he Plains administrator The NorthforCarolina has come fromChesapeake the N.C. Associwithofa agoal of having order students indicated needed to get “buy- sult Options rotatingDepartsched- said Annapolis recentworkers.

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Thesupport $27 million projSpokane, as well as improvefor us.” projects fromare 131also down to 38 for their political of DemoDirector Robert Redfield said ing specify what entities or groups and nate weeks included in ority was completed wellNCAE aheadhas of to an the Interstate pass ect Though are menrun- ments the a $2 were crats in the state. The that “having schools 90 actually not onambulances board, but later the upcoming options forbudget Plan B.year, Districts, partlyvirtual becausemeetings of light area schedule, usual and detours are through billion reduction. held multiple closed isan a avalanche-prone greater public health tionedasthey wanted more input such as the Wake County Public ning amidhow the coronavirus panthe Cascade Mountains. for teachers. visitors, “ob- of Ohio has delayed projects until well-marked discussing to push back on threat to the children than hav- traffic from parents and School System, have developed entire $200 million demic. direct before interchange next year schedules on interstate highways school reopening plans and keep the schools reopen.”

In a that statement Coo- ingVermont’s rotation whereby stu- viously The declining traffic volumes construction for 2020 schools be nice,” said Daniel Mar- road in Columbus Cincinnati working mainly remotePushback onplanreopening per’s announcement, Sen. Deandents will beand assigned to onebeof would especially large in some on hold, for from a $6 the million chief (R-Watauga) clinical officersaid for that the is cause the expected in shall, ly in been August. schools hassave come na- have na Ballard three of groups which willdecline rotate on most famously repair where a storm Howellhave County Ambulance fuel tax revenue.

In nation’s an email sent earlier conthis tion’s largest teacher’s union, the of the “Educators always told us emergency a schedule of one week physical- South areas, such out part of theAssociation. foundation gested withand a budget shortfall, month, metropolitan titled, “We won’t go back: National Education about the learning loss students washed ly Faced in school two weeks of re- District. the San Francisco BayReopenarea.

Interstate 89. and the Ameri- as The city ofwhen Bend, Oregon, Missouri has postponed $46 mil-is experience Responding to School Both the NEA they’re notthe in on mote instruction.

Wake County BusinessNCAE leadersand in the region The longer the of delay, the greatseventh-fastest grow- can lion 18 road and bridge proj- nation’s Organize Federation Teachers are ing,” the the classroom.” alsofor offering students a full-time hoped put a“By 1 cent sales tax the likelihood that some proj- had metropolitan area over the er ects that had been priorities 2020 statetothat acting todemanding on some level more from well-off house“Virtual Academy” option, for of ing“Kids the November ballot thatto could might not getbefore finished this on pulled a $190 millocal As indicated many as past gether, we have the power demoney be spent schools holdsdecade, with two parents may be ects whichgovernments. the district has $100 over 40 years off the year.

299 projects valued termine thebillion conditions in which are reopened. In a joint state- raise in atransportation better positionbond to succeed that additional 22,000 of the district’s over lion transit transpor“Every project is sort the of atAAP risk for Supporters had conat $785 million could at risk May we public will return to and in-person inwith the NEA, awayballot. from the classroom.

But it’s ment 161,000 students havebeenrolled projects in a nine-county running out ofshould qualitybe weather about on pushing a property without help, McKenna struction.” said that safety maxi- tation the impact the child of a sin- of as of Julyfederal 14. Students have until cerns But the coronavirus to and complete theone-size-fitswork,” said region. tax for who roads, sidewalks and days said.

The email goes on to say outthat mized that “A gle hike mother works an hourly July 20 to enroll. interrupted workand on famistate Reed, is construction engi- break lanesconcerns while local businessAmong the set immediate de- bike “As frontline workers all approach not appropriate job that me the most,” Jeremy Cooper was to announce legislation needed place the for thetostate’s areBallard. suffering and neer ferments: new highway lies who know how to best to meet for return schooltransportation decisions.” said “Wefinancially can and must the schoola reopening planinteron a es on theeducational ballot. residents areback without change to provide direct access our children’s needs, “None of us should accept the measure get our students into work. class- agency. self-imposed deadline of July 1; many nowthe could be 2022, ortoeven Pennsylvania originally halted “They’re going to show on false to the expanded Ozarks responsibility enchoice,” NEA President Lily weIthave while providing anup alterhowever, he declined toMedical make a rooms before road construction work.

But 2024, daythose and just and all Center inthat West Plains.

The sure we do sosupporters safely.” can make Eskelsen García said in a statenative for mostglance vulnerable decision day, stating thecende- voters’ ter’s hospital, physician and spe- think, `I’m not raising my taxes it has since allowed work to pro- another push for a public vote on cialty clinics are among the area’s right now, no way!’” said Mike Ri- ceed on 61 critical projects. About the measure, said John Grubb, largest employers, serving about ley, co-chairman of the Go Bend 800 road and bridge projects, at chief operating officer of the Bay Area Council, a business-backed 40,000 patients in eight rural 2020 Coalition that support- $7 billion, remain on hold. policy advocacy By contrast, some states ed the memorandum measure. “We’re going to ber that counties of southern Missouri she toldgroup.

Eudy that they Cooper, through Jones,have re- affirmed Emails included in the ACP in- Permit, “If not we’re in that.” a poor economy, taken advantage of investigators a lull in traf- “were come back to voters, but now just sponded and northern doing by rejecting vestigation from Arkansas. early December announced which looks like we’reinvestigagoing to fic totospeed up transportation The National state hadGovernors allotted Asmore felt like the wrong time.”

The it independent access employees involved with 2017 show be in, that would havethat been an projects.

Construction crews have tor’s have classified than $1.2 million to cover half OnMost findings concluded Coofund or ACP process.

Brown Jan.states 25, the ACP MOU, road in- the sociation staffer Sue Gander advisawful lot of stimulus and an awbeen able to shut down highway construction as essential work and construction costs.

The cluding “improperly used the authority Arp sent a response direct- per the $57.8 million mitiingthe Tarrroad about the ACP and warnful lot of job creation,” he said. duringslammed prime hours that can continue despitesigned orders lylanes halfstipulating was to come fromtied local gation influence of his office” to presto Cooper, him without for ob- and fund, is privately ingother him that a fund to permits could be seen as extor- by McKinney acting as an autho- structing the investigation and sure natural gas pipeline builders tion and raise “due process issues” rized agent for the governor. The gave him three options: let employ- to agree to a $57.8 million mitiganext day, on Jan. 26, the ACP’s Wa- ees speak, designate certain staff tion fund under his control. The reand “ethical” concerns.

The final version of the MOU ter Quality permit approval is an- including the governor himself to port, however, found no evidence is sent on Dec. 13 by Duke Ener- nounced by DEQ and Cooper an- testify or the legislature will sub- that the governor had personally fromHawkins, page A1 and nounces the MOU. poena the individuals needed to benefited from the fund. The day gy WORSHIP lobbyist Kathy Three days later, lawmakers be- close the investigation. A few days after the findings were published, on Dec. 29, Cooper’s legal counBenham and others showed sel William McKinney sends a textup gin questioning the MOU and the later, Cooper changed course and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest called for the to thesaying Charlotte clinic after to Eudy Duke wants to receivsign legality of Cooper controlling the would allow certain staff members FBI’s Public Corruption Unit to incalls there mitigation fund. The same day, on to testify before the subcommittee. vestigate the matter. theing MOU onthat Jan.the 2, police 2018. were Howevdemanding the group’s memHearings were held througher, early on thethat morning of Jan. 1, Jan. 29, Cooper announces that bers leave the area.text When McKinney and Eudy backthey andre- Duke Energy and solar compa- out October 2019, but it would not Fallout fused to leave, eightsigning were given forth about delaying theci- nies in the state have resolved their be until November 2019, that lawtations of “violation of emergency As for the $57.8 million, not a MOU in order to leverage a “solar issues and have reached a new makers would wrap up interviews prohibitions restrictions” — a agreement for working on future related to the ACP investigation. In dime of it actually landed in North deal,” which is aand reference back to 2 misdemeanor. a letter dated Oct. 21, the ACP co- Carolina. The first half of the paytheClass meetings involving Good and projects.

“They’re saying there were 50 In February, the General As- chairs requested testimony from ment would have been made had Wilhelm. people there,” said McKinney textedBenham to Cooper andon sembly quickly passes a bill redi- the governor and three high-level the final federal approval for the thehediscrepancy between his ac- recting the $57.8 million fund to members of his staff. Cooper’s se- project come through. Since those Eudy was set to sign and Coo“official” account. school districts that would be im- nior adviser, Ken Eudy, and deputy approvals were on hold, the funds percount asked,and “It’s the what we discussed “Justright?” look atMcKinney the video. said The yes video pacted by the pipeline. Lawmakers chief of staff Julia White were both were not disbursed. earlier clear evidence. is a lie. It also begin inquiries into the MOU in attendance at the meeting, but “In the coming months we will andshows Cooper then texted,It“Where wrong. department, areisthe solar The boyspolice on their deal?” and send questions to the gover- Cooper and McKinney were both engage with each of the states to Charlotte mayor’s determine the best path forward absent.

In the same Observer, series of the texts, Eudyof- nor. fice“Not — they’re On Nov. 8, 2019, Eudy testi- for the mitigation agreements and A subcommittee, co-chaired said, sure all wewrong.” should sign Sen. Ted unless Cruz (R-Texas), ACP agreement solar deal a by Sen. Harry Brown (R-Onslow) fied before the ACP subcommittee funding,” Aaron Ruby, manager of friend of Benham’s, tweeted out in and Rep. Dean Arp (R-Union), and said he did not ask Duke for a Media Relations for Dominion Enworks.” supportcoordination of him later the day, is created on Sept. 6 to investi- statement declaring the fund was ergy, replied in response to North Media andsame mescalling theaddressed arrest unconstitutional State Journal’s inquiry. saging were in a Jan. gate the MOU and ACP permit voluntary.

ROBERT CLARK | NORTH STATE JOURNAL saying, Dems process. In mid-December, af“It’s disheartening to see the At“Did you ask Duke to provide 22, and 2018, text“Because messageelected between areand pro-abortion, they are abusing terAttendees Northwood Temple in Fayeteville’s 2020 Easterlantic drive-in service listen on to Coast Pipeline notin come statement regarding the volunmonths ofofstonewalling from aChurch Eudy Sadie Weiner, Cooper’s theircommunications power—in a one-sided way— Cooper their and radios from insideinvestitheir cars as status PastorofJohn Hedgepeth delivers his sermon. fruition,” said Sen. Danny Britt tary the MOU and fund?”

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ReOpenNC begins effort to impeach Gov. Roy Cooper Group says COVIDrelated lockdowns were unconstitutional

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — On Monday, July 6, ReOpenNC announced it was launching an effort to impeach Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

“We are demanding all members of the NCGA, regardless of party, to uphold their oath of office by impeaching Roy Cooper,” Ashley Smith, co- founder of ReOpenNC, said in a statement. “We are demanding they publicly affirm our calls to impeach Cooper.”

Smith also said, “As members of ReOpenNC, we will not vote for politicians who do not uphold their oath of office.” She said that politicians on both sides of the aisle have forgotten they serve the people.

The group is calling for elected

officials to publicly confirm their support for their impeachment effort.

“We demanded members either confirm or deny their willingness to participate and if ignored, our nearly 80,000 will take action at the polls,” Smith said.

Smith says that they received a “Yes, absolutely” response from House Deputy Majority Whip Pat McElraft (R-Carteret).

A petition has been started for the impeachment effort, which gained over 5,800 signatures since it was launched on July 3. Members of the group led by Smith and co-founder Audrey Whitlock delivered a copy of the petition with 5,500 signatures to House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) on July 8.

“I think the governor has been arbitrary in the way that decisions have been made and the way closure has been done,” Moore told Smith and Whitlock. Moore went

“We’re just a few months from an election, and in November the voters get to decide.”

State House Speaker Tim Moore on to say that COVID-19 is a serious disease and that he has asked Cooper to come up with a series of standards that applies to businesses and venues.

“It doesn’t make sense to treat, for example, a little bar, the same as you would an Applebee’s,” said Moore. He also said the legislature has shown their frustration with Cooper through their votes, and lawmakers just want the governor to “come up with a plan that makes sense” and to share the data behind it.

“We’re just a few months from an election, and in November the voters get to decide,” Moore said.

The women pressed Moore on whether or not he supported Cooper’s actions that ReOpenNC believes are in violation of the Constitution. Moore responded that he supported some of the items on the “front end,” such as efforts to flatten the curve, but that “now it is like the goalpost is moving.”

Moore mentioned the frustrations with the governor at a Council of State meeting earlier in the week where more discussions needed to happen regarding some of his specific orders, but Cooper cut the meeting short.

Smith followed up and said that ReOpenNC does not believe they will see a constitutional election this fall since they have “not seen constitutional leadership from Cooper so far.” Moore didn’t directly answer on impeachment but said that voters can look

Christians sound alarm on religious freedom at 2020 Carolina Values Summit Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, Pastor Andrew Brunson and many other prominent guests speak

By David Larson North State Journal CHARLOTTE — On July 7, the North Carolina Values Coalition held a virtual summit, with many of the speakers presenting from Graceway Baptist Church south of Charlotte, to equip Christian leaders to “resist growing attacks on religious freedom.” Multiple speakers who have lost jobs for their religious views, or were even imprisoned for sharing their faith, as in the case of Pastor Andrew Brunson who spent two years in Turkish prison, spoke on what they see as a growing hostility to Christianity in mainstream American culture.

Dr. Leon Threatt, a former police officer and Marine who now serves as senior pastor of Christian Faith Center Charlotte, was the moderator of the event and gave the first speech.

He began by welcoming those tuning in for the streaming video, and then saying, “We find ourselves today, as the Body of Christ, in an unusual time in which our identity is being redefined, and we know, from truth, that our identity is found in Christ Jesus alone.”

Lt. Gov. Dan Forest spoke briefly, thanking Graceway Baptist Church for hosting, and saying, “A strong community and a strong state start with the same thing: a commitment to the values we in North Carolina hold dear — values like responsibility, hard work,

humility, service and the sanctity of life.”

Dr. Andrew Brunson detailed his time in prison and his concerns about religious freedom in America now that he’s returned.

Brunson was imprisoned for two years by the Turkish government, who accused him of spying for the United States, and his case became an international media story. President Donald Trump negotiated his release and Brunson returned to his home in North Carolina.

Despite being a missionary in Turkey for 25 years, after returning and seeing the condition of American faith, Brunson says his attention is no longer focused abroad.

“For the first time in my life I have a real burden for the United States. I just feel a sense of urgency for this country.”

He said the cultural pressure is like a 1-mph current of a river that has been slowly but surely shifting the nation into a more hostile place for Christians. The river, he said, is speeding up to a 5-mph current though, so Christians should ask, “how am I going to stand when the pressures increase even more?”

“It’s going to get worse,” Brunson said, referencing how Christians are treated in institutions like government, academia and even corporations.

“There’s no avoiding this hostility and the pressure that will come for following Jesus. We cannot escape it. What we do have is a choice whether we’ll stand or whether we will not.”

He began tearing up, saying his children’s generation “is not

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Pastor Andrew Brunson speaks during an interview at the headquarters of Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. ready.” Brunson thought he was tough after working in harsh, unstable areas in the Muslim world, he said, but when he was put in prison, “it overwhelmed me.”

Brunson said he thinks many are not prepared, and when things get hard, fear will overwhelm them, and they will run away like Jonah.

“What will you fear more, the rage of the Twitter mob, or standing before God with no fruit? Will you fear the consequences of obeying God, or the consequences of not obeying God?” He also called on Christians to lead on racial reconciliation, saying in his time overseas, he’d seen deep hatreds among rival ethnic groups being put aside after long troubled histories.

But Brunson said the issue in the United States has been hijacked by voices that “will not bring reconciliation, but more division.”

Ryan Tucker, senior counsel and director of the Center for Christian Ministries with Alliance

“There’s no avoiding this hostility and the pressure that will come for following Jesus. We cannot escape it. What we do have is a choice whether we’ll stand or whether we will not.”

Dr. Andrew Brunson Defending Freedom, gave basic legal guidelines to pastors and other Christian leaders, so they can remain within the law during the election cycle.

The main topics he discussed were sermons and speech, voter education, using facilities, lobbying, and gifts and money. Tucker said the IRS guidelines for tax-exempt organizations can be complicated, but Alliance Defending Freedom would always be avail-

in November to see how lawmakers have voted on safely reopening businesses.

“In your position of leadership, do you believe he has done something unconstitutional?” asked Whitlock. “Or are you guys not seeing that from your perspective?”

“Constitutional versus unconstitutional — I don’t know if I agree with it, or if I would draw a distinction either way on that. But I do think the benefit of us living in a representative democracy and a great republic is that in November of this year, the voters get to decide,” Moore said. He added that he hoped the energy out there right now would “translate to votes” in November.

The legislature attempted several veto overrides later that day, one of which was a bill to rein in Cooper’s emergency authority powers, but a two-thirds majority was not obtained as Democrats voted to maintain Cooper’s vetoes.

able to give advice and their general guidance can be found at 2020legalguide.com.

For sermons, he said the Johnson Amendment, named after then-senator, but eventual-President Lyndon B Johnson, doesn’t allow speech that favors one candidate over another from the pulpit. But the same pastor could go outside the church and in their individual capacity speak on behalf of a candidate and endorse a candidate at an event.

“In most instances, as long as you’re acting in a neutral, non-bias manner, you’re going to be fine,” Tucker said of activities within a church setting.

He said churches can host getout-the-vote campaigns as long as they aren’t for a specific candidate or party, can hand out voter guides explaining the views of multiple candidates fairly.

Churches can also allow the building or website to be used for one candidate, but they then would have to make clear to the other candidates in the race that they are invited to also use the facility.

The final speaker was Roger Severino, who is the current director of the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

He gave greetings on behalf of President Trump and called the current administration, “the most pro-life and pro religious liberty in history,” and said Trump has “backed up his commitment not just with words but with actions, and the actions are bearing fruit.”

Under Severino, the HHS Office for Civil Rights also created an entire division, the “Conscience and Religious Freedom Division,” to make sure the over two dozen laws that protect conscience in health care “are given full and vigorous enforcement, just like every other civil rights law.”

Pastor Threatt then returned and encouraged the attendees to “not to be afraid,” and to “do your part,” ending the event by saying, “Thank you, but now the work be-

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Jones & Blount NCGOP holds virtual state convention NSJ Staff RALEIGH — On 10-days’ notice, following back-and-forth statements with state health officials, the North Carolina Republican Party held its firstever virtual state convention on Friday, July 10. The North Carolina Democratic Party held a virtual convention earlier this year.

NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley said the convention had 57 speakers either live or via video, with 11 votes on traditional party business such as platform, resolutions, the election of new RNC representatives and delegates to the RNC convention slated for next month in Jacksonville, Florida.

Whatley credited the NCGOP staff for pulling off the event, saying, “The NCGOP staff took a 10-day notice that we were going to have to run a virtual convention and totally crushed it. This is an awesome team that has not missed a beat throughout the COVID crisis and will outwork the Democrats

Enjoy the sweet treat: July is National Watermelon Month Watermelons have been grown in the United States for over 300 years, and now, centuries later, 44 states grow them commercially.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture credits Charles Fredric Andrus, who worked in the Agricultural Research Service in Charleston, South Carolina, with developing the Charleston Gray variety in 1954. Now, over 95% of watermelons in the world are this variety.

In North Carolina, the sweetest watermelons are found in the White Oak River Basin, known as Bogue Sound Watermelons. Yes, they’re even labeled.

every day until Nov. 3.”

Ed Broyhill, a businessman and philanthropist from Winston-Salem, is the new RNC committeeman. Broyhill noted his grandfather, J.E. Broyhill, served as RNC committeeman for 28 years.

State Rep. Mark Brody (R-Union) elected to not run for re-election as committeeman.

Kyshia Lineberger, a Charlotte small business owner, was elected RNC committeewoman, replacing Dr. Ada Fisher of Salisbury.

The closing speakers of the convention were the three nominees at the top of the ballot this year: Justice Paul Newby, Sen. Thom Tillis and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest.

“I know it’s difficult to be virtual, but you know what, we like a good fight and we’re going to win it.

We’re going to go door to door; we’re going to make phone calls; we’re going to raise money; we’re going to support these candidates up and down the ballot; and we are going to win in November,” Tillis said during his speech.

NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley speaks during the party’s virtual convention Friday.

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Police suspect ventilation in COVID outbreak

Man, 54, dies while hiking in Pisgah National Forest Transylvania County Robert James Frye, 54, died on July 5 while hiking in western North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest. The Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office said that Frye was hiking with a friend on the border of the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests and a few miles below the Blue Ridge Parkway. Sheriff David Mahoney said it appeared that Frye “had some medical issues and died of natural causes.”

Frye was from Campobello, South Carolina.

Yancey County Eight employees at the Yancey County Sheriff’s Office tested positive for COVID-19. Most of them are detention officers working in the county jail, the sheriff confirmed. Police believe that poor air ventilation helped contribute to the spread of the disease. Two people who work in a control room that simply recirculates air within the room were the first to test positive.

All 17 inmates have been evacuated.

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Lawsuit in tribal battle over casino project Cleveland County A years-long bid by the South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation to build a casino and resort west of Charlotte could stall once again following a lawsuit by western N.C.’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians filed an amended complaint against the U.S. Department of the Interior, challenging the federal government’s approval in March for a Catawba casino development on land near Interstate 85 in Kings Mountain. The plaintiffs say the land is historically theirs.

65-year-old swimmer dies at North Carolina beach

Gaston County Three men were found dead Sunday after firefighters extinguished a blaze in a wooded area following a car crash, the fire department in Gaston said. Firefighters responded to a call about a vehicle on fire along Highway 48 in Pleasant Hill. They found a car split in two and fully engulfed in flames. The fire had already spread to surrounding brush. The department said the men were ejected from the vehicle in the crash, and their bodies were found when firefighters put out the blaze.

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North Carolina Mountain State Fair canceled due to COVID-19 Henderson County The 2020 Mountain State Fair has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The fair was scheduled to take place from Sept. 1120 at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletcher. Commissioner Steve Troxler cited the health and safety of visitors and staff and said social distancing would be difficult to enforce. The event has drawn more than 60,000 people during past opening weekends and drew 171,000 total visitors last year. This is the first year since the fair was founded nearly three decades ago that the event has been completely canceled.

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Wilkes County Opioid overdoses and deaths have increased in Surry and Wilkes counties this year, and the coronavirus pandemic is being blamed. Surry is on pace for 500 overdoses, which would be more than all of 2016 and 2017 combined and a 40% jump over last year. Wilkes is launching a Naloxone Response Program to help decrease overdose deaths.

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Hyde County A swimmer that had been reported missing at a beach on the Outer Banks has died.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore Rangers received a call about the 65-year-old man from Pennsylvania 15 minutes after he went missing near Pony Pen Beach on Ocracoke Island Sunday. After arriving at the scene, one ranger spotted the man face down in the water.

A lifeguard brought him to shore and officials administered CPR but their efforts were not successful. Officials said a large rip current was seen at the site the man went missing.

Subway restaurant chain asks customers to conceal weapons

Pandemic contributing to increase in overdoses County sets alcohol, food cutoff for virus Orange County Officials in Orange County set a cutoff for restaurant dining and alcohol sales in hopes of limiting the spread of COVID-19. Restaurants and private clubs will be closed for onsite consumption of food and beverages at 10 p.m. beginning last Friday. The county also says restaurants may continue drive through, delivery, and pick-up services after 10 p.m. as long as there is no onsite consumption of food and beverages.

Penny Rich, chairman of the Orange County Commissioners, says the county’s COVID-19 cases have tripled since Memorial Day, and the measures enacted will help protect the community.

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Worker at center of ballot fraud probe seeks local seat Bladen County Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. is running again for a board seat on the Bladen Soil & Water Conservation District Supervisors. Dowless will run against two other candidates. Dowless faces both state and federal charges related to ballot “harvesting” allegations during the 2016 and 2018 elections. A federal grand jury also indicted Dowless related to allegations he concealed money that he was paid working for candidates during 2018, leading to Social Security benefit fraud. Dowless is seeking a second four-year term on the five-person board, which oversees conservation efforts. He’s currently the board’s vice chairman.

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Wake County The Subway restaurant chain is asking customers to conceal their firearms in its stores.

The policy change comes two months after photos showed gun-toting customers visiting a store. The Connecticut-based company posted the change on its website. The policy does not apply to law enforcement. In May, photos showed a man carrying an AT4 rocket launcher in a Subway in Raleigh. It was slung over his back with two pistols in holsters on his waist. Another person was carrying a pump-action shotgun.

Another photo showed a man sitting with a shotgun propped on a bench.

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University sheds former senator’s name from building Hertford County Chowan University has decided to rename its athletic facility. The Helms Center was named after former Sen. Jesse Helms, who served in the U.S. Senate for 30 years. The university’s Board of Trustees announced last week that the facility would be renamed the Hawks Athletic Center, after the school’s mascot. The private Baptist university said the change comes after the community expressed concern that Helms’ position on civil rights didn’t match Chowan’s mission. The center was built with funds from a donor who promised to pay half the costs if the university named the center after Helms and paid the rest.

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World War II-era boat house for sale on coast Pasquotank County A World War II-era boat house once used by the Navy is now being offered as a place to stay while your dream house is being built on the coast. The one-bedroom building is 850 square feet and is more of a bunk room. The real estate listing says the house, built in 1943, is an hour from the Outer Banks and was used for crash boats and Navy crews during the war. There’s an eat-in kitchen, living room, bunk room, full bathroom, covered boat slips outside and a wrap-around deck. It’s been listed for more than 1,500 days.

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New audit dings NCDOT on improper salary adjustments

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The N.C. State Auditor’s office has filed another report on the N.C. Dept. of Transportation, this time on how the agency adjusted salaries as part of a two-year pilot program.

The audit says that the salary adjustments exceeded the “twopercent-of-payroll-expense limit” dictated by the pilot program, and as a result, the department overspent by $39 million. That 2% expense translates to $11.7 million per payroll for salary adjustments.

The funds could also be used towards reallocation of positions, retention and recruitment programs.

NCDOT did not make the 2018-2019 state fiscal year salary adjustments as required by statute 2018-5 the audit report says. By allowing them to retain longevity and career status, the report says that NCDOT employees had an unfair advantage over other state employees. Session Law 2018-5, also known as the Appropriations Act of 2018, authorized a pilot program giving NCDOT flexibility to make salary adjustments without having to comply with the State Human Resources Commission’s compensation rules.

In order for employees to receive those salary adjustments, however, they needed to voluntarily give up their longevity pay and career status, which the report says didn’t happen.

Several examples were provided in the report of employees retaining benefits that should have been relinquished under the program.

The report says that of the 7,379 Department employees who received salary adjustments in state fiscal year 2019, 6,876 of them retained career status. There were 4,747 employees eligible for longevity pay that received a total of $8.3 million.

Other examples of salary irregularities include the fact that 5,422 employees received salary adjustments greater than 10%, totaling $52 million (salaries exceeded the 10% limit by $26.1 million); that 203 employees with active disciplinary actions received salary adjustments totaling $1.5 million; and that 10 employees that “did not meet expectations” received salary adjustments totaling $72,671.

The audit report recommends that corrective action be taken to bring the NCDOT into compliance, that the department consult with the legislature to determine intent of laws and rules, and that the Joint Legislative Transportation

Oversight Committee should determine whether NCDOT management performed appropriate due diligence and if appropriate action was taken or not.

NCDOT disagreed with the state auditor’s findings and recommendations in the report.

In a letter sent to State Auditor Beth Wood, NCDOT Secretary Eric Boyette said he believed the audit was based on “misinterpretations of the law” and a “misunderstanding of the pilot program.”

“The department is confident that it executed this pilot program in conformance with law and in a manner that fulfilled the intent of the legislature,” Boyette said in the letter.

Boyette’s accompanying documentation argues that the relinquishment of career status and longevity and the salary adjustment eligibility are two separate subsections that are not meant to be connected. Additionally, Boyette challenges the interpretation of the language describing 2% of payroll versus 2% of the Highway Fund and Highway Trust Fund.

The pilot program became law in June of 2018 under Boyette’s predecessor, James Trodgon, who announced his retirement in February of 2020. Trogdon left just as the department’s revenue woes were returning to the spotlight.

Budget issues first arose last October after the department overspent its budget by $2 billion.

As a result of the overspending, NCDOT came very close to breaching a state law requiring the department to maintain a cash balance between $282 million and $1 billion. In April of the following year, NCDOT was forced to institute rolling furloughs due to revenue issues, some of which were linked to lack of gas tax revenues due to COVID-19. NCDOT had previously acknowledged a budget shortfall which in turn forced spending on future construction contracts to be slashed by $2 billion.

Legislators on the Senate Transportation Committee held two hearings in June regarding the results of a state auditor’s report that revealed $742 million in overspending by the NCDOT under Trogdon’s tenure. Wood noted in her testimony before lawmakers that the NCDOT had mismanaged its budget and spending plan. She also cited a lack of oversight and monitoring by the chief engineer’s office and that the spending plan was not based on actual cost estimates of specific projects.

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Some believe it came out of a economic and financial means.

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Michigan, With that being said, I can tell you based on my personal and very mask wearers confronting and chasing non-mask wearers out of stores, become a peak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of Which raises the third question: What exactly can affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any relief will soon reach fa once again enjoy arfare lab run confront by the communist Chinese army. to bring China intoofthe of at 21st health, hygiene scientific experts amount oftime time whymodels modelspredicting predicting hundreds of thousands of civilized cases world Leaders atcentury the local and state levels should be as we forthcoming as God.” can defeat thethey corona don’t hope that we will amount of why hundreds of thousands cases Leaders the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as they painful experience with the H1N1 virus in 2009, my preference is to wear or individual mask-wearers flipping out their phones to video their bad thing? ious about ventilators by nearly 13,000 and the number of overall deaths by we capable of rolling out tens of millions of tests ove affliction, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by continue working on co thing? til Chinabad adopts rigorous verifiable policing and regulation of sporting andevents, fair trade. Totalitarian communist regimes never take the arereliable. reliable. can be with those answers — blame and again, not vague answers, but answer If you are celebrating the Easter season, I—urge you to also whole.

— we need to are can be with those answers and again, not vague answers, but answer them.

Just once again enjoy a mask, whether it’s to go shopping for essentials or to visit lovedregret ones and confrontations with non-mask wearers.

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State Republican leaders have, too. ourselves, and our communities safe.

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That is what free citizens living in a free society were supposed Not one little bit. tax revenue spread over a few years. $18 billion in lost revenue is representatives to hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for terms.

In addition, all students receive a six-month would also disfavor students majoring in soft but John Milton in defense of free speech. g in Bayh-Dole as the driving force behind so research — $6 andtrillion+ did a poorMarshall job of licensing the patents The U.S. Department of Education towe do, last Irecognize checked. grace period post-graduation payments begin. trendy disciplines.

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I’m Stacey Matthews undertaking tothere save are our own economy, not of defeated enemies as the It is about time they are expected to operate as responsible citizens of protect Bayh-Dole now more than ever to foster even into real-world products. In fact, fewer than 5% of for improperly and abusively targeting the prescribed term of the contract, no additional even in this acrimonious political climate. something has gone drastically wrong ermined worried about them catching the virus, and I’m worried I will.

After and is a regular contributo greater innovations in the future all federally funded research patents were licensed past. the world like any other modern nation. white professor Lt. Col. W. Ajax Peris payments even if(swine they have lessthe 2009 pandemic, The first solution has been referred to as “skin in suffering in disciplinary academia,action especially within commercially. for over his use ofcertain fromare therequired H1N1 virus flu)paid during China the hasgame.” been cheating, stealing, pirating and pillaging American t than the amount of funding they received.

Such That a policy would call for institutions fields within the humanities.

They call Katharine Ku, the chief licensing advisor in the was bad for everyday Americans, who the n-word while reading to his class I’ve been trying to take extra precautions, because all of this Rev. brings upLuther business now for the past 30 years.

They have made no secret that they Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & weren’t seeing many tangible products result from Martin King Jr.’s “Letter Both ISAs and skin in the game policies would to have a share in the credit risk of every student these fields “grievance studies,” where wayworld too many memories painfulBoth experience I’d prefer notfrom to repeat. intend towho replace astothe premier superpower in dollars. the and Rosati, served as of thea executive director of Stanford the research programs by their Birmingham Jail” contained have many down-stream benefits. would put takesthe outU.S. a loan attend the funded institution.

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They would also align universities’ students default.

Such a policy would require action bully students, administrators and other number Referring to white civil rights activists, interests with those of students. Universities would

by Congress since student loans are disbursed by the departments into adhering to their King wrote, “They have languished in s. be invested in student success, not just increased federal government. worldview.

The worldview theythe promote is filthy, roach-infested jails, suffering L | STACEYBut MATTHEWS enrollment. Some universities would probably begin another solution can be implemented locally. neither nor rigorous.

Grievance abuse andscientific brutality of policemen who GUEST OPINION | DENNIS PRAGER view themconsist as ‘dirtyof n——r-lovers.’” to offer better guidance to students when they choose A number of institutions are already giving it a studies disciplines such as Boston University is considering majors, choose classes and take out loans. try: Income Share Agreements (ISAs). ISAs are sociology, anthropology, gender studies, changing the name of its mascot These innovative solutions will do what “Free contractual agreements in which students receive queer studies, sexuality andRhett critical race because of his link to “Gone with the College” cannot: make students and universities education funding in exchange for a predetermined studies.

Wind.” Almost 4,000 Rutgers University behave more wisely and act together towards the percent of post-graduation income over a certain In 2017 and 2018, authors Pluckrose, students signed a petition to rename same goal. That goal is to create educated, wise number of years. The percent of income and number Lindsay and Boghossian started campus buildings Hardenbergh Hall, of years can change based upon a student’s major and and productive graduates. Only with smart policies submitting bogus academic papers to Frelinghuysen Hall and Milledoler Hall becausejournals these meninwere slave queer, that incentivize student success can we ensure that income potential. academic cultural, owners.

University Arkansas students colleges truly provide value for students, parents, ISAs are a good deal for students because they race, gender, fatof and sexuality studies and, if so, place their child in a school that does not.

THE LEFT-WING that America is a racist petitioned to remove a statue of J. taxpayers and society. are less risky than loans.

Imaginecharge a student who to determine if they would pass peer Two of the biggest lies are that preserving slavery country is the either greatestshelter-in-place national libel since the Blood William because he was a WITH MOST STATES under or stay-at-home fallen into place. I understand the seriousness ofFulbright, the be virus and the review and accepted for need publication. was the real cause of the American Revolution and Libel against the Jews. America is, in fact, the least segregationist who opposed the Brown of dubious research that orders thanks to localracist or state governments, a country majority of Americans to istake people who simply askagainst that slavery whatprecautions, made America but rich.I’m uneasy with how multiracial, multiethnic in world v.Acceptance Board of Education that ruled journal editors found sympathetic to their Even the charge of endemic racist police brutality are having to adjust tohistory. what is being called the “new normal.” questions about the data, and whenisthingsschool can segregation. start getting back to intersectional or postmodern leftist vision a lie.

There are undoubtedly racist police, but racism Neither the claim that America is a racist society The suppression of free speech and Some of these orders extend at least through the end of this month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. does not characterize police interactions with blacks. nor the claim that it is the least racist country can ideas byworld the elite is nothing new. has of the would prove theItproblem of stay-at-home orders go proven. into June. treated as though weUnited as a society simply muststandards. accept without No. 4: TheThey’re large African immigration to the STVirginia’s OPINION | JEFF TARTE, FORMER NC STATE be empirically Both are assessments.

But SENATOR alow long ugly history.

Galileo Galilei was academic Here in North Carolina, Royarguments Cooper stated when it’s safefake to begin thepapers States. question what the government tells us about honest Democratic people do need Gov. to provide for theirduring a 17th-century astronomer, Several ofItalian the research Why would so 2 million of black Africans and more than 1 position.

I have found America physicist and engineer, sometimes a recent coronavirus press briefing thatevery “we argument just don’tthat know yet”isif theNearlyprocess returning back to normalcy. were accepted for publication.called The Fat million blacks from the Caribbean have emigrated racist, let alone “systemically” racist, wanting. “father of modern physics.” The Catholic many blacks state’s stay-at-home orders will extend into May. No. The government works for us, and we have the right to ask those Studies journal published a hoax to the United States in just the last 20 years. Why For example, the police almost never kill unarmed Church and other scientists of his day paper that argued the term bodybuilding was Ifvoluntarily he does decide toblacks, extend it, questions should be asked as to the questions.

And the longer stay-at-home orders are inthe place all over the would so many blacks voluntarily move to a country and on the rare occasions they do (about 15 believed that Earth was the center exclusionary and should be replaced move to a that is “systemically racist,” a country, according times a year), there is almost always a valid reason of the universe.

Galileo offered evidence justification for it. And the answers should not be vague ones like “we country, and the stricter some of them get in states, such as Michigan, to the promoters of the “America is racist” libel, in in the infamous 2014 case in Ferguson, Missouri); that the“fat Earth traveled around the with bodybuilding, as a fat-inclusive mustcountry do thisthat outisof an(as abundance of caution.” the more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about which every single white is a racist? Are all these police kill more unarmed whites than blacks; the sun — heliocentrism.

That made himreviewer politicized performance.”

One It“systemically will need to be explained insenator, detail to the people of more this state whoElderly when they can get back to providing for their families, willofdemand dumb?

Are they ignorant?

And what about reasonstate there are proportionately so asked many blacks “vehemently suspect heresy” and was this in place.blacks persons with underlying conditions said, “I thoroughly enjoyed reading AS A FORMER I have been the millions more who would move here if they in prison is that blacks disproportionately commit forced to recant and sentenced to formal are being told to remain jobless and at home for an undetermined answers. racist” in which would be monitored by health teams for some time, article and believe it has an important many times what I would do regarding the stay-atwere allowedLeaders to? How does onelocal explain thestate fact that violent crimes; and so hundreds on. imprisonment at the pleasureas of the amount timeorder whyinmodels predicting of thousands of cases atvirtual the and levels should be as forthcoming leveraging telemedicine and hospitals. contribution to thethey field home North Carolina.

The current SAH everyof single Nigerians, for example, are among the most successful There are very powerful arguments against the Inquisition and to wasmake later commuted toand this are reliable. can be with those answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer Led by our major health system leaders and journal.” order expires on April 29. immigrant communities? charge that America is a racist society. house arrest for the rest of his life. white is a NorthNo. Carolina Hospital I would “OurofStruggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Onegone state along senator recently we arelast going to and the Toracist? date, I’ve with what the state has asked then with details Association, that give their statements believability.

5: The preoccupation with “microaggressions.”

I offered one insaid my column week: Much today’s totalitarianism, have a master plan with primary suppliers and a Feminism as an Intersectional need to know four things: who is sick, who is not, According to the University of California’s No. 1: If there is so much racism in America, why promotion of hate and not to mentionReply to mandated that we do, but along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all continue to do what we can to keep our families, racist “microaggressions” list, ifN.C. one to says, “There are there so many false claims of racism and outright outright stupidity, has its roots on backup plan for manufacturers in re-purpose Neoliberal and Choice Feminism,” was who has been sick and who has not.

I agree.

Public the data. State Republican leaders have, too. ourselves, and our communities we should alsoSources still continue only one race, the human race,” thatnecessary is a “racist safe. But college campuses. that facilitiesis to produce ventilators and PPE accepted for publication byreport Affilia, a health expertsrace arehoaxes? coalescing around benchmarks to Unfortunately, when Icertain types questions get asked, there ismicroaggression.” to ask questions about the data, because while reasonable stay-at-home This is, of course, Orwellian offered recentof examples.

Moreover, there were on some of journal the morefor egregious of The to take care of our own demands.

An ongoing needs feminist social forms workers. follow before rules ease:15sustained reductions in new doublespeak.

Anyone who believes there is only one probably no racist hoaxes when America really was the abandonment of free inquiry, hate a disturbing tendency among some people to treat those measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration date. g assometimes a assessment would evaluate the re-purposing of paper consisted in part of a rewritten cases and deaths, widespread testing, ample hospital race is not, by definition, a racist. If everyone in the racist, just as there were no anti-Semitic hoaxes andnormal. stupidity at our in colleges are: College simply questioning data and asking when we can start getting back This is all new to Americans, and it is not Not any way, hotels, empty warehouses and university dorms passage from Mein Kampf.

Two other capacity andthe the ability to monitor new patients and ss could past had believed there was one race, the human race, in 1930s Germany, when there was rampant antiReform and College Fix. to normaltrace as though they are conspiracy theorists arething people whothere would shape, or form.

So while we should vigilant and safe, at including field hospitals in conjunction with were published, their contacts. never have been racism, let alone a slave remainhoax Semitism.

You need hoaxes when theorreal isas emergency Prof.papers William S.stay Penn, who was a strate deployment for health care professionals.

“Rape and Award Queer Performativity Thesecare are reasonable points that should sick. serve trade strategies based racism. to get find.data Distinguished recipient otherwise don’t ifhard they themselves or others theonsame time we shouldn’t get comfortable withCulture thisFaculty so-called “new The very fact that theprimary left camecare up with the No. 2: The constant references to slavery. at StateParks.”

University in paper’s 2003 subject Virtual and direct options atMichigan Urban Dog This as a foundation to make decisions to keep lity toSince when did questioning government at alleveryone levels become a badhospitals normal.” intellectual farce known as “microaggressions,” like Ifgoing there back were atogreat deal of racism in Americawould be and a dog-on-dog two-time winner of the prestigious made available through every health was rape.

But the dog rape safe.

We are not full normal any time thing? That is what free citizens living free to society were supposed Notproves one little bit. racism there is in sound race hoaxes, howbe little today, there would be in no a reason constantly Stephen Crane Prizeforced for Fiction, system.the Ongoing testing would implemented. paper eventually Boghossian, soon. We are not reopening everything tomorrow.

We invoke I checked.

America — because the entire thesis is based on the the Confederacy. The very fact that The explained to his students, “This country 19 to do, lastmust Rigorous statewide antibody testing would be Pluckrose and Lindsay to prematurely out take careslavery of ourand most vulnerable citizens, and fact that there are so few real, or “macro,” aggressions.

New York Times, the leader in racist dishonesty, felt stillpseudonym is full of closet racists.”

He said: My first concern as we go along inbusinesses, all this, ofnow. course, is my implemented family. I’m once Stacey Matthews has also written under the Sister Toldjah available. themselves.are A Wall Street Journal we must begin to reopen our e, they The race riots, the ruining of people’s careers and it necessary to issue its “1619 Project,” which seeks to “Republicans not a majority in this writer worried about catching the virus, and I’m I will. Afterlives overand is other a regular contributor RedState and Insurrection. with governors hadLegal figured outThey whatare they were doing.

I amthem following a couple data models —worried Fuller, something saidregional or done at any time to in their replace 1776 asof the founding of America with 1619, In conjunction country anymore. a bunch be sufferingHolmes from the H1N1 virus (swine flu) during the 2009 pandemic, and cooperation with the White House, I would Some papers accepted publication and the CDC. The models project N.C. lives, the ruining of professional sports (especially when the first African slaves arrived incases America, of dead white people.

Or dyingfor white basketball and afootball), the tearing down of America is aextra perfectprecautions, illustration point. The thatensure people.” fair allocation of items such in academic journals advocated training peak to between April 20 and Mayof5.the trying take because all fact of this brings N.C. up receives d toI’ve beento and its from history, the smearing moral giants 1619 Project” was labeled false by the leading Thelike public has and recently been national storesofto ensure welike men dogs punishing white male I would do “The the following: I would not extend way too many memories of a painful experience I’dof prefer notastoventilators repeat. er the Abraham Lincoln — all of this is being done because American historians of that era (all whom are treated to the term — white privilege. can address any peak scenario.

There would be a college students for historical slavery by the SAH order past April 29 without compelling But what also makes me lose sleep is how easily most everyone has of directive a lie. and at least of whom ledkeep a campaign to Colleges heldincourses standing for rapid response to enable the asking have themlong to sit silenceand on the floor in data showing liberals its necessity.

It is one imperative to my.

As I wrote in a column three years ago: “The impeach President Donald Trump) adds fuel to the seminars on “whiteness.” One college use of FDA-approved drugs are experimental chains to be of expected to Covid-19 hygiene measures place: such as social Jews survived the Bloodthat Libel.

But America may in not argument.

Even in regarding the past, the promoters even has during a course class titled,and “Abolition to a pandemic virus. learn fromAccording the discomfort.

Other papers distancing, gathering limits,ismasks, hand washing, the American Libel. While the first Libel led of the “America racist” libel need to lie to paintrelationsurvive Whiteness.” to some academic As long as death a business could the may ability celebrated whites morbid obesity as a healthy life etc. to the of many Jews,demonstrate the present Libel America as bad as possible. intellectuals, enjoy advantages to follow sound they wouldthe beleast choice and advocated treating privately The dates to lift reduce or on continue on-going lead to theCovid-19 death of ahygiene, civilization.

Indeed, No.and 3: The reliance lies. that nonwhites do not. They earn higher ever created.”

1619 Project,” which willscientific now be taught inallowedoppressive income and reside in better housing, and of to re-enter the economy. I would lean into conducted masturbation as a form restrictions need“The to be determined using thousands of American schools, is based on lies.

All their children go to better schools and exercising a little common sense on what works and sexual violence against women.

Typically, evidence. Suspending and, more concerning, Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talkAmericans who care about America and/or truth achieve more.

Based on that idea, Asian what is appropriate.

Restrictions could be lessened as academic journal editors send submitted violation of individual constitutional rights are show host and columnist. should inquire if their children’s school will teach this Americans have more white privilege the four benchmarks indicate it is safe to do so. papers out to referees for review. In dangerous exercises regardless of reason. than white people. And, on a personal North Carolina needs to get back to work. recommending acceptance for publication, Our businesses are on life support. It is imperative note, my daughter has more white For the next 18 months, I would monitor data many reviewers gave these papers glowing to get them opened. 500,000 North Carolinians privilege than probably 95% of white while reserving the right to return to stronger praise. have signed up for unemployment in the past three Americans.

Evidence how stupid college ideas ran restrictions if necessary. I would put in place a Politicalofscientist Zach Goldberg weeks. Data indicate N.C. will have 50% of its small find their grievance way into thestudies public arena can through special team of medical, data analytics and business certain concepts businesses (revenue under $10M) qualifying for be seen on our dailydatabase, news. Don to Lemon, leaders to provide insights and advice. The standard the Lexis/Nexis see how often bankruptcy, if they stay closed through May 15. I a CNN anchorman, said, “We have to channels with DHHS and County Public Health they appeared in our press over the years. would begin opening businesses in less impacted stop demonizing people and realize the Officials would continue. I would conduct briefings He found huge increases in theisusages counties today. biggest terror threat in this country with stakeholder groups of government, medical of “white privilege,” “unconscious I would categorize N.C. citizens into four groups: white men, most of them radicalized bias,” and business leaders from across the state, including “critical race and “whiteness.” tested positive for Covid-19, hospitalized and in to the right, andtheory” we have to start doing something them.”

Stevento Clifford, federal, state, county and municipal folks (elected All of thisabout is being taught college critical condition, immunocompromised and have former Kingmany Broadcasting CEO, said, primary and non-elected). I would share the collective and students, of whom become not tested positive, and finally, healthy individuals “Iand willsecondary be leading aschool great movement varying opinions from these groups with the public. teachers who then who have not tested positive. These groups need to prohibit straight males, who We need hyper transparency in this matter. indoctrinate ourwhite young people. tailored plans on who and how we will care for them.

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In this Jan. 8, 2020 file photo, rescue workers search the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of Tehran, Iran.

Iran blames bad communication, alignment for jet shootdown The Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran — A misaligned missile battery, miscommunication between troops and their commanders, and a decision to fire without authorization all led to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing all 176 people on board, a new government report says.

The report released late Saturday by Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization comes months after the Jan. 8 crash near Tehran. Authorities had initially denied responsibility, only changing course days later after Western nations presented extensive evidence that Iran had shot down the plane.

The report may signal a new phase in the investigation into the crash, as the aircraft’s black box flight recorder is due to be sent to Paris, where international investigators will finally be able to exam-

ine it. It also comes as public opinion remains low over Iran’s government as it faces both crushing U.S. sanctions and vast domestic economic problems.

The shootdown happened the same night Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting U.S. soldiers in Iraq, its response to the American drone strike that killed Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 3.

At the time, Iranian troops were bracing for a U.S. counterstrike and appear to have mistaken the plane for a missile. The civil aviation report does not acknowledge that, only saying a change in the “alertness level of Iran’s air defense” allowed previously scheduled air traffic to resume.

The report detailed a series of moments where the shootdown of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 could have been avoided.

The report said the surface-to-

air missile battery that targeted the Boeing 737-800 had been relocated and was not properly reoriented.

Those manning the missile battery could not communicate with their command center, they misidentified the civilian flight as a threat and opened fire twice without getting approval from ranking officials, the report said.

“If each had not arisen, the aircraft would not have been targeted,” the report said.

Western intelligence officials and analysts believe Iran shot down the aircraft with a Russian-made Tor system, known to NATO as the SA15. In 2007, Iran took the delivery of 29 Tor M1 units from Russia under a contract worth an estimated $700 million. The system is mounted on a tracked vehicle and carries a radar and a pack of eight missiles.

The report did not say why the Guard moved the air defense system, though that area near the air-

port is believed to be home to both regular military and bases of the paramilitary Guard.

The report notes that the Ukrainian flight had done nothing out of the ordinary up until the missile launch, with its transponder and other data being broadcast.

“At the time of firing the first missile, the aircraft was flying at a normal altitude and trajectory,” the report said.

The plane had just taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport when the first missile exploded, possibly damaging its radio equipment, the report said. The second missile likely directly struck the aircraft, as videos that night show the plane exploding into a ball of fire before crashing into a playground and farmland on the outskirts of Tehran.

The report put the blame entirely on the crew of the missile battery.

Already, six people believed to be involved in the incident have been arrested, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili reportedly said in June. He said at the time three had been released on bail while the other three remained held.

In recent months, Iran has repeatedly delayed releasing the aircraft’s so-called black box, which

includes data and communications from the cockpit leading up to the shootdown. The U.S., under international regulations, has a right to be part of the investigation as the plane involved was a Boeing.

Iran is to send the black box to France on July 20, where Ukrainian and French experts are expected to examine it, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency recently reported. Iranian officials did not have the equipment on hand to read data from the box.

The plane, en route to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, was carrying 167 passengers and nine crew members from several countries, including 82 Iranians, 57 Canadians — including many Iranians with dual citizenship — and 11 Ukrainians, according to officials. The route was popular with those traveling onward to Canada.

After the assassination of Soleimani in the U.S. drone strike, millions came out for funeral processions in his honor across Iran.

However, his burial — which also saw a stampede that killed dozens — came just as the Guard shot down the airliner, igniting public anger against a paramilitary force that answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Polish president wins 2nd term after bitter campaign

By Vanessa Gera The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Polish President Andrzej Duda declared victory Monday in a runoff election in which he narrowly won a second five-year term. Acknowledging the campaign he ran was often too harsh, he appealed for unity and forgiveness.

The close race followed a bitter campaign between Duda and Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski that was dominated by cultural issues.

Duda celebrated what was seen as a mandate for him and the right-wing ruling party that backs him, Law and Justice, to continue on a path that has reduced poverty but raised concerns by critics that democracy is under threat.

“It was a very sharp campaign, probably too sharp at times,” Duda told supporters in Odrzywol, a town near Warsaw. “If anyone is offended by my words, please forgive me. And give me the chance to improve in the next five years.”

Duda received slightly over 51% of Sunday’s vote with 99.98% of voting districts reporting, the state electoral commission said. Trzaskowski got just under 49%.

Duda told supporters in Odrzywol that he was grateful and moved by winning the support of more than 10 million voters. He said that with the race now over, it was time to turn to the difficult job of returning the country to strong growth after the economic blow of the coronavirus.

Trzaskowski conceded defeat and congratulated Duda. He thanked his supporters and said his strong showing would be the catalyst to fight to keep Poland from becoming a one-party state.

“This is just the beginning of the road,” Trzaskowski said.

Among those who welcomed Duda’s victory were Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as well as Czech leaders.

Orban congratulated him on Facebook, saying “bravo!” while Czech President Milos Zeman through a spokesman said: “Long live Poland!”

The result was dispiriting for liberals in Europe who are keen to halt what they consider the threat of populism and nationalism.

Remigijus Simasius, the liberal mayor of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, offered his condolences to Poles and said the small difference in support of about 2% “sometimes determines the path between progress and regress.”

Duda got help from U.S. President Donald Trump, who invited him to the White House invitation in late June and said he was “doing a terrific job.”

His campaign focused on defending traditional family values in the predominantly Catholic nation of 38 million people, and on preserving social spending policies.

The party’s popular policies included lowering the retirement age and paying monthly cash bonuses of $125 per child to all families irrespective of income.

Many credit Law and Justice for being the first party to reduce the economic inequality that came with Poland’s transition from communism to a market economy three decades ago. There is a strong sense among Poles that the economic help is restoring a sense of dignity after decades of hardship from war, communism and the upheaval brought by capitalism.

The party also stoked conflict with the EU by taking control of the top courts and judicial bod-

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Incumbent President Andrzej Duda flashes a victory sign in Pultusk, Poland, Sunday, July 12, 2020.

“It was a very sharp campaign, probably too sharp at times. If anyone is offended by my words, please forgive me. And give me the chance to improve in the next five years.”

Polish President Andrzej Duda ies. Officials in Brussels repeatedly expressed concern over the rule of law in both Poland and Hungary, which were for many years hailed as the most successful democracies to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain.

Law and Justice officials have said they plan to continue reshaping the justice system and also

want to nationalize foreign-owned private media outlets. Critics fear that lower courts will face increased political pressure and that press freedom will face new threats.

Zselyke Csaky, an expert on central Europe with the human rights group Freedom House, said Duda’s victory gives the party “essentially free rein” until parliamentary elections in 2023 “to do away with limits on its power and work towards destroying Poland’s independent institutions, such as the judiciary or the media.”

Sunday’s vote was originally planned for May but was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Turnout was 68.1%, close to a record set in 1995, in a sign of the huge stakes for Poles.

As the race tightened, Duda turned further to the right in search of votes. He denounced the LGBT rights movement as an “ide-

ology” worse than communism.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which monitored the election, said that while well organized, “negative campaigning and mutual vilification abounded” in the campaign.

But the World Jewish Congress focused on Duda’s past condemnations of anti-Semitism in a congratulatory statement.

“President Duda has spoken out against this hatred, and we remain hopeful that he will continue to do so,” WJC President Ronald Lauder said.

During the campaign, Duda also lashed out at a German correspondent and a partly German-owned tabloid for their campaign coverage, alleging “a German attack in these elections.” A German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday that Berlin works “outstandingly” with the Polish government and would continue to do so.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2020

SPORTS

Hurricanes have ‘lots of options’ as NHL begins Phase 3, B4

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Kara Lawson’s experience as a player and NBA assistant helped her land the Duke women’s basketball job despite her not having any college coaching experience.

Blue Devils hire Kara Lawson as women’s coach

the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Parkwood High will change Rebels nickname Monroe Parkwood High School in Monroe will no longer be called the Rebels. The Union County school board voted last Tuesday to make the change and find a new mascot. Parkwood’s original logo, a Confederate soldier, was changed in 2009.

The current logo has a shield and sword and the letter “P.” Monroe High School changed its mascot from the Rebels to the Redhawks in 1995.

The former WNBA All-Star and Celtics assistant is taking over the program

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

UNC recruit Grimes to reclassify, join Tar Heels this summer Chapel Hill UNC recruit Tony Grimes says he plans to reclassify and graduate this summer so that he can join the Tar Heels for the upcoming season. Grimes announced his plan in a social media post Friday. Grimes, from Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the nation’s top-rated cornerback for the class of 2021 and the No. 7 recruit overall according to 247sports. The Tar Heels are currently ranked third nationally in 247sports’ 2021 team rankings.

PGA TOUR

Wyndham Championship to be held without fans Greensboro The PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship, scheduled for Aug. 13-16 at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, will be held without fans, the tournament announced Monday. The Wyndham Championship was pushed back one week so the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, postponed from May 14-17 due to the coronavirus pandemic, could be played Aug. 6-9.

The PGA Tour returned in mid-June and has played five tournaments without spectators.

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New Appalachian State coach Shawn Clark says the Mountaineers have had only “a couple” positive COVID-19 results and that his players and staff are following the school’s guidelines.

Testing results vary as NC colleges try to manage COVID-19 While some athletic programs have had few positive tests, UNC’s “cluster” of infected athletes and staff highlights the difficulty in the NCAA’s return-to-play efforts

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal PHASE 2 OF THE NCAA’s approved plan leading up to the 2020 football season went into effect on Monday, allowing players up to eight hours per week of weight training, conditioning and film review under the supervision of coaches.

But even as teams begin to ramp up their preparations for the fall, other recent developments

make an on-time start seem increasingly less likely.

On Wednesday, the Ivy League and CIAA announced the cancellation of all athletic activities through the end of the calendar year. Shortly thereafter, the Big Ten and Pac-12 both announced their intention to play a conference-only schedule.

While the ACC and SEC have decided to hold off on a decision for another two weeks, it seems almost inevitable that some adjustments will have to be made considering recent trends in the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

In a statement issued last Thursday, ACC commissioner John Swofford said that the conference “has prepared numerSee COVID, page B4

AFTER A 10-DAY, nationwide search, Duke went outside the program, and outside the box, to fill its women’s basketball coaching vacancy.

The Blue Devils introduced Kara Lawson as the fifth head coach in the team’s history, and the program’s first African American head coach, on Monday.

Lawson had a long, successful playing career, making three Final Fours in four years at Tennessee, winning a title and making the All-Star team in the WNBA, and also winning Olympic gold.

“Kara is a highly seasoned champion at every level,” Duke AD Kevin White said. “She has a peerless track record of success. If you don’t know that at this point, you’re living under a rock.

It’s very clear if you’re paying attention.”

What Lawson didn’t have was much experience coaching, and none at the collegiate level. She coached 3-on-3 basketball for Team USA and spent the last season with the Celtics, one of four female assistants in the NBA. “It was the sum total of all of Kara’s experiences,” said Duke administrator Nina King, who was involved in planning the search. “While she hasn’t been a college coach, she spent thousands of hours at practice, talking to coaches, around student-athletes during her time as a broadcaster. During her time as USA Basketball 3-on-3 coach, she’s been with college student-athletes.

“So she’s not coming into the college scene from scratch. It’s just different and unique experiences. We were kind of looking at the total package, and Kara had it all for us. In evaluating all of our candidates, they all had unique experiences and characteristics. For us, Kara just rose to the top.”

Lawson also had no connections to the Duke program, even apologizing for not wearing

“I took kind of a circuitous route to get there, but I’m here now.”

Kara Lawson, new Duke women’s basketball coach

school colors to her press conference, which was done on Zoom from her Celtics hotel room in Orlando, Florida, where the team is preparing to resume the season.

“I didn’t have any blue in the Bubble, so I did my best,” she said.

Still, despite the lack of experience, Lawson emphasized that coaching was in her blood.

“This is a dream come true for me,” she said. “I’ve wanted to be a coach since I was a kid, and I guess you would say I took kind of a circuitous route to get there.

But I’m here now and so excited about the opportunity to help shape young women, help grow their games, grow their personalities and help them mature throughout their college years.”

Lawson has gotten support from some of the biggest names in Duke athletics.

“I do want to thank Coach K (men’s coach Mike Krzyzewski) and Coach (David) Cutcliffe,” she said. “Their impact on me, not only through the process but relationships I’ve had with both Coach K and Coach Cutcliffe over the years. I couldn’t be walking into a situation any better as a first-time head coach than to have those two men as mentors.

I’m looking forward to learning from them and being part of the Duke athletic department.”

She also got the blessing from a former player of Coach K’s that she’s gotten to know in her year in Boston.

“Jayson Tatum is obviously very excited,” she said. “We started off our practice around the circle and JT gave a great intro on how excited he was for me to be at Duke now.”

See LAWSON, page B4

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SURRY COUNTY

TYRRELL COUNTY

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY WEEK 18

UNION COUNTY

From Surry to Union North State Journal’s 100 in 100 series, led by Brett Friedlander, will showcase the best athlete from each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. From Alamance to Yancey, each county will feature one athlete who stands above the rest. Some will be obvious choices, others controversial, but all of our choices are worthy of being recognized for their accomplishments — from basketball courts and pool halls to boxing rings and in front of the Olympics rings. This week’s five profiles come from Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Tyrrell and Union counties.

Surry County

BILLY COX BILLY COX’S STATISTICS PALE by comparison to those put up by quarterbacks of today. But at the time he came along in the late 1940s, he was the most prolific passer Duke football had ever seen.

The native of Mount Airy threw for what was then a school-record 1,428 yards, along with eight touchdowns, during his senior year. He also ran for 567 yards during the 1950 season in which he served as team captain and ranked second nationally in total yardage with Billy Cox 1,995.

Cox led the Blue Devils to a 7-3 record that year, highlighted by a 30-21 victory against Georgia Tech on Nov. 4 in which he led his team back from a 21-0 deficit. He threw for 133 yards and ran for 144 yards in that game.

Called by coach Wallace Wade “unquestionably the greatest passer and one of the greatest players I have ever coached,” Cox finished his college career with 2,455 yards and 14 touchdowns through the air to go along with 1,255 yards and 15 scores on the ground. He was also Duke’s punter, averaging 35.7 yards on 113 kicks.

His 3,710 yards of total offense were the most ever by a Blue Devil at the time, a mark that stood for two decades until Leo Hart surpassed it in 1969.

For his efforts, Cox was twice named to the All-Southern Conference team. He was the Blue Devils’ MVP in 1950 as well as a first-team All-American. When his football eligibility was up, he lettered in track during the 1951 spring season before graduating with a degree in history.

He is a member of both the Duke athletics and North Carolina Sports halls of fame.

After playing in the Blue-Gray AllStar Game, Cox was taken in the eighth round of the NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. He played three professional seasons with the team with limited success as a two-way player and punter in 1951-52 and ’55.

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Bryson City’s Heath Shuler was a high school and college football star, and despite a disappointing pro career, his fame helped him become a U.S. congressman.

Shuler to star status, and he set several school passing records that were ultimately surpassed by Peyton Manning. He threw for 2,354 yards and 25 scores as a junior in 1993, helping Tennessee to a 9-2-1 record and finishing second to Florida State’s Charlie Ward in the Heisman Trophy voting.

“There have been many elite football players in the University of Tennessee’s history, but Heath Shuler ranks among our very best,” coach Phil Fulmer said. “He was ahead of his time as a quarterback, excelling as both a passer and a rusher. His toughness always stood out, and he was a terrific leader.”

Shuler left school following his junior season and was picked by the Washington Redskins with the third overall pick. But his NFL career got off to a rocky start when he held out for the majority of his first pro training camp. And things went downhill from there. He started for two unsuccessful seasons before being benched in favor of Gus Frerotte, then he was sent to New Orleans along with his seven-year, $19.25 million contract.

A decade after he retired from football in 1997, Shuler reemerged in the national spotlight as a U.S. congressman representing the same Swain County district in which he grew up from 2007-13.

Swain County

Transylvania County

HEATH SHULER

MANNY DESHAUTEURS

QUARTERBACKS TRADITIONALLY wear jersey numbers in the single digits or teens. Heath Shuler was an exception. The talented passer from Bryson City wore No. 21 during his days at Swain County High School and the University of Tennessee, a choice that helped him stand out in a crowd.

Not that he needed any help getting noticed.

Shuler threw for 7,098 yards and 103 touchdowns in his prep career, leading Swain County to a 40-5 record and three consecutive Class 1A state championships.

He amassed 3,626 yards in his senior season of 1990 that ended with him throwing four touchdown passes in his final game with the Maroon Devils, a titleclinching 40-14 route of Robersonville Roanoke.

Although he was born and raised in North Carolina, Shuler grew up a Tennessee fan because of his hometown’s proximity to Knoxville and his ability to listen to the Volunteers games on the radio.

So when it came time to go to college, there was little doubt which way he would go when he came down from the Great Smoky Mountains.

After spending his freshman year with the Vols as a backup, he took over the starting job in 1992 and made an immediate impact by leading a lastminute game-winning scoring drive to beat Georgia on the road.

It was a performance that catapulted

A RARE COMBINATION OF SPEED and power, Manny DeShauteurs evoked comparisons with NFL Hall of Famer Barry Sanders as he churned out record rushing totals at Brevard High School in the late 1990s. He gained 6,632 yards during his prep career, including 2,983 in a season that helped earn him recognition as the NCHSAA’s Male Athlete of the Year for 1999-2000.

“Manny was something else,” his high school coach Dan Essenberg said in a 2013 interview on the occasion of DeShauteurs being named one of the NCHSAA’s “100

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Brevard’s Manny DeShaunteurs was the state’s Male Athlete of the Year and went on to play running back at Western Carolina.

to Remember” male athletes and coaches in the state. “Every time he got it, he was a threat to go all the way. If you tried to wrap him up, he’d make you miss. If you tried to knock him down, he’d run you over.”

DeShauteurs was a four-time all‑conference selection whose most memorable performance came in 1999 when he rushed for 393 yards in a 38-0 win against Tuscola. He finished that season with 42 touchdowns, which at the time was the third-most in state history.

Defensively, he was credited with more than 200 tackles and eight interceptions.

Despite all that production, Division I college coaches shied away from him because of his 5-foot-7, 180-pound stature.

It also didn’t help that his performance in the classroom didn’t always match his performance on the football field.

He eventually ended up at Western Carolina where, after sitting out a year to get his academics in order, he became both a better student and a reliable performer for the Catamounts, finishing his career with 1,356 rushing yards and 14 touchdowns in four seasons.

As productive as DeShauteurs was on the gridiron, he was equally as successful on the wrestling mat. He won the 2A state championship at 187 pounds his senior year and was a four-time regional titlist on his way to an impressive 109-7 career record.

Tyrrell County

BRIAN ROWSOM TYRRELL COUNTY IS THE LEASTpopulated of North Carolina’s 100 counties with just over 4,000 permanent residents, according to the most recent census.

Its county seat of Columbia is so small that you could miss it if you blink while traveling through it to the Outer Banks on U.S. 64.

And a lot of college coaches did miss it back in the early 1980s when Brian Rowsom was growing tall and strong, dominating the competition at the 1A level in football and basketball.

Among the few that did notice the talented but Brian raw youngster was UNC Rowsom Wilmington’s Mel Gibson, who sent assistants Dave Hanners and Bobby Martin up the coast to watch Rowsom play. They were impressed enough for the Seahawks to offer the 6-foot-6, 180-pound forward a scholarship.

“Players like Brian are hard to find now because of a proliferation of scouting services and showcase tournaments,” Gibson told the Wilmington Star-News in 2009 upon Rowsom’s induction into the Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame. “He was hidden in Columbia. He was real quiet, an introvert.

“I knew that he was going to be a plus and I was right. The rest came from within Brian. He was an unbelievable hard worker.”

Rowsom played at UNCW from 198387 and by the time he graduated, he was a much more imposing 6-foot-9, 220 pounds. He averaged better than 18 points and nine rebounds per game in each of his final three college seasons, culminating in a 1986-87 season that saw him post a double-double at 21.8 points and 11.5 rebounds while leading the Seahawks to 18 wins.

His 39 points against East Carolina on Jan. 17, 2017, are still a school record, and his 1,974 career points are the secondmost in school history.

No longer in obscurity, Rowson’s play at UNCW caught the attention of the Indiana Pacers, who selected him in the second round of the NBA Draft.

Although he only played in four games for the Pacers as a rookie, he enjoyed two full seasons back home in North Carolina off the bench as a productive member of the Charlotte Hornets.

Rowsom went on to play several more seasons overseas in France, Japan, Israel and England before going into broadcasting and coaching. He’s won league championships in Qatar, Indonesia and Japan.

Union County

JAMISON CROWDER TOO OFTEN IN THIS ERA OF advanced analytics, those making personnel decisions in sports are too overwhelmed by numbers to believe what they see with their own eyes. The opposite is true with Jamison Crowder.

He’s one of those rare examples in which the eye test works against him, as his scouting report on NFL.com before the 2015 draft suggests. “Lacks desired NFL size,” it said under the heading of weaknesses. “Below-average length and hands, (offering) a small target radius for quarterbacks.”

It’s a stigma the 5-foot-9, 175-pound wide receiver has battled for as long as he can recall. But it’s one he’s managed to overcome at every level.

Crowder earned All-State honors and a Shrine Bowl invitation in football after catching 41 passes for 790 yards, rushing for 641 yards and scoring a combined 24 touchdowns as a senior at Monroe High School in 2010. He was also his conference’s Player of the Year as a point guard on a basketball team that went 32-1 and won the 1A state championship, and he also ran sprints in track.

But because of his size and the equally small size of his school, many college coaches shied away from him. Duke’s David Cutcliffe wasn’t among them, and he benefited from his ability to see in Crowder what others didn’t. Starting his final three years with the Blue Devils, the diminutive receiver tied the ACC record for career receptions with 283 while amassing 3,641 yards and 23 touchdowns. That’s in addition to his school-record five punt returns for scores.

But size became an issue again when it came time for the NFL Draft.

“I feel like if I was 6-foot-2 or 6-foot-3, I probably would have went first round, just looking at my body of work from Duke,” Crowder said in 2016. “But the height thing has always been a knock on me.”

He ended up going to the Washington Redskins in the fourth round. And just as he had before, he’s proven the naysayers wrong. He’s caught 299 passes for 3,461 yards and 20 touchdowns in his five NFL seasons. In 2019, he was signed by the New York Jets to a three-year, $28.5 million contract with $17 million guaranteed — an awfully big deal for a player “lacking desired NFL size.”

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Monroe’s Jamison Crowder has spent his college and pro career proving critics wrong, thriving as a receiver despite being just 5-foot-9.

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TRENDING

Sergio Ruiz: The Spanish midfielder became the first player signed by Charlotte’s MLS franchise when the team signed him last Wednesday. Ruiz, 25, was captain of the Spanish second division’s Racing Santander and played the last three seasons with the team. Charlotte MLS, which is owned by Panthers owner David Tepper, announced last week it would unveil its team name July 22 and is scheduled to start play in 2021.

Greg Olsen: The former Panthers tight end Greg Olsen has agreed to a contract with Fox Sports to become its No. 2 NFL game analyst once he retires from football.

Olsen signed a one-year, $6.9 million contract with the Seahawks earlier this offseason after spending nine seasons in Carolina.

The 35-year-old Olsen will partner with Kevin Burkhardt in the booth as an analyst once the 13-year NFL veteran decides to retire. Olsen has had previous stints in the broadcast booth, including a tryout as a game analyst for Fox Sports last season during Carolina’s bye week Shawn Balluzzo: The winningest driver in Langley Speedway’s history was killed in a crash during a modified race at the Hampton, Virginia, track Saturday.

He was 64. Balluzzo’s death was the first at the track in a racingrelated accident since 2004, according to The Virginian-Pilot.

Balluzzo’s car went airborne after bumping another car and crashed front-first into a wall.

Emergency workers extricated Balluzzo from his vehicle after cutting the roof off. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he died.

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beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

NBA

The Palace of Auburn Hills, the former home of the Detroit Pistons which opened in 1988, held more than 22,000 people for NBA games and up to 23,000 for concerts and other shows, was razed Saturday. The Palace last hosted the Pistons in 2017, the same year the venue’s final event — a Bob Seger concert — was held.

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“I knew I just had to get to the top.”

NASCAR Cup Series rookie Cole Custer on going to the outside on a four-wide pass to take the lead and win Sunday’s race at Kentucky Speedway.

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SOCCER

NFL

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“We will always be the Atlanta Braves.”

The MLB team in a letter to season ticket holders on Friday.

PRIME NUMBER

4th Place for Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry in the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Nevada. Curry finished with 56 points — the tournament used the modified Stableford scoring system — behind winner Mardy Fish, a former U.S. Davis Cup captain and ATP Tour player. Curry’s father, Dell, and former NC State guard Vinny Del Negro were among those tied for seventh with 50 points.

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The North Carolina Courage will face Portland Thorns FC in the NWSL Challenge Cup quarterfinals, a rematch of the Courage’s 2-1 stoppage time win in the tournament opener June 27. The Courage were 4-0 in the preliminary round, winning 2-0 their final preliminary match Monday night against Sky Blue FC.

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The Washington NFL franchise announced Monday it is dropping the “Redskins” name and Indian head logo after decades of criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans. The team said it is “retiring” the name and logo and that Snyder and coach Ron Rivera are working closely to develop a new moniker and design.

GOLF

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The Presidents Cup, which was supposed to take place Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte in 2021, has been pushed back a year — along with the 2020 Ryder Cup — due to the coronavirus pandemic. Quail Hollow instead will host the Wells Fargo Championship next spring, and that event will move to the TPC Potomac in 2022 during the Presidents Cup year.

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Better late than never: Duke football returns to campus The Blue Devils were the last Power Five team to come back

By Shawn Krest North State Journal DUKE’S FOOTBALL team began arriving back to campus on Sunday as the Blue Devils became the last team in Power Five to report back.

“I have mixed emotions about the late coming back,” coach David Cutcliffe said.

Many teams, including Clemson, LSU, Ohio State and UNC, have had to quarantine players or postpone workouts when members of the team tested positive. With some of those teams reporting almost a month earlier than Duke, there’s a buffer to allow for that. The Blue Devils won’t have that luxury.

“Obviously, if our guys don’t do a great job (of avoiding infection), we’re starting to move in toward camp,” Cutcliffe said. “It can affect you a great deal if others can put it behind them.”

Still, Cutcliffe prefers to have other teams’ mistakes to learn from.

“I still believe waiting until after the Fourth of July was key for us,” he said. “I think sitting back and letting these guys see what’s occurred gives us a better chance for them to understand the seriousness of this.”

Cutcliffe plans to have his players police themselves when it comes to following guidelines.

“I actually told our players this,” Cutcliffe said. “This may seem naive. I’m putting them in charge of that mitigation. I’m not going to follow them around. I told them, ‘We’re not putting a chip under your skin to GPS you.’ There has to be responsibility on some 22- and 23 year-olds to help. They know what each other are doing. Don’t kid yourself. They know. They know what their other buddies’ habits are. If they choose not to mitigate themselves, then we’ve got a problem.”

Still, Cutcliffe and the coaches will do their part to make sure the players stay socially stimulated.

“I’ve dealt with young people for 45 years professionally now. This is the biggest challenge that we have faced,” he said. “I was kidding, but for our over 21-year-old guys, I said, maybe I need to open up a bar with players only down on the practice

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Duke coach David Cutcliffe is counting on his players to police each other to avoid a possible virus outbreak.

The addition of Sami Vatanen gives the Hurricanes a wealth of options on defense heading into the NHL’s return on Aug. 1.

“I think our world needs to become more disciplined.

I do. Hopefully, we’re disciplined enough to play some football.”

David Cutcliffe, Duke football coach

field, where they can gather and put the tables and seats at a safe physical distance, because — I get it — they want to socialize.

“I think we can do some gaming in the stadium,” Cutcliffe added.

“How about some Madden on the Jumbotron? I think we’ve got to be creative. We can play home run derby. We’re going to do some of that. I realize they’ve got to have some fun.

So we’re just thinking through this thing. My brain’s tired and it’s hurting a little bit, but I’m going to push through it.”

The staff is also getting creative when it’s time to work in order to ensure social distancing.

“We’re going to be all over the facility, wherever we can physically distance,” Cutcliffe said. “We will have some meetings outside. If you see a projector running down on the practice field, that’s us, out there having a meeting where we can physically distance safely.”

It also might mean going without film work at times.

“Walkthroughs become a real premium,” Cutcliffe said. “Our high school coach taught us to play, and we won, but he taught us to play without film. He would coach on the grass. He was one of the early guys on the walkthrough. All of our scouting reports were done out there physically.”

Clearly, it’s a new world, but Cutcliffe is confident that the Blue Devils can adjust.

“I told our coaches, ‘Don’t panic, guys. Just because you’ve always done install with film in a tight-quartered meeting doesn’t mean it can’t be done (another way),’” he said.

Duke’s delayed start to resuming workouts also means the Blue Devils are returning just as cases are spiking and the season seems less sure than ever. Still, Cutcliffe is holding out hope.

“I am very optimistic still,” he said. “I was extremely optimistic maybe six weeks ago, to a month, but one, we all thought hot weather would help us, and that has not been the case. Two, as we have reopened, seeing how difficult it is for the general population to live strictly into mitigation. It makes you a little less optimistic. I think that there’s a lot of things on the table.

“One week at a time as to how you do this. I believe we can do this.

I don’t think our world is going to have to stop, but I think our world needs to become more disciplined.

I do. Hopefully, we’re disciplined enough to play some football.”

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Hurricanes’ energy ‘perfect’ as NHL’s Phase 3 begins Coach Rod Brind’Amour is preparing his team for the league’s return

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — It had been nearly six months since the media saw Dougie Hamilton on the ice at PNC Arena. But there he was Monday, running drills alongside defense partner Jaccob Slavin as the Carolina Hurricanes kicked off Phase 3 of the NHL’s return-to-play plan, the closest thing to live hockey anyone has seen since the season was paused March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It’s awkward but true: So much and so little has happened in the more than 120 days since the league — and the sports world — shut down.

As for Hamilton, the last time we saw him he was still cruising through the Hurricanes’ locker room on a knee scooter, recovering from surgery for the broken fibula he suffered in Columbus on Jan. 17.

Since then, Carolina lost Brett Pesce to a shoulder injury and added two more defensemen, Morgan Geekie stunningly scored three goals and four points in his first two NHL games, and the Hurricanes were one of two teams to vote against the league’s return-to-play format.

Hamilton even fit in a last-minute Big Rock fishing trip with teammate Andrei Svechnikov and his brother, Red Wings forward Evgeny Svechnikov, before things started to really ramp up.

“He got a shark,” Hamilton said of his teammate. “That was his dream.”

Now the dream is to win a Stanley Cup, even in the oddest of seasons.

“It’s back on,” captain Jordan Staal said. “We’re back on the ice, and we’re fighting for a chance at a Cup.” The Hurricanes have 29 players preparing for the team’s fivegame play-in series against the New York Rangers, which will begin Aug. 1 at the NHL’s Toron-

COVID from page B1 ous scenarios as related to the fall athletics season,” emphasizing that “the health and safety of our student-athletes, coaches and administrators remains the ACC’s top priority.”

Adhering to that policy, North Carolina announced that it has suspended its football team’s voluntary on-campus workouts after 37 of the 429 athletes, coaches and staff members that were tested for COVID-19 came back positive. The Orange County Health Department considers five or more related cases to be a cluster.

Those affected are required by the university to isolate for up to 14 days in a designated campus residence hall. Those identified as close contacts, using the Centers for Disease Control guidelines for contact tracing, will also be self-quarantined and monitored closely by UNC’s sports medicine staff.

Athletic director Bubba Cunningham has not commented since news of the testing and the suspension of workouts have been made public.

Before the announcement, Cunningham said that he and other campus officials are “certainly hopeful that there will be football.”

But in an interview for the CBS News show “60 Minutes,” UNC chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz warned that “we’re not going to bring students, faculty and staff back onto a campus where we don’t believe it’s a safe environment.”

“We’ve had a couple positives, but we were on those very quick.”

Shawn Clark, App State football coach

While developments at UNC have taken an ominous turn, COVID-19 testing among athletes on campus at the state’s other ACC programs has been much more promising.

NC State, for example, reported that only five of the 315 athletes, coaches and staff members tested since May 29 have come back positive, prompting athletic department spokesman Fred Demarest to report that there is “no change in our current status” as the Wolfpack enter Phase 2 of the NCAA restart plan.

Duke’s football team has only been back on campus since Sunday, so the results of its testing are not yet known, while Wake Forest has not released the results of its testing.

In an open letter to faculty and staff, Wake’s vice president for campus life, Penny Rue, confirmed that three individuals on campus have tested positive for COVID-19. The identities of those individuals and whether they were students or

to hub. The biggest surprise on the roster was the inclusion of 2019 first-round pick Ryan Suzuki, who spent the season with OHL’s Barrie Colts but will now have the opportunity to practice with the team as it prepares for what it hopes is a long run.

“You want to get these guys understanding what it’s like to be a professional, but more importantly ... what we expect and what we’re about,” coach Rod Brind’Amour said in a Zoom call following Tuesday’s two practice sessions. “And you can’t really do that if you’re not here. And so, getting him going — we know he’s young. We know he’s a ways away, but it’s certainly not going to hurt him to be around and just get a taste of what we’re all about.”

Vatanen, acquired from the Devils at the trade deadline, is also getting a feel for his new team, having not played since the Feb. 24 deal due to injury.

“Well, it’s been a little weird,” Vatanen said Tuesday of his delay in joining his new team on the ice. “I came here and was (mentally) ready to play, but I wasn’t able to. It was unfortunate that the season got a little bit postponed.”

He does have one crutch to lean on: for the first time since early in his Ducks career, Vatanen is playing with some of his countrymen, joining Finns Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen.

“I haven’t played with the Finns in a long, long time,” Vatanen said Tuesday. “I played a little bit when I got into the league with Teemu (Selanne) and Saku (Koivu), but after that, I haven’t played with any Finns.

So it’ll be nice to play with these two guys, see them every day.”

Vatanen was brought in as a replacement for Hamilton, but with both now healthy — Vatanen says he “feels 100%” while Hamilton said he’s “still not perfect” but improving daily — the Hurricanes have eight healthy defensemen even with Brett Pesce still out.

“Once we get through this 2½ weeks, I’ve got to play the best guy,” said Brind’Amour who added that chemistry will cer-

staff members were not released.

As a precaution, Deacons coach Dave Clawson said that he is isolating himself from his family for the duration of the 2020 season to protect his wife, who is a cancer survivor and categorized as a highrisk individual.

Among the other state FBS schools, East Carolina has reported 15 confirmed positive results among the 270 COVID-19 tests it has performed since its football players began returning to campus.

Despite the worsening trend of the virus nationwide, especially in North Carolina, athletic director Jon Gilbert said that he’s “reasonably certain” the Pirates’ highly anticipated season opener against Marshall on Aug. 29 will be played as scheduled — albeit with limited capacity at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

Although Appalachian State isn’t publicly releasing its COVID-19 test results, first-year coach Shawn Clark said on a Zoom conference last week that his team has been “very lucky” thus far.

“We’ve had a couple positives, but we were on those very quick,” he said. “We follow the university’s guidelines and do what we have to do to quarantine our players.”

Charlotte, meanwhile, reported five positive cases, including two members of the 49ers’ football program, among the 374 athletes tested since members of the football team, men’s basketball team and women’s basketball team began returning to campus on June 15 and members of its other fall sports arrived on July 1.

tainly be a factor. “So whoever we think looks the best or feels the best, it’s probably who we’re going to go with.”

There are plenty of factors that normally wouldn’t come into play that will in the league’s comeback. For one, the games will be played without fans, meaning teams won’t have the crowd to give them momentum or tip off players.

“The good news is both teams are in the exact same boat on that,” Brind’Amour said Tuesday. “So it’s not like it’s an advantage or disadvantage for anybody. It’s just, that’ll be a huge adjustment, I think, and it’s kind of hard to explain.

“The way I would describe it is,” Brind’Amour added, “when you play, the crowd actually helps you anticipate and helps you. … There’s little cues that the crowd actually gives you that actually help you in the game, and that’s going to be not there. And so guys are gonna have to adjust. But that’ll be very, very interesting to see which team does that.”

Teams have also been taking precautions to prevent a teamwide outbreak, and things will be even stricter once they enter the Toronto bubble. That will be a big adjustment, especially for players who have returned from other countries where the virus in under control.

“We basically don’t have it back home in Finland,” Aho said of COVID-19. “The situation over there is pretty good. Life is, I guess, pretty normal. Everything’s open now. … Being here, I don’t go anyplace. I’ve just been coming to the rink and go home and stay there. Maybe play a little golf, but that’s about it. You can really not see any people and, try to be safe that way.”

While things are and will be different, the team is still trying to prepare for the task ahead and maintain its enthusiasm for hockey’s return.

“To be honest with you almost feel like I wish we could play in about three days because I feel like that the energy is perfect right now,” Brind’Amour said.

“Ask me that again in probably three days,” he added.

LAWSON from page B1 Lawson beat out a crowded field to win the Duke job, although administrators wouldn’t mention the names of any of the other candidates that were considered.

“We vetted and evaluated over 20 serious candidates,” King said. “From there, we had conversations with six and then invited two for finalist interviews before announcing our selection.”

Three members of the team, senior Jade Williams, redshirt junior Mikayla Boykin and junior Onome Akinbode-James, also assisted in the search.

“Mikayla, Jade and Onome all participated,” King said. “When Kara became our top candidate, we had them spend some time having a conversation with Kara so that we could get their feedback. This day and age, we certainly want student-athlete feedback in a lot of parts of the process, and we really valued what they had to say. They obviously had a great conversation with Kara and are all-in.”

Lawson has been busy talking to players — past, present and potentially future — to build bridges to the program’s history and top high school recruits.

She’s also preparing to leave the Celtics and the NBA Bubble behind.

“I think it’s the relationships that makes basketball special,” she continued. “I’ve built a lot of deep relationships with these guys. I think any coach that’s leaving a place and going to another place knows that feeling, and it’s hard to leave. Certainly, the relationships that I’ve built all over the roster and all over the coaching staff — yeah, it’s difficult.”

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Amazon unveils shopping cart that knows what you’re buying New York Amazon has a new cure for long supermarket lines: a smart shopping cart. The cart, which Amazon unveiled on Tuesday, uses cameras, sensors and a scale to automatically detect what shoppers drop in. It keeps a tally and then charges their Amazon account when they leave the store. No cashier is needed. It’s the latest attempt by Amazon to shake up the supermarket industry and offer a solution to long checkout lines. The online shopping giant opened a cashierless supermarket in Seattle that uses cameras and sensors in the ceiling to track what shoppers grab and charge them as they leave. Amazon.com Inc. also has roughly 25 cashier-less convenience stores with similar technology. The cart, called Amazon Dash Cart, will first show up at a new Los Angeles supermarket Amazon is opening later this year. The store will have cashiers, but Amazon said it wanted to give shoppers a way to bypass any lines. In the future, it could be used at Amazon’s Whole Foods grocery chain or other stores, if Amazon sells the technology, but there are no plans for either right now.

Google announces $10 billion ‘digitization’ fund for India New Delhi, India U.S. tech giant Google is investing in a $10 billion fund to help accelerate India’s transition to a digital economy in the next five to seven years.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc’s Google, said Monday that the project will focus on building products that are relevant to India’s needs and empowering businesses for their “digital transformation.”

The company also announced it will invest $1 million to support digital education in India.

It said the fund will enable 1 million teachers in 22,000 schools across the country to use Google services that can facilitate online learning. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made digitization a major priority for India. He envisions a “Digital India,” where highspeed Internet access will empower entrepreneurs to build software and other technology products to help raise the standard of living in a country where many households are still impoverished. Modi styles himself as a leader in touch with technology. He has nearly 60 million Twitter followers.

Modi said in a tweet that he and Pichai met and discussed a wide range of subjects, “particularly leveraging the power of technology to transform the lives of India’s farmers, youngsters and entrepreneurs.”

“I was delighted to know more about the efforts of @Google in several sectors, be it in education, learning, @_DigitalIndia, furthering digital payments and more,” he said.

“Growth has stalled”: Increase in US infections hits Delta

By David Koenig The Associated Press DELTA AIR LINES lost $5.7 billion during a brutal threemonth stretch in which the coronavirus pandemic brought travel to a near standstill, and any hoped-for recovery has been smothered by a resurgence of infected Americans.

“Growth has stalled,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said. “It was growing at a pretty nice clip through June.

The virus, unfortunately, was also growing.”

Bastian said it will take more than two years for the airline to make “a sustainable recovery” from the virus and the harm it is doing to the global economy.

Delta is the first U.S. airline to report financial results for the May-through-June quarter, and the numbers were ugly.

Passengers boarding Delta planes tumbled 93% from a year earlier, revenue plummeted 88%, and the company’s adjusted loss was worse than anticipated.

Airlines are expected to furlough thousands of workers when federal aid to help cover payroll expenses runs out on Oct 1. Bastian held out hope that Delta might avoid those cuts because 17,000 of its employees have accepted early retirement, and another 35,000 will be taking unpaid leave during July.

The most important financial measure in the airline business right now is cash burn, which determines how long carriers can keep flying while travel remains severely depressed. Delta has about 19 months worth of cash and short-term investments at its current burn rate of $27 million a day.

Back in March, Delta was blazing through nearly $100 million a day. Since then, it has persuaded 40,000 employees to take unpaid leave and it parked hundreds of planes to save money on fuel and maintenance.

What’s missing now are passengers willing to buy a ticket.

“Our goal is to get to break-even by the end of the year, but it’s clearly dependent on the virus starting to be contained again,” Bastian said in an interview. “There is a lot of it that is out of our control.”

Air travel within the United States fell 95% from the start of March until mid-April, when on some days fewer than 100,000 people boarded airline planes, down from more than 2 million a day a year earlier. That rose to more than 700,000 on the best days, but it has hit a plateau in July, coinciding with increased COVID-19 cases across the Sun Belt and new quarantine restrictions on visitors to states like New York, which recently reported its first day without a COVID-19 death.

Delta, along with Southwest and JetBlue, has tried to make people more comfortable about flying by limiting capacity – to about 60% on domestic flights in Delta’s case.

United and American don’t block seats, and a United executive recently dismissed Delta’s approach as a public-relations ploy.

Airline customers are notoriously obsessed with jumping at the cheapest fare, even if it’s only a few dollars less. Bastian suggests that could be changing because of the pandemic – he says passengers tell the airline they are uncomfortable boarding full planes. Booking flights 100% “is not what Delta is going to do,” he said.

Delta has promised to cap seating through Sept. 30. Those limits won’t stay forever, though, because airlines can’t make money with so few seats occupied.

Delta depends on business travel for an outsized share of its revenue and profits, but Bastian acknowledged that corporate travel will be slower to recover than leisure travel as in-person meetings are replaced by Zoom calls.

Delta’s second-quarter loss compared with a year-ago profit of $1.44 billion during what is normally a strong season for airlines.

The loss included more than $2 billion in write-downs for the value of Delta’s investments in Latam Airlines, the biggest carrier in Lat-

in America, and Aeromexico and Virgin Atlantic. All three have filed for bankruptcy or the equivalent after failing to get financial help from their governments to survive the pandemic. Delta also wrote down the value of planes that it decided to retire.

Excluding those items, Delta said its adjusted loss worked out to $3.9 billion, or $4.43 per share, wider than the $4.16 per share average in a FactSet survey of analysts.

Revenue nosedived to $1.47 billion from $12.54 billion in the same quarter last year, with domestic and international flying suffering almost equal downturns. However, total revenue was slightly better than analysts had forecast.

The average flight in the quarter was 34% full, a stunning drop from 88% a year earlier.

Even with fewer flights and fewer seats filled, Delta was able to prop up prices. Passengers paid an average of 4% more per mile than they did a year earlier.

Revenue from cargo and the SkyMiles credit card and loyalty program dropped, but not as sharply as money from tickets.

The airline raised $11 billion during the second quarter by mortgaging assets such as takeoff and landing slots, airport gates, and routes, and getting an unsecured loan from the government – part of $5.4 billion in federal aid to help pay workers through Sept. 30.

Delta has signed an agreement with the Treasury Department for an additional secured loan of $4.6 billion but hasn’t decided whether to take the money – it could find better terms on the private market.

JOHN MINCHILLO | AP PHOTO

A passenger wears personal protective equipment on a Delta Airlines flight as a map depicting the spread of COVID-19 is displayed on a monitor after landing at Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis.

JOBS from page B5 Something New,” which it created in collaboration with IBM, Apple and members of the Business Roundtable, along with the White House and the workforce policy advisory board.

The initial 30-second spot features ordinary people talking about their experiences with career challenges and transitions. Among

them are a fitness instructor who completed an apprenticeship program and became a welder after her gym went under, and a man who lost his job twice in one year, took online certification courses and now works as a tech consultant.

“I got laid off twice, but you got to keep going,” the man says, adding later on in the ad: “I’m now a consultant in the tech space.”

Another woman says she had no career plan after finishing high school, but “I found a medical course online” and became a phlebotomist. “You will find something,” she says.

The companion website offers links to education and training options, including online and virtual learning.

Additional ads are expected to be produced. All will appear na-

tionwide across TV, digital and print platforms in time and space donated by various media companies, the Ad Council said.

Funding was provided by more than 20 corporations and organizations, including Apple, IBM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The Ad Council declined to disclose the cost of the campaign. which will run at least through the end of the year.

EVAN VUCCI | AP PHOTO

In this June 26, 2020, file photo, Ivanka Trump, right, applauds as President Donald Trump holds an executive order that he signed during a meeting with the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

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toyota tundra A worthy alternative to the American truck trio

A truck that hauls stuff.

By Jordan Golson North State Journal BOSTON — Americans buy millions of trucks every year.

Even in the midst of a pandemic, folks are still buying trucks.

In 2019, between all the various full-size truck models from Ford, RAM, GM, Nissan, and Toyota, we bought nearly 2.5 million pickups — and that doesn‘t include all the smaller midsize models, which add another 600,000 to the truck total.

Nearly all of those truck sales are dominated by the big three of Ford, RAM, and GM, but there‘s a not insignificant niche carved out by Toyota as well. The endlessly-popular Tacoma is the best-selling midsize truck, and the full-size Toyota Tundra has a loyal and dedicated following.

I know a few Tundra owners who love their trucks just as passionately as Ford and Chevy owners do. I‘ve driven most of the pickups on the market, but I haven‘t spent much time behind the wheel of Toyota‘s big truck — and I was curious to see what Toyota was doing to compete.

My test unit was the premium, Western-themed „1794 Edition“ that honors the founding of the JLC Ranch in San Antonio, Texas on which Toyota now has a truck assembly plant. Unsurprisingly, it‘s the same plant that built this truck. 1794 is basically Toyota‘s version of Ford‘s „King Ranch,“ only with less-impressive brand awareness.

My test unit weighed in at

$55,199, including option-boxes ticked for the TRD Off-Road Package ($155), running boards ($345), moonroof ($850), and a spray-on bedliner ($579). All in, it‘s certainly not a cheap truck, but it‘s not crazy expensive either.

The big three all have ultra-lux truck trims that can run wellnorth of $70,000, so this was a very reasonable top-line truck.

It‘s also not nearly as lux as those other trucks, but it‘s certainly nice enough. Inside, there are „1794“ accoutrements on the floor mats and the center console, plus wood trim on the steering wheel, dash, and gear shift.

It‘s very roomy, and things are laid out logically — which is a good thing considering how old the Tundra is. The interior was last redesigned the better half of a decade ago, and this generation of the truck is nearly old enough to enter high school. So, it‘s a bit old, but aging gracefully which, perhaps, shows why Tundra owners like it so much. They know what they‘re going to get.

One thing they‘ll get is a lot of stops at the pump. The 5.7-liter V8 is extremely thirsty, scoring just 14 mpg combined city and highway, though the engine itself is buttery smooth and capable.

Pushing 381 horsepower and 401 lb-ft of torque, you won‘t have any complaints as long as fuel prices stay around two dollars per gallon. If prices shoot back up north of $4, it might be another story.

The exterior is pleasing enough, with a giant big chrome grille on the front and special 1794 badging on the doors. The Tundra has aged well and was particularly striking in the brilliant Voo-

doo Blue coloring that my tester sported.

The interior is solidly dated compared to the competition, but it‘s all functional enough. The 2020 edition of the Tundra gains Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which is enough to get me to ignore the massive „Home/Apps/ Audio“ buttons that surround the screen.

With the competition launching enormous 12-inch-plus touchscreens, I don‘t think Toyota will be able to wait too much longer before reworking this interior. In the middle console are numerous cupholders and storage cubbies, surrounding an enormous phallic shifter. There‘s a massive center storage bin under the armrest, which will come in handy for those using their truck as an office.

The rear seats have tremendous amounts of legroom, and the seats fold up to allow for more interior storage, though I wish the rear floor was totally flat to make loading Costco water bottles a little easier.

In the back, there‘s a truck bed.

It‘s for putting stuff in. There‘s nothing elaborate here with inbed lighting or fancy tailgates like the GMC Sierra has. It‘s just a truck, with a tailgate, that you can fill with things.

That‘s perhaps the best way to describe the Toyota Tundra.

It‘s a pickup that allows you to haul things around. No fuss, no muss, nothing crazy. It gets you and your stuff from here to there, while slurping down massive amounts of fuel.

It‘s a Toyota. You know what you‘re getting. Enjoy it.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF TOYOTA

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the good life

PHOTO VIA INSTAGRAM

Examples of Scott Mele’s work from his Instagram.

NC artist discovers prodigious talent after near-­fatal accident

By Elizabeth Lincicome The Associated Press WILMINGTON — For fans of ABC’s popular TV drama The Good Doctor, the term savant syndrome is nothing new. The series revolves around Dr. Shaun Murphy, a young autistic surgeon from the mid-size city of Casper, Wyoming who relocates to San Jose, to work at a prestigious hospital and use his incredible medical abilities to help others.

For those who may be less familiar with this phenomenon, savant syndrome comes in different forms. In congenital savant syndrome, as is the case with Dr. Murphy’s character, someone with significant mental disabilities excels at certain things far in excess of the average person.

These may include rapid calculation, artistic ability, map making, or musical skill. The extraordinary savant aptitude surfaces in early childhood.

However, in atypical acquired savant syndrome, these astonishing new abilities, typically in music, art, or math, unexpectedly appear following a traumatic accident such as a head injury, stroke or other central nervous system (CNS) incident. Acquired savant syndrome is a condition in which dormant savant skills suddenly emerge, sometimes to the point

I really don’t relate with the old me anymore so it’s like I have this chance at a second life.”

Artist Scott Mele of reaching genius levels, in areas where the person impacted may have never shown an interest in pursuing pre-accident.

It is estimated that there are fewer than a hundred people currently living with savant syndrome. Atypical acquired savant syndrome is even more rare, with only 33 known people in the entire world having been identified as having it. One of those diagnosed is Scott Mele, a 42­year­old

Wilmington man who discovered an incredible talent for painting following a near fatal car accident nearly five years ago.

On Aug. 17, 2015, Mele, a successful car salesman, was waiting at an intersection when a driver going 70 MPH hit him. Having suffered a traumatic brain injury, his recovery took months and eventually Mele found himself with severe anxiety and depression. Four months after the incident, he says he woke up one morning and was literally a different person. “I just didn’t feel like myself anymore,” he says. “I was confused about the decisions I had made in my life before the accident and didn’t want to take ownership of the life I used to live.

I hated the person I used to be and just wanted to start over.”

Mele, a divorced father of two, no longer had the desire to sell cars. One day while at a craft store with his kids, he says he got an inexplicable urge to paint despite having no previous artistic talent. “It was the first time in four months that I saw something that I could relate to, that was mine, that felt like it was me.” So, he began to paint and the next thing he knew he was painting incredible images with no formal training.

Mele did some research into his condition and decided to seek a doctor’s opinion about his newfound talent. At that point, a physician who specialized in savant syndrome, confirmed that Mele had atypical acquired savant syndrome. Scientists don’t have an explanation for why this happens, but believe such abilities may lie dormant in everyone. The first case of savant syndrome was identified in 1789.

Nearly five years later, Mele has built a solid living as an artist having completed hundreds of paintings, most of which can be seen on his Instagram page. Without any real financial backing, Mele has been able to create spray paint

murals in Goldsboro that are larger than life and painted innovative portraits that verge near realism.

In retrospect Mele says he would not trade the accident for his newfound genius because it forced him to reexamine his priorities in life. “Prior to the wreck I had no friends. I was self-centered and superficial to the point that after my accident no one even came to check on me,” Mele recounts. “My main goals in life were success and buying material objects. I didn’t care about anybody else,” Mele says. “So when I had this accident, it was completely flipped upside down and it’s like that person died. I really don’t relate with the old me anymore so it’s like I have this chance at a second life.”

Mele says the last five years have been brutal for him and his family but he is setting goals and

wants to continue working on his own self-improvement. He is working on becoming financially secure and building stronger relationships with the people who matter the most to him in life. Although he is not a religious person, Mele also says he wants to work on building his faith in a higher power.

“Since finding out about my acquired savant syndrome my goal has always been to get my story out and help others who are struggling with post traumatic issues.

For a long time after my accident I would wake up afraid that I had reverted back to the selfish person I used to be. So now I am focused on living my best life and connecting with the people who care enough about me to pull me back up through the cracks if something terrible like this happens in the future.”

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TRAVEL

Disney World reopens as coronavirus cases surge in Florida The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — “The Most Magical Place on Earth” has reopened after nearly four months with new rules in place to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom are reopening Saturday, while Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios will follow four days later.

“It’s the chance to come back and be in the magic,” said Diane Watkins, a preschool teacher from Helena, Alabama, who visits the park about eight times a year. “Hot or not, mask or not, we’re just happy to be here. I feel like everybody here is in the same frame of mind.

Everybody is just so excited to be here.”

Watkins said that when she and her 16-year-old daughter walked into the Magic Kingdom on Saturday morning, then saw all the cast members lined up and clapping on Main Street, she cried.

“It was very emotional,” she said.

The reopening comes as a huge surge of Floridians have tested positive for the new coronavirus in recent weeks. On Saturday, there were about 10,000 new cases reported, according to state statistics. Many cities and counties around the state have recently reinstated restrictions that had been lifted in May, when cases seemed to drop.

All of Disney’s Orlando parks closed in mid-March in an effort to stop the virus’s spread. Universal Orlando and SeaWorld Orlando closed around the same time but reopened several weeks ago after instituting similar rules to protect employees and customers from the virus.

Lori Lovell of Evansville, Indiana, strolled around Frontierland on Saturday morning with friends.

“I have missed coming here. It just feels really good to be back.

This is where I’ve made so many memories. It’s kind of our second home. Not being able to come here was hard.”

Disney’s new rules include mandatory masks and social distanc-

ing. Visitors will need reservations to enter a park, and they won’t be allowed to hop between parks.

Both visitors and employees will receive temperature checks when they enter. Fireworks shows and parades have been suspended to prevent drawing too many people together.

Park-goers say that nearly everyone in sight wore masks on Saturday morning. Capacity is nowhere near where it is under normal circumstances, they said.

“I’ve been here on spring breaks where you can barely walk around.

The walkways are very wide open,” said Lovell.

There were lots of hand sanitizer stations around, and people were

respecting the physical distancing cues and guidelines. Since the park is at lower capacity, there was only a five-minute wait for the popular Buzz Lightyear ride — normally it’s about 90 minutes, Watkins said.

Some attractions and dining areas aren’t yet open. Another change: visitors can’t hug and greet the costumed Disney characters.

Instead, the characters are in “cavalcades,” or motorcades, as they make their way through the park.

Disney has been opening its parks back up around the globe for the past two months. In May, the company opened Disney Springs, a complex of shops, restaurants and entertainment venues in Lake Buena Vista.

JOHN RAOUX | AP PHOTO

Guests enter the Magic Kingdom during the reopening at Walt Disney World, Saturday, July 11, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

TAKE NOTICE

CABARRUS 20 SP 121 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 Ruby Love and Ella R. Rogers to Conrad Trosch & Kemmy, Trustee(s), which was dated October 1, 1996 and recorded on October 3, 1996 in Book 1727 at Page 324, 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 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

19 SP 467 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 Ricky W. Gaskey to Fidelity National Title Insurance Co. of New York, Trustee(s), which was dated October 27, 2003 and recorded on November 4, 2003 in Book 4964 at Page 147, 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 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 July 20, 2020 at 1:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit:

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CABARRUS COUNTY 19sp718 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JANET DENISE MCMILLON AKA JANET EARLE AND CHARLES J. MCMILLON DATED MARCH 7, 2000 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 2878 AT PAGE 139 IN THE CABARRUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for

CUMBERLAND NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DURHAM COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF

conducting the sale on July 20, 2020 at 1:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in CABARRUS County, NC and known and designated as Lot No. 2 TOWNSHIP, CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, IN CONCORD ON NORTH WHITE STREET, HOUSE AND LOT NO. 84 SHOWN ON MAP OF CANNON HOLDING CORPORATION, MAP 2 OF 4, A COPY OF SAID MAPBEINGONFILE,recordedinMapBook19,atPage48of theCABARRUSCounty,NCPublicLandRecords,reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

Being that parcel of land conveyed to WILLIAM M. COVE AND WIFE, RUBY R. LOVE, from CANNON HOLDING CORPORATION by that deed dated 10/27/83 and recorded 11/03/83 in Deed Book 566, at Page 132 of the CABARRUS County, NC Public Registry.

NOTE: WILLIAM M. LOVE, DECEASED, DATE OF DEATH 08/20/85.

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

Said property is commonly known as 84 White St NW,

Situated in Cabarrus County, State of North Carolina, and being further described as: LYING AND BEING IN WARD NO. 2 OF THE CITY OF CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CAROLINA AVENUE AND BEING LOT NOS. 26 AND 27 AND PART OF LOT NO. 28 IN BLOCK “3” OF SECTION “A” OF BROOKWOOD, A MAP OF WHICH IS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, IN MAP BOOK 2, PAGE 48, AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT AN IRON STAKE IN THE SOUTH EDGE OF CAROLINA AVENUE, CORNER OF LOT NO. 25, AND RUNNING THENCE WITH THE LINE OF LOT NO. 25, S. 29-06 E. 213.03 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE; THENCE N. 61-04 E. 60.02 FEET TO A STONE, CORNER OF W. B. GREENE; THENCE WITH HIS LINE N. 29-06 W. 214.76 FEET TO A STONE IN THE SOUTH EDGE OF CAROLINA AVENUE; THENCE WITH CAROLINA AVENUE S. 60-54 W. 60 FEET TO THE BEGINNING, AND IS THE PROPERTY CONVEYED BY JULIUS NEWTON AND WIFE FLOSSIE NEWTON TO JESSIE G. SLOOP AND WIFE JENNIE NEWTON SLOOP BY DEED DATED MARCH 17, 1953.

cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:00PM on July 20, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Janet Denise McMillon aka Janet Earle and Charles J. McMillon, dated March 7, 2000 to secure the original principal amount of $60,769.03, and recorded in Book 2878 at Page 139 of the Cabarrus County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: St SW, Concord, NC 28025 Tax Parcel ID: 56207309840000 Present Record Owners: Janet Denise Earle

144 Robbins

The Estate of

And Being more commonly known as: 144 Robbins St SW, Concord, NC 28025

JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NO. 20 SP 359 FOR THE ADOPTION OF A MALE MINOR TO: The unknown father of Baby Boy Thorpe, a male child, born on June 14, 2020 in Durham, North Carolina.

Take notice that a Petition for Adoption was filed with the

Concord, NC 28027.

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 Ella R. Rogers.

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 § 45-21.16A(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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC

Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 20-00936-FC01

Being the same property conveyed to RICKY W. GASKEY and herein by deed from JESSIE G. SLOOP AND WIFE JENNIE NEWTON SLOOP dated FEBRUARY 4, 1975, and recorded FEBRUARY 21, 1975, in Book 450 Page 138, Registers Office for Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 40 Carolina Avenue Northeast, Concord, NC 28025.

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 All Lawful Heirs of Ricky S. Wilson.

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 § 45-21.16A(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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-07000-FC01

required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

The date of this Notice is June 1, 2020.

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Estate of Janet Denise Earle.

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

Clerk of Superior Court for Durham County, North Carolina in the above entitled special proceeding. The Petition relates to Baby Boy Thorpe, a male child, born on June 14, 2020 in Durham, North Carolina. The birth mother is Shaniah Thorpe, who is an 18 year-old Black female with brown curly hair, brown eyes and a height and weight of 5’2 and 125 lbs.

Ms. Thorpe reports that the identity and whereabouts of the biological father are Jaquan [Last Name Unknown] of Fayetteville, NC. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that you are

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-107934

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

required to file a response to such pleading not later than 40 days from the first day of publication of this notice, that date being July 15, 2020, and upon your failure to do so the Petitioner will apply to the Court for relief sought in the Petition. Any parental rights you may have will be terminated upon the entry of the decree of adoption. This the 15th day of July, 2020.

Kelly T. Dempsey, Attorney for Petitioners, 637 McNinch

Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28208.

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or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on July 20, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Hope Mills in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Cumberland, State of North Carolina, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 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 N.C.G.S. 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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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.

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.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

Beginning at a stake in the eastern margin of Woodcrest Road extended, at a point South 5 degrees 26 minutes West 413 feet from the intersection of the eastern margin of Woodcrest Road, extended and the southern margin of Branson Street, extended, said point of beginning being the southwest corner of Lot number 166 and running thence with the eastern margin of Woodcrest Road extended South 5 degrees 26 minutes West 150 feet to a stake, the northwest corner of Lot Number 169; thence with the line of Lot number 169 South 84 degrees 34 minutes East 150 feet to a stake, the northeast corner of Lot number 169; thence North 5 degrees 26 minutes East 150 feet to a stake, the southeast corner of Lot Number 166; thence with the southern line of Lot number 166 North 84 degrees 34 minutes West 150 feet to the beginning point, being Lots numbers 167 and 168 in Pine Forest, Section three as per plat of the same by F. M. Averitt, Surveyor, registered in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Cumberland County, North Carolina, in Book of Plats number 10, Page 35, and being the same land conveyed by W. W. Wallace and wife, Helen C. Wallace to Helene Mayo Slappy by deed dated January 20, 1954, recorded in the Cumberland County Registry in Book 627, Page 269.

Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 319 Woodcrest Road, Fayetteville, NC 28305. Tax ID: 0427-93-1686 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, 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 fractional part thereof, or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. 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 Nicholas Alan Green Renovations Co. 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 §45-21.16A(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.

and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on July 29, 2020 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

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.

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.

BEING all of Lot 7, in a subdivision known as Southview, Section One, and the same being duly recorded in Plat Book 88, Page 178, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Parcel ID: 0424-35-7953 Property Address: 5329 Miranda Drive, Hope Mills, NC 28348

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 Russell A. Klein.

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 § 45-21.16A(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

File No.: 19-10582-FC01

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 § 45-21.16A(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.

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.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by David Porter (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): David Porter) to National Title Network, Trustee(s), dated December 23, 2010, and recorded in Book No. 8558, at Page 0100 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Cumberland 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 in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina,

BEING ALL OF LOT 28, in a subdivision known as Creekbend, as duly recorded in Book of Plats 44, Page 26, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located 4143 Patriot Place, Hope Mils, North Carolina.

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designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on July 20, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 62 in a subdivision known as Cedar Falls, Section One, Phase One, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Plat Book 114, Page 131, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1504 Royal Springs Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Victor Clark and Evelyn Clark to Daughtry, Woodward, Lawrence, ET AL, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of February, 2006, and recorded in Book 7163, Page 819, in Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20 SP 339 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Nicholas Alan Green Renovations Co., in the original amount of $377,700.00, payable to LendingHome Funding Corporation, dated May 10, 2019 and recorded on May 21, 2019 in Book 10505, Page 519, Cumberland County Registry.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Anchor 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on July 28, 2020, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit:

19 SP 1113 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 Russell A. Klein to William T. Morrison and Philip M. Rudisill, Trustee(s), which was dated March 29, 2018 and recorded on March 29, 2018 in Book 10278 at Page 0614, 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 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

20 SP 486 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 Thomas B. Pace a/k/a Thomas B. Pace, II and Brandy L. Pace to Jeff H. Adams, Trustee(s), which was dated July 21, 2005 and recorded on August 4, 2005 in Book 6965 at Page 023, 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 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

20 SP 474 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 Avery B. Green and Clariss Green a/k/a Clarissa Green to Jeff H. Adams, Trustee(s), which was dated October 12, 2006 and recorded on March 1, 2007 in Book 7517 at Page 326, 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 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

20 SP 473 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 James B. Hardin And Shenika R. Hardin to Jeff H. Adams, Trustee(s), which was dated June 5, 2008 and recorded on July 3, 2008 in Book 07932 at Page 0243, 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 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 19SP969 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY SHERILYN FALUTA DATED JULY 20, 2016 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 9904 AT PAGE 234 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CUMBERLAND COUNTY 20sp391 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY ANGELO SNEAD AND EARSHIRLA SHONTRICE SNEAD DATED NOVEMBER 1, 2013 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 9324 AT PAGE 885 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained

Parcel ID: 0414-70-9325 Commonly known as 4143 Patriot Place, Hope Mills, NC 28348 However, by showing this address no additional coverage is provided Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale

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

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

Said property is commonly known as 5329 Miranda Dr, Hope Mills, NC 28348.

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

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on July 29, 2020 at 1:30PM, 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 132, ACORN RIDGE, SECTION ONE, as shown on map thereof recorded in Book of Plats 111, page 61, Cumberland County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 2452 Saltwood Road, Fayetteville, NC 28306.

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

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on July 29, 2020 at 1:30PM, 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 26, ASHTON FOREST SOUTH, as shown on map thereof recorded in Book of Plats 85, page 45, Cumberland County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 5021 PAULSUN DR, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

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

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on July 29, 2020 at 1:30PM, 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 251, SADDLERIDGE, SECTION FOUR, as shown on map thereof recorded in Book of Plats 115, page 166, Cumberland County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 5609 THACKERAY DR, Fayetteville, NC 28306.

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

secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on July 20, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Sherilyn Faluta, dated July 20, 2016 to secure the original principal amount of $77,233.00, and recorded in Book 9904 at Page 234 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Westgate Cv, Hope Mills, NC 28348 Tax Parcel ID: 6239

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and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:30AM on July 20, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Angelo Snead and Earshirla Shontrice Snead, dated November 1, 2013 to secure the original principal amount of $138,681.00, and recorded in Book 9324 at Page 885 of the Cumberland County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28311 Tax Parcel ID:

414

Raynor

0439-86-

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

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 Thomas B. Pace, II and Brandy L. Pace.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

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 Avery B. Green and wife, Clarissa Green.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

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 Shenika R. Hardin.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

Present Record Owners: Faluta

Sherilyn

And Being more commonly known as: 3101 Westgate Cv, Hope Mills, NC 28348 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Sherilyn Faluta.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to

0152 Present Record Owners:

Smesh, LLC

And Being more commonly known as: 414 Raynor Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28311 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Smesh, LLC. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to

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

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 § 45-21.16A(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

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 § 45-21.16A(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

all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

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

all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1055 - 1610

c/o Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1204185 (FC.FAY)

Anchor Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee January N. Taylor, Bar #33512 McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC Attorney for Anchor Trustee Services, LLC 3550 Engineering Drive, Suite 260 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 404-474-7149 (phone) 404-745-8121 (fax) jtaylor@mtglaw.com

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 10-24264-FC04

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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 20-04945-FC01

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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 20-04946-FC01

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

The date of this Notice is May 20, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-105322

after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is June 29, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109187

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DAVIDSON 20 SP 142 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIDSON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Marjorie Marie Cox Poole and Wilson O. Weldon, Jr. Trustee to William Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated June 24, 2009 and recorded on June 30, 2009 in Book 1929 at Page 923, Davidson 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 Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county

12 SP 1051 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIDSON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Timothy R. Price a/k/a Timothy Ray Price and May H. Price to J. LaRoss Ketner, Attorney, Trustee(s), which was dated February 17, 1997 and recorded on February 20, 1997 in Book 1022 at Page 1732, Davidson 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 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

20 SP 129 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIDSON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Alvin C. Reagan and Lois Elaine Reagan to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), which was dated February 20, 2012 and recorded on March 1, 2012 in Book 2048 at Page 1619, Davidson 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 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 July 27, 2020 at 11:00AM, and will

FORSYTH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 372

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Rocky L. Schuyler, Heirs of Rocky L. Schuyler: Jacquie S. Doby, Skokie Roberts, Richard Schuyler a/k/a Dickie Schuyler, Joe Schuyler; Heirs of Joe Schuyler: Ethan Schuyler; Heirs of Richard Schuyler a/k/a Dickie Schuyler: Janice C. Schulyer (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Rocky L. Schuyler) to Daniel D. Hornfeck, Trustee(s), dated July 16, 2010, and recorded in Book No. RE 2955, at Page 1394 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Forsyth 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 Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on July 22, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Clemmons in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as

JOHNSTON AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 306

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Judith A. Lee to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of February, 2007, and recorded in Book 3291, Page 549, 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

UNION IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION UNION COUNTY 19SP160 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY KATHRYN RICE MCGRAW DATED SEPTEMBER 29, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 4319 AT PAGE 129 IN THE UNION COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 762

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Deno Kanos, Heirs of Deno Kanos: Victoria Constance Kanos, Katherine Elaine Kanos, Demetri Konstantinos Kanos, Unknown Heirs of Deno Kanos, Demetri Konstantinos Kanos (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Deno Kanos) to Grady I. Ingle, Trustee(s), dated October 2, 2018, and recorded in Book No. 07246, at Page 0032 in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on July 30, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Monroe in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: TRACT 1:

WAKE NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 771

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Christine Davis (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Christine Davis) to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated March 22, 2019, and recorded in Book No. 017394, at Page 00359 in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note 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 Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on July 20, 2020 at 11:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit:

A MAP OF SAME BEING DULY RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK NO. 2, AT PAGE 99, IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR DAVIDSON COUNTY.

BEINGLOTSNOS.3AND4,BLOCK“G”,OFTHECULBRETH PROPERTY, IN THE CITY OF THOMASVILLE, N.C.

Said property is commonly known as 401 Reid Street, Thomasville, NC 27360.

BEGINNING AT A STAKE ON THE EAST SIDE OF REID STREET IN THE CITY OF THOMASVILLE, N.C., AT THE CORNER OF LOT #5, IN BLOCK “G”, OWNED BY J.R. CROTTS OF THE CULBRETH PROPERTY AND RUNNING THENCE SOUTH 84 DEGS. 20 MINUTES EAST 134 FEET WITH THE LINE OF LOT #5 TO A STAKE, CORNER OF LOT #5; THENCE SOUTH 4 DEGREES 15 MINUTES WEST 50 FEET TO A STAKE CORNER TO LOT #2; THENCE NORTH 84 DEGREES 20 MINUTES WEST 134 FEET WITH THE LINE OF LOT #2, OWNED

BY D.J. LOHR TO A STAKE ON THE EAST SIDE OF REID STREET, CORNER OF LOT #2; THENCE NORTH 4 DEGREES 15 MINUTES EAST 50 FEET WITH THE EAST SIDE OF REID STREET TO THE BEGINNING.

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.

conducting the sale on July 20, 2020 at 11:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit:

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.

BEING Lot No. 20, Block C, Section Two, DEARR PARK as more specifically set out in Plat Book 14, Page 76, as recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Davidson County, North Carolina, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

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 Timothy R. Price.

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

Said property is commonly known as 105 Converse Drive, Lexington, NC 27292.

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

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

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

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

sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit:

and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

Land Situated in the Township of Cotton Grove in the County of Davidson in the State of NC

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 All Lawful Heirs of Alvin C. Reagan.

BEING LOT 1 AS SHOWN ON SURVEY OF ROBERT C. LAWS PROPERTY MORE DESCRIBED IN PLAT BOOK 23 AT PAGE 8, RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR DAVIDSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 2458 Old Linwood Road, Lexington, NC 27292.

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 All Lawful Heirs of Grace Colleen Cody.

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 § 45-21.16A(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.

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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-16241-FC01

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for

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 § 45-21.16A(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

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 § 45-21.16A(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.

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.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 16-20127-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-16394-FC01

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.

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

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,

follows: Parcel ID# 5891-78-9974.00 BEGINNING at an iron located in the west line of the property described in Deed Book 1353, Page 1766, Forsyth County Registry, said iron also being located South 08 degrees 40’ 42” West 558.13 feet from the northwest corner of the property described in Deed Book 1353, Page 1766; running thence from said beginning point South 09 degrees 21’ 08” West 103.28 feet to a stone; running thence South 07 degrees 28’ 46” East 39.55 feet to a stone; running thence South 87 degrees 44’ 39” West 140.00 feet to an iron; running thence North 09 degrees 22’ 19” West 396.22 feet to an iron; running thence on a curve to the left a chord course and distance of North 40 degrees 30’ East 51.63 feet to an iron; running thence South 32 degrees 46’ 04” East 337.22 feet to an iron, the point and place of Beginning. Containing 1.248 acres, more or less, and being a lot carved from that tract described in Deed recorded in Book 1137, Page 1179. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5409 Elliott Crest Court, Clemmons, North Carolina.

TOGETHER with a perpetual non-exclusive easement for the purpose of ingress and egress described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron located in the southern right-of-way line of Frye Bridge Road, said iron also being located North 86 degrees 00’ West 262.62 feet from an iron located in the northwest corner of the property described in Deed Book 1352 at Page 1766 in the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina; running thence from said beginning point South 07 degrees 18’ 35” West crossing an iron at 237.73 feet, a total distance of 245.87 feet to a point; running thence on a curve to the right the following five chord courses and distance: South 21 degrees 38’ 11”

East 51.58 feet to an iron, South 40 degrees 30’ West 51.63 feet to an iron, North 83 degrees 40’ West 41.86 feet to an iron, North 29degrees 52’ 30” West 48.54 feet to an iron and North 33 degrees 14’ 19” East 56.03 feet to a point; running thence North 07 degrees 18’ 35” East crossing an iron at 5.25 feet, a total distance of 242.98 feet to an iron in the southern right-of-way line of Frye Bridge Road; running thence South 86 degrees 00’ East 50.08 feet to an iron, the point and place of Beginning.

In addition to the above-described easement, Grantor also conveys a perpetual non-exclusive five foot wide widening easement. Said easement is parallel to and five feet from the outside boundaries at all points of the above-describe easement.

DEED BOOK: 2231, Page 161, Tax Block 4202 Lot 003X-Forsyth County Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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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in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on July 28, 2020 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: BEGINNING at a point in the right of way of the Southern Railway Corner of Lot No. 14; thence as the line of Lot No. 14 in a northeasterly direction for a distance of 231.0 feet to a point in the line of Lot No. 22; thence in an easterly direction for a distance of 50.7 feet to a stake, corner of Lot No. 12; thence as the line of Lot No. 12 in a southwesterly direction of 222.6 feet; thence as the right of way of Southern Railway for a distance of 50 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING and being Lot No. 13 of the Subdivision of the Pound Farm, as shown in map by R.T. Newcomb, Jr., Surveyor dated April 1947 and recorded in Book of Maps 5 at Page 3, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 132 Liberty Lane, Clayton, North Carolina.

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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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),

the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:30PM on July 29, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Union County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Kathryn Rice McGraw, dated September 29, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $344,435.00, and recorded in Book 4319 at Page 129 of the Union County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 306 South

Potter Rd, Monroe, NC 28110 Tax Parcel ID: 06027075 Present Record Owners: Kathryn Rice McGraw And Being more commonly known as: 306 South Potter Rd, Monroe, NC 28110 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Kathryn Rice McGraw.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition

expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order

for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is June 29, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 17-094669

BEING all of LOT 43 SERENITY HILLS as shown on that plat recorded in PLAT CABINET D, FILE 57, UNION County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description.

TRACT 2: BEGINNING at a point in the edge of a 20-foot wide Drainage and Utility Easement, the southernmost corner of Lot #43 of SERENITY HILLS SUBDIVISION (Plat Cabinet D, File No. 57, Union County Registry), and running thence with the western line of Lot #43, North 05 degrees 40 minutes 59 seconds West 254.07 feet to a point, the northwest corner of Lot #43 thence South 84 degrees 19 minutes 01 seconds West 197.52 feet to a point in a line of the ROCKY RIVER ESTATES SUBDIVISION (Plat Cabinet C, File No. 617, Union County Registry); thence with nine lines of the ROCKY RIVER ESTATES SUBDIVISION: (1) South 48 degrees 25 minutes 48 seconds East 63.68 feet; (2) South 49 degrees 26 minutes 37 seconds East 48.22 feet; (3) South 53 degrees 54 minutes 28 seconds East 35.07 feet; (4) North 88 degrees 49 minutes 14 seconds East 57.17 feet; (5) North 81 degrees 16 minutes 31 seconds East 45.36 feet; (6) South 51 58 minutes 37 seconds East 38.28 feet; (7) South 48 degrees 05 minutes 05 seconds East 70.86 feet; (8) South 17 degrees 32 minutes 23 seconds East 66.14 feet; and (9) South 50 degrees 06 minutes 25 seconds East 4.96 feet to the BEGINNING, and containing 0.72

acres, more or less, according to a survey dated September 30, 1993 and updated January 7, 1997, by Derick L. Miles, NCRLS. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 212 Meadow Wind Court, Monroe, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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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foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on July 27, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Willow Spring in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The following described property: Situated in the City of Willow Spring, Middle Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 72 of Westmoor Subdivision, Phase 2, as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 2007, Page 20812083, Wake county registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 8228 Burgwyn Lane, Willow Spring, North Carolina.

Assessor’s Parcel No: 0367141 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §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 N.C.G.S. §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 are expressly 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 its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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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WAKE IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 19SP1486 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY REGINA R SURLES DATED MAY 23, 2008 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 13115 AT PAGE 2138 AND MODIFIED BY AGREEMENT RECORDED JULY 9, 2013 AT BOOK 15351, PAGE 2007 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in

the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on July 31, 2020 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Regina R Surles, dated May 23, 2008 to secure the original principal amount of $136,918.00, and recorded in Book 13115 at Page 2138 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 5324 Landreaux Dr, Raleigh, NC 27610

Tax Parcel ID: 0320182 Present Record Owners: Regina R. Surles And Being more commonly known as: 5324 Landreaux Dr, Raleigh, NC 27610 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Regina R. Surles.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.� Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and

assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice 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 notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is July 10, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400 Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 16-080907

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COVID-19 testing Medical personnel assist patients at a community coronavirus testing site operated by Cone Health and the county Health Department in Burlington, N.C., Thursday, July 9, 2020. The public testing was drive-up or walk-up with no appointment needed.

WHAT’S HAPPENING 12-year-old killed after homes hit by gunfire Anson County A 12-year-old boy was killed after being hit by gunfire during a drive-by shooting in Wadesboro. Police were called to a local street, and when officers arrived, they found two homes had been fired upon.

The boy was inside one of the homes and was hit by at least one bullet. The boy was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said three other children and three adults were also in the home at the time of the shooting but were not hurt.

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Driver accidentally backs car, hits 7 people Mecklenburg County Law enforcement authorities say four people were hospitalized Sunday after a woman put her vehicle into the wrong gear and backed into seven individuals. The crash happened just before 10 a.m. in Charlotte. Police said the woman was trying to drive forward out of a parking space when she accidentally reversed, ran over the curb and hit the people. Police said four people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Authorities said the woman had been handing out food to homeless people before the crash. Police did not release the name of the driver.

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SCC and Stanly Chamber partner to launch business counseling program

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — As of this week, local Stanly County business owners dealing with the economic setbacks from COVID-19 have a new source of assistance.

On July 13, Stanly Community College’s Small Business Center and the Stanly County Chamber of Commerce officially announced the launch of “Reboot, Recover and Rebuild,” a business counseling program designed to offer confidential counseling and resources free of charge.

“We encourage small business owners to take full advantage of this program that ends on December 30, 2020,” Sandy SelvyMullis, president and CEO of the Stanly County Chamber of Commerce, said in Monday’s press release. “We are committed to doing everything we can to help Stanly County’s small businesses as our local economy weathers

this pandemic storm.”

The Small Business Center’s program, which is open to all qualifying Stanly County business owners, will provide one-onone counseling meetings to construct an assessment of needs as well as a plan for recovery for each individual business.

In addition, industry experts specializing in SBA Disaster Loan compliance, customer retention, marketing, sales and website support will be available for informational access. Counselor assistance will also be included in areas such as social media review, Google Adwords, search engine optimization and many other topics.

“Many business owners in Stanly County have been struggling from the effects of COVID-19 and are unsure of what the future holds for them,” SCC President Dr. John Enamait said in the release. “The Reboot, Recover and Rebuild program

“Many business owners in Stanly County have been struggling from the effects of COVID-19 and are unsure of what the future holds for them. The Reboot, Recover and Rebuild program was built to help small businesses not only survive the COVID-19 crisis, but recover quickly and establish future business strategies to grow and prosper.”

SCC President Dr. John Enamait was built to help small businesses not only survive the COVID-19 crisis, but recover quickly and establish future business strategies to grow and prosper.”

Back in May, the Small Business Center Network of the North Carolina Community College System reported that new funding for counseling services would be available this year. Later that month, the State Board of Community Colleges agreed to allo-

cate almost $3 million for Small Business Centers throughout the state with the help of the 2020 COVID-19 Recovery Act. Those seeking more information or wanting to apply for Reboot, Recover and Rebuild can contact Selvy-Mullis through email (sandy@stanlychamber. org) or her phone line at 704-9828116. More information is also available at www.stanlychamber. org and www.stanly.edu.

Senior citizen arrested in significant drug bust

By David Larson Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — The Albemarle Police Department released a statement on Monday, July 13 announcing the arrest of 83-year-old Clyburn Roy Moses Jr. for a number of drug and other offenses.

The APD said they executed a search warrant on 316 Hillside Lane and found Moses inside with numerous illegal items.

Their search uncovered about 40 grams of cocaine and “crack” cocaine as well as marijuana, which he is suspected of intending for distribution.

Moses also had moonshine or “non-tax paid liquor,” as well as

property believed to be stolen.

Detectives arrested Moses and he was charged with: Trafficking in Cocaine, Possession with the Intent to Manufacture Sell and Distribute Sch. II, Possession with the Intent to Sell and Distribute Cocaine, Possession with the Intent to Manufacture Sell and Distribute Marijuana, Maintain a Dwelling for Controlled Substances, Possess of Drug Paraphernalia, and possession of Non-Tax paid Liquor.

Moses was transported to the Stanly County Jail where he is being held on a $150,000 secured bond. He is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. on July 27.

Clyburn Roy J Moses, Jr.

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Salisbury are orders thanks to local or state governments, a majority of Americans to take precautions, but I’m uneasy with how people who simply ask switching their operation I know that during this challenging time of social distancing, Inback Fayetteville, a minister began a p are having to adjust to what is being called the “new normal.” questions about the data, and when things can start getting to working from home or losing a job, it may be difficult to “rejoice and seniors throughout Cumberland Count Some of these orders extend at least through the end of this month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. be glad” as the Bible tells us to do.

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Salisbury are switching their operations to make hand sanitizer.

3,341 related deaths has led to worldwide panic, economic collapse and tend at least through the endtraining of this month. normal are treated in some circles with contempt. and resources we provide them, but also the support ARNG aviation units they prepare toagain new aircraft he curve in the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The excitement was Secondly, what are weofexpecting in terms of aassecond wave?

I know that during this challenging time of social distancing, In Fayetteville, minister began program to deliver groceries to zero millions of Americans needlessly being thrown out of work. ders go into June.

They’re treated as though we as a society simply must accept withoutemergency support infrastructure we provide toU.S. their families. platforms.

This includes muted — after all, trends canhas easily reverse — taxpayer but real.

Americans Thedifficult institute’s model simply cuts off in early August.

It does not working from home or losing a job, it may be to “rejoice and seniors throughout Cumberland County.

States over The crisis cost the at least $2.4 trillion in added , Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper Our stated during shouldn’t questionhave what the government tells us about when it’sthe safeairfield to begin the with possible fires or mishaps during warfighters to worry about their around to deal abided by recommendations and orders.

They’ve left their jobs predict how many people will die in a stories second wave.throughout This is the our region continue to provide be glad” as the Bible tells us to do.

However, asto awhether Christian, husband These from esave can be that debt plus trillions more in Federal Reserve backup liquidity to the briefing “we just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back normalcy. next duty station can support the medical needs of their family a deployment.

The inclusion of these bring o stay at home; they’ve practiced social distancing; in many places, most important problem because experts maintain that the provisions virus is inwill and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me of just how much we hope, and supplies to people need and our health care gsflu,” markets financial outlets. If theNo. U.S.The dollar were not works the reserve will 1977 extend into May. andor government for us, and we have the rightinspiration to ask those whether they will be able to afford safe, reliable childcare. meaningful investments into our forces and infrastructure at hey’ve donned masks. seasonal, which means we are likely to see more serious spreading have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers on the front lines of the coronavirus response. ce that the currency, we would not be able to fund any of these emergency end it, questions should be asked as to the I am proud questions.

And the longer military stay-at-home ordersFort are Bragg in place allPope over Army the Airfield.

That is why to have cosponsored family and The result: a reduction in expected hospitalization and death. in the fall.

And that means we will be faced with either renewed Lenten and pandemic.

While people throughout our communities continue to step up, measures without of rampant andsome currency The inclusion of vague eChina. answers should not be onesimmediate likelegislation “we fearcountry, and inflation the stricter of them get in states, such as Michigan, recently included in of the National Defense While I continue to fight for thesepassed resources for our like the Paycheck ccordingEaster to theseasons University ofreadiness Washington Institute for Health lockdowns forand large swaths ofI the population, withwe wide-scale For me, my faith is an important part my daily life decision am glad initiatives have in Congress, -19 depreciation. undance of caution.” theCongress more people, sitting at home feeling isolated and/or anxious about these provisionsmodelAuthorization Act that will vote on later this month. community, I am also continuing my commitment to Metrics and Evaluation most oft cited by members of the testing and contact tracing, or with the realization that we will have making.

As I celebrated Easter with my family, I reflected on 2 Protection Program, are supporting self-employed people and y in detail has pay for their ways through provide a China ned to the people ofto this state who aberrant when theyand candecisions get back to providing for their families, will demand will bring This legislation directly addresses many of the concerns supporting our servicemembers. rump administration, the expected need for hospital beds at to isolate those who are most vulnerable and let everyone else work.

Corinthians 1:4, which reminds us our Lord “comforts us in all our helping small businesses keep people on the payroll, while direct ame out of a economic and financial means.

Diplomacy has obviously not worked obless and at home answers. message offor an undetermined I’ve heard from Fort Bragg families, including reforms toarethe Lastrelief week, I was proud to have myand proposal to increase meaningful eak outbreak was revised down by over 120,000, the number of comfort Which raises third question: What exactly can we do?

Areworkers. affliction, so that we may be able to those who in any will soon reach families Please know that I’ll to bring China into the civilized world of 21st century health, hygiene els predicting hundreds of the cases Leaders at the local and state levels should be as forthcoming as theypay in this year’s national defense hope that we into willof thousands strengthen Exceptional Family Member Program, which entilators by nearly and the number of overall deaths bywe we capable of rollingbyoutmilitary tenscontinue of hazardous millions ofduty testsonover the next fewand targeted solutions so that affliction, withcommunist the comfort which ourselves are comforted working common sense ation of investments and 13,000 fair trade.

Totalitarian regimes never take the blame can be with answers — and again, not vague answers, but answer again enjoy sincere provides access health care andthose special needs education, bill people pass Armed Services Committee unanimously. ugust byonce nearly 12,000. months — and compelling toHouse take tests since God.” we the can defeat the regularly, coronavirus andthe keep people and businesses our forces and has nowhat other or express regret andtoremorse, because thatgive is not what with the state has asked and then with details that their statements believability. in addition to behavioral health, opioid abuse and child care This proposal would increase the monthly pay awarded to Here’s the problem: We still don’t know the answers to the key virus is transmittable while carriers are asymptomatic?

Can we sporting events, If you are celebrating the Easter season, I urge you to also whole. where purely totalitarian governments do.

They take advantage of every weakness infrastructure along the way I’ve also had questions about We should all continue to do what we can tosome keeppersonnel our families, initiatives. stationed in certain locations and those whoa message of uestions that will allow the economy to reopen. create a contact tracing system for 330 million Americans — and reflect on this and beuntil comforted, may But live out Until then, the Lenten and Easter seasons provide concerts, family nd delivery they find in adversaries andmessage keep ourselves, pushing they winsoorthat thewe safe. n leaders too. and our with communities we should also still continue athave, Fort Bragg I have also remained in close contact Fort Bragg work under hazardous conditions as part of their military First, what is the true coronavirus fatality rate?

This question is are we willing to submit ourselves to one?

God’sback. example and comfort all those in need around us during hope that we will once again enjoy sporting events, concerts, family adversaries gatherings, rtain types ofPope questions get push asked, thereon isother to ask questions about the data, because whileduties. reasonable stay-at-home and Army leadership top priorities, including key infrastructure This increase is a step in the right direction to show mportant because it determines whether certain areas ought to One thing is certain: Things cannot continue as they have been. this difficult time.

Through faith and by helping one another, I am gatherings, church and many more celebrations after our rndency is to offer That is, unless an exogenous event happens such as the Chernobyl among some people projects to treat those measures are understandable, they should also have an expiration date.services church services that will have a direct and immediate impact on our servicemembers who deploy in harm’s way that we support Airfield.

While e open or closed, whether we ought to pursue — Sweden style — a Americans are not going to stay home for months on end, and confident we will emerge out of this pandemic stronger than ever. own temporary sacrifices for the greater good of the country and oftatheir meltdown in 1986.

Some experts believe that event, not the Star Wars and asking when we can start getting back While This is all new toconsistently Americans,recognized and it is not normal.

Not infight any way, and many more military readiness.

Congress has them as they inover. defense of thismodels, nation and our allies while more liberalized society that presumes wide spread, or whether we they certainly will not do so on the basisare of ever-evolving I continue to In this same spirit, I continue to be inspired by stories of humanity ly $120 program of Reagan, led directly to the dissolution of the Soviet Union are conspiracy theorists or are people who of funding shape,the or form.

SoOperations while we should remain and stay safe, atfriends and family. after our own importance Special forces at Fort vigilant separated from theirthe ught to lock further. the especially as statistics roll in that look everyone like lower-end model neighbors helping neighbors.

I wish celebrating Easter, as well as Passover, a joyous fightdown for equipment inthese y get themselves or1989. others sick. the same time we shouldn’t get comfortable with this so-called “new Bragg, this has often come at the expense of conventional forces As Fort Bragg’s congressman, I’m constantly reminded of the We’ve seen case fatality rates — the number of deaths divided by estimates in terms of death and the upper-end estimates in terms temporary In Concord, a high school senior named Tanner used his own celebration and pray we can all continue to keep faith, practice 5 billion by Perhaps COVID-19 is China’s Chernobyl. resources for our ning government at all levelsat become a bad normal.” the base.

Most notably, this includes the 82nd Airborne sacrifices of so many of our servicemembers, especially those atenumber Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 he of identified COVID-19 cases — but both the numerator of economic damage.

We need transparency and honesty from our money to buy a 3-D printer and plastic to make face shields for necessary safety guidelines and remain confident that we will get sacrifices are Senators in Washington are already talking about the possibility itizens living in a freeI am societyDivision, were supposed one littleImmediate bit. community, also known asNot our nation’s Response Force beenwhat awarded Medal ofthey Honor. July 12 marks nd theChina denominator are likely wrong.

We don’t know many scientific experts — we who needhave to know they the know, what health care workers out ofhow his ownthem home. through this together. nt in of China forgiving $1.2 trillion in debt we owe as one way to get over. alsoactually continuing (IRF). theto 158th anniversary of the creation of the Medal of Honor. eople have died coronavirus.

Some they sources don’t and they hope know what they don’t. ufacturing China to of “pay” for damage havesuggest causedthe thehas US.also Don’t holdwhen your go along my in all this, of course, isThat mythe family.

I’m Stacey Matthews written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjahby Congress and enacted by President is why in March, I testified before the Subcommittee Since it was established commitment umber has been overestimated, given that classification for cause We’re grown-ups, and we’re willing to follow their advice. But lion in virus, and breath waiting Ifor a Chinese “Jubilee” to ahappen but ask your elected ing the I’m worried will.

After and is regularthey contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection. on Military Construction to request fund priorities to Abraham Lincoln, more than 3,500 Americans have been f death, particularly among elderly patients, can be variable.

Some they need to start answering serious questions, or they will brave fall prey to supporting our nue topandemic, hold China accountable in tangible financial ways for irusis(swine flu) representatives during the 2009 support the mission of the 82nd Airborne, as well as Pope Army awarded the Medal of Honor, including the latest recipient, Fort ources suggest the number is dramatically underestimated, since to the same lack of institutional faith to which all other American servicemembers. etra areprecautions, now this disaster. because all of this brings up Airfield.

Bragg’s own Master Sergeant Matthew Williams.

I’m honored many people are dying at home. institutions seem deeply prone. mies as in the It is about timenot they expected to operate as responsible citizens of of a painful experience I’d prefer to are repeat.

As a result, last week the subcommittee released their to represent so many servicemembers, military families and Even more importantly, we have no clue how many Americans theeasily worldmost like any other has modern nation. e lose sleep is how everyone report which included both of the provisions I asked for.

The veterans who have all sacrificed for our country.

Today and ctually have coronavirus.

Some scientists suggest that the number Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, American provision urges the Army to the prioritize facilities thatBen willShapiro every day, let’seditor-in-chief honor their courage and service. fetidentified order of magnitude lower than host of “The Show” and of DailyWire. that theycases could be anfirst bins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor umber of people who have had coronavirus and not been tested. com. world and nbi.

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NASCAR

Stewart, Evernham to recreate IROC as SRX All-Stars Charlotte Tony Stewart and fellow NASCAR Hall of Famer Ray Evernham have teamed with a group of heavyweights to bring back an IROC-style allstar circuit in 2021.

The Superstar Racing Experience plans a sixrace, short-track series to air in prime time on CBS in a Saturday night summer spectacular.

SRX envisions fields of 12 drivers competing on famed short tracks across the country in cars prepared by Evernham, the architect of Jeff Gordon’s early career and a noted car designer.

Stewart plans to be one of the participants.

NASCAR Cup rookie Cole Custer wins in upset at Kentucky The Stewart-Haas driver got his first career victory with a four-wide pass to take the late lead

By Gary B. Graves The Associated Press SPARTA, Ky. — Cole Custer saw an opening and, with help from a friend, squeezed through for the most fulfilling moment of his young racing career.

Custer became the first rookie regular to win in the NASCAR Cup Series in nearly four years, surging to the lead in a four-wide, final-lap scramble Sunday at Kentucky Speedway.

Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. were dueling side by side for the lead on the Lap 266 final restart when Custer — with a push from Matt DiBenedetto on the out-

side — made his move from sixth in the No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. As the leaders bunched in Turn 1, Custer slid ahead and outlasted Truex’s Toyota.

“I knew I just had to get to the top,” said Custer, who led twice for five laps — the first of his young career. “The top rolled pretty good and once I got past and I was like in third I was like, ‘I’ve just got to take a shot and do whatever I can here.’

“And it ended up the 4 (Harvick) and the 19 (Truex) got together a little bit and I was able to take advantage of it.”

Making his 20th series start, the 22-year-old Custer celebrated with a frontstretch burnout as his crew happily ran to greet him.

He’s the first rookie to win a non-rain-shortened race since Juan Pablo Montoya in 2007. Brad Keselowski won a race in 2009,

2007 The last time a rookie won a Cup Series race not shortened by rain. Juan Pablo Montoya won that year on the road course at Sonoma.

Trevor Bayne in 2011 and Justin Haley in 2019 while not racing full seasons. All three would have been classified as rookies had they been competing a full year. Chris Buescher won a rain-shortened race in August 2016 while competing for rookie of the year.

Custer also won at Kentucky last July in the Xfinity Series.

Matt Kenseth’s Turn 4 spin forced the final caution and created the opportunity for Custer’s victory.

DiBenedetto was third, and Harvick fourth — both in Fords.

Kurt Busch, the winner last year, was fifth.

“I got a good restart and was curious what he was going to do,” DiBenedetto said about helping Custer. “When he pulled to the top, I was like, ‘Yeah, that was a good move right there.’ And I just decided to shove him since I couldn’t go around to the outside.

“It helped him to get to the win and I joked with him that he owes me $100. But he did a great job.”

Truex took the lead on the 181st lap in hopes of his third Kentucky win in four years, giving it a good run against Harvick but instead settled for watching Custer take the win.

“The 41 (Custer) just came with a big head of steam and there was no way I was going to be able to block that,” Truex said. “He was just in the right place at the right time, I guess.”

NBA

Rockets’ Westbrook says he tested positive for coronavirus Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Russell Westbrook of the Houston Rockets said Monday that he has tested positive for coronavirus and that he plans to eventually join his team at the restart of the NBA season. Westbrook made the revelation on social media. Westbrook is averaging 27.5 points, eight rebounds and seven assists per game for the Rockets this season. Houston has clinched a playoff spot and resumes its season with the first of eight seeding games on July 31 against Dallas.

Westbrook’s announcement came on another day where case numbers in Florida and Texas have risen.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

QB Daniels eligible for 2020 at Georgia Athens, Ga. Former Southern California starter JT Daniels says he has been granted immediate eligibility at Georgia, where he can join the competition at quarterback. Daniels announced his transfer to Georgia on May 29 and he can play for three seasons.

He started for the Trojans in 2018, but lost his job to Kedon Slovis last season after suffering a knee injury in the season opener.

Jamie Newman, a graduate transfer from Wake Forest, is considered the favorite to win the starting job.

WNBA

WNBA MVP Delle Donne says league denied her medical waiver New York Elena Delle Donne’s request to be medically excused from the WNBA season was denied, according to the league’s reigning MVP. The Washington Mystics star said in a statement Monday that the independent panel of doctors the league and union agreed upon to decide whether players should be medically excused deemed her not to be “high risk, and should be permitted to play in the bubble.” Had Delle Donne been medically excused, she would have earned her entire salary for the season. Now, if she chooses not to play, the defending WNBA champion Mystics wouldn’t have to pay her. Delle Donne has battled Lyme disease since 2008.

MARK HUMPHREY | AP PHOTO

Cole Custer celebrates after winning his first career NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday at Kentucky Speedway.

NFL, Oakley come up with face shields to protect players The league’s chief medical officer says it is designed to deal with how COVID-19 spreads

“The player feedback was integral in coming up with this design.”

By Simmi Buttar The Associated Press NEW YORK — With NFL training camps set to start at the end of the month, the league believes it is closer to one answer when it comes to player safety amid the coronavirus pandemic: face shields for the players’ helmets.

The NFL and the players’ union agreed to several protocols in a 42-page document last week, including team travel, media and treatment response. They have also updated the facilities protocol, specifically addressing training camp, using recommendations from a joint committee of doctors, trainers and strength coaches.

However, the two sides haven’t agreed on testing and screening protocols for the coronavirus.

One idea suggested by the union’s medical director, Dr. Thom Mayer, to help control the spread of the virus was to have players wear face masks. The league’s engineers and a sports equipment company tested prototypes for the masks, but players shot it down.

“We’ve had a real robust discussion around it that stretches back a number of months,” said Dr. Allen Sills, the league’s chief medical

Dr. Jeff Crandall, chairman of the NFL’s Engineering Committee

OAKLEY VIA AP

Sketches show the new face shield designed by Oakley, which the NFL believes will help protect players from contracting COVID-19. officer. “From the start, the NFL Players Association, their medical advisers, their engineers have been engaged with us. We’ve also had dialogue with players along the way trying to look at early prototypes and developments.”

The face shield was designed by Oakley, which already provides visors for the players.

“We have well over 700 players that used the visors last year,” said Renie Anderson, chief revenue officer and executive vice president of NFL Partnerships.

The face shield has received a better response than the mask suggestion.

“The player feedback was integral in coming up with this design,” said Dr. Jeff Crandall, chairman of the NFL’s Engineering Committee. “They (Oakley) would start with this design and say: ‘Do you like this one better or this one?

How’s your field of view on this one?’

“At the end, they did have feedback from players. This was their choice for the players they’ve eval-

uated so far. I think each player is going to have an evaluation for themselves in terms of exactly how they favor one concept versus another.”

Crandall said Oakley came up with the design, which Sills noted was made to deal with how the virus spreads.

“Just like any face shield or facemask for that matter, you’re thinking about the aerosolization of droplets and the spread of it via that mechanism, which is starting to be recognized as the more important mode of transmission.”

Given sports’ shutdown in March because of COVID-19, this will be the first season that NFL players try to get ready on the field after conducting minicamps virtually during the offseason.

“We often say physical distance and football don’t go together, pretty impossible to keep 6 feet apart on the field, so that causes you to look for other innovations which could possibly be a flag bearer, and we think this falls into that category,” Sills said.

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Stanly County ‘The Last Dance’ directorChamber talks project Classic golf on Jordan’s Bulls tournament set for Aug. 19

The 10-part documentary will air over five Sundays

By Tim Reynolds The event was originally The Associated Press scheduled for June 3 JASON HEHIR was a kid in the stands in Boston Garden onBy April 20,Deal 1986, the day that Jesse Michael Jordan scored a playoff-record Stanly County Journal 63 points.

It was a ChristmasALBEMARLE gift from his father, — who Originalstuck a note promising “Two tickets to Air postly scheduled for Junethe 3 but Jordan Show” in his stocking that holiday seaponed due to safety precautions, son. It’s a gift Hehir will neverCounty for- Chamber Clasthe Stanly get, though his current seat for sic golf tournament is back on another Jordan show of sorts is Club’s summer Piney Point Golf considerably better.schedule.

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York Giants in 1995.

“It limits the “Normally, to doly an hourlong archival docilar events, HBCU players may looked at it as his best shot to aclation of the NCAA Tournament County Chamber of Commerce, The announcement came afwe can’t seeing umentary from start to finish, it takes about be hit hardest without them and pro scouts from actually complish NFL dream. and schools across the country through email (sandy@stanlyter a meeting of the Pac-12 his CEO to hit lookwith massive a year from of the or idea to the(704-982reSouth compete.” have been bud- the inception chamber.org) phone Group on Friday andThe a day afterCarolina State se- the Regional Combine Invita- these guys one-on-one, at them and physically place eyes search to doing all the shooting to getting it all tional that HBCU players in renior receiver had the dates cirget shortfalls as college sports re8116). the Big Ten opted to eliminate of on thehold. questogether, storyboarding it out, mapping it out, cled for on all hisfall calendar. First, the cent years had previously used to on them. To get some main Piney Point Golf Club has been nonconference games De’Montrez PAUL SANCYA | AP PHOTO up close and pertions answered editing, notes back, it takes about premier a Bulldogs’ annual pro day on boost their draft stock.

Stanford eliminated 11 of getting its one of Stanly County’s sports. sonal.”

Hehir doing 10since of those.

And you’reand coming out of will an only followed week lat- like“When Burroughs, 36 varsity sports thisyear,” week and said. “We’re golf courses it opened in “The health andMarch safety 19, of our Big aTen schools Ohio State Michigan play Aside from getting a chance to we had a little bit over two years to do it so we’re HBCU, you know that the teams er by the first-ever NFL combine South Carolina and all those teams from their own conference in 2020. at least 171 four-year schools have 1964. Four years ago, Piney Point student-athletes and comalready working atupgraded five times our normalwith rate.”the inevent heldconfor draft prospects are going to be looking at Divi- run the 40-yard dash eliminated sports during the its greens connected to Pac-12 sports State receiver and agility The pandemic further complicates matters.

Black Colleges sion I talent first,” said Kansas plete other strength pandemic. stallation of Champion Bermuda tinues to be our from No. Historically 1 priorifrom the Hehir and his teamgrass are finishing things up whilea more Chiefs defensive back Alex drills in front of scouts and Universities who didn’t re- City A shift to conference-only in an effort to provide options for fall sports. ty,” Pac-12 Commissioner Lar- weighing players were through Zoom meetings Brown, a SC State alum. “With NFL’s 32 franchises, ceive invitations to the national the schedules will likely separated, have a rip-connecting well-rounded putting surface that Wednesday, Ivy League ry Scott said in a statement.

“Our On to of get the chance to interlargely ateasily their maintained. own laptops to this HBCU combine, dif-andgoing Indianapolis.

“Thethat’s health safety ple across the college but sports land-in isolation can be became the first Division I condecisions have andcombine will be in guidget the last pieces of the story ready to air. wish we had that when view with team executives Heand left for spring break the ferent. scape. on the ference to suspend all fallI sports ed by science and data, based our student-athletes andofall first day the HBCU combine The documentary goes deeper than just 1997I was coming out.

It was gonna week before his pro day with evSmaller schools that rely on upon the trends and indicators until at least January, leaving event.

98, though that season is the overriding theme. be a chance to have all the teams erything ready to go.

He had film those connected to Pac-12 revenue from guarantee football over the past days, it has become open the possibility of moving Teams are still conducting inIt also serves as a retrospective of Jordan’s baslooking at those guys.” packages to distribute to scouts. games against Power Five schools clear that we need to provide our- some sports to the spring if the sports continues to be our and video con- millions ketball college daysto atbe North Onlycontrol. four HBCU players were terviews by phonecould He wasflexibilialso thinking about is what “It’s going funCaroout be shorted oflife, dol-from his pandemic under better selves with maximum ferencing, but those are capped No. 1 priority.” lina through his rise atop the NBA. selected in the 2019 draft with a he would say in interviews with lars.

The Pac-12’s decision covers ty to schedule, and to delay any there on the greens playing agent Au- Five schools Hehir knows there is an ongoing buildup and predraft process, though 32 at three per week, said representatives NFL men’s teamsandfull Non-Power refootball, women’s socmovement to the next phase of re- from with some friends and Wiggins, ceive whose clients of thousands anticipation made Week 1 rosters. and what to askcer idols Pro volleyball. hundreds of surrounding the documentary, and andlike women’s Conturn-to-play activities.”

Larry Scott, Pac-12gustine include Burroughs. still feels nervousness.

He met winning with Jordan The 51 players invited to the Football Hall of Famer Deion hopefully it.”sevdollars to more than $1 million Two hours later, the Pac-12 an- ference-only schedules will be Ccommissioner “It’s harder to garner intereral times over the course of the project, includHBCU combine were trying to Sanders, who would be there. from guarantee games to fund announced no later than July 31. nounced that Scott had tested est and understand where the ining three sit-down interviews that are part of position themselves to do the “It was a chance to be able to their athletic departments. GuarThe conference is also delaypositive for COVID-19 and was Joey Vaughan terest is for clients than in years the documentary. same.

The list also included Florshowcase our talent,” Burroughs ing the start of mandatory ath- come more positive. Athletes antee-game revenue can account under self-quarantine.

Wiggins a slightly hope that people will like it as much as we ida aA&M University said.

“Just because weactivities are from until for“It’s more than 5% of a“I school’s choose not topast,” participate insaid. letic series of whoquarterback The ACC, Big 12 and Southdifferent pivot.” did,” Ryan Stanley and North Carolina smaller schools doesn’t mean we eastern conferences are still health and safety indicators be- the next academic year due to overall athletic budget. Hehir said.

Pac-12 joins Big Ten in eliminating HBCU NFL hopefuls adjust after nonconference games

canceled pro days, combine

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Undaunted, US global hospital Backup coronavirus media chief plows in Memphis worries residents ahead with changes

By Adrian Sainz By Lee TheMatthew Associated Press The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Faced WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dewith the threat of overburdened spite a barrage of criticism from hospitals, states across the country both Democrats and Republicans, are converting convention centers, the newfacilities chief of U.S. media sports and global performance is plowing changes to spaces intoahead backupwith treatment sites the Voice of America and other infor coronavirus patients. ternational broadcasters thatTenare What some Memphis, heightening concerns about their nesse, residents don’t get is why in future as independent news in orgatheir city, a shopping center the nizations. middle of a predominantly black, Although residential Agency for Globlow-income neighboral Media chief chosen. executive Michael hood has been Pack Congress that Cityhas andassured state officials are conVOA and its an sister networks will cerned that influx of patients remain independent andaspledged from Memphis, as well nearby he would Arkansas consult lawmakers Mississippi, and rural on significant willdevelopments, west Tennessee, strain hospilast initiated personnel tals. week Their he fears are echoed across changes and began a review of vithe country: Governors, mayors sas foreign employees. andfor health experts in numerous Someare fearalso the moves will damstates researching and age the institution’s constructing makeshift credibilimedical ty and its ability to fulfill its confacilities. gressionally mandated mission to In New York City, they’re turnbroadcast impartial news around ing to the Javits Center convention the by turning the operasite;world in Chicago, the McCormick tion a propaganda Placeinto Convention Center;machine and in for President Trump.AmerOthSandy, Utah, Donald the Mountain ers, though, see them as important ica Expo Center. andThe long-needed U.S. Armyreforms.

Corps of EngiPackhas onbeen Wednesday the neers scouting fired locations executive editorandof officials Radio Free in Tennessee, here Asia, Bay Fang, awhom dehave compiled list ofhe35had possimoted from sites. president after ble backup Theyshortly haven’t reassuming A day leased theoffice wholelast list,month. but Gov. Bill earlier, Pack installed a South Carolina politician to run the Open Technology Fund, which works to provide secure internet access to people around the world.

In addition, Pack launched a case-by-case review of visas for foreign agency employees, many of whom bring critical language skills needed to communi-

nity volunteer Homer Osborne quickly transported to a hospital said he understands the need to should their conditions worsen.

Memphis officials said the Gatehelp coronavirus patients, but he questions why officials chose way site was put on the list in response to a request from the state’s Gateway.

“There are a lot of poor people coronavirus team to identify large, in this neighborhood that come available buildings where an alterhere and shop,” said Osborne, who nate treatment facility could be lowas buying food at the center for cated.

“The task of finding space to a home delivery service he’s providing during the virus outbreak. shelter hundreds of potential pa“People won’t want to come over tients is not one of choice but nehere. It’s just going to kill this cessity,” the officials said in a statement. area.”

“The president, the For Nutbush residents, their He also cited a widespread fear American people, and of being unnecessarily exposed to fear of contracting the virus is the Senate asked me to matched with the worry that they the virus.

“All around, people are scared,” could lose stores that are vital to make bold and meaningful the neighborhood. Officials hahe said. changes.”

Their fears are not unfounded. ven’t said if stores would close if In this majority-black city along the Gateway facility was opened. the Mississippi River, lawmakers If they did, shopping would beMichael Pack, Agency for Global and community leaders have been come more difficult for residents, Media CEO sounding the alarm over what they especially for those who are old or see as a disturbing trend of the vi- have no means of transportation rus killing African Americans at a to stores located farther away. cate with the foreign populations “For people who don’t have a higher rate. that are the primary audiences for Nutbush resident Patricia Har- car, what do they do?” asked HarAGM broadcasts. Although the reris wondered aloud if city officials ris, who spoke to The Associated view is not complete and no visa were “trying to contaminate” the Press while lugging a bottle of deactions have yet been taken, some tergent, a package of bottled waneighborhood. believe the review itself sends a Activist Earle Fisher, an Afri- ter and other items from the Save ADRIAN SAINZ | AP PHOTO chilling message to journalists. can American Memphis pastor, A Lot to her car. She noted that a As Friday, those moves were happenunderstands the anxiety. “This grocery store recently closed near This April 3, 2020 photo, shows Gateway Shopping Center ing, the agency on Thursday pubis an honest and reasonable con- her house and she already has to in Memphis, Tenn. licly boasted of removing the Iracern and skepticism,” Fisher said. travel farther to get to Gateway. nian and North Korean flags from “When we do things, we’ve “I think it’s par for the course for aLee display at its Washington the people in the has disclosed a few: theheadMu- a Chinese restaurant and other black people to be righteously got to consider ANDREW HARNIK | AP PHOTO quarters, prompting questions skeptical of governmental inter- neighborhood,” she said. “We don’t sic City Center in Nashville, the businesses. about the priorities of its new In Locating this Junea15, 2020, file photo, Voice ofthat America building stands Washington, to makeD.C. the neighborhood did not consult with in need treatment center forthe vention Chattanooga Convention Center, leadership at a tumultuous in coronavirus patients there pos- people on the ground first.” worse than it already is.” the Knoxville Expo Centertime — all world events amid rising tensions U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a MemDoug McGowen, the city’s chief sites away from residential neigh- es two problems, residents say: management issues of Florida, Lindsey of widely-known defended the moves as them nec- bio between phis Democrat, said the decision operating officer, said Graham the GateIt could potentially expose borhoods.the U.S. and China and has have long beleaguered USCarolina, Susan Collinsbeof that reforming the agency, disputes over howShopping to handleCenthe essary doesn’t make sense. way site was being considered to the to virus amid concerns that South The Gateway turn,are its institutions.

Jerry Moran ofaccomKan- AGM have long COVID-19 said is be- Maine coronavirus pandemic.

“I’mand, sureinthere other places cause itand could potentially blacks critics are contracting ter in the Nutbush neighborhood which “During confirmation profor ahundreds week, when he sent po- that by bureaucratic journalisof today, the flags ofcenre- set would the work, and they should modate of beds.

Hea said at higher rates; andand it could force sas of “As Memphis is different.

The pledged to respect firm reply that he was cess, issues. gimes hostilea to America no lon- tic have Iused those rather and thanprogo if it but were converted to asaid treatment some of the stores they rely on to lite ter features Save A Lot grocery independence of the USwhat he had hired Democrats, who suspect Pack only ger fly ain Rent-A-Center, the halls @USAGMgov, into the a residential neighborhood,” site, doing it would hold onlybeen mildly ill tect store, a Fami- close. and I stand by do. to promote Trump over to the taxpayer-funded U.S. wants Cohenjournalists, said. coronavirus patients who could be AGM Nutbush resident and commuly Dollar, a beauty home supplyofshop, “The president, the Ameri- that pledge,” he said. “I also wish international broadcasting,” the broader American values and inagency’s public relations bureau terests, as well as some Republi- can people, and the Senate asked to reiterate my firm committweeted. The post included before cans have demanded explanations me to make bold and meaningful ment to honoring the VOA Charand after photos of the flag dis- for his abrupt dismissal of the changes,” he wrote in his July 8 re- ter and to supporting the missions play and the hashtags: “#Ameri- heads of Radio Free Europe/Ra- sponse, a copy of which was ob- of the other USAGM networks ca” “#freedom” and “#SpotTheDif- dio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Mid- tained by The Associated Press. and our heroic journalists around dle East Broadcasting Networks “Indeed, throughout the confir- the world. As an agency, through ference.” mation process, and in the weeks accurate and reliable reporting, Pack, a conservative filmmak- and the Open Technology Fund.

Pack did not respond to a letter since taking the helm, I made we have to get the truth to those er and associate of former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon, from Republican Sens. Marco Ru- clear my commitment to fixing the starved for it.”

OPEC, oil nations agree to nearly 10M barrel cut The Associated Press

bin Salman, a son of King Salman, assented to the deal.

“I go with the consent, so I agree,” the prince said, chuckling, drawing a round of applause from those on the video call.

Group, employs 1,000 workers at But it had not been smiles and his three theme parks. About 150 laughs for weeks after the soof those are usually J-1 visa holders called OPEC+ group of OPEC but none came this year. members and other nations failed Lazarus agrees with Trump’s efin March to reach an agreement forts to crackdown on illegal imon production cuts, sending pricmigration but admits the J-1 ban es tumbling. Saudi Arabia sharply “baffles me.” There aren’t enough criticized Russia days earlier over students to fill seasonal jobs in what it described as comments Myrtle Beach, he said, and worries critical of the kingdom, which the ban will hurt the fragile econfinds itself trying to appease omy.

Trump, a longtime OPEC critic.

“Our revenues are going to be Even U.S. senators had warned down because we are cutting our Saudi Arabia to find a way to hours and they will be down beboost prices as American shale cause we can’t open all the amenifirms face far-higher production ties that everyone has,” he said. costs. American troops had been SAUDI ENERGY MINISTRY The shortage, however, has been deployed to the kingdom for the eased somewhat byMinister the pandemfirst time since the Sept. 11, 2001, In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, of ic’s continued impact on the at tourattacks over concerns of Irani- Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairs a virtual summit of the Group of 20 energy ministers isma industry. an retaliation amid regional ten- his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to coordinate response to plummeting oil In Myrtle bars, theaters sions. prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in global demand due toBeach, the pandemic. and larger venues are still shut“They’ve spent over the last CHRIS CARLSON | AP PHOTO tered and visitor numbers are month waging war on American Mark Lazarus, thewe president and owner of Lazarus Entertainment poses picture, Andrés down. praise. Maine, too, is not seeing the deal butfor itsapresident, that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia andGroup, oil producers while are defendThursday, July is 9,not 2020, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Arab Emirates would Manuel López Obrador, had said widespread “The purelabor size ofshortage, the cut issince unthe United ing theirs. This howinfriends is a fraction of again, what the precedented, but, then so treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin cut another 2 million barrels of Friday that he had agreed with business in a normal summer. is is thesees impact the coronavirus Cramer, a Republican from North oil a day between them atop the Trump that the U.S. will compen- state Otheronbusinesses business that cannot you canadd think in thedeal. hospitality industry amid sonal employers are just to have demand,” are saidsoldiering Mohamsate what Mexico to having OPEC+ The three countries Dakota, before thegoing OPEC+ deal.to job and adjusting to the new realiwhatevercuts. part of the country on pandemic.

Rising housing prices of up U.S. their producers game in recruitment be- adid med Ghulam, an energy analyst at theinproposed not immediately acknowledge have already In Hampton, really hard ty. a lack of child care amid cause there areoutput.

20 million Raymond James.New Hampshire, bigbeen Oil hurt Dealterribly with OPEC thewell cutasthemselves, though Zan- has“The been reducing The people Amer- as haveand hired relatives and this,” Carchidi said. pandemic alsothe pose hurdles. who unemployed whom laudthey the But Ghulam others worried Plus is done.

This will save hun- businesses ganeh attended video confer- by ican are Petroleum Institute working longer hours. Some The of ban has left seasonal Mark Carchidi, whose compa- dreds could be drawing from.” it may not be enough. thousands of energybusijobs are ed Sunday’s global pact, saying it ence. ableisto studentsreto scrambling to Trump fill openAntioch said Associates USA II cuts Inc. nesses Hardest hit other by thenations’ ban are beach “This at hire leastlocal a temporary in the United States,” said were other planned will help get state- ny Officials the energy visa holders. as “I economies aretorestartpaperwork for H-2B vi- ings communities and mountain lief for the industry and for in a just tweet. would like thank replace would stand in the deal, meaning owned oil production to followgetthe processes have aeconomy. group of kids that are forcedPresident to scale back the East Coast, said busiaways and down thethat Eastare Coast This now industry and Many congratulate Pu- the“Iglobal an on 8-million-barrel-per-day cut ing. lead ofup U.S. producers try- sas 17-years-old amenities or close comhe works with from Hampshire to nesses is too big to be letreplacing to fail andthe theJ-1s altin of and Russia and King Salman of are from July through thewere end countof the hours ing toparts adjustoftoNew plunging demand. who hopefully be here forwith the anaadditional 30,000cut visas Myrtle Beach, said South Carolina. liance showed will responsibility Saudi Arabia.” yearon and 6-million-barrel for pletely.

Brouillette the U.S. did not ing five years,” said Tom In Myrtle Beach,said businesses only next year beyond the in66,000 Businesses said they want hire this this agreement,” said PerMcGuirk, Magnus The Kremlin President 16 months beginning 2021. almake commitments of itsto own ownsthe a hotel restaurant a fraction of the 3,000 J-1 and allowed under the Americans arebut in regions with Nysveen, headand of analysis at Vladimir Putin held a joint call who “This will enable theprogram. rebalanc- got productionbut cuts, was able to ready wasEnergy. able to “Even replacethough seven the J-1 visas they were expecting, than tiny pools that are no match ingMore Rystad with Trump and Saudi King Sal- and of the oil 108,000 markets J-1 andsummer the ex- H-2B showlabor the obvious — that plunging workerscuts with who to Stephen Greene,ofprestravel visas of were issued for the millions of of tourists visiting work production areteenagers smaller than man to express support the visa pected rebound prices by last $15 according demand because the pandemshuttered movie the& also CEOsaid of the Myrtle Beach according the term,” State said De- ident each summer. to Companies face year, what theinmarket needed and only deal. It Putin spoke sep- worked per barrel in theto short ic is expected slash U.S.also oil proand the camps.

“That is exactly Hospitality Association. but only so far this the challenge of convincing unem- partment, postpone stock building conarately with Trump about the oil aters a statement from1,787 Nigeria’s oil Area duction. we problem, have been from Markand Lazarus, president and what ployed workers, many who areZanstill year. straints themissing worst is for market otherthe issues. ministry.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan for the past few years.” of Lazarus Entertainment “Any seasonal areablocked or sea- owner collecting federal to take a nowmarket avoided.”

Analysts offered cautious the Mexico had resort initially ganeh also toldbenefits, state television

As beach towns open, businesses are short foreign workers DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations on Sunday finalized an unprecedented proBy Michael duction cutBalsamo of nearly 10 million The Associated Press barrels, or a 10th of global supply, in hopes of boosting crashing pric— At this time of the es BOSTON amid the coronavirus pandemic year, Fisherman and aThe priceFriendly war, officials said. on Cape Codcould is usually bustling “This be the largestwith reforeign students clearing tables duction in production from OPEC and helping prepare orders of clam for perhaps a decade, maybe lonstrips or fishU.S. and Energy chips. Secretary ger,” said But Brouillette, because of a freeze visas, Dan who on credited Janet Demetri won’t Trump’s be employing President Donald perthe 20involvement or so workers summer. sonal inthis getting duelSo the crowds rush back, ingasparties to the table andDemehelptri worka with ingmust to end pricenine waremployees between for herArabia restaurant and market — Saudi and Russia. forcing her tohave shutter the business Oil prices collapsed as the twice a week. and the COVID-19 coronavirus The Trump anillness it causesadministration have largely haltnounced month it was exed globallast travel andthat slowed down tending a ban on green cards and other energy-chugging sectors adding temporary visas to such asmany manufacturing.

It has the freeze, including J-1 culturdevastated the oil industry in al visasnow andpumps H-2B visas. theexchange U.S., which more Businesses forestry to fishercrude thanfrom any other country. ies But to hospitality dependhave on these some producers been visas, though theresupply. are exceptions reluctant to ease The carfor processing tel the andfood other nations sector. on Sunday The move wasMexico billed astoacut chance agreed to allow only to free upbarrels 525,000 jobs to aAmer100,000 a month, stickicans hardfor hitanbyaccord the economic ing point initially downturn.

Supporters immigrareached Friday after of a marathon tion have hailed the23 move videoreform conference between naand it should be easy to tions.insisted The nations together agreed find Americans to bus tablesa and to cut 9.7 million barrels day sell souvenirs atand popular throughout May June. tourist destinations.

The group reached the deal just “The before work that people on H-2B hours Asian markets revisas do Monday or on J-1and summer work opened as internatravel not somethingBrent that iscrude alien tionalis benchmark to Americans,” traded at just said overMark $31 Krikoria barrel an, director of the Center andexecutive American shale producers for Immigration Studies, which adstruggle. vocates restrictions.

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obituaries

Jason Efird

Tony Smith

ASON EUGENE “GENE” EFIRD, 94, went home to be with his Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at his home in Stanfield.

ARNEST PARDEN, JR. died Gene was born October by 9, 1925, peacefully surrounded his in Cabarrus to theHe latewas Simeon family on County July 4,2020. born Jason EfirdHopson and theParden late Sarah to Elmous andElla Burris Efird.

InBarnes addition his 20, Margaret Bass onto August parents, was preceded death 1930. Hehe was preceded inin death byby his wife, Jewell Little Efird; parents, wife, Callie Maesisters, Parden, Mary Lambert, Fannie Almond, son, Danny Elmous Parden, and Minnie Furr, Wilma sister, Roszilla Scott. Burleson and Aileen and Homer He isHuskey; survived bybrothers, his daughter, Efird, Getus Efird andson Wayne Efird, Margaret Ann Foust, in law, Sr. Bob Foust of Midland, grandson, A private funeral service will beof Jeremy Lee Clark and wife Andy held on Saturday, April 11,Shannon 2020 Monroe, granddaughter, at Love’Fisher s Groveand United Methodist Nicole husband Shawn Church Cemetery in Stanfield of Salisbury, grandson, Stephen Cole officiated Rev. Jim White. Burial Parden ofby Calhoun, Louisiana, and will follow the Love’s Grove United three greatatgrandchildren, Zachary Methodist Cemetery, Lee Clark, Church Robert Tyler Clark,4360 and Polk Ford Stanfield.

Henry ColtRoad, Fisher.

Survivors include Gerald Mr. Parden will beson remembered Wayne (Gail)who Efird of Albemarle; as someone loved his children daughter Lisa Efird being (Mark) Hartsell and grandchildren, outdoors, of Stanfield; granddaughters, working in his garden, fishing, telling Kelly Barbee Lauren storiesEfird of his serviceand to his country in Hartsell (Justin) and greatthe Army, and hisCrump; life growing up in grandsons, Ianretired Patrickfrom Simmons and Louisiana. He Atrium Elliot Jacob Simmons.

Health Union in 2006 as a Security Memorials may be made to Love’s Officer.

Grove United Methodist Church, PO After a private memorial service, Box 276, 28163-0276. he will beStanfield, returnedNC to his home in Louisiana to be together with his wife, Callie, who enjoyed their lives together for 60 years.

ONY MONROE SMITH, 72, of Rockwell, NC, went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ELEN LOUISE JENKINS on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at SMETTS, 99, of Oakboro, his home surrounded by family.NC, A went to family be withservice her Lord Savior private willand be held. on Monday, July 6, 2020.

Online condolences can be made at Helen was born May 26, 1921 stanlyfuneralhome.com in Franklin, toAugust the late11, William Tony was PA born 1947 Cummings and the Mabel in Stanly County to late the late Pearlie Cummings.

Asbury Smith and Emmer Lee She was alsothe preceded in death Smith.

He was son in law of Pat by her firstCagle husband, John Allen at and Mick where he worked Jenkins, Jr.; her the fish house forsecond many husband, years until Jesse Raymond Smetts; son, John he opened Anchor House Seafood Daniel Jenkins; well herBecky sister, in Rockwell.

Heas and hisaswife Mary ownedShupe. and operated Anchor House include daughters, forSurvivors 25 years before retiring in 2009.

Sue andahusband Cecil of Mr. Barbee Smith was charter member Oakboro, NC; Vasquez and and deacon at Brenda Open Door Baptist husband of Matthews, Church inAngel Richfield.

He lovedNC; the Rebecca of Mebane, NC; Tony Lord andBeatty his family abundantly. grandchildren, Joseph Jenkins, was a wonderful husband, father, and Emily Vasquez, and grandfather andLaura couldWalton fix anything husband David he put hisJosh, hands on. Barbee and wife Meredith, andisKristopher as Mr. Smith survived byBeatty; his wife well asCagle great-grandsons, Becky Smith of theBenjamin home, and Walton. sonsJake Walter Smith and Robbie Helen proudlyKayla servedHenderson in the Smith; daughter United States Marine Corps during (Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, World She Smith, retired Keaton from Dustin,War andII. Steele Pneumafil Corp afterbrother 35 yearsDavid of and Ella Henderson; employment. was an active Smith; sisters Helen Kay Kriechbaum, member of her church, Karen Stevenson, Rubywhere Eudy, and she served in many offices. She Dorothy Smith (Nick). wasHe a devoted wife,inmother and is preceded death by grandmother.

HelenWayne was dearly brothers Joe Smith, Smith, loved bySmith, her family, all Claude Wadefriends Smith,and Robert those Smith,who andknew sisterher.

Mary Morris.

Memorial contributions can be made to Open Door Baptist Church at 44563 Hwy 52, Richfield, NC 28137 or to Hospice & Palliative Care of Cabarrus County at 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

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Randy Spivey

Danny Luther

Jerry Fincher

ERLE LORRAINE AUSTIN HELMS, 72, of Marshville, passed away Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at McWhorter Hospice House UMMER BREANN MAIDEN, in Monroe.

27, of Albemarle passed away on born April 28, 1947 JulyLorraine 7, 2020.was A memorial service incelebrate Monroe to the Homer to her lifelate will be heldDavid at Austin and Jewell Delphia-Jane 1:00PM on Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at Austin. She wasBaptist also preceded Mountain View Church.inThe death by brothers, A.D. and Teddy family will receive friends following Austin; and sister, Joy Austin. the service.

The family will receive Summer was born July friends 25, 1992 from 6:00 pmto-the 8:00 pm, Friday, in Albemarle late Kenneth April 10, and 2020Lisa at Hartsell Funeral Maidene Huneycutt Home of Albemarle.

Maidene.

She always The had funeral a smile on service at 11:00 on her facewill andbe never met aam stranger.

Saturday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Summer was artistic, loving, and Church Marshville, she lovedinanimals.

Herofficiated laughter and

by Rev. John Miller and Rev. Leon smile will be missed the most.

Feliz Whitley.

She will lie in state for 30 Navidad! minutes prior to the She will She is survived by service. her sister be laid to rest in the church cemetery.

Kimberly Baucom ( Daniel) of Mt. She is survived her beloved Pleasant; brothers:by Christopher husband (Elizabeth) of 47 years, of Paul Helms Maidene New London, of the home; son, Alex (Deanna) Kenneth Maiden, Jr. (Toni) of Helms ofMA, Pageland; daughter, Paula Gardner, Mitchell Huneycutt of (Cristin Brandt) Helms of Mintand Hill; Winston Salem; several nieces grandchildren, Grant, and nephews as wellMason, as special nephews Raeganand Helms; brothers, Boyce, Easton Jayson.

Royce, Tim Austin; and sisters, Stanly Funeral and Cremation Patricia Mullis, and Tarleton.

Care of Albemarle is Angel serving the Memorials Maiden family.may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 4600 Park Rd., Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209.

ANNY PAUL LUTHER, 65, of Norwood, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, April 9, 2020ANIEL at Atrium Health Stanly in LEE WILLIAMS Albemarle. passed away at Tucker Hospice Mr. Luther born March House on Julywas 10, 2020, at 9:3027, am 1955 theoflate at thetoage 58.Robert Fulton and Helen Tucker Luther. by Father, Daniel is predeceased Danny was survived by his wife, Charles Williams; Mother, Margaret Denise Burleson Luther of Norwood; Williams; Son, Nicholas Williams. sons, Jeremy (Karen)by Luther and Daniel is survived his loving Jody Luther; step-sons, Bryan wife Joyce Williams.

Whitley Gregg (Anita) Whitley; Danieland is lovingly remembered Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and by honorary brother, David Wilson Hunter well as hisWilliams; brother, and wifeZado, Julie;assister, Beth Bob Luther (Lorena), uncle Jack sister, RosieJr Williams and husband Luther and several other loved Richard; daughter, Lindsay nieces, nephews cousins.

Williams;and daughter, Heidi Williams; Danny Jessica recentlyCunningham retired from daughter, Charlotte PipePhill; and Foundry and husband son, Johnafter Eric aGillis dedicated 37 years worked and wife Callie;and honorary there withWilson his sons and several other son, Josh and wife Cierra; friends and familyJayden, members. granddaughters, Jordan, and Danny loved spending time at Josie; Grandsons, Ian, August, and his lake house with his family Hugo; cousin, Debbie Sillery. and friends as Lee wellWilliams as vacationing with his Daniel was born family.

DannyIndiana and Denise enjoyed1, in Lafayette, on January listening beachas music and loved to 1962. Heto worked a construction shag danceDaniel every enjoyed chance they could manager. boating, get.

He was an amazing father, yard work, tinkering, watching loving DIY grandfather and great to shows, electronics, andfriend spending many.

He will never forgotten. time with family andbe friends.

A celebration of life will be announced once the current COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

Hartsell Funeral Home of Albemarle is serving the Luther family.

ERRY FINCHER passed from this life on April 3, 2020 at 8:05 pm. He was surrounded by his family GROVER andAMES holding the handBURRIS, of the loveSr., of Albemarle, passed away his86, life.ofJerry is preceded in death Saturday July 11, two 2020 at the Tucker by three siblings, brothers, Billy Hospice House, Kannapolis, NC. His Gilbert Fincher, and Larry Richard gravesideand service will beBarbra held 10am Fincher, one sister, Joyce Wednesday July 15, 2020 at Mt. Moore.

View Church Cemetery with HeBaptist is survived by his wife, Eleanor Rev. Don Crusenberry officiating.

Kate Fincher of the home, daughter, There Fincher will be aJacobs casual of drop in at Cindy Wingate Stanly Funeral and Cremation of NC., son and daughter in law, Tommy Albemarle between the hours of (Tiffany) Fincher of New London5pm untilStep 8pmChildren, on Tuesday evening.

NC., Jimmy (Lisa) Mr. Burris wasNC, born July 6,(Bob) 1934, Lanier of Locust Wanda in Stanly County, NC, to the late Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric Ira Alexander Burris and Theresa (Sharon) Lanier of Charlotte NC., Hatley Burris. He retired from CK Grandchildren-Trey (Gera) Whitson Earnhart as a Foreman.

James of Midland, Step-grandchildren, was a(Brittney) member of Mt. View Baptist Zach Washington, Aaron Church and was a Veteran the (Kinsey) Washington, Calebof(Nayeli) Air National Guard.

He loved the Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, outdoors and mowing his yard.

Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Step James is preceded Britlyn-Eve in death by his great-grandchildren, wife Joyce Verdie Almond Washington, Robert Setzer,Burris George on March 26,Tracy 2015 and a son James (Sara) Setzer, (Rob) Setzer G. Burris, Jr on May 22, 1989.

Mr. Bumgardener, Katie Underwood, Burris isUnderwood, survived by two Andrew Stepdaughters, great Marcia Vanpelt (David) Winston great grandchild, WaylonofGeorge Salem, NC and Donna Almond Sides Setzer and brother Donald Lewis (Alex) ofof Albemarle, NC, brother Fincher Albemarle, NC. Kenneth Burris of Albemarle, Jerry Fincher will be laid to NC, rest on two sisters Betty Napier Pat am Wednesday April 8,2020and at 11:00 Shaver (Darrell) of Albemarle, at Canton Baptistall Church.

AnyoneNC and numerous grandchildren interested in attending, pleaseand RSVP great grandchildren. at 704-796-2412.

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AULINE ELIZABETH ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passed away peacefully at Trinity Place, Albemarle, NC on April 11, 2020.

Pauline was born on March 22, GLENCounty, SPIVEY passed 1922ANDY in Cabarrus NC to the away peacefully at home onAlice July late John Richard Almond and 8th at 1:30Lambert am afterAlmond. a long fought Ada Ann battle Randy 54 years Sheto is cancer. survived by herwas three old. daughters, Gay Michel (Jack), Mr. Spivey was born inRushing Norwood Oak Island, NC; Pamela on May 29th, 1966 theNC; sonKathy of Fred (Foreman), Oakboro, and Marlene He graduated Hunt (Marc),Spivey.

Albemarle, NC; her fromChris SouthTucker Stanly(Chris High Lear), School. son, Being a lifelong lover of cars, Washington, DC. She will beRandy greatly and brother, owned Spivey’s missed by herBrian five grandchildren, AutoshopRushing in Albemarle. also was Heather ChaneyHe (Shannon), known for his many achievements Michael Rushing, Elizabeth Michelin derbys and racingJack all over the state.

Hartzog (Craig), Michel, Jr. He wasand a loving husband, brother, (Jenn), Woody Hunt as well as fathergreat-grandchildren. and friend to all that She knew seven also and cherished him. His smile leaves behind cherished niecesand and humor could light up any room. He nephews. is preceded inexpresses death by his parents, The family its sincere brothers Bobby and Scott Spivey, gratitude to the staff and caregivers sister Rebecca at Trinity PlaceBurris, for the son careRandy they Jr Spivey, and daughter Kristi Spivey. provided Pauline.

Heprivate is survived by hisservice wife Lea A graveside will be Spivey Albemarle, held onof Monday, Aprildaughter 13, 2020. A Stacy Gafford and husband Kevin celebration of Pauline’ s life and legacy of Lincolnton, son Chris Spivey of will be held this summer.

Albemarle, Aaron In lieu ofand flowers, theSpivey familyof Albemarle, a brother requests donations beBrian madeSpivey to the of Norwood, six nieces and BrightFocus Foundation at two www. nephews. brightfocus.org.

Merle Helms

L S Joyce King OYCE BOONE KING, 87, Shirley of Albemarle, passed away Jpeacefully onHaire Friday, July 10, 2020 at Woodhaven Court.

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Mrs. KingMAE was born June 73, 15, 1933 HIRLEY HAIRE, in Stanly Countypassed to the late Arlie of Albemarle away on Robert the late Bessie April 11,Boone 2020 and at Atrium Health Nola Boone.

She was preceded Stanly.

The family willalso hold a private in death by husband, GaryHaire.

O. King. graveside service for Mrs. Mrs.was King willDecember lie in state 12, from Shirley born 1:00 - 5:00 PM onDC Sunday, 1946PM in Washington, to the July 12, at Hartsell Home late2020 Charles RichardFuneral Bateman and of Albemarle. gravesideBateman. service will Elizabeth MaeAMulligan be Shirley held onisMonday, 13, 2020 at survivedJuly by her husband 11:00 AM atVaughn Pleasant Grove of 30 years Smith ofBaptist Church Cemetery at 17236 Frog Albemarle; sister Sandra Painter Pond Road, Oakboro officiated by of Gainesville, VA; half-brother Pastor Hatley.

RobertAdam Bateman of Stevensville, Survivors includeHeather daughter, MD; step-children Smith Marla (Daniel) Lukach; son, Robert of Jacksonville, FL and David (Dondee) King; grandsons, Smith of New London, NC; Mike 4 (Amanda) Lukach, Jake Lukach, step-grandchildren; nieces Cyndi and Austinof(Megan) King; Hentschel Leesburg, VA greatand grandchildren, Lilly Cheryl Hardy ofAddie Aylett,Lukach, VA; 16 grandLukach, Ellison King,and andGus Khithe nieces and nephews; McRae. dog. Stanly Funeral and Cremation A very special thank you for Care of Albemarle is serving thethe loving care of Woodhaven Court and Haire family.

Hospice of Stanly County.

HIRLEY ANN WATTS Albemarle, passed awaySHAW, Monday, 84,13, of Stanfield April 2020. passed away on JulyLinda 10, 2020 by her was surrounded born September 18, loving 1950 infamily.

Concord to the late Jacob and HerTucker. funeral She service held Claris waswill alsobepreceded on Monday, Julybrother, 13, 2020 at 1:30 in death by her Terry Lee PM in the Stanly Funeral Home Tucker, and her twin sister, Brenda Chapel (501 N. Central Locust, Tucker Strickland.

We Ave. know Brenda NC with Landon Keziah and28097) Linda are inRev. Heaven watching officiating. family will receive over us andThe laughing. friends from tomother, 1 PM prior to Linda was11a AM loving sister, the private will andservice.

“Nana.”AShe wasgraveside a very giving be atloving Sunsetperson.

Memory Gardens in and Linda would Mint Hill, NC. always do anything she could for Shirley was born others, especially herOctober family. 15, She1935 in Charlotte NC to late Ernest enjoyed working atthe FastShop #5, Watts, and the Ruby Tanner Locust.Sr., Linda willlate be forever loved Watts.

In addition and greatly missed.to her parents, Shirley is preceded inher death Survivors include son,by her husband Andrew Shaw, Jr; sonof Alan Hatley and wife, Angela, William Shaw, and brother Albemarle; brother, RonnieErnest Tucker Watts, Jr. She is survived by her and wife, Linda, of Midland; sons, Thomas (TyJuana) and Steven granddaughter, Leslie Hatley; 1 (Ruth) Shaw; daughters, Cindy niece; and 2 nephews.

Shaw, (Troy) Huneycutt, and TheTrina family will receive friends Tina Hall; 13 grandchildren, from(Chris) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Thursday, and great-grandchildren.

April1416, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Shirley was a faithful member Home in Albemarle.

Linda will of Church in Locust beCommunity laid to rest during a private and was a former the committal servicemember at BethelofUnited Stanfield Council.

She cherished MethodistCity Church, Midland. every moment with her family.

Her a In lieu of flowers, please consider faith and her family to were always memorial donation Bethel UMC, nearest to her heart.

12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, NC 28107.

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AULINE PAGE TROUTMAN, 96, of Albemarle, passed away Monday, July 6, 2020 at Bethany Woods Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Albemarle.

Mrs.Troutman was born January 30, 1924 in Stanly County to the late George Columbus Page and the late Vergie Almer Page. She was also preceded in death by husband, Junior Harding Troutman, sisters, Tennie Page Bratton and Doralee Teeter; and brother, Floyd “Jack” Page

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STATE & NATION

Trump, Biden try to outdo each other on tough talk on China The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — China has fast become a top election issue as President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden engage in a verbal brawl over who’s better at playing the tough guy against Beijing.

“I think it’s going to be absolutely critical, but I don’t know who is going to have the advantage,” said Republican pollster Frank Luntz.

He has been reviewing the ads and thinks China is one of the three leading issues along with the economy and the handling of the coronavirus.

China is not just a foreign policy issue in the November election. It’s an issue that runs deeply through the troubles with the virus, which tanked the U.S. economy. Voters also will be asking themselves whether Trump or Biden can best defend the U.S. against China’s unfair trade practices, theft of intellectual property rights, rising aggression across the globe and human rights abuses.

“Which person looks more subservient to the Chinese leaders is the person who’s in more jeopardy,” Luntz said.

As the coronavirus spread throughout the U.S., a Pew Research Center poll in March found

“Which person looks more subservient to the Chinese leaders is the person who’s in more jeopardy.”

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Republican pollster Frank Luntz Americans with increasingly negative views of China, with 66% saying they had an unfavorable opinion. That was the most negative rating since the question was first asked in 2005. The same poll found 62% of Americans calling China’s power and influence a major threat to the U.S., compared with 48% two years ago.

A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in late May and early June found registered voters about evenly divided over which of the candidates would be better at dealing with China, with 43% saying Trump compared with 40% for Biden. In the poll, 5% viewed Trump and Biden equally, while 10% said neither would be good.

Trump’s advisers see China as an opportunity to portray Biden as deferential to Beijing when he was President Barack Obama’s vice president and point person on Asia,

In this June 29, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. according to three campaign officials and Republicans close to the White House.

The Trump campaign credits the president with signing the first phase of a trade deal with China in January, which boosted stock markets and seemingly ended a bruising trade war. Republicans want to tether Biden to past multinational agreements and trade deals blamed for an exodus of manufacturing jobs across the Midwest. It’s an argument they believe worked against Hillary Clinton when they wrestled Midwest states from the Democrats in 2016.

The White House lists more than two dozen actions the administration has taken since April to protect U.S. jobs, businesses and U.S. supply chains from damage caused by the Chinese Communist Party’s policies. That includes last

week’s move to impose sanctions on Chinese officials for their roles in repressing religious and ethnic minorities. More than a few administration officials have recently delivered speeches calling out China’s policies.

Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s senior economic advisers, kept up the drumbeat on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” saying “the Chinese Communist Party basically hit us with that deadly virus, that weaponized virus” and disrupted the U.S. economy. He suggested Beijing was using social media apps such as TikTok to steal American intellectual property as part of a plan to hurt Trump for his strong stands against China.

“Trump, buy American. Joe Biden, buy China,” Navarro said.

The Trump campaign believes that could strike a chord with the

increasing number of Americans who have an unfavorable view of the Asian power. There also is rising concern about U.S. dependence on China for supplies — something that drew attention during the scramble for protective gear for U.S. health workers.

One more line of off-and-on attack by Trump involves the business ties that Biden’s son, Hunter, has had with China.

The Biden campaign is working to portray Trump as someone who talks tough but has failed to hold China accountable for its response to the virus and has signed only the first phase of a trade deal. The campaign says that while that deal was being negotiated, Trump was saying that COVID-19 would “miraculously” be gone in April and now it’s July and cases are surging and the death toll rising.

Federal judge voids Georgia ‘heartbeat’ abortion restriction

By Jeff Amy The Associated Press ATLANTA — A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked Georgia’s 2019 “heartbeat” abortion law, finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled against the state in a lawsuit filed by abortion providers and an advocacy group. Jones had temporarily blocked the law in October, and it never went into effect.

The new ruling permanently enjoins the state from ever enforcing House Bill 481.

Georgia’s measure sought to ban abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” was present, with some limited exceptions. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women realize they’re pregnant, according to a legal challenge. The bill narrowly passed the Georgia General Assembly amid intense lobbying for and against.

Those who challenged the lawsuit said the ruling proves their contention that the measure was unconstitutional. Lead plaintiff SisterSong, an Atlanta-based group that fights abortion restrictions on behalf of African American and other women of color, called it a “huge win for bodily autonomy.”

ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION VIA AP

Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, center, signs legislation Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Atlanta, banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

“No one should have to live in a world where their bodies and reproductive decision making is controlled by the state,” SisterSong Executive Director Monica Simpson said in a statement.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who has supported the restriction, immediately vowed an appeal.

“We will appeal the court’s decision,” Kemp said in a statement.

“Georgia values life and we will keep fighting for the rights of the unborn.”

The prospects of an appeal are uncertain, though, consider-

ing the U.S. Supreme Court last month struck down other abortion restrictions from Louisiana.

Women in Georgia can currently seek an abortion during the first 20 weeks of a pregnancy.

Both the state and those challenging the law asked Jones to rule without a trial, saying there were no disputed facts. Jones granted the challengers’ motions for summary judgment and denied the state’s motions, finding the law violated the 14th Amendment.

“The court rejects the state defendants’ argument that the statu-

tory purpose solely concerns “promoting fetal well-being,’” Jones wrote. “Instead, HB 481’s specific references to Roe v. Wade and ‘established abortion related precedents’ ... lends support to plaintiffs’ argument that the purpose of H.B. 481 was to ban or de facto ban abortion.”

Jones refused to leave any parts of the law in effect, which would have also granted personhood to a fetus, giving it the same legal rights as people have after they’re born. For example, a mother could have claimed a fetus as a dependent to reduce taxes.

U.S. Supreme Court precedent has for nearly five decades held that states cannot ban abortion prior to the viability of a fetus, and since Georgia’s law does just that it is unconstitutional, the law’s opponents argued. The state argued that the law promoted fetal well-being. It was widely considered as one of a number of attempts to create fresh legal challenges to abortion after two new conservative justices were confirmed to the Supreme Court. The high court, by a 5-4 ruling on June 29, struck down another of those challenges involving regulations from Louisiana.

The legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, one of the groups that brought the lawsuit, said any appeal would

be fruitless.

“The district court blocked Georgia’s abortion ban, because it violates over 50 years of Supreme Court precedent and fails to trust women to make their own personal decisions,” Sean Young said in a statement. “This case has always been about one thing: letting her decide. It is now up to the state to decide whether to appeal this decision and prolong this lawsuit.”

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican, said he would appeal the ruling but declined further comment.

At least eight states passed so-called heartbeat bills or other sweeping bans in 2019, including Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee. South Carolina is still considering one. All of the new bans joined the fate of earlier heartbeat abortion bans from Arkansas, North Dakota and Iowa in being at least temporarily blocked by judges. Louisiana’s ban wouldn’t take effect unless a court upholds Mississippi’s law.

In a separate ruling Monday, a U.S. district judge in Tennessee blocked a Tennessee law that Republican Gov. Bill had signed hours earlier banning an abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy and prohibiting abortions based on race, sex or diagnosis of Down syndrome.

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COVID-19 testing Medical personnel assist patients at a community coronavirus testing site operated by Cone Health and the county Health Department in Burlington, N.C., Thursday, July 9, 2020. The public testing was drive-up or walk-up with no appointment needed.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Winston-Salem will not collect bulky items through end of year

Former detention officers, nurse charged in suspect’s death

By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press

Winston-Salem is suspending the collection of bulky items through the end of the year.

The city initially suspended the program indefinitely in March, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The city’s operations director said that continuing the suspension is necessary to ensure that the department can provide its other services.

Winston-Salem is trying to get caught up on brush collection, which was also suspended for two months, and hopes to have that completed before leaf collection starts in autumn.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Five former detention officers and a nurse at a North Carolina jail have been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a man died last December, a district attorney said Wednesday.

Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill announced the charges at a news conference, news outlets reported. The five officers are free on $15,000 unsecured bond apiece, and it’s not known if they have attorneys. The nurse hadn’t been served with an arrest warrant as of Wednesday

afternoon, authorities said.

John Neville, 57, died Dec. 4, 2019, four days after Kernersville police arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of assault on a female. According to O’Neill, Neville, who was Black, was placed in a prone restraint, meaning he was face down and restrained in some fashion. As a result, Neville was unable to breathe, which caused a brain injury that would eventually kill him, O’Neill said.

There is video of the incident but it has not been publicly released.

The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office took seven months to issues a statement about his death.

Before Wednesday, the sheriff’s office had released only limited information.

The sheriff’s office did not notify the public at the time of Neville’s death, and Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough said he did not do so because Neville’s family, and the family’s legal counsel, asked him not to release any information publicly. In a statement, the sheriff’s office said Neville “experienced a medical emergency,” and was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, where he later died.

The hospital conducted an autopsy the day after he died. Tracy Spry, a medicolegal autopsy coor-

dinator for Wake Forest’s autopsy pathology department, said a direct cause of death was not identified at autopsy, thus his death certificate was listed as ‘pending’ upon completion.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a broad health measure late Monday because it contains a provision that addresses the confidentiality of death investigation records. The provision would have made clear that death investigation records held by law enforcement and deemed confidential under public records law retain that same confidentiality when handed to a state medical examiner.

Protesters camped outside the Executive Mansion demanding that Cooper veto the measure, saying it runs counter to the calls for racial justice that have intensified in North Carolina since the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

WXII

Concealed handgun carriers can wear mask The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department announced on social media that people that are concealed-carrying handguns with a permit can legally wear a face mask. NCGS Chapter 14 bans that, but an exception has been put into effect due to the necessity of wearing a mask during the pandemic. Carriers must remove their mask if directed by law enforcement, however.

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Drive-in coming to fairgrounds A new drive-in theater and socially distanced entertainment venue has opened at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds. Called “The Drive,” it is a partnership between High Point production company Focus Event Group, the city and the fairgrounds.

The Drive will feature large parking spots allowing at least a six-foot distance between cars, as well as touch-free ticketing and entry.

WFMY

For 1st time, female soldier set to join a Green Beret team

By Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time, a female soldier has graduated from the Army’s elite Special Forces course and will join one of the all-male Green Beret teams, capping a yearslong campaign to move women into the military’s front-line combat jobs.

The unidentified woman is one of three female soldiers who have been going through the Army Special Forces qualification course at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She graduated Thursday and donned her Green Beret, along with about 400 other soldiers. Defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters have confirmed that she is a member of the National Guard.

Lt. Gen. Fran Beaudette, commander of Army Special Operations Command, presided over the ceremony and was able to say,

“From here, you will go forward and join the storied formation of the Green Berets where you will do what you are trained to do: challenge assumptions, break down barriers, smash through stereotypes, innovate, and achieve the impossible.”

Lt. Gen. Fran Beaudette for the first time, that “our Green Beret men and women will forever stand in the hearts of free people everywhere.”

“From here, you will go forward and join the storied formation of the Green Berets where you

CHRIS SEWARD | AP PHOTO

In this Jan. 4, 2020, file photo a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C., is shown. will do what you are trained to do: challenge assumptions, break down barriers, smash through stereotypes, innovate, and achieve the impossible,” he said.

The Army does not release the identities of its commandos or disclose to which special forces group they will be assigned.

The more than 6,700 Army Green Berets are highly trained commandos who usually work in 12-person teams. They are often used for specialized combat and counterterrorism operations and

to train other nations’ forces in battle skills. Many work with Afghan forces fighting the Taliban or are training troops in up to 60 countries.

The path to becoming a Green Beret consists of several phases, beginning with a grueling assessment and selection phase where commanders believe they can identify soldiers who cannot make the grade or do not belong.

The bulk of those who try out fail.

Some who get injured or fail are allowed to return and try again.

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OPINION | BEN SHAPIRO

Not all black lives matter to Black Lives Matter THIS WEEK, CNN’s Don Lemon, who has spent the last few weeks bashing the supposed thoroughgoing systemic racism of the United States, hosted black actor Terry Crews. He then proceeded to browbeat Crews, who had committed the great sin of tweeting, “#ALLBLACKLIVESMATTER 9 black CHILDREN killed by violence in Chicago since June 20, 2020.”

Lemon specifically objected to Crews’ hashtag. After Lemon humbly informed Crews that he has skin “as tough as an armadillo,” he then lectured: “The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality. ...

But that’s not what Black Lives Matter is about. It’s not ... allencompassing ... The Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice in that matter, not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods.”

This, of course, is largely false. The Black Lives Matter movement did indeed begin with protests about police brutality but quickly morphed into broader debates over the validity of looting and rioting, tearing down historic statues, slavery reparations and defunding the police. And Black Lives Matter, as Crews correctly pointed out, has never restricted its mandate to the question of police violence: It has announced that its focuses also include police brutality, transgender rights, gay rights, disrupting the nuclear family and freeing Palestine, among other diverse topics.

So why is Lemon so deeply invested in preventing conversations about black lives? Why, in fact, do only some black lives matter, rather than all?

That’s not merely a question asked by conservatives or contrarians. It’s being asked all over the United States by black Americans being left to the predations of criminals, in large part thanks to the woke virtue signaling of many Black Lives Matter leaders and media allies. In Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser emblazoned the enormous yellow words “BLACK LIVES MATTER” on 16th Street. Protesters quickly added “DEFUND THE POLICE.” One month later, 11-year-old Davon McNeal was shot in the head while heading to a family cookout on July 4. His

grandfather, John Ayala, lamented: “We’re protesting for months, for weeks, saying, ‘Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter.’ Black lives matter, it seems like, only when a police officer shoots a black person. What about all the black-on-black crime that’s happening in the community?”

McNeal was just one of the latest victims of a wave of violence gripping America’s major cities. Last weekend, at least 89 people were shot in Chicago, leaving at least 17 dead. Shootings in Philadelphia have spiked 67%. In the first week of June, Los Angeles saw a shocking 250% increase in murders from the prior week. New York City’s shootings have skyrocketed 44% over last year’s numbers; every person shot there the week of June 29 — 101 — was from a minority community. It turns out that the agenda of Black Lives Matter, which includes fighting against the prevalence of police — a call taken up by Democratic mayors and city councils around the United States — endangers black lives far more than the presence of police.

Yet these lives don’t particularly matter for Black Lives Matter advocates, apparently. Black lives matter when we’re talking about police brutality. But Don Lemon has no airtime each night for those who seek to talk about threats to black lives that dwarf in severity problems related to policing — and that are just as newsworthy. Indeed, the statistical case is unassailable that the daily murder of minority youths in America’s major cities is far more newsworthy than the latest cable panel discussion of “white fragility” or the “power of whiteness.”

But our current Black Lives Matter moment isn’t about Davon McNeal, even if the wages of Black Lives Matter’s recommended policies are death for those left unprotected by law enforcement.

All that matters for too many in our elite institutions is the narrative that America’s systems are the greatest obstacle to black Americans. And not all lives lost are equally valuable in promoting that perverse narrative.

Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

♦ David Odell Adkins, 67, of Forsyth County, died July 10, 2020. ♦ Dustin Christopher Ayers, 31, of Forsyth County, died July 10, 2020.

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♦ Cynthia Ann Bankowitz, 72, of Winston-Salem, died July 8, 2020.

♦ ANTHONY, ALKEISHA TOYVETTE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 231 N GLENN AV on 7/12/2020

♦ Annie Fulk Blackburn, 76, of Advance, died July 8, 2020. ♦ John C. Burdette, Jr., 78, of Advance, died July 11, 2020. ♦ Jake Clifton Davis, 96, of Forsyth County, died July 10, 2020. ♦ Clarence “C.W.” Woodrow Foster, Jr., 80, of Advance, died July 8, 2020. ♦ Donny Elray Greer, 68 of Lewisville, died July 9, 2020. ♦ Arvil Bruster Jester, 96, of Forsyth County, died July 11, 2020. ♦ James McCoy Lawson, 84, of Stokes County, died July 12, 2020. ♦ Lloyd Francis Lennon, 80, of Thomasville, died July 12, 2020. ♦ Margaret Hall Moyle, 77, of Winston-Salem, died July 11, 2020. ♦ Vida “Vi” Smith Peller, 91, of Winston-Salem, died July 10, 2020. ♦ Mary Vann Rackley, 86, of Winston-Salem, died July 8, 2020. ♦ Sarah Martha Crowell Reed, 80, died July 10, 2020. ♦ Herbert Jackson “Jack” Russell, 100, of Clemmons, died July 11, 2020. ♦ Richard E. Sealover, 80, of Clemmons, died July 11, 2020. ♦ George Samuel Self, 82, of Advance, died July 11, 2020. ♦ Scharme Ann Shown, 81, of Winston-Salem, died July 8, 2020. ♦ William Dallas Smith, Sr., 78, of Forsyth County, died July 8, 2020. ♦ JoAnn Matthews Tucker, 73, died July 10, 2020. ♦ Nancy Ann Temples Turner, 75, of Walkertown, died July 11, 2020. ♦ Charles Andrew Westmoreland, 67, of Clemmons, died July 9, 2020.

♦ BERNAL, ERICK VASQUEZ was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 277 GLEN EAGLES DR on 7/12/2020 ♦ BILLINGS, SEAN ODELL was arrested on a charge of DRUG TRAFFICKING at 694 HANES MALL BV/ BROOKVIEW HILLS BV on 7/9/2020 ♦ BROWN, DOMINIQUE LORENZO was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-POSS SCHED IV at 275 NITA CR on 7/12/2020 ♦ BROWN, JUAN DIEAGO was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at NEW WALKERTOWN RD / NMLK DR on 7/10/2020 ♦ BRYANT, GLENN FORD was arrested on a charge of AWIK/ SERIOUS INJURY at 725 N CHERRY ST on 7/9/2020 ♦ Burton, Laurie Johnson (F/33) Arrest on chrg of 1) Mv Theft (F), 2) Rec/poss Stole Mv (F), and 3) Rec/poss Stole Mv (F), at 3299 Rural Hallgermanton Rd/germanton Rd, Germanton, NC, on 7/8/2020 03:38. ♦ Cantrell, Amber Lynn Nicole (F/26) Arrest on chrg of 1st Degree Trespass, M (M), at 201 N Church St, Winstonsalem, NC, on 7/9/2020 13:15. ♦ Coulter, Cody Alan (M/27) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 5186 High Point Rd, Kernersville, NC, on 7/8/2020 15:51 ♦ DOHNA, JESSICA was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 1551 OLD SALISBURY RD on 7/13/2020

♦ Ellerman, Bradford Kent (M/52) Arrest on chrg of 1) Kidnapping (F), 2) Felonious Restraint (F), and 3) Assaultpoint Gun (M), at 301 N. Church St, Winston Salem, NC, on 7/11/2020 00:10.

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♦ EMERSON, RONALD CHRISTOPHER was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 4319 S MAIN ST on 7/11/2020

♦ MCINTYRE, MUNDALE LAWRENCE was arrested on a charge of POSS COCAINE FEL at 1499 PETERS CREEK PW/ NATIONAL DR on 7/9/2020

♦ GAMBLE, ANTHONY DERELLE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 100 W FIFTH ST on 7/12/2020

♦ MERRITT, TYLER JAMES was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-MAINTAIN at 59 NORTHWOODS CR on 7/10/2020

♦ GAMBLE, ANTHONY DERELLE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 100 W FIFTH ST on 7/11/2020

♦ OLIVA-VARGAS, MIGUEL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 3301 OLD GREENSBORO RD on 7/12/2020

♦ Hall, Jacqueline Nicole (F/39) Arrest on chrg of 1) Adw-other Weapon (M), 2) Assault-simple (M), and 3) Aid And Abet Larceny ($1,000 Or Less) (M), at 5900 Stanleyville Dr, Rural Hall, NC, on 7/12/2020 17:24.

♦ QUAYE, ARGENTINUS DEVON was arrested on a charge of AFFRAY at 3516 TYLER ST on 7/10/2020

♦ HARRIS, DAETREON DAVONTAEJACQUEL was arrested on a charge of AWIK/ SERIOUS INJURY at 1731 LINCOLN AV on 7/10/2020 ♦ JACKSON, AUSTIN ALVY was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 750 FERRELL CT on 7/12/2020 ♦ LANE, DAVID CHARLES was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 2125 CLOVERDALE AV on 7/10/2020 ♦ LANGFORD, JORDAN CHRISTIAN was arrested on a charge of VAND-PERSONAL PROP at 201 N CHURCH ST on 7/9/2020 ♦ LAWSON, JODY DEAN was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 320 E HANES MILL RD on

♦ LEE, ALEXANDER was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-MAINTAIN at 2799 N LIBERTY ST/E TWENTYEIGHTH ST on 7/10/2020

♦ QUIROAURIZAR, LUDWIN SAMUEL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 5290 INDIANA AV on 7/12/2020 ♦ RATLIFF, THOMAS P was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-MAINTAIN at 899 N PATTERSON AV/N MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DR on 7/10/2020 ♦ RHOADES, TRAVON DELANEY was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-MAINTAIN at 201 N CHURCH ST on 7/9/2020 ♦ Roman, Luis Anthony (M/25) Arrest on chrg of Probation Violation (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 7/11/2020 11:40. ♦ SESSOMS, DONELL ELTON was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 499 N LIBERTY ST/W FIFTH ST on 7/11/2020 ♦ SINGLETARY, TENEKIA SHANATE was arrested on

a charge of AWIK/SERIOUS INJURY at 1211 NE 24TH ST. on 7/10/2020 ♦ SMOOT, DERRICK LAMAS was arrested on a charge of POSSESSION CONTROL SUBSTANCE JAIL at 201 N CHURCH ST on 7/13/2020 ♦ SPRINKLE, CHARLES ERIC was arrested on a charge of COMMUNICATE THREATS at 4610 DUFFER CT on 7/9/2020 ♦ STANAVICH, JOSEPH DALE was arrested on a charge of 1ST DEGREE TRESPASS at 100 HANES MALL BV on 7/11/2020 ♦ SUMMEY, TIMOTHY CARL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-POINT GUN at 4319 S MAIN ST on 7/12/2020 ♦ Taylor, Jaron Leauntae (M/29) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 1500 Trinity Garden Cr, Clemmons, NC, on 7/11/2020 07:08. ♦ WILDS, RANDOLPH was arrested on a charge of 1ST DEGREE TRESPASS at 1400 NEW WALKERTOWN RD on 7/12/2020 ♦ WILEY, JAMAR DEWAN was arrested on a charge of VANDPERSONAL PROP at 295 AKRON DR on 7/13/2020 ♦ WILSON, JOHN ALAN was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 3324 THOMASVILLE RD on 7/12/2020 ♦ WITHERSPOON, TIMOTHY LAVONNE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 7/9/2020

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NASCAR

Stewart, Evernham to recreate IROC as SRX All-Stars Charlotte Tony Stewart and fellow NASCAR Hall of Famer Ray Evernham have teamed with a group of heavyweights to bring back an IROC-style allstar circuit in 2021.

The Superstar Racing Experience plans a sixrace, short-track series to air in prime time on CBS in a Saturday night summer spectacular.

SRX envisions fields of 12 drivers competing on famed short tracks across the country in cars prepared by Evernham, the architect of Jeff Gordon’s early career and a noted car designer.

Stewart plans to be one of the participants.

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NASCAR Cup rookie Cole Custer wins in upset at Kentucky The Stewart-Haas driver got his first career victory with a four-wide pass to take the late lead

By Gary B. Graves The Associated Press SPARTA, Ky. — Cole Custer saw an opening and, with help from a friend, squeezed through for the most fulfilling moment of his young racing career.

Custer became the first rookie regular to win in the NASCAR Cup Series in nearly four years, surging to the lead in a four-wide, final-lap scramble Sunday at Kentucky Speedway.

Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. were dueling side by side for the lead on the Lap 266 final restart when Custer — with a push from Matt DiBenedetto on the out-

side — made his move from sixth in the No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. As the leaders bunched in Turn 1, Custer slid ahead and outlasted Truex’s Toyota.

“I knew I just had to get to the top,” said Custer, who led twice for five laps — the first of his young career. “The top rolled pretty good and once I got past and I was like in third I was like, ‘I’ve just got to take a shot and do whatever I can here.’

“And it ended up the 4 (Harvick) and the 19 (Truex) got together a little bit and I was able to take advantage of it.”

Making his 20th series start, the 22-year-old Custer celebrated with a frontstretch burnout as his crew happily ran to greet him.

He’s the first rookie to win a non-rain-shortened race since Juan Pablo Montoya in 2007. Brad Keselowski won a race in 2009,

2007 The last time a rookie won a Cup Series race not shortened by rain. Juan Pablo Montoya won that year on the road course at Sonoma.

Trevor Bayne in 2011 and Justin Haley in 2019 while not racing full seasons. All three would have been classified as rookies had they been competing a full year. Chris Buescher won a rain-shortened race in August 2016 while competing for rookie of the year.

Custer also won at Kentucky last July in the Xfinity Series.

Matt Kenseth’s Turn 4 spin forced the final caution and created the opportunity for Custer’s victory.

DiBenedetto was third, and Harvick fourth — both in Fords.

Kurt Busch, the winner last year, was fifth.

“I got a good restart and was curious what he was going to do,” DiBenedetto said about helping Custer. “When he pulled to the top, I was like, ‘Yeah, that was a good move right there.’ And I just decided to shove him since I couldn’t go around to the outside.

“It helped him to get to the win and I joked with him that he owes me $100. But he did a great job.”

Truex took the lead on the 181st lap in hopes of his third Kentucky win in four years, giving it a good run against Harvick but instead settled for watching Custer take the win.

“The 41 (Custer) just came with a big head of steam and there was no way I was going to be able to block that,” Truex said. “He was just in the right place at the right time, I guess.”

NBA

Rockets’ Westbrook says he tested positive for coronavirus Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Russell Westbrook of the Houston Rockets said Monday that he has tested positive for coronavirus and that he plans to eventually join his team at the restart of the NBA season. Westbrook made the revelation on social media. Westbrook is averaging 27.5 points, eight rebounds and seven assists per game for the Rockets this season. Houston has clinched a playoff spot and resumes its season with the first of eight seeding games on July 31 against Dallas.

Westbrook’s announcement came on another day where case numbers in Florida and Texas have risen.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

QB Daniels eligible for 2020 at Georgia Athens, Ga. Former Southern California starter JT Daniels says he has been granted immediate eligibility at Georgia, where he can join the competition at quarterback. Daniels announced his transfer to Georgia on May 29 and he can play for three seasons.

He started for the Trojans in 2018, but lost his job to Kedon Slovis last season after suffering a knee injury in the season opener.

Jamie Newman, a graduate transfer from Wake Forest, is considered the favorite to win the starting job.

WNBA

WNBA MVP Delle Donne says league denied her medical waiver New York Elena Delle Donne’s request to be medically excused from the WNBA season was denied, according to the league’s reigning MVP. The Washington Mystics star said in a statement Monday that the independent panel of doctors the league and union agreed upon to decide whether players should be medically excused deemed her not to be “high risk, and should be permitted to play in the bubble.” Had Delle Donne been medically excused, she would have earned her entire salary for the season. Now, if she chooses not to play, the defending WNBA champion Mystics wouldn’t have to pay her. Delle Donne has battled Lyme disease since 2008.

MARK HUMPHREY | AP PHOTO

Cole Custer celebrates after winning his first career NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday at Kentucky Speedway.

NFL, Oakley come up with face shields to protect players The league’s chief medical officer says it is designed to deal with how COVID-19 spreads

“The player feedback was integral in coming up with this design.”

By Simmi Buttar The Associated Press NEW YORK — With NFL training camps set to start at the end of the month, the league believes it is closer to one answer when it comes to player safety amid the coronavirus pandemic: face shields for the players’ helmets.

The NFL and the players’ union agreed to several protocols in a 42-page document last week, including team travel, media and treatment response. They have also updated the facilities protocol, specifically addressing training camp, using recommendations from a joint committee of doctors, trainers and strength coaches.

However, the two sides haven’t agreed on testing and screening protocols for the coronavirus.

One idea suggested by the union’s medical director, Dr. Thom Mayer, to help control the spread of the virus was to have players wear face masks. The league’s engineers and a sports equipment company tested prototypes for the masks, but players shot it down.

“We’ve had a real robust discussion around it that stretches back a number of months,” said Dr. Allen Sills, the league’s chief medical

Dr. Jeff Crandall, chairman of the NFL’s Engineering Committee

OAKLEY VIA AP

Sketches show the new face shield designed by Oakley, which the NFL believes will help protect players from contracting COVID-19. officer. “From the start, the NFL Players Association, their medical advisers, their engineers have been engaged with us. We’ve also had dialogue with players along the way trying to look at early prototypes and developments.”

The face shield was designed by Oakley, which already provides visors for the players.

“We have well over 700 players that used the visors last year,” said Renie Anderson, chief revenue officer and executive vice president of NFL Partnerships.

The face shield has received a better response than the mask suggestion.

“The player feedback was integral in coming up with this design,” said Dr. Jeff Crandall, chairman of the NFL’s Engineering Committee. “They (Oakley) would start with this design and say: ‘Do you like this one better or this one?

How’s your field of view on this one?’

“At the end, they did have feedback from players. This was their choice for the players they’ve eval-

uated so far. I think each player is going to have an evaluation for themselves in terms of exactly how they favor one concept versus another.”

Crandall said Oakley came up with the design, which Sills noted was made to deal with how the virus spreads.

“Just like any face shield or facemask for that matter, you’re thinking about the aerosolization of droplets and the spread of it via that mechanism, which is starting to be recognized as the more important mode of transmission.”

Given sports’ shutdown in March because of COVID-19, this will be the first season that NFL players try to get ready on the field after conducting minicamps virtually during the offseason.

“We often say physical distance and football don’t go together, pretty impossible to keep 6 feet apart on the field, so that causes you to look for other innovations which could possibly be a flag bearer, and we think this falls into that category,” Sills said.

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STATE & NATION

Trump, Biden try to outdo each other on tough talk on China The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — China has fast become a top election issue as President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden engage in a verbal brawl over who’s better at playing the tough guy against Beijing.

“I think it’s going to be absolutely critical, but I don’t know who is going to have the advantage,” said Republican pollster Frank Luntz.

He has been reviewing the ads and thinks China is one of the three leading issues along with the economy and the handling of the coronavirus.

China is not just a foreign policy issue in the November election. It’s an issue that runs deeply through the troubles with the virus, which tanked the U.S. economy. Voters also will be asking themselves whether Trump or Biden can best defend the U.S. against China’s unfair trade practices, theft of intellectual property rights, rising aggression across the globe and human rights abuses.

“Which person looks more subservient to the Chinese leaders is the person who’s in more jeopardy,” Luntz said.

As the coronavirus spread throughout the U.S., a Pew Research Center poll in March found

“Which person looks more subservient to the Chinese leaders is the person who’s in more jeopardy.”

SUSAN WALSH | AP PHOTO

Republican pollster Frank Luntz Americans with increasingly negative views of China, with 66% saying they had an unfavorable opinion. That was the most negative rating since the question was first asked in 2005. The same poll found 62% of Americans calling China’s power and influence a major threat to the U.S., compared with 48% two years ago.

A NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in late May and early June found registered voters about evenly divided over which of the candidates would be better at dealing with China, with 43% saying Trump compared with 40% for Biden. In the poll, 5% viewed Trump and Biden equally, while 10% said neither would be good.

Trump’s advisers see China as an opportunity to portray Biden as deferential to Beijing when he was President Barack Obama’s vice president and point person on Asia,

In this June 29, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. according to three campaign officials and Republicans close to the White House.

The Trump campaign credits the president with signing the first phase of a trade deal with China in January, which boosted stock markets and seemingly ended a bruising trade war. Republicans want to tether Biden to past multinational agreements and trade deals blamed for an exodus of manufacturing jobs across the Midwest. It’s an argument they believe worked against Hillary Clinton when they wrestled Midwest states from the Democrats in 2016.

The White House lists more than two dozen actions the administration has taken since April to protect U.S. jobs, businesses and U.S. supply chains from damage caused by the Chinese Communist Party’s policies. That includes last

week’s move to impose sanctions on Chinese officials for their roles in repressing religious and ethnic minorities. More than a few administration officials have recently delivered speeches calling out China’s policies.

Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s senior economic advisers, kept up the drumbeat on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” saying “the Chinese Communist Party basically hit us with that deadly virus, that weaponized virus” and disrupted the U.S. economy. He suggested Beijing was using social media apps such as TikTok to steal American intellectual property as part of a plan to hurt Trump for his strong stands against China.

“Trump, buy American. Joe Biden, buy China,” Navarro said.

The Trump campaign believes that could strike a chord with the

increasing number of Americans who have an unfavorable view of the Asian power. There also is rising concern about U.S. dependence on China for supplies — something that drew attention during the scramble for protective gear for U.S. health workers.

One more line of off-and-on attack by Trump involves the business ties that Biden’s son, Hunter, has had with China.

The Biden campaign is working to portray Trump as someone who talks tough but has failed to hold China accountable for its response to the virus and has signed only the first phase of a trade deal. The campaign says that while that deal was being negotiated, Trump was saying that COVID-19 would “miraculously” be gone in April and now it’s July and cases are surging and the death toll rising.

Federal judge voids Georgia ‘heartbeat’ abortion restriction

By Jeff Amy The Associated Press ATLANTA — A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked Georgia’s 2019 “heartbeat” abortion law, finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled against the state in a lawsuit filed by abortion providers and an advocacy group. Jones had temporarily blocked the law in October, and it never went into effect.

The new ruling permanently enjoins the state from ever enforcing House Bill 481.

Georgia’s measure sought to ban abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” was present, with some limited exceptions. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women realize they’re pregnant, according to a legal challenge. The bill narrowly passed the Georgia General Assembly amid intense lobbying for and against.

Those who challenged the lawsuit said the ruling proves their contention that the measure was unconstitutional. Lead plaintiff SisterSong, an Atlanta-based group that fights abortion restrictions on behalf of African American and other women of color, called it a “huge win for bodily autonomy.”

ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION VIA AP

Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, center, signs legislation Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Atlanta, banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

“No one should have to live in a world where their bodies and reproductive decision making is controlled by the state,” SisterSong Executive Director Monica Simpson said in a statement.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who has supported the restriction, immediately vowed an appeal.

“We will appeal the court’s decision,” Kemp said in a statement.

“Georgia values life and we will keep fighting for the rights of the unborn.”

The prospects of an appeal are uncertain, though, consider-

ing the U.S. Supreme Court last month struck down other abortion restrictions from Louisiana.

Women in Georgia can currently seek an abortion during the first 20 weeks of a pregnancy.

Both the state and those challenging the law asked Jones to rule without a trial, saying there were no disputed facts. Jones granted the challengers’ motions for summary judgment and denied the state’s motions, finding the law violated the 14th Amendment.

“The court rejects the state defendants’ argument that the statu-

tory purpose solely concerns “promoting fetal well-being,’” Jones wrote. “Instead, HB 481’s specific references to Roe v. Wade and ‘established abortion related precedents’ ... lends support to plaintiffs’ argument that the purpose of H.B. 481 was to ban or de facto ban abortion.”

Jones refused to leave any parts of the law in effect, which would have also granted personhood to a fetus, giving it the same legal rights as people have after they’re born. For example, a mother could have claimed a fetus as a dependent to reduce taxes.

U.S. Supreme Court precedent has for nearly five decades held that states cannot ban abortion prior to the viability of a fetus, and since Georgia’s law does just that it is unconstitutional, the law’s opponents argued. The state argued that the law promoted fetal well-being. It was widely considered as one of a number of attempts to create fresh legal challenges to abortion after two new conservative justices were confirmed to the Supreme Court. The high court, by a 5-4 ruling on June 29, struck down another of those challenges involving regulations from Louisiana.

The legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, one of the groups that brought the lawsuit, said any appeal would

be fruitless.

“The district court blocked Georgia’s abortion ban, because it violates over 50 years of Supreme Court precedent and fails to trust women to make their own personal decisions,” Sean Young said in a statement. “This case has always been about one thing: letting her decide. It is now up to the state to decide whether to appeal this decision and prolong this lawsuit.”

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican, said he would appeal the ruling but declined further comment.

At least eight states passed so-called heartbeat bills or other sweeping bans in 2019, including Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee. South Carolina is still considering one. All of the new bans joined the fate of earlier heartbeat abortion bans from Arkansas, North Dakota and Iowa in being at least temporarily blocked by judges. Louisiana’s ban wouldn’t take effect unless a court upholds Mississippi’s law.

In a separate ruling Monday, a U.S. district judge in Tennessee blocked a Tennessee law that Republican Gov. Bill had signed hours earlier banning an abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy and prohibiting abortions based on race, sex or diagnosis of Down syndrome.