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Thank you to our Veterans across NC RESULTS 2020 PRESIDENT (NC)

Donald Trump 49.96% Republican

Joe Biden Democrat

48.58%

U.S. SENATE

Thom Tillis Republican

48.72%

Cal Cunningham Democrat 46.95% GOVERNOR

Roy Cooper

51.49%

Dan Forest

47.05%

Democrat

Republican

Republicans hold on to both chambers of NC General Assembly

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

Mark Robinson 51.65% Republican

By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — After all the votes were counted and dollars spent, the results in North Carolina’s state legislative races were a disappointment to Democrats, who had hoped to flip at least one of the two General Assembly chambers, both of which have been held by Republicans for a decade.

Republicans now hold a 27-22 advantage in the Senate and 69-51 advantage in the House. Democrats did gain one seat in the Senate, which had been a 29-21 Republican majority, but they actually lost four

net seats in the House, which had been a 65-55 Republican majority.

One Senate race is a 2018 rematch featuring Republican Michael Lee, who leads Democratic state Sen. Harper Peterson by less than 1,500 votes. Absentee by-mail votes have the potential of swaying the race in either direction.

“Every excuse for the Democratic Party’s failure to secure the state legislature, from maps to money to false and offensive charges of ‘voter suppression,’ has been dispelled by tonight’s clear result amid record-breaking turnout,” said Senate Rules Chair Bill Rabon, the chamber’s second in command, in

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a press release after the results.

Senate Leader Phil Berger struck a more conciliatory tone, signaling to Democrats that Republicans wanted to set aside partisanship in a state that will continue to have executive and legislative leadership from opposing parties: “Congratulations to tonight’s other North Carolina victors, including Gov. Roy Cooper and Mark Robinson. I consider my relationship

with Minority Leader Dan Blue to be among the most cordial and productive between opposing leaders in any state in the country. I look forward to continuing that warm relationship in spite of our political differences.”

Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue (D-Wake) had tweeted Nov. 2. “Make no mistake, @NCSenatSee NCGA page A2

Yvonne Holley 48.35% Democrat

SECRETARY OF STATE

Elaine Marshall 51.15% Democrat

E.C. Sykes Republican

48.85%

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Josh Stein

50.11%

Jim O’Neill

49.89%

Republican

Democrat *race has not been called

AUDITOR

Beth Wood Democrat

50.86%

Anthony Street Republican

49.14%

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Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., celebrates with his wife Susan, at a election night rally Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Mooresville, N.C.

Steve Troxler 53.88% Republican

Jenna Wadsworth Democrat 46.12% COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE

Mike Causey 51.77% Republican

Wayne Goodwin Democrat

48.23%

COMMISSIONER OF LABOR

Josh Dobson 50.85% Republican

Jessica Holmes Democrat

49.15%

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

Catherine Truitt Republican

51.39%

Jen Mangrum 48.61% Democrat

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Dale Folwell Republican

52.59%

Ronnie Chatterji Democrat 47.41% 5

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Tillis secures second Cooper wins second term in U.S. Senate term as governor

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal

ting the message out. Letting everybody know that the truth still does matter, letting everybody know that RALEIGH — Republican Sen. character still matters and letting Thom Tillis defeated Democrat- everybody know that keeping your ic challenger Cal Cunningham to promises still matters.”

“The State Board of Elections is win a second term in the U.S. Sencontinuing to count balate, with a margin of lots, and we plan to allow over 95,000 votes in unthat process to be carried official election night re“What we out, so every voter can sults. have their voice heard,” Tillis, who first was accomplished said a statement from elected to the Senate in 2014, trailed Cunning- was a stunning the Cunningham campaign. ham throughout the victory.”

A seven-day stretch general election — but a altered the course of the seven-day stretch in earcampaign in early Octoly October flipped mo- Sen. Thom Tillis ber. mentum in the race.

First, Tillis confirmed An extramarital affair with a disabled fellow-veteran’s a COVID-19 positive test on Friwife, that included sexually charged day, Oct. 2, less than 24 hours after text messages, plagued Cunning- President Donald Trump and first ham throughout the final month lady Melania Trump announced of the campaign. Cunningham they had both tested positive.

Late that night, Cunningham spent most of October dodging media questions and limiting his pub- confirmed that sexual text messages first obtained by the website Nalic appearances.

Democrats spent around $125 tionalFile.com were authentic.

Days later, the woman, California million in the race opposing Tillis. Over $280 million in total were public relations consultant Arlene spent by outside groups, making it Guzman Todd, confirmed physithe most expensive U.S. Senate race cal encounters with Cunningham.

Guzman Todd is the wife of a comin history.

Tillis spent the final weeks of the bat veteran. A second affair has also race on a statewide barnstorming been alleged, but not confirmed, tour, with notable names like Sen. and Cunningham in a Zoom press Ted Cruz and former U.N. Ambas- conference on Oct. 9 refused to say sador Nikki Haley coming to North how many more affairs he has had.

“I’ve taken responsibility for the Carolina to stump for him.

“What we accomplished was a hurt that I’ve caused in my personal stunning victory,” Tillis said on elec- life. I’ve apologized for it,” Cunningtion night. “We’ve heard this before. ham said during his first meeting You’re down in the polls, there’s no with reporters since the texts were chance of winning and I believed in reported. “I’ve said what I’m going every single one of you. Knocking on doors, making phone calls, get- See TILLIS page A2

By Matt Mercer North State Journal RALEIGH — Roy Cooper has been re-elected as North Carolina’s governor, with the Democratic incumbent beating Republican challenger and current Lt. Gov. Dan Forest.

Unofficial results showed Cooper with a 250,000-vote advantage, taking over 51% of the vote to Forest’s 47%.

The race was widely considered a referendum on Cooper’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in North Carolina, with the governor garnering criticism for being too slow to reopen the state.

Ultimately, three advantages proved too much for Forest to overcome: incumbency, COVID press conferences and money.

Cooper raised over $36 million over the course of his campaign, more than doubling the total in his 2016 campaign when he defeated then-incumbent Gov. Pat McCrory. In addition to that astonishing amount, the Cooper-controlled N.C. Democratic Leadership Committee contributed an additional $9.7 million.

Forest, meanwhile, only raised a total of around $10 million for his campaign.

The fundraising apparatus allowed Cooper to blanket the airwaves with TV ads in addition to his COVID-19 updates that were often broadcast statewide.

Since March, Cooper, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, and N.C. Emergency Management Director Mike

Sprayberry have become the public face of the state’s response to the pandemic. Throughout the spring and summer, they have made extensive use of the state’s Emergency Operations Center in See COOPER page A2

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2. “Make no mistake, @NCSenateDems are poised to take the majority and to give North Carolina the kind of leadership that it deserves.” But as results came in the next evening, many N.C. Democratic social media accounts were noticeably quiet.

The Senate had a number of competitive races, but the Democrats were only able to pick up two seats, SD-18 in Wake County and SD-39 in Mecklenburg County. Both districts were recently redrawn and were expected to flip to Democrats. “@NCSenateDems gained two new seats in a tough election cycle, proving our staying power in what was a more challenging election for Democrats nationally,” tweeted former Obama staffer N.C. Sen. Wiley Nickel (D-Wake), in a statement also posted on the official N.C. Senate Democrat account.

“We need to move forward with patience, grace, and courage.”

This disappointing result in the Senate was surpassed by Democrats’ showing in the N.C. House, where they lost four total seats.

“Voters returning a strong Republican majority to the North Carolina House of Representatives tonight reflects the powerful momentum behind policies that promote economic prosperity, educational achievement, and safety for families, which were put in place by the General Assembly over the last decade,” N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) said. “We will continue to keep these promises to the people of North Carolina and work in a bipartisan way to maintain this new

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era of success for our great state.”

The Democrats lost six seats in the House, but gained two, for a net loss of four. The six they lost include HD-43, the Fayetteville area seat of Rep. Elmer Floyd (D-Cumberland), who lost his primary to Kimberly Hardy, who then lost the seat 52% to 48% to Republican Dianne Wheatley; HD-66, the rural, central N.C. district that drifted right so quickly it was lost by around 20 points despite Democrats winning the race in 2018; HD-37 in Wake County and HD-98 in Mecklenburg County,

two suburban districts that were flipped by Democrats in 2018; and NC-93 and NC-119, two mountain districts that were also taken by Democrats in 2018 and retaken by Republicans.

Only two Republicans lost seats: Rep. Perrin Jones of HD-9 in the Greenville area and Rep. Steve Ross of Alamance County, a suburban county sandwiched between the Piedmont Triad to its west and the Research Triangle to its east.

With control over both chambers, Republicans are in a strong

negotiating position for the oncea-decade redistricting process that is expected to give North Carolina another congressional seat, future state budgets and policy decisions in areas like education and health care.

The Democrats having control over the governor’s mansion for another four year gives them veto power over the legislature though, especially since Republicans no longer have the supermajorities that allowed them to override Cooper’s vetoes in the beginning of his first term.

House Rep. Pryor Gibson.

Still, Cooper prevailed, and campaign spokeswoman Liz Doherty said, “Tonight’s decisive victory sends the message loud and clear — North Carolinians trust Roy Cooper to put them first. North Carolinians rejected Dan Forest’s campaign of fear and division and dangerous lies and opted instead for steady, decisive, and compassionate leadership.”

Republicans again failing to capture the governorship makes former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory the only Republican to have won the office since the two terms of former Gov. Jim Martin from 1984-1992.

Forest said of the defeat, “My heart is heavy today, but the sun still rose once again this morning and a new day dawned. Our family has been honored to serve the people of this great state for the past eight years and now a new journey begins.”

During a radio appearance

with KC O’Dea the day after Election Day, Forest said he would not seek the governorship in 2024.

While victorious, Cooper once again will battle with a Republican-led General Assembly for at least the next two years. He vetoed every state budget presented to him in his first term, leaving the state to operate without an adopted budget since July of 2019.

One of Cooper’s stated priorities, Medicaid expansion, will likely continue to receive a chilly reception on Jones Street. Many of Cooper’s TV ads focused on the issue, often citing a line saying 39 states had expanded the program, including Indiana when Vice President Mike Pence was governor. Indications from Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore are that they will continue to oppose expanding the program.

Other issues Cooper will confront are education and the state’s economic recovery from

COVID-19.

Cooper initially forbade the return of full-time in-person instruction in July but relented in September, allowing K-5 schools the option to return to classrooms. He has called for teacher raises in the state budget but vetoed budgets which included raises, claiming that they weren’t sufficient. Cooper has also called the elimination of the state’s Opportunity Scholarships program that has been a priority for the Republican-led General Assembly.

At the first media availability following the election, Cooper called for the White House and Congress to negotiate a new stimulus package to aid states. He previously established state grant programs for businesses and seems to favor a government-led effort to keep businesses from closing.

Cooper is forbidden from seeking a third consecutive term, but will have four more years to enact his priorities.

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THE WORD TROUBLING TIMES REQUIRE A CLOSER WALK

Verse 10 of Isaiah 41 has been an inspiration for many during troubling or uncertain times. The verse has inspired many hymns. “How Firm a Foundation” by John Rippon basically quotes the King James version of the verse. “The Right Hand of God” was written by Caribbean native Patrick Prescod and contains a litany of biblical references, including a title reference to Isaiah.

The anonymously written “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” is a frequently recorded, short hymn which ties to Isaiah 41:10.

The song references a “world of toil and snares” but reminds the listener that God is with us, so we should not be afraid.

COOPER from page A1 Raleigh to provide public health updates and announce executive orders aimed at slowing the virus’ spread.

Governors across the nation took on similar roles in their respective states, although North Carolina was one of the few states with the governor on the ballot during the pandemic. Cooper garnered praise from some corners and fierce opposition from groups like ReOpenNC. Forest sought to highlight the devastating impact of Cooper’s executive orders that locked the state down in the spring and reopened parts of the economy much more slowly than neighboring states like South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Cooper also faced criticism for the backlog of unemployment benefits being paid out, leading to the replacement of N.C. Division of Employment Services Lockhart Taylor with former N.C.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, joined by his wife Kristin, reacts after being declared winner over Republican Dan Forest in the governor’s race in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

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Public polling showed Cunningham with leads as large as 10 points before the affairs were revealed. A poll conducted by North State Journal and Cardinal Point Analytics, released the week prior to Election Day, put Tillis ahead of Democrat Cal Cunningham by five percentage points, with 46% to Cunningham’s 41%.

The Cunningham campaign tried to pivot to discussing issues like health care. Then, the U.S. Army confirmed it was investigat-

ing the conduct by Lt. Col. James Cunningham, calling him by his official first name.

Adultery has long been a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and service members can face a maximum penalty of dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay and confinement for a year.

“I am disgusted at his behavior and how he has responded to it,” said U.S. Army veteran Sean Kilbane at a press conference in October. “The people of North Carolina expect better from a United States senator.”

Kilbane added that if Cunning-

ham was “willing to risk his candidacy” to have an affair with another veteran’s wife, then “what kind of self-serving behavior are we to expect out of him if he were to go to Washington, D.C.?”

Also on Oct. 14, a Federal Elections Commission complaint was filed against Cunningham

by Americans for Public Trust, a nonprofit, nonpartisan government-watchdog group. The group is asking the FEC to examine possible campaign violations.

Tillis returned to the Senate for the confirmation process of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Co-

ney Barrett in late October.

During a campaign appearance in Durham on Sunday, Oct. 17, Gov. Roy Cooper and former Vice President Joe Biden briefly discussed Cunningham, with Cooper saying the scandals were “frustrating” as he greeted Biden on the tarmac at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

The Tillis campaign seized momentum with his visible role during the Supreme Court confirmation process and with Cunningham’s scandal, propelling him to a win and a second term representing the state.

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Catherine Truitt becomes the second Republican in a row to lead NC’s schools

GOP adds two to NC Supreme Court, sweep Court of Appeals races

The last back-to-back Republicans to hold the office were in the late 1860’s

Catherine Truitt is pictured in this undated file photo.

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Catherine Truitt has become the second Republican in a row to become the state superintendent of schools after defeating Democratic candidate Jennifer Mangrum.

The last Republican state superintendents elected back to back occurred during the late 1860s and early 1870s. Truitt’s predecessor, Mark Johnson, was the first Republican elected to the office since Charles Mebane in 1897 — a gap of 119 years.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I am humbled by the support we received and beyond thankful for all of you,” Truitt said on election night. “I am ready to get to work to ensure ALL NC students have the opportunity to receive a quality education!”

Truitt defeated Mangrum by winning 75 out of North Carolina’s 100 counties. The unofficial results have Truitt bringing in 2,728,678 votes, which is 147,837 more votes than Mangrum; a vote margin of 2.78%.

As with other races in the state, Truitt found herself being out-fundraised and outspent. Dr. Terry Stoops, the vice president of research and director of education studies for the John Locke Foundation, noted that leading up to the election, Mangrum held a 6-1 fundraising lead over Truitt thanks to “hefty contributions from the North Carolina Demo-

Chief justice race also favors GOP but is still too close to call NSJ staff

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cratic Party, Lillian’s List, and the NCAE PAC.” The N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), an affiliate of teacher’s union the National Education Association, had also backed Truitt’s opponent.

When asked whether this win represented a rejection of the NCAE and its positions, Truitt agreed but said it was also about parents and choice.

“This win was about parent voice and choice,” Truitt told North State Journal. “But I also think there was a lot of negativity that came out of my opponent’s campaign and her surrogates, and I think people did not respond to that.”

Truitt said she received support from teachers all over the state and that it’s important to remember that the NCAE only represents about one in five teachers.

The NCAE had quickly endorsed

Mangrum and the NCAE’s PAC provided financial backing for her campaign.

“I want to represent all teachers, all principals, all students, all superintendents,” Truitt said.

“At the end of the day, that lack of endorsement did not prevent me from winning this election.

Truitt has worn many hats over the years as wife and mom, but also professionally as a teacher, a policy adviser and her most recent role as chancellor of Western Governor’s University.

In an interview with North State Journal earlier this year, Truitt talked about being a breast cancer survivor and show she had self-detected a lump just two months before the 2016 election, while serving as senior education advisor to former Gov. Pat McCrory.

During the course of the campaign, Truitt emphasized that

there needs to be consensus building and the ability of all parties to listen to each other. Before assuming her position, she said she wants to sit down and have a conversation with members of the State Board of Education.

“I’d like to sit down and have a conversation about what alignment should look like, how their vision through their strategic plan aligns with my priorities and where we can build consensus from there,” said Truitt.

Truitt has no illusions about the job ahead of her but is trying to keep a forward-looking and positive attitude.

“I would like for people to know that the fact that our state constitution requires us to elect our state superintendent does make it very difficult to remove politics from education,” said Truitt. “But I am going to do my damnedest to try.”

Republican Paré unseats progressive Batch in Wake County state House race Batch outraised and outspent Paré by over four to one

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Mostly blue Wake County has a new patch of red with Republican Erin Paré unseating incumbent Democrat Sydney Batch for the N.C. House District 37 seat.

“After a hard-fought campaign, I am humbled to have been elected as the next representative for House District 37. Thank you so much for your vote and your confidence in me,” Paré told supporters in a statement on election night.

Paré, a mother of two from Holly Springs, countered Batch’s early absentee mail-in vote lead with larger in-person early voting and election day numbers. She credits the hard work her team put in and the ability to connect with the voters for her win.

Batch, who ran on a progressive platform, had only served for one term and was elected after narrowly beating Republican John Adcock by 944 votes in 2018.

The unofficial count for Republican Paré is a total of 34,782 votes. Batch’s total was 32,533. In absentee by-mail voting, Batch led Paré 11,600 to 5,337. Early voting in-person favored Paré with 24,003 to Batch’s 18,580. On election day Paré took in 5,442 votes to Batch’s 2,353.

Batch outraised and outspent Paré by a little over four to one, bringing in around $1,017,582 to Paré’s $247,962.

“She outraised us, definitely, but I think what it comes down to is we talked to the voters and we made our case to every voter that we possibly could,” said Paré, crediting this effort to the help her supporters and volunteers gave to the campaign.

Paré said that a big part of her campaign’s success was the ground game between outreach

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Erin Paré, a mother of two and small business owner from Holly Springs, who defeated incumbent Democrati Rep. Sydney Batch, is pictured in this file photo. events and door knocking. She said that they were “received well” and that people wanted to hear what she had to say and that voters “wanted to be heard.”

According to the partisan ranking index N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation, a research group which conducts nonpartisan political analysis, the HD-37 seat was considered a +4 Democratic lean leading up to the election.

In early March, the right-leaning Civitas Institute’s partisan index ranking, which models itself after the Cook Political Report’s Partisan Voting Index, had the seat as a +3 Republican lean.

Looking forward to the issues ahead of her, Paré said that the economy is her top priority. Helping families and small businesses survive under COVID-19 restrictions is something she says has to be front and center.

“We have to be careful and smart about how we manage state finances and taxes and spending,” said Paré.

For many families, COVID-19 school closures have been painful and frustrating, for both parents and children alike. Education also ranks high on Paré’s list, and she said that a lot of parents are really concerned about how their kids are being educated and what choices they have.

“I really want to do everything I can do to start trying to bring folks together,” Paré said. She added that she wants to be very “present in the district” and reach out to everyone regardless of party affiliation.

“Results and making the community better are really what will bring people together,” said Paré.

“I am going to do everything I can to make that happen.”

“I think what it comes down to is we talked to the voters, and we made our case to every voter that we possibly could.”

RALEIGH — Republicans will have at least two seats on the N.C. Supreme Court in 2021 with victories by former state Sen. Tamara Barringer and N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Phil Berger Jr. on Election Day. Barringer defeated appointed Democratic incumbent Justice Mark Davis by over 130,000 votes to win an eight-year term on the court.

Barringer, who previously represented Wake County in the state Senate, lost her seat in 2018.

In the N.C. Supreme Court contest for Justice Paul Newby’s former seat, Berger Jr. defeated fellow Court of Appeals Judge Lucy Inman, a Democrat, to win the eight-year term.

Berger, a former Rockingham County district attorney who was elected in 2016 to the Court of Appeals, will vacate that seat to join the state’s highest court.

In the final totals on election night, Berger led by over 74,000 votes.

Berger told North State Journal that Tuesday night was a big night for conservative judges.

“The people of North Carolina said no activist judges, and yes to the rule of law,” said Berger. “I’m thankful that the voters of this state have put their trust in me to serve them.”

In a statement, Inman said, “Last night did not bring the result we worked so hard to achieve.

We have run a strong campaign in a most challenging year. I appreciate your investment in our shared cause of justice.”

The contest for chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court, between current Chief Justice Cheri Beasley and Justice Paul Newby, is separated by less than 3,000 votes and won’t be decided until Nov. 13 at the earliest.

The state’s highest court currently has a 6-1 advantage of Democrats to Republicans. If Newby prevails over Beasley, Democrats would still hold a 4-3 advantage but control the administration of the court system.

Republican judges also took all five available seats on the N.C. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night. The new balance of power would be 11 Republicans over 4 Democrats on the state’s appellate court.

The five Republicans are April Wood, a Davidson County district court judge; Fred Gore, a Brunswick County District Court judge; incumbent Court of Appeals Judge Chris Dillon; Jeff Carpenter, a Union County Superior Court judge; and Jefferson Griffin, a Wake County district court judge.

“North Carolina chose the right judges on Election Day. Republicans swept all eight statewide judicial races, helping set the courts in a more conservative direction,” said NCGOP press secretary Tim Wigginton.

Each of the judges elected to the Court of Appeals will serve eightyear terms.

N.C. Rep.-elect Erin Paré

“The people of North Carolina said no activist judges, and yes to the rule of law. I’m thankful that the voters of this state have put their trust in me to serve them.”

Judge Phil Berger Jr.

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Historic turnout in NC Almost 75% of registered voters voted in the 2020 general election in North Carolina. Absentee by-mail ballots can still be received through Nov. 12 and those ballots will be added to the election night totals by the end of the week.

By comparison, turnout in 2012 and 2016 reached 68% and 69%, respectively.

In 2008, when Barack Obama defeated John McCain by 14,000 votes, turnout reached 70%.

This year’s turnout also included a notable jump in the number of registered voters, as 7.36 million North Carolinians were registered to Clinton in vote as of Nov. 3.

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Jones & Blount NC’s state employee online retirement application portal sees success Retirement applications filed online has risen rapidly from 0 to 38% in under two years

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The Retirement Systems Division (RSD) of the N.C. State Treasurer’s office has reported that number of retirement applications filed online has risen rapidly from zero to 38% in under two years.

“I think that the issues surrounding the pandemic have accelerated the use of online retirement,” said N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell. “We’ve managed this incredible increase with no additional staff. The teams at the retirement and information technology divisions have done unbelievable work to make sure that the process goes as smoothly as possible using online tools and our call center.”

The online retirement system was implemented in 2018. To file for retirement in the past, members had to print and manually fill out an application using the state’s ORBIT system.

Folwell told North State Journal that the online portal has saved time for members and for his staff alike. He said online retirement filings reduce the travel burden on member, saying that “we have people

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PIEDMONT

Missing teen found safe

Assault charges dropped for police officer Buncombe County A former police officer who pleaded guilty to the 2017 beating of a black pedestrian has had his charge dismissed after a year’s probation.

The ruling in Buncombe County Superior Court follows completion of a program aimed at bringing healing to the victim and the community. Activists criticized it as failing to deal with harm caused by the beating, choking and shocking of Johnnie Rush by ex-Asheville police officer Christopher Hickman, who was charged with felony assault. Rush was beaten after being accused of jaywalking. The city settled the case for $650,000.

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Burn planned for part of Great Smoky Mountains park Haywood County Officials with the National Park Service say a prescribed burn began for a portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The 689-acre burn is scheduled for Cades Cove between Saturday and Nov. 25. The burn is being coordinated with fire management staff of the Appalachian-Piedmont-Coastal Zone.

Over the last 20 years, park managers have conducted burns during the spring and fall to safely reduce fuels, restore meadow habitats and maintain the historic landscape. The controlled burns also help perpetuate native herb species that provide cover and foraging opportunities for wildlife.

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Clay County Teenager Kloie MattAnne Cox, previously reporting missing, has been located and is back safely home with her family. The 14-yearold was last seen early last Friday morning and was reported missing that evening.

Unconfirmed sightings were reported in Murphy, Hayesville, Cherokee County and Graham County. She was found over the weekend. Authorities didn’t release details on where or how she was found or where she’d been.

WLOS

21-year-old woman killed in crash Caldwell County Deanna Jean Smith, 21, of Boone, was pronounced dead on the scene after being involved in a car accident near Indian Grove Road in Caldwell County in late October. She was a passenger in a pickup truck, and not wearing a seatbelt, when the driver ran off the road, overcorrected and flipped over several times. The 20-year-old driver suffered minor injuries and may face charges in the future.

WBTV

Kids find bodies of two men in neighborhood Wake County Children playing in a neighborhood found the bodies of two men shot to death inside a vehicle near Raleigh, a sheriff’s office said.

Wake County sheriff’s deputies were called to an area around noon Tuesday near the intersection of Limewood and Sweetgrass streets, which is a residential area off Poole Road that is east of downtown Raleigh and south of Knightdale. Investigators haven’t identified the victims, and a motive for the shooting hasn’t been determined. The sheriff’s office hasn’t said when it believes the shooting occurred.

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NC looks to take Jefferson Davis name off highway Lee County North Carolina transportation officials are taking steps to remove the last vestiges of a highway named for Confederate president Jefferson Davis. The NCDOT is removing signs and markers on the route which runs about 160 miles from the Virginia state line, follows U.S. 15 through Durham and Chapel Hill to Sanford, then U.S. 1 to South Carolina near Rockingham. While wanting signs and markers gone, NCDOT is not renaming a section of U.S. 1 in Lee County called Jefferson Davis Highway. The Daughters of the Confederacy asked the county to designate the road in 1959, and Lee commissioners agreed.

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Man arrested for murder Vance County Wallace Wayne Yarbrough, 44, of Person County, was charged in the shooting death of Alveante “Al” Markeith Holden, 18, of Vance County. Yarbrough was already in custody out of unspecified charges in Wake County.

Holden was shot and killed on Oct. 7. He was found dead in a vehicle outside a laundromat

by Henderson Police.

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Eight arrested on drug charges in Westmoore Moore County Moore County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested eight people in Westmoore as a result of a drug investigation. Cindy Lynn Britt, 42, of Seagrove; Darrick Taqarius Pratt, 28, of Jackson Springs; Rodney Scott Vandevander, 45, of Star; Justin Donald Potts, 33, of Carthage; Matthew Aaron Munz, 38, of Robbins; Michael Allen Foster, 34, of Seagrove; Luke Tyler Goins, 34, of Star; and Gayle Lynette Parker, 38, of Hoffman were all arrested on charges related to methamphetamine and cocaine.

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Mother charged in daughter’s fatal overdose Onslow County A mother is facing upgraded charges after investigators said she provided methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin to her 14-year-old daughter, who died of an overdose. The Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said charges against Nancy Juanita Kellum, 37, have been changed to an open count of murder. Detectives received the medical examiner’s autopsy results, which showed the cause of death for Kellum’s daughter was a lethal combination of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine. Authorities said Kellum also gave the drugs to a 12-year-old relative.

Kellum was initially charged with felony child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury.

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Woman accused of defrauding federal agencies Hoke County Tracey Cathey McNeill, 50, of Raeford, surrendered to federal authorities after she was accused of defrauding two agencies of more than $90,000 in benefits. She’s charged with wire fraud and mail fraud. McNeill had a scheme to defraud the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management by obtaining disability, retirement and life insurance payments issued to someone in her care. McNeill got the money between April 2015 and February 2017.

McNeill faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if convicted.

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Dare County A massive great white shark who often swims off of the coast has kept an active satellite tag longer than any other of her kind. Scientists tagged the now-famous shark seven years ago off Cape Cod. The shark, named Katherine, was recently spotted swimming hundreds of miles off the coast near Buxton on Monday. It was the first evidence of her whereabouts in about a year and a half. Katharine is 14 feet, 2 inches long and weighs 2,300 pounds. She has spent a large part of her life off the Outer Banks.

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Woman accused of filing fake insurance claims Wayne County Reina Esmeralda Foster, 43, of Goldsboro, was arrested for filing fake insurance claims for theft, vandalism and electrical problems.

She’s charged with 10 felony counts each of insurance fraud and of attempting to obtain property by false pretense. Foster filed fraudulent claims with three companies to get more than $90,000 in homeowners’ insurance payments. Foster claimed that a grill, generator, televisions, laptops, speakers, power washer, saw and lawn mower were stolen. She also claimed vandals damaged her air conditioning unit, a power surge damaged her appliances and a carbon monoxide leak forced her family from the home.

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who live closer to five other state capitals than our own.”

As of Oct. 31, there are 302,315 state and local government retirees currently receiving pension benefits, with $549 million being distributed each month in pension and disability benefits. There are 654,373 active and former public employees who are or have contributed money to the pension systems as of October 2020.

North Carolina Retirement Systems (NCRS) paid out over $6.6 billion in retirement and other benefits to more than 363,000 retirees and beneficiaries during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020.

Folwell said that that for the first time in the state’s history, there are more people eligible to receive retirement benefits than there are paying into the system.

Moody’s Investors Service recently reported NCRS is the best funded in the nation when looking at its Adjusted Net Pension Liability. The NCRS also received high marks from The Pew Charitable Trust after a “stress test” showed the fund is wellpositioned to maintain solvency during tough economic times.

The NCRS is the ninth-largest public pension fund in the country and is currently valued at more than $108 billion. It provides retirement benefits and savings for more than 950,000 North Carolinians, including teachers, state employees, local government employees, firefighters, police officers and other public workers.

NC Medicaid launches website for new managed care model NSJ staff RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the launch of NC Medicaid’s managed care enrollment website, www. ncmedicaidplans.gov, in preparation for the launch of Medicaid Managed Care, scheduled for July 1, 2021.

The purpose of the enrollment website is to help Medicaid beneficiaries learn more about Medicaid Managed Care.

In 2015, the N.C. General Assembly enacted legislation directing NCDHHS to transition Medicaid and N.C. Health Choice from a primarily fee-for-service delivery system to managed care. Under managed care, the state contracts with insurance companies, which are paid a predetermined set rate per enrolled person to provide all services.

The enrollment website provides information about who will have to choose a health plan, who will stay in the traditional Medicaid program (NC Medicaid Direct) and who can choose between the two. It will also share the basic medical and behavioral health benefits that are offered. There will be a list of frequently asked questions and answers to help beneficiaries understand the changes.

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in Medicaid Managed Care. Open enrollment will begin March 15, 2021, and will continue through May 14, 2021. Medicaid beneficiaries will be able to choose from five health plans — WellCare, United HealthCare, Healthy Blue, AmeriHealth Caritas and Carolina Complete Health (serving regions 3, 4 and 5). Those who are federally recognized tribal members or qualify for Indian Health Services are exempt from managed care. Those who live in Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Jackson or Swain counties or in a neighboring county may choose to enroll in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) Tribal Option.

A small number of people will not need to choose a Medicaid Managed Care health plan because of the type of health services they need. They will stay enrolled in NC Medicaid Direct. To learn more, beneficiaries can visit the NC Medicaid Direct services page on the enrollment website.

According to NCDHHS officials, the website will add more features in January 2021, including a “Medicaid and NC Health Choice Provider and Health Plan Lookup Tool.” Members can use this tool to find and select the best primary-care provider for their families. There will also be a “Choice Guide” that members can use to view health plans and select those with the best features for their needs.

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GUEST OPINION | DONALD VAN DER VAART

Counties are taking the lead on solar regulations

California classifies spent solar panels as hazardous waste, and research has shown that heavy metals are leaching out of the solar plants into surrounding groundwater.

NORTH CAROLINA’S installed solar power is second only to California’s. Some may cringe at the thought of following California’s energy policy, given the rolling blackouts imposed there. Solar power seemed like an attractive option in 2007, when the Democrat-controlled legislature handed Democratic Gov. Mike Easley a bill that provided sweeping incentives to encourage solar power in the state. The industry that N.C. taxpayers and electricity customers have helped fund since then is now getting some pushback, however, with some county governments taking the lead.

It’s difficult at first to imagine what’s not to like about solar power. The energy used by the solar panels to produce electricity is free. The solar plants don’t emit any air pollution, and they don’t contribute greenhouse gases that many believe play a role in global warming. Gov. Roy Cooper is often heard saying he wants more solar power. If that’s the case, then, why haven’t other states followed California and North Carolina in passing incentives encouraging more solar power?

The fact is that solar power is not a panacea.

Without the billions of dollars North Carolina’s taxpayers and electricity customers have given the industry, solar power would not be thriving. Property owners have seen their land values drop when a solar plant is installed adjacent to their land. Duke Energy has admitted that its natural gas–fired power plants, which are needed to fill the gaps caused by the intermittent nature of solar plants, are polluting more as a result of more solar plants coming online.

Greenhouse gases may even go up if solar incentives push nuclear plants into early retirement.

Sen. Paul Newton has warned that beginning some 15 years from now, the state’s waste stream will be hit by a tidal wave of millions of spent solar panels.

California classifies spent solar panels as hazardous waste, and research has shown that heavy metals are leaching out of the solar plants into surrounding groundwater. Groundwater is often relied on for drinking water in rural counties.

Reducing neighbors’ property values, causing more air pollution and contaminating groundwater are all “external” costs of solar power; that is, the solar companies aren’t paying for them — others external to the companies are. Environmental management seeks to “internalize” those costs, meaning to have the polluting company to pay for them.

While Newton did push for legislation to have the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality look into the waste concern, some counties are taking matters into their own hands to address these issues.

Many counties have imposed some sort of specialuse permitting requirements, but two counties have pushed further.

One, Hertford County, recently passed a moratorium on new solar plant construction.

The other, Stanly County, went even further, passing regulations that would go a long way toward internalizing the costs solar plants had been externalizing. These new regulations require prospective solar companies to do the following: To protect landowners as well as the solar companies, baseline groundwater measurements must be taken to determine whether any changes to metals concentrations measured in the future are attributable to the solar plant.

To follow up on those pre-construction measurements, the solar plant must monitor groundwater during operation and after the plant is shut down.

Solar panels used by the plant are not allowed to contain perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which include GenX. Due to the risk and unusual nature of battery fires, sufficient resources must be made available to the fire department, including training.

Setbacks are required to protect the viewshed of neighboring landowners.

A pre-approval study of unique ecological features of the land proposed for the plant can be required at the solar developer’s expense.

Given that solar developers often form multiple companies that end up undercapitalized and hence unable to pay for the future costs associated with the decommissioning of these massive sites, and to ensure resources are available for final disposal after the plant is shut down, a financial assurance is required equal to the greater of $106,000/installed megawatt (MW) or 150% of the estimated costs of removal.

These are common-sense provisions that many other non-solar companies are already doing to provide protection for the county against legacy environmental problems in the future, such as communities have seen from coal ash basins after years of ignoring the issues.

This is not a partisan issue. Hertford County is solidly Democratic, while Stanly County is Republican.

Both, however, share a concern over future environmental costs from solar plants.

Donald van der Vaart is a senior fellow at the John Locke Foundation First published in Carolina Journal.

GUEST OPINION | JAY REINSTEIN

Short-sighted policies from Washington threaten patients’ hope for innovative new medicines By 2050, barring any new developments that would slow, treat or cure the disease, Alzheimer’s will affect more than 13.8 million people in the United States.

WE ARE CURRENTLY in a golden age of biopharmaceutical innovation, and scientists are discovering life-changing cures or treatments that were previously unimaginable. For example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved the first-ever drug for children with lupus and the first new treatment for sickle cell disease in nearly 20 years. Unfortunately, patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease are still waiting for a cure.

And recent policy proposals from Congress and the White House threaten to stifle innovation and leave patients like me without hope for a future free of this disease.

At the age of 57, I was diagnosed with youngeronset Alzheimer’s. Approximately 6 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s today, and this number is multiplying. By 2050, barring any new developments that would slow, treat or cure the disease, Alzheimer’s will affect more than 13.8 million people in the United States.

Alzheimer’s does not stop at memory loss; it kills.

Alzheimer’s is the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S., and while deaths from other major diseases have decreased significantly, Alzheimer’s-related deaths are skyrocketing. Between 2000 and 2018, deaths due to Alzheimer’s increased by 146 percent.

Alzheimer’s patients currently rely on medications to treat our symptoms, but there will be no cure without continued biopharmaceutical research and development (R&D).

That said, I feel incredibly fortunate to live in a country that discovers more new drugs than the rest of the world combined. Not only is America an innovative powerhouse, but U.S. patients have access to significantly more treatment options than patients in other countries — and we get them faster.

For instance, Americans have access to 100% of new medications used to treat respiratory illnesses, whereas Canadians enjoy a little more than half that rate (only 55%). U.S. cancer patients have access to 96% of all new medicines within just two months of their launch. In Greece, Ireland and Italy, the wait

times average 41, 23, and 21 months, respectively.

America’s robust R&D ecosystem assures me that once there is an FDA-approved drug for Alzheimer’s, I will quickly have access to it. However, policy proposals like H.R. 3, championed by speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or President Trump’s recent executive order, would choke off American innovation, making the possibility for new treatments much less likely. That’s because these policies contain an international pricing index (IPI) that would link U.S. drug prices to those paid in other countries. While this attempt at lowering drug prices is well-intentioned, implementing an IPI would be disastrous for patients like me.

Lawmakers advocating for an IPI fail to understand that America has consistently led the world in developing breakthrough medicines because we have always rejected government price controls on drugs. These policies would artificially lower U.S. drug prices, meaning less available capital to allocate towards biopharmaceutical R&D — and fewer new medicines as a result.

This scenario isn’t just theoretical. Before adopting price controls, European companies invested up to 24% more on drug R&D than American companies.

Now, our European counterparts have fallen behind by as much as 40% in R&D. Unsurprisingly, a Congressional Budget Office analysis of H.R. 3 has shown that it would lead to at least 40 fewer new drugs in the next 20 years. President Trump’s economic advisors have projected this legislation could lead to as many as 100 fewer medications over the next decade.

Sen. Tillis has helped me navigate red tape around the Social Security Administration after my diagnosis.

I hope that he continues advocating for patients by rejecting legislation that would jeopardize our future, and I urge his colleagues in Congress to do the same.

Jay Reinstein is a retired Fayetteville assistant city manager. He serves on the Alzheimer’s Association National of Directors.

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WALTER E. WILLIAMS

Should blacks support destruction of charter schools?

THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT GAP between black and white students has proven resistant to most educational policy changes.

Some say that educational expenditures explain the gap, but is that true? Look at educational per pupil expenditures: Baltimore city ranks fifth in the U.S. for per pupil spending at $15,793. The Detroit Public Schools Community District spends more per student than all but eight of the nation’s 100 largest school districts, at $14,259. New York City spends $26,588 per pupil, and Washington, D.C., spends $21,974. There appears to be little relationship between educational expenditures and academic achievement.

The Nation’s Report Card for 2017 showed the following reading scores for fourthgraders in New York state’s public schools: 32% scored below basic, with 32% scoring basic, 27% scoring proficient and 9% scoring advanced. When it came to black fourthgraders in the state, 19% scored proficient, and 3% scored advanced.

But what about the performance of students in charter schools? In his recent book, “Charter Schools and Their Enemies,” Dr. Thomas Sowell compared 2016-17 scores on the New York state ELA test. Thirty percent of Brooklyn’s public William Floyd Elementary School third-graders scored well below proficient in English and language arts, but at a Success Academy charter school in the same building, only one did.

At William Floyd, 36% of students were below proficient, with 24% being proficient and none being above proficient.

By contrast, at Success Academy, only 17% of third-graders were below proficient, with 70% being proficient and 11% being above proficient. Among Success Academy’s fourth-graders, 51% and 43%, respectively, scored proficient and above proficient, while their William Floyd counterparts scored 23% and 6%, respectively. It’s worthwhile stressing that William Floyd and this Success Academy location have the same address.

Similar high performance can be found in the Manhattan charter school KIPP Infinity Middle School among its sixth, seventh and eighth graders when compared with that of students at New Design Middle School, a public school at the same location. Liberals believe integration is a necessary condition for black academic excellence. Public charter schools such as those mentioned above belie that vision. Sowell points out that only 39% of students in all New York state schools who were recently tested scored at the “proficient” level in math, but 100% of the students at the Crown Heights Success Academy tested proficient. Blacks and Hispanics constitute 90% of the students in that Success Academy.

In April 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported that 57% of black and 54% of Hispanic charter school students passed the statewide ELA compared to 52% of white students statewide. On the state math test, 59% of black students and 57% of Hispanics at city charter schools passed as opposed to 54% of white students statewide.

There’s little question that many charter schools provide superior educational opportunities for black youngsters. Here is my question: Why do black people, as a group, accept the attack on charter schools?

John Liu, a Democratic state senator from Queens, said New York City should “get rid of” large charter school networks. State Sen. Julia Salazar, D-Brooklyn, said, “I’m not interested in privatizing our public schools.”

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio explicitly campaigned against charter schools saying: “I am angry about the privatizers. I am sick and tired of these efforts to privatize a precious thing we need — public education.

The New York Times article went on to say, “Over 100,000 students in hundreds of the city’s charter schools are doing well on state tests, and tens of thousands of children are on waiting lists for spots.”

One would think that black politicians and civil rights organizations would support charter schools. The success of many charter schools is unwelcome news to traditional public school officials and teachers’ unions.

To the contrary, they want to saddle charter schools with the same procedures that make so many public schools a failure. For example, the NAACP demands that charter schools “cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate.” It wants charter schools to “cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.” Most importantly, it wants charter schools to come under the control of teachers’ unions.

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

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

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NC AG, chief justice race outcomes likely days away

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — The outcomes of elections for North Carolina’s top lawyer and top judge likely won’t be settled for at least several more days as absentee by-mail ballots trickle in and provisional ballots are scrutinized statewide.

In the race for attorney general, incumbent Democrat Josh Stein faced Republican challenger Jim O’Neill, the Forsyth County district attorney. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley faced challenger Paul Newby, who is currently an associate justice.

Once all ballots are counted and confirmed by county boards, statewide candidates can seek a recount should they trail by 10,000 votes or fewer.

Election boards in all 100 counties are supposed to complete their full ballot counts by Nov. 13. State GOP leaders have demanded that the State Board of Elections provide data from a tracking system linked to absentee ballot envelopes that could determine how many ballots were given to the U.S. Postal Service by Tuesday but have not been received.

“Disclosure of this data should enable media outlets to call the presidential and U.S. Senate races, among others, almost immediately,” the leaders of the House and Senate elections committees wrote to state elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell.

The post office “generally scans the barcode when they receive the ballot envelope, although this does not happen in every case,” board attorney Katelyn Love wrote. “Thus, it is not possible to determine the complete universe of outstanding ballots from the data.”

Included in the 172,000 potential ballots are about 99,000 absentee ballots that were requested but have not yet been returned. Some

“We will wait to make sure all the votes are counted — that’s the way a democracy works. But given where we are, I am exceptionally confident in the result.”

N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein

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AG Josh Stein speaks at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh. of those voters likely decided to vote in person on Election Day and so would not have mailed their ballots back.

The almost 41,000 provisional ballots cast statewide also must be processed. Counties must research who cast these ballots to determine if they are registered voters and if their choices will count.

There are also nearly 32,000 absentee ballots that have been accepted by counties, but not yet tallied since a cutoff for inclusion in the election night results.

State GOP Chairman Michael Whatley told reporters that Republicans recognize the formal counting process that state law requires takes time. But he said the release

of more data on absentee ballots could bring finality to top races sooner, or allow trailing candidates in extremely close races to prepare to ask for recounts.

“We do not see anything in the provisional counts or in the absentee counts that gives us any heartburn,” Whatley said. “Our message is that Donald Trump has won North Carolina and that Thom Tillis has won North Carolina.”

The five-member state board is appointed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Three board members are Democrats.

In the attorney general’s race, Stein said he believes he will win a second four-year term.

“We will wait to make sure all

Libya rivals start UNled talks in Tunisia on political deal The Associated Press GAMMARTH, Tunisia — The U.N chief called on Libya’s warring sides to work together on a path to peace, as the rival factions gathered Monday in Tunisia for the start of much-awaited talks brokered by the United Nations, with a goal of drawing a roadmap to presidential and parliamentary elections.

The gathering is the latest in efforts to end the political chaos that engulfed the North African nation after the 2011 overthrow and killing of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The U.N. had selected 75 delegates from Libya to take part in the six-day forum at a luxury hotel in the Mediterranean town of Gammarth, just outside the capital of Tunis.

Tunisian President Kais Said attended the talks’ opening ceremony, calling the forum “historic by all measures.” Said added the U.N. efforts aim to set “clear measures and specific dates” to reach “a peaceful solution” to Libya’s conflict.

Said called on those who will lead the transitional period to refrain from running in the next presidential or parliamentary elections.

“There is no room for dividing Libya. Some talk about East and West, but the Libyan people are one,” he said. “The solution is for the Libyan people to regain their full sovereignty.”

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the gathering the future of the country is in their hands.

“Now it’s your turn to shape the future of your country. Your commitment to this process will help restore Libyan sovereignty and democratic legitimacy of Libyan institutions,” he said in a pre-recorded message to the forum.

He urged the international community to support the talks and ensure “full adherence” the U.N. arms embargo on Libya.

Stephanie Williams, the top

U.N. official in Libya, sought to temper expectations from the Gammarth talks. These negotiations “will not resolve all of Libya’s problems, but if we fail to solve any of them, future resolution becomes impossible,” she said.

A new government, expected to be created by the ongoing U.N.-brokered talks, would “launch national reconciliation, combat corruption, and restore public services,” Williams added.

Just ahead of the talks, she told journalists that “Libya now has an excellent opportunity which will allow it to get out of the conflict tunnel if all the interlocutors assume their responsibilities and respect their commitments at the end of this dialogue.”

But previous diplomatic initiatives to end the conflict have repeatedly collapsed. These latest talks, however, came amid heavy international pressure. Warring sides agreed to a U.N.-brokered cease-fire agreement last month in Geneva.

Pope Francis on Sunday asked for prayers for the forum’s delegates and for peace and stability in Libya.

“Given the importance of the event, I strongly hope that in this moment so delicate a solution is found for the long suffering of the Libyan people, and that the recent agreement for a permanent cease-fire is respected and is realized,” Francis told the faithful in St. Peter’s Square.

Oil-rich Libya is now split between a U.N.-supported government in the capital, Tripoli, and rival authorities based in the east.

Those sides are backed by an array of local militias, as well as regional and foreign powers.

Eastern Libya forces, led by commander Khalifa Hifter, launched an offensive in April 2019 to try and capture Tripoli.

His campaign collapsed in June, when the Tripoli-allied militias, with heavy Turkish support, gained the upper hand.

the votes are counted — that’s the way a democracy works,” Stein said on election night. “But given where we are, I am exceptionally confident in the result.”

O’Neill told reporters that every person who turned in a ballot or mailed one by Tuesday’s deadline “deserves an opportunity to have their voice and their opinion heard.”

“We believe there’s a lot more to the race right now, and we’re not going to know until the next week or so how things are really going to shake out,” he said in a video call.

Stein, a former state senator and consumer protection division chief within the state Department of Justice, was a prolific fundrais-

er in the campaign, collecting $5.2 million in the third quarter alone, compared to $329,000 by O’Neill.

Both candidates benefited from outside groups sending mailers to voters.

The campaign’s largest controversy came when Stein ran a television commercial featuring a woman who said O’Neill mishandled sexual assault test kits in Forsyth County. O’Neill said the ad was bogus because police agencies, not prosecutors, are responsible for testing. He filed a complaint with the N.C. State Board of Elections against Stein, accusing him of breaking a law about false campaign ads. O’Neill said Wednesday that he had not yet heard back from the board. He said he is also considering an N.C. State Bar complaint.

Stein “had to resort to running a false and malicious ad against me in order for him to maintain his political power,” O’Neill said Wednesday. Stein’s campaign has defended the commercial and highlighted what it says have been Stein’s efforts to reduce backlogs of untested kits. O’Neill’s “allegations are as childish as they are false,” campaign manager Eric Stern said.

The state’s two previous attorneys general were elected governor: Democrats Mike Easley and current Gov. Roy Cooper.

NCDOT PROJECT UPDATE REGARDING PROPOSED EXTENSION OF RANCH ROAD FROM LITTLE CREEK CHURCH ROAD TO N.C. 42 / U.S. 70 BUSINESS IN JOHNSTON COUNTY

STIP PROJECT NO. U-6223 Clayton - The public is invited to view pre-recorded videos from the N.C. Department of Transportation this month regarding the proposal to extend Ranch Road from Little Creek Church Road to N.C. 42 / U.S. 70 business in Clayton. This project proposes to improve safety and mobility.

Due to COVID-19, NCDOT will not host an in-person public meeting for the Ranch Road extension. The department has developed a series of videos to provide you with the following: • An overview of the project; • How to read public meeting maps • Project maps, which can be found on the NCDOT public input webpage https://publicinput.com/RanchRd-Clayton.

The public can view the project materials and leave comments by accessing the public input webpage shown above. There will not be a formal presentation.

People may also submit comments by phone (855-925-2801 enter project code 9548), email (RanchRd-Clayton@PublicInput.com), or mail to the project manager by December, 11, 2020.

NCDOT Division Highway 4 Project Engineer Rachel Evans

PO Box 3165 Wilson, NC 27895, 252- 640-6434

Contact NCDOT as soon as possible if you require any accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, 919-7076069 or magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so arrangements can be made.

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SPORTS

Bulked-up DeChambeau favored at Augusta National, B4

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Quarterback Sam Hartman, running back Christian Beal-Smith and the Demon Deacons had an extra week to prepare for this Saturday’s game in Chapel Hill against UNC.

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the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT COLLEGE FOOTBALL

NC State, Charlotte announce future series Raleigh NC State and Charlotte announced Thursday that the schools’ football teams will play a home-and-home series in consecutive years, with the 49ers visiting Raleigh in 2030 and the Wolfpack heading to Charlotte for a rematch in 2031. Since joining FBS in 2015, Charlotte is 0-4 against teams from North Carolina, including losses this year against Appalachian State and Duke.

GOLF

Symetra Tour season concludes in Davidson Davidson Sweden’s Frida Kinhult won the season-ending Symetra Tour Championship on Friday at River Run Country Club in Davidson, while former Duke golfer Ana Belac finished 26th and was named Player of the Year. Belac and Kinhult were two of the five players who earned LPGA Tour cards for the 2021 season with their play on the 10-event qualifying tour. Charlotte’s Laura Wearn was seventh in the Symetra rankings, and Concord’s Anna Redding finished 10th.

ESPORTS

Raleigh to host first collegiate esports national championship Raleigh North Carolina’s capital will host the first collegiate esports national championship. It was announced Monday that teams from ECAC Esports, National Junior College Athletic Association Esports and the High School Esports League will be invited to compete at the Collegiate Esports National Championship from April 29 to May 2, 2021, at the Raleigh Convention Center.

Surry Community College is a member of the NJCAAE and several state high schools are in the HSEL.

The Demon Deacons have reeled off four straight wins and will head to Chapel Hill looking to repeat last year’s victory over the Tar Heels KARL B. DEBLAKER | AP PHOTO

NC State’s Kevin Keatts — along with college basketball coaches throughout the country — is hoping to have the Wolfpack’s schedule in place as soon as possible.

culties associated with putting together a slate of games amidst the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re still waiting for their schedules to be announced.

It’s a process that has NC State’s Kevin Keatts “past the frustration stage.”

“When we came out and switched the date of when we are going to start the season, I knew it would be a challenge,” Keatts said.

“We may not have a schedule until the day before we play our first game. I’m hoping that doesn’t happen.”

The 2020-21 season was originally supposed to begin on Tuesday but was pushed back to Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving, because of questions surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and the extension of football season into mid-December.

In addition to adjusting the

THREE WEEKS into the disjointed 2020 college football season, North Carolina was a top-10 team while Wake Forest was already being written off after losing its first two games against ACC opponents Clemson and NC State.

When the Tar Heels and Deacons meet Saturday at Kenan Stadium, they’ll do so on virtually equal terms.

Coach Mack Brown’s team is still highly regarded despite ugly losses to struggling Florida State and Virginia that dropped it out of the national rankings. UNC is a 13½-point favorite against its in-state rival.

But the Tar Heels (5-2, 5-2 ACC) don’t have to look very far down the conference standings to see the Deacons catching up with them after four straight victories, including impressive wins against Virginia Tech and Syracuse leading into last week’s open date.

It’s a turnaround that has caught many by surprise.

But not Brown.

“You start looking at what Dave Clawson has done at Wake Forest for a long time, they’re always wellcoached,” the UNC Hall of Famer said. “I’ve never thought he gets the credit for the way his teams play.

“They always have really good players and they’re never ranked high in recruiting, so they do a fantastic job in evaluating and developing players.

And they always play hard.”

While the Deacons (4-2, 3-2) have gotten better as the season has worn on, Brown’s Tar Heels seem to be stuck in a roller-coaster pattern of alternating between a well-oiled machine one week and a self-destructive time bomb the next.

After bouncing back from a confounding loss at Virginia two weeks ago with a 56-24 dismantling of Duke in the battle for the Victory Bell on Saturday, UNC is now hoping to put two good efforts together in consecutive weeks.

Something it has yet to do this season.

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By Brett Friedlander North State Journal PUTTING TOGETHER a college basketball schedule during a worldwide pandemic has been a challenge, to say the least.

It’s a pursuit that has taken Mike Krzyzewski all the way back to his formative years organizing pickup games among his friends.

“When I was growing up in Chicago, we lived near the Columbus Park schoolyard and on a Thursday we could schedule a game with the guys at Riis Park on Saturday and maybe the guys at Humboldt Park on Monday,” Duke’s Hall of Fame coach said. “Who knows?

I’m going to check on those Riis Park and Humboldt Park guys to see if they’re available in case we get any cancellations. It’s crazy.”

How crazy?

Consider that just two weeks before the expected start of the 2020-21 season, Krzyzewski’s Blue Devils — along with state ACC rivals North Carolina, NC State and Wake Forest — aren’t exactly sure who or when they’ll be playing.

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“We may not have a schedule until the day before we play our first game. I’m hoping that doesn’t happen.”

Kevin Keatts, NC State coach

“We’ve got our hands full. I think the guys will understand that this year.”

UNC coach Mack Brown on facing Wake Forest

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TRENDING

Austin Cindric: The Team Penske driver earned his first NASCAR title Saturday, winning the Xfinity Series finale at Phoenix Raceway. Cindric pitted for tires after Chase Briscoe spun with six laps remaining and chased down Justin Allgaier. After taking the white flag, Cindric moved ahead of the championship contender into second place, then passed Noah Gragson to take the lead and victory.

Pete Carroll: The Seattle Seahawks coach has reportedly signed a multiyear contract extension that will keep him with the team he guided to a Super Bowl title in 2013. Carroll, 69, is in his 15th NFL season as an NFL head coach and 11th in Seattle. Carroll’s previous contract ran through the end of the 2021 season after being extended in 2018.

Carroll’s new deal is expected to go through the 2025 season and was agreed to earlier this season.

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Notre Dame’s fans stormed the field after the Fighting Irish upset No. 1 Clemson in South Bend with a 47-40 in double-overtime win Saturday night. For the Tigers, it was their first loss in 36 regular season games. Clemson had also not lost to an ACC opponent since 2017. The loss dropped the Tigers down to No. 4 in the latest AP poll, while Notre Dame rose to No. 2 behind new No. 1 Alabama.

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“We’ve been able to turn things around when we hit bottom in the past around here.”

Duke football coach David Cutcliffe after the Blue Devils were blown out by rival UNC.

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NFL

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Sheldon Creed: The GMS Racing driver gambled on new tires for a two-lap overtime and snatched the Truck Series championship away from teammate Brett Moffitt on Friday at Phoenix Raceway.

Creed was eighth after pitting for tires, but Moffitt faded on old tires and quickly lost the lead while Creed worked his way through the field to earn his fifth win of the season.

Baker Mayfield: The Cleveland Browns quarterback was placed on the Reserve/ COVID-19 list Sunday after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus. The team was on a bye last week and is scheduled to host Houston next weekend.

“(It) was a dumb thing.”

Chiefs coach Andy Reid, before Kansas City played the Panthers, on not hiring Matt Rhule to his staff with the Eagles.

PRIME NUMBER

67 Distance, in yards, of Panthers kicker Joey Slye’s attempted gamewinning field goal Sunday in Carolina’s 33-31 loss to the Chiefs.

Slye’s kick seemed to have the distance but was far right. It was the second time in three weeks he missed a long late-game kick — his 65-yard attempt at New Orleans on Oct. 25 was just short of the cross bar.

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Washington quarterback Kyle Allen was knocked out of Sunday’s game after suffering a gruesome broken ankle in the first quarter of the Giants’ 23-20 win Sunday. Allen started 13 games the last two seasons with the Panthers and was reunited with coach Ron Rivera after a trade to Washington in March.

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Ten months after firing Alex Cora, the Red Sox have brought back their former manager. Cora, who led Boston to the 2018 World Series title, was rehired 10 days after he finished a one-season suspension for his role in Houston’s sign-stealing scheme during their 2017 championship run, which led to the Red Sox to fire him.

NBA

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Former Hornets assistant Stephen Silas was hired as the next coach of the Houston Rockets last week. The 47-year-old was a scout and then assistant under his father, Paul, in Charlotte from 1999-2002 and again with the Bobcats and Hornets from 2010-18. He was a Mavericks assistant under coach Rick Carlisle for the past three seasons.

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No. 7 Cincinnati offers ECU chance at breakthrough The Pirates have suffered three straight tough losses, but much of that pain would be erased with an upset of the Bearcats

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Matt Rhule has been willing to gamble in his first season as Panthers coach, much like his predecessor, Ron Rivera, did when he was in Carolina.

Panthers welcome back the ol’ riverboat Coach Matt Rhule shows an appetite for risk-taking

By Shawn Krest North State Journal TWO BIG RETURNS helped spark the Carolina Panthers’ near upset of the defending Super Bowl champions. One was Christian McCaffrey, the All-Pro running back who was back in the lineup for the first time since Week 2.

The second big return to the Panthers sideline was the ol’ riverboat.

While former coach Ron Rivera dubbed himself “Riverboat Ron” for his self-proclaimed penchant for taking risks, in his later years at the helm of the team, the Panthers seemed more likely to punt from the 40 or kick a field goal from inside the 5 than to roll the dice.

Against the Chiefs, however, all bets were off, as head coach “Moneyline” Matt Rhule and coordinators “Jackpot” Joe Brady and Phil “Snake Eyes” Snow didn’t see a risk they wouldn’t take. The Panthers took shot after shot against heavily favored Kansas City, and most of their chances paid off.

On the game’s opening drive, “Roulette Rhule” passed up a short field goal to go for it on fourth-and-goal. McCaffrey responded with a catch for his first of two touchdowns on the day.

“I think we felt like we had good plays. We went for it twice last week on fourth down and didn’t get them, so I don’t think it was any different mindset this week,” Rhule shrugged when asked about his first gamble.

There was much more to come, however.

The Panthers went for it on fourth down again later in the game, converting a fourth-and-19

that raised some eyebrows.

“That was just more of a, ‘Hey, what else can you do in the game but that.’ We came to win,” Rhule said. “We came to play to win. We wanted to get a win and tried to play that way.”

Rhule denied that the players would have gotten any additional motivation from the staff’s willingness to go for it on fourth down. But the plays did give the team momentum.

“Well yeah, they led to touchdowns and I think that that’s what we needed,” he said. “We needed some energy, but I think our guys were here to play no matter what.

They came knowing it was going to be a battle. They fought back — we took the lead and fought back.

We had every chance to win the game.”

His players seemed pretty motivated, however.

“I think that’s just us trying to make it happen and laying it all on the line,” receiver Robby Anderson said. “I think it’s just trickled down to simply playing with heart and the want to and (quarterback Teddy Bridgewater) really laying it all on the line to keep the chains going and trying to fight for that win.”

“That mentality is just starting to go throughout the team and the fact that, if we play aggressive and we go all-out for certain situations, we’ll give ourselves better opportunities to win the game,” kicker Joey Slye said. “The percentages of us winning goes up.

We’re playing the Kansas City Chiefs and they’re known for a high-powered offense, so any possession that we’re able to steal or any opportunity that we’re able to get more points than them, we need to take full advantage of.”

Throw in a couple of onside kicks, a fake punt for a touchdown and an NFL record field goal at-

PIVOTAL from page B1 sons,” Brown said, adding that the best teams are the ones that learn to play with intensity week in and week out. “A lot of bankruptcies come right after you have your best year and people get a little relaxed. Why do people not win championships year in and year out? Why did they win one year and the next year, they’re not quite as good? Well, it’s partly because people all want to beat them and they circle them.

“But the other thing is that you don’t do all the little things quite as well right after you’re satisfied, and we can’t be satisfied.

We’ve got to coach them harder this week than we did last week and act like they lost the game, very honestly.”

Or maybe Brown and his staff should simply remind their players about what happened the last time these two teams met — a year ago in a rare nonconference matchup between the long-time in-state rivals.

The Tar Heels were riding high after back-to-back upsets of South Carolina and Miami before the Deacons knocked them back by jumping out to a quick three-touchdown lead on the way to a 2418 victory in Winston-Salem.

This year’s Deacons aren’t as experienced as that 2019 squad. But they do present a tricky matchup for UNC because the things they do well, particularly their abil-

“That was just more of a, ‘Hey, what else can you do in the game but that.’ We came to win.”

Matt Rhule, Panthers coach

tempt to end the game, and it was clear that the Chiefs were going to have to defend the entire bag of tricks from the Panthers staff. “(Special teams coordinator) Chase (Blackburn) and (assistant special teams coordinator) Ed (Foley) had a great punt fake that they thought would be up and I was going to use it on the first drive but we converted, so I used it on the second drive,” Rhule said.

“We just felt like those things were there.”

The second onside kick came with less than two minutes remaining, so it wasn’t unexpected.

The attempt earlier in the fourth quarter was, however.

“They were lined up 15 yards off the ball,” Rhule explained. “That’s something that we practice all the time. We were down two scores and we’d been watching it all game, we felt like we had it, so we went for it. We thought we had it, just that the ball didn’t go 10 yards. If the ball goes 10 yards there, I think we probably recover it. Momentum was on our side.”

So, while the Panthers need McCaffrey back running and catching the rock, just as significant was the return of the riverboat, docked in port on the Panthers sideline once again.

“Those are decisions that I have to make. I have to live with them,” Rhule said. “I’d tell you I’d do it again.”

ity to run the ball and pressure the quarterback, are areas in which the Tar Heels have struggled.

“They’ve got a lot of guys back that kept us from moving the ball last year,” Brown said. “We’ve got our hands full. I think the guys will understand that this year.”

And unlike UNC, the Deacons don’t beat themselves.

Wake has committed only one turnover all season and quarterback Sam Hartman has yet to be intercepted. On the other side of the ball, its defense has taken the ball away 15 times for a nation’s best plus-14 ratio.

“I think we’re a much better team,” Clawson said after his team’s decisive 3814 win at Syracuse on Oct. 31. “It’s a team that’s capable of playing in different ways to win. It’s nice to know we don’t have to score 40 points to win like we did the last two years. You can’t cheat against us. We have good balance going on.”

Putting together a game plan to stop the Deacons, Brown said, is only half the battle.

“These aren’t video games. They’re human beings,” the UNC coach said. “What we’ve got to do is work really hard to prepare the best we can to beat Wake Forest and not anything else.

“Really and truly, it’s not about the other team. We look at their tendencies, we know what they do. It’s about us, and we’ve got to play well.”

ECU coach Mike Houston on playing No. 7 Cincinnati

AT 1-5 AND coming off three straight winnable games that got away — at least one through no fault of its own — the East Carolina football team has reached the point in the season in which motivation can become a challenge.

“It’s tough, with so many 18-year-olds, keeping them upbeat,” coach Mike Houston said of his young team. “But I see so many positives. … It’s just trying to focus on the things we’re doing well, trying to get things corrected that we’re not doing well and try to show the things we can improve on than what we did last week.”

In order to maintain what the coach called “a positive team-minded culture” in the locker room, Houston has tried to find different things each week to help keep his players locked in and on task.

He didn’t have to look hard for this week’s source of motivation with a nationally televised game at No. 7 Cincinnati coming up on Friday.

“Having the opportunity to play a quality opponent like Cincinnati is something I’m excited about, and I think our kids will be too,” Houston said. “It’s one of those things where right now Cincinnati is the top team in our league, and when you’re at the top, you’re going to get everybody’s best.”

Whether the Pirates’ best shot is good enough to beat the Bearcats is yet to be seen. But there’s more than just blind hope to believe that it could be.

A year ago in Greenville, ECU (1-5, 1-4 American Athletic Conference) played arguably its best three quarters of the season in building a 40-28 lead against Cincinnati.

Even after the advantage evaporated with 4½ minutes remaining when a Holton Ahlers pass was returned for a go-ahead touchdown, the Pirates still battled back to tie the game before losing on a last-second field goal.

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East Carolina will need running back Rahjai Harris to provide balance to the Pirates’ attack against Cincinnati.

SCHEDULES from page B1 schedule, the NCAA Division I Council also changed the maximum number of games teams are allowed to play — reducing it by four to 24 plus one multiple-team event (MTE). The minimum number of games allowed to be considered for postseason play was reduced by 50% to just 13 games.

With the ACC planning on playing a 20game league schedule, just as it did for the first time a year ago, that leaves a maximum of just seven nonconference dates for conference teams to fill.

The number is even lower for some teams.

UNC, for example, is already lined up to play in the multiple-team Maui Classic — which has been relocated inland to Asheville because of COVID-19-related travel concerns — along with Iowa as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and Ohio State in the CBS Sports Classic.

Wake Forest, on the other hand, isn’t participating in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and didn’t have an MTE lined up. So it’s been harder for the Demon Deacons to fill their full nonconference slate, a pursuit complicated by the NCAA’s date change, travel limitations and other considerations, including previously signed contracts for games that now can’t be played.

“Even when you think you have games done, certainly it’s not done,” Keatts said.

“It’s been a different narrative every day up until about a week ago when we felt pret-

“When you’re at the top, you’re going to get everybody’s best.”

Houston said that the nearwin showed his team that it has the capability of being competitive against one of the nation’s best. But he also warned that last year’s result could be a reminder to the Bearcats (6-0, 4-0) not to take ECU lightly.

“When you look at their roster, the same guys have been playing for multiple years,” Houston said.

“We played well against them offensively last year. (It was a) tough game. We lost on a kick there at the end. Obviously, having to travel up there and playing on the road will be tough.

“I think they are much improved, even from the team I saw at the beginning of the year. (They have) great depth across the board, so I just think we are playing a really good football team Friday night.”

Cincinnati ranks first in the AAC in scoring defense, allowing just 11.0 points per game. The Bearcats are also among the nation’s leaders with 14 interceptions through seven games and are coming off a convincing 38-19 rout of conference rival Houston — a game in which junior quarterback Desmond Ridder earned AAC Offensive Player of the Week honors by accounting for four touchdowns (three on the ground, one through the air).

“It’s not just their defense but, looking at all three phases, it’s their team speed,” Houston said. “I think they run really well at all three levels.”

Despite an unsightly record, the Pirates have shown flashes of improvement during their current three-game losing streak.

Against Navy, a solid defensive effort went unrewarded because of an offense hamstrung by the absence of quarterback Ahlers — who was unable to play while in contact tracing quarantine. Two weeks ago at Tulsa, they had a win taken from them on the game’s final drive by an official’s error that was later acknowledged by the AAC office.

Last Saturday against Tulane, ECU started well and finished strong, but faltered in between in a 38-21 home loss.

The goal now, said Houston, is learning to put four good quarters together and get equal contributions from both sides of the ball at the same time.

“We have seen progress on the field in that we are highly competitive in American Conference games versus a year ago when we struggled,” the second-year coach said. “We do have a youthful roster.

Those guys are going through a lot of first experiences. The big thing I try to do is keep them focused on the important things we preach daily, and that’s pushing ourselves to be the best we can be and to be a more cohesive team.”

ty good about it,” added new Wake Forest coach Steve Forbes, who credited director of basketball operations Frank Davis for doing most of the heavy lifting in creating a nonconference schedule.

“There was a lot of negotiations behind the scenes, there was a lot of movement with contracts existing and getting new ones.

You’d think, ‘Wow, get seven games.’ But there was a lot of competition out there because once some of those bubbles started to pop, everyone wanted to have an MTE. Everybody was looking for teams.”

Like NC State and Duke, Wake created its own season-opening MTE. But they’ve all had to wait to fill out the rest of their nonconference schedules — at least as far as the dates are concerned — until the ACC decides on when its conference games are going to be played.

“I know they’re working hard to have an ACC game before Christmas,” Forbes said.

“What day that is, I’m not 100% yet. When we get started after Christmas, it could be the 29th, it could be the 30th. I don’t know.

It hasn’t been laid out yet.

“I think we’ll have to be able to adjust like football has had to adjust. It’s not laid out perfectly for them, either. We’re going to be in the same boat and we play more games. I think, probably, a lot of things are on the table.”

Including, perhaps, a fallback plan of calling the guys from Riis Park and Humboldt Park to see if they’re available.

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DeChambeau’s power game the talk of the Masters The 27-year-old added more than 40 pounds of muscle, won the U.S. Open and is the favorite this week at Augusta

By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — The scene was straight out of the World Long Drive Championship spectacle.

Bryson DeChambeau would consider that a compliment.

He took a slow practice swing, then the next one at full force. Eyes focused, deep breath, chest fully expanded, exhale. Another violent practice swing. And another. Just then, a leaf blew in front of his ball. He stooped over to flick it away and started the routine over until he was ready to smash his tee shot at the TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.

Wait.

DeChambeau walked over to his bag, removed a wrench and tightened the screws on the bottom of his driver.

Joaquin Niemann couldn’t suppress a smile as he watched this unfold. It was worth the wait. The golf ball came off the club at 198 mph. It hit a small tree right of the fairway, dropping straight down and robbing DeChambeau of what he figured would have been a 400yard drive.

“I killed it,” he said.

Moments like these are why DeChambeau is the talk of golf going into the Masters.

It has been this way since golf returned in June from the COVID-19 pandemic and DeChambeau showed up with his incredible bulk, more than 40 pounds of muscle and mass, all to support a swing that is producing prodigious shots. He has driven into groups on the green on a par 4. He powered (and putted) his way to the lowest score ever at Winged Foot to win the U.S. Open by six shots.

And he says he is just getting started.

“He went to the nth degree of everything we have available to us — science, TrackMan, biomechanics, everything,” Rory McIlroy said. “Now that we have all that, Bryson is the personality that goes down that rabbit hole more than anyone else. I think that’s credit to him. He’s worked his (tail) off and it’s paying off hugely.

“He’s definitely the most talked about man in golf right now.”

Next stop: Augusta National, where DeChambeau hopes to unveil a 48-inch driver, the legal limit typically seen only in long drive competitions.

48 The length, in inches, of the driver Bryson DeChambeau could use at the Masters this week, the longest allowed by the PGA and normally reserved for long drive competitions.

That’s where this latest experiment all began. It was a year ago in September when DeChambeau watched Kyle Berkshire win the World Long Drive Championship with his final blast that carried 400 yards.

“The real light-bulb moment,” DeChambeau said. “I said, ‘If I could do that and hit it straight, what would happen? ‘That was the question that inspired me to go down this road.”

Berkshire said he has never met DeChambeau in person, only talking with him over the phone to share ideas — DeChambeau wants power, Berkshire is trying to get back toward tournament golf. He believes DeChambeau is headed done the right path with his program and his relentless passion to think outside the box.

And he thinks it’s a path others will have to follow.

“It’s exciting to see what he’s doing, but not surprising,” Berkshire said. “This will be the new norm.

When someone does something that threatens your living, it’s a scary thing. It’s scary when you’re being outhit by 50 yards.”

McIlroy noticed that when golf returned at Colonial in June. He was paired with DeChambeau in the final round and said there were times he and caddie Harry Diamond couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

“He hit one into the wind on 11. I hit a really good one and probably hit it like 315, 320. He must have flew my ball by 40 yards,” McIlroy said. “It was crazy. It was nuts. It’s impressive what he’s doing. There’s going to be courses where it works, and there’s going to be courses where it won’t.”

McIlroy wasn’t banking on Winged Foot until DeChambeau did something so crazy it made perfect sense. With the fairways tight and firm, the analytics suggested even playing less club off the tee wasn’t going to assure keeping drives in the short grass.

So why not hit it as far as possible?

It helped that he had a great week

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Much like when Tiger Woods burst on the scene with his long drives, Bryson DeChambeau’s transformation into golf’s hardest hitter has changed the sport and has him installed as the favorite this week at the Masters. with his irons.

As for Augusta National?

DeChambeau didn’t want to reveal too much, but he already has singled out a half-dozen holes where he could have a massive advantage. He has even talked about taking his drive on the par-5 13th over the pine trees and into the 14th fairway (which would be easier without spectators there). Some of the par 5s would leave him a wedge into the green, not to mention some of the tougher par 4s.

And that’s without a 48-inch driver.

“If he can get the 48-inch driver, he will shoot 20 under or better.

It’s going to be a slaughter,” Berkshire said. “He could force a lot of things to change.”

The R&A and USGA are closing in on a comprehensive study on distance and how it affects the game. The public has focused on equipment. Often overlooked is what the governing bodies mentioned in their Joint Statement of Principals” in 2002 when it warned of the impact on increased distance — equipment, sure, along with “greater athleticism of players.”

That’s where Greg Roskopf comes in.

Roskopf, who works with the Denver Broncos and developed

Muscle Activation Technique, began working with DeChambeau three years ago for back and hip issues. Then, they took fitness and training and nutrition to another level about 18 months ago. The sessions allow DeChambeau to increase his strength and body mass without losing range of motion.

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Bryson DeChambeau, pictured back in 2018 before he bulked up, had won five times on the PGA Tour in his first four years since turning pro, but he has won twice since transitioning to a power game this year.

It takes enormous work, and DeChambeau has never shied away from that.

“His body had to tolerate what he was doing,” Roskopf said. “We would load his body to the point of failure. An uncontrolled environment would have negative effects.

We reactivated (his muscles) after overload to make him stronger.

We’ve seen some amazing changes.”

The size stands out. DeChambeau drinks about seven Orgain protein shakes a day (he had one walking down the 15th hole at Winged Foot) and various estimates have put his caloric intake between 3,500 and 5,000.

“In my 30 years in sports, I haven’t seen gains I’ve seen in him,” Roskopf said.

All for power. All for speed. All for distance.

He won in Detroit in his fourth tournament since the restart. The real validation came from his U.S. Open victory. And now he goes to the Masters as the betting favorite in a year in which five players other than DeChambeau have reached No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods is the defending champion.

“You have to hand it to him,” Jordan Spieth said. “He’s found a way to change the game right now.”

Elliott drives from back to win, claim first Cup crown The 24-year-old earned his first championship and gave Hendrick Motorsports its first title since 2016

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — NASCAR’s most popular driver is now a Cup champion, too.

Chase Elliott took the torch from teammate Jimmie Johnson by winning his first Cup title Sunday, driving from the back of the field to Victory Lane at Phoenix Raceway. The win for Hendrick Motorsports and Chevrolet was the first since Johnson, who retired after the race, won his seventh and final crown in 2016.

“I just, man, I’m at a loss for words,” Elliott said. “This is unbelievable. Oh, my gosh. We did it. I mean, we did it. That’s all I’ve got to tell you. Unreal.”

Elliott’s car failed prerace inspection and the penalty cost him the pole when he was sent to the rear. But the quiet driver from Georgia raced his way through traffic in the first stage and then took control of the championship.

Elliott led seven times for a racehigh 153 laps.

Elliott, who turns 25 later this month, is the son of Hall of Famer Bill Elliott. His father — “Awesome Bill from Dawsonville” — won the 1988 championship and 16 times was voted by the fans NASCAR’s most popular driver.

Chase Elliott became the fan favorite in 2018 after Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired. He’s the first most-popular driver to win the championship since his father won his only title.

The Elliotts joined Lee and Richard Petty and Ned and Dale Jarrett as just the third father-son

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Chase Elliott holds up the season championship trophy as he celebrates with his crew in Victory Lane after winning Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series finale at Phoenix Raceway. combination to win a NASCAR Cup title. The Elliotts, along with Hall of Famer Tim Flock, are the only three drivers from Georgia to win a championship.

Hendrick Motorsports extended its NASCAR record of championships with a 13th title.

Elliott passed Joey Logano with 42 laps remaining and pulled away in a race Elliott controlled even as the four title contenders ran 1-23-4 most of the afternoon. Elliott had charged through the field during the first stage to clump the four contenders in the winnertake-all season finale.

It was Elliott’s fifth win of the season, trailing only Kevin Harvick (nine) and Denny Hamlin (seven). Elliott’s win at Martinsville last week not only locked him into the final four, but eliminated regular-season champion Harvick.

“I felt like we took some really big strides this year, and last week was a huge one,” said Elliott. “To come out of that with a win and a shot to come here and have a chance to race is unbelievable.”

Elliott beat Brad Keselowski, who was followed by his Team Penske teammate Logano and then Hamlin, who is now 0 for 4 in

titles races. Hamlin is considered along with Hall of Famer Mark Martin the best driver without a Cup title.

“No one has won more than we have over the last two years. Pretty proud what this team is doing,” Hamlin said. “We’ll come back and do it again next year.”

Hamlin was the only driver among the final four not to lead a lap at Phoenix, where he won last November.

Logano led 125 laps, but most of them early.

“It stings not winning, I’m not going to lie. It hurts,” he said.

Keselowski had been holding out hope for a late caution to set up a short sprint to the finish, which is how both the Truck Series and Xfinity Series titles were decided the previous two nights.

“I would have loved to have raced it out,” Keselowski said. “We just didn’t get any yellows.”

The race had just four total cautions, three of them scheduled breaks. It made Elliott’s coronation look easy.

On the cool-down lap, Johnson pulled up alongside Elliott and fist-bumped the new face of Hendrick, of Chevrolet and of NASCAR. Johnson and his family then walked to Elliott’s No. 9, where he shared strong hugs with Elliott and his boss.

“Oh my gosh, I mean, to share a moment like that, Jimmie’s last race, to win and lock the championship,” said Elliott, “those are moments you can only dream, you know, and this is a dream.

“Just hoping I don’t ever wake up.”

The race completed NASCAR’s frenzied 38-race schedule that was overhauled because of the pandemic. The season was suspended five days after NASCAR raced at Phoenix in March, a race won by Logano, and the engines idled for 10 weeks.

But facing crippling financial losses to the teams and the industry, NASCAR was one of the first sports to resume competition. NASCAR went racing again May 17 and used doubleheaders, midweek races and a massive scheduling shuffle to complete the season for all three of its national series.

For the finale, the first one at NASCAR’s owned and remodeled Phoenix Raceway, NASCAR loosened its “bubble” and allowed families and guests for the first time since its return.

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Johnny Depp exits ‘Fantastic Beasts’ franchise

By Jake Coyle The Associated Press

PHOTO COURTESY CAPSTONE EVENT GROUP

Runners participate in 2019 Tar Heel Miler, in Chapel Hill.

Runners and road race industry search for new routes in COVID era

By Elizabeth Lincicome North State Journal RALEIGH — When indoor gyms and fitness facilities shut down last spring due to the coronavirus, millions of Americans turned to the safety of outdoor activities like walking, biking and running instead.

Yet the pandemic’s impact on the organized road-race industry this year has been utterly devastating. The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted a study by Athlinks, the industry’s main results platform, which found that the number of finishers in timed races nationwide dropped nearly 95% between mid-March and mid-October compared with the same span last year. This drop is understandable given the atmosphere of these types of events, which is anything but social distance-friendly. (Think: thousands of sweaty athletes packed like sardines at the start and finish lines not to mention the thousands of spectators watching alongside the course.)

Before the pandemic struck the running industry was on the upswing. The number of finishers in timed events was up 3% in early 2020, yet what used to be 5,000 person events, have now been capped at a couple of hundred, people and that is in best case scenarios where races even take place. Marathons and other road races technically fall into the same category as large outdoor gatherings like concerts and festivals, which lawmakers and public health officials continue to regulate.

Even still, race directors say they are studying how and when events can safely resume and are already looking to bring back smaller events as early as the spring.

For example, Raleigh-based running company Capstone Event Group, which operates around 16 races a year in over six states across the country as well as in Vancouver, says it is certainly looking promising that they will be able to host some of their 2021 Springtime resort races at locations such as Pinehurst and the Greenbrier. President and COO Charlie Mercer says that Capstone’s destination and resort-based runs are by nature smaller events where the number of participants is already capped at a few hundred runners, versus some of their larger events

“As we head into 2021, we have to use a different set of metrics to size up what each of next year’s races will look like based on how COVID is impacting a certain host community.”

Charlie Mercer, President and COO of Capstone Event Group where the number of participants often reaches into the tens of thousands.

Mercer says COVID has forced race organizations to make operational changes, some of which may become a part of the way races are executed for years to come.

These include more staggered start times, spread out water stations with volunteers standing farther apart from each other, and staff who deliver race packets to participants’ individual hotel rooms as is the case for Capstone’s upcoming resort races.

“And of course, the post-race parties will have to change to incorporate more social distancing,” Mercer adds.

Founded in 2011 by Raleigh native John Kane, Capstone is a homegrown success story that continues to expand its portfolio of race offerings. It not only hosts some of the Triangle’s most well-known running events like Bull City Race Fest, Raleigh’s City of Oaks Marathon, the Tarheel Ten Miler, and the Race 13.1 half marathon series – which includes two events in Raleigh, one in Durham, and one in Charlotte, but it also hosts two marathons in South Carolina, a half marathon in Sea Island, GA., the Bay to Breakers run in San Francisco, and events in St. Louis and the Hamptons. Mercer says because of they operate in so many locales he has seen firsthand how COVID has impacted various communities differently.

“We’ve seen this not only from a local N.C. perspective, but also from the way COVID has impacted the other regions of the country where we host races. Our operational managers are taking extra precautions as we plan 2021 events, and we believe there is a strong possibility we will

be able to operate some in person events in Spring, 2021 depending on the size of the event and its geographic location.”

Capstone’s events serve over 100,000 runners annually but when COVID hit this past March they too were forced to cancel everything scheduled for the rest of the year. They were able to produce the Charleston Marathon, Pinehurst Half Marathon and Myrtle Beach Marathon before COVID hit. Nationwide, about 15% of runners this year converted their event to a virtual one after the in-person versions were canceled. A virtual race has participants run the prearranged distance wherever they want and submit their times to organizers. Participants in the virtual New York City Marathon, for example, ran 26.2 miles any day between Oct. 17 and Nov. 1. There are no winners or prizes involved with virtual events.

“As we head into 2021, we have to use a different set of metrics to size up what each of next year’s races will look like based on how COVID is impacting a certain host community,” Mercer explains.

“Our Resort Race series, where events are capped at 500 or 750 participants, have a strong likelihood of happening as planned in Spring, 2021, whereas we’ve already moved the date of our 30,000 person San Francisco event from May, 2021 to August, 2021.”

Mercer says that his business background from his previous career at Deloitte, where he was able to learn about the complex US healthcare system, made him appreciate the importance of organizations that help people improve their physical health which can ultimately help prevent some of the health problems that lead to significant utilization of the healthcare system. “But I’ve come to appreciate the numerous other benefits of running events, such as their ability to build community, help local businesses and improve participants’ confidence and mental health,” he says.

For this reason, Mercer is confident the running industry will rebound from the pandemic and that when things return to normal their races will continue to mean a lot to people moving forward. “We’re staying optimistic and just focusing on delivering meaningful experiences to people that create positive change in their lives.”

NEW YORK — Johnny Depp has exited the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise following his failed libel case against The Sun tabloid newspaper for a 2018 article that labeled him a “wife beater.”

Depp said Friday in a letter posted on Instagram that he would depart the role of the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald after the studio requested his resignation. Depp said his announcement came “in light of recent events.”

“I wish to let you know that I have been asked to resign by Warner Bros. from my role as “My resolve Grindelwald in ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and I have respected and agreed remains to that request,” said Depp. strong and Warner Bros. confirmed Depp’s departure and said the I intend role will be recast. “We thank to prove Johnny for his work on the films to date,” the studio said in a that the statement. The third “Fantastic allegations Beasts” film is currently in pro- against me duction.

Depp also said he would ap- are false. peal the decision earlier this My life week by a British judge. After hearing testimony from Depp and career and ex-wife Amber Heard in the will not be high-profile case, Justice Andrew Nicol said that the allega- defined by tions against Depp were “sub- this moment stantially true.” Depp had sued in time.”

News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over actor Johnny an article accusing him of as- Depp saulting Heard.

“The surreal judgement of the court in the U.K. will not change my fight to tell the truth and I confirm that I plan to appeal,” Depp said Friday. “My resolve remains strong and I intend to prove that the allegations against me are false. My life and career will not be defined by this moment in time.”

“Fantastic Beasts,” a prequel franchise spun off from the “Harry Potter” films, has grossed nearly $1.5 billion between 2016’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and 2018’s “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” Warner Bros. on Friday postponed the release of the third “Fantastic Beasts” film from November next year to summer 2022.

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In this Tuesday, July 28, 2020 file photo, American actor Johnny Depp, waves as he leaves after the end of the trial at the High Court in London.

Alex Trebek, long-running ‘Jeopardy!’ host, dies at 80

By Lynn Elber The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Alex Trebek, who presided over the beloved quiz show “Jeopardy!” for more than 30 years with dapper charm and a touch of school-master strictness, died Sunday. He was 80.

Trebek, who announced in 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, died at his California home, surrounded by family and friends, “Jeopardy!” studio Sony said.

The Canadian-born host, who made a point of informing fans about his health directly, spoke in a calm, even tone as he revealed his illness and hope for a cure in a video posted March 6, 2019.

In the video, Trebek said he was joining the 50,000 other Americans who receive such a diagnosis each year and that he recognized that the prognosis was not encouraging.

But Trebek said he intended to fight it and keep working, even joking that he needed to beat the disease because his “Jeopardy!” contract ran for three more years.

Less than a week later, he opened the show with a message acknowledging the outpouring of kind words and prayers he’d received.

“Thanks to the — believe it or not — hundreds of thousands of people who have sent in tweets, texts, emails, cards and letters wishing me well,” Trebek said.

“I’m a lucky guy.”

“Jeopardy!” bills itself as “America’s favorite quiz show” and captivated the public with a unique format in which contestants were told the answers and had to provide the questions on a variety of subjects, including movies, politics, history and popular culture.

They would answer by saying “What is ... ?” or “Who is .... ?”

Trebek, who became its host in 1984, was a master of the format, engaging in friendly banter with contestants, appearing genuinely pleased when they answered correctly and, at the same time, moving the game along in a brisk no-nonsense fashion whenever people struggled for answers.

He never pretended to know the answers himself if he really didn’t, deferring to the show’s experts to decide whether a somewhat vague answer had come close enough to be counted as correct.

“I try not to take myself too seriously,” he told an interviewer in 2004. “I don’t want to come off as a pompous ass and indicate that I know everything when I don’t.”

The show was the brainstorm of

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In this April 30, 2017, file photo, “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek speaks at the 44th annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena, Calif. Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years.

Juann Griffin, wife of the late talk show host-entrepreneur Merv Griffin, who said she suggested to him one day that he create a game show where people were given the answers.

“Jeopardy!” debuted on NBC in 1964 with Art Fleming as emcee

and was an immediate hit. It lasted until 1975, then was revived in syndication with Trebek.

Long identified by a full head of hair and trim mustache (though in 2001 he startled viewers by shaving his mustache, “completely on a whim”), Trebek was more than qualified for the job, having started his game show career on “Reach for the Top” in his native country.

Moving to the U.S. in 1973, he appeared on “The Wizard of Odds,” “High Rollers,” “The $128,000 Question” and “Double Dare.” Even during his run on “Jeopardy!”, Trebek worked on other shows. In the early 1990s, he was the host of three — “Jeopardy!”, “To Tell the Truth” and “Classic Concentration.”

“Jeopardy!” made him famous.

He won five Emmys as its host, and received stars on both the Hollywood and Canadian walks of fame. In 2012, the show won a prestigious Peabody Award.

He taped his daily “Jeopardy!” shows at a frenetic pace, recording as many as 10 episodes (two weeks’ worth) in just two days. After what was described as a mild heart attack in 2007, he was back at work in just a month.

He posted a video in January 2018 announcing he’d under-

gone surgery for blood clots on the brain that followed a fall he’d taken. The show was on hiatus during his recovery.

It had yet to bring in a substitute host for Trebek — save once, when he and “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak swapped their TV jobs as an April’s Fool prank.

In 2012, Trebek acknowledged that he was considering retirement, but had been urged by friends to stay on so he could reach 30 years on the show. He still loved the job, he declared: “What’s not to love? You have the security of a familiar environment, a familiar format, but you have the excitement of new clues and new contestants on every program. You can’t beat that!”

Although many viewers considered him one of the key reasons for the show’s success, Trebek himself insisted he was only there to keep things moving.

“I’m introduced as the host of ‘Jeopardy!,’ not the star,” he said in a 2012 interview. “My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best,” he explained. “And if I’m successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.”

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2020 Lamborghini Urus

Lamborghini’s Urus SUV is the best car it has ever sold See and be seen — anywhere

By Jordan Golson North State Journal

EXTERIOR PHOTOS BY JORDAN GOLSON, NORTH STATE JOURNAL | INTERIOR PHOTOS COURTESY LAMBORGHINI

SAN DIEGO — When buying a supercar, personality matters. In the same way that the breed of dog you own reflects on the type of person you are, a supercar brand says a lot.

Buy a Ferrari and it’s likely that you’re a racing enthusiast and passionate about automotive history. A McLaren and you might be all about precision engineering.

An Aston Martin might mean you want to be Sean Connery’s 007.

But a Lamborghini is about flash. Scissor doors, loud colors and louder exhausts — that’s what Automobili Lamborghini is, and it’s perhaps the best carmaker in the world when it comes to those things. It’s a ten-year old boy’s bedroom wall poster.

It’s why when I picked up a friend’s ten-year old niece from school in the Lamborghini Urus — a $270,034 SUV based on the Audi Q7 — a ten-year old boy on the playground yelled “LOOK A LAMBORGHINI!” That one outburst captures everything that matters about this car.

It’s loud and brash and has the largest brakes ever fitted to a road-going car, and it’s everything you could possibly want it to be. If you’re the type to buy a Lamborghini, at least.

Here’s a dirty secret about supercars: they suck to drive. They’re about as comfortable to sit in as a dentist chair. They’re finicky and have terrible turning radii, and you’re constantly terrified of scraping the ridiculously low nose on every speed bump and driveway. And they’re utterly unusable as cars, because there’s no place to put people and stuff and you can’t fit groceries in their tiny trunks and they’re just utterly pointless for anything but going on a racetrack which most supercar buyers will never, ever do.

But the Lamborghini Urus gets you 95% of the way there, which means it’s the best Lamborghini you can buy. It gets ten-year olds to yell and point, while simultaneously giving you a thrill every time you turn it on because Lam-

borghini has put the engine start/ stop switch under a red button to make it feel like you’re launching a missile. And to put it in drive, you need to pull on the giant flappy paddle instead of hitting a button because buttons are just so pedestrian.

And you put it in reverse by pulling on a giant handle in the middle of the center console, and then you change between drive modes with switch that feels like you’re putting on the afterburners on a fighter jet. Everything about the Urus is an event, which makes sense because that whole control scheme is pulled straight from the Huracan supercar — only you’re in a big, comfortable SUV that you can fill with luggage and four humans and that can get over speed bumps without issue.

The exhaust is loud if you want it to be and quiet (or relatively so) when you don’t. It has 360-degree cameras, which means it’s easy-ish to park even though the rear visibility is truly terrible for an SUV. That’s another reminder that you’re driving a Lamborghini, because who cares what’s behind you?

I took the Urus to the South Orange County Cars and Coffee, and it drew as many admiring glances as all the zillion-dollar supercars parked around it. It’s an at-

tention-getter, which is, after all, what a Lamborghini is all about.

And you can take it to Whole Foods and it won’t give you a backache if you take it to Vegas for the weekend.

People on the street were coming up to me the entire time I had it. I got constant thumbs up in traffic or folks taking selfies with it when it was parked. It has all the appeal of a Lamborghini sports car with none of the drawbacks.

A lot of people made jokes about it being a fancy Audi Q7 because that’s what it is, somewhere underneath. But then Lamborghini equipped it with staggeringly beautiful 22-inch rims ($4,420) and an outrageous amount of exterior carbon fiber trim ($22,177) and a Bang & Olufsen stereo ($6,313) that only really shines when you’ve cranked the volume higher than is probably safe for your hearing.

It might be a boring Audi somewhere underneath, but the Urus is a Lamborghini where it counts: in your heart. There’s no logical reason to spend $270,034 on a car.

But that doesn’t matter, because inside every Lamborghini buyer is a ten-year old boy with a bedroom wall that needs adornment. If you buy this car, you’ll be making that boy’s dreams come true — and making dreams come true is what supercars are all about.

The Urus is a Lamborghini where it counts: in your heart.

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ncdot CASH REPORT For the week ending 11/6 Total Cash & Bond Proceeds:

$1,173,551,766 Add Receipts:

$67,082,061 Less Disbursements:

$71,361,241 Reserved Cash:

$438,760,310 Unreserved Cash Balance Total:

$2,975,554,678 GM recalls 217K vehicles to fix leak that can stop travel

San Francisco voters approve taxes on CEOs, big businesses

By Daisy Nguyen The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — In an effort to address economic disparity laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved several tax measures targeting property owners and big businesses with CEOs paid far higher than their average workers.

Under the new law, any company whose top executive earns 100 times more than their average worker will pay an extra 0.1% surcharge on its annual business tax payment. If a CEO makes 200 times more than the average employee, the surcharge increases to 0.2%; 300 times gets a 0.3% surcharge and so on.

Voters also agreed to sweeping business tax changes that will lead to a higher tax rate for many tech

“We need the wealth that has been generated in the city to be shared more broadly with workers and residents.”

San Francisco City Supervisor Matt Haney companies, and a higher transfer tax on property sales valued between $10 million and $25 million.

“We’re not gonna shed any tears if penthouse dwellers have to cough up,” the San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters wrote in its voter guide.

The results “show that San

Franciscans are concerned about growing economic inequality,” city Supervisor Matt Haney, the author of the measure titled the “Overpaid Executive Tax,’’ said Wednesday. “The very wealthy are gaining more and more. They’ve gotten much richer during the pandemic, while everyone else has remained stagnant.”

“We need the wealth that has been generated in the city to be shared more broadly with workers and residents,” he said.

Critics call the surcharge a blatant attempt at redistribution of wealth and criticized raising business taxes in the middle of a recession.

Since March, COVID-19 restrictions have shut down critical elements of San Francisco’s vibrant economy. Tourists are scarce, and legions of workers in tech and in the city’s main business and financial districts have left, able to work remotely from anywhere. Office vacancy rates went up while rents in the prohibitively expensive city dropped to their lowest in years.

“The middle of pandemic-fueled shutdown is the wrong time to raise taxes,” said Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the business advocacy group Bay Area Council. “The drip, drip, drip of new general taxes is going to erode

B9 the already shaky foundations of local economies decimated by the worst downturn in generations.”

The CEO tax is expected to generate between $60 million to $140 million per year, and Haney said he wants most of the money directed towards health services.

He dismisses fears that the surcharge will drive companies out of the city, saying the tax is modest in comparison to the cost of moving a business.

He said he hopes the tax will drive companies to re-examine their compensation structure and will ultimately be adopted on a national level.

The tax is somewhat similar to an executive-pay surcharge passed by the city council in Portland, Oregon, nearly four years ago. San Francisco city leaders considered the idea several years ago, and a 2014 state proposal to lower taxes for companies whose executives were paid less than 100 times the median worker did not pass in the California Legislature.

“The idea didn’t get a lot of traction because people in San Francisco didn’t feel it made sense to tax CEOs,” political consultant Jim Ross said. “But now you’re seeing a big segregation between the have and have nots as executives get absurdly paid while others are struggling.”

DETROIT General Motors is recalling more than 217,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because transmission oil can leak, causing them to stop moving or possibly catch fire. The recall covers certain versions of the 2018 through 2020 Chevrolet Equinox and Traverse as well as the GMC Terrain. Also included are the 2018 Chevrolet Malibu and 2018 and 2019 Chevrolet Cruze and Buick LaCrosse, as well as the 2019 through 2020 Buick Encore and Enclave, the Cadillac XT4, GMC Acadia and Chevrolet Blazer. The 2020 Cadillac XT6 also is covered. GM says in government documents posted last weekend that two bolts may be missing from the stop-start mechanism, allowing the fluid to leak. The company says it has no reports of crashes, fires or injuries. The recall is expected to start Dec. 14.

US consumer borrowing up $16.2 billion in September WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. consumers increased their borrowing in September, helped by the first gain in the category that covers credit cards in seven months. The Federal Reserve reported that total borrowing rose by $16.2 billion in September, rebounding after a drop of $6.9 billion in August.

The increase included a $3.98 billion increase in credit card borrowing, the first rise since February. Credit card use had fallen for six straight months as households cut back on use of credit cards once the pandemic hit and millions of people lost their jobs. The category that covers auto loans and student loans increased by $12.2 billion in September. This category has been rising steadily since a $6.9 billion drop in April. Economists closely watch consumer borrowing patterns for signals of how willing households are to take on more debt to finance consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of economic activity. The $16.2 billion rise in borrowing in September was about double what economists had been forecasting, an encouraging sign as worries mount that consumers may begin to cut back as coronavirus cases surge again.

VACCINE from page B5 raging, manufacturers hope to seek permission from governments around the world for emergency use of their vaccines while additional testing continues — allowing them to get to market faster than normal but raising concerns about how much scientists will know about the shots.

The FDA’s scientific advisers last month said they worry that allowing emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine could damage confidence in the shots and make it harder to ever find out how well they really work. Those advisers said it’s critical these massive studies are allowed to run to completion.

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In this Feb. 26, 2020, file photo, visitors look toward the “Painted Ladies,” a row of historical Victorian homes, in front of the San Francisco skyline from Alamo Square Park in San Francisco.

EU puts tariffs on US but hopes for change with Biden

By Lorne Cook The Associated Press BRUSSELS — The European Union said Monday it would put tariffs on up to $4 billion worth of U.S. goods and services over illegal aid for plane maker Boeing but expressed hope that trade ties would improve if President Donald Trump leaves office.

European officials agreed on the move a few weeks after international arbitrators gave the EU the green light for such punitive action. The World Trade Organization had deemed illegal some U.S. support for Boeing - which is a bitter rival to Europe’s Airbus and said the EU could make up for that with a limited amount of penalties on U.S. trade.

“Regrettably, in spite of our best efforts due to the lack of progress from (the) U.S. side, we can confirm that the European Union will later today exercise our rights and impose counter-measures awarded to us by the WTO,” EU Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said.

A year ago, the WTO ruled in a similar fashion in favor of the United States, allowing it to slap penalties on EU goods worth up to $7.5 billion - including Gouda cheese, single-malt whiskey and French wine - over European support for Boeing rival Airbus.

After Trump also imposed tariffs on EU steel and aluminum and threatened punitive duties on cars, the Europeans had hoped that he would hold fire on the tariffs related to the Airbus-Boeing dispute.

But having repeatedly failed to

FRANCISCO SECO | POOL VIA AP

European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis addresses a media conference after a meeting of EU trade ministers, in videoconference format, at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. achieve a negotiated solution, the EU is now ready to announce punishment of its own.

“We call on the U.S. to agree that both sides drop existing counter-measures with immediate effect so that we can quickly put this issue behind us,” Dombrovskis told reporters after the meeting.

“Of course, we remain open for a negotiated solution. Our proposal remains on the table that both sides withdraw their tariffs,” Dombrovskis said, but he noted that despite several appeals, “so far, the U.S. has not agreed to withdraw their tariffs.”

The Europeans are hopeful that Trump’s hardline trade stance will soften if Joe Biden takes office in January. Dombrovskis welcomed Biden’s commitment to interna-

tional alliances, the multilateral system and to improving ties with the EU. German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier, whose country holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said the bloc has “great expectations” and “hope that the U.S. presidential election will also be linked to a return to multilateral approaches to international trade, and that it will be possible to overcome past conflicts.”

In terms of tariffs over Boeing, the EU had released a preliminary list that suggests it could go after a wide range of U.S. products including frozen fish and shellfish, dried fruit, tobacco, rum and vodka, handbags, motorcycle parts and tractors.

The president of the U.S. Distilled Spirits Council, Chris

Swonger, said that new tariffs “will be a major blow” to the spirits industry, “especially craft distillers who are struggling to regain their footing following the closings of distillery tasting rooms, restaurants and bars due to COVID-19.”

Whiskey exports to the EU have already declined by 41% due to the bloc’s retaliation over Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum in 2018.

Just before the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told The Associated Press that his company is “very happy” with the WTO ruling. He lamented the long-running dispute and that “these stories across the Atlantic are really a lose-lose for everyone.”

The Europeans remain reluctant to ramp up trade tensions as the coronavirus pandemic ravages economies around the world.

Some 16 million workers on both sides have jobs that supported by trans-Atlantic trade, the biggest such relationship in the global economy. Even before the pandemic hit, tit-for-tat tariffs over the past four years have affected companies and people making and selling a whole host of goods.

Boeing itself said last month that it will cut 7,000 more jobs as the virus smothers demand for new aircraft and pushed it to a loss.

Peter Chase, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund thinktank, says the Europeans should hold fire.

“They don’t need to do this now.

They don’t need to disrupt trade,” Chase said. A President Biden “[would] have a lot of constraints and he’s going to have to work first on the domestic issues, both the COVID crisis and the economy.

And he’s going to have to do a lot of internal healing. And I think that they should cut him some slack, basically.”

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Energy leaders leave door open to more cuts as virus spikes The Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said Monday that global energy producers have the ability to tweak an agreement on production cuts that could be extended through the end of 2022, signaling the anticipation of continued weakened demand for oil as the coronavirus pandemic peaks again in Europe and the United States “OPEC has been and continues to be taking a proactive role,” said Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman during the Abu Dhabi-sponsored ADIPEC energy conference, which is taking place virtually this year.

“We’re keeping our flexibility in our hands,” Prince Abdulaziz said, without committing specifically to how far into the future cuts of 7.7 million barrels of oil a day or more could go on for.

“I don’t put policy lines ahead of reaching out to everybody,” he said.

The OPEC oil cartel, led by Saudi Arabia, and non-OPEC nations including Russia agreed in April to cut as much as 10 million barrels of crude a day, or a tenth of global supply, until July to keep oil prices from plunging amid lower demand for crude.

The so-called OPEC+ agreement aimed to ease those cuts to 7.7 million barrels per day through the end of the year, and to nearly 6 million a day for 16 months beginning in January.

The UAE’s Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei also echoed confidence in the OPEC+ agreement, saying the deal has been working.

“We have also demonstrated as a group that we’ve been very disciplined,” he said.

The OPEC+ countries are convening again on Nov. 17, but there’s

no guarantee they will be able to agree on deeper cuts into 2021 given that some countries are losing revenue amid existing quotas on production.

The virus has dampened the price of oil, affecting key revenue for oil producing nations. On Monday, Brent crude, the international standard, traded around $40 a barrel. U.S. benchmark crude traded at just over $38 a barrel.

There’s little guarantee of a rebound with major European cities rolling out various lockdown measures due to alarming spikes in new coronavirus cases ahead of the coming winter months and flu season.

Prince Abdulaziz said that while oil-producing nations are hopeful a vaccine can help mitigate the virus and help the world regain a sense of mobility, the current agreement can always be tweaked.

“The April agreement took into account what may happen and proactively decided to be prepared for the worst,” he said.

The possibility of a new administration in Washington led by Joe Biden could also impact demand for oil, particularly if he is able to power the economy again and control the outbreak of COVID-19 across the U.S., which has reached record highs in past weeks.

“We’re keeping our flexibility in our hands.”

Saudi Arabia energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Biden could also impact oil markets if he is able to push through a stimulus package that boosts consumer spending or if he’s able to cool down the trade war with China and re-engage with Iran, which could lead to the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports.

He could also return the U.S. to the Paris Climate agreement and reverse Trump administration rollbacks on fuel economy regulations, according to energy intelligence firm Rystad Energy.

Prince Abdulaziz said energy producing nations will handle whatever happens and that OPEC, which Iran is a party to, has managed in the past to handle reversals as they come.

OPEC Secretary General Mohammad Barkindo struck an optimistic tone for the future of oil, saying that while there’s been a contraction of nearly 9.8 millions barrels of oil a day in 2020, forecasts for next year are being revised upward.

“There is no cause for alarm,” he said, adding that countries to the OPEC+ agreement have been complying with the cuts since May. Similarly, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company CEO Sultan al-Jaber said at the height of the lockdowns in March and April the world still consumed 75 million barrels of oil per day. Oil demand, he said, only fell to below 90 million barrels a day for 12 weeks. It’s currently around 92 million barrels per day.

“We know the world will still need oil and gas when all of this is done,” he said. “We expect that oil demand will grow to over 105 million barrels per day by 2030.”

Striking a more sober tone, however, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin said he does not expect a full recovery of air travel before two years.

Although he anticipates demand for oil will grow over the next decade, he said it will take two to three years for that demand to reach 100 million barrels a day again or close to that level.

He spoke as Russian media reported that the country’s longtime Energy Minister Alexander Novak had been recommended for promotion to serve as deputy prime minister. Novak was instrumental in Russian negotiations with OPEC that led to global production cuts.

TAKE NOTICE

CUMBERLAND 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 Sarah E. Osbourn a/k/a Sarah Osbourn (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Sarah E. Osbourn) to F. Stuart Clarke, Trustee(s), dated June 9, 2010, and recorded in Book No. 8411, at Page 568 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

20 SP 603 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 Christopher D. Cassidy and Ashley N. Cassidy to Philip R Mahoney, Trustee(s), which was dated July 17, 2009 and recorded on July 20, 2009 in Book 08205 at Page 0025, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on November 16, 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: Being all of Lot No. 153, in a Subdivision known as EAGLEWOOD FOREST, SECTION V, PART 3, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 43, Page 24, Cumberland County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5945 Richfield Avenue, Hope Mills, 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

conducting the sale on November 18, 2020 at 01:30 PM, 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 76 in a subdivision known as ROBINWOOD, SECTION 7 PART 1, according to a map of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 91, Page 14 and also shown on Book of Plats 92, Page 51, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

PlN #9496-62-1186

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

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

20 SP 41 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: Land situated in the Township of Carver’s Creek in the County of Cumberland in the State of NC

Said property is commonly known as 6438 Applewhite Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

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

($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.

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.

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.

File No.: 20-05563-FC01

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

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

Betty A. Whitley.

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.: 19-21158-FC01

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.

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.

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

File No.: 19-16310-FC01

required.

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 the 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.

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 Christopher D. Cassidy and wife, Ashley N. Cassidy.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Elizabeth Schneider Whitley a/k/a Betty A. Whitley to Alexis Alan, Trustee(s), which was dated November 21, 2017 and recorded on November 27, 2017 in Book 10209 at Page 0888 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on February 3, 2020 in Book 10685, Page 741, 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 and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 18, 2020 at 01:30 PM,

BEGINNING AT AN IRON STAKE IN THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF DOWFIELD DRIVE, FORMERLY BISHOP STREET, SAID IRON STAKE BEING NORTH 61 DEGREES 56 MINUTES EAST 200 FEET FROM THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT NO. 10, BLOCK C, OF PINECREST ACRES, SECTION III, AND RUNS THENCE AS THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF THE AFORESAID DOWFIELD DRIVE NORTH 61 DEGREES 56 MINUTES EAST 100 FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE NORTH 28 DEGREES 04 MINUTES WEST 200 FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE SOUTH 61 DEGREES 56 MINUTES WEST 100 FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE SOUTH 28 DEGREES 04 MINUTES EAST 200 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. AND BEING ALL OF LOT 13, BLOCK C OF PINECREST ACRES, SECTION IV, AS SHOWN ON RECORDED PLAT IN BOOK OF PLATS 36, PAGE 13, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA REGISTRY.

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

Said property is commonly known as 740 Dowfield Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28311.

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

19 SP 1598 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

conducting the sale on November 18, 2020 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland 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 ALL OF LOT 512, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS PONDEROSA, REVISION OF A PORTION OF SECTION TWELVE, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF THE SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 34, PAGE 11, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

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 Evangeline D. Smith.

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Evangaline D. Smith and Nathaniel L. Smith to The Law Firm of Jamie Faye Newsom, Trustee(s), which was dated November 15, 2006 and recorded on November 20, 2006 in Book 7425 at Page 357, 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 and customary location at the county courthouse for

1306898 – DRS 20-SP-668 NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust, Security Agreement and Assignment of Rents and Leases executed and delivered by Grayson Stone Investments, L.L.C. (hereinafter “Borrower”) dated August 1, 2017 and recorded on August 3, 2017 and recorded in Book 10143 at Page 334 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina (hereinafter “Deed of Trust”); and because of the default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein and, pursuant to demand of the holder of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest

JOHNSTON 20 SP 208 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Kathy L. Thomas, a single woman to Randy Warlick and Amy E. Johnson, Trustee(s), which was dated August 12, 2003 and recorded on August 26, 2003 in Book 2533 at Page 680, Johnston 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

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

Said property is commonly known as 312 Tucson Dr, Fayetteville, NC 28303.

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

bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Cumberland County Courthouse, 117 Dick Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2020 AT 12:00 NOON, all of Borrower’s right to the real property described herein below, together with any improvements and fixtures existing or hereafter placed on or attached to the real property, and all other appurtenant rights and privileges, situated, lying and being in Cumberland County, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of that property conveyed by that certain Deed recorded on May 5, 2014 in Book 9425, Page 114, and as also described in that Deed of Trust recorded in Book 9425, Page 121, Cumberland County Registry, reference to which is made for a more particular description, consisting of 2.98 acres more or less; said tract or parcel is also known as 675 Glenola Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and has a Tax ID number of 0439-93-1519.

Address of property:

675

Glenola

Street,

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN O’NEALS TOWNSHIP, JOHNSTON COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING ALL OF LOT 1, CONTAINING 1.10 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AS SHOWN ON A SURVEY FOR DARWIN E. CRUMPLER DATED AUGUST 18, 1993, AT 10:15A.M. IN PLAT BOOK 40, PAGE 21, JOHNSTON COUNTY REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 7120 NC Hwy 222 W, Kenly, NC 27542.

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

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

Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina Tax Parcel ID: 0439-93-1519 Present Record Owner: Grayson Stone Investments, L.L.C. The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to require a cash deposit or a certified check not to exceed the greater of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00). In the event that the note holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder may also be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, any Land Transfer Tax, and the tax required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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 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 declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice Where the Real Property is Residential With Less Than 15 Rental Units:

The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments.

Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law

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.

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.

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.

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 Kathy Thomas.

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,

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

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: 2917 - 7076

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

This the 26th day of October, 2020.

Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. Substitute Trustee By: William Walt Pettit, Attorney 6230 Fairview Road, Suite 315 Charlotte, NC 28210 Telephone: (704) 362-9255

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.: 19-10415-FC01

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ONSLOW AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 142

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Darieon Michael Carpenter a/k/a Darieon M. Carpenter, Lisa Angel Yingling a/k/a Lisa A. Yingling (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Darieon Michael Carpenter and Lisa Angel Yingling) to Pamela S. Cox, Trustee(s), dated July 18, 2018, and recorded in Book No. 4813, at Page 84 in Onslow 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 Onslow 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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 388

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Georgetown Landing, LLC to Kevin Wolfer, Trustee(s), dated the 26th day of November, 2013, and recorded in Book 4087, Page 874, in Onslow 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 19, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Situated in Jacksonville Township, Onslow County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all that 35.866 acre tract of land as shown and described on a map entitled, “Boundary Survey for Georgetown Farms, Inc.,” dated 02-26-99, prepared

by David T. Weston-Land Surveying, and recorded in Map Book 37, Page 231, Slide K-219, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Onslow County, North Carolina.

Which premises also being described as follows: Situated in Jacksonville Township, Onslow County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point located where the centerline of Allison Hatchel Avenue (formerly known as Koonce Street-50 foot right of way) intersects the centerline of Hawthorne Road (50 foot right of way); and running thence along the centerline of Allison Hatchel Avenue North 71 degrees 37 minutes 16 seconds West 137.76 feet to an existing iron gear; thence leaving the said centerline and running South 33 degrees 29 minutes 47 seconds West 25.53 feet to an existing iron pipe located along the Southern right of way of Allison Hatchel Avenue, said iron

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 364

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Mary Jo Healy, Patrick Joseph Healy, Heirs of Mary Jo Healy a/k/a Mary Jo Issacs: Patrick Joseph Healy, Marni Davenport, Mindi Denero, Mark Issacs, Fred Issacs, Staci Molyneaux; Heirs of Patrick Joseph Healy: Frederick Matthew Healy (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Mary Jo Healy) to Don E. Fuquay, Trustee(s), dated April 6, 1998, and recorded in Book No. 1443, at Page 460 in Onslow 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 Onslow 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 Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 19, 2020 and will sell to the highest

STANLY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 35

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Kevin L. Helms, Heirs of Kevin L. Helms: Dylan Helms, Jordan Helms, Noah Helms (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Kevin L. Helms) to Reltco Inc., Trustee(s), dated July 25, 2018, and recorded in Document No. 402034, in Book No. 1649, at Page 1212 in Stanly 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 Stanly County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on November 25, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real

UNION IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION UNION COUNTY 20SP230 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY LEIGHA EVANS AND DANA EVANS DATED JANUARY 19, 2018 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 7092 AT PAGE 75 IN THE UNION 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

the courthouse door in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 10:00 AM on November 19, 2020 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Jacksonville in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 307 as shown on that plat entitled, “Final Plat Monarch Meadow Section I-B at Carolina Plantations, A Planned Residential Development” and recorded in Map Book 62, Page 76, Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 227 Merin Height Road, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

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.

pipe also being the true point of beginning: Thence from the described beginning and running along the said Southern right of way of Allison Hatchel Avenue South 71 degrees 30 minutes 52 seconds East 372.76 feet to an existing iron pipe located along the Northwestern right of way of Blue Claw Bay Avenue (60 foot right of way); thence running along the said right of way of Blue Claw Bay Avenue the following courses and distances: South 18 degrees 46 minutes 33 seconds West 489.13 feet to an existing iron pipe, thence South 18 degrees 39 minutes 41 seconds West 133.58 feet to an existing concrete monument; thence leaving the said right of way and running South 71 degrees 17 minutes 03 seconds East 59.93 feet to an iron stake; South 71 degrees 22 minutes 53 seconds East 167.18 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence South 71 degrees 19 minutes 04 seconds East 110.75 feet to a PVC concrete monument located along the mean high water line of New River; thence along the mean high water line the following courses and distances: South 27 degrees 25 minutes 09 seconds West 82.30 feet to an iron stake, thence South 23 degrees 16 minutes 34 seconds West 135.68 feet to an iron stake, thence South 09 degrees 34 minutes 46 seconds West 168.77 feet to an iron stake, thence South 18 degrees 52 minutes 05 seconds West 105.52 feet to an iron stake, thence South 07 degrees 53 minutes 31 seconds West 101.72 feet to an iron stake, thence South 46 degrees 04 minutes 38 seconds West 69.70 feet to an iron stake, thence South 32 degrees 11 minutes 30 seconds West 93.72 feet to an iron stake, thence South 28 degrees 30 minutes 26 seconds West 280.51 feet to an iron stake, thence South 17 degrees 19 minutes 37 seconds West 184.28 feet to an iron stake, thence South 10 degrees 54 minutes 18 seconds East 144.56 feet to an iron stake, thence South 26 degrees 09 minutes 30 seconds East 79.12 feet to an iron stake, thence South 00 degrees 37 minutes 25 seconds West 103.98 feet to an iron stake located along the mean high water line of Brinson Creek; thence along the mean high water line of Brinson Creek the following courses and distances: North 35 degrees 23 minutes 27 seconds West 135.26 feet to an iron stake, thence North 17 degrees 33 minutes 56 seconds West 76.72 feet to an iron stake, thence North 24 degrees 38 minutes 04 seconds West 112.01 feet to an iron stake, thence North 47 degrees 59 minutes 51 seconds West 74.99 feet to an iron stake, thence North 22 degrees 38 minutes 43 seconds West 51.68 feet to an iron stake, thence North 49 degrees 37 minutes 58 seconds West 117.80 feet to an iron stake; thence South 57 degrees 19 minutes 06 seconds West 139.86 feet to an iron stake;

thence North 41 degrees 55 minutes 08 seconds West 106.45 feet to an iron stake; thence North 43 degrees 14 minutes 00 seconds West 258.98 feet to an iron stake, thence North 35 degrees 30 minutes 54 seconds West 134.34 feet to an iron stake, thence North 44 degrees 59 minutes 58 seconds West 30.21 feet to an iron stake, thence North 39 degrees 29 minutes 36 seconds West 79.19 feet to an iron stake, thence North 46 degrees 25 minutes 41 seconds West 306.21 feet to a PVC concrete monument; thence leaving the mean high water line of Brinson Creek and running North 33 degrees 41 minutes 55 seconds East 103.62 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence South 41 degrees 49 minutes 27 seconds East 114.61 feet to an existing iron stake; thence North 33 degrees 38 minutes 57 seconds East 98.02 feet to an existing iron stake; thence North 41 degrees 46 minutes 59 seconds West 114.80 feet to an existing iron stake; thence North 33 degrees 38 minutes 52 seconds East 354.05 feet to an existing iron stake; thence South 56 degrees 09 minutes 52 seconds East 149.75 feet to an iron stake; thence North 33 degrees 38 minutes 19 seconds East 250.01 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence North 56 degrees 23 minutes 03 seconds West 149.88 feet to an iron stake located along the southeastern right of way of Conover Street (50 foot right of way); thence along the right of way North 33 degrees 36 minutes 32 seconds East 499.85 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence leaving the said right of way and running South 56 degrees 27 minutes 32 seconds East 150.09 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence North 33 degrees 36 minutes 04 seconds East 227.12 feet to the point and place of beginning. Containing 35.87 acres/1,562,418.95 square feet and being the property described in Deed Book 4066 Page 193 and the property in Map Book 36 Page 6, SL J-753 and Map Book 37 Page 231, SL K-219 of the Onslow County Registry and being subjected to all easements of record. The courses contained herein are correct in angular relationship and are referenced North as per Map Book 36 Page 6 SL J-753 of the Onslow County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at Parcel Number 019185 Conover Street and Parcel Number 019187 Riverside Drive, Jacksonville, North Carolina.

($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice

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

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Hubert in the County of Onslow, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot #10, Section F, QUEEN’S CREEK MOBILE HOME ESTATES, according to a plat or map of record in Map Book 24, Page 66, Onslow County Registry, North Carolina, according to a survey prepared by Charles A. Rawls and Associates, R.L.S. dated October 7, 1986, for QUEEN’S CREEK MOBILE HOME ESTATES, being a portion of Sections E, F and J, which survey is incorporated herewith as if fully set forth. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 123 North King Street, Hubert, North Carolina.

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.

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: 1287705 - 9396

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

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

estate situated in Albemarle in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina.

Being Lot Number Three (3) in Block “K” as shown on a map of Woodcrest, Section Three recorded in Plat Book 5, Page 183, Stanly County Registry, and described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at an existing iron pipe on the easterly margin of the right-of-way of Hemlock Drive (60 feet in width), said beginning point being the southwest corner of Lot No. 2, Block “K”, shown on the plat above referred to and said beginning point being located 200.00 feet as measured in a southerly direction along the easterly margin of Hemlock Drive from Brenda Drive; thence with the dividing line between Lots 2 and 3, N. 73-07 E. 150.00 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence S. 16-53 E. 100.00 feet to an existing stone, the northeast corner of Lot 4, Block “K” as shown on said plat; thence with the dividing line between Lots 3 and 4, S. 73-07 W. 150.00 feet to an existing iron pipe on the easterly margin of Hemlock Drive; thence with the easterly margin of Hemlock Drive, N. 16-53 W. 100.00 feet to the place of beginning and containing 0.34 acre by survey of T.W. Harris and Associates, Inc., dated August 22, 1986. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located 1802 Hemlock Drive, Albemarle, North Carolina.

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 November 18, 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 Leigha Evans and Dana Evans, dated January 19, 2018 to secure the original principal amount of $285,510.00, and recorded in Book 7092 at Page 75 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: Starnes Rd, Waxhaw, NC 28173 Tax Parcel ID: Present Record Owners: and Dana Evans

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Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Wake County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on November 17, 2020, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit:

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY 20 SP 542

Being all of lot 65, Chestnut Hills Estates Subdivision, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Book of Maps 1959, Page 290, Wake County Registry.

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Touchstone Group Inc., in the original amount of $322,500.00, payable to Angel Oak Prime Bridge, LLC, dated May 4, 2018 and recorded on May 4, 2018 in Book 17118, Page 2128, Wake 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 Wake County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute

17 SP 2899 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by William H. Tanner, Jr. to Marcus Becton, Trustee(s), which was dated August 28, 2006 and recorded on August 29, 2006 in Book 012138 at Page 01476, Wake 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 November 18, 2020 at 10:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following

Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 918 Wimbleton Drive, Raleigh, NC 27609.

Tax ID: 0030921 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

described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 5, Summit Ridge Subdivision, as shown on a map recorded in Book of Maps 1976 at Page 12, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3812 Sue Ellen Drive, Raleigh, NC 27604.

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.

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

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.

And Being more commonly known as: 4111 Tom Starnes Rd, Waxhaw, NC 28173 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Leigha Evans and Dana Evans.

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

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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.

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.

agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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The date of this Notice is October 29, 2020.

Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. Ells Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-110183

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

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 Touchstone Holding Group, LLC. 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.

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 William H. Tanner, Jr.

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.

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

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Anchor Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee January N. Taylor, Bar #33512 McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC Attorney for Anchor Trustee Services, LLC

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.

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Representing Stanly County Republican Mark Robinson (left) celebrates his win in the lieutenant governor’s race, where his victory made him the first black American in that role in N.C. U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (right) speaks during a victory party after Eight District voters decided to return him to Congress to represent them a fifth time.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Police looking for armed man arrested at voting site

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal

Mecklenburg County A man who was arrested at a voting site on Election Day is facing additional charges after he went to the site for a third time.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Justin Dunn, 36, who had been recently released from jail, returned to the polling site shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday. He left before responding officers arrived. Police said Dunn wore a holstered gun when he voted Tuesday morning but was asked to leave after casting his ballot following complaints from others who said they felt intimidated.

Dunn returned around 12:30 p.m. and was arrested and charged with seconddegree trespassing.

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Moose Lodge facing sanction for illegal gambling Mecklenburg County A Moose Lodge could lose its liquor license and pay a fine after state agents discovered illegal pool gambling involving NASCAR races.

The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission discovered the game at the Mooresville lodge in March. An employee told agents customers paid $5 to participate, writing their name across from covered numbers. After a race finished, the numbers were revealed and the money awarded. The employee told agents similar games are played at the lodge awarding prizes like guns and money.

The lodge faces suspension for five days unless it pays a $500 fine.

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ALBEMARLE — In a redrawn Eighth District, North Carolina’s most competitive U.S. congressional race resulted in a victory for Republican Rep. Richard Hudson, who will represent Stanly County in Washington, DC, for a fifth time.

Receiving 53.3% of the total votes, Hudson’s 201,457 votes were enough to surpass his challenger, Democrat Patricia Timmons-Goodson, who picked up 176, 221 votes (46.7%). Within Stanly County, Hudson defeated Timmons-Goodson handily with 75.4% of the county’s votes, where he garnered an even 25,000 compared to his opponent’s 8,145.

On the night of Nov. 3, Hudson addressed a crowd of his supporters in Concord and thanked Timmons-Goodson for running a strong campaign.

“I am honored and humbled for the opportunity to continue serv-

ing our community,” Hudson said in an official press release. “As I vowed during this campaign, I will work for everyone in our community and continue focusing on priorities including rebuilding our economy and improving health care.”

Hudson is a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and currently sits as the Agriculture Policy Group chair.

“As Fort Bragg’s congressman, I will also continue to work every day for our veterans, our troops and their families,” said Hudson, a 49-year-old Concord resident who assumed office in 2013 and once worked as an aide to former GOP Rep. Robin Hayes.

In 2018, Hudson defeated Democrat challenger Frank McNeill with 55.3% of the votes for the 8th District.

However, due to a court-ordered redistricting in 2019 that changed the official map of the district, pollsters successfully pre-

Ben Moss wins NC House 66 race by wide margin HD-66 covers northeast Stanly, as well as all of Richmond and Montgomery counties

By David Larson Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — With 60% of the vote, over Democratic incumbent Rep. Scott Brewer’s 40%, Republican Richmond County Commissioner Ben Moss sailed to an easy victory in the N.C. House District 66 race. The district contains all of Richmond and Montgomery counties as well as northeastern Stanly County, including Badin and parts of Albemarle. In Stanly, Moss received 2,890 votes to Brewer’s 1,569.

“I try to stay humble about it,” Moss told SCJ when asked about

the victory. “My goal was to win, but it’s also nice to win by a margin where you don’t have to worry about the recounts. I was very happy with the results I got from Stanly County, and I’m really eager to prove to them that, yes, I’m from Richmond County, but I want to represent Montgomery and Stanly just as hard as I represent Richmond.”

HD-66 has been trending Republican in recent years despite being traditionally Democratic. Former Rep. Ken Goodman, a Democrat who represented the district until he resigned in April of 2019, initially won the seat with 61% of the vote in 2010, then ran unopposed in 2012 and 2014. But Republicans began to gain, with Goodman only winning 51% to 47% in 2018. When Goodman resigned, Brewer was appointed to

“I am honored and humbled for the opportunity to continue serving our community.”

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC08) dicted a tighter race in 2020. The district, which now stretches from Cabarrus to Cumberland counties, includes all of Cumberland County and now excludes its previous share of Rowan County — a county where Hudson won 76% of the vote in 2018.

But while Hudson’s 2020 reelection bid was his tightest to date, he was still able to hold his seat.

In Cabarrus County, Hudson won 64,267 votes (55.9%) and Timmons-Goodson recorded 50,639 votes (44.1%). That edge was enough to counteract some of the deficits from Cumberland

take his place, and the Republican-trending district became seen as a likely GOP pickup.

Moss has witnessed this rightward trend of the area during his political career, saying he initially had trouble being elected as a Republican to the Richmond County Board of Commissioners.

“I ran three times before I was elected to the Richmond County Board of Commissioners. A lot of people would say, you have to change party affiliation before you can get elected,” Moss said. “But a lot of people in the district are now realizing their beliefs and views line up more with the Republican Party than the Democratic Party. A lot of people are really seeing how these parties have changed significantly throughout the years.”

Moss was raised in Rockingham and followed his father’s footsteps as a “railroader,” working for CSX Transportation as an engineer, conductor and trainmaster. He and his wife Amber have two children and continue to live in Rockingham. They are active members of the Church of God of Prophecy.

Moss has also spent almost a decade on the Richmond County Board of Commissioners and says his experience there will help him in state politics.

“I’m used to the local govern-

County, a more urban county that includes Fayetteville, where Timmons-Goodson won 84,667 votes (59%) and Hudson was held to only 58,936 votes (41%).

During Hudson’s latest campaign, he raised $3.7 million, spent over $3.2 million and had around $925,000 in cash on hand, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

That same nonpartisan research group reported that Timmons-Goodson, a 66-year-old Fayetteville native who became the first black woman on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2006, raised $3.3 million, spent $3 million, and had about $285,000 in cash on hand.

“I am proud of the effort we put together,” Timmons-Goodson said on her social media accounts on Nov. 4. “We ran a strong campaign and gave the voters the information they needed to make an informed choice and they have spoken. I wish Representative Hudson well in his next term.”

“I’m used to the local government level. I’m sure it’s a totally different ballgame on the state level.

But politics is politics. You’re going to have to try to find a way to meet your goals and make sure you can get things for the people in the district.”

Rep.-elect Ben Moss ment level,” Moss said. “I’m sure it’s a totally different ballgame on the state level. But politics is politics.

You’re going to have to try to find a way to meet your goals and make sure you can get things for the people in the district.”

Moss said one of his main goals in Raleigh will be to “make sure the rural areas get the piece of the pie they’re entitled to. I’m really excited to get in there and make sure the rural districts’ voices are heard.”

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Kamala Harris books surge in popularity after election

By Lindsey Bahr The Associated Press BOOKS BY and about Kamala Harris proved to be a popular purchase following the election.

Harris was the subject or author of four books on Amazon’s top 10 Sunday.

They included her own children’s book, “Superheroes Are

Everywhere;” her memoir, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey;” a children’s book by her niece Meena Harris, called “Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea;” and Nikki Grimes’ illustrated “Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice.”

Harris would make history as the first black woman to become vice president. If results stand, the California senator, would

also become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in government and the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency.

Former Vice President Joe Biden also got a spot on the charts just outside of the top 10. Dr. Jill Biden’s children’s book “Joey: The Story of Joe Biden” landed in 14th place.

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WEEKLY CRIME LOG ♦ Bartholomew, Catherine Olivia (W F, 21) Arrest on chrg of Possession Of Controlled Possession Of Sub Prison/jail (F), at 2300 Us 52 North, Albemarle, on 11/07/2020. ♦ Drye, Jeffery Houston (W M, 59) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 815 Hill St, Albemarle, on 11/07/2020. ♦ Mercer, India Ariana (B F, 21) Arrest on chrg of Possess Marijuana Up To 1/2 Ounce (M), at 339 Nc 24-27 Bypass E/wall St, Albemarle, on 11/06/2020.

11/04/2020. ♦ Honbarrier, Caroline Annette (W F, 26) Arrest on chrg of First Deg Tresp Enter/remain, (M), at 781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, on 11/04/2020. ♦ Steele, Julius Walker (B M, 50) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 833 Nc 24-27 Bypass E, Albemarle, on 11/03/2020. ♦ Little, Patricia Cordella (B F, 21) Arrest on chrg of Misdemeanor Larceny, (M), at 781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, on 11/03/2020.

♦ Bowers, Tamara Barbee (W F, 49) Arrest on chrg of First Deg Tresp Enter/remain, (M), at 920 Efird St, Albemarle, on 11/06/2020.

♦ Rinehart, Henry Chris (W M, 55) Arrest on chrg of Assault And Battery, (M), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 11/03/2020.

♦ Oxendine, Tandan Aubry (W M, 21) Arrest on chrg of First Deg Tresp Enter/remain, (M), at 920 Efird St, Albemarle, on 11/06/2020.

♦ Deberry-elrod, Dylan Ray (W M, 29) Arrest on chrg of Felony Possession Sch Ii Cs (M), at 517 Nc 24-27 Bypass E, Albemarle, on 11/03/2020.

♦ Mercer, India Ariana (B F, 21) Arrested on Citation of Possess Marijuana Up To 1/2 Ounce (20-04692), at 339 Nc 24-27 Bypass E/wall St, Albemarle, on 11/06/2020.

♦ Riley, Shawn Patrick (W M, 50) Arrest on chrg of Communicate Threats, (M), at 33426 Old Salisbury Rd, Albemarle, on 11/02/2020.

♦ Burleson, Tristan Isaiah (B M, 22) Arrest on chrg of Pwimsd Marijuana (F), at 1236 Freeman Av/moss Springs Rd, Albemarle, on 11/05/2020 ♦ West, Demonte Marquez Rashad (B M, 19) Arrest on chrg of First Deg Sex Exploit Minor (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 11/05/2020. ♦ Elliott, Ty-shon Jawan (B M, 23) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 420 Summit Av, Albemarle, on 11/05/2020. ♦ Clark, Anthony Steven (B M, 38) Arrest on chrg of Pwimsd Cocaine (F), at 425 Colston St, Albemarle, on 11/04/2020. ♦ Davis, Barry Dale (B M, 37) Arrest on chrg of Alter/remove Gun Serial Number (F), at 425 Colston St, Albemarle, on

Misdemeanor Probation Viol (M), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 11/5/2020 ♦ Burris, Toby Joe (W /M/41) Arrest on chrg of Misdemeanor Larceny (M), at 23836 Old Wyatt Rd, Albemarle, NC, on 11/5/2020 ♦ Rippey, Jarrett Lee (W /M/37) Arrest on chrg of 1) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), 2) Felony Possession Sch Ii Cs (F), 3) Simple Possess Sch Iv Cs (m) (M), and 4) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at Hwy24/27 /converse Rd., Endy, NC, on 11/5/2020 ♦ Bullard, Bobby Ray (W /M/28) Arrest on chrg of 1) Felony Possession Sch Ii Cs (F), 2) Simple Possess Sch Iii Cs (m) (M), 3) Simple Possess Sch Iv Cs (m) (M), and 4) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at Sprinngdale/hwy 52, Albemarle, NC, on 11/5/2020 ♦ Clark, Anthony Steven (B /M/38) Arrest on chrg of Felony Probation Violation (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 11/4/2020

♦ Wallace, Ernest Felton (W M, 59) Arrest on chrg of Obtain Cs

By Fraud/forgery (F), at 841 Nc 24-27 Bypass E/e Main St, Albemarle, on 11/02/2020.

♦ Clark, Daniel Shane (W /M/23) Arrest on chrg of 1) Injury To Real Property (M) and 2) Flee/ elude Arrest W/mv (f) (F), at 126 S Second St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/4/2020

♦ Cagle, Cameron Lewis (W /M/25) Arrest on chrg of Possess Methamphetamine (F), at 715 Nc 24-27 Bypass W/ monticello Dr, Albemarle, NC, on 11/6/2020

♦ Meadows, Mark Eugene (W /M/58) Arrest on chrg of Dv Protection Order Violation (M), at 20020 Bear Creek Church Rd, Richfield, NC, on 11/4/2020

♦ Gwaltney, Michael Edward (W /M/44) Arrest on chrg of 1) Identity Theft (F), 2) Probation Violation (F), 3) Probation Violation (F), 4) Probation Violation (M), 5) Dwlr Not Impaired Rev (M), 6) Hit/run Leave Scene Prop Dam (M), and 7) Dwlr Not Impaired Rev (M), at 496 S Main St, Norwood, NC, on 11/6/2020 ♦ Burleson, Tristan Isaiah (B /M/22) Arrest on chrg of

♦ Myers, Joseph Lee (W /M/27) Arrest on chrg of Civil Order For Arrest - Child Support (M), at 283 Gaddis Rd, Oakboro, NC, on 11/4/2020 ♦ Thompkins, Jessup Whiteford (W /M/21) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault Inflict Serious Inj (m) (M), 2) Misdemeanor Larceny (M), and 3) Misdemeanor Larceny (M), at 136 South 3rd Street, Albemarle, NC, on 11/3/2020

♦ Gatewood, Michael Allen (W /M/27) Arrest on chrg of Violation Of Court Order (M), at 136 South 3rd, Albemarle, on 11/3/2020 ♦ Wirth, Joanna Nicole (W /F/19) Arrest on chrg of 1) Injury To Personal Property (M), 2) Pwimsd Methamphetamine (F), 3) Pwimsd Marijuana (F), 4) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), 5) Simple Possess Sch Iv Cs (m) (M), 6) Possess Marij Paraphernalia (M), 7) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), and 8) Flee/elude Arrest W/mv (f) (F), at 24509 Austin Rd/canton Rd, Albemarle, NC, on 11/3/2020 ♦ Clark, Daniel Shane (W /M/23) Arrest on chrg of 1) Injury To Personal Property (M), 2) Pwimsd Methamphetamine (F), 3) Pwimsd Marijuana (F), 4) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), 5) Simple Possess Sch Iv Cs (m) (M), 6) Possess Marij Paraphernalia (M), 7) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), and 8) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), at 24509 Austin Rd/ canton Rd, Albemarle, NC, on 11/3/2020 ♦ Massey, Samantha Nicole (W /F/34) Arrest on chrg of 1) Trafficking,opium Or Heroin (F), 2) Pwimsd Heroin (F), and 3) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), at 223 S Second St, Albemarle, NC, on 11/3/2020 ♦ Bruton, Justice Dewayne (B /M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possession Of Stolen Firearm (F) and 2) Possession Of Firearm

By Felon (F), at 104 Young St, Norwood, NC, on 11/3/2020 ♦ Clark, Daniel Shane (W /M/23) Cited on Charge of Reckless Drvg-wanton Disregard (2003093), at 20904 Sam Rd, Albemarle, on 11/3/2020

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MOSS from page 1 Moss said, “But my main goal is to try to better the district. And to me, that’s things like securing funding for the district, and I’m a big advocate for education.

I’m a really big advocate for trade schools and community colleges.”

In Stanly County, Moss said he was very grateful to Rep. Wayne Sasser, a Republican who represents the rest of the county in the state House, saying he “has a lot of respect” for him and could tell everybody he met around the county did as well.

“I made contact with Wayne and started to visit places in Stanly County, making contacts with certain people, and just seeing people in Stanly County,” Moss said. “I just tried to talk to as many people as I could because they didn’t know me, and I wanted them to get a chance to know me.”

Moss is also leaning on Sasser for advice on adjusting to General Assembly life in Raleigh, calling Sasser a “seasoned” member. He has also talked to the speaker of the N.C. House, Rep. Tim Moore of Kings Mountain, to get prepared for his role.

“I’ve got two years to prove myself,” Moss said. “My main goal is to do my job that I was elected to do; and if I do that, I think I will get the support of some people that I didn’t get this past election.”

Brewer conceded the race and made the following comment on his Facebook: “Thank you to all the people who supported our campaign, especially to all of our volunteers who dedicated hundreds of hours. I can’t thank you all enough. I wish Representative Elect Moss the best in serving our state. It has been an honor serving our citizens that I will always treasure.”

DEATH NOTICES ♦ Eldon “Nookie” Holt, 84, of Albemarle, passed away November 1. ♦ Linda Simpson, 76, of Norwood, passed away November 1. ♦ Randy Eugene Oliver Sr., 60, of Albemarle, passed away November 1. ♦ Jerry Dixon Whitley, 83, of Albemarle, passed away November 2. ♦ Bonnie Rose Little Boone Treece, 73, of Locust, passed away November 3. ♦ Patricia Perme, 69, of Albemarle, passed away November 4. ♦ Viola A. Cook, 98, of Albemarle, passed away November 4. ♦ James Clinton Thomas, 70, of Aquadale, passed away November 5. ♦ Martha Wensil Kimrey, 79, of Oakboro, passed away November 5. ♦ Clona “Tink” Lee Almond Barbee, 69, of Albemarle, passed away November 5. ♦ Myrtle W. Teeter, 92, Oakboro, passed away October 5.

See OBITUARIES, page 7

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“THIS IS THEfallen DAYinto the lord has made, let usthe rejoice and be of glad Inc. in Concord and New WITH MOST STATES under either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home place.

I understand seriousness the virus Hydromer and the need in it” (Psalm 118:24).

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.

However, as a Christian, husband These stories from throughout our r Virginia’s stay-at-home orders go into June.

They’re treated as though we as a society simply must accept without and dad, the Easter holiday has reminded me of just how much we hope, inspiration and supplies to peopl Here in North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper stated during question what the government tells us about when it’s safe to begin the have to be thankful and hopeful for, even in the midst of this global workers on the front lines of the corona a recent coronavirus press briefing that “we just don’t know yet” if the process of returning back to normalcy.

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Voters rejected the prevailing narratives of a media determined voters for Republicans — and did so without pandering on illegal suffering from the H1N1 the virus (swineaflu) during the 2009 to make election pure referendum onpandemic, Donald Trump’s immigration or buying into the trite and ugly lies of the Black Lives I’ve been trying character. to take extra precautions, because all of this brings up likely be Even if Joe Biden prevails eventually, he will Matter movement. way too of aa Republican painful experience d prefer and not to repeat.

According to many memories faced with Senate I’ majority a 2022 contest that It wasn’t just Trump. In California, a majority-minority state, But what also will makes me lose sleep isRepresentatives how easily mostsquarely everyone has put the House of in Republican sights. voters refused to greenlight the racist Proposition 16, which would Edison exit Voters rejected the pollsters’ overconfident modeling: Pollsters have repealed a state constitutional provision banning racial polling, as of were dramatically wrong in their national numbers and just as discrimination, paving the way for reparations and affirmative election night, wrong in their Senate estimates. Voters apparently aren’t all that action. They did so by a margin of over 10 points and despite Trump had interested in registering their opinions with elite firms who see the fact that Prop 16 advocates spent 12 times the money their them as social science subjects rather than as individuals. opponents did. gained 2 points Voters stuck to their guns in red states; they stuck to their guns All of this has sent woke thinkers into spasms of apoplexy. The with white in blue states; they stuck to their guns in purple states. America execrable Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the pseudo-historical women; 4 points is divided, and it is not growing less divided just out of the elitists’ “1619 Project,” tweeted out that Latinos can no longer be considered with black men overwrought and hysterical mewling about Trump. This is still a a racial category, since some Cubans are “white.” Charles Blow of country that is one-third conservative, one-third liberal and oneThe New York Times tweeted, “We are surrounded by racists.” and 4 points with third in the middle.

Actually, Hannah-Jones and Blow aren’t surrounded by racists. black women; But one message resonated above all others: the outright They’re surrounded by people who reject racism and reject the 3 points with rejection of the ongoing quest by Democrats and the media to paint implicitly racist belief that ethnicity ought to dictate voting Latino men and Americans into racial categories and then declare demographics patterns. destiny.

Donald Trump bucked four long years of Democrats All of this is excellent news. Americans spoke last night. They 3 points with and media members labeling both him and his supporters white spoke as Americans, as individuals, not as members of contrived Latino women; supremacists, bigots and homophobes. He refused to be cowed by interest groups. And that is certainly worth celebrating. and 5 points a media determined to paint him as a racist for refusing the faulty Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, in the “other” premise that America is institutionally bigoted. And he won an host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire. increased share of black and Hispanic voters. com. category.

According to Edison exit polling, as of election night, Trump had gained 2 points with white women; 4 points with black men Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, and 4 points with black women; 3 points with Latino men and 3 host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire. points with Latino women; and 5 points in the “other” category. com.

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COLUMN | MICHAEL BARONE

Some observations on an extended election night

National exit polls showed Trump winning the votes of 32% of Latinos and 36% of Latino men; it also showed Trump winning 12% of black voters and 18% of black men.

1. THIS WAS NOT A GOOD NIGHT for conventional polling. My review in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal of a book on the history of “polling failures” took perhaps too positive a view of contemporary polling. The Real Clear Politics average of recent polls showed Joe Biden with more than 51% of the popular vote and Donald Trump with 44%. As this is written, Biden has 50% of the tabulated national popular vote, which will probably rise as California’s data comes dribbling in, but Donald Trump has 48%. So, the current 1.9% Biden plurality is far lower than the polls’ 7.2% Biden plurality.

The results in target states seem to have been off as well. The polls had Biden up 0.9% in Florida, far different from Trump’s 3.4% victory margin there. I have been dubious about the polling techniques of firms like Robert Cahaly’s Trafalgar, which produced numbers apparently closer to the election results so far than other pollsters in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. But in an opinion climate where mass media and corporate political correctness has many Americans unwilling to state their opinions, there may be something to say for Cahaly’s unorthodox methods -- and something to say against the more standard polling technique. There is, as my Washington Examiner colleague Byron York has argued, a hidden Trump vote. Most pollsters have not learned how to find it.

2. Donald Trump is running much better than almost everyone in the press and on Twitter expected. He is clearly on his way to winning more popular votes than he did in 2016.

Democrats don’t seem likely to pick up the Senate majority that they seemed almost assured of gaining as recently as the morning of Nov. 3. Republicans Corey Gardner and Martha McSally lost,

as expected, in Colorado and Arizona, and Democrat Doug Jones lost, as expected, in Alabama. Susan Collins won in Maine. Cal Cunningham, Chuck Schumer’s handpicked candidate in North Carolina, is trailing by 1.8%; I bet if Schumer if had known about Cunningham’s extramarital affairs, which were revealed and admitted during the campaign, the Senate minority leader would have picked another candidate. In Iowa, Republican incumbent Joni Ernst, having trailed in polls for months, won by a 7% margin.

Democrats’ hopes for a Senate majority now rest on Georgia’s two Senate seats. Incumbent Senator David Perdue will have to face a runoff with Democrat Jon Ossoff on Jan. 5. There will definitely be a runoff for the state’s other seat between appointed incumbent Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Raphael Warnock.

4. Democrats have not done nearly as well as expected in House races. The Cook Political Report, with its fine record of assessing congressional elections, predicted that Democrats would increase their 232-seat majority in the House. Instead, at present, they’ve lost multiple seats and have gained only two, both in North Carolina, thanks to a favorable court redistricting decision.

5. Hispanic voters didn’t perform as expected, and neither did back voters. National exit polls showed Trump winning the votes of 32% of Latinos and 36% of Latino men; it also showed Trump winning 12% of black voters and 18% of black men. The gender gap is apparently widening among Latino voters and black voters.

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT MLB

Turner will not be disciplined for celebration New York Justin Turner will not be disciplined by Major League Baseball for coming onto the field last week to celebrate the World Series title with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates after testing positive for COVID-19.

The third baseman was removed after seven innings of Game 6 against Tampa Bay on Oct. 27 after MLB informed the Dodgers of the test result, which was received during the sixth inning.

He returned to the field after Los Angeles won 3-1 to earn the title, took off his mask and posed for a photograph with teammates.

GOLF

Ortiz gets his first PGA Tour win Houston Carlos Ortiz held off Dustin Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama by closing with a 5-under 65 to win the Houston Open on Sunday, becoming the first Mexican to win on the PGA Tour in 42 years.

Ortiz delivered the winner with a 6-iron to 8 feet on the par-5 16th. He had to settle for a two-putt birdie, and it held up when Johnson and Matsuyama narrowly missed birdie chances coming in.

Needing two putts to win on the 18th hole, the 29-year-old holed a 20-foot birdie putt for a two-shot victory.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Andersen out at Utah State after 0-3 start Logan, Utah Utah State and coach Gary Andersen are parting ways after a 0-3 start to the season for the Aggies. Andersen was in Year 2 of his second stint at Utah State. Codefensive coordinator Frank Maile will serve as the interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Andersen, 56, went 26-24 at Utah State from 2009-12, leaving after an 11-2 season to take over at Wisconsin. Utah State went 7-6 last season in Andersen’s return, a disappointing season with eventual first-round draft pick Jordan Love at quarterback.

SOCCER

Morgan makes English debut after maternity leave London American superstar Alex Morgan made her debut in English soccer Saturday, coming on as a substitute in the 69th minute for Tottenham in a 1-1 draw against Reading in the Women’s Super League.

She didn’t manage to score in her first match in around 15 months, having given birth to her daughter, Charlie, in May. The two-time World Cup winner joined Tottenham in September in a bid to get some game time ahead of playing for the United States at the delayed Tokyo Olympics next year.

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Jimmie Johnson finished fifth in the final race of his full-time racing career.

Johnson leaves indelible mark on, off the track The seven-time Cup Series champion ended his full-time NASCAR career Sunday at Phoenix

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Jimmie Johnson was the first one down the stairs in a diving competition at Tony Stewart’s birthday party. He playfully tossed mini hamburgers across a suite Denny Hamlin had rented in Las Vegas and later wrestled Chad Knaus on the floor of the same casino.

The two revealers were capping a raucous night of celebrating yet another title when one of their jumbo championship rings slipped away and rolled across the casino. Another time, Johnson broke his wrist surfing atop a moving golf cart at his foundation’s tournament. He had Snoop Dogg play at his seventh

championship party.

Those are just a sampling of the tales about Johnson, who is retired from full-time NASCAR competition after finishing fifth Sunday at the Cup Series season finale at Phoenix Raceway. He leaves the sport as a seven-time champion ranked sixth on the all-time wins list with 83.

“He’s as close to perfect as you can get,” team owner Rick Hendrick said Friday.

Johnson’s two decades as driver of the No. 48 established him as the best of his generation — he won five consecutive titles during a jaw-dropping run of 35 victories from 2006-2010. That run made him the only race car driver to win The Associated Press’ Male Athlete of the Year award.

His seven championships are tied with Hall of Famers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. Kevin Harvick with 58 victories is the closest active driver to Johnson’s

win total.

The reign of supremacy from Johnson and Knaus, his longtime crew chief, frustrated NASCAR fans, many who argued Johnson was so boring they just couldn’t watch anymore.

“Jimmie did it without a lot of fanfare. He could have been cocky.

He could have been challenging other drivers in the media, whatever. But he wasn’t that way,” Hendrick said. “I think the success he had got to be almost so routine that people just didn’t appreciate the talent.”

All that winning for the No. 48 perhaps was a little tired.

Yet Johnson, the renaissance man, is far from boring.

He’s generous and genuine, a true professional who glides seamlessly from meetings with executives to mingling with fans and partying with world-famous friends and workout partners. The 45-year-old Californian consid-

ers Charlotte his home, but Johnson and his family have a place in Aspen, Colorado, where he fly fishes, skis and rides dirt bikes with his two daughters, He’s donated more than $12 million to children’s educational causes, and his wife owns a respected art gallery in Charlotte. His family is close and well-traveled and after 19 years driving for Hendrick Motorsports, Johnson is ready to do other things.

First on his list is a mind-blowing move to IndyCar, where he plans to race 14 events on road and street courses next season. He’ll be a 45-year-old rookie when he fulfills his childhood dream of hurtling an open wheel car through the streets of Long Beach, California.

Johnson wishes he’d been able to visit with fans this final season but is ready to go.

“I’m in a celebratory place,” he said. “I’ve told the world it’s happening, and I feel good about it.”

No spectators means no roars, the magic of the Masters Seven months after it was originally scheduled to host its annual major, Augusta National will be without fans due to the coronavirus

By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — The roars were endless Sunday at the Masters, coming from everywhere for just about everyone.

One moment stood out in 2011.

From below the rise of the fairway on the par-5 eighth hole, it sounded like a sonic boom.

That was an eagle cheer coming from the green, no doubt. But for whom?

“Tiger Woods just came through,” a marshal said, and thus ended the mystery.

But it didn’t end there.

Woods, who started that final round seven shots out of the lead, now was tied for the lead. Moments later, as Woods headed to the ninth tee, another cheer rang out from the 18th green. And then, another one down by Amen Corner. And then a third cheer in the direction of the 15th green.

More birdies? Eagles? No, it was the crowd scattered across the golf course responding to seeing scoreboards change as Woods moved into a tie for the lead. He couldn’t keep it going. That was the year eight players had at least a share of the lead at some point on the back nine until Charl Schwartzel finished with four straight birdies.

An incredible day. Amazing atmosphere.

And now, silence.

This Masters in November

MATT SLOCUM | AP PHOTO

The 16th hole at Augusta National is normally one of the largest gathering spots on the course, but this Masters in November will have no spectators. will be missing the patrons because of the COVID-19 pandemic along with the very essence of what makes Augusta National so magical.

The sound is different for eagles than birdies. Anything around the 16th hole on Sunday with the pin below the ridge can only mean a hole-in-one. And when the roars are for Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer, Woods or Phil Mickelson, it’s a different decibel.

Rory McIlroy remembers his first Masters. It was 2009, and the 19-year-old from Northern Ireland made a respectable debut. That was the year Woods and

“It echoes there. It travels.

It’s unlike any place in the world.”

Tiger Woods on how cheers fill the course at Augusta National when it is packed with fans Mickelson were paired together in the final round, the undercard to another pulsating finish.

“I was coming down 15, and Tiger and Phil were coming up 7,”

McIlroy said. “They went out in 30 and 33. It was my first Masters, I remember being on the back nine, the roars and cheers, they were six-deep on either side.”

And then his thoughts turned to November, an autumn Masters.

A quiet Masters.

“The way I see it, every hole at Augusta will be like what we experience on the 12th green,” McIlroy said. That green is some 150 yards away from the nearest spectator, most of it hidden by bunkers.

“You hole a putt, people can’t see if it goes in,” he said. “Every year we experience one hole like that. But not the other 17.”

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‘The Last Dance’ director talks project Pfeiffer swimming on Jordan’s Bulls coach retires after

successful career The 10-part documentary will air over five Sundays

Brad Flood has been with the Falcons

By Tim2008 Reynolds since The Associated Press

KEVIN L. DORSEY | NC A&T ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS PHOTO

North Carolina A&T receiver Elijah Bell, pictured in 2017 against North Carolina Central, is among the HBCU draft hopefuls who was affected by the canceled events due to the coronavirus pandemic.

MATT CASHORE | AP PHOTO

HBCU NFL hopefuls adjust after ACC, collegepro football flipped canceled days, combine Notre Dame safety Shaun Crawford celebrates after No. 4 Notre Dame knocked off top-ranked Clemson 47-40 in two overtimes Saturday in South Bend, Indiana.

on its ear by Clemson loss “Just because we “They are from dadgum smaller earned schoolsit. We handle doesn’tour business, mean maybe we’ll we can’t get a chance compete.” to play again.”

De’Montrez Burroughs, Clemson coach South Carolina Dabo StateSwinney receiver after the Tigers’ loss at Notre Dame

The coronavirus pandemic has made it even harder for under-the-radar players Notre Dame, which is part to the make an impression of conference this on teams knocked off the No. season, 1 Tigers in double overtime in Bend BySouth Kyle Hightower The Associated Press

By Ralph D. Russo TheDE’MONTREZ Associated Press Burroughs looked at it as his best shot to accomplish NFL dream.

SOUTHhis BEND, Ind. — When The South Carolina State seClemson’s desperate attempt to nior receiver had the dates circonvert a fourth-and-forever endcled his calendar.

First, the ed in on a scrum, Notre Dame quarBulldogs’ annual pro day on terback Ian Book tossed his helMarch 19, followed a week latmet as he sprinted onto the field er celebrate by the first-ever combine to with hisNFL teammates. event held for draft prospects Within seconds, thousands of fromjoined Historically Black the Colleges fans in, rushing field and Universities who didn’t reamid a pandemic for a postgame ceive invitations to the national party that most definitely did not combine in Indianapolis. meet the CDC’s social-distancing He left guidelines. for spring break the week before hisstormed pro daythe with ev“When fans field, erything ready tosaid. go. He had film it was fun,” Book packages to distribute Kyren Williams put to thescouts.

Irish He was also thinking about what ahead with a 3-yard touchdown he would say in interviews run in the second overtime with and representatives from NFL No. 4 Notre Dame shut teams down and what to ask idols like Pro top-ranked Clemson with a couFootball Hall of Famer Deion ple of sacks to seal a 47-40 win Sanders, who would be there.

Saturday night.

“It was a chance to be able to showcase our talent,” Burroughs said. “Just because we are from smaller schools doesn’t mean we

can’t compete.”

But that opportunity never came.

The first victory over a No. 1 South pro team in 27Carolina years forState’s the Fightday and the HBCU combine ing Irish can be added to the belist came partstreak-breakers of a growing in listNoof of famous events canceled because of the tre Dame history: Catholics vs. coronavirus pandemic.

Convicts in 1988 snappedWhile Mismall school and borderline draft ami’s 36-game regular-season prospectsstreak from across theshutout counwinning and the tryOklahoma will be hurtinby1957 a lack of simof broke the ilar events, HBCU players Sooners’ record 47-game roll.may be Clemson hit hardest without and (7-1, 6-1) them had won the Regional Combine Invita36 consecutive regular-season tional that HBCU in Atregames and had not players lost to an cent years had Conference previously used to lantic Coast team boost their draft stock. since 2017. The Fighting Irish (7you’re coming out of an 0, “When 6-0), playing in the ACC only HBCU, you know that the teams because of the coronavirus panare going to bethem looking ataDividemic, brought all to halt. sion I talent first,” said “No matter how old I Kansas am, I’ll City Chiefsthis defensive back Book Alex remember one forever,” Brown, a SC State alum.

“With said. this HBCU combine, that’s difWho knows where this victory ferent.

I wish we had that when should rank in Notre Dame lore, I was coming out. was gonna but considering theIt setting and be a weird chancepandemic-altered to have all the teams this sealooking those guys.” its most son, the at win is probably Only four HBCU players were bizarre. selected the 2019 draft in with a “I hadintold our team our full predraft process, though 32 walkthrough today: ‘Just want madetoWeek you know1 rosters. when we win this The 51 players invited the game the fans are going to to storm HBCU combine were trying to the field. With COVID being position themselves to do the same. The list also included Florida A&M University quarterback Ryan Stanley and North Carolina

what it is, we need to get off the field,’” Irish coach Brian Kelly said. “I beat them off the field.”

Williams ran for 140 yards and three touchdowns and Book, the fifth-year senior quarterback, led Central defensive a 91-yard drive inlineman the finalDaritwo us Royster, the Mid-Eastern minutes of regulation to tie Athit at letic offensive pass and 33 onConference a 4-yard touchdown defensive players of the year, reto Avery Davis with 22 seconds spectively. left.

“Does extra exposure help?

After Williams gave Notre Yes, it does.

But once it’s taken Dame the lead on the first posaway it limits guys to get session of thecertain second OT, the their film out there,” said Irish pushed Clemson backMorwith gan State coach Tyrone Wheatback-to-back sacks on DJ Uailey, a first-round pick by Ogundethe New galelei

by Adetokumbo York in Hayes 1995. “It thea ji andGiants Daelin tolimits set up pro scouts from actually seeing third-and-24. these guysa sack one-on-one, tozone,” look “I took in the red at them and physically place eyes Uiagalelei said. “... I can’t do that.” on The them.

To get some of the quesfive-star freshman quartions answered up closepass and perterback’s third-down was sonal.” broken up and his final compleAside getting to tion on from fourth downa chance was way run the 40-yard dash and comshort of the line to gain. A couplete strength andand agility ple of other laterals didn’t help the drills in front of scouts from Irish and their fans went wild.the NFL’s franchises, players The32 Fighting Irish have were won going to get the games chance and to inter13 consecutive they view withan team executives the snapped 11-game losing on streak first day of the HBCU combine against top-five teams while event. beating No. 1 for the first time Teams are down still conducting insince taking Florida State terviews phoneDame and video conin 1993 atbyNotre Stadium. ferencing, but those earned are capped “They dadgum it,” at three per week, said AuClemson coach Dabo agent Swinney gustine Wiggins, clients said. “We handle whose our business, include Burroughs. maybe we’ll get a chance to play “It’s harder to garner interagain.” est and understand where the interest is for clients than in years past,” Wiggins said. “It’s a slightly different pivot.”

By Jesse Deal JASON HEHIR was a kid in the stands in Stanly County Journal Boston Garden on April 20, 1986, the day that Michael Jordan scored a playoff-record MISENHEIMER — Pfeiffer University’s63 points.

Brad Flood — the only coach in NCAA histoIt lead was aa four-time ChristmasNCAA gift from hisswimming father, who ry to men’s stuck a note promising “Two tickets the Air individual event champion at both thetoNCAA Jordan Show” in his stocking that holiday seaDivision I and Division II levels — announced son.

It’s a gift Hehir will never forhis retirement this past Friday. get, though his current Flood had served as theseat headfor coach of the another Jordan show of sorts Falcon women’s swimming team,is as well as considerably better. wouldn’t the university’s aquatics director, since“I 2018.

Hehir is theenjoyed director thecoaching at “I thoroughly my of time call it a ESPN and Netflixwith production “The Pfeiffer.

Working my fellow coaches, adI Last Dance,” aand 10-part documen- challenge. ministrators, the student-athletes was tary series that debuts April 19 and such a joy for me,” Flood said in anwould official call it tells the storyissued of Jordan’s final Chipress release by the univera privilege.” cago“Pfeiffer Bulls season in 1997-98 sity. is a special place that and culminated in a sixth NBA title. has a tremendous family-like atmoHehir’s task: Takethat 10,000 hours of Jason Hehir, sphere.

I’ll miss atmosphere “Brad archived footage, add interviews and, most importantly, the stu- director of “The with more than people, and has made dent-athletes that 100 brought so much turn it into about 8½ hours of teleLast Dance” Pfeiffer and happiness and joy to me.” vision.

During his tenure in Misen- our program “I wouldn’t call nine it a challenge,” heimer, Flood had swimmers Hehir said.

“I would it a privilege.” earn all-conference call honors, in- better by The series was moved up two months to procluding Tiffany Bartholomew, who bringing vide the content-starved fansSunCoast with something new won 100 breaststroke to watch during the coronavirus pandemic. energy to Swimming Championship back in ESPN was originally planning to release the February. work that documentary June, coinciding Flood’s time in at Pfeiffer was also with what is hard to would have been this season’s NBA known for its academic success — Finals.

It will run over five Sundays ending May 17, as an adjunct professor himself, his match.” with two one-hour broadcasts each week. teams excelled both inside and outif we can bring a little bit of light to side“I’m thehappy classroom.

Danielle people dark timeGPA here,”ofHehir Withina acollective 3.63, said. “Sports are such an indelible part of our cultural fabric Flood’s 2019-20 squad took home Lafferty, and lacking that ... there’s a significant hole the Scholar All-America Team Pfeiffer in enjoyment the escape that peoAward fromthat the people Collegefeel, Swimming director of ple can feel from everyday life that sports brings Coaches Association of America us.”

(CSCAA). That GPA ranked Pfeiffer athletics launch only added to a as The the accelerated ninth-highest scorehas in the hectic time for Hehir and his team. country out of 187 Division III There has been much about the swimming programs andanticipation the second-highest documentary, which in Hehir’s mind came toGPA out of every university in North Carolina. gether much faster than such a project “Brad was not only a tremendously usually sucdoes. coach over his career, but he was also cessful “Normally, to do an hourlong archival doca very loyal Falcon,” Pfeiffer Director of Athumentary from start to finish, it takes about letics Danielle Lafferty said.

“He has such pasa year the inception of the and idea his to the sion forfrom the sport of swimming stu-research to doing all the shooting to getting it all dent-athletes. Brad has made Pfeiffer and our together, better storyboarding it out, mapping it out, program by bringing energy to work editing, getting notesAll back, takes about that is hard to match. will itmiss him, and a year,” Hehir said.

“We’re doing 10 of those.

And we wish him all the happiness as he moves into we had a little bit over two years to do it so we’re retirement.” already working at five times our normalfrom rate.”

Flood’s coaching journey extended Thewith pandemic complicates time Centralfurther Connecticut State, matters.

ClemHehir and A&M his team finishing things upstint while son, Texas andare Iowa to a four-year separated, connecting through Zoom meetings leading the Polish National Swimming Federbut largely in isolation atthe their own laptops to ation to a silver medal in 1992 Barcelona get the last pieces of the story ready to air.

Olympics.

The documentary goes deeper than just 1997One of his most notable coaching achieve98, though that season the overriding theme. ments was building the isUniversity of BridgeIt alsoswimming serves as a programs retrospective of the Jordan’s basport’s from ground ketball life, from his collegeOscar days atPereiro North Caroup, where he coached to lina through his rise atopDivision the NBA.II titles in four-consecutive NCAA Hehir knows there is an buildup and the 100-yard backstroke. Inongoing total, Flood’s time anticipation surrounding the and with the Purple Knights led todocumentary, eight combined still feels nervousness.

He met with Jordan sevindividual All-America honors and 20 relay eral times over the course of the project, includAll-America honors. ing three sit-down interviews that are part of the documentary.

“I hope that people will like it as much as we did,” Hehir said.

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South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham wins 4th Senate bid

and continued to grow in the race’s closing days. Harrison raised $57 million in the third quarter alone, shattering all quarterly Senate fundraising records. He became the first U.S. Senate candidate to ever amass a war chest of more than $100 million over the course of the race.

Graham told The Associated Press late last week he had also raised at least $100 million, his third-quarter haul of $28 million

being the largest ever posted by a Republican Senate candidate in a quarterly filing period.

Graham often critiqued Harrison for relying mostly on outof-state supporters, who made up about 90% of his donor base. Early on, through relationships forged in part through his standing as associate Democratic National Committee chairman, Harrison attained a high profile that brought

PEC, oil nations agree o nearly 10M barrel cut

with it small-dollar donors from all over the country, many funneled through Democrats’ ActBlue fundraising portal.

In his pursuit of a fourth term, Graham also went outside the state for money, with about 86% of his funders living somewhere other than South Carolina. Both candidates, along with third-party groups pouring money into the race, waged nonstop ad campaigns

president, who has remained popular in South Carolina.

With 86% of the expected vote in, Graham led Harrison by nearly 15 percentage points, a margin that was close to his 2014 victory over a state senator, who had raised about $500,000 total.

In the race’s closing weeks, President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court created a dual challenge for Graham. As chairman of

it of cooperation that he’s known for, while we take a step forward in creating a new South,” Harrison said, using a turn of phrase he’s often repeated on the campaign trail.

On Tuesday night, Graham said he heard the voters loud and clear, and that he would carry their message with him to Washington.

“I’m going back to the Senate with a purpose,” Graham said Tuesday night. “I’ve never wanted my job more than I do now.”

bin Salman, a son of King Salman, assented to the deal.

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It has an retaliation amid regional ten- his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to cy’s coordinate a response to plummet resident, will Theoil crewindustry of three Americans stated the in sions. prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in former globalstation demand due to thebepandemi come the first person in decades and one Japanese are scheduled to “They’ve spent over the last U.S., which now pumps more to launch on three kinds of rocketrocket away Saturday night, proTERRY RENNA | AP PHOTO month waging war on American e than any other country. ships; he’s already flown on a U.S. vided approaching Tropical Storm dealVictor but its president, Andrés that Kuwait, Saudi ArabiaShannon and the while we Noguchi, are defendut someEta producers have been space shuttlepraise. and Russian Soyuz. doesn’t interfere.

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Jason Efird

ASON EUGENE “GENE” EFIRD, 94, went home to be with hisFOLLOWING Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020,but at his A BRIEF, home in Stanfield. catastrophic illness, Trish Perme born 9, 1925, in leftGene this was earth forOctober her heavenly Cabarrus County to the late Simeon home on November 4, 2020.

Jason Efird and the late Sarah Ella She was born March 21, 1951, Burris Efird.

In addition to his in Harrison, Arkansas, the third parents, wasPerme preceded death by child to he John andinMary his wife, Jewell Little Efird;At sisters, Elizabeth Maca Perme. a Mary Fannie Almond, youngLambert, age she moved to Texas Minnie Furr, Wilma Burleson and with her family where she grew Aileen Huskey; and brothers, Homer to be a happy and delightful Efird, Wayne Efird, youngGetus lady. Efird Afterand high school Sr. she took some classes at San A private funeral service will be Antonio Junior College and held on Saturday, April 11, 2020 experienced many happy travels at Love’ s Grove United and adventures.

She Methodist spent some Church Cemetery in Stanfield time in Battle Creek, Michigan officiated Rev. Jimher White.

Burial where shebyrealized spiritual will follow at the Love’ s Grove United calling and embraced the Seventh Methodist Church Cemetery, 4360 Day Adventist religion. From Polk Stanfield. thereFord she Road, journeyed to Louisiana Survivors include son Gerald to care for her sister, Liz, during Wayne (Gail) Efird of Albemarle; that sister’s time of need. Later, daughter Lisato Efird (Mark) she traveled Hawaii forHartsell a short of Stanfield; granddaughters, period, then finally settled in Kelly EfirdOregon Barbee and Lauren Coquille, to be with her Hartsell (Justin) Crump; and greatdad. Her adventurous spirit was grandsons, Patrickhealth Simmons and quelled by Ian a serious issue Elliot Jacob Simmons. in the 1980s, but she fought her Memorials may be made Love’s way back. Eventually she to earned Grove United Methodist Church, PO an accounting degree and earned Box 276, Stanfield, NC 28163-0276. her CPA license. Her beloved

Trish Perme

Texas called her back in 2000 and she went to work for the state in Austin. This was her life for 14 years while caring for her dad before his passing. She also lovingly cared for her mom who passed from Alzheimer’s. In 2014 Trish was struck with another debilitating illness and eventually relocated to North Carolina to be near her sister Liz and family.

Her illness left her disabled and unable to work any longer, but it didn’t keep her from sewing and cooking. Her yard was full of beautiful flowers. She and her white dog, Pearl, could often be seen walking around town. And, she continued her love of her AULINE ELIZABETH Savior Jesus Christ through work ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passed with her church. In both Oregon away peacefully at Trinity Place, and Texas, Trish was an active Albemarle, NC on April 11, 2020. participant in her church and in Pauline was born on March 22, Albemarle, North Carolina, even 1922 in Cabarrus County, NC to the more so. She played the piano late John Richard Almond and Alice for church services and helped Ada Ann Lambert Almond. coordinate social activities for all She is survived by her three members. The Community Table daughters, Gay Michel (Jack), looked forward to foods that she Oak Island, NC; Pamela Rushing lovingly prepared and brought (Foreman), Oakboro, NC; Kathy for those times when her church Hunt (Marc), Albemarle, NC; her took their turn feeding those son, Chris Tucker (Chris Lear), disadvantaged among us. She Washington, DC. She will be greatly was a true and strong friend to all missed by her five grandchildren, who needed her.

Heather Rushing Chaney (Shannon), Trish leaves behind sister Michael Rushing, Elizabeth Michel Elizabeth Wiatrek (Ernest); Hartzog (Craig), Jack Michel, Jr. brother John (Jamie); stepsisters, (Jenn), and Woody Hunt as well as Sybil Wood and Roxanne seven great-grandchildren. She also Thompson; beloved half sister, leaves behind cherished nieces and Mechelle O’Brien, nieces and nephews. nephews, many cousins, and a The family expresses its sincere host of loving friends across the gratitude to the staff and caregivers country. at Trinity Place for the care they A memorial service is planned provided Pauline. for December.

A private graveside service will be held on Monday, April 13, 2020. A celebration of Pauline’s life and legacy will be held this summer.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the BrightFocus Foundation at www. brightfocus.org.

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Pauline Tucker

Tony Smith MONROE SMITH, 72, of Bonnie Treece Rockwell, NC, went to be with TONY

hisBONNIE Lord and Savior Christ ROSEJesus LITTLE on Wednesday, April 8, at BOONE TREECE, 73,2020 of Locust, his homeaway surrounded byNovember family. A passed Tuesday, private 3, 2020family at herservice home.will be held.

Online condolences be made at15, Bonnie was borncan September stanlyfuneralhome.com 1947 in Stanly County to Ralph TonyLittle was born 1947 Henry andAugust Madie11, Marie in Stanly Little.

CountyShe to the late Pearlie Whitley was preceded Asbury and Emmer Lee in deathSmith by her father, Ralph Smith. He son in law of Pat Little; herwas firstthe husband, Paul and Mick Cagle where he worked at Warren Boone; sister, Henrietta the fishLittle; house for many years until Marie and granddaughter, he opened Anchor House Seafood Brandi Nicole Boone. in Rockwell.

Hewill andreceive his wife Becky The family owned and operated Anchor House friends from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, for 25 yearsNovember before retiring in 2009.

Thursday, 5, 2020 Mr.Hartsell Smith was a charter member at Funeral Home of and deacon at Open Door service Baptist to Albemarle.

The funeral Church in her Richfield.

Hebe loved the celebrate life will at 1:00 LordFriday, and his November family abundantly. pm, 6, 2020Tony at was a wonderful husband, Hartsell Funeral Home’sfather, Leflerand grandfatherChapel, and could fix anything Memorial officiated by he putDon his hands on. Burial will Rev. Burleyson.

Mr. Smith is survived by his wife follow at Providence Church of BeckyCemetery, Cagle Smith of theNC home, God 12474 Hwy sons Walter Smith and Robbie 24-27, Locust.

Smith; daughter Henderson In addition toKayla her mother, (Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, Madie Whitley Little, she is Dustin, and Smith, Keaton survived bySteele her beloved husband and Henderson; brotherTreece; David of 31Ella years, Keith Wilbert Smith;Jeffrey sisters Warren Kay Kriechbaum, sons, Boone, Sr., Karen(Michelle) Stevenson, Boone, Ruby Eudy, and Mike Matt Dorothy Boone, Smith (Nick).

(Nikki) Dustin (Jessica) He is sister, preceded in death by Boone; Beverly (Don) brothers Joe Smith, Wayne Smith, Hyatt; brother, Alan (Carolyn) Claude four Smith, Wade Smith, Robert Little; grandchildren, Jeffrey Smith, and sister Mary Morris.

(Ashley) Warren Boone, Jr., Kali Memorial contributions can be Boone, Makayla Boone, Colton made tothree Open great-grandchildren, Door Baptist Church Boone; at 44563 Hwy 52,Rylee Richfield, NC and Lindsae, Haley, Boone; 28137 or to Hospice & Palliative Care numerous nieces and nephews. of Cabarrus County at 5003wife, Hospice Bonnie was a devoted Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081. mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother, and sister. She was an avid reader and loved Elvis Presley.

Memorials may be made to Stanly County EMS, 201 S. 2nd St #301, Albemarle, NC 28001, or Ridgecrest Volunteer Fire Department, 24792 Millingport Rd, Locust, NC 28097, or Stanly County Sheriff’s Department, 223 S. Second St., Albemarle, NC 28001.

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Shirley Haire

HIRLEY MAE HAIRE, 73, of Albemarle passed away on April 11, 2020 at Atrium Health Stanly. The family will hold a private graveside service for Mrs. Haire.

Shirley was born December 12, 1946 in Washington, DC to the late Charles Richard Bateman and Elizabeth Mae Mulligan Bateman.

Shirley is survived by her husband of 30 years Vaughn Smith of Albemarle; sister Sandra Painter of Gainesville, VA; half-brother Robert Bateman of Stevensville, MD; step-children Heather Smith of Jacksonville, FL and David Smith of New London, NC; 4 step-grandchildren; nieces Cyndi Hentschel of Leesburg, VA and Cheryl Hardy of Aylett, VA; 16 grandnieces and nephews; and Gus the dog. Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care of Albemarle is serving the Haire family.

Merle Helms

Danny Luther

ERLE LORRAINE AUSTIN HELMS, 72, of Marshville, passed away Wednesday, 8, MARTHA WENSIL April KIMREY, 2020 at McWhorter Hospice House 79, of Oakboro, NC, passed away in Monroe.November 5, 2020 at Thursday born April 28,Center, 1947 theLorraine Monroewas Rehabilitation in Monroe to the late Homer David Monroe, NC. A private graveside Austin and Delphia-Jane service willJewell be held for Mrs. Austin.

She was also preceded in Kimrey with Rev. John Hayes death by brothers, A.D. and Teddy officiating.

Austin; sister,was Joyborn Austin.

Mrs. and Kimrey The family will receive friends February 22, 1941 and was the from 6:00 pm 8:00 pm, Friday, daughter of the late Clarence April 10, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Thomas Wensil and Rebecca Home of Albemarle.

The funeral Louise Whitley Wensil. She service will beHandi-Mart at 11:00 am onFast retired from Saturday at Pleasant Hill Baptist Food and was a member of Cross ChurchBaptist in Marshville, officiated Roads Church.

Martha

by Rev.spending John Miller and Rev.her Leon loved time with Whitley.

She will lie in state for 30 great grandchildren. minutes prior to the service.

She Martha was preceded in will be laidby to rest the church cemetery. death her in husband James Roy She is survived by her beloved Kimrey in 1993. She is survived husband 47 years,James Paul Helms by a son,of Thomas Kimrey of the home; son, Alex (Lula) of Albemarle, (Deanna) NC; two Helms of Pageland; daughter, Paula daughters, Karen Kimrey Deese (Cristin Brandt) Helms of Mint (Jerry) of Oakboro, NC and Hill; grandchildren, Mason, Grant, Lora Kimrey Pulliam (Kelly)and of Raegan Helms; brothers, Boyce, Hickory, NC; six grandchildren Royce, Tim Austin; and sisters, and nine great grandchildren; Patricia Mullis, and Angel Tarleton. two brothers, Thomas Wensil and Memorials may be made to the Hoye Wensil and a sister, Lorine Alzheimer’ s Association, Park Warren.

Martha is also4600 preceded Rd., Suiteby 250, Charlotte, NC 28209. in death two brothers, Gene

ANNY PAUL LUTHER, 65, of Norwood, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, April 9, CLONA “TINK” LEE 2020 at Atrium Health Stanly ALMOND BARBEE, 69, of in Albemarle. passed away Thursday, Albemarle, Mr. Luther was born March 27, November 5, 2020 at Atrium 1955 to the late Robert Fulton and Health Cabarrus in Concord.

Helen Luther.

TinkTucker was born January 24, 1951 Danny was survived by his in Mecklenburg County, NCwife, to the Denise Burleson of Norwood; late Bernice GuyLuther Almond, Sr. and sons, Jeremy (Karen) Luther and Ruby Lee Efird Almond.

Jody Luther; step-sons, Bryan She was also preceded in death Whitley and Gregg (Anita) Whitley; by her husband, Mike Barbee.

Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and The family will receive friends Hunter Zado, his brother, from 4:00 pmas- well 6:00aspm, Tuesday, Bob Luther10, Jr (Lorena), Jack November 2020 at uncle Hartsell Luther and several other loved Funeral Home of Albemarle.nieces, The nephewsservice and cousins. funeral to celebrate her life willDanny followrecently at 6:00retired pm infrom Hartsell Charlotte Pipe and Foundry after Funeral Home’s Lefler Memorial a dedicated 37 years and worked Chapel. there his sons and several other Shewith is survived by her friends and Felica family members. daughters, (Barry) Danny Leah loved spending time at Almond, (Jerry) Harward; his lake house with his family and brother, Guy (Tina) Almond; friendsPat as well as vacationing sister, (Richard) Little; with his family. Danny and Denise enjoyed grandchildren, Chase Calloway, listening to beach music and loved to Chandler (Danielle West) Frick, shag dance every chance they could Chelsea Frick, Daylan Harward, get.

He was an amazing father, loving Chaeden Frick, Kayden Harward; grandfatherother, and great friend to significant Junior Morton; many. He will never befamily, forgotten. special friends of the Kayla A celebration of life will be Simpler, Jake Whitley, Michele announced once the current Hedrick; numerous nieces and COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. nephews; and her beloved pets.

Hartsell Funeral Home Tink was a loving and of devoted Albemarle is serving the and Luther mother, grandmother, friend. family.

She was a spunky spitfire that was

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Wensil and Sam Wensil and seven sisters, Peggy, Evamae, Patty Wensil, Celia Fay Deal, Betty Long and Catherine Plyler.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Union County, 700 W Roosevelt Blvd., Monroe, NC 28110.

Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care of Albemarle is serving the Kimrey family.

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always there for everyone, and will truly be missed.

Memorials may be made to American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, VA 22312, or American Heart Association, 4217 Park Place Ct., Glen Allen, VA 23060-9979 www. heart.org.

Jerry Fincher

JRachel Chandler

ERRY FINCHER passed from this life on April 3, 2020 at 8:05 pm.

He was surrounded his family RACHEL MAXINEby (EUDY) and holding the hand of the of CHANDLER, 92, known love to many hisStanly life. Jerry is preceded in death as County’s “Bookmobile by threepassed siblings, two on brothers, Billy Lady”, away Saturday, Gilbert Fincher, and Larry Richard October 24, 2020.

Fincher, and oneservice sister, Barbra Joyce A graveside to celebrate Moore. her life will be on Saturday, He is survived by his November 14, 2020 atwife, 11amEleanor at Kate Fincher of the home, daughter, Stanly Gardens of Memory.

Cindy Fincher Please see Jacobs of Wingate NC., son and daughter in law, Tommy Hartsellfuneralhomes.com for the (Tiffany) Fincher of New London detailed obituary.

NC., Step Children, Jimmy (Lisa) Lanier of Locust NC, Wanda (Bob) Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric (Sharon) Lanier of Charlotte NC., Grandchildren-Trey (Gera) Whitson of Midland, Step-grandchildren, Zach (Brittney) Washington, Aaron (Kinsey) Washington, Caleb (Nayeli) Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Step great-grandchildren, Britlyn-Eve Washington, Robert Setzer, George (Sara) Setzer, Tracy (Rob) Setzer Bumgardener, Katie Underwood, Andrew Underwood, Step great great grandchild, Waylon George Setzer and brother Donald Lewis Fincher of Albemarle, NC. Jerry Fincher will be laid to rest on Wednesday April 8,2020 at 11:00 am at Canton Baptist Church. Anyone interested in attending, please RSVP at 704-796-2412. Dr. Phil McCray and Pastor Tommy Fincher will officiate.

Linda Hatley

INDA TUCKER HATLEY, 69, of Albemarle, passed away Monday, April 13, 2020.

Linda was born September 18, 1950 in Concord to the late Jacob and Claris Tucker. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Terry Lee Tucker, and her twin sister, Brenda Tucker Strickland. We know Brenda and Linda are in Heaven watching over us and laughing.

Linda was a loving mother, sister, and “Nana.” She was a very giving and loving person. Linda would always do anything she could for others, especially her family. She enjoyed working at FastShop #5, Locust. Linda will be forever loved and greatly missed.

Survivors include her son, Alan Hatley and wife, Angela, of Albemarle; brother, Ronnie Tucker and wife, Linda, of Midland; granddaughter, Leslie Hatley; 1 niece; and 2 nephews.

The family will receive friends from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Thursday, April 16, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Home in Albemarle. Linda will be laid to rest during a private committal service at Bethel United Methodist Church, Midland.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to Bethel UMC, 12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, NC 28107.

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STATE & NATION

Republicans retain power in states despite Democratic push

By David A. Lieb The Associated Press RALEIGH/JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — After a costly and intense political battle for control of state capitols, the composition of state legislatures and governors’ offices will look a lot like it did before Tuesday’s elections.

That means Republicans will again control significantly more states than Democrats, giving the GOP greater power over the oncea-decade task of redrawing congressional and legislative districts based on census results as well as a continued platform to push for conservative economic and social policies.

“When you look at state legislative races, a lot of money got spent, a lot of turnout was had, and yet the end result was pretty much where we started,” said Wendy Underhill, director of elections and redistricting at the National Conference of State Legislatures. “This was a status quo election.”

Heading into Tuesday, Republicans had full control of 29 state legislatures compared to 19 for Democrats. The GOP also held 26 governors’ offices while the Democrats had 24.

The GOP governors’ count grew by one as Montana voters elected U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock. Republicans also appeared to flip control of the New Hampshire House and Senate, according to tracking by the NCSL and national Republican and Democratic groups.

Control of the Republican-led Arizona House and Senate —

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North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, left, R-Cleveland, speaks to reporters, with Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Majority Leader John Bell, right, R-Wayne, at a news conference on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 at state GOP headquarters in Raleigh. which ranked among the Democrats’ top prospects for flipping chambers — remained undecided because of some close races.

If the Arizona chambers don’t flip, the 2020 elections could produce the smallest number of changes in chamber control since the 1944 general election, Underhill said.

Democrats, who began the campaign cycle with a “flip everything” motto, acknowledged their disappointment while pinning the blame partly on their failures of a decade ago. In the 2010 elections, Republicans flipped 21 legislative chambers while sweeping into office in many state capitols. They then used that newfound power in

some states to draw voting districts that benefitted GOP candidates in future elections.

“The reality is we are still running on very gerrymandered maps,” said Christina Polizzi, national press secretary for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. She added: “As a party, we are still paying for the losses of 2010.”

After being outspent by Republicans a decade ago, Democrats ramped up their efforts to win back chambers ahead of the next round of redistricting. The DLCC and four other Democratic-aligned groups combined to raise more than $100 million this election cycle. They were countered by the

Republican state leadership committee, which had a target of about $70 million.

But Democrats failed Tuesday in several of their highly targeted states, including the Texas House, the North Carolina House and Senate, and the Florida House. The result is that Republicans will fully control redistricting in all three of those states, an advantage that’s even more important because each could gain U.S. House seats as a result of its population growth.

The election results “will put the Republican Party in a position where we’re able to secure a decade of power across the country” through redistricting, said Austin Chambers, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee.

But Republican redistricting power will be diminished in some states because of changes that occurred in recent years.

In Wisconsin, where the GOPled Legislature drew some of the nation’s most pro-Republican maps, the GOP will not have enough votes to override a potential redistricting veto by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who won election in 2018.

In Michigan, where Republican lawmakers controlled the last redistricting, voters in 2018 approved the creation of an independent redistricting commission to handle the task after the 2020 census. Ohio voters also approved ballot measures that will reduce the potential for partisan dominance in redistricting, even though Republicans continue to control the Legislature and key executive offices.

David Pepper, the chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, said Democrats did make one important gain Tuesday by adding a justice to the state Supreme Court. He said a third Democrat on the seven-member high court could result in fairer maps for legislative and congressional races because it’s likely the

“You should expect to see the same policies that voters convincingly supported (by) returning Republicans to control the Legislature” N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger court will end up enforcing redistricting procedures.

In North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper won re-election Tuesday but will have no legal authority to veto redistricting maps passed by the Republican-led Legislature. Cooper and Republican legislative leaders both talked of unity following their victories, but there were few signs that Republicans suddenly would embrace Cooper’s agenda for Medicaid expansion or back off their own agenda of lower taxes and school choice.

“You should expect to see the same policies that voters convincingly supported (by) returning Republicans to control the Legislature,” Senate leader Phil Berger said Wednesday.

Heading into Tuesday, Minnesota was the only state with a House controlled by one party and a Senate by the other. The state seems poised for more partisan gridlock, as Democrats retained a diminished House majority and Republicans appeared likely to hang onto their slim Senate majority, despite Democrats’ efforts to try to flip the chamber.

In Kansas, Democrats had hoped to flip at least a few seats to break the Republican supermajorities in the House and Senate. Instead, Republicans added to their House ranks with more conservatives, increasing the potential to override vetoes by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.

A more conservative court hears same-sex foster parent case

By Jessica Gresko The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court last week seemed likely to side with a Catholic social services agency in a dispute with Philadelphia over the agency’s refusal to work with same-sex couples as foster parents.

The case is a big test of religious rights on a more conservative court.

Catholic Social Services, which is affiliated with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, says its religious views keep it from certifying same-sex couples as foster parents. And it says it shouldn’t be shut out of a contract with the city to find foster homes for children.

Philadelphia says it requires all the foster care agencies it works with not to discriminate as part of their contract.

With the addition of three appointees of President Donald Trump, Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, the court would seem poised to extend protections for religious objections to anti-dis-

crimination laws.

Kavanaugh, for his part, suggested there should be a way for Catholic Social Services to continue to work with foster families. The case, Kavanaugh said, requires the justices to think about how to balance “very important rights” the court has recognized: religious rights and the right to same-sex marriage.

“It seems when those rights come into conflict, all levels of government should be careful and should often, where possible and appropriate, look for ways to accommodate both interests in reasonable ways,” he said.

Even liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed to recognize the court was sympathetic to Catholic Social Services. “If one wanted to find a compromise in this case, can you suggest one that wouldn’t do real damage to all the various lines of laws that have been implicated here,” she asked at one point.

As they have been doing, the justices heard arguments in the case by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“It seems when those rights come into conflict, all levels of government should be careful and should often, where possible and appropriate, look for ways to accommodate both interests in reasonable ways.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh During nearly two hours of arguments, several justices brought up the fact that there’s no record that any same-sex couple has ever asked to work with Catholic Social Services and been turned away. If a couple did ask, they’d be referred to another of the more than two dozen agencies the city works with, Catholic Social Services says.

The justices, seven of whom are Catholic or attended Catholic schools, also asked about other hypothetical contracts officials might make.

Justice Stephen Breyer asked what would happen if a religious organization bidding on a transportation contract wanted men and women to sit separately, or women to wear head scarves.

“If there’s an agency that refuses to employ women, would the state have to contract with that agency?” Justice Elena Kagan asked at one point.

And Barrett, hearing her third day of arguments at the high court, asked about a hypothetical case where a state contract with a private Catholic hospital requires it to perform abortions.

The case is not the first in which a more conservative court has weighed the rights of LGBT individuals. Earlier this year, before Barrett joined the court, the justices by a 6-3 vote ruled that a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employment. The opinion was writ-

ten by Gorsuch, who said it was not likely to be the court’s last word on a host of issues revolving around LGBT rights.

The case before the justices Wednesday began in 2018 after a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter notified city officials that two of the foster care agencies the city contracted with would not work with same-sex couples. One of the agencies, Bethany Christian Services, changed its policy.

Catholic Social Services did not, and the city stopped placing children with the agency, which sued. Catholic Social Services says it views certifying a family to be a foster family as an “endorsement of the relationships of those living in the home” and therefore its religious beliefs prevent it from certifying same-sex couples. It also doesn’t work with unmarried couples.

The Trump administration had urged the Supreme Court to side with the agency, saying Philadelphia is unconstitutionally discriminating against religion.

Two lower courts sided with Philadelphia.

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6th Congressional district flips Kathy Manning, a Democrat from Greensboro, won the race in the redrawn 6th Congressional district. The district, covering Forsyth and Guilford counties, was previously represented by Republican Mark Walker.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING ELECTION RESULTS FORSYTH COUNTY

PRESIDENT

Joe Biden 56.15% Donald Trump 42.29% Jo Jorgensen 0.87% Other 0.69% U.S. SENATE

Cal Cunningham 53.78% Thom Tillis 41.75% U.S. HOUSE DISTRICT 6

Kathy Manning 62.92% Lee Haywood 37.08% N.C. GOVERNOR

Roy Cooper 59.21% Dan Forest 39.22% N.C. LT. GOVERNOR

Yvonne Lewis Holley 55.33% Mark Robinson 44.67% N.C. ATTORNEY GENERAL

Josh Stein Jim O’Neill

55.75% 44.25%

WINSTON-SALEM MAYOR

Allen Joines 71.72% Kris McCann 27.87% Write-In (Misc) 0.41%

N. Carolina AG race outcome delayed

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — The outcome of the election for North Carolina’s top lawyer likely won’t be settled for at least several more days as mail-in ballots trickle in and provisional ballots are scrutinized statewide.

In the race for attorney general, incumbent Democrat Josh Stein faced Republican challenger Jim O’Neill, the Forsyth County district attorney. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley faced challenger Paul Newby, who is currently an associate justice.

Both races are too early to call, since as many as 116,000 mailin absentee ballots sent to voters haven’t been returned but can be counted if received by county elections offices by Nov. 12. The State Board of Elections announced

on Thursday that roughly 41,000 provisional ballots cast on Election Day also will be examined by county boards. Ballots cast by qualified voters will be added to county tabulations late next week.

Once all ballots are counted and confirmed by county boards, statewide candidates can seek a recount should they trail by 10,000 votes or fewer.

In the attorney general’s race, Stein said he believes he will win a second four-year term.

“We will wait to make sure all the votes are counted — that’s the way a democracy works,” Stein said on election night. “But given where we are, I am exceptionally confident in the result.”

O’Neill told reporters on Wednesday that every person who turned in a ballot or mailed one

by Tuesday’s deadline “deserves an opportunity to have their voice

and their opinion heard.”

“We believe there’s a lot more to the race right now and we’re not going to know until the next week or so how things are really going to shake out,” he said in a video call.

Stein, a former state senator and consumer protection division chief within the state Department of Justice, was a prolific fundraiser in the campaign, collecting $5.2 million in the third quarter alone compared to $329,000 by O’Neill. Both candidates benefited from outside groups sending mailers to voters.

The campaign’s largest controversy came when Stein ran a television commercial featuring a woman who said O’Neill mishandled sexual assault test kits in Forsyth County. O’Neill said the ad was bogus because police agencies, not prosecutors, are re-

sponsible for testing. He filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections against Stein, accusing him of breaking a law about false campaign ads. O’Neill said Wednesday that he had not yet heard back from the board. He said he is also considering an N.C. State Bar complaint.

Stein “had to resort to running a false and malicious ad against me in order for him to maintain his political power,” O’Neill said Wednesday. Stein’s campaign has defended the commercial and highlighted what it says have been Stein’s efforts to reduce backlogs of untested kits. O’Neill’s “allegations are as childish as they are false,” campaign manager Eric Stern said.

The state’s two previous attorneys general were elected governor: Democrats Mike Easley and current Gov. Roy Cooper.

SECU Family House looking for help Needs community assistance to provide meals for holidays

at the house, particularly during the upcoming months around the holidays.

“As the pandemic continues to impact the lives of everyone, we are taking all necessary precauTCH staff tions to stay open for our famiWINSTON-SALEM — The lies while keeping everyone safe,” SECU Family House in Win- said Kathy Carr, Executive Direcston-Salem serves as a home away tor of the SECU Family House. from home for patients and care- “We have truly missed having volgivers who travel to the area for unteers in the house, but as usual care and treatment from local the generosity of those around us medical providers and is look- in feeding our families has been ing for meal donation volunteers. so wonderful. We will follow the As a result of continuing to fol- smartest practices to ensure the low recommendations regard- safest environment possible for as ing social and physical distanc- long as we need to. The needs of ing, the SECU Family House is our house don’t take a break for still closed to in-person volunteer holidays, and we are grateful to groups who prepare and serve those who make sure that meals meals at the facility. Because of keep coming through our doors!”

One option for providing a this, the house is looking to generous members of the local com- meal is to coordinate a meal dimunity to help feed those staying rectly with a local restaurant. A

CC

second option is to prepare it at home and drop it off. Information regarding signing up for individuals or groups providing a meal for the house can be found by visiting familyhousews.org/serve-a-meal/ and clicking on the Meal Sign Up Calendar link.

Contributing to the house’s meal donation fund is another way to keep those meals possible.

Donations can be made online by visiting familyhousews.org/donate-a-meal/.

“As always, we are so grateful to our incredible community for the way that they love on our house and our families,” said Carr. “Keeping everyone here well fed eases all that they are facing and we cannot thank everyone enough.”

For more information about coordinating a meal donation for SECU Family House, please contact Emily Kaartunen at emily. kaartunen@familyhousews.org or 336-793-2822.

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OPINION | BEN SHAPIRO

The woke lose ON TUESDAY NIGHT, the American people spoke. They spoke with millions upon millions of voices to produce the greatest presidential election voter turnout in over a century. And they sent a variety of messages, most of them quite positive.

Voters rejected the prevailing narratives of a media determined to make the election a pure referendum on Donald Trump’s character. Even if Joe Biden prevails eventually, he will likely be faced with a Republican Senate majority and a 2022 contest that will put the House of Representatives squarely in Republican sights.

Voters rejected the pollsters’ overconfident modeling: Pollsters were dramatically wrong in their national numbers and just as wrong in their Senate estimates. Voters apparently aren’t all that interested in registering their opinions with elite firms who see them as social science subjects rather than as individuals.

Voters stuck to their guns in red states; they stuck to their guns in blue states; they stuck to their guns in purple states. America is divided, and it is not growing less divided just out of the elitists’ overwrought and hysterical mewling about Trump. This is still a country that is one-third conservative, one-third liberal and onethird in the middle.

But one message resonated above all others: the outright rejection of the ongoing quest by Democrats and the media to paint Americans into racial categories and then declare demographics destiny. Donald Trump bucked four long years of Democrats and media members labeling both him and his supporters white supremacists, bigots and homophobes. He refused to be cowed by a media determined to paint him as a racist for refusing the faulty premise that America is institutionally bigoted. And he won an increased share of black and Hispanic voters.

According to Edison exit polling, as of election night, Trump had gained 2 points with white women; 4 points with black men and 4 points with black women; 3 points with Latino men and 3 points with Latino women; and 5 points in the “other” category.

In Florida, according to NBC News exit polling, Trump’s coalition included a 55% share of the Cuban American vote, a 30% share of the Puerto Rican vote and 48% of “other Latinos.” Trump substantially elevated the national share of Latino and black voters for Republicans -- and did so without pandering on illegal immigration or buying into the trite and ugly lies of the Black Lives Matter movement.

It wasn’t just Trump. In California, a majority-minority state, voters refused to greenlight the racist Proposition 16, which would have repealed a state constitutional provision banning racial discrimination, paving the way for reparations and affirmative action. They did so by a margin of over 10 points and despite the fact that Prop 16 advocates spent 12 times the money their opponents did.

All of this has sent woke thinkers into spasms of apoplexy.

The execrable Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the pseudohistorical “1619 Project,” tweeted out that Latinos can no longer be considered a racial category, since some Cubans are “white.”

Charles Blow of The New York Times tweeted, “We are surrounded by racists.”

Actually, Hannah-Jones and Blow aren’t surrounded by racists.

They’re surrounded by people who reject racism and reject the implicitly racist belief that ethnicity ought to dictate voting pattern.

All of this is excellent news. Americans spoke last night. They spoke as Americans, as individuals, not as members of contrived interest groups. And that is certainly worth celebrating.

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.

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.

DEATH NOTICES ♦ Dorothy Wynne Blair, 97, of Winston-Salem, died November 4, 2020. ♦ Dena Loraine Hollie Clark, 90, died November 7, 2020. ♦ Richard Leo Crouse, 83, of Bermuda Run, died November 4, 2020. ♦ Judy Perier Doggett, 94, of Winston-Salem, died November 5, 2020. ♦ Diana Elizabeth Spaugh Everidge, 77, of WinstonSalem, died November 6, 2020. ♦ Robert John Grace, 72, died November 7, 2020. ♦ John Mitchell Harper, Jr., 79, of Kernersville, died November 7, 2020. ♦ Larry Gray Hawks, Jr., 42, of Winston-Salem, died November 4, 2020. ♦ Tanner Joseph Hill, 21, died November 5, 2020. ♦ Lacy Leroy Jackson, 83, of Rural Hall, died November 7, 2020. ♦ Ronald Dean Kearns, 64, of Forsyth County, died November 7, 2020. ♦ Willis Eugene Knight, 80, of Winston Salem, died November 5, 2020. ♦ Marjorie Schultz Henry Leister, 103, of WinstonSalem, died November 4, 2020. ♦ George Thomas Lynch, Sr., 81, died November 7, 2020. ♦ Kenneth Gray McBride, 50, of Winston-Salem, died November 6, 2020. ♦ Charles E. Morrison Jr., 84, died November 5, 2020. ♦ Donna Burton Sims, 63, of Forsyth County, died November 5, 2020. ♦ Belva Ruth Shoun Sullivan, 84, of Wilkes County, died November 4, 2020. ♦ Una Leggett White, 90, of Pfafftown, died November 4, 2020. ♦ Judy Fritts Yontz, 70, of Winston-Salem, died November 5, 2020.

WEEKLY CRIME REPORT ♦ ALMOND, SHAUN PATRICK was arrested on a charge of CAUSE FALSE BRDCAST at 2000 E THIRD ST/E FIFTH ST on 11/7/2020 ♦ ANGIONE, JON PAUL was arrested on a charge of MURDER-FIRST DEG at 725 N CHERRY ST on 11/7/2020 ♦ Baughman, Brianna Dawn (F/20) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault-simple (M) and 2) Vand-real Property (M), at Eb 40/harper Rd_eb 40 Ra, Clemmons, NC, on 11/8/2020 02:24. ♦ BOST, HAROLD LEE was arrested on a charge of VAND-REAL PROPERTY at 1901 E FOURTEENTH ST on 11/8/2020 ♦ CAMACHO, ROBERTO was arrested on a charge of ASSLT ON OFF/ST EMP at 2409 STOCKTON ST on 11/8/2020 ♦ Carter, Annah Victoria (F/28) Arrest on chrg of 1) Larceny-firearm (F), 2) Poss Stolen Goods (F), and 3) Resisting Arrest (M), at 4855 Grakeintemple Ct, Germanton, NC, on 11/5/2020 08:35. ♦ Cheek, Christopher Miles (M/32) Arrest on chrg of Impaired Driving Dwi (M), at Eastbound Interstate 40, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/4/2020 02:08. ♦ CHEN, BARRY was arrested on a charge of CURFEW RESTRICTIONS at 2667 FARES LN on 11/7/2020 ♦ DAVIS, RHOYAL was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 1100 UNIVERSITY PW/W NORTHWEST BV on 11/8/2020 ♦ FULLER, PONZELL DEMARCO was arrested on a charge of INDECENT EXPOSURE at 1428 BRUCE ST on 11/7/2020

♦ GALLI, JAKE THOMAS was arrested on a charge of CURFEW RESTRICTIONS at 2667 FARES LN on 11/7/2020

♦ MALDONADO, KENNEDY ISAAC was arrested on a charge of FUGITIVE at 4230 CHURCH HILL RD on 11/8/2020

♦ GROOMS, MIKAYLA NYZIEL was arrested on a charge of FORGERY-UTTERING at 201 N CHURCH ST on 11/7/2020

♦ MALDONADO, MAXIMINO was arrested on a charge of LARCENY-FELONY at 2200 WAUGHTOWN ST on 11/8/2020

♦ Horak, Anna Raven (F/18) Arrest on chrg of Assaultsimple (M), at 1327 N Main St, Kernersville, NC, on 11/6/2020 09:50. ♦ James, Andrew Michael (M/22) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 2471 Nc 66 South, Kernersville, NC, on 11/5/2020 13:59. ♦ JARRETT, ANDREW CORNELIUS was arrested on a charge of COMMUNICATE THREATS at 421 BUICK ST on 11/7/2020 ♦ JARRETT, ANDREW CORNELIUS was arrested on a charge of FRAUD-OBT PROPERTY at 421 BUICK ST on 11/7/2020 ♦ JEFFERY, EMILY SUSANNE was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-POSS GLUE at 1121 HUTTON ST on 11/7/2020 ♦ Johnson, Ronald Eugene (M/58) Arrest on chrg of Larceny From Person (F), at 712 Hampton Way Dr, Winstonsalem, NC, on 11/6/2020 19:28. ♦ KEENER, TYLER MILES was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 224 W ACADIA AV on 11/7/2020 ♦ LANCASTER, JOSEPH HERBERT was arrested on a charge of RESISTING ARREST at 114 WORTHDALE DR on 11/7/2020 ♦ LEWIS, HENRY CHRISHAUWN was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-POSS SCHED I at 4100 N CHERRY ST on 11/7/2020

♦ MCLEAN, MARCUS ANTONIO was arrested on a charge of 50-B-3 PROTECTIVE ORDER DRUGS-POSS SCHED I at 328 MILLER ST/QUEEN ST on 11/8/2020 ♦ Moore, Lindsay Nicole (F/26) Arrest on chrg of 1) Poss Heroin (F), 2) Drugs-poss Sched Ii (F), 3) Fail To Appear/compl (F), 4) Fail To Appear/compl (F), and 5) Fail To Appear/compl (F), at 145 Bethania St, Rural Hall, NC, on 11/5/2020 15:21. ♦ MOSKOW, WILLIAM ALEXANDER was arrested on a charge of RESISTING ARREST at 2667 FARES LN on 11/7/2020 PAYNE, CLEVESTER MONTA was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 525 W SEVENTEENTH ST on 11/8/2020 ♦ RAYNOR, JOHN TIMOTHY was arrested on a charge of P/W/I/S/D SCHED I at 321 GLENDARE DR on 11/7/2020 ♦ SAGUILAN, SERGIO CLAVEL was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 1219 E CLEMMONSVILLE RD/ DUDLEY ST on 11/7/2020 ♦ Shehan, Mark Thompson (M/65) Arrest on chrg of Vio. Protective Order By Courts Another State/ Indian Tribe (M), at 3596 Reid Rd, Tobaccoville, NC, on 11/4/2020 00:15. ♦ SIMMONSHUNTER, SEGENNIA MARIE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 1499 NEW WALKERTOWN RD on

11/7/2020 ♦ SLADE, JOSHUA MICHAEL was arrested on a charge of OFA-FTA-SIMPLE ASSAULT at 4420 EDREM AV on 11/8/2020 ♦ SMITH, HAROLD DEVON was arrested on a charge of VIO. PROTECTIVE ORDER BY COURTS ANOTHER STATE/ INDIAN TRIBE at 1608 E SPRAGUE ST on 11/8/2020 ♦ SMITH, KALVIN MICHAEL was arrested on a charge of RESISTING ARREST at 699 W FIRST ST/BROOKSTOWN AV on 11/7/2020 ♦ SMITH, KALVIN MICHAEL was arrested on a charge of LARCENY/MISDEMEANOR at 699 W FIRST ST/ BROOKSTOWN AV on 11/7/2020 ♦ SPRINKLE, CHARLES ERIC was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 4610 DUFFER CT on 11/8/2020 ♦ Underwood, Levern Lamont (M/61) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Female (M) and 2) Communicate Threats (M), at 2406 N Glenn Av, Winstonsalem, NC, on 11/6/2020 16:18. ♦ Viars, Chad Everette (M/46) Arrest on chrg of Sex Offense2nd Deg (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/4/2020 08:27. ♦ Williams, Michael Wayne (M/41) Arrest on chrg of Assault-point Gun, M (M), at 425 Fishel Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 11/4/2020 15:30. ♦ WOOTEN, ALLEN GRAY was arrested on a charge of VIO. PROTECTIVE ORDER BY COURTS ANOTHER STATE/ INDIAN TRIBE at 5714 OLD RURAL HALL RD on 11/8/2020

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Turner will not be disciplined for celebration New York Justin Turner will not be disciplined by Major League Baseball for coming onto the field last week to celebrate the World Series title with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates after testing positive for COVID-19.

The third baseman was removed after seven innings of Game 6 against Tampa Bay on Oct. 27 after MLB informed the Dodgers of the test result, which was received during the sixth inning.

He returned to the field after Los Angeles won 3-1 to earn the title, took off his mask and posed for a photograph with teammates.

GOLF

Ortiz gets his first PGA Tour win Houston Carlos Ortiz held off Dustin Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama by closing with a 5-under 65 to win the Houston Open on Sunday, becoming the first Mexican to win on the PGA Tour in 42 years.

Ortiz delivered the winner with a 6-iron to 8 feet on the par-5 16th. He had to settle for a two-putt birdie, and it held up when Johnson and Matsuyama narrowly missed birdie chances coming in.

Needing two putts to win on the 18th hole, the 29-year-old holed a 20-foot birdie putt for a two-shot victory.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Andersen out at Utah State after 0-3 start Logan, Utah Utah State and coach Gary Andersen are parting ways after a 0-3 start to the season for the Aggies. Andersen was in Year 2 of his second stint at Utah State. Codefensive coordinator Frank Maile will serve as the interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Andersen, 56, went 26-24 at Utah State from 2009-12, leaving after an 11-2 season to take over at Wisconsin. Utah State went 7-6 last season in Andersen’s return, a disappointing season with eventual first-round draft pick Jordan Love at quarterback.

SOCCER

Morgan makes English debut after maternity leave London American superstar Alex Morgan made her debut in English soccer Saturday, coming on as a substitute in the 69th minute for Tottenham in a 1-1 draw against Reading in the Women’s Super League.

She didn’t manage to score in her first match in around 15 months, having given birth to her daughter, Charlie, in May. The two-time World Cup winner joined Tottenham in September in a bid to get some game time ahead of playing for the United States at the delayed Tokyo Olympics next year.

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Jimmie Johnson finished fifth in the final race of his full-time racing career.

Johnson leaves indelible mark on, off the track The seven-time Cup Series champion ended his full-time NASCAR career Sunday at Phoenix

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Jimmie Johnson was the first one down the stairs in a diving competition at Tony Stewart’s birthday party. He playfully tossed mini hamburgers across a suite Denny Hamlin had rented in Las Vegas and later wrestled Chad Knaus on the floor of the same casino.

The two revealers were capping a raucous night of celebrating yet another title when one of their jumbo championship rings slipped away and rolled across the casino. Another time, Johnson broke his wrist surfing atop a moving golf cart at his foundation’s tournament. He had Snoop Dogg play at his seventh

championship party.

Those are just a sampling of the tales about Johnson, who is retired from full-time NASCAR competition after finishing fifth Sunday at the Cup Series season finale at Phoenix Raceway. He leaves the sport as a seven-time champion ranked sixth on the all-time wins list with 83.

“He’s as close to perfect as you can get,” team owner Rick Hendrick said Friday.

Johnson’s two decades as driver of the No. 48 established him as the best of his generation — he won five consecutive titles during a jaw-dropping run of 35 victories from 2006-2010. That run made him the only race car driver to win The Associated Press’ Male Athlete of the Year award.

His seven championships are tied with Hall of Famers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. Kevin Harvick with 58 victories is the closest active driver to Johnson’s

win total.

The reign of supremacy from Johnson and Knaus, his longtime crew chief, frustrated NASCAR fans, many who argued Johnson was so boring they just couldn’t watch anymore.

“Jimmie did it without a lot of fanfare. He could have been cocky.

He could have been challenging other drivers in the media, whatever. But he wasn’t that way,” Hendrick said. “I think the success he had got to be almost so routine that people just didn’t appreciate the talent.”

All that winning for the No. 48 perhaps was a little tired.

Yet Johnson, the renaissance man, is far from boring.

He’s generous and genuine, a true professional who glides seamlessly from meetings with executives to mingling with fans and partying with world-famous friends and workout partners. The 45-year-old Californian consid-

ers Charlotte his home, but Johnson and his family have a place in Aspen, Colorado, where he fly fishes, skis and rides dirt bikes with his two daughters, He’s donated more than $12 million to children’s educational causes, and his wife owns a respected art gallery in Charlotte. His family is close and well-traveled and after 19 years driving for Hendrick Motorsports, Johnson is ready to do other things.

First on his list is a mind-blowing move to IndyCar, where he plans to race 14 events on road and street courses next season. He’ll be a 45-year-old rookie when he fulfills his childhood dream of hurtling an open wheel car through the streets of Long Beach, California.

Johnson wishes he’d been able to visit with fans this final season but is ready to go.

“I’m in a celebratory place,” he said. “I’ve told the world it’s happening, and I feel good about it.”

No spectators means no roars, the magic of the Masters Seven months after it was originally scheduled to host its annual major, Augusta National will be without fans due to the coronavirus

By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — The roars were endless Sunday at the Masters, coming from everywhere for just about everyone.

One moment stood out in 2011.

From below the rise of the fairway on the par-5 eighth hole, it sounded like a sonic boom.

That was an eagle cheer coming from the green, no doubt. But for whom?

“Tiger Woods just came through,” a marshal said, and thus ended the mystery.

But it didn’t end there.

Woods, who started that final round seven shots out of the lead, now was tied for the lead. Moments later, as Woods headed to the ninth tee, another cheer rang out from the 18th green. And then, another one down by Amen Corner. And then a third cheer in the direction of the 15th green.

More birdies? Eagles? No, it was the crowd scattered across the golf course responding to seeing scoreboards change as Woods moved into a tie for the lead. He couldn’t keep it going. That was the year eight players had at least a share of the lead at some point on the back nine until Charl Schwartzel finished with four straight birdies.

An incredible day. Amazing atmosphere.

And now, silence.

This Masters in November

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The 16th hole at Augusta National is normally one of the largest gathering spots on the course, but this Masters in November will have no spectators. will be missing the patrons because of the COVID-19 pandemic along with the very essence of what makes Augusta National so magical.

The sound is different for eagles than birdies. Anything around the 16th hole on Sunday with the pin below the ridge can only mean a hole-in-one. And when the roars are for Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer, Woods or Phil Mickelson, it’s a different decibel.

Rory McIlroy remembers his first Masters. It was 2009, and the 19-year-old from Northern Ireland made a respectable debut. That was the year Woods and

“It echoes there. It travels.

It’s unlike any place in the world.”

Tiger Woods on how cheers fill the course at Augusta National when it is packed with fans Mickelson were paired together in the final round, the undercard to another pulsating finish.

“I was coming down 15, and Tiger and Phil were coming up 7,”

McIlroy said. “They went out in 30 and 33. It was my first Masters, I remember being on the back nine, the roars and cheers, they were six-deep on either side.”

And then his thoughts turned to November, an autumn Masters.

A quiet Masters.

“The way I see it, every hole at Augusta will be like what we experience on the 12th green,” McIlroy said. That green is some 150 yards away from the nearest spectator, most of it hidden by bunkers.

“You hole a putt, people can’t see if it goes in,” he said. “Every year we experience one hole like that. But not the other 17.”

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STATE & NATION

Republicans retain power in states despite Democratic push

By David A. Lieb The Associated Press RALEIGH/JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — After a costly and intense political battle for control of state capitols, the composition of state legislatures and governors’ offices will look a lot like it did before Tuesday’s elections.

That means Republicans will again control significantly more states than Democrats, giving the GOP greater power over the oncea-decade task of redrawing congressional and legislative districts based on census results as well as a continued platform to push for conservative economic and social policies.

“When you look at state legislative races, a lot of money got spent, a lot of turnout was had, and yet the end result was pretty much where we started,” said Wendy Underhill, director of elections and redistricting at the National Conference of State Legislatures. “This was a status quo election.”

Heading into Tuesday, Republicans had full control of 29 state legislatures compared to 19 for Democrats. The GOP also held 26 governors’ offices while the Democrats had 24.

The GOP governors’ count grew by one as Montana voters elected U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock. Republicans also appeared to flip control of the New Hampshire House and Senate, according to tracking by the NCSL and national Republican and Democratic groups.

Control of the Republican-led Arizona House and Senate —

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North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, left, R-Cleveland, speaks to reporters, with Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Majority Leader John Bell, right, R-Wayne, at a news conference on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 at state GOP headquarters in Raleigh. which ranked among the Democrats’ top prospects for flipping chambers — remained undecided because of some close races.

If the Arizona chambers don’t flip, the 2020 elections could produce the smallest number of changes in chamber control since the 1944 general election, Underhill said.

Democrats, who began the campaign cycle with a “flip everything” motto, acknowledged their disappointment while pinning the blame partly on their failures of a decade ago. In the 2010 elections, Republicans flipped 21 legislative chambers while sweeping into office in many state capitols. They then used that newfound power in

some states to draw voting districts that benefitted GOP candidates in future elections.

“The reality is we are still running on very gerrymandered maps,” said Christina Polizzi, national press secretary for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. She added: “As a party, we are still paying for the losses of 2010.”

After being outspent by Republicans a decade ago, Democrats ramped up their efforts to win back chambers ahead of the next round of redistricting. The DLCC and four other Democratic-aligned groups combined to raise more than $100 million this election cycle. They were countered by the

Republican state leadership committee, which had a target of about $70 million.

But Democrats failed Tuesday in several of their highly targeted states, including the Texas House, the North Carolina House and Senate, and the Florida House. The result is that Republicans will fully control redistricting in all three of those states, an advantage that’s even more important because each could gain U.S. House seats as a result of its population growth.

The election results “will put the Republican Party in a position where we’re able to secure a decade of power across the country” through redistricting, said Austin Chambers, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee.

But Republican redistricting power will be diminished in some states because of changes that occurred in recent years.

In Wisconsin, where the GOPled Legislature drew some of the nation’s most pro-Republican maps, the GOP will not have enough votes to override a potential redistricting veto by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who won election in 2018.

In Michigan, where Republican lawmakers controlled the last redistricting, voters in 2018 approved the creation of an independent redistricting commission to handle the task after the 2020 census. Ohio voters also approved ballot measures that will reduce the potential for partisan dominance in redistricting, even though Republicans continue to control the Legislature and key executive offices.

David Pepper, the chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, said Democrats did make one important gain Tuesday by adding a justice to the state Supreme Court. He said a third Democrat on the seven-member high court could result in fairer maps for legislative and congressional races because it’s likely the

“You should expect to see the same policies that voters convincingly supported (by) returning Republicans to control the Legislature” N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger court will end up enforcing redistricting procedures.

In North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper won re-election Tuesday but will have no legal authority to veto redistricting maps passed by the Republican-led Legislature. Cooper and Republican legislative leaders both talked of unity following their victories, but there were few signs that Republicans suddenly would embrace Cooper’s agenda for Medicaid expansion or back off their own agenda of lower taxes and school choice.

“You should expect to see the same policies that voters convincingly supported (by) returning Republicans to control the Legislature,” Senate leader Phil Berger said Wednesday.

Heading into Tuesday, Minnesota was the only state with a House controlled by one party and a Senate by the other. The state seems poised for more partisan gridlock, as Democrats retained a diminished House majority and Republicans appeared likely to hang onto their slim Senate majority, despite Democrats’ efforts to try to flip the chamber.

In Kansas, Democrats had hoped to flip at least a few seats to break the Republican supermajorities in the House and Senate. Instead, Republicans added to their House ranks with more conservatives, increasing the potential to override vetoes by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.

A more conservative court hears same-sex foster parent case

By Jessica Gresko The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court last week seemed likely to side with a Catholic social services agency in a dispute with Philadelphia over the agency’s refusal to work with same-sex couples as foster parents.

The case is a big test of religious rights on a more conservative court.

Catholic Social Services, which is affiliated with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, says its religious views keep it from certifying same-sex couples as foster parents. And it says it shouldn’t be shut out of a contract with the city to find foster homes for children.

Philadelphia says it requires all the foster care agencies it works with not to discriminate as part of their contract.

With the addition of three appointees of President Donald Trump, Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, the court would seem poised to extend protections for religious objections to anti-dis-

crimination laws.

Kavanaugh, for his part, suggested there should be a way for Catholic Social Services to continue to work with foster families. The case, Kavanaugh said, requires the justices to think about how to balance “very important rights” the court has recognized: religious rights and the right to same-sex marriage.

“It seems when those rights come into conflict, all levels of government should be careful and should often, where possible and appropriate, look for ways to accommodate both interests in reasonable ways,” he said.

Even liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed to recognize the court was sympathetic to Catholic Social Services. “If one wanted to find a compromise in this case, can you suggest one that wouldn’t do real damage to all the various lines of laws that have been implicated here,” she asked at one point.

As they have been doing, the justices heard arguments in the case by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“It seems when those rights come into conflict, all levels of government should be careful and should often, where possible and appropriate, look for ways to accommodate both interests in reasonable ways.”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh During nearly two hours of arguments, several justices brought up the fact that there’s no record that any same-sex couple has ever asked to work with Catholic Social Services and been turned away. If a couple did ask, they’d be referred to another of the more than two dozen agencies the city works with, Catholic Social Services says.

The justices, seven of whom are Catholic or attended Catholic schools, also asked about other hypothetical contracts officials might make.

Justice Stephen Breyer asked what would happen if a religious organization bidding on a transportation contract wanted men and women to sit separately, or women to wear head scarves.

“If there’s an agency that refuses to employ women, would the state have to contract with that agency?” Justice Elena Kagan asked at one point.

And Barrett, hearing her third day of arguments at the high court, asked about a hypothetical case where a state contract with a private Catholic hospital requires it to perform abortions.

The case is not the first in which a more conservative court has weighed the rights of LGBT individuals. Earlier this year, before Barrett joined the court, the justices by a 6-3 vote ruled that a landmark civil rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employment. The opinion was writ-

ten by Gorsuch, who said it was not likely to be the court’s last word on a host of issues revolving around LGBT rights.

The case before the justices Wednesday began in 2018 after a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter notified city officials that two of the foster care agencies the city contracted with would not work with same-sex couples. One of the agencies, Bethany Christian Services, changed its policy.

Catholic Social Services did not, and the city stopped placing children with the agency, which sued. Catholic Social Services says it views certifying a family to be a foster family as an “endorsement of the relationships of those living in the home” and therefore its religious beliefs prevent it from certifying same-sex couples. It also doesn’t work with unmarried couples.

The Trump administration had urged the Supreme Court to side with the agency, saying Philadelphia is unconstitutionally discriminating against religion.

Two lower courts sided with Philadelphia.