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The Capitol and Washington Monument are seen at dawn as the partial government shutdown lurches into a third week with President Donald Trump standing firm in his border wall funding demands, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. After no weekend breakthrough to end a prolonged shutdown, newly empowered House Democrats are planning to step up pressure on Trump and Republican lawmakers to reopen the government.
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‘Bathroom bill’ fallout: North Carolina to lose Netflix show Wilmington, N.C. Producers of a new Netflix series about the state’s Outer Banks is set to film in South Carolina. Show creator Jonas Pate tells The StarNews of Wilmington that Netflix has picked up “OBX,” with filming slated to begin this spring. He says the streaming service passed on filming in N.C. because of a clause in HB2’s replacement that halts new local antidiscrimination ordinances until 2020. Pate says “OBX” could still film where it’s set if legislators accelerate the clause’s sunset.
Former felons can begin registering to vote in Florida Miami The right to vote was restored for most Florida felons as of Tuesday, increasing the pool of eligible voters by as many as 1.4 million people in a battleground state infamous for its narrow margins in key elections. Nearly 65 percent of Florida voters last November approved Amendment 4. It applies to all felons who have done their time and completed the terms of their probation and parole, with the exception of people convicted of murder or sex offenses. People don’t need to present proof that they completed their sentence; they sign under oath that their voting rights have been restored.
Winter storm blasts Europe; 13 dead amid heavy snow Berlin Deadly winter weather blasted Europe for yet another day Tuesday, trapping hundreds of people in Alpine regions, whipping up high winds that caused flight delays and cancellations and raising the risks of more deadly avalanches in the mountains. At least 13 people have been killed in weather-related accidents in Europe over the last week, most of them from avalanches.
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Trump takes case for border wall to prime-time television In Trump’s first Oval Office televised address, border security takes center stage By Donna King North State Journal
NC legislative Republicans optimistic for new session Despite loss of supermajorities, GOP sees opportunities By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — With both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly convening for opening ceremonies this week, Republicans are hopeful despite the many new faces, most of them Democrats. After holding supermajorities since 2013, Republicans now have a simple majority in both chambers, allowing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to effectively veto GOP legislation. House Majority Leader John Bell (R-Wayne) suggested that his caucus is not hanging their heads over this change though. “We did lose some Republican members during the election and that was expected. I’m going to miss what they contribute to the General Assembly, but it’s going to be business as usual,” Bell told the North State Journal. “Fortunately for the state, they were unsuccessful in breaking that majority, but if the Democrats want to work with Republicans, I think we can find a lot of compromise that is right for North Carolina. A lot of bills that we’ve put forward are good policy for North Carolina, so I see no reason why Democrats wouldn’t join with us — a lot of them already have.” Rep. Jason Saine (R-Lincoln)
agreed, telling NSJ, “It was a year that was somewhat good for Democrats. It wasn’t a slam dunk by any measure, because we did retain majorities. It will be hopefully less contentious as both sides try to work on common goals together. I don’t think that changes anybody’s philosophy, not the governor’s and certainly not the Republicans, but I do think that it will lend to some working together.” Reaching across the aisle, however, will be necessary. “If Republicans want to get anything done, they will need to work out compromises with Democrats,” Minority Leader Darren Jackson (D-Wake) told NSJ. “If they do, we can make progress. If they continue with a ‘my way or the highway’ approach, nothing will get done.” “I think everything is still doable,” Bell said, listing economic packages, disaster relief, rural assistance, broadband internet and infrastructure as areas of likely cooperation. “I don’t know if you can have any more intense political fighting than we’ve had the past few years, but Democrats will agree that most things that get done in Raleigh are bipartisan. Only a few issues cause the controversy and grab the headlines.” Jackson said Democrats are going to focus their agenda on expanding Medicaid and increasing education spending. “I think it’s interesting that See NCGOP, page A2
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With a focus on the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the southern U.S.-Mexico border, President Donald Trump prepared Tuesday to take his case in the federal government shutdown battle directly to the American people during prime-time television. “The passion you hear from President Trump, his determination to take this case to the American people, as he will tonight in his national broadcast from the Oval Office, comes from this president’s deep desire to do his job to protect the American people,” Pence said Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
This week the shutdown becomes the second-longest in American history with hundreds of thousands of federal workers potentially missing paychecks on Friday. If it runs through the weekend it becomes the longest. However, only about 25 percent of the federal government is affected as most was funded through separate appropriations. The military, VA and other essential functions are not impacted. “One of the reasons we haven’t seen the seven signs of the apocalypse is because we successfully funded 75 percent of the government for the first time in years through what’s called regular-order appropriations,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) in an interview on WPTF radio in Raleigh. “I want to get the government reopened but I think the president is right to demand border security.” See BORDER, page A2
High court to take new look at partisan electoral districts By Mark Sherman The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court is plunging back into the issue of whether electoral districts can be too partisan. Disputes have arisen in cases involving North Carolina’s heavily-Republican congressional map and a Democratic congressional district in Maryland, and the justices said Friday they will hear arguments in March. The high court could come out with the first limits on partisan politics in the drawing of electoral districts but also could ultimately decide that federal judges have no role in trying to police political mapmaking. The court took up the issue of partisan gerrymandering last term in cases from Wisconsin and the same Maryland district, but the justices failed to reach a decision on limiting political
line-drawing for political gain. Justice Anthony Kennedy had said he was open to limits. He has since retired, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh has taken Kennedy’s seat. He has no judicial record on the issue. The court again has taken one case in which Democrats are accused of unfairly limiting Republicans’ political power and one in which Republicans are the alleged culprits. The court also has the entire North Carolina congressional map before it but only the one Maryland district. In both cases, however, lower courts have found that the party in charge of redistricting — Republicans in North Carolina, Democrats in Maryland — egregiously violated the rights of voters in the other party. The North Carolina map was redrawn in 2016 because federal See SCOTUS, page A2
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City unveiling proposal for toppled Confederate statue By Jonathan Drew The Associated Press DURHAM — Durham’s city and county government has proposed returning the crumpled Confederate memorial statue to public view as part of an indoor display.
A joint city-county government committee in Durham issued its recommendation Tuesday for creating an indoor display at the local government building near the grounds where the statue was torn down in 2017. The county commission would have to approve the plan.
The proposal is the latest move in a public debate in North Carolina about what to do with the statues that protestors say have racist origins. Winston-Salem city officials recently called for a statue in their downtown to be moved. Durham’s statue was torn down following a deadly white national-
ist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and about a year before Silent Sam was toppled at UNC-Chapel Hill. A dozen protesters were charged in the Durham statue toppling, but a prosecutor dropped charges against most after a judge dismissed two defendants’ cases and found a third not guilty.
ue to grow, I think this next session will allow the opportunity to capitalize on some of our successful policy initiatives and see them play out.” One area he thinks this will be evident is in tax policy. As House Finance chair, Saine is largely responsible for shepherding tax changes that are now unlikely to see any major changes due to the inability of either side to work alone. He told the NSJ that companies will benefit from this stability. “Human beings love certainty. They want to predict as they forecast what kind of investments they need to make, what kind of expansions need to happen,” he said. “I think they’ll enjoy somewhat of a timeout on uncertainty in policy. There will not be any major changes or shifts in policy. That allows people to invest in jobs and people. I think that is helpful knowing with some certainty knowing what their future looks like.” Bell agrees.
“I think our tax reform has worked, and we may see some tweaking as we go along, but I don’t think they’ll be any major shifts in tax policy, because we’ve already done the major shifts,” he said. Despite the positive tone, they are not overlooking the likelihood of continuing battles with the Democrats. A few issues continue to be unresolved and are likely to test any spirit of bipartisan cooperation. Voter ID, which was passed in a constitutional amendment in November, now appears headed back to court. “That’s been their M.O. from the beginning. Sue till it’s blue,” said Bell of the voter ID lawsuit. “That’s something they’ve touted, to use the courts to turn things their way. But we’ll keep doing the will of the people.” Redistricting is also a longfought battle that relies on pending court decisions. “We’ll have the census in 2020 and we’ll redistrict by statute in
2021, and there are some pending court cases on gerrymandering that will be heard before then in the U.S. Supreme Court,” Bell said. “So hopefully we’ll have some direction after those court cases are heard.” The controversy over the “bathroom bill,” House Bill 2, largely died down after a compromise bill, but this session may see this issue re-emerge. The compromise bill has a sunset date for 2020, and it’s unclear how various players in local government and activists will proceed. Bell suggested Republicans are ready to let the status quo remain, but said, “I’m sure the Democrat Party will do everything they can to bring that issue back to the table, but as far as I’m concerned that issue was addressed. When the sun sets on it, we’ll handle that issue if it becomes necessary in 2020.” The first day of the 2019-2020 session for both the North Carolina House and Senate is Jan. 9.
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NCGOP from page A1 they chose an increase in education funding when they voted against the last couple of budgets that did just that, increase education funding and teacher pay,” Bell said. “As far as expanding Medicaid, I don’t see us doing that, but we do look at health care issues, like access to care. I think we can find some common ground on some issues there.” Part of Republican optimism is due to the fact that they believe they’ve accomplished enough of their policy goals that they can now watch their impact. If there is gridlock, it will simply retain the policies Republicans passed in recent sessions — and they are OK with that. “We’re seeing record employment. We’re seeing greater returns in our tax revenue. More people are participating in our economy, which is exactly what our policies were designed to do,” said Saine. “So as we see our economy contin-
BORDER from page A1 On Thursday Trump will visit the southern border to highlight his demand for a barrier. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that he will “meet with those on the front lines of the national security and humanitarian crisis.” The administration is also at least talking about the idea of declaring a national emergency to allow Trump to move forward on the wall without Congress approving the $5.6 billion he wants. Democrats say they will sue if Trump were to declare a national emergency. Trump told lawmakers he would be willing to keep the government closed for months or even years, but for now would like to continue negotiations. Over the holidays Democrats did not appear for several meetings but this week new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did visit the White House. Democratic congressional staffers also participated in weekend talks led by Pence at the White House. “We’re going to continue to carry that case forward until the Democrats in Congress come to the table and start negotiating, not just to end the government shutdown but to address what is an undeniable crisis at our southern border,” added Pence who also lobbied for Trump during appearances on CBS and NBC. Tillis said that a key part of that is reducing incentives to bring minors into the country by making clear that they will not automatically get amnesty. Tillis has proposed setting up a strict longterm path to citizenship for DACA recipients already in the U.S. that requires education, work and a clean criminal record. “That will reduce the pressure on the border while we put money into border
security which is a combination of walls fences, intelligence, and better technology at the ports of entry so that we truly secure the border,” Tillis said. Leaders of the nonpartisan National Governors Association made public a letter Tuesday sent to Trump and congressional leaders a day earlier, calling on them to reopen the government, saying “shutdown should not be a negotiating tactic as disagreements are resolved.” The IRS is one of the agencies affected, and the White House said Monday that tax refunds would be paid despite the shutdown. That shutdown exemption would break from past practice and could be challenged. “There is an indefinite appropriation to pay tax refunds. As a result ... the refunds will go out as normal,” said Russell Vought, acting director of the White House budget office. Pelosi said the House would begin passing individual bills this week to reopen federal agencies, starting with the Treasury Department. Over the weekend, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) began reporting a higher number of employees calling in sick as Friday approaches with paychecks potentially not being issued. However, officials at the TSA said the effect was “minimal” and that it screened more than 2.2 million passengers Sunday, a historically busy day due to holiday travel. Ninety percent waited less than 15 minutes, the agency said. At Raleigh-Durham International Airport and Charlotte Douglas Airport officials said they saw minimal impact from screening agents’ sick calls. Trump has tasked Pence to negotiate with Democrats, including during weekend talks. He said he and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen would brief lawmakers at the Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday.
SCOTUS from page A1 courts determined two districts originally drawn in 2011 were illegal because of excessive racial bias. In November, Republicans won at least nine of the 13 seats in North Carolina’s congressional delegation and appeared to have won a 10th seat, in keeping with how many they held before the 2016 remapping. But state election officials have so far declined to certify the results in the 9th District in south-central North Carolina because of allegations of absentee ballot fraud. A key Republican in the North Carolina redistricting process, state Rep. David Lewis, has said that he drew 10 Republican districts because he did not “believe it’s possible to draw a map with 11 Republicans and two Democrats.” In January, a three-judge court found that the map violated the Constitution and ordered the state to come up with a new plan quickly, in time for the 2018 elections. But the Supreme Court delayed enforcement of the court order, mainly because the justices already were considering the partisan districting cases from Maryland and Wisconsin. When those cases did not settle the issue, the high court ordered the three judges to take a new look at their earlier decision. They reaffirmed the ruling in August, but also concluded there wasn’t enough time to put new districts in place for 2018. Common Cause, the watchdog group that supports limits on partisan line-drawing, is leading the challenge to the North Carolina districts. “Whether it is Democrats or Republicans manipulating the election maps, gerrymanders cheat voters out of true representation,” Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn said in a statement. “The Supreme Court has the opportunity to set a clear standard that will restore a meaningful vote to millions
of Americans disenfranchised by gerrymanders in Maryland, North Carolina and across the country.” Bill D’Elia, a spokesman for North Carolina Republican state Senate leader Phil Berger, said Friday that Democrats have been looking for much of this decade to find judges who will redraw maps that will boost their candidates. “We hope the Supreme Court finally puts this nonsense to rest and that Democrats go back to the old-fashioned way of winning elections: convincing people to vote for them,” D’Elia said in an email. In Maryland, Democratic Rep. David Trone was sworn into office Thursday to represent a district that runs from the Washington suburbs to the rural northwest corner of the state. Democrats who controlled the redistricting process overhauled the district in 2011, turning what had been a reliably Republican stronghold into a Democratic district. Several Republican voters sued over the new district’s boundaries, claiming it unfairly favored Democrats. A day after the November elections, a three-judge panel agreed with the Republicans who sued and ordered Maryland officials to draw a new congressional redistricting plan that isn’t tainted by partisan gerrymandering. Judge Paul Niemeyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said in his opinion for the panel that the Maryland congressional map removed roughly 66,000 Republican voters from the district and added around 24,000 Democratic voters, “bringing about the single greatest alteration of voter makeup in any district in the Nation following the 2010 census.” Trone is not a party to the case, but he filed a legal brief in which he said he “is no fan of partisan gerrymandering, but that does not mean it is a terminal disease, much less one that the judiciary can or should cure.”
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In this photo released by the Immigration Police, Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, second left, shakes hand with Chief of Immigration Police Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn before leaving the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. A Saudi woman who says she is fleeing abuse by her family and wants asylum in Australia has sent out desperate pleas for help over social media. Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, began posting on Twitter late Saturday after her passport was taken away when she arrived on a flight from Kuwait.
Thai, Saudi officials meet over case of young Saudi woman By Tassanee Vejpongsa and Trevor Marshallsea The Associated Press BANGKOK — Thailand’s immigration police chief met Tuesday with officials from the Saudi Embassy in Bangkok, as Saudi Arabia tried to distance itself from accusations that it tried to block a young woman’s effort to flee her family and seek asylum abroad. Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun arrived in Bangkok from Kuwait late Saturday after slipping away from her family, whom she accused of abusing her. The 18-year-old was stopped by officials in Thailand who confiscated her passport. Her urgent pleas for help over Twitter from an airport hotel room garnered tens of thousands of followers and the attention of the U.N.’s refugee agency, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Public pressure prompted Thai officials to return her passport and let her temporarily stay in Thailand. Alqunun alleged several times that Saudi officials were involved in seizing her passport. However, in repeated statements, including one issued Tuesday, the Saudi Embassy in Thailand has said it is only monitoring her situation. The statement, which described Alqunun’s case as a “family affair,”
said the kingdom did not demand her deportation to Saudi Arabia. The embassy — and Thai officials — earlier also said that Alqunun was stopped by Thai authorities in Bangkok because she did not have a return ticket, a hotel reservation or itinerary to show she was a tourist, which appeared to have raised a flag about the reasons for her trip. Thailand’s immigration police chief, Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, told reporters Tuesday that Saudi diplomats told him they are satisfied with how her case had been handled. “The position of two countries on this matter is the same — that the priority is to provide her safety. We are both concerned for Miss Rahaf’s safety and well-being,” said Surachate. “The Saudi charge d’affaires said he is satisfied and expressed confidence on the work of Thai immigration, of the Thai government, and of the Foreign Ministry yesterday.” Surachate said Alqunun’s father and brother were due to arrive soon in Bangkok, but that it was her decision whether to meet with them. On Twitter, she has expressed fear of such a meeting. The father had previously been expected Monday night. A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees at its
Turkey appears to snub U.S.; no assurances on Syrian Kurds By Zeke Miller The Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey — A senior U.S. official trying to negotiate the safety of Kurdish allies in northeastern Syria was apparently rebuffed by Turkey’s president who said Tuesday there would be “no concession” in Ankara’s push against terror groups in the war-torn country. White House national security adviser John Bolton met for roughly two hours with his Turkish counterpart Ibrahim Kalin and other senior officials at Ankara’s presidential complex but got no assurances on the safety of Syrian Kurdish allies — a condition for President Donald Trump’s planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from northeastern Syria. Bolton relayed Trump’s insistence that Turkey refrain from at-
tacking Kurdish forces that fought alongside U.S. troops against the Islamic State group, a guarantee Turkey appeared unwilling to grant. “They had a productive discussion of the President’s decision to withdraw at a proper pace from Northeast Syria,” spokesman Garrett Marquis said in a statement, adding that direct military to military talks would continue Tuesday. Shortly after Bolton’s meetings and in an apparent snub to the U.S. diplomatic push, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara’s preparations for a new military offensive against terror groups in Syria are “to a large extent” complete. “We cannot make any concessions,” Erdogan said, and also slammed Bolton over comments suggesting the United States would prevent attacks on Kurds.
Geneva headquarters, Babar Baloch, said Tuesday it’s premature to say what will happen next, but that it could take several days for the agency to look into Alqunun’s claims. He said it “too early to tell” if she will be granted asylum or refugee status. Saudi Arabia’s human rights record has come under intense scrutiny since the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in October. Khashoggi, who wrote critically of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in columns for The Washington Post, had been living in self-imposed exile before he was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by Saudi agents. The kingdom offered various shifting accounts around the circumstances of his death before eventually settling on the explanation that he died in a botched operation to forcibly bring him back to Saudi Arabia. Some Saudi female runaways fleeing abuse by their families have been caught trying to seek asylum abroad in recent years. Saudi activists say the kingdom, through its embassies abroad, has at times put pressure on border patrol agents in foreign countries to deport the women back to Saudi Arabia. In 2017, Dina Ali Lasloom trig-
gered a firestorm online when she was stopped en route to Australia, where she planned to seek asylum. She was forced to return to Saudi Arabia and was not publicly heard from again, according to activists tracking her whereabouts. Australia national broadcaster ABC reported that the country’s Home Affairs Department announced late Tuesday that it would consider Alqunun’s application for asylum if she was found to be a genuine refugee, and called on the Thai authorities and UNHCR to assess her claim as quickly as possible. Human Rights Watch earlier called on the Australian government to allow Alqunun’s entry into that country, amid worries about her visa status. The organization’s Australian director, Elaine Pearson, said she had seen electronic confirmation of her tourist visa, but that Alqunun could no longer access her visa page on Australia’s immigration website on Tuesday, sparking concern that the document had been canceled. An Australian visa is usually processed electronically and not stamped in one’s passport, but confirmed by a document that the visitor can print out. Though refugee status would mean a different form of visa would be needed, Pearson said Australia’s apparent cancellation of Alqunun’s tourist visa was a worrying sign. Since Australia has expressed concern in the past about women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, it should “come forward and offer protection for this young woman,” Pearson said.
Turkey insists its military actions are aimed at Kurdish fighters in Syria — the Syrian Kurdish Peoples Protection Units, or YPG — whom it regards as terrorists, and not against the Kurdish people. That has been Ankara longtime position and Turkey rejected any role for Kurdish fighters in restoring peace to the war-torn region. Bolton is to depart Turkey without meeting with Erdogan, which U.S. officials said Saturday was expected. Marquis said U.S. officials were told Erdogan cited the local election season and a speech to parliament for not meeting with Bolton. Trump’s shifting timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Syria has left allies and other players in the region confused and jockeying for influence over a withdrawal strategy that appeared to be a work in progress. After Bolton announced this week the U.S. pullout would not be as immediate as Trump had initially declared, U.S. allies were still seeking clarification from American diplomats. The Kurds, who have fought alongside U.S. forces against IS and fear an assault by Turkey if the U.S. withdraws, publicly said they awaited explanation
from Washington. Bolton said the U.S. would seek assurances from Turkey before withdrawing that it would not harm the Kurds — for the first time adding a “condition” to the withdrawal. However, Erdogan’s remarks Tuesday to his ruling party lawmakers in parliament underscored the destabilizing impact of Trump’s spur-of-the-moment withdrawal announcement, with no details, leaving allies scrambling for answers and aides crafting a strategy that can satisfy all the players, including Trump. “We don’t think the Turks ought to undertake military action that’s not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the United States,” Bolton said Sunday, adding that Trump has made clear he would not allow Turkey to kill Kurds. Bolton had said the protection of U.S. allies in Syria, including the YPG, was among “the objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal” of U.S. forces. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Washington on Monday for an eight-nation trip of the Middle East. Both he and Bolton are seeking input and support for the specifics of the withdrawal plan.
Tijuana, Mexico Many are beginning to blame Pueblo Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders, for the plight of Central American migrants. The organization is made up of about 40 U.S. and Mexican activists. Critics, including former allies and some of the migrants themselves, say Pueblo Sin Fronteras downplayed the dangers of such treks, especially for families and small children, and misled the participants about how long they would have to wait on the Mexican side to apply for asylum. Pueblo Sin Fronteras maintains it simply accompanies the migrants to protect their rights. But the organization clearly plays an essential role: It helped charter the route, arrange bus transportation and negotiate with Mexican officials to provide protection. It also raised more than $46,000 online for emergency housing and food. As the caravan crossed Mexico, the organization held nightly assemblies to decide the next day’s destination. “There is no reason to make these inhumane journeys,” Alejandro Solalinde, a Mexican priest recognized for his work with migrants, said of the caravans.
Ex-New York state Senate leader due to report to prison New York Former New York state Senate leader Dean Skelos is due to report to prison Tuesday to begin serving his four-year and three-month prison term for a corruption conviction. Skelos, a 70-year-old Republican, is expected to report to the federal prison at Otisville, New York, by mid-afternoon. The prison has a medium security facility and an adjacent minimum-security satellite camp. His son, Adam, will report to the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, to begin serving his four-year sentence. Skelos and his son were convicted in July on charges of extortion, wire fraud and bribery. They report to prison while Democrat Sheldon Silver — the former state Assembly Speaker — remains free while he appeals his corruption trial conviction and seven-year prison sentence.
Russian church head: Smartphones could precede Antichrist Moscow The head of the Russian Orthodox Church says the data-gathering capacity of devices such as smartphones risks bringing humanity closer to the arrival of the Antichrist. In an interview shown Monday on state TV, Patriarch Kirill said the church does not oppose technological progress but is concerned that “someone can know exactly where you are, know exactly what you are interested in, know exactly what you are afraid of” and that such information could be used for centralized control of the world. “Control from one point is a foreshadowing of the coming of Antichrist, if we talk about the Christian view. Antichrist is the person who will be at the head of the world wide web that controls the entire human race,” he said.
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North Carolina leaders celebrate 200 years of Supreme Court The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Top North Carolina leaders gathered Monday to praise the state Supreme Court on its bicentennial, highlighting what they called its endurance as being the place where citizens can seek equal justice under the law. The current seven justices sat in its downtown Raleigh courtroom to convene a ceremonial session to observe the 200th anniversary of the state’s highest court. “Over the past 200 years our state has revised its constitution multiple times, changed the way the members of the court are selected and witnessed extensive shifts in law and society,” Chief Justice Mark Martin said. “Yet this court has exhibited a remarkable staying power through it all.” The General Assembly created the court in November 1818, essentially formalizing a court of appeals that had been staffed by Superior Court judges in the founding decades of the state. The court, initially comprised of a chief justice and two judges appointed by the legislature, met for the first time on Jan. 5, 1819, former Associate Justice Willis Whichard said during the ceremony. Since then, the court’s size grew, and during Reconstruction voters began electing justices to eight-year terms, which is the current practice today. All-male, allwhite courts gave way in recent decades to many female and black jurists. Susie Sharp was elected the first female chief justice in 1974, while Henry Frye
The Clemson Tigers won their second national championship in three seasons, defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide 44-16 in Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday night. So while the Tigers will be bringing back a trophy to South Carolina, they did it with the help of some of their neighbors to the north. This map highlights counties where players on the Clemson roster attended a high school in North Carolina.
WEST Facebook apologizes for banning evangelist Buncombe County Facebook apologized for temporarily banning evangelist Franklin Graham. The son of the late Rev. Billy Graham was temporarily banned for 24 hours last month and accused of violating community hate speech standards. Graham’s post was related to H.B. 2 and said, “a nation embracing sin and bowing at the feet of godless secularism and political correctness is not progress.”
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Officer charged in drunk crash Henderson County Andy Massey was arrested and charged with driving while impaired and hitand-run after crashing his car in a ditch and leaving the scene. Massey has been a member of the Hendersonville police department since 2012. He was off duty at the time of the accident and crashed his personal car, not his police cruiser. He is on paid administrative leave while the department investigates.
Dad arrested after son shoots self in fast-food parking lot Randolph County Randy Brower of Kernersville was arrested and charged with negligent child abuse after his 5-year-old son shot himself in Brower’s car. The boy unbuckled himself from a booster seat while sitting in the Wendy’s parking lot in Randleman. He took the gun from a seat back pocket and fired it. The boy is still in critical condition.
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Ashe County A new breakfast shop, Hole Lotta Doughnuts, opened in West Jefferson, promising giant-sized pastries. Claiming its doughnut are “the size of a tractor tire”, it takes a cake box to package a dozen. The apple fritters weigh a half-pound each. The family bakery says that its recipes are closely guarded secrets. MOUNTAINTIMES.COM
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Moore County Ronnell Tydell Wilson was arrested following a fight in a Southern Pines apartment. Responding officers found a large amount of blood on the floor, and three other people in addition to Wilson were hospitalized. Wilson was in an agitated state and asked the police to shoot him. Officers were able to find a large portion of his ear, which had been bitten off in the struggle, on the floor. Wilson was charged with assault on a female.
State takes control of possible Lost Colony site Bertie County The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust purchased nearly 1,000 acres of land believed to be the area where the Lost Colony may have relocated. The trust used a $5.3 million loan to make the purchase and turned the land over to the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation. The area will now be known as the Salmon Creek Natural Area. AP
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Brunswick County Brandon Lovell was fatally shot during a traffic stop after he accelerated toward the police officer while attempting to flee the scene. State trooper Scott Collins fired into Lovell’s vehicle in self-defense. Lovell later died from the wound at a local hospital. A police spokesman confirmed that Collins has been placed on administrative duty while the incident is investigated.
Macon County Police in Macon County arrested Christopher Wikstrom during a traffic stop on Highway 441 South. Wikstrom is being held on a $1 million bond after being charged with two felony counts of trafficking methamphetamine. Multiple packages were found in his car. He’s wanted in Georgia for an August home invasion and assault.
Alamance County Police needed three tranquilizer darts and eight gunshots to fatally subdue a lion who mauled an intern at the Conservators Center near Burlington. Alexandra Black, a 22-year-old intern who had just started at the center two weeks earlier, was helping to clean the lion area when the animal escaped its locked holding area and attacked. Police first tried to incapacitate the lion but resorted to gunfire when it continued to threaten the victim. Black was later pronounced dead.
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Road rage blamed for mall parking lot shooting victim Gaston County A man suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg was found in a mall parking lot in Gastonia as shoppers attempted to return gifts in late December. Police believe the injury may have resulted from road rage on a nearby street. The wounded person then pulled into the mall parking lot in an effort to find help. His injury was not thought to be life-threatening. AP
Scotland County James Morman III was arrested after he visited the Scotland County jail pretending to be a pastor. Police searched the Bible that Morman was carrying and found strips of Suboxone, a controlled narcotic, hidden inside. Inmate Bryson Brown was also charged in relation to the fake pastor visit. It’s unclear whether Morman had posed as a minister on previous jail visits. AP
became the first African-American chief justice in 1999. Anita Earls, a biracial woman, was sworn in as an associate justice last week. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who represented the state as attorney general for 16 years, said the court’s past rulings have expanded rights for many. The court, he added, can also protect people facing unlawful discrimination or when “government becomes too heavy-handed.” “This has been and will continue to be ... a place to seek justice,” he said. The court can also step in when there are disagreements between branches of government, Cooper noted. He and the legislative branch have had many legal run-ins over the past two years, some of which have reached the high court. Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest and attorneys addressed the court. Exmembers of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, formed in the 1960s as an intermediate appeals court, also sat in the gallery. Martin, the state’s 28th chief justice, said neither the past success nor the future survival of the court can be taken for granted. He urged citizens to put “principles over passions,” listen to each other and consider different perspectives in a civil manner. “This institution represents an area where we can unite together in support of the rule of law, that our written constitution must be upheld and defended as the bedrock of all our liberties,” he said.
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Vandals damage cars of interracial couple Wayne County The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that recent car vandalism in Goldsboro was the result of a reaction to an interracial relationship between two teenagers. The minivan of Amanda Miller was spray painted with a swastika and racial slurs, while another vehicle was set on fire. Police confirmed the behavior was in response to Miller’s 14-year-old white daughter’s relationship with a black teen. AP
NSJ Staff CHARLOTTE — The Republican in the nation’s last undecided congressional race says he believes changes to North Carolina’s elections board mean a new election is less likely. Mark Harris told The Charlotte Observer on Friday he believes the possibility of a new election “dropped significantly” when a judicial panel last month dissolved the nine-member State Board of Elections and Ethics
Enforcement. The board was investigating alleged ballot fraud by an operative hired by the Harris’ campaign. A five-member board with three Democrats and two Republicans is expected to be named by Jan. 31. The law then requires that four of the members vote to order a new election. But three members also must vote to certify the election. Unofficial returns show Harris defeated Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in the 9th District race.
Trucks starting massive operation to slow dune migration NSJ Staff NAGS HEAD — North Carolina park officials on the Outer Banks are working to slow the pace of a massive sand dune that’s slowly being pushed each year by winds. The Virginian-Pilot reports that the dune known as Jockey’s Ridge typically moves about 6 feet per year. But this year it’s shifted about 30 feet in some places, encroaching on some homes. Joy Greenwood is superintendent of Jockey’s Ridge State Park. She said the reason the dune has moved more this year has to do with Hurricanes Florence
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and Michael as well as other storms. Starting next week, dump trucks are going to move tons of sand from the south side of the dune back to the north side. The $1 million job will take about 14,000 truckloads to complete. According to local news outlets, contractor Hatchell Inc. of Manteo will perform the work. It is slated to take 120 days, with workers taking a break for weekends. Jockey’s Ridge is the tallest living sand dune on the Atlantic coast. It is a popular location for kites, sightseeing and sunsets, with a view arcing from the ocean to Roanoke Sound.
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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL
Remember Rick McIntyre!
Should the majority party controlling Congress be able to overturn any election anywhere in the country? Or should states be the final arbiter of any election outcome in their state be it a federal office or state or local?
THE EMPTY congressional office of the 9th District of North Carolina brings to mind other close congressional elections in the past. In 1984, former Harris Teeter executive Republican Alex “Landslide” McMillan defeated Democrat D.G. Martin by 321 votes. In 1986, former Republican Congressman Howard “Landslide” Coble won his first re-election by 79 votes in a rematch with the incumbent Democrat he defeated in 1984, Robin Britt. Both elections were scrutinized for “discrepancies” and “voting irregularities” post-election. Ballot boxes were impounded and recounts were ordered. Weeks went by before final election results were certified by state authorities and the winners were allowed to serve in the 99th Congress. Nothing took the cake, however, like the 8th District Congressional race in 1984 in Indiana. Congressman Frank McCloskey appeared to be the winner election night by 72 votes only to be reversed several days later when an “accounting error” (sic?) was found that gave state Rep. Rick McIntyre a 34-vote margin of victory. There were two very important issues at play then as now. One is the somewhat confusing and overlapping responsibilities governing elections given to the states and Congress in Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution. The second is the apparent lack of progress in electoral verification despite all of the computer and technological advances since 1984. “Voting irregularities” still haunt our elections. Indiana’s Republican secretary of state certified McIntyre as the winner and a subsequent recount extended his lead over McCloskey. However, the Democrats — under Speaker Tip O’Neill, who controlled the 99th Congress by 71 votes — set up a “bipartisan” (again sic?) task force of two Democrats and one Republican that conducted a review and somehow deemed McCloskey the winner by four votes and seated him in Congress instead of McIntyre. Eight Democratic operatives were indicted the next year in 1986 under charges they conspired to pay voters between $15 and $35 apiece to vote a straight Democratic ticket in 1982 and 1984, including the contested McIntyre race.
All of this was too late to help McIntyre, who went on to lose his 1986 rematch with McCloskey. To all of the detractors who deny voter or election fraud ever happens anywhere in America because everyone in politics is too virtuous to commit fraud, this is just one more data point refuting such naivete. To our knowledge, no incoming Democrat has been refused a seat in Congress under Republican control in recent history. Republicans tend to believe states should make their own rules for election even if some of the winners are less than virtuous, to put it politely. One former member was overheard saying when a thrice-convicted congressman was elected from Louisiana: “Well, even scoundrels and crooks need representation too!” Should the majority party controlling Congress be able to overturn any election anywhere in the country? Or should states be the final arbiter of any election outcome in their state be it a federal office or state or local? In the 1984 election, 234,092 registered Indiana voters voted for either McIntyre or McCloskey. Were they denied their “one-man/onevote” constitutional right to decide who their congressman would be when Democrat leaders in Congress made their unilateral decision to seat McCloskey instead of McIntyre? Last year, 282,717 registered North Carolinian voters voted for either Mark Harris, Dan McCready or Libertarian candidate Jeff Scott, who got 5,130 votes. Should they have the right to decide who should represent them on the big issues in Washington, or should Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer have that responsibility? Voters in the state of North Carolina should have the final say in who represents them in Congress. Either certify Harris as the congressman or hold a special re-election as soon as possible so the people of the 9th District have a representative vote in the 116th Congress.
GUEST OPINION | ANDREW BURNS
One from the vault While the combined market value of the FAANG stocks dropped by $500 billion or more in recent months, we remind readers that only 1-2 percent of the shares of these companies actually change hands each day.
RECENT INVESTMENT headlines remind us of when the internet bubble popped almost 20 years ago as commentators shock their followers with statements like this one from Barron’s in late November: “Now the talk is about a trillion-dollar meltdown. The FAANGs — a basket of high-growth technology companies that includes Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet (Google) — have lost $1.1 trillion since their peaks. This month alone, the loss comes to $400 billion.” Reaching into our Newsletter vault for a classic penned after the internet stock bubble crashed, we find much of what was discussed then has relevance today. From “Cash, Stock and 1965 Lincoln Continentals” (July 2001): “The investment public has been treated to quite a lesson over the last fifteen months. By most estimates, U.S. stocks are down some $3.0 trillion since March of 2000. Many previously highflying companies have witnessed billion dollar drops in their market value. With all these billions and trillions bandied about, it is time to draw an important distinction between ‘cash’ and ‘stock.’ “While ‘cash’ is the legal tender that teller machines spew and that children accept as weekly allowance, ‘stock’ is a printed piece of paper representing partial ownership in a company. Let’s use an analogy to contrast the two and their relevance to investing. “Suppose you are a collector of old cars or, like me, you inherit your grandfather’s 1965 Lincoln Continental. Curious as to its value, you flip through The Whitewall Street Journal and learn that 500 Lincolns still exist and that recent sales occurred at around $10,000 each. Treating the old car market like the stock market, the “market value” of the Lincoln 500 (i.e., S&P 500) would be $5.0 million (500 cars x $10,000 each). “Now, pretend that Jack Nicholson stars in a new movie entitled ‘Honeywell Jack.’ The Hollywood set crew buys a 1965 Lincoln as Jack’s cool car in the movie, which is a success, and now everyone wants to own a Lincoln just like Jack’s. In fact, one Lincoln is sold to an exuberant investor during the movie’s first week for $20,000. Accordingly, the market value of the Lincoln 500 doubles to $10 million (500 Lincolns x $20,000 each). Lincoln owners see the transaction reported in The Whitewall Street Journal and conclude
that their investment is up 100% in one week. “Yes, that’s how it works on Wall Street. The market value of the Lincoln 500 went up $5.0 million while only $20,000 in cash traded hands with the sale of one car! Similarly, when the stock market lost $3.0 trillion in ‘stock’ value over the last 15 months, it is important to note that far less cash changed hands.” Back to 2019... While the combined market value of the FAANG stocks dropped by $500 billion or more in recent months, we remind readers that only 1-2 percent of the shares of these companies actually change hands each day. There is, however, a big difference between values of tech stocks now and nearly 20 years ago — since some of today’s standard bearers make lots of money. Specifically, the three with solid historic profitability (Apple, Facebook and Google) currently trade at an average multiple of 18 times next year’s estimated earnings — a valuation that seems reasonable by most historic measures. The other two (Netflix and Amazon) are valued at roughly 65 times next year’s earnings estimates. Ironically, and perhaps why more correction is nigh in segments of the market, the latter two stocks have substantially outperformed the former group this year. As we face what may be the later stages of a nearly 10-year bull market, we continue to believe that investors’ focus should be on the underlying relative free cash flow produced by companies rather than how markets might be pricing 1 percent slices of those enterprises trading on a daily basis. Like the family’s durable 1965 Lincoln, this philosophy of “following the cash” has been tested over time and we believe will help investors reach their goals over the next decade and beyond. This commentary is for informational purposes only and the opinions expressed herein are those solely of Andrew Burns, an adviser and principal at Hamilton Point Investment Advisors, LLC, in Chapel Hill. This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any particular security or product and should not be considered financial advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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COLUMN | DONALD VAN DER VAART
Rejecting fossil fuels comes at high cost
The protests in France and the demise of the Clean Power Plan may have convinced far left progressives to alter their narrative, if not their mission.
WE HEAR people say we should combat global warming, but it may not always be clear what that really means — even to the people urging us to join the cause. Recent events in our country and abroad illustrate that as the theory of rejecting fossil fuels is put into practice —and the real-world impacts hit close to home — the public is learning to be skeptical. Embracing a 100 percent renewable energy infrastructure requires us to also embrace higher costs, and not just for the other guy. That’s a no-go, even in France. President Emmanuel Macron’s recent attempt to reduce CO2 emissions through a ramped-up “carbon tax” was met with violent protests. The fuel tax was needed to pay for the transition to renewable energy. Macron needed money to pay for the windmills and solar panels. Instead, his efforts caused a joining of factions from left and right as they protested the steep increases in proposed fuel taxes. While the French may be concerned about global warming, their concern has a price, and apparently it’s less than the increases sought by Macron. Like Macron’s scheme, President Barack Obama’s mandated embrace of renewables – the Clean Power Plan— would have imposed higher costs on Americans. And with little to show for the pain. The impact on global temperatures was calculated to be essentially zero over the next 100 years. Mr. Obama sought to replace coal with renewable energy sources like wind and solar. But wind and solar energy are much more expensive and require subsidies from both ratepayers and taxpayers. Thankfully, the Trump Administration is taking steps to vastly reduce its scope while making it consistent with the law, all while the U.S. has outpaced the world in actual CO2 reductions. The protests in France and the demise of the Clean Power
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Black education: A glimmer of hope
Plan may have convinced far left progressives to alter their narrative, if not their mission. Newly elected Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York frames her fight against global warming as an issue of social justice. At a recent symposium organized by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, OcasioCortez discussed her view of the economic benefits of the demise of fossil fuel, saying, “It’s inevitable that we will create jobs. We can use the transition to 100 percent renewable energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social and racial justice in the United States of America.” This is a somewhat more direct restatement of the position of former U.N. Executive Secretary Christiana Fugaeres when she discussed U.N. efforts on global warming. This, Fugaeres said, “is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.” Maybe these leaders recognize that the environmental narrative, which asks people to pay a lot of money for a change that may
or may not occur many years from now, is a tough sell. Look no further than California for evidence that even progressives aren’t interested in taking a financial hit for the cause. On Oct. 4, 2018, a policeman was elected to replace the president of CalPERS, California’s State employee pension fund. Jason Perez ran on a platform disavowing the use of nonfinancial factors in making investment decisions for the fund. These factors included environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria. The ousted president was an international proponent of this approach. The fund lost money using the ESG strategy, and it didn’t go down well. It seems that as progressive as Californians are thought to be, when their own money is at stake, global warming and other nonfinancial causes are not important enough to put their under-funded pension fund at risk. Donald van der Vaart is a senior fellow at the John Locke Foundation and the former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. These comments are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily express the position of the John Locke Foundation.
IN REFERENCE to efforts to teach black children, the president of the St. Petersburg, Fla., chapter of the NAACP, Maria Scruggs, said: “The (school) district has shown they just can’t do it. ... Now it’s time for the community to step in.” That’s a recognition that politicians and the education establishment, after decades of promises, cannot do much to narrow the huge educational achievement gap between Asians and whites on the one hand and blacks on the other. The most crucial input for a child’s education cannot be provided by schools or politicians. Continued calls for higher education budgets will produce disappointing results, as they have in the past. There are certain minimum requirements that must be met for any child, regardless of race, to do well in school. Someone must make the youngster do his homework — and possibly help him with it. Someone must ensure that he gets eight hours of sleep. Someone must feed him wholesome meals, including breakfast. Finally, someone must ensure that he gets to school on time, behaves in school and respects the teachers. If these minimum requirements are not met — and they can be met even if a family is poor — all else is for naught. Scruggs says that it’s time for the black community to accept part of the blame. Part of the problem is the lack of parents’ involvement in their children’s education — for example, their not attending parent-teacher nights. Having children’s books around the house and reading to preschoolers is vitally important. According to Mariah Evans, who headed a 20-year worldwide study that found “the presence of books in the home” to be the top predictor of whether a child will attain a high level of education, “one of the things that is most striking ... about it is that the book’s effect appears to be even larger and more important for children from very disadvantaged homes.” By the way, one doesn’t have to be rich to have books around the house. Plus, there are
Continued calls for higher education budgets will produce disappointing results, as they have in the past.
COLUMN | TED RALL
Liberals used to feel your pain. now they inflict it
I noticed the de-empathification of the Democratic Party during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
LIBERALS ARE SUPPOSED to feel other people’s pain. Now, they seem more intent on inflicting it. I noticed the de-empathification of the Democratic Party during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. I lived in one of the 4 out of 5 counties with zero or one plan on offer. Low supply and high demand -- Obamacare required you to buy one or get fined -- resulted in sky-high rates. The one plan in my county’s ACA sucked. It cost a $1,400-per-month premium with a $10,000-a-year deductible -- and no in-network doctors within a 90-minute drive. On Facebook, I complained about the paucity of affordable plans in my online health insurance marketplace. “I don’t know what you’re going on about,” one of my friends replied. “I found an excellent, affordable plan.” My friend lives in Manhattan. When I pointed out that residents of big cities like New York had far more competition than residents of more sparsely populated areas, he didn’t respond. Instead, he acted as if I hadn’t said anything. “Obamacare is a Godsend,” he continued. “So many great options.” This conversation-without-communication went on and on like that. People often ask me for political predictions. Most people I know are Democrats of the Third Way/Democratic Leadership Council/Clinton variety and so were understandably upset when I told them I was close to certain that Trump would win. “I grew up in Dayton, Ohio,” I said. “The major swing states in this election are full of hollowed-out depopulated deindustrialized Rust Belt cities like Dayton. Free trade agreements like NAFTA killed those cities and destroyed their residents. Hillary and the Democrats supported that globalization garbage. Trump will win because he’s the only one who talks about their problems, the only one who acknowledges they exist.” “But Trump is an idiot,” they said. “Not enough of an idiot to say nice things about NAFTA,” I said, referring to the Clintons. “But he’s a bigot,” they went on. “Yes he is,” I agreed. But these people are desperate and angry and he’s the first presidential candidate to admit that free trade isn’t awesome. It’s a chance to send a message, a cri de coeur.” The vacant, disconnected look in their eyes was every bit as dumbstruck as that of a MAGA supporter who just realized that big tax cut wasn’t for him. My liberal friends weren’t from the Midwest, had never been to the Midwest, didn’t know anyone from the Midwest. The devastation
and dysfunction I described -- substance addiction, permanent disability, systemic unand underemployment, plunging housing prices, cash-starved local governments unable to keep up with the mayhem -- was as foreign to them as a drone strike in Afghanistan. Globalization was inevitable. Why didn’t those stupid Ohioans accept it? Democrats such as FDR used to look at dispossessed voters and see electoral opportunity, a chance to grow the party. Today’s liberals are poorer than Roosevelt but far more elitist; they see a bunch of irrelevant old white guys who ought to hurry up and die. The latest case study is France’s “yellow vest” movement. For over a month, angry motorists, many middle-aged men from rural and suburban areas of the country, have converged on cities like Paris to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s hike of the gas tax. As in Britain less populous areas have been left behind economically and neglected by the central government. People say they’re barely making it to the end of each month after paying rising bills on fixed incomes, and they’re pissed. No doubt echoing their well-heeled counterparts in the fourth arrondissement, my liberal Democratic friends were gobsmacked by France’s most violent Days of Rage since May 1968. “It’s a carbon tax,” one explained helpfully. “We have to reduce consumption of greenhouse gases.” Her attitude is typical: Don’t those conservative hicks understand that the planet is dying? True, we should reduce air pollution. (Though it’s probably too late to slow down climate change.) But if consumers have no choice but to consume, a tax designed to reduce consumption only serves one purpose: to increase government revenue while making citizens miserable. Yellowvesters who live in the sticks don’t have a masstransit alternative. They can’t carpool. They’ve got to drive, and, with a carbon tax, they have to pay. No wonder they’re angry. Wouldn’t it make more sense to tax shareholders whose portfolios include stocks with big carbon footprints? Years ago, right-winger Republicans such as Richard Nixon promoted the cliche of the “limousine liberal”: self-righteous, hypocritical, privileged and disconnected from Joe and Jane Sixpack. I don’t know if it was true then. But it certainly is now. Ted Rall, the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, is the author of “Francis: The People’s Pope.”
libraries. One vital measure for community involvement in black education is that of preventing youngsters who are alien and hostile to the educational process from making education impossible for everybody else. That can be accomplished by ignoring politicians and the liberal vision that restricts schools from removing students who pose severe disciplinary problems. The problem goes beyond simple misbehavior. An article in Education Week last year, titled “When Students Assault Teachers, Effects Can Be Lasting,” reported: “In the 2015-16 school year, 5.8 percent of the nation’s 3.8 million teachers were physically attacked by a student. Almost 10 percent were threatened with injury, according to federal education data.” Given the huge educational achievement gap between blacks and whites, one might ask whether black people can afford to allow students who have little interest in being educated to make education impossible for others. Students who assault teachers ought to be summarily removed from the school. One might ask, “Williams, what are we going to do with those expelled students?” I do not know, but I do know one thing for sure: Black people cannot afford to allow them to remain in school and sabotage the educational chances of everyone else. The educational achievement gap between blacks and whites is hidden from black students and their families. All too often, a black student with a high school diploma cannot read, write or compute at a sixth- or seventh-grade level. This tends to make high school diplomas held by blacks less valuable in the eyes of employers. As such, it sparks racial division where it otherwise would not exist. There have been complaints that police and fire departments and other civil service jobs don’t have many black employees. The problem is that to get hired in the first place — and get promoted if hired — one needs to pass a civil service exam. If one’s high school diploma is fraudulent — meaning he has not mastered the 12th-grade levels of all subjects — he is seriously handicapped. I say hats off to the vision being promoted by the NAACP’s Maria Scruggs. She and her supporters have their work cut out for them, but it’s doable. Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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Longtime N.C. prep visionary McGee dies Chapel Hill Jerry McGee, who served as the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association executive director for more than two decades, died Sunday, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association said in a press release. He was 80. McGee was the NCADA’s executive director from 1991‑2015 and was a football coach and AD in Edenton and Elizabeth City. He also coached collegiately, serving as an assistant football coach at Kansas State, Southern Illinois, East Carolina and lastly, Duke — under twin brother Mike McGee, the Blue Devils’ coach from 1971‑78, at their alma mater. Jerry McGee then became a driving force in high school athletics, forming the National Executive Directors Council and leading it for more than a decade. He is also a member of the North Carolina Sports and NCHSAA Halls of Fame and received The Order of the Long Leaf Pine in 2007.
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Torry Holt voted into College Football Hall of Fame Santa Clara, Calif. Torry Holt, a Gibsonville native who starred at NC State from 1995-98 before becoming one of the most prolific receivers in NFL history, is one of 13 players who will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December. Holt was the ACC Offensive Player or the Year, ACC Player of the Year, a consensus All-American and finished in the top 10 of Heisman Trophy voting in 1998 after he had 88 catches for 1,604 yards and 11 touchdowns. Holt still holds several NC State records, including being the Wolfpack’s all-time leader in career receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. Holt is also a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, and his No. 81 is retired by NC State. Holt was picked sixth overall by St. Louis, playing all but the final season of his 11-year pro career with the Rams. He retired from the NFL in 2009 with the 10thmost receiving yards in league history.
With college football officially over and conference play started, N.C. sports fans’ focus turns to the hardwood JAY LAPRETE | AP PHOTO
High Point head coach Tubby Smith returned to his alma mater to try and instill a winning culture.
Smith aims to raise High Point’s basketball profile The title-winning coach returned to his alma mater where he starred as a player By Brett Friedlander North State Journal HIGH POINT — Surprised doesn’t begin to describe Jahaad Proctor’s reaction when he first learned who had been hired as his new coach last spring. “I heard it was Tubby Smith and I was like, ‘You mean that Tubby Smith?” the High Point basketball player said. “I couldn’t believe it. Who wouldn’t be excited to have the chance to play for Hall of Fame coach?” Smith isn’t actually a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. At least not yet. But with a resume that included nearly 600 career victories, three national Coach of the Year awards, the 1998 national championship at Kentucky and inclusion in several halls of fame, Smith’s decision to take the High Point job caught more than just Proctor by surprise. Smith could have parlayed his name and record into a higher-profile position, even after getting fired by Memphis following a 21-win season to make way for popular alumnus Penny Hardaway. Or he could have retired comfortably on the guaranteed $10 million he’ll be paid by his former employer over the next six years. Instead he decided to help raise the profile of his own alma ma-
605 Career wins for Tubby Smith through High Point’s first 15 games of this season.
By Brett Friedlander and Shawn Krest North State Journal IT DIDN’T TAKE long after college football crowned its new national champion Monday for college basketball to move in and take center stage. Only 24 hours after Clemson’s stunningly lopsided victory against Alabama on the gridiron, all eyes in North Carolina turned to the hardwood, where all four state ACC schools were matched against one another with UNC taking on NC State in Raleigh and Duke traveling to Winston-Salem for its first true road test against Wake Forest. The rivalry games were just a prelude to a long grind of a league schedule that promises to be full of surprises, if the now completed nonconference schedule is any indication. Here’s now all four state schools and the rest of the ACC stack up as we head into the meat of the college basketball season: Duke
ter’s program by returning to High Point, a move that begged an obvious question. Why? “The calling was here,” said Smith, who still ranks ninth on the Panthers’ all-time scoring list with 1,589 career points from 1969-73. “We’ve been involved with the basketball program, the athletic department, the school for years, being on the Board of Friends, making donations. My wife went to school here. It just seemed like, at this stage of my career, why not?” The timing of Smith’s reunion with High Point couldn’t have been better. Although the Panthers have been a Division I program since becoming a member of the Big South Conference in 1999, twice earning trips to the NIT, they barely register a blip on the national radar. It’s an anonymity wealthy university president Nido Qubein is determined to change. See SMITH, page B4
The Blue Devils were expected to be one of the nation’s best teams when they started the nonconference schedule. Two months later, not only are they better than expected, they’re the sport’s version of the Beatles. Duke opened the season with a thorough domination of topranked Kentucky and, save a two-point loss in Maui to another top-five team — Gonzaga — the Blue Devils cruised through their nonconference schedule. Duke owns wins over Auburn, a 21-point whitewashing of Indiana and an 11-point win over Texas Tech. The team is led by two superstar freshmen: ESPN darling Zion Williamson is a unicorn — a high-flying 285-pounder whose highlight film dunks have wowed arena crowds, TV audiences and social media. He’s also averaging 20 points and 9.5 rebounds and hitting two-thirds of his shots from the field. RJ Barrett is the team leader, averaging nearly 23 points and seven boards and firmly establishing himself as Duke’s go-to
guy in crunch time. Coach Mike Krzyzewski has also surrounded his two stars with a strong supporting cash, including shooter Cam Reddish, who would be the top dog on virtually any other team, and Tre Jones, a freshman point guard who plays suffocating defense and distributes the ball with error-free precision. The Blue Devils are also getting a boost from the upperclassmen. Javin DeLaurier threatened a team record by hitting 16 straight shots, and Jack White provides rebounding and outside shooting as a high-energy stretch four off the bench. Unlike recent freshmen-led Blue Devil teams, this year’s Duke squad is led by its defense. Duke leads the nation in blocks per game, is second in steals and fifth nationally in field-goal percentage defense. Duke blew out a veteran Clemson team in its conference opener and served notice that it is every bit as good as all the ESPN hype has promised. North Carolina The Tar Heels are still a work in progress as they look to iron out issues on both ends of the court and Roy Williams finally settles on a style that best fits his roster. To this point, the Hall of Fame coach has stuck with his preferred inside-out approach with 6-foot-9 sophomore Garrison Brooks starting at the five. But there will likely be a time in which he decides to go with a smaller lineup that allows highly touted freshman wing Nassir Little to best utilize his talents. Regardless of which way Williams ultimately goes, his team will have to shore up both its shot selection and defense in order to make any noise either in the regular season or come tournament time. UNC was 13th in the ACC in scoring defense, allowing an average of 72.1 points heading into Tuesday’s rivalry showdown at State. It has been able to offset by outscoring its opponents, as it did in its most impressive win to date — a 103-90 victory against Gonzaga on Dec. 15. But despite ranking second behind only Duke among conference teams in scoring at 89.9 points per game, the Tar Heels have been inconsistent in their See ACC, page B3
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Frank Garcia: The former Carolina Panthers player accused of assaulting a woman has been suspended from his job as a Charlotte Catholic High School assistant football coach. The Charlotte Observer reports that the school’s athletics director says the status of 46-year-old will be addressed later this month. The Observer says Garcia will not be returning to his job as a sports-talk radio host on WFNZ‑AM. Garcia is charged with simple assault and is set to appear in court next month. Garcia played with the Panthers from 1995 to 2000, the Rams, 2001-02, and the Cardinals, 2003.
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The Chargers’ Philip Rivers was the only one of three quarterbacks with N.C. ties to advance during the opening weekend of the NFL playoffs with Los Angeles’ 2317 win over Baltimore. The Chargers will travel to New England for Sunday’s AFC division round game. Seattle and former NC State quarterback Russell Wilson suffered a 24-22 loss at Dallas, while former North Carolina quarterback Mitch Trubisky and the Bears lost 16-15 at home to the Eagles.
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“He’s a fourthquarter player. He shines brightest in those moments.” Hornets coach James Borrego on Kemba Walker, who scored 18 points in the final 4½ minutes of Charlotte’s 119-113 win Sunday at Phoenix.
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Jeff Banister: The former Texas Rangers manager — who was once a player/ coach for the Carolina Mudcats in 1993 in eight games before returning as manager in 1998 — was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates as a special adviser. The 54-yearold Banister was fired by the Rangers in September after going 325-313 in four seasons with Texas, guiding them to the postseason in his first two seasons on the bench. Jim Caldwell: The former Wake Forest football coach interviewed with the New York Jets for their head coaching vacancy. The meeting was announced by the team Monday. It marks the fifth known interview New York has conducted since firing coach Todd Bowles last Sunday. Caldwell, who coached the Demon Deacons from 1993-2000, has twice been an NFL head coach — with the Colts (2009‑11) and Lions (2014-17).
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“I think I can play another three or four years ... and hopefully I can play some more after that.” Greensboro native John Isner, 33, at the Auckland Open in New Zealand.
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Duke remained at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 released Monday, receiving 37 of 64 first-place votes, followed by No. 2 (nine first-place votes), No. 3 Tennessee (13) and No. 4 Virginia (5). Both UNC (No. 12) and NC State (No. 15) moved up three spots ahead of the Tuesday night matchup between the rivals in Raleigh.
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Sebastian Aho, who leads the Hurricanes in goals, assists and points, will be the first forward to represent the team in eight years when he attends All-Star Weekend in San Jose later this month. Eric Staal and Jeff Skinner represented the team when the event was held in Raleigh in 2011.
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15 Straight wins to start the season for the NC State women’s basketball team, the best start in the program’s history. The eighth-ranked Wolfpack — who have won all but two games by double-digit margins — opened ACC play last week with a home win over Duke and a victory at Boston College.
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North Carolina A&T and Elon finished 11th and 17th, respectively, in the final Football Championship Series poll of the season. North Dakota State, which beat Eastern Washington 38‑24 for the national championship, finished ranked first, followed by Kennesaw State.
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NC comes out ahead in bowl games North Carolina’s schools went 4-1 in the postseason, with the only blemish being NC State’s loss to Texas A&M
New Orleans Bowl Appalachian State 45, Middle Tennessee 13
By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE COLLEGE football bowl season, with the exception of the four-team playoff that ended with Clemson’s national championship victory Monday, was largely defined by who didn’t play rather than who did. It’s a phenomenon that affected several North Carolina teams in their postseason games. While Wake Forest overcame the absence of All-American wide receiver/kick returner Greg Dortch to beat Memphis in the Birmingham Bowl, NC State struggled in the Gator Bowl against Texas A&M without firstteam All-ACC performer Kelvin Harmon on offense and leading tackler Germain Pratt. Among those stars that did answer the bell, no one helped themselves more than Duke quarterback Daniel Jones, whose record-setting performance against Temple in the Independence Bowl potentially catapulted him into the first round of the NFL draft. Appalachian State, without coach Scott Satterfield, and NC A&T, with a group of seniors securing their second straight HBCU national title, also fashioned successful conclusions to their 2018 seasons with bowl victories. Here’s the complete rundown of the state’s 4-1 postseason performance.
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Duke players celebrate their win over Temple in the Independence Bowl on Dec. 27 in Shreveport, La. of 32 passes for just 139 yards and two interceptions. He was also sacked twice before coach Dave Doeren mercifully pulled him early in the fourth quarter. Independence Bowl Duke 56, Temple 27
Gator Bowl Texas A&M 53, NC State 13 The Wolfpack’s goal of reaching double digit victories for just the second time in school history came crashing down with a disastrous second half in which it was outscored 31-0 by the Aggies. It’s doubtful that either Harmon or Pratt would have made enough of a difference in stopping an A&M juggernaut that rolled up 401 yards on the ground and forced State (9-4) to go 0 for 13 on third-down conversions. Trayveon Williams ran for 236 yards and three touchdowns to earn game MVP honors for the
ACC from page B1 shooting accuracy. Senior guard Kenny Williams, in particular, has been an enigma. A career 35-percent shooter from 3-point range, Williams has made just 14 of his 57 attempts (24.6 percent) from beyond the arc so far this season. In spite of that, UNC is still well positioned to make a serious challenge for the ACC title and make a deep run into March as Williams starts to find his range and freshman stars Little and Coby White continue to get more comfortable with their roles and the college game. NC State The Wolfpack have exceeded all expectations this season. Picked for the middle of the pack in the ACC, State won 12 of 13 nonconference games to start the season, including an upset of then-No. 7 Auburn and double-digit wins over Penn State and Vanderbilt. State also had a comeback victory over Miami in its conference opener to have its best start to the regular season since the 1973-74 national championship team. The Pack leads the ACC in shooting, hitting 52.1 percent from the field. Six players are making more than half their shots, including the team’s top three scorers: Torin Dorn, Markell Johnson and C.J. Bryce. State’s two big men — DJ Funderburk and Wyatt Walker — are hitting more than 60 percent from the field. Despite only returning three contributors from last season, coach Kevin Keatts has assembled a deep team. State is getting more than 35 points per game from a bench that includes Devon Daniels (10.5 points), freshman Jericole Hellems (7.9), grad transfer Eric Lockett and transfer Blake Harris. Twenty times this season, a player has come off the bench to score in double figures. Even the starters have embraced Keatts’ platoon attack. Braxton Beverly has seen his minutes decline but is still contributing 8.5 points per game as a parttime starter, outside threat and
NFL pick Darrell Henderson — missed a 43-yard field goal as time expired. Senior receiver Alex Bachman helped make up for Dortch’s absence by catching seven passes for 171 yards, including two on the final drive to set up the decisive touchdown.
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Texas A&M rolled to a 53-13 win over NC State in the Gator Bowl, the only loss suffered by a North Carolina team during bowl season. Aggies while on the other side of the ball, the Wolfpack’s highest profile offensive star — quarterback Ryan Finley — completed 19
The Blue Devils (8-5) bounced back from a regular season-ending rout at the hands of Wake Forest and an early two-touchdown deficit to earn their third bowl win in the last four years. The victory also extended coach David Cutcliffe’s personal record in the Shreveport, La.-based bowl to a perfect 4-0. Jones, a junior who announced his intention to enter the NFL Draft shortly after the game, set Independence Bowl records by throwing for 423 yards and five touchdowns. Wide receiver T.J. Rahming caught 12 of those passes for 240 yards and two scores to earn a spot on The Associated Press’ All-Bowl team. Temple, playing under an interim coach after Geoff Collins left for Georgia Tech, used an early pick-six to build a 27-14 lead in the
running the offense when Johnson goes to the bench. Bryce, who scored 17.4 points per game for Keatts at UNCW, is settling for a reduced role, scoring 11.2 in 10 fewer minutes a night. Johnson has developed into one of the best point guards in the league, hitting 50 percent of his 3-pointers and ranking among assist leaders. He’s also hiked his scoring by 50 percent, averaging more than 12 points per game. State is second in the ACC and seventh nationally in rebounding margin and has firmly established itself as a team challenging for the top tier in the league.
any significant improvement between now and the end of the season and perhaps keep Manning off the hot seat. Even if Mucius and Wright are able to increase their production as the ACC schedule progresses and sophomore guard Chaundee Brown finally finds the consistency he’s lacked to this point in his career, the Deacons will have a hard time escaping the bottom of the league standings.
Wake Forest
As good as expected
The Deacons were picked to finish 14th in the 15-team ACC this season, and to this point they have done little to suggest they are anything more than that. Among their nonconference losses are ugly setbacks to Houston Baptist and Gardner-Webb. They then opened their ACC schedule by losing at Georgia Tech, which was picked to finish 13th, before taking on Duke on Tuesday. In Wake’s defense, coach Danny Manning’s team is the second-youngest team in the nation, with the bulk of their team belonging to a high-rated freshman class. But the inexperience crutch can only be taken so far considering that the only team younger than the Deacons is the topranked Blue Devils. Although five-star wing Jaylen Hoard has shown flashes of his promise while ranking second on the team in scoring at 15.5 points per game and leading in rebounding at 7.7, classmates Isaiah Mucius, Sharone Wright Jr. have been slower to develop. Compounding the problem is that big men Ikenna Smart and Oliver Sarr have provided little help inside. Besides Hoard, junior point guard Brandon Childress has been Wake’s only real bright spot. Following in his father Randolph’s footsteps, he leads Wake in scoring (17.3 points) and assists (55) while shooting 47 percent from 3-point range. But he’s going to need some help for Wake to make
Virginia: The Cavs entered conference play as one of the few undefeated teams left in the country. Of course, the real test will come in March as UVa hopes to bounce back from last season’s first-round upset.
second quarter. Duke cut the gap to 27-21 when Jones hit Rahming for a 22-yard touchdown. The score touched off a run of 42 unanswered points that helped the Blue Devils pull away for the victory. Birmingham Bowl Wake Forest 37, Memphis 34 Like Duke, the Deacons (7-6) had to dig themselves out of an early hole to finish their season on a high note. Coach Dave Clawson’s team fell behind 28-10, giving up touchdowns on a 97-yard kickoff return and an interception, before roaring from behind on the passing and running of backup quarterback Jamie Newman. Making only his fourth career start, Newman ran for three touchdowns and passed for 328 yards and another score to earn game MVP honors. His 1-yard touchdown run with 34 seconds left capped a clutch 75-yard drive and gave Wake what turned out to be its winning margin. The Deacons’ celebration had to wait, however, until Memphis — playing without star running back and projected first round
Interim coach Mark Ivey, filling in after Satterfield left to take the job at Louisville, pulled out all the stops in leading the Mountaineers to their fourth straight bowl victory since moving up to the FBS level. The Sun Belt Conference champions got two touchdown passes on trick plays from wide receiver Malik Williams, including one to quarterback Zac Thomas, and attempted an onside kick in the first half on the way to their 11th win of the season. Thomas also threw for three touchdowns and Camerun Peoples, a freshman playing in only his third game this season thanks to the NCAA’s new redshirt rule, added a 63-yard scoring run in App State’s final game before newly hired coach Eliah Drinkwitz takes over the program. Celebration Bowl NC A&T 24, Alcorn State 22 The Aggies (10-2) won their third HBCU title in the last four years and second straight despite a balky offensive performance that saw them gain just 38 rushing yards on 31 carries while allowing Alcorn State to roll up 328 yards on the ground against their No. 2-ranked defense. Quarterback Lamar Raynard threw for 292 yards and two firsthalf touchdowns in the game that matched champions from the Mid-East and Southwest athletic conferences. Although A&T never trailed, it took a 79-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by senior Malik Wilson late in the third quarter for the Aggies to secure their victory. For all its offensive struggles, A&T came through when it needed it most, holding the ball for the final 5:55 to prevent Alcorn from getting one final opportunity to pull the game out. The victory put a successful ending to Sam Washington’s first season as coach. It also put an exclamation point on the careers of 21 seniors, who combined to go 41-7 over their four seasons with the Aggies.
As for the rest of the ACC, here’s a look at how each conference team has performed so far this season.
Better than expected Virginia Tech: The Hokies have moved into the top 10 after winning 11 of 12 nonconference games and their first two ACC contests. Virginia Tech is led by a deadly outside attack. The Hokies are hitting 44 percent of their 3-pointers to lead the league. Florida State: The Seminoles won 12 of 13 in nonconference play, moving into the AP top 10 before a loss at Virginia in their ACC opener dropped them to 13. The Noles have wins over two ranked foes — LSU and Purdue — as well as UConn and Florida. Pitt: Under new coach Jeff Capel and with a revamped roster, the Panthers are no longer the laughingstock of the league. Pitt has already topped last season’s win total, and led by freshman scorer Xavier Johnson, the Panthers should pull a few upsets in conference play. About what we expected Louisville: Under new coach Chris Mack, the Cardinals showed they’re still a contender. Louisville upset No. 9 Michigan State and
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Louisville forward Jordan Nwora has been one of the most improved players in the ACC this season. played a tough schedule that included Tennessee and Kentucky. Jordan Nwora (17.9 points per game) is one of the most improved players in the league. Syracuse: The Orange have been inconsistent, but Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim has one of the ACC’s best players in Tyus Battle (17.9 points), size inside with Oshae Brissett (8.5 rebounds per game), reliable shooting in Elijah Hughes and a stingy defense. Expect the Orange to steadily improve as conference play goes on. Clemson: The Tigers withstood an early-season injury to Marcquise Reed and appear to be inching back to top 25 status now that they’re back to full strength. In addition to Reed’s scoring and playmaking (19.6 points, 4.0 assists), Clemson has big man Elijah Thomas (7.4 rebounds), who leads the conference in field goal percentage. Georgia Tech: The Yellow Jackets are still in rebuilding mode,
as their nonconference slate underscored. Tech won at Arkansas but lost virtually every other game against a name opponent, including Tennessee, Northwestern, St. John’s and Georgia. The Jackets also lost at home to Gardner-Webb. Notre Dame: Last year, the Irish were derailed by an injury to Bonzie Colson. Their luck hasn’t improved, as Notre Dame has to go the rest of the way without veteran guard Rex Pflueger. Notre Dame is led by big man John Mooney (9.7 rebounds) and guard T.J. Gibbs (14.7 points, 3.9 assists). Worse than expected Boston College: The Eagles have player of the year candidate Ky Bowman but somehow lost to IUPUI and Hartford. Miami: The Canes suffered a four-game nonconference losing streak and dropped their first two ACC games.
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Hurricanes finally find stability in net
Despite saying last year that 2018 would be his final season, veteran linebacker Thomas Davis could return in 2019.
Curtis McElhinney and Petr Mrazek have given Carolina enough saves to make the team’s past struggles in goal an afterthought By Cory Lavalette North State Journal
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Big changes await Panthers in uncertain offseason While Carolina has key pieces, there are plenty of spots on the roster that need to be fixed By Shawn Krest North State Journal AFTER A disappointing 7-9 season, the Carolina Panthers enter the offseason faced with more uncertainty than usual. With a new owner who likely wasn’t happy with the team’s second-half tailspin, there’s the possibility that the team could look very different next fall. Here’s a look at the key areas that will shape the Panthers for 2019 and beyond. Coaching decisions Head coach Ron Rivera found himself on the proverbial hot seat during the team’s seven-game losing streak. His job appears to be safe, however. Rivera survived Black Monday, and reports surfaced in multiple media sources that he’d be back in 2019. His staff will likely feature some changes. He stripped firstyear defensive coordinator Eric Washington of responsibilities during the losing streak. Last season’s coordinator, Steve Wilks, is surprisingly available, after getting fired by Arizona after one season as head coach. There’s the possibility Carolina could put the band back together, rehiring Wilks in his old role and moving Washington back to his previous job, coaching the defensive line. Free agency The team has several needs to fill on the roster, but first, the Panthers need to make decisions on their own guys. Carolina has 20 players scheduled to be unrestricted free agents, including several veteran contributors. GM Marty Hurney will have to decide which, if any, have enough left to bring them back for one more
SMITH from page B1 During his tenure at the private school, which is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, the former corporate CEO has nearly tripled High Point’s undergraduate enrollment, greatly expanded the number of faculty and added four academic schools. He also commissioned construction of a new $130 million basketball arena/ convention center/hotel complex — to named in his honor — scheduled to be ready for the 2020-21 season. In order to upgrade the quality of the basketball team that will play in the shiny new facility, Qubein and athletic director Dan Hauser dismissed former coach Scott Cherry after two straight seasons around the .500 mark and immediately turned their attention toward their school’s most famous athletic ambassador. “Tubby Smith is a nationally admired, transformational coach whose career brings honor to his alma mater as a distinguished alumnus,” Qubein said of his high-profile hire. Although Smith’s hairline and hair color have changed as dramatically as High Point’s campus since the last time he was in residence there, his passion for the
year, and which areas need to be added to the team’s lengthy “positions of need” list. Center Ryan Kalil has already made the decision for the team. The season finale was his final game, as he heads into retirement. Linebacker Thomas Davis backtracked from his preseason declaration that this would be his final season and would like to come back for one more goround. Similarly, defensive end Julius Peppers has to decide if he wants to retire or have one more year in the NFL. Then the team will have to determine whether or not to bring Davis and Peppers back or move on to younger replacements. Safeties Mike Adams and Eric Reid are two other veteran free agents. The team appears to already be making strides to re-up Reid, a midseason pickup. Other key contributors on the list of free agents include unheralded defensive tackle Kyle Love, special teams standouts Ben Jacobs and Colin Jones, and offensive linemen Amini Silatolu, Chris Clark and Darryl Williams. Then there’s wide receiver Devin Funchess. In his fourth year, Funchess saw his catch, yardage, average and touchdown numbers plummet. He was inactive for the team’s final game, and Rivera gave every indication that Carolina is ready to move on.
“Games were in our grasp, but unfortunately we didn’t do it. That’s the hard thing for me to accept.” Panther coach Ron Rivera on the team’s struggles this season
progress. Tight end Greg Olsen, who battled a season-long foot injury for the second straight year, is also an uncertainty. Assuming he can get back to 100 percent, he’d likely want to return so he can go out on his own terms. He may decide the rehab and recovery isn’t worth it, however, and chose to move on to broadcasting or whatever his next career will be. Kicker Graham Gano also battled injury and missed the end of the regular season. The team will need to make a decision on the veteran. Draft and other acquisitions
The Panthers also have some key non-free agents who need to get healthy over the offseason, or else the team will need to spend resources on a contingency plan. Tops on that list is quarterback Cam Newton, who missed the last two games to rest his injured shoulder. The Panthers and Newton need to decide quickly whether he’ll have surgery to repair it or try to rehab it without going under the knife. Depending on his status going into camp, Carolina may need to find a veteran backup to hedge its bets on Newton’s
Once Rivera, Hurney and the rest of the decision-makers have a handle on the current roster, the Panthers can set about filling holes. Among the areas of need Carolina currently has are the offensive line. The tackle spots likely needed to be upgraded even before the likely postseason free agent departures we’ll see. The Panthers will likely look for a way to inexpensively part ways with Kalil’s brother, Matt, a disappointing free agent pickup last offseason. The team will also be in the market for a new center. Like the line, the safety spot was an area of need, even before Adams and Reid hit the market. Even if both come back, the Panthers need to get younger and deeper there. The defensive line, receiver and corner are other spots in need of an upgrade.
job burns just as hot as when he played for the Panthers. It was on full display during a recent game against N.C. Wesleyan, in which the 67-year-old coach — his suit jacket having been shed long before — energetically directed his team’s defense from the sideline as it rallied from a four-point deficit in the final minute to force overtime. “It’s unfortunate that I got fired (at Memphis), but that happens in this business.” Smith said after the Panthers won the game 90-85 behind a career-high 35 points from Proctor. “When it does, you can go behind a rock and hide your head, but I know who I am. I’m very comfortable in my skin and what I’m capable of doing. “I could coach anywhere. I was a high school coach for six years and an assistant coach for 12, so I don’t feel like coming here was beneath me. I feel like it’s the best thing that’s happened to me in my life right now.” Inheriting a team that returned four starters from a year ago — junior guards Proctor and Brandonn Kamga, sophomore guard Danny Slay and senior forward Jordan Whitehead — Smith and the Panthers have yet to hit their stride during their first season under their new
coach. They’ve had their share of highs, including Smith’s 600th career victory at East Carolina on Nov. 24, but have had just as many lows on the way to compiling an 8-6 record. Smith is hoping that a 51-50 win in High Point’s Big South opener at Charleston Southern last Saturday is a sign that his team is starting to make strides in the right direction. “We’ve got a good group of kids,” Smith said. “We just need to keep pulling them and pushing them and inspiring them to be better.” When it comes to inspiration, Smith doesn’t have to do much to get his players’ attention. Despite his assertion that today’s players “don’t really see coaches,” his Panthers are well aware of his stature in the game — and not just because Smith’s picture is prominently displayed on the Panthers’ wall of fame behind one of the baskets at their current home, the Millis Center. “Just to learn from him and be able to absorb what he’s put into the game going into my junior year is huge plus,” Proctor, the team’s leading scorer, said. “He’s coached professionals, he’s been there, he’s won a national championship and those are all the things I want to do.”
Health
RALEIGH — The Carolina Hurricanes, in the midst of a fourgame winning streak heading into Tuesday night’s road game against the Islanders, have found their scoring touch. With 17 goals during those four wins, the Hurricanes discovered that offense, not goaltending, has been their Achilles’ heel. “Our goalies have been fine,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said back on Dec. 22 following a 3-0 home loss to the Penguins. “That’s certainly not the issue. But when you don’t score, everything gets magnified. The mistakes you make get magnified. But goaltending is certainly not an issue.” But it does help to have reliable goaltending. And for the first time in a long time, the Hurricanes are getting it. It’s been more than five weeks since Carolina came to terms with the fact its big-ticket acquisition from the 2017 offseason, Scott Darling, was not the answer in net. Instead, the team has hitched its wagon to a career backup in the twilight of his career and an in-his-prime journeyman looking to re-establish himself as a starter. Darling, who still has two remaining years on a contract that will pay him a combined of $7.1 million and cost $4.15 million against the salary cap the next two years, seems a likely candidate for an offseason buyout after he was sent down to the AHL in late November. In two seasons with Carolina, Darling has just 15 wins in 51 appearances with a goals-against average and save percentage on the wrong side of 3.00 and .900. Enter 35-year-old Curtis McElhinney and Petr Mrazek, who will turn 27 on Valentine’s Day, as the two goalies the Hurricanes have leaned on in 2018-19. Heading into the game against the Islanders, McElhinney (9‑5‑1, 2.20, .923) has been the better of the two since he was claimed off waivers from Toronto prior to the start of the season, ranking as one of five goalies in the NHL to have played at least 10 games and post a .920 or better save percentage and goals-against average under 2.30. “He makes the big save when he has to, gets a whistle when he has to to kind of get us to the right change,” coach Rod Brind’Amour said of McElhinney following Carolina’s 4-2 win Jan. 4 over Columbus, one of seven NHL team’s the veteran has played for in his 11year career. “Whatever we need, he’s been great all year.” Mrazek hasn’t been as good as
“You know, it’s worked out pretty well. I feel good playing behind these guys, so it’s been nice to be given the opportunity.” Curtis McElhinney
McElhinney, but still an improvement over Darling. At 8-8-2 with a .900 save percentage and 2.69 goals-against average, Mrazek is slightly below his career averages. But after his first start since returning from injury Dec. 2 — days after Darling was first demoted to the Charlotte Checkers — his save percentage has been a respectable .912 with a GAA right around his season average. When Mrazek has gotten goal support, he’s been good. Since coming back from injury, Mrazek has received seven goals of support in his five losses — four came in one game, a 6-4 defeat in Montreal on Dec. 13. In Mrazek’s previous start, captain Justin Williams had lamented the team’s inability to provide offense for their goalies. “I told him we’d get him some, and we didn’t,” Williams said of the 4-1 loss in Toronto on Dec. 11. “So I feel we let him down, yeah.” The team, however, has picked up Mrazek during the recent winning streak, scoring five times in his recent wins in Philadelphia and Ottawa — particularly timely against the Senators, against whom Mrazek struggled. So what does the future hold? Both McElhinney and Mrazek are on expiring contracts and will be unrestricted free agents this summer. If Carolina is in the playoff picture come the Feb. 25 trade deadline, the team will likely opt to keep both. As for 2019-20, there are options. McElhinney would probably welcome a one-way contract that extends his NHL career. Mrazek came to the Hurricanes with designs on being a No. 1 again, and while he outplayed Darling, he has been bested by McElhinney. The Hurricanes probably wouldn’t want to commit to more than Mrazek is getting this season ($1.5 million on a one-year deal), especially with Darling’s contract — buyout or not — on the books. There’s also Charlotte Checkers starter Alex Nedeljkovic, a fourthyear pro who’s biggest knock has been his 6-foot, 190-pound Mrazek-esque frame. He is likely ready to assume the backup or 1B job. Regardless of how things shape up for next season, the Hurricanes have found stability in net for this season. If the goals keep coming, they may be able to think about their offseason moves later than they have in a decade.
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The well-traveled Curtis McElhinney is with his seventh NHL team, but he may finally have earned a shot to be a true No. 1 goalie with the Hurricanes.
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Fortune 500 company Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process services, will expand its operations in Charlotte, creating 300 jobs. Cognizant is one of the world’s foremost professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Cognizant is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently ranked among the most admired companies in the world. The company currently employs more than 2,700 people in North Carolina. Through the work of the Cognizant U.S. Foundation, established earlier this year with an initial grant of $100 million from Cognizant, the company also promotes education and workforce initiatives to develop science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in America’s current and future workforce. The Foundation made its inaugural grant, in the amount of $1.5 million, to Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont in Charlotte in May, with funds directed toward increasing digital skills education opportunities for area residents. “Leading companies in today’s digital economy call North Carolina home for a good reason,” said Gov. Roy Cooper. With its latest Charlotte workforce expansion, Cognizant will partner with Tech Talent South, a coding boot camp, as well as the North Carolina Community College System and local universities, to provide additional training programs for in-demand technology skills.
Survey: small business optimism strong in NC Even as demand for workers remains a constraint, a National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) survey shows owners are bullish about North Carolina’s business year ahead By Emily Roberson North State Journal RALEIGH — The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index remained basically unchanged in December, drifting down 0.4 points to 104.4, according to the report released today. Unfilled jobs and the lack of qualified applicants continue to be a primary driver, with job openings setting a record high and job creation plans strengthening. State-specific data is unavailable, but NFIB North Carolina State Director Gregg Thompson said, “The historic state income tax cuts that take effect this month should help North Carolina businesses continue to grow in 2019.” Reports of higher worker compensation remained near record levels and inventory investment plans surged. Expected real sales growth and expected business conditions in the next six months, however, accounted for the modest decline in the Index. “Optimism among small business owners continues to push record highs, but they need workers to generate more sales, provide services, and complete projects, said NFIB President and CEO Juanita D. Duggan. “Two of every three of these new jobs are historically created by the small business half of the economy, so it will be Main Street that will continue to drive economic growth.”
A recent historical perspective: • Actual hiring strengthened to the highest reading in six months, job openings are at a record high levels, and plans to create new jobs are down only three points from August’s record high. • The net percent of owners expecting better business conditions in six months and the percent viewing the current period as a good time to expand have both tapered off since the record high Index reading in August but still remain well above their historical averages. • Actual capital outlays are five percentage points higher than in August, although plans for outlays are eight points below the high for this expansion. • Plans to invest in inventories are only two points below August, the record high. Satisfaction with inventories is two points better. Last week’s NFIB Jobs Report noted that job creation remained solid with a net addition of 0.25 workers per firm, up from 0.19 in November and the best reading since July. A seasonally-adjusted net 23 percent plan to create new jobs, up one point from November’s reading. Not seasonally adjusted, 23 percent plan to increase total employment at their firm (up one point), and five percent plan reductions (down two points). A record 39 percent of small business owners reported job openings they could not fill in the current period. Sixty percent of owners reported hiring or trying to hire, but 90 percent of those reported few or no qualified applicants for the position. Twenty-three percent of owners cited the difficulty in finding qualified workers as their Single Most Important Business Problem. “Recently, we’ve seen two themes promoted in the public discourse: first, the economy is going to overheat and cause infla-
“Optimism among small business owners continues to push record highs, but they need workers to generate more sales, provide services, and complete projects.” NFIB President and CEO Juanita D. Duggan
tion and second, the economy is slowing and the Federal Reserve should not raise interest rates,” said NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg. “However, the NFIB surveys of the small business half of the economy have shown no signs of an inflation threat, and in real terms Main Street remains very strong, setting record levels of hiring along the way.” The percent of business owners reporting that they increased employee compensation continued at 45-year record high levels. In December, a net 35 percent reported increasing compensation and a net 24 percent reported planned increases in the next few months. The net percent of owners reporting inventory increases fell three points to a net three percent (seasonally adjusted), following November’s strong showing, the second-best since 2005. A net four percent of all owners (seasonally adjusted) reported higher nominal sales in the past three months, down five points from very strong readings. The net percent reporting higher sales averaged two percent in 2017 but nine percent in 2018, with a peak value of 15 percent. The net perSee BUSINESS, page C2
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US governors group calls for federal shutdown to be ended Washington, D.C. Leaders of the nonpartisan National Governors Association are calling on President Donald Trump and Congress to end the partial government shutdown. In a letter sent late Monday, they said a “shutdown should not be a negotiating tactic as disagreements are resolved” and warned that the shutdown, now in its 18th day, is impacting residents and state governments. The letter was signed by the organization’s chairman, Montana Democrat Steve Bullock, and vicechairman, Maryland Republican Larry Hogan. While the letter doesn’t bear all their signatures, the organization represents some of the most prominent politicians in the nation from both major parties. Governors do not have a direct role in striking a federal budget deal. In the letter, the governors don’t take a stance on whether a wall should be built on the border with Mexico — which Trump has insisted on. Instead, it argues that a shutdown isn’t an appropriate way to handle policy disputes. The organization says governors are seeing a toll from the shutdown — and that it could get worse. About 800,000 federal employees are furloughed or working without pay, leading to financial struggles for them and “potentially siphoning dollars from state economies.”
Amazon emerges as most valuable US firm amid market turmoil San Francisco Amazon has eclipsed Microsoft as the most valuable publicly traded company in the U.S. as a see-sawing stock market continues to reshuffle corporate America’s pecking order. The shift occurred Monday after Amazon’s shares rose 3 percent to close at $1,629.51 and lifted the e-commerce leader’s market value to $797 billion. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s stock edged up by less than 1 percent to finish at $102.06, leaving the computer software maker’s value at $784 billion. It marks the first time Amazon has held the top spot and ends Microsoft’s brief return to the pinnacle after it surpassed Apple in late November. The repositioning has been triggered by mounting concerns that the Trump administration’s trade war with China and rising interest rates will bog down the worldwide economy. If that were to happen, it’s likely to slow the growth of companies in technology and other industries that generate a substantial chunk of their revenue outside the U.S. Amazon remains 21 percent below its high reached in September when the company’s stock value stood above $1 trillion. Apple’s stock has plunged by 37 percent since early October to erase about $400 billion of its market value.
US job openings fell in November to still-strong 6.9 million Washington, D.C. U.S. job openings fell in November from the previous month, but the number of available positions remained. Job openings slipped 3.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted 6.9 million, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That is the fewest openings in five months, but still 16 percent higher than a year ago. The job market remains strong despite sharp stock market declines last month, interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve and a slowing global economy that is also bedeviled by trade fights. Last week’s blockbuster jobs report helped assuage concerns about the economy, as it showed that hiring reached a 10-month high in December. The number of open jobs is still higher than the number of unemployed, a switch that occurred in March for the first time in the nearly 20 years that the government has tracked job openings. There were 6 million people were out of work in November. That suggests employers are desperate to hire, a trend that appears to be pushing up wages. Average hourly pay rose 3.2 percent in December from a year earlier, Friday’s jobs report showed, matching the best yearly gain since the recession.
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In this Dec. 6, 2018, photo, a woman runs past a Apple logo colored red in Beijing, China. Apple Inc.’s $1,000 iPhone is a tough sell to Chinese consumers who are jittery over an economic slump and a trade war with Washington. The tech giant became the latest global company to collide with Chinese consumer anxiety when CEO Tim Cook said iPhone demand is waning, due mostly to China. Weak consumer demand in the world’s second-largest economy is a blow to industries from autos to designer clothing that are counting on China to drive revenue growth.
Waning iPhone demand highlights Chinese consumer anxiety After largest stock drop in five years, Apple must navigate consumer anxiety in the midst of China’s tariff fight with the U.S., highlighting the vulnerability of many big American companies in global market By Joe McDonald The Associated Press BEIJING — Apple’s $1,000 iPhone is a tough sell to consumers in China unnerved by an economic slump and the trade war with the U.S. CEO Tim Cook said in a letter to shareholders last week that demand for iPhones is waning and revenue for the last quarter of 2018 will fall well below projections, a decrease he traced mainly to China. The iPhone is Apple’s biggest product, accounting for about 60 percent of its revenue in the July-September quarter, the latest reported. Its stock fell 10 percent Thursday, the worst drop in five years, wiping out about $75 billion in market value. Apple is the latest company grappling with increasing Chinese consumer anxiety. Other brand names such as Ford Motor Co. and jeweler Tiffany & Co. already have reported abrupt declines in sales to Chinese buyers. China still is one of the fastest-growing economies, with 2018’s expansion forecast at about 6.5 percent. But China’s tariff fight with the U.S. and an avalanche of bad news about tumbling auto and real estate sales are undermining consumer confidence after two decades of almost unbroken rapid growth. “It’s definitely worrying,” said China specialist David Dollar, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Overall, consumption growth is slowing down in China.” The Apple news shows how vulnerable many big U.S. companies are to a slowdown in China, especially as the world’s two biggest economies seek to settle a contentious trade dispute. “It’s not going to be just Apple,” Kevin Hassett, chairman of the White Council of Economic Advisers, told CNN Thursday. He said many companies have a lot of sales in China and will “be watching their earnings downgraded next year until we get a deal with China. And I think that puts a lot of pressure on China to
BUSINESS from page C1 cent of owners expecting higher real sales volumes fell one point to a net 23 percent of owners. Consumer spending has remained steady and small manufacturing and construction firms cannot find enough employees
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A woman browses her iPhone as she walks by a mural depicting an iPhone and Chinese people buying a smartphone to communicate with family members, at a subway station in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. make a deal.” Emily Li, a 37-year-old advertising designer in Beijing, said she is putting off replacing her car or making other major purchases. “People are worried about losing jobs,” she said. Weakness in Chinese demand is especially painful for Apple and other smartphone makers. China accounts for one-third of the industry’s global handset shipments. Shipments in China fell 10 percent from a year earlier to 103 million handsets in the quarter ending in September, according to research firm IDC. It expects last year’s total Chinese purchases to shrink by 8 percent to 9 percent compared with 2016. The belt-tightening in the world’s second-largest economy is bedeviling global industries, including autos and designer clothing, that count on China to drive sales growth. The trade war with Washington has shaken a “sense of China’s invincibility,” said Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting, a research firm in Beijing. Chinese are waking up to the fact that their economy is vulnerable to the uncertainties of the global economy, he said. The slump is a setback for the ruling Communist Party’s efforts to nurture self-sustaining, consumer-driven economic growth and wean China from its reliance
on exports and investment. China’s third-quarter economic growth of 6.5 percent was stronger than most other major economies, but the country’s lowest since the 2008 global crisis. The deceleration partly reflects a deliberate government campaign to rein in China’s high debt levels. At the same time, Beijing has sought to relieve the economic pain with higher government spending. “They’re trying to aim at a very fine target,” said Dollar, a former World Bank and U.S. Treasury Department official. “They want to see the economy slow down, but they don’t want to see it slow down too much.” China reported this week that factory activity shrank in December for the first time in more than two years. And auto sales in the biggest global market are on track for their first annual decline in three decades after plunging 16 percent in November. Soft real estate sales have forced developers to cut prices. Overall, export growth decelerated to 5.4 percent over a year earlier, less than half October’s 12.6 percent rate. Sales to the U.S. market have held up despite President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods, rising 12.9 percent in November over a year earlier. But that was thanks partly to exporters rushing to beat
further American duty increases — a trend that is starting to fade. Apple’s setback also highlights another challenge: increasingly capable Chinese competitors whose products cost less. In smartphones, that includes Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi. Some are priced as low as 500 yuan ($70). Others have beaten the American giant to market with features Chinese users want, such as phones that can use separate carriers for voice and data. That has eroded the iPhone’s cachet and customers’ willingness to pay premium prices. “I think 10,000 yuan ($1,400) for an iPhone is too much,” said Vivian Yang, a manager at a Beijing technology company. “Nobody needs such a phone.” Yuan Yuan, a 26-year-old employee of a social media company in Beijing, reflects the pressures on urban professionals squeezed by rising living costs and job uncertainty. Yuan said his monthly income fluctuates between 3,000 and 10,000 yuan ($425 and $1,400) and only covers living expenses. As a university student, Yuan had an iPhone paid for by his parents. But once he had to buy his own, he switched to a lower-priced Xiaomi. “I have no plans to buy an apartment, a car or any other major items,” Yuan said.
to fill their open positions, selling all they can produce without more workers. Unchanged from last month, 61 percent of owners reported capital outlays. Of those making expenditures, 42 percent reported buying new equipment, 25 percent acquired vehicles, and
15 percent improved or expanded facilities. Six percent acquired new buildings or land for expansion and 15 percent spend money for new fixtures and furniture. Thirty-two percent of owners reported all credit needs met (unchanged), and 50 percent said they were not interested in a
loan, up three points. By comparison, only three percent reported financing was their top business problem (up one point), while 13 percent cited taxes (down six points), 14 percent citing regulations and red tape, and 23 percent the availability of qualified labor.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Here is a complete list of winners at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards, presented Sunday in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. FILM Drama: “Bohemian Rhapsody” Actress, Drama: Glenn Close, “The Wife” Actor, Drama: Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody” Comedy or Musical: “Green Book” Actor, Comedy or Musical: Christian Bale, “Vice” Actress, Comedy or Musical: Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
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Actress, Supporting Role: Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
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Actor, Supporting Role: Mahershala Ali, “Green Book” Foreign Language Film: “Roma” Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Roma” Screenplay: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, “Green Book” Animated: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” Original Score: Justin Hurwitz, “First Man” Original Song: “Shallow,” “A Star Is Born”
TELEVISION Drama: “The Americans” Actress, Drama: Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve” Actor, Drama: Richard Madden, “Bodyguard” Musical or Comedy: “The Kominsky Method” Actress, Musical or Comedy: Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Actor, Musical or Comedy: Michael Douglas, “The Kominsky Method” JORDAN STRAUSS | INVISION | AP
Lady Gaga poses in the press room with the award for best original song, motion picture for “Shallow” from the film “A Star Is Born” at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
beauty & bling By Leanne Italie The Associated Press NEW YORK — Regina King sparkled in rose blush by Alberta Ferretti, Nicole Kidman wore a form-fitting liquid oxblood gown by Michael Kors Collection and Sandra Oh wore a couple of standout old Hollywood looks, but the Golden Globes’ return to red carpet color after last year’s protest in black was led by Lady Gaga in powerhouse periwinkle. The pop star and ally to Bradley Cooper’s Jackson in “A Star is Born” honored an outfit Judy Garland wore when she starred in a 1954 version of the film, with Gaga showing off a more contemporary twist in bulbous sleeves that hit just above the elbows and were attached to a ground-skimming cape. She had a bluish-purple updo to match. King’s strapless dress fit her like a perfect glove and shimmered under the lights as she picked up a statuette for “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Oh was in white Atelier Versace on the carpet, with a statement pleated piece on one shoulder fit for a 1980s prom. She changed into white with long, full coppery sleeves on stage as she co-hosted Sunday’s ceremony with Andy Samberg in Los Angeles. But it was Gaga who emerged the fashion winner. “Lady Gaga won the night in her custom Valentino Haute Couture
gown, which I think we all expected given her press run leading up to the movie’s release,” said Channing Hargrove, a fashion writer for the millennial-focused Refinery29.com. “Cinderella could never!” Gaga wore one of the night’s strongest trends around her neck: Big-talking diamond bling. “I love that Lady Gaga fully embraced the drama of the red carpet,” said Rickie De Sole, fashion market and accessories director for W magazine. “Her Tiffany diamond statement necklace was impossible to miss.” She added: “Bold diamond necklaces and earrings ruled the red carpet. I particularly loved the diamond choker necklaces on Rachel Weisz and KiKi Layne. I love jewelry in the hair and thought Emily Blunt’s vintage diamond brooches were the perfect complement to her silver Alexander McQueen dress.” Gaga’s custom Tiffany & Co. necklace was made with more than 300 diamonds, including a pear-shaped stone of 20 carats that drops at the center. Bows were also big, said De Sole. “It’s a trend we saw all over the red carpet, from the velvet ribbon bow in Nicole Kidman’s hair, front and center on Charlize Theron’s black and white gown to more subtle details on Alison Brie and Gemma Chan’s dresses,” she said.
“Julianne Moore’s Givenchy dress had a beautiful bow on it — perhaps the best of the bunch.” The Times Up movement was top of mind last year, with celebrities wearing black dresses and donning pins as a show of solidarity with sexual assault survivors. This year, only a few used their fashion platform to amplify the movement, including Amber Heard and her Times Up ribbon worn as a bracelet on the red carpet. Overall, Teen Vogue’s fashion features editor, Jessica Andrews, supported more color risk-taking. “It was great to see celebrities move away from the metallic gowns of red carpets past and experiment with color. While some ventured toward muted hues like sky blue (Gina Rodriguez in Reem Acra, Dakota Fanning in Armani Prive and Alison Brie in Vera Wang), others went for more powerful tones like red (Lili Reinhart in Khyeli Couture and Elsie Fisher in Kenzo).” Beauty had a big night out. Jessica Cruel, deputy beauty director for Refinery29.com, had all good things to say about Oh. “Sandra Oh’s asymmetrical updo was gorgeous,” she said. “The style had an old Hollywood glamour to it that is exactly what you’d expect from award season.” Of Reinhart, Cruel said her red eyeshadow matched her red gown perfectly.
Limited Series or Movie Made for Television: “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” Actress, Limited Series or Movie Made for Television: Patricia Arquette, “Escape at Dannemora”
“Red is a color we generally see on lips, but the way Reinhart covered her eye in a ruby color was unique and modern,” she said. She also noted that “neon eye makeup reigned.” “Typically at award shows people go for bold lips, but bold eyes are having a moment,” she said. Sarah Kinonen, Allure’s digital skin-care editor, lauded Camilla Belle’s electric teal eye shadow and Gaga’s complete look. “I know I’m not alone when I say this, but one of my favorite looks of the night was Lady Gaga’s monochromatic blue look,” Kinonen said. “Not just because she looked absolutely gorgeous from head to toe, but because when she goes for a look she really commits. I mean, hello? Did you see her blue hair? Flawless.” Kinonen’s No. 1 for beauty: Lucy Boynton. She was splendid in metallic goddess gold, a longer take on a short hemline shown by Celine for spring 2019. The long sleeves were full but cuffed at the wrist, a detail that played nicely with a matching fitted wide waist. The gown’s skirt draped into a peekaboo all the way up and her platinum bob was left down and beach wavy. The star also sported double-wing eyeliner with Twiggy-inspired clumpy mascara. “Overall, I LOVED Lucy Boynton’s whole beauty look,” Kinonen said. “She’s a newcomer but really went out. Everything was magic.”
Actor, Limited Series or Movie Made for Television: Darren Criss, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” Actress, Supporting Role, Limited Series or Movie Made for Television: Patricia Clarkson, “Sharp Objects” Actor, Supporting Role, Limited Series or Movie Made for Television Ben Whishaw, “A Very English Scandal”
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This image released by NBC shows hosts Andy Samberg, left, and Sandra Oh at the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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the future is here “It’s likely that you won’t be getting your groceries or pizza or flowers delivered by an autonomous car any time soon.”
By Jordan Golson For the North State Journal MIAMI — After billions of dollars and years of research, self-driving cars are finally here. Sort of. If you live in the right city. And it’s glorious. Google is launching its robot taxi service, called Waymo One, outside Phoenix. General Motors’ robot subsidiary Cruise AV has been testing its self-driving cars in San Francisco, preparing its autonomous taxi service for public launch. And Ford is doing its development down in sunny (and rainy) Miami, where it recently hosted journalists for a look at all the ways robot cars can benefit both passengers and businesses. For the past 10 years, imagining the benefits of self-driving vehicles has been more of a theoretical exercise: “Wouldn’t it be cool if we could have a robot deliver pizza?” But now, Ford and its partners are doing the groundwork to make this stuff a reality. For instance, Ford partnered up with Domino’s to develop a test platform for autonomous pizza delivery. In a mocked-up “self-driving car” that’s being driven by a normal person behind tinted windows, the companies have been testing a computerized pizza delivery system — the idea isn’t to develop the car but to instead figure out how customers will interact with the car. In the current version, when the self-driving pizzamobile pulls up in front of your house, you walk out to greet it and enter a pin number on a touchscreen mounted on
the side. Once you’re authenticated, a door opens to reveal your order. It all sounds very simple, but training humans to do anything isn’t easy. The first version didn’t have any audible prompts, so a number of customers were unsure what to do next. Now, the car tells the customer to interact with the touchscreen, and there’s a huge “START HERE” sign with an arrow pointing toward the screen. If this all sounds like boring, nitty-gritty stuff, that’s because it is. For decades, folks have been expecting pizza to be hand-delivered to their door. Delivering it by autonomous car requires a change in behavior and expectations, and that’s what Ford and Domino’s are researching. Will people even want to get up from their couch to retrieve a pizza from the curb? Will they want a discount? How will it all work? These are all questions that need to be answered eventually, and the fact that companies are working on this today shows how close we really are to a self-driving future. We’ve moved beyond “can the car drive itself?” The answer to that is increasingly yes. Now the question is: “What can we do with this car that drives itself?” Ford, for its part, thinks there is a whole world of opportunities around businesses that need to move things around. And it’s doing research there too. It partnered with a local dry cleaner and a florist — both small businesses, not massive companies like Domino’s — to see if a self-driving car could help them out too. Again, the focus was on the people and
the business, not the technology of the car itself. The florist, for example, needed a custom floor in the cargo area to drop vases in to keep them stable. The dry cleaner found that the Ford Explorer they were using was better for picking up dirty clothes (as that vehicle isn’t particularly tall, so long clothes couldn’t hang straight) than for delivering clean ones. Every business will be slightly different, but Ford thinks they’re only scratching the surface. Last month, Ford expanded the tests even further, partnering with Walmart to test how autonomous grocery delivery will work. It’s likely that you won’t be getting your groceries or pizza or flowers delivered by an autonomous car any time soon. But Ford’s research — and that of all the other car companies competing in the same space — will lay the ground work for the future of how people and our stuff get around. Ideally, we’ll be able to be more productive and more comfortable and save money at the same time. Volvo recently showed off a concept vehicle interior that it says could replace short plane flights (think Raleigh to D.C. or Atlanta). Grocery delivery could help poor and underserved areas — food deserts — have access to high-quality grocery stores. And self-driving, on-demand delivery vehicles could help small business expand without needing to hire a new, expensive employee right away. The future is coming. Unless you’re in Miami of course, where it’s already here.
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TAKE NOTICE CABARRUS 18 SP 514 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Cheryl A. Grapes and David William Grapes to Jim Howard, Trustee(s), which was dated January 25, 2008 and recorded on January 29, 2008 in Book 08033 at Page 0046, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at
CUMBERLAND 18 SP 946 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Rafael A. Ortiz to Jason O. Wunsch, Trustee(s), which was dated June 24, 2009 and recorded on June 25, 2009 in Book 8185 at Page 0284, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Ser-
File No.: 18 CVS 2609 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in a judgment bearing the caption “U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR CARISBROOK ASSET HOLDING TRUST vs. BARNEY K. MILLER, PAMELA JANE MILLER, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC., Substitute Trustee, Cumberland County, and pursuant to the terms of the judgment, the undersigned Commissioner will offer for sale that certain property as described below. Said sale will be held in the City of
JOHNSTON NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE 18SP398 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Joseph Dattolo to Carolina Title, Trustee(s), dated the 26th day of October, 2017, and recorded in Book 5048, Page 528, in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Sub-
RANDOLPH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 376 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by William E. West, Jr. and Twilla D. West to Kenneth J. Weleski, Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of September, 2005, and recorded in Book RE 1941, Page 1251, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 364 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James Adam Wilson and Ashley Wilson to Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated the 3rd day of February, 2010, and recorded in Book RE2168, Page 37, and Modification in Book RE2328, Page 1276, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on January 22, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Randolph, State of North Carolina, and is described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pipe, the southeast corner of Roger Burrows 4.376 acre tract, being also the beginning point of that certain public right of way and easements recorded at Deed Book 1142, Page 47,
STANLY NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 134
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Robert Louis Swink to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated the 10th day of July, 2008, and recorded in Book 1243, Page 611, in Stanly County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Stanly County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on
UNION 18 SP 278 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Gregory Steven Griffin and Sherry Alen Griffin to Robert A. Forquer, Trustee(s), which was dated September 14, 1998 and recorded on September 18, 1998 in Book 1146 at Page 0060 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on November 17, 2000 in Book 1146, Page 60, Union 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
the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 16, 2019 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE CITY OF CONCORD, NUMBER ELEVEN TOWNSHIP, CABARRUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT AN IRON STAKE ON THE EAST SIDE OF GAYLAN COURT, FRONT CORNER OF CHAD BESSETTE (DEED BOOK 709, PAGE 54) (SAID STAKE BEING NORTH 28-04 EAST 100.0 FEET FROM THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE INTERSECTION OF GAYLAN COURT AND SUNDERLAND ROAD) AND RUNS THENCE WITH THE EAST SIDE OF GAYLAN COURT N. 34-54-11 W. 75.10 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE ON THE EAST SIDE OF SAID GAYLAN COURT, FRONT CORNER OF BOBBY STALLINGS (DEED BOOK 1245, PAGE 115, AND DEED BOOK 1174, PAGE 160); THENCE WITH THE LINE OF STALLINGS
BEING THE SAME FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY CONVEYED BY GENERAL WARRANTY DEED FROM RONALD STEVEN DUVAL AND WIFE, MONICA J. DUVAL FORMERLY MONICA ESTHER JONES TO SOPHIE GRAPES, GUARDIAN FOR DAVID WILLIAM GRAPES, DATED 06/26/1996 RECORDED ON 07/02/1996 IN BOOK 1667, PAGE 63 IN CABARRUS COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF NC. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 684 Sunderland Road Southwest, Concord, NC 28027. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE
EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Sophie Grapes, Guardian for David William Grapes. 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.
vices 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 January 14, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 7, Cypress South, as same is show on plat thereof recorded at Plat Book 116, Page 175, Cumberland County Public Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 2208 Taylor Made Drive, Hope Mills, NC 28348. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent
(5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time 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 Rafael A. Ortiz.
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.
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina at 12:00 p.m. on Monday, the 14th day of January, 2019 at the courthouse door, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situate in the County of Brunswick North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 3, containing .90 acres more or less and all of Lot 4 containing 1.7 acres more or less according to a map of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 79, at Page 19, Cumberland County Registry. Property Address – 1111 Palestine Road, Linden, North Carolina 28356 The property is being sold “as is”, without warranties, subject to all taxes, special assessments and
prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Any assessments, costs or fees resulting from the sale will be due and payable from the purchaser at the sale. The sale will not convey any personal property which may be located on the real property and the Commissioner makes no warranties or representations as to whether improvements to the real property are personal in nature. A cash deposit (no personal check), or certified check in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the high bid, will be required at the time of the sale. The sale will be held open for ten days for upset bids as required by law. This the 18th day of December, 2018.
stitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on January 15, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 118, Bristol at Cobblestone Subdivision, Phase Two, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 84, Pages 378 through 380, Johnston County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a full and complete description of said lot. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 71 Onyx Court, Clayton, 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.
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),
whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property
pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1245432 (FC.FAY)
North 86 degrees 02 minutes, West 200.67 feet to an iron pipe, Whetstone’s northern corner.
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.
LYING ON THE EAST SIDE OF GAYLAN COURT ADJOINING THE PROPERTY OF CHAD BESSETTE, BOBBY STALLINGS AND OTHERS AND BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
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
Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on January 22, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lots Nos. 81, 82, 83 and 84 of Trinity Heights Subdivision, a plat of which is duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Randolph County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 8 at Page 60. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5351 Trinity Boulevard, Trinity, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per
Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point and with the western boundary line of the lands described in Deed Book 1059, Page 767, Randolph County Registry, South 05 degrees 01 minute 08 seconds West 286.03 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence North 84 degrees 20 minutes 05 seconds West 13.09 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 05 degrees 52 minutes 27 seconds West, 23.66 feet to an iron pipe in the northern line of the Bray Estates; thence with said northern line, North 82 degrees 11 minutes 12 seconds West 200.82 feet to an iron rod, a corner with Whetstone; thence with Whetstone’s eastern line, North 07 degrees 30 minutes 22 seconds East 303.12 feet (crossing an iron rod at 279.49 feet) to Burrow’s southern line; thence with Burrow’s line along a 60foot road right of way, South 84 degrees 06 minutes 07 seconds East 200.90 feet to the point and place of beginning, being 1,453 acres, more or less, according to a survey entitled “Anthony Garland Kidd” dated March 18, 1992 by Cagle Surveys. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3356 Fox Run Drive, Asheboro, North Carolina. TOGETHER WITH a perpetual right of way and easement for ingress, egress and regress of sixty (60) feet, being thirty (30) feet on both sides of line described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe, the southeastern corner of Roger Burrow’s 4.376 acre tract, said pipe being also the beginning point of that certain public right of way and easement recorded at Deed Book 1142, Page 47, Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point and along the centerline of a sixty (60) foot road, the following courses and distances.
January 16, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of North Albemarle, in the County of Stanly, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to is situated in the State of North Carolina, County of Stanly, and described as follows: Premises in North Albemarle Township, Stanly County, North Carolina, described as follows: Lot No. 319, shown on map of Wiscassett Mills Company Village Subdivision, Albemarle, North Carolina, dated February 1972, by Gerald H. Ehringer, Registered Engineer, Albemarle, North Carolina, recorded in Map Book 6, page 61 E, Office of the Register of Deeds for Stanly County, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1110 Oak Street, Albemarle, North Carolina. Being the same property conveyed to Robert Louis Swink, tenancy not stated by deed from Jan Holmes Swink, tenancy not stated, dated 09/27/1982, filed 09/29/1982 and recorded in Deed In Book 331, Page 459 in Stanly County
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 January 16, 2019 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: The land referred to in this Commitment is described as follows: Lying and being situated in Union County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the edge of the Stack Road, said point being the Northwest corner of Lot #1 and runs thence with the line of Lot #1 N. 33-17-43 E. 425.37 feet to an iron stake in Lot #5; thence with the line of Lot #5, S. 50-25-22 E. 147.22 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 34-17-50 W. 425.33 feet to a point in the edge of the Stack Road; thence with the edge of the Stack Road as follows: (1) S. 50-31-24 E. 84.77 feet (2) S. 50-53-08 E. 69.86 feet to the point of BEGINNING and containing
N. 36-51-03 E. 185.40 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE, REAR CORNER OF STALLINGS; THENCE S. 18-03-33 E. 167.26 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE, REAR CORNER OF CHAD BESSETTE; THENCE WITH THE LINE OF BESSETTE S. 67-0103 W. 130.42 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, AND BEING THAT PROPERTY AS SHOWN ON SURVEY PREPARED BY JAMES T. WEST, R.L.S., DATED JUNE 20, 1996.
TOGETHER WITH all rights of this grantor in and to that public easement described in a document recorded in Deed Book 1142, Page 47 and subject to right of others in said easement. SUBJECT TO a perpetual easement for ingress, egress and regress of thirty (30) feet to the south of the northern boundary line of the above-described 1.453 acres tract, said boundary line being described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe, the southeastern corner of Roger Burrow’s 4.376 acre tract, said pipe being also the beginning point of that certain public right of way and easement recorded at Deed Book 1142, Page 47, Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point and along the centerline of a sixty (60) foot road, the following courses and distances: North 86 degrees 02 minutes West 200.67 feet to an iron pipe, Whetstone’s northeast corner. Parcel
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Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and
Records. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.
1.467 acres and being Lot #2 in the Stack Road Farms as shown by a plat duly recorded in the Register of Deed’s Office in Cabinet C, File 225 to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 5619 Stack Road, Monroe, NC 28112. 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
BY: _____________ Susan R. Benoit, Commissioner Post Office Box 2505 Fayetteville, NC 28302 (910) 864-6888 THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY
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
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 Gregory Steven Griffin and wife, Sherry Alen Griffin. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
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.: 18-05782-FC01
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-07807-FC01
COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. PUBLICATION DATES: January 2, 2019 and January 9, 2019
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1248560 (FC.FAY)
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1254449 (FC.FAY)
after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1249541 (FC.FAY)
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.: 16-11061-FC02
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TAKE NOTICE 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 January 14, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: That property lying in the City of Raleigh Township, Wake County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a stake in the eastern right of way line of Meredith Street, said stake being 890.83 feet in a southern direction from the southeastern corner of the intersection of Meredith Street and Wilmont Drive, said stake also being the southwestern corner of Lot No 17, Block D on map to which reference is hereinafter made, runs thence along the southern line of Lot No 17 South 82 degrees 25 minutes East 351.8 feet to a point, runs thence South 7 degrees 35 minutes West 96 feet to a point, a common corner with Lot 19; runs thence along the northern line of Lot No 19, North 82 degrees 25 minutes West 358.49 feet to a point in the east right of way line of Meredith Street; runs thence along the right of way line of Meredith Street North 11 degrees 26 minutes East 96.19 feet to the point and place of Beginning, and being Lot 18 according to to a revision of
Lots 14 through 25, Block D of Fairview Acres, Section 2, recorded in Book of Maps 1955, Page 17, of the Wake County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 333 Meredith Street, Raleigh, NC 27606. 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 Thomas Michael Thrower and wife, Amy Katherine Thrower. 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.
the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 16, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 35 in THE PARK AT VALLEY STREAM subdivision, Phase Three, as shown on a map thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2001, Page 658, WAKE County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 4920 Mocha Lane, Raleigh, NC 27616. A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE
EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Dennis M. Dingevan. 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.
the south aide of Penn Road from its intersection with the western side of North State Street; runs thence South 11 degrees 15 minutes West 136.70 feet to an iron stake in the southern line of Lot 131 on map to which reference is hereinafter made; runs thence North 76 degrees 50 minutes West 65.20 feet to an iron stake; runs thence North 11 degrees 15 minutes East 134.50 feet to an iron stake in the southern line of Penn Road; runs thence along the southern line of Penn Road South 78 degrees 45 minutes East 65.0 feet to the point and place of beginning, and being the western part of Lot 131 and the eastern part of Lot 132 of Capitol Heights, Raleigh, N. C., according to survey by D. C. Shearin; dated October 31, 1969. For map of Capitol Heights see Book of Maps 1945, Page 113, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 714 Penn Road, Raleigh, NC 27604. Tax ID: 1714211858 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars
($100.00) or fractional part thereof, or Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), whichever is greater. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owners of the property are Legacy of TAS, Inc. 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.
Substitute Trustee By: __________________ January N. Taylor, Bar #33512 McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC Attorney for Anchor Trustee Services, LLC 3550 Engineering Drive, Suite 260 Peachtree Corner, GA 30092 404-474-7149 (phone) 404-745-8121 (fax) jtaylor@mtglaw.com
courthouse for conducting the sale on January 16, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 219, Block 9, DREWRY HILLS SUBDIVISION, as shown by map recorded in Book of Maps 1965, Page 284, Wake County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 3317 Landor Road, Raleigh, NC 27609. 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 convey-
ance “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 David T. Buckingham and wife, Mary H. Buckingham. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at
least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.
ed, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 16, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 7, Block 0, Biltmore Hills, Map #5, as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1960, Page 274, Wake County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 2021 Waters Drive, Raleigh, NC 27610. 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 Demika H. Sams. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by
providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.
courthouse for conducting the sale on January 16, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Lying and being in the Town of Apex, White Oak Township, WAKE County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 205 in Pemberley Subdivision, Phases 1A, 1B, 1C, 1E, 1F, & 5, as shown on the maps recorded in Book of Maps 2012, Pages 26-33, WAKE County Registry, to which maps reference is hereby made for a more particular description Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 821 Wickham Ridge Road, Apex, NC 27539. 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 Virginia M. Mullis. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving
the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 4521.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.
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.: 17-19631-FC01
AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 973
14, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 20, Holland Ridge Subdivision as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1997, Page 504, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1116 Holland Ridge Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina. Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, 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 chal-
lenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is
liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.
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Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on January 14, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 163, Village Grove, Section 3 as shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 1982, Page 1140, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2505 Village Grove Road, Raleigh, North Carolina.
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 c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1153617 (FC.FAY)
WAKE 18 SP 1760 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 Thomas M. Thrower and Amy K. Thrower to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated August 23, 2012 and recorded on August 28, 2012 in Book 014903 at Page 00423, 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
18 SP 2222 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 Dennis M. Dingevan and Gail M. Dingevan to R. Brian Ball & Paul S. Bliley, Trustee(s), which was dated July 15, 2003 and recorded on July 21, 2003 in Book 010291 at Page 00891, 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
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 2758
NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY
Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Legacy of TAS, Inc. in the original amount of $120,000.00, payable to 5 ARCH Funding Corp., dated June 28, 2017 and recorded on July 3, 2017 in Book 16834, Page 2598, 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 Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Wake County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on January 18, 2019, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: BEGINNING at a stake on the south side of Penn Road, 195 feet in a westerly direction measured along
18 SP 92 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 David T. Buckingham and Mary Hollins Buckingham to Trste, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated March 12, 2007 and recorded on March 12, 2007 in Book 012441 at Page 02054, 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
18 SP 1388 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 Thomas K. Sams and Demika H. Sams to First American Title, Trustee(s), which was dated July 21, 2008 and recorded on July 21, 2008 in Book 013184 at Page 01009, 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 locat-
18 SP 208 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 Virginia M. Mullis to Jennifer Grant, Trustee(s), which was dated February 27, 2013 and recorded on February 27, 2013 in Book 15162 at Page 1250 and rerecorded/modified/ corrected on May 1, 2017 in Book 16768, Page 1842, 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
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Truman Todd Cleveland, Sr. to Coastal Federal Financial Group, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of July, 2007, and recorded in Book 12671, Page 1239, and Additional Deed of Trust in Book 12671, Page 1255, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on January
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Nichols J. Santopietro and Dawn C. Santopietro (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Nick Santopietro and Dawn C. Santopietro) to CTC Foreclosure Services Corporation, Trustee(s), dated the 2nd day of June, 1997, and recorded in Book 7493, Page 0793, and Correction Affidavit in Book 14005, Page 1963, and Judgment in Book 14832, Page 1783, and Modification in Book 15277, Page 212, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North
Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/ security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents
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.: 18-09238-FC01
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-09720-FC01
Anchor Trustee Services, LLC
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.: 17-19883-FC01
Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.
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.: 12-24771-FC02
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1235161 (FC.FAY)
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