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Folwell opposes expanded IRS regulations Raleigh State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced that he is joining 23 other state treasurers, auditors and financial officers in signing a letter opposing legislation that gives the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sweeping new powers to monitor American bank accounts with more than $600 in deposited funds. The additional IRS surveillance authority was first made public in May 2021 and is included in the proposed $3.5 trillion federal budget plan.

“I believe that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes,” Treasurer Folwell said.

“However, this proposal is an unprecedented invasion of privacy that could actually increase the problem of the ‘unbanked’ and ‘underbanked’ in America.”

Folwell also expressed his concern that the new regulations would be overly burdensome and expensive for many small community banks that serve rural North Carolina.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C.

US attorney general directs FBI to investigate parents’ protests of school boards

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Yellen: Urgent action needed on debt limit, rejects $1T coin Washington, D.C. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday that Oct. 18 remains the date she is likely to run out of resources to stave off default on the nation’s debt without congressional action to raise the debt limit. She also rejected the idea of minting a $1 trillion coin to avoid default.

Appearing on CNBC Yellen said if a default were to occur, “I fully expect it would cause a recession,” along with preventing the government from paying benefits to 50 million Social Security recipients and meeting the government’s other bills.

Yellen flatly rejected a novel idea that has been put forward to mint a $1 trillion coin and use that to avoid a default on the debt.

“The platinum coin is the equivalent of asking the Fed to mint money to cover the debt,” she said.

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US resumes Afghan refugee flights after measles shots Washington, D.C. Afghan refugees will soon be arriving again in the U.S. after a massive campaign to vaccinate them against measles following an outbreak that caused a threeweek pause in evacuations.

Authorities have administered the vaccination to about 49,000 evacuees staying on American military bases as well as to those still at transit points in Europe and the Middle East, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

There are about 53,000 Afghans currently staying at eight U.S. military bases and receiving medical care and other assistance before they settle around the nation.

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Trump asks US judge to force Twitter to restore his account New York Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to restore his account, which the company suspended following the protest at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump’s attorneys filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Miami seeking a preliminary injunction against Twitter and its CEO, Jack Dorsey. They argue that Twitter is censoring Trump in violation of his First Amendment rights, according to the motion.

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Cooper, legislative leaders agree to energy compromise Deal calls for 70% reduction in CO2 by 2030

By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper and the leaders of both majority and minority parties at the N.C. House and Senate released identical press statements on Friday, Oct. 3 announcing a bipartisan agreement on the direction of the state’s energy future. The release said this legislation is expected to be passed through the General Assembly this week and was heard in the Senate Agriculture, Energy and Environment Committee at noon on Tuesday.

In the previous 49-page version, passed in July, the precise path to a slightly lower reduction of “at least 61%” was laid out with more detail — including which coal-fired plants would need to be shuttered. This new 10-page agreement allows the details of how to reach these dramatic cuts in CO2 to be worked out later, requiring the state’s Utilities Commission “to follow the least cost pathway in reducing carbon emissions by 70% by the year 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 without sacrificing reliability.”

“This bipartisan agreement sets a clean energy course for North Carolina’s future that is better for the economy, better for the environment, and better for the pocketbooks of everyday North Carolinians,” Cooper said on the plan. “I am encouraged that we have been able to reach across the aisle to find a way forward that will update our energy systems while saving people money and doing our part to slow climate change.”

There had been months of negotiations after the previous version of H.B. 951 stalled. The bill passed the House 57-49 largely along partisan lines on July 15.

Cooper, who is not shy about vetoing legislation, made clear he would not allow the current version to become law.

Major sticking points for Democrats had included the bill’s

relaxing of rules around rate increases for utility companies and that they felt the bill did not go far enough to reduce carbon emissions.

The version passed in July would have retired coal-fired plants, but environmentalist groups said the inclusion of natural-gas plants in the plan did not take the problem of climate change seriously enough. The new version, while vaguer on the details, does increase the goals for cutting CO2.

“This legislation will put our clean energy aspirations into action,” said Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue (D-Wake). “We need to continue working to protect our environment, and all rate payers, as we move North Carolina to a clean energy future.”

Republicans’ priorities, as seen in their statements, focused more on maintaining reliability and lower-cost energy.

“North Carolina is a growing state, attracting businesses and families from all over,” Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) said in the joint statement. “That growth depends on a stable supply of reliable and affordable energy. After months of policy negotiations, we reached an agreement that will signal to businesses and families here now or considering a move here that North Carolina’s leaders are committed to progrowth energy policies.”

Writing for WRAL’s opinion section on Sept. 28, former Virginia attorney general, and recent Trump administration official, Ken Cuccinelli wrote that the July version of the bill looked like it was going to repeat a number of mistakes that he believed Virginia had made. His main points centered around how Virginia’s Dominion Energy was a similar state monopoly as Duke Energy is in North Carolina, and making energy policy around these giants is not to the benefit of consumers or the state.

“Duke Energy clearly benefits from every major provision at the expense of everyone else,” Cuccinelli wrote. “Key provisions to See ENERGY, page A2

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Parents protesting their local school board may find themselves under FBI investigation following an announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The DOJ’s press release contains a memorandum issued by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland that directs the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to investigate a “disturbing trend” of alleged harassment and

threats to school boards, teachers, staff and administrators.

“Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values,” Garland wrote in the memorandum. “Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.”

Neither the DOJ press release See PROTESTS, page A2

Pfizer FDA-approval push for 5-and-older vaccine sets stage for K-12 immunizations fight NC Commission on Public Health could vote to require the COVID-19 vaccine for K-12 students

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — With Pfizer and German company BioNTech requesting FDA approval of a COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, K-12 parents may find their state attempting to add the vaccination to the immunizations required to attend public school.

“It is a question of days, not weeks,” said Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla in a Sept. 26 ABC News interview about his company seeking FDA approval for the vaccine for school-aged children.

And Bourla made good on his timeline, as his company submitted a vaccine for approval just two days later, on Sept. 28.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in children ages 12 to 15 years old in May of this year. The FDA granted full approval of the COMIRNATY vaccine for children 16 and older in late August. COMIRNATY is the marketing name given to the vaccine, but the formula is apparently identical to the one currently being administered under emergency-use authorization.

Dr. Robert Malone, the doctor See VACCINE, page A2

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VACCINE from page A1 who invented the mRNA technology currently used in certain COVID-19 vaccines like the Pfizer shot, said in an interview earlier this year that he thinks there isn’t enough data about the risks for children. He also doesn’t believe kids should be forced to get the shot.

On Oct. 1, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his state would be the first to impose a vaccine mandate on all K-12 public school students once government agencies finish with the approval and vetting processes.

Newsom’s move has parents in other states wondering if their children will also be forced to get the shot in order to attend school.

At Gov. Roy Cooper’s Sept. 21 COVID-19 press briefing, both he and N.C. Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) Secretary Mandy Cohen were asked

by North State Journal about whether or not they will seek to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the K-12 immunizations list.

In North Carolina, the state Commission on Public Health is the only body other than the General Assembly which can alter the required immunization list for K-12 public school students.

Cooper said that “we are very excited that children 5 through 11 with this news that the vaccine can be effective for them.” He did not answer whether or not his office would push for the K-12 immunizations list to be altered, and he turned the question over to Cohen.

“I think that we’re still waiting to make sure… I think there are a lot of steps in a process before we would get to that, including seeing these vaccines be available for our students,” Cohen said. “So, that is the process, but, obviously, those vaccines are not available yet.”

She added that there are “no plans at this time” to ask the Public Health Commission to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of requirements for K-12 students and that “we’ll step through that [process] as we go forward.”

The N.C. Commission on Public Health (NCCPH) is a 13-member panel overseen by NCDHHS. Four members are appointed by the North Carolina Medical Society and nine are appointed by the governor. Each member serves a four-year term.

ENERGY from page A1 extend the period of time between utility company’s rate hike cases — known as multi-year rate plans — are also embedded within HB 951. A similar structure approved in Virginia several years ago has been disastrous for customers. Virginia regulators just announced that Dominion Energy earned a profit of 13.61% from 2017 to 2020,

Per state statute, NCCPH can add an immunization or an additional dose of a vaccine. The commission is “authorized to exempt from the new requirement children who are or who have been enrolled in school (K-12) on or before the effective date of the new requirement.” The new immunization or dose must be FDA approved, according to statute.

At the August meeting of the NCCPH, members discussed adding the COVID-19 vaccination to the list of required immunizations, but eventually tabled the topic until its next meeting set for Oct. 15.

Dr. Kelly Kimple, a representative from NCDHHS, gave an update to the NCCPH at the August meeting. During that presentation, Kimple said that “Multiple CDC, other medical and public health leaders” were in support of COVID-19 vaccinations for kids 12 and up and that they “should receive the vaccination outweigh[s] the other serious complications.”

Sheets first asked if the commission could move to recommending adding to the immunizations list after the vaccine gets FDA approval. He then suggested requiring the vaccination is similar to requiring other vaccinations currently required.

“If we recommend vaccination for stuff like meningitis and everything else, then I think recommending that the schools require COVID, I don’t think is unreasonable,” Sheets said.

Chaplin countered, asking whether or not they could make that move without it being approved or proposed by the state’s director of health.

The NCCPH’s counsel spoke up about the question of authority, stating that “the committee has the authority to adopt vaccines.” He added there were “debates about the authorities” of the commission that needed to be clarified.

“I just think there’s a lot of information that we need before we can make a determination regardless of how we may feel about it,” Chair May said after some back and forth about the commission’s authority.

Chaplin replied that he “couldn’t agree more” and that the question really was, “do we have the ultimate authority to initiate it now without going through the chain of command”?

He also questioned if they could

resulting in $1.143 BILLION in over-collections from customers (i.e., over-earning).”

Duke Energy previously had to get rate increases approved on a yearly basis, but the bill would allow the utilities commission to approve three-year blocks. The new version maintains this change, with the joint press release stating that the bill “Provides for the Utilities Commission to develop multi-year

propose a rule for public comment in an emergency setting.

North Carolina Teacher Alliance president Amy Marshall sees a fight ahead for any attempt to require the COVID-19 vaccination for public school students.

A rival to the union-tied North Carolina Association of Educators, Marshall launched the organization in March of this year.

“The NC Public Health Commission consists of 13 members, nine of whom are governor-appointed,” said Marshall.

“Wouldn’t it be better if the N.C. legislature had decision-making power on what immunizations are required for public school kids, rather than that decision-making power being solely with an entity whose partisan positions are governor-appointed?”

Marshall added, “We need more checks and balances there” and said her organization doesn’t support a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in N.C. schools for students.

“It’s one thing for an adult to consent to getting a new-technology vaccine knowing there are no long-term studies on the safety of it,” said Marshall. “The fact is, we don’t have long-term studies on the effects of mRNA vaccines on kids, and mRNA vaccines are the only ones available to kids right now.”

“Hopefully the Novavax traditionally prepared COVID-19 vaccine will be released in the U.S. later this year, which I think more people would be comfortable getting for themselves and their kids,” Marshall said.

She added that she hopes to see the legislature take some action, possibly with a bill creating a joint-decision-making process on school-immunization decisions.

Some media outlets have reported increases in the number of school-aged children testing positive for COVID-19; however, the number of tests being administered to children have also risen with the return to in-person school. Many schools in North Carolina serve as testing sites and state guidance dictates students have to be tested if exposed.

CDC data for hospitalization of children aged 0-17 shows a peak on Sept. 9 and a consistent decline. That peak, when compared to other age groups, is nearly flat.

rate plans and performance-based incentives on ratemaking,” but still “includes strong protections that limit the utility’s ability to over earn.”

In addition, the deal assures Duke Energy and other utilities a majority of solar-energy generation, with another 45% “to come from a competitive bidding process among Independent Power Producers.”

Ecclesiastes has an overall negative tone towards many of the elements or life for which humans strive. Wisdom brings sorrow. Pleasure is futile and temporary. Labor and the rewards of hard work add up to material possession that you can’t take with you. Power and money are also futile in the grand scheme of God’s plan. As we examine Ecclesiastes 6, we see the final investigation by the teacher — the futility of wealth and life itself.

While Ecclesiastes 5 was focused on the pursuit of money and monetary riches, Chapter 6 investigates the meaning of life through the lifestyles of the wealthy.

The teacher’s conclusion is that “champagne wishes and caviar dreams” are just like pleasure — fleeting.

While wealthy people can live healthier lifestyles and possibly prolong their lives, the life of man compared to eternity is still small. In the ancient world, the wise teacher observed that there was no difference in the poor and the wealthy in the end.

nor Garland’s memorandum gave any details of the purported threats.

North Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop (NC-09) tells North State Journal he intends to send a letter to Garland and the DOJ requesting more information and a list of the alleged threats mentioned in Garland’s memorandum.

“Coordination and partnership with local law enforcement is critical to implementing these measures for the benefit of our nation’s nearly 14,000 public school districts,” Garland wrote. “To this end, I am directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working with each United States Attorney, to convene meetings with federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial leaders in each federal judicial district within 30 days of the issuance of this memorandum.”

“My first reaction was that I was stupefied,” said Bishop of the memorandum. “It smacks of using the threat of the FBI to intimidate a pure grassroots political movement across the country.” He added parent protests of school boards were “as spontaneous a movement as I’ve ever seen develop.”

“The moms and dads across the country have the contemptuous, self-adulating education establishment on its heels,” Bishop said.

He later added the protests have been very effective and the public should “double-down on the scrutiny” of school boards and “push back” in the face of the federal government using the “specter of the FBI” to suppress them.

The statement from the DOJ cites formation of a task force to look into “criminal conduct directed toward school personnel,” and the creation of “specialized training and guidance” for school boards and administrators. No details were included on what the guidance or training will entail.

“This [the DOJ statement] is of grave concern, and people should and will be outraged,” said Bishop.

“This training will help school board members and other potential victims understand the type of behavior that constitutes threats, how to report threatening conduct to the appropriate law enforcement agencies, and how to capture and preserve evidence of threatening conduct to aid in the investigation and prosecution of these crimes,” the DOJ release reads.

The DOJ urges reporting “threats of violence” against school board members or public-school staff to the FBI’s National Threat

Operations Center (NTOC) via its national tip line (1-800-CALL-FBI) or online through the FBI website (http://fbi.gov/tips).

Bishop said it is a “tremendous question” as to why federal government was inserting itself into what should be a matter for local and state law enforcement.

“This is not the Freedom Riders confrontation in the south where people were being severely beaten by crowds or mobs,” said Bishop.

“You’re not seeing anything of the kind here.”

Bishop then drew a comparison between the National School Boards Association (NSBA)’s letter and national teacher union “manipulation” of the Centers for Disease Control and that agency’s public school reopening guidance. He noted that the timing of Garland’s memorandum closely follows the timing of a letter from the NSBA, which asks the Biden administration to have law enforcement treat parent and student protests of mask policies and Critical Race Theory as a form of “domestic terrorism.”

“As these acts of malice, violence, and threats against public school officials have increased, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes,” the letter reads in part.

The NSBA letter includes selective citations of news reports describing disruptions at school board meetings and characterizes protests of boards as “violent.” The letter only cites a single incident of potential violence, a man in Illinois arrested for aggravated battery and disorderly conduct “during a school board meeting.” Other local media reports of the incident say the man was being escorted out of the building for being disruptive, during which time he allegedly struck a school official before leaving.

The NSBA letter also makes claims that “extremists” have begun attending board meetings and school board members are receiving hostile messages characterized as “hate” mail.

In North Carolina, the chair of the Orange County School board in a Facebook post accused Orange County High School students who had protested sports and mask restrictions of being part of a “white nationalist organization.” Parents in the district claim the board chair, Hillary MacKenzie, is parroting claims made by an activist apparently affiliated with Antifa and Black Lives Matter during a recent board meeting.

The new draft of the bill also saw pushback from the left, with the N.C. Justice Center saying it “opposes this legislation due to the harmful anticipated cost impacts it will have on people with low incomes,” saying they believe that “Households spending $2,400 a year on electricity, for example, would see the cost jump to $3,600 annually.”

The specific “subcritical coal-

fired generating facilities” marked for shuttering in the July version were the Allen Plant in Gaston County, Marshall Units 1 and 2 in Catawba County, the Roxboro Plant and the Mayor Plant in Person County, and Cliffside Unit 5 in Cleveland County. To reach its goal of 70% reduction in greenhouse gasses by 2030, these same plants are likely still being considered for retirement.

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The 2021 campus free speech rankings are out. See how North Carolina schools ranked Wake Forest University landed at the bottom of rankings

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — The latest campus free speech rankings are out and most of the North Carolina colleges included in the report are still earning positive marks. One state school, however, has slipped into the bottom five on the list.

The 2021 College Free Speech Rankings has been published as a partnership between the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), The College Pulse and RealClearEducation. The latter organizations were commissioned to survey 37,000 students currently enrolled in four-year schools spanning 159 colleges.

The report touts itself as “a comprehensive comparison of the student experience of free speech on their campuses,” and the current survey is “the largest survey of college students about free speech on their campuses ever conducted.”

The rankings are compiled from scores in a number of categories including Openness, Tolerance for

Conservative Speakers, Tolerance for Liberal Speakers, Administrative Support for Free Speech, Comfort Expressing Ideas, Disruptive Conduct, and FIRE’s Speech Code Rating. The “Overall Score” given to an institution is the sum of the seven category scores.

Claremont McKenna came in as the highest ranked school on the 2021 Free Speech Rankings while DePauw University has the lowest overall score for the second year in a row.

Other low-ranking schools at the bottom of the list include Boston College, Louisiana State

University, Marquette University and North Carolina’s Wake Forest University, which ranked 151 out of the 154 schools FIRE examined.

Wake Forest University’s red rating is a downgrade from yellow in 2020.

In response to a request for comment, Cheryl V. Walker, executive director of strategic communications at Wake Forest University, wrote in an email that “Wake Forest values freedom of expression.”

“The University is committed to providing all students the right to openly dissent and to speak, write, listen, challenge, protest,

and learn,” Walker said in the email.

Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University made FIRE’s top 25 college rankings for overall free speech.

Schools earning a green light in 2021 include Appalachian State University, Duke University, East Carolina University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina Central University, N.C. State, Western Carolina University, and UNC System schools at Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Greensboro, Pembroke and Wilmington.

Yellow-light ratings remained unchanged for Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina A&T State University, UNC Asheville and UNC School of the Arts.

Davidson College had a red light in FIRE’s report in 2020 but has improved from red to yellow in the 2021 rankings.

Winston-Salem State University had been issued a red light prior to the 2020 report, but the school was later issued a yellow light. The school’s status has not changed in the 2021 rankings.

According to FIRE and the College Pulse, other highlights from the report include:

More than 80% of students report self-censoring their viewpoints at their colleges at least some of the time, with 21% saying they censor themselves often.

• Generally, students showed much greater intolerance for campus speakers with conservative positions.

• Racial inequality, abortion and gun control top the list of most difficult subjects to discuss.

• Two-thirds of students report some level of acceptance for speaker shout-downs • Twenty-three percent consider it acceptable for people to use violence to stop certain speech, which FIRE says is “sharply up 5 percentage points from last year’s 18%.”

• Only a third of students say that their college administration makes it either very or extremely clear that they will protect free speech on campus.

• Over 50% of students identify racial inequality as a difficult topic to discuss on their campus.

NC Cabinet-agency employees report ‘unconscious bias’ training being required

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In this Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, photo, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ted Budd poses for a photo in Mount Airy.

Opponents target Ted Budd, Trump’s choice in GOP Senate race The Associated Press MOUNT AIRY — Former President Donald Trump’s endorsement has Rep. Ted Budd playing defense in North Carolina’s GOP Senate primary, as opponents accuse him of benefiting from a bankruptcy that cost farmers millions and being beholden to a conservative political action committee.

Ex-Gov. Pat McCrory and former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker have targeted Budd for criticism in the race to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Richard Burr.

McCrory argues Democrats would have ample lines of attack on an opponent he views as less electable. Walker, meanwhile, is competing for the Trump base and positioning himself as the candidate least subject to the demands of outside interest groups.

Some of the criticism leveled at Budd centers on the 2000 bankruptcy of an agricultural company led by his father that, according to federal documents, led to hundreds of farmers around the country not receiving the full amount they were owed for millions of dollars in seed.

A document Budd’s campaign provided to The Associated Press shows Budd was listed among several family members as a “borrower” on a $10 million shortterm loan Budd’s father provided to the company, AgriBioTech.

Months after the company paid the loan back to Budd’s father, it declared bankruptcy, leaving many farmers unable to recoup all their losses.

In his most extensive comments yet on the bankruptcy, the congressman told the AP in an interview at a Mount Airy event that he did not have an operational role within AgriBioTech and

did not personally receive any assets that would have otherwise gone to farmers.

“I was on the outside looking in and just wanted to help the family at the time,” Budd said.

“We took the best legal advice we could at the time. It’s a tough situation when you try to help others.

It’s kind of a good Samaritan case where you help and make it better, but it’s not as good as it should have been. You never want anybody to go through what anybody did in that case. It was a tough deal all around.”

Jonathan Felts, a senior advisor to the Budd campaign, said that the congressman’s work at the time amounted to unloading delivery trucks for Budd Seed, one of 34 companies AgriBioTech bought in the late 1990s.

Felts said the congressman never worked at AgriBioTech.

In a separate one-on-one interview at the same Mount Airy event, McCrory attacked Budd over the loan he helped his father secure, which was first reported

by The Washington Post.

McCrory said Budd and his father “ripped off a lot of farmers in tens of millions of dollars. They tried to hide money. That’s called fraud.”

Richard Budd, Ted’s father, responded in a statement saying that his family lost money they invested in the company.

“I’m not sure what the former governor is referring to,” he wrote, adding, “The bank made some money off that deal, but I did not. I did my best to save ABT, but, in this case, my best was not enough.”

Walker, a former Greensboro-area congressman, accused Budd of being too cozy with Club for Growth Action, a Washington, D.C. political action commit-

tee that plans to spend at least $10 million to boost Budd. The group has already put in $3 million to attack McCrory and make Republicans aware of Trump’s endorsement.

“Unlike one of my other candidates, I don’t have a D.C. Super PAC underwriting my campaign,” Walker said.

Ted Budd said Club for Growth’s spending reflects how his policy views resonate with people.

“Look, I can’t coordinate with them legally, so that’s up to them,” Budd said. “They interviewed me in 2016. They asked me a lot of hard questions. They wanted to know what I believed in. It’s not me working to get the donations.

It’s me being who I am, and, outside groups, some folks like that.”

Doug Heye, a North Carolina native and former Republican National Committee communications director who considers the primary wide open, said any of the candidates would have gladly accepted the money.

“Any candidate who doesn’t get that kind of support is going to be critical of it, but they’d all take it,” Heye said. “That’s just the political reality.”

Marjorie K. Eastman, a military veteran and recent Cary resident who entered the GOP primary Tuesday, plans to distinguish herself as a political outsider.

Budd called Trump’s endorsement “hugely helpful” and urged voters to look past any personality concerns they might have about the former president.

“People have got to figure out what they want (and) if they like those America-strong policies,” Budd said. “If they like America weak and chaotic, well, they’ve got other choices.”

RALEIGH — State employees working in various cabinet-level agencies are reporting that they are being required to complete upwards of 14 modules of “unconscious bias training.”

Some of the module titles include “The Power of Uncovering Your Unconscious Bias,” “Why Everyone Has Unconscious Bias,” and “Overcome your Unconscious Bias.”

An employee with the Department of Public Safety (NCDPS), who asked to remain anonymous, tells North State Journal that the training feels like “an effort on the part of the state to implement CRT principles into our state prison system.” CRT is the acronym for Critical Race Theory.

The employee shared screen captures of some of the training items.

One slide provided by the DPS employee suggests that if “you usually watch television shows and movies that are majority white, male cast,” that one should “make time to watch television programs and movies that portray women and minority group members in positive ways.”

One activity involves picking a path towards “breaking unconscious bias” against transgender people for a fictional person named Wallace. Four answers are offered, including apologizing to the person, coworkers holding Wallace accountable or doing nothing.

The correct choice is apparently to “find images that counter stereotypes of trans people and put them where he is likely to see them.”

Another slide suggested that fidgeting or not making eye contact are “hostile body language signals,” while a different slide stated that “gut feelings” should not be trusted because those feelings “indicate unfair unconscious bias.” Yet another states “bias is hard-coded in the brain.”

North State Journal requested comment and more information about the training from NCDPS. The response to that inquiry, however, came from the deputy director’s office at the N.C. State Office of Human Resources (OSHR) and not DPS.

According to the email from OSHR’s communication director Jill Lucas, “the training was assigned through the Learning Management System, which is part of the Office of State Human Resources.”

“These were first assigned in August 2020 to employees of Cabinet agencies, with some Council of State agencies also choosing to opt in,” Lucas wrote in an email to North State Journal. “It was similarly assigned again this month, and employees who have not already completed it have 60 days in which to do so.”

Lucas, whose email signature includes the pronouns “she/her/ hers,” indicated the materials came from an outside vendor.

“The curriculum is available through the state contract with Cornerstone and includes 14 ‘micro modules’ that are around five-toseven minutes each. Cornerstone created the training to help users recognize and mitigate unconscious bias within ourselves and in others,” wrote Lucas. “OSHR reviewed the content last year and determined it was appropriate to share with state agency employees.”

The training modules bear the name of a company called Grovo, which was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand in early November of 2017.

According to the Grovo website, the company is “the world’s leading Microlearning® solution, providing modern learning that employees actually like.”

“Grovo helps L&D teams engage employees and drive their business forward by delivering a constantly evolving library of customizable Microlearning® lessons through an easy-to-use platform,” Grovo’s website states. “Hundreds of companies of all sizes, from PepsiCo and Gap Inc. to Bitly and Magellan Health, trust Grovo to onboard employees faster, deepen their leadership bench, enable customer-facing teams, re-envision compliance programs and build inclusive, mission-driven cultures.”

Employees at two other Cabinet-level agencies confirmed the “Unconscious Bias Training” is also being required in their departments.

It is not yet clear how much the state paid for the training modules.

A slide for an “unconscious bias” training video is featured in this submitted image.

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CMS’s Roval returns with Round of 8 spots on the line The NASCAR Cup Series returns to Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday for the Bank of America ROVAL 400.

The series’ second annual visit to CMS has become one of the most anticipated stops on the Cup Series schedule. The track combines part of the 1.5-mile oval with a road course for a 2.28-mile, 17-turn layout that combines traditional stock car racing with the series’ increased interest in road racing.

Sunday’s race will also serve as the cutoff for the second round of the playoffs, with four more drivers being eliminated before the series moves into the Round of 8. Chase Elliott, currently tied for seventh in the standings, has won the last two Roval races. Only Denny Hamlin, the winner at Las Vegas on Sept. 26, is already guaranteed a spot in the next round. Kevin Harvick, Christopher Bell, William Byron and Alex Bowman are currently on the outside looking in.

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in his fifth term in the N.C. House of Representatives.

“Deeply saddened by passing of my colleague & friend Dana Bumgardner.

It was an honor to serve with him and I’ll always cherish our time together. He served with great distinction and passion for his community. He will be dearly missed,” House Majority Leader John Bell (R-Wayne) said Saturday.

He is survived by his wife, Cindy; his children, Lauren and Austin; and three grandchildren.

N.C. House Rep. Dana Bumgardner (R-Gaston) is shown here in an undated file photo.

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RALEIGH — State Rep. Dana Bumgardner (R-Gaston) died on Saturday, Oct. 2 following a bout with cancer.

House Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain) confirmed the news in a statement.

“I am deeply saddened by the loss of my friend and colleague, Rep. Dana Bumgardner following his battle with cancer,” Moore said.

The Gaston County Republican was

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Bear attacks couple picnicking at Blue Ridge Parkway site

Man dies while swimming in Atlantic Ocean Henderson County A man died while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off the Outer Banks. The man, whose identity wasn’t released, was from Horse Shoe in Henderson County. He was reported by a friend to be feeling tired in the ocean without a flotation device. The friend called 911 at around 11 a.m. Hatteras Island Rescue Squad personnel went into the ocean and brought the man to shore, where they performed CPR. The park service said rip currents aren’t thought to be a factor in the man’s death.

Buncombe County A couple having a picnic on the Blue Ridge Parkway has survived multiple bear attacks, which may have been triggered by their barking dog. The couple was in the parking lot of the Folk Art Center when they were alerted to the bear by their dog.

The dog, which was not on a leash, ran toward the bear. The couple was attacked for several minutes before retreating to their car with their dog. The couple drove to an Asheville hospital, where they were treated for their injuries and released. The bear will be euthanized when it is caught.

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Couple convicted for multiple tax violations Moore County A couple was convicted of getting around paying employment and income taxes for almost a decade to pay for dog boarding, country club memberships and a spiritual adviser. James and Susan Rice were convicted on conspiracy and tax evasion charges. James Rice was an orthopedic surgeon in Southern Pines, and Susan Rice handled payroll and employment taxes. The Rices allegedly didn’t pay more than $580,000 in social security and withholdings to the IRS and didn’t file individual income tax returns from 2014 through 2016. The Rices also used business accounts to fund personnel expenditures, diverting $1 million into personal accounts.

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Half million rabies vaccines to be given to raccoons

Ex-manager of Highland Games charged with attempted murder Avery County The former office manager of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games was arrested by state law enforcement officials and faces charges including three counts of attempted first-degree murder.

Thomas Dewey Taylor, 43, is being held in the county jail on charges of possession of a weapon of mass destruction in addition to the attempted murder charge. Taylor was charged Monday night by the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation. Taylor’s arrest was connected to an incident at the office in Linville. Taylor was dismissed as office manager in August.

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Alleghany County The North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are planning to distribute 500,000 rabies vaccines to raccoons starting this month. The baits containing an oral vaccine will be air dropped in 16 counties in the western part of the state, including Alleghany County.

Another 56,700 baits will be dropped by helicopter in Asheville and the surrounding areas, and 6,100 baits will be delivered by hand in the city of Asheville.

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Prisons rename locales over racist histories Granville County Four state prisons and an addiction treatment facility had their names changed because of histories connected to racism or slavery.

Hoffman’s Morrison Correctional Institution became Richmond Correctional Institution.

Goldsboro’s DART Cherry residential treatment facility is the DART Center.

Cameron Morrison backed white supremacy.

Gregg Cherry advocated against civil rights.

Caledonia Correctional Institution in Tillery is Roanoke River Correctional. Butner’s Polk Correctional Institution is Granville Correctional. Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women in Black Mountain became Western Correctional Center for Women.

Caledonia was a plantation. William Polk owned slaves. Swannanoa was a tunnel construction resulting in the deaths of black prisoners.

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Attempted carjacking closes RDU parking deck

Catawba County A missing couple were found shot to death inside a newspaper office on Friday. Officers with the Newton Police Department and deputies with the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office responded to calls about the two missing people, 55-year-old Cindy Hull and 58-year-old Larry Brigham, who authorities said were in a relationship. They found their cars parked outside The Observer News Enterprise on North College Avenue in Newton. Inside the business, police said they found Hull and Brigham dead with gunshot wounds.

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Wake County A parking deck at Raleigh-Durham International Airport was closed for about two hours Tuesday night while officials responded to a report of an attempted carjacking. The airport said the parking deck was closed after law enforcement with the RDU Airport Authority responded to a call in the parking garage. During the search, passengers were told to stay inside the terminals, and travelers arriving at the airport were redirected to a nearby parking lot. No one was injured, and no suspects were identified or detained. The garage reopened around 7 p.m.

Virginia woman accused of stealing SUV with 5 kids inside

Woman wanted for killing found in Georgia Johnston County A woman wanted for a killing was found in Georgia with her 2-year-old son. Camille Singleton, 31, was taken into custody at a Walmart. She is a suspect in the killing of Inita Gaither in Clayton. Officers responded to a call about a suspicious person at the store and confirmed it was Singleton. Her son — the subject of an AMBER Alert — was found to be unharmed. Gaither, 68, was found dead inside her home on Thursday by officers conducting a welfare check. Singleton will be taken to the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta before being extradited to North Carolina.

Currituck County A Virginia woman is accused of stealing an SUV with five children inside after the driver stopped to help her following a multicar crash. The SUV driver stopped and got out to assist after witnessing the crash on U.S. Highway 158 in Grandy. One of the drivers involved in the crash jumped into the SUV and drove off with the children.

Deputies chased the SUV and apprehended the suspect after she got out of the vehicle and ran. The children were not harmed. Multiple charges were filed against Markell Hancox of Chesapeake, Virginia, including five counts of second-degree kidnapping.

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Onslow County A former police officer is accused of stealing guns from the department where he worked.

Former North Topsail Beach police officer Mark William Ray Jr., 41, is charged with 15 counts of obtaining property by false pretense, embezzlement, and felony conversion. The North Topsail police chief asked the agency to investigate suspected thefts of several firearms being held as evidence at the police department. Agents determined that the guns were sold or pawned at local shops. Ray was a 12-year veteran of the department who was placed on administrative leave in March before he resigned.

New Hanover County The Battleship North Carolina first arrived in Wilmington to much fanfare and more than 100,000 onlookers on Oct. 2, 1961. It has been moored in its current spot on the west bank of the Cape Fear River across from downtown Wilmington. It was dedicated on April 29, 1962, as a memorial to the more than 10,000 North Carolinians who died fighting in World War II. For the past 60 years, the 728-foot, de-commissioned Navy vessel has attracted tens of thousands of visitors each year, including nearly 200,000 since Oct. 1 of last year.

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By Matt Mercer North State Journal RALEIGH — The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced it hired three full-time staff in North Carolina, Georgia and Maine dedicated to election integrity.

According to the RNC, the directors will recruit and train election-integrity volunteers to become poll watchers, collaborate with state parties and local stakeholders, and promote best practices for fair and secure elections.

The RNC says the new hires underscore their efforts to build a yearround operation on the ground that will enhance transparency in future elections.

“In order for our democratic process to work, Americans must have confidence that our elections are free, fair, and transparent. Making it easier to vote and harder to cheat requires boots on the ground, and that’s why the RNC is deploying election integrity directors to key states like North Carolina,” said RNC spokeswoman Alex Nolley in a statement.

Tillis appears on Ruthless podcast North State Journal staff WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis appeared on the Tuesday, Oct. 5 episode of the popular conservative Ruthless podcast. The podcast, which began in Oct. 2020, features popular Twitter personality “Comfortably Smug,” along with Washington, D.C.-based consultant Josh Holmes, a former chief of staff for Senate

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In the interview, Tillis discussed the latest news of Democratic infighting about the infrastructure and reconciliation bills, his upbringing and his prediction that Republicans would win back the U.S. House and Senate in 2022.

He finished by saying his last meal on earth would be “something I cook in my Big Green Egg.”

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COLUMN | STEPHEN MOORE

Manchin is no budget hero — but Kristen Sinema might be WEST VIRGINIA SEN. JOE MANCHIN pretty much stuck a fork in the Radical Left-Wing Progressive Socialists’ (RLWPS, for short) aggressive and dangerous spending agenda when he announced that he would not support their so-called “human infrastructure” bill pegged at $3.5 trillion, which is really $5 trillion or a whole lot more if all the budget gimmicks are taken out of it.

Manchin boldly went on to say: “Spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs, when we can’t even pay for the essential social programs, like Social Security and Medicare, is the definition of fiscal insanity.”

He was talking about spending $3.5 trillion on top of a $1.2 trillion “hard” infrastructure bill that almost all Democrats and many Republicans want to vote for since it would mean a bunch of new roads and bridges being built back in their home state. West Virginia has always been one of the top five net importer states of taxpayer-paid transportation funds from other states since before the days of Robert Byrd.

If Joe Manchin doesn’t bring home the bacon in the form of roads and bridges to West Virginia, he might not get re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 2024.

Manchin went on to say, however — without blushing or blinking an eye — that he would support spending $1.5 trillion more on new and expanded government programs, even though Social Security and Medicare shortfalls have not yet been addressed.

He committed intellectual and philosophical fiscal insanity hari-kari with his statement. $1.5 trillion is not $3.5 trillion — but it is still $1.5 trillion more spending while Social Security and Medicare still remain in technical bankruptcy.

Social Security has already crossed one Rubicon this year in 2021 when it exhausted, on paper at least, the interest earned on the surplus that was built up during the 1980s and 1990’s in the socalled, somewhat fictional “Trust Fund.”

That interest has covered the shortfall between incoming payroll tax revenue from current workers and outgoing payments to current SS recipients for many years now.

But now that the interest on the books is

gone, that shortfall is being covered now by drawing down the actual “trust fund” balance, again solely on paper, which will run out in 2035.

Full SS benefits will be paid between now and then, but once the trust-fund balances run out, only 79% of everyone’s SS benefits will be paid out in 2036 and beyond.

Retirees will still receive benefits, just not all that they thought they would get.

Medicare Part A Hospital insurance funds will run out in 2026. There are no ifs, ands or buts about that one. That is less than five years away.

There are no legislative efforts underway today in Washington to reform or refund Social Security or Medicare. Sen. Joe Manchin is just blowing hot air.

If we’re looking for a Senate Democrat who could actually be the only “Profile in Courage” if there is a book written about the last twenty years, there is one good candidate — Krysten Sinema of Arizona.

In 2018, she was the first Democrat senator elected from Arizona in 30 years but only by the slimmest of margins.

Sinema will not be re-elected in 2024 by moderate and independent Arizonans if she votes like a crazy person who backs the Bernie Sanders socialist agenda, which has effectively destroyed any possibility of the Democratic Party being seen as a moderate, centrist-based political party in America.

Charlie Gasparino of FOX Business News among others have reported on Sinema’s libertarian philosophical roots that lie beneath her blue Democrat label.

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis wrote an op-ed piece on June 28 praising her for maintaining the filibuster and working with a bipartisan group of senators to craft the $1.2 trillion “real” infrastructure bill.

She appears to want to wear the “maverick” crown of fellow-Arizonan former Sen. John McCain, which he proudly wore and flaunted as he consistently thumbed his nose at Republican leadership for most of his Senate career.

Sinema now has her chance. She has said she won’t vote for the $3.5 trillion bill either, which effectively seals its doom. If she doesn’t vote for the watered-down $1.5 human-infrastructure bill now championed

by Manchin, Sen. Sinema will become the real hero in this critical budget showdown, not Joe Manchin.

Fossil fuels are back — everywhere except the USA for their oil will at least double over the WHILE THE GREENS in America, coming decades. That doesn’t sound like a including their champion zealot, fuel source that is going out of fashion.

President Joe Biden, howl their primal This is all happening just at the very screams over climate change, the rest moment that Democrats in Congress are of the world is turning to coal. The dark about to pass green energy bills that will stuff. The satanic fuel. But it’s back bigcripple our fossil fuel industry. These time across the globe. fuels could make America the energy So is old-fashioned petroleum. powerhouse of the 21st century. It’s hard Bloomberg reported last week that to see how dismantling U.S. oil, gas and because of high natural gas prices due to coal will stop the rise of the oceans when a reduced supply from the United States, the rest of the world’s addiction Europe is “snapping up seems incurable. coal.” It’s cheaper now and Last month, Biden went compared to wind and solar, to the United Nations and it’s a much more reliable lectured the world about an source of power.

The Chinese international partnership Euroland is also starting emit three to to combat climate change. to give up on the green four times more You could almost hear the energy dreams that are snickering in the audience of still alive and well in the greenhouse foreign diplomats. minds of American pols gases into the It is a foreign and economic in Washington, D.C. Great atmosphere policy driven not by realism, but Britain and Germany have by fantasy. Biden sees the world experienced soaring energy each year than as he wants it to be, not as it prices at the gas pump does the U.S. is. He reminds me of Britain’s and in electric utility costs Neville Chamberlain circa 1939, for homes, factories and who believed Hitler’s promises businesses. Some relief will of “peace in our time,” up to the come from natural gas that moment the bombs started falling like will eventually be supplied to Europe via rain on London. a gas pipeline from Siberia. Don’t forget, The shame of all this is that when Biden greenlighted that pipeline just a Trump left office, America was all but few weeks after killing the Keystone XL energy self-sufficient and even an energy pipeline and thousands of jobs here at exporter. Thanks to the shale oil and gas home. revolution, the U.S. has access to more Meanwhile, the nation with three oil and gas (and coal) than any other times the population of the U.S. and the nation. We have many hundreds of years world’s largest energy consumer, China, of energy supply. is all-in on coal. The Daily Mail reported Now that the rest of the world is that China’s 1,000 coal plants “make a thirsting for U.S. oil, gas and coal, the mockery” of any promises by Beijing that Left wants to shut down all domestic China will move to renewable energy. production by 2035, even though our Coal is by far the largest source of energy fossil fuels are the cleanest. in China, and new plants are being built So, instead of the world’s energy every week. This is, as the Telegraph put coming from the U.S., it will come from it, “Beijing’s dirtiest little secret.”

Despite those solemn pledges for China Russia, Saudi Arabia and the OPEC nations. to clean up its air, the Chinese emit three To borrow a Trumpism: Those nations to four times more greenhouse gases into are now laughing behind our backs. the atmosphere each year than does the U.S. Then there is the situation with oil. The Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at FreedomWorks. He is also a co-founder of price has been rising as demand remains the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and steady. The Wall Street Journal reported a Washington Examiner columnist. that OPEC nations predict that demand

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

Terry McAuliffe did himself no favors in last week’s Virginia gubernatorial debate THE VIRGINIA GUBERNATORIAL race between Democrat nominee Terry McAuliffe and Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin has been a surprisingly close and entertaining one. And with a little less than a month left between now and Election Day, it will be interesting to see if Youngkin manages to surge ahead of McAuliffe in the polls in the final weeks.

Though he was already holding his own, fresh life was breathed into Youngkin’s campaign last week when McAuliffe made a potentially catastrophic blunder during their final debate.

McAuliffe and Youngkin were duking it out over state education guidelines on transgender students, what’s appropriate to teach children in public school classrooms, and if parents should be notified when lesson plans will include sexually explicit content. At a certain point, a visibly agitated McAuliffe finally blurted out to a persistent Youngkin, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

It didn’t take long for Youngkin to, as the media is so fond of saying, “pounce” and seize on McAuliffe’s statement. He put out a blistering ad the next day, juxtaposing McAuliffe’s

words alongside video clips of concerned Virginia parents speaking out at school board meetings about the sexually explicit content they’d found in some school library books.

For anyone who wonders if McAuliffe set out to do damage control in the aftermath of the debate, well, he didn’t. Instead, the former Virginia governor, who is vying for a second (non-consecutive) term, doubled down on his comments, telling news outlet CBS-19 in an interview some 24 hours later that “you don’t want parents coming in, in every different school district, saying this is what should be taught here and this is what should be taught there.”

So to Terry McAuliffe, parents should have no input on what their children are being taught. That will prove to be very eye opening to parents in Virginia, many of who are well aware that the state has become a hot spot of sorts for battles with liberal school boards on the forced implementation of radical leftist ideas like Critical Race Theory and “woke” gender-identity ideology.

Things have gotten so intense at some of these meetings that law enforcement has had to get involved, either during the meetings themselves or in response to complaints that pro-CRT parents are engaging in online witch hunts and

“cancel campaigns” against their opposition.

American history is filled with “turning point moments” in political campaigns where a candidate either says or does something that changes the tide of the race, sometimes against him and sometimes in his favor. We saw it happen here in North Carolina a year ago when Democrat Senate nominee Cal Cunningham’s campaign imploded after allegations of an extramarital affair surfaced.

His responses to the controversy, essentially trying to dodge the issue in hopes that voters would forget about it come election time, backfired and he lost his race against incumbent Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.

We won’t know for sure until next month if McAuliffe’s declarations about how parents should leave setting the curriculum up to school boards will end up hurting him at the polls, but in this columnist’s humble opinion, it should.

Parents and teachers should be able to work together on the curriculum being taught in their children’s school system.

Not only because they pay taxes into that very system, but obviously with having their sons and daughters attend these schools, they have a very personal interest in wanting to see their children learn what they need to in order to be able to succeed later on in life.

“I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Virginia voters need to remember those words and vote accordingly on Nov. 2..

Media analyst Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.

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COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

The Democrats’ reconciliation bill is unprecedented in every way Obamacare” was the loss of 1,000 seats nationally and, perhaps, the presidency of Donald Trump. Perhaps they believe it was worth the price.

THERE WAS A TIME not very long ago when political parties never would have entertained the idea of jamming through any massive, generational reform without some form of buy-in from the other party.

Today, Democrats argue that the filibuster’s imaginary threat of “minority rule” has compelled them to use (really, abuse) the budgetary reconciliation process to jam through their entire agenda in the most expensive bill in American history. In the days before the Affordable Care Act vote fight forever changed the Senate, nearly every major post-war reform bill easily passed the 60vote threshold: The Civil Rights Act got 73 votes in the Senate; Medicare and Medicaid got 68; the Voting Rights Act had 77; the Clean Air Act passed with 73; Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax-reform bill got 89; the 1996 welfare-reform bill had 74; No Child Left Behind got 91; and the PATRIOT Act had 98, just to name a few.

Certainly, this is not to contend that simply because a bill can attract bipartisan support, it is a good one. But the idea that government can’t function with the filibuster in place is a notion debunked by history. It is true that the filibuster stops a party that is intent on governing unilaterally and steamrolling half the country using a razor-slim, fleeting majority. Or, at least, it once did. Which only means the filibuster was working. And if the ideological chasm between the parties is too wide to forge compromise, then it’s not the time for Washington to be passing wideranging generational legislation anyway. Nothing in the Constitution says a party must pass big, transformational bills. It’s a choice.

Indeed, Democrats used the filibuster over 300 times during the Trump years to stop Republicans. (Unlike the Dems’ agenda bill, the 2017 Republican tax cut was clearly a budgetary concern — though they should have refrained

from passing it using reconciliation as well.) Now Democrats want to run the country using a simple majority in an evenly split Senate. And, as they did with “Obamacare,” they are now negotiating only with themselves. Back in 2009-2010, moderate Democrats, of which there were many more, all caved under pressure. Most of them lost their seats over the next few years.

West Virginia moderate — and today, “moderate” means voting for around $5 trillion in spending already — Sen. Joe Manchin says Democrats need to elect more liberals if they want to go above his $1.5 trillion. Manchin represents a state that Donald Trump won by 69%, not the Democratic Party. And Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema hails from a state that Joe Biden won by a mere 11,000 votes. The idea that their constituencies — or ones in Montana or the exurbs of Pennsylvania — are clamoring for a massive government expansion written by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is risible. It is almost certain that the vast majority of Americans have no idea what is even inside the reconciliation bill. Who knows?

That may be the case for most of Congress.

As of this writing, we don’t know how the reconciliation battle will play out. For Democrats, the consequence of “Obamacare” was the loss of 1,000 seats nationally and, perhaps, the presidency of Donald Trump. Perhaps they believe it was worth the price. I’m not sure what the cost will be for altering American governance in this manner with a single bill corruptly crammed through the budget process, but it will be unprecedented and, almost surely, make American politics far worse in every way imaginable.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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COLUMN | ERICK ERICKSON

Reconciliation will happen, just not now Zealots always prefer to live in hell if they can’t get Heaven exactly as they want it.

PITY PROGRESSIVES. In 2018, a progressive wave swept into Congress led by the so-called Squad. They have never known what it is like to be in the minority. They are surrounded by a young, left-leaning press and celebrity bubble that tells them they are not only right, but in the majority.

They now have sympathetic Democrats in charge of the House, the Senate and the presidency. They decided to go for broke.

The result? The For the People Act died in the Senate. The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act died in the Senate. Amnesty died in the Senate. Corporate tax increases died in the Senate. The Equality Act died in the Senate.

Filibuster reform died in the Senate. The Green New Deal died in the Senate. Reconciliation died in the Senate. Now the progressives will kill the bipartisan infrastructure plan, which included some of what they wanted, because it is not enough. They will take no wins unless they can have all the wins.

Zealots always prefer to live in hell if they can’t get Heaven exactly as they want it.

Progressives demanded reconciliation be their vehicle to fundamentally transform America.

While the nation excoriated Republicans in 2018, in 2020, the GOP bounced back. Contrary to even polling, Republicans did well in 2020 except for the presidency and their own willingness to lose the Senate. Democrats expected a blue wave to expand their House majority. Instead, they nearly lost their majority and now have a singledigit majority with a 50-50 Senate. They have no mandate, but progressives know it is now or never to fundamentally transform America.

Consequently, the House and Senate have pursued a reckless spending package in the form of reconciliation. Under the rules of the Senate, reconciliation cannot add to the deficit and cannot fundamentally change public policy. As a result, Democrats must raise taxes to pay for each of their wishes and those wishes must only expand current public policy, not create new policy.

The result is an assorted grab bag of $3.5 trillion in spending that Democrats claim will cost nothing because the federal government will

not be out the money — only taxpayers. Smokers of tobacco, who are disproportionately poor and middle class, will see their taxes go up almost $100 billion combined. The rich will be penalized for success, but rich people in blue states will get a massive tax cut by being able to deduct all their state taxes on their federal taxes. The middle class will see increased prices as corporations pass on tax increases by raising the costs of their products.

In exchange, progressives would redistribute wealth even to people making upwards of a quarter million dollars a year. They would expand social welfare programs to the extent most Americans would be paid a universal basic income (without calling it that.) The left would drive up prices on agricultural products in the name of fighting climate change. They would drive up fuel costs, which would impact the poor and middle class disproportionately. But they overshot.

Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are two Senate Democrats who are not on board with the progressive conquest of America. They structured a bipartisan infrastructure plan that gives progressives some of what they want; however, they have blocked the reconciliation package that would give progressives the rest of what they want.

Manchin is opposed to the total $5 trillion spending binge. Sinema is opposed to the massive tax increases. Progressives believe their $3.5 trillion reconciliation package is a compromise because they compromised with themselves to reduce reconciliation from $5 trillion already. But even with the $3.5 trillion package, the bipartisan infrastructure plan is $1.5 trillion, and Congress has already spent several trillion dollars on COVID-19 relief.

Reconciliation will eventually happen.

Democrats have to raise the debt ceiling to pay for all their spending. Republicans will give no votes.

Reconciliation is the only way to raise the debt ceiling. But progressives will have to get nothing and like it to make that happen. The true believers have had their bubble burst. Zealots do outlandish things when outside forces temper their zeal.

The intra-Democratic feud will be fun to watch.

A7 COLUMN JEFF ZENGER

Fatherlessness WE ARE LIVING in an unprecedented time in American history. Never before have we had so many social issues or ills. From gun violence, teen pregnancy, incarceration, drug abuse and the list goes on and on.

As you read this, you are likely adding items to the list. If you just stop and think about it for a minute, it is overwhelming. All of this, after we have spent trillions of dollars on every program you can think of.

Now, if you step back and look at it from a distance, there is one overwhelming common denominator in all our social issues — fatherless homes. All of these issues have grown exponentially since 1960, and during this time, so have fatherless homes.

A child who grows up without a father is more likely to be incarcerated, abuse drugs, be in a gang, drop out of school or become a teen mom. Fatherless individuals are four times more likely to live in poverty for life.

It is like that across every social issue you can think of. As I talk to folks about this, the response is the same, “No question about it.”

Fatherlessness affects everyone in the same way.

The rate of fatherlessness is an indicator for the participation rate of different groups in the social issues.

Asian Americans have the lowest fatherless rate at 15%, white Americans are around 24.5%, Hispanic Americans are at about 31% and African Americans at 66%. Yet, even with this kind of data out there pointing right at the problem of fatherlessness, we see everything from teachers, to the police, to the system, to toxic masculinity being blamed.

Asian Americans have the lowest fatherless rate at 15%, white Americans are around 24.5%, Hispanic Americans are at about 31% and African Americans at 66%.

What has exasperated this trend?

Generational fatherlessness. It is extremely difficult to overcome the obstacles that come with growing up fatherless. A first-generation fatherless child generally has some role models close by to walk alongside them and help rear them to responsible manhood. If not, they become likely to repeat the pattern.

This cycle makes it even harder for the second generation, and by the time it goes beyond two generations, it becomes normal to that individual. This new “normal“ produces perpetual adolescence, which continues to leave social wreckage in its wake and puts us into a cycle of fatherlessness.

If we truly want to improve any of our social problems, we must change the fatherless rate. In order to do that, we need to restore manhood and fatherhood to a place of honor, not just a holiday in June. We need to have great expectations for men and call them to live up to those expectations.

Manhood does not simply come because boys grow older. Throughout history, most societies had a rite of passage to acknowledge the transition to manhood and communicate the expectations. We, as a society, need to embrace investing our time into young people to lead them out of the dead-end road of fatherlessness and teach them how to be an honorable man.

Many try the approach of entertaining kids with programs to keep them busy so they don’t get in trouble, but that is mostly ineffective unless adults involved see it as an opportunity to walk alongside kids and pour into them.

The way for real impact is life-to-life, personto-person mentoring. Being an adult friend to fatherless kids. Taking good fathering principles and giving them to troubled fatherless youth.

Part of that time is just loving and caring for them, part of it is having fun with them, and the last part is modeling and teaching them how to be responsible adults. When love is felt, the message is heard. It is simple but requires a big investment. At this point, in our society we need an army of mentors. People engaging one life to another.

I had the privilege of doing this decades ago in Baltimore and am still in communication with many that I was involved with. They are men now and my friends. I cherish those relationships.

Jeff Zenger is a state representative representing House District 74 in the NCGA from Forsyth County. He grew up in a fatherless home in very difficult circumstances and spent 13 years working with teenagers in Baltimore City and is now a father of four.

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NATION & WORLD Alito says criticism of emergency motions unfounded

By Casey Smith The Associated Press JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO pushed back against criticism that recent Supreme Court actions in major cases have been done hastily and in the shadows.

In remarks at the University of Notre Dame, took aim at critics of three recent decisions in which the court’s conservatives prevailed over dissents by liberals.

In rapid succession beginning in late August, the court reinstated a Trump-era immigration program, allowed evictions that had been paused by the coronavirus pandemic to resume and let a Texas pro-life law go into effect.

All three cases came to the court as emergency motions, and were decided quickly and without the court’s more typical full briefing and oral argument. That process has been called the court’s “shadow docket.”

“Our decisions in these three emergency matters have been criticized by those who think we should have decided them the other way, and I have no trouble with fair criticism of the substance of those decisions,” Alito said.

He added: “My complaint concerns all the media and political talk about our sinister shadow docket. The truth of the matter is that there was nothing new or shadowy about the procedures we followed in those cases — it’s hard to see how we could handle

most emergency matters any differently.”

Alito noted that it’s not up to the court but to the parties in cases when they bring emergency motions. He said the recent criticism has suggested that “a dangerous cabal is deciding important issues in a novel, secretive, improper way in the middle of the night, hidden from public view, without waiting for the lower courts to consider the issues.”

Alito said that “picture is very sinister and threatening, but it is also very misleading.”

The string of recent emergency decisions began with a 6-3 vote to reinstate a Trump-administration program that requires people to wait in Mexico while claiming to seek asylum in the United States.

A majority of the court said the Biden administration likely violated federal law in trying to end the program.

Days later, the justices, again on a 6-3 vote, blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban on evictions that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Most recently, the high court on a 5-4 vote declined to block a Texas law that has resulted in a near-total ban on abortion in the state. Unlike the previous two emergency cases, Chief Justice John Roberts joined his liberal colleagues in the third.

Alito said it was “false and inflammatory” for critics to claim that the conservatives in the Tex-

Philippine leader Duterte announces retirement from politics

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito addresses the audience during the “The Emergency Docket” lecture Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in the McCartan Courtroom at the University of Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Ind. as case effectively nullified the landmark Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion. Critics have said that by letting the law take effect, the court has allowed the state to sharply curtail abortions in the nation’s second-largest state.

It was also in that decision that Alito’s colleague, Justice Elena Kagan, said the majority’s ruling “illustrates just how far the Court’s ‘shadow-docket’ decisions may depart from the usual principles of appellate process.”

The majority made a significant ruling without any guidance from an appeals court and then after reviewing “only the most cursory party submissions, and then only hastily,” Kagan wrote. She accused her colleagues of barely bothering to explain their conclusion.

Roberts also criticized the case’s path to the court, saying the justices were asked to “resolve these novel questions — at least preliminarily — in the first instance, in

the course of two days” without oral argument, additional briefs and guidance from lower courts.

Alito went through and rejected 10 different criticisms of the court’s emergency practices, from the argument that emergency orders are “secretive” to the fact that they aren’t typically signed by the justice who wrote them.

Alito acknowledged there have been more emergency motions in recent years, but he attributed that to an influx of civil cases brought about by President Donald Trump’s initiatives, as well as issues sparked by the coronavirus, including those relating to prisons and religious freedom.

Alito said he wasn’t suggesting “that our current practice is perfect and that possible changes should not be considered.” But he said that the recent portrayal of the court “feeds unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court or damage it as an independent institution.”

Manila, Philippines Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday announced he was retiring from politics and dropping plans to run for vice president in elections next year when his term ends, paving the way for his politician daughter to make a possible bid for the top post.

Speaking before reporters, Duterte said many Filipinos have expressed their opposition to his vicepresidential bid in surveys and public forums.

“The overwhelming sentiment of the Filipino is that I’m not qualified, and it would be a violation of the constitution,” Duterte said.

“I will follow what you wish, and today I announce my retirement from politics.”

Duterte’s withdrawal could pave the way for the possible presidential run of his daughter Sara Duterte, who is currently the mayor of Davao City. She has been prodded by many supporters to make a bid to succeed her father and has topped independent public opinion surveys on who should lead the country next.

President Duterte took office in 2016 and immediately launched a crackdown on illegal drugs that has left more than 6,000 mostly petty suspects dead and alarmed Western governments and human rights groups. The International Criminal Court has launched an investigation of the killings, but he has vowed never to cooperate with the inquiry and allow ICC investigators into the country.

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Australia won’t welcome foreign tourists until at least 2022

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President Joe Biden walks from the Oval Office to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, as he prepares to leave for a trip to Michigan to talk about infrastructure.

US unveils guidance for federal vaccine mandate, exemptions

By Zeke Miller The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — With just weeks remaining before federal workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19, the federal government on Monday outlined procedures for employees to request medical or religious exemptions from President Joe Biden’s mandate.

The Office of Management and Budget released the new guidance ahead of the Nov. 22 deadline for workers to be fully vaccinated, outlining specific medical conditions that would warrant an exemption.

Under the guidelines, agencies are to direct workers to get their first shot within two weeks of an exemption request being denied, or the resolution of a medical condition. They also make clear that federal agencies may deny medical or religious exemptions if they deter-

mine that no other safety protocol is adequate.

The Biden administration is drawing on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance to determine approved medical exemptions, including a history of allergic reaction to the vaccines.

Other conditions, including being treated with monoclonal antibodies or having a history of multisystem inflammatory syndrome, warrant a 90-day delay in vaccination, in accordance with CDC advice.

While the CDC recommends that women who are pregnant or are planning to become pregnant get vaccinated against COVID-19, the federal government will consider requests to delay vaccination while pregnant depending on the worker’s particular medical circumstances.

Senior administration officials provided The Associated Press with a preview of the new guid-

ance Monday before it was posted

by OMB. Federal workers seeking exemptions will engage in what officials called an “interactive process” with their agencies, which will include being asked to provide documentation to support the exemption and potential accommodations.

In the event an exemption request is rejected, workers will have two weeks to get a first shot, or be subject to disciplinary proceedings in accordance with Biden’s order.

Unvaccinated workers are required to wear masks and maintain social distancing and will have their ability to travel for work curtailed. New testing guidance for those who are granted exemptions is expected to be unveiled in the coming weeks.

In some cases, agencies may deny even legitimate exemption requests if they determine “that no safety protocol other than vaccina-

tion is adequate” given the nature of the employee’s job.

Under CDC guidelines, people are only considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose of two-shot mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna or the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot — meaning most federal workers have until Nov. 8, at the latest, to roll up their sleeves to comply with Biden’s order.

According to the new federal guidance, neither past COVID-19 infection nor an antibody test can be substituted for vaccination.

Meanwhile, private companies with more than 100 employees will be subject to a forthcoming rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requiring all employees to be vaccinated or get tested weekly. Biden announced the regulation weeks ago, but the agency is still drafting the particulars.

Canberra, Australia Foreign tourists won’t be welcomed back to Australia until at least next year, the prime minister said Tuesday as he outlined plans for lifting some of the toughest and longest COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed by any country.

The country will instead prioritize the return of skilled migrants and students after it hits Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s benchmark for reopening its external borders: the full vaccination of 80% of the population aged 16 and older.

The news comes just days after Morrison announced plans to allow vaccinated citizens and permanent residents to fly overseas in November for the first time since March 2020.

The severe travel restrictions, which have trapped most Australians at home and kept most foreigners out, have led to the lowest level of immigration since World War II. Australian universities, which rely heavily on fees paid by international students, have been particularly hard hit, and many fear students will go elsewhere if they are not allowed in soon.

The Australian Tourism Export Council, which represents businesses that made $33 billion a year from international tourists before the pandemic, wants international visitors to return by March.

“International tourist arrivals have to be part of the plan,” said Daniel Gschwind, chief executive of the Queensland Tourism Industry Council. “Even if they’re not the first priority, we’d like to see how this is going to be worked out. There are many businesses that are just hanging on.”

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Wake Forest kicker Nick Sciba is lifted in the air after he made the winning field goal in the Demon Deacons’ 37-34 win over Louisville last Saturday at Truist Field in Winston-Salem.

Sciba is Wake’s ‘automatic’ weapon The Demon Deacons kicker is the most accurate in FBS history COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Wake moves into top 20, NC State stays at 23rd in AP poll Indianapolis Wake Forest, coming off a 37-34 win over ACC foe Louisville, moved up five spots to No. 19 in The Associated Press college football poll released Sunday.

It’s the highest ranking for the Demon Deacons since they reached 19th in Week 7 of the 2019 season. Wake lost 62-59 to Louisville the following week. The Deacons, who reached No. 16 in 2008 and No. 14 in 2006, play at Syracuse on Saturday. NC State, meanwhile, avoided a home upset to Louisiana Tech on Saturday and stayed at No. 23 for the second straight week. The Wolfpack are off this weekend before playing at Boston College on Oct. 16. Clemson also avoided an upset, to BC but still fell out of the poll for the first time since 2014. Alabama and Georgia remained 1-2, while Iowa climbed two spots to No. 3. Penn State and Cincinnati rounded out the top five.

NCAA waiver will help football teams replace transfers Indianapolis Looking to address the growing number of transfers, the NCAA Division I Council approved a one-year waiver Tuesday that will allow college football teams to sign up to seven players to replace those that leave. Current NCAA rules state a team can sign no more than 25 players to a scholarship in any year.

That includes incoming high school prospects and college transfers. The waiver will allow teams to sign 25 players, plus as many as seven transfers — not high school players — to replace those who transfer out in the first term. The waiver is expected to become official after the Division I Council meeting concludes Wednesday.

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal WINSTON-SALEM — No kick is automatic, especially one with a game on the line. But when Nick Sciba is involved, it’s as close to a sure thing as possible.

The Wake Forest junior holds the NCAA record for consecutive made field goals with 34 straight, he’s never missed an extra point, and his 90.1% career accuracy is the best in FBS history.

So when Sciba lined up a potential game-winning 29-yard attempt in the final seconds of Saturday’s game against Louisville, there was no doubt in the minds of his teammates that he was going to make it.

“It’s just one of those things that’s always working, that car that always starts, that thing in your house that always works,” quar-

terback Sam Hartman said. “That whole notion is Nick Sciba. He’s the generator of this team.”

Hartman and the 19th-ranked Deacons have become so accustomed to Sciba’s dependability that the quarterback said he doesn’t even watch his kicks anymore. He just assumes that they’re going to be good, as was the case Saturday with the decisive field goal — on Sciba’s 22nd birthday — that gave Wake a 37-34 win and a 5-0 start (3-0 in the ACC).

Sciba has made all 10 of his attempts this season and has hit 22 in a row dating back to last year, the longest active streak in the nation. He is 67 of 74 for his career.

“He’s a guy that’s pretty automatic,” Hartman said.

But that hasn’t always been the case.

In fact, his confidence was severely shaken during his first few months with the Deacons when he struggled to adjust after arriving as an early enrolling freshman for spring practice in 2018. He said he was so caught up with how his

“It’s certainly nice to have somebody that reliable, that dependable that you can say the overwhelming percentages are that he’s going to hit this kick.”

Dave Clawson, Wake Forest coach performance compared to the other kickers battling for the starting job that he “had to take a step back and realize what I was here doing and what I was doing this for.

“I honestly felt I was being kind of selfish and I was playing for myself.”

It’s an attitude Sciba credited his faith for changing. But not before he was involved in a memorable incident that played out on national television in just his fourth game after winning Wake’s place-

Transition game: UNC, Duke enter new eras with talent-laden teams The state’s top two basketball programs prepare to move on from Hall of Fame coaches

By Shawn Krest North State Journal JON SCHEYER won’t have to do any scouting this year.

According to the Duke coaching staff, that’s the biggest difference on the Blue Devils’ bench this season. Instead of having the three assistant coaches divide up the responsibilities of watching tape of upcoming opponents among themselves, as most college basketball teams do, Duke will have assistants Chris Carrawell and Nolan Smith do all the scouts this year.

That’s because Scheyer will be busy preparing to take over the program when coach Mike Krzyzewski retires at the end of the year.

“Jon is ready, and I knew that when we put this whole thing together in the spring,” Coach K said.

“He’s a natural. He’s a great relationship builder and a hard worker.

He’s got it.”

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UNC coach Hubert Davis speaks with his players during last Wednesday’s practice in Chapel Hill.

To make things seem as normal as possible, Krzyzewski has banned the word “last” — as in “last media day,” “last opening game,” “last ACC Tournament.”

Scheyer also thinks things have been normal, at least when comparing it to last year’s COVID-altered setup for the season.

“It has actually been more like a

kicking job.

Sciba was nowhere to be found when his team lined up for a 38yard field goal during the first quarter against Notre Dame. He was still standing on the sideline, oblivious to the situation, after thinking that Hartman had run for a first down on the previous play.

He eventually sprinted onto the field just in time to take a deep breath and attempt the kick, but he clanked it off the left upright for a miss.

To make matters worse, the video of holder Dom Maggio looking back with surprise when the kicker wasn’t there followed by Sciba’s mad dash from the sideline went viral — including mention on ESPN SportsCenter’s “Not Top 10” segment.

As embarrassing as the situation was, it taught Sciba a lesson he’s never forgotten.

“I’m always ready,” he said.

Because of that readiness and See WAKE, page B4

“If you’re tired, I don’t care.

I’m tired too. I’m tired of losing.”

Hubert Davis, UNC coach normal preparation,” he said. “Obviously, you think of the last year and everything that was unusual.

Naturally this year, when you think about the summer, you think about the preseason — we feel like we are way further along in terms of our comraderie, our understanding of concepts, and execution. It has been exciting just to bond in a normal way this year.”

Also back to normal for Duke?

A physically imposing incoming class. Krzyzewski and Carrawell both raved about the “grown men bodies” that are joining the Blue Devils. Not since the Zion Williamson-RJ Barrett-Cam Reddish class came to Durham have a group of newcomers been so ready to contribute.

Paolo Banchero is a candidate to be the first overall pick in the NBA Draft next spring.

“Paolo is a great player. He’s a legit 6-10 and can move really well,” said sophomore center Mark Williams, himself a physically dominant talent who is poised for a breakout year.

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TRENDING

Russell Wilson: The Seahawks quarterback and former NC State standout got his 100th career regular season win Sunday in Seattle’s 28-21 over San Francisco, making him the fastest quarterback in NFL history to reach the milestone. Wilson earned his 100th win in the fourth game of his 10th NFL season to top Hall of Famer Peyton Manning, who reached the mark in the 10th game of his 10th season. Wilson, who hasn’t missed a start in his career, is 100-47-1.

John Wes Townley: The former NASCAR driver was shot to death over the weekend in Georgia during a dispute at a house occupied by his estranged wife and another man, police said Monday. The 31-year-old Townley was shot during the altercation and died after being taken to a hospital. Townley made 186 starts across the NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series. His victory in the Truck Series at Las Vegas six years ago Sunday was the only national series win of his career.

Thomas Dewey Taylor: The former office manager of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games was arrested last week on multiple charges, including attempted murder and possession of a weapon of mass destruction. The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation said Taylor was suspected of embezzling money and committing financial credit card theft, and that an investigation also turned up an improvised explosive device with ignitable liquids. The 43-year-old Taylor in being held in Avery County jail under a $500,000 secured

Beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

TOKYO 2020

Gov. Roy Cooper hosted nine Olympic and Paralympic athletes from North Carolina on the grounds of the Executive Mansion in Raleigh for a ceremony last week honoring the state’s participants in the Tokyo Games. Paralympic gold medalists Hannah Aspden and Emma Schieck, Olympic silver medalists Hannah Roberts and Tim Federowicz, and participants Perris Benegas, Gabbi Cunningham, Quanera Hayes, David Kendziera and Ashley Twitchell attended with their families.

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“I want him to take the reins of this program.”

Hornets coach James Borrego on his expectations for point guard LaMelo Ball.

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NFL

NASCAR

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“People better hang on because we’re going to keep getting better.”

UNC coach Mack Brown following the Tar Heels’ 38-7 win Saturday over rival Duke.

PRIME NUMBER

5 Rushing touchdowns for the Panthers’ Sam Darnold this year, giving him the NFL record for the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in a team’s first four games of the season. Darnold had two in Carolina’s loss Sunday at Dallas, and his five touchdown runs matches his total from his first three NFL seasons with the Jets.

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Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady had plenty to celebrate Sunday, becoming the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards on the same night he returned to Foxboro and beat the Patriots 19-17. Brady completed a 28‑yard pass in the first quarter that gave him 80,359 career passing yards, one more than Drew Brees.

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Bubba Wallace became the second black driver to win a Cup Series race, getting his first career victory Monday at Talladega to give 23XI Racing — co‑owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin — its first trip to Victory Lane. The only other black driver to win in NASCAR’s top series was Wendell Scott in the 1963 Jacksonville 200.

MLB

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Former NC State star Trea Turner won his first NL batting title, finishing with a .328 batting average in a season split between with Nationals and Dodgers to top Houston’s Yuli Gurriel, the AL batting champion who hit .319, for best in the majors. The 28-year‑old Turner, who was traded to Los Angeles on July 30 after spending his first six‑plus seasons in Washington, has batted .303 for his career.

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New tradition, old argument: BBQ Bowl pits Campbell against Gardner-Webb There are bragging rights and barbecue on the line when the Camels and Bulldogs meet Saturday

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE MOST INTENSE rivalry in the Old North State doesn’t involve athletic teams representing Triangle neighbors North Carolina, Duke or NC State, or even the political football that gets tossed around at the State Capitol.

It’s the barbecue competition that evokes powerful emotions and divides the state right down the middle.

Eastern style or Western? Vinegar base or ketchup?

The debate over which is better will remain subjective depending on location and preference. But if the folks at Gardner-Webb and Campbell have anything to say about it, the issue will finally be decided on the football field.

When Bulldogs and Camels meet Saturday in the inaugural BBQ Bowl in Boiling Springs, they’ll be playing for more than just a victory and an advantage in the Big South Conference standings. They’ll also be competing for a rivalry trophy adorned with a large pig on top, to be claimed by the winner of each year’s game.

The losing team, meanwhile, will be forced to supply barbecue from its region of the state for a postgame feast.

It’s a concept that was the brainchild of Gardner-Webb president Dr. William Downs.

“Dr. Downs grew up in Raleigh and attended NC State, and he loved the traditional rivalries they had in the ACC,” Bulldogs athletic director Chuck Burch said. “So he wanted to see something like that for Gardner-Webb.

“When you look at the two schools that are very similar to each other in their mission, with Campbell and Gardner-Webb both Christian universities playing in the same conference, it made sense that they would be a possible rival in football.”

The Bulldogs and Camels have met 12 times dating back to 1929 when both schools — which are located about 200 miles apart — were junior colleges. Campbell holds a 5-4-3 advantage in the series.

That history is deceiving, though.

The schools didn’t play between 1950-2018 and have faced each other only twice as four-year, FCS programs. Gardner-Webb won the first 35-7 in Buies Creek, while Campbell returned the favor 4947 in triple overtime in Boiling Springs two years ago.

The Camels (2-2, 1-0 Big South) are a slight favorite against the Bulldogs (2-3, 0-1) in this year’s game.

It promises to be a high-scoring

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Gardner-Webb and Campbell hope to start a new tradition Saturday with the first annual BBQ Bowl, taking to the gridiron with a new trophy — and a barbecue feast — on the line. affair. Campbell is leading the Big South in scoring offense at 37.5 points per game behind backup quarterback Wiley Hartley, who has thrown for 300-plus yards in each of his two starts since stepping in for the injured Hajj-Malik Williams. Gardner-Webb ranks second at 32.0 thanks to the efforts of running back Narii Gaither and receiver and T.J. Luther, who rank 2-3 in the league in all-purpose yards per game.

While it’s still too early in the rivalry to, as the cliche goes, “throw the records out,” this one has already gained some immediate spice thanks to the introduction of the barbecue debate into the equation.

“This is the beginning of what a rivalry game will be about,” said Campbell coach Mike Minter, who knows a little something about the subject, having played for Nebraska in college and the Carolina Panthers in the NFL. “You’ve got to start somewhere.

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“This is the beginning of what a rivalry game will be about. You’ve got to start somewhere.”

Mike Minter, Campbell football coach ka didn’t start on their first game saying that this is going to be one of the biggest rivalries in college football, or for that matter, Oklahoma and Texas. Over time, everybody else gets excited about what’s going on.”

Minter downplayed the hype surrounding the game and the trophy that’s up for grabs, saying his team is focused solely on “preparing for the moment.” He did, however, say he and his players might eventually get into the spirit of the thing.

“We have not even talked about

the BBQ Bowl,” he said. “After the game, we’ll hopefully have a conversation about the BBQ Bowl.”

Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge of Shelby will be the Western/Lexington style, while White Swan Bar-B-Que of Smithfield will be the Eastern provider. Nationally known barbecue expert and writer Bob Garner is scheduled to preside over the postgame festivities.

“A good, spirited cross-state rivalry in football can add tons of energy to the college game,” Gardner-Webb president Downs said. “I grew up in ACC country, so I know full well how fans look forward to rivalry week each year.

I also love good barbecue, and North Carolina is home to some seriously heated competition between Western-style and Eastern-style.

“I’m grateful to Campbell’s president, Dr. (J. Bradley) Creed, for agreeing to combine two things we all love — sports and eating — into this annual pigskin battle.”

MLB playoff contenders built from NC minor leagues The Durham Bulls, Carolina Mudcats and Charlotte Knights feed three of the postseason’s favorites

By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE MLB playoffs open this week, and the Durham Bulls and Charlotte Knights will battle for the chance to win the World Series.

Not the current editions of the Bulls and Knights, of course, but both teams will have plenty of representation in the postseason as their parent clubs, the Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago White Sox, respectively, are two of the favorites in the American League after winning division titles. The Sox also call North Carolina home for their two Class A teams, the Winston-Salem Dash and Kannapolis Cannon Ballers.

The AL’s other division winner?

The Houston Astros, who also has a pair of Class A teams — the Asheville Tourists and Fayetteville Woodpeckers — in the state.

Two members of the White Sox starting lineup — catcher Yasmani Grandal and outfielder Luis Robert — played for the Charlotte Knights this season. So did rookie outfielder Gavin Sheets, a former Wake Forest player..

Third baseman Yoan Moncada, shortstop Tim Anderson, and starting pitchers Lucas Giolito and

Dylan Cease came through the North Carolina teams on their way up to Chicago.

The White Sox player with the strongest connection to the state is probably Carlos Rodon, who helped lead NC State to the College World Series. That Wolfpack team also had infielder Trea Turner, the NL batting champion who was traded to the Dodgers at this year’s MLB trade deadline and plays in Wednesday’s National League Wild Card game.

The Rays finished with the best record in the American League, making them the favorite to return to the World Series for a second straight year. The team is loaded with former Durham Bulls, including Wander Franco — the shortstop who started the year in Durham as the top prospect in the minor leagues. He was called up midseason and tied an MLB record — shared with Hall of Famer Frank Robinson — with 43 straight games reaching base, the most by someone under age 21.

Second baseman Brandon Lowe, who led the Rays with 39 home runs, is another former Bull, as is left fielder Austin Meadows, who led the team with 106 RBIs, and center fielder Kevin Kiermaier.

The pitching staff is loaded with former Bulls, including starter Ryan Yarbrough, relievers Andrew Kittredge, Pete Fairbanks and Josh Fleming, as well as late-season call-up Shane Baz, who won

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White Sox ace Carlos Rodon is one of several key players in the MLB playoffs who have come through North Carolina in their career. an Olympic silver medal as part of Team USA in Tokyo. Fellow silver medalist David Robertson also went from Tokyo to Tampa by way of Durham this summer. The Rays are also managed by a former Bull, Kevin Cash. The NL East champion Atlanta Braves also have a former Bull at the helm in Brian Snitker.

The Astros just affiliated with Asheville last season, and Fayetteville is also only 2 years old, so no one has jumped from Class A to the Houston starting lineup yet. But

starting pitcher Jake Odorizzi and reliever Ryne Stanek are former Durham Bulls.

The team also used to have a franchise in Buies Creek, and home run leader Yordan Alvarez, starters Framber Valdez and Jose Urquidy, and outfielders Myles Straw and Kyle Tucker are among the current Astros to spend time there.

The National League only has one team with a home base in North Carolina, but former Bull Evan Longoria is a member of the Giants lineup, and David Price is

TRANSITION from page B1 One of the other “grown man” newcomers is Theo John, who arrives from Marquette as a graduate transfer. He’s an experienced shot-blocking center who gives Duke three potential forces in the paint to go with an impressive array of wings and guards.

The Blue Devils roster holds the potential to give Coach K a sendoff worthy of a Hall of Fame coach.

Meanwhile, up the road, another Hall of Famer has already been sent off. North Carolina opened practice last week with a familiar face on the sideline but an even more familiar one conspicuously absent. Former Tar Heels player and longtime assistant Hubert Davis was there, running the program after taking over for the retired Roy Williams in the offseason.

Turning UNC basketball over to Davis, who played for Dean Smith and coached under Williams, gives the program the strongest sense of continuity in the nation. UNC’s practice plan each day has a “thought of the day” at the top — a tradition started by Smith.

For the first practice, Davis chose, “It’s amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.” He then gathered the team, quizzed them to make sure they had read and retained the thought of the day and delivered the punch line.

“You know how many years in a row that that thought of the day has been the thought of the day for the first day of practice?

Sixty. Today is 60. Sixty straight years that that is the thought of the day on the first day of practice.”

Despite the consistency with the Carolina Way, the intense, focused Davis is clearly taking his own approach toward running the team. He’s given one media availability since taking over the program, too busy getting his roster and team ready for the year. He needs to jell three transfers — Oklahoma’s Brady Manek, Virginia’s Justin McKoy and Marquette’s Dawson Garcia — a freshman class of Dontrez Styles and D’Marco Dunn, and returning stars Armando Bacot and Caleb Love.

The pieces are there, but it will take some work, and Davis dove right in.

“I don’t have any brakes,” he said. “There are no brakes. It’s all gas pedal since April. It’s been pushing the gas pedal all the way down to the floor.”

To emphasize that, he stopped practice on the first day to scold a player for tapping the brakes late in the session.

“If you’re tired, I don’t care,” he said. “I’m tired too. I’m tired of losing. I’m tired of not going to the Final Four. I’m tired of not winning the championship.”

As Davis keeps things the same in Chapel Hill, he’s doing all he can to make sure they change. And up the road a bit, the archrival Blue Devils are doing the same thing.

Some things never change.

on the Dodgers’ pitching staff.

Charlotte native Mike Shildt manages the Cardinals, who entered the Wild Card as baseball’s hottest team. All-Star infielder Nolan Arenado is a former Asheville Tourist, back when the team was an affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.

The Brewers have several contributors to their NL Central championship team that played for the Carolina Mudcats, most notably Cy Young Award candidate Corbin Burnes. Starting pitcher Freddy Peralta and reliever Brad Boxberger also came through Zebulon, while shortstop Willy Adames is a former Bull that Tampa traded this season to make room for Franco.

If this year’s minor league season is any indication, the White Sox don’t want any part of the Rays in the playoffs. The Durham Bulls beat the Charlotte Knights 25 times in their 31 games this year as the Bulls went on to win their 15th divisional title in Triple-A, seventh league championship and third Triple-A National Championship.

Titles this year were determined by regular season record since, instead of playoffs, all Triple-A teams played a 10-game “final stretch.”

The Bulls won that, too, with a record of 9-1 in the 10 games.

The lower levels of the minor leagues did hold best-of-five playoffs. The Greensboro Grasshoppers advanced to the High-A championship series, losing to Bowling Green in five games. In Low-A, the Down East Wood Ducks also made it to the championship round before falling to Charleston in five.

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More questions than answers as Panthers return home A bad game from Carolina’s defense adds uncertainty

By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE CAROLINA PANTHERS return home on Sunday after two weeks away. When the Panthers headed into their Texas road trip of back-to-back games at Houston and Dallas, they were an undefeated team with a dominant defense and questions on how much to trust the early success on offense.

As they return to Bank of America Stadium, the Panthers are no longer unbeaten, and there are now some red flags on defense as well.

“Our rush defense has been our sort of calling card,” coach Matt Rhule said after the Panthers lost to Dallas on Sunday. “We were not able to stop the run today, not able to get to the quarterback. Not able to take the ball away.”

After holding each of their first three opponents to fewer than 50 rushing yards, the Panthers watched the Cowboys run wild on them, giving up 245 yards on the ground, a 7.2 yards-per-rush average.

The Cowboys’ ground game was led by Ezekiel Elliott, who ran for 143 yards on 20 carries, including a touchdown.

“I think the tale of the day is just Zeke running the football,” Rhule said. “I think he had 10 carries for 49 yards at the half, so he was averaging 4.9 yards per carry, and then in the second half, just some of these runs.”

A pass rush that sacked opposing quarterbacks 14 times in the first three weeks also couldn’t reach Dak Prescott, who passed for four touchdowns. To a man, the Panthers’ coaches and defensive players said that the problem with the pass rush started with the defense’s inability to stop the run.

The defense will need to find answers while also scrambling to possibly replace a key piece of the unit. Linebacker Shaq Thompson went down with a foot injury.

While the team hasn’t made any announcement about his availability for Sunday and beyond,

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Panthers quarterback Sam Darnold will need to handle pass-rushing pressure better than he did against Dallas if Carolina is going to be successful with star running back Christian McCaffrey out of the lineup.

“I’d like to see us respond a little quicker,” Rhule said of the third-quarter meltdown. “I think we just kind of let a bad play turn into a bad drive turn into a whole bad quarter.”

With Christian McCaffrey out after going down to a hamstring injury in the Houston game, the Dallas defense didn’t have the same concern for the Panthers’ run game to worry about. That allowed the Cowboys to focus on pressuring Darnold.

“I’m sure teams will try to do the same thing,” Darnold said.

“The same games and all that stuff. We just got to be ready for it.”

They also need McCaffrey back.

The running back is going to test the hamstring at Wednesday’s practice. If all goes well, he might

be able to return for Sunday’s game against the Eagles.

“I’m going to get to Wednesday and see,” Rhule said.

The schedule gives the Panthers another break this week. After beating teams who are a combined 3-8 on the year in the first three weeks, Carolina now faces the 1-3 Eagles.

Philadelphia also hasn’t shown an ability to do the things that Dallas did to hurt the Panthers last week. The Eagles have averaged just 83.5 yards on the ground the last two weeks. On defense, they’ve managed just eight sacks in four games.

So the Panthers could get back on the winning track at home.

And if they do, all the same questions will still be on the table for the following week.

NC Courage coach’s firing leads to NWSL pause

they did make a roster move early in the week to add another linebacker from the practice squad.

Several media outlets reported that Thompson was expected to miss “some time” but won’t be put on injured reserve.

On the other side of the ball, the jury is still out on the offense. Sam Darnold has avoided the disastrous games that were the hallmarks of his Jets career, and he has shown an ability to run the ball, leading the NFL in touchdown rushes with five after running it in twice on Sunday. He faced pressure from the pass rush for the first time against the Cowboys, though, and that led to the Panthers’ second-half struggles.

Darnold was sacked five times on Sunday, nearly doubling his season total up to that point. He

was also hit 11 times after taking an average of five a week through three games. He responded by completing just 14 of 23 (60.9%) in the second half, following a 12of-16 performance early.

“Any time Sam has time, he’s going to make a lot of really good decisions,” Rhule said. “If he doesn’t have time, it’s not quite as good. Dak had a lot of time and Sam didn’t.”

Even more troubling, Darnold threw a pair of bad interceptions in the third quarter, both of which led to Dallas scoring drives as the Cowboys built a 22-point lead.

“Obviously, there are balls I shouldn’t throw,” Darnold said. “(Dallas’ Trevon Diggs) was just waiting for that second one. On the first one, he was just reading my eyes the whole time.”

league as well as her spot on the U.S. Soccer board of directors, and the league had formed an executive committee to manage oversight of its front office operations made up of three women: Amanda Duffy of the Orlando Pride, Angie Long of Kansas City NWSL and Sophie Sauvage of the OL Reign.

“On behalf of the entire league, we are heartbroken for what far too many players have had to endure in order to simply play the game they love, and we are so incredibly sorry,” the three players said in a joint statement issued by the league.

“We understand that we must undertake a significant systemic and cultural transformation to address the issues required to become the type of league that NWSL players and their fans deserve and regain the trust of both. We’re committed to doing just that and recognize that this won’t happen overnight, but only through vigilance over time.”

Riley, a 58-year-old native of Liverpool, England, coached the Philadelphia Independence of the defunct Women’s Professional Soccer and the New York Fury and Port-

land Thorns of the NWSL before joining the team that would eventually become the Courage in 2017.

He is a two-time Coach of the Year who led the Courage to league championships in 2018 and ’19.

“The NC Courage supports the players who have come forward and we commend them for bravely sharing their stories,” a statement issued by the Courage’s players, staff and principal owner Steve Malik said.

“The North Carolina Football Club is united together in our commitment to creating a safe, posi-

tive, and respectful environment, not only within our club but across the league and our great sport. As previously stated, players and staff are encouraged to report any inappropriate behavior in accordance with NWSL policy as we prioritize efforts to maintain the highest professional standards of conduct throughout our organization.”

The incidents detailed by Farrelly and Shim in The Athletic report allegedly took place while Riley was with Portland, which investigated the coach while he was with the team and reported the findings to the league. He was subsequently dismissed by the team.

Despite that, he was hired shortly thereafter by the Western New York Flash, which subsequently relocated to Cary.

The NWSL players union, which is currently negotiating what would be its first collective bargaining agreement with the league, has demanded an investigation to find out how Riley was hired by another team after allegations of his misconduct surfaced while he was with the Thorns.

U.S. Soccer, the international governing body FIFA and the NWSL have all begun inquiries into the allegations against Riley in addition to broader issues involving the culture of the league.

“Player safety and respect is the paramount responsibility of every person involved in this game. That is true across every age, competition and ability level,” U.S. Soccer president Cindy Cone said in a statement. “We owe it to each athlete, each fan and the entire soccer community to take every meaningful action in our power to ensure nothing like this ever happens again. We hope to work together with all parties in this important effort.”

The league plans to resume play on Wednesday.

luckily. But if I miss it, one kick doesn’t define who I am. It doesn’t define the kicker that I am. … It took me a little bit to realize that, but now I have it realized and life is easier.”

And not just for him.

Sciba’s calm demeanor and accurate leg have also given coach Dave Clawson a peace of mind few of his colleagues around the ACC

or the country enjoy — although he did admit to having a moment of uneasiness before Saturday’s winning kick thanks to a similar situation in a game two nights earlier.

“I watched the Miami game the other night and that went through my head a little bit,” Clawson said of the Hurricanes’ loss to Virginia, which was decided by a missed

field goal on the final play. “But we obviously trust Nick.

“It’s certainly nice to have somebody that reliable, that dependable that you can say the overwhelming percentages are that he’s going to hit this kick.”

His latest kick was among his most special. Not only did it win the game, but it also made for an unforgettable birthday celebration

when his teammates carried him off the field on their shoulders, then serenaded him with a chorus of “Happy Birthday” in the locker room.

“I’m not going to lie, that almost made me cry,” said Sciba, who described himself as a softy. “That was awesome. I wasn’t expecting it. It made me feel good on the inside and happy to be where I’m at.”

The women’s soccer league had its commissioner resign and stopped play following allegations against Paul Riley

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal AN INVESTIGATIVE report published by The Athletic last Thursday has set off a chain reaction that led to the firing of North Carolina Courage coach Paul Riley and a systematic overhaul in the way the National Women’s Soccer League does business.

The firestorm began with revelations from former players Sinead Farrelly and Meleana Shim, among others, accusing Riley of a pattern of sexual coercion and other abuses of his leadership position.

Riley, who has denied the allegations, was subsequently fired by the Courage and replaced on an interim basis by assistant Sean Nahas.

But that was only the beginning of the fallout.

Reacting to a call by the NWSL Players Association to enact measures that would provide its members with a safer working environment and a more reliable system for reporting abuse, the league announced its decision to postpone all games scheduled for the weekend — including the Courage’s home match against the Washington Spirit. The Spirit’s CEO, Steve Baldwin, resigned Tuesday after 27 players signed a letter calling for his departure.

Before the weekend was over, NWSL commissioner Lisa Baird resigned both her position with the

WAKE from page B1 his aforementioned faith, Sciba said he doesn’t feel pressure when he prepares himself for a kick.

Even one as important as the game-winner against Louisville on Saturday.

“I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really nervous,” he said. “I don’t think about make or miss it. I made it,

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Allegations of sexual misconduct against North Carolina Courage coach Paul Riley led to his dismissal and has forced a reckoning in the NWSL and women’s soccer.

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Volvo plans $2.9B IPO to fund electric vehicle ambitions The Associated Press For the week ending 10/1

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LONDON — Swedish automaker Volvo said Monday it plans to raise at least $2.9 billion by selling shares to fund its electric vehicle transformation strategy.

Volvo Cars and its parent company, Chinese carmaker Geely, have applied to hold an initial public offering on the Nasdaq Stockholm, with shares expected to start trading before the end of the year.

The money raised from the IPO will help fund Volvo’s lofty ambitions. The company aims to nearly double sales by 2025 to 1.2 million vehicles, half of which will be battery electric cars, and wants its entire lineup to be all electric by 2030.

“We’re going to be the fastest in the business to transform, to electrification - 2030 no more combustion cars. And that’s just one one part,” CEO Hakan Samuelsson said in an interview.

Volvo’s plans also include selling more directly to customers and it aims to have half of all sales come from online channels

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In this Feb. 6, 2020 file photo a Volvo car is parked behind the Volvo logo in the lobby of the company’s corporate headquarters, in Brussels. by mid-decade.

“All of that costs a lot of money. So that’s why we are now doing a primary issue of new shares to secure equity for that transformation next year.”

Most of Volvo’s current lineup is made up of plug-in hybrid and so-called mild hybrid models. Battery electric vehicles account for only a small fraction of the total sold.

Volvo is based in Goteborg, Sweden, but has been owned since 2010 by Geely, one of China’s biggest independent automakers, which bought it from Ford for about $1.8 billion.

The company is moving ahead with the share sale even as a shortage of semiconductors has crimped global auto production.

The shortages will likely persist to at least the end of the year, Chief Financial Officer Bjorn Annwall said. But because the crunch is being felt across the car industry, automakers can get away with selling pricier models or offering fewer rebates for fatter profit margins, which more than makes up for lower sales.

“From a financial perspective, this shortage of semiconductors is not such a big issue,” Annwall said. “Of course, some customers have to wait longer than we’d like to get the cars delivered.

And so it’s a problem. But it’s a problem we have now learned to live within and we don’t see an improvement extremely short term.”

Volvo’s sales tumbled in September, falling 30% to 47,223 from the year before, according to monthly sales figures released Monday. Annwall said the problem was less to do with chip supplies and more because of COVID-19 lockdowns in Southeast Asia that temporarily shut its suppliers’ factories, leading to general component shortages.

US stem cell clinics boomed while FDA paused crackdown

assortment of diseases, including diabetes, autism, cancer, multiple sclerosis and vision problems. Some clinics use stem cells derived from fat, harvested via liposuction then reinjected into patients, aiming to repair joints or fight disease. Others use bone marrow or blood taken from umbilical cords after birth.

There is no government tally of how many clinics operate in the U.S. But Turner counted more than 1,200 of them in 2019, up from the 570 clinics he and a co-author identified in 2016. He’s working on an update but says the number has consistently grown.

The FDA has repeatedly warned Americans to steer clear of unapproved and unproven stem cell therapies, which have occasionally caused blindness, bacterial infections and tumors. During FDA’s three-plus years of “enforcement discretion,” the agency sent formal warning letters to more than a dozen businesses performing the riskiest procedures. Regulators also prevailed in a Florida court case to shutdown a major clinic offering unproven treatments. Another case against a similar prominent company is pending in California.

“It’s time to actually get the data

we need,” to assess clinics’ stem cell procedures, FDA’s Dr. Peter Marks said at an industry conference in June. He pointed to a multiyear effort by FDA to help clinics through the review process.

Many stem cell doctors continue to argue that their in-office procedures are outside FDA’s purview.

But FDA has concluded that processing stem cells and giving them to patients with serious diseases amounts to creating a new drug, which the agency regulates.

The FDA hasn’t disclosed how many clinics sought approval since 2017, but public comments suggest it was troublingly low.

“We have been very disappointed in the number of clinics that have come in,” FDA’s Dr. Wilson Bryan said at the same conference.

Bryan, who directs FDA’s cell therapies division, added that he is “extremely concerned” by how many stem cell and related offerings remain available.

Tracking injuries from the procedures is difficult. Drugmakers and hospitals are required to report drug-related complications to the FDA, but no such requirements exist for individual doctors. And patients often don’t know where to re-

port problems.

David Stringham of Provo, Utah, says undergoing a procedure for joint pain at a local clinic was “the worst decision of my life.”

In 2018, Stringham was looking for an alternative to surgery for chronic pain in his right shoulder and elbows after years of weightlifting. He paid $2,400 for injections of so-called platelet-rich plasma at a clinic. It doesn’t involve stem cells but the procedure is similar: doctors take a blood sample, process it to concentrate the platelets and then reinject them into the patient’s problem areas in an attempt to speed healing.

The procedure went smoothly, but within hours Stringham was wracked by pain in his back, shoulder and arms.

“It was a crazy amount of pain and I kept calling them saying ‘something is not right,’” said the 51-year-old. “And to this day I’m not right.”

The clinic gave Stringham medication for the pain and told him to be patient. But things didn’t improve, even after months of physical therapy. Since then, a neurologist has told Stringham he probably suffered nerve damage at the places

where he was injected.

His case was included in a Pew Charitable Trusts review of 360 reported injuries from stem cell and other regenerative procedures between 2004 and 2020. Nearly all the reports came from medical journals, government publications, social media or news reports. Just five came from FDA’s database for medical injuries.

“There are a lot of holes in the safety system,” said Liz Richardson of Pew, who led the project.

The FDA didn’t clearly assert its authority over such clinics until 2017. The next year, it began sending form letters to some 400 clinics, warning that they may be violating FDA rules. But the names of the clinics haven’t been publicized, and such warnings are often ignored.

Traditional medical researchers welcome the FDA actions but say it’s impossible to gauge their effect.

“The business model is this: ‘We can keep offering these products until things get serious with the FDA — and then we can just take down our website’,” said Laertis Ikonomou, a stem cell researcher at the University of Buffalo who also heads a task force on the topic for the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy.

He and other specialists say the clinics have damaged the reputation of legitimate stem cell research while also siphoning off patients who might otherwise enroll in studies.

Lawyers representing stem cell clinics say they have no choice but to resist FDA regulation.

“FDA is pushing them into this drug development pathway, which nobody is adopting because it requires a million dollars’ worth of toxicology and animal studies just to show something is safe for human use,” said Marc Scheineson, a former FDA attorney.

For now, people on both sides are waiting to see what FDA does.

“We shouldn’t feel too confident that the FDA has this wrapped up” said Turner, the bioethicist. “They really have invested some resources and they are trying to do something here but I think they’re just outmatched and overwhelmed.”

attack or the possibility of malicious activity.

While much of Facebook’s workforce is still working remotely, there were reports that employees at work on the company’s Menlo Park, California, campus had trouble entering buildings because the outage had rendered their security badges useless.

But the impact was far worse for multitudes of Facebook’s nearly 3 billion users, showing just how much the world has come to rely on it and its properties — to run businesses, connect with online communities, log on to multiple other websites and even order food.

It also showed that despite the presence of Twitter, Telegram, Signal, TikTok, Snapchat and a bevy of other platforms, nothing can easily replace the social network that over the past 17 years has effectively evolved into critical

infrastructure. The outage came the same day Facebook asked a federal judge that a revised antitrust complaint against it by the Federal Trade Commission be dismissed because it faces vigorous competition from other services.

There are certainly other online services for posting selfies, connecting with fans or reaching out to elected officials, But those who rely on Facebook to run their business or communicate with friends and family in far-flung places saw this as little consolation.

Kendall Ross, owner of a knitwear brand called Knit That in Oklahoma City, said he has 32,000 followers on his Instagram business page @id.knit.that. Almost all of his website traffic comes directly from Instagram. He posted a product photo about an hour before Instagram went out. He said he tends to sell about two handknit pieces after posting a product

photo for about $300 to $400.

“The outage today is frustrating financially,” he said. “It’s also a huge awakening that social media controls so much of my success in business.”

So many people are reliant on Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram as primary modes of communication that losing access for so long can make them vulnerable to criminals taking advantage of the outage, said Rachel Tobac, a hacker and CEO of SocialProof Security.

“They don’t know how to contact the people in their lives without it,” she said. “They’re more susceptible to social engineering because they’re so desperate to communicate.” Tobac said during previous outages, some people have received emails promising to restore their social media account by clicking on a malicious link that can expose their person-

al data.

Jake Williams, chief technical officer of the cybersecurity firm BreachQuest, said that while foul play cannot be completely ruled out, chances were good that the outage is “an operational issue” caused by human error.

“What it boils down to: running a LARGE, even by internet standards, distributed system is very hard, even for the very best,” tweeted Columbia University computer scientist Steven Bellovin.

Twitter, meanwhile, chimed in from the company’s main account on its service, posting “hello literally everyone” as jokes and memes about the Facebook outage flooded the platform. Later, as an unverified screenshot suggesting that the facebook.com address was for sale circulated, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted, “how much?”

The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hundreds of clinics pushing unproven stem cell procedures caught a big break from the U.S. government in 2017: They would have three years to show that their questionable treatments were safe and worked before regulators started cracking down.

But when the Food and Drug Administration’s grace period expired in late May — extended six months due to the pandemic — the consequences became clear: Hundreds more clinics were selling the unapproved treatments for arthritis, Alzheimer’s, COVID-19 and many other conditions.

“It backfired,” says Leigh Turner, a bioethicist at the University of California, Irvine. “The scale of the problem is vastly larger for FDA today than it was at the start.”

The continuing spread of for-profit clinics promoting stem cells and other so-called “regenerative” therapies — including concentrated blood products — illustrates how quickly experimental medicine can outpace government oversight. No clinic has yet won FDA approval for any stem cell offering and regulators now confront an enormous, uncooperative industry that contends it shouldn’t be subject to regulation.

Although emerging research suggests stem cells could someday have broad use for a number of medical conditions, experts say they should not be used outside of well-controlled studies or a handful of established uses. For instance, stem cells collected from blood or bone marrow have long been used to treat leukemia and other blood diseases.

Many clinics use so-called adult stem cells collected from tissue like fat or bone marrow — not the more versatile but controversial stem cells from embryos used in research.

Turner and other experts have tracked the growth of the clinics for nearly a decade. Clinics charge between $2,000 to $25,000 for adult stem cell injections and other infusions which they advertise for an

FACEBOOK from page B5 tweeted that it feels like a “snow day.”

Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s outgoing chief technology officer, later tweeted “sincere apologies.”

In Monday night’s statement, Facebook blamed changes on routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers. The company said the changes interrupted the communication, which had “a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.”

There was no evidence as of Monday afternoon that malicious activity was involved. Matthew Prince, CEO of the internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare, tweeted that “nothing we’re seeing related to the Facebook services outage suggests it was an attack.”

Facebook did not respond to messages for comment about the

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David Stringham holds prescription bottles at his home Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, in Provo, Utah.

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2022 Ford Maverick

Small and capable The small truck America needs

By Jordan Golson North State Journal

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — I love practical vehicles. It’s why I drive a Volvo station wagon.

While some cars are created to drive around a racetrack as fast as possible or simply to look pretty, most are bought for two reasons: to haul around people and haul around stuff.s The better it does at these essential tasks, the more I like it.

Hence, my beloved Volvo V60 wagon, which is the perfect balance of practicality and sportiness. I can make an epic Costco run while simultaneously hauling around myself and three friends in comfort and Swedish style.

Practicality is driving people to crossovers and SUVs in droves, too.

It turns out that folks like having a high roof and lots of cargo space instead of the tiny trunk in a sedan.

And, of course, it’s why Americans love pickup trucks.

The pickup is the quintessential American vehicle. It represents freedom and flexibility and power and authority. And, perhaps less beneficially, terrible fuel economy and parking nightmares in the city.

But Ford, the quintessential American pickup maker, has come out with its smallest pickup in decades to address those last two issues while still giving buyers the practicality — and affordability — that we crave.

It’s called the Ford Maverick, and though that name is a throwback to an old Ford that is decidedly not a pickup, the new name fits this little truck perfectly. The Maverick, which starts around $21,500, is roughly the size of the old Ford Ranger from the ‘90s and has perhaps the best-designed interior of any car I’ve ever driven.

There are an astonishing 16 cupholders. Sixteen, in a car that carries four people comfortably (or five somewhat uncomfortably, and you lose four cupholders in the process).

The door pockets in particular are worth calling out. Ford designed them to securely hold water bottles from Nalgene and Yeti, though they do an equally adept job of keeping Evian, Fiji, or Perrier in place. And if you have really huge water bottles, you can tuck them horizontally into an extended cubby hidden in the doors.

It’s hard to explain how excellent these door pockets are, but once you see them, you’ll wonder how it took so long for them to exist. I expect these Maverick innovations will take hold in next-generation versions of Ford’s other pickups as well.

Maverick is built upon the same platform as the Ford Escape and the Bronco Sport (that’s the little one). That means it ditches the body-on-frame design used for all of Ford’s other trucks in favor of a modern spaceframe. This means that the Maverick has a much smoother, car-like ride than larger trucks like the Ranger and the F-150.

And the size of the Maverick is critical. It’s significantly shorter than the new Ranger, and Ford has worked hard to make the bed much easier to access than larger trucks.

They noted that a “5th-percentile woman” — around 5’0” or so — would be able to successfully reach items in the truck bed, something that definitely isn’t possible in the company’s larger trucks.

The bed is full of clever solutions, too, including a full slate of do-it-yourself add-ons. You can buy things like cargo rails or bike racks from Ford (for a pretty penny), but the bed was designed so you can go to Harbor Freight or Home Depot and spend $40 and build those things yourself.

QR codes in the bed link to howto videos for building a mountain bike rack, installing LED strip lights, and several other things.

It’s very clever and will give owners a real sense of individuality and uniqueness by modifying their trucks.

Ford sells a set of accessories to add functionality to the back of the center console for rear-seat passengers. There are removable cupholders, a trash can, a wrap for charging cables, and a few other things. But Ford has also released CAD designs for the mounting point so people can 3D print their own or design new creations.

For decades, pickup trucks have included places to mount 2x4 pieces of plywood to reconfigure the truck bed. But the Maverick is a bit more intentional about those slots.

One at the back of the bed is specifically designed so that a 5th-percentile female could reach in and access groceries or whatever other cargo they might need to put back there. The design team brought a wide selection of strollers into the design lab to make sure they would fit. And it can even haul more than a dozen 4x8 sheets of plywood.

The other thing worth calling out is the truck’s standard hybrid powertrain. The 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine and electric motor produce an impressive 191 horsepower while delivering greater than 40 MPG city. There’s also an optional 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder that makes more power (250 hp and 277 lb-ft) and bumps you to AWD, while the hybrid is FWD-only.

Pricing starts at $21,500, and this is the first vehicle I’ve reviewed (out of hundreds) where I’d be delighted with the base model. With that fuel-sipping hybrid, an 8-inch screen that supports wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and the clever interior with all those cupholders, even the stripped-down XL model would make a perfect farm or first truck.

XLT and Lariat upgrades add fancy things like adaptive cruise control (though even regular cruise control is an option on XL, as are power mirrors), blind-spot monitoring, leather, and some other niceties.

But this is a truck. Maybe you don’t need all that stuff. If you want some basic transportation that allows you to haul people and things, with clever design and an efficient powertrain, get yourself a Ford Maverick.

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features Newsy expands, bets on appetite for more news, less politics The Associated Press NEW YORK — With the expansion of its Newsy service this week, the E.W. Scripps Co. is betting that consumers have an appetite for more news, instead of just talk about news.

Newsy, primarily seen now online and through streaming services, is expanding its programming to 17 hours a day with an eventual goal of operating around-the-clock and, for the first time, will be available as an overthe-air television service.

The pitch from Kate O’Brian, head of the Scripps Networks’ news group, and Newsy boss Eric Ludgood is simple: an unflashy service that goes beyond headlines to look at the breadth of news in some detail and without a political bias.

Its motto: “Be informed, not influenced.”

“It’s a little bit of going back to the future, what television news used to be,” said O’Brian, a longtime producer and executive at ABC News.

O’Brian and Ludgood have spent the past few months doubling their staff to more than 200 people. Newsy began in 2008 as a syndicated news service in Columbia, Missouri, with the staff largely from the nearby University of Missouri journalism school.

The service was bought by Scripps in 2014.

Its lineup will be populated by fresh faces to most news consumers. The prime-time lineup will feature anchor Natalie Allen, formerly of CNN, and the Washington-based Chance Seales and Christian Bryant.

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This Oct. 1, 2021 image provided by Newsy/Scripps shows the Newsy control room in Atlanta.

Americans have been underserved by cable news networks CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, with their constant picking at the nation’s polarized politics, O’Brian said.

“It’s time for news organizations to look at the country in all of its many facets, not just red and blue,” she said.

Newsy will operate 14 news bureaus across the country, including expected hubs like New York, Washington and Los Angeles. But Newsy also sought bureaus in locations that O’Brian felt needed more coverage from a national news team, like Seattle, Phoenix

and Missoula, Montana. It is opening a bureau in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to hire a reporter based there with an expertise in indigenous people.

As an illustration of its menu, a Newsy newscast last week contained stories on a vaccine being developed to counter opioid addiction, about birds facing extinction and the hottest and coolest markets for home sales.

There’s a reason, however, that cable news competitors have largely evolved into opinionated political talk networks, particularly in prime time. People may say in surveys that they want

more non-biased, straight news, but they’re more inclined to dial in Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow and not leave, even with ratings dropping during the Biden administration after last year’s peak.

ABC, CBS and NBC nightly newscasts remain strong. But some recently-touted new efforts at promoting straight news approaches offer cautionary tales. A three-hour “NewsNation” primetime newscast on WGN America that began last September has largely failed, and former Fox anchor Shepard Smith’s CNBC newscast gets relatively little at-

tention.

Unlike NewsNation and Smith’s newscast, Newsy is an already-existing service and not a start-up, O’Brian said. Once fully operational, Newsy will be the only free, 24-hour news service available for television and streaming.

“I don’t compare what we’re doing to anybody else,” she said, “because what we’re doing is very different in terms of platform and in terms of content.”

Most competitors, however, are easily found by channel surfers clicking a cable remote. Newsy will take effort, and it’s yet to be seen whether that will be a handicap to getting established. Newsy had been available through cable in 35 million homes, and now that is being eliminated.

Newsy can be found on most streaming services, online and through its own app. To get Newsy through television not equipped with streaming services, users will need an antenna and must rescan their TVs to receive the signal. Scripps is running an ad campaign to instruct interested viewers how to do this.

It’s a distribution system Scripps believes is more geared toward the future.

Newsy debuted its new service on Monday.

While television news has many established players that can make it difficult to break in, that’s not the case for streamed news services, said Mark Whitaker, a veteran executive who has worked at CNN and NBC News. The major players in this realm have yet to be determined: one of the reasons why CNN is busy building a subscription streaming service due to begin early next year.

That’s where Newsy’s big opportunity lies, Whitaker said.

“It may actually change what people are looking for and what succeeds in what we still think of as TV news,” Whitaker said.

Eric Ludgood serves as head of Newsy.

Britney’s father is out, but scrutiny of him just beginning The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears and her attorney successfully drove her father from the conservatorship that has run the singer’s life and controlled her money, but they say they are not done scrutinizing him and the actions he took over the past 13 years.

After a Los Angeles Superior Court judge suspended James Spears as conservator, attorney Mathew Rosengart said his legal team would perform a “top-to-bottom” examination of his behavior now that they have access to years of books and records. Some allegations, he added, could bring a “hard look” from law enforcement.

“Jamie Spears and others are going to face even more serious ramifications for his misconduct,” Rosengart said Wednesday outside court.

But legal acts may pose problems too. Experts say some of the allegations that have emerged have exposed the shortcomings of the conservatorship system, which gives conservators vast control over people deemed mentally incapable of making major life decisions, as Britney Spears was found to be in 2008.

“There are safeguards in place,” said Sarah Wentz, a probate attorney who works on many conservatorship cases. “I think the failings in this case show us where they can be manipulated. I am disappointed in our system.”

Few of the allegations against James Spears, which range from mismanagement of funds to fierce control of his daughter’s every move, have been publicly proven.

His attorneys say they range from unsubstantiated to impossible, and that he only ever acted in her best interest.

Judge Brenda Penny was legally allowed to suspend the elder Spears at her discretion and held no fact-finding hearing before ousting him, citing only the “toxic environment” that he created around his daughter.

His suspension could now allow evidence to be gathered, however.

“They needed to have him out of the way,” Wentz said. “He has too direct a conflict.”

Rosengart argued in court that James Spears had “reaped millions of dollars” from the conservatorship, and said in court filings that in recent years he has been spend-

PHOTOS VIA AP

In this combination photo, Jamie Spears, father of singer Britney Spears, leaves the Stanley Mosk Courthouse on Oct. 24, 2012, in Los Angeles, left, and Britney Spears arrives at the premiere of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” on July 22, 2019, in Los Angeles. ing her money excessively on attorneys and strategists whose central goal was to bolster his reputation and maintain the conservatorship at all costs.

“She’s the breadwinner. Everything belongs to her,” said Richard Kaplan, a criminal attorney who specializes in defending white-collar clients. “And if there was mismanagement, that’s ripe for investigation.”

Neither Kaplan nor Wentz is involved in the Spears case.

James Spears’ attorneys argued that all his actions were subject to the scrutiny of the court, which closely examines required quarterly financial reports and frequently investigates the moves of conservators.

That isn’t necessarily sufficient, however.

“He can’t just use that as a defense,” Wentz said. “He wasn’t court appointed to oppress her or abuse her or torment her.”

Required court monitoring hasn’t stopped others from taking advantage of conservatorships and facing criminal investigation.

“It’s not uncommon that a conservator mismanages money and profits off of that,” Kaplan said.

“That’s why probate courts have to look so closely at these things.”

Rosengart also said James Spears had crossed “unfathomable” lines by engaging in illegal surveillance of his daughter, including communications with her children, her boyfriend and her lawyer, as reported in “Controlling Britney Spears,” a recent documentary from The New York Times and the FX network.

James Spears’ lawyer, Vivian Thoreen, dismissed those allegations in court as “rhetoric from a TV show” that could be dispensed with quickly on closer investigation.

By himself or with a partner, James Spears was the overseer of both his daughter’s life decisions and finances from 2008 to 2019, when he gave up the role of socalled conservator of her person while continuing to control her finances alone.

His attorneys said that means his daughter’s complaints about her health care and controls on her re-

lationships are not her father’s responsibility at all but that of Jodi Montgomery, a court-appointed professional who serves as conservator of her person. Britney Spears aired those complaints in a pair of passionate speeches to the court over the summer.

Wentz said beyond the surveillance issue, she is even more troubled by a 2016 document leaked to the Times documentary makers in which Britney Spears told a court investigator she wanted an end to the conservatorship, which was “based in a lot of fear” and enabled her father’s “oppressive” control of every aspect of her life.

There were no apparent changes made.

“The fact that the court did nothing about that is appalling,” Wentz said. “I have been asked by people about reform in the conservatorship system, and I say, ‘How about just following the rules?’

They asked the court to end things, and it seemed like nobody wanted this to end. Why?” She suggested that states could implement a mandatory reporting

requirement for conservatorships that triggers bigger investigations of the sort that happen when a teacher or therapist hears of possible child abuse.

In the weeks leading up to Wednesday’s hearing, James Spears reversed course and petitioned to have the conservatorship terminated.

Judge Penny rejected that petition in favor of Rosengart’s plan, which was to first suspend James Spears before moving to end the conservatorship entirely, possibly by the next hearing in November.

Thoreen gave a broad defense of her client in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday, saying James Spears’ ouster was “a loss” for Britney Spears. She said he loves his daughter unconditionally and has tried for 13 years “to do what is in her best interests, whether as a conservator or her father.”

Thoreen said Spears’ love for his daughter has “meant biting his tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative and unsubstantiated attacks.”

North State Journal for Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Daniel Craig on bidding Bond goodbye in ‘No Time to Die’ The Associated Press NEW YORK — When Daniel Craig first got the gig, he felt like something had gone amiss.

“You’ve got the wrong guy,” he told the producers.

But Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson insisted. No, he was the one. He was James Bond.

Craig, then a rising performer but far from the expected choice, never had any ambitions to play James Bond. He had assumed he was being strung along as part of a massive casting machine, one of dozens of actors screen tested.

“Once I did find out, I was incredibly flattered and deeply confused,” Craig recalled in an interview. “I just felt like I wasn’t the right person.”

Fifteen years and five films later, Craig’s tenure as 007 is coming to a close. “No Time to Die,” which opens in the U.S. on Friday after a 16-month delay due to the pandemic, is the last hurrah in Craig’s celebrated Bond era, a stewardship that saw Craig remake and emotionally deepen the once retrograde superspy — with more than $3 billion in box office along the way. Once derisively labeled “Blond Bond,” Craig turned out to be a smash success.

“It paid off in spades,” said Broccoli. “He’s truly remarkable.

He’s reinvented it for the 21st century. He explored the inner-life of Bond.”

But would Craig have ever gone through with it had he known what he was in for?

NICOLA DOVE/METRO GOLDWYN MAYER PICTURES VIA AP

This image released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures shows Daniel Craig in a scene from “No Time To Die.” “If I had known more, I don’t think I would have been able to do it. The less information I had back then, the better,” said Craig, speaking by Zoom from New York. “The rest of it, the weight of it, how huge it all really is — I didn’t know. I didn’t really understand.”

He pauses. “I don’t suppose I really understand it now, either,” Craig added. “I pretend to understand. That’s what getting older is

all about. I pretend better than I did back then.”

“No Time to Die,” directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, is, with certainty, Craig’s final turn in the tux. But it’s also a culmination to where Craig has been driving Bond. His 007 is a character, not an icon, capable of grief and regret, and far from bulletproof.

That evolution takes center stage in “No Time to Die.” “I always just felt: How do these

things affect him? Within a Bond world. Not in, like, a Hamlet way.

But in a Bond world,” says Craig, who won’t play Hamlet but Macbeth — a play about the perils of ambition — on Broadway next year.

“No Time to Die” started off unsteadily with writer-director Danny Boyle departing over creative differences. Fukunaga stepped in and the script was completely rewritten. That the film was even happening in the first place was, to some, surprising. After the previous entry, 2015’s “Spectre,” Craig had suggested he’d rather slit his wrists than make another. The physical toll of the films and the time commitment — “It’s a year,” he says of each film -- was wearing on him.

“I’ve often been criticized as moaning about it,” said Craig, 53. “After ‘Spectre’ I went: I don’t think I can do this anymore. I got to a point where it was like: The risk feels too great. That phone call home where I phone up and say I’m injured, I’m in the hospital -- it’s not a nice phone call to make, and it’s happened a lot over the years.”

He chuckles. “It happened on this as well, but there you go.”

During filming in Jamaica, Craig slipped while running on a wet dock and badly injured his ankle. The filmmakers could hardly know then that temporarily losing their star would just be one of many headaches to come.

Before the pandemic arrived, “No Time to Die” was slated to open in April 2020. Television ads ran.

Craig hosted “Saturday Night Live.” The film’s theme, by Billie Eilish, was released, and won a Grammy months before the film’s London premiere.

“No Time to Die” arrives at a crucial juncture for the movie business. Lately, some ticket sales

B9 have been reaching pre-pandemic levels. Bond is poised not just to save the world one more time but also give movie theaters a lift while he’s at it. Sales in the U.K. over the weekend were on par with the opening for 2012’s “Skyfall,” which cleared $1.1 billion at the box office.

But Craig’s departure may test the franchise more than any previous 007 changing of the guard since Sean Connery exited.

During his five films, Craig has shaped the overall series as much as he has the character, bringing in top-class filmmakers and raising the bar, overall.

“I asked them straight out. I said: Listen, the confidence I need to play this role — one of the most confident people in movie history, if not the most confident human being in movie history — I need to be able to take part,” said Craig. “I need to be able to know what’s going on, to have an opinion, to feel like I have a voice. They just said yes, we want you to be involved.”

Expect to hear endless rumors and speculation of a successor to Craig for the next year. (The Onion wryly reports Wallace Shawn is in the mix.) Broccoli and Wilson, though, say their current focus is on celebrating Craig’s swan song. They’ve set no parameters except to say that Bond is foundationally a male character.

“It’s not like we’re trying to be evasive,” said Broccoli. “We’re genuinely not at a point yet where we want to start thinking about where it could go. So, I think it is a clean slate. We could go anywhere with the character.”

Craig cares that the films remain relevant in the future. But he sounds almost gleeful that those concerns are no longer his.

“Thankfully, it’s not up to me anymore,” said Craig, smiling. “I will admire from afar.”

ROSCOSMOS SPACE AGENCY VIA AP

In this handout photo released by Roscosmos, actress Yulia Peresild, left, film director Klim Shipenko, right, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov speak with their relatives through a safety glass prior the launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021.

Russian film crew blasts off to make first movie in space The Associated Press MOSCOW — A Russian actor and a film director rocketed to space Tuesday on a mission to make the world’s first movie in orbit, a project the Kremlin said will help burnish the nation’s space glory.

Actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a veteran of three space missions. Their Soyuz MS-19 lifted off as scheduled at 1:55 p.m.

(0855 GMT) from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan and arrived at the station after about 3½ hours.

Shkaplerov took manual controls to smoothly dock the spacecraft at the space outpost after a

glitch in an automatic docking system.

The trio reported they were feeling fine and spacecraft systems were functioning normally.

Peresild and Klimenko are to film segments of a new movie titled “Challenge,” in which a surgeon played by Peresild rushes to the space station to save a crew member who suffers a heart condition. After 12 days on the space outpost, they are set to return to Earth with another Russian cosmonaut.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the mission will help showcase Russia’s space prowess.

“We have been pioneers in space and maintained a confident position,” Peskov said. “Such missions that help advertise our achievements and space exploration in general are great for the

country.”

Speaking at a pre-flight news conference Monday, 37-year-old Peresild acknowledged that it was challenging for her to adapt to the strict discipline and rigorous demands during the training.

“It was psychologically, physically and morally hard,” she said.

“But I think that once we achieve the goal, all that will seem not so difficult and we will remember it with a smile.”

Shipenko, 38, who has made several commercially successful movies, also described their fasttrack, four-month preparation for the flight as tough.

“Of course, we couldn’t make many things at the first try, and sometimes even at a third attempt, but it’s normal,” he said.

Shipenko, who will complete the shooting on Earth after film-

ing the movie’s space episodes, said Shkaplerov and two other Russian cosmonauts now on board the station — Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov — will all play parts in the new movie.

Russia’s state-controlled Channel One television, which is involved in making the movie, has extensively covered the crew training and the launch.

“I’m in shock. I still can’t imagine that my mom is out there,” Peresild’s daughter, Anna, said in televised remarks minutes after the launch.

Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, was a key force behind the project, describing it as a chance to burnish the nation’s space glory and rejecting criticism from some Russian media.

Some commentators argued

that the film project would distract the Russian crew and could be awkward to film on the Russian segment of the International Space Station, which is considerably less spacious compared to the U.S. segment. A new Russia lab module, the Nauka, was added in July, but it is yet to be fully integrated into the station.

On the space station, the three newcomers join Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency; NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; Roscosmos cosmonauts Novitskiy and Dubrov; and Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Novitskiy, who will star as the ailing cosmonaut in the film, will take the captain’s seat in a Soyuz capsule to take the film crew back to Earth on Oct. 17.

North State Journal for Wednesday, October 6, 2021

B10 TAKE NOTICE

CABARRUS 21 SP 18 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 Jerry A. Falls a/k/a Jerry Allen Falls and Nancy L. Falls to Trste, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated January 5, 2006 and recorded on January 24, 2006 in Book 6505 at Page 55 and rerecorded/modified/ corrected on November 3, 2017 in Book 12751, Page 61, 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

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CABARRUS COUNTY 21SP151 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY RYAN SMITHSON AND STACIE SMITHSON DATED DECEMBER 20, 2007 AND RECORDEDINBOOK7975ATPAGE95INTHECABARRUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for

CUMBERLAND 20 SP 5 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 Sidney Wolinsky a/k/a Sidney Walinsky and Peggy Wolinsky a/k/a Peggy Walinksy to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated February 13, 2007 and recorded on February 20, 2007 in Book 7506 at Page 384 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on November 4, 2019 in Book 10622, Page 0602, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 248

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Wilfredo Viruet, Sr. to Jennifer R. Cooney, Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of December, 2008, and recorded in Book 8040, Page 085, and Additional Deed of Trust in Book 8040, Page 094, in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on October 11, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the

GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 21 CVS 1748 NOTICE OF JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, vs.

Plaintiff,

Chad E. Smith; Any Spouse of Chad E. Smith; Julie Smith; Any Spouse of Julie Smith; Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC,

Defendant(s).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Jeremy B. Wilkins, Commissioner, pursuant to the Order/Judgment entered in the above-captioned case on August 23, 2021 (“Order”), and by virtue of the appointment, power and authority contained in that Order, has been authorized and ordered to sell the property commonly known as 1454 LaGuardia Drive, Hope Mills, NC 28348 (“Property”).

Said Property is secured by the Deed of Trust executed by Chad E. Smith and Julie Smith, dated October 13, 2015 and recorded on October 14, 2015 in Book 09739 at Page 0311

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 403

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Lorenzo J. Gomez a/k/a Lorenzo Gomez (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Lorenzo J. Gomez, Heirs of Lorenzo J. Gomez a/k/a Lorenzo Gomez: Luis E. Gomez) to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated April 24, 2017, and recorded in Book No. 10079, at Page 0641 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on October 18, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Hope Mills in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land hereinafter referred to is situated in the City of

19 SP 1125 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 Jaharii D. Collier and Kendra L. Collier to Steve Bunce, Trustee(s), which was dated February 23, 2005 and recorded on February 25, 2005 in Book 6800 at Page 597, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on October 20, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described

DAVIDSON IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION DAVIDSON COUNTY 21SP101 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY RAY ANTHONY PRESSLEY AND BARBARA JEAN PRESSLEY DATED JUNE 29, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1711 AT PAGE 104 IN THE DAVIDSON COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the

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 October 13, 2021 at 01:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY SITUATED IN THE CITY OF CONCORD IN THE COUNTY OF CABARRUS AND STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND BEING DESCRIBED IN A DEED DATED 02-20-1997 AND RECORDED 06/20/1997 IN BOOK 1902 PAGE 133 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF THE COUNTY AND STATE SET FORTH ABOVE AND REFERENCED AS FOLLOWS: NO. 10 TOWNSHIP, LOT 30, SUBDIVISION BRIARWOOD, NEW CITY BLOCK 1, PLAT BOOK 16, PLAT PAGE 19.

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

Said property is commonly known as 7335 Sagebrush Cir,

Concord, NC 28025.

A certified check only (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 Nancy L. Falls.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the

loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 20-14380-FC01

cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on October 13, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Ryan Smithson and Stacie Smithson, dated December 20, 2007 to secure the original principal amount of $127,500.00, and recorded in Book 7975 at Page 95 of the Cabarrus County Public Registry.

The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record.

Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 8 2 Paddington Drive SW, Concord, NC 28025 Tax Parcel ID: 55395873080000 R y a n Present Record Owners: Smithson and Stacie L. Smithson And Being more commonly known as: 82 Paddington Drive SW, Concord, NC 28025

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Ryan Smithson and Stacie L. Smithson.

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

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

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is September 23, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109332

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 October 13, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 126, KING’S GRANT SUBDIVISION, SECTION THREE, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF THE SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 70, PAGE 74, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA REGISTRY. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 268 Shawcroft Road, Fayetteville, NC 28311.

A certified check only (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 Sidney Wolinsky and wife, Peggy Wolinsky.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination

to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200

Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-10801-FC01

County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 8 according to a plat entitled Recombination and Zero Lot Line Subdivision for Fayetteville Area Habitat For Humanity, duly recorded in Book of Plats 116, Page 165, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 404 Vanstory Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

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

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or authorized representative of either the Commissioner or the holder of the debt make any representation 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 and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such conditions expressly are disclaimed.

The Commissioner shall convey title to the property by non-warranty deed, without any covenants or warranties, express or implied.

the records of the CUMBERLAND COUNTY Register of Deeds’ office not more than ten (10) days prior to the date hereof are Chad E. Smith and wife, Julie Smith.

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

and rerecorded/modified/corrected on August 23, 2021 in Book 11225, Page 0753 of the Cumberland County, North Carolina Registry. The Property shall be sold together with improvements located thereon, towards satisfaction of the debt due by Chad E Smith, and secured by the lien against such property in favor of PennyMac Loan Services, LLC. The Commissioner will offer for sale to the highest bidder at a public auction 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 October 20, 2021 at 01:30 PM the following described real property (including all improvements thereon) located in Cumberland County, North Carolina and described as follows: BEING all of Lot 20, Cypress Crossing Subdivision, per plat and survey thereof recorded in Plat Book 123, Page 26, Cumberland County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description of same.

Parcel ID: 0433-30-7389 The above described property will be sold, transferred and conveyed “AS IS, WHERE IS” subject to liens or encumbrances of record which are superior to such Deed of Trust, together with all unpaid taxes and assessments and any recorded releases. Neither the Commissioner nor the holder of the debt secured by such Deed of Trust, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents

Hope Mills, County of Cumberland, State of NC, and is described as follows: Premises in Rockfish Township, Cumberland County, North Carolina, described as follows: Being all of Lot 9, Block D, “Revision of Section II, Eaglewood Forest”, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 35, Page 46, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3634 Yorktown Road, Hope Mills, North Carolina.

Being the same property conveyed from Regina S. Gomez, the Grantor(s), to Lorenzo J. Gomez and wife, Regina S. Gomez, as tenancy by the entireties, the Grantee(s), by deed dated 10/21/1993, and recorded 10/27/1993 as; Book 4047 Page 598.

APN: 0404-84-3322 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to

property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 219 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS ACORN RIDGE, SECTION TWO, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF THE SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 112, PAGE 11, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1462 Oldstead Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28306.

A certified check only (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.

secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on October 20, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Davidson County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Ray Anthony Pressley and Barbara Jean Pressley, dated June 29, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $42,275.00, and recorded in Book 1711 at Page 104 of the Davidson County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 705 Tussey St, Lexington, NC 27292 Tax Parcel ID: 6735-01-288127 Present Record Owners: Barbara Jean Pressley And Being more commonly known as: 705 Tussey St, Lexington, NC 27292

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 1-339.29 (c) in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the judge or 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.

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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A cash deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchasing price will be required at the time of the sale. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price of bid in cash or certified check at the time the Commissioner tenders a deed for the Property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance purchase price of bid at that time, said bidder shall remain liable on said bid as provided for under North Carolina law.

The sale will be reported to the court and will remain open for advance or upset bids for a period of ten (10) days as required by law. If the Commissioner 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 Commissioner. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Commissioner, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current record owners of the property as reflected on

JEREMY B. WILKINS, Commissioner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Jaharii D Collier and Kendra L. Collier.

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

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Barbara Jean Pressley.

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

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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.

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

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

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is September 2, 2021.

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FORSYTH AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 42

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sharon A. Baynes (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Sharon A. Baynes) to A.L. Collins, Trustee(s), dated June 16, 2009, and recorded in Book No. RE 3154, at Page 517 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on November 6, 2013, in Book No. RE 3154, at Page 517, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on October 20, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 532

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Lessie Robinson (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Lessie M. Robinson) to R. Hoskins, Trustee(s), dated August 31, 2007, and recorded in Book No. RE 3509, at Page 2168 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on February 25, 2020, in Book No. RE 3509, at Page 2168, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 526

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Renee S. Golden (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Renee S. Golden) to Neuse Incorporated, Trustee(s), dated December 30, 2005, and recorded in Book No. RE 2629, at Page 2800 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on October 13,

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 490

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Tonya Allen Clements (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Tonya Allen Clements) to Netco, Inc., Trustee(s), dated October 17, 2014, and recorded in Book No. 3372, at Page 2883 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on October 12, 2017, in Book No. 3372, at Page 2883, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the

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19 SP 346 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Floyd E. Lyons and Mary E. Lyons to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated November 7, 2012 and recorded on November 7, 2012 in Book RE2310 at Page 898, Randolph 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

UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 670

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jason R. Marsh (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Jason R. Marsh) to Laurel A. Meyer, Trustee(s), dated August 15, 2017, and recorded in Book No. 06994, at Page 0696 in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 545

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Seth A. Coltrain and Dina Harris (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Seth A. Coltrain and Dina Harris) to Costner Law Office, Trustee(s), dated April 6, 2016, and recorded in Book No. 6649, at Page 35 in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on October 21,

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 728

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Melvin D. Caldwell, Jr. (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Melvin D. Caldwell, Jr.) to Trustee Services of Carolina, Trustee(s), dated June 29, 2012, and recorded in Book No. 05769, at Page 0288 in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location

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in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Sharon A. Baynes (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Sharon A. Baynes) to A.L. Collins, Trustee(s), dated June 16, 2009, and recorded in Book No. RE 3334, at Page 1871 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina. The Deed of Trust was modified by the following: A Loan Modification recorded on February 28, 2017, in Book No. RE 3334, at Page 1871, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on October 20, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Unit 108 as shown on the plat entitled “As Built” Condominiums at Northern Quarters Condominiums Phase IIC, as recorded in Condominium Plat Book 7, Page 198, Forsyth County Registry, Reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on October 20, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Walnut Cove in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain parcel of land in City of Walnut Cove, Salem Chapel Township, Forsyth County, State of NC, as more fully described in Book RE 2511 Page 2068 ID# 5121-010, being known and designated as Lot 10, Rachel Turner Middleton Estate, filed in Plat Book 13, at Page 70 being the same fee simple property conveyed by General Warranty Deed from Misty Wooten wife and Michael W. Wooten husband to Lessie Robinson single, dated 10/08/2004 recorded on 10/11/2004 in Book RE 2511, Page 2068 in Forsyth County Records, State of NC. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 7630 Walnut Cove Road, Walnut Cove, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third

Including the Unit located thereon; said Unit being located at 4455 Brassfield Drive Unit 108, Winston Salem, North Carolina.TOGETHER WITH a percentage of undivided fee simple interest in and to the Commons Areas shown on the reference recorded plat; and TOGETHER WITH all rights and easements appurtenant to said unit as specifically enumerated in the “Declaration of Northern Quarters Condominiums as recorded in Book 2671, Page 4141, and as re-recorded in Book 2673, Page 1861; and as amended and supplemented in Book 2760, Page 2739, Forsyth County Registry.SUBJECT TO the said Declaration of Condominium, and the Exhibit annexed thereto, which are incorporated herein as set forth in their entirety, and by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, provided for; (1) a percentage of undivided fee simple interest appertaining to the above Unit in the Common Areas and Facilities; (2) Property rights of Grantee as a Unit owner, and any guests or invitees of Grantee in and to the Common Areas; (3) Obligations and responsibilities of Grantee for regular monthly assessments and special assessments and the effect to non-payment thereof as set forth in said Declaration; (4) Limitations upon the use of the Common Areas; (5) Obligations of Grantee and the Association for maintenance; and (6) Restrictions upon use of the Unit.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the

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

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return

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

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

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

Any person who occupies the property

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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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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2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED as Lot 54 shown on a recorded plat entitled Laurel Park, Phase 1, as developed by Fortis Development Corporation, said map being prepared

by Evans Engineering, Inv. October 6, 1986, said plat being recorded in Plat Book 31, Page 82, and re-recorded in Plat Book 31, Page 94, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1641 Bridgton Road, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars

($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00),

whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

Any person who occupies the property

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

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customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on October 13, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston-Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot No. 30, as shown on a recorded plat entitled “St. Andrews Place, Section 2”, as developed by the New Fortis Corporation, as map being drawn by Borum, Wade & Associates, P.A., said plat being recorded in Plat Book 41, Page 11, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, to which reference is hereby made for a more complete description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 120 Reflection Court, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Being the same property or a portion of the same property conveyed to Tonya Allen Clements by Instrument dated December 21, 2005 from Bennie Frazier and wife Gloria W. Frazier filed on December 28, 2005 as Document Number and in Book 2628 at Page 1 in the Forsyth County records.

Commonly known as: 120 Reflection Court, Winston Salem, NC 27105

Parcel Number: 6829-51-9005.00 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

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

property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

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of Charles Gregory Johnson, deceased, late of Randolph County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them

to the undersigned Diane C. Cooper and Bridget Scarlett on or before the 13th day of January, 2022, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said

estate will please make immediate payment.

This 6th day of October, 2021.

Diane C. Cooper and Bridget Scarlett, Administrators,

7063 Farmer Denton Rd, Denton, NC 27239.

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of Carroll L. Miller, deceased, late of Randolph County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to

the undersigned Jack H. Miller on or before the 5th day of January, 2022, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please

make immediate payment.

This 29th day of September, 2021.

Jack Harvey Miller, Administrator, 334 Cedar Run Dr,

Randleman, NC 27317.

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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 October 12, 2021 at 01:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL of Lot 1, containing .922 acres, according to “Redivision Plat for CES Investments, LLC” and recorded in Plat Book 106, Page 41, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1230 Pine Hill Road, Asheboro, NC 27205.

A certified check only (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 Mary Etta Lyons.

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.

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Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on October 21, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Monroe in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 3 in that subdivision known as ROCKY RIVER ESTATES (fka Newtowne Estates II) as shown on a plat thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet C, File 617 in the Union County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3106 Deer Track Lane, Monroe, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Monroe in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 2, containing 1.082 acres, of MEDLIN FARMS, Section I, according to map recording in Plat Cabinet C, File 530, Union County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5800 Laney Rogers Road, Monroe, North Carolina.Property Address: 5800 Laney Rogers Road, Monroe, NC 28112 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and

designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on October 21, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Waxhaw in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 53, Lawson Subdivision, Phase 1, Map 2, as same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Book I, Pages 818 and 819, Union County, North Carolina Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1912 Pudding Lane, Waxhaw, North Carolina.

Parcel ID Number: 061808249 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor

ALL PERSONS, firms and corporations having claims against Marilyn Louise Pellegrini, deceased, of Wake County, N.C., are notified to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before January 7, 2022, or this notice will

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

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

the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed

on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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

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

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

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by

providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior

to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

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

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

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

be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment.

This 6th day of October 2021.

Robert Stanley Wally, Executor, c/o Lisa M. Schreiner, Stam Law Firm, PLLC, 510 W. Williams St., Apex, NC 27502

c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1287700 - 10364

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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE By: ___________________________________ Attorney at Law Hutchens Law Firm LLP Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. PO Box 1028 Fayetteville, NC 28302 Telephone: (910) 864-6888 c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1047 - 1602

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On Monday, Oct. 4, officials with the Department of Insurance and State Fire Marshal’s Office visited Charlotte Pipe and Foundry’s future headquarters in Oakboro, giving the new facility high praise for its safety and likely regional impact. Left to right: Chief State Fire Marshal Brian Taylor, Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey, CEO of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Co. Roddey Dowd Jr., N.C. Rep. Wayne Sasser.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Dad curses at elementary school students on bus

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal

Union County A father was arrested after he boarded a school bus and cursed at a group of elementary school students over how they had treated his child. The Union County Sheriff’s Office said Demor Lee Brooks of Monroe was charged with trespassing on a school bus and disorderly conduct.

Students were being picked up when Brooks walked onto the school bus. He was ordered to get off the bus by the driver but refused and began berating the children about how they were treating his child. The incident lasted approximately 30 seconds and no students were harmed.

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Nursing home cited after dementia patient found with maggots Mecklenburg County An agency cited a nursing home after live maggots were found in the wound of a dementia patient. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services cited University Place Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Charlotte following an investigation prompted by a complaint from the resident’s grandson. Justin Waddell said he first became aware of his grandmother’s infested wound after a tip from the facility’s staff members, including video that showed an open wound on his grandmother’s heel with live maggots crawling out. University Place had been cited 21 times for violations over the past decade.

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OAKBORO — Members of the North Carolina Department of Insurance, including Commissioner Mike Causey and Chief State Fire Marshal Brian Taylor, travelled to Stanly County on Monday morning to join Charlotte Pipe and Foundry CEO Roddey Dowd Jr. for a tour of the company’s upcoming cast-iron foundry in Oakboro.

The visit began with a roundtable discussion, led by Dowd, Causey and state Rep. Wayne Sasser (R-Stanly), on topics that ranged from the questionable building codes of foreign lumber suppliers to the rise of battery fires caused by solar panels.

The Department of Insurance commissioner and his chief fire marshal both voiced their approval of Charlotte Pipe’s safety standards and preliminary building methods that have been deployed on the 450-acre Charlotte Pipe construction site property located off of Silver Road.

“This is a big deal and it will

put Oakboro on the map,” Causey told SCJ. “I am very impressed with the size and scope of this.

Usually when you pour concrete in a textile finishing plant, you might have footings that are three feet deep but these might be 25feet deep.”

Following the meeting, Dowd distributed safety helmets and vests to the Department of Insurance officials and provided a tour guide of the plant.

“This is one of the biggest plants in the United States — a $425 million plant with 530 high-paying jobs. This is the largest project built in North Carolina in probably 30 years,” the Charlotte Pipe chairman said.

During the tour, Dowd told SCJ about the battles his company has been facing with cases of intellectual property theft overseas. He recounted one story in particular of a sales associate discovering counterfeit Charlotte Pipe materials at a trade fair in Indonesia. These revelations have led to the business registering its trademark in countries throughout the world for protec-

Biscuitville gives ‘Homes of Hope’ $10k at Albemarle store’s grand opening New store serves nearly 2k biscuits on first day

By David Larson Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — On Sept. 28, a new Biscuitville Fresh Southern restaurant opened in Albemarle, and the company decided to donate $10,000 to local charity Homes of Hope, Inc. during the grand opening.

Homes of Hope, Inc. is an Albemarle-based nonprofit that provides transitional housing to those experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity, helping them get back on their feet.

“Biscuitville of Albemarle has chosen us to partner with to provide support for our neighbors without homes!!” said Homes of Hope, Inc. on their Facebook page. “Go by today for the grand opening and sign up to win FREE BREAKFAST for a year!!”

At the conclusion of the grand-opening event, Biscuitville presented the check to Homes of Hope, Inc. “We are honored to serve the Albemarle community, and to give back to such a meaningful organization is a great way to show our appreciation for being a part of the area,” said Biscuitville president and CEO Kathie Niven. “We are excited to be here and are thankful for the opportunity to serve our Albemarle guests with our fresh, locally-sourced Southern breakfast.”

After the ribbon-cutting, the new location began serving the public, who showed up in large numbers to be among the first to enjoy Biscuitville’s popular Southern-styled breakfast offerings. Over the first day, the Albemarle store served 1,933 biscuits to guests.

“We look forward to continuously serve and grow with this community, especially after the overwhelming support we re-

“This is one of the biggest plants in the United States — a $425 million plant with 530 high-paying jobs. This is the largest project built in North Carolina in probably 30 years.”

Charlotte Pipe CEO Roddey Dowd Jr. tion against theft.

“We could have built this plant with all the money we spent fighting the Chinese during my career,” Dowd said. “We fight them with the codes and standards, but ultimately, it comes down to price. We’ve had to lower our price; and if you have to lower your price 30% to 40%, it hurts.”

After the tour of the construction site, Sasser spoke with SCJ about the economic boost that Charlotte Pipe could potentially provide to not just Oakboro but

ceived from our new guests at our grand opening,” Niven said of their reception by Stanly locals.

Biscuitville says they are proud to make their biscuits fresh every 15 minutes, and they have a large biscuit window that allows guests to watch this process.

The company is headquartered in Greensboro, just an hour drive to the northeast from Stanly. Biscuitville is family owned and started in 1966 in Burlington. Now the chain has expanded to 66 restaurants, including the latest one in Stanly County, and has 1,900 employees.

Homes of Hope Inc.’s mission statement is “To reduce homelessness in Stanly County through transitional housing, emergency housing, case management, resource connections, and skill acquisition that will enable individuals and families in need to gain independence and become successful community members.”

The organization has a constant need for items like food, clothing, furniture and toiletries for those at their Community Inn, as well as a need for volunteers to help run operations.

Visit homesofhopestanly.org to learn more.

all of Stanly County. The state congressman mentioned that over the years, some other companies have appeared to build their roots in the county only to move to other areas once a higher bidder came along.

Sasser’s forecast is that Charlotte Pipe is here to stay.

“This is the biggest thing ever here. I was actually in high school when Alcoa came here, so I’ve seen a lot,” Sasser said. “You can go work for them [Charlotte Pipe] and average $100,000 a year with benefits — so when you retire, you’ll have $1 million in your 401K.” As one of America’s top manufacturers of cast iron and plastic pipe and fittings, the business currently operates out of seven locations and has constantly expanded since it began in Charlotte with 25 employees back in 1901.

Due to the vast size of the Oakboro plant, the project is expected to require two more years of construction until it is finished and ready to become Charlotte Pipe’s primary location.

“We are honored to serve the Albemarle community, and to give back to such a meaningful organization is a great way to show our appreciation for being a part of the area.”

Biscuitville president and CEO Kathie Niven

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Captain Kirk is rocketing into space next week — boldly going where no other sci-fi stars have gone.

Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, Blue Origin, announced Monday that “Star Trek” actor William Shatner will blast off from West Texas on Oct. 12.

“Yes, it’s true; I’m going to be a ‘rocket man!’” the 90-year-old tweeted. He added: “It’s never too late to experience new things.”

Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is a huge fan of the sci-fi series and even had a cameo as a high-ranking alien in the 2016 film “Star Trek Beyond.” His rocket company invited Shatner to fly as its guest.

Shatner will become the oldest person to go to space. He’ll join three others — two of them paying customers — aboard a Blue Origin capsule. He’ll wind up being the second actor to reach space this month: Russia is launching an actress and a film director to the International Space Station on Tuesday for almost two weeks of moviemaking.

Shatner’s flight, by comparison, will last just 10 minutes and reach no higher than about 66 miles (106 kilometers). The capsule will parachute back to the desert floor, not far from where it took off.

With flights short or long, space tourism is picking up steam fast.

Virgin Galactic carried founder Richard Branson to the edge of space with five others in July, followed nine days later by Bezos’ space hop. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, meanwhile, launched its first private crew last month — a Pennsylvania entrepreneur who bought the three-day flight and took along two contest winners and a cancer survivor.

Virgin Galactic’s ship launches from an airplane and requires two pilots. Blue Origin and SpaceX’s capsules are fully automated, but

♦ Timothy Darren Moss, 55, of Oakboro, died September 27.

♦ Baker, Johnathon Coty (W /M/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Methamphetamine (F) and 2) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at Endy, Albemarle, NC, on 10/4/2021

♦ Albert Raymond Rowan, 84, of Albemarle, died September 30. ♦ Joseph Plyler Pickler, 87, of New London, died October 1. ♦ William Lee Johnson, Jr, 80 of Norwood, died October 1. ♦ Larry James Hinson 76, of Locust, died October 2. ♦ Bobby Vaco Morris, 94, of Albemarle, passed away Sunday, October 3

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Shatner will fly to space aboard Blue Origin rocket

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♦ Jennifer King Runion, 48, of Albemarle, died September 28.

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In this May 6, 2018, file photo, actor William Shatner takes questions from reporters after delivering the commencement address at New England Institute of Technology graduation ceremonies, in Providence, R.I. the passengers must pass medical screenings and, among other things, be able to quickly climb several flights of steps at the launch tower to get to the capsule — or out of it in an emergency.

This will be Blue Origin’s second launch of a crew.

Bezos was on the debut flight on July 20. He took along his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk — the youngest and oldest to fly in space. Shatner will break that upper threshold by eight years.

“I’ve heard about space for a long time now. I’m taking the opportunity to see it for myself.

What a miracle,” Shatner said in a statement.

Shatner played the role of the USS Starship Enterprise’s commander for three seasons, from

1966 to 1969. He also portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in seven movies, directing one of them.

He’s currently the host and executive producer of a History Channel show, “The UnXplained.”

The ashes of two other “Star Trek” powerhouses — creator Gene Roddenberry and actor James Doohan, who played Scotty — rocketed into space years ago following their deaths.

Also launching with Shatner: a former NASA engineer who founded a nanosatellite company and the co-founder of a software company specializing in clinical research. The two took part in the auction for a seat on the first flight. That seat cost $28 million; Blue Origin isn’t divulging any other ticket prices.

A fourth seat on the flight is going to Blue Origin’s vice president

of mission and flight operations, who used to work for NASA as a space station flight controller.

A Blue Origin spokeswoman said Shatner, like the others, met all the company’s health and physical requirements.

Last week, more than 20 current and former Blue Origin employees accused the Kent, Washington-based company of having a toxic work environment and not adhering to proper safety protocols. Blue Origin said it doesn’t tolerate harassment or discrimination and stood by its safety record.

Bezos’ company is also challenging a NASA contract award to SpaceX for providing a lunar lander that will return astronauts to the moon in a few years. Blue Origin was unsuccessful in its bid for the job.

Conversion (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 10/1/2021

♦ Chewey, Audrey Lynn (W /F/35) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Sch I Cs (F), 2) Pwimsd Sch Ii Cs (F), 3) Pwimsd Sch Vi Cs (F), and 4) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at Us 52 Hwy/nc 49 Hwy, Richfield, NC, on 9/28/2021

♦ Anderson, Jeremiahshea Sean (B M, 34) Arrest on chrg of Possession Of StolenFirearm, F (F), at 399 Moss Springs Rd/ montgomery Av, Albemarle, on 09/29/2021

♦ Colson, Robert James (B /M/41) Arrest on chrg of Felony Possession Of Cocaine (F), at Dollar General, Red Cross, NC, on 10/1/2021 ♦ Epling, Beverly Phillips (W /F/55) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Methamphetamine (F), 2) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), and 3) Driving While Impaired (M), at N Main St, Norwood, NC, on 9/30/2021 ♦ Horton, Johnny Lee (B /M/41) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking And Or Entering (f) (F) and 2) Misdemeanor Probation Viol (M), at 170 Rock Haven Drive, Albemarle, NC, on 9/29/2021 ♦ Greeson, Christopher Scott (W /M/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Heroin (F) and 2) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 209 Bearclaw Rd, Oakboro, NC, on 9/29/2021 ♦ Dye, James Chase (W /M/21) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Govt Official/emply (M) and 2) Misdemeanor Larceny (M), at Main Street, Norwood, NC, on 9/28/2021 ♦ Benson, Daniel Trevor (B /M/35) Arrest on chrg of 1) Pwimsd Cocaine (F), 2) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), 3) Possess Drug Paraphernalia (M), and 4) Parole Violation (F), at 717 Long Street, Albemarle, NC, on 9/28/2021 ♦ Parrish, Jason Michael (W /M/33) Arrest on chrg of Larceny Of Motor Vehicle (f) (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 9/28/2021

♦ Davis, Kerry Lamar (B /M/20) Cited on Charge of Reckless Drvg-wanton Disregard (2103125), at Us 52/james St, Richfield, on 9/28/2021. ♦ Taylor, Nicholas Ray (W /M/22) Cited on Charge of Reckless Drvg-wanton Disregard (2103126), at Us 52/james St, Richfield, on 9/28/2021. ♦ Lowder, Joseph Thomas (W /M/42) Cited on Charge of Second Degree Trespass (202100736), at 136 Collins Ave, Norwood, on 9/28/2021 ♦ Gainey, Franklyn Antonio (B M, 36) Arrest on chrg of Driving While Impaired (M), at2229 E Main St/anderson Grove Church Rd, Albemarle, on 09/27/201 ♦ Gainey, Franklyn Antonio (B M, 36) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at2341 E Main St, Albemarle, on 09/27/2021 ♦ Nicholson, Daniel Eric (W M, 41) Arrest on chrg of Driving While Impaired (M), at199 Nc 24-27 Bypass W, Albemarle, on 09/27/2021 ♦ Taylor, Alton Demetrice (B M, 53) Arrest on chrg of Att Breaking Or Enter Bldg (f), F(F), at 1235 Lennox St, Albemarle, on 09/29/2021 ♦ Xiong, Roger Nmn (W M, 37) Arrest on chrg of Possess Methamphetamine (F), at1315 Hathcock Av, Albemarle, on 09/29/2021

♦ Garner, Nyquarious Xavier (B M, 21) Arrest on chrg of Possession Of Stolen Firearm(F), at 399 Moss Springs Rd/montgomery Av, Albemarle, on 09/29/2021 ♦ Dickson, Austin Lee (W M, 25) Arrest on chrg of Felony Possession Sch Ii Cs (F), at615 Henson St/woodhurst Ln, Albemarle, on 09/30/2021 ♦ Sweet, Kristopher David (W M, 41) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 126S Third St, Albemarle, on 09/30/2021 ♦ Faber, Ronald Scott (W M, 58) Arrest on chrg of Driving While Impaired (M), at 2229E Main St/anderson Grove Church Rd, Albemarle, on 10/01/202 ♦ Fahy, Harry Michael (W M, 25) Arrest on chrg of Assault

By Pointing A Gun, M (M),at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 10/03/2021. ♦ Harrison, Jalen Wesley (W M, 24) Arrest on chrg of Communicate Threats, M (M), at126 S Third St, Albemarle, on 10/03/2021 ♦ Forsythe, Robin Joy S (W F, 34) Arrest on chrg of Second Degree Trespass, M (M), at199 Nc 24-27 Bypass E, Albemarle, on 10/03/2021 ♦ Fahy, Harry Michael (W M, 25) Arrest on chrg of Assault By Pointing A Gun, M (M),at 126 South 3rd St, Albemarle, on 10/04/2021

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, October 6, 2021

OPINION Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor VISUAL VOICES

COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

Democrats’ ludicrous claim that most expensive bill in history will cost $0

The leftleaning Tax Policy Center determined the bill will result in a tax hike for 75% of middleclass families next year.

FREEDOM IS UNDER ATTACK. Liberal politicians in Washington think they know what’s best for you when it comes to your health care, what your children are learning in school, what kind of car you should drive, and how you spend the money in your bank account.

Their reckless spending has already led to skyrocketing inflation. Unfortunately, Washington Democrats are doing everything they can to advance trillions more in government spending and new taxes that will transform our society and only make inflation worse.

Last week, Democrats worked to advance their $3,5000,000,000,000 infrastructure bill. Only 10% of this bill goes to roads, bridges and traditional infrastructure. Their $3.5 trillion boondoggle includes $2.1 trillion in tax increases, funds abortions, includes radical Green New Deal climate provisions, and opens the door to amnesty for 8 million illegal immigrants.

President Biden and Speaker Pelosi have made the claim that this spending bill — the largest in the history of the United States — will cost $0. That is ludicrous. By the way, if this was true, then why do they need to raise the debt ceiling?

In reality, this bill includes a 33% tax increase on 1.4 million small businesses, affecting 12.5 million American workers. The left-leaning Tax Policy Center determined the bill will result in a tax hike for 75% of middle-class families next year. The Joint Committee on Taxation found that within 10 years, 66% of the tax burden from raising the business tax would be on lower and middle-class workers. The National Association of Manufacturers released a study showing the tax increase would cost one million jobs in two years. The bill would lead to your monthly utility bills costing more. And finally, it adds $17 trillion to our national debt to be paid for by your children and grandchildren.

I oppose this agenda because of the extreme cost to you and your

family. We must make common-sense investments in our roads, bridges, highways and broadband. But we must also work to grow our economy and get people back to work. Exploding the size of our federal government and its control over your life does not help achieve that goal.

While Democrats push to advance their agenda, last week I worked to defend our Second Amendment.

The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) funds our entire Defense Department for the year. It included pay raises for our troops and provisions I secured for Fort Bragg.

However, this year’s defense bill is not a perfect bill. I strongly opposed Democrats, who just like last year, inserted a section on Red Flag laws that threaten the Second Amendment rights of our servicemembers. Like last year, I am leading efforts to ensure these provisions are removed. Last week, 160 of my colleagues joined my push to ensure Red Flag laws are stripped from the final bill. I appreciate their support and will continue this fight until the bill is finalized.

And finally, it seems only one person has been punished over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Unfortunately, it is Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, a Marine who spoke out against President Biden’s deadly withdrawal. I reached out to Lt. Col. Scheller when he was relieved of his command as a result. Then last week, it was reported he was detained indefinitely without being charged with a crime or receiving a trial date for posting on social media. I wrote to the secretary of the Navy last week with urgent questions about his status, because our men and women in uniform deserve due process.

There are many challenges before Congress right now. Yet rest assured I will work to provide common-sense solutions that work for you and your family and will always stand in the way of reckless spending and bigger government.

COLUMN | NEWT GINGRICH

Youngkin’s parents vs. McAuliffe’s union bosses Democrat McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

THE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE may be developing into an argument with a clear choice that has real implications for campaigns across the country in 2022.

Tuesday night’s debate clarified the dramatic gap between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe. It is clear: Youngkin stands with parents who care about their children’s education, and McAuliffe stands with the union bosses who want total control of our lives.

During the debate, McAuliffe made what may be an electioncollapsing mistake. He spoke honestly about the degree to which he would exclude parents from their children’s educations. Consider this exchange: Republican Youngkin: “I believe parents should be in charge of their kids’ education.”

Democrat McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

The next night on FOX News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Youngkin expanded on the difference between he and McAuliffe: “[McAuliffe] believes that government and politicians know better for our children than parents. He wants to exclude parents from being involved in educating our children… Virginia parents have been standing up for the rights of their kids for the last 20 months, fighting against school boards who have been trying to impose all kinds of things on them. They’ve been asking for schools to be open, and what you saw last night was… [McAuliffe] doesn’t care what they think. He wants to dictate what they learn, he wants to teach our children how to think, and he wants to excuse parents from all of it.”

The simple fact is that former Gov. McAuliffe is dependent on union bosses to fund his campaign and provide workers for the turnout effort. McAuliffe has received $525,000 from the National Education Association and $425,000 from the American Federation of Teachers. That $950,000 from union bosses goes a long way to explaining McAuliffe’s contempt for parents.

You can better understand McAuliffe’s willingness to get rid of Virginia’s Right to Work Law when you learn that the Service Employee International Union has given his campaign $689,167.

McAuliffe’s conversion to Big Government Socialism and radical policies has also earned him $1.75 million from Independence USA PAC (Mike Bloomberg’s PAC) and $250,000 from George Soros personally. This is only the end of September, so McAuliffe’s antiparent, pro-Union position will likely earn his campaign even more money in October as it desperately tries to grab the governorship.

However, McAuliffe’s open contempt for parents and subservience to the unions may cost him the election. After all, there was recently a rally of more than 1,000 people in Loudoun County, Virginia, who

were angry about left-wing radicalism being taught in their schools.

Parents of students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax, Virginia, are outraged because school officials are “purging” students of Asian descent to meet woke quotas. In fact, citizens across the country from every background are upset that left-wing radicalism is taking hold in schools while standards are being lowered — or even abolished in the case of Oregon.

Virginians have historically been proud of their education system and have valued their children and grandchildren getting good educations. They see the unions undermining this tradition and crippling their children’s futures.

When McAuliffe crystallized the gap between parents and union bosses in the debate Tuesday, it may have been the key moment of the campaign. If Youngkin pushes the issue relentlessly for the next month, McAuliffe may be permanently branded as a union-boss controlled Big Government Socialist candidate — and therefore unacceptable to most Virginians.

This kind of decisive defining moment is not new for Democrats.

Consider the following examples: In 1972, Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. George McGovern announced he was “1,000 percent behind” his vicepresidential nominee Sen. Tom Eagleton (who had admitted after accepting the nomination that he had been given electric shock treatments for depression). A week later he dumped Eagleton. He lost in a landslide.

In 1984, Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale proudly announced in his acceptance speech that he would raise our taxes. His support collapsed, and he never recovered. President Ronald Reagan cheerfully contrasted his tax cuts with Mondale’s tax increases. The result was a landslide.

In 2004, Sen. John Kerry was filmed windsurfing in Nantucket in a fancy outfit. This convinced swing voters across the country he really was an elitist who was out-of-touch with normal Americans. A few weeks later he lost.

In 2016, Secretary Hillary Clinton attacked most Republican voters as “deplorables,” thereby firing up the base of Donald Trump’s voters. A month later, in a shocking upset, she lost.

McAuliffe’s declaration that “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” may join this list of campaign-dooming mistakes.

If McAuliffe loses, it will be a real warning to Democrats across the country that Big Government Socialist values and woke policies may not be sustainable — even with massive union and billionaire funding.

Last Tuesday night, the Virginia governor’s race took on a whole new importance as a national bellwether.

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NHL

Preds assistant Richards recovering from heart attack Nashville, Tenn.

Nashville assistant coach Todd Richards is recovering from a heart attack. The Predators announced Monday that Richards, a former Minnesota and Columbus head coach, had the attack Friday. Richards has been released from the hospital and is resting at home in Nashville. The Predators hired Richards in October 2020 as an assistant to coach John Hynes. Richards, 54, joined the Predators after four seasons as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning, including winning the 2020 Stanley Cup and the Presidents’ Trophy for the 2018-19 season.

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Bubba Wallace celebrates after winning his first career NASCAR Cup Series race Monday at Talladega.

NFL

Jaguars’ Meyer apologizes for ‘just stupid’ actions in video Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer apologized to his family, his team and owner Shad Khan for actions he called “just stupid.” A video surfaced Saturday night showing a woman dancing close to Meyer’s lap, a clip that quickly went viral and made headlines across the country. Another video appears to show Meyer, 57, touching the woman’s behind. Meyer called a team meeting Monday and vowed to “own it,” the motto he uses daily and has plastered all around the Jaguars facility. The Jaguars are off to an 0-4 start in Meyer’s first season.

WNBA

Mohegan Sun suspends betting on WNBA at new sportsbook Uncasville, Conn.

The Mohegan Sun casino announced Monday that it has suspended wagering on the WNBA after questions were raised over a potential conflict in taking bets on the Connecticut Sun, a team also owned by the Mohegan Tribe. The issue came up after Gov. Ned Lamont opened the sportsbook last Thursday, the first day of legalized sports betting in Connecticut, by placing a $50 bet on the Sun to win its playoff game with the Chicago Sky. The wager raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest with the Mohegan Sun accepting bets on the Sun, which plays in the arena located at the casino complex.

MLB

Rojas out as Mets manager after 2 losing seasons New York Luis Rojas was let go as New York Mets manager on Monday after two losing seasons. The team declined its option on his contract for 2022, making the announcement a day after finishing third in the NL East at 77-85 in Steve Cohen’s first year of ownership. The Mets said Rojas has been offered the opportunity to remain in the organization in a role still to be determined. The club said decisions about the coaching staff will be made in the coming days.

Bubba Wallace earns milestone 1st Cup victory The 23XI Racing driver got the win at Talladega after rain shortened the race, making him the second black driver to win in NASCAR’s top series

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Bubba Wallace became just the second black driver to win at NASCAR’s top Cup Series level when rain stopped Monday’s playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Wallace had driven through a crash and to the front of the field five laps before the second rain stoppage of the race. NASCAR tried to dry the track for nearly 45 minutes but called things off as sunset approached and the rain showed no sign of ceasing.

Wallace had been waiting atop his pit stand and celebrated wildly with his crew when the race was called. Wallace is in his first season

driving for 23X1 Racing, a team co-owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan.

Wallace broke down in tears after he returned to his parked No. 23 Toyota. The car number was picked for co-owner Jordan, who wore 23 in the NBA. “This is for all the kids out there that want to have an opportunity and whatever they want to achieve, and be the best at what they want to do,” Wallace said as he choked back tears. “You’re going to go through a lot of (BS). But you always got to stick true to your path and not let the nonsense get to you.

“Stay strong. Stay humble. Stay hungry. Been plenty of times when I wanted to give up.”

Wallace is the first black driver to win at NASCAR’s elite Cup level since Wendell Scott in 1963 — a race where he wasn’t declared the victor for several months. NASCAR at last presented Scott’s family with his trophy from that race two months ago.

Bill Lester, a black driver who raced intermittently in NASCAR

“Stay strong. Stay humble.

Stay hungry. Been plenty of times when I wanted to give up.”

Bubba Wallace from 1999 through one Trucks Series start this season, tweeted his congratulations to Wallace.

“Finally, it’s official, you’ve done it!” he posted. “So proud of you and what you’ve accomplished. Your win moves the @NASCAR needle forward on so many fronts. Glad I was a witness.”

23XI will expand to two cars next season with former series champion Kurt Busch joining the team.

Wallace’s win was his first in 142 career Cup starts, though he had six victories in the Truck Series from 2013 through 2015.

No playoff drivers won a race at

Washington Football facility searched, trainer put on leave Ryan Vermillion, who was with the Panthers for 18 seasons before joining Ron Rivera in Washington, is under criminal investigation

By Steven Whyno The Associated Press THE WASHINGTON Football Team has placed head athletic trainer Ryan Vermillion on administrative leave for what a team statement called an “ongoing criminal investigation” unrelated to the club.

Federal law enforcement officials, including agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, served a search warrant at Washington’s practice facility, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Another search warrant was served at a local home, according to one of the people, each of whom spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Monday because the investigation is ongoing.

Vermillion, who is also the team’s director of sports medicine, is in his second season working under coach Ron Rivera in Washington after 18 seasons with the Carolina Panthers.

Asked Monday about Vermillion’s status and whether he was

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Ryan Vermillion, left, watches Cam Newton during a Panthers practice in 2019. being paid while on leave, Rivera repeatedly referred to the team’s statement and declined to elaborate.

“We’re just going to stick with that for right now,” said Rivera, who worked with Vermillion for nine seasons in Carolina before bringing him to Washington. “I’m not going to comment how I personally feel about what’s going on.

That would go beyond what I need to say.”

Vermillion did not travel with the team this past weekend for its game at Atlanta. Mark McCracken, Doug Quon and Masahiro Takahagi are Washington’s assistant trainers, though Rivera did not reveal who is in charge while Vermillion is not around.

“Right now, we’re going to work it with the doctors, and we’ll go from there,” he said.

Rivera said he would talk to players about focusing on their up-

Talladega this weekend and only Denny Hamlin is already locked into the third round of the playoffs headed into next week’s elimination race on Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Roval.

Hamlin, a three-time Daytona 500 winner, celebrated with Wallace following his seventh-place finish.

“It’s just way more emotional because I know how difficult it is. These guys have worked so hard over the last 10 months to put this team together,” Hamlin said.

“We’re still in the beginning stages of our team. We’re still growing.

We’ve got some great things on the horizon. It’s just a great morale booster for everyone.”

Brad Keselowski finished second and was followed by Team Penske teammate Joey Logano in a pair of Fords. Busch was fourth in a Chevrolet.

The final race in the second round of the playoffs is at The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The hybrid road course/oval is where the field of 12 will be trimmed to eight. Chase Elliott is the two-time defending race winner at The Roval. His victory last October was his first of three wins in the final five races that lofted Elliott to his first Cup championship.

Kevin Harvick, Christopher Bell, Alex Bowman and William Byron head to Charlotte in danger of elimination.

coming game against New Orleans and that he is not worried about Vermillion’s absence being a distraction.

“The biggest thing we’ll talk about most certainly is focusing on what’s important right now for us as far as getting ready to play football games, and that’s how we’ll handle it,” Rivera said. “I think the guys know how to compartmentalize and prepare themselves. They’ll know when to focus on what’s important about preparing to play football.”

NBC Sports Washington and the local NBC affiliate first reported the raid. A report on 106.7 FM in Washington indicated that authorities spoke to a player about Vermillion earlier this year, which Rivera said he knew nothing about.

Washington hired Vermillion shortly after Rivera in January 2020, with owner Dan Snyder calling him a perfect fit and “one of the most respected and seasoned head athletic trainers in the NFL.” Rivera said at the time he has “seen firsthand the positive impact Ryan has on a team.”

Vermillion won the Fain-Cain Memorial Award for Outstanding NFL Trainer of the Year in 2016, and in 2003 he led the training staff of the year as voted on by colleagues around the league.

Before his time in Carolina, Vermillion spent one season as Washington’s director of rehabilitation.

Before that, he spent nine seasons on Hall of Fame coach Don Shula’s staff with the Miami Dolphins: four as head trainer and five as rehabilitation director.

Vermillion graduated from the University of Miami in 1987 and spent four years as a student trainer.

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Borrego says Ball must take ‘next step’ for Hornets to win

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

ALBEMARLE (0-5, 0-1 YVC) AT SOUTH STANLY (1-4, 0-1 YVC) Norwood | Friday, Oct. 8 7:30 p.m.

Albemarle was pummeled in its Yadkin Valley Conference opener, losing 66-0 to Robinson in Concord. The loss kept the Bulldogs winless on the season heading into its cross-county matchup at South Stanly. The Bulls were also shut out in their first YVC game, losing 44-0 at Mount Pleasant. South Stanly has managed just 39 points through five games, while Albemarle has scored just 35. The teams last played in 2019, a 35-18 South Stanly win in Norwood.

NORTH STANLY (2-3, 1-0 YVC) VS. ROBINSON (5-1, 1-0 YVC) New London | Friday, Oct. 8 7:30 p.m.

The Comets snapped a two-game losing streak with a 49-0 shutout over Union Academy to open YVC play with a win. Next up for North Stanly is Robinson, which also won its conference opener with a shutout, a 66-0 rout of Albemarle. The game will create some separation at the top of the conference, with the winner staying near the top and the loser moving into the murky middle of the YVC.

WEST STANLY (2-2, 0-0 RRC) AT PARKWOOD (3-1, 1-0 RRC) Monroe | Friday, Oct. 8 7 p.m.

After a week off, West Stanly opens Rocky River Conference play this week at Parkwood. The Wolf Pack have won three straight after a 39-29 win over Forest Hills last week. Parkwood quarterback Cameron Enos completed 14 of 18 passes for 278 yards and two touchdowns, and Wisdom Holmes rushed for 216 yards and two scores and caught four passes for 60 yards and another score in the win. The teams last played in 2016, a 35-27 Colts win.

The Charlotte point guard was the NBA’s top rookie last season The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — LaMelo Ball made the transition from playing basketball overseas to the NBA last season look fairly easy, breezing his way to rookie of the year honors.

Now Hornets coach James Borrego wants the point guard to take the next step.

For Borrego, that means the No. 3 overall pick in 2020 gaining a deeper understanding of who the Hornets are as a team, what to look for in certain in-game situations and taking on more of a leadership role through communication with his teammates.

“I want him to take the reins of this program,” Borrego said. “He’s the quarterback, the floor general and for us to take that next step he must run this team, not only on the offensive end but the defensive end as well.”

The Hornets went 33-39 last season, finishing 10th in the East and losing to the Indiana Pacers in the play-in game. The bar is set a little higher this year with shooting guard Terry Rozier saying anything but the playoffs would be “an absolute fail.”

Borrego has been working closely with Ball in one-on-one sessions, stressing the importance of understanding situations.

For instance, if the Hornets are down three in the closing seconds, he wants Ball to know where Rozier and Gordon Hayward are on the floor and how to get them the ball. He wants him to know when to attack a defender off a pick and roll and when to pass. The coach wants his point guard to know

when to walk the ball up the floor and when to push the tempo.

Because of the shortened offseason and a condensed regular season last year due to COVID-19, Ball didn’t get a chance to learn much from coaches.

Borrego would often find himself yelling instructions to Ball from the bench.

He doesn’t want to have to do that this year.

“A lot of his success last year was based on instinct and feel,” Borrego said. “Now his next step is managing who we are, his personnel around him and understanding the league in general. So our conversation as been around our team, our strengths, our values and understanding his teammates.”

Ball said he’s “definitely” up to the challenge.

“It’s going over plays and stuff and watching film and knowing where to be at and where other players are to be,” Ball said. “It’s leading the pack.”

Ball averaged 15.7 points. 6.1 assists and 5.9 rebounds last season and won rookie of the month honor three times.

There were concerns about his unorthodox 3-point stroke coming into the league, but he shot a respectable 37.5% from 3-point range through 41 games before breaking his wrist. He returned five weeks later but could regularly be seen favoring the wrist and it clearly affected his shot. He made just 24.4% from beyond the arc over the final 10 games.

“To say I was 100%? Nah,” Ball said shaking his head.

Borrego talks repeatedly about how much he enjoys coaching Ball and loves his enthusiasm.

“He is fully engaged and I love that about him,” Borrego said. “I expect a big year from him, and I expect him to take another step.”

JAY LAPRETE | AP PHOTO

The Reds’ Joey Votto strikes out during a game in September. The collective batting average of major leaguers hit an all-time low in 2021.

MLB .244 batting average worst since ’68, up after crackdown The league’s enforcement of rules regarding illegal substances used by pitchers helped boost even lower numbers

The Associated Press NEW YORK — The major league batting average dropped to .244 this season, its lowest since the year of the pitcher in 1968, though offense picked up markedly following baseball’s midseason crackdown on grip-enhancing substances for pitchers.

MLB’s stricter enforcement had

the desired impact, ending a run of 12 consecutive full seasons in which strikeouts had set records annually.

From opening day through June 2, the last day before the crackdown, batters hit .236 with a .395 slugging percentage, a .707 OPS and an average of 4.36 runs per team each game. From June 3 through the end of the regular season, the average rose to .248 with a .419 slugging percentage, a .738 OPS and an average of 4.62 runs.

There were a record 2,664 more strikeouts than hits, the gap increasing from 1,147 during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season and 784 in 2019, when strikeouts topped hits for the first time.

While there were 42,145 strikeouts, a slight decrease from 42,823 in 2019, hits declined from 42,039 to 39,481 as computer-aided defensive shifts proliferated. The big league batting average was .271 in 1999 at the height of the Steroids Era, when there were 45,327 hits.

The major league batting average dropped to a record-low .237 in 1968, prompting MLB to lower the pitcher’s mound from 15 inches to 10 the following season and to shrink the strike zone.

Fastball spin rates declined from an average of 2,319 revolutions per minute before June 3 to 2,251 after, and velocity was virtually unchanged, increasing from 93.6 to

93.7 mph, the commissioner’s office said Monday. Curveball spin rates dropped from an average of 2,552 to 2,484 and sliders from an average of 2,462 to 2,393.

The percentage of plate appearances ending in strikeouts dropped from 24.2% before the crackdown to 22.7% after, while walks fell from 8.9% to 8.2%. Home runs increased from 3.1% to 3.4% and hit by pitches were stable at 1.16%. Those figures all exclude intentional walks.

This year’s batting average of .243799 was just below 1972’s .243807, down from .245 in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season and .252 in 2019. The average was in the .260s from 2001-09 before

the rise of defensive shifts.

There were 5,944 home runs, down from a record 6,776 in 2019, which broke the mark of 6,105 set in 2017.

Baseball officials are concerned about the decreased action caused by the dominance of the so-called Three True Outcomes: home run, walk and strikeout.

MLB experimented with a 12inch greater distance between the mound and home plate during a portion of the Atlantic League season but found the increased distance was largely not noticeable from the 60 feet, 6 inches, that has been standard since the NL moved back the mound by 5 feet in 1883.

ment. area.”

EMPHIS, Tenn. — Faced For Nutbush resident He also cited a widespread fear the threat of overburdened of being unnecessarily exposed to fear of contracting the itals, states across the country matched with the worry th the6,virus. onverting convention centers, Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, October 2021 “All around, people are scared,” could lose stores that are ts facilities and performance the neighborhood. Offici he said. es into backup treatment sites Their fears are not unfounded. ven’t said if stores would oronavirus patients.

In this majority-black city along the Gateway facility was What some Memphis, Tenthe Mississippi River, lawmakers If they did, shopping wo e, residents don’t get is why in and community leaders have been come more difficult for re r city, a shopping center in the sounding the alarm over what they especially for those who ar dle of a predominantly black, see as a disturbing trend of the vi- have no means of transpo income residential neighborrus killing African Americans at a to stores located farther aw d has been chosen.

“For people who don’t higher rate. ty and state officials are conNutbush resident Patricia Har- car, what do they do?” ask ed that an influx of patients ris wondered aloud if city officials ris, who spoke to The Ass m Memphis, as well as nearby were “trying to contaminate” the Press while lugging a bott sissippi, Arkansas and rural also dealt with continued warBy Lolita Baldor tergent, a package of bott neighborhood.

Tennessee, willC. strain hospizone deployments, national disasThe Associated Press ter and other items from t Activist Earle Fisher, an AfriTheir fears are echoed across ters and often violent civil unrest.

ADRIAN SAINZ | AP PHOTO A Lot to her car. She note can American Memphis pastor, country: WASHINGTON, Governors, mayors Behavioral research has linked D.C. — The grocery store recently clos understands the anxiety.

“This health number expertsofinU.S. numerous This Friday, photo, military April suicides3,to2020 a range of per- shows Gateway Shopping Center military suicides sonal issues, including financial jumped by 15% last year, fueled is an honest and reasonable con- her house and she already es are also researching and in Memphis, Tenn. and marital stress. by significant increases in the cern and skepticism,” Fisher said. travel farther to get to Gat tructing makeshift medical Pentagon press secretary John and Marine Corps that se“When we do things “I think it’s par for the course for ities. Army nior leaders called troubling. They Kirby acknowledged the Defense got to consider the people black people to be righteously a Chinese restaurant and other Lee has disclosed a few: the Mun New York City, they’re turnurged more effort to reverse the Department cannot fully explain skeptical of governmental inter- neighborhood,” she said. “W the businesses. o the Javits Center convention sic City theCenter increasesininNashville, suicides in recent trend.

According to data releasedChattanooga last years. Convention Center, Locating a treatment center for vention that did not consult with need to make the neighb in Chicago, the McCormick “One ofExpo the things that is—bedevweek, there were 580 last Knoxville worse than it already is.”

Center all coronavirus patients there pos- people on the ground first.” e Convention Center; andsuicides in the iling about is that neighit’s often es two problems, residents say: with 504 thesites pri- away U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, Doug McGowen, the city’s chief from suicide residential dy, Utah,year thecompared Mountain Ameror year. Of those, the number of very hard to connect dots in cauphis Democrat, said the d operating officer, said the GateIt could potentially expose them borhoods.

Expo Center. suicides by Army National Guard sality — what leads somebody to DAVID ZALUBOWSKI | APsense.

PHOTO doesn’t make way site was being considered beto the virus amid concerns that The Gateway Shopping Cenhe U.S. troops Armyjumped Corpsbyofabout Engi35%, from make that decision,” Kirby said.

“I’m sure there cause it could potentially accomare contracting COVID-19 the difficult Nutbush neighborhood s has been locations to denote specific cau- blacks 76 inscouting 2019 to 103 last year, ter andin “It’s In this May 31, 2021, file photo, flags and tributes mark the Memorial Day holiday at Fort Logan Nationalare othe sality with suicide on an individthe active-duty Army saw a nearCemetery in southeast Denver.

Tennessee, and officials here of Memphis is different. The cen- at higher rates; and it could force modate hundreds of beds. He said that would work, and they ual basis, let alone on an institu- some of the stores they rely on to if it were converted to a treatment have used those rather t ly 20% rise.of Marine Corps suicides ter features a Save A Lot grocery compiled a list 35 possitional basis. And I think that’s why went up by more than 30%, from site, it would hold only mildly ill into a residential neighbo backup sites. They haven’t re- store, a Rent-A-Center, a Fami- close. total forces is top priority,” said 47 to 62; while the Marine Corps it’s so difficult for us to speak to it standing of what is causing the in- suicides per 100,000.

Cohen coronavirus patientsCowwho could Nutbush resident and commuly Dollar, a beauty supply shop, ed the whole list, but Gov. Bill Orvis.be “These trendssaid. do not rest Army Maj. Gen. Clement Reserves went from nine deaths to with any specificity, except to say crease in suicides, we realize we

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Military suicides rise 15% as senior leaders call for action

we take this very, very seriously.”

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Military leaders for a number “The findings are troubling,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin of years have sought to reduce the said. “Suicide rates among our ser- stigma associated with seeking vice members and military fam- mental health assistance.

That message was conveyed ilies are still too high, and the trends are not going in the right in a remarkable public statement last year by Gen. John Hyten, vice direction.”

Suicide has long been a prob- chairman of the Joint Chiefs of lem in the U.S. military. While Staff. He said he sought help while the causes of suicide are complex heading U.S. Strategic Command and not fully understood, military from 2016 to 2019. He didn’t releaders have previously said they veal details but said he saw a psybelieved the COVID-19 pandem- chiatrist — a rare public admission ic was adding stress to an already by a senior officer.

Armya son leaders calledSalman, suicide a strained yearSalman, of King Associated Pressforce. Troops last bin significant challenge for the serwere called to help provide testing assented to the deal. later vaccines while struggling vice, noting that the trend has been “I go with the consent, so I UBAI, and United Arab Emirwith the virus themselves and increasing for the last five years. agree,” the prince said, — OPEC, Russia and “While there is nochuckling, clear underamong relatives andother friends. They

PEC, oil nations agree o nearly 10M barrel cut

have to do better in preventing suicide and ensure resources are available and readily accessible,” said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth and Gen. James C. McConville, Army chief of staff, in a statement.

The total number of Navy suicides dipped from 81 to 79, and the Air Force stayed the same, at 109.

Defense officials told Pentagon reporters that the rate of suicides per 100,000 service members did not increase by a “statistically significant” amount, saying it was within the margin of error. Department data showed that the rates increased across the board for the active duty, Guard and Reserves, by between two and seven

ard, acting executive director for the Force Resiliency office, said the department did not see a “statistical change in suicide rates” to indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact.

But, he added, that they are still looking at the issue. “We have always known that COVID, and the measures to respond to it, have presented unique challenges that would include risk factors for some folks,” he said.

He and Karin Orvis, director of the department’s suicide prevention office, acknowledged that the overall trend indicates the department must do more to reduce the stigma of seeking help.

“Preventing suicide across our

well with me, or the department.

I fully realize we have more work to do.”

According to the Pentagon, enlisted male service members under the age of 30 were most at risk for suicide. While they make up less than 42% of the total force, men under 30 accounted for about 63% of the suicide deaths.

By far, the most common method of suicide was a gun, followed by hanging or asphyxiation.

Coward said the military suicide rates were comparable to civilian U.S. rates. The use of a firearm was more frequent within the military than the civilian population.

roducing nations on Sunday drawing a round of applause from ized an unprecedented pro- those on the video call.

But it had not been smiles and ion cut of nearly 10 million els, or a 10th of global supply, laughs for weeks after the soopes of boosting crashing pric- called OPEC+ group of OPEC mid the coronavirus pandemic members and other nations failed in March to reach an agreement a price war, officials said.

This could be the largest re- on production cuts, sending pricending mandatory prison senBy Ben Finley ion in production from OPEC es tumbling. Saudi Arabia sharply tences for marijuana possession Associated Press lon- criticized Russia days earlier over perhaps The a decade, maybe convictions. He later said on “The said U.S.NORFOLK, Energy Secretary 700 Club” that marijuana should Va. — Pat what Rob- it described as comments critical of the kingdom, which Brouillette, whoturned credited be legalized and treated like alcoertson, who a tiny Virginfinds itself trying to appease hol because the government’s war ident Donald Trump’s ia television station perinto a global on drugs had failed. religious network, is Trump, a longtime OPEC critic. l involvement inbroadcasting getting duelAfter President Trump lost to stepping down after a half-centuEven U.S. senators had warned parties to the table and helpJoe Biden in 2020, Robertson ry running the “700 Club” on daito end aly TV, price war between Saudi Arabia to find a way to said Trump was living in an “althe Christian Broadcasting boost prices as American shale di ArabiaNetwork and Russia. ternate realty” and should “move announced on Friday. firms face far-higher production il prices have collapsed as the on,” news outlets reported.

Robertson, 91, said in a stateRobertson will still appear on hosted the network’s costs. American troops had been navirus ment andthat thehe COVID-19 SAUDI ENERGY a monthly, interactive episode flagship program the last deployed time to the kingdom for the ss it causes have largelyforhaltof The 700 Club and will come on Friday, and that his son Gorlobal travel and slowed down first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minist on the program “occasionally as don Robertson will take over the attacks over concerns of Irani- Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairs a virtual summit news r energy-chugging sectors of the Group of energy minister warrants,” the20 network said. weekday show starting Monday. an ofretaliation amid regional ten- his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to coordinate as manufacturing.

It behas a response Gordon Robertson, 63, to is plummet a “I will no longer the host stated the the ‘700 oil Club,’” industry in sions. prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in Yale-educated global demand duereal-estate to the pandem former Robertson said lawyer who is less known than on the Friday, “They’ve spent over the last U.S., which nowshow pumps morealthough his father, if at all controversial. he vowed to return from time to month waging war on American e than any other country.

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This is not how friends ctant to everyone ease supply.

The carof the “700 Club” for 20 years, and that’s been involved. precedented, but, Friday that he had agreed with cut another 2 million barrels of treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin nd other nations on Sunday even longer as a co-host. He’s also then ag And I want to thank all of you.” been hosting show called “700 is athe impact the corona that the U.S. will compenCramer, a Republican from North oil a day between them atop the Trump ed to allowRobertson’s Mexico to Christian cut only BroadANDREW DEMILLO | AP PHOTO casting Networka stickstarted airing add Interactive.” to having on demand,” said M OPEC+ deal. The three countries sate what Mexico cannot Club Dakota, before the OPEC+ deal.

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Club” began production may not be enough. dreds of thousands of energy jobs ed Sunday’s global pact,was saying s. The nations to 10 a.m. onitweekdays. between conservative cluding Jimmy Carter, Ronald alliance with the “700 Club” to use it the ence.

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obituaries Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, April 15, 2020

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obituaries Albert Raymond Rowan

Jennifer King Runion

Garry “Dale”Clontz

Garry “Dale”Clontz, passed away at Hospice of Union County Albert Raymond Rowan, 84, Jennifer King Runion, Jason48, of Tony on October 1,Merle 2021 at the age of of Albemarle passed away on Albemarle, passed away Tuesday, 62.

Thursday, September 30, 2021 September 28, 2021 at Atrium Efird Smith Helms Garry “Dale” is lovingly in Atrium Health Cabarrus. His Health Cabarrus in Concord. by his wifeAUSTIN Kathy ASON EUGENE “GENE” MONROE SMITH, 72, of remembered ERLE LORRAINE funeral ONY service will be 3 PM on She was born December 25, EFIRD, 94, went home to be with Rockwell, NC, went to be with HELMS, 72, of Marshville, of 37 years of Indian Trail; Sunday, October 3, 2021 the 1972 inhisNorth Carolina to the lateat his Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, his Lord and Savior JesusatChrist passed away Wednesday, 8, daughter Crystal DavisApril (Darren) Easton Albemarle God Dannyhome Clark and the late in King Stanfield.

Wednesday,Church April 8, of 2020 at at McWhorter HospiceAmber House of2020 Waxhaw and daughter withhis Rev. Gerald Gibson Rev. Mary Elizabeth Gene wasKing. born October 9, 1925, in home surrounded by and family.

A in Monroe.

Clontz of Columbia, SC and Harward officiating.

Survivors include Cabarrus Countyhusband, to the late SimeonHarry private family service will beThe held.

Lorraine was born April 1947 granddaughters Kira and28, Kenley willcondolences receive friends the at Stephen Runion of Albemarle, Jason Efird and the late Sarah Ella family Online can beat made in Monroe to the lateparents Homer David Davis of Waxhaw; Garry church from 2 until 3 prior to the NC; daughters, Jessica “Jessie” Burris Efird.

In addition to his stanlyfuneralhome.com Austin and Jewell Delphia-Jane and Jean Clontz of Mint Hill and the was service. parents, he wasRunion; preceded in death byhour ofTony born August 11, 1947 Austin. She was also preceded in Runion and Nikki sister Lisa Clontz of Mint Hill. his wife, Jewell “Pookie” Little Efird; sisters, in Stanly County the late death by brothers, A.D. and Teddy Born October 3, to 1936 in Pearlie grandson, Stephen Garry “Dale” is predeceased Mary Lambert, Fannie Almond, Asbury Smith and Emmer Lee Austin; and sister, Joy Austin. by his Runion; and brother, Danny Clark Sparks, Georgia, he was the son daughter, Amy Lynn Clontz.

Minnie Furr, Wilma Burleson and of the Smith. was the in lawand of Pat The family will receive friends late He Albert A. son Rowan King, Jr. Garry “Dale” waspm, born in Aileen Huskey; and brothers, Homer and Mick Cagle where he worked at from 6:00 pm 8:00 Friday, Minnie Taylor Rowan. He was Jennifer was a caring and Monroe, NC on September 4, Efird, Getus Efird and Wayne Efird, the fish house for many years until April 10, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral passionate person who was always a member of East Albemarle 1959.

He attended Independence Sr. he opened Anchor House Seafood Home of Albemarle.

The funeral Church of God and was a retired doing for others. Her love for her High School. wasam a truck A private funeral service will be in Rockwell. He and his wife Becky service will be He at 11:00 on Pentecostal Minister. familyheld andon friends overflowed Saturday, April 11, 2020 owned and operated Anchor House driver Saturday Hill Baptist andataPleasant handyman.

Dale Mr. was preceded into her compassion for others. at Love’ s Grove United Methodist for Rowan 25 years before retiring inin 2009.

Church in Marshville, officiated enjoyed fishing, riding his death bySmith his wife Mae Jennifer devoted manyinyears as a Church Cemetery Stanfield Mr. was aMinnie charter member

by Rev.with John Miller and buddies Rev. Leon Harley his biker Survivors volunteer and employee the Girl officiated

by Rev. Jimof White.

BurialCrews andRowan. deacon at Open Doorinclude Baptist Whitley.

She will lie inwith statehis for 30 and spending time four children Ann Coley (Toby) of the Scouts,will and after leaving follow at the Love’sthem, Grove United Church in Richfield.

He loved minutes prior to the service. will beloved dogs Hank, Lucy,She Zeke Rowan (Linda) she went on to help others in her4360 Albemarle, Methodist Church Cemetery, Lord andDavid his family abundantly.

Tony and be laid to rest in the church cemetery.

Ginger. of Lakeland, FL, Debbi Lisk of and careerPolk at DSS. had a love for Ford She Road, Stanfield. was a wonderful husband, father, She is survived by her beloved The visitation will be held at Survivors include son Gerald grandfather and could fix anything husband of 47 years, Paul Helms Albemarle, Johnny Rowan (Dale) owls, lighthouses and crafts.

Stanly Funeral (Gail)service Efird of Albemarle; he put his hands on. sisters of the home; son,and AlexCremation (Deanna) of Lakeland, FL, four TheWayne memorial will be Care of Locust on daughter Lisa EfirdOctober (Mark) HartsellCarolyn Mr. Smith isof survived by his wife Helms of Pageland; Wednesday, daughter, Paula Tedrow Lakeland, at 11:00 am, Saturday, October 6, 2021Helms fromof2pm Stanfield; granddaughters, Becky Cagle Smith of the home, (Cristin Brandt) Mintuntil Hill; FL, Beverly Senn of Midland 2, 2021ofin the Hartsell Funeral 2:45pm.

The service will beand held Kelly Efird Barbee and Lauren sons Walter Smith and Robbie grandchildren, Mason, Grant, City, Alabama, Mary Thompson Home’s Lefler Memorial Chapel 3pm in the Stanly Funeral and Hartsell (Justin) Crump; and great- of Young Smith;Harris, daughter Kayla Henderson Raegan Helms; brothers, Boyce, Georgia, and of Albemarle, officiated

by Pastor Cremation Chapel of Locust grandsons, Ian Patrick Simmons and (Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, Royce, Tim Care Austin; and sisters, Jean Willis of Lakeland, FL, Phillip Martin.

Elliot Jacob Simmons.

Dustin, and Steele Smith, Keaton Patricia Mullis, Angel Tarleton. with Rev. Ron and Loflin officiating.

36 greatMemorials may be made to Love’s15 grandchildren, and Ella Henderson; brother David Memorials may be made to the great-greatGrove United Methodist Church, POgrandchildren Smith; sistersand Kay4Kriechbaum, Alzheimer’s Association, 4600 Park Three sisters Box 276, Stanfield, NC 28163-0276.grandchildren.

Karen Stevenson, Ruby Eudy,and and Rd., Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209. two Dorothy brotherSmith preceded him in (Nick). death Linda Dale Rowan, He is preceded in deathLetha by Maebrothers Deal, and Margaret Taylor, Joe Smith, Wayne Smith, and Claude Wendell Rowan Ronnie Smith, Wadeand Smith, Robert Smith, and sister Mary Morris.

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Dwight J Dennis, passed away at home on Wednesday Timothy Darren Moss, 55, of Danny Jerry September, 29, 2021, at the age of Oakboro, NC passed away Monday, 60. Dwight is predeceased by his Luther Fincher September 27, 2021 at his home father, Joe Lee Dennis. with his loving familyfrom by his side.

ANNY PAUL LUTHER, ERRY FINCHER passed He is survived by his loving Tim was born October 65, of Norwood, passed away this life on April 3, 2020 at 8:0511, 1965 wife Debra P. Dennis of 38 years. in Indianapolis, IN to the late unexpectedly Thursday,remembered April 9, pm. He was surrounded by his family Dwight is lovingly Timothy James Moss and Barbara 2020 at Atrium Health Stanly in and holding the hand of the love of by his family, Alexander J. Dennis Ann Moss Hagy. He was also Albemarle. his life.

Jerry is preceded in death of Albemarle, Daughter, Heather preceded death by hisBilly sister-inMr. Luther was born March 27, by three siblings,intwo brothers, D. Almond (Jake) of Albemarle, Gilbert Fincher, and Larry Richard 1955 to the late Robert Fulton and law, Vicki (Shannon) Murray. and his grandchildren: Ryan, Helen Tucker Luther.

Fincher,The andfamily one sister, Barbra Joyce will receive friends Quinn, Samsurvived and Ben Almond, Danny was by his wife, Moore. from 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm, Saturday, JaydeBurleson Dennis.Luther His Mother Bertha He is survived by his wife, Eleanor Denise of Norwood; October 9, 2021 at Carolina Huestess and his sisters Kate Fincher of the home, daughter, sons, JeremyDennis, (Karen) Luther and Presbyterian Church, 406 Renee Sharon D. step-sons, Kelly (Dan), their Jody Luther; Bryan Cindy Fincher of Wingate Ford Rd.,Jacobs Locust, NC. The funeral children Kelly, Zach Kelly NC., son and daughter in law, Tommy Whitley andJosh Gregg (Anita) Whitley; service to celebrate his life will Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and (Kati), and Susanne Cassil (John (Tiffany) Fincher of New London follow at 3:00 pm, officiated by Hunter as wellCarla as his brother, Paul),Zado, His Sister D Benton NC., Step Children, Jimmy (Lisa) Rev. Trent Thomas and Rev. Cory Bob Luther Jr (Lorena), uncle Jack Lanier of Locust NC, Wanda (Bob) (Craig) their children C.J. and D. Colravy.

Luther and several other loved nieces, Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric Rachel Lauren. His great nieces InLanier addition to his mother, nephews and cousins.

(Sharon) of Charlotte NC., and nephew, Jackson Kelly, Barbara (Chuck) Hagy, he is Danny recently retired from Grandchildren-Trey (Gera) Whitson Caroline Kelly, Ruth and Miriam survived by his beloved wife of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry after of Midland, Step-grandchildren, Cassil. years, Kristie Moss; daughter, a dedicated 37 years and worked Zach33 (Brittney) Washington, Aaron in Charlotte, thereDwight with hiswas sons born and several other (Kinsey) Washington, Caleb (Nayeli) Danielle Moss; brothers, Trent NC inand January 1961. He friends family members.

Washington, (Robbie) Setzer, (Debbie)Beth Moss and Fred (Angie) graduated from Forrest Danny loved spending timeHills at Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Step Moss; nieces and nephews, High 1978 and to his lake in house with hiswent familyon and great-grandchildren, Delaney, Ryan,Britlyn-Eve Wesley, Spencer, studyas photography.

He owned friends well as vacationing with his Washington, Robert Setzer, George Logan, Ashton, Brittany, Evan, and operated Homeplace family.

Danny andThe Denise enjoyed (Sara) Setzer, (Rob)parents-inSetzer Tori, andTracy Parker; Rest and Retirement, acting listening to beach music and loved to Bumgardener, Katie Underwood, law, John Demaree and Cynthia shag dance every they could as not only thechance owner, but also Andrew Underwood, Step great Tammy get. was an amazing father, loving greatDemaree; grandchild,sister-in-law, Waylon George as He Supervisor, Personal Care (Phil) Martin. grandfather and great friend to Setzer and brother Donald Lewis Aide, and Supervisor in Charge.

Tim’s first and foremost many.

He will never bewas forgotten.

Dwight’s passion Landscape Fincher of Albemarle, NC. priority was hisbefamily.

He on was A celebration of life will be Jerry Fincher will laid to rest Photography, Gourmet Meals, a devoted and loving husband, announced once the current Wednesday April 8,2020 at 11:00 am and being Granddaddy and father, son, brother, uncle, and COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. at Canton Baptist Church. Anyone husband.

He was also a member interested in attending, please RSVP Hartsell Funeral Home of friend. He was a faithful member of the Stanly Artsthe Guild and lovedat 704-796-2412. Dr. Phil McCray Albemarle is serving Luther of Carolina Presbyterian Church, to work with other artists and family. and Pastor Fincher will whereTommy he enjoyed spending time bring joy and education to the officiate. volunteering and taught Sunday community through art. He loved school. He also spearheaded studying his family’s heritage in the volunteer efforts at Carolina Stanly County, and connecting Christian School. Tim was a very history to the present with his loyal and honest man with an Morrow Mountain Splendor and infectious sense of humor. His God’s Country Artography series. thriving enthusiasm and tenacious spirit brought people together. Tim was a friend to many and will be missed by all who knew him.

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ELIZABETH “JP” Pickler ALMOND TUCKER, 98, passed PAULINE

Joseph Plyler “JP” Pickler passed away peacefully at Trinity Place, away atAlbemarle, home on October 1, 2021 at NC on April 11, 2020. was born on March 22, the age of Pauline 87. in Cabarrus NC to the He is1922 predeceased byCounty, his parents, lateJanie JohnEldora RichardPickler, Almond and Alice John and and Shirley AnnPickler, Lambert Almond. siblingsAda Heath Kathleen She is survived by her three Dutton, Zelma Hall, Ann Almond Haire58, of Glenn Alan Benton, daughters, Gay Michel (Jack), and Johnnye Thompson.

Monroe, passed away Sunday, Oak Island, NC; Pamela Rushing HIRLEY MAE HAIRE, 73, He is survived by his loving wife 3, 2021, at Novant Health (Foreman), Oakboro, NC; Kathy October of Albemarle passed away on Peggy ofHunt 63 years.

CenterHealth in (Marc), Albemarle, NC; her Matthews April 11,Medical 2020 at Atrium JP isson, lovingly remembered Matthews.

Chris Tucker (Chris Lear), Stanly. The family will hold a private by lovingly remembered by will be greatly Alan Washington, DC. She was born 12, graveside serviceNovember for Mrs. Haire. his daughter, Jodi Underwood missed by her five grandchildren, 1962, in North Carolina to Shirley Shirley was born December 12, (Greg) of New London, and(Shannon),Gean Heather RushingNC, Chaney Benton and the late James 1946 in Washington, DC to the grandchildren, Deal Michael Hannah Rushing, Elizabeth Michel Boyd Benton. late Charles Richard Bateman and Hartzog (Craig), NC, Jack Blake Michel, Jr. (Chas) of Huntersville, Mae Mulligan AElizabeth graveside service willBateman. be on (Jenn), and Woody Hunt as well as Wednesday Underwood (Jenni) of Huntersville, Shirley6, is survived by her husband 2021, 2:00 p.m. at seven great-grandchildren.

She also NC, Meredith Underwood of New of 30 years Vaughn of Hope Second AdventSmith Christian cherished nieces London,leaves NC, behind great-grandson, Reeseand Cemetery Albemarle; sisterMorgan Sandra Painter at 6804 Mill nephews. of Gainesville, VA; half-brother Plyler Deal of Huntersville, NC, and Rd., Monroe, officiated

by Pastor The family expresses its sincere Bateman of Stevensville, sister, Janell Hawkins (Tom) of New JoshRobert Smith.

MD; step-children Heather Smith London,gratitude NC. to the staff and caregivers Survivors include brother, at Trinity Place for the care they of Jacksonville, FL and David JP was born in New London, NC Phillip Michael Benton (Brenda) provided Pauline.

Smith of New London, NC; 4 on February 1st, 1934.

He graduated Trail, NC, daughter A private graveside service will beof Indian step-grandchildren;and nieces Cyndi from New School in13, 1952.

Victoria. heldLondon on Monday, April 2020. A Brandie Hentschel of Leesburg, VA and He worked as a salesman fors life Bowers celebration of Pauline’ and legacy Hartsell Funeral Home Cheryl Hardy of Aylett, VA;of16 grandImplement (Quality Equipment) will be held this summer.

Midland serving theand Benton niecesis and nephews; Gus the for 72 years. spending In JP lieuenjoyed of flowers, the family family. dog. Stanly Funeral and Cremation time with his family, especially histo the requests donations be made Care of Albemarle is serving the BrightFocus Foundation at www. grandchildren and most recently his Haire family. brightfocus.org. great- grandson.

He also enjoyed riding his gator and skid steer throughout trails on his land. He cherished Sundays with his church family at Kendalls Baptist Church.

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April 13, Vaco 2020. Morris, 94, of Bobby Linda was born September 18, Albemarle, passed away Sunday, 1950 in Concord Jacob and October 3, 2021 to atthe hislate home.

Claris Tucker.

She was also preceded Bobby was born November 19, in death by her brother, Terry Lee 1926 in North Carolina to the late Tucker, and her twin sister, Brenda John Vaco Morris and the late Tucker Strickland. We know Brenda Annie Hahn and Linda areMorris. in Heaven watching He us was also preceded in over and laughing. death by his Curtissister, and Linda wasbrothers, a loving mother, Lendell Morris, sister, and “Nana.”

Sheand was ahis very giving Jettie Hathcock. and loving person. Linda would Survivors include wife, always do anything she couldSarah for others, especially family. She Cranford Morris her of Albemarle, enjoyed workingGina at FastShop #5, NC, daughters, Morris Locust. Linda will be forever loved Watlington and husband Jimmy, and greatly missed. of Yanceyville, NC, Wendy Morris Survivors her son, Holbrook andinclude husband Cavin, of Alan Hatley and wife, Angela, of Albemarle, NC, and Mitzi Morris Albemarle; brother, Ronnie Tucker Helms and husband Darin, of and wife, Linda, of Midland; Matthews, NC. Leslie He is Hatley; also survived granddaughter, 1 byniece; grandchildren; Ginger Stokes and 2 nephews.

(Jeff), William Watlington The family will receive friends (Jamey), Hunter Holbrook, from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Thursday, Caroline Cameron April 16,Holbrook, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Helms, and Allison Helms, and Home in Albemarle.

Linda will be laid to rest during a private great-grandchildren, Hailey committal service at Bethel United Stokes, Beckett Watlington, and Methodist Church, Midland.

Charlie Watlington. lieu of flowers, please AIn memorial service forconsider the a memorial donation UMC, Morris family will to beBethel held at a 12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, NC later date.

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Bobby was owner and operator of Morris Supermarket with his wife, Sarah, for 25 years and was a lifelong member of First Lutheran Church of Albemarle.

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New Biden rules would limit arrest, deportation of migrants

By Ben Fox The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facing bipartisan criticism over its approach to immigration, the Biden administration announced new rules that require authorities to only pursue migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety.

The new guidelines replace interim rules issued in February that were initially blocked by a federal judge in August as part of a lawsuit brought by Texas and Louisiana. They break from a more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement under former President Donald Trump, who early in his presidency directed authorities to apprehend anyone who was illegally in the country.

The release comes as President Joe Biden has come under fire from Democratic allies for his reliance on a Trump-era public health authority to rapidly expel migrants encountered on the U.S.-Mexico border while also facing Republican criticism that he hasn’t done enough to counter a sharp increase in migrants seeking to enter the country.

The Biden administration says it has expelled about 5,000 Hai-

tians who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border at Del Rio, Texas, in recent weeks. A federal appeals court in Washington cleared the administration to continue expelling families under the public-health authority known as Title 42. The court put on hold a lower court order barring the expulsions of families hours before the ban was to take effect.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that the new policy was based on the reality that the U.S. can’t go after all people in the country without legal status and shouldn’t try because many “have been contributing members of our communities for years.”

Authorities will be directed to focus on noncitizens who have crossed recently, defined as after Nov. 1, 2020, or who determined to be a threat because of national security or “serious criminal activity.” Homeland Security includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.

Unlike the interim rules, the criminal activity is not limited to the category known in legal terms as an aggravated felony but will depend on the “totality of the facts and circumstances,” Mayorkas said. Anyone would be considered a priority if they are

engaged or even suspected of terrorism or espionage, according to the memo. The new rules take effect Nov. 29.

Immigration authorities would be prohibited from arresting and seeking to deport someone in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights, such as joining a protest or taking part in union activities.

“We are requiring and frankly empowering our workforce, critically empowering our workforce, to exercise their judgment, their law enforcement judgment,” the secretary said.

Advocates for immigration enforcement have criticized the interim guidelines, which were similar in intent as the newly released rules, because they were seen as a top-down approach and one that precluded low-level arrests that might yield investigative leads into bigger cases or help serve as a deterrent to illegal immigration.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said on Twitter that Biden has “welcomed” the migrants who have crossed and would now promise those already in the country that “they may stay in the U.S. without repercussions” with the new rules.

Illegal immigration advocates, including some who have in the past called for eliminating ICE and immigrant detention alto-

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In this Sept. 18, 2021, file photo Haitian migrants use a dam to cross into the United States from Mexico in Del Rio, Texas. gether, welcomed limits on enforcement.

“This policy is only going to be as good as the results,” said Jacinta Gonzalez, senior campaign organizer of Mijente. “If detention numbers continue to rise, as deportations continue to happen, if we still see human rights abuses at the border, this policy won’t mean anything.”

A federal judge in Texas blocked the interim rules in August, ruling that the administration did not have discretion to choose which migrants to detain, but a federal appeals court allowed the guidelines to take effect while the lawsuit proceeds.

Mayorkas said it makes little

sense to pursue all of the estimated 11 million people in the country without legal status, even if the U.S. had the law enforcement capacity to do so.

“They contribute to the well-being of our country and justice requires that we exercise our discretion accordingly,” he said. “The fact that an individual is a removeable non-citizen should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them.”

Trump’s administration took hundreds of measures to restrict illegal immigration, including a zero-tolerance policy on border crossings and those claiming asylum to await the processing of their cases in Mexico.

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Gov. Roy Cooper, center, signs police reform bills into law while legislators and others watch during a ceremony outside the Executive Mansion in Raleigh.

NC police reforms, Sunday distillery sales start in October

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — New police accountability reporting requirements, rules for sheriff’s candidates, mandated clergy hospital visitation and Sunday bottled liquor sales begin as all or parts of more than 30 new laws took effect on Oct. 1 in North Carolina.

Legislation approved earlier this year and taking effect Oct. 1 includes several provisions from broader criminal justice reform bills that are designed to identify wayward officers and deputies and push them out of law enforcement.

The measures stemmed from calls for change during a time of national focus on racial inequity and po-

lice shootings of Black residents.

One law directs police and deputy standards commissions to create a public database of law enforcement officers who have had their certifications revoked or suspended.

A confidential database also will be created by the Department of Justice that contains “critical incident information” about when an officer has been involved in a case resulting in death or serious injury.

And officers now will be required to tell standards commissions when they receive letters from prosecutors telling them they’ve been untruthful and shouldn’t testify in criminal cases.

People running for sheriff in 2022 and beyond now will have to

sign a form stating they’ve not been convicted of a felony, even if one has been formally expunged from their record. The law clarifies how to implement a 2010 North Carolina constitutional amendment barring convicted felons from running for the job.

Another law taking effect will direct hospitals to let a clergy member visit a patient even when there’s a declared emergency like the one under COVID-19. The bill was named for a Beaufort County man who died at a Greenville hospital in 2020. The minister will still have to clear health screenings to visit.

North Carolina distilleries also can now sell their own liquor products in bottles on Sundays start-

ing this weekend due to changes in a wide-ranging alcoholic beverage control law. ABC stores remain closed statewide on Sundays.

For several years, distilleries have been able to sell their bottles to people who tour their operations, but not on Sundays. This weekend will mark the first time since the end of Prohibition that liquor bottles will be legally sold on a Sunday in North Carolina, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States.

Other laws that took effect on Oct. 1: — reworking some child welfare procedures, including child custody and foster family placement matters. The law also directs state or county social service agencies to

share confidential records about alleged abuse and neglect with legislators and legislative committees when requested. The received records must remain confidential.

— slightly easing some certificate of need laws, which require state regulatory approval before hospitals can expand and some new equipment can be used.

— allowing small businesses to offer exclusive provider benefit plans, which are health insurance plans that cover in-network physician and hospital services only.

— making it illegal for a doctor or health insurance to deny a person access to an organ transplant solely on the basis of the person’s disability, such as Down syndrome.

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Deacs still unbeaten A young fan holds up a sign during the second half of an NCAA college football game between Wake Forest and Louisville on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Winston-Salem.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Man charged in murder of man who disappeared Forsyth County Police have arrested a man at an airport in connection with the murder of a man who was reported missing four months ago and whose body hasn’t been recovered.

Damien A. Quiterio-Morrison, 27, was arrested in the slaying of Isaiah Trayvon Mitchell, 23, of WinstonSalem. Quiterio-Morrison also is accused of concealing Mitchell’s body on May 22, the day investigators say he was killed. Police are still looking to recover Mitchell’s body. Quiterio-Morrison was arrested at Charlotte Douglas International Airport

by Winston-Salem police detectives, U.S. Marshals, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Charlotte-Mecklenburg police.

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Family of black man who died in custody files lawsuit Forsyth County The family of a black man who died in jail two years ago has filed a lawsuit saying his civil rights were violated when detention officers and a nurse ignored his medical distress and pinned him on a mattress.

John Neville died after having a medical emergency at the Forsyth County jail. Body camera videos showed him struggling with guards, calling out for his mother and yelling “I can’t breathe!” more than 20 times as he was being restrained. Neville had been arrested several days earlier.

Five former detention officers and a nurse were charged with involuntary manslaughter.

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Teen indicted in fatal shooting, while guns continue to turn up in schools The Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM — A North Carolina grand jury has indicted a teenager in the fatal shooting of a high school student, and a prosecutor will transfer his case to adult court.

Maurice T. Evans Jr., 15, appeared in juvenile court last week for a custody hearing.

Forsyth District Judge Ted Kazakos confirmed with Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill and Evans’ attorney, J.D. Byers, that Evans was indicted on a murder charge. The grand jury handed down an indictment, but it will remain sealed for 10 days.

Byers asked Kazakos to release Evans to his parents’ custody with

an ankle monitor. Kazakos said that while the juvenile justice system has ankle monitors, the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office no longer provides ankle monitors for defendants in adult court. The judge ordered that Evans will remain in custody at a juvenile detention center without bond.

Evans is charged in the Sept. 1 shooting death of William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr. at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem. O’Neill has said that the shooting was the culmination of a summer-long dispute between Evans and Miller, but he hasn’t elaborated. The DA also said Evans was shot earlier in the summer but didn’t say what led to that shooting or if anyone was arrest-

ed.

Meanwhile, officers from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office continue to find and confiscate guns from students at Forsyth County/Winston-Salem Schools.

An officer confiscated a handgun from a student’s backpack at a magnet school, the fifth such incident in the same school system in the month since the shooting.

The officer took the gun from a student on Wednesday at Paisley IB Magnet School. The sheriff’s office said a tip that officials attributed to a local resident led to discovery of the gun.

No student or teacher was harmed, according to the sheriff’s office. The student wasn’t identified because they are a juvenile.

Nick Cannon to pay off HBCU students’ debt upon graduation The Associated Press RALEIGH — Entertainer Nick Cannon is promising to pay off the loan debt of seven students at historically black colleges, including three in North Carolina, when they graduate.

Cannon hosted students from Saint Augustine’s University, North Carolina A&T State University, Winston-Salem State University and other HBCUs on his nationally syndicated talk show, The Nick Cannon Show, on Monday. They spoke about the adversity they faced and their desire to attend college, particularly an HBCU. Cannon then told the students their outstanding college debt would be paid off when they graduate through a scholarship in partnership with the United Negro College Fund and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

“I was so moved by y’all’s stories and the obstacles that you’ve overcome that I gotta help out,” Cannon said. “Once you earn your

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Talk show host Nick Cannon poses for a portrait on the set of "Nick Cannon" at Metropolitan Studios in New York on Sept. 16, 2021. college degree, we’re wiping out your personal student debt. Every single penny.”

Cannon is an alumnus of Howard University, an HBCU in Washington, D.C. He began his singing career at age 18, after finishing high school. In 2016, he announced that he was enrolling at Howard, saying in an online

announcement, “Nelson Mandela once said, ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,’ and with that said I have officially enrolled at Howard University. I am always seeking new challenges and continual growth and decided to obtain my first college degree from an institution that

The student will be charged with possessing a weapon on campus, the sheriff’s office said. Students who bring firearms to campus are suspended for 365 days and sent to an alternative school, Winston-Salem/Forsyth Superintendent Tricia McManus said last week.

Since the fatal shooting at Mount Tabor, authorities say handguns have been found on students at Reynolds High School, Parkland High School and again at Mount Tabor.

In addition, three BB guns were found on students at Paisley over the last month.

TCH Staff contributed to this report

had a proven legacy of producing great minds. I have friends, mentors and colleagues who attended Howard University. I look forward to this new journey in my life and am excited about the possibilities ahead.”

In May 2020, he announced that he had earned his degree in Criminology/Administration of Justice and a minor in Africana Studies. Cannon spoke at the virtual commencement ceremony and said he planned to continue his studies and earn a Master and Ph.D. Mackenzie Estrep, a senior at Saint Augustine’s University, is a first-generation high school graduate and college student who is working three jobs to help pay for tuition. Sharandica Midcalf, a student at Winston-Salem State University, was homeless and said a school counselor told her she didn’t have the GPA to get into college, which motivated her to succeed as a first-generation college student.

Christian Kornegay talked about how he overcame a learning disability and got accepted to North Carolina A&T University, where he’s working to become a professional host and entertainer.

TCH staff contributed to this report

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♦ Bell, Jadarrius Dameion (B /M/24) Arrest on chrg of Write, Scribble, Deface, Or Injure The Walls Of Public Bldgs (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 10/1/2021 02:58.

THE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S race may be developing into an argument with a clear choice that has real implications for campaigns across the country in 2022.

Tuesday night’s debate clarified the dramatic gap between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe. It is clear: Youngkin stands with parents who care about their children’s education, and McAuliffe stands with the union bosses who want total control of our lives.

During the debate, McAuliffe made what may be an election-collapsing mistake. He spoke honestly about the degree to which he would exclude parents from their children’s educations. Consider this exchange: Republican Youngkin: “I believe parents should be in charge of their kids’ education.”

Democrat McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

The next night on FOX News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Youngkin expanded on the difference between he and McAuliffe: “[McAuliffe] believes that government and politicians know better for our children than parents. He wants to exclude parents from being involved in educating our children… Virginia parents have been standing up for the rights of their kids for the last 20 months, fighting against school boards who have been trying to impose all kinds of things on them. They’ve been asking for schools to be open, and what you saw last night was… [McAuliffe] doesn’t care what they think. He wants to dictate what they learn, he wants to teach our children how to think, and he wants to excuse parents from all of it.”

The simple fact is that former Gov. McAuliffe is dependent on union bosses to fund his campaign and provide workers for the turnout effort.

McAuliffe has received $525,000 from the National Education Association and $425,000 from the

PROBATION VIOLATION at 705 ONTARIO ST on 10/3/2021 ♦ Garciavillalva, Jonathan (W /M/26) Arrest on chrg of 1) Burglary-1st Degree (F) and 2) Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 250 Hastings Hill Rd, Kernersville, NC, on 10/2/2021 06:39.

♦ Brown, Daniel Ray (W /M/37) Arrest on chrg of 2nd Degree Trespass, M (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/30/2021 15:55.

♦ GWYN, CORY BLANE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 2426 STRATFORD LAKE RD on 10/3/2021

♦ BYRD, ERIC MATTHEW was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 8499 CONCORD CHURCH RD/DULL RD on 10/2/2021

♦ HAWKINS, ISAIAH ELONZO was arrested on a charge of ROBBERY at 2809 OLD GREENSBORO RD on 10/3/2021 ♦ Herrera Zavala, Erick Geovany (W /M/24) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 216 Meadowbrook Park Dr, Kernersville, NC, on 9/29/2021 20:16. ♦ JENKINS, TAMMY was arrested on a charge of DRUGS-POSS SCHED II at 1500 BETHLEHEM LN on 10/3/2021

♦ CARR, BRENNAN CHANNING was arrested on a charge of VIO. PROTECTIVE ORDER BY COURTS ANOTHER STATE/ INDIAN TRIBE at 1328 AURORA GLEN DR on 10/2/2021

♦ Jones, John Tracy (W /M/47) Arrest on chrg of 1) Communicate Threats (M), 2) Communicate Threats (M), 3) Malicious Conduct By Prisoner (F), and 4) Malicious Conduct By Prisoner (F), at 2615 Lewisvilleclemmons Rd, Clemmons, NC, on 10/2/2021 14:46.

♦ CASTANEDAVALENTIN, FIDEL GUADALUPE was arrested on a charge of P/W/I/S/D COCAINE at 2800 BURGANDY ST on 10/3/2021

♦ Jones, John Tracy (W /M/47) Arrest on chrg of Communicate Threats (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 10/2/2021 18:00.

♦ CLARK, CHRISTOPHER KELLY was arrested on a charge of BREAKING/LARC-FELONY at 4428 CARRIE AV on 10/4/2021

♦ KELLUM, TOREY LEVAN was arrested on a charge of ROBBERY at 2809 OLD GREENSBORO RD on 10/3/2021

♦ CLINE, CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 4100 COUNTRY CLUB RD on 10/2/2021

♦ LEON, HIPOLITO CRUZ was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 2824 FRANK ST on 10/3/2021

♦ DEAN, MARLON YOEAL was arrested on a charge of

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American Federation of Teachers. That $950,000 from union bosses goes a long way to explaining McAuliffe’s contempt for parents.

You can better understand McAuliffe’s willingness to get rid of Virginia’s Right to Work Law when you learn that the Service Employee International Union has given his campaign $689,167. McAuliffe’s conversion to Big Government Socialism and radical policies has also earned him $1.75 million from Independence USA PAC (Mike Bloomberg’s PAC) and $250,000 from George Soros personally. This is only the end of September, so McAuliffe’s anti-parent, pro-Union position will likely earn his campaign even more money in October as it desperately tries to grab the governorship.

However, McAuliffe’s open contempt for parents and subservience to the unions may cost him the election. After all, there was recently a rally of more than 1,000 people in Loudoun County, Virginia, who were angry about left-wing radicalism being taught in their schools. Parents of students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax, Virginia, are outraged because school officials are “purging” students of Asian descent to meet woke quotas. In fact, citizens across the country from every background are upset that left-wing radicalism is taking hold in schools while standards are being lowered — or even abolished in the case of Oregon.

Virginians have historically been proud of their education system and have valued their children and grandchildren getting good educations. They see the unions undermining this tradition and crippling their children’s futures.

When McAuliffe crystallized the gap between parents and union bosses in the debate Tuesday, it may have been the key moment of the campaign. If Youngkin pushes the issue relentlessly for the next month, McAuliffe may be permanently branded as

a union-boss controlled Big Government Socialist candidate — and therefore unacceptable to most Virginians.

This kind of decisive defining moment is not new for Democrats. Consider the following examples: In 1972, Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. George McGovern announced he was “1,000 percent behind” his vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tom Eagleton (who had admitted after accepting the nomination that he had been given electric shock treatments for depression). A week later he dumped Eagleton. He lost in a landslide.

In 1984, Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale proudly announced in his acceptance speech that he would raise our taxes.

His support collapsed, and he never recovered.

President Ronald Reagan cheerfully contrasted his tax cuts with Mondale’s tax increases. The result was a landslide.

In 2004, Sen. John Kerry was filmed windsurfing in Nantucket in a fancy outfit. This convinced swing voters across the country he really was an elitist who was out-of-touch with normal Americans. A few weeks later he lost.

In 2016, Secretary Hillary Clinton attacked most Republican voters as “deplorables,” thereby firing up the base of Donald Trump’s voters. A month later, in a shocking upset, she lost.

McAuliffe’s declaration that “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” may join this list of campaign-dooming mistakes.

If McAuliffe loses, it will be a real warning to Democrats across the country that Big Government Socialist values and woke policies may not be sustainable — even with massive union and billionaire funding.

Last Tuesday night, the Virginia governor’s race took on a whole new importance as a national bellwether.

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♦ Bowman, Jacob Payne (W /M/24) Arrest on chrg of Impaired Driving Dwi (M), at 100 Edwards Rd/broad St, Rural Hall, NC, on 10/2/2021 04:50.

♦ Cardwell, Jordan Keith (W /M/29) Arrest on chrg of 1) Vand-personal Prop (M) and 2) 2nd Degree Trespass (M), at 7490 Mcgee Rd, Rural Hall, NC, on 9/30/2021 01:43.

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♦ Gardner, Brittany Nichole (W /F/29) Arrest on chrg of 1) Order For Arrest (M), 2) Fail To Appear/ compl (M), and 3) Probation Violation (M), at 1011 Bethaniarural Hall Rd, Rural Hall, NC, on 10/4/2021 12:54.

♦ Campbell, Raymond Christopher (B /M/38) Arrest on chrg of Fail To Register - Sex Offender Registra (F), at 301 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 10/4/2021 14:15

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♦ LUTHER, TIMOTHY STEVEN was arrested on a charge of DRUGSPOSS SCHED I at E. 25TH ST/N.

LIBERTY ST on 10/2/2021 ♦ Mills, Toby Jay (B /M/19) Arrest on chrg of Robbery (F), at 7121 Summertime Dr, Gibsonville, NC, on 10/4/2021 10:25. ♦ PANCHICOLON, ADRIAN was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 10/4/2021 ♦ PERKINS, RONNIE VAN was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT-SIMPLE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 10/4/2021 ♦ Peterson, Marquis David (B /M/27) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drug Trafficking (F), 2) Drug Trafficking (F), and 3) Poss Marijuana Misd (M), at 5769 Fox Chase Dr, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/29/2021 22:00. ♦ Pope, Troy Allen (W /M/22) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 1862 Pinehurst Dr, Lewisville, NC, on 10/1/2021 21:56. ♦ Robinson, Savion Sherod (B /M/27) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drug Trafficking (F), 2) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 3) Drugsmisd Poss (M), 4) Drugs-mfg Sched I (F), 5) Drugs-mfg Sched I (F), 6) Drug Trafficking (F), 7) Drugs-mfg Sched I (F), 8) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 9) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 10) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 11) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 12) Sale & Deliver Sched I (F), 13) P/w/i/s/d Sched I (F), 14) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 15) Sale & Deliver Sched I (F), 16) Drugs-mfg Sched I (F), 17) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 18) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 19) Trafficking In Methamphetamine Or Amphetamine (F), 20) Sale & Deliver Sched I (F), 21) Drugs-mfg Sched I (F), 22) Drug Trafficking (F), 23) Drug Trafficking (F), 24) Drug Trafficking (F), 25) Weap-poss

By Felon (F), 26) Resisting Arrest (M), 27) Reckless Driving (M), 28) Speeding To Elude Arrest (F), 29) Ndl - Suspended / Revoked

(M), and 30) Hit & Run - Pd (M), at 5769 Fox Chase Dr, Winstonsalem, NC, on 9/29/2021 22:00. ♦ RODRIGUEZ, IRVING JOSUE was arrested on a charge of ADW - INFLICT INJURY at 3030 NORTHWOOD DR on 10/4/2021 ♦ ROMERO VASQUEZ, JOSUE ISAI was arrested on a charge of ASLT LEO/INFLIC INJURY at 3831 HARTFORD ST on 10/2/2021 ♦ SANTILLO, MICHAEL DAVID was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 421 27TH ST. NW on 10/2/2021 ♦ SAVAGE, JOHN DOUGLAS was arrested on a charge of COMMUNICATE THREATS at 1242 W ACADEMY ST on 10/3/2021 ♦ SMITH, AKASHA MICHELLE was arrested on a charge of ASSLT ON OFF/ST EMP at 1900 FRANCISCAN DR on 10/2/2021 ♦ SMITH, MARK ALLEN was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 732 CRANFORD ST on 10/3/2021 ♦ Sprouse, Michael Scott (W /M/36) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugs-poss Sched I (F), 2) Poss Heroin (F), and 3) Fail To Appear/ compl (M), at 4300 Winterberry Ridge Ct, Clemmons, NC, on 10/3/2021 17:05.

♦ Barbara Jane Aiken Allen, 84, died October 2, 2021. ♦ Donald Lee Bowlin, Jr., 67, of Kernersville, died September 29, 2021. ♦ Amber Nicole Brown, 29, died September 29, 2021. ♦ Jo Ann Pegg Burton, 93, of Kernersville, died September 29, 2021. ♦ Jerry Wayne Darnell, 81, of WinstonSalem, died October 2, 2021. ♦ Betty Sasser Dilda, 79, of Kernersville, died September 29, 2021. ♦ Clyde Linville Dye, 77, of Kernersville, died September 28, 2021. ♦ Ralph Davis Fulk, 81, of Forsyth County, died October 2, 2021. ♦ Edwin Thomas Harrison, 71, of Winston-Salem, died October 2, 2021. ♦ Sarah “Nanny” Colleen Spainhour Hauser, 88, of Forsyth County, died September 29, 2021. ♦ Michael Lane Hough, 73, of Forsyth County, died October 4th, 2021. ♦ Sheila Danley Medley, 61, of Forsyth County, died October 3, 2021. ♦ Harry Edgar New, Jr., 82, of Forsyth County, died September 30, 2021.

♦ STROUD, ANTONIO DWAYNE was arrested on a charge of ROBBERY at 2809 OLD GREENSBORO RD on 10/3/2021

♦ Jason Keith Petty, 46, of WinstonSalem, died September 29, 2021.

♦ Wall, Daniel Masten (W /M/34) Arrest on chrg of 1) False Imprisonment (M), 2) Assault Strangulation (F), 3) Assault - In Presence Of A Minor (affra (M), 4) Felon Adw/ser Injury (F), and 5) Assault On Female (M), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 10/4/2021 16:50.

♦ Kevin Mark Raby, 55, died October 1, 2021.

♦ Worthy, Penny Dianne (B /F/25) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive (F), at 775 Tanglewood Park Rd, Clemmons, NC, on 10/1/2021 15:01.

♦ Betty Lou Ebert Warner, 91, of Clemmons, died September 29, 2021.

♦ ZARATE, BERTIN was arrested on a charge of CCW at 418 W FOURTH ST on 10/3/2021

♦ Shirley Crouch Pressley, 83, of Clemmons, died October 2, 2021.

♦ Betty Sue Reece Roberts Riley, 89, of Pfafftown, died October 3, 2021. ♦ Willard “Ouija” Gardner Sink, 76, of Winston-Salem, died October 2, 2021.

♦ Karen Booth Wills, 77, of Kernersville, died October 3, 2021. ♦ Mildred Eloise Dietz Young, 90, of Winston-Salem, died September 29, 2021.

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Nashville assistant coach Todd Richards is recovering from a heart attack. The Predators announced Monday that Richards, a former Minnesota and Columbus head coach, had the attack Friday. Richards has been released from the hospital and is resting at home in Nashville. The Predators hired Richards in October 2020 as an assistant to coach John Hynes. Richards, 54, joined the Predators after four seasons as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning, including winning the 2020 Stanley Cup and the Presidents’ Trophy for the 2018-19 season.

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Bubba Wallace celebrates after winning his first career NASCAR Cup Series race Monday at Talladega.

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Jaguars’ Meyer apologizes for ‘just stupid’ actions in video Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer apologized to his family, his team and owner Shad Khan for actions he called “just stupid.” A video surfaced Saturday night showing a woman dancing close to Meyer’s lap, a clip that quickly went viral and made headlines across the country. Another video appears to show Meyer, 57, touching the woman’s behind. Meyer called a team meeting Monday and vowed to “own it,” the motto he uses daily and has plastered all around the Jaguars facility. The Jaguars are off to an 0-4 start in Meyer’s first season.

WNBA

Mohegan Sun suspends betting on WNBA at new sportsbook Uncasville, Conn.

The Mohegan Sun casino announced Monday that it has suspended wagering on the WNBA after questions were raised over a potential conflict in taking bets on the Connecticut Sun, a team also owned by the Mohegan Tribe. The issue came up after Gov. Ned Lamont opened the sportsbook last Thursday, the first day of legalized sports betting in Connecticut, by placing a $50 bet on the Sun to win its playoff game with the Chicago Sky. The wager raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest with the Mohegan Sun accepting bets on the Sun, which plays in the arena located at the casino complex.

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Rojas out as Mets manager after 2 losing seasons New York Luis Rojas was let go as New York Mets manager on Monday after two losing seasons. The team declined its option on his contract for 2022, making the announcement a day after finishing third in the NL East at 77-85 in Steve Cohen’s first year of ownership. The Mets said Rojas has been offered the opportunity to remain in the organization in a role still to be determined. The club said decisions about the coaching staff will be made in the coming days.

Bubba Wallace earns milestone 1st Cup victory The 23XI Racing driver got the win at Talladega after rain shortened the race, making him the second black driver to win in NASCAR’s top series

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Bubba Wallace became just the second black driver to win at NASCAR’s top Cup Series level when rain stopped Monday’s playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Wallace had driven through a crash and to the front of the field five laps before the second rain stoppage of the race. NASCAR tried to dry the track for nearly 45 minutes but called things off as sunset approached and the rain showed no sign of ceasing.

Wallace had been waiting atop his pit stand and celebrated wildly with his crew when the race was called. Wallace is in his first season

driving for 23X1 Racing, a team co-owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan.

Wallace broke down in tears after he returned to his parked No. 23 Toyota. The car number was picked for co-owner Jordan, who wore 23 in the NBA. “This is for all the kids out there that want to have an opportunity and whatever they want to achieve, and be the best at what they want to do,” Wallace said as he choked back tears. “You’re going to go through a lot of (BS). But you always got to stick true to your path and not let the nonsense get to you.

“Stay strong. Stay humble. Stay hungry. Been plenty of times when I wanted to give up.”

Wallace is the first black driver to win at NASCAR’s elite Cup level since Wendell Scott in 1963 — a race where he wasn’t declared the victor for several months. NASCAR at last presented Scott’s family with his trophy from that race two months ago.

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“Stay strong. Stay humble.

Stay hungry. Been plenty of times when I wanted to give up.”

Bubba Wallace from 1999 through one Trucks Series start this season, tweeted his congratulations to Wallace.

“Finally, it’s official, you’ve done it!” he posted. “So proud of you and what you’ve accomplished. Your win moves the @NASCAR needle forward on so many fronts. Glad I was a witness.”

23XI will expand to two cars next season with former series champion Kurt Busch joining the team.

Wallace’s win was his first in 142 career Cup starts, though he had six victories in the Truck Series from 2013 through 2015.

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Washington Football facility searched, trainer put on leave Ryan Vermillion, who was with the Panthers for 18 seasons before joining Ron Rivera in Washington, is under criminal investigation

By Steven Whyno The Associated Press THE WASHINGTON Football Team has placed head athletic trainer Ryan Vermillion on administrative leave for what a team statement called an “ongoing criminal investigation” unrelated to the club.

Federal law enforcement officials, including agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, served a search warrant at Washington’s practice facility, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Another search warrant was served at a local home, according to one of the people, each of whom spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Monday because the investigation is ongoing.

Vermillion, who is also the team’s director of sports medicine, is in his second season working under coach Ron Rivera in Washington after 18 seasons with the Carolina Panthers.

Asked Monday about Vermillion’s status and whether he was

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Ryan Vermillion, left, watches Cam Newton during a Panthers practice in 2019. being paid while on leave, Rivera repeatedly referred to the team’s statement and declined to elaborate.

“We’re just going to stick with that for right now,” said Rivera, who worked with Vermillion for nine seasons in Carolina before bringing him to Washington. “I’m not going to comment how I personally feel about what’s going on.

That would go beyond what I need to say.”

Vermillion did not travel with the team this past weekend for its game at Atlanta. Mark McCracken, Doug Quon and Masahiro Takahagi are Washington’s assistant trainers, though Rivera did not reveal who is in charge while Vermillion is not around.

“Right now, we’re going to work it with the doctors, and we’ll go from there,” he said.

Rivera said he would talk to players about focusing on their up-

Talladega this weekend and only Denny Hamlin is already locked into the third round of the playoffs headed into next week’s elimination race on Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Roval.

Hamlin, a three-time Daytona 500 winner, celebrated with Wallace following his seventh-place finish.

“It’s just way more emotional because I know how difficult it is. These guys have worked so hard over the last 10 months to put this team together,” Hamlin said.

“We’re still in the beginning stages of our team. We’re still growing.

We’ve got some great things on the horizon. It’s just a great morale booster for everyone.”

Brad Keselowski finished second and was followed by Team Penske teammate Joey Logano in a pair of Fords. Busch was fourth in a Chevrolet.

The final race in the second round of the playoffs is at The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The hybrid road course/oval is where the field of 12 will be trimmed to eight. Chase Elliott is the two-time defending race winner at The Roval. His victory last October was his first of three wins in the final five races that lofted Elliott to his first Cup championship.

Kevin Harvick, Christopher Bell, Alex Bowman and William Byron head to Charlotte in danger of elimination.

coming game against New Orleans and that he is not worried about Vermillion’s absence being a distraction.

“The biggest thing we’ll talk about most certainly is focusing on what’s important right now for us as far as getting ready to play football games, and that’s how we’ll handle it,” Rivera said. “I think the guys know how to compartmentalize and prepare themselves. They’ll know when to focus on what’s important about preparing to play football.”

NBC Sports Washington and the local NBC affiliate first reported the raid. A report on 106.7 FM in Washington indicated that authorities spoke to a player about Vermillion earlier this year, which Rivera said he knew nothing about.

Washington hired Vermillion shortly after Rivera in January 2020, with owner Dan Snyder calling him a perfect fit and “one of the most respected and seasoned head athletic trainers in the NFL.” Rivera said at the time he has “seen firsthand the positive impact Ryan has on a team.”

Vermillion won the Fain-Cain Memorial Award for Outstanding NFL Trainer of the Year in 2016, and in 2003 he led the training staff of the year as voted on by colleagues around the league.

Before his time in Carolina, Vermillion spent one season as Washington’s director of rehabilitation.

Before that, he spent nine seasons on Hall of Fame coach Don Shula’s staff with the Miami Dolphins: four as head trainer and five as rehabilitation director.

Vermillion graduated from the University of Miami in 1987 and spent four years as a student trainer.

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New Biden rules would limit arrest, deportation of migrants

By Ben Fox The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facing bipartisan criticism over its approach to immigration, the Biden administration announced new rules that require authorities to only pursue migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety.

The new guidelines replace interim rules issued in February that were initially blocked by a federal judge in August as part of a lawsuit brought by Texas and Louisiana. They break from a more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement under former President Donald Trump, who early in his presidency directed authorities to apprehend anyone who was illegally in the country.

The release comes as President Joe Biden has come under fire from Democratic allies for his reliance on a Trump-era public health authority to rapidly expel migrants encountered on the U.S.-Mexico border while also facing Republican criticism that he hasn’t done enough to counter a sharp increase in migrants seeking to enter the country.

The Biden administration says it has expelled about 5,000 Hai-

tians who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border at Del Rio, Texas, in recent weeks. A federal appeals court in Washington cleared the administration to continue expelling families under the public-health authority known as Title 42. The court put on hold a lower court order barring the expulsions of families hours before the ban was to take effect.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that the new policy was based on the reality that the U.S. can’t go after all people in the country without legal status and shouldn’t try because many “have been contributing members of our communities for years.”

Authorities will be directed to focus on noncitizens who have crossed recently, defined as after Nov. 1, 2020, or who determined to be a threat because of national security or “serious criminal activity.” Homeland Security includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.

Unlike the interim rules, the criminal activity is not limited to the category known in legal terms as an aggravated felony but will depend on the “totality of the facts and circumstances,” Mayorkas said. Anyone would be considered a priority if they are

engaged or even suspected of terrorism or espionage, according to the memo. The new rules take effect Nov. 29.

Immigration authorities would be prohibited from arresting and seeking to deport someone in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights, such as joining a protest or taking part in union activities.

“We are requiring and frankly empowering our workforce, critically empowering our workforce, to exercise their judgment, their law enforcement judgment,” the secretary said.

Advocates for immigration enforcement have criticized the interim guidelines, which were similar in intent as the newly released rules, because they were seen as a top-down approach and one that precluded low-level arrests that might yield investigative leads into bigger cases or help serve as a deterrent to illegal immigration.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said on Twitter that Biden has “welcomed” the migrants who have crossed and would now promise those already in the country that “they may stay in the U.S. without repercussions” with the new rules.

Illegal immigration advocates, including some who have in the past called for eliminating ICE and immigrant detention alto-

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In this Sept. 18, 2021, file photo Haitian migrants use a dam to cross into the United States from Mexico in Del Rio, Texas. gether, welcomed limits on enforcement.

“This policy is only going to be as good as the results,” said Jacinta Gonzalez, senior campaign organizer of Mijente. “If detention numbers continue to rise, as deportations continue to happen, if we still see human rights abuses at the border, this policy won’t mean anything.”

A federal judge in Texas blocked the interim rules in August, ruling that the administration did not have discretion to choose which migrants to detain, but a federal appeals court allowed the guidelines to take effect while the lawsuit proceeds.

Mayorkas said it makes little

sense to pursue all of the estimated 11 million people in the country without legal status, even if the U.S. had the law enforcement capacity to do so.

“They contribute to the well-being of our country and justice requires that we exercise our discretion accordingly,” he said. “The fact that an individual is a removeable non-citizen should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them.”

Trump’s administration took hundreds of measures to restrict illegal immigration, including a zero-tolerance policy on border crossings and those claiming asylum to await the processing of their cases in Mexico.

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Gov. Roy Cooper, center, signs police reform bills into law while legislators and others watch during a ceremony outside the Executive Mansion in Raleigh.

NC police reforms, Sunday distillery sales start in October

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — New police accountability reporting requirements, rules for sheriff’s candidates, mandated clergy hospital visitation and Sunday bottled liquor sales begin as all or parts of more than 30 new laws took effect on Oct. 1 in North Carolina.

Legislation approved earlier this year and taking effect Oct. 1 includes several provisions from broader criminal justice reform bills that are designed to identify wayward officers and deputies and push them out of law enforcement.

The measures stemmed from calls for change during a time of national focus on racial inequity and po-

lice shootings of Black residents.

One law directs police and deputy standards commissions to create a public database of law enforcement officers who have had their certifications revoked or suspended.

A confidential database also will be created by the Department of Justice that contains “critical incident information” about when an officer has been involved in a case resulting in death or serious injury.

And officers now will be required to tell standards commissions when they receive letters from prosecutors telling them they’ve been untruthful and shouldn’t testify in criminal cases.

People running for sheriff in 2022 and beyond now will have to

sign a form stating they’ve not been convicted of a felony, even if one has been formally expunged from their record. The law clarifies how to implement a 2010 North Carolina constitutional amendment barring convicted felons from running for the job.

Another law taking effect will direct hospitals to let a clergy member visit a patient even when there’s a declared emergency like the one under COVID-19. The bill was named for a Beaufort County man who died at a Greenville hospital in 2020. The minister will still have to clear health screenings to visit.

North Carolina distilleries also can now sell their own liquor products in bottles on Sundays start-

ing this weekend due to changes in a wide-ranging alcoholic beverage control law. ABC stores remain closed statewide on Sundays.

For several years, distilleries have been able to sell their bottles to people who tour their operations, but not on Sundays. This weekend will mark the first time since the end of Prohibition that liquor bottles will be legally sold on a Sunday in North Carolina, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States.

Other laws that took effect on Oct. 1: — reworking some child welfare procedures, including child custody and foster family placement matters. The law also directs state or county social service agencies to

share confidential records about alleged abuse and neglect with legislators and legislative committees when requested. The received records must remain confidential.

— slightly easing some certificate of need laws, which require state regulatory approval before hospitals can expand and some new equipment can be used.

— allowing small businesses to offer exclusive provider benefit plans, which are health insurance plans that cover in-network physician and hospital services only.

— making it illegal for a doctor or health insurance to deny a person access to an organ transplant solely on the basis of the person’s disability, such as Down syndrome.

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Harley Davidson’s from the 60 years Cox’s have been open. Cox’s Harley Davidson celebrates their 60th birthday this weekend in Asheboro, on October 4, 2021.

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Cox’s Harley-Davidson celebrates 60 years as Asheboro business

County schools honor teacher, principal of the year Katie Husband of Franklinville Elementary is the Randolph County School System 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year. Jamie Armfield of Seagrove Elementary is the RCSS Principal of the Year. Finalists for Teacher of the Year were Paige Rollins of Eastern Randolph, Philip Schuyler of Randolph Early College, Emily Caudill of Trindale Elementary and Eliza Sanders of Northeastern Randolph Middle.

COVID cases decline in Randolph, nationwide New daily cases of COVID dropped about 35% since September 1 nationwide along with a 25% drop in the number of people hospitalized. In Randolph County, there was an 18% drop in new cases for the week preceding Oct. 3 along with a 79% drop in hospitalizations. Over 75% of Randolph County seniors have received at least one shot of a vaccine and 50% of the population over 12 years old has received one shot. All 100 counties in N.C. are still classified as areas of high transmission.

Community College System President visits RCC North Carolina Community College System President Thomas Stith III toured Randolph Community College in Asheboro last week. Stith, in his first year at the NCCCS helm, has now visited 31 of the state’s 58 community colleges.

Stith visited the new Allied Health Center, Continuing Education and Industrial Center, Photography Imaging Center and JB and Claire Davis Corporate Training Center.

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By Bob Sutton Randolph Record ASHEBORO – When the late Recil Cox traveled into Asheboro from the country to take a job in textiles, it led to much more.

Now 60 years later, that legacy continues to flourish in what became Cox’s Harley-Davidson of Asheboro.

“You surround yourself with good people,” said Stephen Cox, grandson of the founder. “If these people are good people, you’re going to get everything out of them every single day.”

A 60th anniversary celebration of the business will take place Saturday at the store on N.C. 134 near Pinewood Country Club.

The owner is Jan Cox, daughter of the founder. Her son, Stephen Cox, is the general manager.

It’s a business that has stood the test of time and expanded. The Asheboro store employs about 25 people.

All this because Recil Cox, who grew up on a farm in southeast Randolph County, developed a reputation as a mechanic and could repair motorcycles.

“It just kind of went from there,” Stephen Cox said. “We were known early on as a service dealership because of my grandfather.”

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Gary “Poochie” Cox, left, and his father, Recil Cox, founder of Cox’s Harley-Davidson, are together for this 2005 photo as part of a Relay for Life fundraiser that raised $101,000.

Owning a Harley-Davidson dealership comes with clout and responsibility.

Stephen Cox still has the letter that was sent from the Milwaukee headquarters to Recil Cox, welcoming him as an official Harley -Davidson Motor Co. dealer. It’s dated Sept. 22, 1961.

In part, the letter reads: “Your first year of operation is an important one for you. This is the period in which you establish a solid foundation for the years ahead. Right at the start, it’s desirable that you form good habits and that all of your procedures are

Randleman event returns with big crowds NASCAR Day Festival roars back to life to celebrate racing heritage

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record RANDLEMAN – Last weekend’s NASCAR Day Festival went off pretty much without a hitch as several thousand people roamed Randleman streets.

“We had a perfect weekend for it,” said Jeff Freeman, director of the festival. “The attendance was wonderful.”

Saturday’s festival came after the 2020 version was cancelled because of the pandemic. There were precautions taken for this year’s edition, but Freeman said there were largely positive reviews.

“I felt we could do a great event,” he said.

Freeman, who’s executive director of the Randleman Chamber of

“We had a perfect weekend for it. ... The attendance was wonderful.”

Jeff Freeman, director Commerce, said crowd estimates ranged from 10,000 to 15,000.

The presence of NASCAR legend Richard Petty was once again among the highlights. Petty, who’s from nearby Level Cross and is usually the focus of the event, made appearances.

While autograph-signing sessions with Petty were nixed because of the pandemic, he did pose for photos with festival goers.

“Some people were a little disappointed in that (there weren’t autographs),” Freeman said. “But he did have pictures made. I’d rather have that. That shows you were there with him.”

correct.”

In the mid-1990s, Recil’s son, Gary “Poochie” Cox took over ownership. He died in 2010, followed by Recil Cox’s death in 2017.

The Cox family added stores in Rock Hill, S.C., and Mansfield, Pa. The Pennsylvania store has been sold, but the Rock Hill location remains under the family’s control and is larger than the Asheboro store.

But the Randolph County store is still considered the headquarters.

Saturday’s celebration is to be tied to Motorcycles for Mammo-

Randleman’s festival has been held for more than three decades.

Part of its focus is honoring racing heritage and the Petty family.

There were also no NASCAR show cars this year. Freeman said that partly came because of the expense related to having those on site.

Freeman said festival organizers were cognizant of the concerns related to COVID-19. He said there was additional spacing between vendors and sanitation areas set up. There also was a vaccination station for anyone interested in receiving a shot.

Some vendors pulled out because of the pandemic, though that was offset by others who filled in those slots. That might have come in part because of the cancellation of Asheboro’s fall festival, which had been scheduled for two days across the same weekend.

“We did pick up vendors from other canceled festivals from throughout the state,” Freeman said.

As part of the festival’s car show, Del Crawford of Fayetteville won Best of Show along with a special award for traveling the farthest to enter that competition. Crawford brought a 1937 Ford slantback.

grams, an annual ride and benefit that’s organized by Joy Hicks. It’s a fundraiser that goes to support uninsured women in Randolph County so they can receive mammograms. Hicks, a breast cancer survivor, is business manager for Cox’s Harley-Davidson.

Also involved with the anniversary will be a motorcycle giveaway, axe throwing, food trucks and other vendors. The headline event will be an afternoon appearance by country music singer Sammy Kershaw, with Cory Luetjen and the Traveling Blues Band serving as the opener.

The Cox family is hoping to meet – and reminisce with -many community members.

“It just felt like now as the time to do it,” Stephen Cox said of the anniversary blowout.

Other than family, Eddie Berry is the longest-serving employee. He has been involved since the 1970s, though he became fulltime after retiring from a career in law enforcement. His title is service manager.

Stephen Cox, who lives in Greensboro, said the business has held up strong during the pandemic. He said power-sports goods have been in high demand.

For the Cox family, the business has allowed the family to make connections around the globe.

Stephen Cox said there’s pride that this stems from a small-town family.

“It has taken us all over the world because of a little ol’ Asheboro business,” Stephen Cox said.

“It has been a good business, a neat business to be in. At the end of the day, it’s the people that make this place run.”

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new business a reality. “Mike and I have been doing this for years on our own. We met Candace and Mike and decided to become partners with them,” said Glass.

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Glass also highlighted a newAsheboro is focused on vehicles room manager, said the dealer11am that celebrate carburetors, man- ship would be focused primarily er classic 1974 Jeep CJ. “Every nut Pumpkins, hayrides, and bolt on it is brand new. It’s ual transmissions and American on American-made cars.

RANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE The company will provide ser- show quality,” said Glass. The orsteel. Carolina Classic Cars celepony rides, small train brated their business and show- vice through Allen Automotive, ange Jeep is listed as a complete rides, bounce houses room opening last week with a which is adjacent to the show- restoration on the company’s web are featured along with grand opening event scheduled for room. Glass said they are work- side “with absolutely no flaws. animals, cotton candy, The company plans to buy, sell, ing with several financing comOctober 16.

Carolina Classic Cars bills itself panies to provide multiple options trade and consign vehicles but slushies and hot dogs. as a classic car dealership and will for people wanting to buy a classic they are still looking for more in2991 Providence Church ventory before their grand openoffer traditional dealership service vehicle.

By Bob Sutton Rd, Climax, NC 27233. sion, there’s enrollment of 915. before those classes start.

“We have 18 cars in the show- ing. Glass and Allen are headed like financing, service and detailRandolph Record Charlie Glass room right That’s off slightly fromforthe usual Williams saidGlass. there’s ef-Myrtle Beach to prospect now,” said “Ouran to ing.

Car collectors “There has number that ranges fortisto enrollment.

He citnew cars this weekend.

“Weup buyto 1,000, to bolster have about 20 cars in and Mike Allen have been in the target 6th Annual Fallnever been a at car Williams shows andsaid. auctions. These ed the They RCC will Commitment also have aGrant, ASHEBORO Enrollment classic car business—together for inventory.” on the Farm better opportunity to attend cars are hard to find,” said Glass. numcarsdesigned on their as outside five and have a passion forCol-few aproject Traditional enrollment program a funding at years Randolph Community “Therebers is a lot of work in tracking sale. fine-tuned, restored classic autohave flattened, but it’s the mechanism to fill the gap that’s lege isn’t likely to bounce back tolot for 5pmRCC and not have to worry them down.” and Allen are partnermobiles. number of high school students about how to pay for it.” not covered by federal or state aid pre-pandemic levels right away Glass Carolina Classic Cars, locatedfor at dual enowners Candace and On Thursday, 30, ing towith The event at Fairview Farm in programs designed students. despite a schoolSeptember official pointing 120 Spring Forest Road Bongiovanni to make thea betthe held a ribbon cutting in-Mike “There rollment that hasAsheboro. dropped, has never been outcompany unprecedented financial features food vendors, RCC president Dr. Robert “We’re just not seeing the level ter opportunity to attend RCC centives for potential students. craft vendors and a Chad Williams, vice president and not have to worry about how of engagement that we had seen,” Shackleford Jr. concert. The event will for student services at RCC, said a to pay for it,” RCC president Dr. Williams said. be held at 3053 Fairview RCC held a one-week break decline in high school students in Robert Shackleford Jr. said. “We Farm Rd, Asheboro, NC dual enrollment has been the big- meet students exactly where they earlier this month amid the sumare and help them go as far as they mer semester, which began May gest reason for a dip.

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24 and concludes July 26. Late “Overall, we’re still seeing a de- can possibly go.”

Beginning with the fall semes- registration for the fall semester cline in enrollment comparing to Motorcycles 4 previous years prior to the pan- ter, qualifying full-time students runs through Aug. 10, with classMammograms demic,” Williams said. “I don’t will be eligible for up to $1,000 es beginning Aug. 16.

Still dealing with adjustments know if we’ll get to numbers we’ve per semester.

9am That makes attending RCC made because of the coronavirus seen in previous fall semesters. …

We’re reaching out to every stu- the most enticing from a finan- pandemic, not all 2021 fall semesThis motorcycle ride at dent we can in every way we can.” cial standpoint in the 16 years ter classes will be in person. Some Cox’s Harley-Davidson A fall semester at the two-year Williams has been at the school, will use a hybrid model with a raises money for school in Asheboro would often he said. He previously worked in mixture of face-to-faces sessions the Randolph Health and virtual sessions. Many classhave 2,600 to 3,000 students en- RCC’s financial aid office.

“There’s never a better time to es provide students with options rolled. At the beginning of this Mammogram Fund, on how to attend and participate, week, that number stood at about go back to college,” he said. benefiting individuals For the current summer ses- Williams said.

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HI 73 His theme music blared through the LOW arena,62and nearly 19,000 fansPRECIP hanging38% from the rafters roared when the wrestler hoisted his bad-guy weapon-ofchoice sledgehammer and struck SUNDAY OCT 10 the bell.

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“It was a fun opportunity to get back into an arena HI 78packed full of fans and have them go nuts,” said LOWthese 60 days as Triple H, known PRECIP 18% WWE executive Paul Levesque.

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♦ McDuffie, Kristopher (M, 34), Arrrest on charge of Larceny of Motor Vehicle, Possession of stolen motor vehicle, Resisting a public officer, Felony Escapge from Local Jail, at 717 Oak Grove Rd, Asheboro, on 09/29/2021. ♦ Pugh, Amanda Lynn (F, 36), Arrrest on charge of Attempted Breaking or Entering, Misdemeanor Larceny, at 139 Drum St, on 09/29/2021.

Possession of Stolen Goods, Larceny fo Firearm, at 762 Old Castle Dr, on 09/27/2021. ♦ Little, Trivon Derrick (M, 19), Arrrest on charge of Contributing to Delinquency of Minor, at 4121 Bentley Dr, Randleman, on 09/27/2021 ♦ Medina, Ramon Abdul (M, 53), Arrrest on charge of Possession of Stolen Goods, Misdemeanor Larceny, Randolph County Jail, on 09/27/2021.

(M, 28), Arrrest on charge of Assault by Pointing a Gun, at 1065 E Dixie Drive, Asheboro, on 09/26/2021. ♦ Johnson, Jonathan Thomas (M, 38), Arrrest on charge of Possession of Meth, Pessession of Heroin, Injury to property obtaining nonferrous metal, at 1321 Green Farm Rd, on 09/27/2021.

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the lowest in the 28-plus year history of the show.

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After Breaking and Entering, it’s presented. There’s a greater emphasis on utilizing the spacIn this Jan. 9, 2018, file photo, Paul “Triple H” Levesque participates in the “WWE Monday Night es that we have and the TV aspect Raw: 25th Anniversary” panel during the NBCUniversal Television Critics Association Winter Press of it while still engaging the fans.

Tour in Pasadena, Calif.

A lot of that comes from the time we had to experiment inside the pay-per-view Sunday in Texas and former,” Reigns said. “As a live WWE then moved to its in-house ThunderDome.”

The first start is putting fans Dallas on Monday for the flagship performer, that simultaneous re- performance center in Florida on DoWWE you have a birthday, wedding, or other March 13, before setting milestone up what — holding their homemade signs sponse keeps you sharp.

We hadengagement “Raw” TV show on USA. and adapt times it dubbed The ThunderDome -- and wearing their catchphrase spruced up sets, brought to back old to adjust celebrate?

Contact us to atthe celebrations@randolphrecord.com. where fans registered for spots T-shirts — back in the seats. stars and hit the reset button on that were in front of us.”

“When we have that live crowd, With Hulk Hogan in the house, on LED digital videoboards — for TV programming humbled with record-low ratings and a strong WWE held their only Wrestle- stretches in Florida at the Amway sometimes they almost become Mania with fans this past April Center, Tropicana Field and the the cameras for a lot of the perneed for new stars. formers,” Reigns said. “But when “I do think if we were doing this 10 and 11 at Raymond James Sta- Yuengling Center.

“People like Roman have been you don’t have that real-time, flesh in front of the live crowd, it would dium. WWE last ran a weeknight have been a situation that would televised event with a paid crowd able to emotionally bring a per- interaction, the red light becomes have made me an even better per- on March 9, 2020, in Washington. formance that, maybe with peo- the focal point for the performer.”

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COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

Democrats’ ludicrous claim that most expensive bill in history will cost $0

The leftleaning Tax Policy Center determined the bill will result in a tax hike for 75% of middleclass families next year.

FREEDOM IS UNDER ATTACK. Liberal politicians in Washington think they know what’s best for you when it comes to your health care, what your children are learning in school, what kind of car you should drive, and how you spend the money in your bank account.

Their reckless spending has already led to skyrocketing inflation. Unfortunately, Washington Democrats are doing everything they can to advance trillions more in government spending and new taxes that will transform our society and only make inflation worse.

Last week, Democrats worked to advance their $3,5000,000,000,000 infrastructure bill. Only 10% of this bill goes to roads, bridges and traditional infrastructure. Their $3.5 trillion boondoggle includes $2.1 trillion in tax increases, funds abortions, includes radical Green New Deal climate provisions, and opens the door to amnesty for 8 million illegal immigrants.

President Biden and Speaker Pelosi have made the claim that this spending bill — the largest in the history of the United States — will cost $0. That is ludicrous. By the way, if this was true, then why do they need to raise the debt ceiling?

In reality, this bill includes a 33% tax increase on 1.4 million small businesses, affecting 12.5 million American workers. The left-leaning Tax Policy Center determined the bill will result in a tax hike for 75% of middle-class families next year. The Joint Committee on Taxation found that within 10 years, 66% of the tax burden from raising the business tax would be on lower and middle-class workers. The National Association of Manufacturers released a study showing the tax increase would cost one million jobs in two years. The bill would lead to your monthly utility bills costing more. And finally, it adds $17 trillion to our national debt to be paid for by your children and grandchildren.

I oppose this agenda because of the extreme cost to you and your

family. We must make common-sense investments in our roads, bridges, highways and broadband. But we must also work to grow our economy and get people back to work. Exploding the size of our federal government and its control over your life does not help achieve that goal.

While Democrats push to advance their agenda, last week I worked to defend our Second Amendment.

The annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) funds our entire Defense Department for the year. It included pay raises for our troops and provisions I secured for Fort Bragg.

However, this year’s defense bill is not a perfect bill. I strongly opposed Democrats, who just like last year, inserted a section on Red Flag laws that threaten the Second Amendment rights of our servicemembers. Like last year, I am leading efforts to ensure these provisions are removed. Last week, 160 of my colleagues joined my push to ensure Red Flag laws are stripped from the final bill. I appreciate their support and will continue this fight until the bill is finalized.

And finally, it seems only one person has been punished over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Unfortunately, it is Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, a Marine who spoke out against President Biden’s deadly withdrawal. I reached out to Lt. Col. Scheller when he was relieved of his command as a result. Then last week, it was reported he was detained indefinitely without being charged with a crime or receiving a trial date for posting on social media. I wrote to the secretary of the Navy last week with urgent questions about his status, because our men and women in uniform deserve due process.

There are many challenges before Congress right now. Yet rest assured I will work to provide common-sense solutions that work for you and your family and will always stand in the way of reckless spending and bigger government.

COLUMN | NEWT GINGRICH

Youngkin’s parents vs. McAuliffe’s union bosses Democrat McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

The Virginia governor’s race may be developing into an argument with a clear choice that has real implications for campaigns across the country in 2022.

Tuesday night’s debate clarified the dramatic gap between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe. It is clear: Youngkin stands with parents who care about their children’s education, and McAuliffe stands with the union bosses who want total control of our lives.

During the debate, McAuliffe made what may be an electioncollapsing mistake. He spoke honestly about the degree to which he would exclude parents from their children’s educations. Consider this exchange: Republican Youngkin: “I believe parents should be in charge of their kids’ education.”

Democrat McAuliffe: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

The next night on FOX News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Youngkin expanded on the difference between he and McAuliffe: “[McAuliffe] believes that government and politicians know better for our children than parents. He wants to exclude parents from being involved in educating our children… Virginia parents have been standing up for the rights of their kids for the last 20 months, fighting against school boards who have been trying to impose all kinds of things on them. They’ve been asking for schools to be open, and what you saw last night was… [McAuliffe] doesn’t care what they think. He wants to dictate what they learn, he wants to teach our children how to think, and he wants to excuse parents from all of it.”

The simple fact is that former Gov. McAuliffe is dependent on union bosses to fund his campaign and provide workers for the turnout effort. McAuliffe has received $525,000 from the National Education Association and $425,000 from the American Federation of Teachers. That $950,000 from union bosses goes a long way to explaining McAuliffe’s contempt for parents.

You can better understand McAuliffe’s willingness to get rid of Virginia’s Right to Work Law when you learn that the Service Employee International Union has given his campaign $689,167.

McAuliffe’s conversion to Big Government Socialism and radical policies has also earned him $1.75 million from Independence USA PAC (Mike Bloomberg’s PAC) and $250,000 from George Soros personally. This is only the end of September, so McAuliffe’s antiparent, pro-Union position will likely earn his campaign even more money in October as it desperately tries to grab the governorship.

However, McAuliffe’s open contempt for parents and subservience to the unions may cost him the election. After all, there was recently a rally of more than 1,000 people in Loudoun County, Virginia, who

were angry about left-wing radicalism being taught in their schools.

Parents of students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax, Virginia, are outraged because school officials are “purging” students of Asian descent to meet woke quotas. In fact, citizens across the country from every background are upset that left-wing radicalism is taking hold in schools while standards are being lowered — or even abolished in the case of Oregon.

Virginians have historically been proud of their education system and have valued their children and grandchildren getting good educations. They see the unions undermining this tradition and crippling their children’s futures.

When McAuliffe crystallized the gap between parents and union bosses in the debate Tuesday, it may have been the key moment of the campaign. If Youngkin pushes the issue relentlessly for the next month, McAuliffe may be permanently branded as a union-boss controlled Big Government Socialist candidate — and therefore unacceptable to most Virginians.

This kind of decisive defining moment is not new for Democrats.

Consider the following examples: In 1972, Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. George McGovern announced he was “1,000 percent behind” his vicepresidential nominee Sen. Tom Eagleton (who had admitted after accepting the nomination that he had been given electric shock treatments for depression). A week later he dumped Eagleton. He lost in a landslide.

In 1984, Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale proudly announced in his acceptance speech that he would raise our taxes. His support collapsed, and he never recovered. President Ronald Reagan cheerfully contrasted his tax cuts with Mondale’s tax increases. The result was a landslide.

In 2004, Sen. John Kerry was filmed windsurfing in Nantucket in a fancy outfit. This convinced swing voters across the country he really was an elitist who was out-of-touch with normal Americans. A few weeks later he lost.

In 2016, Secretary Hillary Clinton attacked most Republican voters as “deplorables,” thereby firing up the base of Donald Trump’s voters. A month later, in a shocking upset, she lost.

McAuliffe’s declaration that “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” may join this list of campaign-dooming mistakes.

If McAuliffe loses, it will be a real warning to Democrats across the country that Big Government Socialist values and woke policies may not be sustainable — even with massive union and billionaire funding.

Last Tuesday night, the Virginia governor’s race took on a whole new importance as a national bellwether.

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT NHL

Preds assistant Richards recovering from heart attack Nashville, Tenn.

Nashville assistant coach Todd Richards is recovering from a heart attack. The Predators announced Monday that Richards, a former Minnesota and Columbus head coach, had the attack Friday. Richards has been released from the hospital and is resting at home in Nashville. The Predators hired Richards in October 2020 as an assistant to coach John Hynes. Richards, 54, joined the Predators after four seasons as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning, including winning the 2020 Stanley Cup and the Presidents’ Trophy for the 2018-19 season.

NFL

Jaguars’ Meyer apologizes for ‘just stupid’ actions in video Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer apologized to his family, his team and owner Shad Khan for actions he called “just stupid.” A video surfaced Saturday night showing a woman dancing close to Meyer’s lap, a clip that quickly went viral and made headlines across the country. Another video appears to show Meyer, 57, touching the woman’s behind. Meyer called a team meeting Monday and vowed to “own it,” the motto he uses daily and has plastered all around the Jaguars facility. The Jaguars are off to an 0-4 start in Meyer’s first season.

WNBA

Mohegan Sun suspends betting on WNBA at new sportsbook Uncasville, Conn.

The Mohegan Sun casino announced Monday that it has suspended wagering on the WNBA after questions were raised over a potential conflict in taking bets on the Connecticut Sun, a team also owned by the Mohegan Tribe. The issue came up after Gov. Ned Lamont opened the sportsbook last Thursday, the first day of legalized sports betting in Connecticut, by placing a $50 bet on the Sun to win its playoff game with the Chicago Sky. The wager raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest with the Mohegan Sun accepting bets on the Sun, which plays in the arena located at the casino complex.

MLB

Rojas out as Mets manager after 2 losing seasons New York Luis Rojas was let go as New York Mets manager on Monday after two losing seasons. The team declined its option on his contract for 2022, making the announcement a day after finishing third in the NL East at 77-85 in Steve Cohen’s first year of ownership. The Mets said Rojas has been offered the opportunity to remain in the organization in a role still to be determined. The club said decisions about the coaching staff will be made in the coming days.

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Bubba Wallace celebrates after winning his first career NASCAR Cup Series race Monday at Talladega.

Bubba Wallace earns milestone 1st Cup victory The 23XI Racing driver got the win at Talladega after rain shortened the race, making him the second black driver to win in NASCAR’s top series

By Jenna Fryer The Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Bubba Wallace became just the second black driver to win at NASCAR’s top Cup Series level when rain stopped Monday’s playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Wallace had driven through a crash and to the front of the field five laps before the second rain stoppage of the race. NASCAR tried to dry the track for nearly 45 minutes but called things off as sunset approached and the rain showed no sign of ceasing.

Wallace had been waiting atop his pit stand and celebrated wildly with his crew when the race was called. Wallace is in his first season

driving for 23X1 Racing, a team co-owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan.

Wallace broke down in tears after he returned to his parked No. 23 Toyota. The car number was picked for co-owner Jordan, who wore 23 in the NBA. “This is for all the kids out there that want to have an opportunity and whatever they want to achieve, and be the best at what they want to do,” Wallace said as he choked back tears. “You’re going to go through a lot of (BS). But you always got to stick true to your path and not let the nonsense get to you.

“Stay strong. Stay humble. Stay hungry. Been plenty of times when I wanted to give up.”

Wallace is the first black driver to win at NASCAR’s elite Cup level since Wendell Scott in 1963 — a race where he wasn’t declared the victor for several months. NASCAR at last presented Scott’s family with his trophy from that race two months ago.

Bill Lester, a black driver who raced intermittently in NASCAR

“Stay strong. Stay humble.

Stay hungry. Been plenty of times when I wanted to give up.”

Bubba Wallace from 1999 through one Trucks Series start this season, tweeted his congratulations to Wallace.

“Finally, it’s official, you’ve done it!” he posted. “So proud of you and what you’ve accomplished. Your win moves the @NASCAR needle forward on so many fronts. Glad I was a witness.”

23XI will expand to two cars next season with former series champion Kurt Busch joining the team.

Wallace’s win was his first in 142 career Cup starts, though he had six victories in the Truck Series from 2013 through 2015.

No playoff drivers won a race at

Washington Football facility searched, trainer put on leave Ryan Vermillion, who was with the Panthers for 18 seasons before joining Ron Rivera in Washington, is under criminal investigation

By Steven Whyno The Associated Press THE WASHINGTON Football Team has placed head athletic trainer Ryan Vermillion on administrative leave for what a team statement called an “ongoing criminal investigation” unrelated to the club.

Federal law enforcement officials, including agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, served a search warrant at Washington’s practice facility, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Another search warrant was served at a local home, according to one of the people, each of whom spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Monday because the investigation is ongoing.

Vermillion, who is also the team’s director of sports medicine, is in his second season working under coach Ron Rivera in Washington after 18 seasons with the Carolina Panthers.

Asked Monday about Vermillion’s status and whether he was

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Ryan Vermillion, left, watches Cam Newton during a Panthers practice in 2019. being paid while on leave, Rivera repeatedly referred to the team’s statement and declined to elaborate.

“We’re just going to stick with that for right now,” said Rivera, who worked with Vermillion for nine seasons in Carolina before bringing him to Washington. “I’m not going to comment how I personally feel about what’s going on.

That would go beyond what I need to say.”

Vermillion did not travel with the team this past weekend for its game at Atlanta. Mark McCracken, Doug Quon and Masahiro Takahagi are Washington’s assistant trainers, though Rivera did not reveal who is in charge while Vermillion is not around.

“Right now, we’re going to work it with the doctors, and we’ll go from there,” he said.

Rivera said he would talk to players about focusing on their up-

Talladega this weekend and only Denny Hamlin is already locked into the third round of the playoffs headed into next week’s elimination race on Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Roval.

Hamlin, a three-time Daytona 500 winner, celebrated with Wallace following his seventh-place finish.

“It’s just way more emotional because I know how difficult it is. These guys have worked so hard over the last 10 months to put this team together,” Hamlin said.

“We’re still in the beginning stages of our team. We’re still growing.

We’ve got some great things on the horizon. It’s just a great morale booster for everyone.”

Brad Keselowski finished second and was followed by Team Penske teammate Joey Logano in a pair of Fords. Busch was fourth in a Chevrolet.

The final race in the second round of the playoffs is at The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The hybrid road course/oval is where the field of 12 will be trimmed to eight. Chase Elliott is the two-time defending race winner at The Roval. His victory last October was his first of three wins in the final five races that lofted Elliott to his first Cup championship.

Kevin Harvick, Christopher Bell, Alex Bowman and William Byron head to Charlotte in danger of elimination.

coming game against New Orleans and that he is not worried about Vermillion’s absence being a distraction.

“The biggest thing we’ll talk about most certainly is focusing on what’s important right now for us as far as getting ready to play football games, and that’s how we’ll handle it,” Rivera said. “I think the guys know how to compartmentalize and prepare themselves. They’ll know when to focus on what’s important about preparing to play football.”

NBC Sports Washington and the local NBC affiliate first reported the raid. A report on 106.7 FM in Washington indicated that authorities spoke to a player about Vermillion earlier this year, which Rivera said he knew nothing about.

Washington hired Vermillion shortly after Rivera in January 2020, with owner Dan Snyder calling him a perfect fit and “one of the most respected and seasoned head athletic trainers in the NFL.” Rivera said at the time he has “seen firsthand the positive impact Ryan has on a team.”

Vermillion won the Fain-Cain Memorial Award for Outstanding NFL Trainer of the Year in 2016, and in 2003 he led the training staff of the year as voted on by colleagues around the league.

Before his time in Carolina, Vermillion spent one season as Washington’s director of rehabilitation.

Before that, he spent nine seasons on Hall of Fame coach Don Shula’s staff with the Miami Dolphins: four as head trainer and five as rehabilitation director.

Vermillion graduated from the University of Miami in 1987 and spent four years as a student trainer.

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LOCAL SOCCER

Jose Cortes

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Win for UCA

Uwharrie Charter’s Max DeNamur takes a shot on goal against Wheatmore in their Piedmont Athletic Conference game last week. Uwharrie Charter won 1-0 on Danny Palma‚Äôs first-half goal.

Warriors maintain high level in tennis Wheatmore girls hone in on another conference title

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record TRINITY – Some of the key players have changed from just a few months ago but the rate of success related to the Wheatmore girls’ tennis team remains at a high level.

“The key is having a solid team,” coach Doug Gore said. “The girls have worked really hard in the offseason.”

The Warriors entered the week on the verge of clinching a conference championship for the third year in a row.

Wheatmore is paced by returning starters Kara Comer in the No. 1 position and Kelly Carrick in the No. 3 slot. They’re both seniors.

That means there are others who’ve moved into key spots in the team’s lineup.

“Last season, we had girls in the (Nos.) 5 and 6 (position) all the way up to 10 who were pretty much equal,” Gore said. “The ones who’ve filled in (vacancies) weren’t quite as experienced. They’re all underclassmen so I think that’s a good set-up for next year.”

This season’s lineup also includes juniors Hannah Wilson, Elayna Brown and Mikalah Walls along with sophomore Carmen Turgeon.

Wheatmore entered the week with an 8-2-1 record, including a 7-0 mark in the Piedmont Athletic Conference.

Comer is a two-time participant in the state tournament, competing as a sophomore in singles and as a junior in doubles.

The 2020 season was shifted to this past spring because of the pandemic. The Warriors went 8-0 in league-only competition. Team members were a combined 70-1 in those matches.

“It hasn’t been as clean as we were last year, but we’ve been able to pull out the matches,” Gore

said. “We’ve had a few matches that have been tight. It seems like when somebody has to pull out the big matches, they do.”

Gore said Wheatmore’s strong tradition means the players take out-of-season training seriously. He said players interested in making an impact tend to join the team.

“That’s the key to our program,” Gore said. “We try to get as many freshmen in.”

Monday’s weather-related postponement at Providence Grove nixed a potential league-clinching match. The Warriors are supposed to compete in three matches this week. They’ll be the hosts for next Tuesday’s conference tournament.

Wheatmore won last season’s Mideast Regional title, though the state duals weren’t contested because of the restructured season based on the pandemic.

With new conference alignments beginning this past summer, Wheatmore has shifted to the Midwest Region.

PJ WARD-BROWN | NORTH STATE JOURNAL

Asheboro, boys’ soccer Jose Cortes scored a total of 10 goals across two games as the Blue Comets rolled to a pair of victories. In a 9-1 romp past Oak Grove, Cortes tallied four goals to go with an assist in the team’s MidPiedmont Conference opener. Two nights later, Cortes racked up six goals and another assist in a 9-0 blasting of Central Davidson.

Those results gave Asheboro three consecutive games with nine goals. The Blue Comets carried an 8-0-1 record in this week.

PHOTOS BY PJ WARD-BROWN

Left, Eastern Randolph’s Davonte Brooks runs the ball against Southwestern Randolph during Friday night’s Piedmont Athletic Conference game in Ramseur. Above, Southwestern Randolph quarterback Keaton Reed rushes against Eastern Randolph, including defender Malachi Letterlough.

Wildcats excel in showdown with Cougars

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record RAMSEUR — Eastern Randolph didn’t seem fazed by a biggame environment.

So the Wildcats settled in quickly and dispatched visiting Southwestern Randolph, winning 32-14 in Friday night’s showdown.

“It’s a rival. It’s an in-county game,” Eastern Randolph coach Burton Cates said afterward. “It’s the first conference game. It’s homecoming.”

And it’s another notable performance for the Wildcats (5-0).

Na’hiem Lilly scored four touchdowns and Eastern Randolph was in command for most of the game.

“We didn’t control the line of scrimmage all night long,” Southwestern Randolph coach Seth Baxter said. “We got knocked on our heels a little bit.”

Indeed, the best start to a season in school history had the Cougars (5-1) hopeful that they could pull off a rare victory in this series.

But Eastern Randolph scored the first two touchdowns. After Southwestern Randolph got on the board, the Wildcats cranked out a strong finish to the first half and led 26-7 at the break.

“We made a couple of bad turnovers,” Baxter said. “Nothing went our way in the first half on bounces. And you’ve got to create your bounces and opportunities.”

Eastern Randolph kept making key plays. Quarterback Stratton Barwick threw touchdown passes to Lilly and Elias Alston.

Lilly finished with 134 rushing yards on 22 carries. Alston made five catches for 84 yards.

Cates said the Wildcats had some mishaps, particularly noting passes that fell incomplete when

FRIDAY’S GAMES Eastern Randolph at Trinity, 7;30 Providence Grove at Randleman, 7:30 Wheatmore at Southwestern Randolph, 7:30 Central Davidson at Asheboro, 7:30

receivers often would have caught those balls. But his team had plenty to compensate for those situations.

“It was just a lot of hard effort,” Cates said. “We know we’re going to play hard. We believe in them.”

Southwestern Randolph showcased a high-powered offense for the first month of the season.

That has slowed the past couple of weeks.

The Cougars had trouble protecting quarterback Keaton Reed.

“Keaton was running for his life a lot back there,” Baxter said.

Reed had a touchdown pass to Eli Gravely. Teammate Easton Clapp had more than half of his 81 yards on the ground on a 48-yard scoring run.

Randleman 48, Wheatmore 6: At Trinity, Thomas Dobias scored three touchdowns as the visiting Tigers roared in the Piedmont Athletic Conference opener for both teams.

Randleman (3-3) scored 14 points in the first quarter and did the rest of its scoring after halftime.

The Tigers received 202 passing yards from Christian Long, who connected on a 90-yard play with Lucus Gneiting. Dobias gained 116 yards on 13 carries, scoring on runs of 5, 1 and 43 yards. Ervodd Cassady had a rushing touchdown and Chris Gentry returned a punt for a score. The Tigers also scored on

Chesney Welch’s 34-yard pass to Bryce Derry.

For Wheatmore (3-2), Riley Strickland threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Dylan Weil.

Oak Grove 49, Asheboro 14: At Winston-Salem, the visiting Blue Comets suffered their fifth consecutive loss, stumbling in their Mid-Piedmont Conference opener.

Connor Creech threw for three touchdowns for Oak Grove (4-1, 1-0).

Hakemme Butler scored both touchdowns for Asheboro (1-5) on passes from Khyland Hadley-Lindsay.

Postponed: Trinity’s game at Providence Grove was scratched because of COVID-related protocols involving the Trinity team. The game was rescheduled for Oct. 18 (a Monday).

Because of that switch, the Southwestern Randolph/Providence Grove game for later that week was moved back one day to Oct. 23.

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What’s in season? NC Apples

the skin from cracking by allowing the steam to escape during baking.

If stuffing the baked apple, remove the core with an apple corer.

Apples can be eaten raw, straight from the field. But there are ways to

By Jeannie M. Leonard integrate them in other dishes and For the Randolph Record to bring out their natural flavors. plea bargain.

Apples areObama, great sliced or diced on ASHEBORO — Apples are by Under 197 were transsalads,tomixed coleslaw, dried far America’s favorite fruit. Apples ferred other into countries. into chips for use on that a charcuterie contain modest amounts of nearThe possibility former board, and – prisoners of course would – in aply all the most important nutrients.

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In announcing Nasser’s trans- process” aimed at reducing the de- address how it would handle the the fight,” set up a process to en- the Judicial Police in Casablanca fer, the Pentagon cited the board’s tainee population at Guantánamo. ongoing effort to prosecute five sure those repatriated or resettled had been instructed to open an inWhite House press secretary Jen men held at Guantánamo for the in third countries no longer posed vestigation into Nasser “on suspidetermination that his detention was no longer necessary to protect Psaki had said in February it was Sept. 11 attacks. It also has to re- a threat. It also planned to try some cion of committing terrorist acts.”

Idrissi, Nasser’s attorney, said the “intention” of the Biden admin- solve what it will do with detain- of the men in federal court.

U.S. national security.

But the closure effort was judicial authorities should not Nasser, also known as Abdul istration to close the detention fa- ees that the Obama administration Latif Nasser, arrived Monday in cility, something President Barack particularly struggled with, ei- thwarted when Congress barred “take measures that prolong his Morocco. Police took him into cus- Obama pledged to do within a year ther because their home countries the transfer of prisoners from torment and suffering, especially tody and said they would investi- shortly after he took office in Janu- were not considered secure enough Guantánamo to the U.S., including since he lived through the hell of Guantánamo.” to return them to, or because they for prosecution or medical care. gate him on suspicion of commit- ary 2009.

Nasser’s journey to the Cuban The prisoner transfer process Almost 800 detainees have were refused by third-party counting terrorist acts. stalled under Trump, who said prison was a long one. He was a Nasser’s attorney in Morocco, passed through Guantanamo. Of tries.

The detention center opened in even before taking office there member of a nonviolent but illeKhalil Idrissi, said the years Nass- the 39 remaining, 10 are eligible to er spent in Guantánamo “were un- be transferred out, 17 are eligible to 2002. Bush’s administration trans- should be no further releases. gal Moroccan Sufi Islam group in justified and outside the law, and go through the review process for formed what had been a quiet Navy “These are extremely dangerous the 1980s, according to his Pentawhat he suffered remains a stain possible transfer, another 10 are in- outpost on Cuba’s southeastern tip people and should not be allowed gon file. In 1996, he was recruited of disgrace on the forehead of the volved in the military commission into a place to interrogate and im- back onto the battlefield,” Trump to fight in Chechnya but ended up in Afghanistan, where he trained process used to prosecute detain- prison people suspected of links to said.

American system.”

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In step to shut Guantanamo, President Biden transfers Moroccan home

Pat Robertson steps downjudges as hostput of long-running ‘700cases Club’ Garland lets immigration off deportation

By Ben Finley ByThe Amy Taxin Press Associated The Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. — Pat Robertson, who turnedGeneral a tiny VirginU.S. ATTORNEY Meria Garland televisiontossed station a global rick a into Trump adreligious broadcasting ministration policy thatnetwork, barred is stepping down after a half-centuimmigration judges from putting running the “700 Club” on daioffrythe deportation cases of immily TV,waiting the Christian grants on greenBroadcasting cards and Network announced on Friday. visas.

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The “700 Club” show For many immigrants, talk admincan beclosure seen in was the vast istrative seenmajority as a life-of U.S. television markets. line that shielded them from de“Pat Robertson had an enorportation while they awaited word mous impact on both American on their applications for legal stareligion and American politics,” tus from other agencies, such as said John C. Green, an emeritus green cards or other visas. Critics political science professor at The University of Akron.

One of Robertson’s innovations

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In this Feb. 24, 2016 file photo, Rev. Pat Robertson listens as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va.

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When disasters strike, let’s strike back with love and compassion.”

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obituaries

Tommy Allred

1931 - 2021 Hugh Thomas “Tommy” Allred, age 90, of Asheboro died peacefully at his home on Sunday, October 3, 2021. Born in Randolph County on August 13, 1931, Tommy was the son of the late Irene Parks and Joseph Thomas Allred and was a graduate of Franklinville High School in 1950.

After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict, he returned to Randolph County to work and was a dedicated employee of Acme-McCrary for 39+ years. He wed Clara Grace “Gracie” Jones in 1951 and passed away 2 months before they could celebrate their 70-year anniversary. They were longtime members of Central United Methodist Church.

In addition to Gracie, he is survived by his son, Gary Thomas Allred (Sharon) of Newport, RI, and daughter, Celia Allred Yow of Greensboro, NC. He was a devoted grandfather to his 4 grandchildren – Meredith Allred Cole (Dave) of Marietta, GA; Kathryn Allred Sheehan (Henry) of Newport, RI; Jeffrey “Reese” Yow, Jr. (Anne) of Atlanta, GA; Clark Thomas Yow of Greenville, SC. He was also blessed with 4 great grandchildren – Wesley and Henry Cole and Jack and Cameron Sheehan.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Parks Lee Allred. He is survived by his brothers Don Henry Allred (Pat) of Siler City, NC, and Joseph Franklin “Choo Choo” Allred (Reda) of Asheboro, NC. A celebration of life will be held Thursday, Oct. 7, at 3:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of Central United Methodist Church, 300 S. Main Street in Asheboro. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 2:00 – 3:15, in the church parlor.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Central United Methodist Church, 300 S. Main Street Asheboro, NC 27203 in Tommy’s memory.

Roger William Hawkins

1942 - 2021 Roger William Hawkins, age 79, of Asheboro went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at Randolph Health, Asheboro.

Mr. Hawkins was born September 12, 1942, the son of Homer and Georgia Goins Hawkins. Roger was an elder of the Hopewell Friends Community. He was a farrier by trade and enjoyed aviation while having his pilot’s license. Roger was a loving father, grandfather, brother, and friend to all that knew him. In addition to his parents, Roger is preceded in death by his daughter, Anita Marie Hawkins.

He is survived by sons, Tony W. Hawkins of Burlington, Allen W. Hawkins and wife Suzanne of Jamestown; daughter, Tara W. Hawkins of Asheboro; granddaughter, Amelia W. Hawkins of Wisconsin; siblings, David Hawkins and wife Pat of Asheboro, Larry Hawkins and wife Jeri, Gail Floyd, and Homer Lee Hawkins and wife Linda all of South Carolina.

The family will receive friends Tuesday, October 5, 2021 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 10:30 AM in the Hopewell Friends Meeting Cemetery, 2244 Hopewell Friends Rd., Asheboro with Pastor Andy Garner officiating.

Memorials may be made in Roger’s honor to Hopewell Friends Meeting Cemetery Fund or Hopewell Friends Meeting Quaker Men, 2244 Hopewell Friends Road, Asheboro, NC 27203.

Nancy Carol Van Hulst

1938 - 2021 Nancy Carol Williams Van Hulst, age 82, of Asheboro passed away on Friday, October 1, 2021 at Clemmons Village in Clemmons.

Mrs. Van Hulst was born November 28, 1938 in Salt Lake City, UT the daughter of Almon John and Viola Record Williams.

Nancy loved art and doing cross stitch. She was a homemaker who loved her children and grandchildren dearly. Nancy loved animals and gardening her flowers, especially Irises and attended Berean Bible Society. In addition to her parents, Nancy is preceded in death by her husband, Armond Van Hulst; brother, Bob Williams; and sister Delores Petterson.

Nancy is survived by her son; Shawn Van Hulst and wife Pamela of Raleigh; daughters, Shelly Ingle and husband Fred of New London, Leah Stephanie Smith and husband Darren of Miamisburg, OH, Sharlotte Brooks of Asheboro; grandchildren, Jessica, Luke, Bradley, Benjimen, Leah, Rachael, and Nathan.

A private memorial service will be held.

Memorials may be made in Nancy’s honor to Alzheimer’s Association, Western Carolina Chapter, 4600 Park Rd., Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209, www. alz.org/northcarolina

Betty Jean Shaw

June 1, 1938 - October 3, 2021 Betty Jean Wilson Shaw, 83, of Asheboro, died Sunday, October 3, 2021 at Woodland Hill Center in Asheboro.

Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 pm, Friday, October 8, 2021, at Russell’s Grove Baptist Church, with Rev. Tim Fonner and Rev. Richard Routh officiating. Burial will follow in New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery, Asheboro.

A native of Moore Co., NC, Mrs. Shaw was born June 1, 1938, the daughter of the late Ervin Thad Wilson, Sr., and Ottie May Phillips Wilson. She was retired from ETI, Asheboro.

She loved walking on the beach, reading, and spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Shaw was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Shaw; brother, Ervin Thad Wilson, Jr.; and sister, Georgia Jones.

The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Thursday, October 7, 2021, at Ridge Funeral Home, and other times at the home.

1964 - 2021 Arlie Garrett “Gary” Albright, Jr., age 56, passed away on Thursday, September 30, 2021, at Randolph Health in Asheboro.

Mr. Albright was a native of Randolph County, born on November 2, 1964, to Arlie Garrett Albright Sr. and Joyce Martin Albright. He was a former truck driver.

He is preceded in death by his father, Arlie G. Albright, Sr; grandparents, Daniel Martin and Daloris Martin, R.E. Albright and Dora Albright. .

He is survived by his mother, Joyce Albright of Zachary, LA; and sister Lynn Drisko (Dave) of Moseley, VA ; two nieces Amelia and Melody and a close friend of the family, Jim Spivey Jr., of Zachary, LA. Gary will be remembered for his love of the outdoors, testing the limits of a four wheel drive and being a devoted parent to man’s best friend, his beloved dogs, Shera, Scooby and Thai.

Gary’s mother and sister would like to thank family and friends that supported him during his last days’ A private Memorial service and reception will be scheduled at a later date.

Online condolences may be left at www.phillipsfh.com.

1980 - 2021 Charity Ann Hutson Bowman, age 41, of Franklinville passed away on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at High Point Medical Center.

Charity was born in Guilford County on February 7, 1980 to Darrell and Ann Walker Hutson.

She was fun-loving and crafty.

Charity enjoyed gardening and her favorite flowers were daisies.

She was preceded in death by her father, Darrell Hutson, and her brother, Darrell Hutson, Jr. She is survived by her children, Alana Bowman (David) of Asheboro, Chandler Porter of Stoneville, Augusta Whitt, Juniper Whitt, and Turley Whitt all of Sophia; grandchild, Zoey Ellis; mother, Ann Walker Fisher of Franklinville; and twin sister, Charissa Melvin (Brian) of Summerfield.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held at a later date.

Tony Lee Williams

Joline Mills

Arlie Garrett “Gary” Albright Jr.

Charity Ann Hutson Bowman

1943 - 2021 Dorothy Joline Rogers Mills, age 77, of Asheboro passed away on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at Woodland Hill Center, Asheboro.

Mrs. Mills was born December 4, 1943 in Union, SC to Joe and Thelma Rogers.

Joline was a longtime member at Balfour Baptist Church where she fulfilled multiple roles and was a Sunday school teacher. She worked and retired from Energizer after 35 years of service. Joline enjoyed gardening flowers, especially roses and also enjoyed crocheting. She enjoyed NASCAR and was a huge Dale Earnhardt Sr. fan. Joline played the piano, enjoyed listening to Elvis music and going bowling.

In addition to her parents, Joline is preceded in death by her brother, Joe Rogers, Jr. She is survived by her son, Michael Moody of Asheboro; grandchildren, David Moody and wife Amanda of Greenfield, IN, Sarah Moody of Asheboro; great grandchild, Aria Moody; and caregiver, Gary Miron of Asheboro.

The family will receive friends on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro. The funeral service will be held on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 11:00 AM at Balfour Baptist Church, 1642 North Fayetteville Street, Asheboro with Rev. Kenneth L. Reaves officiating.

Burial will follow the service in Liberty Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, 569 Liberty Hill Church Rd., Mt. Gilead.

1955 - 2021 Tony Lee Williams, age 66, of Randleman passed away Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at Wesley Long Community Hospital, Greensboro.

Mr. Williams was born July 10, 1955 the son of Buford and Ruth Irwin Williams. Tony was a native of Forsyth County and had worked for American Express for 25 years, Lincoln Financial, and Tek Systems. Tony served as a disc jockey for A&A Disc Jockey Service and enjoyed playing for weddings and events. He also was a Internationally certified Roller Speed Skating Referee and officiated in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Belfast Ireland, Finland, Columbia, South America among other countries. Tony also refereed for the Special Olympics Roller Speed Skating and was the Technical Director for the Roller Speed Skating division of the Special Olympic World Games for several years, which he adored.

To say the least, Tony wore many hats, he also served as a Boy Scout Leader and ran the sound system at Concord Friends Meeting. Tony loved his family immensely, had friends all over the world and was a huge animal lover. In addition to his parents, Tony is preceded in death by his brothers, B.T. (Pete) Williams, Jr. and Denny Williams.

He is survived by his wife: Robin Cox Williams; son, Dalton Williams (girlfriend Kahlan); sister Suzy Bowles (Ernest); nephews nieces: James Scott (Amy); Amy Williams Hill, Jeff Williams (Jenny), Barney Blackburn, Sarah Stanbarry, Angie Shelton and Sharon Mendenhall; sister-in-law, Wilma Williams.

The family will receive friends Sunday, October 3, 2021 from 2:00 - 2:45 at Concord Friends Meeting, 5000 Old Randleman Rd., Greensboro, NC 27406. The memorial service will follow at 3:00 pm with Pastor Greg Creed officiating.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to support. specialolympics.org/northcarolina in Tony’s memory.

Bo-d Morgan

September 26, 1928 - October 2, 2021 Iris “Bo-d” Clark Morgan, 93, of Asheboro, passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her family on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at her home.

A funeral service will be conducted at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, October 9, 2021, at Ridge Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Aaron Powers and Pastor Billy Myers officiating. Entombment will follow at Randolph Memorial Park.

Bo-d was born on September 26, 1928, in Guilford Co., to the late Archie Daniel Clark and Ina Pierce Clark. Her greatest accomplishment was her love for God, her children, family and friends! She was a patriot and loved her country dearly.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Eddie Jennings Morgan; sons, Kim “Kim-bo” Stephen Morgan, Ken Jennings Morgan; daughter, Darnell Morgan Long; son-in-law, John Phillip Morgan; three brother and two sisters.

Bo-d is survived by her daughters, Rhonda Morgan Austin (Richard) of Randleman, Pamela Morgan Morgan of Robbins, Lisa Morgan Bunting of Katy, TX, Anna Morgan of Asheboro; daughter-in-law, Lona A. Morgan of Star; son-in-law, Loyd Long of Asheboro; sister, Kay Outen of Asheboro; brother, Ronnie Clark of Asheboro; grandchildren, Jonathan Long (Loretta), Jennifer Serivano (Tom), Richard J. Austin (Trina), Tiffany Sutton (John), Stephanie Davis (Neil), Marca Miller, Melissa Brady (Mikie), Drew Morgan, Winston Morgan (Tara), Miles Bunting, Chase Bunting, Nathaniel Grantham, Dustin Grantham (Isa), Tyler Grantham (Ashleigh); 27 great grandchildren; and four greatgreat grandchildren.

Iris Della Williams

1937 - 2021 Iris Della Poole Williams, age 84, of Asheboro passed away on Thursday, September 30, 2021 at Randolph Health, Asheboro.

Mrs. Williams was born April 17, 1937, the daughter of Max and Katie Mae Chilton Poole. Iris loved her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, Iris is preceded in death by her husband, Jonah Williams; grandson, Trevor Hyatt; sister, Doris Berry; and brother, Al Poole.

Iris is survived by her children, Alvin Castevens of Franklinville, Angela W. Barker and husband Roger of Asheboro, Amanda Hyatt of Greensboro, and Alan Williams and wife Lori of Randleman; 11 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; sister, Stella Townsend and husband Charles of Newland; sister-in-law, Rita Poole; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends who she loved very much.

The family will receive friends Friday, October 8, 2021 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro.

The funeral service will be held on Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 11:00 AM in the Pugh Funeral Home Chapel. A private burial will be held following the service.

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Randolph Record for Wednesday, October 6, 2021

STATE & NATION

New Biden rules would limit arrest, deportation of migrants

By Ben Fox The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facing bipartisan criticism over its approach to immigration, the Biden administration announced new rules that require authorities to only pursue migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety.

The new guidelines replace interim rules issued in February that were initially blocked by a federal judge in August as part of a lawsuit brought by Texas and Louisiana. They break from a more aggressive approach to immigration enforcement under former President Donald Trump, who early in his presidency directed authorities to apprehend anyone who was illegally in the country.

The release comes as President Joe Biden has come under fire from Democratic allies for his reliance on a Trump-era public health authority to rapidly expel migrants encountered on the U.S.-Mexico border while also facing Republican criticism that he hasn’t done enough to counter a sharp increase in migrants seeking to enter the country.

The Biden administration says it has expelled about 5,000 Hai-

tians who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border at Del Rio, Texas, in recent weeks. A federal appeals court in Washington cleared the administration to continue expelling families under the public-health authority known as Title 42. The court put on hold a lower court order barring the expulsions of families hours before the ban was to take effect.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters that the new policy was based on the reality that the U.S. can’t go after all people in the country without legal status and shouldn’t try because many “have been contributing members of our communities for years.”

Authorities will be directed to focus on noncitizens who have crossed recently, defined as after Nov. 1, 2020, or who determined to be a threat because of national security or “serious criminal activity.” Homeland Security includes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.

Unlike the interim rules, the criminal activity is not limited to the category known in legal terms as an aggravated felony but will depend on the “totality of the facts and circumstances,” Mayorkas said. Anyone would be considered a priority if they are

engaged or even suspected of terrorism or espionage, according to the memo. The new rules take effect Nov. 29.

Immigration authorities would be prohibited from arresting and seeking to deport someone in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights, such as joining a protest or taking part in union activities.

“We are requiring and frankly empowering our workforce, critically empowering our workforce, to exercise their judgment, their law enforcement judgment,” the secretary said.

Advocates for immigration enforcement have criticized the interim guidelines, which were similar in intent as the newly released rules, because they were seen as a top-down approach and one that precluded low-level arrests that might yield investigative leads into bigger cases or help serve as a deterrent to illegal immigration.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said on Twitter that Biden has “welcomed” the migrants who have crossed and would now promise those already in the country that “they may stay in the U.S. without repercussions” with the new rules.

Illegal immigration advocates, including some who have in the past called for eliminating ICE and immigrant detention alto-

ERIC GAY | AP PHOTO

In this Sept. 18, 2021, file photo Haitian migrants use a dam to cross into the United States from Mexico in Del Rio, Texas. gether, welcomed limits on enforcement.

“This policy is only going to be as good as the results,” said Jacinta Gonzalez, senior campaign organizer of Mijente. “If detention numbers continue to rise, as deportations continue to happen, if we still see human rights abuses at the border, this policy won’t mean anything.”

A federal judge in Texas blocked the interim rules in August, ruling that the administration did not have discretion to choose which migrants to detain, but a federal appeals court allowed the guidelines to take effect while the lawsuit proceeds.

Mayorkas said it makes little

sense to pursue all of the estimated 11 million people in the country without legal status, even if the U.S. had the law enforcement capacity to do so.

“They contribute to the well-being of our country and justice requires that we exercise our discretion accordingly,” he said. “The fact that an individual is a removeable non-citizen should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them.”

Trump’s administration took hundreds of measures to restrict illegal immigration, including a zero-tolerance policy on border crossings and those claiming asylum to await the processing of their cases in Mexico.

GARY D. ROBERTSON | AP PHOTO

Gov. Roy Cooper, center, signs police reform bills into law while legislators and others watch during a ceremony outside the Executive Mansion in Raleigh.

NC police reforms, Sunday distillery sales start in October

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — New police accountability reporting requirements, rules for sheriff’s candidates, mandated clergy hospital visitation and Sunday bottled liquor sales begin as all or parts of more than 30 new laws took effect on Oct. 1 in North Carolina.

Legislation approved earlier this year and taking effect Oct. 1 includes several provisions from broader criminal justice reform bills that are designed to identify wayward officers and deputies and push them out of law enforcement.

The measures stemmed from calls for change during a time of national focus on racial inequity and po-

lice shootings of Black residents.

One law directs police and deputy standards commissions to create a public database of law enforcement officers who have had their certifications revoked or suspended.

A confidential database also will be created by the Department of Justice that contains “critical incident information” about when an officer has been involved in a case resulting in death or serious injury.

And officers now will be required to tell standards commissions when they receive letters from prosecutors telling them they’ve been untruthful and shouldn’t testify in criminal cases.

People running for sheriff in 2022 and beyond now will have to

sign a form stating they’ve not been convicted of a felony, even if one has been formally expunged from their record. The law clarifies how to implement a 2010 North Carolina constitutional amendment barring convicted felons from running for the job.

Another law taking effect will direct hospitals to let a clergy member visit a patient even when there’s a declared emergency like the one under COVID-19. The bill was named for a Beaufort County man who died at a Greenville hospital in 2020. The minister will still have to clear health screenings to visit.

North Carolina distilleries also can now sell their own liquor products in bottles on Sundays start-

ing this weekend due to changes in a wide-ranging alcoholic beverage control law. ABC stores remain closed statewide on Sundays.

For several years, distilleries have been able to sell their bottles to people who tour their operations, but not on Sundays. This weekend will mark the first time since the end of Prohibition that liquor bottles will be legally sold on a Sunday in North Carolina, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States.

Other laws that took effect on Oct. 1: — reworking some child welfare procedures, including child custody and foster family placement matters. The law also directs state or county social service agencies to

share confidential records about alleged abuse and neglect with legislators and legislative committees when requested. The received records must remain confidential.

— slightly easing some certificate of need laws, which require state regulatory approval before hospitals can expand and some new equipment can be used.

— allowing small businesses to offer exclusive provider benefit plans, which are health insurance plans that cover in-network physician and hospital services only.

— making it illegal for a doctor or health insurance to deny a person access to an organ transplant solely on the basis of the person’s disability, such as Down syndrome.