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Sports Eight high schools crowned state football champs

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Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton (1) is sacked by New Orleans Saints’ Demario Davis (56) in the first half of an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. With the postseason a longshot at best following a six-game losing streak and the former league MVP seemingly unable to throw the ball more than 20 yards down the field due to a lingering shoulder injury, coach Ron Rivera may weigh the benefits of shutting down Newton for the rest of the season. “I’m not looking forward to that conversation,” Newton said after Carolina’s 12-9 loss to the Saints. Read more in NSJ Sports.

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WH to see what Senate can do to avert shutdown Washington, D.C. The White House says it’s waiting to see what the Senate can pass to prevent a partial government shutdown. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that the Senate has “thrown out a number of ideas.” In the meantime, she says President Donald Trump has asked every cabinet secretary to look for funding that could be used for border security.

Actress and director Penny Marshall dies at age 75 New York Penny Marshall, who starred in “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming one of the topgrossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75. Marshall’s publicist said she died in her Los Angeles home on Monday due to complications from diabetes.

Marshall was the first woman to direct a film that grossed more than $100 million with the 1988 hit comedy “Big,” starring Tom Hanks. She reteamed with Hanks for “A League of Their Own” in 1992 which also crossed the $100 million mark.

Prosecutors allege fraud, kickbacks and murder-for-hire plot Raleigh A Russian couple who lived a lavish life behind the gates of a Raleigh mansion were in court Tuesday, charged with taking $150 million in kickbacks from subcontractors seeking business with Russia’s military. Federal prosecutors say Leonid and Tanya Teyf had 70 different bank accounts over the past eight years and millions in suspicious transactions with other countries. Investigators also say Leonid Teyf was plotting to kill a man whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of bribery, firearm and murderfor-hire charges. Tanya Teyf was released from jail Tuesday without bond.

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Marine Corps says $3.6B for storm repairs at Camp LeJeune overseas deployments.

“We had to go through extraordinary efforts just to clear a patch of the beach so we could certify the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit that will deploy next week,” Marine Lt. Gen. Mark Brilakis said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press. “MaBy Lolita C. Baldor rines are can-do. We went out and The Associated Press made that happen.”

But he said it’s only a tempoWASHINGTON, D.C. — When rary solution. “We pushed a lot of Marines from Camp Lejeune, sand around, and a lot of that sand N.C., were preparing for their up- went back into the ocean. So we’re only going to be able coming deployment to to repeat that a couple the Middle East, they times, if that, before we faced an unusual chaljust don’t have the sand lenge: the beach they “We had to available to create that needed to train on had go through kind of capability,” said been washed away by extraordinary Hurricane Florence. efforts just to Brilakis, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Using bulldozers and Forces Command. other equipment, they clear a patch Marines conduct exmoved enough sand to of the beach ercises twice a year in rebuild a portion of On- so we could order to get certified slow Beach so Marines certify the prior to deployment. could practice movPart of that training ining on and off landing 22nd Marine volved bringing ships — craft and get certified Expeditionsuch as landing craft — for their deployment. ary Unit. ... down to Lejeune from But almost immediate- Marines are Norfolk, so that troops ly afterward, the ocean can-do. We can rehearse combat swept away the sand. landings and other misMarine leaders went out and sion drills. The beach are saying it will cost made that must be wide enough to around $3.6 billion to happen.” accommodate the ships, repair the extensive but the storm washed damage to Camp Letoo much of it away. jeune caused by the Sep- Marine Lt. Gen. In addition to the tember hurricane that Mark Brilakis beach, the more than destroyed hundreds of buildings and facilities on the ma- 30 inches of rain that flooded jor East Coast base and spawned the region washed out roads and massive flooding and coastal ero- knocked down trees, blocking acsion. That damage, they said, has made it harder to train forces for See LEJEUNE, page A2

Nearly 5,000 military personnel and family members at Camp Lejeune were displaced, as their homes were destroyed or roofs damaged

NC Senate votes to override Cooper veto of voter ID On Friday Cooper vetoed the measure that implements the voter-approved constitutional amendment requiring a photo ID to vote

By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — The N.C. Senate made quick work of overriding Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the state’s voter ID law. In a session lasting less than half-an-hour, the Senate voted 33 to 12, with threefifths of the present voting membership voting in favor of overriding the veto. Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue (D-Wake) was not present.

The legislation outlines how

the constitutional amendment, passed by a majority of N.C. voters, will be implemented. More than 55 percent of N.C. voters passed a referendum in the November elections that says voters should be required to present photo identification when casting a ballot.

Despite the public vote, Cooper, a Democrat, said the bill originated from “sinister and cynical” origins designed to “suppress the rights of minority, poor, and the elderly voters.”

“Requiring photo IDs for in-person voting is a solution in search of a problem,” Cooper said in a statement.

“Instead, the real election problem is votes harvested illegally through absentee ballots, which See VOTER ID, page A2

Cooper to veto bill with congressional race redo Cooper objects to language sending campaign finance investigations to a separate commission

By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper says he’s vetoing legislation directing new elections if fraud is found in a disputed U.S. House race because the bill also adds new cover for lobbyists and people who violate campaign finance laws.

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Cooper said Tuesday he’ll sign the legislation if state lawmakers remove the section. Cooper objects to details like requiring that state elections officials refer apparent campaign finance crimes to a separate commission for a confidential review on whether prosecutors are notified.

The bill also would require new primary elections besides a new general election if mishandled ballots or other problems cast doubt on the true result in the 9th Congressional District race and force a redo. Multiple sourcSee ELECTION FRAUD, page A2

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Wood from Blackbeard’s flagship has become ‘very precious’

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GREENVILLE — Blackbeard’s plunder has become a precious bounty for preservationists.

Since the remains of the Queen Anne’s Revenge were found 22 years ago, state conservators have recovered thousands of metal parts from the pirate’s sunken ship, including cannons and a 12-foot-long anchor.

But they are dealing with a bigger challenge — preserving the vessel’s wood.

Storms, strong currents and shipworms have destroyed all but a few remaining pieces of the famed ship, which sunk 300 years ago.

“There isn’t much wood left,” said Sarah Watkins-Kenney, director of the Queen Anne’s Revenge laboratory based at East Carolina University’s West Research Campus near Greenville.

“What we do have is very precious.”

Divers have found 35 pieces of ship planks, 11 frame fragments, a 1,600-pound sternpost and other tiny wooden bits. The longest plank is just over 13 feet. The sternpost, which is the bulkiest, will one day be a featured piece of the Queen Anne’s Revenge exhibit at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, N.C. Blackbeard’s vessel originally was a French slave ship, La Concorde. The first record of it shows

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up in 1710, said curator Kimberly Kenyon. Blackbeard commandeered the ship from the French in 1717, renamed it the Queen Anne’s Revenge and terrorized the North Carolina coast before running his vessel aground in the summer of 1718. He was killed on another ship near Ocracoke in November of that year.

Intersal Inc. found the remains of Blackbeard’s ship off Beaufort, N.C., in 1996 and later turned them over to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The lab will host its annual open house next year on April 6.

Preservation of every artifact requires years of work, but wooden objects are the most fragile.

“You have to keep them wet,” Watkins-Kenney said.

Over years, water replaces the cell structure of submerged wood, Watkins-Kenney said. The

lumber looks fine at first, but begins to deteriorate soon after it is removed from the water. Every piece must be submerged in a tank quickly.

“Our task is to stabilize them,” she said. “That gives us time to do research.”

The treatment of a 5 1/2-by-4inch oak piece that was used to patch a hole in the ship is typical. Divers brought up the wooden fragment in 2000, Kenyon said. It remained stored in a water tank for three years awaiting the preservation process. Over the next five years, conservators frequently changed the water, withdrawing salt from the wood.

Then it underwent chelation, a process used to remove iron left by nails.

For another three years, the fragment soaked in water mixed with polyethylene glycol, or PEG, a waxy substance that penetrates

the wood, replaces the water and solidifies the structure. PEG has been used to preserve large shipwrecks such as the Vasa in Sweden and the Mary Rose in Portsmouth, England. The patch then went through a freeze-drying process to safely remove the remaining moisture before finally being displayed in 2016.

Through a microscope, researchers saw remnants of animal hair and black tar used to caulk the patch, Kenyon said.

“You could still smell the pitch of the pine tree,” she said.

The sternpost, where the rudder would have attached, has been soaking for 11 years. The piece measures about 8 feet tall and 6 feet wide and has parts of oak, pine, lead and iron. Each metal and each type of wood gets different treatment, Watkins-Kenney said. PEG may not penetrate where lead lines the edge.

Conservators are not sure if they should treat the entire post or take it apart, preserve each section and put it back together, she said.

“We’re not sure we can get it back together exactly,” Watkins-Kenney said.

Precision is key, Kenyon said.

A Roman numeral six was carved into the wood at a point just short of 6 1/2 feet from the bottom. A foot in France was 12.75 inches at the time, a clue to its origin.

The number marked a spot that helped navigators know how deep she sat in the water.

It may take another 10 years to finish the sternpost and decades before the recovery and preservation of the entire site is complete, Kenyon said.

“I suspect I will not see the end of the project,” said Kenyon, 37.

“It takes decades. It’s just the nature of conservation.”

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LEJEUNE from page A1 cess to training ranges. And a number of hangars were damaged, causing maintenance delays.

Meanwhile, nearly 5,000 military personnel and family members at Camp Lejeune were displaced, as their homes were destroyed or roofs damaged. Hundreds of other buildings were also damaged by the wind and rain, causing mold that also must now be removed.

Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, told senators this week that a number of the buildings are so old that it isn’t cost effective to repair them. Instead, he said they should be rebuilt. Brilakis said that a lot of the newer buildings on the base were better able to withstand the storm, so it makes sense to put in new construction that will be up to current codes.

Hurricane Michael, which made landfall in the Florida Panhandle in October, heavily damaged Tyndall Air Force Base, and that price tag, said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., is about $5 billion. It’s not yet clear what funding Congress may provide for the storm repairs.

Brilakis said his priority is to make sure his Marines are ready to fight.

“We will continue to do the things we need to do to get our forces ready,” he said. “But I may not get the resources that I need to be able to ensure the readiness that’s been asked for in the national defense strategy.”

VOTER ID from page A1 this proposal fails to fix,” he said, referencing an investigation of alleged absentee ballot fraud in the state’s 9th Congressional District in November’s election.

However, House Speaker Tim Moore was quick to issue a statement pointing out that the bill directs state election officials to figure out how people requesting mail-in absentee ballots could provide proof of identity. The provision was added amid an investigation of alleged absentee ballot fraud in the 9th District.

“We are certainly disappointed that Gov. Cooper chose to ignore the will of the people and reject a commonsense election integrity measure that is common in most states,” said Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland).

Thirty-four other states require identification off some kind to vote. N.C. is the last in the Southeast to require it.

Only one Democrat deviated from the governor, despite three, all African-American men, voting for it originally. Outgoing-Sen. Joel Ford (D-Mecklenburg) was the sole Democratic vote and was also a primary sponsor of the bill.

The override is expected to lead to litigation from interest groups, several of whom protested at the General Assembly on Monday, objecting to implementing the voter ID referendum and the Republican agenda.

“We will fight in the courts, we will fight in the streets, we will fight at the ballot box,” Rev. William Barber of the national Poor People’s Campaign told a crowd outside the legislative building Monday. “If necessary, we’ll return this state to civil disobedience.”

Republicans acted quickly on the override because the year is coming to a close and in January a new legislature will be sworn in. In the new General Assembly, Republicans retain the majority but will not have a veto-proof supermajority starting Jan. 1.

“Despite the governor’s personal feelings on voter ID, the fact remains that the constitutional amendment passed with a

ELECTION FRAUD from page A1 es report that Republicans want a new primary for the race so a potentially stronger candidate could replace Mark Harris, who has been weakened by the ballot fraud scandal.

Unofficial results show Harris leading Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes, but the State Board of Elections has refused to certify the results because of fraud allegations.

Republican state legislative leaders released strong condemnations of Cooper after it became clear he would not sign the bill.

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, second from left, chats with State Employees’ Credit Union President and CEO Mike Lord, third from left, Rocky Mount Mayor David Combs, left, and Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce President and CEO David Farris at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new State Employees’ Credit Union member services support office in Rocky Mount, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. broad mandate from North Carolinians,” GOP Senate leader Phil Berger said in a release, calling Cooper’s arguments a “tired rehash of unconvincing talking points rejected by the voters.”

Using the 9th District investigation as an argument, Democrats tried to slow-roll the measure, saying that the decisions were being rushed and the implementing the voter ID mandate could wait until 2019.

“Considering this bill at this session and this timeframe does not respect the will of the voters,” said Sen. Terry Van Duyn (D-Buncombe) in session on Tuesday. “They pressed us to pass enabling legislation that would protect the integrity of the ballot; this bill does not do that.”

The new law expands the number of qualifying IDs and exceptions. It has had opposition from some who say that there are too many acceptable forms of ID listed in the bill and from others who say there are too few. Republican

“Gov. Cooper laid bare what he’s sought for two years: partisan weaponization of the Board of Elections’ investigatory power,” said Patrick Ryan, a spokesperson for Senate leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham). “His hand-picked chairman, Andy Penry, resigned in disgrace just weeks ago because of his blatant partisan activity. ... Gov. Cooper’s failure to act is holding the entire Board of Elections hostage, including the NC-9 investigation, in his effort to achieve unchecked power to launch corrupt and unfounded partisan attacks on legislators.”

“The governor has pollsters running around the state trying to tell him which way to go on this thing. ... The best poll you can take is the one taken on Nov. 6 when a majority of voters said ‘Yes, I want it.’”

Sen. Tommy Tucker (R-Union) leadership calls it a compromise and that the changes will ensure that everyone lawfully registered to vote can cast a ballot.

“In the 34 states that have voter ID, most of them show that voter participation increased because they had more confidence that their vote will not be stolen by an illegal vote,” said Sen. Tommy Tucker (R-Union) on Tuesday.

All three Democratic members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation, David Price, G.K. Butterfield and Alma Adams, issued a statement together condemning the Republican effort to include a new primary as part of any new District 9 race.

They argue that since the primary results have been certified by the State Board of Elections, they should not be revisited like the general election results, which have not certified.

“The Republican super majority in the General Assembly must understand that changing the law after the election, to re-

Permitted IDs include traditional driver’s licenses and military identification, student IDs from colleges and universities and employee ID cards for state and local governments. Those IDs must meet certain security thresholds.

There also would be a new, free, photo voter identification card produced by county election boards. People having trouble obtaining an ID could fill out provisional ballots.

“On Nov. 6 we had clear direction from the voters of North Carolina, and we did our duty in passing this bill… there isn’t anyone who can say that all sides didn’t participate,” said bill sponsor Joyce Krawiec (R-Forsyth) on the floor Tuesday. “We tried to implement the changes they recommended because we don’t want anyone to be disenfranchised.”

Following passage, the veto override moves to the N.C. House which is scheduled to convene Wednesday afternoon.

quire a new primary, is likely unconstitutional. This newly enacted legislation discredits North Carolina once again in the eyes of the Nation,” their joint statement read.

House Rules Chairman David Lewis’ spokesperson, Mark Coggins, said in a press release that because the Republicans hold a veto-proof majority until the end of the year, “make no mistake, this eventual veto will be overridden.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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VISUAL VOICES

EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

The Social Security lump of coal for millennials

Social Security provides 50 percent of retirement income for close to 50 percent of the 62 million seniors (31 million) on Social Security.

EVERYONE KNOWS Social Security is the “third rail” of American politics. Touch it or even talk about it as a politician, and “you will die,” as they say.

Does everyone also know that while Social Security worked to help alleviate suffering during the Great Depression, massive demographic changes since then have made it one of the worst financial investments Millennials will make, without any freedom to invest their money otherwise?

“Currently, for every $1 a middle-earning couple (born in 1985) pays into Social Security, they can expect $1.01 back in benefits when they retire. That’s not a great return on investment, and it may fall in the future because Social Security isn’t on track to keep paying this level of benefits.

If the government cuts benefits enough to make the program solvent they’d only get $0.80 for every $1 they pay in.”* Welcome to your Social Security Lump of Coal this Christmas, Millennials!

Social Security provides 50 percent of retirement income for close to 50 percent of the 62 million seniors (31 million) on Social Security. Twenty percent of all seniors (12 million) rely almost totally on Social Security benefits with no other retirement income streams.

The biggest problem with Social Security in the minds of freedomloving, market-based conservatives is not that it is too expensive or too big of a government program. The problem is that it does not provide a much higher retirement benefit to the very people it was designed to help in the first place: lower and moderate-income senior citizens.

The sad part about Social Security is that it forces people to rely on a relatively-measly average payment of $1422 per month or $17,532 per year post-retirement at age 66. (In 2027, seniors have to be 67 to receive full benefits) Fervent opponents of Social Security reform have kept tens of millions of retirees from living a far more comfortable life in retirement than they are today. With the same amount of money paid into OASDI, a middle-income retiree could retire with a nest egg of hundreds of thousands, perhaps

over a million, dollars had they been able to invest those same dollars in a traditional retirement account for 40 years.

Absent any changes today, Millennials will be looking at more dismal rates of return on their OASDI payroll tax “contributions” (sic) 35 years in the future.

What happens when a recession hits and stock portfolios take a beating?

The government could act as a backstop just as it did during the banking crisis of 2008-09 and guarantee a payment each month to get retirees back to at least their projected average monthly Social Security check based on what they would have received from the old system and calculation. Not full payment; just a partial payment to make them whole.

Once the economy and stock and bond markets recover, those emergency payments can stop.

There really is a basic fundamental question to be asked here. Is it fair to force American citizens to accept a substandard system of funding their retirement when there is a much more lucrative system available to them?

Based on aging demographics and declining birth rates, the majority of OECD countries have come to the conclusion that they must expand and encourage mandatory private retirement accounts in addition to public funds.

The United States does not allow any private investment of OASDI tax payments into personal accounts under Social Security.

This Christmas when Millennials go home to talk with their enlightened Boomer parents, they should tell them they love them and want them to keep their substandard Social Security benefits for as long as they live. No one wants to, or will, ever change that.

However, Millennials and future generations should want to do better — far better — for each person individually and then, by happy extension, for every other American who will grow old with them.

GUEST OPINION | BRIAN KLEPPER

North Carolina’s brewing battle over health care value “We’ve got 9 million taxpayers and 720,000 participants in this plan who understand that they aren’t consuming health care, it’s consuming them.”

Dale Folwell, N.C. Treasurer

IN NORTH CAROLINA, a storm is brewing that highlights the health care industry’s influence and stranglehold over public dollars. An experienced civic-minded reformer with clout has emerged. State Treasurer Dale Folwell is a former legislator and CPA, and he now has responsibility for the State Employees’ Health Plan and its 727,000 employees, dependents and retirees (including my wife, a sign language interpreter in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system). The plan spends $3.3 billion annually, making it the largest health care purchaser in the state.

Folwell has called the state health plan unsustainable. The plan has a $35 billion unfunded liability because the General Assembly promised retirees free future health benefits without establishing a funding mechanism. Folwell has made it his mission to bring reason and stability to this program.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, Folwell proposes to switch the health plan’s reimbursement method to reference-based pricing. The approach has been around a decade and is gaining momentum with employers. In our state’s case, the new method would pay about 177 percent of the current Medicare reimbursement. Folwell’s plan — called the Provider Reimbursement Initiative — would allow providers a reasonable margin but would cut an estimated $300 million annually from the plan costs and another $60 million from enrollees’ costs in the program’s first year. The health plan’s Board of Trustees unanimously supported the proposal.

In promoting his plan, Folwell has described some of the issues he’s faced. The most important is that, under longstanding arrangements with the state’s providers and the plan’s administrator, Blue Cross of North Carolina, the health plan can’t access pricing information on the services it’s purchasing.

“I know what I’m being charged, but I don’t know what I’m paying,” Folwell explained.

This disconnect can result in overbilling.

Folwell says there are laws on the books that require the administrator to reveal pricing information.

Not surprisingly, the state’s health care lobby is gearing up to protect its turf. Rep. Josh Dobson (R-McDowell) is expected to file a bill that would block Folwell from instituting the plan. Steve Lawler, president of the N.C. Healthcare Association, one of a half-dozen health industry associations with powerful lobbies, has claimed that Folwell has resisted discussion. But Lawler does not appear to have publicly addressed the transparency or excessive cost issues that are central to Folwell’s complaint.

While the battle is shaping up to be a high-stakes, all-out fight, the health care lobby may not simply get its way this time.

Robert Broome, executive director of the formidable State Employees Association of North Carolina, favors Folwell’s plan and said, “The state health plan board made a very sound financial and public policy decision that will save money for taxpayers and will save money for plan members, while bringing some common sense to how we pay for health care.

It boggles my mind that folks could actually line up and be opposed to this.”

The beauty of Folwell’s strategy is that it is grounded in doing the right thing, and he has made it very visible to the rank-and-file state employees and taxpayers. When challenged, there is every reason to believe that most politicians and business leaders will openly support the public interest over the health care industry’s interest, especially an industry that has become wealthy by taking advantage whenever possible for decades.

Folwell’s bold initiative takes its cue

from a groundbreaking reference-based pricing initiative by the Montana State Employees Health Plan, with about 30,000 enrollees. That program’s success has since led the Montana Association of Counties to implement a similar program.

As health care costs have relentlessly risen, much of it due to opaquely excessive care and unjustifiable unit pricing, federal, state and local government workers around the country have seen their benefits slashed and their contributions dramatically increase. The initiatives in North Carolina and Montana may be the leading edge of a drive by purchasers exercising their new-found market leverage. There’s every reason to believe they can be replicated throughout the country by governmental and nongovernmental purchasers, fundamentally moving our broken health care system in the right direction.

It’s also important to remember that reference-based pricing is just one of several dozen powerful quality- and cost-management arrows in a larger health care performance management quiver. Smart employers and unions around the country are finally beginning to go around their health plans and deploy high performance solutions in drug management, musculoskeletal care, cardiometabolic care, imaging, allergies, claims review and many other opportunity areas for quality improvement and cost containment.

Folwell may well be the champion we need at the moment, and he might achieve something meaningful. If government and business leaders follow his lead, it would be a key first step to dramatically changing our health care system for the better.

Brian Klepper is a Charlotte-based health care analyst and EVP of The Validation Institute.

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Liberals can’t have it both ways on voter fraud The rhetorical jiujitsu they’ve used is to draw a distinction between voter fraud and ‘electoral fraud.

IT’S TIME for progressives to make up their minds: either they’re concerned about voter fraud, or not.

Right now, even as liberals fret over potential voter fraud in North Carolina, where vote irregularities favored the Republican candidate, they’re also celebrating Democratic victories in California — a state whose system could easily be susceptible to the same kind of voter fraud concerns.

These elections brought the issue of “ballot harvesting” to light — a process in which political organizers collect absentee ballots from voters and deliver them to polling places en masse. Due to a change in California law in 2016, this was legal in the Golden State during the 2018 election — and may have played a factor in the massive blue wave in California.

In North Carolina, ballot harvesting is illegal, but there are now accusations that political operatives working for the Republican Party in the state’s 9th Congressional District used this tactic to collect votes from minority voters, then failed to cast them.

Unfortunately, ballot harvesting — even when legal — makes our system more susceptible to such misdeeds. Only 16 states currently regulate ballot harvesting, according to RealClearInvestigations, and the rules from state to state vary wildly.

Allowing ballot harvesting certainly creates great potential for abuse. According to The Associated Press: “It’s a practice long used by special-interest groups and both major political parties that is viewed either as a voter service that boosts turnout or a nefarious activity that subjects voters to intimidation and makes elections vulnerable to fraud.”

This issue became nationally acknowledged due to controversies in California and North Carolina.

“California just defies logic to me,” outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said at a Washington Post live event. “We were only down 26 seats the night of the election, and three weeks later, we lost basically every California contested race. This election system they have — I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.”

With what one Republican official called an “unprecedented” number of vote-by-mail dropoffs in this election, it isn’t hard to see how Democrats were able to use ballot harvesting to swing elections.

“Legislative Democrats have rewritten election rules in their favor to expand voter eligibility, automatically register every voter, eliminate voting integrity laws, and encourage questionable campaign tactics, such as ballot harvesting,” wrote Shawn Steel, a former chairman of the California Republican Party and a committeeman for the Republican National Committee.

But the problem doesn’t just exist for Republicans.

In the case of North Carolina, Democrats understandably cried foul. But many are trying to square the circle, saying that voter fraud is both not a problem and also a clever means of voter suppression that may have influenced the outcome of this election.

The rhetorical jiujitsu they’ve used is to draw a distinction between voter fraud and “electoral fraud.”

“What happened in North Carolina was not ‘voter fraud,’“ Minnesota State University Moorhead professor Barbara Headrick said, according to Fox News. “When you hear voter fraud, it means someone who should not be able to vote is voting. North Carolina has election fraud. Legitimate voters had their votes

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potentially altered or not turned in.”

This is a false distinction.

The fact is, ballot harvesting and other similar practices deserve more public attention given their potential to impact elections.

Whether a person’s vote was thrown away or negated by illegal voters, both problems strike at the integrity and legitimacy of our democratic elections.

Given what is at stake in politics, there is always an incentive for bad actors to manipulate the system and steal elections.

A process where middlemen control the ballot — which can pass through many hands — is more susceptible to manipulation than a system where a ballot is directly submitted. It is especially problematic when it goes through the hands of a party operative.

This system conjures up an old issue that used to plague electoral politics in the 19th century before there were standardized voting forms.

Party hatchet men would hand out false ballots to voters and deceive them about which party they were voting for.

Voter fraud is certainly not a new issue.

Both voter fraud and voter intimidation played a key role in the 1876 presidential campaign, for instance, where both Republicans and Democrats engaged in unseemly electioneering shenanigans.

Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, defeated Democrat Samuel Tilden, but accusations of widespread election fraud threw the contest into dispute.

Ulysses S. Grant famously said of the election: “The country cannot afford to have the result tainted by suspicion of illegal or false returns.”

The nation ultimately solved the matter — which nearly ended in a second civil war — with an unseemly compromise between the parties that led to the end of Reconstruction.

This scandal and others pushed Americans to reassess how they conducted the voting process and led to the adoption of the secret ballot in states across the country. It was nearly universal by 1890.

Human nature being what it is means we are unlikely to eliminate bad actors — whether Democrat, Republican, or any other political party — but we can reduce the shadows that they thrive in.

Given the heated nature of modern politics, it would be wise to create a system that is free from suspicion in our own time. And despite calls to the contrary, voter fraud is a nationwide issue as a Heritage Foundation database demonstrates (www.heritage.org/voterfraud), with ballot harvesting just being one way among many for crooks to cheat the system.

While there may be multiple routes to address the general problem of voter fraud — such as voter ID requirements or making ballot harvesting illegal — this issue should not be treated as a partisan one.

It should be an issue that we seek to tackle for the sake of upholding our republican institutions.

Stolen votes and the suspicion of fraud undermine the notion of the rule of law based on consent and justice. Americans have not always upheld that standard, but that doesn’t mean that we should waver in our commitment to it.

Perhaps the mess in North Carolina will be a wake-up call for those on the left who think voter fraud, or “election fraud,” or whatever they’d like to call it, isn’t a problem facing our nation.

Jarrett Stepman is an editor and commentary writer for The Daily Signal and co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. This article was first published on dailysignal.com.

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3% of Americans live in chronic poverty

AS MOST OF US are celebrating the holiday season and giving thanks for our many blessings, approximately 3 percent of Americans live in what is called chronic poverty.

Chronic poverty means living for years and years without enough income to provide for the basic necessities of life.

These 3 percent are living what most Americans have in mind when they envision poverty.

However, the official government definition of poverty includes a much larger group than those who are truly living in chronic poverty.

Consider this example: if a person is laid off from a good job and expects to find another job within three months, the federal government would say that person is living in poverty during the three months without income. However, just 16 percent of voters agree with the government definition.

Several other examples of this disconnect were found in the ScottRasmussen.com survey: The official statistics say that a college student with no income who is supported by her parents and living in an off-campus apartment is living in poverty. Only 15 percent of voters agree.

Just 21 percent believe that it’s living in poverty when a person who has earned a good middleclass income for many years loses his job and takes six months to find a new job.

Only 9 percent believe that someone who takes six months off from work to travel is living in poverty. But the government stats would consider this traveler to be in poverty.

On the other hand, consider a low-income worker who, over a period of several years, barely makes more money than the amount officially defined as the poverty line. According to the government statistics, that person is not living in poverty. But 74 percent of voters take the opposite view.

The flaws in the government data trace their roots to the 1960s and the War on Poverty. At the time, experts assumed that most who experienced poverty did so for extended periods of time. It

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turns out that assumption was inaccurate. Data collected over the years shows that half of those officially defined as living in poverty get out of poverty within four months or less. Those people are like some of the examples earlier in this article.

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

He addresses these and related issues in his latest book, “The Sun Is Still Rising: Politics Has Failed But America Will Not.”

FDA policies kill Among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s responsibilities are approval and regulation of pharmaceutical drugs. In short, its responsibility is to ensure the safety and effectiveness of drugs. In the performance of this task, FDA officials can make two types of errors — statistically known as the type I error and type II error. With respect to the FDA, a type I error is the rejection or delayed approval of a drug that is safe and effective — erring on the side of over-caution — and a type II error is the approval of a drug that has unanticipated dangerous side effects, or erring on the side of under-caution.

Let’s examine the incentives of FDA officials. If FDA officials err on the side of under-caution and approve a drug that has unanticipated dangerous side effects, the victims of their mistake will be highly visible. There may be congressional hearings, embarrassment to the agency and officials fired.

If FDA officials err on the side of under-caution and approve a drug that has unanticipated dangerous side effects, the victims of their mistake will be highly visible.

It’s an entirely different story if FDA officials err on the side of over-caution and either disapprove or delay the approval of a drug that is both safe and effective.

In that case, the victims will be invisible.

They will have no idea that their suffering could have been eliminated, or in the case of death, their loved ones will have no idea why they died. Their suffering and/ or death will be chalked up to the state of medicine rather than the status of an FDA drug application. Their doctor will simply tell them there’s nothing more that can be done to help them. The FDA officials go scot-free.

Let’s look at some of the history of the FDA’s erring on the side of over-caution.

Beta blockers reduce the risk of secondary heart attacks and were widely used in Europe during the mid-1970s. The FDA imposed a moratorium on approvals of beta blockers in the U.S. because of their carcinogenicity in animals. Finally, in 1981, the FDA approved the first such drug, boasting that it might save up to 17,000 lives per year. That means that as many as 100,000 people died from secondary heart attacks waiting for FDA approval. Those people are in the “invisible graveyard,” a term to describe people who would have lived but died because the cure that could have saved them was bottled up in the FDA’s regulatory process.

Today, the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute is leading the battle to bring some sanity and compassion to the drug approval process. It recently published a paper by Mark Flatten, titled “Studied to Death: FDA Overcaution Brings Deadly Consequences.” Flatten examined the FDA’s approval process and made some important recommendations. Flatten criticized some FDA practices, saying, “Instead of having to prove a new treatment is safe for its intended use, the FDA now reviews drugs based on how they might be used by doctors to treat individual patients, effectively substituting the judgment of agency regulators for that of practicing medical professionals.” He added: “Instead of proving a drug achieves the medically beneficial results that its makers claim, the FDA requires proof the new treatment will improve longterm outcomes. So it is no longer enough, for instance, to prove a new drug will reduce blood glucose levels for diabetics.

Drugmakers must show, somehow, that this will make patients live longer.”

One Goldwater Institute suggestion is to allow drugs approved in certain other countries, such as Canada and the European Union, to receive nearly automatic U.S. approval. After all, those countries have drug regulatory structures similar to that in the U.S. Why should treatments approved in those countries not be available here?

The Goldwater Institute is also calling for a bill to restore free speech in medicine. It thinks Congress should allow drug manufacturers to provide information about “off-label use.” This is a common practice in which doctors prescribe FDA-approved drugs to treat conditions other than those the FDA originally approved them for after new beneficial uses arise.

Strong evidence of FDA over-caution bias comes in the 1974 words of then-FDA Commissioner Alexander M. Schmidt: “In all of FDA’s history, I am unable to find a single instance where a congressional committee investigated the failure of FDA to approve a new drug.”

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

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NSJ Staff RALEIGH — Lead attorney for the N.C. GOP, Tom Stark, passed away suddenly Monday night from an apparent heart attack, according to a statement released by the N.C. Republican Party chairman on Tuesday afternoon.

“This news comes as a complete and sudden shock. Tom was a dear friend, mentor, and counselor to us all,” said Robin Hayes. “We ask that everyone please keep his wife Roxanne and his children in your thoughts and prayers this holiday season.”

Stark served as the party’s parliamentarian and general counsel, lead the N.C. GOP’s legal efforts in recent years. According to his bio page on

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WEST Asheville preparing for possibility of legal marijuana sales Buncombe County The Asheville Alcoholic Beverage Control Board reported to city council last week that the board is preparing for the possibility of marijuana sales should the drug become legalized in North Carolina. Board chairman Lewis Isaac referred to a national trend of legalization and expects the agency to oversee sales and distribution if state law follows suit. The council recently built a $3 million warehouse that could be used to store marijuana in addition to the liquor it currently houses.

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Moog expanding plant in Murphy Cherokee County Moog Inc. announced plans to expand its plant in Murphy and create 20 new jobs in Cherokee County. The company, which designs, manufactures and integrates precision control components, will invest $1.8 in the county, according to an announcement from Governor Roy Cooper. Moog is already the largest industrial employer in Cherokee County. The new jobs will have an average salary of more than $30,000.

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Henderson County The U.S. Marshals Service has offered a reward leading to the capture of 26-year-old Davonte Gary Redfern.

He is accused of first-degree murder in Hendersonville after allegedly shooting Tristan Kayne in February. He’s also wanted for fleeing arrest in Buncombe County and is considered armed and dangerous. The amount of the reward has not been specified.

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Inmate sends bomb plot to wrong address Alamance County Sean Damion Castorina’s plan to escape prison using explosives backfired when his letter was sent to the wrong address.

The 43-year old is in jail on first-degree murder charges. He sent a letter to two accomplices, laying out the plan to blow a hole in the south wall of the jail, including bomb-making instructions.

The letter went to the wrong address, however, and authorities were notified.

Castorina faces additional felony charges, and each of the intended recipients were also arrested.

Convicted official not allowed to vacation in Puerto Rico Buncombe County Jon Creighton will not be allowed to go on vacation later this month, a federal judge ruled last week. Creighton is the former Buncombe County assistant manager, who entered a guilty plea in October to accepting bribes to award county contracts. Creighton is awaiting sentencing and requested permission to leave the continental United States, since he had already purchased nonrefundable airfare and lodging.

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Detention Center employee ordered to serve time in jail where he worked Guilford County Scott Davis was sentenced to serve 30 days in the jail where he used to work.

Davis was a detention officer at the Guilford County Detention Center. The 40-year-old Davis falsely reported that his car had been stolen and testified against the man arrested for the crime.

Davis wanted to hide the fact that he’d blacked out while drunk and gave his keys to a woman who had been drinking with him.

Randolph County Ruthie the chimp, who has lived at the North Carolina Zoo since 1980, was euthanized last week after a year-long battle with congestive heart failure.

Ruthie, who was 47 years old, had been a zoo resident for longer than all but two other animals. Maggie the chimp arrived earlier in 1980, and C’sar the elephant has been there since 1978. Ruthie outlived the typical life expectancy for chimps of about 40 years.

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Hyde County Duke University has acquired the rights to build a 10,000-acre carbon farm on privately owned peatlands that were previously drained and used for agriculture. The farm, which allows plants and soil to pull carbon from the air and reduce the impact of global warming, should offset the university’s carbon emissions and help Duke reach its goal of being carbon neutral by 2024.

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

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

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Teacher, daughter of Hall of Famer dies after fire drill Perquimans County Kim Hunter Daugherty, the 45-yearold daughter of MLB Hall of Famer Jim “Catfish” Hunter, suffered a medical emergency during a fire drill at Hertford Grammar School where she taught fifth grade. Daugherty had been a teacher for 20 years. Years earlier, as a child, she became the first girl in Perquimans County to play Little League baseball.

Wilson County The body of Kathy Thomas, who was last seen on Nov. 23 and reported missing on Nov. 30, was found buried behind the home of a convicted rapist in Wilson. The homeowner, 50-year-old Kenneth Wayne Lamm, was arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of the 71-year-old Thomas. Lamm had been in prison from 1994 for 2012 for rape and other sex offenses.

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In 2016, then-UNC President Margaret Spellings established a working group to address enrollment declines and budget cuts. ECSU is now one of three universities designated as an NC Promise school, with in-state annual tuition at $1,000.

The program’s launch this fall led to a 19 percent enrollment increase. The university also received a $20 million U.S. Department of Agriculture loan to revamp residence halls and restructure debt.

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Hoke County Former Hoke County deputy Dedrick Graham and former human resources director Latonya Benjamin were both charged with multiple counts of fraud.

Both are being held in the county jail. Area police and the State Bureau of Investigation worked together to investigate an overtime fraud scheme.

The investigation cleared 29 detention officers and four deputies.

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The News & Observer reports the UNC Board of Governors on Friday elected Karrie Dixon from a slate of three finalists for the Elizabeth City State University job.

She’s held the interim chancellor job since April.

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his law firm’s website, Stark earned his undergraduate and law degree at Duke University and clerked for the secretary of the Air Force General Counsel. He later founded Stark Law Group and practiced business and real estate law. As an Eagle Scout, he served as the local district chair of Boy Scouts of America and was an active leader in the North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with Tom Stark’s family and friends. Tom was a patriot and loved the North Carolina Republican Party,” Cabarrus County GOP tweeted Tuesday.

Details on memorial services were not available at press time, but information will be updated on nsjonline.com.

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RALEIGH — The leader of the North Carolina House says he’ll urge colleagues next year to pass a $1.9 billion public education bond referendum that would go to voters in 2020.

House Speaker Tim Moore announced Thursday he would also travel the state to back his debt proposal, of which about two-thirds would benefit K-12 public schools. The remainder would be split

between University of North Carolina campuses and community colleges.

A Moore news release quoted state schools Superintendent Mark Johnson as supporting the idea. Voters approved a $2 billion debt package in 2016, with proceeds largely going to UNC system schools.

Moore is in line to be re-elected speaker next month. House Republicans will retain a majority of seats next year. They picked him Wednesday to be their nominee.

Man’s sex crime conviction vacated because victim unnamed NSJ Staff RALEIGH — A North Carolina appeals court has thrown out a man’s sex crime conviction against a young teenager because prosecutors didn’t identify the girl when bringing charges.

The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday vacated David Joe Shuler’s conviction in Swain County last year for statutory rape.

Prosecutors had only identified his alleged

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The court said victims must be identified to give defendants sufficient notice of the specific crime for which they’re charged, and to protect against the possibility of unconstitutionally putting someone on trial twice for the same offense.

Judges said indictments don’t need to include the victim’s full name, and initials alone might satisfy the requirement.

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RALEIGH — The North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority (RIA) approved 19 grant requests totaling $7,275,100, N.C. Commerce Secretary Anthony M. Copeland announced last week.

The requests include commitments to create a total of 407 jobs, 167 of which were previously announced. The public investment in these projects will attract more than $95 million in private investment.

“Rural North Carolina communities have a lot to offer families and businesses, and they need infrastructure that complements those unique assets,” said Secretary Copeland. “These new Rural Infrastructure Authority grants will help invest in that infrastructure and support the creation of good jobs across our state.”

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By Emily Roberson North State Journal WASHINGTON, DC/RALEIGH — PN Hoffman, the developer of premier urban communities across the Washington Metropolitan Area including the $2.5 billion Washington, DC, waterfront neighborhood The Wharf, along with William Peace University and TradeMark Properties announced last week PN Hoffman’s purchase of Seaboard Station in the north end of downtown Raleigh. The expansive $250 million project will be built in three phases and consist of approximately 800,000 square feet of mixed-use space at full buildout.

“We’re excited about joining the Raleigh community. And, we’re honored to have been selected by William Peace University on the redevelopment of Seaboard Station,” said Monty Hoffman, Founder and CEO of PN Hoffman. “PN Hoffman has a long history of enhancing neighborhoods by contributing and working with existing communities throughout the development process and we’re eager to kick off Seaboard Station.

Local developer, John Florian of the Florian Companies and friend for over 30 years, knows the market well and joined us to help run our North Carolina office. This will be the start of several new developments in the Raleigh-Durham area,” Hoffman added.

“Seaboard Station is a part of the University’s rich histo-

ry, and this transaction supports its bright future,” said Brian C. Ralph, Ph.D., president of William Peace University. “Together with TradeMark Properties, we have ensured that the property, its tenants and the neighborhood remain in great hands with PN Hoffman. We’re pleased to welcome our new neighbors, and look forward to seeing what the future holds for Seaboard Station.”

As detailed in PN Hoffman’s proposed multi-phased development plan for Seaboard Station, the project’s approximate 800,000 square feet of mixed-use space will consist of ground-level retail, multi-family residential and hotel uses. The numbers provided by the developer suggest 650 apartments, 150 hotel rooms, and 90,000 square feet of new retail space.

In 2013, William Peace University purchased Seaboard Station as a strategic investment to enhance the local community surrounding the University.

Since that time, Seaboard Station has seen a resurgence of the north end of downtown Raleigh.

In March of this year, William Peace University, in partnership with TradeMark Properties, announced they were seeking a buyer and partner for the nearly seven-acre Seaboard Station site. PN Hoffman’s offer was selected from among 13 offers received by the University due to the developer’s unique and expansive redevelopment proposal, centered around new density and mixed-uses intended to enhance the downtown community as well as the campus community.

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“Together with TradeMark Properties, we have ensured that the property, its tenants and the neighborhood remain in great hands with PN Hoffman.”

Brian C. Ralph, Ph.D, president of William Peace University downtown Raleigh. We look forward to continuing our management and leasing role with PN Hoffman and their plans to enhance the center and surrounding community.”

The project team is comprised of PN Hoffman’s office with William Peace University serving as an active voice throughout the future development. The selection process and sale by William Peace University to PN Hoffman is a significant milestone paving the way for a vibrant new place in downtown Raleigh.

Ralph, president of the University, noted that the area has a unique place in Raleigh’s history and will continue to be at the epi-center of the tremendous growth taking place in the capital city. He says that the University felt a great responsibility to find the right buyer to represent the vision of all University and community stakeholders both now and moving forward for Raleigh.

“We treasure our 161-year history as part of the community and remain committed to our neighbors, students, faculty, staff, alumni and donors… As good stewards of the endowment, we made a bold real estate investment with the intention of increasing funds to fuel the mission of William Peace University,” said Ralph.

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Use LED lights: LED holiday lights use at least 75 percent less energy and can last 25 times longer than older, incandescent lighting. Plus, they emit half as much heat and are more resistant to breakage, making them a safer alternative.

Remember to unplug holiday lights before going to bed or leaving the house.

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Take advantage of the sun: Open the curtains on your south-facing windows during cold winter days to bring free heat into your home. Then close your window coverings in the evening when the sun goes down to keep the heat inside.

Only heat the rooms you use: Close and seal off vents to guest rooms or any unused rooms in your home, directing the flow of air to the rooms you use most.

Doing so could save you hundreds of dollars in energy costs each year.

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Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s Vice President of People, speaks during an event about Apple’s new campus announcement in Austin, Texas, Thursday, Dec, 13, 2018.

North Carolina fails to land Apple site, thousands of jobs Leaders try to reassure business community that they can continue pursue development opportunities in the midst of divisive political environment

By Emery P. Dalesio The Associated Press RALEIGH — North Carolina business recruiters and politicians offered little to explain why Apple announced Thursday it was bypassing the state and instead choosing Texas as the site for thousands of new technology jobs.

RICARDO BRAZZIELL | AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN VIA AP Apple said it plans to build a new campus in Austin with 5,000 Apple employees attend an event about Apple’s new campus jobs to start and the potential to announcement in Austin, Texas, Thursday, Dec, 13, 2018. grow to 15,000 employees. The maker of iPhones and other gadgets also announced plans to es- ering North Carolina for the new firm BDO. “It’s like very few other small lotablish new sites in Seattle, and corporate campus, legislators in San Diego and Culver City, Cal- lowered the threshold so-called cations that can replicate the conifornia, each employing at least “transformative” companies need- nectivity, the hipness the opportu1,000 workers over the next three ed to meet to get massive state nities of some of the large coastal cities,” Stringer said. “So, you get subsidies. years.

But Apple likely picked Austin the workforce that you want, and Apple also said it will add hundreds of jobs over the next three over a potential Raleigh-area site the Research Triangle-area just years in Pittsburgh; New York; and other possible contenders be- has not done that yet. I think there Boston; Boulder, Colorado; and cause its low cost-of-living and hip are really some workforce and reputation makes it easier to re- some lifestyle issues.”

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The new Austin campus, with Earlier this year, as people fa- cruit needed tech-savvy workers, miliar with recruitment efforts said Tom Stringer, head of site se- about 3 million square feet (nearsaid Apple was strongly consid- lection for the business consulting ly 280,000 square meters) of office

US home construction rose last month, led by apartments As single-family houses sell, developers see an uptick in smaller unit, multi-dwelling buildings, likely due in part to rising home prices and mortgage rate increases

By Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press WASHINGTON — U.S. developers broke ground on more homes last month, but the increase occurred entirely in apartments. The construction of new single-family houses fell.

The Commerce Department said Tuesday that housing starts rose 3.2 percent in November from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate 1.26 million. Despite the increase, that is down 3.6 percent from a year ago. Single-family starts dropped 4.6 percent in November and are down 13.1 percent from a year earlier.

Some of the data likely have been distorted by extreme weather. Home-building jumped 15.1 percent last month in the South in the aftermath of Hurricanes Florence and Michael. And home construction fell 14.2 percent in the West, possibly because of wildfires in California. Single-family homebuilding fell in the West by the most since Feb-

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Still, rising mortgage rates have dragged down home sales in the past year, discouraging many builders and causing a slump in the overall housing market. Sales of new and existing homes are dropping and home price gains are slowing.

The unemployment rate is at a five-decade low and incomes are

rising more quickly, but many would-be buyers struggle to find homes they can afford. Developers say that rising labor and materials costs make it harder for them to build more affordable properties.

“Rising home prices and mortgage rates have created high hurdles for homebuyers, while cost increases have made it difficult

space, will be about a mile from another large office that Apple opened five years ago. Apple currently employs about 6,200 workers in Austin, making it the company’s largest hub outside Silicon Valley even before the expansion.

House Speaker Tim Moore, a Cleveland County Republican, dismissed speculation that North Carolina could have missed out on the company because of a divisive political environment, including the controversy surrounding the state’s 2016 “bathroom bill,” which was partially repealed. Moore said Republican legislators, including Senate leader Phil Berger, and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper were unified in trying to land Apple’s campus.

The three leaders said in a joint statement that the state had added thousands of jobs this year, including the corporate headquarters of Advance Auto Parts to Raleigh and Honeywell to Charlotte.

“We’ll keep doing everything we can to bring more good jobs to North Carolina,” the statement said.

Neither Apple nor state business recruiters responded to requests for comment on the company’s decision to bypass North Carolina.

The Cupertino, California-based company said it’s currently expanding data centers in North Carolina and two other states. Server farms typically generate few jobs to follow heavy investment.

Associated Press writer Gary D. Robertson contributed to this story.

for builders to deliver homes at the most in-demand price points,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist at realtor.com.

Sales of new homes plummeted nearly 9 percent in October and the number of newly built, unsold homes sitting on the market has climbed to its highest level since 2009.

And an index of home builders’ confidence has fallen sharply over the last two months. On Monday, the National Association of Home Builders said the index dropped last month to its lowest level in 3 ½ years.

Mortgage rates shot up to nearly 5 percent in early November, the highest level in seven years.

The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage has fallen back since then and hit 4.6 percent last week. Still, that is up from an average of 3.9 percent a year earlier.

The construction of apartment buildings has soared in the past year, rising 20 percent nationwide. That could help keep rents in check.

But single-family home building creates more jobs and economic activity and is closely watched by economists. Their construction requires more labor and yields more purchases of furniture and appliances. Singlefamily home building plunged 13.1 percent in November from a year earlier.

Building permits for single-family homes ticked up 0.1 percent last month, suggesting that construction of those homes will level off in the coming months. Overall permits rose 5 percent last month and 0.4 percent from a year ago.

Health care sector roils after ACA court ruling New York The health care sector is getting punished at the opening bell after a federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. Hospital chains HCA Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corp. dropped 7 percent and 4 percent respectively when markets opened Monday. Centene Corp., a health insurer focused heavily on the government-funded Medicaid program and the ACA’s individual insurance exchanges, fell 8 percent.

Other insurers that slipped included Molina Healthcare Inc. and Anthem Inc., companies that have benefited from either the insurance exchanges or the law’s Medicaid expansion. With uncertainly roiling sector shares, some sensed an opportunity and stepped in. Leerink analyst Ana Gupte expects the judge’s decision will be overturned either by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals next year or the Supreme Court in 2020.

Google expands to NYC in wake of Amazon announcement NEW YORK Google is rolling out a major expansion in New York City, spending more than $1 billion on a new campus along the Hudson River that will allow it to double the number of people it already employs here. The internet search giant will fashion a campus exceeding 1.7 million square feet along the Hudson River in the city’s West Village neighborhood.

Google opened its first office in New York nearly 20 years ago and employs 7,000 people in the city. That footprint has expanded continuously. Google said this year that it would buy the Manhattan Chelsea Market building for $2.4 billion and planned to lease more space at Pier 57, both about a mile north of the new campus along the Hudson River. Google’s plan to expand is being announced a month after Amazon said it would put one of its second headquarter locations in New York’s Long Island City neighborhood, creating upward of 25,000 jobs in the region.

Boeing buying stake in Embraer operations for $4.2B CHICAGO Boeing is buying a majority stake in Embraer’s commercial aircraft and services operations for $4.2 billion. The joint venture, announced Monday, gives Boeing 80 percent ownership of those operations, with Embraer owning the remaining stake. Boeing will have operational and management control of the company. Embraer will keep consent rights for some decisions, such as the transfer of operations from Brazil. The deal still needs approval from the Brazilian government, as well as shareholders and regulators. The companies also agreed to another joint venture to promote and develop new markets for the multimission medium airlift KC-390.

Embraer will own a 51 percent stake in the joint venture, with Boeing owning the remaining 49 percent. The transaction is targeted to close by the end of next year.

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Trump’s safety panel seeks to revoke school discipline rules Washington, D.C. The White House school safety commission is proposing a rollback of Obama-era guidance that discourages schools from suspending or expelling students or reporting them to police. The commission was led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and made dozens of policy recommendations in a report released Tuesday.

Trump created the panel in March following the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The 2014 policy was created after a finding that black students faced severe discipline far more often than whites, but the commission says the guidance left schools afraid to take action against potentially violent students.

The panel’s report does not encourage schools to arm teachers and other school employees but provides guidelines if they choose to.

Terror charges issued in France’s Christmas market attack Paris A man suspected of supplying the gun used in the Christmas market shooting attack that killed five people in Strasbourg has been charged with criminal association with terrorists, as well as possessing and supplying arms in connection with a terrorist enterprise. The man is suspected of furnishing the weapon that alleged gunman Cherif Chekatt used in the Dec. 11 attack. Chekatt, 29, died in a shootout with police in Strasbourg on Thursday. Two other people were arrested and detained Monday as part of the terror investigation into the attack.

Trump to create U.S. Space Command Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a U.S. Space Command that will better organize and advance the military’s vast operations in space. Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Trump’s order is separate from creating a “Space Force” as an independent armed service branch, but it’s considered a step in that direction. The U.S. Air Force’s existing Space Command would be a key component of the new joint entity, raising space to the same status as U.S. Cyber Command.

The military has been trying for decades to reorganize and accelerate technological advances in space, particularly because the United States is increasingly reliant on orbiting satellites that are difficult to protect.

Missouri poacher ordered to repeatedly watch ‘Bambi’ Ozarks, Mo. A Missouri poacher has been ordered to repeatedly watch the movie “Bambi” as part of his sentence in a scheme to illegally kill hundreds of deer. David Berry Jr. was ordered to watch the Disney classic at least once a month during his year-long jail sentence for one of the largest deer poaching cases in state history. Berry, his father, two brothers and another man who helped them had their hunting, fishing and trapping privileges revoked.

CCTV VIA AP VIDEO | FILE

In this file image from undated video footage run by China’s CCTV via AP Video, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang, northwest China.

Sportswear supplied by NC company traced to China prison camps The Associated Press has tracked shipments from a factory inside an internment camp to Badger Sportswear, a leading supplier in Statesville

By Dake Kang, Martha Mendoza and Yanan Wang The Associated Press HOTAN, China — Chinese men and women locked in a mass detention camp where authorities are “re-educating” ethnic minorities are sewing clothes that have been imported all year by a U.S. sportswear company.

The camp, in Hotan, China, is one of a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now, the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in manufacturing and food industries. Some of them are within the internment camps; others are privately-owned, state-subsidized factories where detainees are sent once they are released.

The Associated Press has tracked recent, ongoing shipments from one such factory — Hetian Taida Apparel — inside an internment camp to Badger Sportswear, a leading supplier in Statesville, North Carolina. Badger’s clothes are sold on college campuses and to sports teams across the country, although there is no way to tell where any particular shirt made in Xinjiang ends

up.

The shipments show how difficult it is to stop products made with forced labor from getting into the global supply chain, even though such imports are illegal in the U.S. Badger CEO John Anton said Sunday that the company would halt shipments while it investigates.

Hetian Taida’s chairman Wu Hongbo confirmed that the company has a factory inside a re-education compound and said they provide employment to those trainees who were deemed by the government to be “unproblematic.”

“We’re making our contribution to eradicating poverty,” Wu told the AP over the phone.

Chinese authorities say the camps offer free vocational training for Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities, mostly Muslims, as part of a plan to bring them into “a modern civilized” world and eliminate poverty in the region. They say that people in the centers have signed agreements to receive vocational training.

The Xinjiang Propaganda Department did not respond to a faxed request for comment. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman accused the foreign media Monday of making “many untrue reports” about the training centers but did not specify when asked for details.

“Those reports are completely based on hearsay evidence or made out of thin air,” the spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said at a daily briefing.

However, a dozen people who either had been in a camp or had friends or family in one told the AP that detainees they knew were

Good boy! Service dog gets honorary diploma A Wilson, NC, woman graduated from college in December, and her service dog got his degree too

By Mary Esch The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. — Whenever Brittany Hawley went to class, her loyal service dog Griffin was there.

If she needed her cell phone, Griffin would fetch it. Even when she

assisted patients as part of an internship, Griffin was there helping out as well.

So it’s only fitting that when Hawley was honored for receiving her master’s degree in occupational therapy from Clarkson University over the weekend, Griffin was once again at her side — with an honorary diploma of his own.

“I pushed for him to graduate from Day One,” Hawley said Monday. “He did everything I did.”

The board of trustees of the Potsdam, New York, school hon-

given no choice but to work at the factories. Most of the Uighurs and Kazakhs, who were interviewed in exile, also said that even people with professional jobs were retrained to do menial work.

Payment varied according to the factory. Some got paid nothing, while others earned up to several hundred dollars a month, they said — barely above minimum wage for the poorer parts of Xinjiang. A person with firsthand knowledge of the situation in one county estimated that more than 10,000 detainees — or 10 to 20 percent of the internment population there — are working in factories, with some earning just a tenth of what they used to earn before. The person declined to be named out of fear of retribution.

A former reporter for Xinjiang TV in exile said that during his month-long detention last year, young people in his camp were taken away in the mornings to work without compensation in carpentry and a cement factory.

“The camp didn’t pay any money, not a single cent,” he said, asking to be identified only by his first name, Elyar, because he has relatives still in Xinjiang. “Even for necessities, such as things to shower with or sleep at night, they would call our families outside to get them to pay for it.”

Rushan Abbas, a Uighur in Washington, D.C., said her sister is among those detained. The sister, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, was taken to what the government calls a vocational center, although she has no specific information on whether her sister is being forced to work.

“American companies importing from those places should know

those products are made by people being treated like slaves,” she said. “What are they going to do, train a doctor to be a seamstress?”

Mainur Medetbek’s husband did odd repair jobs before vanishing into a camp in February during a visit to China from their home in Kazakhstan. She has been able to glean a sense of his conditions from monitored exchanges with relatives and from the husband of a woman in the same camp. He works in an apparel factory and is allowed to leave and spend the night with relatives every other Saturday.

Though Medetbek is uncertain how much her husband makes, the woman in his camp earns 600 yuan (about $87) a month, less than half the local minimum wage and far less than what Medetbek’s husband used to earn.

“They say it’s a factory, but it’s an excuse for detention. They don’t have freedom, there’s no time for him to talk with me,” she said. “They say they found a job for him. I think it’s a concentration camp.”

New Jersey Republican Congressman Chris Smith, a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, called on the Trump Administration Monday to ban imports from Chinese companies associated with detention camps.

“Not only is the Chinese government detaining over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims, forcing them to revoke their faith and profess loyalty to the Communist Party, they are now profiting from their labor,” said Smith. “U.S. consumers should not be buying and U.S. businesses should not importing goods made in modern-day concentration camps. “

ored the 4-year-old golden retriever at a recognition ceremony Saturday, saying he demonstrated “extraordinary effort, steadfast commitment and diligent dedication to the well-being and student success” of Hawley.

Hawley, 25, of Wilson, North Carolina, uses a wheelchair and has chronic pain. She said Griffin does a wide range of physical tasks for her including opening doors, turning on lights and bringing her items she indicates with a laser pointer. But perhaps more important is the comfort the dog provides amid her relentless, severe pain that causes anxiety and depression.

Hawley got Griffin through “paws4prisons,” a program that teaches inmates at West Virginia prisons to train and place high-level assistance dogs.

“The inmates allow many dogs to come up to you and let the dog choose you,” Hawley said. “Some dogs were scared of the wheelchair. Griffin jumped right into my lap and licked me across the face.”

Hawley and Griffin worked at Fort Bragg in North Carolina during an internship, helping soldiers with mobility impairments as well as psycho-social disorders.

Brushing a dog can help improve a patient’s range of motion, and stroking him helps ease anxiety, Hawley said.

“My patients would say, ‘My therapist today is Brittany and Griffin,’” she said.

When she applies for jobs, she and Griffin will be a package deal, Hawley said.

“I couldn’t participate in anything without him,” she said. “I’m so used to him being there.”

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This image released by Paramount Pictures shows Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie and Bumblebee in a scene from “Bumblebee.”

‘Transformers’ gets a great savior in ‘Bumblebee’

By Mark Kennedy The Associated Press The “Transformers” movie universe has lately been leaky and rusted out. It’s become shorthand for bad blockbuster moviemaking — male-driven, mindless spectaculars with sophomoric humor.

How can it be saved? Just hand the keys over to some talented women.

“Bumblebee,” the sixth film in the series, is a stand-alone origin story written with disarming skill

by Christina Hodson and starring the gifted Hailee Steinfeld. It’s a charming tale of a girl and her adorable car-robot, flipping the script on the tired, bloated franchise. While hard-core fan-boys may complain it’s too soft, this film may turn out to be the perfect way to save “Transformers.” Could Bumblebee rescue Optimus Prime this time?

“Bumblebee” is set outside San Francisco in 1987, where the loyal B-127 Autobot has been sent to protect Earth and prepare the groundwork for the franchise (He’ll befriend Shia LaBeouf at

the start of the first film.) Badly hurt while battling two evil tracking Decepticons, he loses his voice and memories. Then he disguises himself as a vintage Volkswagen Bug and waits for deliverance in a salvage yard (not unlike the entire “Transformers” universe).

He’s discovered by goth-y misfit Charlie Watson (Steinfeld), who is fond of car repair, Motorhead T-shirts and listening to The Smiths. She is still mourning her dead dad and feels generally unheard. For her 18th birthday, Charlie drives off with the junked VW that has a whole bunch of secret options.

Despite discovering that the car is, in fact, an alien, she feels a kinship to this mute metal giant with expressive eyes, calling him Bumblebee. He, too, is unheard, but learns to communicate using word snippets he hears on the radio. She warns that bad guys are sure to come and take him away, but she will protect him. “People can be terrible about things they don’t understand,” she tells him.

Thus starts a sort of “E.T.” for

2018, in which Charlie and Bumblebee outfox another pair of Decepticons, the entire U.S. Army (led by a mechanical John Cena) and her distracted mom and stepdad. If the film seems to have that kid-sized, wistful ‘80s Steven Spielberg feel, it might be because Spielberg serves as an executive producer. (Franchise helmer Michael Bay has been exiled from the director’s chair to the executive suite.)

Hodson is the first woman to originate and write a film in the $4.3-billion “Transformers” franchise and she proves extremely capable of blending loud action with human pathos, not to mention tart with sweet, though she gets dangerously close to maudlin when it comes to Charlie’s dad. “I can’t lose you, too,” the young woman tells the yellow robot. Steinfeld nails teen alienation but also can turn on empathy beautifully and has a winning cockiness. Plus, she sings the movie’s signature song (Talk about a transformer).

Hodson and director Travis Knight (“Kubo and the Two

Strings”) take full advantage of the film’s late-1980s setting to give us visual and audio jokes. Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” plays during a montage as Charlie lovingly restores a muscle car, and Sammy Hagar’s “I Can’t Drive 55” blares during a car chase. This is the 80s, so expect plenty of Walkman, Pop-Tarts, “Alf” and “Miami Vice” references. And look for a moment when it seems like the very internet itself gets created, a clever low-key touch.

Hits by Bon Jovi, Duran Duran, a-ha, Tears for Fears and Wang Chung are sprinkled throughout.

(Bumblebee turns out to be quite a good music critic, too, hilariously rejecting some of Charlie’s options). Die-hard franchise fans also get to hear the power ballad “You Got the Touch” that appeared in the 1986’s animated “Transformers” film. (Well played, filmmakers.) They’re also true to the universe — Bumblebee will eventually change at the end to what he becomes when Bay was in charge, a Chevrolet Camaro.

After so many over-the-top bat-

tles in the metal-thumping series, it’s fun here to watch Bumblebee commit more small-scale mayhem, like egging someone’s car.

The robot is rendered as a sort of distracted, flaky adolescent teenager and a sequence in which he’s left home alone is priceless. One caution: Younger viewers are advised to watch the 1985 iconic film “The Breakfast Club” — it comes up several times rather brilliantly, especially in one final scene with Cena which refreshingly doesn’t go trite.

Hard-core fans may be unhappy that there’s not enough robot-on-robot violence or turned off by the meet-cute between teen and bot, but hopefully it will attract an audience either tired or turned off by the franchise’s past rigidity and addiction to spectacle. This is what we needed: Smaller, quieter, more human and sweeter.

“Bumblebee,” a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for “sequences of sci-fi action violence.” Running time: 119 minutes. Three stars out of four.

‘Fresh Prince’ star sues N.C. video game maker over dance The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star Alfonso Ribeiro is suing the creators of Fortnite and NBA 2K for using his famous dance on the popular video games.

In separate lawsuits filed Monday in federal court, Ribeiro alleges that Fortnite-maker Epic Games and 2K Sports-creator Take-Two Interactive used his dance dubbed “The Carlton Dance” without permission or credit. In Fortnite, Ribeiro claims

his signature move can be seen under the game’s dance called “Fresh.”

Ribeiro’s dance was popularized through his character, Carlton Banks, on the 1990s sitcom.

Ribeiro says North Carolina-based Epic Games and Delaware-based Take Two used his dance he first performed on a 1991 “Fresh Prince” episode. He’s asking for a judge’s order to stop both games from using his moves.

Ribeiro says he is currently in the middle of copyrighting the dance.

Bullock’s Oscars host solution MARK HUMPHREY | AP PHOTO | FILE

In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Jeff Cook, left, Randy Owen, center, and Teddy Gentry of the group Alabama tapes a song for Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Rise Telethon in Nashville, Tenn. Country band Alabama to mark 50 years together with a new tour in 2019, more than a year after founding member Cook announced that he has Parkinson’s disease. Cook will join band members Owen and Gentry on the tour as much as physically possible on the tour that begins Jan. 10 in Detroit.

Alabama mark 50 years with new tour The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country band Alabama will mark their 50th year together with a new tour in 2019, more than a year after founding member Jeff Cook announced that he has Parkinson’s disease.

The Grammy-winning trio of Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry and Cook formed in 1969 in Fort Payne, Alabama, and went on to dominate the sound of country music in the 1980s, scoring dozens of No. 1 hits, including classics like “Mountain Music” and “Dixieland Delight.”

Guitarist and fiddle player Cook announced in 2017 that he had been diagnosed with the chronic neurological disorder years ago and he would limit his touring with the band. Cook will perform on their new tour, which begins Jan. 10 in Detroit, as much as he’s physically able.

The Associated Press NEW YORK — Sandra Bullock has an impromptu idea for how to solve the Oscars host problem, and it involves a lot of improvisation.

The Oscar-winning actress told The Associated Press Monday at a screening of her new film “Bird Box “ that she thinks random actors should be pulled out of the audience and read what’s on the teleprompter to cover a segment of the show.

Organizers “don’t even have to tell them it’s happening, just put up the teleprompter, and go, ‘it’s your turn,’” Bullock said. “You’re an actor, figure it out.”

Bullock says it’s a genius solution that everyone in the room is perfectly suited to handle. Well,

almost everyone — Bullock says she’s not attending next year’s ceremony, but would participate in her idea if she was.

No host for February’s Academy Awards has been announced since Kevin Hart backed out of emcee duties earlier this month over backlash to his old homophobic tweets.

Actor BD Wong said if anyone can pull off Bullock’s idea, it’s her.

“She’s got tons of good ideas.

First of all, she’s the life of every party,” Wong said. “I would just give her the gig to figure out how to organize it because she would be the person to figure out how to do it.”

“Bird Box” has a limited theatrical release and will be on Netflix on Friday. The Oscars will be held Feb. 24.

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Drinkwitz takes over at App State, B3

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Weddington offensive lineman Lucas Rogers celebrates his team’s 27-14 win against Southeast Guilford in the 3AA state championship game Friday.

Shipley brothers lead Weddington to 3AA crown

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NC State promotes Kitchings, McDonald; hires Roper Raleigh NC has named assistants Des Kitchings and George McDonald as co-offensive coordinators, the school announced Friday, and added former Duke offensive coordinator Kurt Roper as its quarterbacks coach. Roper was Colorado’s interim coach after the school fired Mike MacIntyre in November. The moves came after offensive coordinator Eli Drinkwitz left to become the head coach at Appalachian State.

Stanford RB Love to skip bowl game, prep for NFL draft Stanford, Calif.

Stanford running back Bryce Love will skip the Sun Bowl to prepare for the NFL draft. Love, a Raleigh native, announced his decision on Monday to sit out the Dec. 31 bowl against Pittsburgh so he can be completely healthy for the 2019 draft.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Kansas, Duke, Tennessee stay 1-2-3 in men’s AP Top 25 New York Kansas, Duke and Tennessee were 1-2-3 Monday in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the second straight week, while reigning national champion Villanova fell out for a second time. The Jayhawks earned 56 of 65 first-place votes to stay at No. 1, a perch they held in the preseason before being overtaken by Duke and later Gonzaga.

Kansas returned to the top last week then beat Villanova at home. The Blue Devils earned five first-place votes to stay at No. 2, while the Volunteers had two. Michigan and Virginia each claimed one first-place vote. Gonzaga, which lost the No. 1 ranking after a loss to Tennessee, fell four spots to eighth after Saturday’s loss at North Carolina. The Tar Heels jumped three spots to ninth after the 103-90 win against the Zags. NC State received 38 votes, good for 31st.

Warriors top Southeast Guilford in sloppy conditions for NCHSAA football championship

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Pamlico turned the ball over four times — including three lost fumbles — to aid Murphy in its 60-27 NCHSAA 1A title game victory at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham.

Murphy’s big-game experience pays off in 1A title win Coach David Gentry wins his eighth title with the Bulldogs

By Shawn Krest North State Journal DURHAM — Murphy was familiar with the spotlight, while Pamlico was stepping onto the big stage for the first time. It took all of 17 seconds for that experience differential to show itself in the 1A state title game.

Murphy scored early and often, capitalizing on Pamlico mistakes to win the state championship by a 60-27 score. The Bulldogs came within eight points of setting a title game scoring record, and their 39 second-half points were just three shy of the record.

It was Murphy’s 12th trip to the state championship, and the win gave the Bulldogs their ninth crown, most by any Class 1 school since 1986 and second only to Robbinsville’s 13 all-time.

Pamlico, meanwhile, was making its first trip to the football season’s final weekend. First-time jitters were apparent from the outset.

Hurricanes rushing leader Savone Tutt fumbled the first snap from scrimmage, and Murphy’s Micah Nelson returned it 35 yards for a score.

“That was crazy, that was overthe-top,” said Nelson, who also started at quarterback for the Bulldogs. On offense, Nelson completed three of five passes for 42 yards and a touchdown while running for 49 yards.

479 Yards rushing for Murphy, with three players reaching 100 yards.

Tutt fumbled again on Pamlico’s next possession, and the Bulldogs turned the ensuing possession into another touchdown. Tutt had 50 rushing yards on the day to go with 47 receiving yards, but the fumbles cast a pall on a sophomore season that saw him rush for 1,679 yards and 20 touchdowns.

“The game didn’t go the way we wanted it to go, but our guys kept fighting the whole time,” Pamlico coach Torrey Norwell said. “That means a lot to me.”

Murphy also recovered a Pamlico fumble on the first play of the second half, which led to a touchdown. Pamlico had four turnovers on the day.

Running back KJ Allen took home game MVP honors, rushing for 153 yards and four touchdowns for Murphy. The performance gave the senior 1,123 yards and 17 rushing touchdowns for the year. He was evaluated for a concussion after taking a hit shortly before half, but he was ruled eligible to continue in the game.

Murphy gained 479 yards on the ground, with three backs topping See MURPHY, page B4

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal

“It’s like a fairytale ending.

There’s nothing more you can ask for.”

James Shipley, CHAPEL HILL — Two Ship- Weddington receiver

leys added up to one state championship for the Weddington High School football team on Friday.

Brothers James and Will Shipley combined for 217 of their team’s 262 yards and accounted for three touchdowns to lead the Warriors to a 27-14 win against Southeast Guilford in the NCHSAA 3AA title game at a soggy Kenan Stadium.

Older brother James also had one of his team’s three interceptions as Weddington completed a 15-1 season with their second state championship in the last three years.

“It’s like a fairytale ending,” James Shipley said. “There’s nothing more you can ask for.”

Southeast Guilford (14-2) came into the game allowing an average of just 10.4 points per game, but Weddington was able to top that by the end of the first quarter.

Quarterback Whitner Litton connected with Max Brimigion for a 42-yard touchdown on the Warriors’ opening possession.

Then after a long touchdown run

by James Shipley was nullified by a holding penalty, James took a pitch from Litton and hit his brother downfield with an option pass for a 50-yard score.

“I got the ball, saw a sea of orange, closed my eyes and threw it as far as I could,” James Shipley said of the trick play, which coach Andy Capone called ‘Black Knight’ because he first saw it run

by Army against rival Navy. “Will went up and made a play.”

Weddington extended its lead to 20-0 by halftime on an 8-yard pass from Litton to James Shipley.

Southeast Guilford quarterback Ryan Douglas tried to rally the Falcons by running for one touchdown and throwing for another in the second half, with the latter coming on an 80-yard strike to Tyler Huff.

But another Will Shipley touchdown run and those three interceptions kept the Southeast Guilford comeback from gaining enough momentum to mount a serious challenge.

James Shipley, who was named the game’s MVP, caught 10 passes for 131 yards. Will Shipley was Weddington’s leading rusher with

49 yards. Litton completed 12 of 18 for 172 yards and two touchdowns.

Although the game was virtually even statistically, with the Warriors only outgaining the Falcons by a 262-253 margin, the difference in turned out to be mistakes — especially penalties.

Southeast Guilford was flagged 11 times for 58 yards, many of which helped stifle drives.

“This happened all year, so it’s discipline,” Falcons coach Kennedy Tinsley said on the muddy field after the game. “We were good enough in other areas and with other teams to get by with it most of the season, but those little things really catch up to you in games like this where you’ve got a really good team and they take advantage of everything they can.”

4AA: Wake Forest 9, Vance 7

Just when it seemed as though the Wake Forest Cougars had squandered an opportunity to win a third straight 4AA state championship, its defense came up with a big play to secure the championship anyway.

One play after a go-ahead 22‑yard field goal attempt by Nolan Parris was blocked, Wake Forest forced a go-ahead safety with just 37 seconds remaining in regulation to earn its 45th straight victory in dramatic fashion.

Vance (14-2) took over at its own 1-yard line after the blocked field goal, but quarterback Nigel Summerville bobbled the snap and fumbled as he tried to hand off to running back Andre White.

Although he was able to fall on the loose ball, Summerville was in the end zone, giving Wake Forest the two points it needed to break a 7-7 tie.

Vance drew first blood by scoring on a 53-yard touchdown pass from Summerville to Nyier Clark just 23 seconds into the game.

It was the first points Wake Forest had allowed in its three state See WEDDINGTON, page B3

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TRENDING

Austin Rivers: The former Duke star was traded to the Phoenix Suns as part of a package that send Trevor Ariza to the Washington Wizards.

The Suns, who also received forward Kelly Oubre Jr., then came to a mutal agreement to part ways with Rivers, ESPN reported. Rivers is in the final year of his contract and earning $12.6 million. He will be a free agent if he clears waivers. Ariza, 33, returns to Washington, where he played the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons. The 6-foot-8, 215-pound swingman is averaging 9.9 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 26 games with the Suns this season.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

James Madison lost coach Mike Houston to East Carolina, but it reached back into N.C. to find his replacement. The Dukes hired Elon coach Curt Cignetti on Friday, plucking their new coach from another Colonial Athletic Association school. Cignetti went 14-9 in two seasons with the Phoenix, including leading them to a 27-24 win over his new team this season. Cignetti is 67-26 as a head coach in his career.

MARK LOMOGLIO | AP PHOTO

“I don’t believe there’s anything this team believes it can’t do.”

Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers after Los Angeles rallied to beat the Chiefs last Thursday.

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NFL

MLB

Kelly Krauskopf: The Indiana Pacers’ new assistant general manager is the first woman in league history to hold the title. Krauskopf has a long history with the franchise, spending 19 seasons as the top executive of the WNBA’s Indiana Fever and helped oversee Indiana’s new NBA2K league team. She also served as the WNBA’s first director of basketball operations, as an assistant commissioner for the Southwest Conference and on USA Basketball’s women’s senior national team committee.

Brian Kelly: The Notre Dame coach was named AP Coach of the Year, edging Alabama’s Nick Saban for the award. It is the second time Kelly has received the honor in its two decades of existence. He also won in 2012 with the Irish.

Scott Satterfield, who took the Louisville job after leading Appalachian State to a 10-2 record, received one third-place vote.

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“Whoever’s in charge of the doors tonight, I hope the sucker (works) the rest of the year.”

UNC coach Roy Williams, crediting the closed doors at the Dean Dome for the Tar Heels’ improved shooting in their 103-90 win over Gonzaga.

PRIME NUMBER

142 Yards rushing for Steelers rookie running back Jaylen Samuels in Sunday’s win over the Patriots. It is the third most rushing yards by a former NC State player.

Ted Brown had 179 yards for the Vikings in an overtime win over the Packers in 1983, and Roland Hooks — subbing for O.J. Simpson — had 155 yards for Buffalo in a win over the Patriots in 1977.

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C.C. Sabathia fell two innings shy of a $500,000 performance bonus for pitching 155 innings, but the Yankees paid him anyway because he missed triggering the clause after he was ejected in his final start for retaliating after a Rays pitcher hit a New York player in the previous half inning.

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Chargers rookie running Detrez Newsome — who went to Hoke County High School and was an undrafted free agent out of Western Carolina — had six carries for 34 yards and two catches for 19 yards in Los Angeles’ 29-28 upset of Kansas City last Thursday while helping fill in for injured Melvin Gordon.

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The Philadelphia Flyers fired coach Dave Hakstol on Monday, ending a 3½-year tenure that was the fourth longest in the NHL. Scott Gordon, the organization’s AHL coach in Lehigh Valley, will server as interim coach.

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Drinkwitz takes over at App State Former NC State offensive coordinator will have weapons at his disposal with young Mountaineers

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE REMNANTS of Scott Satterfield’s staff, led by defensive line coach Mark Ivey, guided Appalachian State to an impressive 45-14 rout of Middle Tennessee State in the New Orleans Bowl on Saturday.

But that wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, according to the man who called the plays in the Mountaineers’ fourth straight bowl victory since making the transition to FBS status.

“No matter who’s here,” outgoing run game coordinator Shawn Clark said, “Appalachian State football is here to stay.”

The implication is that while the ultra-successful Satterfield era is now officially a thing of the past, the Mountaineers’ run as a Group of Five power is far from over.

It’s a belief shared by the man hired to continue the momentum of a program that returns 18 starters from a team that went 11-2 this season and has won or shared the last three Sun Belt Conference championships.

Eliah Drinkwitz got his first look at the team he’ll inherit Saturday, watching from the sidelines as a spectator while App State rolled to its victory at the Superdome.

He was so impressed with what he saw that, despite the success he achieved as NC State’s offensive coordinator and in the development of soon-to-be NFL quarterback Ryan Finley, he’s not planning on making any major changes now that he’s arrived in Boone.

“We’re not coming here to shock the system, but to enhance the culture,” Drinkwitz said at his introductory press conference

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Appalachian State athletics director Doug Gillin, left, poses with Eliah Drinkwitz after Drinkwitz was formally introduced Monday as the Mountaineers’ new football coach.

Monday.

“I’m not bringing NC State’s offense up here. Now I know what the DNA will look like, but it’s going to look different (from the Wolfpack). We have a talented quarterback and we’re going to tailor it to him.”

That quarterback is sophomore Zac Thomas, who threw for 21 touchdowns with only six interceptions on his way to winning Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year honors in his first year as a starter.

Unlike Finley, though, Thomas is also an effective runner with

“We’re not coming here to shock the system, but to enhance the culture.”

Eliah Drinkwitz, new App State football coach

more than 500 more yards and 10 touchdowns on the ground de-

spite missing the better part of two games with a concussion.

Combined with first-team all-conference running back Darrynton Evans, who is also just a sophomore, Thomas led an offense that ranks among the top 20 nationally at 37.3 points per game. Eight of App State’s 16 all-conference selections were underclassmen on the offensive side of the ball.

With all those weapons set to come back, athletic director Doug Gillin said hiring an offensive-minded coach was high on his list of priorities in the search

Games against Gonzaga provide measuring stick for Duke, North Carolina Both the Tar Heels and Blue Devils faced the Bulldogs in nonconference play this season

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal RESULTS AGAINST a common opponent is a popular way of comparing rival teams, even if it isn’t always the most accurate way of doing so.

Take Duke and North Carolina, for example.

On Nov. 21 in Maui, the young Blue Devils got knocked from the top of the college basketball polls with an 89-87 loss to Gonzaga in a game they trailed by as many 16 points in the second half. Saturday in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels dominated those very same Zags to the tune of 103-90.

Does that mean UNC is better than Duke?

Not necessarily, considering the time, the place and the circumstances surrounding the two games.

For the Blue Devils, the matchup with Gonzaga represented the first close game for its four prized freshmen whose ears were ringing with premature talk of undefeated seasons, national championships and recognition as the best college team ever.

Playing their third game in as many days against a talented, veteran opponent, RJ Barrett, Zion Williamson, Cam Reddish and Tre Jones were clearly knocked back before finally regaining their composure and nearly winning at the end.

It was, in the estimation of coach Mike Krzyzewski, a valuable learning experience.

“I thought we looked young,” Krzyzewski said after the loss. “I think emotionally they were more ready to play than we were, and that’s something you learn.”

While Duke used its Gonzaga game as an educational tool to prepare for the more meaningful tests that lie ahead, UNC had a more immediate agenda.

For the Tar Heels, who had stumbled in their first two matchups with top teams and were struggling to find an identi-

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Cameron Johnson led UNC with 25 points in the Tar Heels’ 103-90 win over Gonzaga. ty, Saturday’s battle represented an opportunity to re-establish themselves as a serious ACC and national championship contender.

Motivated by a raucous sellout crowd at the Smith Center and an urgency not normally associated with mid-December nonconference games, UNC rode standout performances from veteran stars Cam Johnson and Luke May to a badly needed victory.

If not for the national poll voters, but itself.

“I think we needed this to show ourselves how good we can be,” senior guard Kenny Williams said afterward. “We see everyone talking about how Carolina’s defense is horrible and all that, so we just needed to show ourselves how good we can be and the potential we can play with going deeper into

“If we don’t play really, really well, we can’t win this game.”

UNC’s Roy Williams on the Tar Heels’ victory over Gonzaga

the season.”

The Tar Heels (8-2) have three more nonconference games remaining — including a neutral court showdown with Kentucky in Chicago on Saturday — before opening ACC play on Jan. 5 at Pittsburgh.

As significant as their win against Gonzaga was, their performance was anything but polished.

UNC turned the ball over 23 times against the fourth-ranked Zags, leading to 29 points. There were also several blatant defensive breakdowns, especially when it tried to trap Gonzaga’s ballhandlers on the perimeter.

The Tar Heels overcame those problems by outscoring their opponent by an incredible 27-0 margin on second-chance points and shooting better than 50 percent (13 of 25) from 3-point range.

“Take away the turnovers and the miscommunication on the defensive end, there were several times I thought we did some good things,” coach Roy Williams said.

“If we don’t play really, really well, we can’t win this game.”

Duke has played “really, really” well at times this season, too.

But the Blue Devils (9-1) have also had their share of freshman moments, especially when they play overmatched opponents they can beat simply because they have more talent.

One of those games was on Dec. 5 against Hartford, when they let the Hawks of the America East Conference hang around for 32 minutes — they only led by eight with 12 minutes to go — before finally stepping on the accelerator and winning 84-54.

They followed a similar pattern, though not as dramatically, in the following game, a 91-58 win against Yale.

“I felt like we started off playing hard but not sharp,” Williamson said. “In the second half in both games we picked it up. I feel like that’s something we need to improve on.”

While Duke still admittedly has things on which it needs to get better, the improvement from the Gonzaga game more than a month ago is already noticeable to Barrett’s eyes.

“I think that after Hawaii, we really have grown up as a team, as a unit, especially on defense,” said the freshman star, whose potential game-tying shot against the Zags was blocked at the buzzer.

“Then it started to translate offensively, so we’re growing more and more every game.”

B3 to find Satterfield’s replacement.

“We enjoy our offense around here,” Gillen said.

The 35-year-old Drinkwitz, who graduated magna cum laude from Arkansas Tech, certainly checks that box. He favors a no-huddle attack that can go up-tempo when it wants and slow things down when it needs to in order to protect its defense.

He summarized his philosophy in three words — rhythm, attack and execute — and said his initial plan is to serve as his own offensive coordinator.

Drinkwitz acknowledged that there’s risk involved with trying to juggle the play-calling duties with the many other responsibilities that come with running a program. But he knows it can work from having seen Gus Malzahn do both jobs successfully while the two worked together at Arkansas State.

“I understand that if you’re the head coach and you’re also the offensive coordinator, then you’ve just doubled your responsibility,” Drinkwitz said. “I’m fully ready for that. I’m excited to attack that.

This is not something that’s uncommon to me.

“I know what I’m attacking. I also know that I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for me as an offensive coordinator.”

Although Drinkwitz has yet to announce any staff hirings, he indicated that he’s considering retaining several of Satterfield’s assistants. It’s the product of the appreciation he said he’s already gained for the tradition and passion that have become the trademarks of App State’s program.

“The first thing you’re going to see is pride because that’s what being a representative of Appalachian is,” Drinkwitz said. “When I was down in New Orleans, you could see the pride. Everybody that came and shook my hand and wished me luck, you could tell there was a sense of pride and a sense of belonging in this university, in this program.

“All these players and all these student-athletes that we’re going to recruit, the current team, they’re going to display pride for who we are and what we’re going to be.”

WEDDINGTON from page B1 championship game appearances after outscoring its previous two opponents by a 50-0 margin.

Wake Forest (14-0) answered back with a 13-play, 52-yard drive on its second possession that ended with a 3-yard run by Marquel Haywood.

That was the end of the scoring until the final minute as the defenses took center stage on a foggy, wet night at Wallace Wade Stadium.

4A: East Forsyth 35, Scotland 28

East Forsyth came from behind twice in the second half to tie Scotland, eventually taking the lead with just 2:45 to play and hanging on for the victory and the school’s second state championship.

In the process, the Eagles handed Scots coach Richard Bailey his sixth loss in as many career trips to the state championship game with Scotland and Jack Britt.

The Scots (9-6) took a 28-21 lead with just over 10 minutes to play when James McKoy scored on a 1-yard touchdown run.

But East Forsyth answered right back with a 22-yard scoring pass from Ty’Shaun Lyles to Mizell Hall.

Lyles and Hall teamed up again on a 14-yard touchdown play with 2:45 remaining to give the undefeated Eagles (15-0) the lead and the championship.

Lyles was named the game’s MVP, completing 10 of his 17 passes for 169 yards and three touchdowns including the game winner.

Hall was his team’s Most Outstanding Offensive Player with four receptions for 56 yards and the two fourth quarter scores.

3A: Charlotte Catholic 17, Jacksonville 14

Charlotte Catholic also used the come-from-behind route to earn its second straight title and sixth in school history.

Trailing 14-10 with time running out, the Cougars (15-1) scored the only points of the second half by grinding out an eight-play, 71yard drive that ended in a decisive 22-yard touchdown pass from Chris Walton to Michael Neel with 4:55 left to play.

Neither team was able to muster more than 250 yards of total offense in the defensive struggle. But Walton picked up three of his six completions on the final drive to pull out the victory. The Charlotte Catholic quarterback went 6 of 11 passes for 144 yards and the touchdowns.

Jacksonville finished the season at 12-1.

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B4

Newton continues to battle injury in Panthers slump

Hurricanes rookie Warren Foegele celebrates his goal Sunday against the Coyotes during Carolina’s 3-0 win in Raleigh. The goal snapped a 27-game drought for Foegele.

Carolina’s playoff hopes are all but mathematically over following Monday night’s loss to New Orleans

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

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Hurricanes still relying on rookie contributions A third of the players to skate for Carolina this year have been rookies

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — Coming into the 2018-19 season, the Carolina Hurricanes made it clear their young players would need to pitch in if the team was to break its nine-year playoff drought.

“We need everyone to contribute,” coach Rod Brind’Amour said following Carolina’s wild 8-5 win over the Rangers back on Oct. 7. “We’ve said that from Day 1. Whether you’re a rookie or been around forever, you want to play, you’ve got to contribute.”

Thirty players have suited up for Carolina this season, and 10 of them are still categorized as rookies. So how have they done through 32 games? It’s a mixed bag — some have provided what was expected or more, while others were unable to gain a foothold in Raleigh.

The mainstays

Back in July, I examined how advanced stats writer Rob Vollman’s “translation factors” formula predicted Carolina’s rookies would fare this season. Vollman’s work projected that second overall pick Andrei Svechnikov would average 0.53 points per game.

The Russian rookie has been as advertised, scoring nine goals and adding eight assists — a spoton 0.53 points per game average through 32 games. If anything, it feels like Svechnikov will exceed those numbers. His ice time is on the rise (12:41 in October, 15:28 in November and 16:55 so far in December) and so is his output

(five points in seven games in December).

“I just think he’s maturing as a player offensively in this league,” Brind’Amour said.

Brind’Amour has also given Svechnikov praise for his work ethic, along with his willingness to take criticism and guidance from the coaching staff.

“There’s a lot of gaps there on the other end of the puck,” Brind’Amour said of Svechnikov’s two-way play. “But the fact that, since Day 1 you’ve heard me say, he’s willing to learn, and he’s trying to do the things you ask him.

It’s a matter of time before we won’t even be talking about that.”

Warren Foegele is the other rookie who has played in all of Carolina’s games this season. The 22-year-old winger had two goals and three points in a two-game call-up last season, and started off similarly this season with three goals and four points in the team’s first four games.

Then came the drought — Foegele went 27 games without a goal and managed just one assist, sliding from a line with Jordan Staal down into Carolina’s bottom six.

Foegele finally snapped his goal drought Sunday, but Brind’Amour called getting on the scoresheet a “secondary thing” for the speedy winger.

That’s because Foegele has been a mainstay on a penalty kill that started the year dreadfully but has climbed to 12th in the NHL at 81 percent.

Since Nov. 3, Carolina has allowed just four power play goals on 55 opportunities — a 92.7 percent kill rate. And Foegele is a key part of that.

Needs more time

The Hurricanes pinned a lot

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Center Clark Bishop, who was recently reassigned to Charlotte of the AHL, had two points in 15 games with the Hurricanes.

MURPHY from page B1 100 yards in the game.

“We are a running football team with our offensive line and all the backs we have,” Murphy coach David Gentry said. “That’s just what we’ve got to do.”

The win gave Gentry his eighth state title, all at Murphy. His 345 wins with the Bulldogs are most by any North Carolina coach at a single school, and his 406 overall wins are six away from Jack Holley’s state record.

If anyone could speak about the difficulty in coping with title game pressure, it was the state coaching legend.

“It’s hard to get the first one, you don’t just go walk out there and get one. Your kids have to learn how to do it and they have to be confident that they can do it,” Gentry said.

“I’m sure this will be a learning ex-

perience for them (Pamlico).”

Pamlico’s 13-2 season was a remarkable turnaround for a core group of players who were 2-10 two seasons ago.

“We don’t want to be the underdog. We want to be considered the big dog at some point,” Norwell said.

2A: Reidsville 31, Northeastern 28

The Rams led for only four seconds in the game, but it was the right four seconds in winning their second state championship in the last three years and 17th overall.

Led by quarterback Aaron Harris, who ran for a 55-yard touchdown and threw for another score, Northeastern (16-0) jumped out to a 21-7 halftime lead. But Reidsville roared back in the second half The Rams (14-1) tied the score on

15 Total goals by Hurricanes rookies through 32 games, a 38.4 goal pace. That would be the most since 2010-11, when Jeff Skinner’s 31 goals fueled 43 by Carolina rookies. of expectations on Svechnikov and Martin Necas, their 2017 first-round pick. While Svechnikov has proven ready for fulltime NHL duty — and the team had no choice but to keep him in Raleigh or send him back to junior — Necas has needed time to marinate.

The Czech rookie had two points in seven games with Carolina, scoring in his last game with the Hurricanes before being assigned to the team’s AHL affiliate in Charlotte.

Playing center so soon in the NHL proved too much for the 19-year-old, especially with the position paper-thin for the first 20 games of the season. But a move to the wing has helped Necas blossom, and he has 21 points (seven goals, 14 assists) in 25 games with the Checkers.

Two weeks ago, he was named AHL’s Player of the Week after he recorded seven assists in two games.

The Athletic’s prospect guru, Corey Pronman, considers Necas among the best players not in the NHL right now, and there’s no reason to believe he won’t be a factor for Carolina down the road — it’s just a matter of when.

The fill-ins

Injuries and Necas’ struggles opened the door for a few other players. So did the decision to waive Valentin Zykov, a rookie himself who struggled to carve out a spot with the Hurricanes and was subsequently claimed by the Kings.

Centers Clark Bishop (15 games; one goal, one assist) and Nicolas Roy (six games) each saw time thanks to injuries to Victor Rask and Jordan Staal, while Janne Kuokkanen (three games) and Saku Maenalanen (one game) each saw spot duty.

Defensemen Jake Bean (three games) and Trevor Carrick (one game) each made brief appearances on the roster due to injuries on the back end.

a pair of third quarter touchdown passes by quarterback Kyle Pinnix — a 5-yard connection with Breon Pass and a 32-yard strike to Logan Graves. Then after Harris put Northeastern back on top with another long touchdown run, it took just three plays for Reidsville to even things up again on a 37-yard pass from Pinnix to Demontez Canada with 3:06 left.

The Rams finished off their rally and took their only lead of the game when Zach Barber hit a 24-yard field goal with just four seconds remaining.

2AA: Shelby 42, North Davidson 21

The Golden Lions (13-3) scored early and often in rolling to the 10th state championship in school history.

Sophomore linebacker Jack Hol-

CHARLOTTE — In Monday night’s loss to New Orleans, James Bradberry scooped up a tipped pass just before halftime for his first interception of the year. As he weaved his way upfield for a 29yard return, Saints offensive lineman Ryan Ramczyk tried to cut him off.

Not, however, if Captain Munnerlyn had anything to say about it.

Despite being outweighed 315 pounds to 195 — a differential Munnerlyn later said felt like “probably about 200 pounds” — the veteran defensive back squared up on Ramczyk, put his hands up and attempted to block him.

“I was just trying to get myself in his way and slow him down,” Munnerlyn said.

The result was not pretty. Munnerlyn was sent sprawling to the ground, about five yards out of Ramczyk’s path.

“I don’t think I want to see it (on tape),” Munnerlyn said. “It felt pretty embarrassing.”

The play was symbolic of the second half of the Panthers’ season.

The team’s effort doesn’t appear to have diminished any. The players are still going full out and making the sacrifices. The results, however, have been dismal, as the team has lost six straight to all but fall out of playoff contention.

“We were able to give ourselves a chance, give ourselves the opportunity,” coach Ron Rivera said.

“I thought the guys competed as a team. I thought they came out and tried to do some things. We had some pluses and some opportunities and, unfortunately, we missed out. I really appreciate the great effort and that’s all you can ask this time of year is that your guys go out and compete and give you great effort.”

On offense, quarterback Cam Newton has played the Munnerlyn blocking role. Fighting through a serious shoulder injury that has forced Rivera to replace him for last-second Hail Mary passes because he no longer has the arm strength to throw the ball downfield, Newton has seen his production drop during the late-season swoon.

On Monday, Newton had just 131 yards passing and, as has happened several times in late-game losses, struggled to complete passes with the game on the line.

The team’s record and Newton’s clear discomfort with throwing have raised the issue of whether he should continue to battle for

the final two games, or whether the team would be better served by getting a head start on his recovery, whether he needs surgery or just rest and rehab.

“I think the thing is, when you talk to the different people who can help you with it, there is no magical surgery,” Newton said. “It’s just time.”

Newton has missed practice reps coping with the injury, which makes it even tougher to find the pinpoint accuracy at crunch time.

“That’s why I’m frustrated,” he said. “It’s not necessarily about practice, which it is to a degree, but when you’ve been doing something over a certain time, you kind of get in a regimen of when you’re supposed to do certain things. Obviously, my arm hasn’t allowed me to do a lot of practice. I’ve been on a pitch count for a long time, but at the end of the day, it is what it is.

That’s not a scapegoat. That’s not something that I want people to bail me out on.”

While the pain may not be an excuse, it’s been a constant companion for Newton, even if the team doesn’t know exactly what’s wrong with the shoulder.

“Labrum? rotator cuff? Just shoulder soreness,” Newton said. “I wish I could say what the injury is because I don’t really know what it is either. No matter how much you push, no matter how much you ice, the anti-inflammatory you take.

Trust me, I’ve done it. Acupuncture, massages. There’s not a night that goes by without me getting some type of work done on my arm.

You just don’t have the strength.

From the range of motion, you work on the range of motion then come game time and you never know how the game can play out.

“Of course you try to stay under 25‐30 throws,” Newton continued, “but if you surpass that or you get hit on it or you have to run or you get tackled and fall on your shoulder, certain things happen. That’s the game of football. As far as stiffness, just muscle tension, there’s a lot going on. At the end of the day, it’s not something that hasn’t got worse over the weeks or hasn’t got better over the weeks. It’s just been the same.”

While Rivera and Newton both stopped short of saying that the quarterback would be shut down, it’s clear that his courage in grinding out the season is an inspiration to teammates, who are still willing to throw themselves in the path of an oncoming 300-pounder.

“Cam is one of the toughest players I’ve ever played with,” center Ryan Kalil said. “I’ve seen the guy take hits and get his body up game after game, season after season.

Hits I’ve seen him take, other guys wouldn’t get up from. … He’s been fighting all season, and obviously he’s frustrated at how things have turned out.”

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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is hit as he throws a pass against New Orleans during the Saints’ 12-9 win Monday in Charlotte.

lifield got things started by intercepting a pass and returning it 93 yards for the game’s first touchdowns midway though the first quarter. Following a three-andout, Shelby made it 14-0 on a 20yard scoring pass from Isaiah Bess to Diavonni Daley. Bess and Dailey teamed up again in the second quarter, and Fabian Pettis caught an 18-yard touchdown pass in the third as the Golden Lions extended their advantage to 28-7 before the teams traded scores the rest of the way.

Bess completed 17 of 26 passes for 192 yards and three touchdowns against the Lions (13-3) to earn the game’s MVP award.

1AA: Tarboro 50, East Surry 10

The Vikings (15-0) rolled up 442 yards on the ground and held the Cardinals to zero yards rushing in

winning their second straight 1AA championship and sixth title overall.

East Surry (11-4) actually scored first when Gunnar Jones picked up a fumble and returned it 18 yards for a touchdown with 4:02 left in the first quarter. But Tarboro bounced back quickly and efficiently by scoring on its next two possessions.

Although the Cardinals briefly slowed the Vikings’ momentum with a field goal late in the first half, Tarboro regained control in the second half by scoring five touchdowns over the final two periods.

Kiami McDaniels finished the game with 112 yards rushing and two touchdowns, earning him MVP honors. Melik Ward led a Tarboro defense that surrendered only 138 yards by making eight tackles, including 2.5 sacks and three other tackles for losses.

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TAKE NOTICE 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 December 28, 2018 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 343 as shown on Subdivision Plat of: The Farm at Riverpointe- Phase 4A, Map 2, recorded in Map Book 59 at Page 76 in the Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Public Registry.

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

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

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Courtland L Hamil-

ton and wife, Latricha K. Hamilton.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 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.

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 41 of Settlers Ridge Subdivision, Phase 2, Map 2 as shown on plat thereof recorded in Map Book 48, Page 87, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Cabarrus County, North Carolina, reference to which plat is hereby made for a more particular description.

Being the Identical property as conveyed to David Franklin Holmes aka David Franklin Holmes, III and wife, Edith E. Holmes on 07/09/2008, in Book 8332, Page 244, in the Cabarrus County Public Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1621 Matthew Allen Circle, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

(5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Edith E. Holmes.

An Order for possession of the property may be is-

sued 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.

at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 518 DOMINION TRACE AT HIGHLAND CREEK, PHASE 2, MAP 6, as shown on map thereof recorded in Map Book 49, at Page 65 in the Cabarrus County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1604 Wilburn Park Lane Northwest, Concord, NC 28269.

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

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

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.

First Tract: Lying and being in No. 5 Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina and being Lots Nos. 10 and 13 as designated by a Plat by James C. Gamble, Surveyor, dated April 17, 1972 and being on the North side of a 30 foot road leading from the Mullis Road as shown on said Plat with metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at an iron stake in the North edge of said road, corner of Lots 9 and 10 of said Plat and runs with the dividing line between Lots 9 and 10 N. 1-26 W. 351.86 feet to an iron stake, corner of Lots 9 and 10; thence S. 71-10 W. 603.8 feet to an iron stake; thence S. 7-32 W. 175.3 feet to an old iron on North side of said road; thence with the North side of said road Five calls as follows: 1st, N. 65-17 E. 165.60 feet; 2nd, S. 89-25 E. 157.40 feet; 3rd, N. 77-40 E. 88.0 feet; 4th, N. 80-05 E. 83.0 feet; 5th, S. 55-35 E. 157.0 feet to the beginning, containing 2.719 acres, more or less.

Second Tract: Lying and being in No. 5 Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, adjoining the lands of Roger Jordan and J. L. Wallace and being just North of tract which Larry L. Tucker owns (see Map by J. G. Spratt, RS, dated May, 1977) showing metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at an old iron stake (said iron stake being S. 76-23-40 E. 129.0 feet from an old angle iron, corner of Roger Jordan and A. E. Overcash) and runs with Jordan line, N.

76-02-40 E. 215.20 feet to an old iron, corner of J. L. Wallace Property; thence with the Wallace line, N. 71-38-20 E. 378.32 feet to an iron in line of J. L. Wallace Property and corner of Claude Lee Duty Property; thence with the line of Duty, S. 1-26 E. 30.66 feet to an old iron stake, corner of Larry L. Tucker Property; thence with Tucker Property, S. 7105-40 W. 606.59 feet to an old iron stake in line of A. L. Tucker Property; thence with his line, N. 5-17 E. 56.36 feet to the beginning, containing 0.4875 acres, more or less.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3875 Mullis Road, Kannapolis, NC 28083.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty re-

lating 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 Larry Tucker.

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.

ary 3, 2019 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LYING AND BEING IN WARD NO. 2 OF THE CITY OF CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA, AND ON THE WEST SIDE OF MAY STREET, BEING LOT NO. 5 OF A SUBDIVISION OF MAY STREET AND CABARRUS CIRCLE EXTENSION AS SHOWN ON MAP DRAWN BY BROWN ENGINEERING COMPANY, OCTOBER 1, 1954, AND SHOWING METES AND BOUNDS AS FOLLOWS (SEE MAP BOOK 10, PAGE 49, BEING AN EXTENSION OF MEADOW PARK) : BEGINNING AT AN IRON STAKE IN THE WEST EDGE OF MAY STREET, CORNER OF LOT NO. 4 AND RUNS THENCE WITH THE LINE OF LOT NO. 4, S. 40-59 W. 160.2 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE, CORNER OF LOT NO. 4; THENCE S. 41-35 E. 75.5 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE CORNER OF LOT NO. 6; THENCE WITH THE LINE OF LOT NO. 6, N. 50-26 E. 167.7 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE IN THE WEST EDGE OF MAY STREET, CORNER OF LOT NO. 6; THENCE WITH

THE WEST EDGE OF MAY STREET WITH DEGREES AND CURVES OF 12 DEGREES AND 12 MINUTES TO THE BEGINNING, BEING 100 FEET. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 165 May Street Northeast, Concord, NC 28025.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior

liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Al Lawful Heirs of Robert L. Houser.

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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est bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of No. 3, in the City of Concord, in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all that lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Concord, No. 3 Township, Cabarrus County, North Carolina and more particularly described as Lot 45 as shown on that plat entitled “Final Plat, Moss Creek Village (Ph. 1A), The Park at Moss Creek, Map 2” and recorded in the Cabarrus County Registry at Map Book 44, Page 13, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 9433 Grand Oaks Street, Northwest, Concord, North Carolina.

Tax ID#3-16A-45.00 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

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

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

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

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

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

date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

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

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bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the City of Concord, in the County of Cabarrus, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: LYING and being in Ward 4 of the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, on the north side of Dove Street Extension adjoining the property of Miller, Andrew J. Paumpus and Robert L. Allman, and bounded as follows: BEGINNING at an iron stake in the north edge of Dove Street Extension, southwest corner of Andrew J. Pampus lot and 450 feet from South Spring Street, and runs thence with the line of said Pampus North 29-31 West 178.2 feet to an iron stake, rear corner of said Pampus in the line of the Miller lands; thence with the line of the Miller lands, South 52-19 West 154.8 feet to an iron stake in the line of said Miller lands, corner of Robert L. Allman; thence with the line of said Allman, South 37-13 East 166.2 feet to an iron stake in the north edge of Dove Street Extension, corner of said Allman; thence with the north edge of Dove Street Extension, North 56-46 East 131 feet to the BEGINNING. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 94 Dove Avenue Southwest, Concord, North Carolina.

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

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

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

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 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.

at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 228 in a Subdivision known as The Ponderosa, Section 23, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 39, Page 68, Cumberland County, North Carolina Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 950 Rancho Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28303.

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

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 William M. Brown.

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.

CABARRUS 16SP847 AMENDEDNOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Courtland L. Hamilton and Latricha K. Hamilton to Christina M. Bramhall, Trustee(s), which was dated March 18, 2011 and recorded on March 18, 2011 in Book 09515 at Page 0124 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on August 24, 2015 in Book 11555, Page 0261, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured

18SP496 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by David Holmes and Edith Holmes, Husband and Wife to North American Title Insurance Co., Trustee(s), which was dated August 31, 2012 and recorded on September 7, 2012 in Book 10153 at Page 0010, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the

17SP728 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Mary L. Savage to Neal G. Helms, Trustee(s), which was dated March 29, 2007 and recorded on March 30, 2007 in Book 7428 at Page 143 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on April 13, 2007 in Book 7462, Page 261, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina.

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

18SP204 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Larry Tucker and Loraine Tucker to WJ Kellam, Jr., Trustee(s), which was dated July 6, 2012 and recorded on July 13, 2012 in Book 10074 at Page 0243, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 2:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, to wit: The following described property:

18SP618 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CABARRUS COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Robert L. Houser and Jeanette M. Houser to National Settlement Solutions, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated August 26, 2005 and recorded on September 7, 2005 in Book 6216 at Page 282, Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on Janu-

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Tawana L. Wiggins and Derrick T. Wiggins, II to Stewart Title Guaranty Company, Trustee(s), dated the 15th day of September, 2006, and recorded in Book 7050, Page 339, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 31, 2018 and will sell to the high-

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Stonewall Jackson Little, (Stonewall Jackson Little, deceased)(Heirs of Stonewall Jackson Little: Jimmy Jackson Little) to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of October, 2010, and recorded in Book 09336, Page 0111, in Cabarrus County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cabarrus County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on December 31, 2018 and will sell to the highest

CUMBERLAND 18SP492 AMENDEDNOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by George McGee Watson, III and Terese N. Watson to Lewis, Deese, Nance & Briggs, L.L.P., Trustee(s), which was dated May 3, 2013 and recorded on May 6, 2013 in Book 09182 at Page 0133, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

14SP1654 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by William M. Brown and Jennifer C. Brown to David W. Allred, Trustee(s), which was dated May 16, 2008 and recorded on May 20, 2008 in Book 7892 at Page 777, 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

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.: 15-03240-FC02

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 16-10054-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-18610-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Aaron B. Anderson Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5710 Oleander Drive, Ste. 204 Wilmington, NC 28403 Phone: (910) 202-2940 Fax: (910) 202 2941 File No.: 16-01311-FC03

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.: 18-08738-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-11708-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 14-22419-FC01

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TAKE NOTICE CUMBERLAND

18SP1045 AMENDEDNOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Daniel M. Abner and Jeanie T. Abner to A. B. Chavis, Trustee(s), which was dated October 31, 2007 and recorded on November 1, 2007 in Book 7737 at Page 0224, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Ser-

18SP53 AMENDEDNOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Christopher Harlyn Pinkham and Tabitha Foreman to Anthony Warden, Trustee(s), which was dated November 14, 2014 and recorded on November 17, 2014 in Book 09543 at Page 0838, 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

JOHNSTON 16SP487 AMENDEDNOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Nathan C. Knighton and Holli Knighton to Donald W. Courtney, Trustee(s), which was dated September 30, 2010 and recorded on September 30, 2010 in Book 3899 at Page 182, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina.

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

RANDOLPH 18SP321 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of the Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Robert Steward Wilson and Brenda Ann Wilson to N. Miles Johnson, Trustee, for the benefit of CITIFINANCIAL SERVICES INC, dated June 27, 2002, recorded on July 10, 2002, in Deed Book 1772, Page 1219, Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, conveying the after-described property to secure a Note in the original principal amount of $72,759.37 with interest thereon as set forth therein, as last transferred to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust A by assignment recorded in Deed Book 2588, Page 512, Randolph County Registry,

18SP310 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Lois J. Hunsucker a/k/a Lois Jean Hunsucker to Trste, Inc., Trustee(s), which was dated April 8, 2009 and recorded on April 20, 2009 in Book RE2126 at Page 68, 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 will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 4, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit:

18SP372 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Tanya O’Quinn and Danny O’Quinn to BB&T Collateral Service Corporation, Trustee(s), which was dated July 17, 2006 and recorded on September 1, 2006 in Book RE 1988 at Page 2253, 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 will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 4, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: Situated In The County Of Randolph, State Of North Carolina And More Particularly Described As Follows: Beginning At An Iron Stake In The South Margin Of The Right Of Way Of A Private Road Known As Cortez Road, Said Iron Stake Being Located South 74 Degrees 53 Minutes 30 Seconds West 332.5 Feet From An Iron Stake Marking The Northwest Corner Of Lot No. 42, Bonita Woods Estates, Section 2, As Shown On Map Recorded In Plat Book 13, Page 78, In The Office Of The Register Of Deeds Of Randolph County, North Carolina, Reference

18SP348 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Marcus Ward and Barbara Ward to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated May 13, 2008 and recorded on May 19, 2008 in Book RE2078 at Page 338, 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 will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the

18SP347 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RANDOLPH COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Diane B. Boswell a/k/a Diane B. Surratt a/k/a Diane B. Thornburg to Hutchens & Senter, Trustee(s), which was dated September 30, 2002 and recorded on October 7, 2002 in Book 1785 at Page 0331 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on August 6, 2018 in Book 2609, Page 140, 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 will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 4, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: Richland Township, Randolph County, North Carolina: Tract 1: Beginning At A New Iron Pin In The Northern Edge Of The Paved Portion Of Secondary Road No. 2843, Larry Brim’s Southwest Corner; Running Thence In The Right Of Way Of Said Secondary Road North 72 Deg. 14’ West 84.28

vices of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 2:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND IN CEDAR CREEK TOWNSHIP, CITY OF STEDMAN, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, STATE OF NC, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN BOOK 5621, PAGE 0766, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 12 WILLOW BROOK, RECOMBINATION OF LOTS 11-14, FILED IN PLAT BOOK 105 AT PAGE 122.

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

Said property is commonly known as 5045 Berry Tree

Lane, Stedman, NC 28391.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned,

the current owner(s) of the property is/are Jeanie T. Abner.

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.

at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 4, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 78, in a subdivision known as THE LAKES, SECTION ONE, PART B, plat of the same being recorded in Plat Book 48, Page 39, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

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

Said property is commonly known as 5850 Hibernia Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

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

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

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.

in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 4, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 48, Pheasant Run Subdivision, as shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Book 29, Page 243, Johnston County Registry, to which map reference is herebby made for a mroe particular description of same.

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

Said property is commonly known as 101 Pheasant Drive, Clayton, NC 27520.

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

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

An Order for possession of the property may be is-

sued 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.

North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deed of Randolph County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door in Randolph County, North Carolina, on January 3, 2019, at 1:00 p.m., and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: The Following Described Land Situated In Liberty Township, Randolph County, State Of North Carolina And More Particularly Described To Wit: Beginning At A New Iron Pipe Set In The North Edge Of A 60 Foot Right Of Way Of West Swannanoa Avenue, North Carolina State Road 2261, Formerly N.c. 49A, Said New Iron Pipe Being North 83 Deg 1 Min 10 Sec East 31 Feet From The Intersection Point Of Said Right Of Way Line And The Center Line Of Kirkman Street (N.c. State Road 2429, A New Corner With Wobax-

co, Inc.); Thence North 3 Deg 26 M In 10 Sec East 150 Feet To An New Line With Wobaxco, Inc. To A New Iron Pipe, Corner With Wobacxo, Inc.; Thence North 83 Deg 1 Min 10 Sec East 140 Feet To A New Iron Pipe, Wobaxco, Inc. Corner In C.t. Kimrey’s Line; Thence South 3 Eg 28 Min 10 Sec West 150 Feet With C.t. Kimrey’s Line To New Iron Pipe Set In The North Edge Of Right Of Way Line Of West Swannanoa Avenue; Thence With The North Edge Of Swannanoa Avenue 83 Deg 1 Min 10 Sec West 140 Feet To The Beginning, Containing 20,885 Square Feet, More Or Less.

By Fee Simple Deed From Paul S. Metzger And Wife, Phyllis A. Metzger As Set Forth In Book 1060, Page 998, Dated 08-9-1973 And Recorded 08-10-1973. Randolph County Records, State Of North Carolina.

Said property is commonly known as 532 West Swannona Avenue, Liberty, NC 27298.

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S. Section 105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to N.C.G.S. Section 7A-308, in the amount of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)

or fractional part thereof up to a maximum amount of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or physical , environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Rodney S. Wilson and Jamie Lynn Wilson.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. Section 4521.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk if the 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 or after October 7, 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.

All That Certain Parcel Of Land Situated In Columbia Township Being Known As Beginning At New Iron Pipe In The Northern Right-Of-Way Line Of State Road No. 2465 (Hillsborough Street); The Southwest Corner Of Georgia S. Taggue; Thence Along The Northern Right Of Way Line Of State Road #2465 The Following Courses And Distances: South 30 Degrees 14 Minutes 24 Seconds West 34.63 Feet To Point South 39 Degrees 47 Minutes 41 Seconds West 35.11 Feet To A New Iron Pipe, A Corner Of Earlee Mcmasters; Thence Along The Northern Boundaryline Of Mcmasters South 74 Degrees 56 Minutes 11 Seconds West 66.53 Feet To A New Iron Pipe, The Northwest Corner Of Mcmasters In Eastern Boundary Line Of Ed And Etta W. Langley; Thence Along The Eastern Boundary Line Of Langley North 15 Degrees 04 Minutes 01 Second West The Following Distances: 30.74 Feet To An Existing Pipe; 129.26 Feet To An Existing Iron Pipe; The Northeast Corner Of Langley In The Southern Boundary Line Of Clarece E. Marley; Thence Along The Southern Boundary Line Of Marley North 74 Degrees 55 Minutes 59 Seconds East 120.00 Feet To A New Iron Pipe; The Northwest Corner Of Georgia S. Teague In The Southern Boundary Line Of Marley; Thence Along The Western Boundary Line Of Teague South 15 Degrees 04 Minutes 01 Second East 115.30 Feet To A New Iron Pipe

In The Northern Right Of Way Line Of State Road No 2465, The Point & Place Beginning, Containing 0.42 Acre, More Or Less. The Foregoing Description Is In Accordance With A Survey For Lois J. Hunsicker By G. Thomas Moore, Rls, Liberty N.c. Dated August 6, 1982 And Being More Fully Described In Deed Book 1412 Page 802 Recorded On 1994-1227 Among The Land Records Of Randolph County, Nc. Being The Same Property Conveyed To Lois Jean Hunsucker

By Deed From John Robinson Hunsucker Dated 1994-0426, Recorded 1994-12-27 Deed Book 1412 Page 802.

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

Said property is commonly known as 203 East Franklinville Street, Staley, NC 27355.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS

IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Lois Jean Counts Hunsucker.

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 li-

able 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.

To Which Is Hereby Made For A More Particular Description Of The Point And Place Of Beginning; Thence From Said Beginning Point, South 17 Degrees 34 Minutes 40 Seconds East 611.45 Feet To An Iron Stake, Walker Byrd’s Line; Thence With Byrd’s Line North 79 Degrees 11 Minutes West 309 Feet To An Iron Stake, Lewellen’s Line; Thence With Lewellen’s Line, North 46 Degrees 6 Minutes West 45.5 Feet To A Stone, Lewellen’s Corner With Property Now Or Formerly Owned By Talmadge Cole; Thence With Cole’s Line North 48 Degrees 45 Minutes West 420 Feet To An Iron Stake; Thence A New Line North 49 Degrees 49 Minutes 5 Seconds East 395.04 Feet To An Iron Stake In The Margin Of The Right Of Way Of Cortez Road, Said Iron Stake Also Marking The End Of The First Curve Of The Easement Described Below For Cortez Road; Thence In An Easterly Direction With The First Curvature Of Cortez Road As Described Below, An Arc Distance Of 177.05 Feet To The Point And Place Of Beginning, Being 5.01 Acres, More Or Less.

Grantors Also Hereby Conveyed That 30 Feet Wide Strip Of Land Between The Center Line Of Cortez Road As Described In “Easement” And Grantees’ Frontage On The Said Road; However, Grantors Retain A Non-Exclusive, Permanent Easement For Purposes Of Ingress, And Egress Over The Said 30 Feet Wide Strip Of Land, Said Easement Being Appurtenant To And Running With Any And All Lands Still Owned By The Grantors.

Easement: Together With A Permanent, Non-Exclusive Right Of Way And Easement For The Purposes Of Ingress, And Egress Over A Dirt Road Presently In Place; The Said Easement And Right Of Way Shall Extend 30 Feet On Either Side Of The Hereinafter Described Center Line Of Said Road; Beginning At A Point In The Line Forming The Terminus Of Cortez Road, Said Point Being North 15 Degrees 6 Minutes

30 Seconds West, A Distance Of 30 Feet From The NorthWest Corner Of Lot No. 42, Bonita Woods Estates, Section 2, Said Point Being Located South 15 Degrees 6 Minutes 30 Seconds East, A Distance Of 30 Feet From The Southwest Corner Of Lot No. 43, Bonita Wood Estates, Section 2, As Shown On A Map Recorded In Plat Book 13, Page 78, In The Office Of The Register Of Deeds Of Randolph County, North Carolina, To Which Reference Is Hereby Made For A More Particular Description Of The Point Of Beginning; Thence Said Beginning Point, South 74 Degrees 53 Minutes 30 Seconds West 332.5 Feet To A Point Of Curvature; Thence On A Curve To The Right, Said Curve Having A Central Angle Of 56 Degrees 21 Minutes 30 Seconds, A Radius Of 150 Feet, A Tangent Of 80.36 Feet, In An Arc Length Of 147.54 To The Point Of Tangency; Thence North 48 Degrees 45 Minutes West 3.24 Feet To A Second Point Of Curvature; Thence On A Curve To The Right, Said Curve Having A Central Angle Of 61 Degrees 15 Minutes 25 Seconds, A Radius Of 170.99 Feet, A Tangent Of 101.24 Feet And An Arc Distance Of 182.81 Feet To The Point Of Tangency; Thence North 12 Degrees 30 Minutes 25 Seconds East 677.50 Feet To The Third Point Of Curvature; Thence On A Curve To The Right, Said Curve Having A Central Angle Of 81 Degrees 1 Minute 5 Seconds, A Radius Of 152.33 Feet, A Tangent Of 152.33 Feet, A Tangent Of 130.14 Feet, And An Arc Distance Of 215.4 Feet To The Point Of Tangency; Thence South 86 Degrees 28 Minutes 30 Seconds East 312.02 Feet To The Fourth Point Of Curvature; Thence On A Curve To The Right Having A Central Angle Of 35 Degrees 22 Minutes 30 Seconds, A Radius Of 150 Feet, A Tangent Of 47.84 Feet, And An Arc Distance Of 92.64 Feet To The Point Of Tangency; Thence South 51 Degrees 6 Minutes East 112.16 Feet To A Point In The Center Of The Existing Right Of Way Of Cortez Road, As Shown On The Map Of Bonita Woods Estates,

Section 2, As Referenced Above, Said Point Also Marking The Terminus Of The Center Line Of The Herein Described Easement And Right Of Way, Said Easement And Right Of Way Being And Extending 30 Feet On Each Side Of The Herein Described Center Line, Thereby Providing A 60 Feet Wide Right Of Way And Easement Running With And Being Appurtenant To All Other Property Conveyed By This Deed.

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

Said property is commonly known as 1516 Cortez Road, Asheboro, NC 27205.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Danny Ray O’Quinn and wife, Tanya Britt O’Quinn.

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.

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 4, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Randolph County, North Carolina, to wit: Lots Nos. 11, 12 and 13 of Whispering Pines Subdivision as shown by plat recorded in Plat Book 10, Page 108, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina.

This conveyance is made subject to Restrictive Covenants found recorded in Book 832, Page 173, Randolph County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3272 Walker Drive, Asheboro, NC 27205.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

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

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.

Feet To A Point In The Center Line Of Said Secondary Road; Running Thence Along The Center Line Of Said Secondary Road North 60 Deg. 03’ West 91.69 Feet To A Point In The Intersection Of The Center Lines Of Secondary Road No. 2843 And A Private Drive; Running Thence Along The Center Line Of Said Private Drive North 41 Deg. 01’ East 287.29 Feet To A Point In The Center Line Of Said Private Drive In Larry Brim’s West Line; Running Thence Along Larry Brim’s Line South 59 Deg. 56’ East 116.40 Feet To An Existing Iron Pin, Larry Brim’s Corner; Thence Continuing Along Larry Brim’s West Line South 29 Deg. 24’ West, And Crossing One Existing Iron Rod, 263.94 Feet To The Beginning, Containing 0.923 Acres, More Or Less.

Tract 2: Beginning At A Point In The Center Line Of A Private Drive, Larry Brim’s Northwest Corner In Jackie Auman’s Line; Running Thence Along Jackie Auman’s Line North 60 Deg. 39’ West 102.50 Feet To A Stake In Jackie Auman’s Line; Thence Continuing Along Jackie Auman’s Line North 58 Deg. 42’ West 373.13 Feet To An Existing Iron Pipe, Jackie Auman’s Corner; Thence Continuing Along Jackie Auman’s Line South 28 Deg. 05’ West 429.53 Feet To An Existing Iron Pipe Situated 17.00 Feet North Of The Center Line Of Secondary Road No. 2843; Running Thence Within The Right Of Way Of Secondary Road No. 2843 South 53 Deg. 09’ East 205.00 Feet To A Point In The Center Line Of Said Secondary Road; Thence Continuing Along The Center Line Of Said Secondary Road South 60 Deg. 03’ East 166.25 Feet To A Point In The Center Of A Private Drive; Running Thence Along The Center Line Of Said Private Drive North 41 Deg. 01’ East 287.29 Feet To A Point In The Center Line Of Said Private Drive; Thence

Continuing Along The Center Line Of Said Private Drive North 42 Deg. 31’ East 168.30 Feet To The Beginning, Containing 4.279 Acres, More Or Less.

Save And Except The Following: Beginning At A New Iron Pipe Set In The Northeastern Right Of Way Line Of Happy Hollow Road (Sr 2843) At A Point Where It Intersects With A Private Drive; Said Point Being The Southwest Corner Of Ruth Brim (Book 1149, Page 512); Running Thence Along Happy Hollow Road North 60 Degrees 16 Minutes 03 Seconds West 164.42 Feet To A New Iron Pipe Set In Happy Hollow Road, Marking A New Corner Of Diane B. Surratt (Now Or Formerly In Book 1149, Page 512); Running Thence Along The New Surratt Line North 41 Degrees 23 Minutes 25 Seconds East 25.58 Feet To A Point; Thence Continuing Along The Surratt Line North 41 Degrees 23 Minutes 25 Seconds East 247.83 Feet To A New Iron Rod, Marking A Control Corner, Said Iron Rod Being Set South 25 Degrees 49 Minutes 19 Seconds East 331.993 Feet From The NorthernCornerOfThe4.279AcreTractOfWhichThisProperty Is Part; Running Thence Along The Remaining Balance Of The Property South 60 Degrees 06 Minutes 47 Seconds East 161.42 Feet To A Point In The Private Drive; Thence Along The Private Drive South 40 Degrees 47 Minutes 29 Seconds West 246.24 Feet To A Point; Thence Continuing Along The Private Drive South 40 Degrees 47 Minutes 29 Seconds West 26.15 Feet To The Point And Place Of The Beginning, Containing 1.001 Acres More Or Less According To A “Family Survey And Division For Dannie Christopher Teague And Wife Deidre Renee Teague” Dated February 20, 2002, By Cagle Surveys, Bearing Job No. 9529.

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

Said property is commonly known as 4003 Happy Hollow Road and 3.3 acre parcel adjacent to 4003 Happy Hollow Road, Asheboro, NC 27205.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of theknowledgeandbeliefoftheundersigned,thecurrentowner(s) of the property is/are Diane B. Boswell a/k/a Diane B. Thornburg a/k/a Diane B. Surratt.

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.: 18-07753-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-18823-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 13-00801-FC01

Goddard & Peterson, PLLC 3803 B Computer Drive Suite 103 Raleigh, NC 27609 Telephone: 919-755-3400 Fax Number: 866-879-4905 1133-1729B

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.: 18-04449-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-11425-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 09-20600-FC02

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 16-04906-FC01

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TAKE NOTICE UNION 18 SP 318 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Roger Paul Barker and Jacqueline L. Barker to John C. MacNeill, Jr., Trustee(s), which was dated May 14, 2004 and recorded on May 24, 2004 in Book 3449 at Page 113, Union County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Ser-

17 SP 124 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, UNION COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Andrew J. Battoglia And Kelly Jean Battoglia to Philip R. Mahoney, Trustee(s), which was dated June 9, 2006 and recorded on June 14, 2006 in Book 04195 at Page 0046, Union County Registry, North Carolina.

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

WAKE 18SP2018 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Kevin Bunn to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), which was dated April 23, 2008 and recorded on April 28, 2008 in Book 013070 at Page 01355, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

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

18SP2322 NOTICEOFFORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Annalisa C. Abate to Ronald D. Haley, Trustee(s), which was dated May 14, 2010 and recorded on May 14, 2010 in Book 013942 at Page 00249, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the

18 SP 2289 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Shashant B. Shah to Bradley D. Dinkel, Trustee(s), which was dated September 2, 2015 and recorded on September 3, 2015 in Book 016142 at Page 01231, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 10:00AM,

18 SP 2352 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Amy Bell O’Brien to Jackie Miller, Trustee(s), which was dated November 20, 2009 and recorded on November 20, 2009 in Book 013769 at Page 01380, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the

18 SP 2323 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jose Samuel Sanchez and Berta G. Guevara De Sanchez to Craig A. Williamson, Trustee(s), which was dated February 15, 2007 and recorded on February 16, 2007 in Book 012403 at Page 01775, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 2662 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Shannon M. Corn and April Corn (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Shannon M. Corn and April L. Holmes) to Clifton and Singer, Trustee(s), dated the 14th day of December, 2007, and recorded in Book 012875, Page 01038, and Modification in Book 015719, Page 00258, and Modification in Book 016361, Page 02196, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1524 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ricky L. Broadnax and Sharon Broadnax to Commonwealth Land Title Company, Trustee(s), dated the 24th day of March, 2016, and recorded in Book 16332, Page 2019, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 31, 2018 and will sell to

vices of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 4, 2019 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 32 in that subdivision known as QUELLIN, Map 2 as shown on a plat recorded in Plat Cabinet H, File 197 in the Union County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 3201 Blackburn Drive, Waxhaw, NC 28173.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

(5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Paul Barker.

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.

at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 4, 2019 at 12:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Union County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 229 of SHANNAMARA SUBDIVISION, Phase II, Map IX, Village of Wicklow, as shown on plat duly recorded in Cabinet F, File 350, Union County, North Carolina Public Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular metes and bounds description.

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

Said property is commonly known as 6048 Abergele Lane, Stallings, NC 28104.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

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

An Order for possession of the property may be is-

sued 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.

in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 921, Rosemont Garden subdivision, as depicted in Map Book 2006, beginning at or including page 2300 in the Wake County Registry of Deeds.

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

Said property is commonly known as 2701 Community Drive, Raleigh, NC 27610.

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

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

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.

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 37, Fox ‘N’ Hounds Subdivision, as shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 1986, Page 1575, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 2613 Huntsman Trail, Zebulon, NC 27597.

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

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

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.

and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Being known and designate as Unit 1122 of the WEST CONDOMINIUM, a condominium, as shown on plats and plans of WEST CONDOMINIUM, a Condominium, recorded in Condominium Map Book 2008, Pages 496 A-1 thorough 496 E-5, inclusive, in the Wake County, North Carolina Registry.

This conveyance is subject to the Declaration, as may be amended.

Together with the undivided interest in the Common Elements allocated to said Unit by the Declaration as amended from time to time and all rights and easements appurtenant to said Unit as specifically enumerated in the Declaration and any amendments thereto.

Subject to all the terms, provisions, conditions, obligations, limitations, restrictions, easements binding upon the Unit Owners as more particularly set forth in the Declaration and any amendment thereto.

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

Said property is commonly known as 400 West North Street 1122, Raleigh, NC 27603.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Shashant B. Shah.

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.

usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 207 in Camden Townhomes at Cary Park, Phase 1A, Section 1, as shown on that map recorded in Book of Maps 2006, Pages 1379-1380, Book of Maps 2007, Pages 364-365 and Book of Maps 2007, Page 647, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 123 Dove Cottage Lane, Cary, NC 27519.

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

ERS 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 Amy Bell O’Brien.

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 de-

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

usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 109, Phase II of Brookstone Subdivision as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 2000, Page 1012, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 4229 Ivy Hill Road, Raleigh, NC 27616.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice

of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Jose Samuel Sanchez.

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.

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.: 14-08164-FC02

customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 31, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 14, Phase 1, High Meadows Subdivision, as shown on a map recorded in Book of Maps 1984, Page 1167, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3516 Casine Court, Wake Forest, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized repre-

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

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

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

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

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

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

of the termination.

the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain parcel of land situate in the City of Holly Springs, County of Wake and State of North Carolina bounded and described as follows: Being all of Lot 66, The Highlands at Alexander Woods, as shown in Book of Maps 2014, Pages 829-830, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4604 Sharpecroft Way, Holly Springs, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §4521.23.

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agree-

ment, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

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

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

or has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-11006-FC02

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-01121-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 11-31888-FC02

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 16-11842-FC03

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.: 18-10187-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 13-26147-FC02

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1258390 (FC.FAY)

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Case No: 1245889 (FC.FAY)

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WAKE 18 SP 2632 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Ursula P. Nwapa to Scott A. Korbin, Trustee(s), which was dated July 25, 2003 and recorded on July 25, 2003 in Book 010308 at Page 00451, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Ser-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1190 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Michael S. Kennedy and Julie G. Kennedy to Kirk Smith, Trustee(s), dated the 4th day of June, 2002, and recorded in Book 9450, Page 230, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on Decem-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1840 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Karen Besser and Douglas Besser, (Douglas Besser, deceased) to Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of June, 2011, and recorded in Book 14381, Page 1545, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 2426 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Mabel Joyce Davis, (Mabel Joyce Davis, deceased)(Heirs of Mabel Joyce Davis: Micah Joel Bryant and Unknown Heirs) to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of February, 2012, and recorded in Book 014672, Page 01642, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake Coun-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 2596 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Amy Childs to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 6th day of May, 2010, and recorded in Book 013935, Page 00544, and Modification in Book 16562, Page 00426, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 711 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Laporcia Jones (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): LaPorcia Jones) to Ronald D. Haley, Trustee(s), dated the 17th day of June, 2016, and recorded in Book 016424,Page00401,inWakeCountyRegistry,NorthCarolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, SubstituteTrusteeServices,Inc.havingbeensubstitutedasTrusteein said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office oftheRegisterofDeedsofWakeCounty,NorthCarolinaandthe holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned SubstituteTrusteewillofferforsaleattheWakeCountyCourthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake

vices of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 2, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 51, Fox Den North, according to plat recorded in Book of Maps 1997, Pages 1038 and 1039, Wake County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 7305 Fox Bluff Court, Raleigh, NC 27616.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

(5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Ursula Mary Ekpe-

ta Nzimiro.

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.

ber 31, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 61 of NEW HOPE CROSSING SUBDIVISION, Phase Five, as per plat and survey thereof now on file in Book of Maps 1998 at page 2266 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, to which plat reference is hereby expressly made for a more particular description of same. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3004 Emcutta Way, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the

note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include,

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more

than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

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

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location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 31, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The following described property: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Apex, Wake County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 444 of Haddon Hall Subdivision, Phase 4, Section A, as shown on Plat thereof recorded in Book of Maps 1998, Page 206, Wake County Public Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1281 Horsham Way, Apex, North Carolina.

Assessor’s Parcel No: 0241283 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars

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

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

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

funds at the time of the sale.

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-

tober 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.

ty, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 31, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tax Id Number(s): 0163777 Land Situated in the Township of Marks Creek in the County of Wake in the State of NC Being all of Lot 34, Cobblestone Subdivision, as recorded in Book of Maps 1988, Page 1001, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 549 Gaslight Trail, Wendell, North Carolina.

Commonly known as: 549 Gaslight Trl, Wendell, NC 27591 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of

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

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

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

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

notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

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

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Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 31, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 155, Duchman Creek Subdivision, Phase 5, as shown on map of same duly recorded in Book of Maps 2005, Pages 981 & 982, Wake County Registry.

Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2738 Windchase Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS

IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed.

Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

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

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

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

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure

sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

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

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County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on December 31, 2018 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularlydescribedasfollows: BEING all of Lot 64 of Bishop Pointe Subdivision, Phase 2, as is shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 2004, Page 729, Wake County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 909 Troubadour Lane, Knightdale,NorthCarolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale foruptoonehourasprovidedinNCGS§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) requiredbyNCGS§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.”NeithertheTrusteenortheholderofthenotesecuredbythe 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 existingin,on,atorrelatingtothepropertybeingofferedforsale,and anyandallresponsibilitiesorliabilitiesarisingoutoforinanyway relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments,andpriorliensorpriorencumbrancesofrecordandany recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicableFederalandStatelaws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is requiredandmustbetenderedintheformofcertifiedfundsatthe timeofthesale.

Ifthetrusteeisunabletoconveytitletothispropertyforany

reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limitedto,thefilingofabankruptcypetitionpriortotheconfirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledgeofthetrustee.Ifthe 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 thedeposit.Thepurchaserwillhavenofurtherremedy.

AdditionalNoticeforResidentialPropertywithLessthan15 rentalunits,includingSingle-FamilyResidentialRealProperty 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 superiorcourtofthecountyinwhichthepropertyissold.

Anypersonwhooccupiesthepropertypursuanttoarental agreemententeredintoorrenewedonorafterOctober1,2007, 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 noticeoftermination. Uponterminationofarentalagreement, the tenantisliableforrentdueundertherentalagreementprorated totheeffectivedateofthetermination.

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