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‘SALISBURY ON THE MOVE’

Salvia: Some predict trouble as more people try smoking herb tion or harvesting for decorative or landscaping purposes. Louisiana was the first It sells for about $10 a state to ban salvia when it cre“pop,” looks like marijuana, ated a law in 2005 and set a is smoked and is the subject penalty for its possession and of more than 5,000 YouTube jail time of not more than five videos, one in which Disney years and a fine of up to star Miley Cyrus was be- $5,000. lieved to have been smokIn North Carolina, the first ing. or second offense nets the perThe video shows the Han- son in possession a maximum nah Montana actress and $25 fine. Any third or subsesinger smoking salvia from quent offenses where a pera bong, laughing and mum- son is found guilty is classibling incofied as a misdeherently. meanor. There Since the is no mention of video’s rejail time or an lease, interincreased fine. est in the It hasn’t substance been an issue in has soared. Rowan County PATRICK SCHMELTZER Salvia is for law endetective in Salisbury actually an forcement, but herb in the some predict it mint family could be in the and as its recreational use future. has grown, some states have “We haven’t had it yet, but sought to ban or regulate its I’m sure it’s coming,” said Saluse. isbury Police Detective In December 2009, salvia Patrick Schmeltzer. became illegal to possess, The herb is on a temporary manufacture, sale or deliv- ban list by the The U.S. Drug er in North Carolina. The Enforcement Administration only exceptions are if you’re (DEA), he said. That makes cultivating or harvesting the possession and selling it illeherb for landscaping or dec- gal while federal regulators orative purposes or if you’re decide whether it should be at a college or university us- categorized as a controlled ing the herb for research. substance. Just across the state line Schmeltzer said police dein South Carolina, it remains partments in Greensboro and legal. Salvia is also legal in Charlotte have had incidents California, which is suppos- involving salvia. edly where Cyrus smoked it. Does he think seeing Cyrus In nearby Georgia, state smoke it will make teens more officials qualified salvia as likely to try salvia? a dangerous drug in Janu“Absolutely, amongst ary and its law took effect teens, because they want to do in July, but like North Carolina, allows for the cultivaSee SALVIA, 7A BY SHAVONNE POTTS

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The Smithsonian Museum of American History exhibit ‘America on the Move’ shows the passenger waiting room modeled after the Salisbury Depot. Its brick, ﬂoor tiles, ticket windows and rooﬁng match the Salisbury Depot.

Display in the Smithsonian shows local connection to key part of railway history ASHINGTON, D.C. — The name of the Smithsonian Museum of American History’s transportation exhibit is called “America on the Move.” The emphasis is on the importance of railroads in America in daily lives and commerce in the 1920s. The museum used Salisbury as an example to make the point. According to Smithsonian figures, 800 million travelers and about 70 percent of all intercity travel in the late 1920s was by rail. Railroads carried 75 percent of the freight. WAYNE The year 1927 was pinpointed to highlight HINSHAW Salisbury in the exhibit with the Southern Railway steam locomotive No. 1401 as the center of the display. The giant engine, painted Southern’s green and gold colors, is flanked by a model portion of the yellow bricked Salisbury Depot waiting room. Conductors and porters are represented with mannequin figures standing over displays as is the strong armed African-American mannequin pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with freight. A large panel shows the imports and exports of Salisbury in 1927 with a photo on North Main Street downtown at the old Courthouse (Rowan Museum) looking toward the square and The Plaza.

Beyond the 1401 is a tribute to Spencer and the Southern Railways Spencer Shops and the role the workers played in keeping the trains running. Upon entering the Transportation Section of the Smithsonian, I met a docent who wanted to know if I had any questions. After explaining to him that I was from Salisbury and interested in the Salisbury portion of the ex-

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, founder of the Palmer Institute in Sedalia, N.C., was a frequent traveler through Salisbury in the 1920s. The display notes her travel as an AfricanAmerican woman was very different from that of the white passengers.

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The Southern Railway steam locomotive No. 1401 ran from Greenville, S.C., to Salisbury. It also hauled President Franklin Roosevelt’s funeral train from Greenville to Spencer in April of 1945 on its way to Washington from Warm Springs, Ga. hibit, he started asking me questions about Salisbury. I mentioned the Spencer Shops and he said that he wasn’t familiar with the shops. I pointed out that they are part of the exhibit. He shadowed me for 10 minutes asking questions about the exhibit that he was there to explain.

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The display notes that passengers traveling in the 1920s on the train were served by a conductor and a porter. WAYne hinshAW/FoR THe SALISBURY PoST

Joshua Bare pushes his 2-year-old son, Aidan, on the sidewalk in Granite Quarry along N.C. 52. Aidan was restless Sunday, so his dad decided to take him for a ride in the snow to the store. See more snow scenes on 3A. Today’s forecast 34º/16º Mostly sunny

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TOWN CRIER Community events Ongoing • Carolina Christmas at Charlotte Motor Speedway,6-10 p.m. nightly through Jan. 2. Drive-through Christmas park with 2.5 miles of lights, along with music, activities, and more. www.visitcarolinachristmas.com, 704-455-FANS

THURSDAY, Dec. 30 • St. John's Lutheran Church Tour, 200 W. Innes St., every Thursday in December and January, 10 a.m.-noon. 704-636-3431

FRIDAY, Dec. 31 • New Year’s Eve at the Bell Tower, sponsored by Downtown Salisbury Inc., corner of Innes and Jackson streets. New Year's Eve at the Bell Tower, 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Live music, cookies, hot cider and cocoa. Chilled sparkling cider & Auld Lang Syne at midnight. www.downtownsalisburync.com, 704-637-7814 • Old Courthouse Theatre's 20th Annual New Year's Eve Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre — 8 p.m.-midnight, Dec. 31, Join Madam Zelda Von Schpookum at the “Mouldering Pines Inn,” fifth floor ballroom of Smith Tower, Charlotte Motor Speedway. Reservations on or before Dec. 5: $65 ea./$130 couple; after Dec. 5: $75 ea./ $150 couple, 704-788-2405.

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• Rowan County Board of Commissioners, 4 p.m., 130 W. Innes St. (Shown on Access16 Thursday, Saturday and Monday following the meeting at 9 a.m., 3 p.m., 8 p.m.) • Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners work session, 3:30 p.m., Cabarrus County Governmental Center, 65 Church Street, SE, Concord. • Landis Board of Aldermen, 7 p.m., Town Hall, 312 S. Main St., Landis. • Cleveland Town Board of Commissioners, 7 p.m., Town Hall, 302 E. Main St.

TUESDAY, Jan. 4 • Salisbury City Council, 4 p.m., City Hall, 217 S. Main St. (Shown on Access16 Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays at 9 a.m., 3 p.m., 8 p.m.) • China Grove Board of Aldermen, 7 p.m., Town Hall, 205 Swink St., China Grove. • Concord Book Club — 5:30 p.m., Concord Library auditorium; discussing “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett. Registration requested, 704-920-2053. • Piedmont Players Youth Theatre auditions for Disney’s The Jungle Book Kids! — 4 p.m., Jan. 4-5, come with short song prepared to sing, also cold reading from the script, elementary through high school students, Norvell Theater, 135 E. Fisher St. www.piedmontplayers.com, 704-633-5471.

FRIDAY, Jan. 7 • Salisbury Ghost Walk, paranormal investigation class and investigation. E-mail Boo@salisburyghostwalk.com or call 704-642-1734 for details. This event is by reservation only.

SATURDAY, Jan. 8 • Indie pop band Janus 4-14 — 8 p.m. Michael Graham opens. Looking Glass Artist Collective black box theater, 405 N. Lee St. $5 cover. Info: 704-245-2302.

Jackson Street home burns Firefighters were battling a fire Sunday night at 928 S. Jackson St. that was threatening a second structure. Freezing temperatures made controlling the blaze tough for firefighters, who were called out just before 10:30 p.m. as flames were showing at the single-story structure. No one was believed to be inside after firefighters searched the duplex.

Jim Barber has some photographs from 1913 of the high school, intermediate and primary grades of the old Mount Ulla School. As you can see from the chalkboard sign, the photograph above shows students in the primary grades as they appeared on Jan. 22, 1913. Barber said the three old school photographs he has once belonged to his grandparents. “Not sure who any of the people are but have been told that my grandfather William Barber and his brother Richard Barber are in one of these,” Jim Barber said. “To the best of my knowledge, the school was located on Highway 801 about a quarter-mile past where the old Mount Ulla Flour Mill once stood. Of course, it is no longer standing, and where it stood is a small development of homes.” If you have a possible photograph for “Yesterday,” contact Mark Wineka at 704-797-4263, or mwineka@salisburypost.com.

Shingles remains Just the threat of snow persistent problem prompts rush to stores Question: I am dealing with shingles, can you do an article about it? Just what is it exactly and when can I start exercising again. Answers: Shingles is the same virus that causes the chickenpox. Once you have had the chickenpox the virus becomes dormant in the nerve roots. Why the virus sometimes becomes active again is unclear. Shingles can happen to any age group but are more likely to develop if you are older than 60, if you had chickenpox before the age of 1, or your immune system is by weakened medications, disease, or stress. ESTER Shingles is a MARSH painful skin rash often with blisters that is caused by the varicella zoster virus (same as chickenpox). Only people who have had chickenpox can get shingles. The shingles vaccination was recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to reduce the risk of getting shingles or make it less painful if you do get it. The vaccination is for people 60 years and older. I would definitely check with your doctor about that. I know quite a few people who have suffered or are suffering the shingles right now and it is very painful and at times debilitating. Shingles usually clears in 2 to 3 weeks. The chance of it reoccurring is very slim. Sometimes the virus can affect the nerves that control movement, you may have temporary weakness or paralysis, and in extreme cases it can be permanent. That’s why it is so important to go to your doctor as soon as you suspect shingles. Signs and

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Recently, the weatherman hinted (accurately) at the possibility of a couple of inches of snow falling. This always leads to a truth that has worked its way up to stereotype, becoming further honored by achieving the status of a cliche, being that if snow is predicted, the shelves of milk and bread will be emptied by the frantic, storm-anMACK ticipating shopWILLIAMS pers long before the first snowflake has fallen. In the ensuing panic, I noticed many additions being made to that old stereotyped cliche. There were steaks, microwave dinners, and junk food best described as belonging to the “Twinkie” genre. From what I’ve seen, no one evidently thinks about the possibility of power outages when they are busily amassing their winter storm stores. When I was growing up, the fallout shelters were stocked with simple staples, such as cans of meat and crackers, much like the old “K” rations of the Army ( but to give World War III its due, it probably would have disrupted things much more severely than would have a couple of inches of snowfall). If a serious amount of thought had been expended by these customers, they would have considered the disruption of electric power by a “snowstorm gone bad,” becoming an ice storm instead. If it were a logical world, I would have seen, as opposed to what I did see, baskets loaded with those types of non-electrically dependent foods (as far as heating up and as far as getting to them is concerned), the kinds

symptoms of shingles usually affect only a small section of your body. • Pain, itching, tingling in a certain area where a couple of days later a rash may occur. • Rash turns into clusters of blisters. The blisters will fill with fluid and later crust over. • Some may experience headaches, fever and chills, aching body (like the flu), fatigue. I believe you should visit you doctor even with the “milder” cases but especially when the pain and rash is near your eyes (it can cause permanent damage and even blindness) Even though there is not a cure for the shingles your doctor can prescribe anti viral medications, pain medication and skin creams to get you better sooner and make it less painful. Simple cool wet compresses can help alleviate the pain too. To answer your question about when you can start to exercise again; first, your blisters have to be scabbed over. Anyone who has not had the chickenpox yet is susceptible to get infected. Ask your doctor for when he or she feels it is OK to exercise again. If you are cleared to exercise but are still dealing with post shingles pain, it is recommended to avoid friction in those painful areas. Avoid aerobics as sweat and heat can irritate the rash site. Avoid exercising in extremely hot or cold weather. Both extremes can aggravate the pain at the sites of your shingles because of the change in temperature. What you can try is yoga and or stretching exercises. Yoga and stretching exercises (of course as long it does not cause pain) may help you relax and manage the post shingles pain better.

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typically taken along by campers and hikers in the wilderness; however, there was a complete dearth of “pop-top” cans of Vienna Sauges, Beanie Weenies, sardines, or packages of Slim Jims (not the same kind of slim jims once used by a Rowan County deputy to open my car door when I had accidentally locked my keys inside, back in the days when deputies still did that sort of thing). I think that it would greatly benefit the needy, if after the snow melts in a few days ( as it usually does in the South), with the panic subsided, the once frantic shoppers could take fresh stock of what they actually need for their absolute survival, donating the excess to a local food bank. The transforming of the panic into benevolence would probably do all of those endorphin-related things for their circulatory systems and souls which such charitable acts are said to do. It was about closing time at that particular Food Lion store in Danville, and the store’s lights began to gradually go out. The cashier said that one customer had gotten mad and accused the store manager of turning out the lights on her, but the cashier said that the workers in the store have no control over the lights ( at that moment, I pictured some great switch, somewhere in Salisbury, being switched to the off position). Leaving the grocery store, on my way out to the car in the already falling snow, with my single little plastic Food Lion bag in my hand, I heard the strained, weighted-down, rolling sounds of the baskets all around me, and thought to myself, “Would that the Donner Party had been so well-provisioned!”

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• New Year’s Day • Rowan Museum’s 27th annual Old Stone House Christmas — 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 1 and noon-4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 2: tours of the house and reenactment of a colonial family’s Christmas celebration in Rowan County, guides in period costumes exhibit and demonstrate customs, crafts, musket firing, weaponry, woodworking, weaving, candle making, open fire cooking, tastings, hot cider, music, children’s games, blacksmithing, more. Adults $4, students, $2. One half mile down Old Stone House Road off Highway 52, Granite Quarry. 704-633-5946.

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The 200 block of West Innes was picturesque after a heavy snowfall blanketed Salisbury. WAYne hinshAW/for The SALISBUrY PoST

Blanket of white covers Rowan Temperatures dropped below freezing throughout much of Sunday, allowing Rowan County residents a day to enjoy the snow covering Rowan County. The snow was not welcomed by all, though. Nearly 200 power outages were reported to Duke Energy by 6:30 a.m. Sunday, said Frank Thomason, emergency services director for Rowan County. Most of the outages were in north and west Salisbury and in Cleveland, he said in an e-mail. By noon, the winter storm warning had expired and emergency crews were restoring power. No outages were reported in Rowan County by 6 p.m. Today is expected to be mostly sunny with a high near 34. The National Weather Service is warning that black ice could be a threat early today.

A sign for Interstate 85 near the square in Salisbury offers a fitting message to passers-by.

Granite Quarry firefighters had a quiet day, so they had a little fun building a snowman at the station. The firefighters are Jonathan McCulloh, left, John Cannon, Dalton Burleson, Chris Streetman and Charlie Drury.

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Pansies in bloom are coated in the snow.

A bird pops in for a quick meal at a snow-covered bird feeder.

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Local residents on mission of mercy Jim Harris and Barbara Doby are on a mission. Haiti was devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake and has suffered through a hurricane, cholera outbreak and political rioting since then. Harris and Doby wanted to return to Haiti on Jan. 15-22 to continue their work, but their trip is on hold for now. Eventually, they will lead a group of 15 people, including two doctors and three nurses to Leogane, Haiti. Besides the medical contingent, most of the rest will do DAVID construction FREEZE and lead Bible study. This will be Harris’ fourth trip and Doby’s third to the area. Political rioting in Haiti followed the primary election on Nov. 28, and more rioting is expected for the general election on Jan. 16. The government and police are not strong enough to control the rioting, so Harris and Doby are hoping that the unrest will settle enough for them to return to Leogane on March 10-17. Harris is a retired Baptist minister and Doby is well known for her community work and also serves as a church deacon. The focus of the trip will be continued construction on Jonathan’s Home for Boys Orphanage and two medical clinics. The orphanage is planned for 50 boys, and 37 are already there. Fifty-six girls live across the street in a temporary shelter. Doby hopes that a California church will complete that project. Harris made previous trips in January, March and September of this year. It was his vision to provide the funds to build the orphanage, and he promptly raised $40,000 to do it. The group is now working to collect $30,000 more to complete their financial commitment. Doby joined him on the March and September trips. Both have fallen in love with the children, who range in age from 11 months to 20 years. The orphans don’t have living relatives, and many don’t know their last names. Most of them don’t know how old they are. First Baptist Church of China Grove start sending money for food and other churches have joined the funding drive after Pastor Harris described the terrible conditions he found in Haiti. Doby met Harris back in 1973 when he was pastor at Stallings Memorial Baptist. They later saw each other at the YMCA, and eventually discussed the possibility of a mission trip. Doby was touched by the situation, and asked God how she could help. He told her to “Get the passport and go!”

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Local volunteers plan to carry medical supplies to help Haitians. Soon she was packing for the March trip. She takes personal items and clothes for every orphan, but Doby said that her special talent was teaching the kids to dance. “All I really do is wiggle, but they love it!” she said. The kids call her “Barbie,” but Doby points out that there is much more than giving to the kids. “It’s what they give back to me. I think it is pure happiness,” Doby said. Two mothers from First Baptist have been collecting clothing and personal items for this trip. Jennifer Carter and Becky Sides, along with Pastor Steve Wilson, head the committee for collecting donations, taking inventories and dividing the goods. They have the picture and probable age of each child on an exact stack of goods. Enough luggage with hard sides has been donated by Partners in Learning of Salisbury. Harris points out that each bag of luggage needs to weigh 49 pounds, not 48 because that would be wasting space, nor 50 because that will be considered overweight. The 15 volunteers who are going can each bring two 49pound bags and a carry-on. One bag per person will include the donated clothing, personal items, and medicine. The medicine for the clinic will take up a lot of space, but Doby wasn’t worried. “Women know how to pack luggage. We’ll bounce it down,” said. The medicine is valued at $25,000. This trip will last for about eight days. Conditions have improved quite a bit since Harris’ first trip, shortly after the earthquake. Pastor Kelly Fleury and the Fleury Foundation had established a 600 person school, a medical facility, a pharmacy, a bakery and several homes over 10 years. “It only took one minute to destroy it,” Harris said.

The focus of an upcoming trip will be construction on Jonathan’s Home for Boys Orphanage and two medical clinics. One of the house mothers was killed. During the first mission trip, his group slept in tents and stretched tarps over poles for shade and privacy. There was no running water, so the group relied on bottled water. “A real treat was to take a gallon jug, punch a couple of holes in the bottom, and use it to take a shower,” Harris said. On the March trip, showers came from a suspended 5-gallon bucket. Meals were simple, beans and rice in the morning, changing to rice and beans in the afternoon. Doby had to sleep in a small tent with 4 large pieces of luggage. The only way to keep her feet dry on a rainy night was to put them up on the luggage. Harris woke Doby by saying “Barbara, got the coffee made yet?” Since Doby had the only coffee pot, she was able to negotiate a bigger tent for the next night. She only had two mugs, so the others set about cutting water bottles in two to hold their coffee. Everyone was amazed when the plastic bottles shrank when holding the coffee. Harris wondered why everyone was so concerned about mosquitoes. Everyone

talked about them, but he hadn’t seen any yet. The question was answered in September on their next trip. It was the rainy season and always hot. “You didn’t have any choice. You would just sweat and mosquitoes came to chew on you,” Harris said. By now, the orphanage building was well along in construction, and the men could sleep in one room and women in another. On the coming trip, Harris and Doby hope to dedicate the orphanage. They know that conditions will only be slightly better than the last time. Much of the worldwide relief effort has not made it to area. “It’s not the place you go for a vacation. We go to minister. We know that we can’t fix all the problems, but we can do our part,” Harris said. Soon the first building, Jonathan’s Home for Boys, will be complete. Meanwhile, Jennifer Carter’s daughter Kate is teaching Doby how to use her sewing machine as she prepares to return to Leogane. She will have a lot of work to do. For more information, contact Jim Harris at 704-6407612 , or Barbara Doby at 704855-8329.

Schools, health care will help close budget gap RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s $3.7 billion gap between expected revenues and expenses for the next budget year is smaller than the $4.6 billion gap Democrats calculated they closed in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. But the projected shortfall Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue and the Republicans taking charge of the Legislature next month must fix starting July 1 likely will be more onerous than the one two years ago. Lawmakers say the cuts they ordered in 2009 and 2010 were more conspicuous compared to the coming year. The GOP and Perdue have said a pair of temporary income tax increases set to expire this year should end — erasing a potential $1.3 billion in revenues. And gone will be $1.6 billion in federal stimulus funds. Next year “is the hard year and it doesn’t have a lot to do with anything except that the federal money has ended,” Perdue told reporters in a year-end interview last week. “We’ve fallen off the cliff.” Perdue has presented the skeleton of a government reorganization plan and is interested in finding extra cash elsewhere. Republicans vow to find waste and eliminate discretionary state programs. But there’s no doubt health care and public education will take the biggest hits because the two areas take up 78 percent of the spending in the current $19 billion state budget. The biggest chunks of spending in those areas are teacher salaries and medical care for low-income residents. There’s been talk about in-

creasing public school class sizes, cutting payment rates to doctors and hospitals who treat Medicaid patients or eliminate Medicaid treatment that’s not required by the federal government. “There are still some areas that won’t affect people, but the large majority of this is going to be people,” said Rep. Jim Crawford, D-Granville, an outgoing cochairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Predictably, the GOP and Perdue are sharing few details until absolutely necessary. Perdue, who’s expected to present her two-year budget in late February or March, said she’s whittled the gap down to $900 million, but only as an initial draft “in my mind.” One key senator declined to identify areas the GOP could be targeting, knowing that interest groups are now hanging on the words of elected officials. “I better wait and find out what we’re talking about,” said Sen. Neal Hunt, RWake, one of three expected chairmen of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Options provided by state agencies to Perdue this fall on how to reach reduction targets of 10 and 15 percent give a taste of the pain those cuts could cause. The Department of Public Instruction said a 10 percent reduction could mean the loss of 5,300 classroom teaching positions, while the University of North Carolina system said they might have to eliminate funding for 2,000 positions. The Department of Health and Human Services identified potential cuts to care for Medicaid patients with mental or physi-

cal disabilities and for the elderly living at home. The reduction options, if implemented, would result in the loss of 21,000 positions, or 7.4 percent of the state government work force, according to a report from the liberal-leaning North Carolina Budget & Tax Center. Even if the temporary taxes were extended, the results would be devastating, particularly in education, center analyst Alexandra Forter-Sirota said: “Those are obviously going to be felt by all North Carolina families.” Perdue said she’s hopeful those levels of job losses won’t occur. She said she wants to protect as much as possible teaching and class-size levels in kindergarten through the third grade but is open to raising class sizes in higher grades. An influx of $400 million over the next four years through the Race to the Top federal education reform competition should provide more diagnostic information to teachers in higher grades to make sure students aren’t falling behind. Perdue is also interested in giving more flexibility to local school systems to spend likely reduced levels of money allocated to them in the way they see fit. “The best decisions are made at the local level, and you have school boards elected at the local level,” said Sen. Richard Stevens, R-Wake, another projected co-chairman of the Senate budget committee. Stevens said trimming the number of optional Medicaid services that North Carolina provides probably will be con-

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SALISBURY — Gertrude Cashwell Safrit, age 93, of Salisbury, passed away Friday, Dec. 24, 2010, at The Meadows Retirement Center. Born Sept. 21, 1917, in Rowan County, she was the daughter of the late Gussie Benson Cashwell and the late Nathanal Knight Cashwell. She was educated in Rowan County schools. Gertrude and her late husband, James, did Meals on Wheels and other county activities. She was also very active in her church, North Main Baptist Church of Salisbury. She was a faithful homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Monroe Safrit; brothers Doc, Bill, Claude and Bruce; and sisters Fern and Mary. Survivors include nephews Richard E. Cashwell of Myrtle Beach, Billy T. Cashwell of Pensacola Fla., and Steve R. Crowell of Salisbury; nieces Vikki Cashwell Peace of Robertsdale, Ala., Rhonda Levan of Greensboro, Gail Brinson of Abbington, Va., and Brenda Hemperley of China Grove. Visitation: 2:-3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28 at Lyerly Funeral Home. Service: 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 28 at Lyerly Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Dale Robertson officiating. Burial will follow at Chestnut Hill Cemetery. Memorials: North Main Baptist Church, Gussie Benson Cashwell Sunday School Class, 1501 N. Main St., Salisbury 28144. Lyerly Funeral Home is serving the Safrit family. OnBlanche A. Johnson line condolences may be WILMINGTON — Blanche made at www.lyerlyfuneralA. Johnson, 90, of Wilmington, home.com died Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, at the Kempton at Brightmore. Edward 'Gene' Corriher Blanche was born Aug. 15, 1920, in Boston, Mass., daugh- Service Change CONCORD — Edward Euter of the late Albert G. Hunt and Mary Estelle Wright gene “Gene” Corriher, 84, of Brian Center of Cabarrus, Hunt. Mrs. Johnson graduated died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Service Change: Thursday, from Leslie College in 1941. Dec. 30, 2 p.m., at Rodgers She was an elementary school Park Reformed Church. Visiteacher in the Danvers, tation: 1-2 p.m. Thursday at Mass., school system for 35 the church. Burial: West years, excelling in creative Lawn Memorial Park, China teaching techniques. Her gifts Grove. as a teacher enabled her to reLinn-Honeycutt Funeral late personally to her students Home, Landis, is in charge. and their parents, shaping many lives along the way. She is survived by her son, Margaret D. Schumaker David Lewis of Florida; seven Service Change SALISBURY — Mrs. Marnieces and nephews, Meg Dellinger (Jerry) of Bolivia, garet Virginia Dunn SchuN.C., Sue MacCallum (Jim) of maker, age 92, of Salisbury, Supply, Peter Fulton (Donna) died Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. Service Change: Has been of Salem, N.H., George Fulton changed to Wednesday, Dec. (Kerry) of Columbia, S.C., 29 in the mausoleum of Richard Winn (Elaine) of Rowan Memorial ParkCemeMercy Ships, South Africa, tery. Visitation is at 1 p.m. Penny Reay and Tim Winn, with funeral service at 2 p.m. both of Boston, Mass.; and nuSummersett Funeral merous grandnieces and Home is serving the family. grandnephews. A Celebration of Life with the family will be scheduled Myrtle 'Mert' Sifford SALISBURY — Mrs. Myrat a later date. tle Gulledge “Mert” Sifford, Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials in her name 75, of Salisbury, died Saturmay be made to Lutheran Ser- day, Dec. 25, 2010, at Presbyvices for the Aging of NC, terian Hospital Charlotte. Funeral arrangements are pendP.O. Box 947, Salisbury, NC ing with Powles Funeral 28145. Home in Rockwell assisting Andrews Mortuary in the family. Wilmington is assisting the family. Condolences may be Shana T. Mogyoros sent to the family at www.anService Change drewsmortuary.com ROCKWELL — Shana TolA Market Street Chapel bert Mogyoros, 24, of RockService well, died Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, at Rowan Regional MedNorma Rene Pratt ical Center in Salisbury. Service Change: Memorial SPENCER — Norma Rene Pratt, 67, of Spencer, passed services will be conducted away Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010 Wednesday, Dec. 29 at 1 p.m. at N.C. Lutheran Home. Fu- at the Powles Funeral Home Chapel, Rockwell. neral arrangements are inPowles Funeral Home of complete with Summersett Rockwell is assisting the famFuneral Home in charge. ily.

CHINA GROVE — Loma Geneva Kirk Corriher, 85, of Walt Corriher Road, passed away Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, at Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast in Concord. Born Sept. 15, 1925, in Rowan County, she was the the daughter of the late Gideon and Pearl Eddelman Kirk. Educated in Rowan County schools, she was a member of Rodgers Park Reformed Church and had retired from Cannon Mills in the sheet department. She loved her family very much and was always making the family favorites in the kitchen. Surviving her are her husband, Walter B Corriher Jr.; daughter Vickie Carpenter, ( Rodger) and sons Chris A. Corriher and Randy K. Corriher (Nancy), all of China Grove; grandchildren Kristen Wise, Lauren Bouknight, Donna Cox, Tracy Yow, Mathew Corriher and Jeff Corriher; great-grandchildren; eight and two great-great-grandchildren. Service: A graveside service will be held on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at West Lawn Memorial Park, with Rev. Donald McManus, minister. Memorials: May be made to the National Kidney Foundation at www.kidneync.org Online condolences may be made to the family at www.linnhoneycuttfuneralhome.com

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said. He said people still inquire about buying it, many not realizing it’s been banned. “A lot of people have just heard about it and are looking for something to try,” he said. The Post asked teens to talk about their knowledge of salvia and if they know of people using it. To protect the privacy of the students, the Post is not using their real names. Their high schools are not being named for the same reason. Kacy said she saw the Cyrus video, but thought she was “smoking the real stuff.” She is of the belief that salvia isn’t as bad as marijuana. “I think it’s probably better than smoking marijuana, but at the same time bad,” Kacy said.

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Tabitha said she felt some teens and especially younger children will think it’s cool because Cyrus smoked the substance. “Not only did she mess up the Disney name, but also her father’s,” Tabitha said. Cyrus signed up to be a role model when she became famous, Tabitha said. “It was an act of selfishness,” she said. “I feel like she’s leading the wrong example. Teens will see it and most will try to imitate that,” Natalie said. Natalie said Cyrus has a positive image to maintain and is a role model to teens. Travis said he doesn’t expect Cyrus to be perfect, but says her job must be stressful. When asked if Cyrus hav-

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ing a stressful job meant she got a “pass,” Travis said no, but added most people may see it as a bigger issue if it were cocaine. None of the teens said they had tried salvia or know friends or classmates who have either. Don Riek, a licensed clinical addiction specialist with Family Therapy Institute in Salisbury, said many clients abuse more “hardcore” drugs like cocaine, but he said Cyrus was setting a bad example. “Basically kids look to role models for guidance. She is a poor role model in my opinion. If she is doing that, then what message is conveyed to the children of today?” Riek asked. He said parents should open the lines of communica-

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Curious Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Journey: Exhibit focuses on wartime escape WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Long before he pedaled himself into all sorts of mischief in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Curious George Rides a Bike,â&#x20AC;? the famous monkey took a much more harrowing ride when his creators escaped the Nazi invasion of France. The manuscript that would later launch their beloved series of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books was among the few belongings that Margret and H.A. Rey took with them when they fled Paris in June 1940, just days before German troops marched into the city. Both German Jews, the husband-and-wife team cobbled together two bikes out of spare parts and pedaled south

to Orleans. Trains carried them through Spain and Portugal, where they boarded a ship to the United States. Eighteen years later, the Reys built a summer cottage in New Hampshire, where an exhibit about their wartime escape now is on display at a nonprofit center dedicated to the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy. To complement the exhibit, which was created by the Institute LOUISE BORDEN for Holocaust Education in author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Journey That Nebraska and features illusSaved Curious Georgeâ&#x20AC;? trations from a 2005 childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book about the Reysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trip, the Margret and H.A. Rey Center plans a series of lectures about the Reys and immigra- of George, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also intion during World War II. spired by the story because â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids are drawn in because these people were ordinary cit-

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izens in a wartime situation,â&#x20AC;? said Louise Borden, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Journey That Saved Curious George.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the whole drama of it.â&#x20AC;? Borden, who was surprised that little had been written about the Reysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; escape before her book, took a journey of her own while researching it. She dug through the Reysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; papers at the de Grummond Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi, enlisted her high school French teacher in Ohio with help translating, then headed to France, where the Reys arrived for a 2-week

honeymoon in 1936 and ended up staying four years. After months spent reading Hansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meticulous notes penciled in tiny pocket calendars and viewing black-andwhite photos, Borden was surprised by the colorful scenes she found at the chateau where the Reys spent the fall of 1939, vibrant colors that were echoed in Reyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artwork. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m following in their footsteps, I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m kind of a witness to how they were living and the landscape they were living in. Setting and place is always really important in my work. This had

just natural, wonderful settings to use,â&#x20AC;? she said. While living at the chateau, the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s German accents attracted the attention of the village police. To prove that he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a spy, H.A. Rey led the officer upstairs to his studio and showed him his sketches and watercolor illustrations of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fifi,â&#x20AC;? the monkey who later would be renamed George. George rescued the couple again when another officer questioned them aboard a train headed to Spain, then smiled and moved on after thumbing through the manuscript.

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Make a different kind of New Year’s resolution Once again, it’s time for the traditional New Year’s resolutions. Year after year, people continue to make the same old “worldly” resolutions, which usually get broken after a short while. It makes me wonder if any of these people have actually thought about asking God what He wanted them to change, improve and begin doing in their lives for him during the next year and thereafter. I guarantee God’s resolutions for them will be entirely different from their own. Below are several examples of what God would ask us all to do for Him in the future new years. “Be content with such things as you have” (Hebrews 13:5). Demonstrate more of the fruit of the spirit in your life, which is “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23). “Love your enemies, bless them who curse you, do good to them who hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). “Walk according to His commandments” (2 John 1:6). Everyone must choose one — Christ or condemnation (hell). We must either receive Jesus Christ in this life or stand before him in the life to come as our eternal judge. May you have a blessed year. — Ellie Mae Lambert Salisbury

The headline “Ralph Ketner to teach personal finance class” (Dec. 20 Post) gives me entirely too much credit. The idea was that of Professor Al Carter, past chair of the Ketner School of Business, and he will be doing most of the teaching, with me assisting. I agree that the course is badly needed and will prove to be extremely popular. — Ralph Ketner Salisbury

Pesticide concerns Earlier this month California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) registered a controversial, carcinogenic new pesticide (methyl iodide) for use in the state’s strawberry fields. Never in California’s history has there been more public outcry against a new pesticide or such a compelling scientific case for concern across the country. My serious concern is based on the science. DPR’s own panel of independent scientists declared, “methyl iodide is a highly toxic chemical and we expect that any anticipated use of this agent would result in exposures to a large number of the public.” Upon hearing DPR’s decision, Dr. John Froines, chair of the panel, told the press, “I honestly think that this chemical will cause disease and illness. And so does everyone else on the committee.” Theodore Slotkin, another panel member and professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at Duke University, wrote, “It is my personal opinion that this decision will result in serious harm to California citizens, and most especially to children.” DPR made this decision for reasons that we can’t know but can certainly surmise. Upon reviewing the evidence from California, the state of Washington decided not to use methyl iodide. It’s time for California and U.S. EPA to follow the science, rather than bend to chemical industry demands. Methyl iodide is too dangerous to be used. Period. Governor Brown should make it a priority during his first weeks in office to reverse DPR’s decision. — Jacob Hilton Salisbury

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2010 a year of political upheavals ALEIGH — It’s hard to imagine that 2010 will be remembered, at least in North Carolina political circles, as anything other than the year of the Republicans. For the first time in more than a century, Republicans won majorities in both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly. The electoral victories — booting from office longtime Democratic incumbents from sprawling mountain districts and those from farming communities in the East — came amid continued financial woes for the state and as a former North Carolina governor became the SCOTT MOONEYHAM first ever to plead guilty to a felony for acts while in office. The year was one of historic political happenings, even if some wouldn’t be remembered so fondly by those involved.

Democrats in North Carolina and elsewhere began the year with the political landscape tilted against them. Barack Obama’s popularity had eroded. Polls showed Gov. Beverly Perdue doing even worse. A stagnant economy put Democrats on the defensive. In Washington and in Raleigh, they were in charge. The blame for an economy that couldn’t shake off high levels of joblessness fell on them. In North Carolina, Republicans put together a state-level money-raising and candidate-recruiting organization that finally rivaled that of the Democrats. Tom Fetzer, a smooth former Raleigh mayor and political consultant, became the GOP’s attack dog. As chairman of the state Republican Party, he didn’t disappoint, relentlessly pounding on Perdue and the Democrats. By the end of summer, the still soft economy forced Democrats to acknowledge that they had problems. Political insiders expected that the state Senate — where a number of longtime Democratic incumbents were retiring — would be up for grabs. By Labor Day, it became apparent that the Democrats’ grip on the House was in jeopardy, too. Republican activist and businessman Art Pope led an independent expenditure campaign that went after vulnerable legislative Democrats with mailers and TV ads attacking their voting records. On Election Day, the results were stunning. Republicans in the House completely reversed their 16-seat disadvantage, winning a 68-52 majority. In the Senate, Republicans went from holding just 20 seats to a 31-19 majority. The GOP’s win meant that the reign of Marc Basnight, one of the most powerful political figures in the history of the state, was over. For 18 years, Basnight had been state

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Senate leader, directing state resources to the East and to the public university system that he had come to champion despite never earning a college degree. The Republican tide, though, promised the emergence of new leaders. A small-town lawyer from Rockingham County, Phil Berger, had pushed his way through earlier internal strife among Senate Republicans and led their election effort. By Election Night, he stood poised to take over Basnight’s position. In the House, a two-term retired IBM executive from the Charlotte suburb of Cornelius, Thom Tillis, was chosen by fellow House Republicans as their guy to become the next House Speaker, to replace Democrat Joe Hackney. Republicans’ election success may have been helped along by Democrats’ legal problems. The federal investigation into the activities of former Gov. Mike Easley ramped up in January, when former Easley administration lawyer Ruffin Poole was indicted on 51 criminal charges related to public corruption and tax evasion. By spring, after federal prosecutors added a few more charges, Poole began cooperating. He pleaded guilty to a single charge of tax evasion. Just after the election, it was Easley’s turn. In a plea deal, he essentially pleaded no contested to a single campaign financerelated felony in exchange for no prison time and a $1,000 fine. To some North Carolinians, it appeared the former governor had gotten off light. His lawyer, Joe Cheshire, argued otherwise. He said Easley had been hounded for actions never before viewed as criminal, and the weakness of the case was seen in the result. Perdue, meanwhile, had her own legal problems. After fessing up to a few dozen unreported airplane flights, the state Board of Elections eventually fined her campaign $30,000. The civil fine didn’t prevent state and federal prosecutors from announcing their own investigations of the Perdue campaign. Perdue also saw little letup in the financial problems that had been plaguing state government since she took office. “For two years, we’ve been fixing the bleed,” she said. The governor and legislature were able to stem some budget cutting with federal stimulus dollars. And tax collections, after dropping off in 2009, slowly began recovering in the second part of 2010. Still, the federal aid was set to end in the next budget year, and $1 billion in taxes were set to expire. Legislative Republicans and Perdue pledged they would allow them to do just that, leaving a $3.5 billion budget gap to close. Perdue promised substantial government streamlining as a result. • • • Scott Mooneyham writes about state government for Capital Press Association.

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ree Trade” agreements create jobs. Our area witnessed a vivid illustration of this in November 2005, when the brick walls of the massive Pillowtex Plant No. 1 in Kannapolis crumbled to the ground. Four thousand pounds of dynamite in shaped cartridges detonated to create a series of controlled explosions that shattered critical supports throughout the structure, and gravity did the rest. Spectators gasped and yelled in response to the succession of booms, and at the huge crumbling sections that slammed to earth with so much force, they blew dust even higher than the towering smokestacks that stood untouched nearby. But all then gazed in silence at the eerie precision of the collapsing structure, which dropped exactly as the engineers of the D.H. Griffin Wrecking Company planned. It was Griffin’s secondlargest demolition job in the company’s history. Its largest was the World Trade Center cleanup. Nine months later, it took down the twin smokestacks. When Fieldcrest executives first announced the Michael C. Tug- closing in 2003, workers gle is a political gathered at the plant for weeks afterward during writer living in lunch breaks and days off to Charlotte. hold prayer vigils. When the plant closed, 4,300 workers lost their jobs, the largest single layoff in North Carolina history. The Kannapolis area still has not recovered. While the state unemployment rate just increased to 9.7 percent, Kannapolis struggles with a rate of 12.3 percent. Even supporters of the North American Free Trade Act, which had eliminated tariffs between the US, Canada, and Mexico, admitted Washington’s free trade policies were to blame. Economist Michael L. Walden, in an article entitled, “Pillowtex: Don’t forget the benefits of freer trade,” identified “lower-cost foreign labor” as the reason so many American textile and apparel jobs had vanished overseas. From 1997 to 2002, North Carolina lost 100,000 textile and 70,000 apparel jobs. Now a similar trade agreement threatens even more jobs. If Congress approves it, President Obama’s U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KFTA) will extend the principles of NAFTA to South Korea. Supporters in academia and think SALISBURY POST FILE PHOTO tanks claim its Dust rises around the Pilpassage will boost lowtex Plant No. 1 building economic growth as it was imploded on Nov. by opening markets and reducing 12, 2005. trade restrictions — the same assurances President Bill Clinton gave American workers and small business owners about his NAFTA treaty. Perhaps this time Americans should consider the actual, as opposed to the theoretical, effects of this type of trade arrangement. Fortunately, many seemed to have learned from NAFTA, and are taking action. An unusual coalition opposes this agreement, including Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group. Chrysler announced its concerns by first noting that it has “supported every free trade agreement negotiated by the U.S. government,” but cannot support a trade agreement that is unfairly tilted toward Korea. Workers feel similar concerns. The AFL-CIO calls the KFTA the “last thing working people need.” Because the agreement does not adequately open US exports to Korean markets, businesses and workers in the Carolinas face even more direct losses from this proposed trade agreement. North and South Carolina are still home to 42.4 percent of the nation’s textile workers, and textiles are South Korea’s second-largest export. Just as troubling is the aggressive growth of South Korea’s automobile industry, which is now the fifth-largest in the world. South Carolina alone has more than 30,000 people in automotive-related manufacturing. As bad as this agreement is for American workers, things could get even worse. With North-South reunification a growing possibility, another 21 million desperately poor people from North Korea could provide a vast supply of cheap labor, all eager to work for far less than American workers. So the next time we hear a tenured economist paint a rosy picture of what free trade agreements can do for the economy, let’s remember the effect shaped cartridges of dynamite have on factories. And let’s also bend some ears in Congress so our representatives hear from workers and business owners as well as the “experts” who gave us NAFTA.

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Parents argue while kitchen burns down? Dear Amy: My husband and I are having an argument and need an outside opinion. Here’s the situation: We have lived in our current rental house for about eight months. There is a drawer in our kitchen that has — among other things — matches and batteries in it. We have a 19-month-old son who is able to open said drawer and get stuff out of it. My husband stays home and is the primary ASK caretaker of AMY our son while I am at work. My husband has admitted that he has had more opportunities to fix the situation because he is home more often. I have also admitted that I obviously do bear some responsibility because I also knew that it was a problem and until yesterday had never done anything about it. Our question is, who is more responsible for the fact

that the drawer has (until yesterday) never been cleaned out and the dangerous items taken out of our son’s reach? — Wondering Mother Dear Wondering: Sometimes when I’m out and about, people ask me if I make up letters that appear in my column. And I always respond by saying, “Who can make this up?” In the time it took you and your husband to bat this issue back and forth and then for you to sit down to e-mail me your query, your son could have ingested several batteries and learned to light his own cigarettes. My point being: Both parents are equally responsible for removing dangers from Junior’s reach. Generally, whatever adult perceives the hazard first should act first. Ask yourself: If your son were at a day care center or a relative’s house, would you want his caregivers to argue over who is responsible for providing a child-safe environment? Or would you want someone to just take care of it?

Dear Amy: I am a mother of two children with another baby ready to be born any day now. My older daughter is in kindergarten, and I have not been very active when it comes time to volunteer for class parties and such because my pregnancy has been very rough. Recently I received a nasty phone call from one of the class mothers stating that I did not sign up to help out at the winter party. She also pointed out that I had not given money for the teachers’ gift, even though the deadline for this contribution was more than a week away. I know she is aware of my pregnancy because I met her at the Halloween party and she asked me when I was due. How should I have responded? I didn’t call her because I was afraid she would talk to me as if I were one of her children. What do you recommend? — Pregnant and Frustrated Dear Frustrated:You should have responded politely to this person who has been rude to you.

Reuse your Christmas cards It’s sad to throw away Christmas cards. There’s a bit of guilt when you don’t keep some of them. Hoarding them in a box for years seems as wasteful as tossing them out. You can save some as keepsakes or reuse a few. How have you reused cards? Here are a few ideas. GIFT TAGS: Cut sections into small gift tags for next year. Cut cards into whatever geometric shapes you like or use cookie cutters as a template to cut them into holiday themed shapes. One reader, Kim from Florida, shares: “I used some to decorate g o o d i e bags. I cut out the card front (or picture portion of it) with decor a t i v e SARA edged scisNOEL sors, glued it to the front of a brown paper lunch bag, put the goodies inside, turned the top down a couple of times and punched two holes through, and tied it closed with curling ribbon.” BOOKMARKS: Cut the prettiest parts of the card into the shape of a bookmark (roughly 1-1/2 inches by 6 inches). Use a hole punch and punch a hole at the top. Add a piece of yarn or ribbon as a tassel. LACING CARDS: Glue the card closed. Use a hole punch to punch holes around the edge of the card. Provide shoelaces. Young children can use these to weave through the holes and practice small motor skills. If the holes tear, cut the cards and make small puzzles. TABLE DECORATION: Make placemats by cutting off the pretty side of Christmas cards. Place it between a cheap vinyl place mat and a piece of Contact paper and trim excess from the edges. Make a holiday tablecloth by buying a clear vinyl tablecloth and use invisible tape

Here’s a sample script: “I won’t be helping out with class parties this winter. My understanding about contributing to the teachers’ gift was that the deadline was next week. If I can contribute, you’ll receive the money by then. “Thank you for all you do for these teachers and the kids. I can tell it’s really frustrating, and I’ll certainly step up to help if I’m able later in the year.” You don’t have to offer reasons or excuses for not volunteering. Volunteers volunteer. That’s why they call it volunteering (otherwise it would be called “work”). Being nasty isn’t an effective way to get help, and the sooner this mom realizes this, the more help she will have. Send questions via e-mail to askamy@tribune.com or by mail to Ask Amy, Chicago Tribune, TT500, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611. Amy Dickinson’s memoir, “The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them” (Hyperion), is available in bookstores. triBUne Media SerViceS

Is all the financial advice you hear wrong? These days, financial advice is not hard to come by. Unfortunately, most of what you hear is not right. The information is skewed and the presentation overly dramatic because it comes from people who stand to benefit if you respond. The best thing you can do is to assume everything MARY you hear is HUNT wrong. Then confirm or refute the information for yourself, relying on the wisdom of people and resources that you know you can trust. —Life insurance. You’ve heard that everyone needs life

insurance — even children. That is wrong. The purpose of life insurance is not to pay for burial. The purpose of life insurance is to replace your income for those who now depend on it and/or to pay for services — for example, child care and housekeeping -- that your family would require in your absence. Do you need life insurance? Ask yourself this question: If my income or the services I perform for my family were to disappear suddenly, would anyone be left in dire financial straits? That is how to decide whether you need life insurance. Except in the case of sophisticated estate planning, life insurance should not be combined with investing or other financial activities. (Before I get a lot of angry mail from in-

surance salespeople, let me stress that I’ve heard all of your arguments. I am not easily dissuaded.) —Credit counseling. You’ve heard there are nonprofit credit counseling companies that will help you pay your credit card debt in full for only 25 to 50 percent of the amount you owe. That is wrong. Though a reputable nonprofit credit counseling organization can be a lifesaver for someone in the fast lane to bankruptcy court, credit counseling is not a panacea. Credit counselors sometimes can negotiate lower interest rates, but debt reduction? In your dreams. Most creditors who agree to lesser terms negotiated by a third party will report the debt as being paid late or unsatisfactorily. That could mean a

seven-year black eye on your credit report. —Tax-deductible. You’ve heard that you should not pay off your home mortgage because the interest is tax-deductible. It is, but that reasoning is wrong. Deductibility is a consolation prize. It softens the blow on expenses that cannot be avoided. Example: If you are in the 28 percent tax bracket and pay $1,000 in deductible mortgage interest a year, that translates to a $280 reduction in your tax bill. If you pay off that mortgage, you lose the $280 tax relief. But guess what? You get to keep the $720, too! Who in his right mind would choose to pay $720 to get back $280?

to adhere the cards face down on the tablecloth so they show through the vinyl. NEW CARDS: Cut the fronts off and use as postcards (be sure to cut to 4 inches by 6 inches, postcard size, if mailing) or use as recipe cards. DECOUPAGE: Use for craft projects. For example, use ModPodge and add a Christmas card collage to a wooden tray bought at a craft store. Use to serve food or drinks next Christmas. SCRAPBOOKING: Use them when creating a new layout. Frame a card front or simply cut the front as a matting for a frame, too. LISTS: Use a few for shopping lists. It can be for routine shopping, or save them to jot down Christmas gift ideas in the upcoming year. LEFTOVER CARDS: Sometimes you have leftover cards that you bought to send out. You might not want to send the exact same cards the following year. You can keep them for a couple of years and send them. Or swap with a few friends during your next get-together. DONATE: Donate your cards to St Jude’s Ranch’s recycled card program (stjudesranch. org/help —card.php). Children make new cards by using the fronts of donated cards and adding new card backs. They offer the following tips: — All types of greeting cards are used. — Only the card front can be used. (Please check to be sure the back side is clear of any writing, etc.) — They can’t accept Hallmark, Disney or American Greeting cards. — 5 inches by 7 inches or smaller is preferred. You can mail them to: St. Jude’s Ranch for Children Recycled Card Program 100 St. Jude’s Street Boulder City, NV 89005 877-977-SJRC (7572) You can buy cards from them, too. Visit www. stjudesranch.org/store. Sara Noel is the owner of Frugal Village www.frugalvillage.com United FeatUre Syndicate¬

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so the train had “Charlotte” painted on the cab. The engine ran between Greenville, S.C., and Salisbury/Spencer, pulling 12-15 passenger cars. A recorded conversation by the engineer is played as the men talk about delays on the track ahead. The sound of “choo, choo, choo” made by the steam locomotives is heard as well. The 1401 was one of eight engines used to pull Franklin Roosevelt’s funeral train from Warm Springs, Ga., to Washington in April of 1945. The funeral train was pulled by two engines in “doubleheader” pairs. With engine 1401 in front of No. 1385, the funeral train was pulled from Greenville to Spencer through Salisbury. The train traveled at 20-25 mph, slowing to 10 mph at times and stopping for a short while in some towns. The rails were lined with citizens waiting to see the passing train. O.B. Surratt of Spencer was the engineer on No. 1385. Engine 1401 was last fully repaired in the Spencer Shops in 1951 then retired from service in 1952. After being stored in Alexander, Va., from 1953 until 1961, it was given to the National Museum for display. Spencer is called an “Industrial Community being a suburb of Salisbury.” In 1897, the town was born around 141 acres of Southern Railway land purchased to build the Spencer Shops. The town developed to serve 2,500 employees. A downtown Spencer parade from 1920 is recorded in a photo that shows a Stanback Headache Powders advertisement painted on a building in the background. Displays and familiar photos of the Spencer Shops are placed around No. 1401. The shops are pictured to be

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Current Falcons bring back memories of 1998 ATLANTA — They were known as the “Dirty Birds,” a colorful cast of characters who came closer than any other team to bringing a Super Bowl championship to Atlanta. Now they’re rooting on a new group of Falcons to win that last game of the season. “I still say ‘we.’ I can’t help myself,” said Jamal Anderson, the star running back of the only Falcons team to reach the biggest game of them all. “Wherever I go, any airport, any city ... people are screaming ‘Dirty Bird!’ That’s my reality. I’ve accepted it. I’ve even copyrighted it, so wear it out!”

The comparisons are plentiful between the team that reached the Super Bowl a dozen seasons ago and this year’s squad, which is 12-2, has won eight in a row and leads the NFC heading into tonight’s nationally televised game at home against New Orleans. “The potential is there,” said Terance Mathis, who caught 11 touchdown passes in 1998 and still lives in Atlanta. “They play together, they overcome adversity and they believe they can win every week. That’s the way we were.” A punishing ground game is the starting point for both teams. With Anderson rushing for a franchise-record 1,846 yards, the ‘98 Falcons led the league in

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ence playoffs. Heading into a crucial game tonight, the teams already have combined for their most wins ever in the same season. “It’s a really good time to be a Falcons fan. It’s a really good time to be a Saints fan,” said retired NFL kicker Morten Andersen, who played for both teams and now lives in Atlanta. “All you can say is, ‘Merry Christmas!’ It should be a great game.” These teams are linked by more than just proximity (about a seven-hour drive). They entered the NFL one

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It’s time for Moir Madness f it’s the Christmas holidays, it must mean some pretty good basketball is just ahead. Starting Tuesday afternoon at Catawba, the annual Sam Moir Christmas Classic begins. This year, there are six games per day. The snow will be melted by then, so the crowds should be large, as usual. Some of the players to watch are the newcomers to the highlight reel. One thing about having two football teams playing until mid-December — it RONNIE gives others a GALLAGHER chance to shine. While Salisbury’s John Knox and Darien Rankin were winning a state football title, guys like Corey Murphy have to step up. He enters the tournament with a 15.7 scoring average. You can bet Jason Causby isn’t surprised by that. Before leaving Salisbury for North Hills, he coached the Hornets and saw something in Murphy — a work ethic that told the coach he wanted to be on the court. Now that the football players are back, it will be hard for new coach Justin Morgan to keep Murphy off of it. • Another newcomer to the top of the scoring list is Carson’s Kelly Dulkoski (second at 14.0 ppg), who lofts the ball to the moon before it descends into the bucket. Of course, the Moir has the usual list of familiar scoring stars in West’s Keshun Sherrill (22.8) and Ayana Avery (19.1). The large crowds will also get a chance to see Salisbury’s freshman phenom Brielle Blaire as the Hornets go for another Moir title. Will Salisbury’s boys win their fourth straight Moir? Davie County will have something to say about that. The War Eagles have been mashing teams and are the undefeated No. 1 seed. Games start at 12 noon each day. The girls championship is at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday with the boys to follow. This might be the most interesting Moir in a long time. Be there. • A complete look at the Moir will appear in Tuesday’s Post. The Moir schedule is in the Scoreboard on page 2B.

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Allison Blackwell of carson is one of the most consistent players in rowan county.

salisbury’s Brielle Blaire, here playing defense in a recent victory against concord, is a highly touted freshman.

Last Tuesday night, the UConn women’s basketball team surpassed John Wooden’s great UCLA teams in the early ‘70s by winning their 89th straight game, not only achieving sports history, but also the architect of one of the all-time great sports stories. And it’s come not without a certain controversy, one fueled by coach Geno Auriemma’s postgame AURIEMMA press conference Sunday night after his team had tied the record with 88 straight wins in Division I basketball. “Because we’re breaking a men’s record we’re getting a lot of attention,” he said, but he didn’t stop there. “If we were breaking a women’s record, everyone would say, ‘Aren’t those girls nice,’ “ he continued, “let’s give them two paragraphs in USA Today, you know, give them two lines in the bottom of ESPN, and let’s send them back where they belong, in the kitchen.” He is right, of course. Women’s sports have always floated around on the periphery of American sport. There are exceptions, of course, mostly in the traditional women’s sports of tennis, golf and figure skating. There was the phenomenon of the U.S. women’s soccer team a few years back, the team that found its sliver of fame. But by all the traditional standards of measure — games on television, newspaper stories, talk around the water cooler, the sports that grab the American sports fan by the throat — we all know what counts and what doesn’t in the public’s perception. Just as we all know what records are sacred in the sports shrine. Like UCLA winning 88 straight college basketball games, back when the Bruins were the game’s gold standard. Then along come the UConn women. They have been so good for so long now that it’s easy to forget the beginnings. Back there in the late 1980s, elephants

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2B • MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2010

TV Sports Monday, Dec. 27 COLLEGE FOOTBALL 5 p.m. ESPN2 — Independence Bowl, Air Force vs. Georgia Tech, at Shreveport, La. MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 8:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Connecticut at Pittsburgh NFL FOOTBALL 8:30 p.m. ESPN — New Orleans at Atlanta NHL HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. VERSUS — Minnesota at Columbus SOCCER 2:55 p.m. ESPN2 — Premier League, Arsenal vs. Chelsea, at London

Prep hoops Moir tournament Tuesday, Dec. 28 Girls — (5) North Rowan vs. (4) South Rowan, Noon Boys — (5) West Rowan vs. (4) Carson, 1:30 p.m. Girls — (3) Carson vs. (6) East Rowan, 3 p.m. Boys — (3) Salisbury vs. (6) South Rowan, 4:30 p.m. Girls — (2) West Rowan vs. (7) Davie, 6 p.m. Boys — (2) North Rowan vs. (7) East Rowan, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29 Girls — Carson-East loser vs. WestDavie loser, Noon Boys — Salisbury-South loser vs. NorthEast loser, 1:30 p.m. Girls semifinal — Carson-East winner vs. West-Davie winner, 3 p.m. Boys semifinal — Salisbury-South winner vs. North-East winner, 4:30 p.m. Girls semifinal — North-South winner vs. (1) Salisbury, 6 p.m. Boys semifinal — West-Carson winner vs. (1) Davie, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30 Girls —5th place, Noon Boys — 5th place, 1:30 p.m. Girls — 3rd place, 3 p.m. Boys — 3rd place, 4:30 p.m. Girls — Championship, 6:30 p.m. Boys — Championship, 8 p.m.

Scoring Name, school Avery, West Dulkoski, Carson Steele, West Blaire, Salisbury Rankin, Salisbury Blackwell, Carson Cuthbertson, North Heilig, Salisbury Monroe, Carson Dixon, West Sabo, East Ay. Holmes, Salisbury Gaddy, South Richardson, Salisbury As. Holmes, Salisbury A.Goins, East Phillips, Carson S.Goins, South Holman, Carson Barringer, South Wike, East Drew, East Brown, North Berry, North

G 9 10 9 6 5 10 7 6 10 9 9 6 9 6 6 8 10 9 10 9 9 9 7 6

Pts. 172 140 126 79 65 118 80 63 102 90 89 52 77 49 49 63 75 67 70 60 59 58 43 36

Avg. 19.1 14.0 14.0 13.2 13.0 11.8 11.4 10.5 10.2 10.0 9.9 8.7 8.6 8.2 8.2 7.9 7.5 7.4 7.0 6.7 6.6 6.4 6.1 6.0

Area boys Name, school T. Jones, Brown K. Sherrill, West Gaddy, South N. Jones, Davie Dillard, Davie Murphy, Salisbury Rankin, Salisbury Houston, Carson Knox, Salisbury Medlin, South Weant, Salisbury B. Sherrill, West Starks, North Clanton, Carson McDaniel, South Ca. Martin, Davie A.Rogers, East Hargrave, North Morgan, West Petty, Salisbury Wilkins, Salisbury Parks, West Smith, Brown Kimber, North D. Heggins, Carson Wagner, Carson Copeland, Brown Shepherd, East Bowman, North Connor, North R. Heggins, Carson Johnson, Brown Gittens, East R. Martin, Davie Co. Martin, Davie Morris, Salisbury Hough, East Waddell, Brown T. Bates, North

G 9 9 9 10 10 6 3 10 3 9 5 2 7 9 9 10 9 7 5 6 5 9 9 7 9 10 9 9 7 6 10 9 9 10 10 2 9 9 7

Pts. 212 205 178 177 167 94 45 148 44 116 63 25 87 109 101 109 97 74 50 59 48 81 80 62 78 86 77 74 57 47 70 62 60 66 65 13 55 55 42

Avg. 23.6 22.8 19.8 17.7 16.7 15.7 15.0 14.8 14.3 12.9 12.6 12.5 12.4 12.1 11.2 10.9 10.8 10.6 10.0 9.8 9.6 9.0 8.9 8.9 8.7 8.6 8.6 8.2 8.1 7.8 7.0 6.9 6.7 6.6 6.5 6.5 6.1 6.1 6.0

Standings 1A Yadkin Valley Boys North Rowan Albemarle West Montgomery North Moore Chatham Central East Montgomery South Davidson Gray Stone South Stanly

YVC 4-0 2-0 4-1 3-1 3-2 1-2 1-4 1-4 0-5

Overall 5-2 2-0 4-4 6-1 4-4 2-3 2-6 2-7 0-8

Girls Chatham Central Albemarle North Moore North Rowan South Stanly East Montgomery South Davidson West Montgomery Gray Stone

YVC 5-0 2-0 3-1 3-1 3-2 1-2 1-4 1-4 0-5

Overall 7-1 2-0 5-2 3-4 3-5 1-4 3-5 1-7 0-7

2A Central Carolina Boys Salisbury West Davidson East Davidson Central Davidson Thomasville Lexington

CCC 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Overall 3-3 3-3 5-5 3-4 2-6 1-6

Girls Thomasville Salisbury East Davidson Central Davidson Lexington West Davidson

CCC 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Overall 7-1 5-1 8-2 5-2 3-3 1-5

3A North Piedmont Boys Statesville North Iredell West Rowan West Iredell Carson South Rowan East Rowan

NPC 3-0 2-1 2-1 2-2 2-2 0-2 0-3

Overall 6-2 4-5 3-6 5-4 4-6 2-7 0-9

Girls North Iredell Carson West Rowan South Rowan East Rowan West Iredell Statesville

NPC 3-0 3-1 2-1 1-1 1-2 1-3 0-3

Overall 8-1 7-3 7-2 4-5 3-6 1-8 0-8

3A South Piedmont Boys Concord A.L. Brown Hickory Ridge NW Cabarrus Cox Mill Central Cabarrus Robinson Mount Pleasant

SPC 3-0 3-0 3-0 2-1 1-2 0-3 0-3 0-3

Overall 7-1 7-2 7-2 5-4 3-7 4-4 4-6 3-5

Girls Hickory Ridge

SPC 3-0

Overall 5-4

Concord Robinson A.L. Brown Mount Pleasant NW Cabarrus Cox Mill Central Cabarrus

SALISBURY POST

SCOREBOARD

3-0 2-1 1-1 1-2 1-2 0-2 0-3

4-4 6-2 4-4 4-4 2-6 1-7 0-7

4A Central Piedmont Boys Davie County Mount Tabor Reagan North Davidson West Forsyth R.J. Reynolds

CPC 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Overall 10-0 9-0 8-0 7-2 4-4 2-6

Girls Mount Tabor R.J. Reynolds West Forsyth North Davidson Reagan Davie County

CPC 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0

Overall 9-2 7-2 7-2 4-4 4-6 3-7

College hoops Standings SAC SAC Overall 2-0 9-0 Lincoln Memorial Brevard 1-0 3-2 Tusculum 1-0 4-7 1-1 7-5 Anderson Wingate 1-1 5-4 Catawba 1-1 5-4 1-1 4-5 Mars Hill Lenoir-Rhyne 1-1 2-6 Newberry 0-2 5-5 0-2 3-7 Carson-Newman Wednesday’s game Lenoir-Rhyne vs. Georgia Southwestern Thursday’s games Wingate at Belmont Abbey Lenoir-Rhyne at Lander Brevard at Tusculum Catawba at Limestone, 7:30 Mars Hill at USC Aiken

CIAA Northern Division Overall Virginia Union 1-0 2-2 0-0 5-2 Bowie State Elizabeth City State 0-0 5-2 St. Paul’s 0-0 2-4 0-0 1-6 Chowan Lincoln 0-0 1-6 Virginia State 0-1 1-7 Division Overall Southern Winston-Salem State 0-0 4-0 Shaw 0-0 6-1 0-0 4-2 Livingstone Fayetteville State 0-0 4-3 Johnson C. Smith 0-0 5-4 0-0 1-5 St. Augustine’s Wednesday’s games Flagler vs. Winston-Salem State Goldey-Beacom vs. Virginia Union Shaw vs. Columbus State West Va. Wesleyan vs. Virginia State Thursday’s games Fayetteville State at Queens Virginia State vs. Goldey-Beacom St. Augustine’s vs. Armstrong Atlantic Shaw at Clayton State West Virginia Wesleyan at Virginia Union

Conference Carolinas CC Overall 2-0 6-2 Limestone Pfeiffer 2-0 4-4 Queens 1-0 4-4 2-1 6-3 Barton Mount Olive 1-1 6-3 St. Andrews 1-1 4-5 1-1 2-6 Coker Belmont Abbey 0-2 4-4 Lees-McRae 0-2 3-5 0-2 0-6 Erskine Thursday’s games Catawba at Limestone Fayetteville State at Queens Wingate at Belmont Abbey Barton vs. Georgia College Augusta State at Mount Olive

ACC ACC Overall Boston College 1-0 10-2 Florida State 1-0 11-3 1-0 8-4 Virginia Duke 0-0 11-0 Miami 0-0 10-3 0-0 8-4 North Carolina N.C. State 0-0 7-4 Georgia Tech 0-0 6-5 0-0 6-6 Wake Forest Clemson 0-1 8-4 Maryland 0-1 8-4 0-1 7-4 Virginia Tech Monday’s games Fordham at Georgia Tech, Noon Delaware State at Clemson, 7 p.m. Tuesday’s games Alabama A&M at N.C. State, 4 p.m. North Carolina at Rutgers, 9 p.m., ESPN2 Wednesday’s games Wake Forest at Richmond, 7 p.m. East Carolina at Clemson, 7 p.m. Duke at UNC Greensboro, 7 p.m., ESPNU Boston College at Rhode Island, 7 p.m. North Florida at Maryland, 8 p.m. Thursday’s games USC Upstate at Virginia Tech, 2 p.m. Pepperdine at Miami, 6 p.m. Iowa State at Virginia, 8 p.m.

Southeastern Eastern SEC Overall Vanderbilt 0-0 9-2 0-0 9-2 Kentucky Georgia 0-0 9-2 Florida 0-0 9-3 0-0 8-3 Tennessee South Carolina 0-0 7-3 Western SEC Overall 0-0 8-2 Arkansas Mississippi 0-0 8-3 Mississippi State 0-0 8-5 0-0 7-5 LSU Alabama 0-0 6-6 Auburn 0-0 4-7 Monday’s game Southern at LSU Tuesday’s games Charleston Southern at Georgia Fairfield at Florida, 7 p.m., ESPNU Coppin State at Kentucky, 7 p.m., FSN Pepperdine at Alabama, 8 p.m. Wednesday’s games UT Martin at Tennessee, 7 p.m. Jacksonville State at South Carolina, 7 p.m., SportSouth Georgia Southern at Auburn LSU at Rice N.C. A&T at Arkansas Marquette at Vanderbilt, 9 p.m., ESPN2 Mississippi State at St. Mary’s, 11 p.m., ESPNU Thursday’s games Alcorn State at Ole Miss, 8 p.m., FSN

College football FCS playoffs Semifinals Championship, Friday, Jan. 7 Delaware (12-2) vs. Eastern Washington (12-2), 7 p.m., Frisco, Texas

Bowl games Saturday, Dec. 18 New Mexico Bowl BYU 52, UTEP 24 Humanitarian Bowl N. Illinois 40, Fresno State 17 New Orleans Bowl Troy 48, Ohio 21 Tuesday, Dec. 21 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl Louisville 31, S. Mississippi 28 Wednesday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl Boise State 26, Utah 3 Thursday, Dec. 23 Poinsettia Bowl San Diego State 35, Navy 14 Friday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl Tulsa 62, Hawaii 35 Sunday, Dec. 26 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl Toledo vs. Florida International, late Monday, Dec. 27 Independence Bowl Georgia Tech (6-6) vs. Air Force (8-4), 5 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday, Dec. 28 Champs Sports Bowl

North Carolina State (8-4) vs. West Virginia (9-3), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz. Missouri (10-2) vs. Iowa (7-5), 10 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 29 Military Bowl East Carolina (6-6) vs. Maryland (8-4), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Texas Bowl Baylor (7-5) vs. Illinois (6-6), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl Arizona (7-5) vs. Oklahoma State (102), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN)

NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 37 24 11 2 50 119 86 Philadelphia 35 22 8 5 49 117 87 N.Y. Rangers 36 20 14 2 42 108 95 N.Y. Islanders33 9 18 6 24 76 107 New Jersey 35 9 24 2 20 61 112 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 36 20 14 2 42 93 83 Montreal Boston 33 18 11 4 40 93 69 Ottawa 37 16 17 4 36 86 108 35 14 17 4 32 92 101 Buffalo Toronto 34 13 17 4 30 79 103 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 36 21 10 5 47 112 116 Washington 38 21 12 5 47 114 105 38 19 13 6 44 120 111 Atlanta Carolina 34 15 15 4 34 94 105 Florida 33 16 17 0 32 91 86 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 35 22 9 4 48 117 97 Detroit Chicago 37 20 14 3 43 119 105 St. Louis 35 18 12 5 41 92 96 35 17 12 6 40 85 87 Nashville Columbus 35 17 15 3 37 89 102 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver 33 20 8 5 45 112 86 Colorado 35 19 12 4 42 122 113 Minnesota 34 16 14 4 36 83 96 36 15 18 3 33 95 105 Calgary Edmonton 33 12 15 6 30 87 113 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA 36 21 11 4 46 102 96 Dallas San Jose 35 19 11 5 43 106 96 Los Angeles 33 20 12 1 41 98 77 38 18 16 4 40 98 111 Anaheim Phoenix 34 16 11 7 39 91 97 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Sunday’s Games Toronto 4, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Islanders 4, Montreal 1 Washington 3, Carolina 2 Tampa Bay 3, Atlanta 2, OT Chicago 4, Columbus 1 St. Louis 2, Nashville 0 Detroit 4, Minnesota 1 Ottawa 3, Pittsburgh 1 Phoenix 1, Dallas 0 Edmonton at Vancouver, late Anaheim at Los Angeles, late Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. Boston at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at Colorado, 9 p.m. Buffalo at Calgary, 9 p.m. Los Angeles at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

ry 2-6 1-2 5, Mayo 5-14 5-5 17, Thabeet 12 0-2 2, Vasquez 0-3 2-2 2, Allen 3-4 1-1 7, Arthur 1-4 0-0 2, Young 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 3988 21-30 104. INDIANA (90) Granger 8-20 10-12 29, McRoberts 0-1 00 0, Hibbert 5-17 4-7 14, Collison 3-8 0-0 6, Dunleavy 4-12 0-0 10, Rush 2-6 1-2 7, Posey 0-4 0-0 0, S.Jones 4-6 0-0 8, Ford 26 0-0 4, Foster 2-5 2-2 6, Hansbrough 2-5 2-4 6. Totals 32-90 19-27 90. 32 19 26 27 — 104 Memphis Indiana 20 26 18 26 — 90 3-Point Goals—Memphis 5-10 (Gay 3-3, Mayo 2-4, Conley 0-1, Vasquez 0-2), Indiana 7-25 (Granger 3-9, Rush 2-4, Dunleavy 2-5, Collison 0-1, McRoberts 0-1, Ford 0-1, Posey 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Memphis 61 (Randolph 16), Indiana 63 (Hibbert 10). Assists—Memphis 26 (Conley 10), Indiana 20 (Collison, Ford 4). Total Fouls—Memphis 25, Indiana 24. Technicals—Indiana defensive three second. A— 12,630 (18,165).

Spurs 94, Wizards 80 WASHINGTON (80) Lewis 8-19 1-1 21, Thornton 5-10 1-2 11, Armstrong 1-5 4-4 6, Hinrich 7-10 0-0 15, Young 5-19 0-0 10, Howard 4-12 3-4 11, Seraphin 0-0 0-0 0, Wall 2-9 0-0 4, Booker 1-3 0-0 2, Hudson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 33-88 911 80. SAN ANTONIO (94) Jefferson 2-5 0-0 5, Duncan 2-9 1-2 5, Blair 4-11 0-0 8, Parker 8-15 3-3 20, Ginobili 8-13 0-0 21, Bonner 4-8 0-0 9, Hill 3-3 3-4 11, McDyess 1-3 0-0 2, Neal 4-10 1-1 9, Udoka 1-3 0-0 2, Quinn 0-0 2-2 2, Splitter 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 37-82 10-12 94. Washington 23 19 23 15 — 80 San Antonio 27 21 33 13 — 94 3-Point Goals—Washington 5-15 (Lewis 4-8, Hinrich 1-1, Wall 0-1, Howard 0-1, Thornton 0-1, Hudson 0-1, Young 0-2), San Antonio 10-24 (Ginobili 5-7, Hill 2-2, Parker 1-2, Bonner 1-3, Jefferson 1-4, Udoka 01, Neal 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Washington 55 (Armstrong 13), San Antonio 49 (Duncan, Jefferson 9). Assists—Washington 18 (Hinrich 7), San Antonio 27 (Parker 14). Total Fouls—Washington 17, San Antonio 15. A—18,581 (18,797).

Transactions BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHARLOTTE BOBCATS—Named Ralph Lewis and Charles Oakley assistant coaches. TORONTO RAPTORS—Re-signed F Ronald Dupree. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL—Fined Boston F Milan Lucic $2,500 for throwing a punch at Atlanta D Freddy Meyer and $1,000 for his obscene gesture at the Thrashers bench in a game on Dec. 23. COLLEGE GEORGIA—Announced RB Caleb King, CB Derek Owens and OT A.J. Harmon will not play in Friday’s Liberty Bowl because of academic issues. GEORGIA TECH—Suspended DE Anthony Eguniwe, DB Louis Young and DB Michael Peterson from the first half of the Independence Bowl on Monday for missing curfew.

NBA

Baseball

Standings

Signed free agents

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division L Pct GB W Boston 23 5 .821 — New York 18 12 .600 6 12 18 .400 12 Philadelphia 1 Toronto 10 19 .345 13 ⁄2 New Jersey 9 21 .300 15 Southeast Division L Pct GB W Miami 23 9 .719 — Orlando 18 12 .600 4 19 13 .594 4 Atlanta CHARLOTTE 9 19 .321 12 Washington 7 21 .250 14 Central Division L Pct GB W Chicago 19 10 .655 — Indiana 13 15 .464 51⁄2 12 16 .429 61⁄2 Milwaukee Detroit 10 20 .333 91⁄2 Cleveland 8 22 .267 111⁄2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB 26 4 .867 — San Antonio Dallas 23 5 .821 2 New Orleans 18 12 .600 8 1 14 15 .483 11 ⁄2 Houston Memphis 13 17 .433 13 Northwest Division W L Pct GB 21 9 .700 — Utah 1 ⁄2 Oklahoma City 21 10 .677 Denver 16 13 .552 41⁄2 15 15 .500 6 Portland Minnesota 7 24 .226 141⁄2 Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Lakers 21 9 .700 — 13 16 .448 71⁄2 Phoenix Golden State 11 18 .379 91⁄2 L.A. Clippers 9 22 .290 121⁄2 5 22 .185 141⁄2 Sacramento Sunday’s Games L.A. Clippers 108, Phoenix 103 Minnesota 98, Cleveland 97 Chicago 95, Detroit 92, OT New Orleans 93, Atlanta 86 San Antonio 94, Washington 80 Memphis 104, Indiana 90 Philadelphia 95, Denver 89 Monday’s Games Detroit at CHARLOTTE, 7 p.m. Orlando at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Toronto at Memphis, 8 p.m. Atlanta at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. New Orleans at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Dallas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Washington at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Portland at Utah, 9 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Philadelphia at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Notable boxes Clippers 108, Suns 103 PHOENIX (103) Hill 7-14 5-5 19, Frye 5-12 1-1 12, Lopez 1-3 0-0 2, Nash 8-19 3-3 21, Dudley 1-5 45 6, Gortat 5-10 1-2 11, Pietrus 9-14 2-2 25, Dragic 2-6 0-0 5, Childress 1-3 0-0 2, Warrick 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 39-87 16-18 103. L.A. CLIPPERS (108) Gomes 2-5 0-0 4, Griffin 8-11 12-16 28, Jordan 3-3 3-10 9, Davis 7-12 0-0 15, Gordon 10-21 0-0 24, Bledsoe 1-3 0-0 2, Aminu 4-7 1-2 9, Collins 0-0 1-2 1, Diogu 3-8 0-0 6, Foye 2-5 4-4 10. Totals 40-75 21-34 108. Phoenix 18 31 29 25 — 103 L.A. Clippers 33 28 18 29 — 108 3-Point Goals—Phoenix 9-25 (Pietrus 58, Nash 2-6, Dragic 1-2, Frye 1-6, Hill 0-1, Dudley 0-2), L.A. Clippers 7-21 (Gordon 410, Foye 2-4, Davis 1-4, Gomes 0-1, Aminu 0-2). Fouled Out—Griffin. Rebounds— Phoenix 44 (Hill 7), L.A. Clippers 54 (Griffin 12). Assists—Phoenix 26 (Nash 15), L.A. Clippers 26 (Davis 9). Total Fouls—Phoenix 26, L.A. Clippers 22. Flagrant Fouls— Pietrus. A—19,060 (19,060).

76ers 95, Nuggets 89 PHILADELPHIA (95) Iguodala 3-12 3-10 9, Brand 7-16 2-2 16, Hawes 1-5 1-2 3, Holiday 8-12 5-7 22, Meeks 3-12 9-10 17, Nocioni 0-4 0-0 0, Turner 4-11 0-1 8, Young 10-18 0-0 20, Battie 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-91 20-32 95. DENVER (89) Smith 4-14 0-0 9, Martin 0-6 0-0 0, Nene 4-6 5-5 13, Billups 6-10 8-8 24, Afflalo 6-11 2-2 14, Harrington 1-2 0-0 3, Lawson 4-12 5-6 14, Andersen 1-2 1-2 3, S.Williams 0-5 00 0, Forbes 4-7 0-0 9. Totals 30-75 21-23 89. Philadelphia 13 30 23 29 — 95 Denver 25 21 25 18 — 89 3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 3-14 (Meeks 2-5, Holiday 1-3, Iguodala 0-1, Hawes 0-1, Turner 0-1, Nocioni 0-3), Denver 8-27 (Billups 4-6, Harrington 1-2, Forbes 1-2, Lawson 1-3, Smith 1-9, Martin 0-1, Afflalo 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Philadelphia 63 (Brand 17), Denver 51 (Smith, Andersen 11). Assists—Philadelphia 18 (Iguodala 5), Denver 12 (Billups, Lawson 4). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 19, Denver 22. A—19,155 (19,155).

Grizzlies 104, Pacers 90 MEMPHIS (104) Gay 11-20 5-5 30, Randolph 7-16 4-7 18, Gasol 7-11 3-5 17, Conley 2-7 0-1 4, Hen-

AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE (2) — Re-signed Cesar Izturis, ss, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Koji Uehara, rhp, to a $3 million, one-year contract. BOSTON (3) — Re-signed Jason Varitek, c, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Carl Crawford, of, Tampa Bay, to a $142 million, seven-year contract; signed Dan Wheeler, rhp, Tampa Bay, to a $3 million, one-year contract. CHICAGO (4) — Signed Adam Dunn, 1b, Washington, to a $56 million, four-year contract; re-signed A.J. Pierzynski, c, to an $8 million, two-year contract; re-signed Paul Konerko, 1b, to a $37.5 million, threeyear contract; signed Jesse Crain, rhp, Minnesota, to a $13 million, three-year contract. CLEVELAND (1) — Signed Austin Kearns, of, New York Yankees, to a $1.3 million, one-year contract. DETROIT (4) — Re-signed Jhonny Peralta, ss, to an $11.25 million, two-year contract; signed Joaquin Benoit, rhp, Tampa Bay, to a $16.5 million, three-year contract, signed Victor Martinez, c, Boston, to a $50 million, four-year contract; re-signed Magglio Ordonez, of, to a $10 million, two-year contract. LOS ANGELES (1) — Signed Scott Downs, lhp, Toronto, to a $15 million, threeyear contract. NEW YORK (2) — Re-signed Derek Jeter, ss, to a $51 million, three-year contract; re-signed Mariano Rivera, rhp, to a $30 million, two-year contract. OAKLAND (1) — Signed Hideki Matsui, dh, Los Angeles Angels, to a $4.25 million, one-year contract. SEATTLE (1) — Re-signed Erik Bedard, lhp, to a $1 million, one-year contract. TEXAS (3) — Signed Yorvit Torrealba, c, San Diego, to a $6.25 million, two-year contract; announced Frank Francisco, rhp, accepted salary arbitration; re-signed Matt Treanor, c, to an $850,000, one-year contract. TORONTO (2) — Announced Jason Frasor, rhp, accepted salary arbitration; signed Corey Patterson, of, Baltimore, to a minor league contract. NATIONAL LEAGUE ARIZONA (4) — Signed Geoff Blum, inf, Houston, to a $2.7 million, two-year contract; signed Melvin Mora, 3b, Colorado, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed J.J. Putz, rhp, Chicago White Sox, to a $10 million, two-year contract; signed Xavier Nady, of-1b, Chicago Cubs, to a $1.75 million, one-year contract. ATLANTA (1) — Re-signed Eric Hinske, of, to a $1.45 million, one-year contract. CINCINNATI (2) — Re-signed Ramon Hernandez, c, to a $3 million, one-year contract. CHICAGO (2) — Signed Carlos Pena, 1b, Tampa Bay, to a $10 million, one-year contract; signed Kerry Wood, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $1.5 million, one-year contract. CINCINNATI (1) — Re-signed Miguel Cairo, 3b, to a $2 million, 1-year contract. COLORADO (2) — Re-signed Jorge De La Rosa, lhp, to a $21.5 million, two-year contract; signed Ty Wigginton, 1b, Baltimore, to an $8 million, two-year contract. FLORIDA (3) — Signed John Buck, c, Toronto, to an $18 million, three-year contract; signed Javier Vazquez, rhp, New York Yankees, to a $7 million, one-year contract; signed Randy Choate, lhp, Tampa Bay, to a $2.5 million, two-year contract. HOUSTON (1) — Signed Bill Hall, 2b, Boston, to a $3.25 million, 1-year contract. LOS ANGELES (6) — Re-signed Hiroki Kuroda, rhp, to a $12 million, oneyear contract; signed Jon Garland, rhp, San Diego, to a $5 million, one-year contract; signed Juan Uribe, inf, San Francisco, to a $21 million, three-year contract; re-signed Rod Barajas, c, to a $3.25 million, one-year contract; resigned Vicente Padilla, rhp, to a $2 million, one-year contract; signed Matt Guerrier, rhp, Minnesota, to a $12 million, three-year contract. PHILADELPHIA (2) — Re-signed Jose Contreras, rhp, to a $5.5 million, two-year contract; signed Cliff Lee, lhp, Texas, to a $120 million, five-year contract. PITTSBURGH (2) — Signed Kevin Correia, rhp, San Diego, to an $8 million, twoyear contract; signed Lyle Overbay, 1b, Toronto, to a $5 million, one-year contract. ST. LOUIS (3) — Re-signed Jake Westbrook, rhp, to a $16.5 million, two-year contract; signed Lance Berkman, of, New York Yankees, to an $8 million, one-year contract; signed Gerald Laird, c, Detroit, to a $1 million, one-year contract. SAN DIEGO (2) — Signed Aaron Harang, rhp, Cincinnati, to a $4 million, 1-year contract; signed Orlando Hudson, 2b, Minnesota, to an $11.5 million, 2-year contract. SAN FRANCISCO (4) — Re-signed Aubrey Huff, 1b, to a $22 million, two-year contract; signed Miguel Tejada, ss-3b, San Diego, to a $6.5 million, one-year contract; re-signed Pat Burrell, of, to a $1 million, one-year contract.

Tuesday football on tap PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Are you ready for some Tuesday Night Football? The NFL moved the Vikings at Eagles game from Sunday night to Tuesday because of an expected blizzard that could dump more than a foot of snow on Philadelphia. The game — the first on a Tuesday since 1946 — will be played at 8 p.m. EST., and televised nationally by NBC. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter declared a snow emergency as of 2 p.m. EST Sunday. “We are urging all Philadelphians, please be careful, please be safe,” the mayor told reporters in a news conference at City Hall on Sunday morning. The decision to postpone the game came shortly after noon — before there was any snow accumulation in Philadelphia. In announcing the postponement, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said: “Due to public safety concerns in light of today’s snow emergency in Philadelphia, tonight’s Vikings-Eagles game has been postponed. Because of the uncertainty of the extent of tonight’s storm and its aftermath, the game will be played on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. This will allow sufficient time to ensure that roads, parking lots and the stadium are fully cleared.” The postponement did not sit well with Gov. Ed Rendell, who told KYWTV he did “not at all” agree with the decision. “This is football; football’s played in bad weather,” Rendell said. “I think the fans would have gotten there, the subways work and the major arteries are still open, and other fans would have stayed home — but you play

football regardless of the weather.” The governor, who does football commentaries after Eagles games, also said the decision would be a “serious handicap” for the Eagles and was unfair to the team. “I, for one, was looking forward to sitting in the stands throughout the snow and seeing an old-time football game,” Rendell said. Asked what Vince Lombardi would say about the decision, Rendell said “he’d be mocking us.” Eagles coach Andy Reid agreed with the league’s decision. “We’re OK with it,” he said. “We’re organized and prepared for this, and we completely support what the league did from a safety standpoint for everybody. We got the guys out of the hotel and home, and they’ll come back for a walkthrough tomorrow and then to the hotel, and it will be just like a Saturday night before a Sunday game, just a normal Saturday night-Sunday schedule.” The Vikings already have had two home games affected by the weather this season. Their game against the Giants on Dec. 12 was postponed a day after Minneapolis got 15 inches of snow. It was then moved to Detroit when the Metrodome roof collapsed. Their game against Chicago the following week was played at the University of Minnesota’s outdoor stadium because of the damaged roof. “What else can you say? Just add this to the list for the 2010 season,” Vikings defensive end Jared Allen said. “But you know what, we have to remain together as a team and keep a positive mind frame. It’s important to be a professional and be ready to play on Tuesday night.”

Panthers will pick first CHARLOTTE (AP) — It took a rare Sunday off for the Carolina Panthers to finally win something big this season — the No. 1 overall draft pick. The Panthers are on the clock for April’s draft and potentially in position to take Stanford star quarterback Andrew Luck after wins by Cincinnati and Denver allowed Carolina to clinch the league’s worst record. The Broncos (4-11) rallied with 14 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to beat Houston 24-23, while the Bengals (4-11) got four touchdown passes from Carson Palmer to beat San Diego 34-20 in the snow for their second straight win. That meant with one week left in the season, nobody can match Carolina (2-13) for futility in the NFL this season. The only other time the Panthers have had the No. 1 pick — before their inaugural season in 1995 — they traded it away for more picks. Now the question is: Will Luck leave school early? Most draft analysts say the 6-foot4 junior is the best prospect in the potential draft pool. He’s completed 70.2 percent of his passes this season for 3,051 yards, 28 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Luck, who will lead the Cardinal

(11-1) against Virginia Tech (11-2) in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 3, has not revealed his intentions. The Panthers drafted Jimmy Clausen in the second round of this year’s draft, but the former Notre Dame star has struggled to lead the NFL’s worst offense. Clausen has a league-low 56.8 passer rating and has thrown just two touchdown passes and eight interceptions while getting little support from an inexperienced group of receivers after Steve Smith. The Panthers managed 119 yards — second-fewest in team history — in a 27-3 loss at Pittsburgh on Thursday. Sunday’s results mean the Panthers’ season finale next week at Atlanta won’t have any draft impact as John Fox likely coaches his final game. Owner Jerry Richardson has denied Fox a contract extension. Carolina’s good draft positioning won’t spill over into the second round. New England, not Carolina, will pick 33rd overall. The Panthers traded their 2011 second-round pick to the Patriots last April for an extra thirdround pick so they could take Armanti Edwards. The former Appalachian State quarterback was converted to receiver and has spent most of the season deactivated on game days.

Griffin puts up another double-double Associated Press NBA roundup ... LOS ANGELES — Rookie Blake Griffin had 28 points and 12 rebounds for his 18th straight double-double and the Los Angeles Clippers beat Phoenix for the first time in 10 games, 108-103 on Sunday. The victory was the Clippers’ first against their Pacific Division rivals since Jan. 15, 2008, and only their fourth in 19 meetings since losing Game 7 of the 2006 Western Conference semifinals at Phoenix. Eric Gordon scored 24 points, and Baron Davis had 15 points and nine assists. Newly acquired Mickael Pietrus had a season-high 25 points for Phoenix, and Steve Nash finished with 21 points and 15 assists. Bulls 95, Pistons 92, OT AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Carlos Boozer had 31 points and 11 rebounds, and Derrick Rose added 23 points and a career-high 12 rebounds in Chica-

go’s overtime victory. Rose also had eight assists. Tayshaun Prince led Detroit with 17 points. Timberwolves 98, Cavaliers 97 CLEVELAND — Michael Beasley scored on a driving layup with 5.9 seconds left and finished with 28 points to help Minnesota snap its losing streak at seven. Beasley scored after Antawn Jamison’s basket with 10.6 seconds left gave Cleveland the lead. Luke Ridnour scored 23 points to help Minnesota improve to 7-24. Love added 16, including 14 in the fourth quarter, and had 18 rebounds for his NBA-high 26th double-double. Jamison led Cleveland with 24 points. The Cavaliers are 1-13 in their last 14. Spurs 94, Wizards 80 SAN ANTONIO — Tony Parker had 20 points, 14 assists and six assists and the NBA-leading San Antonio Spurs beat the short-handed Wizards on Sunday night.

Hurricanes can’t overcome Ovechkin Associated Press NHL roundup ... RALEIGH — Alex Ovechkin had a goal to end an eight-game drought and added an assist for the Washington Capitals, who held on to beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 on Sunday night. Mathieu Perreault and David Steckel also scored for the Capitals. They have won three of four and swept the Hurricanes on their home ice for the first time since the 199798 season. Senators 3, Penguins 1 OTTAWA — Penguins star Sidney Crosby scored with 3:22 remaining to extend his points streak to 24

games, but Erik Karlsson had two goals and an assist. Coyotes 1, Stars 0 DALLAS — Jason LaBarbera stopped 29 shots for his fifth career shutout, and Kyle Turris scored in the second period. Maple Leafs 4, Devils 1 NEWARK, N.J. — Jonas Gustavsson stopped 29 shots, and Colby Armstrong scored two goals as the Toronto Maple Leafs ended a three-game losing streak. Blues 2, Predators 0 ST. LOUIS — Jaroslav Halak made 32 saves for his fourth shutout and David Backes provided the only offense by scoring twice.

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Taurasi tests positive for banned substance NEW YORK — WNBA standout and former UConn star Diana Taurasi tested positive for modafinil while playing in a professional women’s league in Turkey, the country’s basketball federation said Friday. Neither her lawyer nor her team, Fenerbahce, would confirm that Taurasi tested positive for the stimulant, which has been involved in several major doping cases, including that of U.S. sprinter Kelli White. Modafinil is used to counter excessive sleepiness due to narcolepsy, shiftwork sleep disorder or sleep apnea, according to the website for the prescription drug Provigil, which contains the substance. Fenerbahce said Taurasi was upset that the doping claims broke before the testing process was finalized. “She is extremely disturbed that her right to confidentiality has been breached and doping claims have been made even before the results of her test are out,” the team’s website said. Taurasi is one of many WNBA stars who play overseas in the winter because of higher salaries. The best players can make up to 10 times their WNBA salaries, which top out at about $100,000. She led the WNBA in scoring for a league-record fourth straight year, averaging 22.6 points per game.

COLLEGE HOOPS MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — Martinsville officials have

DIRTY BIRDS FROM 1B time of possession (33:10). This offense features 1,174yard rusher Michael Turner and almost identical controlthe-clock number (33:05). Throw in the steady-as-arock quarterbacks who don’t make many mistakes (Chris Chandler then, Matt Ryan now) and opportunistic defenses (the ‘98 Falcons led the league in takeaways, the current group ranks 10th), and it’s sometimes hard to tell the teams apart. “There’s a lot of eery comparisons, huh?” Anderson said. But bring up that Super Bowl team to this group of players and all you’ll get is a puzzled look. Ryan was just 13 years old when the Falcons played in their only Super Bowl. Star receiver Roddy White was still in high school. Chris Redman, who is Ryan’s backup, was playing his college ball at Louisville. “Obviously, I remember the ‘Dirty Bird.’ That’s about it,” the 33-year-old Redman said. “We don’t want to compare ourselves to anybody else. We want to go out there and make our own identity.” In all likelihood, that identity won’t be nearly as outrageous as the one established by the ‘98 team. Start with the nickname, which came

UCONN FROM 1B would have jumped over the moon before the UConn women broke one of sports most cherished records. Auriemma wrote in “Geno,” his 2006 book with Jackie MacMullen, that he was hired in a local Dunkin’ Donuts. “It isn’t a moment that is exactly dripping in pomp and circumstance,” he wrote. He was just an assistant coach for the Virginia women’s team at the time, someone no one had ever heard of, taking over a program that was on the far side of the moon as far as glamour was concerned. This wasn’t the UConn’s women’s program of glitzy Gampel Pavilion and soldout games in downtown Hartford. This was the UConn’s women’s program of the old fieldhouse, where you almost had to hide your

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received a collection of memorabilia from the family of legendary college basketball coach John Wooden that will be placed on display. Wooden coached at Indiana State and UCLA, where he won 10 national championships. He died June 10 at age 99. Wooden's family recently shipped two packages of memorabilia to Martinsville residents Elmer and Viola Reynolds for loan to the city where Wooden was a high school basketball star in the 1920s. The packages include more than two dozen trophies, plaques and certificates, several books and the Sachem Award given by Gov. Mitch Daniels. Wooden was the first person to receive the award in 2005.

BASEBALL DENVER— The Colorado Rockies bolstered their bullpen by acquiring righthanded reliever Matt Lindstrom from the Houston Astros on Thursday. In exchange, the Rockies sent minor league pitchers Wes Musick and Jonnathan Aristil to Houston. Lindstrom has made at least 50 appearances in all four of his seasons in the majors. He had a team-high 23 saves. • Arthur Rhodes has agreed to a contract with the AL champion Texas Rangers. The 41-year-old Rhodes was 4-4 with a 2.29 ERA in 69 relief appearances for the Cincinnati Reds last season, when he became a first-time All-Star.

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Collins could join elite group Associated Press The NFL notebook ... Sticking around the NFL for 16 seasons means racking up some nice career numbers, and now Tennessee quarterback Kerry Collins is close to passing a couple of the league’s greatest quarterbacks. Collins needed 13 completions on Sunday to pass Joe Montana (3,409) for ninth all-time in that category. Collins also has 39,906 yards passing, and with 94 more he becomes the 12th player in NFL history to throw for 40,000 yards in a career. If he throws for 334 yards in the Titans’ final two games, he’ll pass Johnny Unitas (40,239) for 11th overall.

That’s company that impresses Collins’ teammate, Randy Moss. “Just to see him to be able to reach a milestone accomplishment like that, that’s something he can really hang his hat upon, 40,000, beating Johnny Unitas,” Moss said. “That’s a legendary quarterback, so for him to be in front of Johnny U, that’s saying something.” Collins already ranks ninth in career attempts with 6,087 passes. Collins said the idea of passing Unitas is cool, but hasn’t really hit him yet. “I’m just focused on what we’re doing here. Maybe later on down the road I’ll look back and see it as a nice accomplishment. It’s one of those things I just don’t think about a lot,” Collins said.

from an arm-flapping dance that Anderson insists he invented but first came to prominence when tight end O.J. Santiago used it — complete with a squawking sound that was picked up on television — during an endzone celebration at New England. From then on, they were known as the “Dirty Birds.” Everyone in Atlanta, it seemed, was flapping their arms — even no-nonsense coach Dan Reeves, who joined the celebration after the Falcons pulled out a thrilling overtime win over the favored Minnesota Vikings in the NFC championship game. Anderson said he purposely invented the dance and nickname, hoping it would bring some attention to a franchise known mostly for losing until that magical year. “That’s the reason the thing came about,” he said. “We were playing too good to have nobody talking us.” Certainly, there was no shortage of talkers on that team. Anderson had grown up around the entertainment industry and was looking to become a bigger-than-football media star. Cornerback Ray Buchanan showed up on Super Bowl media day wearing a dog collar — symbolizing the Falcons’ underdog status against Denver — and yapped that Broncos star

Shannon Sharpe looked like a horse. Even Reeves created a stir when he went back over his bitter departure from the Mile High City shortly before facing his old team in the title game. And let’s not forget, Reeves underwent major heart surgery late in the regular season, turning over the coaching duties to Rich Brooks before returning for the playoffs. “As far as personalities, I’m partial to ‘98,” said Morten Andersen, who kicked the NFC-winning field goal against the Vikings. “They have some great players on this team, but we had some characters on our football team. This team strikes me as a little more of a corporate football team.” That might not be a bad thing if the Falcons should reach the Super Bowl a second time. On the eve of their first appearance, team leader Eugene Robinson was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer. He still played the next day, but was burned on a long touchdown pass that helped the Broncos cruise to a 34-19 victory. “Maybe it’s a good thing when you’re boring,” Andersen said. On the field, the current Falcons appear a bit more dangerous on offense. White is the NFL’s leading receiver with 99 catches,

and Hall of Famer-to-be Tony Gonzalez also draws plenty of coverage. The ‘98 team had an effective pair of 30-something receivers in Mathis and Tony Martin but lacked a true downfield threat. Where that Super Bowl team stood out was on defense. The “Bomb Squad” front four of Chuck Smith, Lester Archambeau, Shane Dronett and Travis Hall combined for 29.5 sacks. Tackling machine Jessie Tuggle and longtime star Cornelius Bennett anchored the linebacker corps. The secondary was in good hands with in-his-prime Buchanan (a team-high seven interceptions) and veteran safeties Robinson and William White. “The offenses essentially match up star for star,” Anderson said. “The biggest difference is the defense. ... We had that intensity level. We had that production. This team doesn’t have that.” But these Falcons might set up better for the long haul. Five key members of that ‘98 defense were already in their 30s, while this team features a bunch of thirdand fourth-year players. Chandler was 33, Ryan is eight years younger. The 29year-old White should be in the prime of his career, with more good years ahead of him than either Mathis or Martin.

eyes when you brought a recruit in, the old fieldhouse that was a monument to both the past and a women’s program that largely was perceived as glorified intramurals. One of the theories for the program’s rise in popularity, back in those early years, was that it was a spillover from the men’s games. No matter. Fans started to come see the UConn women because they won, and they were good. And if this was happening on the same campus and in the same state where the men’s team was hugely popular, that only seemed to make it more of a distinctive story. In 1995, they went to the Final Four. And by this time they were a phenomenon in Connecticut, as popular as the men’s team, as popular as anything. But it wasn’t until 1995 when the Lady Huskies went 35-0 and star Rebecca Lobo became a national name,

complete with jogging with President Clinton. After that their world changed. There was great player after great player. Nykesha Sales morphed into Sue Bird, who became Diana Taurasi, who became Maya Moore. A conga line of great players who always seem to be there, to the point that UConn long ago became the premier women’s program in the country. And through it all has been Auriemma, now in his 26th season, this man who emigrated from Italy when he was 7, the master builder and longtime face of this program. This is a game that no longer has to compete with the men’s game, or be measured against it either. All the little girls playing in all the little gyms in this country tell you that. All the people who now watch women’s basketball tell you that. That is Auriemma’s true legacy, regardless of what

happens in the future. That is the UConn’s women’s legacy, regardless of what happens in the future. That is this team’s legacy, regardless of what happens in the future. They have now 89 straight wins, more than any Division I college basketball team has ever done. They should be applauded for that.

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Jamal Anderson was a big part of the dirty Birds. Then again, fate can deal a cruel hand. Anderson was only 26 when Atlanta went to the Super Bowl, poised to become one of the league’s signature stars. Two games into the following season, he went down with the first of what would be two serious knee injuries. He was never the same running back. The Falcons were never the same team, either. In 1999, they won only five games. “I look back at what we accomplished, but also what could have been,” Anderson said. “You definitely have to jump on it and take advantage when you get the chance.”

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year apart, the Falcons in 1966, the Saints following in ‘67. They have been in the same division since the AFL-NFL merger of 1970, giving them home-andhome games each year. When the Saints head north to face the Falcons, thousands of fans from the Big Easy usually descend on the A-T-L. The situation is reversed when the teams play in New Orleans, giving Atlantans an excuse to party on Bourbon Street. “Certainly in the fans’ minds, this was the game you put an ‘x’ beside and said, ‘That’s the game I’m definitely going to,’” Andersen said. “You could take a long weekend, have a good time and forget about everything else because you had the Saints and the Falcons.” The already strong bond between the two cities was strengthened further by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005 and resulted in thousands of people evacuating to Atlanta in search of shelter. Many decided to stay rather than return to their battered hometown. The teams have been linked by their misery on the field. New Orleans went 20 years before its first winning season, those early years defined by bagwearing fans too embarrassed to be seen cheering on their “Aints.” The history of the Atlanta franchise isn’t much better — an occasional playoff appearance overwhelmed by one dismal year after another. When Arthur Blank bought the Falcons in 2002, someone mentioned to him that he was now the proud owner of a franchise that had never even managed back-to-back winning seasons. “I was like, ‘That’s not right,’” recalled Blank, who had been a longtime seasonticket holder. “But I went back and checked it myself and I’m like, ‘You know what? You’re right.’ ” The Falcons have put that ignominious streak to rest, compiling their third straight winning season — a run that’s even more remarkable since it came on the heels of franchise quarterback Michael Vick being sent to prison for running a dogfighting ring in 2007. New Orleans has soared even higher, becoming the first of these franchises to win a Super Bowl title with their inspiring run to the championship last season. “They have a young team, we have a young team. The guys are going to be there for a while,” Saints defensive end Will Smith said. “The rivalry’s going to be strong for many years to come.” Smith knows a thing or two about rivalries. He grew up in New York City watching the Yankees take on the hated Boston Red Sox in baseball. When he signed with Ohio State, he found himself right in the middle of one of college football’s most bitter annual showdowns against Michigan.

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Boocoo Auction Items *All Boocoo Auction Items are subject to prior sale, and can be seen at salisburypost.boocoo.com

Bedroom suite, king size. Like new. With marble top nightstands. $4200. Asking Paid $2000 obo. Please call 704-202-5397 Bedroom suite, new 5 piece. All for $297.97. Hometown Furniture, 322 S. Main St. 704-633-7777 Coffee Maker Keurig (red) like new. Has box and instructions. $50. 704-245-8843

Heating system. Laser vented (kerosene), heats 1,670-2,000 sq. ft. Exc. operating condition. Comforts of central heating system in 1 compact, roomsized unit. Thermostatically controlled, digitally programmable, w/set-back. Includes other accessories that came w/heater. Buyer uninstalls & moves. $950 Cash only or cashier's check. 704-202-0774

Drivers

Sofa, tan, very nice $160; chest of drawers & matching nightstand, $230, desk chair, $30. All like new. 704-636-2738

Drivers Wanted Full or part time. Req: Class A CDL, clean MVR, min. 25 yrs old w/3 yrs exp. Benefits: Pd health & dental ins., 401(k) w/match, pd holidays, vac., & qtrly. bonus. New equip. Call 704630-1160

Washer & dryer, GE. Works fine and looks good. $325 for both 704-638-9500 Washing machine, front load washing machine $75 firm. Minor repairs 704-267-1560

Healthcare

Position Avail. for LPN or RN. Full Time, Apply in person. No phone calls please. Brightmoor Nursing Center, 610 W. Fisher St.

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Games and Toys Computers & Software Computer – HP Pavilion Desktop, 2.6 GHZ Intel Processor, 80 GB of HD, CD-Rom, DVD w/ keyboard, monitor & mouse incl. $200. Call David 704-856-0239

Consignment Growing Pains Family Consignments Call (704)638-0870 115 W. Innes Street

Farm Equipment & Supplies Farm Equipment, new & used. McDaniel Auction Co. 704-278-0726 or 704798-9259. NCAL 48, NCFL 8620. Your authorized farm equipment dealer. Scrape Blade, 6 foot Lienbach, 3pt. Hitch. $225. Please Call 704-209-1265

Flowers & Plants

Do you have a service to provide? TO ADVERTISE CALL

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Video games. 3 Nintendo DS games for sale $25. (Drawn to Life, Scribblenauts, Geo Wars Galaxies) 336-751-5279

Auctions

www.thecarolinasauction.com

Heritage Auction Co. Glenn M.Hester NC#4453 Salisbury (704)636-9277 Job Seeker meeting at 112 E. Main St., Rockwell. 6:30pm Mons. Rachel Corl, Auctioneer. 704-279-3596

Large gun collection. Hand guns, rifles and shotguns. 863-673-0422 (Lexington area).

Lawn and Garden Holshouser Cycle Shop Lawn mower repairs and trimmer sharpening. Pick up & delivery. (704)637-2856

Machine & Tools Table saw. Shop Master by Delta with 10in. blade (4700rpm)ready to work. $80. 704-857-2945 China Grove

Misc For Sale

www.perrysdoor.com

KEN WEDDINGTON Total Auctioneering Services 140 Eastside Dr., China Grove 704-8577458 License 392

We Build Garages, 24x24 = $12,500. All sizes built! ~ 704-633-5033 ~

R. Giles Moss Auction & Real Estate-NCAL #2036. Full Service Auction Company. Estates ** Real Estate Had your home listed a long time? Try selling at auction. 704-782-5625

Chimney Sweep & Fireplace

www.gilesmossauction.com

Rowan Auction Co. Professional Auction Services: Salis., NC 704-633-0809 Kip Jennings NCAL 6340.

3 Check for Cracks & Obstructions & Repair

Automotive Services

NC licensed, Insured

~ 704-425-8870 ~

NC AUTO INSPECTION $15 U U

Hunting and Fishing

Perry's Overhead Doors Sales, Service & Installation, Residential / Commercial. Wesley Perry 704-279-7325

Cleaning Services

plus tax $6.25

By appt. only Call 704-857-1854

Maid 4 U Cleaning Service

Found Something?

15+ Yrs. Reliable Svc. Kelly Wright Holiday Discounts Residential, Real Estate Commercial 704-773-0828

You can place an ad in our lost & found section FREE to try to find the owner!!

We can provide you with an affordable customized home cleaning service. Have your home cleaned the way you like it! Insured, refs available. Call Kim Taft! 704-433-2502

“Clean as a Whistle” WOW! Clean Again! November Special! Lowest Prices in Town, Senior Citizens Discount, Residential/Commercial References available upon request. For more info. call 704-762-1402

Call 704-797-4220 Cleaning Services

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Bingham Smith Lumber Co. !!!NOW AVAILABLE!!! Metal Roofing Many colors. Custom lengths, trim, accessories, & trusses. Call 980-234-8093 Patrick Smith

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Browning ConstructionStructural repair, flooring installations, additions, decks, garages. 704-637-1578 LGC

FOR JUNK CASH CARS And batteries. Call 704-279-7480 or 704-798-2930

Fencing

Garages, new homes, remodeling, roofing, siding, back hoe, loader 704-6369569 Maddry Const Lic G.C.

Lawn Equipment Repair Services

Since 1955

Free Estimates Bud Shuler & Sons Fence Co. 225 W Kerr St 704-633-6620 or 704-638-2000 Price Leader since 1963

Reliable Fence All Your Fencing Needs, Reasonable Rates, 21 years experience. (704)640-0223

Financial Services “We can remove bankruptcies, judgments, liens, and bad loans from your credit file forever!” The Federal Trade Commission says companies that promise to scrub your credit report of accurate negative information for a fee are lying. Under federal law, accurate negative information can be reported for up to seven years, and some bankruptcies for up to ten years. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc.gov/credit. A message from the Salisbury Post and the FTC.

704-633-9295 www.WifeForHireInc.com Licensed, bonded and insured. Since 1985.

Lyerly's ATV & Mower Repair Free estimates. All types of repairs Pickup/delivery avail. 704-642-2787

Hometown Lawn Care & Handyman Service. Mowing, pressure washing, gutter cleaning, odd jobs ~inside & out. Comm, res. Insured. Free estimates. “No job too small” 704-433-7514 Larry Sheets, owner

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

Pools and Supplies Bost Pools – Call me about your swimming pool. Installation, service, liner & replacement. (704) 637-1617

Roofing and Guttering

Removal 3Gutter Cleaning FREE Estimates

704-636-3415 704-640-3842 www.earlslawncare.com GAYLOR'S LAWNCARE For ALL your lawn care needs! *FREE ESTIMATES* 704-639-9925/ 704-640-0542

Lawn Maint. & Landscaping

SEAMLESS GUTTER Licensed Contractor C.M. Walton Construction, 704-202-8181

Guttering, leaf guard, metal & shingle roofs. Ask about tax credits.

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• Home Improvement

Manufactured Home Services

HMC Handyman Services. Any job around the house. Please call 704-239-4883

Mobile Home Supplies~ City Consignment Company New & Used Furniture. Please Call 704636-2004

Beaver Grading Quality work, reasonable rates. Free Estimates 704-6364592

TH Jones Mini-Max Storage 116 Balfour Street Granite Quarry Please 704-279-3808

Home Improvement

• 25 years exp. • Int./Ext. painting • Pressure washing • Staining • References • Insured 704-239-7553

3Core Aeration 3Fertilizing

Kitchens, Baths, Sunrooms, Remodel, Additions, Wood & Composite Decks, Garages, Vinyl Rails, Windows, Siding. & Roofing. ~ 704-633-5033 ~

Moving and Storage

Stoner Painting Contractor

Earl's Lawn Care

Grading & Hauling

Heating and Air Conditioning

Cathy's Painting Service Interior & exterior, new & repaints. 704-279-5335

3Mowing 3Yard Cleanup 3Trimming Bushes 3Leaf

The Floor Doctor Complete crawlspace work, Wood floor leveling, jacks installed, rotten wood replaced due to water or termites, brick/block/tile work, foundations, etc. 704-933-3494

Professional Services Unlimited

FREE ESTIMATES

We will come to you! F David, 704-314-7846

Brisson - HandyMan Home Repair, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electrical, etc. Insured. 704-798-8199

New Homes Additions & Repairs Small Commercial

Piedmont AC & Heating Electrical Services Lowest prices in town!! 704-213-4022 42'' Leyland Cypress or Green Giant Trees. Makes a beautiful property line boundary or privacy screen. $10 per tree. Varieties of Gardenias, Nandina, Juniper, Holly, Ligustrum, Burning Bush, Hosta, Viburnum, Gold Mop, Camelias, Forsythia, Arborvitae, Azaleas AND MORE! $6. All of the above include delivery & installation! 704-274-0569

Anthony's Scrap Metal Service. Top prices paid for any type of metal or batteries. Free haul away. 704-433-1951

704-279-2600

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Guaranteed! Around the House Repairs Carpentry. Electrical. Plumbing. H & H Construction 704-633-2219

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Quality work at affordable prices NC G.C. #17608 NC Home Inspector #107. Complete contracting service, under home repairs, foundation and masonry repairs, light tractor work and property maintenence. 36 Years Exp. We accept Visa/MC. 704-633-3584 www.professionalservicesunltd.com Duke C. Brown Sr. Owner

Painting and Decorating

Tree Service A-1 Tree Service 3Established since 1978 3Reliable & Reasonable 3Insured Free Estimates!

~ 704-202-8881~ Recognized by the Salisbury Tree Board

Graham's Tree Service Free estimates, reasonable rates. Licensed, Insured, Bonded. 704-633-9304 John Sigmon Stump grinding, Prompt service for 30+ years, Free Estimates. John Sigmon, 704-279-5763. Johnny Yarborough, Tree Expert trimming, topping, & removal of stumps by machine. Wood splitting, lots cleared. 10% off to senior citizens. 704-857-1731 MOORE'S Tree TrimmingTopping & Removing. Use Bucket Truck, 704-209-6254 Licensed, Insured & Bonded TREE WORKS by Jonathan Keener. Insured – Free estimates! Please call 704-636-0954.

6B • MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2010 Misc For Sale METAL: Angle, Channel, Pipe, Sheet & Plate Shear Fabrication & Welding FAB DESIGNS 2231 Old Wilkesboro Rd Open Mon-Fri 7-3:30 704-636-2349 NEW Norwood SawmillsLumberMate-Pro handles logs 34" diameter, mills boards 28" wide. Automated quick-cyclesawing increases efficiency up to 40%! www.NorwoodSawmills.c om/300N. 1-800-6617746, ext. 300N.

Rifle. M1922 Mauser design rifle, Brazil made, bolt action, dark walnut stock. Black leather sling. Bayonet ready. $650. Call 704-762-9197 *similar to photo

Show off your stuff!

Paper Cutter $75 Please Call 704-638-9500 Shell/Kevin Harvick shirts. Size large. 1-Polo style, 1-Button up. $15.00 each or 2 for $25. 336751-2600 Spinning Wheel - $225 Pump Organ - $225 Please Call 704-638-9500 STEEL, Channel, Angle, Flat Bars, Pipe Orders Cut to Length. Mobile Home Truss- $6 ea.; Vinyl floor covering- $4.89 yd.; Carpet- $5.75 yd.; Masonite Siding 4x8- $14; 12”x16' lap siding at $6.95 ea. School Desks - $7.50 ea. RECYCLING, Top prices paid for Aluminum cans, Copper, Brass, Radiators, Aluminum. Davis Enterprises Inc. 7585 Sherrills Ford Rd. Salisbury, NC 28147 704-636-9821

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Sporting Goods

Misc For Sale

Step stool, $10. Overnight bag, $5 Clothes hangers, $9 Hand vacuum, $9. Call 704-642-0512 Stop Smoking Cigarettes No Patches, No Gum, No Pills With Hypnosis It's Easy! Also Weight Control. 704-933-1982

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Fox Model B, 410 GA. Excellent cond., older model, $1150. Also, Stevens 410 Single Barrel Model 94C, very nice. $170. 704-209-6460

Want to Buy Merchandise AA Antiques. Buying anything old, scrap gold & silver. Will help with your estate or yard sale. 704-433-1951. All Coin Collections Silver, gold & copper. Will buy foreign & scrap gold. 704-636-8123

Cash Paid Sterling silver flatware sets, tea sets, gold wedding bands, class rings, wrist watches. 704-305-0315 Timber wanted - Pine or hardwood. 5 acres or more select or clear cut. Shaver Wood Products, Inc. Call 704-278-9291. Watches – and scrap gold jewelry. 704-636-9277 or cell 704-239-9298

Youth Sparring Gear Includes 2 headgear, 1 with mask and hand and foot pads with velcro straps. Good condition, size-youth, $50. Please call 704-642-1827

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Call today about our Private Party Special!

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Business Opportunities ALL CASH VENDING ROUTE. Be your own boss- 25-machines/ candy all for $9,995. All major credit cards 1-877-915accepted. 8222. Vend 3. J.Y. Monk Real Estate School-Get licensed fast, Charlotte/Concord courses. $399 tuition fee. Free Brochure. 800-849-0932

Let us know! We will run your ad with a photo for 15 days in print and 30 days online. Cost is just $30.

Instruction

Music Sales & Service

Misc For Sale Nextel phones for sale, 2 560 $30 each, 1 265 $20. All good sharp. Call 704754-7435

Clarinet. may need pads. In Spencer. $39. Call 704-636-4424 between Noon and 11:00 PM.

Homes for Sale

Manufactured Home Sales

Found a step ladder. Call to describe, to return it to it's rightful owner. Please call 704-798-3700

Bank Foreclosures & Distress Sales. These homes need work! For a FREE list:

SALISBURY 3 BR, 2 baths, $105,000 www.122shaver.webs.com for details. 704-640-5921

Salisbury. 2 or 3 bedroom Townhomes. For information, call Summit Developers, Inc. 704-797-0200

Harrison Rd. near Food Lion. 3BR, 2BA. 1 ac. 1,800 sq. ft., big BR, retreat, huge deck. $580/mo. Financing avail. 704-489-1158

Found glasses. In Salisbury Mall parking lot in front of Dollar Tree over the weekend. Call 704-633-0048 to identify.

East Rowan

Lost & Found

Lost Boston Terrier in China Grove area, five years old, black and white female. 704-8568632 or 980-234-5176 Lost dog. Dachshund, male. Answers to “Leroy” Needs his medications. Rockwell area. Pleas call 704-640-8023 Silver Brighton Lost Watch, about 3 weeks ago in Salisbury. Please call Kaye at 704-2782054.

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COLLEGE ATTEND ONLINE from home. Business, Medical, Paralegal, Accounting, Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance. available. Computer Financial aid if qualified. Call 888-899-6918. www.CenturaOnline.com

Craftsman Style

Rockwell, 3 BR, 2 BA. Cute brick home in quiet subdivision. Outbuilding, wooded lot, nice deck off back. Kitchen appliances stay. R51385 $129,900 B&R Realty Dale Yontz 704.202.3663 East Salisbury. 4BR, 2½BA. Lease option purchase.1,800 sq. ft. +/-. Call 704-638-0108

90+ College credits? Serve one weekend a month as a National Guard Officer. 16 career fields, $50,000 student loan repayment, bonus, benefits, tuition assistance, more! robert.bumgardner@us.a rmy.mil Donate your vehicleReceive $1000 Grocery Coupon. United Breast Cancer Foundation. Free Mammograms, Breast Cancer info: www.ubcf.info. Free Towing, Tax Deductible, Non-Runners Accepted, 1-888-468-5964.

Homes for Sale

Timber Run Subdivision, 4 BR, 2.5 BA, granite countertops, wood floors, rec room, screened porch, deck. R51603 $349,900 Dale Yontz 704.202.3663

Allen Tate Realtors 4 BR 2BA, like new Craftsman Style, huge front porch, renovated kitchen and bath, fresh paint. R51516 $127,000 Dale Yontz B&R Realty 704-202-3663

Homes for Sale

Fulton Heights

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3 BR, 2 BA, Attached carport, Rocking Chair front porch, nice yard. R50846 $119,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty www.bostandrufty-realty.com

Genesis Realty 704-933-5000 genesisrealtyco.com Foreclosure Experts

3 BR, 2 BA, newer kitchen, large dining room, split bedrooms, nice porches, huge detached garage, concrete drives. R51548 $99,000. Monica Poole 704-245-4628 B&R Realty

East Area

Lot for sale, 50 by 150, with brick structure house present. Needs lots of work. $4800. Priced for quick sale. Call today (336)431-5092 or if no answer (336)803-2104. Rockwell

A Must See

3 BR, 2 BA in Hunters Pointe. Above ground pool, garage, huge area that easily finished could R51150A. upstairs. B&R Realty $179,900. 704-633-2394 Rockwell

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2 BR, 1 BA, hardwood floors, detached carport, handicap ramp. $99,900 R47208 B&R Realty 704.633.2394 Salisbury

Awesome Location

West Rowan – Country Club living in the country. Builder's custom brick home has 4 BR, 3 ½ BA w/main floor master suite. 3300 sqft. + partially finished bonus room. Lots of ceramic and granite. 2 fireplaces with gas logs. 6.5 very private wooded acres. Priced at $399,000. Reduced to sell! $389,000. Call for appt. 704-431-3267

For Sale By Owner

3-BR, 2-BA house at end of long, winding drive on 6plus acres on U.S. Highway 64 W in Davie County. 1,281 sq. ft. Two-car garage, 21-by-42 heated basement (outside entrance only), cottage-type outbuilding, and 10-by-42 covered back porch offers place to entertain, relax and enjoy a beautiful mountain view. Fence and row of Leyland cypresses provide privacy. Stream at back of property makes great picnic area. Call 336-407-3981, $175,000 - price negotiable.

Salisbury houses for rent starting at $395/mo. Houses for sale starting at $29,900. 704-633-6035

Land for Sale

Salisbury

Convenient Location

Very nice 2 BR 2.5 BA condo overlooking golf course and pool! Great views, freshly decorated, screened in porch at rear. T51378. $103,900 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628

Land for Sale ********************** Front St. 3.37 acres, almost completed 50' x100' bldg. $44K. 704-636-1477 W. Rowan 1.19 acs. Old Stony Knob Rd. Possible owner financing. Reduced $19,900. 704-640-3222

1 Hr to/from Charlotte, NC near Cleveland & Woodleaf & 3 Interstates: I-40, I-77, I-85. Restricted, no mobile or mod. Very rural, mostly wooded. Good hunting, deer, small game. Frontage on Hobson Rd., 2nd gravel driveway beside 2075 Hobson Rd mailbox. GPS zip code 27013. Safe distance from cities. Need sale this year. No reasonable offer refused. Owner phone: 336-766-6779, or Email to: hjthabet@cs.com See photos and directions: http://NCHorseCountryFarmland.com

Homes for Sale

Lots for Sale N. Rowan-Nice, wooded subdivision lot. $15,300. 51225. Varina Bunts B&R Realty 704.640.5200 Southwestern Rowan Co.

Salisbury

Over 2 Acres

Barnhardt Meadows. Quality home sites in country setting, restricted, pool and pool House complete. Use your builder or let us build for you. Lots start at $24,900. B&R Realty 704-633-2394

3 BR, 2.5 BA, wonderful home on over 2 acres, horses allowed, partially fenced back yard, storage building. $164,900 R51465 B&R Realty 704.633.2394 Salisbury

Privacy

Knox Farm Subdivision. Beautiful lots available now starting at $19,900. B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Manufactured Home Sales

GREAT INVESTMENT 3 BR, 2 BA. Well cared for, kitchen with granite, eat at bar, dining area, large living room, mature trees, garden spot, 2 car garage plus storage bldgs. $149,500. Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty Salisbury

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$500 Down moves you in. Call and ask me how? Please call (704) 225-8850 rd

3 Creek Ch. Rd. 3BR, 2BA. DW. .71 acre. 1,700 sq. ft. FP, LR, den. $540 about. Fin. avail. 704-489-1158 American Homes of Rockwell Oldest Dealer in Rowan County. Best prices anywhere. 704-279-7997 Salisbury

Salisbury

Great Location 3 BR, 1 BA Full Unfinished Basement. Sunroom with fireplace. Double garage. R50828 $89,900 B & R Realty 704.633.2394 East Rowan

Hurry, Hurry!

Brand new & ready for you, this home offers 3BR, 2BA, hardwoods, ceramic, stainless appliances, deck. R51547. $99,900. Call Monica today! 704.245.4628 B&R Realty Salisbury

3 BR, 2.5 BA, nice wood floors. Range, microwave, refrigerator, dishwasher, garbage disposal, washer, dryer, gas logs, outbuilding. 1 yr home warranty. $1,500 carpet allowances. R49933A $195,500 B&R Realty Dale Yontz 704.202.3663 Salisbury

Rent With Option!

OWNER FINANCING! NO MONEY DOWN!

3 BR, 2 BA, Well established neighborhood. All brick home with large deck. Large 2 car garage. R50188 $163,900 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Wanted: Real Estate *Cash in 7 days or less *Facing or In Foreclosure *Properties in any condition *No property too small/large Call 24 hours, 7 days ** 704-239-2033 ** $$$$$$

North of China Grove, 225 Lois Lane. 3BR/2BA, Double garage and deck on a quiet dead end street. Country setting. No water bills. No city tax. Possible owner financing. Will work with slow credit. $975/mo + dep. Please call 704-857-8406

Apartments 1 & 2BR. Nice, well maintained, responsible landlord. $415-$435. Salisbury, in town. 704-642-1955

1, 2, & 3 BR Huge Apartments, very nice. $375 & up. 704-890-4587 1BR/1BA duplex fully furnished. TV, BR suite, LR furniture, refrig., washer / dryer, Sect. 8 approved. Heat, air, electricity & water incl'd. $750/mo + $500 dep. 704-636-1850 2 BR, 1 BA at Willow Oaks on Old Concord Rd. Has refrigerator & stove. All elect. Rent $399, Dep. $400. Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

2BR brick duplex with carport, convenient to hospita. $450 per month. 704-637-1020 AAA+ Apartments $425-$950/mo. Chambers Realty 704-637-1020 Airport Rd. area. 118-A Overbrook Rd. ½ rent for December. 2 story apt. $535/mo. Very nice. Daytime 704-637-0775 Airport Rd. Duplex. 2BR, 2BA. $575/mo. 2BR, 1BA $550/mo., lease + dep., water furnished. No pets. Call 704-637-0370

BEST VALUE Quiet & Convenient, 2 bedroom town house, 1½ baths. All Electric, Central heat/air, no pets, pool. $550/mo. Includes water & basic cable.

West Side Manor Robert Cobb Rentals 2345 Statesville Blvd. Near Salisbury Mall

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Condos and Townhomes

China Grove. 2BR, 2BA. All electric. Clean & safe. No pets. $575/month + deposit. 704-202-0605 China Grove. One room eff. w/ private bathroom & kitchenette. All utilities incl'd. $379/mo. + $100 deposit. 704-857-8112 CLANCY HILLS APARTMENTS 1, 2 & 3 BR, conveniently located in Salisbury. Handicap accessible units available. Section 8 assistance available. 704-6366408. Office Hours: M–F TDD Relay 9:00-12:00. 1-800-735-2962 Equal Housing Opportunity. Clancy-hills@cmc-nc.com

Clean, well maintained, 2 BR Duplex. Central heat/air, all electric. Section 8 welcome. 704-202-5790

Colonial Village Apts. “A Good Place to Live” 1, 2, & 3 Bedrooms Affordable & Spacious Water Included 704-636-8385

Crosswinds Senior Apartments. Must be 55 years of age and older Beautiful one bedroom available apartments now. Call 704-639-9692 Our Gift to you--No rent due till January 1st with a $99 deposit. Eaman Park Apts. 2BR, 1BA. Near Salisbury High. $375/mo. Newly renovated. No pets. 704-798-3896 Franklin St. 2 BR, 1 BA. Newly refurbished inside. Rent $495, dep. $400. Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446 Holly Leaf Apts. 2BR, 1½BA. $555. Kitchen appliances, W/D connection, cable ready. 704-637-5588

Lovely Duplex Rowan Hospital area. 2BR, 1BA. Heat, air, water, appl. incl. $675. 704-633-3997 Moreland Pk area. 2BR all appliances furnished. $495-$595/mo. Deposit negotiable. Section 8 welcome. 336-247-2593 Moving to Town? Need a home or Apartment? We manage rental homes & apartments. Call and let us help you. Waggoner Realty Co. 704-633-0462 www.waggonerrealty.com

Near Va. 2BR, 1BA. $550/mo. Includes water. Security, application. 704-239-4883 Broker Rockwell Area. Apt. & Duplexes. $500-$600. 2BR Quiet Community. Marie Leonard-Hartsell at Wallace Realty 704-239-3096 Salis. Nice modern 1BR, energy efficient, water furnished, off Jake Alexander $395 + dep. 704-640-5750 Salisbury, city. 2BR, 1BA. Stove, refrigerator. New carpet. $500/mo., $500 dep. 704-633-4081 WELCOME HOME TO DEER PARK APTS. We have immediate openings for 1 & 2 BR apts. Call or come by and ask about our move-in specials. 704-278-4340 for info. For immediate info call 1-828-442-7116

Condos and Townhomes Hidden Creek, Large 2 BR, 2 BA end unit, all appl. pool + W/D, $825/mo + $400 dep. Ref. 1 yr. lease, no smoking, no pets. 704-640-8542

Quiet Setting

Salisbury. 2BR, 2BA spacious 1st floor condo. Appliances, fireplace, covered porch. Pool, tennis court. $750/mo. + deposit. 704-209-1805 Lv. msg. Wiltshire Village Condo for Rent, $700. 2nd floor. Want a 2BR, 2BA in a quiet setting? Call Bryce, Wallace Realty 704-202-1319

Salisbury

Salisbury.

Great House!

C46644

East Rowan home $35,000 less than tax value. Over an acre, close to I-85 & Hwy 52, Rockwell. Needs TLC. 51185 $79,900. Call Varina Bunts, B&R Realty @ 704.640.5200

Downtown Salis, 2300 sf office space, remodeled, off street pking. 633-7300

Apartments China Grove. 1BR Apartment completely furnished. No pets. 704857-8503 Lv. Msg.

Singlewide, 3BR/2BA, on ¾ acre, wooded lot, newly renovated, all appliances, well water 704-633-8533 after 5pm

Motivated Seller

704 797-POST

William R. Kennedy Realty 428 E. Fisher Street 704-638-0673

2 BR, 1 BA, close to Salisbury High. Rent $425, dep. $400. Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

Forest Creek. 3 Bedroom, 1.5 bath. New home priced at only $98,900. R48764 B&R Realty 704.633.2394

Salisbury

2BR, 1BA. Cute home in city on corner lot. Easy access to shopping, great investment or for first time home buyer. R50827 $49,900 704.633.2394 B&R Realty

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Rowan Realty www.rowanrealty.net, Professional, Accountable, Personable . 704-633-1071

25 Acres Beautiful Land for Sale by Owner

New Home 3BR, 2BA. Wonderful location, new hardwoods in master BR and living room. Lovely kitchen with new stainless appliances. Deck, private back yard. R51492 $124,900 Monica Poole B&R Realty 704-245-4628

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Real Estate Commercial

Salisbury

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KEY REAL ESTATE, INC. 1755 U.S. HWY 29. South China Grove, NC 28023 704-857-0539

House and 6+ Acres with Stream

E. Spencer

Need lots of Room?

Arey RealtyREAL Service in Real Estate 704-633-5334 www.AreyRealty.com

Forest Glen Realty Darlene Blount, Broker 704-633-8867

Western Rowan County

Salisbury, Henderson Estates, 3 BR, 2.5 BA, Basement, Double Attached Carport, R48766 $149,900 Monica Poole 704.245.4628 B&R Realty

Daniel Almazan, Broker 704-202-0091 www.AllenTate.com

Century 21 Towne & Country 474 Jake Alexander Blvd. (704)637-7721

Homes for Sale

1409 South Martin Luther King Jr Ave., 2 BR, 1 BA, fixer upper. Owner financing or cash discount. $750 Down $411/month. 1-803-403-9555

Salisbury Area 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 baths, $500 down under $700 per month. 704-225-8850

Real Estate Services

Notices

China Grove, 2 new homes under construction ... buy now and pick your own colors. Priced at only $114,900 and comes with a stove and dishwasher. B&R Realty 704-633-2394

NEW YEAR’S DEADLINES

Spencer Salisbury

New Listing

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Prince Charles Renovated Condos, Large Floor Plans, 1250-4300 sq.ft. Safe inside entrances. Walking distance to Downtown Salisbury. Special Financing Terms. Call: 704-202-6676

Apartments 3BR/2BA, 2.75 acres, one mile from High Rock Lake, one year old Samsung appliances, tons of upgrades, Pergo floors, 1400+ sq feet, Oakwood manufactured. Asking $125,000. 704-202-2228 or 704-224-1286

Airport Rd., 1BR with stove, refrig., garbage pickup & water incl. Month-month lease. No pets. $400/mo+$300 deposit. Furnished $425/mo. 704-279-3808

Houses for Rent 2 to 5 BR. HUD Section 8. Nice homes, nice st areas. Call us 1 . 704-630-0695 3 Homes. 2-East district, 1Carson district. 3 BR, 2 BA. $800-$1050. Lease, dep. & ref. req. 704.798.7233

SALISBURY POST Houses for Rent 3BD 2BA 131 Cross Dr New carpet Fresh paint, $775/mo. + $750 deposit. Private setting, 20x20 deck 704209-2291 No Section 8 419 Torbush Dr. East Spencer. 3BR, 1BA. Cent heat/AC. $500/mo. $500 dep. 704-433-1973 or 704-433-2019 4BR, 3BA. 2,000 sq.ft. ± VERY NICE! Includes 2BR guest house on property. ONLY $5,000 dn! TAKE OVER PAYMENTS! 704-630-0695 Carolina Blvd. 3BR, 2BA. All appliances incl., 4-car carport, big yard. $800/mo + deposit. 704-637-6618

Don't Pay Rent! 3BR, 2BA homes at 108 John Michael Lane & Crescent Heights. Call 704-239-3690 for info. E. Spencer, 306 E. Torbush, 3BR/1½ BA, fully furnished: 2 large TVs, 3 BR suites, LR furniture, dish washer, refrig., washer / dryer, central heat/air. Sect. 8 approved. $875/mo + $500 dep. 704-636-1850

EXECUTIVE STYLE HOME FOR RENT

Rockwell, 8565 Hwy 52, 2BR/1½BA Beautiful fireplace, wood floors & pine cabinets with built-ins, includes appliances & washer & dryer. East Rowan schools. No pets. $665/mo. Lease & Deposit. 704-209-0131 for Application Faith/Carson district. 3BR / 2BA, no smoking, no pets. $650/mo + dep + refs. 704-279-8428

Office and Commercial Rental 450 to 1,000 sq. ft. of Warehouse Space off Jake Alexander Blvd. Call 704279-8377 or 704-279-6882

China Grove. 1200 sq ft. $800/mo + deposit. Call 704-855-2100 Furnished Key Man Office Suites - $250-350. Jake & 150. Util & internet incl. 704-721-6831 Granite Quarry Holiday Special! Only 3 Units left! Move in by 12/31/10 & pay no rent until 3/1/2011! Commercial Metal Buildings perfect for contractor, video surveillance & parking. Call 704-279-4422 or 704-2323333 for more info.

Houses: 3BRs, 1BA. Apartments: 2 & 3 BR's, 1BA Deposit required. Faith Realty 704-630-9650 Kannapolis– 1007 Skyland St., 2 BR, 1 BA, $500/mo. 1422 West A St., 3 BR, 2 BA, $ 650 mo. KREA 704-933-2231 Miller Chapel Rd. 2BR. Office, appl., Large yard. Limit 2. No pets. $650/mo + dep. 704-855-7720 Salis., 2 BR, 1 BA $550; 3 BR, 1.5 BA $800, E. Spen. 2 BR, 1 BA $425 Carolina-Piedmont Properties 704-248-2520 Salisbury 2BR. $525 and up. GOODMAN RENTALS 704-633-4802 Salisbury 4BR/2BA, brick ranch, basement, 2,000 SF, garage, nice area. $1,195/mo. 704-630-0695 Salisbury

Great Convenient Location!

303-B W. Council St. Impressive entry foyer w/mahoghany staircase. Downstairs: L/R, country kit. w/FP. Laundry room, ½BA. Upstairs: 2BR, jacuzzi BA. Uniquely historic, but modern. 704-691-4459

Salisbury N. Fulton St., 2BR/1BA Duplex, limit 3, no pets, $525/month + deposit. 704-855-2100 Salisbury, 1314 Lincolnton Rd., 2 BR, 1 BA brick house. Hardwood floors throughout, close to Jake Alexander Blvd. Wallace Realty 704-636-2021 Salisbury, 3BR, 1BA Duplex. All electric, central air/heat, appliances, hookups. Near VA. $525. 704-636-3307 Salisbury, 928 S. Jackson St., 3BR/1BA, $600/mo + $600 dep., Section 8 OK, no pets. 704-507-3915 Salisbury, in country. 3BR, 2BA. With in-law apartment. $1000/mo. No pets. Deposit & ref. 704855-2100 Salisbury, S. Main St, 3BR/1½BA, cent. H/A, W/D hookup, big kitchen, stove & refrig, garage, $550/mo. Application is req'd and deposit req'd. M-F 9am5pm. 704-637-3889 Salisbury. 3 & 2 Bedroom Houses. $500-$1,000. Also, Duplex Apartments. 704636-6100 or 704-633-8263 Salisbury/Spencer 2, 4 & 5 BR $450-$850/mo. 704202-3644 or leave message. No calls after 7pm

Kannapolis area. 2,500 s.f. church complete with pews, 10 yrs old, heat & AC on 3.5 acres, lots of parking. Can be used for office space, shop or warehouse $1,100/mo. 704-791-6750 Numerous Commercial and office rentals to suit your needs. Ranging from 500 to 5,000 sq. ft. Call Victor Wallace at Wallace Realty, 704-636-2021

Office Space

Autos

Salisbury. 12,000 sq ft corner building at Jake Alexander and Industrial Blvd. Ideal for retail office space, church, etc. Heat and air. Please call 704279-8377 with inquiries.

West & South Rowan. 2 & 3 BR. No pets. Perfect for 3. Water included. Please call 704-857-6951

Rooms for Rent

Ford Focus SE Sedan, Stock #P7597. 2009. Brilliant silver exterior with medium stone interior. $12,397. Payment $189/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

MILLER HOTEL Rooms for Rent Weekly $110 & up 704-855-2100

Mercedes S320, 1999 Black on Grey leather interior, 3.2, V6, auto trans, LOADED, all power ops, low miles, SUNROOF, chrome rims good tires, extra clean MUST SEE! 704-6034255

Toyota Avalon Limited Sedan, 2007. Titanium Metallic exterior with light gray interior. Stock $17,397, #T11111A. $279/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Salisbury

West 13th St., in well established, nice neighborhood, totally furnished, internet, microwave, range, refrigerator, washer & dryer, all utitilies included. Single person only. No pets. $110/wk. + small deposit. 336-927-1738

Ford Focus ZX3 Base 2004. Silver Metallic w/gray interior, est. 33 mpg, automatic transmission. 704-603-4255

Mini Cooper Hatchback, 2005. Pepper white exterior with black interior. Stock #P7585. $13,297. Payment $199/ mo. Call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota Camry Solara SE Coupe, 2007. Cosmic blue metallic exterior with ivory interior. Stock #T10499A. $12,997, $199/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota Camry LE Sedan, 2002. Desert Sand Mica exterior with Taupe interior. Stock # T10705A. $9,497, $159/mo. 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Spencer Shops Lease great retail space for as little as $750/mo for 2,000 sq ft at. 704-431-8636 Warehouse space / manufacturing as low as $1.25/sq. ft./yr. Deposit. Call 704-431-8636

Ford Mustang GT Convertible, 1986. Red exterior with gray interior. Stock # F10457B. $7,897. Call Now 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Autos

We are in need of inventory and will pay top dollar for your vehicle. Cash on the spot with title in hand. We can also refinance your current auto loan and lower your payment. Please call 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Camp Rd, 2BR, 1BA. Appls, water, sewer, trash incl. Pet OK. $475/mo. + $475 dep. 704-279-7463

BMW, 2005 325i Midnight Black on tan leather 2.5 V6 auto trans, am, fm, cd, sunroof, dual seat warmers, all power, duel power seats, RUNS & DRIVES NICELY!! 704-603-4255

Nissan Altima 2.5 S Coupe, 2010. Winter Frost pearl exterior w/charcoal interior. Stock #P7555. $18,397. $299/ month. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota, 2005 Camry, LE/XLE/SE. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

CASH FOR YOUR CAR! We want your vehicle! 1999 to 2011 under 150,000 miles. Please call 704-216-2663 for your cash offer.

Weekly Special Only $17,995

Ford Taurus SE Sedan, 2007. 4-speed automatic, 3.0L, V6. Stock #P7596. $10,997. Payment $169/ mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com Nissan, 2004, Maxima. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Faith. 2BR, 1BA. Water, trash, lawn maint. incl. No pets. Ref. $425. 704-2794282 or 704-202-3876

Cadillac Deville, 2001 Bronze with Tan leather interior 4.6 V8 auto trans, all power, front and rear air, am,fm,cd, alloy rims good tires, Extra Clean Nonsmoker!!! 704-603-4255

Ford, 2006 Fusion SE. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Chevrolet Aveo LT Sedan, 2009. Stock # Silver P7600. Cosmic exterior w/charcoal interior. $10,697. $159/mo. Call Now 1-800-542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Hyundai Accent GLS Sedan, 2009. Stock # P7572. Nordic white exterior with gray interior. $10,897, $159/month. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Wholesale Not Retail If it's a battery, we sell it! We Buy Old Batteries! Faith Rd. to Hwy 152 Store across from Sifford's Marathon 704-213-1005 www.battery-r-us.com

Saturn ION 2 Sedan, 2006. Stock # F10530A. Cypress Green exterior with tan interior. $8,598. $139/mo. Call Now 1-800542-9758. www.cloningerford.com

Transportation Dealerships

Tim Marburger Honda 1309 N First St. (Hwy 52) Albemarle NC 704-983-4107

Transportation Financing

Volvo V70, 2.4 T, 2001. Ash Gold Metallic exterior with tan interior. 5 speed auto trans. w/ winter mode. 704-603-4255

To Sell.. Buy.. Call Classifieds 704-797-4220

Volvo, 2006 S60 2.5T Onyx black with cream leather interior, sunroof, cd player, all power, alloy wheels, super nice! 704-603-4255

We are the area's largest selection of quality preowned autos. Financing avail. to suit a variety of needs. Carfax avail. No Gimmicks – We take pride in giving excellent service to all our customers.

Call Steve today! 704-603-4255 www.JakeAlexanderAutoSales.com

Become Informed...Get Involved! Chevrolet Malibu LS Sedan, 2005. Stock # F11109A. White exterior with neutral interior. $9,997, $169/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Hyundai, 2006, Sonata GLS/LX. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Learn more about the AIR QUALITY in Rowan & Cabarrus. Read about:

Chevrolet Malibu LT Sedan, 2008. Imperial Blue Metallic exterior w/titanium interior. Stock #P7562B. $12,797, $199/ mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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• The importance of BUYING LOCAL foods for your health & the air you breathe • The EPA’s new, stricter proposed air quality standards

Chevrolet, 2006, Impala. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Jaguar XK8 Convertible, 1997. Stock # T11175A1. Black exterior with charcoal interior. $10,797. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

• The reason children are particularly vulnerable to dirty air

Visit Dodge, 2005, Magnum SE. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock!

Kia Spectra EX Sedan, 2009. Silver exterior with gray interior. Stock #P7580. $9,897, $169/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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Gold Hill, 2 bedroom, trash and lawn service included. No pets. $450 month. 704-433-1255

ENVIRONMENT.

Hurley School Rd. 2 BR, 2 BA. Nice yard, subdivision. Central air/ heat. $460/mo. + dep. 704-640-5750 Rockwell 2BR/1BA, W/D, stove & refrig, includes water & trash. No pet. $450/mo, $400 dep. 704279-8880

Service & Parts

TEAM CHEVROLET, CADILLAC, BUICK, GMC. www.teamautogroup.com 704-216-8000

Transportation Financing

Cooleemee. 2BR $100 / wk, $400 dep on ½ ac lot. 336-998-8797, 704-9751579 or 704-489-8840

EAST ROWAN AREA Taking apps. 2 BR, max. occ. 3, no pets, garbage, & lawn service incl. 704-2793882/ 980-234-2469

Harley 2004 FXST, 7,900 miles, excellent condition, well maintained. New Vance Hines exhaust, some chrome. Santa special @ $8,850 firm or best offer. 704855-1627. Call after 6 pm

CLONINGER FORD, INC. “Try us before you buy.” 511 Jake Alexander Blvd. 704-633-9321

Volkswagon CC Luxury Sedan, 2009. White gold exterior with metallic cornsilk beige/black interior. Stock # F11017A. $24,597. Call Now 1-800542-9758. www.cloningerford.com Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, 2005. Bright Silver Metallic exterior with black cloth interior. 6-speed, hard top, 29K miles. Won't Last! Call Steve today! 704-603-4255

Cleveland area. 3BR / 2BA, 2 units. One on Raven Court & one on Springway Rd. Also, 2BR/2BA coming soon. 704-500-4670

East Area. 2BR, water, trash. Limit 2. Dep. req. No pets. Call 704-6367531 or 704-202-4991

Motorcycles & ATVs

$5 off with ad

Manufactured Home for Rent Between Salis. & China Grove. 2BR. No pets. Appl. & trash pickup incl. $475/ mo + dep. 704-855-7720

Toyota Camry LE Sedan, 2010. Desert Sand Mica exterior with Bisque interior. Stock #P7569. $14,797, $229/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

BATTERY-R-US

Salisbury. In town. Convenient location on S. Main Level access. Utilities paid. Parking lot. 704-638-0108 Salisbury. Six individual new central offices, heat/air, heavily insulated for energy efficiency, fully carpeted (to be installed) except stone at entrance. Conference room, employee break room, tile bathroom, and nice, large reception area. Perfect location near the Court House and County Building. Want to lease but will sell. Perfect for dual occupancy. By appointment only. 704-636-1850

Autos

Honda, 2000, S2000. 112,000 miles. Blue w/black interior. 6 speed, convertible. 4 cylinder. $6,000. 704-798-5128

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Faith–2 BR, 1 BA. $350/mo. + dep. 2 BR, 1 BA, $425/mo. + dep. Near Carson High. 704239-2833

Salisbury, Kent Executive Park office suites, $100 & up. Utilities paid. Conference room, internet access, break room, ample parking. 704-202-5879

Autos

Salis 3990 Statesville Blvd., Lot 12, 3BR/2BA, $439/mo. + dep. FOR SALE OR RENT! 704-640-3222

We have office suites available in the Executive Center. First Month Free with No Deposit! With all utilities from $150 and up. Lots of amenities. Call Karen Rufty at B & R Realty 704-202-6041

West Rowan area. Big home. 20 acres. $895/ month. Please call 704239-0691

1st Month Free Rent!

Autos

ELLIS AUTO AUCTION 10 miles N. of Salisbury, Hwy 601, Sale Every Wednesday night 6 pm.

Office Building with 3 office suites; small office in office complex avail.; 5,000 sq.ft. warehouse w/loading docks & small office. Call Bradshaw Real Estate 704-633-9011

Ellis Park. 3BR/2BA. Appls., water, sewer, incl'd. $525/mo. + $525 deposit. Pet OK. 704-279-7463

Office and Commercial Rental

Autos

S. Salisbury 2BR/2BA, priv lot, $550/mo + dep. Also, garage apt for single $95/wk. 704-857-1854

For Sale or Lease!

Spencer. 3BRs & 2BAs. Remodeled. Great area! Owner financing available. 704-202-2696

Woodleaf & Kannapolis 3-4BR, 2BA. $650-$700/ mo. Deposit required. Please call 704-788-1603

Manufactured Home for Rent

Kannapolis

Salisbury

Fulton St. 3 BR, 1 ½ BA. stove Refrigerator, furnished. Rent $725, Dep., $700. Call Rowan Properties 704-633-0446

MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2010 • 7B

CLASSIFIED

Dodge, 2007, Caliber. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Mercedes C320, 2003 Black on Black leather interior 3.2 V6 auto trans, am,fm,cd, all power ops, SUNROOF, alloy rims, like new tires, rear air vents, EXCELLENT TRANSPORTATION!!!! 704-603-4255

8B • MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2010 Transportation Dealerships

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

SALISBURY POST

CLASSIFIED

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Troutman Motor Co. Highway 29 South, Concord, NC 704-782-3105

Transportation Financing Bad Credit? No Credit? No Problem! Tim Marburger Dodge 877-792-9700

Trucks, SUVs & Vans

Buick, 2006, Rendezvous. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

Chevrolet, 2005, Colorado 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Chevrolet, 2005, Tahoe. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LS Regular Cab, 2008. Stock #F10479A. $22,697. $389/mo. Call now! 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Edge SE SUV, Dune Pearl 2007. Metallix exterior with camel interior. Stock #P7577A. $21,988, $289/ mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Chevy Suburban 2006 Dark Blue metallic w/tan leather interior, 4 speed auto trans, am, fm, cd premium sound. Third row seating, navigation, sunroof, DVD. 704-603-4255

Ford F-150 FX4 Extended Cab, 2004. Red exterior with black interior. Stock #T11123A2. $22,297. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Dodge, 2004 Dakota. 100% Guaranteed Credit Over 150+ Approval! Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Chevrolet Trailblazer LS SUV, 2006. Silverstone metallic exterior w/light gray interior. Stock $12,797. #T10295A. Payment $209/mo. Call now 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Club Wagon, 1993. White exterior with gray cloth interior. 15 passenger van with only 61K miles. Great for church functions! 704-603-4255

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Honda Pilot 2005. Red Pearl with tan leather interior, automatic, 3rd row seating, 4x4, sunroof. 704-603-4255

Ford, 2003, Explorer. 100% Guaranteed Credit Over 150+ Approval! Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, 2004. Bright silver metallic exterior with gray leather interior. Auto, 4x4, heated seats, sunroof. Call 704-603-4255

Ford Ranger Tremor Plus Extended Cab, 2003. Black clearcoat exterior with dark graphite interior. Stock #T10747C. $7,897, $159/ 1-800-542-9758 mo. www.cloningerford.com

Jeep Wrangler Sport SUV, 2011. Detonator Yellow exterior w/black interior. $22,397. 1-800542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Nissan Frontier SE, 2007 crew cab 4.0 v6 auto trans, Black Opal with Grey cloth interior am, fm, cd, alloy rims, net, EXTRA cargo NICE!!!!! 704-603-4255

Suzuki XL7 Luxury SUV 2007. Stock #F10395A. Majestic silver exterior with gray interior. $16,697. $259/month Call now!1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Jeep, 2003, Wrangler Sahara. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! 150+ Vehicles in Stock!

Toyota Tacoma Base 2 Door Long Bed Truck, 2010. Black sand pearl exterior with graphite interior. Stock #T10736A. $16,897, $269/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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Toyota Tundra Limited Extended Cab, 2003. Natural white ext. w/oak int. Stock #F10438B. $17,697. $329/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Honda CR-V LX SUV, 2008. Stock #T10761A. Glacier blue metallic interior and gray interior. $18,697. $299/month Call now!1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Ford Ranger Extended Cab XLT, 2004. Oxford White with gray cloth. 5 speed auto. trans. w/OD 704-603-4255 Chevrolet, 2006, Equinox LT. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! 1330 W. Jake Alexander Blvd.

Ford Explorer XLT SUV, 2004. $11,497, $199/ month. Black clearcoat exterior w/midnight gray interior. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Chevrolet 2005 Silverado, extended cab, 212K miles, good mechanical condition. $3,800. 704-2451060 leave message

Jeep Liberty Renegade SUV, 2003. Light Khaki Metallic Clearcoat exterior w/taupe interior. Stock #F10511A1. $9,997. Call now! 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

Toyota 4 Runner, 1997 Limited Forest Green on Tan Leather interior V6 auto trans, am, fm, cd, tape, SUNROOF, alloy rims, good tires, CHEAP TRANSPORTATION!!!! 704-603-4255

Jeep, 2007, Compass Sport. 100% Guaranteed Credit Approval! Over 150+ Vehicles in Stock! www.autohouseofsalisbury.com

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Honda Element LX SUV, 2008. Tango Red Pearl exterior w/Titanium/Black interior. Stock #T10724A. $15,897. $249/mo. 1-800-542-9758 www.cloningerford.com

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Toyota, 2002 Sienna XLE LOADED! Grey leather seats, 3.0 V6 back with auto trans, tape, cd changer, all pwr. Duel heated seats, sunroof low price what more could you ask for! 704-603-4255

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Cats

Dogs

Free Kittens. Born Oct.15 2 solid grey, 2 multie color, very loving. Granite Quarry area. 704-2795961 please leave message.

CKC puppies. Pomeranians. $200. 2 male Shih Tzus, 16 weeks. $150. Cash. 704-633-5344

Free Kittens. Loving kittens and one year old cats. Various colors. Leave message at 704857-3261.

Giving away kittens or puppies?

2 SWEET YOUNG MALE CATS Two 8 month old cats looking for a good home. Extend your love to these cuddly friends.They love each other and will need to be adopted together. All shots, neutered. 704-223-0510

Dogs Puppies

Have a Schnauzer Christmas!

Dog-Free To Good Home. Medium sized, mixed breed, male, shots up to date, house trained, 8 mo. old. 336-933-9475 Free dog. Cocker Spaniel, female, 10 yrs old, spayed, blonde, definitely inside dog. 704-209-1814 or 704231-8159

Miniature Schnauzer Puppies. Full-blooded. 6-7 wks old. Very playful. 1st shots, dewormed & tails docked. Black & Salt-n-pepper. Parents on site. $225. 704279-8506 or 704-232-0116

Free cat, 8 years old. All black female. Spayed, declawed, litterbox trained. No other pets or small children in home, please. 704-603-4221

Chia-Do's, 5 weeks old, 2 males & 2 females, first shots. $150. Will hold until Christmas. 704-6409149 of 704-640-9128

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Dogs

Puppies

Adorable Pups!

Free Puppies. Part Collie and part pure American pit bull. Born on 11-1810, dewormed, tails docked, declawed. Call 704-212-7008

Found kitten Providence Church area, Dec. 15, Tuxedo, black saddle, rust and black mix, white on nose. 704-645-9119

Dogs Free Puppies to good home. Boxer/Lab mix, two females, 7 weeks old. 704-239-2291

Check Out Our December Special! Boarding 20% discount. Rowan Animal Clinic. 704-6363408 for appt.

Supplies and Services I Need a Home

FREE cat. Beautiful Russian Blue, female. shots UTD. Rabies Spayed. Inside only. Very sweet. Call 704-213-2011

Cane Corso Italian Mastiff Pups. ICCF Reg. $700 to $850. 336-467-1353

Chihuahua. 1 female. Cinnamon & Blue CKC. $300 cash. 9 wks. Has had 2nd set of shots. Tiny toy size(4-5 lbs) full grown. Little apple head. 704-603-8257.

Free Dog to good home. 8 year old female Beagle, abandoned at clinic. All vaccines current. Please call 704-636-3408

Adopt a Puppy or Kitten for Christmas. $80. (3) Coton de Tulear for Sale, small white, long hair exotic breed dogs. $400 ea. Salisbury Animal Hospital 1500 E. Innes St. 704-637-0227 salisburyanimalhospital.com

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No. 60892 T-Mobile Universal Service Notice T-Mobile offers several different rate plans that include all of the following services (or their functional equivalent) supported by the Federal Universal Service fund: T-Mobile customers may be eligible to receive discounted wireless telecommunications service of $6.49 per month plus applicable taxes and fees (or $1 per month for qualifying residents of federally recognized tribal lands) under the Lifeline program and a one-time reduced activation fee under the Link Up program if they satisfy certain eligibility requirements. Lifeline service, including toll limitation or toll control, is only available in certain areas where T-Mobile has been designated as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier. For more information about T-Mobiles Lifeline and Link Up offerings, visit T-Mobile online at www.t-mobile.com/lifeline or call USLifeline directly at 1-800-937-8997. Voice grade access Local usage in varying amounts Dual tone multi-frequency signaling Single-party service Access to emergency services Access to operator services Access to interexchange service Access to directory assistance; and, for qualified Lifeline subscribers, toll limitation or toll control. See brochures and Terms and Conditions (including arbitration provision) at T-Mobile.com for additional information regarding T-Mobile service and products. T-Mobile and the magenta color are trademarks of Deutsche Telekom AG. 2010 T-Mobile USA, Inc. No. 60857 NOTICE OF SALE IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION - ROWAN COUNTY - 10sp888 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY JENNIFER S. OWENS DATED MARCH 7, 2005 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1031 AT PAGE 672 IN THE ROWAN COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00 AM on December 29, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rowan County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying in the Town of Granite Quarry, Providence Township, Rowan County, North Carolina, on the western side of Yadkin St., more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a stake in the edge of Yadkin Street, A.H. Peeler's corner, said stake being 100 ft. S 9 deg. 26 min. East from the intersection of Frick Street and Yadkin Street, and runs thence with Yadkin Street S. 9 deg. 2 min. East 100 ft. to a stake, C.B. Peeler's corner in the edge of Yadkin Street; thence with C.B. Peeler's line, N. 86 deg. W. 200 ft. to a stake, C.B. Peeler's corner in the A.H. Peeler line; thence two lines with A.H. Peeler as follows (1) N. 9 deg. 26 min. West 100 ft. to a stake, (2) S. 86 deg. E 200 ft. to the beginning, containing 46/100 of an acre more or less. And Being more commonly known as: 415 Yadkin GQ St, Salisbury, NC 28146 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Jennifer S. Owens. The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance "AS IS, WHERE IS." Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. The date of this Notice is December 8, 2010. Grady I. Ingle Or Elizabeth B. Ells, Substitute Trustee, 08-109354 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/ No. 60856 NOTICE OF SALE IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION - ROWAN COUNTY 10 SP 958 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY TODD O. LOCKHART AND TAMARA H. LOCKHART DATED JANUARY 16, 2007 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 1084 AT PAGE 824 IN THE ROWAN COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00 AM on December 29, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rowan County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a nail at the southeastern corner of the intersection of the right of way of Eleventh Street and Mabel Avenue, and running thence with the southern margin of the right of way of Eleventh Street 86 deg. 30 min. East 75 feet to a new iron pipe, corner of Lots Nos. 75 and 76; thence with the line of Lot 75 South 5 deg. 12 min. West 150 feet to an established iron pipe in the line of Lot No. 117; thence with the line of Lot No. 117 North 86 deg. 30 min. West 75 feet to a concrete marker located in the eastern margin of the right of way of Mabel Avenue North 5 deg. 12 min. East 150 feet to the point of beginning, and being Lots Nos. 76, 77, and 78 of Archer Park as recorded in Book of Maps at Page 285 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County, North Carolina.

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No. 60866 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Administrator for the Estate of Dorothy H. Colbert, 429 Grace Street, Salisbury, NC 28144. This is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against the said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 22nd day of March, 2011, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to said estate are notified to make immediate payment. This the 16th day of December, 2010. Dorothy H. Colbert, deceased, Rowan County File #2010E1144, Deborah A. Colbert, 532 E. Cemetery Street, Salisbury, NC 28144

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, ROWAN COUNTY - 10 SP 1025 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Thomas L. Wilsey and Betty Porter by Stephanie A. Wilsey Attorney in Fact, Joint Tenants, and Stephanie A. Wilsey to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Trustee(s), which was dated March 26, 2008 and recorded on March 31, 2008 in Book 1118 at Page 267, Rowan County Registry, North Carolina.

No. 60877 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, ROWAN COUNTY - 10 SP 978 Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by LARRY D MYERS and WIFE, JANET G MYERS to AMERICAN HOME CLOSING, INC, Trustee(s), which was dated June 22, 2006 and recorded on June 27, 2006 in Book 1069 at Page 77, Rowan 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, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, 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 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 5, 2011 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rowan County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot 37 in Block of Forest Brook Subdivision as shown on map thereof in Map Book 9995, Page 4028 of the Rowan County Public Registry. Being the Identical property as conveyed to Larry D. Myers and wife and Janet G. Myers on 09/29/2003, in Book 988, Page 736 in the Rowan County Public Registry. PIN: 4030039 206 Phillip Drive Salisbury NC 28146

Default having been made in the payment 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 indebtedness 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 5, 2011 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Rowan County, North Carolina, to wit: BEGINNING at a point in the centerline of Yates Road, said point being an existing Northeastern corner of C.T. Deal; thence with Deal, North 85 degrees 29 minutes 36 seconds West 234.82 feet to a new iron; thence two new lines as follows: (1) North 05 degrees 50 minutes 24 seconds East 148.88 feet to an iron; and (2) South 88 degrees 43 minutes 30 seconds East 247.64 feet to a point in the centerline of Yates Road; thence with the centerline of said road, South 03 degrees 47 minutes 04 seconds West 162.82 feet to the point of BEGINNING containing 0.894 acres, and BEING Tract No. 3, as shown upon the subdivision of the property of Betty Lyerly Monroe, et al, recorded in Plat Book of Maps 9995, page 4105, Rowan County Registry, as surveyed by Richard L. Shulenburger, PLS, dated September 19, 2000. The above description is subject to the right of way of a 30-foot easement recorded in Deed Book 607, page 886, Rowan County Registry.

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

Said property is commonly known as 206 Phillip Drive, Salisbury, NC 28146.

Said property is commonly known as 640 Yates Road, Salisbury, NC 28146.

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, and the court costs of Forty-Five Cents (45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) pursuant to NCGS 7A-308(a)(1). 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.

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 Larry D. Myers and wife, Janet G. Myers.

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 upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. The notice shall also state that 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.

Substitute Trustee, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC By: Jeremy B. Wilkins, NCSB No. 32346 Brock & Scott, PLLC, Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200, Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988, FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 10-29948-FC01

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No. 60855

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COUNTY OF ROWAN 2010-SP-988

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION COUNTY OF ROWAN 2010-SP-989

IN RE: INVERNESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC, Foreclosure of that Deed of Trust dated September 18, 2008 recorded in Book 1129 at Page 806, Rowan County Registry, Under Foreclosure By: K. Todd Phillips, Substitute Trustee.

IN RE: INVERNESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC, Foreclosure of that Deed of Trust dated September 18, 2008 recorded in Book 1129 at Page 804, Rowan County Registry, Under Foreclosure By: K. Todd Phillips, Substitute Trustee.

Pursuant to the order of the Clerk of Court of Rowan County and under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Inverness Development Group, LLC dated September 18, 2008 and recorded in Book 1129 at Page 806 in the Rowan County Registry, and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein, and pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash at the door of the Rowan County Courthouse, 210 North Main Street, Salisbury, North Carolina, at 12:01 p.m. on January 4, 2011, the following property that is located in Rowan County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Pursuant to the order of the Clerk of Court of Rowan County and under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Inverness Development Group, LLC dated September 18, 2008 and recorded in Book 1129 at Page 804 in the Rowan County Registry, and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements contained therein, and pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash at the door of the Rowan County Courthouse, 210 North Main Street, Salisbury, North Carolina, at 12:01 p.m. on January 4, 2011, the following property that is located in Rowan County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Being Lot No. 25 as shown on map of LAUREL CREST, Section One, a map of said property being on file in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County in Book of Maps 9995, page 3197.

Being Lot No. 23 as shown on map of LAUREL CREST, Section One, a map of said property being on file in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rowan County in Book of Maps 9995, Page 3197.

Property Address:

206 Laurel Crest Drive, Kannapolis, North Carolina 28081

320 Laurel Crest Drive, Kannapolis, North Carolina 28081

Property Improvements: Unknown; the Trustee is informed and believes that a residence was recently constructed on the subject property.

Property Improvements: Unknown; the Trustee is informed and believes that the subject property is a vacant lot.

Present Record Owner(s):

Inverness Development Group, LLC

The property offered pursuant to this Notice is being offered for sale, transfer, and conveyance AS IS, WHERE IS. Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the indebtedness secured by the deed of trust, security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor their officers, directors, attorneys, representatives, employees, or agents make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, health, environmental, or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to said property, and any liability or responsibility arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition is expressly disclaimed.

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

The Trustee may, in the Trustee's sole discretion, delay the sale for one hour as provided in North Carolina General Statutes ("Gen. Stat.") 45-21.23.

At the sale, any bid must be at least $100.00 more than the immediately preceding bid. If the highest bidder is anyone other than the holder of the indebtedness, such high bidder must pay, in addition to the bid price, the fees or taxes imposed by Gen. Stat. 7A-308(a)(1) and 105 228.30 and any other tax or fee based upon the sale of the subject property or the sale price thereof.

The Trustee reserves the right to require of the successful bidder at such sale a deposit of 5% of the amount bid in the form of certified funds, official bank check, or the equivalent (as provided in the Deed of Trust or by law), or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater. The sale is subject to unpaid taxes, special assessments, restrictions and easements of record, and prior liens, if any. The sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law. Thereafter, all remaining amounts are immediately due and owing and time is of the essence.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon 10 days written notice to the landlord. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Any announcement made at the sale takes precedence over these terms of sale to the extent allowed by law.

If the subject property is residential real property with less than 15 rental units, pursuant to Gen. Stat. 45-21.16A(b), the following notice is provided:

(1) An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to Gen. Stat. 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; and

(2) 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 upon 10 days' written notice to the landlord. 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.

This Is an Effort to Collect a Debt and Any Information Obtained Will Be Used for That Purpose.

This the 20th day of December 2010.

This the 20th day of December, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: K. Todd Phillips, N.C. Bar No. 13940 HARTSELL & WILLIAMS, P.A. 71 McCachern Boulevard, S.E., Post Office Box 368, Concord, North Carolina 28026-0368, Telephone: 704-786-5161

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: K. Todd Phillips, N.C. Bar No. 13940 HARTSELL & WILLIAMS, P.A. 71 McCachern Boulevard, S.E., Post Office Box 368 Concord, North Carolina 28026-0368, Telephone: 704-786-5161

And Being more commonly known as: 1100 East 11th St, Kannapolis, NC 28083 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Todd O. Lockhart.

The date of this Notice is December 8, 2010. Grady I. Ingle Or Elizabeth B. Ells, Substitute Trustee, 10-008759 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400, Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/

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PADS may be cause of chronic abdominal pain If you play worse. Believe me when I tell you that I was extremely skeptical. But having tried every possible way to help my child, I decided to put my trust in this doctor, and we’ve been forever grateful. Within three months of intense cognitivebehavior therapy, my daughter was almost pain- and nausea-free, or at least able to control those symptoms when they cropped up. Now, a year later, it is rare for her to feel ill. The therapy returned not only her health but also her self-confidence. Obviously, not every child with chronic pain has PADS, but it may be worth looking into when all else fails. There is a good body of research on it. I certainly understand the helplessness a mother feels when she can’t make her child better. FYI: Having now been educated about PADS and spoken with my daughter’s specialist, our pediatrician recently referred another patient to him for treatment, and that child is experiencing remarkable improvement as well. Dear Reader: Pain-associated disability syndrome is a

fairly new term. It is defined as chronic pain that causes more severe restrictions than what the underlying condition would cause. As you put it, the body truly makes a mountain out of a molehill. Imagine not being able to use your arm because of a sliver in your finger. This is essentially what PADS does. A usually minor condition, such as acid reflux, suddenly causes severe pain, nausea, vomiting and an inability to eat and do other normal daily activities. Normal treatment fails, and there is no other explanation for the severity of symptoms. I found one small analysis of 40 patients ages 7 to 21. Thirty had abdominal pain, five had regurgitation, three had nausea, and two had chest pain. All met symptom-based criteria for functional gastrointestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome or acid reflux. Thirty-nine of the people also had trouble sleeping. Most underwent mental-health evaluations to rule out eating disorders and psychosis. It was found that all the patients had at least two or more of the following conditions: a learning disability, marital problems within the home,

chronic illness in a parent, early pain experiences, unrealistic goals in a perfectionist/high-achieving child and passive or dependent coping styles. Triggering events were found in 37 of the patients. These included febrile (relating to fever) illness, school change, trauma, sexual abuse and the death of a loved one. As you can see, this disorder is complex and varies from patient to patient. The cause isn’t known, but because it begins in preteen and early teen years, it is thought that developmental issues may play a role. Treatment involves both medical and mental-health professionals. Dr. Peter H. Gott is a retired physician and the author of several books, including “Live Longer, Live Better,” “Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet” and “Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Cookbook,” which are available at most bookstores or online. His website is www.AskDrGottMD.com. United FeatUre Syndicate

Playboy’s Hugh Hefner engaged to another Playmate CHICAGO (AP) — Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner says he’s gotten engaged again. Hefner said in a Twitter message early Sunday that he’d given a ring to girlfriend and Playmate Crys-

tal Harris, saying she burst into tears. “This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory,” he wrote. To clear up confusion over whether the ring was simply a Christmas gift,

Hefner later tweeted: “Yes, the ring I gave Crystal is an engagement ring. I didn’t mean to make a mystery out of it. A very merry Christmas to all.” This would be the third marriage for the 84-year-

old, star of E! reality series “The Girls Next Door,” which chronicles Hefner’s life at the Playboy Mansion. He divorced Playmate Kimberly Conrad last year. Harris is 23, according to her online biography by E!

RKCB, learn how it works BY PHILLIP ALDER United Feature Syndicate

From November 27 to December 3, I played at the Fall North American Championships in Orlando, Fla., and saw a lot of instructive errors. This deal highlights that it is better to be lucky than good. North’s two-spade response showed 7-9 highcard points (a method I dislike). Four no-trump was Roman Key Card Blackwood for diamonds, the reply showing two key cards (the diamond king and an ace, or two aces). South intended five no-trump to ask for side-suit kings. But how could North have another king? He had already shown seven points in the diamond king and club ace. If he had held a second king, he would have had 10 points and responded two no-trump. Here, five no-trump should have asked for a side-suit queen. And in RKCB, six of the agreed suit denies a side-suit king (or queen!). (With one, you bid six of that suit.) However, as you can see, South got lucky when he jumped to seven no-trump, thinking his partner had shown a second king in oldfashioned Blackwood style. West led his fourth-highest club. Judging that West would not lead away from the king, South won with dummy’s ace, then ran dia-

monds and spades, hoping if hearts were 4-2 that someone would err. But he need not have worried because hearts were 3-3 all along. Plus 2,220 was worth 11 matchpoints out of 11. East and West were not happy campers.

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Dear Dr. Gott: Like the 15year-old described in the letter you published, my 14year-old daughter suffered with chronic abdominal pain and nausea for nearly a year. We took her to three gastroenterologists, subjected her to every test known to man, and ended up having her gallbladder removed — an unnecessary surgery, as it turned out. The doctors speculated that she had one of the many gastro disorders you mentioned, DR. PETER but when none was GOTT identified and none of the dozen or so drugs they tried worked, they basically gave up on us. Finally, one wonderful doctor referred us to a specialist at Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, La. He is a pioneer and specialist in pain-associated disability syndrome, or PADS. It is essentially a disability in which the brain creates a mountain out of a molehill, making a little pain or digestive distress into something much

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Significant wintry precipitation is expected in New England Monday as a dangerous winter storm in the western Atlantic passes just southeast of Nantucket Monday morning. Bands of heavy snow and strong winds of 20 to 30 mph with frequent gusts to 45 mph are expected to persist along the coast of this region through the morning, continuing blizzard conditions with blowing and drifting snow. Snow totals along the New England coast will likely range from 8 to 16 inches during the next couple of days. The Boston area and metropolitan New York areas may experience the worst of this storm with snow totals ranging from 1 to 2 feet of snow and winds gusting to 60 mph. Expect extremely dangerous travel conditions with reduced visibilities and power outages to continue. Residents are encouraged to monitor their local weather activity and take proper precautions against the upcoming dangerous weather event. Meanwhile, light to moderate bands of snow with areas of much lighter snow accumulations are expected from the Northeast through the Tennessee Valley, much of the Southeast, and the Appalachians. While the winter storm and precipitation should pull away and lift northward over Nova Scotia Monday night, strong winds will remain in the forecast through Tuesday. Elsewhere, in the West, a strong system will move into the Pacific Northwest late Monday through at least Tuesday, bringing significant snowfall to the Cascades, strong winds to the coast, breezy conditions inland, and rising snow levels to the foothills and coastal mountains. Meanwhile, calmer and drier weather is expected in the Central U.S.

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Expanded Standings

Sunday’s sums Ravens 20, Browns 10 Baltimore Cleveland

0 13 7 0 — 20 7 3 0 0 — 10 First Quarter cle—Robiskie 29 pass from Massaquoi (dawson kick), 7:01. Second Quarter Bal—FG cundiff 27, 13:35. Bal—Houshmandzadeh 15 pass from Flacco (cundiff kick), 11:47. Bal—FG cundiff 40, 4:06. cle—FG dawson 30, :03. Third Quarter Bal—Mason 22 pass from Flacco (cundiff kick), 13:30. a—65,028. Bal Cle First downs 15 17 258 280 total Net Yards Rushes-yards 38-161 26-102 Passing 97 178 1-1 2-17 Punt Returns Kickoff Returns 1-15 5-126 interceptions Ret. 3-52 1-0 12-19-1 16-30-3 comp-att-int Sacked-Yards Lost 1-5 0-0 Punts 3-45.7 3-38.7 1-0 1-1 Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards 1-5 2-20 time of Possession 31:46 28:14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—Baltimore, Rice 25-92, McGahee 8-34, L.Mcclain 2-19, Flacco 3-16. cleveland, Hillis 12-35, Mccoy 4-30, Bell 727, cribbs 2-8, Vickers 1-2. PaSSiNG—Baltimore, Flacco 12-19-1102. cleveland, Mccoy 15-29-3-149, Massaquoi 1-1-0-29. REcEiViNG—Baltimore, Mason 4-50, Houshmandzadeh 4-32, Boldin 2-15, L.Mcclain 1-5, Rice 1-0. cleveland, Stuckey 439, Watson 3-22, Bell 2-48, Robiskie 2-35, Massaquoi 2-14, cribbs 1-9, a.Smith 1-6, Hillis 1-5. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—None.

Patriots 34, Bills 3 New England Buffalo

7 17 7 3 — 34 3 0 0 0— 3 First Quarter Buf—FG Lindell 26, 10:08. NE—Woodhead 29 run (Graham kick), 3:46. Second Quarter NE—Gronkowski 8 pass from Brady (Graham kick), 12:27. NE—FG Graham 34, 3:57. NE—crumpler 4 pass from Brady (Graham kick), :33. Third Quarter NE—Gronkowski 8 pass from Brady (Graham kick), 11:27. Fourth Quarter NE—FG Graham 26, 10:15. a—68,281. Buf NE First downs 20 16 total Net Yards 348 369 41-217 21-125 Rushes-yards Passing 131 244 Punt Returns 0-0 1-0 2-39 7-115 Kickoff Returns interceptions Ret. 3-19 0-0 comp-att-int 15-27-0 18-37-3 1-9 2-7 Sacked-Yards Lost Punts 5-41.2 2-34.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 4-4 6-40 6-40 Penalties-Yards time of Possession 32:30 27:30 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—New England, Green-Ellis 19-104, Woodhead 13-93, Brady 3-13, tate 1-12, Hoyer 4-(minus 2), taylor 1-(minus 3). Buffalo, Jackson 13-81, Spiller 6-30, Fitzpatrick 2-14. PaSSiNG—New England, Brady 15-270-140. Buffalo, Fitzpatrick 18-37-3-251. REcEiViNG—New England, Gronkowski 4-54, Woodhead 3-32, Welker 3-19, Branch 2-25, crumpler 1-4, Green-Ellis 1-3, Morris 1-3. Buffalo, St.Johnson 5-58, Jones 5-54, Roosevelt 4-74, Spiller 2-54, Jackson 2-11. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—None.

Rams 25, 49ers 17 San Francisco 0 14 0 3 — 17 St. Louis 9 3 3 10 — 25 First Quarter StL—Jackson 1 run (Jo.Brown kick), 11:21. StL—Hall safety, 2:47. Second Quarter SF—Ginn Jr. 78 punt return (Reed kick), 9:26. StL—FG Jo.Brown 43, 5:42. SF—crabtree 60 pass from t.Smith (Reed kick), 2:32. Third Quarter StL—FG Jo.Brown 30, 9:39. Fourth Quarter StL—Robinson 3 pass from Bradford (Jo.Brown kick), 9:36. SF—FG Reed 47, 5:41. StL—FG Jo.Brown 28, 3:51. a—52,820. StL SF First downs 12 19 total Net Yards 331 335 21-85 28-60 Rushes-yards Passing 246 275 Punt Returns 3-97 3-11 6-100 5-177 Kickoff Returns interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-19 comp-att-int 17-34-1 28-37-0 4-27 1-17 Sacked-Yards Lost Punts 6-53.8 7-42.4 Fumbles-Lost 5-1 2-1 8-87 5-41 Penalties-Yards time of Possession 26:52 33:08 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—San Francisco, Westbrook 10-40, t.Smith 5-28, dixon 6-17. St. Louis, Jackson 24-48, B.Gibson 2-15, Karney 1-2, Robinson 1-(minus 5). PaSSiNG—San Francisco, t.Smith 7-191-153, a.Smith 10-15-0-120. St. Louis, Bradford 28-37-0-292. REcEiViNG—San Francisco, crabtree 6-122, V.davis 3-70, Walker 3-17, Morgan 2-39, Westbrook 2-3, Ginn Jr. 1-22. St. Louis, amendola 8-53, alexander 6-99, B.Gibson 3-69, Fells 3-28, Robinson 3-25, Jackson 319, darby 2-(minus 1). MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—San Francisco, Reed 34 (WL).

Bears 38, Jets 34 N.Y. Jets Chicago

0 24 7 3 — 34 10 7 21 0 — 38 First Quarter chi—FG Gould 37, 9:40. chi—Forte 22 run (Gould kick), 4:54. Second Quarter NYJ—Greene 3 run (Folk kick), 14:56. NYJ—Lowery 20 interception return (Folk kick), 13:52. NYJ—tomlinson 3 run (Folk kick), 5:44. chi—cutler 2 run (Gould kick), 2:44. NYJ—FG Folk 26, :12. Third Quarter chi—Knox 40 pass from cutler (Gould kick), 13:20. chi—Hester 25 pass from cutler (Gould kick), 10:29. NYJ—Holmes 23 pass from Sanchez (Folk kick), 8:36. chi—Knox 26 pass from cutler (Gould kick), 6:06. Fourth Quarter NYJ—FG Folk 34, 14:52. a—62,310. NYJ Chi First downs 24 16 total Net Yards 393 322 Rushes-yards 30-124 27-120 Passing 269 202 Punt Returns 3-8 1-38 Kickoff Returns 6-126 7-114 interceptions Ret. 1-20 1-0 comp-att-int 24-38-1 13-25-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 2-13 Punts 4-40.3 4-44.0 Fumbles-Lost 3-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 3-34 6-31 time of Possession 33:51 26:09 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—N.Y. Jets, Greene 12-70, tomlinson 13-28, B.Smith 2-18, Richardson 2-5, Holmes 1-3. chicago, Forte 19-113, taylor 4-4, cutler 4-3. PaSSiNG—N.Y. Jets, Sanchez 24-37-1269, B.Smith 0-1-0-0. chicago, cutler 1325-1-215. REcEiViNG—N.Y. Jets, Keller 7-79, Edwards 6-78, Holmes 4-69, Greene 2-14, tomlinson 2-14, cotchery 2-8, Richardson 1-7. chicago, Knox 4-92, Forte 4-56, Hester 3-48, Bennett 1-14, olsen 1-5. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—chicago, Gould 35 (WR).

Lions 34, Dolphins 27 Detroit Miami

3 7 7 17 — 34 3 14 7 3 — 27 First Quarter det—FG Rayner 39, 10:56. Mia—FG carpenter 40, :30. Second Quarter

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE East PF PA Home Away 480 306 7-0-0 6-2-0 329 297 4-3-0 6-2-0 266 295 1-7-0 6-1-0 276 387 2-6-0 2-5-0 South Pct PF PA Home Away .600 412 368 5-2-0 4-4-0 .533 336 385 5-3-0 3-4-0 .400 336 316 3-5-0 3-4-0 .333 356 410 3-4-0 2-6-0 North Pct PF PA Home Away .733 334 223 5-3-0 6-1-0 .733 344 263 6-1-0 5-3-0 .333 262 291 3-4-0 2-6-0 .267 315 382 3-5-0 1-6-0 West Pct PF PA Home Away .667 356 295 7-0-0 3-5-0 .533 408 294 6-2-0 2-5-0 .467 379 361 5-3-0 2-5-0 .267 316 438 3-4-0 1-7-0 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Pct PF PA Home Away .714 412 339 4-2-0 6-2-0 .600 377 333 5-3-0 4-3-0 .400 288 360 2-5-0 4-4-0 .333 380 423 2-6-0 3-4-0 South Pct PF PA Home Away .857 369 261 6-0-0 6-2-0 .714 354 270 5-2-0 5-2-0 .600 318 305 4-4-0 5-2-0 .133 186 377 2-6-0 0-7-0 North Pct PF PA Home Away .733 331 276 5-3-0 6-1-0 .600 378 237 6-1-0 3-5-0 .357 244 314 4-4-0 1-5-0 .333 342 356 3-4-0 2-6-0 West Pct PF PA Home Away .467 283 312 5-3-0 2-5-0 .400 294 401 4-3-0 2-6-0 .333 267 339 4-3-0 1-7-0 .333 282 396 4-4-0 1-6-0 Pct .867 .667 .467 .267

Thursday’s Game Pittsburgh 27, CAROLINA 3 Saturday’s Game arizona 27, dallas 26 Sunday’s Games Kansas city 34, tennessee 14 St. Louis 25, San Francisco 17 chicago 38, N.Y. Jets 34 Baltimore 20, cleveland 10 New England 34, Buffalo 3 detroit 34, Miami 27 Washington 20, Jacksonville 17, ot indianapolis 31, oakland 26 denver 24, Houston 23 cincinnati 34, San diego 20 Green Bay 45, N.Y. Giants 17 tampa Bay 38, Seattle 15 Minnesota at Philadelphia, ppd., snow Monday’s Game New orleans at atlanta, 8:30 p.m. det—Pettigrew 20 pass from Sh.Hill (Rayner kick), 12:17. Mia—Polite 4 run (carpenter kick), 6:13. Mia—Bess 13 pass from Henne (carpenter kick), :30. Third Quarter det—Morris 5 run (Rayner kick), 5:49. Mia—Brown 1 run (carpenter kick), :05. Fourth Quarter Mia—FG carpenter 28, 9:44. det—Best 53 pass from Sh.Hill (Rayner kick), 4:37. det—FG Rayner 47, 2:44. det—Levy 30 interception return (Rayner kick), 2:11. a—66,731. Det Mia 14 28 First downs total Net Yards 275 425 Rushes-yards 21-67 37-154 208 271 Passing Punt Returns 1-23 4-50 Kickoff Returns 3-18 5-82 2-30 0-0 interceptions Ret. 14-26-0 29-44-2 comp-att-int Sacked-Yards Lost 2-14 2-7 Punts 6-46.3 4-41.3 0-0 5-1 Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards 6-53 8-63 time of Possession 22:45 37:15 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—detroit, Best 6-24, Morris 1222, Burleson 1-12, Sh.Hill 1-10, Logan 1(minus 1). Miami, Williams 14-71, Brown 1237, Moore 1-16, Henne 5-14, Polite 4-12, cobbs 1-4. PaSSiNG—detroit, Sh.Hill 14-26-0-222. Miami, Henne 29-44-2-278. REcEiViNG—detroit, Pettigrew 4-74, c.Johnson 4-52, Morris 2-13, Best 1-53, Scheffler 1-15, B.Johnson 1-8, Burleson 17. Miami, Marshall 10-102, Brown 6-34, Bess 5-34, Shuler 2-44, Fasano 2-31, Williams 221, Polite 1-7, Moore 1-5. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—None.

Redskins 20, Jaguars 17 10 0 0 7 3 — 20 0 7 3 7 0 — 17 First Quarter Was—FG Gano 48, 13:41. Was—F.davis 1 pass from Grossman (Gano kick), 9:07. Second Quarter Jac—thomas 19 pass from Garrard (Scobee kick), 8:18. Third Quarter Jac—FG Scobee 34, 4:57. Fourth Quarter Was—torain 1 run (Gano kick), 12:07. Jac—Garrard 20 run (Scobee kick), 2:44. Overtime Was—FG Gano 31, 12:13. a—63,470. Jac Was First downs 15 15 total Net Yards 251 336 24-79 23-78 Rushes-yards Passing 172 258 Punt Returns 3-11 7-39 3-67 5-72 Kickoff Returns interceptions Ret. 2-46 1-0 comp-att-int 19-39-1 22-38-2 1-10 4-41 Sacked-Yards Lost Punts 9-40.9 7-45.4 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-0 5-40 7-66 Penalties-Yards time of Possession 29:53 32:54 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—Washington, torain 20-65, K.Williams 2-8, Grossman 1-5, Sellers 1-1. Jacksonville, Garrard 6-39, Jennings 15-32, thomas 1-4, Karim 1-3. PaSSiNG—Washington, Grossman 1939-1-182. Jacksonville, Garrard 22-38-2-299. REcEiViNG—Washington, Moss 5-85, cooley 5-48, armstrong 2-15, F.davis 2-10, torain 2-4, R.Williams 1-10, austin 1-6, K.Williams 1-4. Jacksonville, thomas 6-96, Hill 4-77, Jennings 4-29, Lewis 3-37, Potter 2-14, Sims-Walker 1-31, Bolen 1-15, G.Jones 1-0. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—Jacksonville, Scobee 44 (WL). Washington Jacksonville

Chiefs 34, Titans 14 Tennessee Kansas City

0 7 7 0 — 14 14 17 3 0 — 34 First Quarter Kc—charles 14 pass from cassel (Succop kick), 11:19. Kc—charles 5 pass from cassel (Succop kick), 1:52. Second Quarter Kc—FG Succop 35, 11:31. Kc—Bowe 75 pass from cassel (Succop kick), 7:19. ten—Britt 53 pass from collins (Bironas kick), 4:15. Kc—Berry 54 interception return (Succop kick), :22. Third Quarter Kc—FG Succop 42, 5:43. ten—cook 22 pass from collins (Bironas kick), 3:35. a—65,606. Ten KC First downs 16 23 total Net Yards 270 458 Rushes-yards 16-57 40-152 Passing 213 306 Punt Returns 3-1 5-36 Kickoff Returns 7-119 3-50 interceptions Ret. 1-9 2-54 comp-att-int 14-37-2 25-36-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-22 1-6 Punts 8-44.0 5-46.4 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-1 Penalties-Yards 9-74 7-84 time of Possession 20:56 39:04 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—tennessee, c.Johnson 1458, collins 2-(minus 1). Kansas city, charles 13-77, Jones 23-51, cassel 3-20, Mccluster 1-4. PaSSiNG—tennessee, collins 14-37-2-

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N AT I O N A L F O O T B A L L L E A G U E

AFC 9-2-0 8-3-0 5-6-0 3-8-0

NFC 4-0-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 1-3-0

Div 4-1-0 3-2-0 2-3-0 1-4-0

AFC 7-4-0 7-4-0 3-8-0 4-7-0

NFC 2-2-0 1-3-0 3-1-0 1-3-0

Div 3-2-0 3-2-0 2-3-0 2-3-0

AFC 8-3-0 8-3-0 3-8-0 3-8-0

NFC 3-1-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 1-3-0

Div 4-1-0 3-2-0 1-4-0 2-3-0

AFC 6-5-0 6-5-0 5-6-0 3-8-0

NFC 4-0-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 1-3-0

Div 2-3-0 2-3-0 5-0-0 1-4-0

NFC 7-3-0 7-4-0 4-7-0 3-8-0

AFC 3-1-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 2-2-0

Div 4-1-0 2-3-0 2-3-0 2-3-0

NFC 9-1-0 8-2-0 7-4-0 2-9-0

AFC 3-1-0 2-2-0 2-2-0 0-4-0

Div 4-0-0 3-1-0 2-3-0 0-5-0

NFC 8-3-0 7-4-0 4-6-0 4-7-0

AFC 3-1-0 2-2-0 1-3-0 1-3-0

Div 5-0-0 3-2-0 1-4-0 1-4-0

NFC 5-6-0 5-6-0 3-8-0 3-8-0

AFC 2-2-0 1-3-0 2-2-0 2-2-0

Div 3-2-0 3-2-0 3-2-0 1-4-0

Tuesday’s Game Minnesota at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 2 chicago at Green Bay, 1 p.m. oakland at Kansas city, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m. tampa Bay at New orleans, 1 p.m. Miami at New England, 1 p.m. Minnesota at detroit, 1 p.m. CAROLINA at atlanta, 1 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at cleveland, 1 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. dallas at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m. tennessee at indianapolis, 1 p.m. arizona at San Francisco, 4:15 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 4:15 p.m. San diego at denver, 4:15 p.m.

235. Kansas city, cassel 24-34-0-314, croyle 1-2-1-(minus 2). REcEiViNG—tennessee, cook 5-96, Britt 4-89, Washington 3-37, Williams 1-10, Hall 1-3. Kansas city, Bowe 6-153, Moeaki 5-63, charles 4-40, chambers 3-17, castille 3-8, Mccluster 2-15, Pope 1-10, copper 16. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—Kansas city, Succop 47 (SH).

Broncos 24, Texans 23 Houston Denver

7 10 6 0 — 23 0 0 10 14 — 24 First Quarter Hou—Foster 3 run (Rackers kick), 2:41. Second Quarter Hou—daniels 3 pass from Schaub (Rackers kick), 11:43. Hou—FG Rackers 34, :22. Third Quarter den—Buckhalter 6 run (Hauschka kick), 12:58. Hou—FG Rackers 54, 10:14. den—FG Hauschka 27, 7:06. Hou—FG Rackers 57, 2:34. Fourth Quarter den—Buckhalter 23 pass from tebow (Hauschka kick), 10:55. den—tebow 6 run (Hauschka kick), 3:02. a—73,691. Hou Den First downs 21 25 401 431 total Net Yards Rushes-yards 22-91 33-126 Passing 310 305 2-14 2-19 Punt Returns Kickoff Returns 3-65 2-47 interceptions Ret. 1-0 1-2 23-33-1 16-29-1 comp-att-int Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 1-3 Punts 4-42.5 4-43.5 1-0 4-0 Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards 3-24 4-27 time of Possession 28:10 31:50 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—Houston, Foster 19-91, Ward 1-3, Schaub 1-0, Jones 1-(minus 3). denver, Buckhalter 11-42, Ball 5-38, tebow 1027, Moreno 7-19. PaSSiNG—Houston, Schaub 23-33-1310. denver, tebow 16-29-1-308. REcEiViNG—Houston, daniels 8-73, Jones 5-115, Foster 4-44, dreessen 3-33, casey 1-21, Walter 1-14, Ward 1-10. denver, Lloyd 5-111, Gaffney 4-90, Buckhalter 3-50, Royal 2-22, Moreno 1-22, Ball 1-13. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—None.

First downs 27 16 total Net Yards 370 290 39-191 20-80 Rushes-yards Passing 179 210 Punt Returns 3-15 1-12 5-123 5-188 Kickoff Returns interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-0 comp-att-int 16-30-2 29-42-0 0-0 3-21 Sacked-Yards Lost Punts 6-42.8 6-46.8 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 4-42 10-116 Penalties-Yards time of Possession 29:59 30:01 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—indianapolis, Rhodes 17-98, addai 12-45, d.Brown 6-28, Manning 3-25, Garcon 1-(minus 5). oakland, d.McFadden 11-45, Bush 3-19, J.campbell 3-10, Reece 3-6. PaSSiNG—indianapolis, Manning 16-302-179. oakland, J.campbell 29-42-0-231. REcEiViNG—indianapolis, tamme 7-78, Wayne 3-40, Garcon 3-35, White 2-20, addai 1-6. oakland, Z.Miller 9-66, HeywardBey 4-40, d.McFadden 4-31, Bush 3-15, Murphy 2-36, Ford 2-21, Schilens 2-16, Reece 2-2, Myers 1-4. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—oakland, Janikowski 54 (WR).

Bucs 38, Seahawks 15 7 0 0 8 — 15 3 14 14 7 — 38 First Quarter Sea—Hasselbeck 1 run (Mare kick), 2:50. tB—FG Barth 46, :25. Second Quarter tB—Winslow 10 pass from Freeman (Barth kick), 12:23. tB—M.Williams 20 pass from Freeman (Barth kick), 6:17. Third Quarter tB—Winslow 21 pass from Freeman (Barth kick), 6:38. tB—M.Williams 7 pass from Freeman (Barth kick), 1:28. Fourth Quarter Sea—Washington16 run (obomanu pass from Whitehurst), 10:14. tB—Stovall 2 pass from Freeman (Barth kick), 7:56. a—46,576. Sea TB 10 22 First downs total Net Yards 174 439 Rushes-yards 28-90 26-208 84 231 Passing Punt Returns 2-4 1-6 Kickoff Returns 7-128 3-99 0-0 0-0 interceptions Ret. comp-att-int 14-22-0 23-28-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-6 2-21 7-37.1 3-45.0 Punts Fumbles-Lost 0-0 4-0 Penalties-Yards 1-10 3-22 time of Possession 28:32 31:28 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—Seattle, Lynch 14-53, Washington 1-16, Forsett 8-12, Whitehurst 3-5, M.Robinson 1-3, Hasselbeck 1-1. tampa Bay, Blount 18-164, Freeman 4-23, c.Williams 4-21. PaSSiNG—Seattle, Whitehurst 11-18-066, Hasselbeck 3-4-0-24. tampa Bay, Freeman 21-26-0-237, J.Johnson 2-2-0-15. REcEiViNG—Seattle, carlson 3-27, tate 3-10, obomanu 2-18, Williams 2-15, Forsett 2-5, Morrah 1-9, Stokley 1-6. tampa Bay, Winslow 7-98, M.Williams 3-44, c.Williams 3-22, Stovall 3-12, Briscoe 2-28, Spurlock 1-20, Benn 1-16, Parker 1-5, Graham 1-4, Blount 1-3. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—tampa Bay, Barth 40 (BK). Seattle Tampa Bay

Packers 45, Giants 17 N.Y. Giants Green Bay

0 14 3 0 — 17 14 7 10 14 — 45 First Quarter GB—Nelson 80 pass from Rodgers (crosby kick), 7:53. GB—J.Jones 3 pass from Rodgers (crosby kick), 1:47. Second Quarter NYG—Nicks 36 pass from Manning (tynes kick), 11:40. NYG—Manningham 85 pass from Manning (tynes kick), 5:13. GB—Kuhn 8 run (crosby kick), 1:54. Third Quarter GB—FG crosby 31, 9:56. NYG—FG tynes 38, 7:10. GB—d.Lee 1 pass from Rodgers (crosby kick), 4:44. Fourth Quarter GB—Kuhn 5 pass from Rodgers (crosby kick), 6:58. GB—Kuhn 1 run (crosby kick), 4:20. a—70,649. NYG GB First downs 16 27 386 515 total Net Yards Rushes-yards 21-90 35-119 Passing 296 396 3-13 2-7 Punt Returns Kickoff Returns 8-149 4-60 interceptions Ret. 0-0 4-7 17-33-4 25-37-0 comp-att-int Sacked-Yards Lost 1-5 2-8 Punts 4-42.3 5-41.6 2-2 2-1 Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards 5-45 3-31 time of Possession 22:59 37:01 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—N.Y. Giants, Jacobs 8-47, Bradshaw 12-31, Manning 1-12. Green Bay, Jackson 18-39, Nance 9-32, Rodgers 2-26, Kuhn 6-22. PaSSiNG—N.Y. Giants, Manning 17-334-301. Green Bay, Rodgers 25-37-0-404. REcEiViNG—N.Y. Giants, Bradshaw 541, Manningham 4-132, Nicks 4-93, Ware 2-24, Hagan 2-11. Green Bay, Jennings 7142, Nelson 4-124, J.Jones 4-36, driver 344, Kuhn 2-7, d.Lee 2-4, crabtree 1-21, Quarless 1-16, Jackson 1-10. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—None.

Saturday

Bengals 34, Chargers 20 San Diego Cincinnati

0 3 7 10 — 20 7 6 0 21 — 34 First Quarter cin—Gresham 3 pass from c.Palmer (Stitser kick), 10:19. Second Quarter cin—Simpson 10 pass from c.Palmer (kick failed), 12:54. Sd—FG Kaeding 20, 1:15. Third Quarter Sd—Mathews 23 run (Kaeding kick), 5:45. Fourth Quarter cin—Shipley 3 pass from c.Palmer (Stitser kick), 13:00. Sd—FG Kaeding 28, 7:18. cin—Simpson 59 pass from c.Palmer (Stitser kick), 6:25. cin—Scott 10 run (Stitser kick), 3:54. Sd—Washington 5 pass from Rivers (Kaeding kick), 1:27. a—54,194. SD Cin First downs 23 18 total Net Yards 313 371 Rushes-yards 22-64 38-102 Passing 249 269 Punt Returns 1-12 0-0 Kickoff Returns 6-127 4-84 interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-47 comp-att-int 27-40-1 16-21-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 0-0 Punts 4-31.8 4-32.3 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 1-5 6-57 time of Possession 29:51 30:09 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—San diego, Mathews 12-55, Sproles 3-8, Rivers 1-2, Hester 2-1, tolbert 4-(minus 2). cincinnati, Benson 24-52, Scott 11-50, Peerman 1-1, c.Palmer 2-(minus 1). PaSSiNG—San diego, Rivers 27-40-1256. cincinnati, c.Palmer 16-21-0-269. REcEiViNG—San diego, Sproles 8-55, Washington 5-40, Naanee 4-59, Jackson 454, Mathews 3-28, McMichael 2-13, Kr.Wilson 1-7. cincinnati, Simpson 6-124, caldwell 4-87, Gresham 4-56, Shipley 1-3, Scott 1-(minus 1). MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—None.

Colts 31, Raiders 26 Indianapolis Oakland

7 10 7 7 — 31 7 6 3 10 — 26 First Quarter oak—Ford 99 kickoff return (Janikowski kick), 14:48. ind—addai 6 run (Vinatieri kick), 6:00. Second Quarter ind—FG Vinatieri 30, 14:51. oak—FG Janikowski 59, 9:31. oak—FG Janikowski 38, 1:55. ind—tamme 18 pass from Manning (Vinatieri kick), :36. Third Quarter oak—FG Janikowski 51, 7:53. ind—White 4 pass from Manning (Vinatieri kick), 2:55. Fourth Quarter oak—FG Janikowski 45, 12:59. ind—Garcon 7 pass from Manning (Vinatieri kick), 7:38. oak—Z.Miller 6 pass from J.campbell (Janikowski kick), 1:51. a—52,567. Ind Oak

Cardinals 27, Cowboys 26 Dallas Arizona

0 10 10 6 — 26 14 7 0 6 — 27 First Quarter ari—Rodgers-cromartie 32 interception return (Feely kick), 12:47. ari—toler 66 interception return (Feely kick), 8:24. Second Quarter dal—FG Buehler 42, 12:49. ari—Roberts 74 pass from Skelton (Feely kick), 11:57. dal—Witten 2 pass from Kitna (Buehler kick), 5:11. Third Quarter dal—FG Buehler 53, 6:46. dal—Barber 24 run (Buehler kick), 1:58. Fourth Quarter ari—FG Feely 49, 3:45. dal—austin 37 pass from McGee (kick failed), 1:41. ari—FG Feely 48, :05. a—66,971. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—dallas, Jones 16-77, Barber 8-58, McGee 4-19, choice 4-16, Kitna 1-7, austin 1-6. arizona, Wells 11-47, Hightower 6-23, Skelton 3-21, Wright 1-2. PaSSiNG—dallas, Kitna 12-20-2-115, McGee 11-17-0-111. arizona, Skelton 11-250-183. REcEiViNG—dallas, Witten 8-45, austin 6-115, Bennett 3-22, choice 3-16, Hurd 217, Jones 1-11. arizona, Roberts 5-110, Komar 3-31, Fitzgerald 1-26, Maui’a 1-10, Hightower 1-6. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—arizona, Feely 49 (WR).

Thursday Steelers 27, Panthers 3 Carolina Pittsburgh

0 0 0 3— 3 3 17 7 0 — 27 First Quarter Pit—FG Suisham 26, 3:47. Second Quarter Pit—Wallace 43 pass from Roethlisberger (Suisham kick), 10:16. Pit—Mendenhall 1 run (Suisham kick), 1:54. Pit—FG Suisham 29, :39. Third Quarter Pit—Roethlisberger 1 run (Suisham kick), 5:05. Fourth Quarter car—FG Kasay 27, 8:29. a—61,748. INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHiNG—carolina, Stewart 18-71, Goodson 4-3. Pittsburgh, Mendenhall 1865, Redman 5-43, Moore 4-5, Roethlisberger 6-2. PaSSiNG—carolina, clausen 10-23-172. Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger 22-32-0-320. REcEiViNG—carolina, Smith 3-17, Goodson 2-23, King 2-15, Stewart 1-9, Gettis 1-5, Rosario 1-3. Pittsburgh, Miller 5-73, Wallace 4-104, Sanders 4-54, Ward 3-38, Brown 2-20, Mendenhall 2-18, Moore 1-11, Redman 1-2. MiSSEd FiELd GoaLS—Pittsburgh, Suisham 41 (WR).

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New England’s Rob Ninkovich celebrates an interception by the Patriots, who continued their domination of Buffalo on Sunday.

Pats clinch top seed Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The New England Patriots clinched the top seed in the AFC playoffs Sunday thanks to Tom Brady’s three touchdown passes in a 34-3 rout over a familiar pushover, the Buffalo Bills. The Patriots (13-2) rolled to their seventh straight victory in winning the AFC East division and beating the Bills (4-11) for the 15th game in a row dating to 2003. New England is 20-1 in its past 21 meetings against Buffalo. Two of Brady’s TD passes went to rookie tight end Rob Gronkowski. Alge Crumpler and Danny Woodhead also scored for the Patriots, who forced seven turnovers. Brady finished 15 of 27 for 140 yards and set the NFL record for most attempts (319) without an interception. He topped the mark set by Bernie Kosar in the 1990-91 seasons. Rams 25, 49ers 17 ST. LOUIS — Sam Bradford set an NFL record for completions in a rookie season and his first touchdown pass in four games put St. Louis in position to earn a playoff berth next week. The Rams (7-8) need to win at Seattle (6-9) next week to clinch the NFC West and secure their first playoff berth since 2004. Troy Smith was benched in the fourth quarter of a loss that eliminated the 49ers (5-10) from playoff consideration in the weak NFC West. Smith passed for 356 yards in the 49ers’ overtime victory over the Rams last month, but did not play the last two games. Ted Ginn Jr. scored on a 78-yard punt return for San Francisco, his fourth career touchdown return. James Hall had 11⁄2 sacks for a defense that sacked Troy Smith three times and Alex Smith once, plus got a safety when Troy Smith fumbled a poor shotgun snap in the end zone. Buccaneers 38, Seahawks 15 TAMPA, Fla. — Josh Freeman threw for 237 yards and a career-best five touchdowns to help Tampa Bay keep its playoff hopes alive. Kellen Winslow and rookie Mike Williams each had a pair of TD receptions for the Bucs (9-6), who guaranteed themselves a winning record after going 3-13 a year ago in their first season under coach Raheem Morris. Seattle (6-9) played most of the game without injured quarterback Matt Hasselbeck and lost for the seventh time in nine games. Amazingly, the Seahawks can still win the NFC West by beating the Rams (7-8) at home next Sunday. Ravens 20, Browns 10 CLEVELAND — Joe Flacco threw two touchdown passes, Baltimore’s defense bottled up Cleveland’s Peyton Hillis, and the Ravens clinched their third straight playoff appearance. Ed Reed intercepted rookie Colt McCoy twice as the Ravens (11-4) stayed in contention for the AFC North title. They remain tied with Pittsburgh for the division lead with one game left. Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis promised Hillis would not repeat his 144-yard performance against Baltimore in Week 3, and the big back didn’t, rushing for 35 yards on 12 carries. McCoy threw three interceptions and the Browns (5-10) did nothing to help embattled coach Eric Mangini, who fell to 10-21 in two seasons. Chiefs 34, Titans 14 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Matt Cassel threw three touchdown passes and Eric Berry returned an interception 54 yards for another score for Kansas City, which clinched the AFC West title after San Diego lost to Cincinnati. Cassel hit 12 of his first 13 passes for the Chiefs (10-5), including touchdown tosses to Jamaal Charles on their first two possessions. The Chiefs’ 10 wins matched their combined total of the previous three seasons. Dwayne Bowe had six catches for 153 yards, including a career-best 75yard touchdown as the Chiefs remained unbeaten in seven home games. It’s the first AFC West title for

the Chiefs since 2003. Bengals 34, Chargers 20 CINCINNATI — Carson Palmer threw four touchdown passes during a near-perfect performance in the swirling snow, ending the Chargers’ run of four straight AFC West titles. The Chargers (8-7) froze up in their coldest game in nearly three years, repeatedly self-destructing on a raw, windy evening. It was only San Diego’s second loss in its last 22 games in December. Palmer, a Southern California kid, led the Bengals (4-11) to their second straight win with a cast of reserve receivers. Two of his touchdown passes went to Jerome Simpson, including a 59-yarder in the fourth quarter. Palmer finished with a career-best passer rating of 157.2 — perfect would be 158.3. Packers 45, Giants 17 GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers threw for 404 yards and four touchdowns in his return from a concussion to lead Green Bay. The loss leaves the Giants (9-6) clinging to fading playoff hopes and wondering if there was a hangover effect from the previous week’s collapse against Philadelphia. New York’s turnover issues continued, as the Giants lost two fumbles and Eli Manning threw four interceptions. John Kuhn ran for two touchdowns and caught a pass for a score for the Packers (9-6), who need to beat the Bears in the next weekend to make the playoffs. Bears 38, Jets 34 CHICAGO — Jay Cutler threw three touchdown passes, Matt Forte ran for 113 yards and Chicago closed in on a first-round bye. The Jets (10-5) lost for third time in four games, but clinched their second straight postseason trip under coach Rex Ryan when Jacksonville lost 20-17 in overtime to Washington. The win was the seventh in eight games for the Bears (11-4). Cutler completed 13 of 25 passes for 215 yards, with Johnny Knox catching two touchdowns. Colts 31, Raiders 26 OAKLAND, Calif. — Peyton Manning threw three touchdown passes and iced the game with a 27-yard keeper in a game that turned out to have little playoff meaning. The Colts (9-6) allowed Jacoby Ford to return the opening kick for a TD, overcame a pair of interceptions by Manning in the second half and survived four field goals from Sebastian Janikowski, including two from more than 50 yards, to move within a win of clinching the AFC South title for their ninth straight playoff berth. Redskins 20, Jaguars 17, OT JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Kevin Barnes intercepted David Garrard’s second pass in overtime, setting up Graham Gano’s 31-yard field goal. Rex Grossman had a touchdown pass early, and Ryan Torain added a 1-yard plunge on fourth down late as the Redskins (6-9) ended a four-game losing streak. Washington played without several defensive starters, including linebacker Brian Orakpo and safeties Reed Doughty and Kareem Moore, and lost cornerback Carlos Rogers during the game. It didn’t matter. The Redskins stuffed Jacksonville’s running game, pressured Garrard and came up big when it mattered most. Lions 34, Dolphins 27 MIAMI — Detroit took advantage of two picks to score 17 points in the final 4:37. With the comeback, the Lions (5-10) have won three consecutive games for the first time since 2007. The Dolphins (7-8), eliminated from the playoff race last week, finished 17 at home to match a franchise low. Broncos 24, Texans 23 DENVER — Tim Tebow threw for 308 yards and scored on a 6-yard scramble with three minutes left in his first home start to cap Denver’s comeback from a 17-0 deficit. Matt Schaub was driving the Texans for a go-ahead score when Syd’Quan Thompson picked off a pass deflected by Justin Bannan at the Broncos 27 with a minute remaining.