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Two sought after robbery at Wendy’sBy LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Police are looking for two, armed black males who robbed Wendy’s on Sunday night.

The armed robbery at the business, at 165 Commercial Drive, was reported at about 10:10 p.m.

Officers from the Forest City Police Department responded to a call from employees that an armed robbery had just occurred.

According to information from the FCPD, two black males went into the restaurant and made a purchase. They reportedly sat down and drank some of their drinks and ate some of their food.

Employees noticed, however, that the men kept going back and forth to the bathroom.

Wendy’s closed the dining area at about 10 p.m. and locked the doors, with the men still inside, so no one else could come in.

Please see Robbery, Page 6A

Woman killed in Go-Kart accidentBy JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — A Go-Kart accident at approximately 11:56 p.m. Saturday claimed the life of a 25-year-old Rutherford County woman.

Jessica Padgett, who turned 25-years old on Aug. 8, was driving a dune buggy type Go-Kart on 138 Green Ridge Trail in the Bill’s Creek com-munity when the brake pedal apparently failed as the Go-Kart was traveling down a hill. The Go-Kart struck a tree.

Monica Barker, 32, of Green Ridge Trail — the scene of the accident — sustained several broken bones when she was thrown from the Go-Kart.

According to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department, Jammie Howell, a Bill’s Creek firefighter and friend of Barker, witnessed the accident which occurred near midnight. Howell said they went up the driveway and turned around. As they passed Howell, they apparently told him the brake pedal was not working. He told them to hit the cut-off switch down the drive-way. They ran off the road and

Please see Woman, Page 6A

Jean Gordon/Daily CourierMark Anthony Morrow, 42, of Mandy Celeste Drive in Rutherfordton, is carried up an embank-ment by Rutherford County EMS and S-D-O firefighters after Morrow crashed his truck Monday off Cleghorn Mill Road. Trooper James Henson said Morrow was traveling west on Cleghorn Mill Road at about 8:30 a.m. and told Henson he was trying to dodge a deer when he lost control of his 2008 Ford F150. He went left of center, ran off the road, struck several trees and came to a rest against a tree. He sustained several broken bones. He was taken to Rutherford Hospital where he was treated and released. He was charged with reckless driving and no license tag.

By JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — A year after Town Council began discussing rate and rental fees at Crestview Park, it is expected to take some action when it meets at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at town hall.

Council met two hours last Wednesday to discuss the issue and Mayor Jimmy Dancy said the workshop was beneficial and the

time spent at the workshop would eliminate having to spend a lot more time at the regu-lar board meeting Wednesday.

Council is expected to allow Rutherfordton Little League Baseball priority of the fields March through July and Rutherfordton Raiders priority from August until November. Both organizations will be

Please see Park, Page 6A

By SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Commission-ers passed a refinancing plan designed to save the county $600,000 by a vote of three to two Monday night, with com-missioners Susan Crowe and Margaret Helton voting against the motion.

The plan was just one item on the agenda for the board’s meeting — which took the place of the regular September meeting due to the Labor Day holiday. The board also voted to complete a building plan for a new animal adoption center, but instructed County Manager

John Condrey not to send the project out for bids and to let the incoming board of commissioners handle the animal shel-ter/adoption center issue.

The refinancing strategy aims to take advantage of interest rates lower than they were in 2002 and 2003 for school construction debt from those years. About $16 million is still owed for the construction during the early part of the decade.

But the plan drew harsh criticism from commissioners Crowe and Helton because it also included a step to bundle a borrowing of up to $6 million should the board of commissioners decide to

move forward with various building projects from the 2010-2011 budget — including a satellite EMS center in Henrietta.

“If we’re going to refinance, and borrow money, it makes sense and will save costs to do that at the same time,” County Manager John Condrey said.

Commissioner Helton asked County Finance Director Julie Scherer if the plan would include using the schools as collat-eral for the $6 million for other projects.

“All the projects we’ve been discussing, like EMS in Henrietta, will be paid for

Please see County, Page 6A

MAN INJURED IN CRASH

Town park use plan expected

Padgett

County will save with debt refinancing

County Commissioners (from left) Eddie Holland, Susan Crowe, Brent Washburn, Paul McIntosh and Margaret Helton review documents for a refinancing plan that could save the county about $600,000 on around $16 million in school debt from 2002 and 2003.

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Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County

Sheriff’s Department responded to 255 E-911 calls during the weekend.n Daniel Alonzo reported

the larceny of his wallet and currency.n Jennifer Street reported

an incident of obtaining property by false pretense.n Alma Haynes reported a

felony larceny; property esti-mate, $3,100.n William Evans reported

a breaking, entering and larceny.n Allen Harvey reported a

larceny.n Greg Biffle reported

damage to personal property and second-degree trespass-ing.n Alvin Sprouse reported a

larceny.n Larry Morrison reported

felony larceny and breaking and entering.n Richard McDaniels

reported a stolen car trans-mission and car jack.n Jene Shires reported

damage to personal prop-erty.n An employee at Slickrock

Construction reported mis-demeanor larceny.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton

Police Department respond-ed to 67 E-911 calls.n Bobby Ray Miller report-

ed damage to a 1988 Jaguar from a thrown object.n Heather Leah Banfield

reported the theft of a wal-let.n The theft of merchan-

dise was reported at Dollar General, 584 S. Main St.

Spindalen The Spindale Police

Department responded to 58 E-911 calls.

Lake Luren Lake Lure Police

Department responded to 16 E-911 calls.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department responded to 153 E-911 calls.n John Stroud reported

damage to property.n Sonja Davis reported

being threatened.n An employee of Shoe

Show reported an incident of larceny, resisting a public officer and possession of drug paraphernalia. (See arrest of Goode.)n An employee of Ingles

reported a larceny.n Pamela Painter reported

a larceny. n Harold Pryor reported a

larceny.n James Kimbrell reported

a larceny.n Joseph Gowen reported

damage to property. n An employee of Radio

Shack reported a larceny.n Michael Bagwell report-

ed a larceny.n An employee of Ameri-

can Developmental Services reported damage to property and breaking and entering.

Arrestsn Christine Luckadoo, 38,

of Overlook Avenue, Forest City; served with a show cause order for failure to pay monies. (FCPD)n John Arthur McKinney,

36, of Old Stonecutter Road, Rutherfordton; charged with driving while impaired; released on a $1,000 unse-cured bond. (FCPD)n Summer Goode, 27, of

Never Blur Lane, Chesnee, S.C.; charged with larceny, resisting a public officer, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia; placed under a $2,000 secured bond. (FCPD)n Whitney Morgan

Levesque, 16, of Mary’s Lane, Rutherfordton; charged with driving while impaired and failure to com-ply with restrictions; freed on a custody release. (FCPD)n Richard Scott Nelson,

42, of 61 Rose Ann Lane; charged with driving while impaired; released on a $1,000 unsecured bond. (LLPD)n Rubin Guzman Lopez,

47, of 317 Harmon St.; charged with misdemeanor probation violation; placed under a $2,500 secured bond. (Probation)n Charles Ray Hemphill,

36, of 524 Hemphill Road; charged with four counts of misdemeanor probation violation; placed under a $100,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Phillip Junior Searcy, 51,

of 2511 Bill’s Creek Road; charged with domestic vio-lence protective order viola-tion; 48-hour hold. (RCSD)n Ellen Lovonne Cardwell,

48, of 305 Shiloh Road; charged with communicat-ing threats; placed under a $1,500 secured bond. (RCSD)n Fredrick Duval Ray, 29,

of No. 15 701 Rock Road; charged with driving while license revoked, fictitious information to an officer, driving while license revoked (Orange County), breaking and/or entering (Durham), felony larceny (Durham), possession of stolen goods (Durham), resisting a public officer, identity theft and obtain property by false pretense (Durham); placed under a $67,500 secured bond. (RCSD)n Donna Arleen Reynolds,

35, of 256 Birdsong Lane; charged with possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver schedule IV controlled substance and possession of drug para-phernalia; placed under a $10,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD)n Corey Lee Owens, 27,

of 2439 Oakland Road; charged with communicat-ing threats; placed under a $1,000 unsecured bond. (RCSD)n Jessica Darcel Wingo,

26, of 1631 Fernwood-

Glendale; charged with malicious conduct by pris-oner, driving while impaired and driving left of center; placed under a $6,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Brittney Mae Bradley,

19, of 133 McGinnis Road; charged with resisting a public officer; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Shane Lamont Latti-

more, 32, of 108 Sparrow Lane; charged with simple possession of schedule II controlled substance and local ordinance driving while license revoked; placed under a $5,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n David Wade Marlowe,

46, of 305 Shiloh Road; charged with contributing to the delinquency of a juve-nile; placed under a $105 cash bond. (RCSD)n Jonathan K. Hornibrook,

38, of 1026 Clearwater Parkway; charged with assault and battery; written promise to appear. (RCSD)n Kylie Elizabeth Waters,

20, of 213 Young’s Drive; charged with cyberstalking; released on a $3,000 unse-cured bond. (RCSD)n James Franklin Ray, 45,

of 426 Old U.S. 221; charged with driving while license revoked; released on a $500 unsecured bond. (RCSD)n Brandon Richard

Sane, 33, of 520 Pleasant Hill Road, Rutherfordton; charged with assault on a female and false impris-onment; placed under a $4,000 secured bond. (RPD)n Amanda Louise Shell,

25, of 520 Pleasant Hill Road, Rutherfordton; charged with simple assault and false imprisonment; placed under a $4,000 secured bond. (RPD)n Aki Marchane Miller,

36, of 346 Collett St., Apt 5, Rutherfordton; served with criminal summons for fail-ure to pay monies. (RPD)n Himanshu Ranchhod-

bhai Ray, 57, of 101

Flat Creek Road, Black Mountain; charged with driving while impaired and speeding 58 in a 35 mph zone; placed under a $1,000 unsecured bond. (RPD)n Matthew Donte Young,

22, of 1032 Young St.; char-ged with failure to comply/ nonsupport; placed under a $1,000 cash bond. (SPD)

Citationsn Maria Ann Whiteside,

27, of 846 W. Main St., Forest City; cited for drug paraphernalia. (RPD)n Jackie Hudgins, 56, of

119 Nix Road, Rutherford-ton; cited for failure to reg-ister vehicle and displaying a fictitious registration num-ber plate. (RPD)n Dawn Wilkerson

Hughes, no age listed, of 729 Bridges Farm Road, Forest City; cited for displaying a revoked registration number plate. (RPD)n Brandy Nicole Hoyle,

30, of 261 W. Third St., Rutherfordton; cited for dis-playing a revoked registra-tion number plate. (RPD)

EMSn Rutherford County

Emergency Medical Services responded to 54 E-911 calls.n The Volunteer Life

Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to 21 calls.

Fire Callsn Bill’s Creek, Green Hill

and Forest City firefighters were dispatched to vehicle accidents.n Cliffside firefighters

responded to a woods fire.n Cherry Mountain and

Hudlow firefighters were dispatched to smoke reports.n Forest City and Lake

Lure firefighters responded to smoke reports.n Spindale firefighters

were dispatched to a power line fire.

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■ A daily forum for opinion, commentary and editorials on the news that affects us all.

Jodi V. Brookshire/ publisherSteven E. Parham/ executive editor

601 Oak Street, P.O. Box 1149,Forest City, N.C. 28043Phone: 245-6431 Fax: 248-2790E-mail: dailycourier@thedigitalcourier.com

Days away from a showcase game for its rejuvenated foot-ball program, the University of

North Carolina finds itself embarrassed by a scandal.

In the wake of an NCAA investigation into possible links between a couple of UNC players and an agent (in a case that involves players from a number of schools), the university discovered a possible academic cheating scandal.

This is not what the people of this state or the university imagined as its future when it brought Butch Davis in as head coach.

Nothing so far revealed indicates Coach Davis had any involvement in what happened and we hope that is the case.

This situation involves only a handful of the players on the UNC team, but the real costs will be paid by the players who abide by the rules. Their hard work and effort will be lost amid all the talk of the scandals as the year goes by.

Our Views

UNC scandal’s costs are dear

Our readers’ viewsSays Obama policies will ruin the country

To the editor:OK, I can’t take it anymore. Let me start by saying that I

am in no way a rich man. I guess you could say I’m in between the lower and middle class in terms of salary.

To all the people that say the rich don’t pay taxes I will tell you a little story.

I know a person that a few years ago showed me their tax returns. I paid in more taxes to the federal government than they made in salary for the year and they got back more than I did on their returns.

What’s fair about that. One more time ... the poor don’t pay taxes.

Sure they pay during the year if they have a job but because of tax credits, earned income cred-its and the like they usually get back more than they paid in.

As far as the deficit goes. The highest deficit Bush ever had was a little over $400 billion. Obama’s first was $1.85 trillion.

OK, let’s say some of that was Bush’s budget. Obama’s second one is $1.2 trillion. As a matter of fact the lowest projected bud-get for the Obama administra-tion is a little over $500 billion. This information comes from the Heritage Foundation and the numbers are from the CBO.

As for the health care bill, ask the people, not the politicians, in

Canada and Britain what they think about their health care.

Obama will ruin our country. Do some research and see how many mosque’s we have rebuilt in the world and if you go to some of these countries and mention Christianity they will throw you in jail. Why is he for building a mosque near ground zero? The answers to these ques-tion will come in a later letter.

Harry HallmanBostic

Offers thoughts on shelter, Daniel Road

To the editor: Another letter to the editor

about the Animal Shelter?

Good grief people ... it’s not like we don’t need another one, it’s long over due.

Cheers to the people that take the time out of their busy sched-ules to take care of unwanted pets. We can’t thank them enough.

But I am tired of seeing all the signs planted around the county about we need a shelter now. It’s a done deal thanks to the County Commissioners. You’d think we were going to vote on whether we need one! That’s not it.

My problem isn’t the shel-ter itself but the Daniel Road Project.

The County Commissioners decided that’s what we needed without consulting with the tax-payers of Rutherford County.

If it was put to a vote I must

have been asleep or out of the country or something.

Surely the county had land somewhere else that a shelter could have been built on.

Someone submitted the idea to the Commissioners because of other counties doing the same thing. Does this mean it will work for us? I sure hope so.

What’s going to happen to the Farmer’s Market that exists now?

I don’t know what all is going into the project except soccer fields etc. What’s wrong with using the parks that we have now and put fields there?

If I’m wrong in my thinking please show me where and I’ll be glad to retract my thoughts and say I’m wrong. That’s more than I can say for some of the others that write into the paper.

Brenda UptonForest City

Davidson will wish outgoing president the best“We wish he would stay

just a little longer. But it was three great years and we wish him well as he takes on an even bigger assignment.”

That is what folks at Davidson College said last year when Stephan Curry opted out of his senior year and a chance for one more year with the Wildcat bas-ketball team.

Those same words are coming out of the same mouths as Davidson gets used to giving up the man who served as its president for the last three years, Tom Ross.

Last week the UNC Board of Governors named the Davidson president to suc-ceed Erskine Bowles at the end of the year.

Ross will be the 17th UNC president. But he is only the fifth since the 1971 reorgani-zation and consolidation of all state universities.

William Friday, C.D. Spangler, Molly Broad and Bowles are Ross’s immediate predecessors.

As a North Carolinian

with limited experience in the complex world of pub-lic higher education, Ross seems to fit the model of Spangler and Bowles.

Like them, he brings a reputation of dedicated and unselfish public service and a native’s understanding of North Carolina culture and politics,

Although he does not have the national credentials and career experience that Molly Broad brought to the job, his three years at Davidson and his service as Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Executive Director give him more experience in higher education issues than either Spangler or Bowles had a the beginning.

Like them Ross brings a demonstrated ability to manage complex organiza-

tions and tackle new chal-lenges.

Because of his Davidson experience and my observa-tion of his success in dealing with the state legislature as a representative of the justice system, I mentioned Ross as a possibility for the UNC job in this column back in February.

But even though I thought he was perfect for the job, I believed that he would be a long-shot candidate.

I was afraid his relative short time in higher educa-tion leadership would over-shadow his assets as a leader in the North Carolina public arena.

Maybe I underestimated the wisdom of the search committees.

Or maybe Ross just simply fit perfectly the profile of the kind of servant leader they wanted.

Now that the selection pro-cess is over, how will Ross compare to his predeces-sors?

One of them, Bowles, with typical modesty, was heard to say, “He’ll be a much bet-ter president than I am.”

That might be a too high a performance bar to set. In his five years of service, Bowles’s example of commit-ted hard work and success will be a hard act to follow.

However, Ross seems ready to challenge Bowles at least on the modesty front.

“I’ve got a lot to learn, and ... I know that I’m going to have to jump right in, that I’ll make mistakes. And I just hope people will be patient and understand and know that I’m giving it all I have.”

He also said, “I am far from perfect and I am no miracle worker, but I am

committed to the task at hand.”

Maybe not miracles, but Ross has shown he can make the most of challeng-ing situations.

And he probably knows that the Presbyterians at Davidson, along with people of all faiths all over North Carolina, will be praying for him.

They should also pray for the something-close-to-a-miracle that it is going to take to keep the university strong, given the state’s eco-nomic situation and compet-ing priorities.

Postscript: Ross will have Davidson-related company in the high levels of univer-sity administration.

East Carolina Athletics Director Terry Holland; N.C. State Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford; and UNC-Chapel Hill Associate Deans Bill Andrews and Jamie May are Davidson alums.

Martin hosts UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at 5 p.m.

D.G. Martin

One on One

Tom Ross will be the 17th UNC president. But he is only the fifth since the 1971 reorga-nization and consolidation of all state uni-versities.

The Daily Courier would like to publish letters from readers on any subject of timely interest.

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Larry FranceLarry France, 50, of 2060

Flint Hill Church Road, Shelby, died Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, at Rutherford Hopsital.

A native of Albuquerque, N.M., he was a son of the late Richard and Della Kate Brown France.

He was employed by Rutherford Heating and Air as an HVAC Technician, was a longtime member of R.S.E.S. and a member of Flint Hill Baptist Church, where he was a former assis-tant Sunday School teacher. He started several home Bible studies.

Survivors include his wife, Kim Byars France; a daugh-ter, Sarah Grace France of the home; a brother, David France of Dandridge, Tenn.; two sisters, Pam Massey and Mary Hayes, both of Gastonia; and nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Flint Hill Baptist Church with the Revs. Shane Kirby and Keith Dixon officiating. Burial will follow at Cleveland Memorial Park. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the sanc-tuary of Flint Hill Baptist Church.

Memorials may be made to Flint Hill Baptist Church Care Ministry, 2207 Flint Hill Church Road, Shelby, NC 28152.

McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences: www.mckin-neylandrethfuneralhome.com

Opal GuffeyOpal Guffey, 75, of

447 Bob Hardin Road, Rutherfordton, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, at Hospice House of Rutherford County.

She was a daughter of the late Preston and Callie Jones.

She was a member of Second Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Jim Guffey; two daughters, Linda Wall of Rutherfordton and Deborah King of Spindale; one son, Steve Guffey of Rutherfordton; two grand-children; and a brother, Ralph Jones of Forest City.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at noon at Second Baptist Church in Rutherfordton with Dr. Keith Stephenson and the Rev. Brandon Wood officiat-ing. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. until noon Tuesday at the church.

Memorials may be made to Second Baptist Church Family Life Center; 191 Green St., Rutherfordton, NC 28139 or Hospice of Rutherford County, P.O. Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

McMahan’s Funeral Home & Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences: www.mcma-hansfuneralhome.com

Jessica PadgettJessica Elizabeth Padgett,

25, of Jack McKinney Road, Harris, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, as the result of an accident.

A native of Rutherford County, she was the daugh-ter of James Edward “Eddie” Padgett and Joyce Shelton Padgett of Shelby.

She was a graduate of Chase High School and was employed by Vacation Resorts in Lake Lure.

In addition to her parents, she is survived by her daugh-ters, Nikolah Shay Phillips and Kyla Raegan Phillips-Padgett, both of the home; grandparents, Glen Shelton of Forest City and Pauline Padgett of Harris; and a brother, Brandon Padgett of Rutherfordton.

Memorial services will be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Crowe’s Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Joe Tarpley officiat-ing. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 6 until 8 p.m. at Crowe’s Funeral Home in Rutherfordton.

Memorials may be made to Sharon United Methodist Church, Nikolah and Kyla Phillips Padgett Memorial Fund, 871 College Ave., Shelby, NC 28152

Online condolences: www.crowemortuary.com

Barbara MitchellBarbara Lee Smith

Mitchell, 78, of Morganton, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at noon in the chapel of Kirksey Funeral Home in Morganton. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Burial will take place at Burke Memorial Park.

Kirksey Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

James BoyceJames Boyce, 65, of 345

Wells Drive, Forest City, died Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Thompson’s Mortuary.

Dolphus HodgeDolphus Hodge, 71, of

Rutherfordton, died Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at Hospice House.

Arrangements are incom-plete and will be announced later by McMahan’s Funeral Home and Cremation Services.

Francisco VaralloBUENOS AIRES,

Argentina (AP) — Former Argentine soccer star Francisco Varallo, the last surviving player from the first World Cup in 1930, died Monday. He was 100.

Varallo played in the final between Uruguay and Argentina in Montevideo, Uruguay. Argentina lost 4-2.

He began his career with the club Gimnasia y Esgrima, but made his mark with Boca Juniors. He is Boca’s second-leading scorer with 194 goals, behind only current striker Martin Palermo. Varallo was nick-named “Canoncito” (little canon) for his powerful shot.

Alain Corneau PARIS (AP) — Alain

Corneau, the French film-maker who leapt to inter-national notice with the 1991 hit Tous les Matins du Monde, a period drama about 17th-century musi-cians, has died, his talent agency said. He was 67.

Throughout a career last-ing more than 35 years, Corneau directed many legends of French cinema, including Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu.

Depardieu starred along-side his son Guillaume in Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World). The film, which depicted the uneasy relation-ship between a young and elderly musician in 17th-cen-tury France, won consider-able critical acclaim at home and abroad.

Jules Loh NEW YORK (AP) — For

most of his four decades as a reporter, Jules Edward Loh traveled the United States, reaching every state and using his honeyed Georgia accent to charm his way into the hearts, minds and lives

of Americans, famous and obscure.

To write Lords of the Earth, a 1971 book about the Navajo Indians of Arizona, he became so close to tribal elders that they named him Poputiney, meaning “Many Pencils.” Back in New York, his irreverent colleagues at The Associated Press dubbed him “Loh, the poor Indian.”

Despite numerous journal-ism awards by the time he retired in 1997, Loh said of himself, “I am a reporter, period. They can chisel that on my gravestone.”

Loh, 79, died early Sunday at his home in Tappan, N.Y. He suffered complications after recent abdominal sur-gery, said Eileen Loh, his daughter.

Born May 29, 1931, in Macon, Ga., Jules Loh served in the U.S. Air Force, attended Georgetown University and joined the AP in Louisville, Ky., in 1959.

During 39 years with the news agency, he covered earthquakes in Alaska, California and Mexico City, space shots, political cam-paigns and both Kennedy assassinations, delivering the story in fast, facile prose.

Jayne Brumley Ikard WASHINGTON (AP) —

Jayne Brumley Ikard, one of Newsweek magazine’s first female bureau chiefs and prominent Washington host-ess, has died. She was 83.

Born Mary Jane Keegan, Ikard changed her name to Jayne because she liked how it looked. She studied jour-nalism at Boston University, and in 1951 married Calvin Brumley, whom she met at the Lubbock Avalanche Journal.

The couple followed Calvin Brumley’s career to Denver, New York, Jacksonville, Fla., and Boston, where Ikard wrote a column for the Boston Herald. In 1964, she became head of Newsweek’s Boston bureau, where she covered national political stories, including Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and funeral and the aftermath of Chappaquiddick and Sen. Edward Kennedy.

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s criminal prosecu-tions are so tainted by racial bias and scientific fraud that the state should consider eliminating the death penal-ty, innocence advocates said Monday as they filed a brief supporting a death row pris-oner’s claim of bias.

“How can you ever purify a system that is so contami-nated to allow any kind of death sentences be pursued or carried out?” asked Carol Turowksi, co-director of the Innocence & Justice Clinic at the Wake Forest University law school.

Turowski and others at a news conference cited evi-dence of racial bias in crimi-nal sentences, particularly death penalty cases, and problems with the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab. Their brief in support of White, however, focuses on his claim under the state’s Racial Justice Act, which allows death row inmates to use statistics and other evidence to prove racial bias resulted in the death sentences.

Of the seven people released from North Caro-lina’s death row since 1973, only one was white, the advocates say in their brief, adding all were convicted of killing one white victim. Two also were accused of killing a black person.

“Science matters. Race matters,” said Theresa Newman, co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke University’s law school. “It all matters when we’re trying to convict the person who actually commit-ted the crime.”

Attorney Mark Rabil of Winston-Salem criticized the state-run crime lab, which has been under fire since February, when an SBI agent testified that analysts did not always include the complete results of blood tests on lab reports that were submitted to court. That hearing result-ed in the exoneration and release of Greg Taylor, who had served almost 17 years in prison for the death of a Raleigh woman.

That testimony led to an outside review of the SBI’s blood unit that was released last week. The scathing review found that eight ana-lysts omitted, overstated or falsely reported blood evi-dence in dozens of cases, including three that ended in executions and another where two men were impris-oned for killing Michael Jordan’s father.

“For years, the State Bureau of Investigation and its labo-ratory have tried to blind us with so-called science,” said Rabil, who represented Darryl Hunt, who was exon-erated of a rape conviction in 2004. “For years, they have tried to dupe us with what they claim to be valid science when we know that truth is transparent.”

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Ruth McHugh Ruth Hazel Moser McHugh, 87, of 1794 Cliffside Highway, went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home. Born in Eno, NC, she was the wife of Joe Franklin McHugh and the daughter of the late Max Moser and Mabelle Council Moser. She was a homemaker and a member of Cliffside United Methodist Church. In addition to her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Katherine Biddy and husband, Dennis of Spartanburg and Janette Houser and husband, Joe of Mooresboro, NC; two brothers, Max Moser, Jr. and wife, Louise of Greenville, SC and Robert Moser and wife, Betty of Lincolnton, NC; a sister, Bea Joyner of Greensboro, NC; five grandchildren, Katrina Taylor, Christy Holcombe, Angie McHugh, Laura Hefner and Steven Houser; six great-grand-children, Joseph Taylor, Ashlea Taylor, Nicholas Holcombe, Reid Houser, Mia Hefner and Jacob Hefner. She was preceded in death by a son, Joe Franklin McHugh, Jr. and three sisters, Margaret Carr, Frances Moser and Hester Sims. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 PM on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at Blakely Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at Cliffside United Methodist Church in Cliffside, NC with Rev. Robert Hodgens and Rev. Ray Hefner officiating. Interment will be in Frederick Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to Spartanburg Regional Hospice Home, 686 Jeff Davis Drive, Spartanburg, SC 29303 or to the charity of ones choice. The family will be at the resi-dence. An online guest register is avail-able at:www.blakelyfuneralhome.com. Blakely Funeral Home & Crematory, Gaffney, SC.

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Jessica Elizabeth Padgett

Jessica Elizabeth Padgett, age 25, of Jack McKinney Rd,, Harris, NC, died Sunday, Au-gust 29, 2010, as the result of an accident.

Jessica was a native of Ru-therford County, the daughter of James Edward (Eddie) Padgett and Joyce Shelton Padgett of Shelby. She was a graduate of Chase High School and was employed by Vacation Resorts in Lake Lure.

In addition to her parents, she is survived by her daugh-ters Nikolah Shay Phillips and Kyla Raegan Phillips-Padgett both of the home; grandparents Glen Shelton of Forest City and Pauline Padgett of Harris; and a brother Brandon Padgett of Rutherfordton.

Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m., Wednesday, at Crowe’s Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Joe Tarpley officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Tuesday at Crowe’s Funeral Home in Ru-therfordton.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Sharon United Methodist Church - Nikolah and Kyla Phillips Padgett Me-morial Fund 871 College Ave. Shelby, N.C. 28152

Online condolences at www.crowemortuary.com

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Katie Irene Greene

Katie Irene Greene, 84, of Forest City, died Monday, Au-gust 30, 2010, at Rutherford Hospital.

A native of Rutherford Coun-ty, she was a daughter of the late Thomas and Katie West Edwards. She was a homemak-er and a member of Spindale Church of the Brethren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Glen Greene.

She is survived by three daughters, Judy Luckadoo and Janice Holland of Forest City, Jerrie Bishop of Spartanburg, SC; four sons, Howard Ray Greene, Dennis Greene and Gary Greene both of Forest City, Larry Greene of Spindale; one sister Margie Horne of Spindale; fifteen grandchildren and nineteen great grandchil-dren.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, September 2, at 11 a.m. at Spindale Church of the Brethren with the Rev. Perry Jones officiating. Interment will follow in Sunset Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church.

In lieu of flowers, memori-als may be made to Spindale Church of the Brethren.

The family will be at the home of Bill and Judy Luckadoo, 164 Knollwood Drive, Forest City, NC 28043

Online condolences at www.crowemortuary.com

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Opal Guffey Opal Guffey, age 75, of 447 Bob Hardin Road, Rutherfordton, NC, died Sunday, August, 29, 2010, at Hospice House of Rutherford County. She was a member of Second Baptist Church. Opal was the daughter of the late Preston and Callie Jones. She is survived by her husband, Jim Guffey; two daughters, Linda Wall and husband, Bryan, of Rutherfordton, NC and Deborah King and husband, Randy, of Spindale, NC; one son, Steve Guffey and wife, Sharon, of Rutherfordton, NC; grandchil-dren, Brian Nelson Taylor and Kayla King; and one brother, Ralph Jones of Forest City, NC. The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., Tuesday at the church, prior to the service, and the body will lie in state. Funeral service will be at Second Baptist of Rutherfordton at 12 p.m., Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Dr. Keith Stephenson and the Rev. Brandon Wood will offici-ate. Interment will be at Sunset Memorial Park, Forest City, NC. Memorials may be made to Second Baptist Church Family Life Center; 191 Green St.; Rutherfordton NC. or Hospice of Rutherford County; P O Box 336; Forest City NC 28043. McMahan's Funeral Home & Cremation Services in charge of arrangements. Guest register at:www.mcmahansfuneralhome.com

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A short time later the two men approached the kitchen area, both of them with handguns, and made the five employees get down on the floor.

The robbers took items from the employees, particularly their cell phones, and demanded and got the money out of the cash registers and out of the safe.

Lt. Chris Lovelace of the FCPD said the robbers apparently wanted the cell phones so that the employees could not use them to call the police. At least one of those phones was destroyed, as was a phone at the busi-

ness.The employees were told to stay

down as the robbers left the business.Lovelace said the two left in an

unknown direction on foot, but it is uncertain if they had a car waiting outside the business or if they had parked somewhere else.

Both of the robbers are described as being around five-feet six-inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, with slim builds. They appeared to be in their 20s.

One of the men had shoulder-length dreadlocks. He had on a blue hat, white t-shirt, blue jeans and white and black shoes.

The other man is described as hav-ing short hair. He had on a brown

hat, brown t-shirt and brown shorts. He possibly was wearing brown Timberland boots.

One was armed with a silver-colored pistol and the other with a black-colored pistol.

Police particularly want to talk with whoever came through the drive-through during the robbery. When someone pulled up to place an order, an employee was told to say that the restaurant was closed. Officers are asking that that driver get in touch with the police.

Anyone else who may have seen someone walking or a car in the area at about that time is asked to call the FCPD at 245-5555.

hit a tree. Padgett stayed with the vehicle but was not responsive at the scene, the report stated.

They were taken to Rutherford Hospital where Padgett was pro-nounced dead Sunday morning.

Barker’s father said they were travel-

ing on a downhill grade on the main road and went off the road.

Padgett lived off Jack McKinney Road in Harris.

Padgett and Barker both worked at Vacation Resorts, Inc.

Investigation into the accident is continuing.

Padgett was a graduate of Chase High School. Her survivors include two young daughters, Nikolah Shaye

Phillips and Kyla Raegan Phillips-Padgett, both of the home.

Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Crowe’s Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Joe Tarpley offi-ciating. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Crowe’s Funeral Home in Rutherfordton.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@the-digitalcourier.com.

ongoingFoothills Harvest Ministry: $5 plastic grocery bag sale, $7 tall kitchen bag sale, $9 30-gallon trash bag sale; bags can be filled with clothes and shoes.

Hospice Resale Shop: Storewide half price sale Sept. 2-4; includes clothing, collectibles, housewares, books, furniture and more; also includes selected clothing priced at 25 cents. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Silent auctions for Relay for Life: Held weekly through Sept. 10. Photos and details will be posed on the Rutherford County government website at www.rutherfordcountync.gov. Items will be posted each Monday and bids end each Friday at noon. For information or to place a bid, e-mail Debra Conner, debra.con-ner@rutherfordcountync.gov.

Luminaria sale and can food drive: Relay for Life Rutherford County is selling luminarias, which will be lighted Sept. 10 at Relay for Life, for $10; luminarias may be purchased online at www.relayforlife.org/rutherfordnc or by calling Gail Strickland, 245-2156 or 233-1735. In addition, canned foods will be used to weigh down the luminarias. After Relay, the canned foods will be donated to Communities in Schools and Grace of God Rescue Mission; cans should be 11 to 15 ounces to best fit in the luminarias.

Washburn Community Out-reach Center: Entire store appar-el half-price; hours Thursday and Friday, noon to 6 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; contact the center regarding the GED pro-gram offered by ICC at 245-5603.

Celebration of the Arts applica-tions: Will be accepted through Sept. 8 at the Rutherford County Visual Arts Center, 160 N. Main St., Rutherfordton; guidelines and information available at www.rcvag.com.

Tuesday, aug. 31Homemade ice cream sale: 11 a.m. until, State Employees Credit Union, Rutherfordton branch; proceeds benefit Relay for Life.

GRACE: For anyone caring for a loved one, held the first Tuesday of each month from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Rutherford Life Services; today’s topic is “Legal issues for caregiv-ers” with attorney John B. Crotts; hosted by Hospice.

HOPE Support Group: Tuesdays, at 6 p.m. at the Center of Living for any adult in the commu-nity who has lost a loved one. Offered at no cost by Hospice of Rutherford County.

Alanon meetings: Lake Lure Alanon Family Group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at Lake Lure Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure; call 625-0456 for information.

Wednesday, Sept. 1Lunch club: noon, first Wednes-day of the month, Carolina Event and Conference Center; the event serves as a fundraiser for Hospice of Rutherford County and pro-ceeds will go to the care of home care hospice patients; cost is $10 and includes an entree, vegetable, dessert and tea (please call for menu selection for the month); to reserve a space, please call 245-0095; reservations must be made no later than one week before.

Thursday, Sept. 2Relay for Life fundraiser: Between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m., 10 percent of total sales at Tuscany Italian Grille will be donated to Relay for Life of Rutherford County.

Friday, Sept. 3Rutherford County Animal Control: The facility will close today at 2 p.m. for repairs and reopen at noon Sept. 13. Officers will be available for law enforce-ment issues only; no animals will be taken into the facility during this time. The Community Pet Center will also be closed.

Rutherford 912 Group meet-ing: 6:30 p.m., N.C. Cooperative Extension Center on Callahan Koon Road; for more information, call Jennifer Naskov, 288-8058, or visit rutherford912.org.

Saturday, Sept. 4Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center; education-al software and adult-supervised access to the Internet.

Fundraiser: 11 a.m. until, Carver parking lot, sponsored by Unionville Lodge No. 729; fish and rib plates, $8 each (includes drink and dessert), fish sandwich $4, can soda, $1 and bottled water $1.

responsible for maintenance and oth-er assistance at the facilities. No field use fee will be charged.

Other groups will have the opportu-nity to reserve fields at other times.

Council will look at charging $250 per field per day, including lights and minimal town preparation.

The board will discuss charging hourly fees for multi-purpose fields at $10 per hour and also $10 per hour for the use of field lights.

The board will also decide whether the park facilities will be rented for money-generating activities to benefit renters.

Also Wednesday, Council will ask DOT to close Main Street on Oct. 2 for the Hilltop Fall Festival from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m.

The board will also discuss a reso-lution supporting North Carolina’s Public Alcoholic Beverage Control system. The resolution supports local control of the ABC system and opposes any efforts to privatize the ABC system, diminish local control or to diminish the local government revenue stream from the ABC store profits. The law specifies that profits from ABC store sales are returned to local government. Last year, the town of Rutherfordton received $7,000 in revenues from the ABC profits.

The board will conduct a workshop at the end of the meeting to discuss

the solid waste fee. The fee was actu-ally passed in June as part of the 2010-2011 budget, but Council has decided to review the fees.

During the budget workshop, it was decided to subsidize one weekly can collection for residential property and two can collections for commercial property with property taxes. Each additional weekly can pick up would be $5.80 per month.

Non-tax paying customers would be subject to the $5.80 fee beginning with the first weekly can collection. Apartments were classified as com-mercial entities. Based on the fees, revenues would be $3,766 a month.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@the-digitalcourier.com.

by the up to $6 million we are look-ing at borrowing,” Scherer explained. “We’re not obligating anything at the schools that is not already obligated.”

The refinancing would save about 3.5 percent on the total school loans.

Scherer repeatedly tried to empha-size that no new obligations would be put on the school buildings, but Crowe and Helton were both opposed to borrowing any more money.

“I feel like this is not something we should be putting a burden on our schools for $6 million more,” Helton said. “Education is important and I don’t think we should be financing on the schools to pay for something else.”

Chairman Washburn stated, “By doing this tonight we’re not saying

we’re going to borrow two cents on the schools. It just says we can bor-row if commissioners choose to do so in the future. It is one step in the process.”

Commissioners were scheduled to vote on new building projects at their November meeting, but due to the refinancing plan, they will now have that vote at their October meeting.

Scherer and Paula Roach received an award, presented by Condrey, recognizing their Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. This is the 21st year in a row the department has won the certificate.

Commissioner Washburn asked the board to support an effort by the N.C. Association of County Commissions to lobby the state legislature to pass a bill that equalizes access to broad-band across the state by 2020. The motion passed unanimously.

Commissioners scheduled a public hearing on the upcoming schedule of values for the 2011 property revalua-tion for Sept. 23 at 6 p.m. The hearing was originally scheduled for noon on Sept. 24, but Commissioner Crowe said she felt the noon hour made it difficult for the average citizen to attend.

The board also unanimously approved a $750,000 reimbursement resolution to purchase new equipment like police cars and computers with cash and then finance the money so the county can pay itself back.

Finally, the board also voted to approve a N.C. Department of Commerce grant for up to $490,000 for an as yet unnamed industrial proj-ect.

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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Alabama threw a convention for the South’s governors at one of the state’s premier golf resorts and less than half of the region’s governors attended.

But the host of the Southern Governors’ Association convention, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, called it “an absolutely outstanding conference” and predicted it will be remembered as the place where Southern states began working together to increase trade with China.

The four-day Southern Governors’ Association convention at the Ross Bridge Resort in Hoover wrapped up Monday with Riley handing over the

association’s chairmanship to North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue.

The association includes the gov-ernors of 16 states, plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Riley and Perdue were among six governors who attended at least part of the conven-tion. Three were present Monday: Riley, Perdue and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been to one with over eight,” Riley said.

Charlotte Cole, the association’s communications director, said the number of governors was down a little from normal. She and Riley said some governors were attending observances

of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, some were campaigning for office, and some chose not to attend because they are leaving office in a few months.

Nearly 300 people registered for the meeting, which association officials said was about normal. They included high-ranking officials from Southern states, legislators, and lobbyists.

Riley’s focus for the meeting was to get Southern governors working together to boost the region’s trade with China. A session Saturday with Chinese business leaders and govern-ment trade officials drew the highest attendance.

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Official: .Charlotte .to .host .2017 .PGA .Championship

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina will be the site for the 2017 PGA Championship.

A state government official with knowledge of the deci-sion told The Associated Press on Monday that the PGA will announce Tuesday at Quail Hollow Country Club in Charlotte that the course will be the site for one of golf’s four majors that year.

The official spoke on con-dition of anonymity to avoid upstaging the PGA’s announce-ment.

A public relations firm announced that the Tuesday morning event will feature Gov. Beverly Perdue, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx and the club’s president.

Panthers .sign .OL .Duckworth .to .roster

CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Carolina Panthers have found an offensive lineman willing to join the team.

The Panthers signed Tim Duckworth on Monday, less than a week after he was waived by New Orleans. The 6-foot-4, 318-pound guard gives the Panthers a maximum 80 players a day before they must trim to 75.

Carolina has had a roster opening since offensive line-man Kirk Barton failed to report last week after he was claimed off waivers from Denver.

Jordan, .Bobcats .make .donation .to .schools

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Michael Jordan and his Bobcats NBA team will donate $250,000 to middle-school athletics programs in Charlotte, North Carolina’s largest city.

Jordan, who made a fortune playing in the NBA and mar-keting his image as one of the world’s best-known athletes, talked about being a contribu-tor to the Charlotte community when he bought the Bobcats this spring.

“We investigated the situ-ation. We looked for ways to help middle schools and this was one of the options pre-sented to us,” Jordan said. “We took it because of the impact on middle schools and giving them the opportunity to play sports and as motivation for education as well.”

VOLLEYBALLFred T. Foard at E. Rutherford, 5 p.m.Chase at Burns, 5 p.m.R-S Central at Freedom, 5 p.m.

LADIES TENNISR-S Central at Freedom, 4 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY R-S Central at Burns, 4 p.m.

SOCCERChase at Kings Mountain, 6 p.m.

1 p.m. (ESPN2) Tennis U.S. Open, First Round. From the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Tennis U.S. Open, First Round. From the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. (FSCR) MLB Baseball Mil-waukee Brewers at Cincinnati Reds. From Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.

Associated PressIn this 2009 photo, North Carolina coach Butch Davis speaks to his team between plays. Less than a week away from the high-profile opener that will kick off North Carolina’s fourth season under coach Butch Davis, the 18th-ranked Tar Heels aren’t sure exactly who will be playing for them against No. 21 LSU in Atlanta.

By JACOB CONLEYSport reporter

AVONDALE — Playing without two starters due to injury and illness, the Thomas Jefferson volleyball team put up a valiant effort against Lincoln Charter. But despite that effort, TJCA fell in straight sets, 25-23, 25-18, 25-18.

“I think that we played extremely well considering the fact that we were short-handed,” said Coach Nick Longerbeam. “Several play-ers stepped up and played new positions they had nev-er played before and did a great job.”

The Gryphons did not seem to suffer any ill effect from their lack of depth ear-ly in game one as they raced to a 6-0 lead behind the powerful serves of Danielle Bouchard.

Lincoln Charter responded quickly and tied the contest. From that point, the game

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Steve Smith feels like a wise elder as he watches Carolina’s young receivers drop passes, struggle to get open, run the wrong routes and fail to produce a touchdown in the preseason.

“It’s kind of like the dad driv-ing in the car and he hears the kids in the back talking about the things they’re going to do,” the Panthers’ four-time Pro Bowl receiver said Monday. “Then on the field, you see the opportunity and they’re kind of closing their eyes a little bit.

“It’s a learning experience for me, being an older guy. And it’s a learning experience for them as younger guys that it’s not college anymore.”

With the 31-year-old Smith sidelined for most of train-ing camp and three preseason games while he recovers from a breaking his left forearm in a flag football game, the Panthers have tried numerous receiver combinations with no success.

With only one tuneup left Thursday at Pittsburgh, Carolina may be further away from identifying the No. 2 receiver than when camp began. Nobody from the inex-perienced group of Dwayne Jarrett, Brandon LaFell, Kenny Moore, Wallace Wright, David Gettis, Armanti Edwards and Trent Guy seems like a sure bet to replace veteran Muhsin Muhammad, who wasn’t re-signed.

Smith thinks the group, aver-age age 23.4, may not have properly used all the resources available, including himself. Carolina’s career leader with 58 touchdowns said he “kind of kept my mouth closed” in training camp because he wasn’t playing and perhaps not getting proper respect as one of the NFL’s top receivers.

“Then when we watched film and we went over plays, they were showing examples of the things that I did last year. It kind of helps get a little cred-ibility with those guys,” Smith said. “Whether they want to hear it or not, they get in the game and all of sudden things change and they’re getting smashed up side the head.

“Then they’ll come to me and I’ll kind of give them their space and I’m like, ’What do I know?”’

With Matt Moore in his first year as starting quarterback, the Panthers have spent extra time on the passing game dating to April’s minicamp. They’ve thrown 117 passes and had just 70 running plays in three preseason games, but

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Garrett Byers/Daily CourierThomas Jefferson’s John Dunnigan (22) heads the ball in for the goal against Lincoln Charter Monday during the soccer game at Forest City’s Dunbar Park. The game ended in a 3-3 tie, but no other details were available.

Lincoln beats TJCA

Tar Heels face much uncertainty

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierThomas Jefferson’s Haley Stepp (15) returns the ball during the game against Lincoln Charter Monday at Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy.

CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Less than a week away from a high-profile opener, Butch Davis doesn’t sound too certain of who will take the field for North Carolina.

The 18th-ranked Tar Heels are weighed down by an NCAA investigation into agent-related benefits as well as a probe into potential academic misconduct. So instead of enjoying the buzz that comes with starting his fourth season against No. 21 LSU in Atlanta, Davis is answer-ing questions — or, more accurately, not answering them — about who will be eli-gible to play.

“We’re not preparing for worst-case sce-narios,” Davis said. “We’re preparing for best-case scenarios.”

The team didn’t release a depth chart Monday before Davis’ weekly news confer-ence, a departure from typical procedure. He wouldn’t say how many players could be held out, though he said he’s using a

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BASEBALLNational League

East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 76 55 .577 —Philadelphia 73 57 .562 2 1/2Florida 65 64 .504 10New York 65 65 .500 11Washington 56 75 .427 20

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 75 55 .577 —St. Louis 69 59 .539 5Milwaukee 62 68 .477 13Houston 59 71 .454 16Chicago 55 76 .420 20 1/2Pittsburgh 43 87 .331 32

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego 76 53 .589 —San Francisco 72 59 .550 5Colorado 68 61 .527 8Los Angeles 67 64 .511 10Arizona 52 79 .397 25

Sunday’s GamesCincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 5N.Y. Mets 5, Houston 1Atlanta 7, Florida 6Washington 4, St. Louis 2Milwaukee 8, Pittsburgh 4Colorado 10, L.A. Dodgers 5San Francisco 9, Arizona 7Philadelphia 5, San Diego 0Monday’s GamesHouston 3, St. Louis 0Atlanta 9, N.Y. Mets 3 Milwaukee at Cincinnati, lateWashington at Florida, late.Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, lateSan Diego at Arizona, latePhiladelphia at L.A. Dodgers, lateColorado at San Francisco, lateTuesday’s GamesMilwaukee (Gallardo 11-6) at Cincinnati (Harang 6-7), 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Niese 8-6) at Atlanta (Minor 2-0), 7:10 p.m.Washington (Zimmermann 0-0) at Florida (Ani.Sanchez 11-8), 7:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Karstens 2-10) at Chicago Cubs (Dempster 12-8), 8:05 p.m.St. Louis (C.Carpenter 14-4) at Houston (W.Rodriguez 10-12), 8:05 p.m.San Diego (Correia 10-9) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 8-9), 9:40 p.m.Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 8-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Monasterios 3-4), 10:10 p.m.Colorado (Rogers 2-2) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 5-4), 10:15 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesSt. Louis at Houston, 2:05 p.m.Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers, 3:10 p.m.San Diego at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.Washington at Florida, 7:10 p.m.Colorado at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBTampa Bay 81 50 .615 —New York 81 50 .615 —Boston 74 57 .565 6 1/2Toronto 68 63 .523 12 1/2Baltimore 48 83 .366 32 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota 75 56 .573 —Chicago 70 60 .538 4 1/2Detroit 65 66 .496 10Kansas City 55 75 .423 19 1/2Cleveland 53 77 .408 21 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 73 57 .562 —Oakland 65 65 .500 8Los Angeles 63 68 .481 10 1/2Seattle 51 79 .392 22

Sunday’s GamesKansas City 6, Cleveland 2Detroit 10, Toronto 4N.Y. Yankees 2, Chicago White Sox 1Oakland 8, Texas 2Baltimore 1, L.A. Angels 0Seattle 2, Minnesota 1Tampa Bay 5, Boston 3Monday’s GamesTampa Bay 6, Toronto 2 N.Y. Yankees 11, Oakland 5Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, lateTexas at Kansas City, lateL.A. Angels at Seattle, lateTuesday’s GamesBoston (Beckett 4-3) at Baltimore (Matusz 6-12), 7:05 p.m.Chicago White Sox (E.Jackson 2-0) at Cleveland (Masterson 5-12), 7:05 p.m.Oakland (Mazzaro 6-6) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 15-6), 7:05 p.m.Toronto (R.Romero 10-8) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 10-4), 7:10 p.m.Detroit (Galarraga 4-5) at Minnesota (Duensing 7-2), 8:10 p.m.Texas (Cl.Lee 10-8) at Kansas City (O’Sullivan 2-4), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Haren 2-4) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 10-10), 10:10 p.m.Wednesday’s GamesChicago White Sox at Cleveland, 12:05 p.m.Boston at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Oakland at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.Texas at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

AMERICAN CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 2 1 0 .667 86 83Miami 2 1 0 .667 43 49New England 2 1 0 .667 90 70N.Y. Jets 1 2 0 .333 36 50

South W L T Pct PF PAHouston 1 2 0 .333 59 64Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 72 68Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 49 45Indianapolis 0 3 0 .000 62 130

North W L T Pct PF PABaltimore 3 0 0 1.000 64 25Pittsburgh 2 1 0 .667 64 58Cincinnati 2 2 0 .500 82 84Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 71 78

West W L T Pct PF PAOakland 2 1 0 .667 73 54Denver 1 2 0 .333 78 75San Diego 1 2 0 .333 60 62Kansas City 0 3 0 .000 42 60

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PAPhiladelphia 2 1 0 .667 57 66Washington 2 1 0 .667 61 51Dallas 2 2 0 .500 48 61N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 58 64

South W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 2 1 0 .667 46 44New Orleans 2 1 0 .667 98 68Carolina 1 2 0 .333 30 33Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 40 44

North W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 2 1 0 .667 110 75Minnesota 2 1 0 .667 62 35Detroit 2 1 0 .667 67 70Chicago 0 3 0 .000 36 71

West W L T Pct PF PASan Francisco 3 0 0 1.000 80 51Arizona 2 1 0 .667 43 49St. Louis 2 1 0 .667 62 80Seattle 1 2 0 .333 57 69

Thursday’s GamesSt. Louis 36, New England 35Green Bay 59, Indianapolis 24Friday’s GamesAtlanta 16, Miami 6Washington 16, N.Y. Jets 11New Orleans 36, San Diego 21Philadelphia 20, Kansas City 17Saturday’s GamesDetroit 35, Cleveland 27Buffalo 35, Cincinnati 20Baltimore 24, N.Y. Giants 10Jacksonville 19, Tampa Bay 13Houston 23, Dallas 7Carolina 15, Tennessee 7Minnesota 24, Seattle 13Arizona 14, Chicago 9San Francisco 28, Oakland 24Sunday’s GamesDenver 34, Pittsburgh 17Thursday, Sept. 2Buffalo at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 7 p.m.New England at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.Carolina at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.Atlanta at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.Miami at Dallas, 8 p.m.New Orleans at Tennessee, 8 p.m.Baltimore at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Tampa Bay at Houston, 8 p.m.Chicago at Cleveland, 8 p.m.Green Bay at Kansas City, 8 p.m.Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.San Diego at San Francisco, 10 p.m.Seattle at Oakland, 10 p.m.Washington at Arizona, 10 p.m.

RACINGNASCAR Nationwide

NAPA Auto Parts 200 ResultsAt Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal,

(Start position in parentheses)1. (5) Boris Said, Ford2. (9) Max Papis, Chevrolet3. (2) Jacques Villeneuve, Toyota4. (8) Brad Keselowski, Dodge5. (7) Paul Menard, Ford6. (3) Joey Logano, Toyota7. (17) J.R. Fitzpatrick, Chevrolet8. (21) Parker Kligerman, Dodge9. (24) Justin Allgaier, Dodge10. (20) Trevor Bayne, Toyota11. (30) D.J. Kennington, Ford

12. (10) Brad Coleman, Toyota13. (40) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet14. (16) Robby Gordon, Toyota15. (37) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet16. (35) Victor Gonzalez Jr., Chevrolet17. (33) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet18. (39) Tomy Drissi, Dodge19. (41) Mark Green, Chevrolet20. (4) Carl Edwards, Ford21. (6) Jason Leffler, Toyota22. (14) Colin Braun, Ford23. (29) Tayler Malsam, Toyota24. (23) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford25. (36) Michael Annett, Toyota26. (22) Alex Kennedy, Chevrolet27. (19) Brendan Gaughan, Toyota28. (27) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet29. (31) Paulie Harraka, Chevrolet30. (15) Ron Fellows, Chevrolet31. (34) Kyle Kelley, Chevrolet32. (13) Patrick Carpentier, Toyota33. (1) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota34. (32) Tony Raines, Chevrolet35. (42) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet36. (25) Tony Ave, Chevrolet37. (12) Michael McDowell, Ford38. (18) Steve Wallace, Toyota39. (11) Andrew Ranger, Dodge40. (26) Brian Scott, Toyota41. (38) Brett Rowe, Chevrolet42. (43) Jeff Green, Chevrolet43. (28) Justin Marks, Ford

Race StatisticsAverage Speed of Race Winner: 63.349 mph.Time of Race: 3 hours, 17 minutes, 34 sec-onds.Margin of Victory: 0.012 seconds.Caution Flags: 7 for 19 laps.Lead Changes: 11 among 8 drivers.Top 10 in Points: 1. Bra.Keselowski, 3,830; 2. C.Edwards, 3,517; 3. K.Busch, 3,396; 4. J.Allgaier, 3,123; 5. P.Menard, 3,016; 6. K.Harvick, 2,908; 7. S.Wallace, 2,808; 8. T.Bayne, 2,721; 9. J.Leffler, 2,620; 10. B.Gaughan, 2,587.

GOLFThe Barclays Scores

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(a-won on first playoff hole)x-Matt Kuchar 68-69-69-66—272Martin Laird 69-67-65-71—272Steve Stricker 70-70-68-66—274Kevin Streelman 72-63-71-68—274Rory Sabbatini 68-74-69-64—275Vaughn Taylor 65-70-71-69—275Ryan Palmer 66-74-66-69—275Jason Day 67-67-70-71—275Heath Slocum 67-71-70-68—276Adam Scott 66-71-68-71—276Dustin Johnson 71-69-64-72—276Ben Crane 67-70-73-67—277Tiger Woods 65-73-72-67—277Paul Casey 69-69-70-69—277Stewart Cink 67-69-73-69—278Luke Donald 70-72-68-68—278Angel Cabrera 68-71-69-70—278Ian Poulter 70-72-66-70—278John Senden 67-69-70-72—278Justin Rose 72-69-65-72—278Tim Petrovic 68-69-75-67—279Chris Couch 67-72-72-68—279D.J. Trahan 67-71-72-69—279Zach Johnson 69-69-71-70—279Brian Gay 66-72-71-70—279Retief Goosen 70-70-69-70—279Charley Hoffman 68-72-70-70—280Charlie Wi 69-70-69-72—280J.P. Hayes 72-69-67-72—280Ryuji Imada 72-65-70-73—280Davis Love III 67-74-72-68—281Sean O’Hair 69-70-72-70—281Bubba Watson 71-70-70-70—281Greg Chalmers 70-71-69-71—281Hunter Mahan 70-71-69-71—281Bryce Molder 72-67-74-69—282Justin Leonard 71-71-71-69—282Nick Watney 69-71-72-70—282Marc Leishman 70-70-71-71—282Michael Sim 69-70-71-72—282Kevin Na 72-69-69-72—282Troy Matteson 71-69-70-72—282Stephen Ames 73-68-69-72—282Webb Simpson 72-65-72-73—282Josh Teater 68-71-70-73—282Rickie Fowler 71-70-67-74—282Y.E. Yang 73-67-74-69—283Robert Allenby 73-67-74-69—283D.A. Points 70-70-72-71—283Bill Haas 69-73-67-74—283Padraig Harrington 69-68-71-75—283Jimmy Walker 68-74-71-71—284Andres Romero 73-69-70-72—284Stuart Appleby 70-71-71-72—284Robert Garrigus 69-72-69-74—284Jonathan Byrd 67-72-75-71—285Jeff Overton 68-73-73-71—285Aaron Baddeley 72-70-72-71—285Rory McIlroy 68-74-71-72—285Brian Davis 72-70-75-69—286Chad Campbell 72-69-72-73—286Matt Jones 72-70-70-74—286Pat Perez 67-73-70-76—286Chad Collins 68-74-73-72—287Spencer Levin 72-69-73-73—287David Duval 68-72-72-75—287Camilo Villegas 67-74-71-75—287Scott Verplank 67-75-73-73—288Kenny Perry 72-70-75-71—288John Merrick 73-69-73-73—288Ernie Els 71-71-73-74—289J.J. Henry 68-73-77-73—291

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Associated PressSeven-time Cy Young winner, baseball pitcher Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington Monday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of lying to Congress about whether he used steroids or human growth hormone.

When asked for a plea by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, the retired Major League Baseball pitcher said in a clear voice: “Not guilty, your hon-or.”

Clemens and another of baseball’s premier stars sullied by steroid accusations, all-time home run leader Barry Bonds, could both begin their day in court next spring, turning the spotlight back on major league baseball’s long-running drug scandal just as it opens the 2011 season.

Wearing a dark jacket, brown pants and tie, Clemens appeared in federal court only a few blocks from where he swore under oath to a House committee in 2008 that he had not used perfor-mance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens, who pitched for the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees and Houston Astros, got into a van and left shortly after his plea without speaking to the throngs of reporters and television cameras waiting outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse.

Federal prosecutors didn’t believe Clemens’ testi-mony to Congress, and they subsequently charged him with making false statements, perjury and obstruction of Congress.

The 48-year-old baseball star had vowed all along to fight the charges.

After hearing Clemens’ plea, Walton set an April 5 date for choosing a jury. That would be four days after Opening Day of the 2011 major league base-ball season and two weeks after the scheduled start of Bonds’ trial on charges of lying to a fed-eral grand jury when he said he never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens was arraigned on three counts of mak-ing false statements, two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of Congress.

If convicted, Clemens could face up to 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine, though under U.S. sentencing guidelines, he would probably face no more than 15 to 21 months in prison.

Any conviction, however, could catastrophically damage his reputation, future earning potential and his chances of getting into baseball’s Hall of Fame.

He entered the courthouse well before his hear-ing, which was scheduled for a ceremonial court-room that seats about 300 people.

After spending the morning in the back rooms of the courthouse, where defendants often go to get their fingerprints and mug shots taken, Clemens and his attorney, Rusty Hardin, went to the main cafeteria, where the pitcher sat at a corner table and had a salad and a bottle of water for lunch.

Clemens was friendly, but declined comment when approached by an Associated Press reporter. Hardin said plans hadn’t changed for the hearing, but he wanted to honor the gag order imposed by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton, who last week ordered interested participants to refrain from making public comments that could have a mate-rial effect on the case.

Clemens’ early arrival may have been because he wanted to make a quick exit after his hear-ing is over. The New York Daily News reports that Clemens and his wife, Debbie, planned to fly to Myrtle Beach, S.C., later Monday to play in the Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship.

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evolved into a nip and tuck con-test with neither squad garner-ing more than a two-point lead the rest of the way, until the vis-itors broke serve with the game tied at 23, and went on to the 25-23 win.

Set two was a back and forth affair with the squads splitting the first 10 points. TJCA seized

a 7-5 lead on an ace by Caroline Longerbeam.

Lincoln Charter then went on a long run that was broken by a Haley Stepp block.

After the visitors pushed their lead to 18-11 TJCA closed the gap to 18-15 thanks to the play of Maci Nicholas who registered an ace and a spike during that span.

But Lincoln Charter was too powerful, pulling away to win 25-18 and take a 2-0.

TJCA grabbed an early lead in game three thanks to superb floor coverage by the Gryphons, which led to several long volleys being converted into points.

Lincoln Charter roared back to tie the game at 15-15 and then took a 20-15 lead.

A Danielle Bouchard tip made the tally 20-17, but the home team could only muster a single point after that

The loss drops the Gryphons to 2-6 on the year.

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Carolina Panthers have become a team of extremes.

The defense, with numerous questions after an offseason roster overhaul, has been stellar. Who needs Julius Peppers? The Panthers have a whopping 18 sacks in three preseason games and have nearly completely shut down the New York Jets and Tennessee Titans the last two weeks.

The offense, meanwhile, has been downright unwatchable. Bring back Jake Delhomme? The Panthers still haven’t scored an offensive touchdown and appear further away from identifying a No. 2 receiver than when training camp started.

Maybe the return of injured receiver Steve Smith and running back Jonathan Stewart will be the cure. Or perhaps this speedy, no-name defense will have to car-ry the Panthers, a scenario few could’ve predicted.

“The beauty of it is, everyone said, ‘The Panthers don’t have any guys. Everyone’s gone. They’re going to struggle,’” line-backer Jon Beason said of a unit without six starters from last season, including the five-time Pro Bowl pick Peppers.

“I’ve seen everybody pick it up. It’s been great. There are so many new faces, but we’ve really gelled.”

The contrast of a proud Beason to the bewildered look of offensive players on the other side of the locker room was striking after Saturday’s ugly 15-7 victory over Tennessee.

Quarterback Matt Moore, who replaced the released Delhomme, claimed there’s been steady improvement on offense, but was hardly convincing. Left tackle Jordan Gross insisted they can get it turned around before the regular-season opener Sept. 12 at the New York Giants.

While the Panthers hope somebody can step up to start with Smith, and Stewart (heel) returns to join DeAngelo Williams for a potent 1-2 running back punch, the defense has exceeded anyone’s expecta-tions.

When Peppers took his 81 career sacks to Chicago in free agency, the Panthers were left with 13 defensive linemen with a combined 36½ career sacks. They have half that total in three preseason games, and Carolina has allowed just three touchdowns, none by the first team the last two weeks.

Charles Johnson, the fourth-year pro who replaced Peppers at left end, was dominant with two sacks and two quar-terback hurries Saturday night. Everette Brown had another sack and has three in the preseason. Surprising sixth-round pick Greg Hardy had his third sack, too.

Nine players have at least one sack and Carolina has 45 tackles for a loss in three games.

“Everybody is getting sacks. I think that’s the more surprising thing,” Brown said. “We’re playing fast.”

But the offense sure isn’t, an issue that must be resolved if Carolina is to have any shot in the difficult NFC South.

are still looking for their first offensive touchdown.

Every receiver, it seems, has flaws.

Jarrett has good hands, but has trouble getting open and often runs wrong routes. LaFell’s a rookie and his hands are suspect. Kenny Moore is inconsistent and prone to drops. Wright fumbled Saturday against Tennessee, hurt his shoulder, and missed practice Monday. Gettis, Edwards and Guy are erratic rookies.

“We are a very young team overall, particularly at the receiver position,” coach John Fox said. “I think we still have a lot of work to do.”

Receivers coach Tyke Tolbert said in training camp that he was sure the No. 2 receiver was on the current roster. While the Panthers appear unlikely to go after recently released veterans Antonio Bryant and Laveranues Coles, they need to find an answer quickly.

Smith’s return from the sec-ond broken bone in his left arm in six months is crucial. He practiced in full pads last week for the first time, and is slowly getting his football condition-ing back.

“The arm is fine. This Monday cardio-wise is a lot better than last Monday — significantly,” Smith said. “So that’s a relief mentally for me.”

Smith said he wanted to play Saturday against Tennessee but wasn’t mentally or physi-cally prepared. He declined to answer if he’ll play Thursday, but declared himself ready for Week 1 against the New York Giants.

“That’s been kind of the focal

point and where I think we’re going to start,” Smith said.

Who lines up opposite Smith in that game remains a mys-tery. LaFell may have a slight upper hand, but Smith thinks the entire group needs to mature — and listen to its elders.

“I’m not frustrated that nobody’s grabbed the No. 2 spot. Ultimately, it’s not my decision. I’m not the coach,” Smith said. “I think I’m more frustrated as a wide receiver unit, as an offensive guy, there were plays out there that we left on the field.

“I’m also a guy that sits there every week and I hear them talk.”

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“fluid” informal depth chart in practice this week.

He would, though, reiterate that three-year starter T.J. Yates would be under center against the Tigers after fending off a push from backup Bryn Renner. Yates said the defense has “a little more people in jeopardy than the offensive side of the ball does.”

“It’s definitely in the back of your mind,” Yates said. “We kind of want to know before, going into the game. We kind of just want to have it set so we know who’s going to be playing.”

The NCAA has twice visited campus looking into whether senior defensive tackle Marvin Austin — projected as a possible NFL first-round draft pick — and senior receiver Greg Little received improper benefits from agents. Both players have been working with the second team for much of training camp and haven’t spoken with reporters.

That probe expanded to aca-demics last week, though the school has refused to specify how many players could be involved or are in jeopardy of missing the LSU game. Along the way, the NCAA has looked at a cross-country trip involv-ing Austin and former Tar Heel Cam Thomas as well as the friendship between assis-tant coach John Blake and California-based agent Gary Wichard.

“I think we’re at an all-time high with distractions,” tight end Zack Pianalto said, “so I don’t know if you can add any more or if it makes that much difference.”

The Tigers are fully aware of those distractions, too.

“It probably benefits us best to focus on where they’re most capable and that’s what we’re going to do,” LSU coach Les Miles said. “We want to see their best players playing against us and we’re preparing a game plan for that. ... Until I see a starting lineup or until I get affirmed information, I don’t think there’s much news.”

Davis said players who are certain to be held out before Friday will not travel to Atlanta. Athletic director Dick Baddour said the school is still investi-gating the academics side to the probe and would reveal its findings to the NCAA through the week for assistance in deter-mining whether who could or couldn’t play.

Baddour said he and chan-cellor Holden Thorp would be involved in the decisions, even if it comes just before kickoff.

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Clijsters wins in straight setsNEW YORK (AP) — Defending

champion Kim Clijsters briefly lost her step on a windy day before recovering in time to win her 15th straight match at the U.S. Open.

The second-seeded Belgian beat Hungary’s Greta Arn 6-0, 7-5 in the first round Monday. She fell behind 4-0 in the second set, and the 104th-ranked Arn had a chance to serve out the set at 5-4. But Clijsters got the break, then did it again to clinch the straight-set victory.

Clijsters said she wasn’t aggres-sive enough playing with the wind at her back early in the second set, waiting for the ball instead of moving up for it.

“She kind of put me under pressure a little bit where it should have been the other way around,” she said.

A year ago, Clijsters was a wild-card entry in only her third tournament back after 2 1/2 years away from the sport. Now she’s one of the favorites to win the Open.

Melanie Oudin and Francesca Schiavone also know how quickly perceptions can change. Oudin has struggled with higher expec-tations since her crowd-pleasing run to the U.S. Open quarterfi-

nals last year. So has Schiavone after her breakthrough French Open title in June.

But neither showed any signs of the pressure in cruising to domi-nant first-round wins.

Oudin, the 18-year-old from Marietta, Ga., needed just 56 minutes to beat Olga Savchuk of Ukraine 6-3, 6-0. Schiavone, the Italian who won her first Grand Slam weeks before her 30th birthday, dispatched Ayumi Morita of Japan 6-1, 6-0 in 58 minutes.

If anything, Schiavone seems to be having fun in the spotlight. Asked why she’s a fan favorite, she playfully replied, “I attract them because I’m beautiful.”

Schiavone acknowledged that maybe she’s a bit more moti-vated at a Grand Slam than at other tournaments. Schiavone, seeded No. 6, had been just 3-6 since winning at Roland Garros. She lost in the first round at Wimbledon and dropped her opening match at three other tournaments.

Fifth-seeded Sam Stosur of Australia, who lost to Schiavone in the French final, dropped her first set Monday before rallying to beat Elena Vesnina of Russia 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1.

Five-time winner Roger Federer was one of four past U.S. Open champions sched-uled to play in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday, along with Andy Roddick, Venus Williams and Clijsters. Another previous winner, Lleyton Hewitt, was slated to be in Louis Armstrong Stadium.

The ninth-seeded Roddick cele-brated his 28th birthday by beat-ing Stephane Robert of France 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.

Two-time French Open runner-up Robin Soderling was pushed to five sets by a qualifier ranked 214th in the world. The No. 5-seeded Swede beat Andreas Haider-Maurer of Austria 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 5-7, 6-4.

No. 24 seed Daniela Hantuchova beat former world No. 1 Dinara Safina 6-3, 6-4.

No. 12 seed Elena Dementieva, No. 13 Marion Bartoli and No. 16 Shahar Peer also won.

Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko, the No. 6 seed on the men’s side, beat American Michael Russell 6-4, 6-1, 6-3. No. 11 Marin Cilic, No. 13 Jurgen Melzer and No. 22 Juan Carlos Ferrero also advanced. No. 27 Fernando Gonzalez of Chile retired against Ivan Dodig of Croatia.

Associated PressElena Vesnina of Russia returns the ball to Samantha Stosur of Australia during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.

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Asheville . . . . . . .88/54 s 89/60 sCape Hatteras . . .90/71 s 88/79 sCharlotte . . . . . . .95/64 s 95/66 sFayetteville . . . . .97/69 s 97/70 sGreensboro . . . . .95/67 s 95/69 sGreenville . . . . . .95/67 s 92/66 sHickory . . . . . . . . . .93/65 s 94/64 sJacksonville . . . .95/66 s 90/68 sKitty Hawk . . . . . .85/75 s 81/75 sNew Bern . . . . . .95/66 s 90/69 sRaleigh . . . . . . . .97/68 s 97/69 sSouthern Pines . .97/67 s 97/69 sWilmington . . . . .91/68 s 87/70 sWinston-Salem . .94/68 s 94/68 s

Around Our State

Across Our Nation

Weather (Wx): cl/cloudy; pc/partly cloudy;ra/rain; rs/rain & snow; s/sunny; sh/showers;

sn/snow; t/thunderstorms; w/windy

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Cold Front Stationary Front Warm Front Low Pressure High Pressure

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Statistics provided by BroadRiver Water Authority through7 a.m. yesterday.

Elizabeth City92/65

Greenville95/67

Wilmington91/68

Greensboro95/67

Raleigh97/68

Charlotte95/64

Forest City94/62

Fayetteville97/69

Kinston95/66

Durham96/67

Asheville88/54

Winston-Salem94/68

Shown is today’s weather.Temperatures are today’s highsand tonight’s lows.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday, rapidly intensifying into a major Category 4 storm on a path projected to menace the United States.

Already dangerous with sustained winds of 135 mph (215 kph), Earl is expected to gain more strength before potentially brushing the U.S. East Coast this week and bringing deadly rip currents.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami warned coastal res-idents from North Carolina to Maine to watch the storm closely.

“Any small shift in the track could dramatically alter whether it makes landfall or whether it remains over the open ocean,” said Wallace Hogsett, a meteorologist at the cen-ter. “I can’t urge enough to just stay tuned.”

In the Caribbean, Earl caused flooding in low-lying areas and damaged homes on islands includ-ing Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla and St. Maarten. Several countries and territories reported power out-ages. Cruise ships were diverted and flights canceled across the region.

“We are getting a battering with wind and rain,” said Martin Gussie, a police officer in Anguilla. Several utility poles were down and a couple of roofs had blown away, and it was still too dangerous to go out and assess the full extent of damage, he said.

The storm’s center passed just north of the British Virgin Islands on Monday afternoon. It was gradually moving away from the Caribbean and was forecast to approach the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region around Thursday, before curving back out to sea, potentially swiping New England or far-eastern Canada.

The Hurricane Center said it was too early to say what effect Earl would have in the U.S., but warned it could at least kick up danger-ous rip currents. A surfer died in Florida and a Maryland swimmer has been missing since Saturday in waves spawned by former Hurricane Danielle, which weakened to a tropi-cal storm Monday far out in the north Atlantic.

Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Earl’s approach ought to serve as a reminder for Atlantic coastal states to update their evacu-ation plans.

“It wouldn’t take much to have the storm come ashore somewhere on the coast,” Fugate said. “The message is for everyone to pay attention.”

Close on Earl’s heels, Tropical Storm Fiona formed Monday after-noon in the open Atlantic. The storm, with maximum winds of 40 mph (64 kph), was projected to pass just north of the Leeward Islands by Wednesday and stay farther out in the Atlantic than Earl’s northward path. Fiona wasn’t expected to reach hurricane strength over the next sev-eral days.

The rapid development of Earl, which only became a hurricane Sunday, took some islanders and tourists by surprise.

Wind was already rattling the walls of Lila Elly Ali’s wooden house in Anegada, the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands, when she and her son went out to nail the doors shut Monday.

“They say the eye of the storm is supposed to come close to us, so we’ve just got to pray. Everyone here is keeping in touch, listening to the radio,” the 58-year-old said by phone from the island of 280 people.

At El Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, people lined up at the reception desk, the lights occasionally flickering, to check out and head to the airport. There, more delays awaited.

John and Linda Helton of Boulder, Colorado, opted to ride out the storm. The couple, celebrating their 41st wedding anniversary, finished a cruise Sunday and planned to spend three days in Puerto Rico.

“There was a huge line of people checking out as we were coming in, and I thought it was just that sum-mer vacation must be over,” said John Helton, a real estate appraiser. “But we paid for the room, so we might as well stick it out.”

“I don’t think we could get a flight even if we wanted to leave,” Linda Helton added.

There were no reports so far of major damage from Earl.

In St. Maarten, sand and debris lit-tered the streets, and winds knocked down trees and electricity poles and damaged roofs. But police spokes-man Ricardo Henson said there was no extensive damage to property.

Alisha Daya, a 24-year-old tour-ist from Milwaukee, wore earplugs but still had trouble sleeping over-night because of the wind and crash-ing waves at the Oyster Bay Beach Resort.

“It was loud because we were right on the ocean,” Daya said, adding that the storm delayed their planned departure Monday but the worst seemed to be over.

In Antigua, at least one home was destroyed but there were no reports of serious injuries.

Obama to focus on Iraq in Tuesday night speech

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama said the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq means “the war is end-ing” and Baghdad is in position “to chart its own course.”

Remaining troops will assume a backup and training role, a shift Obama will underscore with a visit to Fort Bliss, Texas, on Tuesday and then a prime-time speech to the nation from the Oval Office. The events come on Aug. 31, the date he set last year for the change in focus in the war.

Ambush suspect had run-in with slain officers

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man charged in the slayings of two police officers in a tiny Alaska village was accused of viciously attacking the same two officers last year, court records show.

But assault and other charges filed against John Marvin Jr. in the alleged attack last year on officers Tony Wallace and Matt Tokuoka were dismissed in December.

The prosecutor assigned to the case declined Monday to say why the charges were dropped.

65-carat emerald is found on N.C. farm

RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina farm has yielded an emer-ald that may be the biggest ever uncovered in North America.

The 65-carat emerald nicknamed the Carolina Emperor was pulled from a farm in the rural commu-nity of Hiddenite, about 50 miles northwest of Charlotte.

2-year-old Calif. boy killed by car in driveway

WELLFORD, S.C. (AP) — A 2-year-old California boy has died after he was backed over by a car in a driveway in South Carolina.

Multiple media outlets reported Arkadiy Vihodet of Sacramento, Calif., was killed Saturday after-noon when 40-year-old Valentina Cholak was backing out of her home in Wellford.

Robin Forrest of the Spartanburg County coroner’s office says the boy died at the scene.

State/Nation Today

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Associated PressHeavy rains from Hurricane Earl brought high winds and flood waters to Potters Village in the outskirts of St. John’s, Antigua, Monday. Earl battered some islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday, rapidly intensifying into a major Category 3 storm on a path projected to menace the United States.

Earl slams Caribbean; threatens East coast

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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell Monday after more signs of slowing economic growth got inves-tors worried ahead of a key report on jobs later this week.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost ground throughout the day and closed with a loss of 141 points. Other indexes also fell more than 1 per-cent. Bond prices rose, sending interest rates lower, as money moved back into the Treasury market.

The latest cause for worry on the economy came in a report early Monday showing that personal incomes rose less than expected in July. That add-ed to a series of discouraging economic indicators recently suggesting that growth could slow down in the second half of the year.

“The personal income report did little to ease the nervousness about the trajectory of the economy,” said Alan Gayle, senior investment strategist at RidgeWorth Investments. The report did show spending was up in July, but without consistent growth in income, any increase in spending is likely temporary, Gayle said.

Investors have been focusing on employment data as a way of predicting where the economy is going. Signs of a slowdown in growth has plagued the market for more than a month. Investors are unsure if companies will be able to keep up strong earnings growth if the recovery runs out of steam or falls back into recession.

“You have to prepare for slower growth,” said Mark Tepper, managing partner at Strategic Wealth Partners. “As consumer spending goes down, businesses will experience lower earnings.”

Investors have been betting in recent weeks that the weaker economic reports will translate into smaller earnings than previously thought. That, in turn, has helped drive stocks lower to match the diminished expectations.

The Dow fell 140.92, or 1.4 percent, to close at 10,009.73. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 15.67, or 1.5 percent, to 1,048.92, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 33.66, or 1.6 percent, to 2,119.97.

About four stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume was very light at 820 million.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 2.53 percent from 2.65 percent late Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are spending a little more this summer, but hardly enough to rejuvenate the weak-ening economy.

What is needed is a bigger boost in salaries and more jobs. Economists don’t see either coming this year, which is why the economy is likely to limp along.

Still, modest gains in spend-ing were a welcome sign after a string of economic reports last week raised fears of the country slipping back into a recession.

“The consumer hasn’t taken the economy back into reces-sion,” said Stuart Hoffman at PNC Financial Services Group. “The consumer is still moving forward but they are doing it at a very modest pace.”

Consumer spending rose 0.4 percent in July, with much of the strength coming from increased demand for autos, the Commerce Department report-ed Monday. It was the best showing since March, but it fol-lowed three lackluster months

when spending was essentially flat.

Americans did earn a little more in July after seeing their incomes unchanged in June. Still, the 0.2 percent increase was mostly the result of small wage and salary gains that fell far below increases seen in more robust economic recoveries, economists said. And some of the gains came from a jump in Social Security payments.

Without job growth, consum-ers are not expected to spend much more. But the economy is growing too slowly to support sustained hiring and companies are waiting to see more demand from consumers. That has left the economy stuck in limbo.

Last week the government reported that the economy grew at an anemic 1.6 percent rate in the April-to-June quarter and sales of previously occu-pied homes fell last month to the lowest level in 15 years. A private-sector report also noted that Americans bought new homes at the weakest pace in

nearly half a century.On Monday, President Barack

Obama acknowledged the fragile economy while implor-ing Congress to pass a small business aid package when it returns next month from its summer break.

He mentioned extending Bush tax cuts due to expire this year for households making under $250,000 a year, upping the nation’s investment in clean energy, rebuilding more roads and highways and tax cuts designed to keep jobs in the U.S.

One area that has grown since the recession is the personal savings rate. While it slowed to 5.9 percent of after-tax income in July, it is still nearly three times higher than it was before the recession.

For July, private wages and salaries rose at an annual rate of $23.3 billion. That compared with a decline of $45 billion in June with manufacturing and service payrolls both showing increases.

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Stocks decline on slow growth

Income, spending inch higher

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STOCKS OF LOCAL INTERESTYTD

Name Div Yld PE Last Chg%ChgYTD

Name Div Yld PE Last Chg %ChgAT&T Inc 1.68 6.3 11 26.63 -.31 -5.0Amazon ... ... 51 123.79 -2.85 -8.0ArvMerit ... ... ... 13.10 -.72 +17.2BB&T Cp .60 2.7 20 21.87 -.85 -13.8BkofAm .04 .3 82 12.32 -.32 -18.2BerkHa A ... ... 14116858.00-1242.00+17.8Cisco ... ... 15 20.32 -.49 -15.1Delhaize 2.02 3.0 ... 67.00 -1.08 -12.7Dell Inc ... ... 14 12.02 +.13 -16.3DukeEngy .98 5.7 13 17.15 -.21 -.3ExxonMbl 1.76 3.0 11 59.00 -.80 -13.5FamilyDlr .62 1.4 17 42.95 -.39 +54.3FifthThird .04 .4 ... 10.85 -.33 +11.3FCtzBA 1.20 .7 7 169.67 -3.24 +3.5GenElec .48 3.3 15 14.52 -.19 -4.0GoldmanS 1.40 1.0 7 136.66 -2.74 -19.1Google ... ... 20 452.69 -6.14 -27.0KrispKrm ... ... ... 3.90 ... +32.2

LeggPlat 1.08 5.7 16 19.11 -.37 -6.3

Lowes .44 2.2 16 20.46 -.64 -12.5

Microsoft .52 2.2 6 23.64 -.29 -22.4

PPG 2.20 3.4 16 65.48 -1.62 +11.9

ParkerHan 1.08 1.8 17 59.36 -1.33 +10.2

ProgrssEn 2.48 5.8 14 42.74 -.63 +4.2

RedHat ... ... 73 34.52 -.64 +11.7

RoyalBk g 2.00 ... ... 48.21 +.35 -10.0

SaraLee .44 3.1 16 14.34 -.41 +17.7

SonicAut ... ... 8 8.84 -.30 -14.9

SonocoP 1.12 3.6 16 31.21 -.65 +6.7

SpectraEn 1.00 4.9 14 20.50 -.48 ...

SpeedM .40 3.0 22 13.26 -.07 -24.7

Timken .52 1.6 34 32.54 -1.06 +37.2

UPS B 1.88 2.9 22 63.94 -.53 +11.5

WalMart 1.21 2.4 13 50.55 -.45 -5.4

STOCK MARKET INDEXES

MUTUAL FUNDS

DAILY DOW JONES

11,258.01 9,252.93 Dow Industrials 10,009.73 -140.92 -1.39 -4.01 +5.414,812.87 3,546.48 Dow Transportation 4,111.13 -73.77 -1.76 +.28 +12.11

408.57 346.95 Dow Utilities 387.21 -5.25 -1.34 -2.71 +3.717,743.74 6,355.83 NYSE Composite 6,695.28 -99.63 -1.47 -6.82 +.781,994.20 1,656.23 Amex Market Value 1,880.13 -13.61 -.72 +3.02 +12.572,535.28 1,958.04 Nasdaq Composite 2,119.97 -33.66 -1.56 -6.57 +5.521,219.80 991.97 S&P 500 1,048.92 -15.67 -1.47 -5.93 +2.77

852.90 633.40 S&P MidCap 721.47 -12.83 -1.75 -.72 +10.2312,847.91 10,212.82 Wilshire 5000 10,996.55 -173.48 -1.55 -4.78 +4.60

745.95 552.27 Russell 2000 601.72 -15.04 -2.44 -3.78 +5.18

52-Week Net YTD 12-moHigh Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg

THE MARKET IN REVIEW

PIMCO TotRetIs CI 137,039 11.52 +1.3 +12.0/B +8.0/A NL 1,000,000Vanguard TotStIdx LB 63,566 26.07 -4.8 +4.7/B -0.3/B NL 3,000American Funds GrthAmA m LG 61,323 25.52 -4.4 +2.1/D +0.2/B 5.75 250American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 55,373 46.47 -1.1 +5.5/C +3.1/C 5.75 250Fidelity Contra LG 53,952 56.39 -2.9 +9.2/A +2.6/A NL 2,500American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 51,442 31.17 -3.5 +1.3/D +3.6/A 5.75 250American Funds IncAmerA m MA 48,436 15.29 -1.2 +9.8/A +2.7/A 5.75 250Vanguard 500Inv LB 46,968 96.91 -4.6 +3.9/B -0.8/C NL 3,000Vanguard InstIdxI LB 46,671 96.29 -4.6 +4.0/B -0.7/C NL 5,000,000American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 45,460 23.98 -4.7 +1.8/D -0.2/B 5.75 250Dodge & Cox Stock LV 39,482 88.59 -6.0 +0.9/D -3.0/D NL 2,500American Funds EurPacGrA m FB 36,776 35.82 -3.4 +1.2/B +4.9/A 5.75 250Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 36,687 30.12 -4.3 +1.4/A +3.2/A NL 2,500American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 36,140 23.58 -3.3 +6.3/A -0.6/B 5.75 250PIMCO TotRetAdm b CI 33,800 11.52 +1.3 +11.7/B +7.7/A NL 1,000,000FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m CA 31,232 2.04 -1.4 +13.6/A +3.6/B 4.25 1,000American Funds NewPerspA m WS 30,154 24.09 -3.5 +3.6/C +3.9/A 5.75 250American Funds FnInvA m LB 29,724 30.90 -4.2 +4.6/B +1.8/A 5.75 250Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 29,636 26.08 -4.8 +4.8/B -0.2/B NL 100,000American Funds BalA m MA 29,359 16.07 -2.0 +7.0/B +1.8/B 5.75 250Vanguard Welltn MA 28,516 28.27 -2.4 +6.1/C +4.0/A NL 10,000Vanguard 500Adml LB 28,336 96.93 -4.6 +4.0/B -0.7/C NL 100,000PIMCO TotRetA m CI 28,027 11.52 +1.3 +11.5/C +7.5/A 3.75 1,000American Funds BondA m CI 27,718 12.42 +1.2 +11.5/C +3.6/E 3.75 250Fidelity DivrIntl d FB 26,227 25.57 -3.8 -1.7/C +0.7/C NL 2,500Vanguard TotIntl d FB 26,161 13.52 -3.4 +1.1/B +3.1/B NL 3,000Fidelity GrowCo LG 25,891 66.83 -3.2 +9.4/A +3.3/A NL 2,500Vanguard InstPlus LB 25,529 96.30 -4.6 +4.1/B -0.7/C NL 200,000,000T Rowe Price EqtyInc LV 15,923 20.04 -5.0 +3.1/B -0.4/B NL 2,500Hartford CapAprA m LB 8,668 28.56 -4.4 +2.5/C +1.3/A 5.50 2,000Pioneer PioneerA m LB 4,057 33.36 -5.0 +3.0/C -0.4/B 5.75 1,000Goldman Sachs ShDuGovA m GS 1,455 10.44 0.0 +2.6/D +4.9/B 1.50 1,000Alliance Bernstein GrowIncA m LV 1,126 2.79 -3.8 +1.6/C -2.8/D 4.25 2,500DWS-Scudder REstA m SR 486 15.64 -2.3 +30.2/B +1.5/B 5.75 1,000Hartford GrowthL m LG 174 13.82 -6.1 +0.3/E -1.4/D 4.75 0

Total Assets Total Return/Rank Pct Min InitName Obj ($Mlns) NAV 4-wk 12-mo 5-year Load Invt

CA -Conservative Allocation, CI -Intermediate-Term Bond, ES -Europe Stock, FB -Foreign Large Blend, FG -Foreign LargeGrowth, FV -ForeignLarge Value, IH -World Allocation, LB -Large Blend, LG -Large Growth, LV -Large Value, MA -Moderate Allocation, MB -Mid-Cap Blend, MV -Mid-Cap Value, SH -Specialty-heath, WS -World Stock, Total Return: Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs.others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. Source: Morningstar.

NYSE6,695.28 -99.63

AMEX1,880.13 -13.61

NASDAQ2,119.97 -33.66

STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards.lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within thelast year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee.f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset value. s = fundsplit shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to belisted in tables at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press.Sales figures are unofficial.

dd dd ddGAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Volume

Name Vol (00) Last ChgIntel 722395 17.96 -.41Cisco 568756 20.32 -.49Microsoft 440427 23.64 -.29PwShs QQQ406331 43.61 -.46Dell Inc 307778 12.02 +.13MicronT 291740 6.54 -.29DG FastCh 247504 15.11 -9.43Oracle 228763 22.02 -.49Cogent 179637 11.09 +2.18Symantec 178889 13.69 -.28

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg %ChgADAM 5.46 +2.29 +72.2Cogent 11.09 +2.18 +24.4MidPenn 7.50 +1.35 +22.0HutchT 3.46 +.61 +21.4CT BkTr 5.50 +.90 +19.6Zix Corp 2.76 +.31 +12.7SMTC g 2.90 +.29 +11.1WSI Inds 3.69 +.37 +11.1CeragonN 8.60 +.82 +10.5FstFrnkln 7.77 +.72 +10.2

Name Last Chg %ChgDG FastCh 15.11 -9.43 -38.4Ku6Media 2.87 -.65 -18.5ChinaBiot 12.03 -2.66 -18.1OakRidgeF 4.20 -.80 -16.0Exceed wt 2.25 -.40 -15.1ValleyFin 3.11 -.49 -13.6RenaisLrn 8.26 -1.20 -12.7CumMed 2.05 -.26 -11.3SuperMda n 9.54 -1.22 -11.3InnovSol 5.19 -.62 -10.7

DIARYAdvanced 532Declined 2,094Unchanged 121Total issues 2,747New Highs 23New Lows 78

1,545,511,231Volume

Name Vol (00) Last ChgGoldStr g 25869 4.61 -.15VantageDrl 24279 1.36 +.02NovaGld g 23191 7.07 -.04GrtBasG g 22966 2.14 -.01VirnetX 21530 7.62 +.30Fronteer g 17504 7.34 -.65GranTrra g 16060 6.28 +.11KodiakO g 15953 2.55 -.11NwGold g 14960 6.29 -.19NthgtM g 13406 3.00 +.02

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Roadside bombs killed seven American troops on Monday — including five in a single blast in Kandahar — raising to more than a dozen the number who have died in the last three days.

The spike in deaths comes as President Hamid Karzai has publicly raised doubts about the U.S. strategy in the war, saying success cannot be achieved until more Afghans are in the front lines and insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan are shut down.

NATO gave no details of the Monday blasts except that they occurred in the south, the main theater of the conflict, and that five were killed in a single blast.

Witnesses said the five died when a bomb struck a Humvee on a main road on the outskirts of Kandahar, the focus of an ongoing military campaign to secure the city that the Taliban used as their headquarters dur-ing their years in power. The attackers apparently targeted the Humvee because it was not as heavily armored as other vehicles in the convoy.

Later Monday, a pair of rock-ets were fired at the Kandahar offices of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan. One fell short and slightly wounded a guard. The other overshot the compound and exploded in an empty field, police said.

U.S. death tolls for August had

been running well behind those of the previous two months that set monthly records — 60 in June and 66 in July. But 14 Americans have been killed in the last three days, raising the American U.S. toll for the month to 49, most of them in the south.

NATO commanders have warned that casualties will mount as coalition and Afghan forces enter areas that have been under longtime Taliban control. The NATO force swelled this month to more than 140,000 — including 120,000 Americans — with the arrival of the last of the reinforcements that President Barack Obama ordered to Afghanistan in a bid to turn the tide of the nearly 9-year war.

With death tolls rising, Karzai has become more outspoken in his criticism of the U.S.-led war effort, telling recent visitors that the American counterinsurgen-cy strategy is flawed.

Most recently, he told the vis-iting speaker of the German parliament that the campaign against the Taliban over the last eight years had been “ineffec-tive apart from causing civilian casualties,” according to a state-ment by the presidential media office.

The statement quoted Karzai as saying Afghan forces should take the lead in efforts to win support from deeply conser-

vative Afghan villagers who harbor suspicion of outsiders. That appears at odds with the strategy pursued by the top NATO commander, Gen. David Petraeus, which calls for U.S. troops to live closer to villagers to win their trust and protect them from the Taliban.

Last week, Karzai told a group of visiting U.S. congressmen that Obama’s plan to begin withdrawing U.S. troops in July 2011 had given a “morale boost” to the Taliban and that the war could not be won until insurgent sanctuaries across the border in Pakistan are eliminated.

Meanwhile on Monday, a dis-trict governor in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Sayad Mohammad Palawan, was killed when a bomb planted on his vehicle exploded as he was driving into a government com-pound in Jalalabad for a meet-ing of provincial security and political leaders, according to police spokesman Ghafor Khan.

Insurgents apparently planned for the bomb to explode inside the compound where it could potentially have caused far greater destruction, Khan said.

Elsewhere, NATO announced the arrest of an insurgent com-mander and several associates believed involved in a weekend attack on two NATO bases in Khost province of southeastern Afghanistan.

TANAH KARO, Indonesia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people packed emergency shelters Monday after a long-dormant volcano in western Indonesia spewed clouds of hot ash and smoke more than a mile (several kilometers) into the air — an erup-tion that caught scientists off-guard.

The eruption of Mount Sinabung put the region on the highest alert level, and some domestic flights had to be diverted because of poor vis-ibility.

Villagers living along Sinabung’s fertile slopes in North Sumatra province started heading down the 8,000-foot (2,400-meter) volcano after it began rumbling during the

weekend.An explosion Sunday was followed

by a much more powerful blast Monday, and the number of people who evacuated hit 30,000, with hastily abandoned homes and crops blanketed in gray ash. The air was thick with the smell of sulfur.

Two people died, but Priyadi Kardono of the National Disaster Management Agency said it was too early to say if the volcano was to blame.

Sinabung last erupted in 1600, and officials acknowledged that they had not been monitoring the volcano because it had been dormant for so long.

Mideast talks reopen this weekRAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The U.S.

relaunches Israeli-Palestinian talks this week, its third push over the past decade to solve one of the world’s most intractable conflicts — and this time under some of the most difficult con-ditions yet.

The gaps are wider than ever, distrust between the two peoples runs deep and Islamic militants opposed to a peace deal control half of what would be a future Palestinian state.

There’s almost no chance of a comprehensive agreement any time soon, given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard stance on concessions to the Palestinians and President Mahmoud Abbas’ weak position as representa-tive of only half the Palestinians.

All the momentum is coming from President Barack Obama, who unlike Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, is tackling the issue early in his term and has already shown himself to be an energetic broker.

Suicide blaze kills 9 in homeMOSCOW (AP) — A despondent 86-year-old

man apparently doused himself in gasoline and set off a fire Monday that killed nine people in a Russian nursing home, investigators said.

Daria Korovina, a spokeswoman for the regional Emergencies Ministry, said two others were injured in the fire at the facility in Vishny Volochek, 120 miles (200 kilometers) north of Moscow. Some 480 people had to be evacuated, she said.

The prosecutor-general’s Investigative Committee, Russia’s top investigative body, said a preliminary inspection showed that the nurs-ing home resident committed suicide by self-immolation, starting a blaze that killed eight others in neighboring rooms from smoke and gas inhalation.

The state news agency ITAR-Tass reported the man was believed to be upset because he could not get an apartment of his own under a pro-gram for World War II veterans.

Gunman kills 6, wounds 9BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A gunman

killed six people and wounded at least nine in an attack at an apartment building in Bratislava on Monday, then committed suicide, police said.

The attacker, armed with a machine gun and two pistols, could not immediately be identified and his motive was not known, said police chief Jaroslav Spisiak.

The shooting took place at midmorning in the Devinska Nova Ves neighborhood on the out-skirts of the Slovak capital. Five of the fatalities — four women and a man — were gunned down inside the apartment and another man was shot and killed outside it, Spisiak said.

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Dear Dr. Gott: For years, I worked in a heavy-equipment industry that manufac-tured farm equipment. Though working in an engineering position, I was often exposed to loud noises in the shops for long periods of time. In later years, OSHA required hearing protection. Earlier job training did not warn us of the dangers of loud noise. I now suffer from a constant ringing in my ears. At 65, I’m in good health and take no medications other than Allegra D for my nasal congestion. My blood pressure is good, and I just had a recent checkup.

Is there some medication that I can take that might reduce or eliminate the noise I hear all the time? I mentioned the problem to my doctor and just got a blank look.

Dear Reader: There are a number of conditions that can cause tinnitus (ring-ing in the ears). For example, more than 200 medications, kidney malfunction, tumors, wax buildup, ear infection, dental issues including temporomandibular-joint syndrome, migraine headaches, trauma,

inner-ear injuries, hypertension and exposure to loud noises can be to blame. It’s likely that work exposure is the cul-prit, but you should request referral to an otolaryngologist, (ear-nose-and-throat specialist), who can perform testing to determine whether an underlying, treat-able cause is to blame.

Your primary-care physician can cer-tainly remove a wax impaction and can treat infection with antibiotics; however, because you have a positive history, I believe a specialist might get to the bot-tom of the issue. Until you determine the problem, it is difficult to determine whether drug therapy, hearing aids, coun-seling or another form of therapy will be most beneficial.

Noise protection is vital

Dear Abby: Your advice to “Pam in Springfield, Ohio” (July 14), whose husband didn’t want to go to his mother’s funeral, was right on.

A memorial service can be a very different experience than a funeral with the casket present. One of the classiest ones I ever attended was at an art museum, with a jazz trio and a display of the deceased’s artwork all around. After listening to some wonderfully funny stories about the nifty lady we were there to honor, there was wine and finger food and cordial sharing of fond memories.

My advice to any family is to start talking about funerals now, before the big event, sharing what you like and what you don’t about funerals. There is never only one way to do it. — Lisa Carlson, executive direc-tor, funeral ethics organization

Dear Abby: Agreed! It’s always nice to receive a letter from you. You have long been a valued resource to me and my readers. Read on:

Dear Abby: I work in a funeral home and would suggest a couple of options to Pam regarding her husband. Some funeral homes have more than one viewing room. They could display his mother in one and have the receiving line in another. That way, he wouldn’t have to see his mother in a casket. The service could include a closed casket — or

none at all. Another choice would be cremation

with a memorial service afterward. Both arrangements would allow the husband the chance for a final goodbye without seeing Mom in the casket. Whatever he decides, the wife should accept his final decision. — Laurie

Dear Abby: Sadly, both of my par-ents passed away within two years of each other. Instead of a funeral we held a Celebration of Life Memorial Service. (They both wanted to be cremated, so we did not have to deal with a coffin.) Abby, the celebration was beautiful for both. We created slide shows and poster boards of their lives, told funny stories about them, and had people get up ran-domly if they had their own stories to share.

Yes, it was sad because we miss our parents dearly ... but it has also been much easier dealing with our loss when remembering their service as a celebration of their lives. —Missing Mom and Dad

Funerals bring comfort to living

Abigail van Buren

Dear Abby

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TuesDay, august 31, 2010 — 3B

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 197

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James Franklin Wilkins and Wife, Leona Wilkins (James Franklin Wilkins and Leona Wilkins, both deceased) (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Betty Lowrance Ervin) to A. Grant Whitney, Trustee(s), dated the 13th day of March, 2002, and recorded in Book 0664, Page 0852, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 7, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Being the same property as described in deed from Roy L. Blackwell and wife, Nancy Blackwell; and D. C. Turner and wife, Prochia Turner to Charles Turner, Jr., Frank Turner, Harry Turner and Buddy Turner dated October 12, 1961 and recorded in Deed Book 260, on Page 535, Rutherford County Registry, the property hereby being described according to said deed as follows: Lying and being on the southeast side of Gypsy Street in the Grahamtown Section of the Town of Forest City, North Carolina, and being Lots Number One Hundred Thirty-Eight (138) and One Hundred Thirty-Nine (139) of the R. M. Harrill Subdivision, as shown on a map or plat of said subdivision, made by J.A. Wilkie, Surveyor, and recorded in Deed Book 111 at Page 590, (said map or plat now transferred to Map Book 4 at Page 47), in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, reference to which plat or map is hereby made for a full and complete description of the lots hereby. Together with improvements located thereon;

Said property being located at: 108 Inglebrook Drive, Forest City, North Carolina

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

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

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

A cash deposit or cashier’s check (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.

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. 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 A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 17th day of August, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEBY: Attorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1029173

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION

FILE NO.: 10-SP-270

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY THOMAS E. HUMPHREY AND WIFE, MAUREEN L. HUMPHREY DATED DECEMBER 28, 2005 AND RECORDED JANUARY 3, 2006, BOOK 879 PAGE 210 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTRY REGISTER OF DEEDS

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: Dawson & Albritton, P.A.

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

Pursuant to a Court Order and under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of a violation of the provisions of said deed of trust and a failure to carry out and perform the stipulations and agreements therein contained, 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 usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 3:00 P.M. on September 14, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED as Lot 179 as shown on Map of Yellowtop Mountain Estates, Phase Eleven, as recorded in Plat Book 26, Page 213, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

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

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

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

A cash deposit or cashier’s check (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.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of 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 A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT AS STATED BELOW IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

This 30th day of July, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE Dawson & Albritton, P.A. P.O. Box 6003 (27835) 3219 Landmark Street, Ste. 4 Greenville, NC 27834 252.752.2485

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4B — The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TuesDay, august 31, 2010

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICEOF NORTH CAROLINA

SUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONRUTHERFORD COUNTY

10 sp 310

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY SANDRA A. LANDRUM DATED JULY 10, 2001 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 635 AT PAGE 618 IN THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA

NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 2:30 PM on August 11, 2010 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

TRACT ONE: Situated, lying and being in Cool Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: BEING Lot Numbers 10 and 11 in Block “B” of the J.F, Weathers Subdivision in the Town of Forest City, North Carolina, a plat of said subdivision being duly recorded in Plat Book 117, Page 390, Rutherford County Registry, and reference to which is hereby made for full and complete description. AND being the same property conveyed to Elin Francen Blanton, single, by Ella Frances Blanton, as sole heir of Addle Hull by deed dated July 21, 1956, and of record in Deed Book 235, Page 538, Rutherford County Registry.

See Deed Book 303, Page 342, Rutherford County Registry.

TRACT TWO: situate, lying and being in the Town of Forest City, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being Lot Number 9, Block “B’’ of the J.F. Weathers Subdivision on the Northwest side of Forest Street in the Town of Forest City. This being the same property conveyed in deed from W.L. McDowell and wife, Sallie McDowell, to R.H. Foster and wife, Henrietta C. Foster, which deed was dated June 6, 1929, and recorded March 18, 1932, in Deed Book 149, Page 552, Rutherford County Registry, Description being taken from a plat of which is recorded in Plat Book 4, Page 122, reference to which is made for a more full an complete description of said property. See Deed Book 304, Page 341, Rutherford County Registry.

And Being more commonly known as: 362 Forest St, Forest City, NC 28043

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Estate of Sandra A. Landrum.

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 July 21, 2010.

_______________________________Elizabeth EllsTrustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/10-005159

In the General Court of Justice of North CarolinaSuperior Court Division

Rutherford County10 SP 278

In the Matter of the Foreclosure of a Deed of Trust Executed by Diana Cloud and John V. Cloud, III, Grantors, to Kirk Robinson, Trustee for Mountain 1st Bank & Trust Company, recorded in Book 934 at Page 323 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina.

Notice of Sale

Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Diana Cloud and John V. Cloud dated December 28, 2010 and recorded in Book 934 at Page 323 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, and because of default in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured and default in other terms and conditions of the Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the demands of the owners and holders of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust and pursuant to the order of the Clerk of Superior Court for Rutherford County, North Carolina, entered in this foreclosure proceeding, the undersigned, Jeffrey K. Stahl, Substitute Trustee, will expose for sale at public auction on Thursday, the 2nd day of September, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. on the front steps of the Rutherford County Courthouse, Rutherfordton, North Carolina, the real property lying and being in Rutherford County, North Carolina and described as follows:

Being all of Lot 3 of The Morian Subdivision as shown of a plat duly recorded in Plat Book 14 at Page 83, Rutherford County Registry, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description.

The sale will be made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes and special assessments, restrictions and easements of record and assessments, if any.

The record owners of the above described real property as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds for Rutherford County, North Carolina, not more than ten (10) days prior to the posting of the Notice are Diana Cloud and John V. Cloud, III.

Pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.10 and the terms of the Deed of Trust, any successful bidder may be required to deposit with the Trustee immediately upon conclusion of the sale a cash deposit of the greater of five (5%) percent of the bid or $750.00. Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid in cash or certified check at the time the Trustee tenders to him or her a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid at the time, he or she shall remain liable on his or her bid as provided for in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.30.

The Trustee, in his sole discretion, pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.8 and § 45-21.9, shall sell the within described property separately or as one parcel in order to satisfy the indebtedness herein stated, and until full satisfaction of such indebtedness, the sale of the property separately shall not be deemed a waiver of the Trustee’s right to proceed to sell the remaining property to satisfy such indebtedness.

An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. 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. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving 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 sale will be held open ten (10) days for upset bids as required by law.

This the 24 day of August, 2010. Jeffrey K. StahlSubstitute TrusteeOne Rankin AvenueAsheville, NC 288018/24, 8/31

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE10-SP-360

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by JOHN V. CLOUD, III AND DIANA W. CLOUD to CB SERVICES CORP., Trustee(s), dated the 14th day of AUGUST, 2000 and recorded in BOOK 600, PAGE 281, RUTHERFORD 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, ANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of RUTHERFORD County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Courthouse Door, in the City of RUTHERFORDTON, RUTHERFORD County, North Carolina at 11:00 O’CLOCK A.M. ON SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2010, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of RUTHERFORD, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

SITUATE, lying and being in the Town of Lake Lure, Chimney Rock Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being Lot Number 1, 0.87 acres, of the Cloud Management Services, Inc. property as shown on plat done by Professional Surveying Services of record in Plat Book 17, Page 44, Rutherford County Registry to which reference is hereby made for a more full and complete description.

Tax Map 539-1-4F.

Said property being located at:1883 Buffalo Shoals Road, Lake Lure, NC 28746

PRESENT RECORD OWNER BEING: JOHN V. CLOUD, III

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

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

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the statutory final assessment fee of forty-five cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A 308 (a) (1), and any applicable county and/or state land transfer tax and/or revenue tax.

Any successful bidder shall be required to tender the full balance of the purchase price so bid, in cash or certified check, at the time the Substitute Trustee tenders to him a deed for the property or attempts to tender such deed, and should said successful bidder fail to pay the full balance of the purchase price so bid, at that time he shall remain liable on his bid as provided for in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d) and (e).

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

A cash deposit or cashier’s check (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.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of 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.

This the 18TH day of August, 2010.

Michael W. Strickland, as Attorney for and President ofANDERSON & STRICKLAND, P.A., Substitute Trustee210 East Russell Street, Suite 104 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28301 (910) 483-3300PUBLISH: August 31, 2010 September 7, 2010

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The Daily Courier, Forest City, NC, TuesDay, august 31, 2010 — 5B

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 477

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jennifer E. Akins and Daniel Allan Akins to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 30th day of May, 2007, and recorded in Book 960, Page 82, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 14, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

BEING all of Lot 446 as shown on survey by R.L. Greene, PLS entitled “GreyRock Subdivision” Phase 3A as recorded in Plat Book 26 at Page 234, said plat being one of a series of plats recorded in Plat Book 25 Page 231 through 234 revised Plat Book 27 Pages 147 through 150, of the Rutherford County, NC Registry, reference to said recorded plats being made for a more particular description of said Lot. Together with improvements located thereon;

Said property being located at: Lot 446 Phase 3 High Windy Drive, Lake Lure, North Carolina

SUBJECT TO a grading easement which runs the full length of High Windy Drive

TOGETHER WITH AND SUBJECT TO all easements, restrictions and rights of ways of record and a non-exclusive appurtenant easement for ingress, egress and regress over and upon all private subdivision roads for GreyRock at Lake Lure as shown on the above-described plats and the plats for Phase 1A and 1B, Phase 2A and 2B, of Greyrock and the Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for GreyRock at Lake Lure as recorded in Book 858, at Page 122 of the Rutherford County, NC Registry and also recorded in Book 3827, Page 764 of the Buncombe County NC Registry (herein “Declarations”). BEING a portion of that property to LR Buffalo Creek, LLC a Georgia limited liability company by deeds recorded in Book 855, Page 816 of the Rutherford County, NC Registry and in Book 3793, at Page 665 of the Buncombe County, NC Registry.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (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.

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. 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 A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 24th day of August, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEBY: Attorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1020180

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 10 SP 347

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by William H. Mills and Allison M. Mills to Jerone C. Herring, Trustee(s), dated the 5th day of June, 1989, and recorded in Book 369, Page 223, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 7, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Rutherfordton, in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Situate, lying and being in Rutherfordton Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being bound on the North by West 6th Street, on the East by the property of Julian Pickens Bryan and wife as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 431, Page 458, Rutherford County Registry, on the South by the property of Elizabeth E. Weldin as devised in Will Book L, at Page 333, in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Rutherford County, and on the West by the property of James H. Garren, Jr. and wife, as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 535, Page 58, Rutherford County Registry, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin, said iron pin being the common Northeasternmost corner of the tract herein described and common Northwesternmost corner of the property of Julian Pickens Bryan and wife, said beginning point lying South 12 degrees 41 minutes 1 second West 12.50 feet and North 76 degrees 8 minutes 20 seconds West 426.16 feet of a p.k. nail lying in the center lines of the intersections of West 6th Street with North Washington Street and runs thence from said beginning point South 12 degrees 41 minutes 1 second West 115.11 feet to an iron pin; thence North 80 degrees 59 minutes 25 seconds West 64.74 feet to an iron pin; thence North 12 degrees 43 minutes 14 seconds East 119.15 feet to an iron pin; thence South 77 degrees 24 minutes 42 seconds East 64.53 feet to the Beginning, containing 0.17 acres according to map and survey by Professional Surveying Services, Nathan Odom, Registered Land Surveyor, dated June 1, 1989, and being the same property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 402, Page 453, Rutherford County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon;

Said property being located at: 201 West 6th Street, Rutherfordton, North Carolina

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (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.

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. 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 A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

This 17th day of August, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEBY: Attorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1037571

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Co-Administrator of the estate ofWILLIAM JENNINGS BURGIN of Rutherford County, NorthCarolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against theestate of the said WILLIAM JENNINGS BURGIN to presentthem to the undersigned on or before the 17th day ofNovember, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of theirrecovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please makeimmediate payment. This is the 17th day of August, 2010.

Robert Edward Burgin, Co-Administrator1405 West Haven BoulevardRocky Mount, NC 27803

William Russell Burgin, Co-Administrator317 Mahaley AvenueSalisbury, NC 28144

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Co-Administrator of the estate of JAMESBOYCE ROBBINS of Rutherford County, North Carolina, thisis to notify all persons having claims against the estate of thesaid JAMES BOYCE ROBBINS to present them to theundersigned on or before the 24th day of November, 2010 orthe same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All personsindebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This is the 24th day of August, 2010.

Joseph David Robbins Sr., Co-Administrator331 Luckadoo RoadBostic, NC 28018

Roy Lee Robbins, Co-Administrator705 Sulphur Springs Church RoadForest City, NC 28043

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of DARRELLFRANKLIN SKINNER of Rutherford County, North Carolina,this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate ofthe said DARRELL FRANKLIN SKINNER to present them tothe undersigned on or before the 10th day of November, 2010or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. Allpersons indebted to said estate will please make immediatepayment. This is the 10th day of August, 2010.

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AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE09 SP 212

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Bryan R. Davis and Amy Davis to M. Patricia Oliver, Trustee(s), dated the 16th day of November, 2007, and recorded in Book 984, Page 561, in Rutherford County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door at 229 North Main St in the City of Rutherfordton, Rutherford County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 14, 2010 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the Township of Greenhill, in the County of Rutherford, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

Tract One: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, and being a portion of the lands of Steve T. Mode and wife, Margaret Mode by a deed recorded on Deed Book 729, at Page 21, Rutherford County Registry, and being all of Lots 1 and 2 of Maple Creek Estates as recorded in Plat Book 20, at Page 32, Rutherford County Registry, reference to which plat is hereby made for a full and complete description of the property. Tract Two: Situate, lying and being in Green Hill Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being a portion of the lands of Kenneth Franklin Head and wife, Betty Jean Head by a deed recorded in Deed Book 454, at Page 587, Rutherford County Registry, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds according to a map of survey by Lattimore & Peeler Surveying D Dobbins Lattimore, Registered Land Surveyor, bearing drawing number 99-234A, and dated June 4, 1999, as follows: Beginning at a mag nail and cap, control corner, in the centerline of Maple Creek Road (SR1178), said mag nail and cap serving as the Southeast corner of the lands known as Lot 1 of Maple Creek Estates as recorded in Plat Book 20, at Page 32, Rutherford County Registry, and said mag. nail and cap lying South 64 degrees 53 minutes 33 seconds East (passing a mag nail and cap at 153.34 feet) a total distance of 306.69 feet from a mag nail and cap in the center of the intersection of Maple Creek Road with Coopers Gap Road (SR 1172) and running thence from said point of beginning along the Lot 1 Eastern boundary, North 19 degrees 38 minutes 34 seconds East (passing a rebar at 29.58 feet) a total distance of 356.20 feet to a rebar, said rebar serving the Northeast Lot 1 corner and also as the Southeast corner of the lands known as Lot 3 of the said Maple Creek Estates subdivision referenced hereinabove, thence South 52 degrees 43 minutes 06 seconds East 150.00 feet to a new iron pin, thence South 18 degrees 31 minutes 09 seconds West 294.86 feet (passing a new iron pin at 294.86 feet) a total distance of 325.05 feet to a mag nail and cap set in the centerline of Maple Creek Road, said mag nail and cap lying North 64 degrees 54 minutes 35 seconds East 150.12 feet from an unmarked point serving as the Southeast corner of the Head lands hereinabove referenced, thence along the centerline of Maple Creek Road, North 64 degrees 54 minutes 35 seconds West 150.00 feet to the point and place of beginning, containing 1.136 acres, more or less. Being the same and identical property which was conveyed by Randy Monteith and wife, Renee Monteith to Bryan Davis and wife, Amy Davis by deed dated November 16, 2007 and of record in Deed Book ____ at Page ____, Rutherford County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon;

Said property being located at: 2690 Maple Creek Road, Rutherfordton, North Carolina

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23. Should the property be purchased by a third party, that person must pay the tax of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1). The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws. A cash deposit or cashier’s check (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.

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. 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 A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. This 24th day of August, 2010.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC.SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEEBY: Attorney at LawThe Law Firm of Hutchens, Senter & Britton, P.A.Attorneys for Substitute Trustee Services, Inc.P.O. Box 10284317 Ramsey StreetFayetteville, North Carolina 28311http://sales.hsbfirm.comCase No: 1010133

NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY10-SP-343

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power and authority contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed and delivered by Lisa Joy Vander Laan and Dwayne Jack Vander Laan, dated August 10, 2006 and recorded on August 15, 2006, in Book No. 913, at Page 324 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Rutherford County, North Carolina; 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 holder of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will place for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at Rutherford County Courthouse, Rutherfordton, North Carolina on September 8, 2010 at 10:00 AM that parcel of land, including improvements thereon, situated, lying and being in the City of Bostic, County of Rutherford, State of North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:

TRACT ONE:Situate, lying and being in Logan Store Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina on the west side of State Road #1561 on the east side of Clinchfield Railroad and being the southern one-third of a certain tract of land described in Deed Book 452, Page 546, and BEGINNING on an iron pin, said iron pin being the southeast corner of the original tract referred to above and the centerline of State Road #1561; runs thence with the old line North 56 degrees 15 minutes 59 seconds West 90.34 feet to an iron pin; runs thence due West 412.5 feet to an iron pin; runs thence due North 528 feet to an iron pin; runs thence due West 1188 feet to an iron pin in the right of way of Clinchfield Railroad; runs thence with the right of way of said railroad North 29 degrees 45 seconds East 432.01 feet to an iron pin; runs thence a new line South 77 degrees 55 minutes 07 seconds East 1515.82 feet to an iron pin in the centerline or State Road #1561; thence with the centerline of said road as follows: South 11 West 110 feet; due South 528 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, containing 14.24 acres. This conveyance contains a one-acre tract previously conveyed by F. Marion Freeman to the Grantor herein. Reference to Deed Book 477, Page 309, Rutherford County Registry. (Tax Map 711-1 -27A).

SAVING AND EXCEPTING from the above described real property that .716 acre tract conveyed by deed dated January 12, 1990, and of record in Deed Book 553, Page 151, Rutherford County Registry (Tax Map 711-1 -27C).

SAVING AND EXCEPTING that certain 1.27 acre tract conveyed to Glenda Kay Hooper in deed recorded in Deed Book 856, Page 54, Rutherford County Registry (Tax Map 711-1 -27D).

TRACT TWO:Lying and being in Logan Store Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina, being bound on the North and East by the lands of the grantees as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 784, Page 451, Rutherford County, Registry, NC., on the South by the remaining lands of grantors as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 768, Page 813, Rutherford County Registry, NC., and on the West by the two-acre tract conveyed to David A. Jones and wife in deed recorded in Deed Book 821, Page 692, Rutherford County Registry, N.C., and being more particularly described as follows:

BEGINNING at an iron pin, said iron pin being a common northwest corner of the tract herein described and common northeast corner of the two-acre tract conveyed to David A. Jones and wife in deed recorded in Deed Book 821, Page 692, Rutherford County Registry, N.C., and running thence from said beginning point due East, 206.89 feet to an iron pin; thence South 00 degrees 24 minutes 25 seconds East 265.54 feet to an iron pin; thence due West 208.78 feet to an iron pin, thence due North 265.54 feet to the BEGINNING, containing 1.27 acres, according to map and survey by Professional Surveying Services, Nathan Odom, Registered Land Surveyor, dated January 10, 2001, as revised. Tax Map 711-1-25 N

Being part of the lands described in deed recorded in Deed Book 784, Page 451, Rutherford County Registry, N.C.

Address of property: 1101 Pearidge Road, Bostic, NC 28018

Present Record Owners: Lisa Joy Vander Laan and Dwayne Jack Vander Laan

The terms of the sale are that the real property hereinbefore described will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. 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. In the event that the Owner and Holder or its intended assignee is exempt from paying the same, the successful bidder shall be required to pay revenue stamps on the Trustee’s Deed, and any Land Transfer Tax.

The real property hereinabove described is being offered for sale “AS IS, WHERE IS” and will be sold subject to all superior liens, unpaid taxes, and special assessments. Other conditions will be announced at the sale. The sale will be held open for ten (10) days for upset bids as by law required.

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

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

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. 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.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a bona fide lease or tenancy may have additional rights pursuant to Title VII of 5.896 - Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act which became effective on May 20, 2009.

Dated: August 17, 2010

David A. Simpson, P.C.,Substitute TrusteeRogers Townsend & Thomas, PCAttorneys for David A. Simpson, P.C., Substitute Trustee2701 Coltsgate Road, Suite 300Charlotte, NC 28211-3594704-442-95002194; 8062.431; 30028155

Rutherford County TransitREQUEST FOR QUOTES

for (1) Communications Repeater and associated equipment

Description: (1) UHF Repeater and all associated equipment to include installation. Successfulbidder must obtain a high power frequency (100w) direct not erp. Bidder must use professionallylicensed tower crew. Must be able to respond to outages within one hour. Please include all FCCfees.

The repeater contract will be funded with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)funds and contractors will be required to comply with all federal requirements and ARRAprovisions.

Each vendor is responsible for reading the federal requirements and ARRA provisions. Bysigning and submitting your quote, you are certifying that you will comply will all federalrequirements and ARRA provisions.

Please contact Gene Adair for a complete solicitation package.

Interested Vendors should submit their bids by 5:00 PM, on September 9, 2010 to the attentionof:

Gene AdairRutherford County Transit

Mail: 294 Fairground Road, Spindale, NC 28160Delivery: 294 Fairground Road, Spindale, NC 28160

Phone: 828-287-6153 Fax: 828-287-6058Email: gene.adair@rutherfordcountync.gov

Vendors should submit their quotes in an envelope, clearly marked with “RepeaterQuote”. Awards are expected to occur within five days after the responses are received.

Rutherford County Transit is an equal opportunity employer. Disadvantaged BusinessEnterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit quotes. DBE Contractors must becertified and registered on the NCDOT Directory: https://apps.dot.state.nc.us/vendor/directory

No one who has been disbarred from contracting with the state or federal government shouldsubmit a quote.

Rutherford County Transit or their Transit Advisory Board reserve the right to accept or rejectany or all quotes, to waive minor technicalities and informalities and to make an award deemedin its own best interest.

NORTH CAROLINARUTHERFORD COUNTY

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

The undersigned, having qualified as Executrix of the Estateof Carolyn G. Barbee, late of 177 Carlton Drive, Forest City,Rutherford County, North Carolina hereby notifies all persons,firms and corporations having claims against said Estate topresent them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day ofNovember, 2010, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of theirrecovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to thesaid Estate will please make immediate payment to theundersigned.

This the 17th day of August, 2010.

D'Etta Barbee LaskyExecutrix of the Estate of Carolyn G. BarbeeP.O. Box 488Gastonia, North Carolina 28053-0488

Elizabeth N. SumnerMullen Holland & Cooper, P.A.Attorneys for EstateP.O. Box 488Gastonia, North Carolina 28053-0488

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Having qualified as Executor of the estate of FRANCES(FRANCIS) SUE ROBBINS LEE of Rutherford County, NorthCarolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against theestate of the said FRANCES (FRANCIS) SUE ROBBINS LEEto present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th dayof November, 2010 or the same will be pleaded in bar of theirrecovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please makeimmediate payment. This is the 17th day of August, 2010.

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For only $12.00 per month you could be a sponsor of this page? Adopt-A-Pet page runs the last Tuesday of each month.

Call The Daily Courier Classified, for more information. 245-6431

All Pets featured on this page can be adopted from the Rutherford County Animal Shelter, 287-6025. Adoption Rate is $60 (Includes first shots, spay or neuter, etc.)

Call for details.

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(828)286-9335 • Emergency (828)286-6337

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PO Box 998Rutherfordton, NC

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