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Jean Gordon/Daily CourierGary Riley of Vassey’s loads a Chrsyler on the trailer after a wreck in Rutherfordton on Friday. Three people were taken to Rutherford Hospital after the head-on collision on Railroad Avenue. The wreck happened about noon. Joshua B. Hill, 23, of Painters Gap Road, Rutherfordton, told police he was driving his 2002 Mustang north. Michael Frank Gannon, 56, of Forest City, was traveling south in a Chrsyler. He told police he looked down to unplug his phone charger so that he could use his lighter and didn’t see the Mustang. Both vehicles were traveling an estimated 40 mph. Gannon’s pas-senger, Charles Eugene McMurray, 46, of Rock Road, Rutherfordton, was also hurt. All three men were taken to Rutherford Hospital for treatment. Hill was pinned in the vehicle for about 25 minutes and has a broken leg. Patrolman Webb Hardin charged Gannon with driving left of center. Both cars were totaled.

By JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — Jim Cowan, a member of The Roundtable, is urging representatives to focus and to get some-thing done.

The Roundtable is a diverse group of Rutherford County residents who are trying to discover positive ways to impact the county. The Roundtable met

Wednesday at the County Annex and will continue to meet monthly to share projects, concerns and ideas. The group’s goals include developing an action list, learning how other communities and organizations have realized these actions and working in collaboration.

The group began meeting in December 2009, when a group of state and regional officials visited the county at the invita-

tion of former commissioner Chivous Bradley and Frankie McWhorter, tourism officer for the state.

Visiting were: Olivia Collier, N.C. Appalachian Regional Commission program manager; Mark Roberts, N.C. Department of Commerce Office of Rural Development Programs executive direc-

Please see Group, Page 6

By JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE —Elections Super-visor Debbie Bedford is hoping for 1 percent to 2 percent voter turn-out Tuesday, when 27,591 eligible voters cast ballots in the second primary. If about 275 voters make it to the polls, she’ll reach her goal.

The election Tuesday will cost Rutherford County taxpayers about $12,000.

”Exercise your right to vote and make good use of the money we’re required to spend,” Bedford said.

In a runoff, voters will choose between N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and Cal Cunningham, a Lexington attor-ney, as the Democratic party’s nominee to face Republican Sen. Richard Burr in November.

Eligible voters who want to cast ballots before Tuesday can vote up until noon today for early voting at the Rutherford County Board of Elections on Fairground Road.

Polls will be open at all Rutherford County polling places

Please see Elections, Page 6

Elections officials expecting light vote

By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — When the top senior was announced at the R-S Central High School gradu-ation June 11, those in attendance got a surprise. Two names were called.

Seniors Ashley and Jessica Ownbey, 18-year-old twins and the daughters of Bruce and Angie Ownbey, finished tied for the No. 1 spot.

The top senior is decided strictly on highest GPA, and theirs was the same down to the fourth deci-mal place.

“We knew we were tied,” Jessica said Friday. “We didn’t know if it would be first or second. I think we knew we were in the top three, at least.”

But the competition was intense, with lots of advanced placement and honors students vying for the top 10 positions, which is a strictly guarded secret. Results are revealed only during the cer-emony.

The suspense for the teens and their family end-ed with the announcement.

“We were excited,” Jessica said.“Yeah, we didn’t know what to do for a little bit,

but then we got up,” Ashley added.The Ownbey girls, Rutherford County natives,

have always excelled in school. Although they agree they want to see each other succeed, they

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Twins share top grad honors at Central

Larry Dale/Daily CourierTwins Ashley, left, and Jessica Ownbey finished tied for the top spot in the R-S Central High School class of 2010.

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Roundtable representa-tives gather Wednesday to discuss ideas to positively impact Rutherford County.

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LOCAL

Church NewsVBS

The following church-es have announced Vacation Bible School:

Jesus Lighthouse Tabernacle Church, Hawaiian luau, June 19, 6 to 8 p.m.

Ross Hill Baptist Church, VBS, June 21-25, 6:30 to 8:30 nightly.

Fork Creek Baptist Church, “Jesus is My Super Hero,” June 21-25, 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Piney Ridge CME Church, “Hero Headquarters,” June 21-25, 6 nightly.

Mount Nebo Baptist Church, Lake Lure, “Praising God,” June 21-24, 6 to 7:30 nightly; classes for youth and adults.

Montford Cove Baptist Church, VBS, June 27-July 1, 6 to 8:30 p..m; evening meals; for ages two through high school; for information, call Jason Ray at 738-3354.

Cornerstone Fellowship Church, “Around the World,” Aug. 14, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; for all children ages 2 to 11; for infor-mation, contact Kassie Wilson 980-5041.

Music/concertsFourth Sunday

Night Singing: June 27, 6 p.m., Sandy Level Baptist Church; featur-ing The Layman.

Gospel singing: June 27, 6 p.m., Chase

Baptist Church; featur-ing the Phillips Family of Gaffney, S.C.

Singing: July 4, 7 p.m., Riverside Baptist Church; featuring Living by Faith.

Special servicesSpecial services: June

20, 4 p.m., New Life Christian Fellowship Church, 601 E. Main St., Spindale; speaker will be Ray Harris of Hardy Chapel Baptist Church, Spartanburg, S.C.

Countywide Youth Rally: June 24, 6:30 p.m., Restoration Church; guest speak-ers, Russell Sellers; Anointed Praise and Worship from Father’s Vineyard, skits and songs from various churches.

Tent revival: June 24-26, 7 p.m., across from Alexander Pawn Shop and the Sportsman’s Shop off US 221-A; speakers are Chad Sisk and Fred Williams Jr.; special singing each night.

Women’s Day Program: June 27, 3 p.m., Wheat Creek Baptist Church, Rutherfordton; guest speaker will be Claudette King of Bethany Baptist in Charlotte; colors for this year are gold and purple.

Homecoming Services: Sunday, June 27, 10:30 a.m. New Beginings Baptist Church, 864 Bostic-

Sunshine Hwy, Bostic. Services will begin with Rick Strickland in concert, a homecom-ing lunch will be served immediately following the morning service. All are invited to attend.

FundraisersYard sale and break-

fast: June 19, 7 a.m. until, Piney Ridge CME Church, 4421 Hudlow Road, Union Mills; sale includes a piano.

Singing and bar-becue dinner: June 19, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Harmon Street Baptist Church; benefit for Leah Hedgpath; sing-ing at 3 with the Far City Boys and at 6 with The Eubanks and oth-ers; donations will be accepted.

“Island Adventure Day”: June 19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., First United Methodist Church, Forest City; to benefit Relay for Life; inflat-ables, face painting, cotton candy, hot dog and hamburger plates, bake sale, car wash and more; wristbands for children’s activities will be $10 each and tickets for all other items will be $1 each; hot dog and hamburger plates $5 each or five tickets.

Yard sale: June 26, 7:30 a.m., Green River Baptist Association; sponsored by Pleasant Grove Baptist Church to help send Youth/Kids to summer camp.

Spaghetti sup-per: June 26, 4 p.m. until, Mount Vernon

Clubhouse, hosted by Mount Vernon Baptist Church; spaghetti, salad, bread, tea and desserts; $6 adults, $3 children ages 6 to 10, free children five and younger.

Other Food giveaway: June

19, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Forest City Four Square Church.

Buffet breakfast: June 19, 7 to 10:30 a.m., Mount Pleasant Baptist Church; $5 for all you can eat.

Chase Corner Ministries is now open the first Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. to noon. On June 22, the ministry will hold a $4 bag sale from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The community is also wel-come to bring yard sale items and set up in the parking lot on these Saturdays. The store is located on Chase High Road, directly across from the high school.

NA/AA meetings: Every Monday at 7 p.m., at New Life Christian Fellowship Church of God, 601 E. Main St., Spindale; contact James Keeter at 247-4681 for more information.

Hispanic Baptist Church “Cristo Vive:” Services on Sunday afternoons in English, 6 p.m., every Sunday. The church is located at 929 Oakland Road. Contact the Rev. Jairo Contreras at 289-9837.

Monthly food give-away: First Baptist

Church in Spindale holds a food giveaway the third Thursday of each month. Devotion and prayer service between 6 and 6:30 p.m. Bags of food given away afterwards.

Open support group: “Let’s Talk About It” meets every Monday from 7 to 8 p.m., at New Life Fellowship Church, 601 E. Main St., Spindale. This group is for anyone who needs to talk about any issues.

Preschool registra-tion: Spindale United Methodist Church is now accepting fall reg-istration for ages 2-5. Contact Gail Jones at 429-5598, or the church office at 286-2281.

Preschool registra-tion: The kindergar-ten preschool of First United Methodist Church, 341 East Main St., Forest City, is now taking fall registration for ages 2-5. Limited openings. Contact Preschool Director Jill Smith at 245-6446, or drop by the church office.

Mom’s Hope is a min-istry that offers hope and support for mothers who face daily struggles and fears when their children are addicted to drugs or alcohol. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Missionary Wesleyan Church, 811 Doggett Rd., Forest City. Next meeting Feb. 11. For more information con-tact Chris at 287-3687.

“The Way Home”: A support group for any-one recovering from an addiction; meetings are held each Monday at noon, in the base-ment of Harvest House Church, Big Springs Ave., Forest City; call Sheila at 828-447-1880 for more information.

“Celebrate Recovery” is a weekly Christ-centered program that meets every Friday

from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at Cornerstone Fellowship Church, 1186 Hudlow Rd., Forest City. The group is open to any-one who wishes to find healing no matter what you’re going through. For more information call 245-3639.

Soup KitchensCommunity

Outreach: “Give By Faith Ministries” of Piney Mountain Baptist Church provides a soup kitchen, clothes closet and food pantry to those in need the sec-ond Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Mobile pantry: Tuesday, June 15, 10 a.m., Calvary Baptist Church, Mooresboro; please bring a basket/box for food items; for Rutherford County resi-dents only.

Samaritan Breakfast: Thursdays from 6 to 8 a.m., at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 395 N. Main St., Rutherfordton. Carry-out breakfast bags.

St. Paul AME Zion Church, Forest City, each Monday at 6 p.m.

St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 330 N. Ridgecrest Ave., Rutherfordton.

First Baptist Church in Spindale, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. each Tuesday.

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Soup Kitchen, Thursdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Green River Baptist Association, 668 N. Washington St., Rutherfordton.

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A good father rules and guides his family at the same time as he serves it. A good father will instruct and admonish his children with patience and gentle firmness, making sure that they know right from wrong, all the while making sure that he always sets a good moral example himself.

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RUTHERFORDTON — Rutherford County Arts Council and Rutherford County Schools will hold auditions for the children’s musical, “The Patchwork Girl of Oz,” Monday morning at the old Rutherfordton Elementary School.

The musical play, based on the book by L. Frank Baum, is part of the Playing for Keeps Summer Learning Camp, which also includes fun activities in visual arts, math and science, as well as a daily snack. “The Patchwork Girl of Oz” features old favorite Oz characters such as Dorothy, The Tinman, the Wizard, and the good witch Glinda, as well as numerous not-so-familiar charac-ters, including Scraps (the patchwork

girl), Jack Pumpkinhead, Princess Ozma, The Shaggy Man, the Crooked Magician and others.

The camp, which is free of charge, runs from June 21 to July 30, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to noon. It is open to the first 50 registrants who have just completed third through eighth grades.

To register, send an e-mail to lau-ralink@rutherfordarts.com and include the student’s name, address, phone number, parent or guardian’s name, school and grade just complet-ed, and then go online and download the full form from rutherfordarts.com, fill it out, and bring it with you on Monday. For more information, call 245-6000.

Contributed photoCostumer Laura Link models the Patchwork Girl’s outfit. Auditions will be held for the upcoming Arts Council production of The Patchwork Girl of Oz from 9 a.m. to noon Monday morning at the Playing For Keeps Summer Arts Camp, 134 Maple St., Rutherfordton (old Rutherfordton Elementary School). The show will be performed at the end of July.

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Jean Gordon/Daily CourierAnnual awards were presented Friday by Red Cross Executive Director Nelson Long, (second from right) to Tara Mauney, Jonathan Johnson, Forest City Recreation Department, and Jim Gentry (right) representing Father’s Vineyard.

By JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — Thanking volun-teers, board and staff, the Rutherford County Chapter of the American Red Cross presented annual awards Friday.

Forest City Parks and Recreation staff Tara Mauney and Jonathan Johnson received the Health and Safety Awards for their training of 44 lifeguards and for teaching swim-ming lessons.

Father’s Vineyard received the Disaster Award for its assistance with training, shelter and feeding volunteers.

The Forest City Fire Department received the annual Blood Donor award and was honored for its con-tinuous sponsorship of blood drives.

Also Friday, the chapter welcomed three new board members: Jim Bishop, Emma Walker and Nikol Withrow. Outgoing board members are: Barry Davis, John Carroll and Jean Gordon.

Also serving on the board are: the Rev. Jerry Ruppe, Marion Michalove, Scott Hutchins, Vic Martin, Charlie

Nickels, Linda Smith, LeRonda Whiteside, Betty Gabriel, Karen Marshall, Rob Bole and Rob Williams.

Chapter officers recognized were: Kim Roberson, board chair; Charlie Nickles, vice chair; Vic Martin, sec-retary; and Linda Smith, treasurer.

Last year, the Red Cross responded to 37 disasters. The Service to Armed Forces volunteers assisted 27 military families in Rutherford County, and the Red Cross provided safety train-ing to more than 6,000 students in the county last year.

Executive Director Nelson Long talked about the need for more volunteers to respond to local and national disasters.

New Disaster Team Members will meet June 22 at 6 p.m. at the Chapter House at 838 Oakland Road.

A barbecue meal will be served, and an introduction to Disaster Action Teams will follow.

For more information, call 287-5916.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@thedigitacourier.com.

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admit that if one makes a 95 on a test, the other one wants a 97.

“On our SAT scores we made dif-ferent in math and reading, but the total is the same,” Jessica said. “So it’s pretty much like we’re the same. Ashley is better at writing, and I may be a little better at math.”

Because they were taking advanced courses, they often had the same classes.

“Since we took (advanced place-ment) classes, we, a lot of times, had classes together,” Jessica said. “Our senior year we had the exact same schedule. Our junior year we had like three out of four classes together. Freshman and sophomore year we had more diversity. We might have the same teacher, but at a different class period or semester.”

Being a twin provides a unique per-spective that few people experience.

In the fourth grade, for example, they switched places on purpose once, as did another set of twins in the class. And the teacher reportedly didn’t know until that afternoon. But being a twin doesn’t mean there are no differences. One English teacher, for example, said she could tell which girl’s paper she was reading because their writing styles are different.

The Ownbeys say their parents are highly supportive of their academic endeavors.

“Our parents have always been encouraging,” Jessica said, “but they have never … our mom, once we

started taking honors and AP classes, she’s like, ‘It’s fine if you make a B or a C. I know you did your best.’ So she was always encouraging that way. I think we are self-driven.

“She didn’t have to stay over us and see if we did our homework,” Ashley agreed. “We’ve been handling that since middle school. If we got an assignment, we did it.”

The new high school graduates are looking ahead to their first semester at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this fall.

Neither has decided on a major. What do they expect at UNC? Jessica said, “I expect to decide a major.

“I hope to meet interesting people. It’s a diverse area and there are a lot of historic buildings. I think it will be really interesting down there.”

“We’re pretty quiet,” Ashley noted, “so I guess maybe it will get us a little more out of our comfort zone.”

“I’m excited about living in a dif-ferent area,” Jessica said, although she cited her loyalty to Rutherford County.

“I guess to just be independent,” Ashley said, “and see how that works out. I think it will work out fine.”

The freshmen, admittedly excited and nervous, will be rooming togeth-er on campus this fall in Chapel Hill.

For the more immediate future the teens, members of Second Baptist Church, are looking forward to a trip to Nashville, Tenn., at the end of June. The city was hit hard by flood-ing and has received widespread assistance.

Oh, and by the way, Ashley is seven minutes older than Jessica.

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HOPE MILLS (AP) — Officials are trying to determine why a dam failed in a North Carolina town, draining its centerpiece lake.

The Fayetteville Observer reported Hope Mills Lake drained Thursday after officials began investigating why it had turbid water, which was cloudy and may have soil in it.

The town had gotten permission last year to put water in the lake again after an 80-year-old earthen dam had collapsed in 2003. The

town built a new dam and spillway before collecting water in the lake again.

Inspectors had released water Wednesday to investigate the tur-bid water. The water picked up speed and the lake disappeared. Two holes were visible on the lake side of the dam.

State and local officials and private engineers spent much of Thursday inspecting the dam and planned to review the information Friday.

Dam failure drains towns lake

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SAVING WITH THE COUPON QUEENJill Cataldo saves hundreds on groceries by making

the cost of the common coupon count. You can, too.

JILL CATALDO“The economy has really hurt the budget of the average family and they are

no longer able to shop the way they used to (such as taking advantage of the sales and buying extra). Do you have any tips for us? I do use coupons but want to take better advantage of my buying power. I just don’t really know how.”

I particularly liked this letter. It encompasses the way many people feel when they first start using coupons. It’s a common misconception that I spend a lot to stock up on quantities of the items that I buy each week. My weekly grocery bill for our family of five averages between $40 and $60 post-coupons. But, I’m typically buying around $100 worth of groceries.

Supermarkets operate on a 12-week pricing cycle, so stocking up on the things we need when the prices of these items hit their low point during this period makes sense. When you know that the items you buy are at their lowest prices just one time during that cycle, buying them only when the price hits that low saves us a lot of money, even without using coupons.

Let’s take juice, for example. At my store, a bottle of grape juice can range in price from $1.99 to $3.99. Clearly, I want to buy the juice when it’s at its low price. If my family drinks 1 bottle of grape juice a week, I’ll need 12 bottles to get through the next 12-week cycle. While it’s true that the initial expense of buying that juice all at once requires more than one might choose to budget just for juice in one week, consider the savings in buying it at that low.

A typical juice price cycle over six weeks at my store may look like this: Week 1: $1.99; Week 2: $2.29; Week 3: $2.79; Week 4: $2.99; Week 5: $3.29; Week 6: $3.79

If I purchased one bottle a week over this 6-week span, I’d spend $17.14. But, if I bought six bottles the week that it was at its lowest point, on sale for $1.99, I’d spend a total of just $11.94. That’s more than five dollars saved in just six weeks’ time, without even considering coupons. Of course, I want to use my coupons at that low point, thus lowering my out-of-pocket cost even more.

If you shop cycle lows for everything that you buy, you’re definitely buying multiples of items when the prices are low. Remember, though, that you will not buy that item again until it goes on sale weeks from now. So, while I might spend a large percentage of my budget on juice in a particular week, I won’t buy juice again at all until it’s on sale at a low price some time down the road.

If you followed me around the grocery store, you’d see that I fill my shopping cart with an eclectic mix of items. It rarely contains all of the staples you might notice in other people’s carts, because aside from fresh produce and dairy I shop strictly for items that are at their cycle lows that particular week. I usually have what looks like an unusual quantity of the same item in my cart, because I’m stocking up! I will use all the coupons I have for those items as I purchase them at the low price. But even if I don’t have coupons for all of them, as with our juice example above, I know that I won’t be able to purchase these items at this low price again for almost three months, so I buy what I anticipate needing.

This is a different way of shopping, it’s true, but the strategy balances out budget-wise when you consider what you’re NOT buying each week. Typically, when you’re starting out, it takes you 12 weeks to go through your first cycle, where you start to notice and learn the price highs and lows for the items you commonly buy. Those first twelve weeks are going to be a little more expen-sive, because you’re also going to have to buy the things your household needs as you build your stockpile. If you’re out of laundry detergent, you’ll buy it because you need it, regardless of the price. But a few weeks later, the price may hit a cycle low, and it will be time to stock up for the next time you need it.

Then, the next time you need laundry detergent you’ll “shop at home,” because you have extra on hand that you purchased when the price was at its low. And after that first 12 weeks, your home stockpile will include all of the basics that you use frequently... and that you will no longer be paying high pric-es for!

How to jump on the 12-week savings cycle JILL CATALDO

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The continually changing world of the world wide web is fas-cinating to watch, but there is

one mystery that is still troubling: why in the face of all the potential threats do people continue to ignore security threats?

Millions of people have already been victims to Internet crimes or had their computers damaged by malware or infected by spyware. Yet, the evidence shows that most people remain igno-rant of the security risks.

The risks increase when people use social networking sites without regards to safety and security and sometimes with a total lack of common sense.

The Internet is not your private home. Whatever you post is essentially in the public domain.

Still, there are ways for people to protect themselves. They may not be perfect, but everything one can do to reduce potential exposure is worth the time it takes to get it done.

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Internet security must be priority

Our readers’ viewsSays money, politics of oil spill frightening

To the editor:To put it bluntly, I’m ready to

discharge my lunch to read one more letter written by the same ole cronies.

This administration has no credible defense concerning the current crises in the gulf.

Deregulation is not the only culprit involved in this fiasco. I do not like Dick Chenney. I think he is a Washington elitist and arrogant at best.

His connections to Halliburton frighten me. His behind the door shenanigans are appalling, but he is just one of many from both parties who seem a little too cozy with the oil companies and their execs.

To begin with, I have yet to find what regulations were deregu-lated. The one most often cited is the absence of an accustic plug. But according to Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, these devices were never required, “only strongly suggest-ed,” his own words.

Mark Thompson in a recent Time article raised the same con-cerns of ambiguity within the oversight arm of the Minerals Management Service (MMS). According to Thompson, the reg-ulations within this body of the government have been loose and ineffective since its inception.

His investigation revealed the fact that this department is rife with corruption and is a revolv-ing door for the metamorpho-sis of oil executives into gov-ernment positions. This spans both Democrat and Republican administrations.

One such example is the hir-ing of Sylvia Baca to manage the MMS by the Obama team.

Prior to this she was an execu-tive with BP for eight years. You think there might be any conflict of interest here?

Other connections to BP and the Obama administration are also eyebrow raising.

It has been discovered that Emanuel, the current president’s chief of staff, lived rent free in an expensive D.C. apartment pro-vided by a close friend who was under a BP contract.

The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and The Associated Press all raised questions about possible conflicts of interest emerging in the Obama adminis-tration.

In addition, BP has many con-nections to environmental groups lobbying for less oil and more alternative energy.

BP supports cap and trade leg-islation and spent millions in support of Sen. Kerry’s climate bill employing the aid of the Podesta Group, cofounded by a top democrat, John Podesta.

As it turns out, BP stands to make trillions on alternative energy legislation.

One frequent letter writer to this paper urged its readers to follow the money.

Well, I did, and its becom-ing obvious that the BP money trail can be followed to as many democratic leaders as republi-can, including the current White House as well as the former.

But as far as I’m concerned, the most indefensible aspect of this administration is Obama’s reluc-tance to remedy this situation early on.

Nick Pozzi, a petroleum engi-neer and part of the original task force appointed by the White House has recently stated in an interview with Esquire maga-zine, that empty oil tankers were poised to come in and vacuum up

to 85 percent of the spillage. According to Pozzi, this method

is tried and true and has been used by the Saudi’s very success-fully.

He resigned his position with the task force when Obama refused their help.

It is also coming to light that other such sources of help have been refused by the president.

Pozzi summed it up this way: “It comes as no surprise then, that the Obama administration essentially gave BP free rein over the oil disaster, refusing to uti-lize tried and tested methods of oil cleanup and instead opted to employ the dubious ‘chemical dis-persant’ method manufactured and sold by a company in which BP, Goldman-Sachs, Berskshire-Hathaway, Citigroup and other big Wall Street giants are heav-ily invested — most of which received multi billions of dollars in taxpayer bailout funds.”

Yes, I would urge readers to fol-low all the money. It might make you as sick as what’s churning in the gulf right now.

Bruce DuncanLake Lure

Bans on gambling will only be a waste of timeRALEIGH – Have you ever

heard the phrase “as rich as Croesus”?

Those of a certain age, or possessing a classical educa-tion, will surely remember the phrase as both a descrip-tion of great wealth and a reference to a famous Lydian king in ancient Asia Minor.

Lydia had become fabu-lously wealthy as the ancient world’s cross between Hong Kong, Wall Street, and Dubai.

It was a focus for interna-tional trade. It was a place of great financial innovation. It was, in fact, the place where coined money was invented.

Not coincidentally, Lydia also appears to be the place where dice were invented. If you think you can have mon-ey sloshing around without someone wanting to gamble with it, you have been living a very sheltered life.

Come join us out here in Reality Land, won’t you?

Yes, I’m talking to you folks in North Carolina’s gov-erning class – to state legis-

lators, county commission-ers, mayors, and sheriffs.

All of you who have sup-ported past attempts to ban video poker, and now want to pass new legislation to ban the “internet sweep-stakes” parlors that have been springing up across North Carolina.

I’d heard about the phe-nomenon, of course, but it really came home to me a couple of weeks ago when I was frequenting my favorite seafood restaurant down in Calabash, Captain John’s.

Right there across the parking lot was a former seafood hut that had been turned into an “internet sweepstakes café.”

Then I began noticing simi-lar establishments all around Brunswick and Columbus

counties, then all the way back to my home in southern Wake County.

Not being inclined to risk

my money so frivolously, I didn’t go into any of these places. Don’t need to.

I’m reasonably certain that they look and feel just like the old video-poker rooms I’d previously visited, or like any gambling establishment on the fringe of respectability and/or the law.

The patrons came in at

least three varieties. First, there are the few peo-

ple just out to try something new. Most won’t be back.

Second, there are the people who fancy themselves to be “serious” gamblers and insist on the awesome poten-tial of some secret system. They’ll be back, pathetically.

Third, there are the many people who are so desperate that they’re willing to risk their last nickel hoping for a big score. They’ll be back u

ntil their money runs out. I’m no fan of gambling.

But I’m also no fan of gov-

ernment officials sticking their noses into other peo-ple’s business.

Many of the same politi-cians who gave us North Carolina’s squalid “Education Lottery” then went after vid-eo poker – can’t have those grubby private businesses competing with the state for gambling dollars – and now want to shut down the most popular way to evade the ban, internet sweepstakes.

The Greensboro News & Record’s Mark Binker reports that the House Democratic Caucus recently tried and failed to come to some kind of consensus on what to do about internet sweepstakes.

My guess is that there’s also a division among Republican legislators in both chambers.

Whatever you think of the state’s current public policies on gambling, please don’t be deluded into thinking that government can actually for-bid it.

Again, gambling is liter-ally as old as money. Last night, thousands of North

Carolinians gambled their money on websites, in pri-vate card games, at pool halls, with bets on sport-ing events, by buying lot-tery tickets, at the Harrah’s casino on the Cherokee reservation, and in internet-sweepstakes cafes.

If North Carolina bans the latter, all the other gambling will continue. And the video-poker industry will come up with yet another way to sat-isfy the manifest consumer demand for casino-style gaming.

So even if you’ll never agree with me that govern-ment ought to respect the rights of individuals to do what they want with their own money, at least con-sider the possibility that you might just be wasting your time and my tax dollars on a pointless exercise.

In other words, please stop betting my money so poorly. If I want to blow it, I’ll do it myself.

Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.

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LocaL/obituaries

Carol PryorCarol Diann Hamrick

Pryor, 72, of Cliffside, died April 23, 2010.

She was retired from her own business, Pine Crest Grill in Chicago, Ill., and the Cadillac Motel in Punta Gorda, Fla. She moved back to Cliffside for retirement.

She is survived by a son, Joseph F. Pryor; two daugh-ters, Trish Pryor Rashke of Cliffside and Cindy Pryor of Newark, Dela.; a brother, Rodger M. Hamrick; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

A graveside service will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church.

Memorials may be made to the kidney foundation.

Bertha ‘B’ Holt BURLINGTON (AP) — A

longtime legislator known for her work to get North Carolina to repeal a law that said husbands could not rape their wives has died at the age of 93.

Bertha “B’’ Holt died Friday morning at her home. Jefferson Holt of Chapel Hill says his mother had suffered a stroke Sunday.

The Burlington lawmaker was in the state House of Representatives from 1975 to 1994. She led the effort to change the state’s marital rape law, which had said that husbands couldn’t be charged with raping their wives. The law was amended in the 1987-88 session and was tak-en off the books in 1993

Jose Saramago LISBON, Portugal (AP)

— Jose Saramago, who became the first Portuguese-language winner of the Nobel Literature prize although his popularity at home was dampened by his unflinch-ing support for Communism, blunt manner and sometimes difficult prose style, died Friday.

Saramago, 87, died at his home in Lanzarote, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, of multi-organ failure after a long illness, the Jose Saramago Foundation said.

Saramago was an outspo-ken man who antagonized many, and moved to the Canary Islands after a pub-lic spat in 1992 with the Portuguese government, which he accused of censor-ship.

His 1998 Nobel accolade was nonetheless widely cheered in his homeland after decades of the award eluding writers of a language used by some 170 million people around the world.

Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said Saramago was “one of our great cultural figures and his disappear-ance has left our culture poorer.”

Born Nov. 16, 1922 in the town of Azinhaga near Lisbon, Saramago was raised in the capital.

His first novel published in 1947 — Terra do Pecado, or Country of Sin — was a tale of peasants in moral crisis. It sold badly but won Saramago enough recognition to allow him jump from the welder’s shop to a job on a literary

magazine.But for the next 18 years

Saramago published only a few travel and poetry books while he worked as a journal-ist.

He returned to fiction only after the four-decade dicta-torship created by Antonio Salazar was toppled by a military uprising in 1974.

International critical acclaim came late in his life, starting with his 1982 historical fantasy Memorial do Convento, published in English in 1988 as Baltasar and Blimunda.

The story is set during the Inquisition and explores the battle between individuals and organized religion, pick-ing up Saramago’s recurring theme of the loner struggling against authority.

That kind of conflict sur-faced in the heated clash Saramago had in 1992 with Portuguese under-secretary of state for culture Antonio Sousa Lara, which prompted Saramago’s move to the Spanish islands off northwest Africa.

Sousa Lara withdrew the writer’s name from Portugal’s nominees for the European Literature Prize. Lara said Saramago’s 1991 novel O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo (The Gospel accord-ing to Jesus Christ) — in which Christ lives with Mary Magdalene and tries to back out of his crucifixion — offended Portuguese reli-gious convictions and divided the heavily Roman Catholic country.

Saramago was outraged and accused the government of censorship.

From the 1980s Saramago was one of Portugal’s best-selling contemporary writ-ers and his works have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County

Sheriff’s Office responded to 155 E-911 calls Thursday.

n Eric Vandyke reported the theft of a toolbox and other items.n Thomas Earl Dixon

reported the theft of rings and other jewelry.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton Police

Department responded to 17 E-911 calls Thursday.

Spindalen The Spindale Police

Department responded to 15 E-911 Thursday.

Lake Luren The Lake Lure Police

Department responded to seven E-911 calls Thursday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department responded to 52 E-911 calls Thursday.

Arrestsn Jason Marshawn Murray,

21, of Harmon Street, Forest City; charged with second-degree trespassing and pos-session of marijuana; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (FCPD)n Anderson Jamal

McKinney, 16, of Amity Drive, Forest City; charged with simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia; freed on a custody release. (FCPD)n Demurice Tyrone

Abrams, 22, of 703 Academy St.; charged with two counts of possession of drug para-phernalia, failure to wear seat belt by driver, speeding and driving while license revoked; placed under a $15,000 secured bond. (NCHP)n Tiffany Renae Kirby,

20, of 248 Jonestown Road; charged with felony proba-tion violation; placed under a $5,000 secured bond. (Probation)n Mark James Murray Jr.,

17, of 232 Green Briar Drive; charged with two counts of felony probation violation; placed under a $20,000 secured bond. (Probation)n Christopher Carpenter,

16, of 124 Clyde St.; charged with felony probation viola-tion; placed under a $10,000 secured bond. (Probation)n Benjamin Donald

Kennedy, 19, of 849 Old U.S. 221; charged with domestic violence protective order vio-lation and two counts of mis-demeanor probation viola-tion; placed under a $21,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n James Ricky Hamrick,

48, of 1103 E. New Hope Road; charged with intoxi-

cated and disruptive; placed under a $200 secured bond. (RCSD)n Latoya Marie Whitesides,

33, of 701 Rock Road; charged with driving while impaired, driving while license revoked, two counts of fictitious information to officer, resisting a public offi-cer and failure to heed lights and siren; placed under a $9,000 secured bond. (RCSD)

Citationsn Sarah Fotterall Potter

Coxe, 18, of 1333 Walls Church Road; cited for shop-lifting/ concealment of mer-chandise. (RPD)

EMS/Rescuen The Rutherford County

EMS responded to 36 E-911 calls Thursday.

n The Volunteer Life Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to four E-911 calls Thursday.

Fire callsn Cliffside firefighters

responded to trees down.n Fairfield firefighters

responded to a vehicle fire.n Rutherforddton and

Shingle Hollow firefighters responded to smoke reports.

Police Notes

Obituaries

Deaths

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Authorities have arrested six women and were search-ing for 10 others as part of an investigation of indecent exposure at strip clubs that one club owner said was a waste of law enforcement resources.

The Charlotte Observer reported Friday that Alcohol Beverage Control officials said the topless dancers are charged with violating a state law that prohibits them from performing nude.

The arrests are part of a six-month undercover inves-tigation into eight adult-entertainment clubs in Charlotte.

Most of the clubs involved are operated by M.A.L. entertainment, a company owned by Charlotte business-

man David “Slim” Baucom.“They know that they’re not

allowed to expose themselves and they did,” said Michael Crowley of Mecklenburg’s ABC commission. “You’re not allowed to remove your bot-tom.”

Crowley said the women removed all of their clothes during table dances on the main floor and in semi-private areas, roped off for customers who pay extra for special dances.

Agents said Baucom coop-erated with authorities and provided the real names of some of his dancers.

Chris Fall, owner of the Paper Doll Lounge, said the investigation is a waste of taxpayer money, particu-larly in tight financial times. Authorities said an ABC agent and a Pineville police

officer conducted the inves-tigation.

“The government, they’re bad on money and they’re coming after us,” Fall said. “Paying (agents) to go to strip clubs ... and have a good time.”

The clubs could face dis-ciplinary action by the state ABC commission, which con-trols licensing for businesses that sell alcohol.

Crowley compared the operation to other ABC stings, in which the commis-sion sends minors into gas stations and grocery stores to try and buy alcohol and ciga-rettes.

“We want to make sure that these adult entertainment establishments are follow-ing the law,” Crowley said. “That’s our job.”

Va man sought in deaths of 2 arrested

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities say a Virginia man wanted in connection with the deaths of a West Virginia woman and her young son has been arrested.

Berkeley County Sheriff Kenneth M. Lemaster Jr. says Antonio Prophet was arrested late Thursday night in Charlotte.

Authorities had been look-ing for the 34-year-old Lorton, Va., man since June 6. That’s when authori-ties discovered the bod-ies of 22-year-old Angela Devonshire and her 3-year-old son in the garage of their burned-out Gerrardstown apartment.

The U.S. Marshal’s Service arrested Prophet outside a Charlotte homeless shelter.

Prophet now faces extradi-tion to West Virginia.

Police have said Prophet and Devonshire had been dating for about two weeks before her death.

Fence to protect historic home

DANBURY (AP) — A 7-foot-high fence has been built around a historic home in a North Carolina county in the hopes of protecting it from further vandalism.

The Winston-Salem Journal reported that the

Stokes County Historical Society is paying for the fence to protect what’s known as the Rock House, which has survived more than 200 years of storms, fires and neglect. More recently, vandals have sprayed graffiti on the steps.

The house belonged to Col. John Martin, a militia leader during the Revolutionary War. He began building the house in 1770.

The house sits in the foothills of the Sauratown Mountains and already is in a precarious state. The roof and one wall are gone, and the inside is gutted.

Man charged with killing his mother

CHARLOTTE (AP) — A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with shooting and killing his mother during an argument.

Multiple media outlets reported 63-year-old Ada Adams of Charlotte was shot late Thursday morn-ing. Adams was taken to Carolinas Medical Center, where she died.

Police have charged her son, 32-year-old John Lee Adams, Jr., with murder.

Investigators say the shoot-ing came during an ongoing custody dispute over John Adams’ son. Police say the youngster called police to say his father had shot the boy’s grandmother.

Officers say they found a

gun at the scene.It was unclear if John

Adams had an attorney.

Derailed freight train spills diesel

OLD FORT (AP) — A freight train that derailed near Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina spilled 3,000 gallons of diesel fuel.

Multiple media outlets reported that no one was injured in the derailment, which occurred Thursday west of Old Fort.

Bill Benge of the Old Fort Volunteer Fire Department says two engines and 10 cars of the Norfolk Southern train went off the track as the train headed west up Old Fort Mountain. He says the fuel that leaked from one of the engines didn’t get into any waterways.

Commander to retire at end of June

CAMP LEJEUNE (AP) — The commander of Camp Lejeune is retiring and will turn over command at the end of June.

Col. Richard P. Flatau Jr. will meet with reporters Friday for the last time to discuss his tenure as com-manding officer of the mas-sive Marine Corps base.

Flatau will end his almost 30 year career June 25 when Col. Daniel J. Lecce takes command of Camp Lejeune.

Topless dancers are facing indecent exposure charges

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Elizabeth Beam King

Elizabeth Beam King, age 78, of Doggett Road, Forest City, North Carolina died Thursday, June 17, 2020 at her residence. She was a native of Rutherford County, NC and a daughter of the late J.B. Beam and Cova Wilson Beam; a former teachers assistant at Alexander Elementary School and Forest Hunt Elementary School. She was also preceded in death by an infant son, a brother, Edward Beam and sisters, Hester Beam Daves and Bernice Beam Hunter. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Beth grew up in Ellenboro, NC and was a member of the Ellenboro Presbyterian Church until 1959 when she joined the First United Methodist Church of Forest City. She was also a mem-ber of the Friendship Sunday School Class, the Roe Walker Circle and was active in many church and circle activities. Beth and Dan would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 19th of this year. Survivors include her husband, Daniel E. King of the home; two sons, Daniel Bruce King of Forest City and Edward King of Forest City; a sister, Martha Beam Hastings of Forest City; three grandsons, Caleb King, Taylor King, and Tucker King; her for-mer daughter-in-law, Myra Francis King of Forest City and a large number of nieces and neph-ews as well as great nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at Three o'clock on Sunday, June 20, 2010 in the First United Methodist Church with Reverend K. Wesley Judy officiating. Interment will follow in the Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from six until eight o'clock Saturday evening at The Padgett and King Mortuary. Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, Cancer Patient Assistance Fund, 351 East Main Street, Forest City, NC 28043 or Hospice of Rutherford County, Post Office Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043. The Padgett and King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements and an online guest registry is avail-able at: www.padgettking.com

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from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.To relieve some of the potential

boredom for poll workers, Bedford bought puzzles to help pass the time.

Filing remains open until July 2 for seats on the Rutherford County Board of Education and Soil and Water Conservation Supervisor candidates wishing to seek re-election.

The three seats up for Board of

Education re-election are: District 1, Carolyn Keever; District 2, Sherry Hodge, and District 3, Scott Morrow.

Filing thus far are Keever of Rutherfordton and Keith Price of Forest City, District 2 seat.

The Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor seats up for re-election are the seats held by Forest Dewalt Koone and Shannon Buckley.

Koone filed for re-election Thursday.

Contact Gordon via mail:jgordon@thedigi-talcourier.com

ongoingCamp Harmony: Monday through Friday, through July 2, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Callison Recreation Center; volunteers need to sign up on June 21 at 8:45 a.m.

saturday, June 19Help Putt Cancer in the Hole: Saturday, June 19, Putt & Go in Forest City; shot gun starts at 9:15 a.m., 10:15 a.m. and 11 a.m.; teams of up to four, all ages, $20; each hole sponsored; proceeds go to Relay for Life. Call Paula, 287-6348, or Robin, 287-6176.

Animal Control and Pet Center: Saturday, June 19, the Rutherfrod County Animal Control Facility and Community Pet Center Office will be open from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and will reopen Monday, June 21.

Kids’ Computer Corner: Every Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon, Union Mills Learning Center; free to the publich and geared twoard children preschool through third grade who may not have access to a computer or the Internet at home; educational software and adult-supervised access to the Internet.

Monday, June 21Foothills Harvest Thrift Store: This week, children’s shorts and T-shirts, 50 cents.

tuesday, June 22Red Cross Preparedness and Safety Camp: Tuesday, June 22-Friday, June 25; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday; students receive Red Cross Babysitter’s Training, Child and infant CPR, first aid and disaster preparedness.

Amateur Radio Club: Tuesday, June 22, 7 p.m. Rutherford County Annex, Rutherfordton. Informal gathering to discuss the organiza-tion of an Amateur Radio Club. For further information contact Don Whisnant 453-1698.

Sons of the American Revolution meeting: 7 p.m., Old Tryon Genealogy Society Library on Doggett Road.

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, June 23Spanish for English speakers: Free course offered June 23 and 30 and July 7, Liberty Baptist Church; course is designed to familiarize people with the Spanish language, explain the basic concepts for the language and give free resources and advice for continuing to learn the language on their own; taught by East High teacher Matt Tiller; for information, call 453-0186.

Children’s summer reading program: Every Wednesday, 9 a.m., through Aug. 4, Union Mills Learning Center; for preschool and early readers as well as older children; poetry reading and sto-rytelling will be featured as well; everyone in attendance will receive at least one free book.

thursday, June 24Winemaking 101 Workshop: June 24, July 1, 15 and 22, Love Story Farm; cost is $50 for the work-shop, which includes making and taking two bottles of California Chardonnay and discussions on wines of the world; must be 21 and older, which is taught by chemistry instructor Christine Klahn; to reg-ister, call 447-0047 or e-mail loves-toryfarm@yahoo.com.

ON MY OWN series: 1:30 p.m., at the Carolina Event and Conference Center; Lt. Chris Adkins will conduct a personal safety course. Sponsored by Hospice of Rutherford County.

Spindale Neighborhood Alliance meeting: 7 p.m., Spindale House; for information, call 288-4875 after 6 p.m.

Friday, June 25“Holes for Houses” Charity Golf Tournament: 9 a.m. shot-gun start, Cleghorn Plantation in Rutherfordton; benefit for Rutherford County Habitat for Humanity. To register, call 245-0716.

13th Annual Kids and Cops: 9 a.m. to noon, Forest City Dunbar Park, hosted by Forest City Police Department; geared toward kids ages 12 and younger, but families are welcome as well; free pizza, drinks, balloons and bracelets handed out; also, trophies will be awarded to best police car, best fire truck, best rescue unit and best EMS unit. Any business or civic organizations that would like to participate are asked to contact Lacey Euten, 245-5555, ext. 2101.

tor; and Karen Smith, chief plan-ner for the Western Region of the Department of Community Assistance.

“These Raleigh and regional com-merce folks wanted to meet some people in our county working to make this community a better place, and (they) asked Chivous and I to arrange a meeting to provide them with a bet-ter picture of needs and assets in our county,” McWhorter said.

The local attendees said the dia-logue, sharing of ideas and informa-tion, and the communication between different entities were valuable, and it should continue. Since then, the original group has invited more resi-dents to join the Roundtable and has started to consider actions that can result in “getting something done.” Since its first meeting, the group has seen an increased awareness in com-munity goals as well as the need to be educated and informed about best practices in community and economic development. They also have worked to identify strategies for action and to increase participation in meet-ings and seminars, including those of Advantage West, Future Forward, the N.C. Rural Center and Handmade in America.

The Department of Commerce, through the 21st Century Program and ARC funding, has offered a grant to the Roundtable to provide increased awareness about successes and positive changes in other com-munities. In addition, the money can be used to build the capacity of Roundtable participants and other organizations and nonprofits through fund development, strategic planning,

board development and other topics.Wednesday, the Roundtable heard

presentations from representa-tives of the Economic Development Commission, the Rutherford Chamber of Commerce and the Tourism Development Authority. The groups talked about their own desires to collaborate.

At the close of the meeting, a committee was formed to develop ideas for sessions, presenters, and workshops, in which experts from specific fields will be invited to meet-ings to share information with the Roundtable.

Among the activities proposed were leadership development activities from the N.C. Institute of Government, the N.C. Rural Center, N.C. State University Emerging Issues program, green program and projects by Advantage West and others.

The Roundtable is an open meeting, and anyone can attend.

McWhorter said the Roundtable serves as a “gathering devoted to communication and learning and can hopefully become the vehicle for projects and activities to make our community even better. It will bring experts to tell us how they are doing it in other places, but it too will, as one Roundtable participant commented, ‘let us support each other.’”

The next meeting is July 21 at 1 p.m. at the County Annex.

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Jean Gordon/Daily CourierBoard of Elections Supervisor Debbie Bedford stacks a few of the puzzles to ward off likely boredom at polling places Tuesday for the Second Primary. Although Bedford hopes for a 1 percent to 2 percent voter turn-out, every polling place has to be staffed with two people from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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RALEIGH (AP) — A businessman responsible for $176,000 in illegal donations to the campaigns of Gov. Beverly Perdue and two state senators has acknowledged funneling nearly double that to state and federal can-didates since 1999, according to an affidavit released Friday.

In a sworn statement a week before his May 4 plea in state court, Atlantic Corp. owner Rusty Carter said no one ever instructed him to get around state campaign finance laws by fun-neling money to his workers to make political contributions.

But the affidavit said his company gave $266,900 to federal and state candidates by paying bonuses to workers with the understanding that a portion would go toward a politi-cal contribution or by reimbursing employees for donations. State law caps individual campaign contribu-tions at $4,000 and businesses can-not contribute directly or indirectly to a candidate.

In addition, he also said his three children gave $73,000 to candi-dates, the Democratic Party and the Republican National Committee after he put personal funds in their check-ing accounts and directed them to dole it out.

“I have been told that with respect to making contributions to North Carolina political committees, your wife, kids, dogs and cats can all make contributions,” he wrote in the signed affidavit. But state law bars someone from giving a political contribution in another person’s name.

State elections director Gary Bartlett said the affidavit was released by elections board Chairman Larry Leake after New Hanover County District Attorney Ben David gave him permission.

Carter entered an Alford plea to three misdemeanor campaign dona-tion laws last month, and a judge fined him $5,000, gave him unsuper-vised probation and barred him from making political donations for two years.

Businessman admits illegal campaign contributions

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Celebration .turns .rowdy .in .Los .Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jubilant celebration over the Los Angeles Lakers’ dramatic win in the NBA championship game turned rowdy in scat-tered sections of the city, with raucous revelers hurling rocks and bottles at police, setting fires and jumping on vehicles.

Police spokesman Cleon Joseph said Friday 38 people had been arrested, most for public intoxication and others for vandalism and inciting a riot.

Television news footage showed one man being beaten and a car set on fire. Broken glass and burnt debris lined the streets.

Several people were seen jumping on a taxi as it attempt-ed to leave the area near the arena after the Lakers beat the Boston Celtics 83-79.

Someone opened a rear door of the vehicle while others rocked it back and forth. The taxi eventually made its way through the crowd and out of the area.

Some men ran shirtless in the streets, while other people revved car engines and honked their horns in celebration. Some people set off fireworks.

Hundreds of officers massed around Staples Center before Game 7 of the NBA finals Thursday night, aiming to pre-vent a repeat of the violence after the Lakers’ championship win last year.

Despite the massive deploy-ment, pockets of violence erupted in neighborhoods near the arena, and there were reports of windows being bro-ken at businesses.

Los Angeles firefighters responded to 37 incidents with-in a half-mile of the arena in three hours, spokesman Brian Humphrey said. There were 15 rubbish fires, three vehicle fires, one vegetation fire and 18 medical aid requests.

BASEBALLCoastal Plain League

7 p.m. Columbia Blowfish at Forest City Owls

7 a.m. (ESPN) World Cup Soccer Group Stage: Japan vs. Netherlands. 9:30 a.m. (ESPN) World Cup Soccer Group Stage: Australia vs. Ghana. 1 p.m. (WGN-A) MLB Base-ball Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Chicago Cubs. 2 p.m. (WSOC) (WLOS) World Cup Soccer Group Stage: Cameroon vs. Den-mark. 2 p.m. (ESPN) College Base-ball NCAA World Series, Game 1: Teams TBA. 3:30 p.m. (ESPN2) NASCAR Racing Nationwide Series: Bucyrus 200. 4 p.m. (WHNS) MLB Base-ball Regional Coverage. Los Angeles Dodgers at Boston Red Sox or Minnesota Twins at Philadelphia Phillies.4:30 p.m. (WYFF) Golf U.S. Open Championship, Third Round. 7 p.m. (ESPN) College Base-ball NCAA World Series, Game 2: Teams TBA. 7 p.m. (TS) MLB Baseball Kansas City Royals at Atlanta Braves. 10 p.m. (FSS) MLB Baseball Cincinnati Reds at Seattle Mariners. 10 p.m. (SHO) Boxing Allen Green vs. Andre Ward. WBA super middleweight champi-onship.

Will Skinner sent his batting helmet flying Thursday night.

The junior from Middle Tennessee State was frustrated, angry and deal-ing with a tremendous loss.

Just 24 hours earlier, Skinner attended the funeral of his step-moth-er. He had driven across three states, attended the funeral and driven back across three states.

In a move designed to get the Owls some momentum, some upward swing, Coach Matt Hayes inserted Skinner into the game as a pinch-hit-ter. Skinner struck out twice.

Baseball is cruel, life can be more cruel.

One afternoon, Emily and I drove back from her neurology appointment in Asheville. Emily is dealing with Benign Essential Tremors with what the doctors told us were Parkinson undertones.

I was frustrated, angry and dealing with the emotions of my wife’s situa-tion and illness.

That same day, I got a call from a sweet lady upset with me about the paper’s coverage of Duke basketball.

She felt we, or I, always played favor-ites and gave the Tar Heels more favorable photos, headlines and longer stories.

I did not handle that call in a profes-sional manner and was in many ways, rude.

Our best can be tough to deliver when we are at our worst.

On a much lighter note, I am try-ing to give the FIFA official, Koman Coulibaly the benefit of the doubt in regards to his terrible call against the US, in Friday’s game against Slovenia.

Coulibaly may be dealing with some personal issue unknown to me that caused him to ‘blow’ the call.

I’d ask that you keep all of this in mind as we move into the Little League All-Star season.

There are decision’s that are made regarding who plays, who coaches and in-game calls by umpires that may be ‘bad calls.’ Or, decisions you dislike.

Try and keep in mind, that Little Leagues are run by volunteers. If you don’t like the way it’s run — volunteer your time.

The umpires are paid a paltry sum — none of them will be calling a Braves’ game by the end of summer. They are husbands and fathers earn-ing a little extra money to provide for their families.

So, before you pick up the phone and call me about how this or that umpire ruined summer for your child, or grandchild, try and remember that these are just men doing the best they can.

And, remember that the walk of their life is not yours. Their shoes may be heavier than you realize.

Skinner struck out twice and the Owls lost. In the end, it was just a game. Just a game.

Play, enjoy and hug your loved ones. Celebrate the hit and the strike out; for both are just a part of the game.

Burdens, crosses and other heavy things

Scott .Bowers

Off The Wall

By RONALD BLUMAP Sports Writer

JOHANNESBURG — Maurice Edu kicked the ball into the net just before the 86th minute. American players jumped around wildly, thinking they had capped a historic comeback, turning a two-goal, first-half deficit into a 3-2 victory over Slovenia.

“Then I heard the whistle,” Edu said.Referee Koman Coulibaly of Mali had

called it off.Over and over, American players asked,

“Why?”In English. Then in French.“He just ignored us,” Landon Donovan

said. “Or he didn’t understand.”Perhaps Coulibaly will never explain

himself. Perhaps it remains one of those unsolved soccer mysteries.

What’s known in this: Donovan and Michael Bradley scored second-half goals that did count, and U.S. hopes to reach the World Cup’s second round remained alive with a 2-2 tie Friday night.

Now it comes down to Wednesday’s match against Algeria.

“My guess is there’s not many teams in

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2 goals that were for US, and 1 that wasn’t

Associated PressPlayers watch the ball heading into the net for a goal by United States’ Maurice Edu, second right, that was later disallowed during the World Cup soccer match between Slovenia and the United States in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday.

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierThe Owls’ Wes Walker (44) puts the tag on the Catawba Valley runner during the baseball game at McNair Field Friday.

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierThe Owls’ Konstantine Diamaduros, left, smashes a single to drive home Mark Dvoroznak, right, while Coach Matt Hayes, center, looks on during the baseball game at McNair Field Friday against the Catawba Valley Stars.

Owls smash Stars in an exhibition tiltBy KEVIN CARVERSports Reporter

FOREST CITY — Konstantine Diamaduros plated three Owls on a 3-for-3 night as Forest City won, 8-2, over the Catawba Valley Stars in an exhibition game at McNair Field, Friday.

The Owls, who lost their last two games at McNair, broke the short streak behind the hitting of Diamaduros and pitching of Jeremy Fant.

Fant struggled at first, but held up for six positive innings on the hill. Fant allowed two runs on six hits. The righty from Rice really got things going from the mound in third, striking out the side in that frame.

Catawba scored in the top of the first only to see Forest City counter in the

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BASEBALLCOASTAL PLAIN LEAGUE

North W L T PctWilson 13 5 0 .722Edenton 10 7 0 .588Peninsula 9 8 0 .529Outer Banks 7 11 0 .389Petersburg 5 15 0 .250

South W L T PctFlorence 11 6 0 .647Wilmington 10 8 0 .556Morehead City 10 9 0 .526Fayetteville 8 10 0 .444Columbia 7 11 0 .389

West W L T PctForest City 13 6 0 .684Gastonia 10 7 0 .588Martinsville 10 10 0 .500Asheboro 8 10 0 .444Thomasville 5 13 0 .278

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALLNational League

East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 39 28 .582 —New York 38 28 .576 1/2Philadelphia 34 30 .531 3 1/2Florida 31 35 .470 7 1/2Washington 31 36 .463 8

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 37 30 .552 —St. Louis 36 30 .545 1/2Chicago 30 37 .448 7Milwaukee 28 38 .424 8 1/2Houston 26 41 .388 11Pittsburgh 23 43 .348 13 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 38 28 .576 —San Diego 38 28 .576 —San Francisco 37 28 .569 1/2Colorado 34 32 .515 4Arizona 26 41 .388 12 1/2

Thursday’s GamesCincinnati 7, L.A. Dodgers 1Detroit 8, Washington 3Colorado 5, Minnesota 1Chicago Cubs 3, Oakland 2Boston 8, Arizona 5Chicago White Sox 5, Pittsburgh 4N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 4Philadelphia 7, N.Y. Yankees 1Atlanta 3, Tampa Bay 1Texas 6, Florida 4Kansas City 5, Houston 2Friday’s GamesL.A. Angels 7, Chicago Cubs 6Detroit 7, Arizona 5Chicago White Sox 2, Washington 1, 11 inningsCleveland 4, Pittsburgh 3Philadelphia 9, Minnesota 5N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, lateToronto 3, San Francisco 2Florida 7, Tampa Bay 4L.A. Dodgers at Boston, lateAtlanta 6, Kansas City 4Texas at Houston, lateOakland at St. Louis, lateMilwaukee at Colorado, lateBaltimore at San Diego, lateCincinnati at Seattle, lateSaturday’s GamesL.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 6-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lilly 2-5), 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 9-1) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 9-1), 1:05 p.m.San Francisco (Cain 6-4) at Toronto (Litsch 0-1), 1:07 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Peavy 5-5) at Washington (J.Martin 0-2), 4:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Padilla 1-1) at Boston (Wakefield 2-5), 4:10 p.m.Minnesota (Slowey 7-4) at Philadelphia (Hamels 6-5), 4:10 p.m.Arizona (E.Jackson 3-6) at Detroit (Porcello 4-6), 7:05 p.m.Cleveland (D.Huff 2-8) at Pittsburgh (Karstens 1-2), 7:05 p.m.Texas (C.Lewis 6-4) at Houston (Moehler 0-3), 7:05 p.m.Kansas City (Greinke 2-8) at Atlanta (Medlen 4-1), 7:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Niemann 6-1) at Florida (Volstad 4-6), 7:10 p.m.Oakland (Sheets 2-6) at St. Louis (Wainwright 9-4), 7:15 p.m.Milwaukee (Gallardo 6-3) at Colorado (Francis 2-2), 8:10 p.m.Baltimore (Millwood 0-8) at San Diego (Richard 4-3), 8:35 p.m.Cincinnati (LeCure 1-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 4-5), 10:10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesArizona at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.San Francisco at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.Tampa Bay at Florida, 1:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Washington, 1:35 p.m.Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.Kansas City at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.Minnesota at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.Texas at Houston, 2:05 p.m.Oakland at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.L.A. Angels at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.Milwaukee at Colorado, 3:10 p.m.Baltimore at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Boston, 8:05 p.m.Monday’s GamesKansas City at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Arizona, 10:10 p.m.

American League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 41 25 .621 —Tampa Bay 41 25 .621 —Boston 40 28 .588 2Toronto 36 31 .537 5 1/2Baltimore 18 48 .273 23

Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota 38 28 .576 —Detroit 36 29 .554 1 1/2Chicago 31 34 .477 6 1/2Kansas City 29 38 .433 9 1/2Cleveland 25 40 .385 12 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 38 28 .576 —Los Angeles 37 32 .536 2 1/2Oakland 33 35 .485 6Seattle 25 41 .379 13

Thursday’s GamesDetroit 8, Washington 3Colorado 5, Minnesota 1Chicago Cubs 3, Oakland 2Boston 8, Arizona 5Chicago White Sox 5, Pittsburgh 4N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 4

Philadelphia 7, N.Y. Yankees 1Atlanta 3, Tampa Bay 1Texas 6, Florida 4Kansas City 5, Houston 2Friday’s GamesL.A. Angels 7, Chicago Cubs 6Detroit 7, Arizona 5Chicago White Sox 2, Washington 1, 11 inningsCleveland 4, Pittsburgh 3Philadelphia 9, Minnesota 5N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, lateToronto 3, San Francisco 2Florida 7, Tampa Bay 4L.A. Dodgers at Boston, lateAtlanta 6, Kansas City 4Texas at Houston, lateOakland at St. Louis, lateBaltimore at San Diego, lateCincinnati at Seattle, lateSaturday’s GamesL.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 6-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lilly 2-5), 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 9-1) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 9-1), 1:05 p.m.San Francisco (Cain 6-4) at Toronto (Litsch 0-1), 1:07 p.m.Chicago White Sox (Peavy 5-5) at Washington (J.Martin 0-2), 4:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Padilla 1-1) at Boston (Wakefield 2-5), 4:10 p.m.Minnesota (Slowey 7-4) at Philadelphia (Hamels 6-5), 4:10 p.m.Arizona (E.Jackson 3-6) at Detroit (Porcello 4-6), 7:05 p.m.Cleveland (D.Huff 2-8) at Pittsburgh (Karstens 1-2), 7:05 p.m.Texas (C.Lewis 6-4) at Houston (Moehler 0-3), 7:05 p.m.Kansas City (Greinke 2-8) at Atlanta (Medlen 4-1), 7:10 p.m.Tampa Bay (Niemann 6-1) at Florida (Volstad 4-6), 7:10 p.m.Oakland (Sheets 2-6) at St. Louis (Wainwright 9-4), 7:15 p.m.Baltimore (Millwood 0-8) at San Diego (Richard 4-3), 8:35 p.m.Cincinnati (LeCure 1-3) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 4-5), 10:10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesArizona at Detroit, 1:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.San Francisco at Toronto, 1:07 p.m.Tampa Bay at Florida, 1:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Washington, 1:35 p.m.Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.Kansas City at Atlanta, 1:35 p.m.Minnesota at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.Texas at Houston, 2:05 p.m.Oakland at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.L.A. Angels at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m.Baltimore at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.Cincinnati at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Boston, 8:05 p.m.

BASKETBALLNBA FINALS

L.A. Lakers 4, Boston 3Thursday, June 3: L.A. Lakers 102, Boston 89Sunday, June 6: Boston 103, L.A. Lakers 94Tuesday, June 8: L.A. Lakers 91, Boston 84Thursday, June 10: Boston 96, L.A. Lakers 89Sunday, June 13: Boston 92, L.A. Lakers 86Tuesday, June 15: L.A. Lakers 89, Boston 67Thursday, June 17: L.A. Lakers 83, Boston 79

RACINGNASCAR-Sprint Cup

Toyota/Save Mart 350 Lineup

(Car number in parentheses)1. (9) Kasey Kahne, Ford, 93.893.2. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 93.809.3. (2) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 93.579.4. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 93.446.5. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 93.415.6. (47) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 93.27.7. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 93.264.8. (71) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 93.256.9. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 93.233.10. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 93.195.11. (5) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 93.172.12. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 93.166.13. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 93.156.14. (42) J. Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 93.144.15. (43) A J Allmendinger, Ford, 93.066.16. (7) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 92.977.17. (26) Boris Said, Ford, 92.936.18. (98) Paul Menard, Ford, 92.877.19. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 92.842.20. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 92.829.21. (19) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 92.787.22. (33) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 92.678.23. (82) Scott Speed, Toyota, 92.618.24. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 92.587.25. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 92.486.26. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 92.428.27. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 92.399.28. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 92.396.29. (13) Max Papis, Toyota, 92.381.30. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 92.292.31. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 92.213.32. (09) Jan Magnussen, Chevrolet, 92.188.33. (00) David Reutimann, Toyota, 92.008.34. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 92.003.35. (07) P.J. Jones, Toyota, 91.972.36. (12) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 91.952.37. (46) J.J. Yeley, Dodge, 91.86.38. (83) Mattias Ekstrom, Toyota, 91.806.39. (77) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 91.48.40. (37) Travis Kvapil, Ford, Owner Points.41. (34) Kevin Conway, Ford, Owner Points.42. (6) David Ragan, Ford, Owner Points.43. (66) Dave Blaney, Toyota, 91.554.

SOCCER2010 World Cup

FIRST ROUND

GROUP A GP W D L GF GA PtsUruguay 2 1 1 0 3 0 4Mexico 2 1 1 0 3 1 4France 2 0 1 1 0 2 1South Africa 2 0 1 1 1 4 1

Friday, June 11At JohannesburgSouth Africa 1, Mexico 1At Cape Town, South AfricaUruguay 0, France 0Wednesday, June 16At Pretoria, South AfricaUruguay 3, South Africa 0Thursday, June 17At Polokwane, South AfricaMexico 2, France 0Tuesday, June 22At Rustenburg, South AfricaMexico vs. Uruguay, 10 a.m.At Bloemfontein, South AfricaFrance vs. South Africa, 10 a.m.

GROUP B

GP W D L GF GA PtsArgentina 2 2 0 0 5 1 6South Korea 2 1 0 1 3 4 3Greece 2 1 0 1 2 3 3Nigeria 2 0 0 2 1 3 0

Saturday, June 12At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaSouth Korea 2, Greece 0At JohannesburgArgentina 1, Nigeria 0Thursday, June 17At JohannesburgArgentina 4, South Korea 1At Bloemfontein, South AfricaGreece 2, Nigeria 1Tuesday, June 22At Durban, South AfricaNigeria vs. South Korea, 2:30 p.m.At Polokwane, South AfricaGreece vs. Argentina, 2:30 p.m.

GROUP C GP W D L GF GA PtsSlovenia 2 1 1 0 3 2 4United States 2 0 2 0 3 3 2England 2 0 2 0 1 1 2Algeria 2 0 1 1 0 1 1

Saturday, June 12At Rustenburg, South AfricaEngland 1, United States 1Sunday, June 13At Polokwane, South AfricaSlovenia 1, Algeria 0Friday, June 18At JohannesburgUnited States 2, Slovenia 2At Cape Town, South AfricaEngland 0, Algeria 0Wednesday, June 23At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaSlovenia vs. England, 10 a.m.At Pretoria, South AfricaUnited States vs. Algeria, 10 a.m.

GROUP D GP W D L GF GA PtsGermany 2 1 0 1 4 1 3Ghana 1 1 0 0 1 0 3Serbia 2 1 0 1 1 1 3Australia 1 0 0 1 0 4 0

Sunday, June 13At Pretoria, South AfricaGhana 1, Serbia 0At Durban, South AfricaGermany 4, Australia 0Friday, June 18At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaSerbia 1, Germany 0Saturday, June 19At Rustenburg, South AfricaAustralia vs. Ghana, 10 a.m.Wednesday, June 23At JohannesburgGhana vs. Germany, 2:30 p.m.At Nelspruit, South AfricaAustralia vs. Serbia, 2:30 p.m.

GROUP E GP W D L GF GA PtsNetherlands 1 1 0 0 2 0 3Japan 1 1 0 0 1 0 3Cameroon 1 0 0 1 0 1 0Denmark 1 0 0 1 0 2 0

Monday, June 14At JohannesburgNetherlands 2, Denmark 0At Bloemfontein, South AfricaJapan 1, Cameroon 0Saturday, June 19At Durban, South AfricaNetherlands vs. Japan, 7:30 a.m.At Pretoria, South AfricaDenmark vs. Cameroon, 2:30 p.m.Thursday, June 24At Rustenburg, South AfricaDenmark vs. Japan, 2:30 p.m.At Cape Town, South AfricaCameroon vs. Netherlands, 2:30 p.m.

GROUP F GP W D L GF GA PtsItaly 1 0 1 0 1 1 1New Zealand 1 0 1 0 1 1 1Paraguay 1 0 1 0 1 1 1Slovakia 1 0 1 0 1 1 1

Monday, June 14At Cape Town, South AfricaItaly 1, Paraguay 1Tuesday, June 15At Rustenburg, South AfricaNew Zealand 1, Slovakia 1Sunday, June 20At Bloemfontein, South AfricaParaguay vs. Slovakia, 7:30 a.m.At Nelspruit, South AfricaItaly vs. New Zealand, 10 a.m.Thursday, June 24At JohannesburgSlovakia vs. Italy, 10 a.m.At Polokwane, South AfricaParaguay vs. New Zealand, 10 a.m.

GROUP G GP W D L GF GA PtsBrazil 1 1 0 0 2 1 3Ivory Coast 1 0 1 0 0 0 1Portugal 1 0 1 0 0 0 1North Korea 1 0 0 1 1 2 0

Tuesday, June 15At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaIvory Coast 0, Portugal 0At JohannesburgBrazil 2, North Korea 1Sunday, June 20At JohannesburgBrazil vs. Ivory Coast, 2:30 p.m.Monday, June 21At Cape Town, South AfricaNorth Korea vs. Portugal, 7:30 a.m.Friday, June 25At Durban, South AfricaPortugal vs. Brazil, 10 a.m.At Nelspruit, South AfricaNorth Korea vs. Ivory Coast, 10 a.m.

GROUP H GP W D L GF GA PtsChile 1 1 0 0 1 0 3Switzerland 1 1 0 0 1 0 3Honduras 1 0 0 1 0 1 0Spain 1 0 0 1 0 1 0

Wednesday, June 16At Nelspruit, South AfricaChile 1, Honduras 0At Durban, South AfricaSwitzerland 1, Spain 0Monday, June 21At Port Elizabeth, South AfricaSwitzerland vs. Chile, 10 a.m.At JohannesburgSpain vs. Honduras, 2:30 p.m.Friday, June 25At Pretoria, South AfricaChile vs. Spain, 2:30 p.m.At Bloemfontein, South AfricaSwitzerland vs. Honduras, 2:30 p.m.

Scoreboard

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has congratulated Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson and his team on winning the NBA championship for the second year in a row.

Obama also congratulated Jackson on winning his 11th championship as a head coach.

The White House says Obama told Jackson in a telephone call Friday that the series between the Lakers and the Boston Celtics was great and wor-thy of the rivalry between the two teams. Obama said he looked forward to congratulating the play-ers in person at the White House.

The Lakers rallied from a fourth-quarter deficit Thursday night to defeat the Celtics 83-79 in Game 7 of the NBA finals.

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — Kasey Kahne has won the pole at Infineon Raceway by knocking four-time series champion Jimmie Johnson from the top spot.

Kahne will be attempting to defend last year’s victory in Sunday’s race on the road course. He turned a lap of 93.893 mph around the 10-turn winding course.

Johnson typically struggles on road courses, but qualified second with a speed of 93.809 mph.

Kurt Busch qualified third and was followed by Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon and Marcos Ambrose, who many consider the darkhorse pick to win Sunday’s race.

Tony Stewart rebounded from a terrible practice session to qualify seventh, while Bobby Labonte, Greg Biffle and Martin Truex Jr. rounded out the top 10.

Kahne wins Sonoma pole

Obama calls Lakers

bottom half.The Owls’ Terran Senay (2-for-3, RBI) dou-

bled and Diamaduros did the same in right. The play crossed Senay to tie the game at 1-1. Cade Stallings followed with another double that scored Diamaduros to allow the Owls to take 2-1 lead.

Catawba answered with a run in the second inning to tie the game at 2-2, but Forest City grabbed the lead back easily in the bottom of the inning and never gave it back up.

Senay smacked an RBI single into right to score Wes Walker, who singled earlier in the inning. Mark Dvoroznak, who walked during the frame, scored on a Diamaduros single to right. Diamaduros stretched the play to second after a throw to get Senay at third went array as the Owls led 4-2.

In the third, Forest City tacked on a run after Reed Harper doubled and Brian Burton’s hot shot up the middle plated Harper for a 5-2 lead.

Walker’s single in the fifth scored Harper and Walked later crossed home on an RBI base hit to push the lead to 7-2.

Diamaduros added his last RBI in the sixth inning after doubling into the gap to plate Senay for the 8-2 lead.

The Owls relief pitching kept pace as Jordan Douglas threw two innings and allowed two hits, but no damage was done to the scoreboard.

Holt McNair worked the final inning of the con-test. After getting the first two Stars out, McNair walked two and an Owls’ error loaded the bases. However, McNair was able to get a called third strike to close out the game.

Tonight is fireworks night as the Owls host Columbia at McNair Field with a 7:05 p.m. start.

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this tournament that could have done what we did and arguably won the game. And that is what the American spirit is about,” Donovan said. “And I’m sure people back home are proud of that.”

Slovenia (1-0-1) leads Group C with four points and would have qualified for the second round with a win. The U.S. (0-0-2) is second with two points, followed by England (0-0-1) with one point, pending its match against Algeria (0-1) in Cape Town later Friday. The top two teams in the group advance.

“We can still get through,” goalkeeper Tim Howard said. “Being down 2-0 in a game, I’ve played long enough to feel very lucky and fortunate to come out of it still in the World Cup.”

If not for the whistle, it would have gone down as the greatest comeback win in American soc-cer history. Donovan took a free kick from the side of the penalty area, as players jostled in front. Aleksandar Radosavljevic held Michael Bradley in a bear hug, and Edu spun away from Bojan Jokic and, one step into the 6-yard box, stuck out his left foot and put the ball in.

Coulibaly, working his first World Cup game, will be remem-bered for the second bad call for American sports fans in a month, following umpire Jim Joyce’s decision that cost Detroit pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.

“What I’ve heard is that there were three fouls in the box, and all of which were against Slovenia players,” U.S. coach Bob Bradley said.

Slovenia, the smallest of the 32 nations in the tournament, had two shots on goal in the first half and scored on both.

The Green Dragons went ahead when Valter Birsa got behind Bradley and the defense, found 5 yards of space and from about 28 yards caught Howard flat-footed. The goalkeeper was screened by defender Oguchi Onyewu, who slid across to deny Birsa the right side of the goal. The ball sailed past Howard and went in.

“I just lost sight of it,” Howard said.

The U.S. nearly tied it when Clint Dempsey crossed toward Donovan inside the 6-yard box. But as Donovan was about to redirect the ball into the goal, Miso Brecko made a sliding deflection to knock it away. Donovan skidded into the goal without the ball, and several American players put their hands on their heads in frustra-tion.

On the counterattack, Zlatan Ljubijankic ran up the middle, took a pass and sent an 8-yard right-footed shot under Howard.

A pro-American crowd of 45,583 at Ellis Park that had been chanting “U-S-A!” was silenced. Frustration showed when Donovan, wanting to take a free kick, shoved Jose Torres, who had the ball. Torres, a 22-year-old midfielder, started

in place of the more defensive Ricardo Clark.

“Jose’s a young kid who is play-ing in his first World Cup game,” Donovan said. “It’s just an emo-tional game and at the moment I wanted to let him know what I needed to tell him.”

American players retreated to their locker room and talked of a need to regroup.

“This group will never be together again,” was how defend-er Jay DeMerit remembered the discussion. “’We just said, if we’re going to go down, we go down swinging.”

Bob Bradley made two lineup changes at halftime, insert-ing Benny Feilhaber and Edu for Torres and forward Robbie Findley, who received his second yellow card of the tournament for a hand ball in the 40th and will be suspended for the Algeria game. Dempsey pushed up from midfield to forward.

Donovan started the come-back in the 48th minute when he ran onto a Steve Cherundolo pass from midfield and got by Bostjan Cesar, a defender who fell down and then unsuccess-fully chased after him. Donovan originally planned to cross, but came down the endline and shot from the 6-yard box, putting the ball over goalkeeper Samir Handanovic and into the roof of the net.

It was the third World Cup goal for Donovan, his first since 2002, and his record 43rd for the national team.

“I decided to take a touch and aim high — and aim at his head,” Donovan said. And I don’t think he wanted to get hit from there.”

Michael Bradley, son of the

coach, tied the score in the 82nd, when Jozy Altidore’s header off Donovan’s free kick fell in the middle of the penalty area. Running at full speed, Bradley caught up to it about 8 yards from goal and with his right foot tapped it over Handanovic’s head.

“That’s Mikey. He was pretty energetic at halftime,” Howard said. “He wanted the talk ... to stop and to put our money where our mouths are. He did a good job of being an example of that.”

With a win, Slovenia would have clinched a spot in the sec-ond round.

“We lost our concentration in the second half and the Americans benefited from that,” Slovenia coach Matjaz Kek said. “We were ahead of the United States, but we didn’t overcome this pressure.”

It was almost the first come-from-behind win for the Americans in World Cup play. The United States is 6-16-5 in the World Cup, never fall-ing behind in its victories. That would have changed, if not for what the U.S. believes was a phantom foul.

“I haven’t seen the replay, but I’ve had 43 text messages from people who did, and they didn’t see a foul, either,” U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati said.

When he thought he scored, Edu called it “pure excitement.”

During the last week, U.S. players said this wasn’t so much a “must-win game” as a “can’t-lose” match.

That changes against Algeria.“Now we have to win,”

Donovan said. “Period. End of story.”

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Associated PressPlayers watch as United States’ Maurice Edu, right, scores a goal that was later disallowed during the World Cup group C soccer match between Slovenia and the United States at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — England is looking nothing like the soccer power it’s supposed to be.

Underdog Algeria held the Three Lions to a sec-ond disappointing World Cup draw, a 0-0 tie that left the Group C wide open and is sure to have English fans furious after their team arrived in South Africa as a favorite.

“If we want to stay in this tourney to the later stages we have to improve,” England midfielder Steven Gerrard said.

“We know the job we’ve got to go do, win the last game. You know to play at this level you’ve got to handle it, play under the pressure.”

With Wayne Rooney held scoreless for the sev-enth straight match, England lacked its touch against an opponent fighting to avoid becoming the first nation eliminated from the World Cup.

England hasn’t scored since the fourth minute of its opening match against the United States. Algeria hasn’t scored at all.

Serbia 1, Germany 0PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa (AP) —

Germany went from indestructible to self destruc-tive.

Milan Jovanovic made the most of it, scoring one minute after German striker Miroslav Klose got ejected Friday to give Serbia a 1-0 World Cup upset over the three-time champions.

Days after routing Australia 4-0 in the tourna-ment’s most impressive debut, Germany lost its momentum when Klose — the leading scorer at the 2006 World Cup — picked up his second yel-low card.

Germany, England stunned at WCup

By EDDIE PELLSAP National Writer

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The beachgoers spelled it out on the sand below: “Go Phil!”

And did he ever.In search of the second leg of the 2010 Grand

Slam, Phil Mickelson shot a 4-under 31 on the front nine at Pebble Beach on Friday to climb into contention in the second round of the U.S. Open.

The putter that confounded him during a first-round 75 came alive in this one. He strung togeth-er birdies on five of seven holes on the front, cap-ping it with a 15-footer on 8, before giving one stroke back with a bogey on No. 9.

He added another birdie on No. 11, and on a day when nobody was taking charge, the run vaulted Mickelson up the leaderboard, two shots behind leader Graeme McDowell and tied for second with seven holes to play before the weekend.

The U.S. Open record for nine holes is 29, last shot by Vijay Singh in 2003. Mickelson had 30 in reach but couldn’t save par after a drive into the rough on No. 9. Still, his front nine put him on pace to shoot the best score of the tournament so far.

McDowell and Ernie Els each shot 68 in morn-ing action Friday. Els, in search of his third U.S. Open title, ended up at 1-under 141, two shots out of the lead and tied with Dustin Johnson and Ryo Ishikawa.

Trying to break through after a record five sec-ond-place finishes at the U.S. Open, Mickelson attacked the easiest holes on the course on a day that was made for scoring, even if very few could take advantage. Early cloud cover gave way to part-ly cloudy skies with light winds and temperatures in the high 50s. Greens that Tiger Woods called “awful” after a sunny, dry round on Thursday, appeared to be running more true.

Not that it helped Woods much.Opening on the back nine, he chipped in on

No. 11 for his first birdie of the tournament, but if things were looking up, it was only for a brief while. He bogeyed both the par-3s on the back, missed an 8-foot putt for birdie on No. 18, blocked a tee shot into a bunker on No. 2 and hooked one into the fescue on No. 3.

It added up to a 1-over 72 and a slide down the leaderboard — seven shots behind McDowell. Woods, of course, feels he’s still got a chance.

“I just need to keep progressing and keep moving my way up the board,” he said. “It’s a long haul. The U.S. Open is not going to get easier as the week goes on, especially on the weekend.”

Anything is possible with Woods, but clearly this is not the same player who won the last U.S. Open at Pebble, back in 2000, by a record 15 shots. Back then, it was his name, not Mickelson’s, carved into the sand down below. But so much has changed. He and Mickelson came into the U.S. Open as co-favorites, and in the first round, neither managed a birdie.

Both broke that streak Friday, but where Mickelson found his game on Day 2, Woods kept struggling.

After opening the tournament by hitting 10 straight greens in regulation, he got wild. Since that start, he has gone 13 for 26, and though the greens were better during a morning round Friday than they were Thursday afternoon, he missed a series of makable putts, including the one on 18 and a 12-footer on 6 that slid by.

Els tied for second in 2000 — the ‘B’ flight at the U.S. Open — but hasn’t finished any higher than fifth at the Open since then. He’s playing some of his best golf in years in 2010, though, winning twice and now in serious contention at Pebble, which he said resembled “links golf on steroids.”

“It’s been such a long time since I won one of these, and we’ve got a long way to go,” Els said. “I needed a round like today.”

Johnson is no stranger to hoisting trophies at Pebble Beach. The winner of the last two AT&T National Pro-Ams — the PGA Tour event played here every February — shot a 70 and was in con-tention despite a four-putt 7 on No. 14 in the open-ing round.

“Whenever you have success at a golf course you get a lot of confidence,” Johnson said.

Same could be said for 60-year-old Tom Watson, the 1982 champion, who found himself waiting through the afternoon to see if he has played what could possibly be his final U.S. Open round. The heartbreaking runner-up at last year’s British shot an even 71 to finish at 7-over 149. That’s within 10 shots of McDowell and would be good enough to make the cut if nobody in the afternoon goes lower.

Associated PressPhil Mickelson reacts after making a birdie putt on the 11th hole during the second round of the U.S. Open golf tournament Friday, at the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif.

Phil Mickelson makes charge at Pebble Beach

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Drugs, alcohol blamedNEW YORK (AP) — The son

of former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel, who was found dead in a stranger’s apartment after a day of bar-hopping, died from a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol, the medical examiner’s office said Friday.

Andrew Koppel’s May 31 death was ruled an accident. He died from acute intoxication due to the combined effects of alcohol; hero-in; cocaine; diazepam, the generic form of the painkiller Valium; and Levamisole, a drug used to cut other drugs, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner’s office.

Convicted mayor resigns HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) —

Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez says he will step down as mayor while appealing his conviction on five cor-ruption charges, including taking a bribe and attempted extortion.

Perez was convicted Friday in Connecticut and faces up to 60 years in prison, with each of the five counts carrying a minimum of one

year in jail. The jury acquitted him of one count of tampering with evi-dence.

Perez issued a statement late Friday afternoon saying he did not feel it was in his best interests to continue as mayor during the appeal of my case.

Twins differ on politicsPORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) —

Identical twins Patrick and Nathan Griffin-Hall like the same food, the same movies, the same books.

But the 27-year-old brothers who live together in Port Orchard, Wash., split when it comes to poli-tics.

Patrick is a Republican and Nathan is a Democrat, and both have registered as candidates for precinct committee officer in their respective parties. Both are running unopposed.

Patrick will be serving his third term, Nathan his first.

From an early age, Patrick sensed he was different from the rest of his large blended family.

He says, “They’re all hippie liber-als. I’m the lone conservative.”

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WADENA, Minn. (AP) — Police and National Guard soldiers blocked off neighborhoods Friday as city offi-cials organized a cleanup from tor-nadoes that ripped through the city the night before, part of a turbulent system that fueled twisters across the state and killed at least three people.

Dozens more were injured in Thursday’s heavy weather. The National Weather Service collected 36 reports of tornado sightings, with northwestern and southern Minnesota hit hardest. If the sight-ings are all confirmed, it would exceed the previous state record of 27 in one day, in 1992.

In northwestern Minnesota, a woman was killed in Almora and a gas station owner was killed in Mentor. In southern Minnesota, a woman was killed when her home west of Albert Lea was destroyed.

Wadena, a town of about 4,300 people that lies 70 miles southeast of Fargo, appeared to suffer the most extensive property damage. The storms destroyed or damaged dozens of homes and other build-ings, toppled power lines and left a big chunk of the town without trees. Officials met Friday morning to plan the town’s next step.

“First we were outside watching it. Then we went inside and it got really, really nasty,” Sara Carpenter, 18, said. Her family’s home was badly dam-aged, and they spent the night at the AmericInn in town. “It’s pretty much gone,” she said of their house.

In nearby Almora, a town of about 20 people, an elderly woman was killed when a twister wiped out her home. Brittney Schulke of Almora told The Daily Journal of Fergus Falls that her grandmother, Margie Schulke, was killed and that her grandfather, Norman Schulke, suf-fered two broken shoulders.

In Mentor, about 50 miles south-east of Grand Forks, N.D., the owner of a Cenex station was killed when a tornado struck his store. Wes Michaels’ daughter told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that her father was not supposed to work on Thursday, his 58th birthday, but that he went in to check on her because of the storm warnings. She said he ordered her and several customers into the store cooler as the tornado bore down.

“He saved me,” Heidi Michaels told the newspaper.

A series of tornadoes damaged about 60 rural properties in southern Minnesota’s Freeborn County, Sheriff Mark Harig said.

Freeborn County administrator

John Kluever said eight homes were destroyed near Geneva, but said that number might grow as damage was assessed by daylight. Fourteen people were treated at Albert Lea Medical Center for injuries. Kluever said the storms damaged grain bins, a hog feedlot and a cattle feedlot. Several hundred hogs and a few dozen cattle were being rounded up Friday, he said.

Still, Freeborn County Sheriff’s chief deputy Gene Arnold said the property damage could have been much worse.

“We’re very fortunate that it did not hit a high-population area,” Arnold said.

Wadena Mayor Wayne Wolden said sirens gave plenty of warning in his town, where the National Weather Service said a tornado struck around 5 p.m. Wolden said many people were there for an all-school reunion.

Officials said 34 people were treat-ed at Wadena’s hospital for storm-related injuries, but as of Friday morning only one remained hospi-talized with injuries that were not life-threatening. Nursing supervi-sor Kathy Kleen said many residents were at the hospital’s pharmacy first thing Friday to replace prescription drugs they lost in the storm.

Crews cleared debris and lum-ber from streets Friday morning. Residents were escorted to their homes to survey damage and gather important belongings, but officials said cleanup would probably not get into full swing until Saturday.

Crews worked overnight to control dozens of gas leaks, and all were con-tained by Friday morning. Wadena’s community pool was destroyed, the high school “extremely busted up” and the community center beyond repair, Wolden said.

His wife, Lori Wolden, said houses were “half-gone” and “there’s no trees” in the southwest part of the town, which was barricaded after the storm.

Patty Jones was evacuated from her apartment because of a gas leak and walked around Wadena before taking shelter at the local armory.

“It’s terrible. It’s whacked out. Nothing’s left in one part of town,” Jones said.

The Red Cross set up a shelter at the local armory in Wadena and another in Albert Lea.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who activated about 70 National Guard members to help with the response, planned to tour the affected areas later Friday.

State climatologist Greg Spoden said it would take the weather service

Associated PressThe Gordon Toenges home remains standing Thursday after a tornado struck the farm west of Armstrong, Minn.; however, the house is in shambles. Two people were killed and dozens injured as a series of tornadoes tore through Minnesota Thursday.

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A man accused of kill-ing his wife, two children and mother-in-law in their suburban Boston home pleaded not guilty Friday as his lawyer said he may use an insanity defense.

Thomas Mortimer IV, who was brought him into Woburn District Court wearing a bulletproof vest, was ordered held without bail.

Not-guilty pleas to four charges of first-degree murder were entered for Mortimer during his arraignment Friday morning.

“It’s likely that mental health will be a live issue in this case,” defense attorney Denise Regan told Judge James Barretto.

Prosecutors released no new details during the brief proceeding.

They had said Thursday that Mortimer left two identical letters in the home that read: “I did these horrible things. What I’ve done was extremely self-ish and cowardly. I murdered my family.”

Mortimer’s parents attended the hearing. “He’s a good kid,” his father, Thomas Mortimer III, of Avon, Conn., told reporters afterward.

Barretto ordered Mortimer to undergo a mental health evaluation on Friday, and said his lawyer could be present for the evaluation.

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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.

NYSE6,988.24 +6.20

AMEX1,883.70 -10.77

NASDAQ2,309.80 +2.64

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.

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11,000Dow Jones industrialsClose: 10,450.64Change: 16.47 (0.2%)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of states saw their unemployment rates drop in May. But the widespread declines were mainly because people gave up looking for work and were no longer counted.

The unemployment rate fell in 37 states and the District of Columbia, the Labor Department said Friday. Six states had increases and seven experienced no change.

Forty-one states and the District of Columbia saw a net increase in jobs. But that reflect-ed national data showing a huge gain because of government hir-ing of temporary census workers.

Nevada now has the high-est jobless rate in the country, marking the first time in more than four years that Michigan did not hold that distinction. Nevada’s rate climbed to 14 per-cent. Michigan’s fell to 13.6 per-cent.

Nationally, the unemployment rate dipped to 9.7 percent in May from 9.9 percent in April. But the drop was largely because hundreds of thousands of job-less people stopped searching for work.

A total of 431,000 new jobs were added across the coun-try in May, the biggest gain in a decade. Still, the surge came from 411,000 temporary census jobs. Private-sector job growth slowed significantly.

Big states led all others in job growth. Texas saw a net gain of 43,600 jobs, California was up 28,300 and New York rose by 21,000.

Nevada’s jobless rate rose from 13.7 percent in April. That state has been hurt by the collapse in

housing and a downturn in tour-ism.

“Tourism is always one of the areas hardest hit during a reces-sion,” said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor’s in New York.

Unemployment in Michigan, a state hurt by the troubles in the auto industry, fell from 14 per-cent in April. Michigan had had the highest monthly unemploy-ment rate in the country since April 2006.

Wyss said the new report did not show any major changes overall in state trends.

North Dakota continued to

have the lowest unemploy-ment rate in the country at 3.6 percent. It was followed by South Dakota (4.6 percent) and Nebraska (4.9 percent).

By region, the West reported the highest regional jobless rate at 10.9 percent, unchanged from April. The Northeast had the lowest rate at 8.9 percent, also the same as the previous month.

Unemployment in the South stood at 9.4 percent in May, down from 9.6 percent in April. The jobless rate in the Midwest was 9.7 percent, an improvement from 10 percent in April.

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s unemployment rate improved in May for the third straight month, this time to 10.3 percent, but the boost came mostly from a gain in government hiring, the state Employment Security Commission said Friday.

The unemployment rate fell from 10.8 percent in April. The national unemployment rate also had fallen, from 9.9 percent in April to 9.7 percent in May.

North Carolina’s unemployment rate had been as bad as 11.2 percent in February, the worst since the current calculation method started in 1976.

The number of people working increased by 14,722 and the number on the unemployment rolls decreased by almost 20,800 workers.

Though the jobless rate has been falling, government was responsible for much of the improvement, adding 16,100 work-ers, while manufacturing lost 2,900 jobs and leisure and hospi-tality services shed 2,700 positions.

John Connaughton, an economic forecaster at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said the fact that government hir-ing was responsible for the state’s improved unemployment rate means the figure could readily rise again in a few months.

The lower unemployment rate was “a result of the census workers being hired and they’ll be gone in three months,” Connaughton said. “The rest of the private-sector economy is negative and that’s very worrisome.”

Associated Press

Jobless rates fall in 37 statesN.C. rate down, but signs weak

NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s something for inves-tors beaten down by the market’s sharp declines this spring: The Dow Jones industrial average just had its best two weeks since November.

The Dow’s gain of 16 points on Friday was rela-tively modest, but it capped a surge of 5.2 percent over the past two weeks that puts the average nearly halfway back to the high for the year that it reached on April 26.

Stocks had a longer winning streak earlier this year, an eight-week stretch that ended in late April, but those gains were more modest. Then a sharp drop in May brought the Dow down as much as 12.4 percent below its 2010 high, a drop that mar-ket analysts call a “correction.”

The debate now is focusing on whether that cor-rection is over. A correction is generally considered a drop of 10-20 percent from a recent peak. The Dow has risen back 6.4 percent from its lowest close of the year on June 7, but it’s still down 6.7 percent from its 2010 high.

“I don’t know that we’re totally through the cor-rection,” said Stu Schweitzer, global markets strat-egist at JPMorgan’s Private Bank in New York. “I do expect markets to remain quite volatile all through the rest of this year, but I still expect that we’re going to end the year higher.”

Minerals companies led other shares higher after gold settled at another record high. Barrick Gold Corp. jumped 3.5 percent, while Newmont Mining Corp. rose 2.6 percent.

Corporate news also brought out buyers. CVS Caremark rose 1.9 percent and Walgreen rose 2.8 percent after the two companies settled a dispute over pharmacy prescriptions that had threatened to hurt profits. Dow component Caterpillar Inc. gained 1.4 percent after reporting sharply higher sales.

The Dow rose 16.47, or 0.2 percent, to close at 10,450.64. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 1.47, or 0.1 percent, to 1,117.51. The Nasdaq composite index edged up 2.64, or 0.1 per-cent, to 2,309.80.

All three indicators posted solid gains for the week. The Dow is up 2.3 percent, the S&P 500 2.4 percent and the Nasdaq 3 percent.

The Dow posted its second consecutive weekly gain of more than 2 percent. Before that, the Dow had been down for three weeks. The last time the Dow had a two-week stretch of gains that strong was in November 2009.

Advancing stocks narrowly outpaced those that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where vol-ume came to 1.8 billion shares versus 1.2 billion the day before. Volume was heavier because of the simultaneous expiration of four kinds of futures and options contracts, which occurs once every quarter.

Trading was relatively quiet considering the options and futures expirations, which can often bring volatility as traders adjust their portfolios. The week that follows the June expiration is often a losing one for investors. The Dow has posted a loss during that week for the past 11 years, accord-ing to the Stock Trader’s Almanac.

Bond prices slipped, pushing interest rates high-er. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.23 percent from 3.20 percent late Thursday.

The dollar edged lower against the British pound and Japanese yen, while the euro edged down ver-sus the dollar. The euro has regained strength over the past week amid encouraging signs in Europe’s efforts to control its debt crisis. Spain had suc-cessful bond sales this week, and European lead-ers pledged to disclose the results of stress tests on banks.

Crude oil rose 39 cents to settle at $77.18 per bar-rel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Dow posts best two-week move since November

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP removed Chief Executive Tony Hayward from day-to-day oversight of the Gulf oil spill crisis a day after he was pummeled by lawmakers in an appearance on Capitol Hill, the com-pany’s chairman said Friday.

Carl-Henric Svanberg told Britain’s Sky News television that Hayward “is now handing over the operations, the daily operations to (BP Managing Director) Bob Dudley,” overshadow-ing news that after many setbacks BP was finally making real progress in siphoning and burning off oil from the underwater gusher.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen announced earlier Friday that a newly expanded containment system is capturing or incinerating more than 1 million gallons of oil daily, the first time it has approached its peak capacity. And the system will soon grow. By late June, the oil giant hopes it can keep nearly 90 percent of the flow from hitting the ocean.

Allen also said the Coast Guard is ramping up efforts to capture the crude closer to shore with the help of private boats. As of Friday morning, between 65 million and 121.6 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico, based on federal daily flow rate estimates.

The optimistic news about the containment plan was tempered by Hayward’s removal, which follows a June 4 announcement by BP that Dudley, and American oil executive, would lead the long-term response to the oil spill once the leak had been stopped. Svanberg’s statement appeared to accelerate that timeline, as millions of gallons of crude contin-ue to gush into the Gulf.

A BP spokesman in Houston, Tristan Vanhegan, says the “board

still has confidence in Tony.”The company also continues to

struggle to compensate Gulf Coast residents and business owners who have been economically devastated by the spill. On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee said data it has collected shows that BP has paid less than 12 percent of the claims submit-ted.

The committee said in a statement that data it collected showed only $71 million out of an estimated $600 mil-lion had been paid as of Tuesday. In addition, the panel said that BP didn’t make any payments in the first two weeks following the April 20 explo-sion and oil spill, and that it hasn’t made a single payment for bodily injury or diminished home property value.

Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers said he’s concerned that BP “is stiffing too many victims and shortchanging others.”

The chief of the new independent office to pay claims said a plan to handle the remaining damage claims will be in place in 30 to 45 days. Kenneth Feinberg, who’s overseeing the Independent Claims Facility, said he also hopes to have a program going forward that would provide payment

within 30 to 60 days of someone sub-mitting a new claim.

“The challenge here is going to be to evaluate quickly, eligible claims, legitimate claims and get them paid,” said Feinberg, who was chosen by President Barack Obama and BP for the role.

Feinberg, who was in Mississippi Friday to meet with Gov. Haley Barbour, reiterated that his office isn’t a government program. The lawyer, who oversaw payouts to victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, said he will be paid by BP but didn’t say how much.

Connie Bartenbach, owner of Rental Resources in Ocean Springs, Miss., said Friday that she’s been unable to get her claims processed with BP. Her cancellation rates last month were six times higher than normal, and busi-ness is getting worse.

“They have somehow lost me in their system. I filed with them on May 18,” she said. “I should have gotten a call back long before now.”

Earlier in the day, the Coast Guard signaled a shift in strategy to fight the oil, saying it was ramping up efforts to capture the crude closer to shore.

The Coast Guard’s Allen said an estimated 2,000 private boats in the so-called “vessels of opportunity” program will be more closely linked through a tighter command and con-trol structure to direct them to loca-tions less than 50 miles offshore to skim the oil. Allen, the point man for the federal response to the spill, pre-viously had said surface containment efforts would be concentrated much farther offshore.

The news of Hayward’s removal came a day after he told Congress members that he was “so devastated with this accident,” ‘’deeply sorry” and “so distraught.”

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP has paid less than 12 percent of claims submitted by people and businesses harmed by the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the federal government said Friday, while the new chief of the independent pay-ment office promised to speed the process up.

News of the slow pace of the claims process came as a British news network reported that BP’s embattled chief executive Tony Hayward is being relieved of day-to-day responsibility for managing the spill.

The Coast Guard also said it was ramping up efforts to capture the crude closer to shore with the help of private boats. As of Friday morning, between 65 million and 121.6 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico, based on federal daily flow rate estimates.

The House Judiciary Committee said in a statement that data it col-lected showed only $71 million out of an estimated $600 million had been paid as of Tuesday. In addi-tion, the panel said that BP didn’t make any payments in the first two weeks following the April 20 explosion and oil spill, and that it hasn’t made a single payment for bodily injury or diminished home property value.

Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers said he’s concerned that BP “is stiffing too many victims and shortchanging others.”

The chief of the new independent office to pay claims said a plan to handle the remaining damage claims will be in place in 30 to 45 days. Kenneth Feinberg, who’s overseeing the Independent Claims Facility, said he also hopes to have a program going forward that would provide payment within 30 to 60 days of someone submitting a new claim.

“The challenge here is going to be to evaluate quickly, eligible claims, legitimate claims and get them paid,” said Feinberg, who was cho-sen by President Barack Obama and BP for the role.

Feinberg, who was in Mississippi Friday to meet with Gov. Haley Barbour, reiterated that his office isn’t a government program. The lawyer, who oversaw payouts to victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, said he will be paid by BP but didn’t say how much.

DRAPER, Utah (AP) — A bar-rage of bullets tore into Ronnie Lee Gardner’s chest where a target had been pinned over his heart. Two minutes later, the twice-convicted killer was pronounced dead as blood pooled in his dark blue prison jump-suit.

It was the first time in 14 years that an American inmate was executed by firing squad — a method Gardner choose over lethal injection. But death penalty opponents around the world reacted with horror all the same, renewing an international debate about capital punishment in the U.S.

Gardner was the third man to die by firing squad since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.

Unlike Gary Gilmore, who famously said “Let’s do it” before he was shot on Jan. 17, 1977, Gardner offered few words. Asked if he had anything to say before a black hood was fastened over his head, he said simply, “I do not, no.”

The five executioners were police officers who volunteered for the task. They stood about 25 feet away, behind a wall cut with a gunport.

One of their .30-caliber Winchester rifles was loaded with a blank so no one would know who fired the fatal shots. Gardner was in a straight-backed metal chair, with sandbags stacked around it to keep the bullets from ricocheting around the cinder-block room at the Utah State Prison.

When the prison warden pulled back the beige curtain covering the witness room, Gardner was strapped into the chair, his head secured by a strap across his forehead.

Harness-like straps also con-strained his chest. His arms were at his sides, handcuffed and strapped to the chair. Affixed to his chest was a white cloth square about 3 inches wide bearing a black target.

The AP reporter never saw the rifles and did not hear the count-down to the trigger-pull. Utah Department of Corrections Director Thomas Patterson said the count-down went “5-4-3...” with the shoot-ers starting to fire at the count of 2.

Seconds before the bullets hit him, Gardner’s left thumb twitched against his forefinger. When his chest was pierced, he clenched his fist. His arm pulled up slowly as if he were lifting something and then released.

Stats show slow pace of claims payments

BP moves Hayward off spill crisis

Cleanup workers haul shovels cov-ered in clear plastic off of the beach after finish-ing work on Okaloosa Island, Fla., Thursday.

Associated Press

Firing squad executes killer

Tony Hayward

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Dear Dr. Gott: Out of the blue, while driving, I suddenly had split vision. A horizontal black line appeared in the middle of my vision with a picture on top and one on the bottom. It was very disconcerting.

My physician ordered an MRI and an MRA, which showed that I had suffered a stroke and also have fibro-muscular dysplasia in my neck. Can you tell me more about this?

Dear Reader: Fibromuscular dys-plasia (FMD) is a condition in which one or more arteries develop an abnormal cluster of cells within the artery wall. The cell cluster causes narrowing, which reduces blood flow and may lead to organ damage.

Symptoms vary depending on which arteries are affected.

There is no known cause, but it is believed that several factors may play a role, including hormones, abnor-mally formed arteries and genetics.

Treatment depends on the severity and location of the FMD as well as a

person’s overall health. Medication is typically recommended.

Many people who are otherwise healthy often undergo surgical repair of the affected artery or arteries and are often advised to take medication following surgery as a precaution.

Request a referral to a cardiovas-cular surgeon or specialist who is familiar with the treatment of FMD. You can also learn more about it by visiting the Fibromuscular Dysplasia Society of America (FMDSA) website at www.FMDSA.org or by writing FMDSA, 20325 Center Ridge Rd., Suite 620, Rocky River, OH 44116. The phone number is (888) 709-7089.

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Dear Abby: My father is a success-ful attorney. He appears to be the ideal father because he’s charming, has a sense of humor and is intel-ligent.

He’s a different person in private. Since I was 12, he has verbally and emotionally abused me, sometimes hitting me, throwing me down, threatening to evict or kill me.

Abby, I was not a bad child. I never experimented with drugs or alcohol and spent little time with friends. I’m currently in college and maintain a 4.0 GPA.

My family and I think my father is mentally ill. He’s extremely unstable and has a family history of these issues, including suicide.

He has started stockpiling his deceased father’s belongings, speaks to the dog as if it were a human being, and obsessively checks things in the house like locks, etc. He has extreme anger issues and other bizarre behaviors.

It’s clear Dad has a problem, but because it has not affected him at work he sees no reason to get help.

The one time I brought it up it only enraged him. He believes he is the ruler of the house, in control of everything, but it’s obvious he’s losing control.

We know we can’t force him to get help, but what can I do to get Dad to see a psychiatrist or to improve the situation? Mom has given up, and I’m afraid for my little sister. She’s in high school and still lives at home. -- Big Sis

Dear Big Sis: Your mother should have insisted your father get help when he started abusing you.

Because she didn’t, you should have told a teacher or counselor at school because they are mandated to report it. If your father abuses your sister, that’s what she must do.

While many people mistakenly think that domestic abuse happens only in low-income families, family violence occurs among people on all social and economic levels.

Because you fear for your sister’s safety, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at (800) 799-7233.

The people there can suggest help for your mother and sister, but your father cannot be “helped” unless he’s willing to finally admit he needs it.

Woman fears for sister

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NatioN/world

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is appealing to the world’s major economies not to waver in their efforts to sup-port a sustained rebound from the near collapse of the global economic system in the fall of 2008.

“We must act together to strengthen the recovery,” Obama said in his letter to other leaders of the Group of 20 major industrial coun-tries, written in advance of next week’s summit.

But Obama’s appeal for unity underscored a num-ber of divisions that have developed between the major powers. Many European nations, rattled by the debt crisis that had engulfed Greece, have started to trim their own budget deficits while China has rejected calls by the United States to allow its currency to rise in value as a way to boost sales of American and other for-eign products in China.

Obama referred in an oblique way to those dis-agreements in the letter, avoiding mentioning other countries by name.

“Our highest priority in Toronto must be to safeguard and strengthen the recovery,” he said in the letter, which the White House released on Friday. “We worked excep-tionally hard to restore growth; we cannot let it fal-ter or lose strength now.”

Obama called on the other nations to “reaffirm our unity of purpose to provide the policy support necessary to keep economic growth strong.”

The president noted that “significant weaknesses” lin-ger among the major and developing economic powers. He told his summit partners “it is essential that we have a self-sustaining recovery that creates the good jobs that our people need.” The White House released a copy of the letter on Friday.

In the letter, Obama said that the June 25-27 summit should also focus on efforts to stabilize public deficits in the “medium term,” a refer-ence to the administration’s position that governments need to run huge deficits currently to provide the stimulus needed to ensure a sustained recovery but then move in future years to defi-cit reduction efforts.

But several European nations including Germany, France and Britain are already moving to attack high deficits in an effort to calm global financial mar-kets which have stumbled in recent weeks over concerns that Greece or other high-ly indebted nations could default on their loans.

Obama is having a tough time making the argument for increased deficit spend-ing at home as well. The Senate has blocked a scaled-down jobs bill with critics complaining that the $120

billion pricetag is still too high.

In his letter to the G-20, Obama said: “I am com-mitted to the restoration of fiscal sustainability in the United States and believe that all G-20 countries should put in place credible and growth-friendly plans to restore sustainable public finances.”

“But it is critical that the timing and pace of con-solidation in each economy suit the needs of the global economy, the momentum of private sector demand and national circumstances.”

The recovery from reces-sion in the United States has been erratic and uneven.

In his letter, Obama also called on his G-20 part-ners to promote “balanced global demand” and said he remained concerned about the “continued heavy reliance on exports by some countries with already large external surpluses.”

While not mentioning China by name, that com-ment was an obvious refer-ence China’s trade surpluses and continued resistance to U.S. demands that it allow its currency, called the renmin-bi, to rise in value against the dollar.

A stronger Chinese cur-rency and a cheaper dollar would make U.S. goods more competitive in China and provide Chinese consum-ers with cheaper products. American manufactur-ers contend that China is manipulating the value of its currency to gain unfair trade advantages and some U.S. lawmakers are push-ing legislation to impose stiff penalties on Chinese imports unless Beijing allows its cur-rency to appreciate.

White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage said Friday that the administration will review the status of a long-delayed report on China cur-rency after the G-20 meet.

Obama urges G-20 to stand behind recovery

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VLKSM, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold responsible for days of shootings, arson and sexual assaults.

That air of suspicion was rife Friday among the hundreds of refugees crowded into gray can-vas tents on a patch of arid scrub in this Kyrgyz village near the border with Uzbekistan.

“Where can we go now? Our belief in the future is dead,” said Mamlyakat Akramova, who lived in the center of Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city and the epicenter of the violence that broke out last week.

Entire Uzbek neighborhoods of southern Kyrgyzstan have been reduced to scorched ruins by rampaging mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz who forced nearly half of the region’s roughly 800,000 Uzbeks to flee for their lives.

The U.N. says as many as 1 million people will need aid, and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

issued an appeal Friday for $71 million. “There are shortages of food, water and electricity in the affected areas, due to loot-ing, lack of supply, and restric-tions on movement,” he said. “Hospitals and other institutions are running low on medical sup-plies.”

The U.S. has released $32.2 million to meet immediate needs, and Russia and France sent planeloads of relief gear to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, where many have sought shelter from the violence.

The official death toll stood at about 200, but interim President Roza Otunbayeva, who toured the ravaged region Friday, said the real number is likely 10 times higher — 2,000 — because many victims were buried quickly in keeping with Muslim tradition.

In the border village of VLKSM, where thousands of ethnic Uzbeks were living in tents or sleeping in the open air, many said they couldn’t bring themselves to return to their

homes and live next to their attackers.

“This is our nation, this is a holy land, but I can’t live here any more,” said Mukhabat Ergashova, a retiree who had taken shelter with dozens of other in a crowded tent.

Supplies of bread and rice were arriving from Uzbekistan, keep-ing the refugees from starvation. However, overcrowding, bad sanitary conditions and a short-age of clean water contributed to the spread of illness, and over-whelmed doctors struggled to treat outbreaks of diarrhea and other ailments with paltry medi-cal supplies.

“Children are washing in the canal and drinking the water — they don’t know any better, they’re only children,” Ergashova said.

Thousands massed this week in VLKSM (Veh-L-Kah-S-M), a village just miles from Osh whose name is a Russian-language acronym for the Soviet Communist Youth League in a throwback to the Soviet era.

BAGHDAD (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked insurgent shot and killed his own father as he slept in his bed Friday for refusing to quit his job as an Iraqi interpreter for the U.S. mili-tary, police said, a rare deadly attack on a close family member over allega-tions of collaborating with the enemy.

The attack happened on a particu-larly bloody day in Iraq, with at least 27 people killed nationwide in bomb-ings and ambushes largely targeting the houses of government officials, Iraqi security forces and those seen as allied with them.

Hameed al-Daraji, 50, worked as a contractor and translator for the U.S. military for seven years since shortly after the U.S.-led invasion that top-pled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

He was shot in the chest about 3 a.m. while sleeping in his house in Samarra, a former insurgent strong-hold 60 miles (95 kilometers) north of Baghdad, police Lt. Emad Muhsin said.

Authorities arrested the son and his cousin, saying the young men apparently were trying to prove their loyalty after rejoining the insurgency.

Police were also looking for another son who allegedly took part in the attack.

Citing confessions, police said the son whom they arrested, Abdul-Halim Hameed, 30, was a former member of al-Qaida in Iraq who quit the terror network in mid-2007 under pressure from U.S.-Iraqi secu-rity operations that have led to a sharp drop in violence in the area.

Col. Hazim Ali, a senior security official in Samarra, said Hameed, his 19-year-old cousin and 24-year-old brother remained committed to extremist causes.

With U.S. troops withdrawing from the country, Ansar al-Sunnah, an insurgent group with ties to al-Qaida, recently lured the men into their ranks with offers of hard cash, Ali said.

The U.S. military said it was look-ing into the report.

The Samarra assault brought into focus the fears of Iraqis who have worked with the Americans and are worried they’ll face renewed violence as their employers prepare to leave the country by the end of next year.

Little hope for trapped minersAMAGA, Colombia (AP) — Authorities held

out little hope Friday for the dozens of workers trapped underground after an explosion ripped through a coal mine, killing at least 18 during a shift change.

At least 50 workers remained unaccounted for a day and a half after the explosion and rescue efforts were moving slowly, impeded by the pres-ence of dangerous gases, officials said. Authorities believe a methane gas buildup caused the explo-sion.

“It’s unlikely that there are any survivors giv-en the accumulation of methane gas and car-bon monoxide,” national disaster director Luz Amanda Pulido told The Associated Press.

A funeral service was planned in a local church Friday for nine of the 18 whose bodies were pulled from the San Fernando mine after Wednesday night’s explosion. Coroners from the state pros-ecutor’s office said most of the victims died from burns in the explosion, which happened in a 1.2-mile-long (2-kilometer-long) access tunnel that drops to a depth of 500 feet (150 meters).

Mining Minister Hernan Martinez said the mine would not reopen until an investigation into the cause of the blast is complete.

iPad coming to church altarsROME (AP) — An Italian priest has developed

an application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal.

The Rev. Paolo Padrini, a consultant with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said Friday the free applica-tion will be launched in July in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin.

Two years ago, Padrini developed the iBreviary, an application that brought the book of daily prayers used by priests onto iPhones. To date, some 200,000 people have downloaded the appli-cation, he said.

The iPad application is similar but also contains the complete missal — containing all that is said and sung during Mass throughout the liturgical year. Upgrades are expected to feature audio as well as commentaries and suggestions for homi-lies as well as musical accompaniment, he said.

“Paper books will never disappear,” he said in a phone interview from his home parish in Tortona, in Italy’s northern Piemonte region. But at the same time “we shouldn’t be scandalized that on altars there are these instruments in support of prayer.”

An ethnic Uzbek woman, no name given, holds her daughter as they stand near the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts the southern city of Osh Friday. The United Nations said as many as 1 mil-lion people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refu-gees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest.

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Uzbeks fear a return to homes

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Son kills Iraqi father who worked for U.S. forces

Associated PressEmergency responders and bystanders are seen at the site of a car bombing in Tuz Khormato, in northern Iraq, Friday. Car bombs, meanwhile, tore through two neighborhoods in restive cities north of Baghdad in separate attacks target-ing a police captain and a provincial council member. The deadliest attack was in the northern city of Tuz Khormato when an explosives-laden car blew up about 50 yards (meters) from the house of Niazi Mohammed, a Turkomen member of the Salahuddin provincial council, according to police.

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Preliminary Notification of possibleImpact to Historic Property

USDA, Rural Development through its Rural Business Service is considering an application for financial assistance from Surry Bank of Mount Airy, North Carolina. The specific elements of this proposed action

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