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TUESDAY, December 8, 2009
(252) 436-2700 www.hendersondispatch.com 50 cents
Volume XCV, No. 287
Vance farmers’ market more a possibility LocaL News, Page 8a
Weight lifting team strong in Va. eVentsPorts, Page 1B
noW it’s obama’s afghan WaroPiNioN, Page 6a
Our Hometown . . . . .2ABusiness & Farm . . . .5AOpinion . . . . . . . . . . .6ALight Side . . . . . . . . .7ASports . . . . . . . . . . 1-4BComics . . . . . . . . . . .5BClassifieds . . . . . . . 6-7B
Index
Obituaries, 4A
DeathsHenderson
James E . Blackwell, 82Frank T . Wrenn Sr ., 88
KittrellAlice D . Hargrove, 57
RougemontDoris L . McCray, 71
Details, 3A
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DaiLy DisPatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE
He’s making a list...Santa and Mrs . Claus wave from the top of the Henderson Fire Department’s platform truck while riding in the Hen-derson Christmas Parade Sunday afternoon . The event was sponsored by the Henderson-Vance Downtown Develop-ment Commission . To view or purchase photos, visit us on the Web at www .hendersondispatch .com .
Planners quickly OK truck stop zoningBy WILLIAM F. WESTDaiLy DisPatch writer
A text amendment to the zoning
ordinance allowing for truck stops was quickly and unanimously recommended Monday afternoon by the Planning Board.
The recommendation will now go to the City Council for approval. The amendment, if approved by the council, would allow for truck stops in the industrial districts. Board
Vice Chairwoman Marchita Vann made the motion, with board mem-ber Jimmie Ayscue seconding.
Board member Ricky Easter asked whether someone wants to open a truck stop.
“We have a person that’s inter-ested in a truck stop,” City Plan-
ning Director Erris Dunston said, noting Henderson does not have any regulations defining such a facility.
“So, they’ve got a place in mind?” Easter asked.
“We don’t know,” Dunston replied.
Board member Horace Bullock,
noting he assumed a truck stop would be operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, asked whether this would be in violation of the noise ordinance. Dunston said there should not be any violations in the industrial non-park (I-2) district.
Most of the I-2 districts are southwest, south and southeast of Welcome Avenue, along Bypass U.S. 1 from north of the Vanco Mill
Henderson mansentenced to life plus 50 years in 1981 deaths of two
By CAREy JOHNSONstaff writer
the fraNkLiN times
LOUISBURG — Parole officials say a Henderson man convicted of killing a Franklin County store owner and clerk decades ago met all of the criteria needed to be released from prison.
And the victim’s family had all available avenues, by law, to express their concerns.
A jury found Howard Lee Alston guilty of killing R.W. Bobby Foster and Jack Stainback on Feb. 9, 1981.
Alston was sentenced to life in prison on a first-de-gree murder charge plus 50 more years on the charge of second-degree murder.
However, when struc-tured sentencing laws took effect in October of 1994, Alston because eligible for parole.
Foster’s family members said they became increas-ingly frustrated with a pa-role process they say does not do enough to include input from the victim’s family.
Pat Joyner, with the state Post Release Supervi-sion and Parole Commis-sion, said the commission is tasked with determining parole and followed proto-col in the case.
Alston, Joyner said, completed the parole com-mission’s Mutual Agree-ment Parole Program, which prepares inmates for
Parolee inmurder casemet criteria
‘We have a person that’s interested in a truck stop’— Planning Director Erris Dunston
DaiLy DisPatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE
A member of the Northern Vance Marching Vikings, left, plays his trombone and the Southern Vance Marching Raid-ers perform, right, during the Henderson Christmas Parade Sunday afternoon . To view or purchase photos, visit us on the Web at www .hendersondispatch .com .
PLease see TRUCK STOP, PAgE 4A
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A pair of tots wave as they ride in their electric car along the parade route during the Henderson Christmas Parade Sunday afternoon. A rider on a fire truck from the Kerr Lake Volunteer Fire Department throws candy to waiting chil-dren . To view or purchase photos, visit us on the Web at www .hendersondispatch .com .
By WILLIAM F. WESTDaiLy DisPatch writer
OXFORD — A decrepit-looking
residence in the heart of Oxford will undergo renovation, but the Oxford Historic Preservation Commission first has to give ap-proval.
The Preservation Commission is set to meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at City Hall, with one of the items being a request for a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) for Manie Currin to restore her home at 203
Main St.The other item is a request for
a COA for Oxford Baptist Church, 147 Main St., to have a columbar-ium, which is a vault with niches containing urns of the ashes of the dead.
A COA is an approval given to a local historic landmark or property in a historic district for alterations as proposed by the property owner. The COA assures maintenance of the property’s historic integrity.
An S.E. Gregory Construction
sign has been in Currin’s yard for the last several days. Currin, through documents submitted by the contractor, said the plan is to make repairs and restore the approximately 120-year-old Victorian residence to the original condition.
“It should be noted that Mrs. Currin has been planning the restoration of this property for some time now and is eager to re-ceive guidance” from the historic
Currin house renovation, church columbariumneed Historic Preservation Commission OK
PLease see HISTORIC, PAgE 8A
PLease see PAROLEE, PAgE 3A
By DAVID IRVINEDaiLy DisPatch writer
WARRENTON — The Warren County Board of Commissioners held its annual organizational meeting in the Community Room of Warren County Memorial Library on Monday. County At-torney Karlene Turrentine called the organizational meeting to order and accepted nominations for the position of chairman.
Barry Richardsome was nomi-nated and unanimously re-elected to serve as chairman. At that point, Turrentine symbolically turned over the gavel to Richard-son to preside over the remainder of the meeting.
The commissioners voted to re-elect Ulysses S. Ross as vice-chairman and approved the following appointments:
• Turrentine--County Attorney.• Angelina Kearney-Dunlap--
Clerk to the Board.• Paula L. Pulley--Deputy
Clerk to the Board.• Cindi Richardson, Bonnie C.
Richardsonchairman ofWarren board
Danny Wright, left, and Eddie Wright
By AL WHELESSDaiLy DisPatch writer
On a 5-1 vote, Danny Wright of District 3 was elected chairman of the Vance County Board of Com-missioners Monday night.
The dissenting vote was cast by Eddie Wright, who had already lost the chance to become chair-man when his nomination by Deborah Brown failed in a 3-3 tie.
Besides Eddie Wright, those voting for him to be chairman were Brown and Tim Pegram, who had seconded his nomination.
Voting nay were Danny Wright, Scott Hughes and Dan Brummitt, who had served as chairman the previous year.
Hughes had nominated Danny Wright for the chairmanship, say-ing that it would be a good way for him to spend his last year on the board.
Taking the seat that he had oc-cupied a number of times during his 27 years as a commissioner,
PLease see WARREN, PAgE 4A
D. Wrightis Vancechairman
PLease see WRIgHT, PAgE 8A
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tODay Oxford Commission — The Oxford City Commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the commission meeting room of City Hall, 300 Williamsboro St. The mayor and four city commission-ers-elect will be sworn in. Zoning Board — The City of Henderson’s Zoning Board of Adjustment will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the City Council Cham-bers of City Hall, 134 Rose Ave. Community watch meetings — The Pine Ranes Com-munity Watch will meet at 6 p.m. at the Elks Lodge on Rock Spring Street. The Flint Hill Community Watch will meet at Greater Little Zion Holy Church on Flint Street at 7 p.m. Natural resources meeting — The Warren County and Franklin County soil and water conservation districts are sponsoring a public meeting at 6 p.m. to identify and pri-oritize the natural resource issues in the two counties. The meeting will be held at the Warren County Memorial Library, 119 N. Front Street, Warrenton. The purpose of the meeting is to evaluate the current conditions of natural resources and dominant land uses within the area and identify resource concerns and goals for where conservation efforts are most needed. For more information, contact Brian Short, district conservationist, USDA-NRCS, at (252) 257-3836, ext. 3 or (919) 496-3137, ext. 3.
“Green” economy seminar — A free seminar on new job and business opportunities developing around the “green” economy in rural North Carolina will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ambassador’s Inn and Suites in Henderson. Sponsored by the Center for Green Research and Evaluation at Elizabeth City State University. To register, go to www.thesynergygroupnc.com or call Monique Edwards at (919) 413-1990.
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tHursDay Chamber Christmas social — The second annual Cham-ber Christmas Social sponsored by the Henderson-Vance County Chamber of Commerce will be held from 6-8 p.m. at The Silo. For more information, call the chamber at (252) 438-8414 or e-mail [email protected]. Parks and Rec – The Henderson-Vance Parks and Recre-ation meeting will be held at noon at the Aycock Recreation Center, 307 Carey Chapel Road. Water district meeting — A Vance County Water District sign-up meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Cokesbury Volunteer Fire Department, 15116 South Cokesbury Road, in the multipurpose room. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an opportunity to sign up and pay the early signup/connection fee of $125 as well as answer technical ques-tions. Lion’s Club — There will be a Lion’s Club meeting at 6 p.m. at the Henderson Country Club. This will be the club’s annual Christmas party. Anyone who is interested in becom-ing a member of the Henderson Lions Club, please contact Randy Oxendine at [email protected]. Retired school personnel — The Vance County unit of the N.C. Retired School Personnel will meet at 11 a.m. at the Western Sizzlin, 619 Ruin Creek Road, Henderson. Jasman Hightower, athletic director for Vance-Granville Community College will be the guest speaker. All members are asked to bring canned and non-perishable food items to be donated to the Salvation Army. Any member who needs transporta-tion can call Louise Kelley at (252) 438-8071 or W. T. Ramey III at (252) 492-3096. Community watch — The Highland Greens Apartments Community Watch will meet at the Community Building, 111 Pinkston St., at 6 p.m. Chess Club — The Henderson/Vance Chess Club, af-filiated with the U. S. Chess Federation, meets at the First United Methodist Church from 6 to 9:30 p.m. All are wel-come, adults and youths, novice or experienced. For more information, call Rudy Abate at 438-4459 (days) or 738-0375 (evenings).
The 25th annual Grassy Creek Community Christ-mas Parade will take place on Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. on Grassy Creek/Virgilina Road. The parade has a rep-utation for unusual floats, an extensive line of vintage cars and trucks, tractors, horses, local marching bands and every siren known to man. Awards are given for the most original float, the most attractive float and the most religious float. Refreshments of hot dogs, stew, french fries, candy apples, drinks and coffee will be available.
Grassy Creek Christmas parade set for this Saturday
The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) recently held its Virginia/North Carolina Educators’ Convention at the new Raleigh Convention Center in November. A total of 24 faculty members from Crossroads Christian School in Henderson attended the two-day convention. Keynote speakers were Dr. Daniel Akin from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Dr. Glen Schultz from Sherwood Christian School in Albany, Ga. Schultz is an administrator at the school, which is associ-ated with Sherwood Baptist Church where the motion pictures “Facing the Giants” and “Fireproof” were produced. Attendees included (left to right) Sarah Paynter, Kathy Paine, Heather Harris and Mary Helen Mustian.
Claudette Toney sits amid the hundreds of toys collected by Garnes-Toney Funeral Home. Toney, along with her husband, Antonio, will be giving out toys on Dec. 19 beginning at 10 a.m. until all the toys are gone. Children whose names are on their list will be provided toys first, with the rest on a first come, first-served basis. This is the second year that Garnes-Toney Funeral Home has helped provide toys and books for needy children.
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Local funeral home plans toy giveaway on Dec. 19
Crossroads Christian School educators attend conference
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release through struc-tured activities, scheduled progress in custody levels, participation in community based programs and estab-lished parole dates.
“The parole commission is here to make sure the laws that are set in place are followed in terms of who stays in and who gets out,” Joyner said. “The decisions made are not just the opin-ion of the individual com-missioner or staff member.
“We do what we do based upon the law,” she said. “It’s not a personal opinion.
“Sometimes, it’s hard for people to deal with and we understand that.”
Specifically, Foster’s family members said the parole system, as it’s set up, required them to set up meeting times with parole commissioners to express their concerns about Al-ston’s parole prospects.
Also, family members said, they could only speak with one parole commis-sioner and there was a limit as to how many people could meet with the parole commissioner — a difficult prospect considering there were two families affected by Alston’s actions.
“That’s not really fair,” said a niece of Foster’s, whose name is being with-held for safety reasons.
A final indignity, Foster’s family said, was that they were not notified of Alston’s release until after it had happened.
They were assured, fam-ily members said, that they would be contacted prior to any decision.
“We knew his parole was coming up, so we figured we’d better call,” Foster’s niece said. “If we hadn’t called, we would have never known he was released.”
Joyner said the state has an automated system that
contacts either victims, family members or anyone who registers, about issues concerning an inmate, such as if they are being moved to a new facility, if they’re up for parole or if parole has been granted or denied.
“(Victims or their fami-lies) have to make sure the victim notification office has all of their contact information, because the notices are automated,” Joyner said.
“If a victim or their family moves or changes numbers or whatever, they need to call victims’ services,” she said. “There is no limit to who can be placed on that list and get information.”
As far as the process for dealing with parole commissioners, Joyner said that policy could change.
“(Meeting with only one commissioner) is the process right now,” Joyner said. “Is that going to change in the future? I don’t know.”
“ ... The voice of that one commission in regards to that meeting services as representation of the commission,” Joyner said. “The commission discusses what’s going on with the case and all the commis-sioners are aware of any information.”
Joyner said the limits on the number of people al-lowed to engage the parole commission is an issue of time and space, not an is-sue of exclusion.
“This is supposed to be a group of folks specifically tied to that case,” she said. “We aren’t trying to engage a whole neighborhood or community.
“ ... (But) there is ample opportunity for people to call ahead as they are noti-fied or when these meet-
ings are coming up and the commission is very good in trying to make time for as many folks as it possibly can, to express their feel-ings on a case, one way or another.”
Tom Bennett, executive director of the N.C. Victims Assistance Network, which helps victims and their families navigate the justice system, said it helps families annually who are frustrated with the legal system, which includes parole matters.
Those issues are declin-ing in numbers, as fewer and fewer people each year are eligible for parole. However, the gravity of the problem never lessens for those affected.
“I think we can all be grateful that we have structured sentencing, which gives a minimum and maximum range for punishment and everyone knows a suspect will serve, at least, a certain mini-mum sentence.
“That gives victims some level of comfort and we’re in a better situation now than we used to be (before structured sentencing),” he said. “There are a dwin-dling number of prison-ers eligible for parole, so there will be fewer of these problems as the years go by, but if you’re a surviving family member, this will be a big issue until your dying day.”
If anyone needs assis-tance or would like to learn more about the N.C. Vic-tims Assistance Network, call at (800) 348-5068 or visit www.nc-van.org.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was reprinted with permission. In an ear-lier account last week, the Times reported that Alston was released on parole just before Thanksgiving. He was arrested in May 1981, three and a half months after investigators alleged he shot and killed Foster and Stainback inside Foster’s store along U.S. 401 north of Ingleside. Alston and another man were reported to have been regulars at the store. Wil-liam T. Dement, who was Franklin County’s sheriff at the time, said the shooting was apparently the result of an earlier argument where Foster alleged that Alston was selling drugs on his property.
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Deaths
James E. Blackwell
HENDERSON — James Edward Blackwell, 82, of 1770 Satterwhite Point Road, died Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Britthaven of Henderson. He was born in Vance County and was the son of Sidney and Frankie Love Blackwell.
He attended the Vance County public schools. He joined the United States Army in 1946 and received an Army of Occupation Medal and World War II Victory Medal, along with an honorable discharge.
Memorial services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Davis-Royster Funeral Service.
Survivors include his wife, Marian Bryant Blackwell of the home; two daughters, Denise M. Fisher of Delaware and Felicia Blackwell of Mary-land; four sons, Dennis Emery of Arizona, Brian Blackwell of Delaware, Winston Blackwell Jr. of Maryland and Joseph Blackwell of Rocky Mount; a sister, Mary Frances Jenkins of Boston; a brother, the Rev. Winston Blackwell of Henderson; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made to the Alzheimer and Diabetic Association.
The family is receiving friends at the residence.
Arrangements are by Davis-Royster Funeral Service.
Alice D. Hargrove
KITTRELL — Alice D. Hargrove, 57, of 390 S. Chavis Road, Lot 12, died Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, at her home. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home in Oxford.
Doris L. McCray
ROUGEMONT — Doris L. McCray, 71, of 5659 Days Mill Road, died Mon-day, Dec. 7, 2009, at her home. Funeral arrange-ments will be announced later by Betts and Son Funeral Home in Oxford.
Frank T. Wrenn Sr.
HENDERSON — Frank Thomas Wrenn Sr., 88, of 180 Wrenn Road, Oxford, N.C., died Sunday, December 6, 2009, at Maria Parham Medical Center. Born in Vance County, he was the son of the late John Thomas and Eunice New-ton Wrenn.
Mr. Wrenn was a retired welder and pipe fitter, and was a member of the United Associa-tion Local 421. He was a United States Navy Veteran of World War II. A lifelong member of Re-hoboth United Methodist Church, he was a member of the Open Door Sunday School Class.
A memorial service will be held Tuesday, Decem-ber 8, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., at Rehoboth United Meth-odist Church, conducted by the Rev. Josh Duck-worth.
Surviving are his wife of 67 years, Carrie Ar-rington Wrenn; a daugh-ter, Brenda W. Weldon, and husband Robert, of Greensboro, N.C.; two sons, Frank Thomas “F.T.” Wrenn Jr., and wife Alice, of Oxford, and John A. “Johnny” Wrenn Sr., and wife Rhonda, of Oxford; six grandchildren, Frank T. Wrenn III, of Atlanta, Ga., Angela W. Cameron, and husband Chris, of Holly Springs, N.C., Amanda W. McCoy, and husband Kevin, of Greensboro, N.C., Rob Weldon, and wife Kristin, of Greensboro, N.C., John A. Wrenn Jr., and wife Joy, of Henderson, and Justin M. Wrenn, and wife Melanie, of Hender-son; nine great-grand-children, Cole McCoy, Kaitlyn McCoy, Madeline McCoy, Hunter McCoy, Cecelia Wrenn, Luke Wrenn, Logan Wrenn, Catherine Cameron, and
Carrie Cameron; and sev-eral nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by two sisters, Frances W. Capps and Lucy W. Stovall; and two brothers, Melvin D. Wrenn and Vincent Wrenn.
The family will receive friends immediately fol-lowing the service at the church. All other times, they will be at the home, 180 Wrenn Road, Oxford (in the Watkins Commu-nity).
Flowers are omitted. Memorials may be made to Rehoboth United Meth-odist Church, Cemetery Fund, c/o Barbara Bur-well, 2205 Community House Road, Oxford, N.C. 27565; or to Watkins Vol-unteer Fire Department, c/o Virginia Parrott, 1380 Horseshoe Bend Road, Henderson, N.C. 27537.
Arrangements are by Flowers Funeral Home.
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Road interchange to the N.C. 39/Andrews Avenue interchange, along parts of the north and south sides of Ross Mill Road adjacent to Interstate 85 and along part of the north side of War-renton Road northeast of the intersection of Garnett Street.
There is what is called an I-1 district for manufactur-ing, storage and wholesale purposes. Most of those districts are along Bypass U.S. 1 from the Newton Dairy Road overpass to near the Warrenton Road interchange and along I-85 northeast of the Spring Val-ley Road overpass toward the Satterwhite Point
interchange. The amendment was
prepared by a committee of the board and sent to City Attorney John Zollicoffer. No citizen on Monday spoke for or against the proposal.
Board member Linda Allen was absent from Mon-day’s meeting, which lasted approximately 10 minutes.
Contact the writer at [email protected].
TRUCK STOP, from page one
Andrews, Cindy Stegall and Yvonne Sharpes--Deputy Tax Collectors.
• Karen Towns--Delin-quent Tax Collector.
The commissioners approved four depositories for Warren County funds: First Citizens Bank & Trust Company, Warrenton; Branch Banking & Trust Company, Warrenton; N.C. Capital Management Trust, Charlotte; and Southern Bank, Norlina.
After adjourning the organizational meeting, Chairman Richardson called the regular monthly meeting to order.
The commissioners ap-pointed Zaida White to the position of Veterans Admin-istrator at an annual salary of $35,000, to take effect Dec. 16. White, a Manson resi-dent, is a U.S. Army veteran with more than 20 years of service. She previously served as Warren County Veterans Administrator from 2004 to 2007, leaving the position due to illness.
The commissioners ap-proved a plan to transfer responsibility for the Child Support Enforcement Office from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Ser-vices to Warren County, as required by the N.C. General Assembly. In their Septem-ber meeting, the commission-ers had designated the War-ren County Department of
Social Services as the agency to have administrative oversight of the operation of the CSE Program. The plan calls for the CSE Office to remain in its current location at 307 N. Main St., War-renton, at least for the first year of county government operation. The plan antici-pates implementing the CSE Program in Warren County on July 1, 2010.
The commissioners approved a request from County Manager Linda Worth to provide an ad-ditional $32,000 to make repairs to the front roofs and deck of the National Guard Armory. Cost considerations had caused this work to be deleted from the original con-tract to renovate the armory, but recent rains indicated that the current roofs are not adequate. Mike Kilian of Kilian Engineering, lead contractor for the project, told The Daily Dispatch that the work was essential before interior work begins. The ad-ditional funds will come from the county’s fund balance.
At the request of Public Utilities Director Macon Robertson, the commission-ers approved a resolution au-thorizing the county to enter into a contract to sell treated water to the town of Littleton at the rate of $2.56 per 1,000 gallons, the amount not to exceed 120,000 gallons per day.
The commissioners ap-proved a contract between Warren County Senior Center and the Warren County Schools Nutrition Program to provide catering services to the Senior Center, as requested by Senior Cen-ter Director Arnetta Yancey. Prices agreed upon are $3.75 per congregate meal, $3.75 per home-delivered meal and $3.00 per cold boxed meal.
The commissioners also approved a resolution estab-lishing an Advisory Council for the Senior Center.
At the request of Rec-reation Director Richard “Dickie” Williams, the com-missioners approved a grant application to the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund to make improvements at Magnolia Ernest Recreation Park at a cost of $136,990. Warren County’s share will be $68,495, which will be included in the 2010-2011 fiscal year budget.
The commissioners ac-cepted a bid of $22,855 for tax foreclosed property at 1722 Tower Road, Norlina. The bid by Joseph Mustian of Warrenton was the high-est of six bids received. The commissioners also approved the sale through a sealed-bid auction of three small plots of land that are no longer needed by the county.
Contact the writer at [email protected].
WARREN, from page one
DALLAS (AP) — Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II, who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memo-rial Hospital after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has died. He was 80.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cen-ter, the teaching hospital for Parkland, said Monday that Perry died Saturday in
Tyler after a battle with lung cancer.
The vascular surgeon also was one of the doctors to op-erate on presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who was
shot two days after Ken-nedy’s death by Jack Ruby.
After a long career, he retired in 2000 as professor emeritus of surgery at UT Southwestern.
Doctor who attended JFK in Dallas has died
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BEFORE THE NORTH CAROLINA UTILITIES COMMISSION In the Matter of ) Investigation of Integrated Resource ) Planning in North Carolina – 2008 and 2009 ) NOTICE OF HEARINGS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the North Carolina Utilities Commission (Commission) has scheduled hearings in conjunction with the Commission’s review and evalua-tion of Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) in North Carolina. The purpose of the review and evaluation is to ensure that each regulated electric utility operating in North Carolina is developing reliable projections of the long range demands for electricity in its service area, and is developing a combination of reliable resource options for meeting the anticipated demands in a cost-effective manner. IRP is intended to identify those electric resource options which can be obtained at least cost to ratepay-ers in North Carolina consistent with adequate, reliable electric service. IRP considers conservation, efficiency, load management, and other demand-side programs alternatives in the selection of resource options. In addition, new rules require that electric power suppliers include their plans for meeting customer electric needs via renewable energy resources and energy efficiency programs. A public hearing for the convenience of public witnesses and solely for the purpose of taking nonexpert public witness testimony is hereby scheduled as follows: Raleigh: 7:00 p.m., on Monday, March 15, 2010, Commission Hearing Room 2115, Dobbs Building, 430 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. During the public hearing to be held in this docket, the Commission will receive testimony from nonexpert public witnesses with respect to the most current IRPs (including renewable energy and energy efficiency plans) filed for 2009, by Carolina Power & Light Company d/b/a Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. (PEC); Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (Duke); Virginia Electric and Power Company d/b/a Dominion North Carolina Power (DNCP); North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation, Piedmont EMC, Rutherford EMC, EnergyUnited EMC, and Haywood EMC. In addition, during the public hearing, the Commission will receive testimony from nonexpert public wit-nesses with respect to the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) compliance plans filed by GreenCo Solutions, Inc. and Halifax EMC. In addition to the public hearing, the Commission has scheduled an evidentiary hearing which will be convened in Commission Hearing Room 2115 in Raleigh on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. for the specific purpose of considering the 2009 IRPs and REPS compliance plans filed by Duke, PEC, and DNCP. During this hearing, the Commission will receive the expert testimony from witnesses for Duke, PEC, DNCP, the Public Staff, and other intervenors. Anyone wishing to review the IRPs and REPS compliance plans filed by the utilities may do so either at the Commission’s website, www.ncuc.net, by selecting the Docket Information tab and entering Docket Nos. E-100, Sub 118 or E-100, Sub 124, or at the Office of the Chief Clerk of the Commission, Dobbs Building, 430 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. Upon request, the Chief Clerk will place copies of the IRPs, compliance plans and any other documents filed in this proceeding in centrally-located public libraries where they may be copied without prohibition. Such a request may be made by writing to the Chief Clerk, North Carolina Utilities Commission, 4325 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4325, by giving the name and address of the library to which the information is to be mailed.Persons desiring to send written statements to inform the Commission of their positions in the matter should address their statements to: Chief Clerk North Carolina Utilities Commission 4325 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-4325 Petitions to intervene shall be filed no later than Friday, February 12, 2010, in conformity with applicable Commission rules. The Public Staff - North Carolina Utilities Commission, through its Executive Director, is required by statute to represent the using and consuming public in proceedings before the Commission. Written statements to the Public Staff should be addressed to: Robert P. Gruber, Executive Director Public Staff - North Carolina Utilities Commission 4326 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-4326
The Attorney General is also authorized by statute to represent the using and consuming public in proceedings before the Commission. Statements to the Attorney General should be addressed to: The Honorable Roy Cooper Attorney General of North Carolina c/o Utilities Section 9001 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-9001 ISSUED BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION. This the 19th day of October, 2009. NORTH CAROLINA UTILITIES COMMISSION Gail L. Mount, Deputy Clerk
By MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WritEr
WASHINGTON — Americans borrowed less for a record ninth straight month in October, an-other sign that consumer spending will remain weak, making it harder for the economy to mount a sustained rebound.
Consumer credit fell at an annual rate of $3.51 billion in October, the Fed-eral Reserve said Monday. Economists expected a $9.3 billion decline.
Demand for revolving credit, the category that includes credit cards, fell 9.3 percent, while borrow-ing in the category that includes auto loans rose at an annual rate of 2.6 percent.
Americans are bor-rowing less as they try to replenish depleted investments. Many are finding it hard to get credit as banks, hit by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, have tightened lending standards.
The 2.6 percent rise in the category that in-cludes car loans reflected a rebound in auto sales in October after they fell sharply in September. That drop followed a surge in auto sales in August as consumers rushed to take advantage of the govern-ment’s popular Cash for Clunkers incentives before it expired.
While economists have worried for years about the low rate of U.S. sav-ings, the concern is that consumers could derail the recovery if they start saving too much of their incomes.
Consumer spending
accounts for 70 percent of total economic activity.
Consumers have been reluctant to spend in large part because the labor market has been so weak. The government reported Friday that the unemploy-ment rate improved slight-ly in November, dropping to 10 percent, after hitting a 26-year high of 10.2 percent in October.
Analysts, however, cautioned that they expect the jobs recovery to remain lackluster in coming months because the overall economy will be growing at rates that are too modest to support solid growth.
Many analysts believe the unemployment rate will resume rising in com-ing months, hitting a peak of around 10.5 percent, by next summer before start-ing to improve.
The 1.7 percent fall in overall consumer borrow-ing left that total at an annual rate of $2.48 tril-lion in October. The $3.51 billion fall in October followed a decline of $8.77
billion in September.The 9.3 percent plunge
in the credit card category followed drops of 10.5 percent in September, and 10.6 percent in August. In all, credit card borrowing has fallen for a record 13 straight months.
The 2.6 percent rise in the category that includes auto loans followed a 0.6 percent drop in Septem-ber.
According to sales results released last week, a diverse group of stores including Macy’s Inc., Saks Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and Target Corp. posted sharper-than-expected sales declines in November, translating into a rocky start for the holiday shopping season.
The Fed’s credit report excludes home loans and home equity mortgages, only covering borrowing that is not secured by real estate.
The previous record of seven consecutive con-sumer borrowing declines was set in 1943 and again in 1991.
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Dollar vs: ExchgRate PvsDayYen 89.48 90.70Euro $1.4823 $1.4827Pound $1.6439 $1.6429Swiss franc 1.0192 0.0188Canadian dollar 1.0531 1.0589Mexican peso 12.6500 12.6600
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ACS 56.51ATT 27.97Ball Corp. 50.07BankAmerica 15.89BB&T 25.86Coca-Cola 57.87CVS 30.85Duke Energy 17.38Exxon 73.77Ford 8.91General Elec. 16.08Home Depot 28.22IBM 127.04Johnson & Johnson 64.37Kennametal 24.81Krispy Kreme 3.16Louisiana Pacific 6.44Lowes 22.78Lucent Tech. 3.41Pepsico 64.23Phillip Morris 19.37Procter & Gamble 62.47Progress Energy 40.94RF Micro Dev 5.04Royal Bk Can 52.63RJR Tobacco 53.94Revlon 18.97Sprint 4.18Sun Trust 22.62Universal 49.48Verizon Comm. 33.25Vulcan 48.52Wal-Mart 54.93Wells Fargo 26.36Wendy’s 4.13Establis Delhaize 78.60
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Three creditors who say they are owed nearly $5 million want a bankruptcy court to determine who owns a struggling North Carolina charter airline company.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that a bankruptcy trustee
expected to be named this week will have to determine who owns Pace Airlines Inc. That has been a mystery since late October, when a Pace attorney said William Rodgers no longer owned the company.
Rodgers acquired owner-ship in May from the estate of Hooters restaurants
founder Bob Brooks, who flew under the name Hoot-ers Air. Rodgers promised to pay $9 million and take over $6 million in debt.
Rodgers was charged with a felony in September for willful failure to pay group health-insurance pre-miums for his employees.
Creditors: Who owns N.C. charter airline?
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A transgender teen in Florida is saying that a McDonald’s restaurant re-fused to let her interview for a job.
A discrimination com-plaint against the restau-rant in Orlando was filed Monday with the Florida Commission on Human
Relations.Zikerria Bellamy claims
two McDonald’s managers refused to interview her after she applied for a job. She also says one of the managers later left her a voicemail message that included a gay slur.
The 17-year-old Bellamy is male but says she has
been living as a woman for about six years.
A spokeswoman says McDonald’s planned to issue a statement later Monday.
The New York-based Transgender Legal De-fense & Education Fund filed the complaint on Bel-lamy’s behalf.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google will begin to automatically up-date its search results to include relevant informa-tion within a few seconds after the content is re-corded in its Web index.
The “real-time” search feature unveiled Monday marks a major step in Google’s ambition to pro-vide a comprehensive look at what people are discuss-ing online as quickly as possible.
The fresh information will scroll across a section of the main results page; normally, a new search
request was the only way to the blog posts, status updates and other infor-mation that Google had indexed since the previous query.
To stay on top of what’s
happening online, Google announced it has forged new partnerships to in-clude some of the updates from two popular online hangouts, Facebook and MySpace.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
In this March 27 file photo,the Federal Reserve Building on Constitution Avenue in Washington is seen. The Federal Reserve said Monday consumers borrowed less for a record ninth straight month in October.
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Putting brakeson recidivism
For it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neigh-bour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another: According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the Lord your God. Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
Leviticus 25:12-19
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6A the dAily disPAtCh OpiniOn tuesdAy, deCember 8, 2009
The Clean Up Henderson Committee continues to plug away at addressing appearance-related issues that put a blemish on the city and its neighborhoods.
Last Wednesday’s meeting provided a forum for city officials to shine a light on the unfortunate circumstance of vandals destroying street signs by painting on them, stripping them from their poles and, in some cases, pulling them the signs and poles and tossing them aside.
Those signs include a few stop signs, according to Linda Leyen, the city’s Public Works director.
As parents, we’ve preached to our children about proceeding with caution through an intersection even when they have the right-of-way for passage. Just because there’s no stop sign at the inter-section, it doesn’t mean that someone else won’t be running that stop sign intention-ally or accidentally.
It’s very scary to think that someone would be pulling up stop signs around town. Motorists would be wise to exercise extra caution when traveling through unfamiliar intersections.
The police chief was at the meeting, and the talk at the brief session took on a more philosophical tone as he offered a law enforcement officer’s perspective on vandals, thieves and criminals in general.
The biggest challenge for police, Chief Keith Sidwell told the committee, is the “recidivist.” Those are the folks who have a tendency to lapse into a previous pat-tern of behavior, especially a tendency to return to criminal habits.
They are the people who are charged with crimes and then continue to commit crimes again and again after they have made bail, the chief said in an exchange with the Clean Up Henderson Committee chairwoman Juanita Somerville.
Recidivism is a situation that his de-partment has brought to the attention of local judges. “We are hoping to get some relief from that in the future,” he said.
With the downtown of the economy cit-ed by the committee chair as a contributor to local crime, Sidwell offered his opinion that, “If you have the ability to work, and everybody at this table does, then you should work. If you cannot, assistance is here for you.”
“You do have to apply for it,” he contin-ued, whether in reference to the assis-tance or to a job in general, “but coming from meager upbringings myself, it was never an excuse.”
Some people simply don’t have the upbringing, education or determination to move forward. Instead, Somerville of-fered, they look for excuses.
The chief countered that the jails are there for those folks whose excuses include criminal activity when times are tough.
We think the chief is on the right track.It’s time for the revolving door for
criminals to slam shut.Henderson’s surely not alone with
these issues of unemployment and crime, vandalism and break-ins, but that’s no reason that we can’t solve these problems.
We’re hoping, too, that the police – and law-abiding citizens – get some relief from the judicial system.
To continue to tolerate this revolving door of criminal activity is like driving through an intersection without looking either way – or considering that someone may have pulled up your stop sign.
The things we do for fameDecember is not even half-
way over, but I already know the big story of the last 12 months: 2009 will be remem-bered as the year we sold our souls for fame.
There was the Octomom, whose thirst for attention led her to auction her life — and her 14 children — to the cam-eras and the Web.
There was the Balloon Boy family — so obsessed with se-curing a reality TV series that they faked a disaster involv-ing their own son.
There were the State-Gate Crashers, who, with cameras chronicling them right to the door, weaseled their way into a White House dinner.
And we can’t begin to list all the pseudo, wanna-be and semi-celebrities who shame-lessly threw themselves into the limelight, from the Gos-selins to the endless stream of Michael Jackson mourners to the gyrating, guy-kissing Adam Lambert, who seems to grow in stature with each show that cancels him.
Lambert, an “American Idol” runner-up, is one of Bar-bara Walters’ most fascinating people of the year.
Really? For what?
Goodbye modestyDoesn’t matter. We’ve
reached the point where the “what” is superfluous to the “wow.” So people flock to learn more about the cocktail wait-ress who last week claimed to have had a long affair with Tiger Woods, and while Woods
is chided for his alleged infidel-ity, no one seems to question why this woman chose to get involved with one of the most famous married people on the planet.
Does it shock you to learn she’s a minor figure on a reality TV show herself? Why isn’t the lust for a headline as decried as the lust for flesh?
It’s as if fame for fame’s sake is now an accepted motivation.
And this is where the world gets dangerous.
Because right now, there are still some people left who remember when modesty and shame kept you from certain behaviors. Still some people
who recall when you wouldn’t endanger children, risk secu-rity or soil your family name with unflattering attention.
But those people are get-ting gray and old. And young people today see fame as not only everything, but the only thing.
So YouTube is stuffed with a million videos of people hoping to become household names. And entities like TMZ and RadarOnline, instead of being criticized for invading privacy then peddling the results, are growing in popularity with each salacious story. “Ameri-can Idol” is now, incredibly, almost seen as wholesome, instead of a packaged, calculat-ing money-making machine. And people we once respected for their accomplishments now seem hell-bent on landing a “Dancing With the Stars” ap-pearance.
Hello narcissism Once, as an experiment,
I walked around a major sporting event with a camera crew. There was no purpose to the filming except to see how people reacted differently when you had a camera. I remember looking at the footage later and seeing people’s expressions change, their smiles widen, their eyes grow interested when the camera caught them.
It was like being under the water when Narcissus caught his reflection.
I found it scary.And now I really find it
scary. Because we’re heading towards a time when nobody shakes a head or clucks a tongue at this stuff anymore, where today’s kids are tomor-row’s adults who will never have known a world with-out Perez Hilton or Jon and Kate, where you wouldn’t do anything for five minutes of attention.
Just as this country was once a place where working people explained unenviable jobs with “I have to feed my family,” now the thinking is “I have to feed my fame.” And that can lead you to almost anything: faking your son be-ing trapped in a balloon, giving birth to a flock of babies you can’t take care of, or crashing the security at a presidential dinner.
It’s the Story of the Year. When the Gatecrashers were exposed as posers, Michaele Salahi told the “Today Show”: “Our lives have been de-stroyed, everything we’ve worked for. ... For me, 44 years, just destroyed.”
But she was talking into a TV camera.
How’s that for irony?
Now it’s Obama’s Afghan warGenerals are notorious for
fighting each new war the way they should have fought the last one. President Obama seems to have picked up that tendency as he orders a troop surge in Afghanistan, a strat-egy that he rejected in Iraq until it worked.
Experience is the best teacher, but every war is dif-ferent. As we became bogged down in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, I was one of many critics who called for the George Ai-ken remedy. The late Vermont Republican senator famously suggested as early in the Vietnam War that we declare victory and bring our troops home.
In Iraq, a troop surge, which then-Senator Obama opposed, turned the tide. It gave Iraq enough stability and Americans enough breathing room for our troops to begin our pullback and withdrawal, which still continues.
Now Obama is employing a surge of his own in Afghani-stan. I hope it works. Afghani-stan is very different from Iraq. Yet Obama’s long-stand-ing support for the Afghan war as “a war of necessity” moved him to give the war and the government of President Hamid Karzai another chance.
He called for 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan before beginning a withdrawal, depending on “conditions on the ground” 18 months later. What if the Taliban simply fade back and bide their time until Obama’s dead-line arrives? No problem, a high-ranking White House official said in a briefing with columnists before the speech; the top priority of the surge is
to break the Taliban’s mo-mentum long enough to grow the Afghan military from its current strength of 92,000 to as many as 260,000. If the Taliban take a break, so much the better.
Obama could have taken the Aiken route, declared vic-tory in Afghanistan based on our rout of al-Qaida and begun an immediate withdrawal. Instead, he is making the war his own at a time when public
opinion, especially among his fellow Demo-crats, has soured on it.
They have good reasons: The war’s original purpose of chasing Osama
bin Laden and al-Qaida after the Sept. 11 attacks has faded. Al-Qaida’s leaders fled, appar-ently to neighboring Pakistan, where our CIA has been pick-ing them off with high-flying robot Predator drones. The Karzai government is infested with corruption. While the U.S. was focused on Iraq, the Taliban have reemerged to pose a possible threat to the Kabul government, which has little control of its own nation outside the capital city of Kabul.
And, back home, Americans feel more pressing matters such as jobs, the economy, deficits and the health care debate.
Obama took all that into
account in a notably sober, yet internally conflicted Afghani-stan policy speech at West Point. This is still a war in which “the common security of the world” is “at stake,” he said. Yet, he also said, if it’s not working in 18 months we’re going to start packing up to go home. In classic Obama fashion, he tried to include everybody’s views. The result was one of the least stirring speeches with which any commander-in-chief has sent troops to war.
Still his surge could work, which would be a blessing. Al-Qaida must be denied a safe haven that the Taliban might restore if they topple Karzai’s shaky government. The same is true of Pakistan next door, which also poses a potential nuclear threat.
Obama’s deadline sends a signal to Afghans that we don’t plan to stay long, which tends to be OK with them after fending off centuries of imperial invaders. A deadline also puts Karzai, who won reelection amid widespread vote fraud, on notice to clean up his act and his govern-ment. Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, especially with the prospect of being hanged in a Taliban takeover.
Whether this surge works or not, America’s larger war against al-Qaida-style ter-rorism is being fought less like Gen. George Patton than James Bond. Beefed-up hu-man intelligence collection has resulted in Predator strikes that have killed at least a dozen al-Qaida leaders in recent months, the Pentagon says. Obama’s Afghan surge
includes an expanded CIA drone program in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas, the New York Times reports, to target hideouts of Afghan Taliban leaders.
Like his surge, Obama’s secret war on terror, including drones, has stirred protests on his left for taking out civilian casualties. On that sad score, at least drones are prefer-able to, say, B-52 bombers. A smart “war against terror” is fundamentally a big interna-tional police action against ideologically driven criminals. Before we deploy our military, we need to employ science and good detective work. When the enemy is always looking for new weapons, so must we.
(E-mail Clarence Page at [email protected], or write to him c/o Tribune Media Services, 2225 Kenmore Ave., Suite 114, Buffalo, NY 14207.)
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DEAR ABBY: I have a good friend whose husband is isolating her from family and friends. He’s a counselor, and he uses his training as a psy-chologist to convince her that none of her friends are to be trusted. He twists anything we do or say to keep her at a distance from us.
He tells her she’s a hor-rible mother and a terrible person in general, and she believes him. I think she has been brainwashed.
He also hits on other women regularly, myself included. When I tried to tell my friend what he did, she refused to believe me because he already told her his version of the story and made it look like it was my fault.
Is there any way to help a woman who is being held mentally captive by her husband? — DISTRAUGHT FRIEND
DEAR DISTRAUGHT: One way to begin would be to approach her as a group and tell her you are all concerned and that you care about her. Tell her often that you are there for her and always will be, and that you know she’s a terrific person and a wonder-ful, caring parent. Point out that only two people in the world think otherwise, and that’s her husband and her. And repeat that you’re afraid she’s being verbally and emotionally abused until she finally hears you.
DEAR ABBY: I’m a
43-year-old woman who has never been married. My boy-friend, “Phil”— with whom I share a wonderful relation-ship — has been divorced three times and has made it clear he does not want to marry again.
We’re in the process of buying a home together, and I cannot let go of the hope that one day we’ll live in it as husband and wife. It has al-ways been my dream to find that one “right” person and
settle down. In my eyes, Phil is that special person. I feel cheated that because of his failed marriages my hopes and dreams don’t matter.
Phil loves me and is good to me, but I have mixed emotions. I feel that having shared an exclusive relation-ship for two years and the fact that we are now buying a house together means we should be married. Must I accept the relationship we have? — DREAM LOVER IN MINNESOTA
DEAR DREAM LOVER: No. What you must accept is that your dream and Phil’s are not the same. You yearn for commitment, which from his track record it appears Phil has trouble with.
If marriage is what you really want, you’re betting on the wrong horse, and before investing in something as expensive as a home, I urge you to discuss this signifi-cant financial commitment with an attorney to ensure that your interests are fully protected.
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Our granddaughter is now 5 and we pick her up, take her places and do things with her. We also buy her the usual gifts for her birthday and holidays. We travel frequently and bring her souvenirs from our travels.
Now that she has a baby sister, are we obligated to do the same for her? Or should we continue doing for our granddaughter only? What is the proper thing here? — HELP NEEDED IN ALABAMA
DEAR HELP NEEDED: Put yourself in the position of the younger sister and imagine how she will feel when she’s older and she’s left behind or forgotten. If you exclude her completely, I guarantee it will cause resentment and division between the girls, so open your heart. Be inclusive and generous — not only for her sake, but also for your grand-daughter’s.
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By The AssociATed Press
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2009. There are 23 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight:On Dec. 8, 1941, the
United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
On this date:In 1854, Pope Pius IX pro-
claimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Concep-tion, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the mo-ment of her own conception.
In 1863, President Abra-ham Lincoln announced his plan for the reconstruction of the South.
In 1949, the Chinese Na-tionalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa as the Commu-nists pressed their attacks.
In 1978, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir died in Jerusalem at age 80.
In 1980, rock star John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by Mark David Chapman, an appar-ently deranged fan.
In 1982, a man demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monu-ment hostage, threatening to blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. (After a 10-hour standoff, Norman D. Mayer was shot dead by police; it turned out there were no explosives.)
Ten years ago: A Memphis, Tenn., jury
hearing a lawsuit filed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s family found that the civil rights leader had been the victim of a vast murder
conspiracy, not a lone assas-sin.
Five years ago: The Senate completed
congressional approval of the biggest overhaul of U.S. intelligence in a half-century, voting 89-2 to send the measure to President George W. Bush, who signed it nine days later.
One year ago: In a startling about-face,
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal he would confess to masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks; four other men also abandoned their de-fenses. (The Obama admin-istration has since decided to try the defendants in federal civilian court.)
Today’s Birthdays: Actor-director Maxi-
milian Schell is 79. Actor James MacArthur is 72. Flutist James Galway is 70. Singer Jerry Butler is 70. Pop musician Bobby Elliott (The Hollies) is 68. Actress Mary Woronov is 66. Actor John Rubinstein is 63. Rock singer-musician Gregg Allman is 62. Reggae singer Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals) is 61. Actress Kim Basinger is 56. Rock musician Warren Cuc-curullo is 53. Rock musician Phil Collen (Def Leppard) is 52. Country singer Marty Raybon is 50. Rock musi-cian Marty Friedman is 47. Actor Wendell Pierce is 46. Actress Teri Hatcher is 45. Rapper Bushwick Bill (The Geto Boys) is 43. Singer Sinead O’Connor is 43. Actor Matthew Laborteaux is 43. Rock musician Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) is 37. Actor Dominic Monaghan is 33. Actor Ian Somerhalder is 31. Rock singer Ingrid Michael-son is 30.
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preservation commission-ers, City Planning Direc-tor Cheryl Hart told the newspaper in an e-mail.
Currin’s home has at times been a subject of talk by local officials.
Mayor Al Woodlief in late 2006 told this reporter that one of his priorities for 2007 was to select a beau-tification panel to come up with ways to clamp down on irresponsible property owners.
And Woodlief added, “You’re going to have some people to holler.”
Woodlief was refer-ring to Currin being one of them. Currin declined comment when offered the opportunity at the time by this reporter, except to say, “Let him (Woodlief) have his fun.”
Woodlief had even been describing the Currin residence as resembling the “Munster House,” a derogatory reference to the 1960s television sit-com that starred Fred Gwynne and humorously depicted the life of a family of horror movie monsters who be-
lieved they were normal.The City Commission in
September did pass a demo-lition by neglect ordinance, which gives the city the power to act against delin-quent property owners in the College Street and Main Street historic districts.
Currin’s residence is at the edge of a vibrant central business district and a cluster of stately mansions and additionally is across from a Richard H. Thornton Library undergoing renova-tion.
The history of the resi-dence dates back to 1889, when Thomas White Jr. paid $3,819 to Durham builder W.C. Bain to do the construction, according to “Heritage and Home-steads,” which is the official architectural book about Granville County.
White died before the close of the 19th Century and the house was pur-chased by Dr. and Mrs. Edmund White and Ida White, none of whom were related to Thomas White Jr., the book said. The home remained in the family of
Edmund White and Ida White until 1977, the book said. And the book said the home has since been Cur-rin’s residence.
Regarding Oxford Bap-tist Church’s request of the Historic Preservation Com-mission for a columbarium, the plan is for a pre-cast concrete structure covered in brick, to be in keeping with the existing church property.
The columbarium will be between the huge sanctu-ary, which dates back to 1928, and the church’s education wing. The educa-tion wing, built in 1913, originally was the Post Of-fice and remained in that lo-cation until the present one was opened across Main in the latter years of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. The church dedicated the educa-tion wing in 1970.
The Historic Preserva-tion Commission meets in the first floor training room of City Hall, 300 Williams-boro St.
Contact the writer at [email protected].
Daily DispaTch/WILLIAM F. WEST
Manie Currin in documents is saying she plans to restore her residence at 203 Main St. in Oxford, but must receive approval from the Historic Preservation Commission. Mayor Al Woodlief has called the residence the “Munster House.”
HISTORIC, from page one
Wright said: “I’ll give it my best shot coming down the stretch. I don’t have any agenda.”
Last Friday, Wright had confirmed the rumor that he wouldn’t run again.
The 65-year-old public accountant said he plans to spend more time with his grandchildren.
Afterwards on Monday night, the board members unanimously re-elected Ed-
die Wright vice-chairman.His nomination had
been made by Brummitt and seconded by Hughes.
Contact the writer at [email protected].
WRIGHT, from page one
By AL WHELESSDaily DispaTch WriTer
A proposed area farm-ers’ market became more of a possibility Monday night during open and closed sessions by Vance Commissioners.
During their regular meeting, they approved a $750,000 grant applica-tion for funds to create the market.
Later, after emerging from a closed session, the board members recon-vened in public, and voted to obtain a six-month option to buy a prospective site for the project.
“This could be a great boon for this community,” said Commissioner Danny Wright.
As spelled out by Com-missioner Dan Brummitt, three of four acres on
Norlina Road — near its intersection with Bickett Road — could be bought from Red Bird, a lim-ited liability company, for $350,000.
Under an agreement, the company would donate the fourth acre to the County for the market site.
Brummitt explained that the purchase wouldn’t go through if the grant effort failed.
Present during the closed session were Chair-man Sam Watkins of the Henderson-Vance Econom-ic Development Commis-sion, and James “Jim” R. Hinkle, the County’s new interim economic develop-ment director.
The document needed to apply for the $750,00 grant had already been submitted to the North
Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund by last Friday’s deadline.
There was an under-standing that an accom-panying resolution would be presented for adoption by the Commissioners on Monday night and would be forwarded today.
On Oct. 5, the Board of Commissioners OK’d a task force to proceed with project planning, identify-ing potential sites and seeking grants.
During a meeting of the board’s Planning & Environmental Committee on Sept. 24, Pete Burgess of the Vance County Farm Bureau estimated that a suitable building for a lo-cal farmers’ market would cost $400,000.
Contact the writer at [email protected].
Vance options site, appliesfor grant for farmers’ market
By AL WHELESSDaily DispaTch WriTer
Vance Fire Chief Harold Henrich got the go-ahead from County Commis-sioners Monday night to relocate one Emergency Medical Service unit to the Bearpond Volunteer Fire Department.
The action is based on a six-months trial period.
According to Henrich, it will be the beginning of redistributing EMS units throughout the County.
His proposal was given a tentative nod Thurs-day by the board’s Public Safety Committee.
It is designed to
decrease response times in delivering Advanced Life Support intervention to Bearpond, Watkins, Kittrell and Epsom.
The committee includes Chairman Dan Brummitt, Scott Hughes and Tim Pegram.
By July of 2010, Hen-rich hopes to relocate an EMS unit to somewhere in the northern part of the County.
He said it would be cen-trally located between the main station on Bickett Street and Townsville.
In other business Mon-day night, the full board went along with the Public Safety Committee’s recom-
mendation to spend about $43,000 for a new backup power system for the 911 Center.
Brian Short, director of Emergency Operations for the County, told the committee Thursday that the cost of replacing the 10-year-old battery system will be paid with 911 sur-charge money.
“Our power require-ments have probably doubled over the last 10 years,” Short said Thurs-day. “Now, the current sys-tem is being overloaded. It is used 24/7.”
Contact the writer at [email protected].
EMS unit at Bearpond VFD, new911 backup power system OK’d
By AL WHELESSDaily DispaTch WriTer
A Henderson-Vance Com-munity Watch Association was proposed Monday night in a resolution approved by the Board of Commissioners.
The document — which the board hoped would be matched by one from the City Council — urged the first meeting to be conducted in January.
The Commissioners encouraged “the leadership of existing and future Commu-
nity Watch programs in the City and County” to form the association.
The resolution passed Monday night stated that assistance would come from Henderson-Vance Crime Stoppers “with the purpose of sharing ideas and strategies, receiving training, promot-ing program expansion, and providing mutual support.”
The seven active Com-munity Watch programs in Vance are Ruin Creek Road, Spring Valley, West Hills/West Creek/158 Bypass,
Kittrell, Watkins, Hunt Stone and Cobble Stone.
Through the resolution, the commissioners designated 2010 as the Year of Commu-nity Watch in Vance.
They also agreed to provide reasonable financial resources for necessary and appropriate materials and strongly en-couraged citizens, businesses, churches, schools and others to become actively involved in CommunityWatch
Contact the writer at [email protected].
Community Watch Associationproposed by Vance commissioners
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Back-to-BackRated five-staR foR hip Replacement in 2009-2010
H H H H HGranville health system is honored to again receive a five-star rating of excellence for quality outcomes in total hip replacement for 2010. HealthGrades®, the nation’s leading independent health care ratings organization, issued this rating based on the outstanding past and present performance of Granville Health System’s hip replacement procedures.
Granville Health System was again the only health care facility to receive this honor in our surrounding area, including Oxford, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary and Smithfield.
“As a physician, I understand the importance for my patients to have a pain-free lifestyle. When we replace a patient’s hip, we think of that person’s life being improved...with a new freedom, free of the pain they’ve lived with,” said Dr. Steven Winters, Orthopaedic Surgeon.
Granville Health System is committed to delivering quality health care to the community it serves. “I’m honored that GHS is rated among the best in the Nation for total hip replacement outcomes. It is truly gratifying to know GHS is recognized for quality Orthopaedic services, but seeing our patient’s quality-of-life improve means the most to me,” said Dr. Ralph Liebelt, Orthopaedic Surgeon.
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Wondering just how much North Carolina’s loss to Kentucky this weekend, or Duke’s win over St. Johns, mean in the overall cosmos of college basket-ball?
Well, about the same as the Heels’ win over Michi-gan State and the Blue Devils’ loss to Wisconsin a few days earlier.
In other words, not very much.
While it’s tempting to make judgments about Carolina and Duke based on the early season results, the reality is this: wins and losses in December tell us very little about wins and losses in March.
You don’t need to look very far for a reminder about ex-pectations and these early season games. The Blue Devils of 2006-2007 started 13-1 before finish-ing 22-11, the school’s worst record in 11 years.
That’s not to say these games don’t impact upon a team’s performance down the stretch. These marquee matchups are great prepa-ration for the squads, as well as fun for the fans.
They’re just not as important as the ESPNs of the world would like us to believe for teams like Duke and Carolina, who don’t really have to worry about how strength of schedule will affect their placement on Selection Sunday.
One doesn’t need a degree in bracketology to know that Roy Williams’ young Tar Heels will be better in March than they are right now. While the game against the Spar-tans in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge was promoted as a replay of last year’s championship, Carolina hardly looked like the same team that took the floor in Detroit.
Deon Thompson is the only returning starter from that squad and Marcus Ginyard is the only other senior who will get signifi-cant minutes on this year’s team. But the success of North Carolina this season will depend more on sopho-mores Ed Davis and Larry Drew II than on Thompson and Ginyard.
Davis led the Heels with 22 points against the Spartans, while Drew added 18 and 6 assists. When these two don’t play well — see Saturday’s 68-
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Flexing their musclesLocal youth weightlifting team has powerful showing at Va. event
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The Project Lift Weightlifting Team poses with their awards at the 100 Percent Raw World Bench Press Championships, held in Norfolk, Va. The team took the overall team title and Youth Weightlifting title, as well as posting six Raw World Records.
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Henderson’s Project Lift Weightlifting Team — comprised of area youth from five years of age to 15 — had an impressive showing at the 2009 100 Percent Raw World Bench Press Cham-pionships in Norfolk, Va. on Saturday, Nov. 7.
Project Lift won the overall team title and the Youth Weight-lifting team title. The Project Lift team members posted a total of six 100 Percent Raw world records.
Several states and foreign countries were represented at the meet, which featured adult, teen and youth lifters — over 150 in all. The event was held at the Norfolk Plaza Hotel.
“I don’t know what it was, but
we hit it right or something,” said Project Lift coach William Hawkins.
Project Lift is in its 12th year of existence. Hawkins said he expected his young, new team to take second or third in the event.
“I didn’t really expect them to do as well as they did,” said Hawkins. “The kids really performed above what they had performed in the gym.”
Hawkins said Project Lift has been to several 100 Percent Raw events. They have been to the Ju-nior Olympics, sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Union, three times.
Hawkins said that the team’s performance in Virginia earned them an invitation to the 2010 AAU National Bench Press Championships, to be held in
February in Richmond, Va.“They did an outstanding job
and were very well-coached and had great discipline and behavior while at this competition,” 100 Percent Raw President Paul Bossi said of Project Lift.
“I am very impressed with the talent level of this team, and how the coaches and lifters conducted themselves. They were a real class act and I tip my hat to all of them.”
Coaching the team, along with Hawkins, are Harold Davis, Dar-nell Lewis, Wanda Burwell, Lewis Brodie, Jeannette Bell, Bennie Pearson and Bobby Jones. Kayla Hawkins and Taliyah Jones are team trainers.
Hawkins said that training for
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New University of Virginia head football coach Mike London speaks during a news conference with Athletic Director Craig Littlepage, right, in Charlottesville, Va. Monday.
London named new UVA football coach
Flight of the IrishNotre Dame’s Clausen, Tate to enter draft
Tom CoYNEaP sPorts Writer
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Quarterback Jimmy Clausen and his favorite receiver, Golden Tate, will bypass their senior seasons at Notre Dame and enter the NFL draft.
The school announced the players' decisions Monday be-fore a new conference was held on campus. They made their decisions after talking to fired Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis on Friday.
"Growing up as a kid, one of my lifelong dreams has been to play in the NFL and with that being said, with the support of my family and coaches I will be forgoing my senior year and entering the 2010 NFL draft," Clausen said in a re-lease handed out by the school before his news conference.
Tate, of Hendersonville, Tenn., said the decision was hard for him, saying he had made a lot of great friends playing both football and base-ball at Notre Dame.
"But after talking with my
HANK KUrZ Jr.aP sPorts Writer
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Mike London said all the right things in accepting the job to rebuild Virginia's football program, talking of how high academic standards shouldn't rule out success on the field and the impor-tance of building deep and personal relationships.
The latter will be espe-
cially true as it relates to high schools and recruit-ing.
"I think we have to re-capture the state of Virgin-ia," the former Richmond coach said Monday. He succeeds his former boss, Al Groh, who was fired last Sunday after nine seasons and a 1-8 record against Virginia Tech, the dominant team in the At-lantic Coast Conference.
London agreed to a
five-year contract that will pay him $1.7 million per year to take over a team coming off a 3-9 record, its worst since 1982. It has had three losing seasons in the last four and fallen behind the rival Hokies in the minds of many in-state recruits.
London, widely respect-ed as a recruiter, said he intends to build a network that reaches not only into high schools, but into the
surrounding communities because, he said, "people don't care about how much you know until they know about how much you care."
He also had a message for high school coaches, particularly in the state:
"If Virginia hasn't been there, we'll be there," he said.
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Rodgers’ three TDs lead Pack past Ravens
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — The stand-ings say the Green Bay Packers are in good shape for the playoffs. But Monday night’s victory over the Baltimore Ravens showed they still have some work to do to be taken seriously once they get there.
Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes, including two to tight end Jermichael Finley, and the Packers beat the Ravens 27-14 in a penalty-filled game Monday night.
It was the fourth straight win for the Packers (8-4), solidifying their spot in the NFC wild-card race. But it certainly wasn’t pretty.
The teams committed 23 penal-ties for 310 yards, tying for the second-highest yardage total in an NFL game.
The Ravens (6-6) struggled in coverage without star safety Ed Reed, who sat out with hip and ankle injuries.
Baltimore was called for five pass interference penalties, the most by a team in a single game since the New York Giants in 2001. The Packers were flagged four times for pass interference.
Rodgers was 26 of 40 for 263 yards with two interceptions, only his sixth and seventh of the season.
While Reed’s replacement, Tom Zbikowski, came up with one of the interceptions, the Ravens struggled in coverage.
Baltimore’s Joe Flacco was 15 of 36 for 137 yards with a touchdown and three interceptions. The Pack-ers sacked him three times.
The win is a continuation of a significant momentum swing for the Packers, who were 4-4 after looking bad in back-to-back losses to Minnesota and Tampa Bay in early November but haven’t lost since.
They’ve worked out some of their pass protection problems — Rod-gers was sacked only once Monday night — and their defense appears to be getting more comfortable in
the 3-4 scheme installed by defen-sive coordinator Dom Capers in the offseason.
Leading 17-0 at halftime and seemingly cruising, the Packers suddenly found themselves scram-bling after a pair of turnovers, both involving Donald Driver, allowed Baltimore to get back in the game.
The Packers were driving on their first possession of the second half when Driver caught a pass in Ravens territory and fumbled as he turned to run upfield. Former Pack-ers defensive back Frank Walker recovered, giving the ball back to
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Duke freshman’s sister killed in car crashBy BRyAN STRICKLAND
The herald Sun
Lacey Dawkins, the older sister of Duke fresh-man basketball player Andre Dawkins, died in an automobile accident Satur-day in West Virginia on her way to see her brother play.
The siblings’ biological mother, Tamara Hill, was injured in the accident. Hill’s condition was not made available.
The two were on their way from Columbus, Ohio, where Lacey Dawkins lived, to see Dawkins and the Blue Devils play St. John’s on Saturday after-noon. Lacey Dawkins was 21 years old.
According to WVNS-TV in West Virginia, the accident occurred on Interstate 77 in the town of Pax, about 15 miles north of Beckley and about 250 miles northwest of Dur-ham.
The accident involved three other vehicles. The television station reported that rescue personnel had to use the Jaws of Life to get Dawkins and Hill out of the vehicle and that at least two passengers from the other vehicles were transported to area hospitals.
“We are deeply sad-dened by the loss of Andre’s sister, Lacey,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said in a
statement released by the school.
“Andre is a terrific young man, and his family is very important to him. Our thoughts and prayers go out the entire Dawkins family during this trying time.”
Dawkins has returned home to deal with the tragedy, according Duke associate sports informa-tion director Matt Plizga. Dawkins is from the Tide-water region of Virginia. He graduated a year ahead of schedule from Atlantic Shores Christian School in Chesapeake, Va., in order to enroll at Duke.
Dawkins was raised by his father, also named
Andre, and his stepmother Pamela Dawkins, whom Dawkins lists as his moth-er in Duke’s media guide.
In addition to Dawkins’ older sister, he has three younger siblings: brothers Caleb and Jalon and sister Naomi.
Dawkins came off the bench and played 21 minutes against St. John’s, scoring two points. Through Duke’s first eight games, Dawkins is averag-ing 9.9 points per game and has hit 51.3 percent of his 3-pointers.
Duke students currently are taking fall semester exams, and the Blue Devils’ next game is Dec. 15 against Gardner-Webb.
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McCoy, Tebow among five Heisman finalists
NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy are headed back to the Heisman Trophy presentation as finalists, along with running backs Mark Ingram and Toby Gerhart and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.
Tebow is trying to become the second two-time Heisman winner. The Florida quarterback won the award in 2007 and finished third last season.
McCoy was the runner-up last season to Okla-homa’s Sam Bradford and has led No. 2 Texas to the BCS national championship game this season.
Ingram has rushed for 1,542 yards and scored 15 touchdowns for No. 1 Alabama.
Stanford’s Gerhart, meanwhile, has run for more yards — 1,736 — than any player in the nation.
Nebraska’s Suh had 4 1/2 sacks in an attention-grabbing performance against Texas in the Big 12 title game.
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Gator Bowl, Bowden’s finale, sells out in two hours
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Bobby Bowden’s final game will take place in a packed house.
The Gator Bowl said Monday that it sold every ticket for the New Year’s Day game in record time, less than two hours. The bowl said all 77,474 tickets have been sold, with an allotment going to each school.
Gator Bowl chairman Dan Murphy says “the interest in this game has been overwhelming and has surpassed all expectations.”
Florida State (6-6) will play Bowden’s former team, No. 18 West Virginia (9-3), in hopes of avoiding the program’s first losing season since 1976.
Bowden announced last week that the bowl game would be his last. The Gator Bowl passed up Clem-son, Miami and Boston College to select the Semi-noles and give Bowden an alluring matchup in his finale.
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Dinner, jewelry bazaar to help NVHS softball
A Christmas dinner and jewelry bazaar will be held on Saturday, Dec. 12 at the Kerr Lake Coun-try Club. Proceeds will benefit the Northern Vance softball field.
Tickets for the dinner may be obtained by contact-ing the NVHS front office (492-6041), but entrance to the jewelry bazaar is free to the public.
Patrons can choose between a prime rib or half-chicken dinner with all the trimmings, including dessert and drink. Cost for the prime rib is $25 per person, and the chicken is $20.
Live entertainment will be provided with a holiday atmosphere.
Reservation times for dinner may be 5, 6 or 7 p.m. The bazaar will be open from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. Customers can purchase samples off the floor and gift wrapping will be available.
Tuesday, Dec. 8MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m.n ESPN — Butler vs. Georgetown, at New York 9 p.m.n ESPN — Indiana vs. Pittsburgh, at New York
NHL HOCKEY 7 p.m.n VERSUS — N.Y. Islanders at
Philadelphia
SOCCER 2:30 p.m.n FSN — UEFA Champions League, Olympique De Marseille vs. Real Madrid 8 p.m.n FSN — UEFA Champions League, Wolfburg vs. Manchester United (same-day tape)
Tuesday, Dec. 8 Basketball-Boysn Community Christian at Norlina Christian 7 p.m.n Kerr-Vance at Carolina Friends 7 p.m.n Warren County at Northern Vance 7:30 p.m.n Person County at J.F. Webb 7:30 p.m.n Wayne Christian at Cross-roads Christian 7:30 p.m.
Basketball-Girlsn Community Christian at Norlina Christian 5:30 p.m.n Kerr-Vance at Carolina Friends 5:30 p.m.n Warren County at Northern Vance 6 p.m.n Person County at J.F. Webb
6 p.m.n Wayne Christian at Cross-roads Christian 6:15 p.m.
Wrestlingn Kerr-Vance at Greensboro Day 5 p.m.n JV Basketball-BoysKerr-Vance at Carolina Friends 4 p.m.n Warren County at Northern Vance 4:30 p.m.n Person County at J.F. Webb 4:30 p.m.n Wayne Christian at Cross-roads Christian 5 p.m.
JV Basketball-Girlsn Wayne Christian at Cross-roads Christian 4 p.m.
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Buffalo allows Kansas to interview Gill
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The University at Buffalo has granted Kansas permission to interview Turner Gill for their vacant coaching position.
In confirming permission had been granted on Monday, Buffalo spokesman Paul Vecchio said the school did not know whether the two parties had spoken. Citing a source, The Buffalo News reported that Gill met with Kansas officials in New York City on Sunday.
Kansas is searching for a new coach after Mark Mangino resigned Thursday.
Gill is a former star quarterback at Nebraska and very familiar with the Big 12 Conference. As a first-time head coach, Gill has gone 20-30 in four seasons at Buffalo, and led the Bulls to their first Mid-Ameri-can Conference title in 2008.
bench meets usually requires regimented train-ing two days a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. The kids are divided into four groups by way of age and size.
“All of our coaches are certified trainers,” noted Hawkins.
Lifting in the 66 lbs. class at the Virginia event were five Project Lift competitors. William Hawkins IV (age 5-under) benched 25 lbs. to win first place and set a new world record. Jaylin Reed, in the age 5-6 group, recorded a world record bench press of 33 lbs.
Micah Wilson took first in the 8-9 age group with a world record lift of 66 lbs. Xavier Nichols, also in the 8-9 group, benched 66 lbs. for a second place finish.
First place was determined by body weight between Wilson and Nichols.
Placing third in the 8-9 division was Demontre Southerland with a 55 lbs. bench.
Desmond Mills, lifting in the 8-9 age group, benched 66 lbs. for first place and a world record. Zion Cope-land took the top spot in the 10-11 age group with his 66 lbs. bench press.
Brianna Bobbitt set a world record in the 8-9 youth girls division, bench pressing 55 lbs.
Niki Wilkerson’s bench press of 66 lbs. at the 12-13 age, 114 lbs. division was good enough for first. At the 12-13 age, 132 lbs. youth girls class, Tiarra Small set a world record with a 93 lbs. bench.
Trenell Williams was
first in the 105 lbs. class, benching 82 lbs. Mark-shawn Davis took first at the 114 level with a bench of 93 pounds. Ty-travon Roberts won his 123 lbs. class, pressing 82 pounds. William Douglas topped the 165 lbs. class with a bench press of 100 lbs. despite having a broken
hand in a cast.Donte Richards’ won the
220 lbs., 12-13 age group with a 110 lbs. mark. Sherri Jones took second in the 14-15, 198 lbs.-plus youth girls division with a 93 lbs. bench. Taking first in that division was Aleshia Jones with a 132 lbs. bench press.
Winning Tickets
RALEIGH — These numbers were drawn Monday by the North Carolina Lottery:Early Pick 3: 6-0-0Late Pick 3: 1-4-8Pick 4: 7-1-7-7Cash 5: 33-32-13-7-3
RICHMOND, Va. — These numbers were drawn Monday afternoon by the Virginia Lottery:
Pick 3: 1-6-9
Pick 4: 4-4-3-4
Cash 5: 6-8-20-24-26
These numbers were drawn Monday night:
Pick 3: 1-1-0
Pick 4: 2-8-1-3
Cash 5: 2-15-17-21-29
PROJECT LIFT, from page 1B
By BEN WALKERap baSeball WriTer
INDIANAPOLIS — Manager Whitey Herzog and umpire Doug Harvey are the newest members of baseball’s Hall of Fame.
The Veterans Commit-tee announced the voting results Monday. They will be
enshrined in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 25.
Herzog managed in the majors from 1973-90, and won the 1982 World Series and three NL pennants with the St. Louis Cardinals. He became the 19th manager to make the hall.
“I think he was one of the guys who started manag-
ers looking at doing more creative things,” said Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith, one of Herzog’s star players.
Smith was on the 16-member panel that elected Herzog. Candidates needed 12 votes to make it, and Herzog got 14. The 78-year-old Herzog missed
by one vote in the 2007Harvey umpired in the
National League for 31 sea-sons before retiring in 1992. He worked five World Series.
The 79-year-old Harvey also missed by one vote two years ago. He was picked on 15 of 16 ballots this time, and became the ninth um-pire in the Hall.
Herzog, Harvey elected to baseball Hall of Fame
By ALAN ROBINSONap SporTS WriTer
PITTSBURGH — Manny Legace stopped 30 shots, Ray Whitney had the decisive goal and an assist and the Carolina Hurricanes won on the road for the first time this season by holding off the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Monday night.
Eric Staal and Joni Pit-kanen each had two assists and Andrew Alberts and Jussi Jokinen also scored as Carolina ended its 13-game road losing streak (0-10-3).
The Hurricanes fi-nally played the way they wanted to during the East-ern Conference finals last spring, when Pittsburgh won the first two at home and then finished off the sweep on the road before Carolina found its game or the speed to match Pitts-burgh’s star forwards.
Despite being without top goalie Cam Ward, the Hurricanes opened a 3-0 lead early in the second, held off Pittsburgh’s flurry later in that period and never let the Penguins take control in the third, when Pittsburgh hurt itself
by taking two penalties.Sidney Crosby and
Mike Rupp scored less than a minute apart in the second, but the Penguins couldn’t do any other dam-age against Legace, who turned aside Crosby and Jordan Staal during the fi-nal 10 seconds to preserve only the second victory in seven games for Carolina.
Legace is 4-0 in his
career against Pittsburgh, which lost its second in a row at home after winning five straight.
The Hurricanes, the NHL’s worst team by far with a 7-17-5 record and 19 points, came out with some early jump to seize the 3-0 lead against Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who made 18 saves.
Alberts skated in from
the right skate and, faking a pass, slid a shot along the goal line that Fleury couldn’t stop 4:45 into the game for his first of the season.
Jokinen, scoring his seventh, slipped between two defenders about seven minutes later to beat Fleury under the crossbar on a power play created by Evgeni Malkin’s holding penalty.
Whitney got what proved to be the game-winning goal 2:26 into the second, taking Pitkanen’s pass in the left circle and snapping a shot past Fl-eury for his eighth.
The Penguins, 10-5-1 at home, got back into the game by outshooting the Hurricanes 15-4 in the second.
Crosby, back in the lineup after missing a 2-1 overtime loss to Chicago on Saturday with a sore groin, scored his 20th and eighth in four games by racing to Bill Guerin’s chip pass into the left circle and putting a backhander past Legace six minutes into the pe-riod. Rupp made it 3-2 at 6:49 with a wrist shot from the left circle that went between Legace’s pads.
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Pittsburgh’s Evgeni Malkin battles with Carolina’s Tom Kostopoulos and Chad LaRose during the second period of Monday’s game in Pittsburgh.
Hurricanes finally win on road, beat Penguins 3-2
the Ravens at their own 29.
Flacco drove the Ra-vens to the Green Bay 12, where he faced third-and-7. Given a free play after defensive lineman Johnny Jolly jumped off-side, Flacco found Kelley Washington in the corner of the end zone for a touchdown. Washington tried to do a “Lambeau
leap,” but fans pushed him out of the stands.
The play was upheld on a replay review, cut-ting the Packers’ lead to 17-7.
After the Packers nearly fumbled the ensuing kickoff, Rodgers watched as his first pass of the next possession bounced off Driver’s leg and into the arms of line-
backer Jarret Johnson, giving the ball back to Baltimore at the Green Bay 42.
Flacco went deep, drawing pass interfer-ence on Packers corner-back Tramon Williams. Willis McGahee scored on a 1-yard touchdown run two plays later, cut-ting the lead to 17-14 in the third quarter.
The Packers drove to the Baltimore 17 thanks in large part to a 15-yard face mask penalty by Ray Lewis on Greg Jen-nings, but the Packers were pushed back by a holding penalty on right tackle Mark Tauscher and the Packers had to settle for a field goal — but Mason Crosby missed from 38 yards.
PACKERS, from page 1B
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rooms and coaches offices, said Fork Union Military Academy postgraduate coach John Shuman, who attended the hourlong news conference.
“The fans are going to come back and you’re going to see a boatload of high school coaches come out and say we agree with this commitment to Mike London,” he said. “He’s going to put a guy in every school and he’s going to keep cultivating until he gets it done.”
London’s arrival was also warmly greeted by many of his new play-ers, who met with him after the news conference. London also spent time with former players in at-tendance.
“You can just tell that he loves what he’s doing, he’s very passionate about what he’s doing, and you can’t help but give 100 percent for him,” defensive lineman Nick Jenkins said.
Jenkins, like many oth-er Cavaliers, was recruited by London.
London left a team that won the Football Champi-onship Subdivision nation-al championship in 2008 and reached the quarter-finals of the playoffs this year to return to a place he knows well, having spent
six years as an assistant under Groh in two stints between 2001-07.
The courtship was “a whirlwind,” according to London, who said the downer of his Spiders los-ing to Appalachian State in the last 10 seconds on Saturday night was replaced early the next morning by “euphoria” once Virginia asked for permission to speak with him.
Athletic director Craig Littlepage said once he knew he was in the market for a head coach, “one coach, just one, stood out,” and he was delighted that London was available.
“There have been a lot of athletic directors who have asked me about him. I was hoping they wouldn’t hire him for that maybe one day we’d have this sort of predicament,” he said.
London’s background as a college coach also in-cludes stops at Boston Col-lege and William & Mary, similarly strict academic schools, and he said his recruiting approach will be to seek players who view playing football at Virginia as a best of both worlds opportunity.
“It’s a fit, a perfect fit for me,” he said.
London’s history at Vir-
ginia includes four years as defensive line coach and three as recruiting coordi-nator from 2001-04, and two as defensive coordina-tor in 2006 and 2007.
In between, he was the defensive line coach for the NFL’s Houston Texans in 2005.
London will be just the second current black head coach in the six conferenc-es with automatic bids to the BCS, joining Miami’s Randy Shannon, but said he wanted to be hired on his merits, not his skin color.
“I guess you guys can talk about the historical significance of it,” he said.
His hiring, though, was celebrated elsewhere.
Former NFL head coach Tony Dungy, who on Sunday night called the low number of black head coaches in the college game “disgraceful,” said in an e-mail that he applauds Virginia “on doing an in-clusive search. I hope this will be an encouragement to other Universities to do the same — to look at a broad picture of candidates and hire the best person for their job.”
London is just the 10th black coach at the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools.
LONDON, from page 1B
66 loss in Lexington — Carolina will struggle.
That’s why the games of December are important — to build teamwork and the consistency of performance that will be necessary to challenge for the confer-ence title and to make a good run in the Big Dance. A win is just an added bargain on the side.
“It’s still early, early in the season,” Williams said last Tuesday night. “We’re not going to make too much of this game.”
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski also sees these pre-conference games as important for the develop-ment of his team, par-ticularly in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the squad.
The Blue Devils don’t
necessarily come to mind as a “developing” team, with a veteran nucleus of Kyle Singler, Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith. But I’m not going to argue with Coach K when he says his squad has great room for improvement.
Thus the 80-71 victory over a previously unde-feated St. Johns’ unit, just as the loss to the Badgers, was more important in terms of growth and im-provement than in the end result.
“We have a lot of devel-oping to do as a basketball team,” Krzyzewski said Saturday afternoon.
The Blue Devils will have a different look this season: less athletic — the loss of Gerald Henderson and Elliott Williams will do
that — and bigger under the basket. Because its big men will not pressure the ball defensively, Duke will be more of a half-court defensive team than in years past.
So far, the shooters are not scoring with the consis-tency Coach K would like. Saturday, Singler, Scheyer and Smith were 15 of 43 (35 percent) from the floor.
“Our perimeter hasn’t hit its groove yet offen-sively as far as shooting,” Krzyzewski said.
Against the Johnnies, the young inside players, brothers Mason and Miles Plumlee, did not play well enough to earn double-fig-ure minutes, and freshman Andre Dawkins — who made three consecutive treys against Wisconsin
— was 0 for three from 3-point land.
Obviously, Duke will need better play and more consistency to challenge in March.
But then, that’s what these games of December are all about.
ACC, from page 1B
family and coach Weis, I am going to pursue my dream and enter next year’s NFL draft,” he said.
Clausen, who is from Westlake Village, Calif., arrived at Notre Dame in 2007 as the most-hyped Notre Dame quarterback since Ron Powlus arrived in 1993. Clausen announced his decision at an event at the College Football Hall of Fame, arriving in a Hum-mer limo, flashing three rings he won playing high school football and said he was coming to Notre Dame “to try to get four national championship rings.”
He leaves without bring-ing the Irish to a single Bowl Championship Series game. The only bowl game the Irish went to in his three years as a starter was the Hawaii Bowl last season, a 49-21 victory over Hawaii that ended Notre Dame’s NCAA-record bowl losing steak at nine.
He started 34 games for the Irish, posting a 16-18 record. He finished this season ranked second in the country in pass efficiency behind Boise State’s Kellen Moore. Clausen was 289-of-425 passing for 3,722 yards and 28 touchdowns
this year with four inter-ceptions. He averaged 310 yards a game passing.
No one would have expected Tate to even con-sider leaving early during his freshman season. He could hardly get on the field because he was a tailback in high school and needed to learn how to run pass routes. He only had six catches for 131 yards that season.
He began showing prog-ress last season, leading the Irish in all-purpose yards with 1,754. He caught 58 passes for 1,080 yards, an average of 18.9 yards a
catch. But he flourished this past season, becoming a more well-rounded receiver and repeatedly making highlight-reel catches.
Tate was even talked about as a possible Heis-man Trophy contender until the Irish lost their last four games.
The 5-11, 195-pound junior had 93 catches for 1,496 yards with 15 receiv-ing TDs and two rushing TDs and a punt return for a touchdown. He finished third in the nation in receiv-ing yards per game (124.67) and seventh catches per game (7.75).
DRAFT, from page 1B
By STEPHEN HAWKINSap sporTs WriTer
IRVING, Texas — The NFL is reviewing a play on which Cowboys tackle Flozell Adams shoved New York Giants defensive end Justin Tuck in the back. It could result in another fine for Adams or even a suspension.
“Any altercation of that nature is reviewed for discipline,” NFL spokes-man Randall Liu confirmed Monday.
While such reviews may be routine, Adams has a history of run-ins with New York, including Week 2 this season when Tuck injured his shoulder after being tripped by Adams. The NFL fined Adams $12,500 for two plays in that game, and he was also fined for incidents in the games im-mediately before and after
that.Video clearly shows
Adams shoving Tuck in the back at the end of the first half in New York’s 31-24 victory Sunday.
There was then a small melee between players from both teams on the New York sideline, and Adams was given a personal foul penalty though no yardage was marked off against Dal-las at the start of the second half.
Giants coach Tom Coughlin said he had spoken with NFL director of officiating Mike Pereira about the play.
“He’s already reviewed it with his staff, and they are in the process of discussing it. There was no option giv-en to us (to accept a penal-ty). To say the penalty was declined gives the wrong impression,” Coughlin said. “‘That specific aspect of the
rule has to be addressed. ... There was no eviction, no penalty, nothing.”
Coughlin said he was told there wasn’t any op-tion because the penalty happened after the whistle had been blown, after a Gi-ants player in the end zone fielded a missed field goal attempt and stepped out of bounds to end the half.
Adams, the Pro Bowl tackle who is also part of the kicking unit, pushed Tuck near the sideline at the end of that play.
Cowboys coach Wade Phillips said Monday he didn’t know all of the circumstances of what hap-pened.
“I’m sure the league will take care of whatever they need to take care of, as we do ourselves,” Phillips said, without elaborat-ing. “I talked to Flozell (at halftime) and I asked him
what happened. He told me what happened. We went from there.”
Phillips refused to say what Adams told him. Ad-ams was not in the locker room Monday when it was open to reporters.
Adams was fined $7,500 by the NFL after kicking at Carolina defensive end Julius Peppers in Week 3. He was docked $5,000 for an unnecessary roughness penalty in the opener at Tampa Bay before the first incidents with the Giants.
When asked if Adams should be suspended considering his history, Coughlin said that wasn’t for him to decide.
“I think there is no place in our game for the act he took,” Coughlin said. “To not have some kind of im-mediate officiating response — that’s just the way the rule is — is not right.”
NFL reviewing foul by Cowboys’ Flozell Adams
By JOHN ZENORap sporTs WriTer
AUBURN, Ala. — Bren-dan Knox’s tip-in with 1.4 seconds left lifted Auburn to a 68-67 victory over Vir-ginia on Monday night.
Sammy Zeglinski hit three free throws to give the Cavaliers the lead with 7.7 seconds left. Then DeWayne Reed drove the length of the court and missed a layup, but Knox was there to give the Tigers (5-4) the win.
Virginia (4-4) didn’t get a shot off before the buzzer.
Knox finished with 11 points and six rebounds, nearly doubling his season averages, and made all five field goal attempts.
Reed led Auburn with 18 points. Lucas Hargrove had 13 points and nine rebounds, while Frankie Sullivan added 12 points and Tay Waller 10 for the Tigers.
Sylven Landesberg had 17 of his 20 points in the first half for Virginia, miss-ing all seven attempts after the half. Zeglinski made five 3-pointers and scored 18 points.
Jeff Jones made all four
of his 3-point attempts and scored 16 points for the Cavaliers, who sustained a second straight tough loss after losing by three to Penn State in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Virginia’s leading rebounder and No. 2 scorer Mike Scott missed the game with a right ankle injury, and the Cava-liers were outrebounded 35-31.
At the end, Knox got redemption after miss-ing a free throw with 32 seconds left to give Virginia a chance to grab the lead. The Cavaliers had scored the previous nine points to erase a 66-58 deficit over the final 4:23.
The Tigers had built their biggest lead of the game with eight consecu-tive points, sandwiching 3-pointers by Reed and Waller around Knox’s putback dunk.
Virginia answered with back-to-back baskets fol-lowed by two free throws by Landesburg to cut it to 66-64 with 2:25 left.
After Knox’s missed free throw, Zeglinski came through at the line, where he was just 6 of 10 coming into the game.
Knox tip-in helps Auburn beat Virginia, 68-67
Virginia’s Sylven Landesberg drives the lane and the defense of Auburn’s Ernest Ross during the first half of their Mon-day game in Auburn, Ala.
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By MIKE CRANSTONAP SPortS Writer
CHARLOTTE — They played it safe, leaned on their running game and took advantage of an improbable number of mis-takes by one of the NFL’s worst teams.
Still, Matt Moore was a winner in his first start in nearly two years and will likely remain Carolina’s quarterback for another week — when the competi-tion gets much tougher.
A day after the Panthers beat woeful Tampa Bay 16-6, coach John Fox was typically evasive on Mon-day. He wouldn’t declare Moore the starter next week at New England, said he didn’t know when Jake Delhomme would be able to practice again, and replied “I can’t answer ifs” when asked if Delhomme starts again when his bro-ken finger is healed.
“He obviously did some good things, and some things we’ve got to continue to work on,” Fox said of Moore. “I thought he played well enough for us to win.”
The Panthers (5-7)
clearly had a restrained passing game. Led by Jon-athan Stewart’s 120 yards rushing and a touchdown, they ran the ball 33 times to just 20 passes. Carolina
twice ran draw plays on third-and-10 and again on third-and-8.
“We were running the ball well, a lot of quick game stuff, getting the
ball out fast,” Moore said. “That makes it easy on any quarterback.”
The 25-year-old Moore also showed a strong arm when he had a chance, completing 14 of 20 passes for 161 yards. It included a 66-yard completion to Steve Smith in the fourth quarter — Carolina’s longest pass of the season — that set up the clinching field goal.
“Shoot, it was a great throw,” tight end Jeff King said. “That’s kind of what we’ve been missing the last couple weeks with our passing game.”
Indeed, Carolina has been bogged down with Delhomme having the worst season of his career. While Moore overthrew Smith for what would’ve been a touchdown and threw an interception on a poor pass intended for Dante Rosario, he showed more precision than Delhomme, who has 18 interceptions in 11 games.
Moore had a mediocre 73.1 passer rating Sunday, but that dwarfs Del-homme’s 59.4 mark for the season. Moore, much more laid back than Delhomme,
provided a different atmo-sphere in the huddle, too.
“He was great. He was Matt,” King said. “He’s a confident kid. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. He’s young, he wants to sling it around. That’s him, he has a quiet confidence about him.”
Stewart’s play helped, too. Filling as the No. 1 back for the injured DeAn-gelo Williams, Stewart averaged 4.6 yards on a career-high 26 carries, including a 3-yard run on the opening drive for the game’s only touchdown.
“I thought Jonathan Stewart showed up big,” Fox said. “He hadn’t been called upon with that big a load as being a No. 1 guy. I was really impressed with the way he ran and how he rose to the occasion.”
So did the defense. While outgained 469-309, the Panthers intercepted Josh Freeman five times. Safety Chris Harris, who had one of the picks, said Freeman was locking into his receivers inside the 20. Carolina had three inter-ceptions in or near the end zone.
“Most rookie quarter-
backs, they kind of look at their intended receivers,” Harris said. “That gets bet-ter over time. But, yeah, you were able to see where he was throwing the ball because he would stare down his intended receiv-ers.”
Moore, in his third season but with only four career starts, didn’t make those mistakes. While Fox wouldn’t make it certain, he’ll likely be starting Sunday at the Patriots (7-5), who will be desperate to end a surprising two-game losing streak
It’s the start of the big-boy portion of the schedule for Moore, now 3-1 as an NFL starter. After New England, the Panthers face Minnesota (10-2), the New York Giants (7-5) and New Orleans (12-0) to close the season.
“He needed to build some confidence in him-self,” King said of Moore. “For him, he hasn’t played in a couple of years, or at least started in a game. It was good for him to get some plays under his belt, some success, and hope-fully he can build on that for this week.”
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Carolina’s Matt Moore prepares to throw a pass against tampa Bay during Sunday’s game in Charlotte. Moore was a winner in his first start of the season for the Panthers, and likely will remain Carolina’s quarterback for another week.
Panthers’ Moore impresses in debut, road gets tougher
COLLEGE FOOTBALLBowl Schedule
Saturday, Dec. 19new Mexico Bowl
At AlbuquerqueWyoming (6-6) vs. Fresno State (8-4), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)
St. Petersburg (Fla.) BowlRutgers (8-4) vs. UCF (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Sunday, Dec. 20new orleans Bowl
Southern Miss. (7-5) vs. Middle Tennessee (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Tuesday, Dec. 22Las Vegas Bowl
BYU (10-2) vs. Oregon State (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Wednesday, Dec. 23Poinsettia Bowl
At San DiegoUtah (9-3) vs. California (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Dec. 24hawaii Bowl
At HonoluluSMU (7-5) vs. Nevada (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Saturday, Dec. 26Little Caesars Pizza Bowl
At DetroitOhio (9-4) vs. Marshall (6-6), 1 p.m. (ESPN)
Meineke BowlAt CharlotteNorth Carolina (8-4) vs. Pittsburgh (9-3), 4 p.m. (ESPN)
Emerald BowlAt San FranciscoSouthern Cal (8-4) vs. Boston College (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Sunday, Dec. 27Music City Bowl
At Nashville, Tenn.Clemson (8-5) vs. Kentucky (7-5), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Monday, Dec. 28Independence Bowl
At Shreveport, La.Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Georgia (7-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN)
Tuesday, Dec. 29EagleBank Bowl
At WashingtonTemple (9-3) vs. UCLA (6-6), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Champs Sports BowlAt Orlando, Fla.Miami (9-3) vs. Wisconsin (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Wednesday, Dec. 30humanitarian Bowl
At Boise, IdahoBowling Green (7-5) vs. Idaho (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)
holiday BowlAt San DiegoNebraska (9-4) vs. Arizona (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Dec. 31Sun Bowl
At El Paso, TexasStanford (8-4) vs. Oklahoma (7-5), Noon (CBS)
Armed Forces BowlAt Fort Worth, TexasAir Force (7-5) vs. Houston (10-3), Noon (ESPN)
texas BowlAt HoustonMissouri (8-4) vs. Navy (8-4), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Insight BowlAt Tempe, Ariz.Minnesota (6-6) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 5 p.m. (NFL)
Chick-fil-A BowlAt AtlantaVirginia Tech (9-3) vs. Tennessee (7-5), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Friday, Jan. 1outback Bowl
At Tampa, Fla.Northwestern (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN)
Capital one BowlAt Orlando, Fla.Penn State (10-2) vs. LSU (9-3), 1 p.m. (ABC)
Gator BowlAt Jacksonville, Fla.Florida State (6-6) vs. West Virginia (9-3), 1 p.m. (CBS)
rose BowlAt Pasadena, Calif.Ohio State (10-2) vs. Oregon (10-2), 5 p.m. (ABC)
Sugar BowlAt New OrleansFlorida (12-1) vs. Cincinnati (12-0), 8:30 p.m. (FOX)
Saturday, Jan. 2International Bowl
At TorontoSouth Florida (7-5) vs. Northern Illinois (7-5), Noon (ESPN2)
Cotton BowlAt Dallas
Oklahoma State (9-3) vs. Mississippi (8-4), 2 p.m. (FOX)
PapaJohns.com BowlAt Birmingham, Ala.Connecticut (7-5) vs. South Carolina (7-5), 2 p.m. (ESPN)
Liberty BowlAt Memphis, Tenn.East Carolina (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Alamo BowlAt San AntonioMichigan State (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (8-4), 9 p.m. (ESPN)
Monday, Jan. 4Fiesta Bowl
At Glendale, Ariz.Boise State (13-0) vs. TCU (12-0), 8 p.m. (FOX)
Tuesday, Jan. 5orange Bowl
At MiamiIowa (10-2) vs. Georgia Tech (11-2), 8 p.m. (FOX)
Wednesday, Jan. 6GMAC Bowl
Mobile, Ala.Central Michigan (11-2) vs. Troy (9-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Thursday, Jan. 7BCS national Championship
At Pasadena, Calif.Alabama (13-0) vs. Texas (13-0), 8 p.m. (ABC)
Saturday, Jan. 23East-West Shrine Classic
At Orlando, Fla.East vs. West, 3 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 30Senior Bowl
At Mobile, Ala.North vs. South, 4 p.m. (NFL)
Saturday, Feb. 6texas vs. the nation All-Star Challenge
At El Paso, TexasTexas vs. Nation, 3 p.m. (CBSC)
Sunday RecapPanthers 16, Buccaneers 6Jonathan Stewart rushed for 120 yards and the
game’s only touchdown, and the Carolina Panthers intercepted rookie Josh Freeman five times — three times near the goal line.
With struggling QB Jake Delhomme (broke finger) sidelined, Matt Moore made his fourth professional start and his first since the end of the 2007 season for Carolina (5-7).
Moore threw for 161 yards, including a 66-yard pass to Steve Smith that set up John Kasay’s third field goal with 7:12 left that put it away.
But the defense won the game for the Panthers. Jon Beason had two interceptions near the end zone, and Tampa Bay (1-11) had a stretch of four trips inside the 20 with no points.
Saints 33, Redskins 30Drew Brees isn’t sure about voodoo.Destiny and karma? His long NFL career has made
him subscribe to both concepts, and the New Orleans Saints’ wild undefeated season has only made him more of a believer.
Especially after their improbable 33-30 overtime win Sunday over a Washington Redskins team as snakebit as the Saints are charmed.
New Orleans trailed by 10 in the fourth quarter and played more than four quarters without holding a lead — until Garrett Hartley kicked an 18-yard field goal 6:29 into the extra period for the victory.
Brees led a no-timeout, 80-yard drive in just 33 seconds to tie the game late in regulation. The Saints are now 12-0, with the NFC South title in hand.
How to explain a badly shanked punt that turns into a 29-yard gain? An interception by Brees that somehow becomes a touchdown for teammate Robert Meachem?
“Crazy plays,” linebacker Jonathan Vilma said. “When you’re hot, you’re hot. And sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.”
New Orleans also showed it can brave the cold, winning a sub-40 degree game for the first time since 1995. Well, maybe. The defense, led by former Redskins defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, offered minimal resistance, allowing Washington to pile up 455 yards and score 30 points for the first time in Jim Zorn’s 28 games as coach.
“I don’t know about the voodoo, but I definitely believe in destiny,” Brees said. “I believe in karma, and what goes around comes around. We’ve been on the other side of this deal probably too many times, and maybe it’s our time, that we start catching some of the breaks.”
Colts 27, Titans 17At Indianapolis, the Colts tied the NFL record for
longest winning streak, beating Tennessee for its 21st consecutive regular-season victory.
The only other team to win that many in a row: New England from 2006-08. The Colts (12-0) can break the record next week at home against Denver.
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ran for two scores and the Colts spent the second half protecting the lead against the Titans (5-7). It was the first time in six games Indy didn’t need a fourth-quarter comeback.
Tennessee’s Chris Johnson ran 27 times for 113 yards, his seventh straight 100-yard game.
Cardinals 30, Vikings 17At Glendale, Ariz., Kurt Warner, back after missing a
game with a concussion, threw for 285 yards and three touchdowns and the Arizona Cardinals’ defense stifled Brett Favre and Minnesota.
Favre set an NFL record for consecutive appearances, but game No. 283 in a row was no night to remember for him or the rest of the Vikings (10-2). The 40-year-old quarterback, with just three interceptions in the first the first 11 games, was picked off twice and sacked three times.
Even more startling, Arizona (8-4) held Adrian Peterson to a season-low 19 yards in 13 carries and outrushed Minnesota 113-62.
Raiders 27, Steelers 24At Pittsburgh, Louis Murphy caught an 11-yard
touchdown pass from Bruce Gradkowski with nine seconds remaining, his second score in the final 5 1/2 minutes, and Oakland scored three late touchdowns to deal Pittsburgh its fourth consecutive loss.
The Steelers (6-6), in danger of missing the playoffs after winning the Super Bowl for a second time in four seasons, went ahead 24-20 on Ben Roethlisberger’s 11-yard touchdown pass to Hines Ward with 1:56 remaining, only to have the Raiders (4-8) rally and win it.
Pittsburgh, seemingly in good position to secure a high seed in the AFC playoffs after starting 6-2, has lost to two of the NFL’s worst teams in the last three weeks, the Chiefs (3-9) and the Raiders.
Dolphins 22, Patriots 21At Miami, when Tom Brady missed repeated
chances to put the game away in the fourth quarter, Chad Henne and the Miami Dolphins took advantage.
Henne threw for a career-high 335 yards and directed a 51-yard drive for the winning field goal with 1:02 left, and Miami rallied past New England.
The Dolphins (6-6) overcame an early 14-point deficit to keep their slim playoff prospects alive, while AFC East leader New England (7-5) remained winless in five games in opponents’ stadiums this season.
For the third time on the road, the Patriots lost after leading in the fourth quarter. The defeat was sealed when Channing Crowder made his first career interception, picking off Brady at the Patriots 40 with 35 seconds left.
Eagles 34, Falcons 7Making quite a return to the Georgia Dome, Michael
Vick accounted for a pair of touchdowns — one running, the other passing — and basked in the cheers of his former home.
The Eagles (8-4) pulled two games ahead of the reeling Falcons (6-6) in the NFC wild-card standings, bringing a little more clarity to the playoff race. But most of the attention was on Vick’s first game in Atlanta since he went off to prison for dogfighting.
Giants 31, Cowboys 24At East Rutherford, N.J., Brandon Jacobs had
the Giants’ longest play of the season for just a few minutes, then Domenik Hixon topped it, lifting New York past Dallas.
The Giants (7-5) tightened the NFC East with their win, dropping Dallas (8-4) into a tie with Philadelphia for the lead. New York has swept Dallas this season and plays Philadelphia here next Sunday night.
Jacobs covered 74 yards after taking a short pass from Eli Manning, his touchdown putting the Giants ahead 21-17 in the third quarter. Not to be outdone, Hixon went 79 yards with a punt return for a 31-17 lead in the final period.
New York won despite career-best stats for Dallas tight end Jason Witten and quarterback Tony Romo, who is 5-9 in December.
Chargers 30, Browns 23At Cleveland, LaDainian Tomlinson scored his
150th career TD and passed Hall of Famer Jim Brown for eighth place on the career rushing list and San Diego won its seventh straight and 15th in a row in December.
Antonio Gates set a career high with 167 yards receiving for the Chargers (9-3), who dragged their cleats early and only led 13-7 at halftime. But Philip Rivers led San Diego on touchdown drives of 85 and 83 yards in just over nine minutes in the third quarter to open a 27-7 lead.
Tomlinson’s 4-yard TD run with 5:58 left in the third put the Chargers up by 20, and placed the running back in elite company among NFL greats.
Tomlinson reached 150 TDs in 137 games, fastest in league history.
The Browns (1-11) have lost seven straight.
Bengals 23, Lions 13At Cincinnati, running back Cedric Benson returned
from a two-game layoff because of an injured hip and tied the team record with his fifth 100-yard game of the season, setting up Cincinnati’s victory over Detroit that had even greater significance for the franchise.
The Bengals (9-3) assured themselves of a winning record for only the second time in 19 years. The other one came in 2005, when Cincinnati won the AFC North and lost its opening playoff game to Pittsburgh.
After a solid first quarter, the Lions (2-10) went nowhere and had the game end badly. Rookie quarterback Matthew Stafford aggravated his non-throwing shoulder with 3:37 to go and didn’t return, watching the final minutes from the bench.
Jaguars 23, Texans 18At Jacksonville, Fla., David Garrard threw two
touchdown passes, Josh Scobee kicked three field goals and Jacksonville stayed in the AFC wild-card hunt.
It was Jacksonville’s fifth straight victory at home and came in front of an announced crowd of 42,079 — the lowest in franchise history.
Garrard threw for 238 yards, completing passes to nine different receivers, and enjoyed his first turnover-free game in a month. He had four fumbles and an interception the past three weeks. Two of his four turnover-free games this season have come against the Texans (5-7), who have lost four in a row and appear out of the playoffs for the eighth time in as many years.
The Jaguars (7-5) rebounded from last week’s 20-3 loss at San Francisco and remained in position for a wild-card berth.
Bears 17, Rams 9At Chicago, Jay Cutler fizzled after a strong start,
throwing for 143 yards and a touchdown without an interception.
Cutler threw for 131 yards in the first quarter as the Bears built a 10-0 lead. After that? Chicago went to the run, St. Louis rallied and Bears receiver Devin Hester left the game with a calf injury.
The Bears (5-7) gave up 112 yards rushing to Steven Jackson but kept the Rams (1-11) out of the end zone for the fourth time this season.
Broncos 44, Chiefs 13At Kansas City, Mo., Kyle Orton threw two
touchdown passes and Denver used a punishing running game to manhandle Kansas City.
Denver had 245 yards rushing to turn the 99th meeting between AFL originals into a laugher. Correll Buckhalter ran for 113 yards and Knowshon Moreno had two touchdown runs to help the Broncos (8-4) stay within reach of San Diego in the AFC West.
The Chiefs (3-9) didn’t put up much of a fight on the day they retired Hall of Fame linebacker Derrick Thomas’ number.
Seahawks 20, 49ers 17At Seattle, Olindo Mare kicked a 30-yard field goal
as time expired to send Seattle over San Francisco, which wasted a career passing day from Alex Smith and many other opportunities.
After San Francisco called time out to try to ice the veteran on a cold day, Mare made his second field goal of the final quarter and extended his team record of 18 consecutive makes for the Seahawks (5-7).
The Seahawks also severely damaged the postseason hopes of the 49ers (5-7).
StandingsAMERICAN CONFERENCE
East W L T Pct PF PANew England 7 5 0 .583 328 224Miami 6 6 0 .500 278 296N.Y. Jets 6 6 0 .500 249 208Buffalo 4 8 0 .333 199 261
South W L T Pct PF PAx-Indianapolis 12 0 0 1.000 331 201Jacksonville 7 5 0 .583 225 273Tennessee 5 7 0 .417 246 316Houston 5 7 0 .417 277 266
north W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 9 3 0 .750 254 187Baltimore 6 6 0 .500 271 215Pittsburgh 6 6 0 .500 272 231Cleveland 1 11 0 .083 145 309
West W L T Pct PF PASan Diego 9 3 0 .750 342 242Denver 8 4 0 .667 240 202Oakland 4 8 0 .333 142 282Kansas City 3 9 0 .250 196 326
NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast
W L T Pct PF PADallas 8 4 0 .667 279 213Philadelphia 8 4 0 .667 327 235N.Y. Giants 7 5 0 .583 303 285Washington 3 9 0 .250 200 238
South W L T Pct PF PAx-New Orleans 12 0 0 1.000 440 251Atlanta 6 6 0 .500 279 279Carolina 5 7 0 .417 215 262Tampa Bay 1 11 0 .083 187 330
north W L T Pct PF PAMinnesota 10 2 0 .833 359 233Green Bay 8 4 0 .667 323 229Chicago 5 7 0 .417 233 270Detroit 2 10 0 .167 206 358
West W L T Pct PF PAArizona 8 4 0 .667 297 234San Francisco 5 7 0 .417 245 233Seattle 5 7 0 .417 243 267St. Louis 1 11 0 .083 139 314
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Monday’s Sports transactionsBy The Associated Press
BASEBALLn American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with RHP Scott Atchison on a one-year contract.DETROIT TIGERS—Agreed to terms with SS Adam Everett and LHP Brad Thomason on one-year contracts. Traded LHP Clay Rapada to Texas for a player to be named or cash considerations. Sent RHP Zach Simons outright to Toledo (IL).n national LeagueCHICAGO CUBS—Named Ryne Sandberg manager of Iowa (PCL).COLORADO ROCKIES—Sold the contract of OF Matt Murton to the Hanshin Tigers (Japanese Central League).MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Claimed INF Luis Cruz off waivers from Pittsburgh (NL).PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with RHP Vinnie Chulk on a minor league contract.SAN DIEGO PADRES—Named Chris Gwynn director, player personnel and Dave Roberts special assistant to baseball operations. Promoted Josh Stein to director, baseball operations.WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Acquired RHP Brian Bruney from the New York Yankees for a player to be named. Released RHP Saul Rivera.n northern LeagueWINNIPEG GOLDEYES—Agreed to terms with INF Vince Harrison.
BASkEtBALLn national Basketball AssociationNBA—Fined Chicago C Joakim Noah $15,000 for throwing the ball into the stands and striking a photographer during Saturday’s game against Toronto.PHOENIX SUNS—Sent F Taylor Griffin to Iowa (NBADL).
FOOTBALLn National Football LeagueBUFFALO BILLS—Re-signed TE Joe Klopfenstein. Released DT Corey Mace.CLEVELAND BROWNS—Placed DL C.J. Mosley on injured reserve. Signed DL Derreck Robinson.n Canadian Football LeagueWINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS—Acquired OL Derek Armstrong from Calgary Stampeders for a conditional draft pick.
hoCkEYn national hockey LeagueNHLPA—RW Darren McCarty announced his retirement.CAROLINA HURRICANES—Recalled D Brett Carson from Albany (AHL).DALLAS STARS—Placed D Karlis Skrastins on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 3. Recalled D Ivan Vishnevskiy from Texas (AHL).NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Recalled D Alexander Sulzer from Milwaukee (AHL) and D Reid Cashman from Cincinnati (ECHL). Reassigned G Jeremy Smith to Cincinnati and G Mark Dekanich from Cincinnati to Milwaukee. Released F Matt Pierce.WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Assigned D Karl Alzner to Hershey (AHL).
LACroSSEn national Lacrosse LeagueBUFFALO BANDITS—Signed F Jon Harasym and F AJ Shannon to one-year contracts.CALGARY ROUGHNECKS—Announced the retirement of D Kyle Couling.
SoCCErn Major League SoccerRED BULL NEW YORK—Named Erik Soler general manager and sporting director.
CoLLEGENOTRE DAME—Announced junior QB Jimmy Clausen and junior WR Golden Tate will enter the NFL draft.PRINCETON—Named Celene McGowan associate director for championships and sport administration.SOUTHERN U.—Fired football coach Pete Richardson.VIRGINIA—Named Mike London football coach.
TRANSACTIONS
StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GANew Jersey 28 20 7 1 41 81 61Pittsburgh 31 20 10 1 41 99 83N.Y. Rangers 29 14 14 1 29 83 88N.Y. Islanders 29 11 11 7 29 76 89Philadelphia 27 13 13 1 27 80 79
Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABoston 29 15 9 5 35 76 72Buffalo 27 16 9 2 34 73 62Ottawa 28 14 10 4 32 83 87Montreal 30 14 14 2 30 76 87Toronto 29 9 13 7 25 83 104
Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 30 19 5 6 44 111 82Atlanta 27 15 9 3 33 89 78Tampa Bay 29 11 10 8 30 74 85Florida 30 11 13 6 28 82 103Carolina 29 7 17 5 19 70 105
WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 28 18 7 3 39 85 64Nashville 29 16 11 2 34 73 80Detroit 29 14 10 5 33 83 82Columbus 29 13 11 5 31 89 105St. Louis 28 12 11 5 29 70 77
Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAColorado 32 17 9 6 40 98 95Calgary 28 18 7 3 39 86 69Vancouver 29 16 13 0 32 91 75Edmonton 30 13 13 4 30 90 95Minnesota 28 13 12 3 29 78 86
Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 31 19 7 5 43 104 82Los Angeles 30 17 10 3 37 93 92Phoenix 29 17 11 1 35 73 68Dallas 29 13 8 8 34 85 85Anaheim 29 10 13 6 26 82 96
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
Sunday’s GamesDetroit 3, N.Y. Rangers 1Ottawa 4, Anaheim 3, SO
Monday’s GamesToronto 5, Atlanta 2New Jersey 3, Buffalo 0Edmonton 3, Florida 2, SOMontreal 3, Philadelphia 1Washington 3, Tampa Bay 0Carolina 3, Pittsburgh 2Colorado 4, St. Louis 0Minnesota at Phoenix, 9 p.m.Calgary at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
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StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division W L Pct GBBoston 16 4 .800 —Toronto 9 13 .409 8New York 7 15 .318 10Philadelphia 5 16 .238 11 1/2New Jersey 1 19 .050 15
Southeast Division W L Pct GBOrlando 16 4 .800 —Atlanta 14 6 .700 2Miami 11 9 .550 5Charlotte 8 11 .421 7 1/2Washington 7 12 .368 8 1/2Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 15 5 .750 —Milwaukee 9 10 .474 5 1/2Detroit 8 12 .400 7Chicago 7 11 .389 7Indiana 6 12 .333 8
WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division
W L Pct GBDallas 14 7 .667 —Houston 11 9 .550 2 1/2San Antonio 9 9 .500 3 1/2New Orleans 8 11 .421 5Memphis 8 12 .400 5 1/2
Northwest Division W L Pct GBDenver 16 5 .762 —Utah 12 8 .600 3 1/2Portland 13 9 .591 3 1/2Oklahoma City 11 9 .550 4 1/2Minnesota 3 17 .150 12 1/2
Pacific Division W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers 16 3 .842 —
NBA
Phoenix 15 6 .714 2Sacramento 9 10 .474 7L.A. Clippers 9 11 .450 7 1/2Golden State 6 14 .300 10 1/2
Sunday’s GamesNew York 106, New Jersey 97Cleveland 101, Milwaukee 86Detroit 98, Washington 94Miami 115, Sacramento 102L.A. Lakers 108, Phoenix 88
Monday’s GamesDenver 93, Philadelphia 83New York 93, Portland 84Oklahoma City 104, Golden State 88Utah 104, San Antonio 101
tuesday’s GamesDenver at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Minnesota at Toronto, 7 p.m.Milwaukee at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Cleveland at Memphis, 8 p.m.New Jersey at Chicago, 8 p.m.Sacramento at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Orlando at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do what needs to be done. Put these burdens behind you and you can pursue greater interests. A change in your financial situation will develop through talks with an agency, institution or company. Be prepared to negotiate. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Take charge and you will soon have everyone lining up to help you achieve your goals. Your charm, coupled with experience and expertise, will make everyone want to join your cause. Enjoy greater benefits at home and work. 5 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Back away if anyone burdens you with responsibilities that don’t belong to you. Organize your time wisely so that you have some free time available to spend with some-one you love. Strive for equality in all your relationships. 2 stars
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Taking a little extra time to do things both at work and at home will help to secure your position and ensure that you are on the right track. Talk to people with whom you have collaborated in the past. You will find a new outlet for something you do well. 4 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Emotional matters will escalate if you have been insensitive toward someone who counts on you. Include everyone in your plans or you will be accused of being unfair. Your time will be better used doing something creative. 3 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Expect the payback you’ve been waiting for. Contracts, settle-ments, legal or health issues can be resolved if you push for completion. An early festive event will help you connect with someone who can help you get
ahead in the new year. 3 starsLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Spend time where it counts. Do something nice for someone who needs help. Avoid an argument with a friend by allowing everyone to have his or her own agenda and opinions. Your originality and determination will win the approval of a potential partner. 3 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Someone at work may have a personal interest in you. Be careful not to jeopardize your position. A new look at an old idea will help you develop a marketable product. There is money to be made. 4 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t trust anyone but your-self to make vital decisions that will alter your life. An unusual turn of events will perplex you. Don’t waste your time trying to figure out an emotional problem. 2 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Organization and strategy will go hand-in-hand. Let the momen-tum build as you wholeheartedly chase your goals. Success awaits you, so don’t stop until you get what you want. 5 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your future is about to change with a decision you make that will alter your personal life. A partnership is apparent and can help you gain respect in your community as well as lighten your overhead. A skill you have can make extra cash and boost your confidence. 3 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll be unpredictable, emotional and uncertain when it comes to personal matters. A lack of knowl-edge may be what stands between you and a big opportunity. Don’t cut corners when it comes to preparation. 3 stars
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NOTICE OF SERVICEOF PROCESS
BY PUBLICATION
IN THE GENERALCOURT OF JUSTICE
DISTRICT COURTDIVISION
FILE 09-CVD-1310
COUNTY OF VANCESTATE OF
NORTH CAROLINA
Vance County and Cityof Henderson,
Plantiffs, vs.
JOSEPH W. CLARK,et al,
Defendants
TO: Joseph W. Clarkand Spouse, if any
TAKE NOTICE thata pleading seeking reliefagainst you has beenfiled in the above-entitled action. Thenature of the reliefsought is a tax lienforeclosure on realproperty listed as beingowned by the Estate ofZeloma Watkins Clarkon the Vance CountyTax Records, NorthCarolina, having ParcelI.D. Number 69-5-1 (lotsoff Water Street).
You are required tomake defense to suchpleading not later thanJanuary 18, 2010, andupon your failure to doso, the party seekingrelief against you willapply to the court for taxlien foreclosure of saidreal property.
This the 3rd day ofDecember, 2009.
N. Kyle HicksHopper, Hicks & Wrenn,
PLLCAttorney for Plaintiffs
111 Gilliam StreetPO Box 247
Oxford, NC 27565(919) 693-8161
Dec 8,15,22, 2009
Legals
CREDITOR’SNOTICE
All persons, firms andcorporations havingclaims against CharlesF. Taylor, Sr., deceased,are notified to exhibitthem to Margie Fogg,Executrix of thedecedent’s estate, on orbefore February 24,2010, at P.O. Box 1820,115 N. Garnett Street,Henderson, NorthCarolina, 27536, or bebarred from theirrecovery. Debtors of thedecedent are asked tomake immediatepayment to the above-named Executrix.
Margie Fogg,Executrix
of the Estate ofCharles F. Taylor, Sr.
Michael SatterwhiteStainback, Satterwhite,Burnette & Zollicoffer,PLLCAttorneys at LawP.O. Box 1820Henderson, NC 27536
Nov 24,Dec 1,8,15, 2009
liens of record, if any,and to all unpaid (advalorem) taxes andspecial assessments, ifany, which became alien subsequent to therecordation of the Deedof Trust. This sale will befurther subject to theright, if any, of theUnited States of Americato redeem the above-described property for aperiod of 120 daysfollowing the date whenthe final upset bid periodhas run.
The purchaser of theproperty describedabove shall pay theClerk’s Commissions inthe amount of $.45 per$100.00 of the purchaseprice (up to a maximumamount of $500.00),required by Section 7A-308(a)(1) of the NorthCarolina GeneralStatutes. If thepurchaser of the abovedescribed property issomeone other than theBeneficiary under theDeed of Trust, thepurchaser shall also pay,to the extent applicable,the land transfer tax inthe amount of onepercent (1%) of thepurchase price.
To the extent thissale involves residentialproperty with less thanfifteen (15) rental units,you are hereby notifiedof the following:
a. An order forpossession of theproperty may be issuedpursuant to Section 45-21.29 of the NorthCarolina GeneralStatutes in favor of thepurchaser and againstthe party or parties inpossession by the clerkof superior court of thecounty in which theproperty is sold; and
b. Any person whooccupies the propertypursuant to a rentalagreement entered intoor renewed on or afterOctober 1, 2007, may,after receiving the noticeof sale, terminate therental agreement upon10 days’ written notice tothe landlord. Upontermination of a rentalagreement, the tenant isliable for rent due underthe rental agreementprorated to the effectivedate of the termination.
This 17th day ofNovember, 2009.
Spruillco, Ltd. Deborah SperatiVice President
130 S. Franklin Street P.O. Box 353
Rocky Mount, NC 27802(252) 972-7067
Dec 8,15, 2009
LegalsIN THE GENERAL
COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR COURT
DIVISIONBEFORE THE CLERK
09 SP 197STATE OF
NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF VANCE
NOTICE OFFORECLOSURE SALE
In the matter of theforeclosure of a Deed ofTrust from Robert C.Grissom (Deceased), toCB Services Corp.,Trustee, Dated October4, 2007 Recorded inBook 1162, Page 931,Vance County Registry
Pursuant to an orderentered November 17,2009, in the SuperiorCourt for Vance County,and the power of salecontained in thecaptioned deed of trust(“Deed of Trust”), theundersigned SubstituteTrustee will offer for saleat auction, to the highestbidder for cash,
AT THECOURTHOUSE DOOR
IN HENDERSON,VANCE COUNTY,
NORTH CAROLINA ONDECEMBER 17, 2009
AT 11:00 AM
the real estate and theimprovements thereonencumbered by theDeed of Trust, less andexcept any of suchproperty released fromthe lien of the deed oftrust prior to the date ofsaid sale, lying andbeing in Vance County,North Carolina, andbeing more particularlydescribed as follows:
A certain lot or parcelof land situated in VanceCounty, North Carolina,and more particularlydescribed as follows:Being at a stake on Eastside of MontgomeryStreet, corner L. E.Turner and ThomasGilliam Estate at brickbuilding now occupiedby North StateEquipment Company;run thence in a northerlydirection along line of L.E. Turner and Estate ofThomas Gilliam lot 174.3feet to a stake, Kearnersline; thence alongKearners and John D.Cooper’s line in easterlydirection 50 feet tocorner of L. B. Snead lot(formerly Thomas J.Evans) thence along L.B. Snead (formerlyThomas J. Evans) line ina southerly direction 175feet to MontgomeryStreet; thence alongMontgomery Street inwesterly direction 50 feetto place of beginning.Same being Lots No. 10and 11, less a strip cutoff of Lot No. 11 of 6.5feet by 175 feet,conveyed to Thomas J.Evans by W. P. Gholsonas shown in Deed Book93, Page 418, VanceCounty Register ofDeeds Office. Those lotsNos. 10 and 11 areshown on plat recordedin Plat Book A, Page 17,to which reference ishereby made fordescription. See DeedBook 507, Page 146,Vance County Registry.
In the Trustee’s solediscretion, the sale maybe delayed for up to one(1) hour as provided inSection 45-21.23 of theNorth Carolina GeneralStatutes.
The record owners ofthe real property notmore than ten days priorto the date hereof areRobert C. Grissom(deceased) and VernellChampion.
A five percent cashdeposit, or a cashdeposit of $750.00,whichever is greater, willbe required of the lastand highest bidder. Thebalance of the bidpurchase price shall bedue in full in cash orcertified funds at aclosing to take placewithin thirty (30) days ofthe date of sale. Theundersigned SubstituteTrustee shall convey titleto the property bynonwarranty deed.
This sale will bemade subject to all prior
Legals
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