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RALEIGH — Gov. Beverly Perdue’s administration is try-ing to attract a company to invest in Brunswick County and bring what could be 1,100 jobs to Southeastern North Carolina.

The effort comes almost four months after a similar-

ly-sized project fell through amid partisan acrimony.

Perdue said over the week-end she planned to have breakfast Monday with company executives at the Executive Mansion and travel to the region later in the day. The Democratic governor told reporters she delayed her scheduled annual vacation for the visit.

“I canceled the trip, at least part of the trip earlier last week when I heard we had a chance to get 1,100 jobs in Brunswick County,” Perdue told reporters Saturday night in Greensboro, adding “that was more important to me than the vacation.”

Perdue spokesman Mark Johnson confirmed Monday that Perdue discussed eco-

nomic development matters at a mansion breakfast but declined to identify the inter-ested company.

The governor “is aggressive as possible in bringing jobs to North Carolina,” Johnson said.

Jim Bradshaw, execu-tive director of the

Industry sought for BrunswickPerdue chases as many as 1,100 jobs

Fire bakes 21,000 chickensStaff report

FAIRMONT — A fire last week destroyed a chicken house at a Fairmont farm and killed more than 20,000 chickens. Investigators are trying to determine if the fire was an accident or arson.

According to sheriff’s Lt. Brian Duckworth, an arson investigator, the fire leveled the facility, which was 500 feet long and 42 feet wide and housed about 21,000 chickens.

The wreckage needs to be examined to

determine a cause, according to Duckworth. Investigators are waiting on the insurance company to conduct its assessment on the damage and to clear the debris, he said.

The fire was reported just after 6:30 a.m. on Friday at 1575 Bailey Road. Duckworth said the fire started on the end of the build-ing closest to Bailey Road, known as an “entrance end.”

“It just waltzed through that building so fast,” he said. “One side is like curtains, so it’s real susceptible to air to help accelerate the burn.”

Duckworth said firefighters from Fairmont Rural and Whithouse depart-ments battled the blaze “for hours and hours.”

The 12-year-old building is one of four chicken houses in that area that belong to Stephen Dent. Duckworth said the chickens are raised for slaughter and then human consumption, and were sold about every 52 days.

The value of the building was estimated at $150,000. The chickens were valued at $4,500.

Dispute leads to stabbing;1 is hospitalized; 1 chargedStaff report

LUMBERTON — A Lumberton man is hospital-ized after being stabbed in the back during an argument in a Fayetteville Road parking lot Friday, according to Lumberton police.

Matthew Hunt, 26, of Allenton Road, is in stable condition at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, a hospital spokes-man said.

Lawrence Ellis Turbeville, 21,

of Stephens Road in Fairmont, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and released under a $20,000 unsecured bond, according to Lumberton police Capt. Johnny Barnes.

The incident happened about 10:40 p.m. in the park-ing lot of Blockbuster Video on Fayetteville Road, Barnes said.

“From what I under-stand, Hunt had been inside Blockbuster, and Lawrence

Turbeville’s brother Nathaniel had also been inside,” Barnes said. “They came out in the parking lot, exchanged some words, got into an argument.”

Sometime during the con-frontation, Lawrence Turbeville approached Hunt from behind and stabbed him several times in the back with a pocket knife, Barnes said.

Turbeville turned himself in to U.S. marshals later that night.

Barnes said the case is still being investigated.

“From what I understand, Hunt had been inside Blockbuster, and Lawrence Turbeville’s broth-er Nathaniel had also been inside. They came out in the parking lot, exchanged some words, got into an argument.”

— Capt. Johnny Barnes,Lumberton Police

Department

Touring the ‘Bays’

Alan Prevatte and his son Andrew tour an exhibit

titled ‘Robeson County’s Carolina Bays’ at the

Robeson County History Museum, which is celebrat-

ing the 225th anniversary of the county’s founding

and that of its county seat, Lumberton, with 13 events throughout the year. 2012 also marks the 125th anni-

versary of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke and the 25th anniversary of

the Robeson County History Museum.

Teddy Kulmala | The Robesonian

BurglareludeslawmenStaff report

LUMBERTON — A would-be bur-glar was able to elude lawmen during a chase Monday afternoon even after he wrecked his vehicle and had to flee on foot.

According to Capt. Anthony Thompson of the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, a resident on Pridgen Road called the Sheriff’s Office just after 12:20 p.m. on Monday to report a “strange vehicle” across the street.

“When the deputy arrived, the sus-pect was still on the scene and fled the scene in that vehicle. The chase ensued,” Thompson said.

The man sped away in a white 1994 Mazda 626 and led “multiple vehicles” from the Sheriff’s Office and Lumberton Police Department from Pridgen Road onto N.C. 41, Thompson said.

Sheriff’s Maj. James Hunt said the Mazda struck a concrete median and crashed into a ditch at the intersection of N.C. 41 and Snake Road. The man got out of the vehicle and fled into the woods, he said. Lawmen pursued the man into the woods.

Immediately following the chase, 25 to 30 officers from the Sheriff’s Office, Lumberton police, and K-9 units from Parkton and the N.C. Department of Correction searched for the man, Hunt said. Later, a helicopter from the state Highway Patrol joined the search.

Hunt said the car, which was reported stolen from Wilmington, will be exam-ined today for additional evidence.

The man is described as an American Indian with long hair, Hunt said. He was last seen wearing a black shirt and blue jeans. Hunt said the man was attempting to break into a home when the deputy arrived.

Anyone with information is should call the Sheriff’s Office is 910-671-3100.

Beverly Perdue: The governor delayed her scheduled annual vacation to pursue the economic pros-pect.

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ContributedInvestigators are trying to determine if the blaze at this chicken house was arson.

Garland Pierce

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Animal rescue holds raffle

LUMBERTON — Franny’s Friends, an ani-mal rescue group, is hold-ing a raffle for the chance to win a Valentine’s Day ring for your loved one at noon on Feb. 11 at Riverside Antiques and Things. The ring, a Russian design with dia-mond, amethyst and emer-ald set in silver, is on dis-play at Riverside Antiques and Things at 119 W. Fourth St. in Lumberton.

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Academy open to candidates

RED SPRINGS — There is still time to register to attend the Campaign Academy on Wednesday at the DoubleTree Inn in Fayetteville that is for peo-ple interested in running for public office this fall. The event is sponsored by North Carolina Electric Cooperatives in conjunc-tion with the Credit Union League.

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RALEIGH — State Rep. Garland Pierce has announced that he will seek re-election to the House seat represent-ing District 48, which includes parts of Robeson, Hoke and Scotland counties.

“It is my personal pledge and obli-gation to you to continue supporting

legislation that encourages economic development, safe communities, and qualified teachers for our classrooms to enhance the quality of life for all North Carolinians,” Pierce said. “North Carolina’s economic recovery, growth, and stability depend on our ability to produce an educated workforce that can compete in a 21st century global econ-

omy. This is why I favor investments in technical education and workforce retraining programs so that we can put North Carolinians back to work.”

Pierce, a Democrat who will be seek-ing his fifth term, is a Baptist minis-ter and U.S. Army veteran. The filing period begins Feb. 13.

To contact Pierce, call 919-273-1098.

Pierce announces re-election bid

n VandalismLUMBERTON —

Raymond Gaskins III, of James Street, reported on Sunday that someone set his 2009 Kia Optima on fire by busting a window and throwing a lighted plastic bottle filled with paper through the win-dow, according to a police report.

The car was valued at $18,000.

n Break-ins The following people

and businesses reported break-ins to the Robeson County Sheriff ’s Office:

Jene McKinnon, at 2675 Seventh Street Road in Lumberton; Melbert Lowery, at 6555 Union Chapel Road in Red Springs; Joe Locklear, at 1505 Old Red Springs Road in Maxton; Phillip Lowery, at 1101 Oxendine School Road in Maxton; Gordon Hardin, at 525 Marigold Lane in Lumberton; Eliseo Morales, at 4599 Shannon Road in Shannon; and Spanky Strickland, at 15723 N.C. 72 in Orrum.

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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Change is coming to North Carolina through a new law that lets death row prisoners chal-lenge their sentences if race was a significant factor at sentencing, a defense attorney said Monday of the first case involving the state's Racial Justice Act.

The hearing involving death row inmate Marcus Robinson opened Monday afternoon in Cumberland County Superior Court after Judge Greg Weeks handled motions earlier that day, including prosecutors' request to give them extra time to pres-ent their case after the defense finishes.

"It has been a long time com-ing, but finally change is com-ing," defense attorney James

Ferguson of Charlotte told the judge, who will decide the case without a jury.

In 2009, the Legislature approved the act, which allows death row prisoners and defen-dants facing the death penalty to use statistics and other evi-dence to show racial bias played a significant role in either their sentences or prosecutors' deci-sion to pursue the death penalty.

The law says that the pris-oner's sentence is reduced to life in prison without parole if the claim is successful.

This hearing, expected to last about two weeks, addresses Robinson's claim that race was a factor in prosecutors' decisions to reject potential jurors who were black. Robinson also claims

that race was a factor in the pros-ecutors' decisions to seek the death penalty against accused murderers and that the victims' race was a factor in whether juries issued death sentences.

Robinson, who is black, came close to death in January 2007, but a judge blocked his sched-uled execution. His victim, 17-year-old Erik Tornblom who was killed in a robbery in 1991, was white. A co-defendant, Roderick Williams, is serving a life sentence.

Ferguson showed a statewide map of North Carolina's prosecu-torial districts at he said showed race was significant factor in prosecutors' decisions to use peremptory challenges to elimi-nate black jurors in almost every

district. Black jurors were at least 1.2 times more likely to be rejected than non-white jurors in counties that had applicable death row cases, he said. The range went to more than 3.1 percent, he said, basing his num-bers on a study by researchers at Michigan State University.

The study by two law profes-sors also showed that of almost 160 people on death row at the time of the study, 31 had all-white juries and 38 had only one person of color.

"This case is important because it provides an oppor-tunity for all of us to recognize that race far too often has been a significant factor in jury selec-tion in capital cases," Ferguson said.

First hearing under Racial Justice Act begins

RALEIGH (AP) — Hours from formally entering the race, Republican candidate Pat McCrory said Monday that the departure of Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue from the 2012 gubernatorial campaign won't alter his message of overhauling North Carolina state gov-ernment.

McCrory, who will kick off his campaign Tuesday at a Guilford County meet-ing hall, said he's sticking with the same plan he had before Perdue announced last week that she won't seek re-election — a move that's cre-ated a Democratic primary race and sent other potential candi-dates scrambling.

McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor who narrowly lost to Perdue in the 2008 general elec-

tion, said it wasn't a total shock that he would no longer face a once-likely rematch with Perdue this fall.

"Our schedule has not changed. Our message won't change and our strat-egy won't change," McCrory told The Associated Press. "This scenario is one we saw poten-tially happening so it didn't come as a huge surprise because we

knew she's been in trouble for various reasons, and part of it was me being a strong candi-date."

McCrory said in a phone interview he believed Perdue's departure would allow many Democrats who felt obliged to support their party's incumbent

will back his campaign now. He had already found some success during 2011 with receiving con-tributions from Democrats who had supported Perdue in 2008.

Democratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and state Rep. Bill Faison of Orange County already are running in the Democratic pri-mary, and a half dozen oth-ers are considering whether to become gubernatorial can-didates in a compressed time schedule — filing starts in two weeks and the primary is May 8. U.S. Rep. Brad Miller and former State Treasurer Richard Moore released statements Monday that they're still con-sidering bids, while Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines said he will not run.

Democrats also are encourag-ing former University of North Carolina system president

Erskine Bowles to run.While declining to call out any

candidate, McCrory believes all of them have a common thread — they enabled the Democratic policies of the past dozen years under Perdue and predecessor Mike Easley that he insists have broken state government.

"All of them have been closely linked with the Easley-Perdue culture and policy," said McCrory, adding he would talk more about his campaign themes Tuesday.

If McCrory gets a clear path to the primary — he's spent the past year trying to close out potential GOP competitors by running a quasi-campaign of speeches and fundraising — he'll keep accumulating money while Democrats battle it out for at least three months to win their nomination.

McCrory: campaign message will not change

Pat McCrory

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Signs of more airline industry con-solidation are raising questions about the US Airways hub that's key to luring businesses to the Charlotte area.

The Charlotte Observer reports a deal involving US Airways could have a big impact on the city since the air-line operates about 90 percent of the airport's daily flights. The concentration of flights in and out of Charlotte is attrac-

tive to companies that need to be able to fly easily to far-away operations, make sales calls, and bring in visitors.

US Airways says it's study-ing a bid for American. Delta is reported to be looking at US Airways.

The newspaper says airline analysts think a US Airways merger with Delta would put Charlotte's hub at greater risk because Delta has a major hub in Atlanta.

Airline industry begins consolidationEMERALD ISLE (AP) — The

hunt for roaming deer continues in a North Carolina beach com-munity.

WCTI-TV reports a Carteret County judge has refused to order a stop to the work of bow hunters in an Emerald Isle neighborhood at the tip of its barrier island.

Emerald Isle is trying to reduce a surging deer population. Dozens of neighbors went to court to stop hunters from patrolling their

Lands End neighborhood as they have since the hunt began several weeks ago.

Some residents expressed con-cern that the 13 hunters will be too close to their children as they track deer from before dawn to 10 a.m.

The hunters are managed by the Emerald Isle Police Department. Lieutenant Jeff Waters says each hunter is trained and undergoes a background check.

Beach community fails to block bow hunters

ASHEBORO (AP) — A Greensboro woman really, real-ly liked the zoo.

The News & Record of Greensboro reports a woman bequeathed $1 million to the North Carolina Zoo Society after her death so the state-owned zoo near Asheboro could buy land for animals to roam.

Russ Williams with the zoo says he met 83-year-old Juanita Lamport Spalding in her apart-ment about 10 years ago.

Spalding died in May.Her will says the money

should be used to buy and man-age one or more wilderness areas to benefit native North Carolina wildlife.

Spalding's obituary doesn't describe the source of her nest egg, but says she worked at a university lab at UCLA, for a doctor, for the telephone company in New Mexico and then insurance companies in Greensboro.

Woman’s estate leaves $1M to zoo HICKORY (AP) — Hickory

police have arrested a man accused of stealing a quarter-million dol-lars in property from at least five states.

The Hickory Daily Record reports (http://bit.ly/wfcbXY ) 48-year-old Frederick Charles Washburn is charged with 12 felo-nies after a potential victim spotted their stolen property on Craigslist. Capt. Thurman Whisnant of the Hickory Police Department.said that person notified the police and

the Division of Motor Vehicles.Those calls led to an investi-

gation and search warrant of Washburn's lakeside home, and the recovery of boats, personal water-craft, trailers, cars, four-wheelers and more. Whisnant confirmed the stolen property is from California, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maine and probably Florida.

Washburn waived his right to a court-appointed lawyer on Monday. He remains in jail under a $500,000 secured bond.

Man nabbed for stealing property

CHICAGO (AP) — Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nucle-ar reactor in northern Illinois, but believe they may have traced the cause to a piece of equipment at a switchyard dozens of miles away.

After the shutdown Monday morning at Exelon Nuclear’s Byron Generating Station, oper-ators began releasing steam to cool the reac-tor from the part of the plant where turbines pro-duce electricity, not from within the nuclear reactor itself, officials said. The steam contains low lev-els of tritium, a radioac-tive form of hydrogen, but federal and plant officials insisted the levels were safe for workers and the public.

Exelon Nuclear officials believe a failed piece of equipment at a switchyard at the plant about 95 miles northwest of Chicago caused the shutdown, but they were still investigat-

ing an exact cause. The switchyard is similar to a large substation that deliv-ers power to the plant from the electrical grid and from the plant to the electrical grid.

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — A Hawaii-based Marine lance corpo-ral accused of hazing in Afghanistan is going to jail for 30 days and will have his rank reduced to private first class for punching and kicking a fellow Marine who killed himself shortly afterward.

Navy Capt. Carrie Stephens, the judge in Lance Cpl. Jacob Jacoby’s special court-mar-tial, handed down the sentence after Jacoby, 21, pleaded guilty to assault.

The Marine admitted he punched and kicked Lance Cpl. Harry Lew of Santa Clara, Calif. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors withdrew charges that Jacoby humili-ated and threatened Lew.

Stephens said she found no evidence that Jacoby’s abuse of Lew caused Lew to kill himself, and she didn’t take the suicide into account when determining the sentence.

Two other Marines have also been accused of haz-

ing Lew and face courts-martial.

Jacoby said he acted out of anger and frustra-tion that his fellow Marine had repeatedly fallen asleep while on watch for Taliban fighters.

He told the court he wanted to talk to Lew, to find out why he kept falling

asleep, and to help him stay awake. But Jacoby said he got angry when Lew spoke to him in a disrespect-ful manner, even though Lew was putting the lives of the Marines at their patrol base in danger by dozing

off.Before sentencing,

Jacoby said he was sorry and that he wanted to take responsibility for his actions.

“I allowed my emotions and frustrations to get the best of me, and acted out against a fellow Marine,” Jacoby said.

He said he will never forget the pain and humili-ation of being court-mar-tialed, and believes he can

use his experience to help other Marines.

Marine Capt. Jesse Schweig said the govern-ment was confident Jacoby is capable of rehabilitating himself.

But Schweig asked the judge to sentence Jacoby with an eye on deterring similar behavior. He said Jacoby should be given a bad con-duct discharge.

“If this is how you’re going to approach and motivate your peers, then you do not need to be a part of the service,” Schweig said in closing remarks at the sentencing hearing.

Navy Lt. John Battisi, Jacoby’s attorney, said Jacoby lost his temper and struck Lew — but argued Jacoby made sure to hit Lew on his body armor where he was best protect-ed.

He also asked the judge to keep in mind the circum-stances the Marines were in, and that the chain of command hadn’t addressed

Lew’s sleeping problem and instead had left the issue in Jacoby’s hands that night.

“We’re asking him to con-trol his emotions and gain emotional maturity in the heat of battle,” Battisi said in his closing remarks.

Lew committed suicide April 3 at a patrol base in Helmand province, shortly

after the abuse. The 21-year-old was a nephew of U.S. Rep. Judy Chu.

Two other Marines also are accused of haz-ing Lew before he shot himself with his machine gun in his foxhole. Sgt.

Benjamin Johns, the leader of the squad the Marines belonged to, and Lance Cpl. Carlos Orozco III will have their own separate courts-martial later.

Both Marines watched the court proceedings Monday.

Lew’s father, Allen Lew, testified during the sen-tencing hearing that his son wanted to join the Marines because he felt it was “the best.”

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Associated PressA nuclear reactor at Exelon Corp.’s nuclear plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.

Associated PressAllen Lew, father of Lance Cpl. Harry Lew and Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., speak to members of the press outside the courtroom of the Legal Services Center of Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

Marine jailed in hazing caseMan gets 30 days, reduced rank, following victim’s suicide

Officials investigating Illinois reactor shutdown

Report: DivideGreat Lakes,Mississippi

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Groups representing states and cities in the Great Lakes region on Tuesday pro-posed spending up to $9.5 billion on a mas-sive engineering project to separate the lakes from the Mississippi River watershed in the Chicago area, describing it as the only sure way to protect both aquatic sys-tems from invasions by destructive species such as Asian carp.

The organizations issued a report suggest-ing three alternatives for severing an artificial link between the two drainage basins that was constructed more than a century ago. Scientists say it has already provid-ed a pathway for exotic species and is the likeli-est route through which menacing carp could reach the lakes, where they could destabilize food webs and threaten a valuable fishing industry.

“We simply can’t afford to risk that,” said Tim Eder, executive direc-tor of the Great Lakes Commission, which sponsored the study with the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative. “The Great Lakes have suffered immensely because of invasive species. We have to put a stop to this.”

The report’s release is sure to ramp up pressure on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is conducting its own study of how to close off 18 potential path-ways between the two systems, including the Chicago waterways. The corps plans to release its

findings in late 2015, a timetable it says is neces-sary because of the job’s complexity and regulato-ry requirements. A pend-ing federal lawsuit by five states — Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania — demands quicker action.

“This study shows that hydrological separation is both technically and economically feasible,” said Rep. Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican.

A spokeswoman said the corps would not comment until it could review the report.

The project that linked the two drainage basins began in the 1890s when engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River to flush sewage away from the city and into a newly built, 28-mile-long canal that created a con-nection between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi. It is now a network of rivers, locks and canals.

In their report, the two groups call for placing barriers at key points to cut off the flow of water between the two drain-age basins by 2029.

One alternative would put barriers in five locations near Lake Michigan. Another would erect a single bar-rier in the ship canal before it branches off into connecting water-ways. A third plan would use four barriers.

The report does not express a preference but says the four-barrier plan would cost less than the others — between $3.26 billion and $4.27 billion.

Split would halt spread of Asian carp

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FIRST AMENDMENTTO THE CONSTITUTIONOF THE UNITED STATES:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the free-dom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble; and to petition the government for redress of griev-ances.

Your view

“No. Isn’t that why the state of North Carolina has one of the highest gas taxes in the U.S. today?”

— Joseph Hernandez,

St. Pauls “No, everyone who travels 95 helps with the wear and tear of the interstate, so everyone that travels the road should help pay for the improvement with a toll both. It also depends on where you put the toll boths, and N.C. already has some of the best roads than any other state. Also, that is what state money is for but I could actually argue both sides, I guess that is the future lawyer in me. So ultimately I think that toll booths should not be used as a source of rev-enue.”

— Megan Jacobs,Prospect

“No. We already pay one of the highest gas taxes in the nation, yet they raid those funds for other nonsensical items. Our state needs to learn fiscal responsibility and then we can afford to repair our infrastructure using the funds that were designated for that to begin with.”

— Andrew Gillis,Fayetteville

“Yes, I think having tolls on Interstate 95 is a great idea, simply to help fix the problems with the roads as well as the Interstate. I think it would help improve our city as a whole, not only with the roads but as well as the business.”

— Jonnie Lewis,Lumberton

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Do you think tolls on Interstate 95 are the best revenue source fo pay for improvements that are planned for the highway?

“For those that use the roads, their cars and trucks are causing the damage to the roads. I’m willing to help by paying the toll when I use the roads. That way, those that don’t drive on them are not taxed.”

— Joan Blackwell,Lumberton

resident Barack Obama is making his re-election about raising the taxes of an Omaha billionaire who is volunteering for the honor.

The so-called Buffett Rule to make millionaires and billion-aires pay at least 30 percent in taxes is such an obvious exercise in poll-driven populism, it should come with cross-tabs attached. It shows that as an economist, David Axelrod is a hell of a political consultant. It is a nonso-lution to a nonproblem, the intel-lectual basis of which is a badly distorted anecdote repeated over and over.

By now, if you haven’t heard that Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, you have never turned on a TV news pro-gram or checked your Twitter feed. Surprisingly tightfisted for perhaps the world’s third-richest man, Buffett reportedly pays his secretary only about $60,000 a year, yet she sup-posedly pays a higher rate than his roughly 17 percent.

Buffett benefits from lower rates on investment income. Capital gains and dividends are taxed at 15 percent, whereas the top rate on income is 35 percent. Cue the plutocrats in top hats rubbing their hands together and cackling. But investment income is subject to taxation at the corporate level, at a top rate of 35 percent, before it becomes capital gains or dividends. The real rate on investment income can be closer to 50 percent than 15.

For all his advocacy in favor of rais-ing his own taxes (and those of peo-ple, by definition, less wealthy than he is), Buffett is careful to minimize the government’s take through such expe-dients as not paying himself much of a salary and making shrewd use of a trust. Buffett could easily institute his own personal version of the Buffett

Rule by giving himself a nice, fat raise. Regardless, his tax burden is substan-tial. Buffett is the primary shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, which paid $5.6 billion in corporate taxes in 2010,

according to Forbes magazine.Conceived in the spirit of a

bill of attainder — let’s tax that guy — the Buffett Rule makes about as much public policy sense as one would expect. How would it affect the federal fisc? Although the Obama administra-tion hasn’t yet bothered to write down its signature proposal, it is estimated it will raise roughly $40 billion a year. With the Buffett Rule in effect, the deficit in fiscal year 2011 would have

been $1,240,000,000,000 instead of $1,280,000,000,000.

Will it make the tax system fairer? The system is already fair, if by that you mean steeply progressive. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the top 1 percent pays on average 18.8 percent of its income in federal income taxes, the broad middle pays 4.2 percent and the bot-tom 20 percent gets more money back than it pays in. When all federal taxes are taken into account, the top 1 percent pays almost 30 percent — Obama’s magic number.

Do taxes on capital gains desper-ately need raising? They are already scheduled to go up, whatever happens to Warren Buffett. Obama’s health-care reform alone will bring the capi-tal-gains rate in 2013 to 18.8 percent. If the Bush tax cuts expire, as they are set to do in 2013, the rate will hit 25 percent.

The Buffett Rule is politically seduc-tive dressing for another increase in taxes on investment income at a time when too many businesses are sitting on cash instead of investing it. It will further complicate a tax code so intri-cate that, according to The New York Times, even Mitt Romney’s fearsome

accountants couldn’t accurately figure out his liabilities and had him pay $44,000 more than he owed last year. It could well have perverse effects like its forebear in writing applause lines into the tax code, the alternative mini-mum tax; sold as a way to hit 155 rich people, the tax grew into a monster targeting the upper middle class in blue states.

The Buffett Rule, in short, is a suit-ably meretricious proposal for a mer-etricious presidency.

n Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: [email protected].

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Taxes should pay for governmentlorida is the state that put the first man on the moon, NBC’s Brian Williams noted at the Republican presidential debate in Tampa. He asked the can-

didates, “At a time when you all want to shrink federal spending, should space exploration be a priority?”

Of course it should be, Mitt Romney said. The former Massachusetts governor accused President Obama of having no vision for NASA, “and as a result of that, there are people on the Space Coast that are suffering.” He spoke of the need for “a col-laborative effort” among busi-ness, the government and the military.

(Romney showed less sympathy for the auto industry workers suffering in the Midwest a few years ago. For them he wrote an op-ed titled, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”)

Williams turned to Newt Gingrich and asked, “Would you put more tax dollars into the space race to com-mit to putting an American on Mars instead of relying on the private sec-tor?”

Flying beyond the question’s orbit, the former House speaker advocated offering prizes for going to Mars or back to the moon. He noted that Charles Lindbergh flew to Paris in 1927 for a $25,000 prize. But he added, “I would like to see vastly more

of the money spent encouraging the private sector into very aggressive experimentation, and I’d like to see a leaner NASA.”

Now, where pray tell would the prize and encouragement money come from other than the taxpayers? And why does Gingrich suddenly say he wants a slimmer NASA? Not long ago, he co-wrote a piece saying that the “Obama admin-istration’s (2011) budget for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration deserves strong approval from Republicans.”

To quote Yoda from “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” “You must unlearn what you have learned.”

Working on the questionable assumption that Gingrich believes his latest version, the audience hears the following: Gingrich merely wants to remove those pest government bureau-crats standing between corporations and the U.S. Treasury vault. That would ensure a perfect lunar path for lobbyists (or lobbyist clones like him-self) to facilitate the transfer of public money.

We’ve seen the deal before in the GOP’s Medicare drug benefit. Shovel taxpayer dollars into the private cof-fers with minimal government over-sight, and call it a “free-market solu-tion.”

Gingrich made money selling his former congressional colleagues on the

drug benefit, which costs taxpayers far more than would have a simple plan for the government to directly buy the medicines. Gingrich approves. “It’s run on a free-enterprise model,” he says..

The issues change, but the creatures and lobbying tactics to build them are the same. As Lama Su succinctly puts it in “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones,” “Pure genetic replication.”

Gingrich is far more poetic than your average spaceling or Mitt Romney. He envisions us “leapfrogging into a world where you’re incentivizing people who are visionary and people in the private sector to invest very large amounts of money and finding a very romantic and exciting future.”

If people in the private sector have very large amounts of money to invest in this romantic and exciting future, why don’t they invest it? Isn’t that the free-market model? Depends what planet.

One can imagine that NASA has room to streamline, but it is hardly the failure Gingrich makes it out to be. It built the International Space Station and repaired the Hubble Telescope. It runs successful research missions. And it already works collaboratively with private industry, by the way.

The Republican candidates may go around calling for an expanded space program without expanded taxes, but we earthlings know different. On our planet, taxes pay for government. And frankly, I want my planet back.

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For all his advocacy in favor of raising his own taxes (and those of people, by defini-tion, less wealthy than he is), Buffett is careful to minimize the government’s take through such expedients as not paying himself much of a salary and mak-ing shrewd use of a trust. Buffett could easily institute his own personal version of the Buffett Rule by giving himself a nice, fat raise.

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NOTICE OF PRE-HEARING OPEN HOUSES AND COMBINED PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR THE PROPOSED NC 87 IMPROVEMENTS FROM US 74-76IN COLUMBUS

COUNTY TO THE ELIZABETHTOWN BYPASS TIP Project No. R-2561 WBS No.34466.4.1 Columbus and Bladen Counties

Th e North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) will hold two Pre-Hearing Open Houses and two Combined Public Hearings for the above mentioned highway project. Th e meetings will each be held

on the following dates and locations:

NCDOT representatives will be available at the Pre-Hearing Open House between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to answer questions and receive comments relative to the proposed project. Th e opportunity to submit written comments or questions will also be provided. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the above mentioned hours. A formal presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m. Th e presentation will consist of an explanation of the proposed location & design, right of way acquisition, relocation requirements / procedures, and funding source. Th e hearing will be open to those present for statements, questions and comments. Th e presentation and comments will be recorded & a transcript will be prepared. Additional material may be submitted until March 9, 2011. Th e project calls for widening the existing two-lane roadway to a four-lane roadway with a 46-foot median and with a 23-foot raised median in Riegelwood. Th e proposed project is approximately 30 miles long. Interchanges are proposed at existing NC 87 / NC 11 and NC 87 / US 74-76. Two alternatives were developed and will be presented at the public hearings. Alternative A would widen existing NC 87 from the Elizabethtown Bypass to US 74-76 along the existing NC 87 route. Alternative B would widen existing NC 87 from the Elizabethtown Bypass to NC 11, rerouting NC 87 along NC 11 and continuing east to the existing US 74-76 / NC 87 intersection. Th e purpose of the proposed project is to improve mobility and reduce travel time along the NC 87 corridor between Elizabethtown and US 74-76. Additional right of way and the relocation of homes and businesses will be required for this project. A map displaying the location and design of the projects and a copy of the State Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) are available for public review at the NCDOT District Offi ce, 1194 Prison Camp Road, Whiteville, 28472; County Manager’s Offi ce, 106 East Broad Street, Elizabethtown, 28337; and Bladen Public Library, 111 North Cypress Street, Elizabethtown, 28337. Th e maps are available for viewing online at www.ncdot.gov/doh/preconstruct/highway/roadway/hearingmaps_by_county/county/Columbus.html. Th e US Army Corps of Engineers issued a public notice for this project on October 17, 2011. Th e public notice describes the ongoing process in choosing the LEDPA (Least Environmentally Damaging Practicable Alternative) and can be accessed at www.saw.usace.army.mil/Wetland/Notices/Current_notices.html. Anyone desiring additional information may contact Kimberly Hinton, Human Environment Unit at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, phone: (919) 707-6072, or email: [email protected]. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this hearing. Anyone requiring special services should contact Ms. Hinton as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — Fighting between soldiers and Taliban militants over a strategic mountaintop in northwestern Pakistan has killed more than 60 people, a government official said Tuesday.

The battle first started a week ago when government troops seized the top of Jogi mountain in the Kurram tribal area from militants, sparking clashes that killed six soldiers and 20 insurgents, said Wajid Khan, a local government administrator.

The militants retaliated Tuesday by attacking the soldiers who were try-

ing to hold the location, touching off another round of fighting that killed 10 troops and more than 30 insurgents, said Khan. The area is home to militants loyal to Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud.

The military launched an offensive in Kurram in July 2011 and declared vic-tory about a month later, but violence has continued.

A similar process has taken place throughout Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region along the Afghan border. The military has launched a series of operations against the Pakistani Taliban

in the past few years, and has often declared victory only to see fighting flare up again.

The Pakistani Taliban have killed thou-sands of people throughout the country in suicide bombings and other attacks. The group aims to topple the Pakistani government, partly because of its alli-ance with the United States.

The militants are allied with the Afghan Taliban, but the latter group has focused its attacks on NATO and Afghan forces inside Afghanistan.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, at least 10 people were gunned down in the past

24 hours in the southern city of Karachi, said Sharfuddin Memon, a security adviser for the government of Sindh province, where Karachi is the capital.

Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and has a long history of political, ethnic and sectarian violence.

The most recent deaths included two granddaughters of Akbar Bugti, a nation-alist leader in southwestern Baluchistan province who was killed during a mili-tary operation in 2006 ordered by former President Pervez Musharraf. His death has helped fuel a violent insurgency in Baluchistan against the government.

Fighting over Pakistani mountaintop kills over 60

KOCINOVAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — They were bitter enemies on opposite sides of the front line during the hor-rors of the Bosnian War. Now, one side is bailing out the other in an act of once-unimaginable gener-osity.

In 2010, soldiers above 35 years of age were pen-sioned off as Bosnia tried to rejuvenate its army. But the checks never came — and hundreds fell into poverty.

Slavko Rasevic, a Serb veteran, was one of them. Things got so bad he was forced to siphon electric-ity from a neighbor's home because he couldn't pay the bills. He couldn't even afford the bus fare to get his three kids to school.

Then, just as he was about to tell his 17-year-old daughter she'd have to drop out of school, he got a bit of unexpected news.

Bosniak and Croat soldiers who had begun receiving a special hand-out were banding togeth-er to create a lifeline for their less fortunate Serbian former foes — contributing 5 euros each to a Serb veterans' fund.

This month, Rasevic was singled out by his fellow Serbian vets as one who should be among the first to benefit. Instead of spreading the first collec-tion of about 5,000 euros ($6,500) thinly over hun-dreds, the Serbs decided that the most desperate would get substantial chunks of money.

His family and another one will get more than 500 euros, while 55 other struggling Serb vets will get some 60 euros each.

"High praise to those people over there," he said, referring to his for-mer foes.

It's the latest example of former enemies edging closer together in a coun-try still scarred by the legacy of Europe's worst

bloodshed since World War II. Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs have banded together in railway strikes and now serve together in the army. But this is the first time people from one side have reached into their pockets to help another.

Rasevic joined the Bosnian Serb army 20 years ago to fight against his Bosniak and Croat enemies in a war that killed 100,000 people and turned almost 2 million — including him — into refugees.

The violence ended with a peace agreement in 1995 that carved the once-multiethnic nation into two ethnic mini-states — a Serb republic and a Bosniak-Croat fed-eration.

A decade later the three wartime ethnic armies melded into one. As a pro-fessional soldier, Rasevic found himself sharing army barracks with his

former enemies. That was a major move toward rec-onciliation for a country that still struggles with ethnic mistrust and is held together by an inter-national administrator.

In 2010, parliament forced soldiers over 35 to retire but failed to allocate pension funds in that year's budget. Then the six parties that won national elections were unable to form a govern-ment because of disputes over which ethnic group will run which ministry — and the country has been rudderless ever since.

With no government, there's no budget — and no pensions for the retired veterans.

Pressed by veteran pro-tests, the government of the Bosniak-Croat region agreed to pay some 160 euros per month from its own budget to retired sol-diers living in its territory for as long as it takes to pass the state budget.

Poverty unites enemies in Bosnia

BEIJING (AP) — A senior official in Chinese-ruled Tibet is ordering heightened secu-rity in Buddhist monasteries and along key roadways as the government tries to prevent protests that erupted in neigh-boring Tibetan communities from spreading.

Inspecting security around the Tibetan capital of Lhasa this week, the city's Communist Party secretary, Qi Zhala, warned officials and clerics at monasteries that they would be dismissed if any trouble arose and told police at a highway checkpoint to be alert for acts of sabotage.

Officials "must profoundly recognize the important sig-nificance of preserving stability in temples and monasteries," the state-run Tibet Daily on Tuesday quoted Qi as saying Monday. "Strive to realize the goal of 'no big incidents, no medium incidents and not even a small incident.'"

The exhortations underscore China's nervousness as it tries to squelch the most serious outbreak of anti-government protests among Tibetans in nearly four years.

Tibetan areas in the neigh-boring province of Sichuan — on tenterhooks for more than a year as more than a dozen monks, nuns and lay people separately set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule — saw large demonstrations last

week. Police fired on crowds in three separate areas, leav-ing several Tibetans dead and injuring dozens, according to Tibet support groups outside China.

The violence has highlighted anew the government's failure

to win over Tibetans and other ethnic minorities through poli-cies to boost economic growth and incomes while increasing police presence and control-ling religious practices to deter displays of separatism. State media announced Monday that

8,000 additional police were being recruited in Xinjiang, a traditionally Muslim region north of Tibet that has its own separatist rebellion.

Before the latest protests, Chinese security forces were already hunkering down for

an annual period of tensions in Tibetan areas: the weeks between the Tibetan new year, which this year falls in late February, and a string of anni-versaries in March marking previous anti-Chinese upris-ings.

A crucial task for the govern-ment is to keep the protests in Sichuan from spilling into Tibet proper, especially Lhasa, home to major monasteries that have been at the forefront of previous unrest. In 2008, rioting in Lhasa left at least 22 people dead.

Among the stops Qi, the Lhasa official, made on his inspection tour was a key road-way leading from Sichuan into the capital and two major mon-asteries on the city's outskirts.

Qi spoke with members of the monasteries' management committees. The committees are comprised of officials and clerics that Beijing has set up in Tibetan religious institutes to purge them of followers of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader in exile in India. The groups and their controls have contributed to the tensions behind the protests.

"They who do not do their jobs responsibly, if any prob-lems happen, will be fired immediately without excep-tion and will be strictly held accountable," Qi was quoted as saying.

China raises security to contain Tibet protests

AP Photo/Kyodo News More than a dozen monks, nuns and laypeople separately set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. China saw large demonstrations last week, which raises a need for hightened security.

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Death NoticesMarie LeWallenMaxton

Marie LeWallen, 73, of 495 Modest Road, was born on Dec. 15, 1938, to the late Willie and Bessie Locklear Lambert in Robeson County. She

entered her heavenly home on Jan. 29, 2012, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.

A homegoing service for Marie LeWallen will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Heritage Funeral Home in Red Springs. Interment will follow in the Sycamore Holiness Church

Cemetery in Maxton, the Revs. Greg Locklear and Grady Hunt officiating.

Marie was preceded in death by her biological parents, Willie and Bessie Lambert; her parents who raised her, Bill and Mariah McGirt; a daughter, Debbie LeWallen; two sons, Jeffery McGirt and Lennis McGirt; and a brother, Vernon Lambert.

She leaves to cherish her loving memories, three sons, Brandon M. McGirt of the home, Robert LeWallen of Conway, S.C., and William Strickland of Wilmington; two daughters, Summer Carole and Tabitha Scott, both of Maxton; five brothers, Harvey Lee Lambert, Willie Ray Lambert, David Earl Lambert, and Bill Lambert, all of Maxton, and Michael Wayne Lambert, of McColl, S.C.; seven sisters, Virginia Strickland, Myrtle Brewer, Catherine Tyler, Dorothy Woods, Betty L. Clark and Sandra Cummings, all of Maxton, and Fannie Lockhart of Burlington; eight grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; a special dog, Taco; and a host of other relatives and friends.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Heritage Funeral Home.

Paid obituary

Earline WebbMarietta

Earline “Nina” Hardwick Webb, 68, of Marietta, died Jan. 28, 2012, after an illness.

The funeral will be held 1 p.m. today at Barnesville Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Lake View Cemetery, directed by Cooke Funeral Home in Lake View, S.C.

She was a loving, compassionate person who devoted her life to taking care of the needs of her family and friends. She never met a stranger and was loved and respected by everyone who knew her. She was a member of Barnesville Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Amos and Marie Hardwick; and a sister-in-law, Anne Hardwick.

She is survived by her husband, Mitchel C. Webb; her children, Mitchel (Terri) C. Webb II and Michael L. Webb; her stepdaughter, JoAnn Guyton; her grandchildren, Mitchel C. Webb III, Kenneth A. Webb, Michael L. Webb, Emily L. Webb, and Nancy Guyton; five great-grandchil-dren; her sister, Doris (Laverne) Martin; and broth-ers, Howard (Anne) Hardwick, Wayne Hardwick, Paul Hardwick, Robert (Sue) Hardwick, and Gene Hardwick.

Although Mrs. Webb loved all types of flow-

ers, it was her wish that memorials be sent to the building fund of Barnesville Baptist Church, 1155 Barnesville Church Road, Orrum, N.C., 28369.

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Marlene ParkerLumberton

Marlene S. Parker, 74, of Lumberton, died Jan. 22, 2012, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.

A graveside service was Monday in New Hollywood Cemetery in Lumberton.

Surviving are her sons, Rick Parker and Morris Parker; her niece, Rose Odom; and grandchildren, Jeremy Parker, Cecil Parker, Robbie Parker and Brittney Page Parker.

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Bennie JohnsonElizabethtown

Bennie Earl Johnson, 83, of Elizabethtown, died Jan. 28, 2012, at Carroll S. Roberson Hospice Center.

The funeral will be 2 p.m. today at Trinity United Methodist Church, the Rev. Jay Winston officiating. Burial will follow at Old Trinity United Methodist Church.

Surviving are his wife, Rudy Doris Johnson of the home; sons,

Bennie E. Johnson II and Jonathan M. Johnson of Gastonia; his daughters, Susie Johnson Niarkas of Hairrensburg, Va.,a and Jacqueline Johnson of Lumberton; stepson, Winfred B. Johnson; a step-daughter, Johanna Johnson; six grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; and nine great-grandchil-dren.

The family will receive friends from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m today at Trinity United Methodist Church.

Thomas BriggsElizabethtown

Thomas R. Briggs, 67, of Elizabethtown, for-merly of Norfolk, Va., died Jan. 29, 2012, at the VA Hospital in Fayetteville.

The funeral will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at White Oak Family Worship Center, the Revs. Bill Tatum and Elex Tyler officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Surviving are his brother, James Larry Briggs of Pennsylvania; and two sisters, Sara Ann Stewart of Elizabethtown and Christine Maurice of Glouster, Va.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home.

Estella ArnetteFairmont

Estella Arnette, 94, of 208 Martin Luther King Drive, died Jan. 27, 2012, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center.

The funeral will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Dr. W.M. Marable officiating. Burial will follow in Elizabeth Heights Cemetery in Lumberton.

Surviving are two sons, Kevin Thompson and

Ricky McCoy; a daughter, Tanya Thompson; seven great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.

The visitation will be 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the church.

Roberta StewartMaxton

Roberta Ann Brown “Bobby” Stewart, 87, of Maxton, died Jan. 30, 2012.

The funeral will be 3 p.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery.

Surviving are her sons, Rob and John Stewart; her sisters, Mary Lou Richmond and Melinda Bogert; and two grandsons.

The visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church.

Arrangements by McDougald Funeral Home and Crematorium.

Vera RoyalClarkton

Vera Rogers Royal, 90, of Clarkton, died Jan. 28, 2012, at Lower Cape Fear Hospice in Whiteville.

The funeral will be 2 p.m. today at Clarkton United Methodist Church in Clarkton.

Arrangements by Bladen Gaskins Funeral Home in Elizabethtown.

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Shannon, died Jan. 30, 2012, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center. Revels Funeral Home in Lumberton.

Everlena G. McRae, 89, of 307 W. Church St., Rowland, died Jan. 30, 2012, at home. Hill’s Funeral Home in Fairmont.

Quintalyn Byrd, 59, of Lumberton, died Jan. 31, 2012, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center. Floyd Mortuary in Lumberton.

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Brunswick County Economic Development Commission, would nei-ther confirm nor deny Perdue’s appearance in the area Monday. He said he couldn’t comment about individual projects he’s working on in the county for fear that disclo-sure could sink one.

A s s i s t a n t C o m m e r c e Secretary Tim Crowley said his agency “does not discuss wheth-er it is or isn’t working with any company in any capacity” but will disclose information once a project is publicly dis-closed.

Brunswick County was where Continental Tire had considered building a plant and hiring 1,600 workers before announc-ing in October that it was going to South Carolina instead.

North Carolina was left behind as Republican leaders in the Legislature — particularly the Senate — refused a request by Perdue and her adminis-tration to back an incen-tives deal that could have required almost $100 mil-lion in taxpayer money. The package included a $45 million cash payment demanded by the German-based company that the Legislature would have had to approve, according to documents.

Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, blamed Perdue and alleged insider dealing for losing the plant. The acreage proposed for the factory was owned by a Democratic state legisla-

tor and politi-cal donors who had given more than $52,000 to Perdue’s cam-paigns. The Perdue adminis-tration said dona-tions had noth-ing to do with the site selection and called them an excuse for Republicans to reject a plan.

The flap still seems to sting

Perdue, who mentioned her anger with the Republican Legislature on Saturday night as she explained her reasons for not seeking re-election this year.

“I have seen leaders who would rather win a political fight then have an industry come to coun-ties in North Carolina,” Perdue said. “I’ve never seen such rabid partisan-ship. I’ve never seen such divisiveness.”

Berger’s office said it could neither confirm nor deny whether it had been contacted by Perdue about the project, citing a state law preventing the disclosure of public records related to busi-ness expansions or loca-tions while a decision is pending.

“I have seen leaders who would rather win a political fight then have an industry come to coun-ties in North Carolina.”

— Gov. Beverly Perdue

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress’ low approval ratings have sparked a rare instance of biparti-sanship, as both parties are rushing to pass a bill that would make it clear that insider trading laws apply to lawmakers.

The Senate voted 93-2 Monday to clear the way for consideration of amendments and — spon-sors hope — final passage later this week.

Members of both parties looked at approval ratings in the teens in an election year and didn’t like what they saw. But it was an independent, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, who may have best expressed Congress’ political plight.

“The numbers of people who have a favorable impression of this body are so low that we’re down to close relatives and paid staff. And I’m not so sure about the paid staff,” he said.

The legislation would require disclosure of new stock transac-tions on the Internet within 30 days and explicitly prohibit members of Congress from initiating trades based on non-public information

they acquired in their official capac-ity. The legislation, at least partly symbolic, is aimed at answering critics who say lawmakers profit from businesses where they have special knowledge.

U.S. lawmakers already are subject to the same penalties as other investors who use non-public

information to enrich them-selves, though no member of Congress in recent mem-ory has been charged with insider trading. In 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department investigated then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s sale of stock in his family’s hospital company,

but no charges were ever brought against the Tennessee Republican.

Voters may believe lawmakers who are paid an annual salary of $174,000 are enriching themselves — especially if those voters saw a segment of CBS’ “60 Minutes” in November. The show questioned trades by a House committee chairman, the current speaker and his predecessor’s husband. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and former

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., all denied wrongdoing. Bachus chairs the Financial Services Committee.

A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll of registered voters found 56 percent favored replacing the entire 535-member Congress. Other polls this year have given Congress approval ratings between 11 percent and 13 percent, while disapproval percentages have ranged from 79 percent to 86 per-cent.

The bill is titled the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. President Barack Obama has endorsed it.

The Senate bill would prohibit lawmakers from tipping off fam-ily members or others about non-public information that could influ-ence a stock’s price, in addition to the explicit ban itself. And it would direct the House and Senate ethics committees to write rules that would make insider trading violators subject to congressional punishment.

House leaders are working on a more expansive bill that would include land deals and other non-stock transactions. A vote is expected in February.

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Senate set for ban vote

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LAPORTE, Pa. (AP) — When federal regulators approved a 39-mile natural gas pipeline through northern Pennsylvania’s pristine Endless Mountains, they cited the operator’s assurances that it would make sparing use of emi-nent domain as it negotiated with more than 150 property owners along the pipeline’s route.

Yet a few days after winning approval for its $250 million MARC 1 pipeline in the heart of the giant Marcellus Shale gas field, the com-pany began condemnation pro-ceedings against nearly half of the landowners — undercutting part of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval rationale and angering landowners.

Some of the landowners are now fighting the company in court, complaining that Central New York

Oil and Gas Company LLC steam-rolled them by refusing to negotiate in good faith on monetary com-pensation and the pipeline’s loca-tion. Their attorneys say CNYOG has skirted Pennsylvania’s eminent domain rules.

The company, a subsidiary of Inergy LP of Kansas City, Mo., insists it’s trying to reach a “fair settlement” with all property own-ers and wants to be a good neigh-bor.

The dispute could foreshadow eminent domain battles to come as more pipelines are approved and built to carry shale gas to market in states like Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.

The company promotes the MARC 1 pipeline as key infrastruc-ture in developing the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation underneath

Pennsylvania and surrounding states that experts believe holds the nation’s largest reservoir of gas. The MARC 1, a high-pressure steel pipeline 30 inches in diameter, will connect to major interstate pipe-lines and the company’s own natu-ral gas storage facility in southern New York state.

CNYOG hopes to start construc-tion soon and finish by July, but it awaits permits from Pennsylvania environmental regulators and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

It also needs to answer the legal challenge from residents.

Many of the complaining land-owners say they favor natural gas drilling and some have leased land to gas drillers. What rankles them is that FERC has invested CNYOG with the power of eminent domain, taking away their bargaining power.

Landowners fight backPennsylvania gas line project makes wide use of eminent domain

WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready to find out who the millionaires are behind this year’s presiden-tial election.

Shadowy outside groups funded by anony-mous donors and working on behalf of candidates they support have pum-meled Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and others for the past two months by spend-ing millions of dollars on mostly negative TV ads that have had an enormous impact on the fight for the Republican presidential nomination.

Now, for the first time since they started shaping this campaign in earnest, many of those “super” political action committees are set to disclose just who is financing their pseudo-campaign operations. Many took advantage of a change in federal rules that essentially let them shield their donors’ iden-tities until after key pri-mary elections in January. But they still must sub-mit their financial reports to the Federal Election Commission by Tuesday.

Only a handful of donors are known, including Las Vegas billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson. His two checks for $5 mil-lion apiece to Winning Our Future, a pro-Gingrich group, essentially kept the former House speaker’s White House campaign afloat at critical junctures just before the South Carolina and Florida pri-maries.

Bain Capital executives and Romney friends have lined the bank accounts of the pro-Romney group Restore Our Future. Former Bain executive Edward Conrad donated $1 million last spring and Marriott International Inc. CEO J.W. Marriott Jr. gave the group $500,000, seed money spent to success-fully hammer Gingrich in Iowa late last year as he started to rise.

That’s when the super

PACs sprang into action in full force.

Since then, groups work-ing on behalf of Republican candidates for president have spent roughly $25 million in TV ads, most of which have been negative, in the first four states to vote in the GOP nomina-tion battle — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.

Of that, the pro-Romney Restore Our Future has spent about $14 million on ads, mostly to take down Gingrich in Iowa and Florida. That’s more than the roughly $12 million Romney himself has spent on TV ads.

The super PACs have also unleashed millions on expenses typically reserved for campaigns, including direct mailings, phone calls and get-out-the-vote efforts.

It’s a precursor to the general election, when super PACs aligned with

both Republicans and President Barack Obama are planning to dole out even larger sums.

These groups are the products of a 2010 Supreme Court ruling that stripped away old restrictions on corporate and union spending in fed-eral elections. They can’t directly coordinate with the candidates they sup-port, but many are staffed with former campaign workers who have an inti-mate knowledge of their favored candidate’s strat-egy.

Some donors will never be known because some super PACs have estab-lished not-for-profit arms that can shield contribu-tors’ identities. Those arms can spend more than roughly half of their money on so-called advocacy, although campaign-finance reformers have urged the Internal Revenue Service to reduce that share.

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s time has come.

The state hosts its pivotal primary today as Mitt Romney seeks to tighten his grip on the Republican presidential nomina-tion.

Newt Gingrich reset the race by scoring an overwhelming vic-tory in South Carolina. But in the 10 days since, the GOP con-test has turned increasingly hos-tile. And the polls have swung decidedly in Romney’s direction.

The former Massachusetts governor enters the day as the heavy favorite in the winner-take-all primary, the final contest in a month of high-stakes elec-tions in which Romney claimed

one win and two second-place finishes so far. The path to the Republican nomination — and the right to face President Barack Obama this fall — shifts to a series of lower-profile contests in February.

The polls open at 7 a.m. across Florida, where Romney offered an increasingly optimistic tone while campaigning in recent days.

“With a turnout like this, I’m beginning to feel we might win tomorrow,” an upbeat Romney told a crowd of several hundred at a stop in Dunedin on Monday.

Gingrich acknowledged his momentum had been checked but promised not to back down.

“He can bury me for a very short amount of time with four or five or six times as much money,” Gingrich said in a tele-vision interview. “In the long run, the Republican Party is not going to nominate ... a liberal Republican.”

Romney’s campaign canceled a morning rally,

but scheduled a night celebra-tion at the Tampa Convention Center. Gingrich will make a series of public appearances — including visits to two polling

stations and a stop at the Polk County headquarters — before gathering with supporters for a primary night party in Orlando. The last polls close at 8 p.m.

The other two candidates in the race will not be in Florida on Tuesday. Both Rick Santorum and Ron Paul have ceded Florida’s primary to Romney and Gingrich in favor of smaller, less expensive contests. They will spend the day campaigning across Colorado and Nevada.

Romney and his allies have poured more than $14 million into Florida television advertis-ing primarily to attack Gingrich, who has struggled to compete with Romney’s fundraising abil-

ity, staffing and network of high-profile supporters. Gingrich and his allies spent roughly $3 mil-lion on Florida advertising.

“We are pitting people power versus money power,” Gingrich said Monday as he tried to rally his shrinking base of support.

GOP officials in Florida were anticipating a big turnout, more than 2 million voters, up from a record 1.9 million in the Republican primary in 2008. More than 605,000 Floridians had already voted as of Monday, either by visiting early voting stations or by mailing in absen-tee ballots, ahead of the total combined early vote in the GOP primary four years ago.

GOP campaign

Romney favored to win Florida primary

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Can Newt Gingrich come back a third time?

If he loses today in Florida’s primary — polls predict he will —Gingrich will spend the next month trying to prove the answer is yes.

“We were dead in June and July . but we came roaring back and we will again,” Gingrich said at a rally Monday in Tampa.

Still, the former House speaker, who has pledged to fight on until the GOP convention this summer, faces a tough road out of Florida. He plunges next into a scattershot series of state contests where he has little organization and must overcome steep odds to win.

Gingrich was hoping to ride a wave of enthusiasm to a win in Florida and beyond, stoked by his decisive victory in South Carolina. But unless he pulls off an upset win Tuesday, he will have squandered that momentum heading into states that look favorable for lead-ing rival Mitt Romney.

After being battered by the well-funded Romney political machine, the Gingrich campaign will redouble its efforts to “tell the truth about Romney faster and more efficiently than he can lie about

us,” Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said.

The calendar works against Gingrich rebounding anytime soon. After a steady march through four state contests in January, the pace quickens before taking a long breather next month.

There are seven elections in February, which kicks off with Nevada’s caucuses Saturday. That will be followed by contests next week in Colorado, Minnesota and Maine as well as a non-binding primary in Missouri. A 17-day break will be capped by primaries in Arizona and Michigan on Feb. 28.

The schedule benefits a can-didate, like Romney, with deep pockets and a sophisticated ground game able to compete on multiple fronts at once. Gingrich, who failed to even get on the ballot in his home state of Virginia for the March 6 Super Tuesday primary, is playing catch-up.

“We’re behind the eight-ball,” acknowl-edged George Harris, a Las Vegas res-taurant owner who serves as a national finance chair for Gingrich and is helping his efforts in Nevada.

Romney has had staff in the state since June and has already begun running ads there. And he’s a known quantity in the state, having won it when he sought the GOP nomination in 2008.

Gingrich dispatched six staffers to Nevada just days ago and they have rap-

idly built the operation from the ground up.

Maine is in the former Massachusetts governor’s back yard and, in a show of force, he has 40 state legislators back-ing him. Another candidate, Ron Paul, also has a strong network of support in the state, a holdover from his 2008 presidential run.

Gingrich aides are aiming to hang on.

“We’re getting a late start here,” said John Grooms, Gingrich’s grassroots director in Maine, who until December was backing Herman Cain. “The goal here is to have a good, respectable show-ing.”

Romney grew up in Michigan and is still looked at as something of favorite son among Republicans in the state.

Romney claimed both Colorado and Michigan in 2008 and maintains net-

works in each state.Just 10 days ago, an ebullient Gingrich

touched down in Florida, fresh off his win in South Carolina and drawing cheering crowds of thousands. It was a far different tone as he wrapped up his campaign Monday with a lap around the state. Crowds were far sparser, and although Gingrich kept up the attacks on Romney, he sometimes sounded tired as he raced from Jacksonville to Pensacola to Fort Myers.

The Gingrich camp sought to put a positive spin on what is expected to be a disappointing showing in Florida, where the winner will scoop up all 50 delegates.

A memo from Gingrich political direc-tor Martin Baker made the case that moving forward, delegates will be award-ed proportionally, meaning that even if Romney racks up wins the delegate count could remain tight so long as the races are competitive.

Baker noted that no matter who wins Florida, only 5 percent of the 2,288 national convention delegates will have been awarded.

“The campaign is shifting to a new phase where opportunities are not lim-ited to a single state,” Baker wrote.

If Gingrich loses, can he bounce back?

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‘Super’ PACs set todisclose big donors

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Finally, an awards show with some surprises and spontaneity.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards featured some unexpected winners, including “The Help” for best overall cast perfor-mance and Jean Dujardin for best actor in “The Artist” alongside some of the longtime favorites in movies and television.

But there was a loose-ness and a playfulness that permeated the Shrine Exposition Center Sunday night — maybe because it was a room full of peo-ple who love to perform, without the rigidity of one single host to lead them.

Unlike the great expec-tations that came with the sharp-tongued Ricky Gervais’ reprisal at the Golden Globes a couple weeks ago or the much-anticipated return of Billy Crystal to the Academy Awards next month, there was no master of ceremo-nies at the SAG Awards. The presenters and win-ners seemed to have more room to improvise and put their own spin on the evening — but mercifully, the show itself still man-

aged to wrap up on time after just two hours.

And so we had three of the stars of best-cast nominee “Bridesmaids” — Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Melissa McCarthy — introduc-ing their comedy with a joke about turning the name “Scorsese” into a drinking game, which became a running gag throughout the night. When HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” won the award for best drama series cast, among the first words star Steve Buscemi uttered in accepting the prize were “Martin Scorsese” — he just happens to be one of the show’s execu-tive producers.

One of the more excit-ing moments of the night was the announcement of Dujardin’s name in the best-actor category for his performance in the silent, black-and-white homage “The Artist.” In winning the award for his portrayal of a silent-film star who finds his career in decline with the arrival of talkies, Dujardin definitely boosts

his chances at the Oscars on Feb. 26. Little-known in the United States before this, the French comic bested bigger names like George Clooney (“The Descendants”), Brad Pitt (“Moneyball”) and Leonardo DiCaprio (“J. Edgar”).

If he follows this up with an Academy Award,

Dujardin would become the first French actor ever to take the prize. Asked backstage how it would feel, Dujardin launched into a jaunty ren-dition of “La Marseillaise,” the French national

anthem.“Pressure, big pressure,”

Dujardin then added in his halting English. “It’s unbelievable. It’s amazing already. Too early to tell.”

Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer continued to cement their front-runner status in the actress and supporting actress cat-egories, respectively, for their formidable work in “The Help.” Both women play black maids in 1960s Mississippi who dare to go public about the big-

otry they’ve endured.“I just have to say that

the stain of racism and sexism is not just for peo-ple of color or women. It’s all of our burden, all of us,” Davis said, accept-ing the ensemble prize on behalf of her “The Help” co-stars.

Backstage, Davis said of her own vic-tory: “A few more people checked my name in the box for whatever reason. This time I kind of fooled them.”

M e a n w h i l e , C h r i s t o p h e r Plummer picked up yet another supporting-actor prize for his lovely turn as an elderly widower who finally comes out as gay in “Beginners.” Plummer won at the Golden Globes and is nominated for an Oscar. He would become the oldest actor ever to win an Academy Award at age 82, two years older than Jessica Tandy was when she won best actress for “Driving Miss Daisy.”

Backstage, Plummer joked when asked if he would like to win an

Oscar, an honor so elu-sive during his esteemed 60-year career that he did not even receive his first Academy Award nomina-tion until two years ago, for “The Last Station.”

“No, I think it’s fright-fully boring,” Plummer said. “That’s an awful question. Listen, we don’t

go into this busi-ness preoccupied by awards. If we did, we wouldn’t last five minutes.”

The win for overall cast for “The Help,” when “The Artist” and “The D e s c e n d a n t s ” have been the favorites all along,

makes the conversation more interesting but it isn’t necessarily an indica-tor of how the film will do come Oscar time.

The guild’s ensemble prize, considered its equivalent of a best-pic-ture honor, has a spotty record at predicting what will win the top award at the Oscars. While “The King’s Speech” won both honors a year ago, the SAG ensemble recipient has gone on to claim the

top Oscar only eight times in the 16 years since the guild added the category.

The winners at the SAG ceremony often do go on to earn Oscars, however. All four acting recipi-ents at SAG last year later took home Oscars — Colin Firth for “The King’s Speech,” Natalie Portman for “Black Swan” and Christian Bale and Melissa Leo for “The Fighter.”

Dear Dr. Brothers: I’m 25 and have been work-ing and living on my own for a couple of years now. I see my parents every so often, but my mother has been calling me lately with all sorts of worries about my dad. She says he is smoking and drink-ing more and is worried about losing his job and their house. I am not used to being my mom’s adviser, and I don’t know what to say. They have always been the ones to take care of me! But I don’t want to just blow her off. — P.C.

Dear P.C.: It certainly is understandable that you have mixed emotions when you are faced with becoming the one a par-ent turns to for advice. On the one hand, it is

gratifying to find yourself considered a real grown-up by a parent — many people never achieve that state of affairs, no matter how old they are! But at the same time, it has to be disconcerting. You’ve never really worried about being responsible for your folks’ health or well-being, and even being asked for advice by your mother makes

you uneasy. But you may find your mother leaning on you more and more as times goes by, so it would be good to grow into your new role in the family as gracefully as you can, and take her requests seriously.

Your mom should know that she and your dad aren’t alone. Researchers at the State University of New York at Albany, in a survey of 2,300 people, found that people like your dad, who have taken a hit financially, are vulnerable to turning to alcohol and cigarettes — just like younger people — as coping mecha-nisms. I’m sure it is a common story across the country, but it doesn’t make things any easier for your family. Anything

you can do to be sup-portive of your parents at this time probably will help them to cope. Being a caring son is a great start.

Dear Dr. Brothers: I am in my mid-40s and have a strange problem. I am not the clingy type, but I am having a problem with being apart from my family. I have a very hard time when my husband goes on a business trip, or when my kids are away overnight for whatever reason. I am convinced that something terrible is going to happen to them and I will never see them again. Am I going crazy? I thought separation anxiety was just for little kids. — J.S.

Dear J.S.: It’s certainly true that our usual view of separation anxiety includes little tots cling-ing to your leg at the day-care center’s door or the babysitter calling you at the movies to say that the toddler won’t stop crying for Mommy. But it absolutely is possible for adults to have prob-lems with separation as well, even though it is a problem that has received little attention from psychologists in gen-eral. And while it would seem logical that this is a problem that starts in childhood and never goes away, many adults, like you, have had the problem develop in adult-hood for the first time. So, though it is not well-publicized, your issue is

not unheard of, and you needn’t think of yourself as being alone.

It is a good idea for you to seek some help, though. You may be able to find some answers by meeting with a qualified mental-health profes-sional, who may suggest some treatment for anxi-ety through talk therapy and/or medication. It is perfectly normal to miss our loved ones and be concerned for their safety, but when taken to extremes, you may need help in dialing back your concerns to the level of being reasonable. In the meantime, try not to involve your family in all the drama — unless they are taking unusual risks when they’re away from you.

Viola DavisJean Dujardin

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KALEB ROEDEL | THE ROBESONIANStephen Roberson welcomes the task of resurrecting a football program that has one win over its last 21 games.

Senior Mustangs sluggertaking swings to NJCAA

Brad CrawfordStaff writer

ROWLAND — Former SouthRobeson assistant Stephen Robersonhas been approved by the PublicSchools of Robeson County to becomethe Mustangs next football coach.The decision came on Jan. 23 after

Roberson wowed the school’s adminis-tration and county athletic directorJason Suggs with a sales pitch that wasdifficult to ignore.“From the interview process, we

think he brings character to our foot-ball players that they’ll be receptive to,”South Robeson athletic directorDonnie Carter said. “We expectStephen to instill discipline in our guysand teach them to not only become bet-ter football players, but better men.”

Roberson spent the last two seasonson Mark Heil’s staff at Purnell Swett aslinebackers coach. He beat out fourother finalists for the South Robesongig, a list that included Swett assistantJonathan Willis and Rodney Barr, anassistant at Wilson High in Florence,S.C.“Living in the area, I know South

Robeson has good athletes,” Robersonsaid. “People just have to havepatience. It’s going to be a challenge tomake an impact and get this thing

turned around. It won’t happenovernight, but I think we can have awinner here.”The 43-year-old Roberson inherits a

program with a recent history of futili-ty. The Mustangs have struggled withnumbers the last two years and haven’tmade the playoffs since 2009. Againstin-county rivals over the last six years,South Robeson is 3-19.Seventy-five players, including the

junior varsity, made up the football pro-gram in August. That total dwindled to24 at season’s end.“I’d like to have 35 on the junior var-

sity and 35 on varsity,” Roberson said.“With me, once you quit, you quit.You’re done.”On the plus side, South Robeson has

FILE PHOTOLumberton’s Christian McRae is one of the SEC’stop scorers at just under 18 points per game.

Pirates, Bucksbattle for firston hardwood

Roberson looks to re-energize South Robeson

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Next in linePREP SPORTS

Brad CrawfordStaff writer

LUMBERTON — Unfinished business.That is tonight’s motto for Lumberton’s

boys basketball team as they battle HokeCounty for the top spot in the 4ASoutheastern Conference.A win for the Pirates (13-6, 5-1) creates a

tie at the top with the league unbeaten Bucks(15-1, 6-0) with threegames remaining.The two teams met on

Jan. 10 in Raeford — a 72-70 win for Hoke that wassecured in the final sec-onds.This is the first time

Lumberton, since TedGaskins returned to thesideline in 2007, is playingfor first place in the con-ference.Tonight’s game features a matchup of the

SEC’s top scorers in Tarique Thompson,Hoke’s all-everything forward, andLumberton standout Christian McRae. Overhis last three games, Thompson is averaging25.6 points and 11 rebounds.The 6-foot-4, 200-pound junior has gar-

nered interest from East Carolina, Clemsonand Wake Forest among several others. In hisfirst game against Lumberton, Thompsonscored 18 points and pulled down an offen-sive rebound late that sealed the victory.

KALEB ROEDEL | THE ROBESONIANSouth Robeson’s Casey Chavis hit .455 last season with 13 dou-bles, three home runs and 27 RBI. On the mound, Chavis compileda 5-2 record with 79 strikeouts and a 1.76 ERA in 50 innings.

NATIONAL SIGNING DAYWe have all your bases covered onthe state’s top classes and finaldecisions from top local playersincluding Red Springs standoutDrayvon Fairley ...........Wednesday

Kaleb RoedelSports editor

ROWLAND — Three swings.That’s all Frank Pait, baseball

coach at Catawba ValleyCommunity College, needed tosee from South Robeson HighSchool senior Casey Chavis beforehe knew he wanted Chavis’ slug-ging services in his lineup.“During his workout, Coach

Pait saw him swing the bat threetimes and he already knew hecould play,” South Robeson coachBryan McDonald said. “I could tellthe first time he swung the batthat the kid would be able to playat the next level.”Chavis made it official Monday

afternoon.Inside South Robeson High’s

media center, Chavis, a left-hand-

ed multi-position player — pitch-er, outfielder and first baseman —signed a National Junior CollegeAthletic Association letter ofintent with Catawba Valley.“I’ve always wanted to do it

(play college ball),” Chavis said.“I’ve been around (baseball) a longtime. I just want to do what I doand help them win.”As a junior last season, Chavis

carried a .455 batting average with13 doubles, three home runs and27 RBIs. The reigning all-confer-ence and all-county first teameralso made his mark on the moundwith a 5-2 record. The southpawpitched 50.2 innings, boasting a1.76 ERA with 79 strikeouts andtwo saves.His season on the hill was high-

lighted with a no-hitter againstWest Bladen in his first career

start.“He brings a lot to a baseball

team because he can play so manypositions and because he’s a goodathlete,” McDonald said.“Sometimes your pitchers aren’tthat good of athletes but Casey’san exception. It gives me somefreedom as a coach to juggle thelineup how I need to. Whateverposition I put him he’s going to beon of the best on the field.”Last year, the Mustangs com-

piled a 17-7 overall record and fin-ished runner up in the ThreeRivers Conference to EastColumbus, which went on to win astate title. South Robeson’s seasonended in the third round of thestate playoffs.

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Prospect girlsmove past FairgroveFAIRGROVE — Prospect

Middle’s girls basketball teamimproved to 9-3 Monday afternoonwith a 21-20 victory at Fairgrove.Winter Locklear scored a game-

high 15 points to lead the Wildcats(9-3, 8-2). Prospect will take onOrrum Wednesday for secondplace.In boys’ action, Devin Smith

paced Fairgrove to a 46-19 winover Prospect with 11 points.

SAOAmeetingSunday at Bill SappLUMBERTON — The

Southeastern Athletic OfficialsAssociation will hold a mandatorymeeting on Sunday for those inter-ested in officiating youth recre-ation and middle school baseballand softball.The meeting will be held at the

Bill Sapp Recreation Center inLumberton at 2 p.m. All who planto officiate need to be present.

LHS girls basketball’01 state title teamceremony FridayLUMBERTON — A ceremony

celebrating Lumberton HighSchool's 2001 girls basketball statechampionship team will be held onFeb. 3 when the Pirates hostRichmond. Tip-off is 6 p.m.The 2001 LHS state-title team

coached by Danny Graham, whoremains at the helm for the Pirates,finished ranked No. 1 in the statewith its championship and gar-nered a No. 12 national rank byUSA Today.

Men’sMarchMadness tournamentLUMBERTON — The

Lumberton RecreationDepartment will be hosting the 6thAnnual March Madness Men’sBasketball Tournament on March17-18. Team entry fee is $150 witha maximum of 12 players per team.All players must be 18 years oldwith valid ID.Awards will be given to 1st and

2nd place teams. Deadline to enteris Friday, March 9. For more infor-mation or to sign up, please con-tact Scott Graham at (910) 671-3870 or email [email protected]

Skin diving lessonsoffered at UNCPPEMBROKE — Skin Diving

lessons (use of mask, fins andsnorkel) will be offered in two sep-arate classes at UNC Pembroke.The classes will meet the

Sundays of Feb. 12 and Feb. 26from 2-6 p.m. at the UNCP Pooldive tank.Participants must be at least 10

years old and able to swim 50yards. Cost is $40 and includesuse of equipment. Contact P.J.Smith at 910-521-6261 to register.Class size is limited.

Colts hireAriansas O-CoordinatorINDIANAPOLIS — A person

familiar with the hiring tells TheAssociated Press the IndianapolisColts have hired Bruce Arians asoffensive coordinator.Arians recently left Pittsburgh,

where he held the same position.He will join the staff of new coachCarl Pagano, the person said onthe condition of anonymitybecause the team has not yetannounced the hiring.Pagano was defensive coordina-

tor in Baltimore and faced Arians'offense twice a season.

Paterno’s funeralDVDs to charitySTATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP)

— Joe Paterno's family says it willsell DVDs of the coach's memorialservice and donate the proceeds tocharity. A statement from sonScott Paterno said numerousmedia outlets have expressed aninterest in selling copies of theemotional memorial service thatdrew about 12,000 people to acampus arena last week.

SCOREBOARDwww.robesonian.com 22BB — THE ROBESONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012

HHEE S SAIDAID I I TT“We just said we wanted to kill a

dynasty, and that's what they were.But now, we've been here before and

we felt as though all that is second.”—Giants defensive end Justin Tuck, on

beating the Patriots in the 2007 Super Bowland facing New England again 4 years later.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

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LOCAL SPORTS

TV SCHEDULE

TODAYMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

7 p.m.ESPN — Michigan St. at IllinoisESPN2 — Clemson at Virginia

9 p.m.ESPN — Vanderbilt at Arkansas

NHL HOCKEY7:30 p.m.

NBCSP — Washington at Tampa Bay

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic DivisionW L Pct GB

Philadelphia 15 6 .714 —Boston 9 10 .474 5New York 7 13 .350 7½New Jersey 7 14 .333 8Toronto 7 14 .333 8

Southeast DivisionW L Pct GB

Miami 16 5 .762 —Atlanta 15 6 .714 1Orlando 12 9 .571 4Washington 4 17 .190 12Charlotte 3 18 .143 13

Central DivisionW L Pct GB

Chicago 18 5 .783 —Indiana 13 6 .684 3Milwaukee 9 11 .450 7½Cleveland 8 11 .421 8Detroit 4 18 .182 13½

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBDallas 14 8 .636 —San Antonio 13 9 .591 1Houston 12 9 .571 1½Memphis 10 10 .500 3New Orleans 4 17 .190 9½

Northwest DivisionW L Pct GB

Oklahoma City 16 4 .800 —Denver 14 6 .700 2Utah 12 7 .632 3½Portland 12 9 .571 4½Minnesota 10 11 .476 6½

Pacific DivisionW L Pct GB

L.A. Clippers 12 6 .667 —L.A. Lakers 12 9 .571 1½Phoenix 7 13 .350 6Golden State 6 12 .333 6Sacramento 6 14 .300 7

Sunday's ResultsMiami 97, Chicago 93Cleveland 88, Boston 87Toronto 94, New Jersey 73Indiana 106, Orlando 85Dallas 101, San Antonio 100, OTAtlanta 94, New Orleans 72L.A. Lakers 106, Minnesota 101L.A. Clippers 109, Denver 105

Monday's ResultsChicago 98, Washington 88Philadelphia 74, Orlando 69Miami 109, New Orleans 95Minnesota 120, Houston 108San Antonio 83, Memphis 73Milwaukee 103, Detroit 82Dallas 122, Phoenix 99Utah 93, Portland 89L.A. Clippers 112, Oklahoma City 100

Today's GamesBoston at Cleveland, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Indiana, 7 p.m.Atlanta at Toronto, 7 p.m.Detroit at New York, 7:30 p.m.Denver at Memphis, 8 p.m.Sacramento at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.Charlotte at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Clippers 112, Thunder 100OKLAHOMA CITY (100)

Durant 14-23 4-7 36, Ibaka 1-4 0-2 2,Perkins 0-1 2-2 2, Westbrook 13-26 5-6 31,Harden 2-10 2-4 7, Collison 1-1 2-2 4,D.Cook 4-9 0-0 12, Mohammed 0-0 0-0 0,Hayward 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 2-3 0-0 4,Aldrich 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 38-78 15-23 100.

L.A. CLIPPERS (112)Butler 9-16 0-0 22, Griffin 9-16 4-7 22,Jordan 5-7 1-3 11, Paul 12-16 0-0 26, Billups4-9 3-3 13, Williams 4-11 0-0 12, Evans 1-21-2 3, Foye 1-2 0-0 3, Thompkins 0-0 0-0 0,Bledsoe 0-1 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals45-80 9-15 112.Oklahoma City25 21 24 30—100L.A. Clippers 36 28 26 22—1123-Point Goals_Oklahoma City 9-22 (Durant4-5, D.Cook 4-8, Harden 1-5, Jackson 0-1,Westbrook 0-3), L.A. Clippers 13-25(Williams 4-7, Butler 4-8, Paul 2-3, Billups 2-6, Foye 1-1). Fouled Out_None.Rebounds_Oklahoma City 47 (Durant 13),L.A. Clippers 42 (Jordan 11).Assists_Oklahoma City 15 (Harden 5), L.A.Clippers 28 (Paul 14). Total Fouls_OklahomaCity 17, L.A. Clippers 17.

Heat 109, Hornets 95NEW ORLEANS (95)

Ariza 4-12 0-0 9, Smith 2-3 1-2 5, Okafor 6-71-2 13, Jack 5-11 4-5 14, Belinelli 2-6 0-2 5,Landry 6-8 2-3 14, Aminu 3-7 0-0 6, Vasquez5-9 1-3 11, Ayon 4-6 0-0 8, Henry 1-4 0-0 3,Summers 2-2 2-2 7, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0.Totals 40-75 11-19 95.

MIAMI (109)James 8-12 5-7 22, Bosh 5-12 2-2 12,Anthony 3-3 2-3 8, Chalmers 4-7 0-0 11,Wade 8-15 6-6 22, Haslem 1-2 0-0 2, Battier0-3 2-2 2, Cole 6-12 0-0 12, Miller 6-8 0-1 14,Howard 0-1 0-0 0, Curry 2-3 0-0 4, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 43-78 17-21 109.New Orleans 29 20 19 27— 95Miami 27 24 36 22— 1093-Point Goals_New Orleans 4-13 (Summers1-1, Belinelli 1-2, Henry 1-2, Ariza 1-4, Jack0-2, Vasquez 0-2), Miami 6-15 (Chalmers 3-6, Miller 2-4, James 1-2, Cole 0-1, Battier 0-2). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_NewOrleans 36 (Belinelli 5), Miami 46 (James11). Assists_New Orleans 20 (Ariza 8),Miami 23 (James 8). Total Fouls_NewOrleans 19, Miami 17.

Heat 109, Hornets 95CHICAGO (98)

Korver 6-13 0-0 17, Boozer 9-16 0-2 18,Noah 5-6 4-4 14, Rose 10-20 14-15 35,Brewer 2-10 2-2 6, Gibson 1-4 3-6 5, Butler1-3 0-0 2, Asik 0-1 1-2 1, Watson 0-2 0-0 0.Totals 34-75 24-31 98.

WASHINGTON (88)Vesely 1-3 0-0 2, Lewis 1-6 2-2 5, McGee 7-12 2-3 16, Wall 7-16 6-6 20, Young 7-20 1-117, Seraphin 2-3 0-0 4, Crawford 5-16 0-010, Booker 7-9 0-1 14, Mack 0-3 0-0 0,Singleton 0-2 0-0 0, Mason 0-2 0-0 0. Totals37-92 11-13 88.Chicago 26 25 25 22—98Washington 16 24 19 29—883-Point Goals_Chicago 6-20 (Korver 5-12,Rose 1-2, Boozer 0-1, Watson 0-2, Brewer 0-3), Washington 3-14 (Young 2-5, Lewis 1-4,Mason 0-1, Wall 0-1, Mack 0-1, Crawford 0-2). Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_Chicago54 (Noah 13), Washington 51 (McGee,Booker 9). Assists_Chicago 22 (Rose 8),Washington 22 (Wall 6). Total Fouls_Chicago10, Washington 20.

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Lumberton Recreation

Men’s basketball standings

OPEN W L

WARRIORS 5 1ROBESON LAKERS 4 2GO GETTAS 3 3RED SPRINGS 3 3HOLLA BACK 2 4DONNY CHAVIS PLUMBING 1 5

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RAMSEY 7 0ROWLAND COBRAS 5 1HORNETS 2 4OLD SCHOOL 2 4MCLEAN FARMS 0 7

RobCo Parks & Rec.Basketball Standings

Burnt Swamp Baptist Association1. Townend Chapel 7-12. Riverside 5-23. Hickory Hill 5-34. Methodist Heat 5-45. Hopewell 3-56. St. Joseph 3-57. St. Anna 2-68. Berea 1-7

Volleyball StandingsBurnt Swamp Baptist Association

1. Northside 5-02. Zion Hill 4-13. Prospect 3-34. Antioch 0-45. Hopewell 0-4

Middle School BasketballMondayʼs Scores

Rowland Girls 48, Parkton 13Rowland Boys 46, Parkton 31

The AP Top 25Record Pts Prv

1. Kentucky (63) 21-1 1,623 12. Syracuse (2) 22-1 1,550 33. Ohio St. 19-3 1,498 44. Missouri 19-2 1,363 25. North Carolina 18-3 1,331 76. Baylor 19-2 1,310 67. Duke 18-3 1,250 88. Kansas 17-4 1,178 59. Michigan St. 17-4 1,098 1010. Murray St. 21-0 979 1111. UNLV 20-3 936 1212. Florida 17-4 861 1413. Creighton 20-2 803 1514. Georgetown 16-4 762 915. Marquette 18-4 682 1716. Virginia 17-3 578 1917. San Diego St. 18-3 566 1318. Saint Mary's (Cal)21-2 472 2119. Wisconsin 17-5 415 2520. Indiana 17-5 395 1621. Florida St. 14-6 375 2322. Mississippi St. 17-5 329 1823. Michigan 16-6 305 2024. Gonzaga 17-3 141 —25. Vanderbilt 16-5 102 —Others receiving votes: Harvard 69,Louisville 65, Kansas St. 40, West Virginia12, Wichita St. 9, Nevada 6, Notre Dame 6,Southern Miss. 5, Iowa St. 3, Long Beach St.3, Iona 2, UConn 2, Illinois 1.

USA Today/ESPN Top 25Record Pts Pvs

1. Kentucky (31) 21-1 775 12. Syracuse 22-1 730 43. Ohio State 19-3 726 34. Missouri 19-2 635 25. Duke 18-3 631 66. Baylor 19-2 622 76. North Carolina 18-3 622 88. Kansas 17-4 548 59. Murray State 21-0 511 910. Michigan State 17-4 456 1111. Florida 17-4 445 1312. Creighton 20-2 426 1413. UNLV 20-3 399 1514. Georgetown 16-4 355 1015. Marquette 18-4 323 1816. Saint Mary's 21-2 284 2017. San Diego State 18-3 264 1218. Virginia 17-3 253 2119. Mississippi State 17-5 193 1620. Indiana 17-5 142 1720. Wisconsin 17-5 142 2522. Michigan 16-6 120 2223. Harvard 18-2 116 2324. Florida State 14-6 85 —25. Louisville 17-5 68 25Others receiving votes: Gonzaga 65,Vanderbilt 36, UConn 21, Nevada 18,Kansas State 15, Iowa State 9, MiddleTennessee 9, Wichita State 7, New Mexico6, West Virginia 6, Southern Miss. 4, LongBeach State 3, California 2, Temple 2, NotreDame 1.

Sunday’s Late Boxes

UNCP 68,

Georgia Southwestern 60UNC PEMBROKE (13-8, 7-4 PBC)

Shahmel Brackett 6-10 5-6 18; Nathan Priest5-6 1-2 12; George Blakeney 3-5 3-4 9; MikeRobinson 2-5 4-4 8; Griffin Pittman 3-5 1-2 7;K.J. Cooper 2-10 0-0 4; Miguel Starkey 2-40-0 4; Ben Jacobs 1-5 1-2 3; Marcus Heath1-3 0-0 3; Marcus Burnell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals25-53 15-20 68.

GEORGIA STHWEST (11-7, 2-7 PBC)Kleut, Milos 6-10 4-7 16; Rivera, Marlon 4-135-8 14; Mobley, Evan 6-21 0-1 14; Hawkins,Jamon 3-5 3-3 9; Slotter, Colin 1-6 0-0 3;Glover, Bobby 0-3 2-2 2; Shaw, Matt 1-3 0-02; Andre, Ian 0-1 0-0 0; Kenimer, Will 0-1 0-0 0; Gunnett, Tyler 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-6314-21 60.

No. 7 N. CAROLINA 93,

GEORGIA TECH 81GEORGIA TECH (8-13)

Holsey 4-5 0-0 8, Miller 2-7 1-1 5, Morris 5-11 2-2 15, Rice Jr. 2-7 0-0 4, Udofia 6-14 3-3 16, Royal 4-9 0-0 9, Reed 2-8 3-3 8,Jordan 3-3 0-0 7, Hicks 1-1 0-0 2, Foreman0-0 1-2 1, Craig 2-3 0-0 6. Totals 31-68 10-11 81.

NORTH CAROLINA (18-3)Barnes 8-14 4-6 23, Zeller 7-9 3-6 17,Henson 4-10 5-8 13, Bullock 4-7 0-0 11,Marshall 2-3 2-2 7, McAdoo 4-9 1-1 9,Hairston 2-6 2-2 8, Watts 0-0 0-0 0, White 1-1 0-0 3, Hubert 1-2 0-0 2, Simmons 0-0 0-00, Dupont 0-0 0-0 0, Crouch 0-0 0-0 0,Cooper 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-61 17-25 93.Halftime_North Carolina 52-32. 3-PointGoals_Georgia Tech 9-20 (Morris 3-5, Craig2-3, Jordan 1-1, Royal 1-2, Reed 1-3, Udofia1-4, Rice Jr. 0-2), North Carolina 10-16(Barnes 3-3, Bullock 3-6, Hairston 2-4, White1-1, Marshall 1-2). Fouled Out_None.Rebounds_Georgia Tech 31 (Royal 6), NorthCarolina 35 (Henson, McAdoo 6).Assists_Georgia Tech 9 (Jordan 4), NorthCarolina 22 (Marshall 12). TotalFouls_Georgia Tech 17, North Carolina 11.Technical_North Carolina Bench. A_21,017.

MIAMI 76,

BOSTON COLLEGE 54MIAMI (12-7)

Kadji 5-9 3-4 14, Johnson 4-8 4-5 12, Larkin0-3 0-0 0, Scott 8-15 2-2 19, Grant 5-12 4-416, McKinney Jones 3-7 0-0 9, Jones 1-5 2-2 4, Akpejiori 0-0 0-0 0, Quigtar 0-0 0-0 0,Heller 0-0 0-0 0, Brown 1-4 0-0 2, Swoope 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-63 15-17 76.

BOSTON COLLEGE (7-14)Anderson 1-5 7-8 9, Clifford 3-6 0-1 6,Daniels 4-8 0-0 9, Humphrey 3-8 4-6 13,Jackson 2-7 2-2 8, Moton 2-3 0-0 5,Visockas 0-0 0-0 0, Odio 1-1 0-0 2, Caudill 1-3 0-0 2, Cain Carney 0-1 0-0 0, Rehnquist 0-0 0-0 0, Rubin 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 17-43 13-1754.Halftime_Miami 34-31. 3-Point Goals_Miami7-21 (McKinney Jones 3-5, Grant 2-8, Scott1-1, Kadji 1-4, Brown 0-1, Larkin 0-2),Boston College 7-19 (Humphrey 3-5,Jackson 2-6, Moton 1-2, Daniels 1-4,Anderson 0-1, Rubin 0-1). FouledOut_None. Rebounds_Miami 30 (Kadji 7),Boston College 32 (Humphrey 7).Assists_Miami 13 (Scott 4), Boston College10 (Anderson 3). Total Fouls_Miami 14,Boston College 15. Technical_Jackson.A_5,874.

Abu Dhabi ChampionshipSunday

At Abu Dhabi Golf Club (National Course)Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Purse: $2.7 millionYardage: 7,510; Par: 72

Final Round ResultsRobert Rock, England69-70-66-70—275Rory McIlroy, N. Ireland67-72-68-69—276Graeme McDwll, N. Ireland72-69-68-68—277Thomas Bjorn, Denmark,73-71-65-68—277Tiger Woods, USA 70-69-66-72—277Matteo Mannasero, Italy73-65-71-69—278George Coetzee, S. Africa71-72-65-70—278Keith Horne, S. Africa71-71-68-69—279Thorbjorn Olsen, Denmark70-67-71-71—279Francesco Molinari, Italy74-67-66-72—279Paul Lawrie, Scotland70-69-68-72—279Sergio Garcia, Spain71-69-71-69—280Jean-Baptste Gnnt, France68-71-69-72—280Anders Hansen, Denmark71-70-72-68—281Romain Wattel, France74-69-69-69—281Gareth Maybin, N. Ireland68-70-72-71—281Charl Schwartzel, S. Africa70-70-72-70—282Lee Westwood, England72-72-68-70—282Simon Dyson, England72-72-68-70—282Mark Foster, England75-67-69-71—282David Lynn, England74-70-67-71—282Gonzlo Frndz-Cstno, Spain72-74-65-71—282J. Kngston, S. Africa 69-72-67-74—282Robert Karlsson, Sweden67-72-72-72—283Padraig Harrington, Ireland71-69-72-73—285Miguel A. Jimenez, Spain72-69-70-75—286Luke Donald, England71-72-73-71—287KJ Choi, South Korea71-75-68-73—287Ben Curtis, United States72-71-70-74—287Jose Maria Olazabal, Spain72 -74 -78 -71—295

Farmers Insurance OpenSunday

At San Diegos-Torrey Pines (South Course): 7,698

yards, par-72n-Torrey Pines (North Course): 7,094

yards, par-72Purse: $6 million

Final Round Results(x-won on second playoff hole)

x-Brandt Snedeker 7s-64n-74-67—272 -16Kyle Stanley 62n-68s-68-74—272 -16John Rollins 70s-65n-68-71—274 -14Bill Haas 63n-71s-70-72—276 -12Cameron Tringale 67n-72s-66-71—276 -12Hunter Mahan 69s-65n-74-69—277 -11John Huh 64n-71s-68-74—277 -11Jimmy Walker 73s-65n-70-70—278 -10Martin Flores 65n-67s-75-71—278 -10Justin Leonard 65n-70s-71-72—278 -10Rod Pampling 64n-75s-68-71—278 -10D.A. Points 70s-70n-67-71—278 -10Vijay Singh 64n-75s-71-69—279 -9Bill Lunde 74n-68s-68-69—279 -9Rickie Fowler 68n-70s-71-70—279 -9Bryce Molder 71s-70n-68-70—279 -9Stewart Cink 69s-68n-72-70—279 -9Bud Cauley 69n-70s-73-67—279 -9Bubba Watson 69n-71s-68-71—279 -9Ryo Ishikawa 69s-69n-69-72—279 -9Scott Piercy 70n-68s-68-73—279 -9Keegan Bradley 69n-68s-73-70—280 -8Robert Allenby 68n-67s-73-72—280 -8Pat Perez 66n-70s-71-73—280 -8Camilo Villegas 65n-72s-70-73—280 -8Jonas Blixt 70s-70n-65-75—280 -8Aaron Baddeley 70n-72s-69-70—281 -7Brendon de Jonge 70s-70n-69-72—281 -7Seung-Yul Noh 69n-72s-71-69—281 -7Nick O'Hern 69s-70n-74-68—281 -7James Driscoll 68s-69n-70-74—281 -7Tim Herron 68n-70s-69-74—281 -7Michael Bradley 69n-71s-70-72—282 -6John Merrick 74s-66n-70-72—282 -6Chris Riley 67n-70s-72-73—282 -6Greg Chalmers 65n-72s-72-73—282 -6Marc Turnesa 66s-72n-74-70—282 -6Justin Rose 71s-68n-70-73—282 -6Trevor Immelman 71s-70n-71-70—282 -6Roberto Castro 70n-72s-71-69—282 -6Cameron Beckman68s-72n-74-68—282 -6Sang-Moon Bae 65n-67s-72-78—282 -6Tom Pernice Jr. 69n-72s-69-73—283 -5Charles Howell III 72n-69s-69-73—283 -5Harris English 67n-72s-72-72—283 -5Spencer Levin 62n-76s-73-72—283 -5Ricky Barnes 69s-70n-73-71—283 -5Blake Adams 75s-67n-70-71—283 -5Dustin Johnson 66n-72s-70-75—283 -5Geoff Ogilvy 72s-70n-67-75—284 -4Paul Goydos 68s-72n-69-75—284 -4Chris DiMarco 68n-70s-72-75—285 -3Marc Leishman 72s-69n-70-74—285 -3Kevin Chappell 73s-69n-69-74—285 -3Marco Dawson 67s-73n-72-73—285 -3J.J. Killeen 72s-69n-67-77—285 -3Charley Hoffman 71s-68n-74-72—285 -3Andres Romero 68n-73s-72-72—285 -3Ernie Els 71s-70n-72-72—285 -3Bobby Gates 76s-64n-70-76—286 -2Jhonattan Vegas 69s-68n-73-76—286 -2Nick Watney 69s-68n-75-74—286 -2Richard H. Lee 72s-69n-73-72—286 -2Chez Reavie 72s-67n-75-74—288 EMark D. Anderson73s-68n-73-74—288 ETommy Biershenk70n-71s-72-76—289 +1Josh Teater 64n-77s-72-76—289 +1Gary Christian 72n-70s-71-76—289 +1Steve Marino 69n-71s-74-75—289 +1Duffy Waldorf 70n-69s-75-75—289 +1Chris Kirk 70s-72n-72-76—290 +2Greg Owen 75s-67n-71-78—291 +3Colt Knost 66n-74s-74-79—293 +5

Made cut; did not finishMiguel Angel Carballo70s-72n-73—215 -1Jarrod Lyle 73s-69n-73—215 -1Boo Weekley 71s-67n-78—216 EBrendon Todd 70n-71s-75—216 EGary Woodland 70n-72s-74—216 ETroy Kelly 68n-72s-78—218 +2

Pro Bowl

AFC 59, NFC 41

NFC 14 14 7 6—41AFC 14 14 10 21—59

First QuarterNFC_Fitzgerald 10 pass from Rodgers(Akers kick), 9:14.NFC_Fitzgerald 44 pass from Rodgers(Akers kick), 9:05.AFC_Green 34 pass from Roethlisberger(Janikowski kick), 6:54.AFC_Marshall 74 pass from Roethlisberger(Janikowski kick), 2:35.

Second QuarterNFC_J.Graham 2 pass from Brees (Akerskick), 9:47.AFC_Marshall 29 pass from Rivers(Janikowski kick), 5:22.NFC_G.Jennings 11 pass from Brees (Akerskick), 2:36.AFC_Gates 27 pass from Rivers (Janikowskikick), :00.

Third QuarterAFC_FG Janikowski 37, 12:23.NFC_S.Smith 55 pass from Newton (Akerskick), 11:12.AFC_Marshall 47 pass from Dalton(Janikowski kick), 3:53.

Fourth QuarterAFC_Leach 1 run (Janikowski kick), 11:40.AFC_Marshall 3 pass from Dalton(Janikowski kick), 8:25.AFC_D.Johnson 60 interception return(Janikowski kick), 5:16.NFC_Fitzgerald 36 pass from Newton (kickfailed), 2:37.

NFC AFCFirst downs 26 26Total Net Yards 546 596Rushes-yards 16-73 24-126Passing 473 470Punt Returns 0-0 4-115Kickoff Returns 4-135 1-29Interceptions Ret. 2-4 3-176Comp-Att-Int 33-59-3 24-39-2Sacked-Yards Lost 1-8 0-0Punts 4-51.0 0-0.0Fumbles-Lost 3-2 1-1Penalties-Yards 0-0 0-0Time of Possession 33:03 26:57

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING_NFC, Lynch 8-43, Newton 4-14,McCoy 2-10, Forte 2-6. AFC, Jones-Drew 6-56, Mathews 8-35, McGahee 4-23, Leach 3-7, Jackson 1-7, Dalton 2-(minus 2).PASSING_NFC, Newton 9-27-3-186, Brees10-14-0-146, Rodgers 13-17-0-141, Lee 1-1-0-8. AFC, Rivers 11-19-1-190,Roethlisberger 6-11-1-181, Dalton 7-9-0-99.RECEIVING_NFC, Gonzalez 7-114,Fitzgerald 6-111, S.Smith 5-118, J.Graham5-74, G.Jennings 5-42, White 2-25, Peterson1-8, Forte 1-4, Rodgers 1-(minus 15). AFC,Marshall 6-176, Jackson 4-64, Gates 3-67,Green 2-42, Wallace 2-34, Jones-Drew 2-25,Brown 2-15, McGahee 1-20, Gresham 1-14,Leach 1-13.

BASEBALLAmerican League

BALTIMORE ORIOLES_Agreed to termswith LHP Kim Seong-min, LHP Ryan Edell,LHP Dennys Reyes, RHP Willie Eyre, RHPArmando Galarraga, RHP Steve Johnson,RHP Jon Link, RHP Pat Neshek, RHPMiguel Socolovich, RHP Oscar Villarreal, CJohn Hester, C Ronny Paulino.TEXAS RANGERS_Signed manager RonWashington to a two-year contract exten-sion through the 2014 season.National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS_Agreed to terms withRHP Rodrigo Lopez, LHP Trever Miller, CJason Jaramillo, INF Alfredo Amezaga, INFEdgar Gonzalez, INF Bobby Scales, INFMatt Tolbert and OF Joe Mather on minorleague contracts.MILWAUKEE BREWERS_Agreed to termswith OF Corey Patterson on a minor leaguecontract.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

WASHINGTON WIZARDS_Recalled C

Hamady Ndiaye from Iowa (NBADL).FOOTBALL

National Football LeagueBALTIMORE RAVENS_Named JimCaldwell quarterbacks coach.KANSAS CITY CHIEFS_Named TomMcMahon special teams coach. Fired spe-cial teams coach Steve Hoffman, widereceivers coach Richie Anderson and assis-tant offensive line coach Pat Perles.MIAMI DOLPHINS_Named GeorgeEdwards linebackers coach and Zac Taylorassistant quarterbacks coach. Retainedtight ends coach Dan Campbell, strengthcoach Darren Krein and special teamscoordinator Darren Rizzi.SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS_Signed WRJohn Matthews to a reserve/future contract.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

CAROLINA HURRICANES_Signed D TimGleason to a four-year contract. Recalled FRiley Nash from Charlotte (AHL).COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS_Recalled CAndrew Joudrey and D David Savard fromSpringfield (AHL).DALLAS STARS_Recalled D Philip Larsen

from Texas (AHL).FLORIDA PANTHERS_Recalled D TysonStrachan from San Antonio (AHL).MONTREAL CANADIENS_Recalled FAndreas Engqvist from Hamilton (AHL).NEW JERSEY DEVILS_Recalled C JacobJosefon, D Matt Taormina and RW SteveBernier from Albany (AHL).NEW YORK ISLANDERS_Recalled GKevin Poulin and RW Rhett Rakhshani fromBridgeport (AHL). Placed C MartyReasoner on injured reserve, retroactive toJan. 6.PHOENIX COYOTES_Recalled D ChrisSummers from Portland (AHL).ST. LOUIS BLUES_Recalled F Chris Porterfrom Peoria (AHL).WASHINGTON CAPITALS_Signed F JoelRechlicz to an entry-level contract andrecalled him and F Cody Eakin fromHershey (AHL).WINNIPEG JETS_Recalled F AaronGagnon and F Spencer Machacek from St.John's (AHL). Traded F Akim Aliu to Calgaryfor D John Negrin.

FedEx Cup LeadersThrough Jan. 29YTD Top Last Week

Rank Name PointsWins10'sFinishChange1. J. Wagner 783 1 3 DNP +1442. B. Snedeker 578 1 2 1 +1433. Mark Wilson 553 1 1 DNP +1424. Steve Stricker530 1 1 DNP +1415. Martin Laird 355 1 DNP +1406. Kyle Stanley 346 1 2 +1397. H. Frazar 289 2 DNP +1388. John Rollins 263 2 3 +1379. Sean O'Hair 238 1 DNP +13610. C. Howell III229 1 T43 +13511. D.A. Points 223 2 T8 +13412. C. Pettersson210 1 DNP +13313. R. Garrigus 208 1 CUT +13213. J. Mallinger 208 1 CUT +13215. W. Simpson192 1 DNP +13016. Bill Haas 180 1 T4 +12917. Br. de Jonge174 1 T27 +12818. R. Sabbatini168 1 DNP +12719. J. Maggert 166 1 DNP +12620. J. Byrd 163 1 DNP +12521. C. Tringale 160 1 T4 +12422. S. Piercy 159 T13 +12323. K. Bradley 158 T22 +12224. B.Crane 153 2 CUT +12125. C. Kirk 144 1 71 +12026. B. Molder 142 1 T13 +11927. J. Senden 141 1 DNP +11828. D.Toms 140 1 DNP +11729. K.J. Choi 135 1 DNP +11630. B.Cauley 129 T13 +11531. S. Bae 127 T33 +11432. Pat Perez 124 T22 +11333. Brian Gay 115 1 DNP +11234. John Huh 113 1 T6 +11135. B. Gates 109 1 T60 +11036. C.DiMarco 108 T52 +10937. B. Watson 107 T13 +10838. M. Thmpsn 101 1 CUT +10739. B. Todd 100 T76 +10640. C.Villegas 98 T22 +10541. Kevin Na 97 DNP +10442. H. Mahan 95 1 T6 +10343. Z. Johnson 93 1 DNP +10244. S. Cink 92 T13 +10145. A. Baddeley 92 T27 +10046. Matt Every 89 1 CUT +9947. J. Leonard 89 1 T8 +5448. W. McGirt 88 CUT +9748. J. Walker 88 1 T8 +5450. J. Driscoll 85 T27 +95

LOCAL SCHEDULE

Prep BasketballBoys, 7:30 p.m.

Hoke at LumbertonRichmond at Purnell SwettSouth Robeson at St. PaulsWest Columbus at FairmontRed Springs at East Columbus

Girls, 6 p.m.Hoke at LumbertonRichmond at Purnell SwettSouth Robeson at St. PaulsWest Columbus at FairmontRed Springs at East Columbus

RobersonFrom Page B1

Fedora hustling to nail downfinal pack of football recruits

Outspoken leader

SafetyAntrel Rolle plays New York’s voice of discontent

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RODGER MALLISON | MCTNew York safety Antrel Rolle has taken verbal shots at teammates after losses this season, but the Giants have taken his words to heart.

Tom CanavanAssociated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Antrel Rolle isthe voice of discontent on the New YorkGiants.If the veteran safety isn't happy with

the way things are going, he doesn't hes-itate to mouth off. It's put him at oddswith coach Tom Coughlin at times.It's also one of the reasons the Giants

are back in the Super Bowl and facingthe New England Patriots for the NFLtitle for the second time in four years.Rolle's frustration after a 23-10 loss to

the Washington Redskins on Dec. 18might have been the spark the Giants(12-7) needed to turn their seasonaround.

Rolle didn't rip anyone after the lack-luster game, which left New York with a7-7 record, but he did say injured playersneeded to stop babying themselves and,basically, get back to work."I can't stress what I felt at that par-

ticular point in time," Rolle said Monday."I know I am not happy about what isbeing said and I know who I am as a per-son."He spoke up and got his point across.

It's not the first time. A year ago, heseemed to question the Giants' leader-ship on defense, taking a swipe at JustinTuck.Coughlin stepped in and asked Rolle

to talk to him before taking his case tothe media.Rolle broke etiquette after the

Washington game, but his words wereappreciated."You don't want to be labeled as a guy

who is a cancer in the locker room or aguy who is a big mouth," Rolle said, not-ing his mother has always chided him forsaying too much. "I am like: 'Mom, I hearyou.' But I don't look at the beginning ofthe tunnel. I look at the end of the tunnel.I know what I am saying. I would neverspeak anything that is not meaningfuland that I feel cannot help my team-mates. It's never been about me."The Giants haven't said how they will

employ Rolle on Sunday against TomBrady and the Patriots. In the 24-20 winover New England on Nov. 6, New Yorkused a lot of three-safety alignments tohandle the Patriots' two tight ends.

RIVALS PHOTOJunior Gnonkonde of Lakeland, Ga., was one of threeUNC commitments over the weekend.

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MALE Athlete ofthe Week

James ChavisChavis, a Purnell Swett

junior forward, scored 19points Tuesday in a lossagainst Lumberton for theRams then nailed the game-winning 3-pointer in the wan-ing seconds three nights laterin a 49-47 victory atScotland.

FEMALE Athlete ofthe Week

DeDe CottenCotten, a Fayetteville native

out of Seventy-First High School,averaged 15 points, 9 reboundsand 2.3 assists per game for theUNCP womensʼ basketball teamlast week, including her firstcareer double-double at GeorgiaSouthwestern on Sunday.

ALLENORTHOPEDICS OF LUMBERTONSALUTES OURATHLETES OFTHEWEEK

404 Hatfield Ct., Lumberton, NC(near Outback Steakhouse)

(910) 738-3358

a renovated weight room, new equip-ment and a rebranded football field-house. In addition to his coaching duties,

Roberson will teach three weight-train-ing courses.“Of course our goal is to win every

game, but I just want my kids to playhard for 48 minutes,” Roberson said. “Ithink knowing how to motivate kidsand being a mentor to them is one ofmy strengths.”Roberson is replacing Garron

Warwick, now an assistant at RedSprings, after an 0-11 season. He is theschool’s fourth head coach since 2007.“Our goal is getting the players to

compete … we aren’t worried aboutwins and losses right now,” Carter said.“The wins will come once Stephendevelops drive in these kids.”Added Warwick: “Stephen’s a great

guy and I wish him the best. I knowhe’ll do a great job.”Last season, South Robeson’s coach-

ing staff was made up of two paid posi-tions and two volunteers.“I’ve been told that two full-time

assistants are in the works,” Robersonsaid. “I’ve already talked to Chris(Simpson) and he’ll stay on as an assis-tant. I’m not sure what Tauris (Baker)will do. I’ll give out official titles duringthe summer when I see what we’reworking with.”South Robeson opted for a defensive

mind without any head coaching expe-rience after failing with Warwick whowas just 1-20 in two seasons. Robersonlives in the area and called the defensefor the Mustangs in 2008 and 2009before departing for Pembroke.“His best attribute is building rela-

tionships with the kids,” Swett coachMark Heil said. “They know coachRoberson cares about them and wantsto see them do well. The kids like him.”Roberson met some of his players for

the first time Monday. He’ll evaluate tal-ent over the summer and decide onwhat schemes best fit his personnel.Roberson prefers a 4-3 defense butadmits a 4-2-5 may be more suitable ifthe Mustangs have more speed thansize.“I’m excited to get started,”

Roberson said. “This is a great oppor-tunity for myself and the future ofSouth Robeson football.”

Reach Staff writer Brad Crawford at (910)272-6119 or [email protected].

Staff report

HONOLULU — Vonta Leach hadn’tscored a touchdown all season for theBaltimore Ravens. The All-Pro full-back, playing in his second all-stargame, waited until Sunday’s Pro Bowl

to reach paydirt.The Rowland

native’s 1-yardplunge in the fourthquarter followed bythe PAT gave theAFC a 45-35 lead.The AFC went on tobeat the NFC, 59-41.C a r o l i n a

Panthers rookiequarterback CamNewton threw three

interceptions and completed just 9-of-27 passes for 18 yards. He did throw a55-yard touchdown pass to teammateSteve Smith in the third quarter andadded another late in the game toArizona’s Larry Fitzgerald.Brandon Marshall was named MVP

after compiling 176 yards on six catch-es, four of which went for scores.

Vonta Leach

Bill ColeWinston-Salem Journal

CHAPEL HILL — Coach LarryFedora hasn't had a great amount oftime to build his first football recruit-ing class at North Carolina, but he ismaking the most of the time he hasleft before national signing dayWednesday.UNC added three commitments

over the weekend, giving Fedoraeight since he became the coachDec. 9 and a total of 22.Also, N.C. State reached into the

junior college ranks for its latestcommitment and now has a class of23.UNC's latest commitments are

from defensive end JuniorGnonkonde (6-foot-5, 225 pounds)of Lakeland, Ga., and Lanier CountyHigh School; tight end/defensiveend Monte Taylor (6-3, 235) ofSpringdale, Md., and Flowers High;and receiver Kendrick Singleton (6-3, 200) Glen Saint Mary, Fla., andBaker County High.N.C. State added linebacker

Robert Caldwell (6-3, 245) ofTwentynine Palms, Calif., and the

College of the Desert in PalmDesert, Calif.Gnonkonde (pronounced Nuh-

konday) was ranked as the No. 59senior in Georgia in SuperPrep mag-azine's postseason rankings. He alsohad offers from Wake Forest,Syracuse, South Carolina, CentralFlorida and Louisiana Tech, andFlorida's staff said it wanted him if itlost any commitments before signingday."Junior's strong and very quick,"

Coach Brent Miller of Lanier Countysaid. "He has enough speed that hecould run people down. He can maketackles all the way across the field."Miller said that Gnonkonde had

about 119 tackles as a senior. Heaveraged 19 tackles in the last threeor four games and had one game of22 tackles. He has 4.65-second speedover 40 yards. Gnonkonde is fromWest Africa and did not play footballuntil he came to the United States asa 9th-grader."He really came here to play bas-

ketball, and he ended up staying,"Miller said. "He saw football, and heliked it. He came out for football andtried it, and he was very good at it."

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

‘Cats anxiouswith Walker

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Miami shakes off slow start, tops Hornets

Associated Press

CHARLOTTE —Bobcats coach Paul Silasspent the better part of aweek preaching to KembaWalker the importance ofpassing first, shooting sec-ond.Apparently Walker's a

pretty good listener.In just his fourth start at

point guard Walker handedout 11 assists en route tohis first career triple-dou-ble in Charlotte's102-99 lossSaturday night tothe WashingtonWizards. It was ar e m a r k a b l eimprovement overWalker's first threestarts, in which hehad just eightassists combined.Walker also

scored 20 pointsand pulled down 10rebounds."Let me tell you, it was

just wonderful," Silas said."I didn't know that hecould pass the ball thatwell or even see guys thatwere open like that. Hehadn't done it before, buthe's learning. To get atriple-double after 21games, to me, that's justout of this world."I just can't think of

enough good things to sayabout him and how wellhe's going to do in thefuture."Silas has been around

the league long enough toknow that one game does-n't make or break a player.As promising as

Walker's breakout gamewas, he'd like to see therookie the consistentlytake charge.The No. 9 overall pick

in the draft out ofConnecticut will get thechance to do that over thenext four games with regu-

lar starting point guardD.J. Augustin already ruledout because of inflamma-tion in his right toe.The Bobcats will look to

snap an eight-game losingstreak Tuesday night whenthey begin a four-gameroad trip against the LosAngeles Lakers."Honestly, I'm still try-

ing to learn this game,"Walker said. "I'm a veryunselfish player. I don'tmind passing the ball at all.

Coach told me hewanted me to getguys the ball andhe showed me onfilm a lot of theopportunities thatI have to get tothe basket anddistribute."Walker admit-

tedly struggledduring his firstthree starts.

Silas urged him bothpublically and privately todo a better job of distribut-ing the ball, hoping to getthe point across."We talked to him about

what was needed and wetalked to him about how todistribute first and scoresecond," Silas said.They watched hours of

tape together.It culminated in what

Walker said was probablyhis best game, but hedownplayed the effort bynoting his team's NBA-worst 3-18 record."I just want to win,

whether that means get-ting assists or rebounds,"Walker said.He said he is most com-

fortable playing the pointguard position."I've been playing it my

whole life," Walker said. "Ilove playing point guard.But if I had to be out thereplaying the two spot itdoesn't matter to mebecause I want to play.”

MIAMI (AP) —LeBron James and DwyaneWade each scored 22points, Mike Miller added14 off the bench and theMiami Heat shook off aslow start to run awayfrom the New OrleansHornets 109-95 onMonday night.James added 11

rebounds and eight assistsfor Miami, which won forthe eighth time in ninegames and ended up withsix players in double fig-ures. Chris Bosh andNorris Cole each scored 12for the Heat, and MarioChalmers added 11.Miami was down 45-33

midway through the sec-ond quarter, thenoutscored New Orleans 76-50 the rest of the way.Jarrett Jack and Carl

Landry each scored 14 forNew Orleans, which lostfor the 17th time in 19games after a 2-0 start.The Hornets managed 25rebounds — the lowesttotal in the NBA this sea-son.

Clippers 112,Thunder 100

LOS ANGELES (AP)— Chris Paul had 26points and 14 assists,Blake Griffin added 22points and a monstrousdunk, and Los Angelessnapped Oklahoma City'sfour-game winning streakin a matchup of divisionleaders.Caron Butler also

scored 22 points andDeAndre Jordan had 11points and 11 rebounds asthe Pacific-leadingClippers won their third ina row, dunking with high-flying abandon against theteam with the NBA's bestrecord at 16-4.Kevin Durant had 36

points and 13 rebounds,and Russell Westbrookadded 31 points for theN o r t h w e s t - l e a d i n g

Thunder, whose league-best road record droppedto 8-3. They had won 11 oftheir previous 12.

Bulls 98,Wizards 88

WASHINGTON (AP)— Derrick Rose scored aseason-high 35 points,Carlos Boozer had 18 andKyle Korver added 17 tolead Chicago overWashington.One day after a four-

point loss in Miami, theBulls rebounded toimprove their EasternConference-leading recordto 18-5. They had droppedtwo of three.Meanwhile, the Wizards

have lost 16 of 20.Washington won two of itsprevious three games —both against the woefulCharlotte Bobcats.

Mavericks 112,Suns 99

PHOENIX (AP) —Vince Carter scored 21points against a Phoenixteam that's still paying himand Dallas took advantageof Steve Nash's absence torout the Suns.Nash, the NBA assists

leader, was out with abruised left thigh.Carter was waived by

Phoenix when the lockoutended, but his contract stillguaranteed him $4 million.

76ers 74,Magic 69

PHILADELPHIA (AP)— Andre Iguodala had 14points and 11 rebounds tolead the surprisingPhiladelphia 76ers pastOrlando for their thirdstraight win.The Sixers raced to

their best start in nearly adecade by taking advan-tage of a soft schedule for

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the first third of the sea-son, but it gets tough fromhere.

T’Wolves 120,Rockets 108

HOUSTON (AP) —Michael Beasley scored 34points, Ricky Rubio had 18points and 11 assists andMinnesota beat theRockets in coach RickAdelman's return toHouston.Kevin Love had 29

points for theTimberwolves, who brokeopen a close game with 42points in the third for theirhighest-scoring quarterthis season. Minnesotashot a season-best 58 per-cent (43 of 74) from thefield and eclipsed its previ-ous high point total for theseason by 14.

Spurs 83,Grizzlies 73

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)— Matt Bonner scored 15points, going 5 of 9 fromoutside the arc, and TimDuncan added 14 as SanAntonio sent Memphis toits fourth straight loss.Rookie forward Kawhi

Leonard had 12 points and

10 rebounds for the Spurs,who snapped a two-gameskid. Richard Jeffersonscored 13 points.

Jazz 93,Blazers 89

SALT LAKE CITY(AP) — Paul Millsap had19 points and 15 rebounds,

and Utah used a 13-0fourth-quarter surge tobeat Portland.LaMarcus Aldridge led

Portland with 25 points,including 14 in the thirdquarter as the Blazers builtan 11-point lead. But theJazz fought back, evenwithout starting center AlJefferson and guard RajaBell.

Bucks 103,Pistons 82

MILWAUKEE (AP) —Brandon Jennings had 21points, reserve MikeDunleavy added a season-high 20 on 8-of-10 shoot-ing and Milwaukee rolledto an easy victory overskidding Detroit.

DAVID SANTIAGO | MCTUdonis Haslem and the Miami Heat, at 16-5, are two games back of the Chicago Bulls for thebest record in the Eastern Conference.

Kemba Walker

BLONDIE Dean Young/Denis Lebrun

BEETLE BAILEY Mort Walker

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Chris Browne

HI & LOIS Brian and Greg Walker

FUNKY WINKERBEAN Tom Batiuk

MUTTS Patrick McDonnell

THE FAMILY CIRCUS Bil Keane

DENNIS THE MENACE Hank Ketchum

CONCEPTIS SUDOKUby Dave Green

Today’s Answers

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012:

This year you opt for more pri-vate, home time. A partner plays a more important role than in the past. Together you work as a team to make your domestic and personal life every-thing it can be. If you are single, you are in the mood for a live-in relation-ship. Though someone could be taken by you, don’t move too quickly into this type of arrangement. In a part-nership, you could make some very good investments involving property. Independently, you might even take a class in investments or possibly learn how to remodel homes. TAURUS encourages spending!

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Curb a tendency to do oth-

ers’ work, especially if it means con-vincing them to handle something your way. Your efforts to restrain yourself will pay off. Accept an offer in a ten-tative tone, as you might want to do something a little differently. Tonight: Treat time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You could be on top of a

project, yet someone’s insightful and different opinion could give you reason to pause. No matter how you look at a situation, it is changeable. Detach and know that you might not have reached the complete conclusion just yet. Tonight: All smiles.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)HHH Sometimes less is more. You

decide to pull back to help others air out their ideas. You might even have to revise an opinion or two as well. A dis-cussion about security or property could get heated, or perhaps a relative could get a bit hot under the collar. Tonight: Get some R and R.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)HHHHH Know that once you focus,

you nearly can pull white rabbits out of black hats. You are unusually direct and know what you want. Your abil-ity to socialize and empathize quickly becomes a strong suit in a meeting. Tonight: Say what you feel.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)HHHH Others might be too aware

of your actions for your taste. You would like to be able to do a little more without wondering who is watching. You are aware of your image, and oth-ers know it. Give yourself some mental space, and you could feel much better. Tonight: Could go until the wee hours.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)HHHH Break past what others say

and do. Clear out a certain amount of frustration. Touch base with someone you feel has a very different perspective from your own. Consider a trip in the near future or taking a workshop involv-ing a hobby. You need to refresh your mind. Tonight: Follow the music.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You might want to share

more with a key partner. You have many differences as well as similarities. Though this person could be taciturn, he or she also can be very diplomatic. Don’t worry so much about your feel-ings getting hurt. Tonight: Get some exercise.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH You have a hard time giv-

ing up control. But you are discovering you only have control over yourself. Consider that you may have created a veil of illusion upon yourself. Listen to a male friend who can be pushy. He might not be right, but his perspective triggers an insight. Tonight: Let another person choose.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)HHH Maintain a steady attitude

when dealing with your finances. You might not like everything you hear, but you can deal with it. You could be pushed to the max to perform. A boss is demanding. Tonight: Choose a stress-buster.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)HHHHH Your innate ingenuity

could carry you, as well as others, through a major conflict. You might not know what to think at this point, but you have a strong idea of what you want. Follow that course. Worry less about everyone else. Tonight: Detach if you are irritated.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)HHHH You could be taken aback

by how demanding someone could become. You understand a lot more than you originally thought possible. Your reaction to run from this person comes from a grounded spot. Still, handle the issue. Tonight: Where the action is.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)HHHHH You choose the right

words and naturally follow the correct course of action. Touch base with a relative, catch up on a neighbor’s news and return emails. Some interesting options tumble into your lap. Tonight: Hang out.

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zITS Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman

Jacquelene Bigar’s Horoscope

THE LOCKHORNS William Hoest

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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF ROBESONNOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBT-ORS Of Rachel Musselwhite HamrickDECEASEDThe undersigned having qualified asExecutrix, of the estate of RachelMusselwhite Hamrick, deceased, lateof Robeson County, this is to notifyall persons, firms and corporationshaving claims against said estate toexhibit them to the undersigned onor before the 12th day of April,2012, or be barred from their recov-ery. All persons indebted to said es-tate are asked to please make imme-diate payment to the undersigned.This the 10th day of January, 2012.Deborah Joan Hamrick2310 Fairview Rd.Raleigh, NC 27608RMH011012 1/10 1/17 1/24 1/31STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF CUMBERLANDIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICESUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONNOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BYPUBLICATION, FILE NO: AA CVS 8133Monica Mullins, Plaintiffvs.Power Source, Inc., Andy Sexton,and John Doe and other unknownemployees of Power Source, Inc.,DefendantsTO: Power Source, Inc., Andy Sexton,and John Doe and other unknownemployees of Power Source, Inc., theabove named Defendants.PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a pleadingseeking relief against you has beenfiled in the above entitled action. Thenature of the relief being sought is asfollows: A claim for personal injuriesarising out of an electrical shock ac-cident that occurred on September24, 2008. You are required to makedefense to such pleading not laterthan the 27th day of February, 2012,said date being 40 days from the firstpublication of this notice, or from thedate complaint is required to befiled, whichever is later; and uponyour failure to do so the party seek-ing service against you will apply tothe court for the relief sought.This the 11th day of January, 2012.CLIFF BRISSON, JR., Attorney forPlaintiff, NC State Bar No. 8193P.O. Box 1180, Fayetteville, NC28302, (910)483-0131CBJ011712 1/17 1/24 1/31

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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALENORTH CAROLINA, ROBESONCOUNTY, 10 SP 301Under and by virtue of a Power ofSale contained in that certain Deed ofTrust executed by Roy S. McNeill IIand Helen McNeill to PRLAP, Inc.,Trustee(s), dated September 17,2007, and recorded in Book D 1628,Page 589, Robeson County Registry,North Carolina. Default having beenmade in the payment of the notethereby secured by the said Deed ofTrust and the undersigned, havingbeen substituted as Trustee in saidDeed of Trust by an instrument dulyrecorded in the Office of the Registerof Deeds of Robeson County, NorthCarolina, and the holder of the noteevidencing said indebtedness havingdirected that the Deed of Trust beforeclosed, the undersigned Substi-tute Trustees will offer for sale at theCourthouse Door in Robeson County,North Carolina, at 2:45PM on Febru-ary 07, 2012, and will sell to thehighest bidder for cash the followingdescribed property, to wit: That cer-tain lot or parcel of land located justeast of the City of Lumberton, andbeing all of Lot Number Forty-Eight(48) as shown and designated on amap prepared by Koonce, Noble andAssociates, Inc., Consulting Engi-neers, in June 1976, entitled "Britts-wood Subdivision, Section Two", andrecorded in Robeson County Registryin Book of Maps No. 22, Page 28,reference to said map and registra-tion being hereby made for the pur-pose of incorporating the sameherein by reference and for a morecomplete and particular descriptionof said lands. Said property is con-veyed subject to that certain set backline as per map recorded in Book ofOfficial Maps No. 22, Page 28, Robe-son County Registry, and further isconveyed subject to those certain re-strictive covenants which appear ofrecord in Book 20-H, Page 237,Robeson County Registry. Said prop-erty is commonly known as 2991Trevor Drive, Lumberton, NC 28358.Third party purchasers must pay theexcise tax, pursuant to N.C.G.S.105-228.30, in the amount of OneDollar ($1.00) per each Five HundredDollars ($500.00) or fractional partthereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee,pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-308, in theamount of Forty-five Cents (45) pereach One Hundred Dollars ($100.00)or fractional part thereof or FiveHundred Dollars ($500.00), which-ever is greater. A deposit of five per-cent (5%) of the bid, or Seven Hun-dred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, will be required at thetime of the sale and must be ten-dered in the form of certified funds.Following the expiration of the statu-tory upset bid period, all the remain-ing amounts will be immediately dueand owing. Said property to be of-fered pursuant to this Notice of Saleis being offered for sale, transfer andconveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There areno representations of warranty relat-ing to the title or any physical, envi-ronmental, health or safety condi-tions existing in, on, at, or relating tothe property being offered for sale.This sale is made subject to all priorliens, unpaid taxes, special assess-ments, land transfer taxes, if any,and encumbrances of record. To thebest of the knowledge and belief ofthe undersigned, the currentowner(s) of the property is/are Roy S.McNeill II and Helen McNeill. PLEASETAKE NOTICE: An order for posses-sion of the property may be issuedpursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor ofthe purchaser and against the partyor parties in possession by the clerkof superior court of the county inwhich the property is sold. Any per-son who occupies the property pur-suant to a rental agreement enteredinto or renewed on or after October1, 2007, may, after receiving the no-tice of sale, terminate the rentalagreement upon 10 days' written no-tice to the landlord. The notice shallalso state that upon termination of arental agreement, that tenant is liablefor rent due under the rental agree-ment prorated to the effective date ofthe termination.Nationwide Trustee Services, Inc.Substitute Trustee1587 Northeast ExpresswayAtlanta, GA 30329(770) 234-9181Our File No.: 432.1008308NCSP012412 1/24 1/31

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Notices (ANNOUNCE)

* W * I * N * N * E * R *THE ROBESONIAN

CIRCULATION WINNER !

"CONGRATULATIONS" Atlas Ned Bullock Barnes Rd., Orrum

Prize must be claimed in personwithin the next 3 business days

from the day your name ap-pears in the newspaper. Please

present your picture I.D. * W * I * N * N * E * R *

ANIMALS

FINANCIAL

Financial (SERV)

We Specialize In Correcting Your Credit.

CREDIT IMPROVEMENT

COMPANYMichael Smith910.258.8164

Located on West 5th St.Lumberton, NC

Beside Burger Kingin the Mobile Station

WE CLEAN CREDIT RECORDS

Call for appointment910.258.8164

300 SERVICES

AGRICULTURE

Garden & Produce (AGRi)

Vidalia Type Sweet OnionPlants Yllw, Rd, White $4.49/bundle of 60 plants 739-2235

Hay, Feed, Seed, Grain

Cabbage & Onion Plants, IrishPotato, Sweet Pea Seed MORRIS

PLANT FARM 910 276-0515

Hunting & Land (AGRi)

Farm Land Wanted Pembroke/ Rowland area.

Please call John 910-733-2799

MERCHANDISE

400 FINANCIAL

Whirlpool 3 Cycle Dryer.Good Condition

$130 Neg. 910-785-4894

Miscellaneous (MERCH)

Wanted Silver Coins Prior to1964 Date. 910-827-4154

Want To Buy (MERCH)

"1 AAAAAAA" JUNK CARREMOVAL CASH PAID

CALL 910-618-0221"AAAAbsolute"BEST

PRICES! We Buy Junk Cars.Call (910)536-5327 or

(910)474-2452

RECREATIONAL VEHICLES

Motorcycles (REC VEH)

1995 Honda CVR 600 bike forsale. $1,600. Good condition.

[email protected] Custom Softail

For Sale $6500.Call (910) 840-0385

AUTOMOTIVE

Autos (AUTO)

1988 Cavalier Z24 $850.Call (910) 734-0239

99 Toyota Camry LE,1 owner,Garaged, 118K miles, loaded,

$5500. 910 393-9178

Classic / Antiques (AUTO)

1967 Mustang Fastback,Real Nice.

Call (910) 263-0961

Want To Buy (AUTO)

ALL-AUTOS Top cash for junkcars 7 days a wk. Pickup within

1 hr. 910-424-7256I Buy Junk Cars Pay $170. -$600. 100% Guaranteed.Open 24/7, 910-385-8585

SAT & SUN PICK UPCash For Junk Cars.

7am -7pm Call 910-258-8612

REAL ESTATE SALES

Commercial (REAL ESTATE)

Rest Home For SalePembroke area.

Call (910) 301-9713

Houses For Sale (REAL

$55,000 2BR/2B in PembrokeOwner Financing

Call 1st Choice 910-521-8301

600 ANIMALS

LAND FOR SALE5.6 Acres Corner of Singletary

& Dallas Road Lumberton$39,500 OBO

Owner Financing 10% down.--------------------------------

CIRCLE OF ONE INC.910 734-1170

OWNER FINANCE1+ acre near Tarheel, 5 min. to

Smithfield Packing for yourD.W.M. Home $9,950, D. Pmt$950, Low Pmt. 803-473-7125

Lots (REAL ESTATE)

Lot For Sale: Shannon, NC163 Cook Rd. Owner Financ-ing Avail. Call (910) 738-1845

REAL ESTATE RENTALS

Apartments/Townhouses

1 Bedroom Apartment,516 E. 8th St, $325 mo. 910-740-2191 REMAX

2 Bd /1Ba Apartment, Centralheat & air. W. Lumberton.

Call (910) 739-9842

For Rent 1 Bd, 810A 11th St.Lumberton, $360. + dep.

Call (910) 736-7453

Commercial (RENT)

Store front locatedat 720A Roberts Ave.

816 sq ft plus 190 sq. ft.of storage spaceUtilities included.$700. per month.(910) 739-5106

House For Rent (RENT)

2BR New Paint/Carpet, No Pet$380/mo +dep. near shopping

L'ton, Ref Reqrd. 827-1297

3 Bd/ 1 Ba House in LongBranch area, Hwy 72. $500 per

mo. + Dep. (910) 840-2845

Call to Rent House3BR/ Private Lot, Backswamp

Area. 910-739-2106

Two rooms for rent (Sattletreearea)- $300 per month,no

house pets call 910-740-9281

MANUFACTURED HOUS-

Rentals (MANUFACTURED)

2 & 3 Bedroom Homeson 1/2 acre lot.

Homes have vinyl siding,shingle roof, decks,

and security system. $435.Call (910) 739-5106

2 Bd /2Ba $385 per mo.Saddletree area.

Call (910) 843-2958

2 BD/1 BA Singlewide inFairmont. $300 per month, +

$300 dep. Call (910) 534-0359or (910) 535-4095

Alamac Village 7th St. Park3Bd/2Ba, Singlewides & Dou-

blewides. 608-3118

Donleigh Properties LIKE NEW SINGLE &

DOUBLEWIDES FOR RENT

Alarm Systems in Every Home

( Lumberton area ) (910) 827-9851

East Robeson Parque de Casas Móviles.

2-3 Recamaras, $300 - $375por mes. (910) 738-8158

For Rent, 3BR, 2BA mobilehome, Union Chapel area.

Call (910) 827-1302

Two Mobile Homes for Rent Rowland Area onprivate lot 3BR $350., $300,2BR $300.,(910) 422-0202

Union Chapel area, Double-Wide Section 8 Approved.$500 per mo. 910-671-9705

Want To Buy (Manufac-

I want to buy Singlewideswith land, will pay in cash.

Call 536-8589

RESORT PROPERTY

700 AGRICULTURE

For Sale Mobile home andlot. Good location, Little River

S.C. Call 910-263-0961

EMPLOYMENT

Construction (HW)

Hangers & Finishers Out of Town Work. Call

910-618-6084 or 618-6094

Drivers & Delivery (HW)

EARN EXTRA CASHThe Robesonian has anindependent contractor

newspaper route available inthe PEMBROKE area. Delivernewspapers a few hours in theafternoons and early morning

on weekends and net over$200.00 per week. You'll need

a dependable car and goodcredit. You will be your own

boss, retirees are welcome toapply. Call Ben Britt

at (910) 272-6114

EARN EXTRA CASHThe Robesonian has anindependent contractor

newspaper route available inthe ROWLAND area.

Deliver newspapers a fewhours in the afternoons andearly morning on weekendsand net over $200.00 per

week. You'll need a depend-able car and good credit. Youwill be your own boss, retirees

are welcome to apply.Call Dahlia Hunt at 272-6115.

Help Wanted - General (HW)

SECURITY OFFICERLumberton, NC area-

Prior experience preferred,nights, weekends and holidaysa must, 21 years of age, H-Sdiploma or GED, no criminal

record. Please apply online atwww.regentsecurity.com Clickon employment for Wilmington,NC Region. Complete onlineassessment. No phone calls.

Sales (HW)

LOCAL OUTSIDE SALESREP of chemicals & janitorial

supplies. Must be very motivated& organized. Benefits & highearnings potential; dedge@

imagesupplyinc.com

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