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Vol. 80, No. 203

Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina

Sanford: Lisa Davis; Delores Hatch, 64; Tommy Mann; Wilma Womack, 92Bunnlevel: Kathy Harrelson, 57Pittsboro: Bobby Williams, 53

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OBITUARIES

HAPPENING TODAYThe Lee County Community

Orchestra will have its second re-hearsal of the 2010-2011 concert season. There is still time for new players to join the group. Music director Tara Villa invites those interested to come to the music practice hall at Lee County High School from 6:30 to 9 p.m. For more information, call 776-4628.

CALENDAR, PAGE 2A

SCOTT MOONEYHAMMore than likely, Perdue’s “fl ight gate” will fade from public’s memory ... until 2012

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High: 97Low: 66

More Weather, 0A

OUR STATEDEATH PENALTY’S FOESCITING SBI’S AUDIT

Criminal prosecutions are so tainted by racial bias and scientifi c fraud that the state should consider eliminating the death penalty, innocence advocates said Monday as they fi led a brief supporting a death row prisoner’s claim of bias

Full Story, Page 7A

FOOTBALL: State investigates Pincrest-Union Pines fi ght • Page 1B

OUR NATION

U.S. GRAPPLES WITHBEDBUG PROBLEM

A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeown-ers and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious blood-suckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides

Full Story, Page 8A

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SPOTLIGHT: JERRY PEDLEY

WESLEY BEESON/The Sanford Herald

Jerry Pedley stands in his offi ce at Mertek Solutions. Pedley, the chairman of the Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce, was back to work in just a few weeks after suffering serious injuries in a fall from a roof earlier this month.

ROAD TO RECOVERYHe doesn’t remember anything about the fall that put him in ICU,

but Jerry Pedley will never forget the outpouring of support that followedBy ALEXA [email protected]

SANFORD — Jerry Pedley has always felt blessed to live in Sanford, but the outpouring of community support follow-ing his fall from a church roof-top in early August reminded him just how much he loves Lee County.

“The chamber, the city, the county — everyone was just so kind,” Pedley said. “The community is so wonderful. There were so many calls and cards.”

The local business leader and Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce chairman was

checking on an air condition-ing unit that was in need of repair at New Hope Baptist Church when he fell and suf-fered numerous injuries, some life-threatening.

Pedley said he doesn’t know if he fainted from the heat or hit his head and then passed out, but the minister’s mother found him and sought emergency assistance.

Everything from just before the fall through his stay at UNC Hospitals is a blur. Ped-ley said he doesn’t remember being in any pain, and his fi rst post-accident recollection is going home from the hospital.

“I feel pretty good again,”

Pedley said. “Some things I wish I could remember, but I don’t know if that’s from getting hit on the head or just being old.”

Pedley suffered a broken shoulder blade and head trauma, including swelling and bleeding in his brain, but he experienced a quicker than expected recovery. Just a few short weeks after the accident, he was already back to work as president of Mertek Solutions, a company that designs and builds assembly machines for everything from chain saw parts to makeup compacts.

THE ECONOMY

Joblessrate goesdown afull pointUnexpected dropwelcome as areacontinues recovery

By BILLY [email protected]

SANFORD — Recession-bat-tered Lee County got some good news in the form of declining unemployment numbers.

Lee County, which has hov-ered with double-digit unem-ployment for some time, saw its jobless rate plunge nearly a full percentage point from June to July, the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina said.

This news comes well before construction manufacturing giant Caterpillar is expected to begin adding 325 new jobs at its Sanford facility.

State numbers pegged Lee unemployment at 11.6 percent in July, down from 12.5 percent in June.

“That was a drop that we didn’t expect to be quite that big,” said Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce President Bob

See Jobless, Page 6A“Everyone’s

kindness and thoughts and

prayers that went out to him helped him a lot, not just while he was in the hospital

but after he got home too ... It made a big difference to know that people cared.”

— DONNA PEDLEY —Wife of Jerry PedleySee Recovery, Page 6A

HURRICANE EARL

State, area readies for ‘major’ hurricane

By JENNIFER [email protected]

SANFORD — With Hur-ricane Earl threatening the Atlantic Coast, the Lee County Offi ce of Emergency Manage-ment is encouraging local residents to stay vigilant.

“One general rule is they need to be prepared,” said Roger Millikin, a tech support specialist with Lee County Emergency Services.

The storm, which has been upgraded to a category 3, is expected to hit the East Coast by Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. As of late Monday morning, the storm was approximately

1,400 nautical miles southeast of Cape Hatteras.

Earl will remain a major hurricane over the next sev-eral days and may strengthen

AP photo

A boy takes cover from a wave caused by the approaching of the Hurricane Earl in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Monday. Earl battered some islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds Monday, rapidly intensifying into a major storm.See Earl, Page 3A

Category 3 stormexpected to hitcoast by Thursday

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LOCAL: Best wishes are extended to everyone celebrating a birthday today, es-pecially Barry Gaines, Doris Lee, Sebastian Palmer, Etta Perry, Charles Beamer, Tatyana Lyne Lavon Ridges, William Claude Parker, Wilson Dean Ramsperger, Amanda Lauren Michael, Colon L. Kelly, Ritchie McDonald, Georgia V. Brown, Martha Causey, Frank-lin Thomas, James Coble, Betty Martin, Earl Norris, Rebecca Angel Gaines, Traacy Masson Gaines, Laymond Brown, Michelle Brown, Jennifer Holder, Fran Edmonds, Pey-ton Horner, Zelma Smith, Tina Lynette Blue, Rodney Brent Nordan, Tishawn Allen and Daymon Russell II.

CELEBRITIES: Comedian Lewis Black is 62. Actor Michael Chiklis is 47. Actress Cameron Diaz is 38. TV personality Lisa Ling is 37. Tennis player Andy Roddick is 28. Actor Cameron Finley is 23.

Birthdays

AlmanacToday is Monday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day

of 2010. There are 123 days left in the year.

This day in history:On Aug. 30, 1997, Americans received

word of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul. (Because of the time difference, it was Aug. 31 where the crash occurred.)

In 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, cre-ator of “Frankenstein,” was born in London.

In 1861, Union Gen. John C. Fremont instituted martial law in Missouri and declared slaves there to be free. (However, Fremont’s order was countermanded days later by President Abraham Lincoln).

In 1862, Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va.

In 1905, Ty Cobb made his major-league debut as a player for the Detroit Tigers, hitting a double in his fi rst at-bat in a game against the New York Highlanders. (The Tigers won, 5-3.)

In 1963, the “Hot Line” communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation.

In 1967, the Senate confi rmed the ap-pointment of Thurgood Marshall as the fi rst black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1983, Guion S. Bluford, Jr. became the fi rst black American astronaut to travel in space as he blasted off aboard the Challenger.

In 1991, Azerbaijan declared its indepen-dence, joining the stampede of republics seeking to secede from the Soviet Union.

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Rundown of local meetings in the area:

TODAY■ The Lee County Board of Commission-

ers will meet jointly with members of the Lee County Economic Development Corpora-tion, the Sanford City Council and Broadway Town Commissioners at 6:30 p.m. at the McSwain Extension Education & Agriculture Center located at 2420 Tramway Road, Sanford.

WEDNESDAY■ The City of Sanford City Council’s Law

and Finance meeting will be held at 1 p.m. at the Sanford Municipal Center.■ The Moore County Voluntary Ag. Advi-

sory will meet at 1 p.m. at the Soil & Water Conference Room, Ag Center, Carthage.

THURSDAY■ The next meeting of the Republican

Women of Lee County will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Grand Hall of the Enrichment Center of Lee County, located at 1615 S. Third St. in Sanford. Linda Shook, chairman of the Lee County GOP, will be the guest speaker. All interested Republican women are invited to attend.

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TODAY■ The Lee County Community Orchestra

will have its second rehearsal of the 2010-2011 concert season. There is still time for new players to join the group. Music director Tara Villa invites those interested to come to the music practice hall at Lee County High School from 6:30 to 9 p.m. For more information, call 776-4628.■ The Moore County Agricultural Fair will

be held in Carthage. The fair features a celebration that showcases all that the county has to offer. Plenty of things to do and see for young and old such as children’s activities, entertainment, food and merchandise vendors, livestock and agricultural competitions and much, much more. The fair is located at the Moore County Fairgrounds, located at 3699 N.C. 15-501 in Carthage. For more information, call (910) 947-2774.

WEDNESDAY■ The American Red Cross will hold a

blood drive from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Central Carolina Hospital, 1135 Carthage St., Sanford.■ Sanford Jobseekers will meet at First

Baptist Church from 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. This week’s program focus: Cindy Casler will speak on Workforce Development and how it can assist in fi nding jobs. All who are looking for employment are welcome.■ The Moore County Agricultural Fair will

be held in Carthage. The fair is located at the Moore County Fairgrounds, located at 3699 N.C. 15-501 in Carthage. For more information, call (910) 947-2774.

THURSDAY■ The American Red Cross will hold a

blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Central Carolina Community College, 1105 Kelly Drive, Sanford.■ Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and

picnic supper and “Function at the Junc-tion” at Depot Park. This free outdoor family event starts at 7 p.m. and includes a variety of music throughout the summer. For more information, visit downtownsan-ford.com or call 919-775-8332.■ The Moore County Agricultural Fair will

be held in Carthage. The fair is located at the Moore County Fairgrounds, located at 3699 N.C. 15-501 in Carthage. For more information, call (910) 947-2774.

FRIDAY■ The Kiwanis Club’s Annual Pancake

Supper will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Lee High School cafeteria, before the Southern Lee vs. Lee County football game. Tickets are $5, with chil-dren under 5 years old free. Tickets will be available at the door.■ The Moore County Agricultural Fair will

be held in Carthage. The fair is located at the Moore County Fairgrounds, located at 3699 N.C. 15-501 in Carthage. For more information, call (910) 947-2774.■ The Silk Hope Old Fashioned Farmers

Day will be held in Silk Hope.

SATURDAY■ The Moore County Agricultural Fair will

be held in Carthage. The fair is located at the Moore County Fairgrounds, located at 3699 N.C. 15-501 in Carthage. For more information, call (910) 947-2774.■ The Silk Hope Old Fashioned Farmers


SUNDAY■ The Silk Hope Old Fashioned Farmers


SEPT. 8■ Area residents are invited to comment

on proposed changes to state hunting, fi shing and trapping regulations at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s District 5 annual public hearing. The hearing will be held at 7 p.m. in Building 2 at Central Carolina Community College’s Chatham County Campus, 764 West St., Pittsboro.■ Chatham County invites residents to

a community meeting at 7 p.m. at the Moncure Fire Station to learn more about a plan proposed by a partnership of four towns in western Wake County to con-struct a regional wastewater treatment facility. The plan involves a discharge line that would cut through a section of south-eastern Chatham County.■ The Lee County Library staff will

present a 20-minute program of stories, rhymes and activities geared toward chil-dren ages birth to 2 years beginning at 10 a.m. There is no charge for the programs and it is not necessary to register in advance. For more information, call Mrs.

DeLisa Williams at (919) 718-4665 x. 5484.

SEPT. 9■ Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and

picnic supper and “Function at the Junc-tion” at Depot Park. This free outdoor family event starts at 7 p.m. and includes a variety of music throughout the summer. For more information, visit downtownsan-ford.com or call 919-775-8332.■ The Lee County Library will present a

program geared twoard children ages 3 to 5 beginning at 11 a.m. Activities include stories, fi nger plays, action rhymes and songs, puppet shows, crafts and para-chute play. There is no charge for the programs and it is not necessary to regis-ter in advance. For more information, call Mrs. DeLisa Williams at (919) 718-4665 x. 5484.

SEPT. 11■ The Greenwood/Tramway Optimist

Club is sponsoring a fundraising event fi lled with fun, food and festivities at Greenwood Elementary School. At 9:30 a.m., the Lee County Scouts and the musi-cal group Four Heart Harmony will open with a tribute to Sept. 11, 2001. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be crafters, antique cars, yard sale, face painting, buggy rides and games. Proceeds go to Greenwood and Tramway schools and other organizations in the county.■ The Lee County Disc Golf monthly tour-

nament begins at 10 a.m. (registration at 9) at the O.T. Sloan course. Cost to enter is $7 for novice, amateur, junior and wom-en contestants and $12 for pros. Contact Ronnie Gardner at (919) 708-2869. ■ The Sandhills Alumnae Chapter of

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. has partnered with the Sister Soldier Project and will be hosting a packing party at First Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford.

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Koda, a 1 1/2-year-old Newfoundland, endures the heat at Saturday’s “Race For Their Lives” event, a fundraiser for Carolina Animal Rescue and Adoption.

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LEE COUNTY

Library offers story times for young children

SANFORD —The Lee

County Library will offer story times for young children two times each week beginning Sept. 8.

Each Wednesday at 10 a.m., library staff present a 20-minute program of stories, rhymes, and activities geared toward children ages birth to 2 years. On Thursdays at 11 a.m., programs are geared toward children ages 3 to 5 and last 30 to 45 minutes. Activities for these programs may include stories, fi nger plays, action rhymes and songs, puppet shows, crafts, and parachute play. The Thursday morning programs will begin Thursday, Septem-ber 9 at 11:00 a.m.

There is no charge for the programs and it is not neces-sary to register in advance. Story time programs are of-fered weekly from September through April. Due to space limitations, large daycare groups should call the library to make separate arrange-ments for story times.

For more information, call Mrs. DeLisa Williams at (919) 718-4665 x. 5484.

MOORE COUNTY

Southern humoristto speak in Southern Pines Oct. 3

SOUTHERN PINES —Re-nowned Southern writer and humorist Bill Thompson’s many fans will get to hear him speak Oct. 3 at 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Southern Pines, 200 E. New York Ave. His appearance is sponsored by the Moore County Historical Associa-tion. Admission is free.

For over 40 years, Bill has traveled throughout North Carolina and the South as a speaker for hundreds of organizations. He has been a master of ceremonies and entertainer for hundreds of events celebrating the things that make communities special from the Hollerin’ Contest in Spivey’s Corner to the Wooly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, and similar events in Tennessee, Geor-gia, and South Carolina.

Bill’s column “Front Porch Stories” has been a regular feature in Our State for almost a decade. He has written three books, “Sweet Tea, Fried Chicken and Lazy Dogs: A Refl ection of North Carolina Life,” “Pearl’s Pork Palace and Other Stories

from Flynn’s Crossing, NC,” and his newest, “Back-yards, Bow Ties and Beauty Queens.”

Humor, yes. But some-times, he revisits a nostal-gic time and place many of us barely remember or haven’t had the opportunity to experience. He not only entertains but prompts his audiences to appreciate the distinctive traditions and heritage that make North Carolina and the South a unique aspect of American life.

For information, call (910) 692-2051.

MOORECOUNTY

Ttraffi c stop leads to drug charges

CARTHAGE (MCT) — A Siler City man who was wanted for stealing trailer trucks now faces drug violations after his vehicle was stopped Fri-day on Lobelia Road in Vass.

Deputies stopped the car driven by Andy Brian Moody, 32, and found methamphet-amine, marijuana, $4,000 cash and drug paraphernalia inside, according a release from the Moore County Sheriff’s Offi ce.

Deputies were looking for Moody, who was accused of stealing two trucks from the West End area this month, authorities said.

One of the trucks was taken Thursday from C&M Carriers Inc. on Doubs Cha-pel Road. During the theft, someone hit a fuel tank, causing about 550 gallons of diesel fuel to spill, the release said.

The second trailer was taken from tobacco fi eld near the owner’s home.

Investigators found both trailers at salvage yard in Biscoe, according to the Sheriff’s Offi ce, and a total of 12 stolen vehicles were recovered at the business.

Moody is charged with two counts each of larceny and possession of stolen prop-erty, and one count of mis-demeanor injury to property, the Sheriff’s Offi ce said.

He and passenger in his car, Tara Michelle Barth, 27, also of Siler City, are charged with one count each of pos-sessing methamphetamine and marijuana with intent to sell and deliver, posses-sion of methamphetamine and marijuana, maintaining a drug vehicle and misde-meanor drug possession.

Bail was set at $125,000 for Moody and $31,000 for Barth, the release said.

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AROUND OUR AREA

to a category 4 on Tues-day, the NWS advised. A potential northwestward turn could bring the storm closer to the mid-Atlantic over the next 24 to 36 hours.

Millikin said Earl’s effects should not be severe in Sanford. Based on storm intensity data available Monday, there is a 10 to 20 percent chance of tropical storm force-winds as far inland as Fayetteville and the Triangle.

Hurricane-force winds are possible along the Outer Banks and Sounds, according to the NWS. Depending on the storm track, inland winds could approach 58 miles per hour.

“They’re not expecting anything too bad west of (Interstate) 95, but we’re 96 hours out,” Millikin said. “Thursday and early Friday is when we’ll start feeling the effects of it.”

Local Emergency Management offi cials are running through a check-list, Millikin said, which includes alerting schools and keeping county and city management updated. While Earl’s im-pact to Sanford could be relatively mild, he urged residents to be prepared for the worst.

“The people in mobile homes and low-lying areas do really need to pay attention,” he said. Mobile homes may sustain damages from high winds, he said, and low-lying areas are prone to fl ooding during heavy rainfall.

The federal govern-

ment recommends keeping up to three days of food and water on hand for emergencies. In a worst-case storm, Millikin said Lee County residents could be on their own for up to two weeks.

“We hope we don’t ever see another Hur-ricane Hazel,” Millikin said, referring to a storm that devastated North Carolina in October of 1954.

In addition to suffi -cient food and water, Mil-likin said a well-stocked emergency supply kit should contain the fol-lowing:

■ A radio, battery-powered or hand crank, and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert and extra batteries for both

■ Flashlight and extra batteries

■ First aid kit

■ Whistle to signal for help

■ Dust mask, to help fi lter contaminated air and plastic sheeting and duct tape to shelter-in-place

■ Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties for personal sanita-tion

■ Wrench or pliers to turn off utilities

■ Mechanical can opener (If canned goods are stored)

■ Local maps ■ Cell phone with

chargers For the most up-

to-date information, residents can log on to the National Hurricane Center’s website at www.nhc.noaa.gov or the NWS Raleigh website at www.erh.noaa.gov/rah/.

EarlContinued from Page 1A

HURRICANE EARL

North Carolina coast keeps a wary eye east toward hurricane

By TOM BREENAssociated Press Writer

RALEIGH — Town offi -cials, emergency planners and hardware stores along North Carolina’s coast planned Monday for Hur-ricane Earl in hopes that the storm will deliver no more than a glancing blow as it travels north.

Most of the prepara-tions are in the prelimi-nary stages: generators are being tested, gas tanks are being topped off and weather forecasts are being pored over for any indication that Earl, which reached Category 4 strength on Monday, will come any closer than several hundred miles off the state’s coast.

“Nothing we’ve seen yet is showing it will make landfall, so we’re prepar-ing for rain and heavy surf right now,” said Chris Layton, town manager of Duck.

The Outer Banks, the fragile chain of bar-rier islands where Duck is located, is expected to get the brunt of any weather and ocean conditions churned up by Earl, rang-ing from rip currents to heavy rain.

In Duck and Nags Head, town offi cials were

out videotaping their beaches Monday in case the storm causes sig-nifi cant erosion. Having before-and-after records of what beaches look like helps with storm recovery, especially if disaster relief funding is available.

In Nags Head, offi cials were also making sure the gas tanks of storm trucks, which rescue people in the event of fl ooding and help emergency crews get around in the aftermath of a storm, are full and that generators that can power town offi ces are in working order.

“It’s way too early to take in lifeguard stands

and things like that, but obviously we’re watching the storm,” Nags Head spokeswoman Roberta Thuman said.

That wait-and-see approach also prevailed among customers at the six Ace Hardware stores in the Outer Banks, accord-ing to operations manager Kathy Seko, who was at the Manteo store on Monday.

“So far, it’s mostly been people making inquiries about what we have and what they might need if it gets worse,” Seko said.

Along with the standard supplies — tarp, duct tape, batteries, screws and drills for plywood — Seko said

she is reminding custom-ers not to forget items like manual can openers and even art supplies.

“Waiting for a storm can seem like forever, es-pecially if the power’s out,” she said. “You need to pass the time somehow.”

The U.S. National Hur-ricane Center in Miami said Earl, which formed Sunday, has sustained winds of 135 mph (215 kph), and will likely gain strength. One potential track has the storm mov-ing roughly parallel to the East Coast, possibly brushing North Carolina Thursday or Friday.

Offi cials at Cape Look-out National Seashore are taking no chances, ordering an evacuation of visitors on the islands, and closing the park starting Wednesday.

The seashore, 56 miles of undeveloped beach stretching over four barrier islands about three miles off the coast of North Carolina, is accessible only by boat.

Farther north, Cape Hatteras National Sea-shore offi cials are still watching the hurricane’s path before making any decisions, spokeswoman Cyndy Holda said.

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Personal water craft are used to keep watch on bathers in Ocean City, N.J. Swimmers along the Atlantic Coast are being warned to stay close to shore or out of the water altogether until Hurricanes Danielle and Earl run their course.

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When one thinks about the most infl uential people in Sanford’s

relatively short history, Tommy Chester Mann Sr. would have to be on that list ... if not near the top.

Mann, who is a former Herald Citizen of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award winner, died Friday at the age of 88.

Mann’s infl uence has been great — on many counts.

He’s well-known, along with the late Annie Laurie Pomeranz, for his efforts in saving the old Sanford High School — now the Lee County Arts and Commu-nity Center. Not only did Mann’s

efforts help to save the building, he’s been a constant stalwart in keeping the building going.

Others will point to his service as a former Sanford city alderman and mayor, during which time the city’s water pumping station was estab-lished on the Cape Fear River. It was a move that has served the city well over the years.

“It was a diffi cult time be-cause there was a lot of con-troversy among the aldermen, several of whom disputed about its placement and wanted to make a change,” Tommy Mann Sr. told The Herald in 2005. “So I got involved, leading the op-position to moving the pumping

station to the Deep River and keeping in on the Cape Fear.”

There was his tenure with Central Carolina Technical Institute, which has grown into Central Carolina Community College. He was the fi rst student recruitment offi cer and later the fi rst industrial development offi cer.

He’s been president of the Sanford Jaycees, the Sanford Lions Club and the Sanford Area Chamber of Commerce. He helped to start the Sanford Christmas Parade and he’s been chairman of the local fair.

He’s been active in scout-ing, and he was a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award which

recognizes volunteer service with the National Boy Scouts of America.

Then there is the service to his church, First Presbyterian Church of Sanford, where he has been a Deacon, Elder, Sunday School teacher and Superinten-dent.

As his grandson Chet Mann said, “He dedicated his life to his God, family and community in that order. His word was stron-ger than any attorney’s contact and his friendship was forever.”

So much more could be said of this man who has given so much to this community.

J.F. Hockaday, who has been president of the community

college, perhaps said it best of Mann upon Mann’s receiving the Herald’s Lifetime Achieve-ment Award, “Tommy Mann is a consummate gentleman. He has great people skills, he is vision-ary, and he does things quietly and effi ciently. He has always placed the welfare of others before his own. He is humble, respectful of others and pre-fers to praise rather than to be praised.”

To say that Tommy Ches-ter Mann Sr. will be missed is an understatement. But how refreshing to know that his in-fl uence will continue to live on through his church, his family and his community.

Mann’s impact on Sanford won’t be forgottenEditorial Board: Bill Horner III, Publisher • Billy Liggett, Editor • R.V. Hight, Special Projects Editor

Tossing money atproblems with schoolsnot the answer

To the Editor:We should be grateful to those

involved in the Lee County Education Foundation’s efforts to improve achievement in the public schools.

However, Gov. Bev Perdue and the other state politicians that at-tended the Sanford press confer-ence on Aug. 26, are better known for throwing taxpayer money at education without measurable improvement in academic achieve-ment of students.

Micromanagement by the state and local school administrations prevent qualifi ed and dedicated teachers to be innovative and use their skills to educate stu-dents. It’s amazing that so many have spent years obtaining the education to become outstand-ing teachers, and then fi nd that their knowledge and efforts are thwarted by bureaucrats and politicos whose focus is totally different from theirs.

If spending money, a fl urry of very publicized activities and new programs were the answer to improving education, Lee County schools would be outstanding.

If Gov. Perdue, the state legisla-tors and the education establish-ment were less interested in making publicity splashes and more interested in the education of children, they would not be op-posed to school choice, including the expansion of charter schools.

In a free society, it is incred-ible that parents are paying for an education — with their taxes — but can’t choose the school that is best suited for their children. The tax money should follow the student, whether it is to a public school (including a charter school), a home school or a private school.

ROBBY WESTBROOKWashington, Pa.

Sanford Police offi cerwas kind, friendly, helpful

To the Editor:I wish to commend the Sanford

Police Department for help beyond the call of duty on July 9. My car died at the stoplight on Hill Street and Horner Boulevard on a 98-degree day.

Capt. Stafford of the Spring Lake Police, who was behind my car, called the Sanford Police Department. Sanford Sgt. Signer helped me out of my car, called for back-up, stopped traffi c on Horner to push my car across the street, called for a wrecker and waited with me until it came.

I was overwhelmed with kind-ness, friendliness and helpful-ness. I thank God for these two gentlemen.

RAMONA LAWSON

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NEW YORK — August fi nally redeemed itself from shark-jumping hysteria with an original, spontaneous, tran-

scendent event — the accidental intersection of one Antoine Dodson, his sister, her would-be rapist, and some musical magicians who tapped into that uniquely American reservoir of salvation — irreverence.

Voila, we have a new American idol, a fresh icon to distract us from the drudgery of madness and remind us that humor is the best weapon against anger or angst.

For those who live in the alternate uni-verse known as Planet Earth, where life is a process of tangible interactions and time is measured by the rotation of planets, the name Antoine Dodson may not ring a bell. A month ago, one might have been forgiven. Few beyond his Huntsville, Ala., housing project knew who he was. But that was then.

Today, he is a phenom — the kind that can occur only in the world of Internet viruses and social media. Google produces more than 7 million links. YouTube offers a universe of newscasts and musical remixes featuring everybody’s New Favorite Person Ever.

At least for a while, to know Dodson is to love him.

His stratospheric rise to celebrity began with an un-funny incident, when a man climbed into the bedroom window — and then the bed — of Dodson’s 22-year-old sister, Kelly, and tried to assault her. When Dodson heard his sister scream, he ran to her room and wrestled her assailant, who man-aged to escape.

Next came the police, the cameras — and Dodson’s now-famous performance.

Sometimes we don’t know quite who we are or what we’re made of until forced into action by circumstances. Tsunamis and hur-ricanes reveal heroes and expose monsters. A would-be rapist and a television crew bring out the beautiful and, yes, hilarious fury of a brother in the throes of his own Howard Beale moment.

Words can’t do justice to Dodson’s perfor-mance. You simply have to watch it. And then you have to watch the remix by the Gregory Brothers, famous for creating musical videos that go viral, especially “auto-tuning” news clips.

In spite of the seriousness of the event, it is impossible to keep a straight face as Dodson rails against his sister’s assailant, red bandana and passions ablaze. An excerpt will have to do:

“Obviously, we have a rapist in Lincoln Park. He’s climbing in your windows, he’s snatching your people up, trying to rape them; so y’all need to hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband, because they’re raping everybody out here. ... We’re looking for you. We gonna fi nd you. I’m let-ting you know that. So you can run and tell that, homeboy!”

Suffi ce to say, it’s all in the delivery.Nobody’s laughing about what happened,

least of all Dodson and his sister. But both admit to laughing — all the way to the bank — about what has transpired since. With the help of the Gregory Brothers and that indefi nable something that causes a moment to become a movement, Dodson has taken a lemon and made a lemonade franchise.

Through Facebook, Twitter and a PayPal button, the proceeds from which he splits with the musicians, Dodson has made enough money to move his family out of the projects. So you can run and tell that, homeboy!

It’s not precisely a Horatio Alger story, whose rags-to-riches tales described how unlucky boys could achieve the American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, determination and courage. Dodson did display courage when he saved his sister from rape, but his moment on the stage was just that. A moment, random and uninvited.

Such is the new mechanism for the Ameri-can Dream. Wealth and fame are valued over hard work and achievement. In a related fantasy come true, social media has made 20-somethings into billionaires.

Dodson’s fortunes, though modest by comparison, are nonetheless gratifying. We don’t begrudge him his moment of fame because, among other things, he made us laugh. He also expressed a rage that most feel but don’t express. Finally, on some level, we all recognize that luck has much to do with anyone’s claiming the dream.

Dodson and his family weren’t enjoying much luck when some idiot climbed through that window. The story of Antoine Dodson is a high-tech fairy tale where the bad guy is a national joke; the brother who saves his sister is a hero and gets rich; and the Gregory Brothers are a merry band of musical prank-sters who made us all laugh.

Only in America. The end.

An American dream

Fly through a loophole

RALEIGH — More than likely, Flight Gate will now fade from view, only brought to life by political consul-

tants paid to toss dirt around in 2012.The political campaign of Gov. Beverly

Perdue will pay a $30,000 fi ne. Perdue herself will hope the dirt blows away. The state Board of Elections and its staff will lick its wounds and try to repair internal discord. Republican political operatives will call the result a whitewash and try to keep the Democratic governor’s 42 unreported airplane fl ights fresh in vot-ers’ minds.

Lost in the back and forth is what really happened here: The unreported Perdue fl ights were just another episode in a long-running story, one going back to the late 1990s, of candidates and cam-paigns taking advantage of a corrupting campaign fi nance loophole and trying to punch the hole ever wider.

I’ve written about it here many times before. The loophole allows state political parties to accept unlimited contributions from donors and give unlimited contri-butions to candidates, making a mockery of donor limits.

In this case, the Perdue campaign, the campaign of former Gov. Mike Easley, and to a lesser degree, a couple of Repub-lican gubernatorial campaigns in 2004 and 2008, had hoped to push off fl ight expenses as donations to their respective political parties.

By doing so, the folks providing the fl ights could also give maximum dona-tions to the campaigns. And the value of those fl ights could exceeded donation limits.

A couple of problems arose though.First, logic would dictate that you

can’t give something to someone only to say, after the fact, that you meant it for another entity that is legally permitted to give it. Saying that an airplane fl ight provided directly to a candidate was re-ally intended as undirected donation to a political party is akin to shooting a dog only to claim that the wind directed the path of the bullet.

The bigger problem was the criminal probe of Easley. The federal investiga-tion, the Board of Elections hearing into Easley’s campaign fi nances and published reports alleging a myriad of wrongdoing put a spotlight on politi-cians’ fl ying habits.

Trying to get ahead of the story, Perdue’s campaign fessed up, amended reports, forfeited donations.

Perdue campaign lawyer John Wallace says mistakes were made, there was no intent to deceive. ...

Wallace might disagree with my take on events. He wouldn’t disagree that there’s an important distinction to be made between the high-fl ying of Perdue and that alleged of Easley.

The current governor didn’t personal-ly profi t from the fl ights. She isn’t accused of trading any offi cial favors for them.

It would be diffi cult to fi nd similar cir-cumstances where anything other than a civil fi ne resulted.

Even so, Perdue and the Democratic political establishment need to wake up to the fact that as long as the campaign-giving loophole exists, it will continue to encourage bad behavior and worse publicity.

And I have fi lled him with the Spirit of God ... to work in gold and in silver and in bronze. (Exodus 11:3,4)

PRAYER: Father, thank You that we are able to work, and we praise You for it. Amen.

Today’s Prayer

Kathleen ParkerColumnist

Kathleen Parker is a columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group

Scott MooneyhamToday in North Carolina

Scott Mooneyham is a columnist with Capitol Press Association

The Sanford Herald / Tuesday, August 31, 2010 / 5ALocal

Delores HatchSANFORD — De-

lores “Paddy” Carnes Hatch, 64, died Monday (8/30/10) at Rex Hospital in Raleigh.

She was born Sept. 22, 1945 in Lee County, daughter of the late Ralph R. Carnes and Eva Mae Baker Carnes. She retired as a seamstress at W. Koury Co.

She is survived by her husband, Glenn Alan Hatch of the home; a son, Lance Alan Hatch of Holly Springs; and sisters, Sherry Bazemore and husband Joe and Christy Norris and husband Mi-chael, all of Broadway.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and other times at the family home.

The funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at Bridges-Cameron Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Dale Hatch offi ciating. Burial will follow at Turner’s Chapel Church Cemetery.

Condolences may be made at www.bridges-cameronfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are by Bridges-Cameron Fu-neral Home, Inc.

Tommy MannSANFORD — Fu-

neral service for Tommy Chester Mann was held Monday at First Presby-terian Church in Sanford with Dr. Stuart Thomas Wilson and Bishop Paul Leeland offi ciating. Burial followed at Buffl ao Cemetery with military honors.

A special song was played. Organist was Da-vid Almond. Soloist was Brooks Bristow.

Pallbearers were Bobby Payne, Ricky Payne, Brent Stevens, David Miller, Joe Miller, Ronnie Miller, Bud Miller and Scott Miller

Arrangements were by Miller-Boles Funeral Home of Sanford.

Wilma WomackSANFORD — Wilma

Hortense Yow Womack, 92, formerly of Sanford, died Saturday (8/28/10) in Wendsor, Va.

She was preceded in death by her parents, H.S. Yow and Mossie Yow; her husband of 46 years, James C. Womack; and a brother, Paige Yow.

She is survived by a daughter, Joyce Harper and husband Bill of Houston, Texas; sons, Ronald Womack Sr. and wife Linda of Newport News, Va., Roger Womack and wife Gloria and Ray-mond Womack and wife

Jan, all of Bland, Va.; sis-ters, Edith Routhe, Mable Brenner and Carol Brown and husand Bobby; brothers, Robert “Bobby” Yow and wife Shirley and Paul Yow; 11 grandchil-dren; two stepgrandsons; 11 great-grandchildren and fi ve great-great-grandchildren. She is also survived by three

Service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Miller-Boles Funeral Home. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.

Condolences may be made at www.millerbo-les.com.

Arrangements are by Miller-Boles Funeral Home of Sanford.

Kathy HarrelsonBUNNLEVEL — Kathy

S. Harrelson, 57, died Saturday (8/28/10) at Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Early and Elizabeth Goad Simpkins.

She is survived by her husband, David Har-relson; daughters, Lorie H. Babb and husband Danny and Sherry H. King and husband Robert, all of Lillington; a brother, James Wendle Simpkins of Virginia; and fi ve grandchildren.

A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday at O’Quinn-Peebles Chapel in Lillington with the Rev. Terry Williams offi ciating. The family will receive friends following the ser-vice at the funeral home and other times at her home. Condolences may be made at www.oquin-npeebles.com.

Memorials may be made to the Ronald Mc-Donald House of Dur-ham, 506 Alexander Ave., Durham, N.C. 27705.

Arrangements are by

O’Quinn-Peebles Funeral Home.

Bobby WilliamsPITTSBORO — Bobby

Lee Williams, 53, of By-num Church Road, died Saturday (8/28/10) from injuries sustained in a vehicle crash on Highway 15-501 North.

He was born Sept. 18, 1955 in Orange County. He was a for-mer employee of the Town of Pittsboro; at the time of his death he was employed by the UNC at Chapel Hill, working in the Grounds Department. He at-tended Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Pittsboro.

He is survived by sons, Jeff Williams of Durham and Eric Williams of Cha-pel Hill; a brother, Curtis Williams of Pittsboro; and a sister, Sheila Eddings of Franklinville. His mother, Effi e Williams, preceded him in death.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home and other times at his residence.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Mt. Gilead Baptist Church Cemetery

with Pastors Dan Robin-son and John Singletary offi ciating.

Condolences may be made at www.hallwynne.com.

Arrangements are by Hall-Wynne Funeral Service & Cremation of Pittsboro.

Jack Weisman SOUTHERN PINES

— John “Jack” Weisman, 67, died Sunday (8/29/10) at home surrounded by his family, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

He was born Jan. 18, 1943 in Winchester, Va. He was predeceased by his parents and two brothers.

He is survived by his wife, Carol Weisman of Southern Pines; a son, Michael Weisman and wife Denise of Rockville, Md.; daughters, Elizabeth Viani and husband Gabe of Salem, Mass., Kristin Campbell and husband Ken of Fuquay-Varina and Erika Bozich and husband Vinnie of Farm-ington Hills, Mich.; and seven grandchildren.

Condolences may be made at www.coxmemo-rialfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are by Cox Memorial Funeral Home and Crematory of Vass.

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Gudrun “Lisa” DavisSANFORD — Gudrun “Lisa” Davis was born

on March 29, 1931 in Erfurt, Thüringen, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Lisa passed away on August 27, 2010 in her home in Carolina Lakes, Sanford, North Carolina. Lisa was the daugh-ter of Konrad and Berta Lina Heinlien of Erfurt, DDR. Lisa was married to Elmer Leon Davis who recently passed away on June 2, 2010 at their home in Sanford, NC. Lisa’s brothers and sisters were Herbert Heinlien, Kurt Heinlien, Hannelore “Jean” Heinlien, Linda “Heinlien” Piche, Waldraut Heinlien, Gerhart Heinlien. Lisa was survived by Guy “Buck” Davis, Steven Davis and Madeleine “Cookie” Moore, grandchildren and great-gran-children. Lisa will be missed by her family and friends.

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SANFORD■ Food Lion reported

shoplifting Saturday at 2244 U.S. 1.

■ Michelle Lynette Finn, 35, was charged Saturday at Third Street with being drunk and disruptive.

■ Thomas Everette King, 23, was charged Saturday at 2244 Jeffer-son Davis Highway with larceny.

■ Dustin Joseph Heron, 18, was charged Saturday at South Horner Boulevard with speeding to elude arrest.

■ Joshua James Blue, 28, was charged Sunday at 1400 S. Horner Blvd. with failure to appear.

■ Michael Marquis McLean, 19, was charged Sunday at 1400 S. Horner Blvd. with assault on a female.

■ Virginia Marie Watson, 23, was charged Sunday at 1015 James St. with simple assault.

■ Lessie Bernice Stacker, 38, was charged Sunday at 1400 S. Horner Blvd. with simple assault.

■ Karina Lezama Ro-driguez, 20, was charged Monday at 205 N. Fifth St. with simple assault.

LEE COUNTY■ Steven Lamar Pat-

terson of 2863 Minter School Road in Sanford reported a larceny of a pressure washer and a can of fuel Sunday.

■ Perry Jefferson Johnson Jr. of 1485 Riddle Road in Sanford reported Friday that his 1997 Dodge Ram was damaged while parked in his yard.

■ Thomas Seth Mad-dox of 1089 John Rosser Road in Sanford reported larceny of methadone from his vehicle Friday.

■ Bobby Ray Yarbor-ough reported a larceny of an air conditioning

unit from an abandoned home at 5631 Buckhorn Road in Sanford Saturday.

■ Kelli Renee Person of 1622 Lower Moncure Road in Sanford re-ported someone broke a window out of her home Saturday.

■ Terry Lee Walsh of 446 Long Street Road in Sanford reported a lar-ceny of money from his residence Sunday.

■ Amanda Burgess with the N.C. Depart-ment of Corrections reported her vehicle was damaged while on South Plank Road in Sanford Sunday.

■ Sadie Frazier of 4908 Hunter Road in Sanford reported some-one damaged the door to her residence Sunday.

■ Richard William Williams, 36, of 240 Bounty Lane in Sanford, was arrested Friday for failing to appear in court; he was held under $1,000 secured bond.

■ Jesse James Moyer Sr., 45, of 1059 Nicholson Road in Sanford, was ar-rested Friday for misde-meanor assault with a deadly weapon; he was released under a written promise.

■ Justo Morales, 44, of 2714 Little Creek Road in Sanford, was arrested Sunday for failing to appear in court; he was held under $500 secured bond.

■ Malvin Matos Fran-co, 32, of 606 North Ave. in Sanford, was arrested Sun-day for failing to appear in Wake County Court; he was released under $1,500 unsecured bond.

■ James Derrick Boyer, 17, of 196 Fam-ily Lane in Sanford, was arrested Friday for failing to appear in court; he was held under $500 secured bond.

POLICE BEAT

6A / Tuesday, August 31, 2010 / The Sanford Herald Local

Joyce. “It’s great news.”The Employment Se-

curity Commission num-bers released Friday track a drop of more than 100 from Lee County’s ranks of the unemployed.

Nearly 3,200 locals reported being jobless in June, but the number shriveled to 3,095 in July.

Lee County’s numbers echo a statewide trend of declining unemployment, but the local drop in the jobless rate was among the largest tracked in the state from June to July.

The county’s rate, how-ever, remains higher than the statewide number of 9.9 percent.

Industry-heavy Lee County was hit hard when the nationwide economy plunged two years ago.

Joyce said the improv-ing numbers likely serve as an indicator that the manufacturing sector is headed for better times.

“It hurt us early, but hopefully it’s going to help us out of this,” he said.

According to Joyce, the national percentage of workers in manufacturing is about 10 percent. That number rises to 20 percent in North Carolina and 30 percent in Lee County.

Edith Edmond, man-ager of the Employment Security Commission’s Sanford offi ce, said her agency noted a surge in hiring in recent months paired with a “signifi cant” drop in layoffs.

Edmond estimated that nearly 250 local workers have returned to jobs in recent months.

“That means we’re making progress, that the economy is rebounding,” she said.

Edmond said the increased hiring is mak-ing the difference in local manufacturers and in the construction industry.

Better construction times make for a shot in the arm in a county known for its brick production, she said.

Joyce pointed out that companies are benefi ting from hot markets in other parts of the world like China, South Africa and Germany, where demand for some products is on the rise.

Mary Bell, vice presi-dent of Caterpillar’s Build-ing Construction Products Division, partly credited hot overseas markets with the company’s announce-ment earlier this month that it would invest mil-lions in Sanford and add 325 new workers.

Caterpillar spokes-woman Bridget Young said Monday that hiring at the expanding Sanford plant is set to begin later this year and ramp up through September 2011.

Edmond said job offi -cials are watching the data closely to see if the num-bers indicate a brightening local economy.

“We are hoping that it will become a trend,” she said.

JoblessContinued from Page 1A

Pedley’s wife, Donna, said while his accident and hospitalization was scary, she thinks the com-munity support played a signifi cant role in her husband’s recovery.

“Everyone’s kind-ness and thoughts and prayers that went out to him helped him a lot, not just while he was in the hospital but after he got home too,” Donna Pedley said. “It made a big differ-ence to know that people cared.”

Jerry Pedley’s friends at the Chamber of Com-merce sent out daily “Jerry-grams” to keep everyone posted about his progress. Chamber

of Commerce President Bob Joyce said everyone missed Pedley’s enthu-siasm during his ab-sence, but they were just relieved to hear he would recover without any per-manent damage.

“It was really gratify-ing to see the business community pull together around him,” Joyce said. “He’s probably the only person I know who could go straight from the ICU to coming home without any middle step. I think it’s his determination and drive. It was a miraculous recovery.”

Donna Pedley said while the accident turned their lives upside down for awhile, she is thankful her husband is doing as well as he is and im-pressed that he never lost

his positive attitude while in the hospital.

“He wanted to get out of the hospital,” Donna Pedley said. “You can’t keep him down. He’s always got to be doing something. He wasn’t about to feel sorry for himself.”

Jerry Pedley is now able to drive again, and he doesn’t anticipate any more doctor’s visits. He said it will take some time for his energy to return to its normal level, but the continued calls, visits and prayers from the commu-nity make him stronger every day.

“It’s overwhelming,” Pedley said. “I’ve always been a big fan of Sanford, but it really makes me ap-preciate the community we have.”

RecoveryContinued from Page 1A

GOVERNMENT

Local governments to meet with EDC todayBy BILLY [email protected]

SANFORD — Eco-nomic and government leaders from across Lee County will meet next week, marking the fi rst of four planned yearly meetings created in recent contract wrangling with the county’s eco-nomic recruiting engine.

Today’s meeting, which will include gov-ernment heads from Lee, Sanford and Broadway as well as the Lee Economic Development Corpora-tion (EDC), was one of a handful of provisions that emerged from a panel recommending changes in how the group does business.

Leaders called for more fl exibility for EDC chiefs and improved communication.

According to Sanford

City Councilman Sam Gaskins, a member of the EDC panel that recom-mended the changes, the meeting will gather all of the county’s stakeholders in one room for feedback.

“It’s mostly to improve communication,” he said. “I think it’ll do exactly that.”

The organization had come under scrutiny from critics who worried government leaders were

“out of the loop” in the EDC’s continuing efforts to recruit and maintain industry in economically troubled Lee County.

Included in the agen-cy’s revised contracts with Lee County and Sanford were quarterly updates to government heads as well as monthly and annual reports on EDC activities.

Incentives have been a hot topic in recent years, with supporters saying they are necessary to lure industry in today’s economy. Proponents say they’re also worthwhile because they bring in more tax dollars in new businesses than are lost in the giveaways.

Critics, meanwhile, say the corporate tax breaks are setting a bad prec-edent and are a misuse of taxpayer dollars.

Lee Board of Commis-

sioners Chairman Rich-ard Hayes, a proponent of the industrial lures, said Tuesday’s session will allow EDC leaders to review their operations and develop a mandated strategic plan for improv-ing the local economy.

Lee County’s double-digit unemployment rate has hovered near the top of the state in recent years, thanks to a bevy of industrial layoffs in the economic decline.

“We’ll fi ne-tune it as it goes along, but the dia-logue is the most impor-tant thing,” Hayes said.

Hayes added that he expects future meetings with the EDC to include huddles with economists to help elected offi cials grasp the complexities of the recession in the local, state and national economy.

Tuesday’s meet-

ing comes weeks after a much-celebrated announcement that construction machinery giant Caterpillar would invest millions in its San-ford facility and add 325 new jobs in the coming years.

Local offi cials credited a $900,000 upfront incen-tive from the county and millions in state grants for wooing the manufac-turer to Lee County and not to a rival locale in South Carolina.

Hayes said Friday that the result might have been different without the incentives.

“I think you would have seen immediate job loss and within fi ve years, you’d start to see that whole operation moving toward South Carolina,” he said.

The revised EDC pro-tocols seemed to satiate

some local offi cials, but others complained that the shifting didn’t do enough.

One of those critics, county Commissioner Linda Shook, said the Board of Commissioners will need to hold the EDC “accountable” for incen-tives.

“I certainly don’t think there’s been anything disreputable going on,” Shook said. “I just want to make sure that when you’re transferring mil-lions of dollars over the years to an organization, we just need to have a good organization in place so we know where those millions of dollars are going.”

Today’s meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the McSwain Extension Edu-cation and Agriculture Center located at 2420 Tramway Road.

WANT TO GO?■ The Lee County

Board of Commission-ers will meet jointly with members of the Lee County Economic Devel-opment Corporation, the Sanford City Council and Broadway Town Commis-sioners at 6:30 p.m. at the McSwain Extension Education & Agriculture Center in Sanford.

Former lottery chief ’s fraud conviction vacatedCHARLOTTE (AP)

— Former North Carolina lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings told a newspaper that he works hard not to feel bitter about his conviction on felony charges four years ago now that he has been exonerated.

The Charlotte Ob-server reported that Ged-dings’ 2006 fraud convic-tion was vacated Friday, and a federal judge ordered the government to repay his $25,000 fi ne.

In June, the U.S.

Supreme Court had narrowed the scope of the law Geddings was charged with breaking, meaning the law no longer applied to what he did. He was released from federal prison a week later and exonerated Friday.

“It’s the fi rst day in a number of years I didn’t wake up as a felon, so it’s a good feeling,” Geddings told the Observer on Saturday.

But, he said, his life has been ruined by the

ordeal.“It’s been a nightmare

for the last fi ve years,” Geddings said. “I lost my marriage ... my reputation (and) my business. Cer-tainly it’s been the hardest time of my adult life.”

Geddings had been chief of staff to South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges and had a successful con-sulting business when he was appointed by then-North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black to run that state’s fl edgling lot-tery in 2005.

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AT&T Inc NY 1.68 6.3 11 26.63 -.31 -5.0AbtLab NY 1.76 3.6 13 49.49 -.35 -8.3BB&T Cp NY .60 2.7 20 21.87 -.85 -13.8BkofAm NY .04 .3 82 12.32 -.32 -18.2CSX NY .96 2.0 15 49.11 -.68 +1.3CapBNC Nasd .32 18.8 ... 1.70 ... -56.0Caterpillar NY 1.76 2.7 26 64.47 -1.43 +13.1Chevron NY 2.88 3.9 9 73.78 -1.15 -4.2Cintas Nasd .48 1.9 17 25.34 -.27 -2.8Cisco Nasd ... ... 15 20.32 -.49 -15.1Citigrp NY ... ... ... 3.67 -.09 +10.9CocaCl NY 1.76 3.2 17 55.55 -.61 -2.5ColgPal NY 2.12 2.9 16 73.86 -.39 -10.1ConAgra NY .80 3.7 13 21.46 -.28 -6.9Delhaize NY 2.02 3.0 ... 67.00 -1.08 -12.7Disney NY .35 1.1 16 32.35 -.43 +.3DowChm NY .60 2.5 14 24.33 -.39 -11.9DuPont NY 1.64 4.1 12 40.32 -.69 +19.8DukeEngy NY .98 5.7 13 17.15 -.21 -.3Eaton NY 2.32 3.3 15 70.07 -1.79 +10.1Exelon NY 2.10 5.2 11 40.52 -.24 -17.1ExxonMbl NY 1.76 3.0 11 59.00 -.80 -13.5FamilyDlr NY .62 1.4 17 42.95 -.39 +54.3Fastenal Nasd .84 1.9 31 45.09 -.87 +8.3FtBcpNC Nasd .32 2.6 13 12.28 -.66 -12.1FCtzBA Nasd 1.20 .7 7 169.67 -3.24 +3.5FirstEngy NY 2.20 6.1 13 36.33 -.33 -21.8FootLockr NY .60 5.1 20 11.88 -.34 +6.6FordM NY ... ... 6 11.35 -.21 +13.5FMCG NY 1.20 1.7 9 70.36 -.84 -12.4GenElec NY .48 3.3 15 14.52 -.19 -4.0GlaxoSKln NY 1.98 5.3 ... 37.68 -.30 -10.8Goodrich NY 1.08 1.6 17 69.21 -1.21 +7.7Goodyear NY ... ... 14 9.33 -.36 -33.8HarleyD NY .40 1.6 ... 24.44 -.56 -3.0HighwdPrp NY 1.70 5.4 42 31.20 -.15 -6.4HomeDp NY .95 3.4 16 27.99 -.75 -3.2HonwllIntl NY 1.21 3.1 14 38.86 -.79 -.9Intel Nasd .63 3.5 11 17.96 -.41 -12.0IBM NY 2.60 2.1 12 123.40 -1.33 -5.7IntPap NY .50 2.5 43 19.97 -.41 -25.4JohnJn NY 2.16 3.8 13 57.30 -.30 -11.0Lowes NY .44 2.2 16 20.46 -.64 -12.5McDnlds NY 2.20 3.0 17 72.74 -.70 +16.5Merck NY 1.52 4.4 13 34.73 -.27 -5.0Microsoft Nasd .52 2.2 6 23.64 -.29 -22.4Motorola NY ... ... 44 7.52 -.16 -3.1NorflkSo NY 1.44 2.7 16 53.55 -1.00 +2.2OfficeMax NY ... ... 17 9.94 -.55 -21.7

Pantry Nasd ... ... ... 18.84 -.08 +38.6Penney NY .80 4.1 15 19.50 -.69 -26.7Pentair NY .76 2.5 19 30.45 -.57 -5.7PepsiCo NY 1.92 3.0 16 63.60 -.52 +4.6Pfizer NY .72 4.5 8 15.86 -.23 -12.8PiedNG NY 1.12 4.1 20 27.35 -.70 +2.2Praxair NY 1.80 2.1 19 85.94 -1.34 +7.0PrecCastpt NY .12 .1 18 113.92 -2.26 +3.2ProgrssEn NY 2.48 5.8 14 42.74 -.63 +4.2QwestCm NY .32 5.7 21 5.62 -.02 +33.5RedHat NY ... ... 73 34.52 -.64 +11.7ReynldAm NY 3.60 6.6 12 54.96 -.30 +3.8RoyalBk g NY 2.00 ... ... 48.21 +.35 -10.0SCANA NY 1.90 4.9 13 38.80 -.43 +3.0SaraLee NY .44 3.1 16 14.34 -.41 +17.7SearsHldgs Nasd ... ... 25 61.72 -.75 -26.0SonocoP NY 1.12 3.6 16 31.21 -.65 +6.7SonyCp NY .28 1.0 ... 28.49 -.39 -1.8SouthnCo NY 1.82 5.0 14 36.52 -.45 +9.6SpeedM NY .40 3.0 22 13.26 -.07 -24.7Sysco NY 1.00 3.7 14 27.29 -.76 -2.3TenetHlth NY ... ... 15 4.00 -.11 -25.8Textron NY .08 .4 ... 17.81 -.05 -5.33M Co NY 2.10 2.6 15 79.65 -1.35 -3.7TimeWarn NY .85 2.9 14 29.57 -.75 +1.5Tyson NY .16 1.0 61 16.40 -.17 +33.7Unifi NY ... ... ... 4.27 -.02 +10.1USSteel NY .20 .5 ... 41.91 -1.80 -24.0VF Cp NY 2.40 3.3 15 72.81 -1.07 -.6VerizonCm NY 1.90 6.5 ... 29.44 -.40 -4.9Vodafone Nasd 1.32 5.6 ... 23.60 -.30 +2.2WalMart NY 1.21 2.4 13 50.55 -.45 -5.4WatsnPh NY ... ... 20 43.25 -.50 +9.2Weyerh NY .20 1.3 ... 15.55 -.23 -1.8YumBrnds NY .84 2.0 18 41.70 -.62 +19.2

THE MARKET IN REVIEW

Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with SEC.n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt =Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy orreceivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tablesat left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.

MUTUAL FUNDS

American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 55,373 46.47 -1.1 +5.5/C +3.1/C 5.75 250American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 51,442 31.17 -3.5 +1.3/D +3.6/A 5.75 250American Funds EurPacGrA m FB 36,776 35.82 -3.4 +1.2/B +4.9/A 5.75 250American Funds GrthAmA m LG 61,323 25.52 -4.4 +2.1/D +0.2/B 5.75 250American Funds IncAmerA m MA 48,436 15.29 -1.2 +9.8/A +2.7/A 5.75 250American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 45,460 23.98 -4.7 +1.8/D -0.2/B 5.75 250American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 36,140 23.58 -3.3 +6.3/A -0.6/B 5.75 250Bridgeway UltSmCoMk d SB 361 11.25 -9.3 -0.7/E -4.5/E NL 2,000Bridgeway UltraSmCo SG 81 21.55 -11.0 -0.6/E -2.1/D NL 2,000Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 36,687 30.12 -4.3 +1.4/A +3.2/A NL 2,500Dodge & Cox Stock LV 39,482 88.59 -6.0 +0.9/D -3.0/D NL 2,500Fidelity Contra LG 53,952 56.39 -2.9 +9.2/A +2.6/A NL 2,500Fidelity LevCoSt d MB 3,984 21.60 -8.1 +4.2/E -0.1/C NL 10,000Fidelity Advisor LeverA m MB 1,429 26.30 -7.9 +4.8/D +0.3/C 5.75 10,000Goldman Sachs LgCapValA m LV 657 9.88 -5.5 +0.5/D -1.4/C 5.50 1,000

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

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

DAILY DOW JONES

NYSE6,695.28 -99.63

AMEX1,880.13 -13.61

NASDAQ2,119.97 -33.66

Name Vol (00) Last Chg

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Volume

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1,545,511,231

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

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

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

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)Name Vol (00) Last ChgCitigrp 3048063 3.67 -.09S&P500ETF1466762 105.31 -1.55BkofAm 1230170 12.32 -.32SPDR Fncl 622744 13.44 -.29iShEMkts 458622 39.82 -.67iShR2K 381639 60.30 -1.35iShJapn 366469 9.49 -.03WellsFargo 362983 23.25 -.75SprintNex 351763 3.90 -.10GenElec 351726 14.52 -.19

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

DIARY

Volume

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

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %ChgAoxingP rs 2.55 -.37 -12.7BioTime n 4.19 -.40 -8.7Fronteer g 7.34 -.65 -8.1UQM Tech 2.13 -.18 -7.8Aerocntry 13.65 -1.12 -7.6Gastar grs 2.89 -.20 -6.5GpoSimec 7.04 -.46 -6.1FiveStar 4.15 -.23 -5.3Metalico 3.15 -.16 -4.8Argan 8.04 -.40 -4.7

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %ChgRareEle g 4.54 +.77 +20.4Engex 4.11 +.40 +10.6CoreMold 4.70 +.40 +9.3Aurizon g 6.66 +.45 +7.2ContMatls 15.95 +.95 +6.3WellsGard 2.53 +.15 +6.3EntreeGold 2.30 +.12 +5.5AmShrd 3.05 +.15 +5.2NuvVADv 16.06 +.68 +4.4Solitario 2.05 +.09 +4.4

DIARYAdvanced 176Declined 294Unchanged 42Total issues 512New Highs 23New Lows 9

61,984,498

Advanced 687Declined 2,353Unchanged 89Total issues 3,129New Highs 118New Lows 35

2,983,250,128Volume

Name Last Chg %ChgSkilldHcre 2.47 -.30 -10.8Standex 23.49 -2.42 -9.3Furmanite 4.27 -.43 -9.1MediaGen 7.65 -.77 -9.1DiceHldg 6.49 -.63 -8.8FstMarblhd 2.09 -.20 -8.7Fortress 3.17 -.30 -8.6PNC wt 9.40 -.89 -8.6SunriseSen 2.25 -.21 -8.5ION Geoph 3.53 -.32 -8.3

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)Name Last Chg %ChgNoahEduc 2.21 +.36 +19.5Raythn wt 8.44 +.82 +10.8ADairy 7.96 +.71 +9.8FtBcp pfC 5.57 +.42 +8.2DrxSOXBr 41.50 +3.07 +8.0DrSCBear rs 38.30 +2.36 +6.6PrUPShR2K 56.28 +3.46 +6.5Dir30TrBull 53.19 +3.11 +6.2AlonHldgs 10.98 +.63 +6.0ML LTD33 22.53 +1.28 +6.0

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PRECIOUS METALSSpot nonferrous metals prices

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10,520Dow Jones industrialsClose: 10,009.73Change: -140.92 (-1.4%)

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Gold (troy oz) $1237.10 $1236.00 $1226.90Silver (troy oz) $19.038 $19.039 $17.993Copper (pound) $3.41430

Aluminum (pound)$0.9053$0.9062$0.9252

Platinum (troy oz) $1533.10 $1537.00 $1508.60

Palladium (troy oz) $497.90 $503.05 $483.70

Lead (metric ton) $2009.50 $1980.00 $2037.00

Zinc, HG (pound) $0.9116 $0.9051 $0.9214

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N.C. DAs get help fi ghting racialjustice motions

WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Two retired prosecutors will help district attorneys in North Carolina fi ght motions fi led by death row prisoners under a law that allows the inmates to challenge their sentences based on racial bias.

Retired Forsyth County District Attorney Tom Keith will help the 43 elected DAs in the state fi ght motions under the Racial Justice Act. Retired Wake County assistant DA Susan Spurlin will also be working with the North Caro-lina Conference of District Attorneys on the project.

The law allows death row inmates to use statistics and other evidence to prove racial bias resulted in the death sentences. They are asking that their sentences be con-verted to life in prison without parole. Of the 159 inmates on death row, 151 have fi led claims under the act.

Dems renaming Vance-Aycock event next year

RALEIGH (AP) — The annual fundraising dinner held by North Carolina Democrats will not be called Vance-Ay-cock next year because one namesake preached white supremacy.

The state Democratic Party’s executive council decided this year the 50th Vance-Aycock dinner in Asheville in October will be the last under that name.

Gov. Charles Aycock’s name has drawn more criticism recently because of his racial speeches leading to his 1900 election victory. Aycock previ-ously has been revered for public education.

It’s unclear whether the event will keep the name of Civil War Gov. Zebulon Vance. The state party convention in June passed a resolution asking the event be called

Vance Lucas, after the late state Sen. Jeanne Lucas, who was black.

N.C. sweepstakes group formed after Legislature ban

RALEIGH (AP) — A new group representing program-mers and owners of video poker-style games set to become illegal in North Caro-lina says it’s working to tweak their games to so they can stay in business.

The group called the Inter-net-Based Sweepstakes Orga-nization also said Monday it plans to advocate for legisla-tion that would legalize video gaming and Internet-based games that could be taxed.

The General Assembly this summer approved a ban on computer-based sweepstakes games which have the look of games found on traditional video poker machines banned in 2007. Sweepstakes ma-chine owners say their games are just marketing tools so customers will buy Internet time and offi ce services.

Several candidates for judge mean ranked voting

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina voters will get to use a rare method for choosing an elected offi cial in the Novem-ber election.

Eight candidates have fi led to run for a Court of Appeals seat vacated recently by Judge Jim Wynn. A special one-week fi ling period ends Tuesday afternoon. The win-ner will serve on the state’s intermediate appeals court for the next eight years.

Voters must use instant runoff voting when so many candidates run for a vacancy close to Election Day. The voters rank their top three candidates in order of prefer-ence. Second-place votes are counted if no one gets a majority of fi rst-place votes.

STATE BRIEFS RALEIGH

State’s death penalty opponentscite SBI’s lab investigation, concernsBy MARTHA WAGGONERAssociated Press Writer

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s criminal pros-ecutions are so tainted by racial bias and scien-tifi c fraud that the state should consider elimi-nating the death penalty, innocence advocates said Monday as they fi led a brief supporting a death row prisoner’s claim of bias.

“How can you ever purify a system that is so contaminated to allow any kind of death sentences be pursued or carried out?” asked Carol Turowksi, co-direc-tor of the Innocence & Justice Clinic at the Wake Forest University law school. “We’re at a point where there should be a moratorium at the very least and maybe there should be some focus on should we even maintain the death penalty in a system that’s never going to be perfect.”

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

Of the seven people released from North Carolina’s death row since 1973, only one was white, the advocates say in their brief, adding all

were convicted of killing one white victim. Two also were accused of kill-ing a black person.

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

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

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

“For years, the State Bureau of Investigation and its laboratory have tried to blind us with so-called science,” said Rabil, who represented Darryl Hunt, who was exonerated of a rape conviction in 2004. “For years, they have tried to

dupe us with what they claim to be valid science when we know that truth is transparent.”

The only forensic evidence against Melvin White was based on SBI agent testimony link-ing casing at the crime scene to ones found on a street-corner in Arizona, his attorney said.

“We now know that just because you wear a badge to court or carry a gun at your side when you come to testify doesn’t mean that what you have to say is true,” Rabil said. “ ... We also know that for years, our own subconscious biases have blinded us to so-called justice in this state, especially in the capital punishment system.”

A spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s Offi ce did not respond to a phone call or email requesting comment on the criticism of the death penalty or the lab.

White, who was sen-tenced to death in 1996 for the slayings of a Cra-ven County woman and her boyfriend, is one of 159 prisoners on North Carolina’s death row,

of whom 151 have fi led motions under the act. They’re asking that their sentences be converted to life in prison without parole.

Meanwhile, two retired prosecutors will help district attorneys fi ght motions fi led by death row prisoners under the act.

The Winston-Salem Journal reported Mon-day that retired Forsyth County District Attorney Tom Keith will help the 43 elected DAs in the state fi ght the motions, along with retired Wake County assistant DA Susan Spurlin.

They will work for the North Carolina Confer-ence of District Attor-neys on the project.

The motions for the death row prisoners cite a study by Michigan State University showing that a defendant is 2.6 times more likely to be sentenced to death if at least one of the victims is white.

The study also showed that out of the 159 people on death row, 31 had all-white juries and 38 had only one person of color on their jury.

8A / Tuesday, August 31, 2010 / The Sanford Herald NationOHIO

U.S. grapples with bedbugsCOLUMBUS, Ohio

(AP) — A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers tak-ing desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fl y-by-night extermina-tors.

The problem has gotten so bad that the Environmental Protec-tion Agency warned this month against the indoor use of chemicals meant for the outside. The agency also warned of an increase in pest control companies and oth-ers making “unrealistic promises of effectiveness or low cost.”

Bedbugs, infesting U.S. households on a scale unseen in more than a half-century, have become largely resistant to common pesticides. As a result, some homeown-ers and exterminators are turning to more hazard-ous chemicals that can harm the central nervous system, irritate the skin and eyes or even cause cancer.

Ohio authorities, struggling against wide-spread infestations in Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and other cities, are pleading with EPA to approve the indoor use of the pesticide propoxur, which the agency consid-ers a probable carcinogen and banned for in-home use in 2007. About 25 other states are support-ing Ohio’s request for an

emergency exemption.EPA rejected the re-

quest in June. An agency spokesman, Dale Kemery, said the EPA has pledged to fi nd new, potent chemicals to kill bedbugs, which can cause itchy, red bites that can become infected if scratched.

In the meantime, authorities around the country have blamed house fi res on people misusing all sorts of high-ly fl ammable garden and lawn chemicals to fi ght bedbugs. Experts also warn that some hardware products — bug bombs, cedar oil and other natural oils — claim to be lethal but merely cause the bugs to scatter out of sight and hide in cracks in walls and fl oors.

A pest control com-pany in Newark, N.J., was accused in July of applying chemicals not approved for indoor use throughout 70 homes and apartments units, even

spraying mattresses and children’s toys. No ill-nesses were reported.

In Cincinnati, an unlicensed applicator saturated an apartment complex in June with an agricultural pesticide typically used on golf courses. Seven tenants got sick and were treated at the hospital. The prop-erty was quarantined, and all tenants were forced to move. Authori-ties are pursuing criminal charges.

“When you see the anguish that bedbugs cause these people, it’s understandable why they might take things into their own hands, and some of it is very danger-ous,” said Michael Potter, an entomologist at the University of Kentucky and one of the country’s leading bedbug experts.

Bedbugs, a common household pest for cen-turies, all but vanished in the 1940s and ’50s

with the widespread use of DDT. But DDT was banned in 1972 as too toxic to wildlife, espe-cially birds. Since then, the bugs have developed resistance to chemicals that replaced DDT.

Also, exterminators have fewer weapons in their arsenal than they did just a few years ago because of a 1996 Clin-ton-era law that requires older pesticides to be re-evaluated based on more stringent health standards. The re-evalu-ations led to the restric-tions on propoxur and other pesticides.

Though propoxur is still used in pet collars, it is banned for use in homes because of the risk of nausea, dizziness and blurred vision in children. Steven Bradbury, director of the EPA’s pesticide pro-gram, said the problem is that children crawl on the fl oor and put their fi ngers in their mouths.

Critics in the pest control industry say that the federal government is overreacting and that professional applicators can work with families to prevent children from being exposed to harm-ful levels of the chemical, which is more commonly used outside against roaches and crickets.

“It’s a knockout pesticide, vastly supe-rior to anything else for bedbugs,” said Andrew Christman, president of Ohio Exterminating Co., which is on pace to treat about 3,000 bedbug

infestations in 2010, up from an average of two in 2006.

Christman said other in-home pesti-cides aren’t as lethal as propoxur, requiring several treatments that can push extermination costs to $500 or $1,500, depending on the size of a home.

AP photo

Tom Walker, with a pest exterminator business, shows a bedbug larvae on a mattress Friday at a home in West Lafayette.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man accused of killing two police offi cers in a small Alaska village surrendered to authorities Monday.

Alaska State Troopers said John Marvin Jr. turned himself in shortly after 9:30 a.m. in the southeast Alaska village of Hoonah. Marvin, who was taken with no injuries, is charged with two counts of fi rst degree murder.

Marvin, 45, barricaded himself in his home after the shootings of offi cers Tony Wallace and Matt Tokuoka late Saturday. The offi cers died sometime after the shootings.

A motive for what troopers called an ambush has not been disclosed.

During the standoff, troop-ers and other law enforce-ment agencies maintained their positions through the night into Monday, authori-ties said. Troopers had urged residents in the shoreline community of about 800 to stay away from the area.

“We are thankful this inci-dent resolved without further loss of life or injury,” Public Safety Commissioner Joe Masters said in a statement. “Now that this incident has resolved, the community of Hoonah can hopefully start the healing process.”

Google, AP reach new deal on licensing rights

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. will be able to continue posting con-tent from The Associated Press under a new licensing deal the two companies announced Monday after months of sometimes thorny negotiations.

The AP said in a statement that the two companies also will work together in ways to improve discovery and distribution of news.

Financial terms and the duration of the contract were not disclosed.

“We think this is a good deal for both sides,” said Jane Seagrave, AP’s chief revenue offi cer. “We have had a long relationship with Google and are pleased we were able to work out our differences.”

Google, the Internet’s most profi table company, began to pay for AP’s content in 2006 after the not-for-profi t news agency threatened to sue. That contract expired in January but was extended while the negotiations on a new deal progressed. The talks got so thorny that at one point, Google stopped hosting AP content.

Even after the 2006 agree-ment, Google and AP still had an uneasy relationship.

Americans spend a bit more as economy limps along

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

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

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

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

Consumer spending rose 0.4 percent in July, with much of the strength coming from increased demand for autos, the Commerce De-partment reported Monday. It was the best showing since March, but it followed three lackluster months when spending was essen-tially fl at.

Burning Man fanssay cops too heavy-handed

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Fans of the annual Burning Man counterculture festival on the Nevada desert are accusing law enforcement offi cers of overzealously crashing the party.

Attorney David Levin of Palo Alto, Calif., maintains law enforcement has become so heavy-handed at the eclectic art and music gathering that he was compelled to form a legal defense team known as Lawyers for Burners.

Offi cials from the U.S. Bureau of Land Manage-ment and Pershing County Sheriff’s Department say drug use is common at the event and they merely try to enforce the law.

Some 50,000 people are expected to attend the week-long gathering beginning Monday on the Black Rock Desert, about 110 miles north of Reno. Last year, almost 300 Burners were cited or arrested by federal offi cers.

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Hilton denies pursewith cocaine hers

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Paris Hil-ton denied owning the purse in which police say less than a gram of cocaine was found after a traffi c stop on the Las Vegas Strip, according to an arrest report released Monday.

“She told me the purse was not hers, that she had bor-rowed it from a friend,” Las Vegas police Lt. Dennis Flynn wrote in his report of Hilton’s arrest shortly before midnight Friday. The friend was not identifi ed.

The 29-year-old celebrity so-cialite acknowledged owning $1,300 in cash, several credit cards, a package of Zig-Zag rolling papers and a broken tablet of the prescription asthma medication Albuterol also found in the purse late Friday during her arrest at the Wynn Las Vegas resort.

Flynn said Hilton had asked to be allowed to go into the hotel after her boyfriend, 34-year-old Las Vegas nightclub mogul Cy Waits, failed fi eld sobriety tests given by a mo-torcycle offi cer who stopped them in a black Cadillac Esca-lade that Flynn said smelled of marijuana smoke.

RV dealer challenges ’Twilight’star to push-ups

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An RV dealership sued by Taylor Lautner over a custom vehicle is denying wrongdoing and has proposed a way to resolve the case out of court — a push-up contest.

Lautner sued McMahon’s RV a week ago, claiming it failed to deliver a custom vehicle in time for use on the “Twilight” star’s latest movie.

Brent McMahon owns McMahon’s RV in Irvine, Calif. He says he tried to resolve the dispute with Lautner out of court, but that the actor’s camp demanded $40,000 as a settlement.

McMahon says he’s willing to pay the 18-year-old the money — if the actor beats him in a push-up contest.

Lautner’s attorney, Robert Barta, did not immediately return a phone message.

Car strikes gate outside Stephen King’s Maine home

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Au-thorities say a car rammed into the security gate outside Stephen King’s home in Maine.

Bangor police Sgt. Paul Ed-wards says 25-year-old Renee Harris of Alton told police that an oncoming car veered into her lane about 9 a.m. Sunday. She swerved and crash into the custom-made black iron fence. No one was injured.

Police say the accident might have caused $100,000 in damage to the gate. King spokeswoman Marsha De-Filippo says he was not home at the time.

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An open mic, in 140 characters or lessBy JAKE COYLEAP Entertainment Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Ear-lier this summer, Michael Ian Black took to his blog to defend himself against those appalled that the comedian was — gasp! — inserting rare adver-tisements to his popular Twitter feed.

Black explained that occasionally hiring himself to sell products “allows me the freedom to take less well-paying jobs like mak-ing soon-to-be-canceled television shows.”

Then he made a more serious point.

“As of today, I’ve written 2,655 tweets,” Black wrote. “That’s a lot of free mate-rial, all of it contributing to the entertainment of the 1.5 million people who follow me, as well as the multibillion dollar capital-ization of Twitter itself.”

Black is not alone in his situation. Many of the most popular people on Twitter are comedians, and they are collectively perhaps the best. They know how to be economi-cal with words, and they write about more interest-ing topics than what they had for breakfast.

But comics have a dif-ferent relationship to the social networking website. It is, after all, their job to make brief, pithy observa-tions and craft precisely worded one-liners. Like

news outlets, comedians have to question how much “content” they want to tweet away.

Black says he recog-nizes some downside to giving away material for free, but believes the pros far outweigh the cons.

“For me, it does two things,” Black says of tweeting. “One, it gives me the chance to try out jokes. And two, it forces me to write jokes in the fi rst place.”

Black, who came up as a member of the State comedy troupe and has since worked in fi lm, TV and released several books, is also chief content offi cer for WitStream, a website founded by TV producer Lisa Cohen that gathers the Twitter feeds of only established comedi-ans. Black compares it to a relaxed comedy club, as

opposed to Twitter’s open mic.

“What I write on Twitter or Witstream is almost never a fi nished product. It’s usually just something I’m thinking in that mo-ment,” he says.

“The culture sort of demands a kind a pres-ence that you really have to work hard to provide if you’re going to stay in people’s minds. For some-body like me, that’s im-portant if you want people to show up at your shows or support your television projects.”

When Conan O’Brien exited “The Tonight Show” with much fanfare, he took to Twitter as an outlet, like a spigot for accruing monologue jokes. It was a rather interesting turn for O’Brien, who while host of “Tonight” built the Twitter parody sketch “Twitter

Tracker” into one of the most popular recurring segments of his brief reign.

One recent example from O’Brien: “Twilight Eclipse has been smashing box offi ce records since it opened. For the record, I was sickly pale before it was cool.”

The talk show host, whose TBS show will debut this fall, has proved to be one of the better tweeters around and now has more than 1.4 million followers. But the most popular co-median on Twitter (if you don’t count talk show host Ellen DeGeneres) is Jimmy Fallon.

When Fallon took over NBC’s “Late Night” last year, he made a point of interweaving the program with social media.

“Normally, during the day, I tweet out mundane stuff. If I have an idea for a joke, I’ll put it in the show,” Fallon says. “And then after we tape the show, I’ll tweet the joke out, if it’s good, if it’s one of my favorites. I usually tweet out one or two monologue jokes.”

But when it comes to balancing his show and Twitter, the show always comes fi rst, he says.

Or almost always.“I’m not ashamed of

using a joke I had tweeted earlier. I’ll take anything,” he says. “If I wrote the joke, I can say it.”

Unlike O’Brien’s feed, though, Fallon’s isn’t es-sentially a running list of jokes. He gets deeply involved, responding to fans and interacting with celebrities. Twitter is frequently referenced or

used in sketches on “Late Night,” too. One, “Late Night Hashtags,” takes jokes submitted from fans on the site.

Of course, Black, O’Brien and Fallon are well-known comedians, but Twitter has boosted the profi les of those who aren’t familiar to most people.

Brothers Eric and Justin Stangel have long been head writers for CBS’ “Late Show With David Letter-man” and last year were made executive produc-ers. Historically, though, behind-the-scene writers haven’t been widely known outside of the industry.

That has changed with Twitter, where Eric has nearly 20,000 followers and Justin some 7,000. For vet-eran comedy writers such as the Stangels, churning out jokes is second-nature — and good practice at writing tightly.

“It’s sort of just like working out, like exercise,” Justin says of tweeting. “It’s writing jokes for the hell of it. But if it’s something that we really like, then we save it for the show.”

It’s also given Eric, a big sports fan, a place to unload the kind of com-mentary that would only be funny to avid ESPN-watchers and would have no place on “Late Show.” When something irresist-ible — such as LeBron James’ much-maligned “The Decision” special — happens on an off-week when the “Late Show” is dark, there can still be parodies, if only for a smaller audience.

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Data reported at 4pm from Lee CountyTemperatureYesterday’s High . . . . . . . . . . .91Yesterday’s Low . . . . . . . . . . .61Normal High . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87Normal Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65Record High . . . . . . . .99 in 1993Record Low . . . . . . . .48 in 1982PrecipitationYesterday’s . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00"

Mountains: Skies will be sunny today. Wednesday, skies will remainsunny. Thursday, skies will be mostly sunny.

Piedmont: Today, skies will be sunny. Skies will remain sunnyWednesday. Thursday we will see mostly sunny skies.

Coastal Plains: Today, skies will be sunny. Wednesday we will continueto see sunny skies. Skies will be partly cloudy Thursday.

State temperatures aretoday’s highs andtonight’s lows.

Cape Hatteras90/71

Elizabeth City92/65

Greenville95/67

Sanford97/66

Wilmington91/68

Raleigh97/68

Greensboro95/67

Charlotte95/64

Asheville88/54

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Longshot Greene stays in spotlightCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)

— When Alvin Greene showed up Monday for a talk radio show in Char-lotte., the South Carolina Democratic U.S. Senate nominee attracted an en-tourage of TV and news-paper reporters from a state where he won’t even appear on the ballot.

Nearly three months after this unemployed Army veteran improbably won his party’s primary without raising any funds or putting up a campaign website, Greene remains a minor celebrity with his own retinue of documen-tary makers and personal assistants in tow.

He is out campaign-ing now, pulling out his black spiral notebook at a handful of appearances across the state and hit-ting the broad themes of creating jobs, improving education and establish-ing more fairness in the justice system. Other spe-cifi cs have started trick-ling out: He is against gay marriage and gays in the military, but for abortion rights.

But at his core, Greene, who turns 33 on Tuesday, remains the same quiet, shy man who is more comfortable in his “Greene for Senate” T-shirts than his business suit. He still takes long pauses when he speaks.

He isn’t quite sure what to make of his sud-den success.

“I’m interesting,” Greene said Monday on WBT radio in Charlotte when asked if he agreed if reports that have called him enigmatic. “Interest-ing, more than anything else. Just interesting. I have interesting ideas

and interesting ways of doing things.”

Greene appeared on the Charlotte radio sta-tion because it reaches into South Carolina. Charlotte’s suburbs extend across the state line, and about a quar-ter of the people in the city’s metropolitan area live south of the border. He spent two hours on the air, while newspaper and TV reporters waited outside.

Greene’s Republican opponent, incumbent Sen. Jim DeMint, has ap-peared on WBT too, but there were no TV cameras following him.

Greene was also scheduled to give a speech Monday evening at The Coal Yard restau-rant in York, S.C., where he was expected to take questions from voters and reporters. Greene has made similar appearanc-es in the past six weeks since his fi rst-ever speech brought international at-tention to his hometown of Manning.

But the campaign trail hasn’t been all smooth.

After he was indicted earlier this month on two charges, including a felony count of showing pornography to Univer-sity of South Carolina student, one local Demo-cratic party rescinded its invitation to Greene. Police had to be called when Greene showed up anyway and a woman he called his “personal assis-tant” began arguing with party members.

Greene said on the radio that South Carolina Democratic leaders are coming around. When pressed, he named just one of the state’s most eccentric Democrats, Sen. Robert Ford from Charleston.

The state’s pre-emi-nent Democrat, U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, said last week he will not vote for Greene because of the felony charge.

The leader of the state Democratic party doesn’t mask her disgust when asked about him.

“He is not at all viable as a candidate,” party chairwoman Carol Fowler

said Monday. “We have so many good strong candi-dates running statewide and at the local level who are getting no attention.”

Greene on Monday repeated his assertion that the charges come from political opponents trying to smear him. After being asked several times if he showed pornog-raphy to the student, Greene cut the topic off. “It’s ridiculous. And that’s what I say. And that’s it. Let’s move on.”

In three of South Carolina’s larger counties — Anderson, Beaufort and Dorchester — the local Democratic party website doesn’t even list Greene as a candidate.

That hasn’t stopped Greene from living his dream. He loved politics as a child and got an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of South Caro-lina in 2000. He has spent much of the last three months saying he wants a debate with “my oppo-nent,” refusing to use his name. DeMint and his staff haven’t mentioned Greene at all and have no plans to debate him. DeMint held six debates with his opponent when he fi rst won the seat in 2004.

Greene has added some more sounds bites to his repertoire. “Mar-riage is between a male and a female,” he said Monday on the radio.

“There’s a lot of folks just taking advantage of our system,” he said later, saying he would support changing the Constitu-tion so that a person born in the U.S. isn’t automati-cally a citizen.

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Alvin Greene, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, makes his fi rst public speech at Manning Junior High School, in Manning, S.C. in June.

AFGHANISTAN

7 U.S. troops diein bombings inviolent south

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

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

NATO gave no details of the Monday blasts ex-cept that they occurred in the south, the main theater of the confl ict, and that fi ve were killed in a single blast.

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

Later Monday, a pair of rockets were fi red at the Kandahar offi ces of the United Nations mis-sion in Afghanistan. One fell short and slightly wounded a guard. The other overshot the com-pound and exploded in

an empty fi eld, police said.

U.S. death tolls for August had been run-ning well behind those of the previous two months that set monthly records — 60 in June and 66 in July. But 14 Ameri-cans have been killed in the last three days, raising the American U.S. toll for the month to 49, most of them in the south.

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

With death tolls ris-ing, Karzai has become more outspoken in his criticism of the U.S.-led war effort, telling recent visitors that the Ameri-can counterinsurgency strategy is fl awed.

Most recently, he told the visiting speaker of the German parlia-ment that the campaign against the Taliban over the last eight years had been “ineffective apart from causing civilian casualties,” according to a statement by the presi-dential media offi ce.

Manny leaves L.A. Manny Ramirez leaves the Dodgers and officially joins the Chicago White Sox

Page 3BSportsThe Sanford Herald / TuesdAy, AuGusT 31, 2010

By RyAN [email protected]

CAMERON — Both Pinecrest and Union Pines could face post-season bans for a bench clearing brawl that took place on the foot-ball field Friday night between the two Moore County rivals.

Six players — three from each team — were ejected for fighting, which is an automatic two-game suspension.

According to North Carolina High School Athletic Assocation rules, a team whose players or coaches pick up three or more ejections during the season for

fighting will be banned from the playoffs. Since both Union Pines and Pinecrest each had three players ejected, a postseason ban will most likely be coming to both programs.

During the game, held in Southern Pines, an onfield scuffle broke out late in the second quar-

ter that saw three players ejected from both teams ejected and forced law enforcement officials to come in and restore order.

“At this point, we’re still in the middle of investigating every-thing,” said Carolyn Shannon-

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NEV. REGULATORS PROBING JORDAN SON’S PARTYING

LAS VEGAS (AP) — MGM Resorts International was under investigation after the underage son of basketball great Michael Jordan bragged on Twitter about partying at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub, Nevada gambling regu-lators said Monday.

Officials were examining whether the casino operator violated laws prohibiting drinking or gambling by minors, Nevada Gaming Control Board enforce-ment chief Jerry Markling said.

People under 21 often try to gamble or drink in Las Vegas, but punishment for casino operators depend on the circumstances, Markling said.

Jordan’s 19-year-old son Marcus Jordan tweeted Aug. 20 about spending $35,000 at Haze at Aria Resort & Casino.

RODDICK, CLIJSTERS WIN U.S. OPEN MATCHES

NEW YORK (AP) — Once you reach a certain age, birthdays tend to make you reflect on your own mortality. They also, in the case of a professional athlete such as Andy Roddick, tend to prompt questions about the state of your career.

Roddick turned 28 on Monday, Day 1 of this year’s U.S. Open, and after beating Stephane Robert of France 6-3, 6-2, 6-2, the ninth-seeded American was asked what significance he at-tributes to his age.

Kim Clijsters is “special,” too. The Belgian won the U.S. Open each of the last two times she entered, in 2005 and 2009, and she stretched her winning streak in New York to 15 matches Mon-day despite a brief blip.

The No. 2-seeded Clijsters began her title defense with a 6-0, 7-5 victory over 104th-ranked Greta Arn of Hungary.

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CLEMENS PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO LYING CHARGE

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

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

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

Wearing a dark jacket, brown pants and tie, Clemens ap-peared in federal court only a few blocks from where he swore under oath to a House commit-tee in 2008 that he had not used performance-enhancing drugs.

NCHSAA still investigating fightSuspensions, possible playoff ban coming for Union Pines, Pinecrest after brawl

By GARy d. ROBeRTsONAssociated Press Writer

RALEIGH — Since Quail Hollow Club returned to the PGA Tour in 2003, big-name golfers from Tiger Woods to Phil Mickelson have said the Charlotte course could be the site for a major championship.

That will come in 2017 when it will host the PGA Championship, the final major of each pro season.

A state government offi-cial with knowledge of the decision told The Associ-ated Press on Monday that the PGA of America will make a formal announce-ment on Tuesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt the official an-nouncement.

Quail Hollow’s difficult but fair old-style layout has drawn one of the top non-major fields of the year. Tiger Woods, who won there in 2007, chose Charlotte as his first non-major tournament after he missed much of the begin-ning of this season when his extramarital affairs were exposed.

While Woods missed the cut, he said a year earlier that Quail Hollow would be a good spot for a U.S. Open or PGA Champi-onship.

“You add rough, make it a par-70 and there you go,” he said.

Added Geoff Ogilvy dur-ing last May’s event: “It’s a course that feels a step above, challenge-wise. ... I think if we all turned up

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By BRIANA [email protected]

CHAPEL HILL — North Caroli-na kicks off its season against LSU in Atlanta in four days, but which Tar Heels play, let alone even make the trip, still is unknown.

UNC did not release a depth chart with its weekly game notes Monday, and Coach Butch Davis said its been “fluid” because of the ongoing two-pronged NCAA investigation into possible improper benefits and academic misconduct.

ACC associate commissioner Mike Finn said in an email that there is no league rule regarding

depth charts.“We always have to be

prepared for any unforeseen things,” Davis said. “Throughout the course of all seasons, there’s always unforeseen things that could pop up. ... I think the over-riding message that I’ve always tried to deliver to our players is be prepared. You never know when your opportunity is going to pres-ent itself.”

Davis would not say how many players possibly could sit out because of the investigations, but he said personnel decisions might not be made until the day of the game.

And everyone might not be

making the trip to Atlanta.“If they are deemed that they

cannot play, they will not travel,” Davis said.

The NCAA began investigating UNC in mid-July about play-ers possibly having improper contact with agents or receiving extra benefits, which led to the revelation of possibly academic misconduct during a news conference Thursday night. Wide receiver Greg Little and defensive tackle Marvin Austin are at the center of the initial probe, while sources said multiple starters on

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North Carolina coach Butch Davis, shown in this file photo, in a game last season. Less than a week away from the high-profile opener that will kick off North Carolina’s fourth season under Davis, the 18th-ranked Tar Heels aren’t sure exactly who will be playing for them against No. 21 LSU in Atlanta.

Heels face many questions heading into season opener

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New East Carolina coach Ruffin McNeill discussed the Pirates’ season opener against Tulsa at a press confer-ence on Monday. The Pirates will host Tulsa on Saturday in Greenville.

By JOedy McCReARyAP Sports Writer

GREENVILLE — The smoke will billow near East Carolina’s locker room, the pyrotechnics will sparkle and they’ll blast Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” over the speakers.

Then, for the first time, Ruffin McNeill will lead the Pirates onto the field.

“Right now, I’m getting little goose bumps,” McNeill said Mon-day, a full six days before gameday. “You can’t fake that.”

While there’s no hiding McNeill’s passion for his alma mater, there are more pressing things to worry about than making a grand entrance.

Playing a Conference USA rival — not to mention, one that might

be carrying a grudge — has a way of creating an added sense of urgency.

McNeill’s first game in charge of the two-time defending league champion Pirates, and his first game as a full-time head coach anywhere, comes Sunday when Tulsa visits in the first C-USA game of the season.

“It’s a conference game, but it’s our first game, and it’s the only game we’ve got this week, so all the focus will be on Tulsa,” McNeill said. “The motivation will be there. It’s the next guy up. It’s the first guy up. That’s enough motivation for us.”

It helps that McNeill has some fa-miliarity with Tulsa coach Todd Gra-ham. McNeill spent the past decade on Texas Tech’s staff, while Graham

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SANFORD — The San-ford Sting Mighty Mites beat the Cary Chargers at Paul Gay Stadium on Sat-urday by a score of 13-12.

Opening Day proved successful for the Mites as the offense was able to move the ball for short games with runs from Jaden Hodges, Chase Alexander and Colin John-son. Offensive blocking by Marcus Gray, Mat-thew Rumbold, Cameron Horton, Jaxson Mcbride, Jerry Smith, Connor Wells and Clay Beal allowed the Mites to move the ball into the red zone but they were still unable to convert a touchdown. The Mites de-fense led by David Heldt, Cole Furrie, Pascal Lutz, Kyle Rodriguez, Jack Flan-hery and Drew Bryan were able to hold the Chargers to little movement.

However, one sweep play by the Chargers of-fense found open sideline and allowed for a Charger touchdown to end the first half. With the Sting down

by 6 entering the second half Jackson Lamb was able to make good yardage on a kickoff return that put the Sting in good field position. Quarterback, Thomas Harrington, ran a reverse to Malik Roberson for a large yardage gain that gave the Sting its first touchdown of the day.

The Chargers retaliated with a dive play up the middle that scored their second touchdown and retain the lead. The Sting would not be outdone and Chase Alexander pushed his way into the endzone and gave the Sting the lead that would take them to the victory.

TennisWestern Harnett shuts out Lady Cavs

LILLINGTON — The South-ern Lee girls’ tennis team fell to Western Harnett 9-0 on Monday afternoon.

“We are very young,” said Southern Lee head coach Rob Newman. “We’ve got a lot of room to grow, but right now we’re just so young and we’re playing teams that have been playing together for a while.”

The Cavaliers fall to 1-2 overall and 1-1 in the Cape Fear Valley Conference.

volleyballLady Crusaders fall in straight sets

BEAR CREEK — The Grace Christian volleyball team lost in three games to Chatham Central on Monday afternoon at Chatham Central High School.

The scores were 25-12, 25-15, 25-21.

The Lady Crusaders fall to 1-3 overall.

golfHAVEN holding golf tournament in Oct.

SANFORD — The second annual Domestic Violence Awareness Golf Tournament will be held on Oct. 9 at Caro-lina Trace Country Club.

Entry fees are $75 per individual and $240 for a four-some. Lunch, green fees, a cart and a 19th hole party are included in the price.

The proceeds of the captain’s choice tournament will benefit HAVEN in Lee County.

First place finishers will win $600.

econd place finishers will earn $400 and third place finishers will win $300.

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Tuesday, Aug. 31n VolleyballAthens Drive at Lee County, 4 p.m.Lee Christian at Faith Christian, 4 p.m.n SoccerLee Christian at Faith Christian, 4 p.m.Chatham Central at Grace Christian, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 1n VolleyballPinecrest at Lee County, 5:30 p.m.n SoccerHolly Springs at Lee County, 6:30 p.m.Southern Lee at Scotland County, 7 p.m.n TennisAthens Drive at Lee County, 3:30 p.m.Gray’s Creek at Southern Lee, 3:30 p.m.n Cross CountryLee County at Green Hope, 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 2n Girls GolfLee County at Fuquay-Varina (Bent Winds), 3:30 p.m.n VolleyballLee County at Middle Creek, 5:30 p.m.Westover at Southern Lee, 5:30 p.m.n Women’s TennisLee County at Middle Creek, 3:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 3n Football (all games start at 7:30 p.m.)Lee County at Southern LeeHarnett Central at Western HarnettUnion Pines at Chatham CentralJordan-Matthews at NorthwoodOverhills at Pinecrestn VolleyballAlamance Christian at Lee Christian, 3:30 p.m.Grace Christian at Faith Christian, 3:30 p.m.n SoccerAlamance Christian at Lee Christian, 3:30 p.m.Grace Christian at Faith Christian, 3:30 p.m.

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defense have been practic-ing with the scout team since Wednesday.

Davis would not specu-late about which side of the ball might be more affected by the NCAA probe, but quarterback T.J. Yates and tight end Zack Pianalto both agreed the uncertainty is affecting the defense more than the offense at this point.

Yates and Pianalto were the only players available to the media Monday.

“[The defense] obviously [has] a little more people in jeopardy than the offensive side of the ball does,” said Yates, who Davis reaffirmed as the starter Monday.

Pianalto said the Tar Heels are not letting the latest investigation become a distraction, and they are doing what they did before - put their heads down and focus on LSU.

“Every team in the coun-try will go through adversity this year, and we’ve had our fair share and it won’t be the last piece of adversity we get this fall,” Pianalto said. “You just have to take it in stride,

keep focused, because we’re going to be playing the game regardless. I don’t think they’re going to cancel the game. ...

“We’re going to have to go down there and play with who’s there and do our best.”

Pianalto and Yates said they were both surprised by the allegations of academic problems, but they don’t really know what’s going on

with the investigation.Yates said he’s just ready

to play football, and push-ing the NCAA investigations to the side for one day will be a little bit of a relief.

“It’s a little more difficult [with] this stuff coming out just a week before we go into the game, so there’s a lot of question marks,” Yates said. “Nobody really knows what’s going to hap-pen. But we know that no

matter what, we’ve got to go out there and perform and we’ve just got to control the things that we can control.”

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Smith not too impressed with Panthers’ receiversCHARLOTTE (AP)

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

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

“It’s a learning experi-ence for me, being an older guy. And it’s a learn-ing experience for them as younger guys that it’s not

college anymore.”With the 31-year-old

Smith sidelined for most of training camp and three preseason games while he recovers from a breaking his left forearm in a flag football game, the Pan-thers have tried numerous receiver combinations with no success.

With only one tuneup left Thursday at Pitts-burgh, Carolina may be further away from iden-tifying the No. 2 receiver than when camp began. Nobody from the inexpe-rienced group of Dwayne Jarrett, Brandon LaFell, Kenny Moore, Wallace Wright, David Gettis, Ar-manti Edwards and Trent Guy seems like a sure bet to replace veteran Muhsin

Muhammad, who wasn’t re-signed.

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

“Then when we watched film and we went over plays, they were showing examples of the things that I did last year. It kind of helps get a little credibility with those guys,” Smith said. “Wheth-er they want to hear it or not, they get in the game

and all of sudden things change and they’re getting smashed up side the head.

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

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

Every receiver, it seems, has flaws.

Jarrett has good hands, but has trouble getting open and often runs wrong routes. LaFell’s a

rookie and his hands are suspect. Kenny Moore is inconsistent and prone to drops. Wright fumbled Saturday against Tennes-see, hurt his shoulder, and missed practice Monday. Gettis, Edwards and Guy are erratic rookies.

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

Receivers coach Tyke Tolbert said in training camp that he was sure the No. 2 receiver was on the current roster. While the

Panthers appear un-likely to go after recently released veterans Antonio Bryant and Laveranues Coles, they need to find an answer quickly.

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

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

Manny Ramirez leaves Dodgers to join White Sox

CLEVELAND (AP) — Manny Ramirez will have to follow two nonnegotiable rules if he’s going to play for White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen.

No. 1: Stretch with your teammates.

No. 2: Be on the field for the national anthem.

That’s it. Well, he may have to trim the dreadlocks. But that’s about it.

“I want him to feel com-fortable here,” Guillen said Monday. “I want him to like it here. I want him to have fun and I want him to be Manny.”

Back to frighten pitchers

who haven’t seen him regu-larly in a few years, Ramirez will try to get Chicago back to the AL playoffs.

As expected, the White Sox claimed the unpredict-able but productive 12-time All-Star slugger on waiv-ers from the Los Angeles Dodgers, counting on his powerful bat, full of so many October swings and hom-ers, to help them make a postseason push.

“Hopefully, he can come in here and give us some help,” White Sox first base-man Paul Konerko said. “We need to make up some ground. There’s no doubt

Manny can hit. He makes any team better.”

Chicago began a key 10-game trip to Cleveland, Boston and Detroit on Monday night, although Ramirez is not expected to join the White Sox, his fourth major league team, until Tuesday. They began the day 4 1/2 games behind first-place Minnesota in the AL Central.

The 38-year-old Ramirez returns to the AL after spending parts of three seasons in Los Angeles, a stay that ended on a some-what sour note. He batted .311 with eight homers and

40 RBIs in 66 games with the Dodgers this season, but was on the disabled list from July 20 to Aug. 20 with a right calf strain and missed 33 games.

Guillen said it’s possible Ramirez could play on Tues-day if he feels up to it. Guil-len plans to use Ramirez primarily as a designated hitter and will bat him fifth.

The White Sox are trying to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2008. That year, they traded for Ken Griffey Jr. before the July 31 deadline, but he had little impact down the stretch or in the postseason.

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Former Los Angeles Dodgers’ slugger Manny Ramirez strikes out while pinch hitting against the Colorado Rock-ies in the seventh inning of a baseball game at Coors Field in Denver, Colo. on Saturday. Ramirez was claimed off waivers by the Chicago White Sox and joined his new team on Monday

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BASEBALLAmerican League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 80 50 .615 —Tampa Bay 80 50 .615 —Boston 74 57 .565 61⁄2Toronto 68 62 .523 12Baltimore 48 83 .366 321⁄2

Central Division W L Pct GBMinnesota 75 56 .573 —Chicago 70 60 .538 41⁄2Detroit 65 66 .496 10Kan. City 55 75 .423 191⁄2Cleveland 53 77 .408 211⁄2

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 73 57 .562 —Oakland 65 64 .504 71⁄2Los Angeles 63 68 .481 101⁄2Seattle 51 79 .392 22

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

National League

East Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 75 55 .577 —Philadelphia 73 57 .562 2Florida 65 64 .504 91⁄2New York 65 65 .500 10Washington 56 75 .427 191⁄2

Central Division W L Pct GBCincinnati 75 55 .577 —St. Louis 69 59 .539 5Milwaukee 62 68 .477 13Houston 59 71 .454 16Chicago 55 76 .420 201⁄2Pittsburgh 43 87 .331 32

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego 76 53 .589 —San Francisco72 59 .550 5Colorado 68 61 .527 8Los Angeles 67 64 .511 10Arizona 52 79 .397 25

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

p.m.Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.Washington at Florida, 7:10 p.m.Colorado at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

TENNISU.S. Open ResultsBy The Associated PressMondayAt The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis CenterNew YorkPurse: $22.7 million (Grand Slam)Surface: Hard-OutdoorMenFirst RoundKei Nishikori, Japan, def. Evgeny Korolev, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (0), 5-2, retired.Nikolay Davydenko (6), Russia, def. Michael Russell, United States, 6-4, 6-1, 6-3.Marin Cilic (11), Croatia, def. Illya Marchenko, Ukraine, 7-5, 6-3, 6-1.Juan Carlos Ferrero (22), Spain, def. Martin Klizan, Slovakia, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0.Richard Gasquet, France, def. Simon Greul, Germany, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.Thiemo de Bakker, Nether-lands, def. Marc Gicquel, France, 6-4, 7-5, 6-2.Ricardo Mello, Brazil, def. Bjorn Phau, Germany, 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (4).Ivan Dodig, Croatia, def. Fernando Gonzalez (27), Chile, 6-7 (2), 6-1, 1-0, retired.Igor Andreev, Russia, def. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3.Gael Monfils (17), France, def. Robert Kendrick, United States, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-4.Robin Soderling (5), Sweden, def. Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austria, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 5-7, 6-4.Andy Roddick (9), United States, def. Stephane Robert, France, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.Carsten Ball, Australia, def. Milos Raonic, Canada, 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3, 6-2.Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, def. Ryan Sweeting, United States, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2.Jurgen Melzer (13), Austria, def. Dmitry Tursunov, Russia, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2.Guillaume Rufin, France, def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, 2-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-1.

Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, def. Olivier Rochus, Belgium, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (0), 6-2.Albert Montanes (21), Spain, def. Michal Przysiezny, Poland, 5-7, 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5), 6-0.Taylor Dent, United States, def. Alejandro Falla, Colombia, 6-4, 7-5, 6-1.Kevin Anderson, South Africa, def. Somdev Devvarman, India, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

WomenFirst RoundFrancesca Schiavone (6), Italy, def. Ayumi Morita, Japan, 6-1, 6-0.Melanie Oudin, United States, def. Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-0.Elena Baltacha, Britain, def. Petra Martic, Croatia, 6-2, 6-2.Alisa Kleybanova (28), Russia, def. Johanna Larsson, Swe-den, 7-6 (4), 6-2.Elena Dementieva (12), Rus-sia, def. Olga Govortsova, Belarus, 6-1, 6-2.Alona Bondarenko (29), Ukraine, def. Vera Dushevina, Russia, 6-0, 5-7, 6-4.Maria Elena Camerin, Italy, def. Sophie Ferguson, Austra-lia, 6-4, 6-0.Sara Errani, Italy, def. Tathiana Garbin, Italy, 7-6 (4), 7-5.Sally Peers, Australia, def. Aleksandra Wozniak, Canada, 6-0, 6-1.Gisela Dulko, Argentina, def. Angelique Kerber, Germany, 6-3, 6-1.Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (20), Russia, def. Kristina Bar-rois, Germany, 6-4, 6-1.Kim Clijsters (2), Belgium, def. Greta Arn, Hungary, 6-0, 7-5.Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-4, 7-5.Shahar Peer (16), Israel, def. Jelena Kostanic Tosic, Croatia, 6-4, 7-5.Petra Kvitova (27), Czech Republic, def. Lucie Hradecka, Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-5.Daniela Hantuchova (24), Slovakia, def. Dinara Safina, Russia, 6-3, 6-4.Sania Mirza, India, def. Michelle Larcher de Brito, Portugal, 6-3, 6-2.Anastasia Rodionova, Austra-lia, def. Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, 7-5, 6-4.Agnes Szavay, Hungary, def. Sandra Zahlavova, Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-2.Sybille Bammer, Austria, def. Zuzana Ondraskova, Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-0.

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house, the assistant com-missioner of the NCHSAA. “We’re still trying to figure out everything by talking to those that were there. We’re still talking to both schools’ coaches, the officials and trying to figure out what exactly happened.”

The incident took place after Pinecrest’s Bryan Van Cleave scored on a two-yard run. He then ran in a two-point conversion to help make Pinecrest’s big lead even bigger at 49-7 right before halftime. On the ensuing kickoff, the scuffle broke out at

midfield. Members of Pinecrest

were on the Union Pines side of the field and mem-bers of Union Pines ran out onto the field.

After about a 15-minute delay, Pinecrest would go on to win the game 69-14.

Union Pines head coach Ryan Riggan would not comment on the fight, directing everything to principal Robin Lea.

“We deeply regret that such an incident took place because it does not repre-sent the high expectations we have for our athletes regarding good sportsman-ship,” said Lea in an e-mail to The Herald on Monday.

The Patriots (2-0) scored

35 points in the first quarter to build a lead that they never lost.

In addition to suspen-sions and possible playoff implications, both teams could face a $1,000 fine for having players come onto the field to participate in a fight.

Shannonhouse says that the investigation should be completed within one to two days and once a decision on suspensions is made, both schools will be informed.

“Right now, everything is still pending because we’re still investigating,” said Shannonhouse. “We’ll make our decision soon and when we do, we’ll let

both schools know.”According to Shannon-

house, there is no video footage of the brawl, which makes it even harder for the NCHSAA to determine what exactly happened.

“We’re still investigat-ing and trying to put everything together,” said Shannonhouse. “Once we take everything from both parties into account, we’ll go from there. It really all just depends on what hap-pened. We’re trying to find video footage of the game so we can actually see it.”

The Vikings will play Chatham Central this Friday night while Pinecrest prepares for Overhills.

here and had a U.S. Open or PGA (Championship), it would feel like a normal U.S. Open or a PGA. It does feel like a major kind of place.”

Gov. Beverly Perdue, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx and club president Johnny Harris all are expected at Tuesday’s announcement, a public relations firm said.

Quail Hollow’s first major will be part of a busy time for the Caroli-

nas hosting golf’s biggest events. The 2012 PGA Championship will be at Kiawah Island, S.C. In 2014 Pinehurst, N.C.’s famed No. 2 course will host the men’s and women’s U.S. Opens in consecutive weeks.

Harris said in May he was interested in Quail Hollow hosting a big event, whether it was a PGA Championship or Ryder Cup. PGA officials have made numerous trips to the course as they decided on the tournament in 2017, the earliest year in which the course hadn’t been picked.

Quail Hollow will have a slightly different look because the calendar year’s last major is in August.

The warm, late-sum-mer date will mean the course will be entirely played on Bermuda grass. The May PGA Tour event is played on overseeded rye. That would mean what’s now called the Wells Fargo Championship continues past the bank’s title spon-sor deal of 2014, it likely wouldn’t be held at Quail Hollow in 2017 so officials can prepare for the PGA.

The course will also likely make other changes — some in response to

Mickelson’s criticism ear-lier this year.

While he’s said the course is major-worthy, Mickelson was critical of the 12th and 18th greens. Harris has said he would consider tweaks to both.

Getting picked for the PGA Championship is a coup for the private club and the city of Charlotte, a banking city hit hard by the financial crisis. It’s expected to being in thou-sands of visitors and pump millions of dollars into the economy.

Next year’s PGA Cham-pionship will be held at Atlanta Athletic Club.

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JASON CAMPBELL RETURNS TO PRACTICEALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Raiders quarterback

Jason Campbell practiced for the first time since being carted off the field during a preseason loss to San Francisco on Saturday. The team still is unsure whether he’ll play this week.

Campbell appeared fine during a light 90-minute workout Monday in no pads and showed no lingering effects from the stinger he suffered after being hit by 49ers linebacker Travis LaBoy in the second quarter. Campbell’s right wrist, which he injured on the previous series and was more of a concern for the Raiders, also appeared fine.

If Campbell is held out of Thursday’s preseason finale against Seattle, backup Bruce Gradkowski will likely start.

U.S. SOCCER SIgNS BRAdLEy TO ExTENSIONCHICAGO (AP) — Bob Bradley isn’t going anywhere.U.S. Soccer announced late Monday it had agreed to a

four-year extension with Bradley, ending speculation he was seeking a job in Europe and that the federation wanted to start anew in the lead-up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Financial terms were not disclosed.

“Bob is honored to be the U.S. coach,” said Ron Waxman, Bradley’s agent. “It’s a job he enjoys very much, and he’s very happy.”

U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati and Bradley will ad-dress the extension Tuesday.

Bradley is 38-20-8 in four years, including a victory last year over top-ranked Spain that earned the Americans a spot in the Confederations Cup final, their first at a major FIFA tournament. The United States also won its group at the World Cup in South Africa before being eliminated in a 2-1 overtime loss to Ghana.

Though many countries addressed their coaching situa-tions right after the World Cup, Gulati felt no pressure to move quickly because Bradley’s current deal didn’t expire until December. The Americans also had an exhibition against Brazil earlier this month and will play two more in October.

USA SURVIVES TEST, HOLdS OFF BRAZILISTANBUL (AP) — The shot bounced off the back rim, then

the front, then finally fell out.With that, the United States walked off the court with a

victory, and another warning: A world championship won’t come easily for this young team — if it comes at all.

The Americans survived their first tough test in Turkey, edging Brazil 70-68 on Monday when Leandro Barbosa’s shot rattled out at the buzzer.

“This game right here was an eye opener,” U.S. guard Derrick Rose said.

Kevin Durant scored 27 points and Chauncey Billups added 15 for the Americans (3-0), who essentially clinched Group B with the victory. But they have bigger goals than a group championship, trying to end a 16-year U.S. drought in this event.

SPORTS IN BRIEF

was a high school coach in a Dallas suburb before he made the jump to college ball, joining West Virginia’s staff in 2001 and later getting his Divi-sion I head coaching job at Rice in 2006. He moved to Tulsa a year later.

“I’ve crossed paths with coach McNeill quite a bit,” Graham said. “It’s genuinely the real deal. I’m very impressed with him. ... As a former high school coach, just the type of person that he is, he really cares about people.”

The Pirates are 2-0 in the past two seasons against Tulsa, including a victory in the 2008 C-USA title game, and that prompted Graham to call East Carolina “the team to beat in this confer-ence.”

But those teams were settled at quarterback. This one isn’t, at least not yet.

McNeill said he has yet to decide whether former Boston College QB Dominique Davis or sophomore walk-on Brad Wornick will take the first snap Sunday against the Golden Hurricane.

The longtime Mike Leach assistant said Wornick at times re-minds him of former Tech signal-callers Cody Hodges and Kliff Kings-bury. Davis, Ruffin said, has big-game experience after helping BC reach the 2008 ACC title game, plus the talent and intel-ligence to run McNeill’s version of the “Air Raid” offense.

“In this offense, and what we do, a strong arm is great, but it’s ... when and how you deliver that

thing that’s important in this offense,” McNeill said. “Both guys are doing a great job. ... Those guys are battling night and day. ... You’ll see one guy in seven-on-seven just complete great throws. Then, the next guy in team (drills will) do the same thing.”

For the man known around campus as “Coach Ruff,” it’s been a long wait to not only re-turn home, but to get that elusive first head coach-ing opportunity.

The Lumberton native and former East Caro-lina defensive back in the late 1970s spent the past 30 years as a career assistant. He bounced from Austin Peay to Ap-palachian State to UNLV, before landing at Texas Tech in 2000.

Following a messy divorce between Leach and the school, McNeill was put in charge on an interim basis for the Red Raiders’ Alamo Bowl victory over Michigan State. Tommy Tuberville got the full-time job and didn’t retain McNeill, who was hired by his alma mater in January after Skip Holtz left for South Florida.

“I’m looking forward to seeing our fans and getting around Pirate Nation and getting our football team, more importantly than me, around them,” McNeill said. “They’re not coming to see me. They’re com-ing to see our football team.

“I’m sure it’ll be emo-tional, and I’m looking forward to the execution of the game operation. That’s the exciting part of it to me. Let’s see who can beat who. I love that part of the game. But I’ll be excited, I’m sure.”

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B4 SCOREBOARD

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

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

My advice to any family is to start talking about funerals now, before the big event, sharing what you like and what you don’t about funerals. There is never only one way to do it.

— LISA CARLSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, FUNERAL ETHICS ORG.

DEAR LISA: Agreed! It’s always nice to receive a letter from you. You have long been a valued re-source to me and my readers. Read on:

DEAR ABBY: I work in a funeral home and would suggest a couple of options to Pam regarding her husband. Some funeral homes have more than one viewing room. They could display his mother in one and have the receiving line in another. That way, he wouldn’t have to see his mother in a casket. The service could include a closed casket -- or none at all.

Another choice would be crema-

tion with a memorial service after-ward. Both arrangements would allow the husband the chance for a fi nal goodbye without seeing Mom in the casket. Whatever he decides, the wife should accept his fi nal decision.

— LAURIE IN NEW YORK

DEAR ABBY: Sadly, both of my parents passed away within two years of each other. Instead of a funeral we held a Celebration of Life Memorial Service. (They both wanted to be cremated, so we did not have to deal with a coffi n.) Abby, the celebration was beautiful for both. We created slide shows and poster boards of their lives, told funny stories about them, and had people get up randomly if they had their own stories to share. Yes, it was sad because we miss our parents dearly ... but it has also been much easier dealing with our loss when remembering their service as a celebration of their lives.

— MISSING MOM AND DAD, EUGENE, ORE.

DEAR ABBY: I have made it clear to all of my family members that I will not attend their funer-als if they go before I do. I stopped attending funerals the minute I was allowed to decide for myself around the age of 16 (I am now 40). Whenever I go to a funeral, the prevailing memory for me is the one of the person lying in the coffi n. I no longer remember him or her as alive.

For the most part, my family has been very understanding and allowed me to grieve in my own way.

Pam should let her husband keep his memories of his mother in life and support him. Rather than wor-rying about him being there for his siblings, she needs to be concerned about being there for him.

— ROSEMARIE IN MINNEAPOLIS

DEAR ABBY: A funeral is for the living -- not the deceased. I lost my husband after a long illness a few years ago. His last wishes were to have no funeral so our children and I would not have to go through that. Instead, we celebrated his life with family and close friends -- including pictures and stories that we turned into a memorial biography of his life. As much as we miss him, this has been a much better means of coping for our family.

— CHERYL IN LAS CRUCES

Universal Press Syndicate

Happy Birthday: You have the potential to do great things this year. Your past passions should be resur-rected and put into play. Now is the perfect time to test your skills and show everyone what you are truly capable of accomplishing. Don’t overlook the small details because you are looking at the big picture. You numbers are 2, 7, 13, 20, 23, 38, 41

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Put a little magic back into your current relation-ship or, if single, get out and meet someone new. Partnerships will offer cre-ative input that will help you formulate what you can do in the future, personally and professionally. 4 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let your personal-ity shine through in every encounter you have with peers, associates or friends. Your knowledge and ability to adapt will make people gravitate to you. A trip or social event will bring you in touch with a big talker. 3 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll be hard to under-stand, fluctuating back and forth about the way you feel and what you want to do. The less said, the easier it will be to figure out which path to take. Interacting with others will only confuse you more. 3 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t waste your time arguing with someone who isn’t likely to see things your way. Use your time wisely. Love will be like walking a tightrope -- no matter what you do, you will be blamed for the way things turn out. 4 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t let your emotions decide what’s right for you. Do your homework so you know exactly where you stand and with whom you are dealing. Love is in the stars and a passionate encounter looks promising. 2 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t take on a responsibil-ity that is likely to stifle your pleasurable plans. You can stop someone from taking

advantage of you by remov-ing yourself from the situ-ation. Find a solution that gives you freedom as well. 5 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Trust in someone who understands your situation and can clearly see what you are going through. The advice you receive will help you avoid depression and a lack of stability. 3 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Problems at home must be assessed before you make a decision. You’ll be torn between two people who mean a lot to you. A child or elder may be the determining factor when making a difficult choice. 3 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Join a club or group that allows you to put your skills to good use for a worthy cause. The more action taken, the more of an impact you will make on others and with regard to your reputation. 3 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sudden, unexpected disruptions will send you into a tailspin. What you do to secure your money through an investment or by taking care of your own needs will turn out to be in your best interests. 5 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is money to be made if you take on a challenge that will bring the kinds of residuals you need to follow through with one of your goals. Change is needed and by joining forces with someone who shares your interest, you can build a future that will benefit both of you. 3 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your attraction toward someone may be strong but, unless there is hon-esty, openness and no sign of emotional blackmail, you should probably take a pass. A project you can work on with someone equally as talented will bring both of you recogni-tion. 4 stars

Birthday Baby: You are thoughtful, compassionate and self-reliant. You stand up for your beliefs and are practical, aggressive and creative.

The Sanford Herald / Tuesday, August 31, 2010 / 5BFeaturesDEAR ABBY

Funerals celebrating lifebring comfort to the living

Abigail Van Buren

Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or

P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Billy GrahamSend your queries to “My

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Don’t let dad’s mistakes beyour own

Q: My late father was mostly in prison when I was growing up, and the one thing I always said was that I’d never end up like he did. But now I have (I’m in jail for the fi rst time), and it’s really depressing me. Did God make me so I’d be just like my father, and there’s nothing I can do about it? -- D.W.

A: No, it isn’t inevitable that you’ll follow in your father’s footsteps; God didn’t make you so you’d have to do what he did.

Instead, the Bible makes it clear that each of us is re-sponsible for our own actions. We can’t blame someone else (including our parents) for what we did, or say that we had no choice in the matter because God made us that way. Each decision we make is ours alone, and we alone are responsible for the choices we make -- either good or bad. The Bible says, “The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father” (Ezekiel 18:20).

This doesn’t mean it’s been easy for you to choose the right way -- for it hasn’t. Your father left you a poor example, and never showed you how to live a better life. But I hope you’ll take your brush with the law as a wakeup call -- a God-given opportunity to start anew and put your feet on a different path, with His help. God loves you, and He doesn’t want you to end up the way your father did.

How can you do this? The key is to put your life into God’s hands, by committing yourself to Jesus Christ. By a simple prayer of faith ask Christ to forgive you and come into your life today -- and He will.

MY ANSWERODDS AND ENDS

Offi cer, that’s not me! Mistaken ID jails pastor

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A series of unfortunate coincidences led to a case of mistaken identity that put a Louisiana minister behind bars for nearly eight hours.

Gregory Jones, pastor at Eden Worship Center, was pulled over for speeding and arrested as a man wanted for violating parole in Texas.

The minister not only had the same name as the wanted man, but the same birthdate — and a Texas driver’s license. So he wound up handcuffed and taken to a Shreveport jail.

Jones says deputies treated him well and assured him they were checking his claims. A photograph and fi ngerprint check eventually confi rmed he wasn’t the wanted man.

Caddo Lt. Don Gibbs says the depart-ment was sorry for Jones’ inconvenience but committed to ensuring wanted criminals don’t accidentally go free.

Six arrested after gunfi reat baptism party

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — Police said a baptism party where some uninvited guests arrived turned into a brawl that resulted in gunfi re.

Police were dispatched to the Progres-sive Men’s Club at 2 a.m. Saturday after a caller reported gunfi re.

Witness Amy Manjarrez told Fort Smith television station KHBS that her uncle was pistol whipped and that others, including her father and a disk

jockey, were beaten.Police said one person fi red a gun in

the air and then into the crowd, though no one was wounded.

Investigators said six juveniles were arrested.

Their names weren’t released because of their ages. One youth was charged with aggravated assault. Other charges include curfew violations, marijuana possession and carrying a weapon.

Police: Would-be burglargets caught in grease vent

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A would-be burglar who tried to break into a South Carolina restaurant found himself in a tight and a greasy situation. The Post and Courier of Charleston re-ported a man tried to break into a North Charleston restaurant by climbing down a grease vent.

He got stuck and had to wait almost seven hours until he could be freed.

North Charleston Police said the man was discovered shortly before 5 a.m. Monday when an employee heard some-one calling for help. Police arrived to fi nd a foot dangling in a vent above a stove.

Kevin Michael Harley of North Charleston was charged with second-de-gree burglary.

It could not immediately be deter-mined if the 23-year-old Harley had an attorney.

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BLONDIE

PICKLES

MARY WORTH

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LEGALS

0955 LegalsDEPARTMENT OF HOME-LAND SECURITY, OFFICE

OF FINES, PENALTIES, ANDFORFEITURES, U.S. CUS-TOMS AND BORDER PRO-

TECTION, CHARLOTTE, NC,AUGUST 31, 2010. Notice is

hereby given that the followingproperty was seized in Broad-way, North Carolina on July 7,2010, under the provisions oftitle 18, United States Code,

section 981, for violation of title18, United States Code, sec-tion 1956 and title 21, United

States Code, section 881:

One (1) 2004 H2 HummerVIN: 5GRGN23U74H100984

(APV. $16,175.00)

Anyone asserting an interestand claim to the property must

file, within twenty (20) daysfrom the date of first publica-tion of this notice, a claim withthe Fines, Penalties, and For-feitures Officer, Customs andBorder Protection, 1901 CrossBeam Drive, Charlotte, N.C.,28217, in default of which the

seized property will be for-feited as prescribed by law.

Elizabeth Sebik, FP&F Officer

Executor Notice

Having qualified as Executorof the estate of Jessie MaeEdwards Burns, deceased,late of Lee County, North

Carolina, this is to notify allpersons having claims

against the estate of said de-ceased to present them to

the undersigned within threemonths from August 10,2010 or this notice will be

pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons indebted tosaid estate please make im-mediate payment. This 10,

day of August, 2010.Annette Burns Holt

290 Zion Church RoadSanford NC 27330

Executor/trixof the estate of

Jessie Mae Edwards Burns(August 10, 17, 24, 31)

AMENDEDNOTICE OFFORECLOSURE SALE10

-SP183Under and by virtueof the power of sale

contained in a certain Deedof Trust made by LORI G.

BAKER AND RAY E. BAKER,JR. to PHILIP E. GREER,

Trustee(s), dated the 2N11day ofAPRIL, 2009 and re-

corded in BOOK 1168, PAGE850, LEE County Registry,

0955 LegalsNorth Carolina, Default having been made in the

payment of the note therebysecured by the said Deed ofTrust and the undersigned,

ANDERSON & STRICK-LAND, P.A., having beensubstituted as Trustee insaid Deed of Trust by an

instrument duly recorded inthe Office of the Register ofDeeds of LEE County, NorthCarolina and the holder ofthe note evidencing said

indebtedness having directed that the Deed of

Trust be foreclosed, the un-dersigned Substitute

Trustee will offer for sale atthe Courthouse Door, in the

City of SANFORD, LEECounty, North Carolina at10:00 O'CLOCK A.M. ONSEPTEMBER 13TH 2010,

and will sell to the highestbidder for cash the following

real estate situated in theCounty of LEE, North Caro-

lina, and being more particu-larly described as

follows:LYING AND BEINGIN THE COUNTY OF LEE,STATE OF NORTH CARO-

LINA, AND BEING DE-SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS;BE-ING ALL OF LOT 2073, AC-CORDING TO THE MAP OFCAROLINA TRACE, SOUTH

LANDING, SECTION' THREE,RECORDED IN PLAT CABI-

NET 1, SLIDE 142, LEECOUNTY REGISTRY. REF-ERENCE TO SAID MAP IS

HEREBY MADE FOR AMORE PARTICULAR DE-SCRIPTION.TAX ID: 9670

0430-2600.Said property be-ing located at: 2073 Sandal-

wood Drive, Sanford, NC27332PRESENT RECORDOWNER BEING: LORI G.

BAKER AND RAY E. BAKER,JR.Trustee may, in the Trus-tee's sole discretion, delaythe sale for up to one hour

as provided inN.C.G.S.45-21.23.Also, this propertyis being sold subject to all

taxes, special assessments,and prior liens or encum-brances of record and anyrecorded releases.Shouldthe property be purchased

by a third party, that personmust pay the statutory finalassessment fee of forty-fivecents ($0.45) per One Hun-dred Dollars ($100.00) re-

quired by N.C.G.S. 7A308 (a)(1), and any applicable

county and/or state landtransfer tax and/or revenuetax.Any successful biddershall be required to tenderthe full balance of the pur-chase price so bid, in cash

or certified check, at thetime the Substitute Trustee

tenders to him a deed for theproperty or attempts to ten-der such deed, and should

said successful bidder fail topay the full balance of thepurchase price so bid, at

that time he shall remain li-able on his bid as providedfor in N.C.G.S. 45-21.30(d)and (e).The property to be

offered pursuant to this no-tice of sale is being offeredfor sale, transfer and con-veyance "AS , WHERE IS."Neither the Trustee nor theholder of the note secured

by the deed of trust/securityagreement, or both, being

foreclosed, nor the officers,directors, attorneys, employ-

ees, agents or authorizedrepresentative of either theTrustee or the holder of thenote make any representa-tion of warranty relating to

the title or any physical, en-vironmental, health or safetyconditions existing in, on, at

or relating to the propertybeing offered for sale, andany and all responsibilities

or liabilities arising out of orin any way relating to anysuch condition expresslyare disclaimed.A cash or

cashier's check (no personalchecks) of five percent (5%)

of the purchase price, orseven hundred fifty dollars

($750.00), whichever isgreater, will be required atthe time of the sale.That anOrder for possession of the

0955 Legalsproperty may be issued pur-suant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 infavor of the purchaser andagainst the party or parties

in possession by the clerk ofsuperior court of the county

in which the property issold.Any person who occu-pies the property pursuantto a rental agreement en-

tered into or renewed on orafter October 1, 2007, may,after receiving the notice of

sale, terminate the rentalagreement upon 10 dayswritten notice to the land-lord. The notice shall also

state that upon terminationof a rental agreement, thetenant is liable for rent dueunder the rental agreement

prorated to the effective dateof the termination.This the

23rd day of August, 2010.Mi-chael W. Strickland, as At-torney for and President of

ANDERSON & STRICK-LAND, PA., Substitute Trus-tee210 East Russell Street,

Suite 104Fayetteville, North Carolina28301(910) 483-3300Publish:

August 30, 2010 and Sep-tember 6, 2010

Executor Notice

Having qualified as Executorof the estate of James Wil-liam Wicker, deceased, lateof Lee County, North Caro-lina, this is to notify all per-sons having claims againstthe estate of said deceasedto present them to the un-

dersigned within threemonths from August 24,2010or this notice will be

pleaded in bar of their recov-ery. All persons indebted tosaid estate please make im-mediate payment. This 23,

day of August, 2010. Russell Jeffrey Wicker

722 Flynn RoadRutherfordton, NC 28139


James William WickerAugust 24th, 31st,

September 7th & 14th

Executor Notice

Having qualified as Executorof the estate of SHIRLEY

JEAN BOWLIN, deceased,late of Lee County, North

Carolina, this is to notify allpersons having claims againstthe estate of said deceased to

present them to the under-signed within three months

from 31, August, 2010 or thisnotice will be pleaded in bar oftheir recovery. All persons in-debted to said estate pleasemake immediate payment.

This 31, day of August,2010.

STEPHEN RAY BOWLINPO BOX 1853

SANFORD, NC 27331


Shirley Jean Bowlin(8/31, 9/7, 9/14, 9/21)

EnclosuresIN THE GENERAL COURT

OF JUSTICEOF NORTHCAROLINASUPERIOR

COURT DIVISIONLEE COUN-TY10 sp 248 IN THE MAT-TER OF THE FORECLO-

SURE OF A DEED OFTRUST EXECUTED BY

THEODORE A. RAUSCH, JR.AND TAMMY FINLEY

RAUSCH DATED NOVEM-BER 29, 2006 AND RE-

CORDED IN BOOK 1059 ATPAGE 583 IN THE LEE

COUNTY PUBLIC REGIS-TRY, NORTH CAROLINA

NOTICE OF SALE Under andby virtue of the power andauthority contained in theabove-referenced deed of

trust and because of defaultin the payment of the se-

cured indebtedness and fail-ure to perform the stipula-

tion and agreements thereincontained and, pursuant todemand of the owner and

holder of the secured debt,the undersigned substitutetrustee will expose for sale

at public auction to the high-est bidder for cash at theusual place of sale at the

0955 Legalscounty courthouse of saidcounty at 2:00 PM on Sep-tember 14, 2010 the follow-ing described real estate

and any other improvementswhich may be situatedthereon, in Lee County,

North Carolina, and beingmore particularly describedas follows: BEING ALL OFLOT NO. 20, Lake VillanowSubdivision, as shown onplat entitled "Section Two,

Lake Villanow" dated Febru-ary 1990 by Jerry B. Mad-dox, RLS, recorded in Plat

Cabinet 7, Slide 39, LeeCounty Registry, to whichplat reference is hereby

made for a more perfect de-scription. And Being morecommonly known as: 8504Sugar Creek Dr, Sanford, NC27332 The record owner(s)of the property, as reflectedon the records of the Regis-

ter of Deeds, is/are Theo-dore A. Rausch, Jr. and

Tammy Finley Rausch. Theproperty to be offered pur-

suant to this notice of sale isbeing offered for sale, trans-fer and conveyance "AS IS,

WHERE IS." Neither theTrustee nor the holder of thenote secured by the deed oftrust, being foreclosed, northe officers, directors, attor-neys, employees, agents orauthorized representative ofeither Trustee or the holderof the note make any repre-sentation or warranty relat-ing to the title or any physi-cal, environmental, health orsafety conditions existing in,on, at or relating to the prop-

erty being offered for sale.Any and all responsibilitiesor liabilities arising out of or

in any way relating to anysuch condition expressly

are disclaimed. This sale ismade subject to all priorliens and encumbrances,and unpaid taxes and as-

sessments including but notlimited to any transfer tax

associated with the foreclo-sure. A deposit of five per-cent (5%) of the amount ofthe bid or seven hundred

fifty dollars ($750.00), which-ever is greater, is required

and must be tendered in theform of certified funds at thetime of the sale. This salewill be held open ten days

for upset bids as required bylaw. Following the expiration

of the statutory upset pe-riod, all remaining amountsare IMMEDIATELY DUE AND

OWING. Failure to remitfunds in a timely manner willresult in a Declaration of De-fault and any deposit will befrozen pending the outcomeof any re-sale. SPECIAL NO-TICE FOR LEASEHOLD TEN-ANTS: If you are a tenant re-siding in the property, be ad-vised that an Order for Pos-session of the property maybe issued in favor of the pur-

chaser. Also, if your leasebegan or was renewed on orafter October 1, 2007, be ad-

vised that you may termi-nate the rental agreement

upon 10 days written noticeto the landlord. You may beliable for rent due under theagreement prorated to the

effective date of the termina-tion. The date of this Notice

is August 24, 2010.10-006191Grady I. Ingle OrElizabeth B. Ells Substitute

Trustee10130 PerimeterParkway, Suite 400

Charlotte, NC 28216(704)333-8107http://shapiroattor-

neys.com/nc/

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURESALE NORTH CAROLINA,

LEE COUNTY 08 SP 0102Under and by virtue of a

Power of Sale contained inthat certain Deed of Trustexecuted by Christopher

Kerecz and Crystal Kereczto Trustee Services of Caro-lina, LLC., Trustee(s), datedJuly 05, 2007, and recordedin Book 1093, Page 404, Lee

County Registry, NorthCarolina. Default having

been made in the paymentof the note thereby securedby the said Deed of Trust

0955 Legalsand the undersigned, havingbeen substituted as Trusteein said Deed of Trust by aninstrument duly recorded inthe Office of the Register ofDeeds of Lee County, NorthCarolina, and the holder ofthe note evidencing said in-debtedness having directed

that the Deed of Trust beforeclosed, the undersignedSubstitute Trustees will offer

for sale at the CourthouseDoor in Lee County, North

Carolina, at 11:45AM onSeptember 14, 2010, and willsell to the highest bidder forcash the following describedproperty, to wit: BEING ALLOF LOT NUMBER 434, AC-CORDING TO THE MAP OFCAROLINA TRACE, SOUTHSHORE, HARBOR CREEK,

RECORDED IN THE OFFICEOF THE REGISTER OF

DEEDS OF LEE COUNTY INPLAT CABINET 3, SLIDE 346(FORMERLY MAP BOOK 12,PAGE 52). REFERENCE TO

SAID MAP IS HEREBYMADE FOR A MORE PAR-TICULAR DESCRIPTION.

Said property is commonlyknown as 434 Windy Beach,

Sanford, NC 27332. Thirdparty purchasers must paythe excise tax, pursuant toN.C.G.S. 105-228.30, in the

amount of One Dollar ($1.00)per each Five Hundred Dol-lars ($500.00) or fractional

part thereof, and the Clerk ofCourts fee, pursuant toN.C.G.S. 7A-308, in the

amount of Forty-five Cents(45) per each One HundredDollars ($100.00) or frac-tional part thereof or FiveHundred Dollars ($500.00),whichever is greater. A de-posit of five percent (5%) ofthe bid, or Seven Hundred

Fifty Dollars ($750.00),whichever is greater, will berequired at the time of thesale and must be tendered

in the form of certifiedfunds. Following the expira-tion of the statutory upset

bid period, all the remainingamounts will be immediatelydue and owing. Said prop-erty to be offered pursuantto this Notice of Sale is be-ing offered for sale, transfer

and conveyance AS ISWHERE IS. There are no rep-resentations of warranty re-

lating to the title or anyphysical, environmental,

health or safety conditionsexisting in, on, at, or relatingto the property being offered

for sale. This sale is madesubject to all prior liens, un-paid taxes, special assess-

ments, land transfer taxes, ifany, and encumbrances ofrecord. To the best of the

knowledge and belief of theundersigned, the currentowner(s) of the propertyis/are Christopher Kerecz

and Crystal Kerecz. PLEASETAKE NOTICE: An order forpossession of the propertymay be issued pursuant toG.S. 45-21.29 in favor of thepurchaser and against theparty or parties in posses-

sion by the clerk of superiorcourt of the county in which

the property is sold. Anyperson who occupies the

property pursuant to a rentalagreement entered into or

renewed on or after October1, 2007, may, after receivingthe notice of sale, terminatethe rental agreement upon

10 days' written notice to thelandlord. The notice shall

also state that upon termina-tion of a rental agreement,that tenant is liable for rentdue under the rental agree-ment prorated to the effec-tive date of the termination.________________________

___________ NationwideTrustee Services, Inc. Sub-stitute Trustee 1587 North-east Expressway Atlanta,

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