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Tigers in the White House

Members of the National Champion Clemson Tigers grab fast food sandwiches in the State Dining Room of the White House on Monday. The team attended an event with President Donald Trump honoring their victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Trump bought Burger King, McDonald’s and Wendy’s to serve the players during the government shutdown.

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Judge bars citizenship question from 2020 census A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from asking about citizenship status on the 2020 census. In a 277page decision that won’t be the final word on the issue, Judge Jesse M. Furman ruled that while such a question would be constitutional, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had added it arbitrarily and not followed proper administrative procedures.

The constitutionally mandated census is supposed to count all people living in the U.S., including noncitizens and immigrants living in the country illegally. The administration faces an early summer deadline for finalizing questions so questionnaires can be printed.

Representative George Holding (NC-02) introduced an amendment to the U.S. Constitution on Tuesday which would impose term limits on Congress. The amendment would limit U.S. Senators to two six-year terms and members of the U.S. House of Representatives to six two-year terms.

Congressional term limits are overwhelmingly supported by the majority of Americans with a recent poll showing that 82% of voters support imposing term limits on Congress. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) along with Senate and House co-sponsors offered a different term limits amendment in early January.

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Former U.S. Interior secretary takes job in NC Cannon and Zinke declined to give further details on the terms of his new employment.

After spending almost two BILLINGS, Mont. — Former U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan years leading an agency that Zinke said Monday he’s “glad to oversees 500 million acres of be out of the swamp” after tak- public lands, Zinke announced ing a job at a private investment his resignation from the Interior Department last company in the wake month and left the post of his resignation and on Jan. 2. He’s denied amid unresolved ethics any wrongdoing amid investigations into his actions while in Pres- “I am glad to investigations into his private business dealident Donald Trump’s be out of the ings, a decision to Cabinet. block a tribal casino North Caroli- swamp and and other matters. na-based Artillery One free from Zinke’s tenure in said Monday that ZinDonald ke had been hired as its the chains of President Trump’s Cabinet was managing director to office.” marked by a shift topursue “investing opward policies more faportunities” in enervorable to the oil and gy, financial technolo- Ryan Zinke gas industry. Artillery gy and cybersecurity.

One cited his “experCompany chief executive Daniel Cannon declined to tise in the energy and technolidentify any of the firm’s clients ogy sectors” as a reason for his or any investment projects in hiring.

Democrats in Congress have which it has been involved.

Zinke told The Associat- said they plan to hold hearings in ed Press he had “joined a win- coming months examining Zinning team” following his pre- ke’s time at Interior, including vious service as a Navy SEAL, his recommendation to reduce a Republican state lawmaker the size of some national monuand Montana’s sole member the ments.

Artillery One said in its anU.S. House of Representatives.

There has been speculation Zin- nouncement that Zinke would be ke would run for Montana gover- based in Montana and California nor, although he said recently he but travel extensively abroad and won’t be seeking public office in follow Trump’s agenda of promoting economic development. the next election cycle.

Zinke officially started with “I am glad to be out of the swamp and free from the chains the Highlands, N.C., company of office,” Zinke said in a text on Jan. 12, Cannon said in an email. message.

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State legislative leaders name new committee chairs Election wins and losses mean new assignments for many legislators

By David Larson North State Journal RALEIGH — As the N.C. House and Senate prepare to begin the 2019-20 biennial session, legislative leaders gave out new committee assignments to members last week. The leaders of the Rules, Appropriations and Finance committees in each chamber carry political clout and hold much of the state’s policymaking bandwidth within their jurisdiction.

Senate leader Phil Berger (R-Eden) released a statement listing the makeup of Senate standing committees with most of his chief lieutenants in familiar roles. Berger again tapped Sen. Bill Rabon (R-Brunswick) to chair the powerful Senate Rules Committee. Majority Leader Harry Brown (R-Onslow) will hold the top spot in the GOP caucus and control the purse strings as chair of the Appropriations Committee along with Sens.

Kathy Harrington (R-Gaston) and Brent Jackson (R-Sampson).

The Senate Finance Committee will now be co-chaired by Ralph Hise (R-Mitchell), Paul Newton See NCGA, page A2

UNC chancellor resigning, removes Silent Sam pedestal

By Jonathan Drew The Associated Press CHAPEL HILL — UNC Chancellor Carol Folt announced Monday that she will step down, and it was revealed the next day her resignation would be effective Jan. 31. While announcing her departure, Folt also announced that the University planned to remove the pedestal of the toppled Silent Sam monument which commemorated the alumni UNC who died in the Civil War. Folt’s plan to remove the pedestal turned to action just as reports of her intentions became public Monday.

The university announced at 1 a.m. Tuesday that the removal had begun, only hours after Folt’s surprise order to remove the empty base of “Silent Sam.” By 2:40 a.m. it was all over. A work crew with a large truck, a forklift and floodlights took the last piece of the base from the main quad, leading to cheers by a crowd that had gathered to watch.

The statue itself has been in storage since it was pulled down last August by protesters who called it a racist symbol. Citing safety concerns, Folt said the massive pedestal and bronze memorial plaques also will be stored while

their fate is decided.

“The presence of the remaining parts of the monument on campus poses a continuing threat both to the personal safety and well-being of our community and to our ability to provide a stable, productive See SILENT SAM, page A2

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In this Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, a diver, left, aboard an NYPD vessel prepares to rescue passengers that escaped from the Airbus 320 US Airways aircraft made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York in what came to be known as the “Miracle on the Hudson” because everyone survived. It’s been 10 years since US Airways flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese just after takeoff.

NC survivors of ‘Miracle’ flight mark decade of thankfulness

By Deepti Hajela The Associated Press NEW YORK — It’s been 10 years, but there isn’t anything Tripp Harris doesn’t remember about the cold January day he cheated death on US Airways flight 1549.

The jolt when the plane collided with a flock of geese and the engines stopped moments after takeoff from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. The smoke filling the cabin. The electric, burning smell. The panic from the people around him. The calm, steady tone of Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger telling everyone to brace for impact as he steered the Airbus A320-214 into the frigid waters of the Hudson River on Jan. 15, 2009.

And, of course, he knows the happy ending of the “Miracle on the Hudson”: All 155 people aboard survived.

Harris has also never forgotten what that day taught him about what really mattered: his wife and then-2-year-old son.

“Everything that I could think about was the things I was going to miss,” said Harris, 47, of Charlotte, North Carolina, where the flight was headed. “That fundamentally shifted my priorities.”

It’s colored his life ever since. He decided to spend more time with his family and have adventures and experiences he might otherwise have put off.

That day “made me a better father, a better husband,” Harris said.

It’s a common refrain among survivors, of how that day led to big life changes and small everyday choices, and to feeling joy more

SILENT SAM from page A1 educational environment,” she wrote. As for her resignation, she said she would step down at the end of the school year.

In a statement sent after midnight, Gov. Roy Cooper said he appreciates Folt’s “actions to keep students and the public safe.”

“North Carolina is welcoming to all, and our public university should reflect that,” Cooper said.

But Folt’s move drew an angry response from Harry Smith, chairman of the Board of Governors that oversees the state’s public universities. The board had given itself until mid-March to come up with a plan for the statue, and Smith said that timeline hasn’t changed.

“We are incredibly disappointed at this intentional action,” he said in a statement before the removal work began. “It lacks transparency and it undermines and insults the Board’s goal to operate with class and dignity.”

As the public face of the university, Folt had been criticized both by those who wanted the statue gone for good, and those who said state law required it to be restored to where it had stood in McCorkle Place since 1913.

The announcement of her departure comes weeks after the rejection of a plan, which Folt helped craft, to build a new $5

“We are incredibly disappointed at this intentional action. ... It lacks transparency and it undermines and insults the Board’s goal to operate with class and dignity.”

Harry Smith, chairman of the Board of Governors million history center on campus to house Silent Sam. Folt’s announcement also comes shortly after the departure of the president of the statewide university system, Margaret Spellings, who had also frequently drawn protesters’ barbs.

The Board of Governors rejected that plan in December and announced it would go “back to the drawing board.” Folt acknowledged in December that the plan to build the history center “didn’t satisfy anyone.”

Folt, who came to UNC in 2013 from Dartmouth College, said Monday she was proud of work she’d overseen on the Campaign for Carolina fundraising drive that raised more than $2 billion as of last summer, or about half of

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In this Jan. 10, 2019 photo, Steve O’Brien holds an editorial cartoon framed with his boarding pass from US Airways Flight 1549 that eventually crash-landed in the Hudson River on Jan. 19, 2009 as he poses for a photo at his home in Charlotte, N.C. readily.

Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia a decade ago Tuesday, with Sullenberger’s co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles at the controls, three flight attendants and 150 passengers aboard. It was cold, only about 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 7 degrees Celsius), but the skies were clear.

“What a view of the Hudson today,” Sullenberger remarked to Skiles, according to National Transportation Safety Board’s report on the crash.

Less than a minute later, plane and birds collided at 3,000 feet (915 meters). Both engines stopped. Sullenberger took the controls and told air traffic controllers he couldn’t make it back to LaGuardia. His choices were a small airport for pri-

its ambitious goal. But Folt’s tenure also saw UNC sued by a transgender employee over the state’s so-called bathroom bill, as well as the Silent Sam debate growing more heated after a deadly white nationalist rally in Virginia in 2017.

“Silent Sam” was toppled in August by protesters who decried its origins, including a racist speech by a former Confederate when it was dedicated.

In early December, Folt and the Chapel Hill campus trustees proposed a site for the new history center about a mile from where the statue previously stood, saying they had to balance safety concerns with a strict 2015 state historical law on Confederate monuments. At the time, Folt and several trustees said they would prefer moving the statue off campus entirely but were restricted by the monuments law that allows relocation only in narrow circumstances.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans issued a statement early Tuesday saying that Folt “has effectively erased the contribution and sacrifice of these brave veterans and the tribute paid to them by subsequent generations.” Late Monday, before the removal began, the group’s North Carolina spokesman Frank Powell said the group could use the 2015 law to sue if the removal went forward.

vate aircraft in New Jersey — possibly too far — or the river. Sullenberger picked the water.

At 3:31 p.m., the plane splashed down, somehow stayed in one piece, and began floating fast toward the harbor. Passengers got out on the wings and inflatable rafts as commuter ferries raced to the rescue.

One flight attendant and four passengers were hurt, but everyone else was mostly fine.

The submerged and damaged plane was recovered and is now held at the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, where survivors are planning to gather Tuesday to mark the 10-year anniversary, including a toast at the exact time of the crash.

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NCGA from page A1 (R-Cabarrus) and Jerry W. Tillman (R-Randolph).

“Through these Senate committees, capable and experienced legislators of both parties will delve deeply into many issues that matter to North Carolinians — including growing our economy, enhancing public safety and preserving our natural resources,” said Berger in a press release.

On the House side, Speaker Tim Moore (R-Kings Mountain), elected for a third time to lead his chamber, announced committee assignments as well. His press release focused on the House Rules, Appropriations and Finance committees.

“Years of successful tax relief and budget reform have North Carolina poised for unprecedented success, so it’s important these committee leaders get back to work building on our state’s economic momentum as soon as possible,” Moore said in his statement.

On the budget, Moore moved Rep. Jason Saine (R-Lincoln), formerly a Finance chair, to Senior Appropriations chair. This moves Saine from working on tax policy to being one of the primary budget writers for the House. Reps.

Linda Johnson (R-Cabarrus) and Donny Lambeth (R-Forsyth) join Saine as senior chairs on this com-

do it again, it certainly gave me some clarity around my life priorities and the importance of my family,” said Pam Seagle, 52, of Wilmington, North Carolina, who was on the flight.

In the aftermath, she made some big life decisions.

She and her family moved away from Charlotte to a new home at the beach in Wilmington. While she still works for Bank of America, her employer in 2009, she moved to a division that promotes women’s economic empowerment. She took time to be with loved ones, including a long-overdue break with her sister. She held those moments with family even dearer after her sister’s unexpected death months later in 2009.

That January day 10 years ago “kind of put me on this path to where I am now, and where I’m very happy and content,” she said.

Getting over the trauma of the experience took some time for passenger Steve O’Brien, 54, of Charlotte.

“That first year was tough. You’re scattered. You can’t focus. You’re impatient,” he said. “There’s this thin place between life and death ... and we were at a really thin place and then you get yanked back.”

When he flies now, he looks for the emergency exits and can’t sleep as easily in his seat anymore.

“I’ll be on a plane and I’ll be nodding off or something, and a bump will happen and all of a sudden it comes back, and you just feel this electric scared, overwhelming feeling that hits you in the chest,” he said.

But he says he feels he’s a more relaxed person now with life’s lesser frustrations.

“I realize that little things are to be appreciated, that mundane things are what make up your life,” he said, “and that’s the things you’re going to miss if it’s going to be yanked away from you.”

mittee. Saine’s move was necessitated by Nelson Dollar’s (R-Wake) loss in November. Dollar recently joined Moore’s staff as a senior policy adviser.

“I really look forward to the new challenges, certainly a different side of the coin, moving from Finance to Appropriations,” Saine told North State Journal. “With my time as chair of IT Appropriations, I had experience with budgeting, so I’m excited for this change.”

With Saine moving from Finance to Appropriations, the speaker chose experienced lawmaker Rep. Julia Howard (R-Davie) to take the vacant Finance chairmanship and retained Rep. Mitchell Setzer (R-Catawba) and Rep. John Szoka (R-Cumberland) as the other two co-chairs.

Rep. David Lewis (R-Harnett) will continue to chair the key House Committee on Rules, Calendar, and Operations.

Despite 16 pickups by the Democrats, and other interparty changes, the leadership of both the House and Senate will remain relatively consistent from last session.

“I have great confidence in these committee leaders to continue our state’s success by making smart decisions for North Carolina that keep the people on a path to lasting prosperity,” said Moore.

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NC Chamber announces 2019 legislative priorities North Carolina’s top business advocates lay out four-part strategy that includes education initiatives, workforce development, and infrastructure growth to support competitive business climate

By Emily Roberson North State Journal THE N.C. CHAMBER released last week its list of 2019 legislative priorities, which it will use to guide advocacy efforts at the North Carolina General Assembly. The group says the annual “Jobs Agenda” is developed with input from key business leaders and builds upon the data-driven solutions identified in the Chamber’s strategic plan for the state’s future: “North Carolina Vision 2030.”

According to the press release, North Carolina Vision 2030 focuses on the four key issue areas identified by N.C. Chamber members as those most important for North Carolina’s continued growth and economic competitiveness: Education and Talent Supply, Competitive Business Climate, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Infrastructure and Growth Leadership.

Four areas of focus The Chamber’s 2019 “Education and Talent Supply” initiative will focus on areas from the implementation of higher academic standards across the state, to achieving a higher Pre-K enrollment rate, to college readiness programs and apprenticeship opportunities. They will also advocate for post-academic workforce development and training through community colleges, as well as private-industry inspired teaching

talent recruitment.

As North Carolina continues to rank at the top or among the top places in the nation to do business or start a business, the Chamber lists “Competitive Business Climate” as another 2019 initiative.

The group says it hopes to address issues that current and future members might identify as obstacles, and help create a climate that will promote the development, recruitment and ultimate success of any business in the state.

Toward that end, the Chamber says it will work to cap, reduce, and eliminate the state franchise tax over the next five years, as they see it as a regressive tax that penalizes North Carolina businesses for tangible investments in their business. Also, the Chamber says it is committed to bringing value-driven health care to North Carolina in order to improve health outcomes and make costs more predictable and affordable, and will oppose legislation that expands the number of health insurance mandates imposed on North Carolina businesses. They also hope to advance tort and civil liability reforms that could regain North Carolina’s position as a top-10 state for legal business climate, including reforms that provide certainty and protect companies from frivolous nuisance lawsuits.

For their “Infrastructure and Growth Leadership” initiative, the Chamber seeks to streamline the contested case process to promote efficiency and predictability for businesses to simplify and accelerate project delivery. They also hope to identify additional, diversified revenue sources to stabilize North Carolina road, rail, and port (land and air) infrastructure investments.

Lastly, the 2019 “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” initiative focuses on the creation of investment and start-up opportunities across the state. The Chamber says it will approach this through advocat-

“These priorities are more than just policies and bills—they are creative and visionary solutions that will lead to meaningful change for job creators, workers and families throughout the state.”

Gary J. Salamido, Chief Operating Officer and Acting President of the N.C. Chamber ing for the creation of a research and development grant program for early-stage and start-up businesses, as well as promoting policies that encourage angel investing and venture capital investment in North Carolina companies. They hope to work with lawmakers and stakeholders to promote “Opportunity Zones” provided for within the 2017 federal tax reform law, and will work to advance policy recommendations that encourage business investment in non-urban and distressed areas of the state.

“Business has always been at the forefront of driving positive change in North Carolina, and this year’s Jobs Agenda demonstrates that continued commitment to problem solving and progress,” said Gary J. Salamido, Chief Operating Officer and Acting President of the N.C. Chamber. “These priorities are more than just policies and bills— they are creative and visionary solutions that will lead to meaningful change for job creators, workers and families throughout the state. We look forward to working with legislators on both sides of the aisle to advance the priorities of the statewide business community and ensure that North Carolina is the best place in the world to do business.”

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North Carolina is the historical leader in aviation and continues to support a thriving aviation industry. The state is home 72 publicly owned airports which contribute $52 billion to the state’s economy, supporting 307,000 jobs that generate $12.6 billion in personal income and $2.2 billion in state and local tax revenues.

Aerospace leaders Boeing, Cessna, GE Aviation, Honda Aircraft, Lockheed Martin and Spirit Aerospace Systems call North Carolina home. The state boasts the nation’s second fastest growing aerospace manufacturing sector, with strong aerospace maintenance and military aviation enterprises, 14 commercial airline operators and 26 air freight companies.

Our state has 10 airports with commercial service and substantial military assets with four public airports and five federal installations supporting military aviation.

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Buncombe County The state Department of Motor Vehicles closed a license plate office in Asheville due to possible law violations.

The office was closed last Wednesday while investigators conduct a probe and audit of illegal activity. Details about the specific crimes suspected of the office weren’t immediately released.

Rutherford County A deputy was wounded in a fight that resulted in another man being shot.

The unnamed deputy confronted a suspicious vehicle near Morgan and attempted to arrest one of the occupants on outstanding warrants.

The suspect attempted to flee and, in the resulting fight, tried to grab the deputy’s gun. The officer shot and wounded the suspect.

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Transylvania County The sheriff’s office in Transylvania County canceled a missing person’s alert for Jeffrey Wade Lowe after the 48-year-old was killed in a single car crash. Lowe was last seen leaving the Brevard Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge on Jan. 10. His body was later recovered from a wrecked car.

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Rowan County The county commissioners of Rowan County approved a $285,000 payment to the American Civil Liberties Union, ending a three-year lawsuit over the commission’s practice of opening meetings with a prayer. The commissioners began praying and inviting the audience to participate in 2007. Three residents filed suit with the ACLU, and the commission eventually agreed to pay for the organization’s legal fees associated with the matter.

Orange County UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough are banning children age 11 and under from visiting patients.

The move is intended to help prevent the spread of flu. Last month, Cape Fear Valley Health started a similar policy for kids under age 12. Six North Carolina residents died from the flu last week, bringing the statewide total this flu season to 16. UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh is also implementing the policy.

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Woman vandalizes police cars Moore County Keyasia Nicole Wyatt of Carthage was arrested after she damaged several Moore County Sheriff’s Office cars.

Wyatt broke into several cars at Rick Rhyne Public Safety Center, breaking their windows. Three patrol cars and one personal car sustained damage.

The 20-year-old Wyatt was charged with two felony breaking-and-entering counts, four misdemeanors and one count of resisting.

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Portuguese man-of-war invade beach

Harnett County Police arrested Kareem Daquan Taylor and charged him with the murders of two women and an infant in Lillington.

Jacelyn Perkins, 22, Jasmine Perkins, 20 and a baby whose name wasn’t released were found dead in a home on Friday evening. The 24-year-old Taylor was charged with three counts of firstdegree murder.

Carteret County Police warn beachgoers at Emerald Isle not to touch any of the Portuguese man-of-war that have been washing up onshore. The creatures, often confused with jellyfish, are highly venomous and can still sting people even after they die. Photos released by Emerald Isle police showed more than a dozen of them on several feet of shoreline.

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Buncombe County A former police officer is suing the city of Asheville and former police chief Tammy Hooper for slander and libel.

Former Sgt. Lisa Taube was publicly criticized by Hooper for her handling of another officer’s beating of a jaywalking suspect in August 2017. Hooper criticized Taube, who was the officer’s supervisor, for not reviewing body camera video or sharing case notes.

Man charged in three murders

Gaston County Former Lowell Police officer James “Paul” Blair is being sued by a teenaged girl and her mother. Blair found the girl in 2015, when she was reported missing. He later began a sexual relationship with her, having sex with her in his patrol car. He’s currently serving a 12-year prison term for statutory rape. The family wants him to reimburse them for the cost of delivering and raising the son that the girl gave birth to at age 14.

State seeks death penalty in state trooper death

19-year-old wins Miss Black North Carolina

Columbus County Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser approved prosecutors’ plans to seek the death penalty for 18-year-old Chauncey Askew in the shooting death of state trooper Kevin Conner. Askew allegedly shot and killed Conner after being stopped for a speeding violation in Whiteville. D.A. Jon David made the decision to seek the death penalty.

Murder charges were dropped against Dashanell Davis, who is now being charged as an accessory.

Sampson County DaCiya Solice of Clinton was named Miss Black North Carolina. Previously named Miss Black Sampson County USA, Solice will now move on to the national Miss Black USA pageant in August. Solice is a sophomore at East Carolina majoring in business administration. She will serve as a spokesperson and travel across the state, working to prevent bullying.

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RALEIGH — Longtime state Sen. Louis Pate resigned Monday, a few months after acknowledging health problems and a week since getting sworn in for another two-year term in the North Carolina legislature.

The 82-year-old Vietnam War veteran and former Mount Olive mayor had started his ninth term in the legislature, going back to 1995. He previously served four terms in the House.

Pate said in October that an unspecified health issue had caused him to scale back campaigning for re-election in the 7th Senate District. Pate said in his resignation letter to Gov. Roy Cooper that he had hoped to make a full recovery by now. He took the oath of office privately one day before the General Assembly convened its new session Jan. 9.

“The reality is my recovery is still ongoing and will preclude me from serving my constituents to my fullest ability and to the high standard I expect to deliver for my constituents,” Pate wrote.

Now Lenoir and Wayne county Republican leaders will choose someone to serve out his two-year term. Cooper is required by state law to appoint the local GOP’s choice.

Pate is a 20-year Air Force member who navigated planes during the Vietnam War. Perhaps his most dramatic electoral victory came in 2002, when he narrowly defeated then-House Majority Leader Phil Baddour, giving House Republicans a brief 61-59 majority.

While in the Senate, he was heavily involved in health care issues such as Medicaid and most recently served as deputy president pro tempore. Colleagues praised him Monday for his collegiality and civility.

Pate’s “leadership and personal touch made this body more effective, and for that every senator should be grateful,” Senate leader Phil Berger, whose office announced Pate’s departure, said in a news release.

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North Carolina Democratic Party spent $16M in past 2 years RALEIGH — The N.C. Democratic Party says it spent over $16 million during the recent two-year election cycle on the way to picking up General Assembly and statewide court seats.

Parties and political committees had to file by late last week finance reports covering the last two weeks of the campaign through Dec. 31.

The state Republican Party reported expenditures of nearly $10 million. GOP House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger spent over $5 million combined in addition to the Republican

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Party’s spending. Moore and Berger made the disclosures in separate filings and the reports showed the two leaders spent mostly in support of Republican colleagues.

Democrats won 16 additional legislative seats in November to end the GOP’s veto-proof majorities in both chamber of the General Assembly.

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Republicans seek to defend voter ID law in federal court RALEIGH — North Carolina Republican legislators want to get formally involved in a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s latest voter identification law because they say Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein can’t be trusted to defend it.

House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger filed a motion Monday to become legal parties in the state NAACP litigation against Cooper and state elections officials. Stein’s office likely would represent those defendants in court. The new law sets the details of a photo ID mandate added to the state constitution by voters in November.

Berger and Moore’s lawyers write that Cooper vetoed the implementing legislation and has been a longstanding voter ID opponent, while Stein sought to uphold a 2016 ruling striking down a prior voter ID law.

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Harris asks court to certify him winner of congressional race RALEIGH — The state’s attorney general’s office is weighing in after GOP congressional candidate Mark Harris (RNC09) asked a judge to certify him as the winner in the race for N.C.’s 9th District congressional seat.

Attorney General Josh Stein’s office said the judge should dismiss Harris’ lawsuit rather than declare him the winner because the U.S. House indicated it is also going to look into allegations that mail-in ballots could have been altered or discarded by a Harris subcontractor. The state elections board continued to investigate potential ballot issues in the race that Harris seemed to have won by more than 900 votes on election night.

Harris, in additional court filings, claims he has a clear legal right to be certified as the winner. He also wants a judge to require that the elections board immediately release what its investigation has uncovered so far.

“Without those findings, the cloud of suspicion surrounding both the Ninth District election and Dr. Harris’ good name — a cloud entirely of the State Board’s making — will persist,” the Republican’s attorneys said.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

The kabuki dance of government shutdowns

Government shutdowns are bad policy.

They hardly ever achieve their stated goal, which, in this case, would be the construction of The Wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

AFTER WORLD WAR II, Japanese diplomats wanted to change the image of Japan from one of being murderous war mongers to being one of creative world leaders.

To cultivate goodwill among the American public during years of tedious treaty negotiations, troupes of Japanese kabuki dancers were sent to the U.S. for entertainment purposes. The hope was that Americans would learn to appreciate the ancient Japanese culture through the intricate, slow motions of kabuki with its stories of deception and intrigue which always ended in a resolution that the protagonists clearly knew would happen from the outset.

The effort failed miserably. Returning GIs were too busy buying tract homes and fathering and raising Baby Boomers in a bustling post-war economy to want to learn about the culture of a nation that attacked Pearl Harbor, caused 426,000 American casualties and ended in atomic warfare.

In 1961, Henry Taylor of the Los Angeles Times called a political maneuver by President Kennedy to fire undersecretary of State Chester Bowles a “left-wing kabuki” dance and political machinations on both sides have been labeled “kabuki theatre” ever since.

The current government shutdown is a kabuki dance masterpiece.

Government shutdowns are bad policy.

They hardly ever achieve their stated goal, which, in this case, would be the construction of The Wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

Everyone knows we are going to reopen the federal government 100 percent sometime.

The actors on stage, President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are going through the same long, drawn out and very slow motions of deception and intrigue seen in every other government shutdown that failed as well.

What is the “pressure point” that makes a shutdown seem like a good political tactic to employ in the first place?

No money is ever saved during any federal shutdown.

Eighty-five percent of the federal government is operational today under the “partial shutdown” scenario established after past shutdowns.

Two-thirds of the $4 trillion federal budget is spent on mandatory spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. ALL of those checks flow because they are “mandated” by government to be

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The Bugakuza troupe playing a Kabuki piece at Japan Expo 2012.

paid at all times, which would include during nuclear warfare.

The 850,000 furloughed federal workers will be paid in full once they return to work after the shutdown ends. Some single-earners may find it difficult to pay the bills unless a federal credit union will float them a shortterm loan, but essentially, shutdowns become “paid vacations” for federal workers.

Net interest costs continue to accrue on $21 trillion of national debt already on the books.

With interest rates rising from the near-zero levels under eight years of President Barack Obama to more “normal” rates of 3-4 percent, the total net cost of interest paid will roughly double in 2019 over 2016 levels.

Most of the 300,000 currently furloughed federal workers live in the Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and the Maryland metro area. Those areas never vote for a Republican president anyway, so President Trump won’t be punished at the polls in 2020 in those areas for his role in the shutdown.

What is a better way to get The Wall done?

Cut a deal.

The $5 billion needed is “decimal dust” in federal budget terms — it is 0.125 percent of annual spending.

We incur additional debt of $5 billion per day.

Find 10 states with heavy Democratic representation that need one bridge built for $500 million each. Get those Democrats to support The Wall in exchange for a bridge in their states, $5 billion for $5 billion.

A second option would be to grant permanent work status for 700,000 DACA recipients in return for the entire $25 billion to complete The Wall, be it physical, electronic or an Invisible Fence along the Rio Grande border.

There’s a deal to be made. Make it and end this senseless kabuki dance once and for all and forever.

GUEST OPINION | CATHERINE TRUITT

NC must embrace innovation in higher education

If we are to leverage the talent we have here in North Carolina, we must provide additional pathways to higher education for our citizens.

NORTH CAROLINA has much to be proud of when it comes to the affordability of our higher education institutions. Even though average tuition and fees at four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. have risen nearly four times faster than the inflation rate over the past decade, our state’s leaders have continued their commitment to maintain a world-class university system that families in the Old North State can afford.

State funding for the system ranks ninth in the country, and although tuition has increased 44.5 percent since 2008, the average tuition at our public universities is the eighth lowest in the United States. Best of all, average student debt for North Carolina’s graduates in 2016 was the eighth lowest in the country.

It sounds like an all-out win for a state whose economic health and job growth continue to be the envy of nearly every other state in the country.

However, a new study conducted by Dr. Rebecca Tippett of Carolina Demography has cast a shadow on this state of affairs. Tippett found that only about one of every five North Carolina high school seniors will complete a four-year degree within six years after graduation, and only 15 percent will do so at a UNC System school. This means that nearly 80 percent of our state’s high school graduates will not be able to reap the benefits of a university degree before age 25.

Data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute showed that college graduates, on average, earned 56 percent more than high school graduates in 2015, up from 51 percent in 1999. This is the largest such gap in EPI’s figures dating back to 1973.

Additionally, there are currently 645,000 early- and mid-career adults aged 25 to 54 with only some college and no degree. This is problematic because North Carolina’s job growth is on track to outstrip its population growth by 2024, and if businesses can’t find the qualified employees they need, they will take those jobs elsewhere. If we are to leverage the talent we have here in North Carolina, we must provide additional pathways to higher education for our citizens.

According to NC State University economist Dr. Michael Walden, colleges and universities need to be agile if they are to continue helping ensure workforce preparedness in the future. Walden argues that higher education institutions must be able to track occupational shifts,

reallocate resources as these changes occur, and accommodate more adult students who are changing careers.

Many North Carolinians face various obstacles in their pursuit of higher education, including cost. The federal government currently holds $1.5 trillion in outstanding student loans, and the Department of Education claims Federal Student Aid’s loan portfolio now accounts for nearly 10 percent of America’s national debt. Forbes magazine reports that student loan debt is now the second highest consumer debt category, behind only mortgages.

Other obstacles include time, particularly for working adults, and distance to traditional brick-and-mortar institutions of higher learning.

In rural areas, a drive to the nearest college campus can take an hour or more. While 47 percent of adults in North Carolina on average have a degree or credential beyond a high school diploma, this number can be as low as 24 percent in our rural counties.

One potential solution is nonprofit, accredited online universities that offer degree programs for in-demand jobs like IT, health care, education and business. Online universities without campuses or athletic departments can offer lower tuition. Freed from centuriesold educational approaches, online universities can deliver disruptive models like competency-based education that reward students for mastering knowledge and skills at their own pace, rather than for time spent in the classroom. This is a viable option for many working adults juggling jobs, family and studies.

The hard truth is that jobs today — and especially tomorrow— require more education, skills and knowledge than ever before. In a global economy increasingly dominated by machine learning, AI, nanotechnology and a host of other technical advancements, employees without degrees will be left behind. States that choose not to ensure all their citizens have easy access to affordable, quality higher education opportunities will be as well.

The time is now for North Carolina to embrace innovation in higher education.

Catherine L. Truitt is chancellor of WGU North Carolina, an affiliate of the accredited nonprofit online Western Governors University. She can be reached at catherine.truitt@wgu.edu.

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GUEST OPINION | JON HARDISTER AND ASHTON CLEMMONS

Innovative program helps diabetic patients save money We applaud Eli Lilly Company for instituting a novel, multifaceted approach to helping diabetes sufferers afford necessary medications.

ONE OUT OF 10 North Carolina adults is dealing with diabetes and an alarming one in three may be walking around with its precursor — prediabetes — and not even realize it. The sad part is that without making healthy lifestyle changes, about 15 to 30 percent of those folks with prediabetes will develop Type 2 diabetes within five years, according to Diabetes North Carolina.

Diabetes is a dangerous and deadly illness if not monitored and controlled. Unchecked, it can result in heart disease, stroke, amputation, end-stage kidney disease, blindness and death. As I know from my interaction with JDRF and the larger diabetes community, when diabetes is diagnosed, it can be very expensive to treat. In fact, people with diabetes have medical expenses about 2.3 times higher than those without it, according to the American Diabetes Association.

When it’s hard to afford medication, people may try to make it stretch further or not use it as often.

That’s rarely wise and even less so with diabetes, which requires lifestyle changes and vigilance with medications.

During our long-running policy debates on health care, there is no shortage of blame placed across the sector. However, it is rare that we stand and applaud an organization when it truly works to help patients access and afford treatments and get on the road to a healthier lifestyle.

We want to take the opportunity to share with the people of North Carolina about an important resource Eli Lilly provides for those struggling to afford their diabetes supplies. In doing so, we applaud Eli Lilly Company for instituting a novel, multifaceted approach to helping diabetes sufferers afford necessary medications.

The Lilly Diabetes Solution Center was launched on Aug. 1 to help provide solutions to people who need help paying for their Lilly insulin, such as those with lower incomes, the uninsured, and people still paying their deductible in a high-

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deductible insurance plan.

Diabetes patients can call the center and representatives will try to develop a cost-savings plan based on the patient’s economic and personal situations. I understand Lilly’s program is also providing help for people with immediate needs for insulin and is donating insulin for ultimate distribution to nearly 150 free clinics across the country.

This call center is located in North Carolina.

It is staffed by health care professionals such as nurses and pharmacists who have the expertise to assist patients. The call center can take up to 30 callers at one time, and they have the ability access translators when there is a language barrier. The Lilly Diabetes Solution Center phone number is 1-833-808-1234.

While not every patient will be able to benefit — traditional insurance customers and Medicare patients are still bound by their insurance rules — the company says the center could help more than 400,000 people living with diabetes in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Figures from the ADA show that last year, total direct medical expenses for diagnosed diabetes in North Carolina were around $7.7 billion and another $2.9 billion was spent on indirect costs from lost productivity due to the disease.

Given those figures and the potential for diabetes cases to continue to increase, my hat is off to Lilly for actively trying to help those with this disease. It is this sort of innovative and compassionate thinking that can spur the entire health care industry to establish practices that get the most vulnerable the health care they need, keep more of us healthy and save money for patients in the long run.

Reps. Jon Hardister and Ashton Clemmons both represent Guilford County in the N.C. General Assembly.

NUMBER OF THE DAY | SCOTT RASMUSSEN

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44% of voters think our economic system is fair to most Americans

FORTY-FOUR PERCENT of voters believe that our nation’s economic system is fair to most Americans. However, a ScottRasmussen.com survey found that 42 percent disagree and 14 percent are not sure.

Strikingly different perceptions are found across gender, age, race, income and partisan lines.

By a 53-to-35 percent margin, men believe our economic system is fair. By a 49-to-36 margin, women disagree.

Voters under 35, by a margin of 49-to-36 percent, believe it is unfair. Senior citizens hold the opposite view by a 51-to-35 percent margin.

Fifty percent of white voters believe it is fair while 37 percent do not. By a 62-to-23 percent margin, black voters believe it is unfair. Fifty-six percent of Hispanic voters agree.

Sixty-eight percent of Republicans believe our economic system is fair while 59 percent of Democrats believe it is not. Independents are more evenly divided (39 percent fair, 45 percent unfair).

Most (54 percent) who earn more than $75,000 a year believe it is fair. By a 49-to-36 percent margin, those who earn less disagree.

Sixty-seven percent believe income inequality is a big problem for our nation. Most believe lifting up the income of the poor matters more than bringing down the income of the wealthy.

Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics and technology for Ballotpedia.

Politics of Immigration HERE ARE a couple of easy immigration questions — answerable with a simple “yes” or “no” — we might ask any American of any political stripe: Does everyone in the world have a right to live in the U.S.? Do the American people have a right, through their elected representatives, to decide who has the right to immigrate to their country and under what conditions? I believe that most Americans, even today’s open-borders people, would answer “no” to the first question and “yes” to the second.

There’s nothing new about this vision. Americans have held this view throughout our history, during times when immigration laws were very restrictive and when they were more relaxed. Tucker Carlson, host of Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” gives us an interesting history lesson about immigration at Prager University. It was prompted by his watching a group of protesters who were denouncing President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. They were waving Mexican flags and shouting, “¡SÍ, se puede!” (“Yes, we can!”)

Unbeknownst to the protesters, the expression “SÍ, se puede” was a saying of Cesar Chavez’s. When Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers union, used the expression “Yes, we can,” he meant something entirely different: “Yes, we can” seal the borders. He hated illegal immigration. Chavez explained, “As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it’s going to be very difficult to win strikes.” Why? Farmers are willing to hire lowwage immigrants here illegally. Chavez had allies in his protest against the hiring of undocumented workers and lax enforcement of immigration laws. Included in one of his protest marches were Democratic Sen. Walter Mondale and a longtime Martin Luther King Jr. aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy.

Peaceful protest wasn’t Chavez’s only tool. He sent union members into the desert to assault Mexicans who were trying to sneak into the country. They beat the Mexicans with chains and whips made of barbed wire. Undocumented immigrants who worked during strikes had their houses firebombed and their cars burned.

By the way, Chavez remains a leftist hero.

President Barack Obama declared his birthday a commemorative federal holiday, an official day off in several states. A number of buildings and student centers on college campuses and dozens of public schools bear the name Cesar Chavez.

Democrats have long taken stances against both legal and illegal immigration. In 1975, California Gov. Jerry Brown opposed Vietnamese immigration, saying that the state had enough poor people. He added, “There is something a little strange about saying ‘Let’s bring in 500,000 more people’ when we can’t take care of the 1 million (Californians) out of work.”

In his 1995 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton said: “All Americans ... are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.

The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.”

On a 1994 edition of CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) declared: “Border control is a federal responsibility. We simply don’t enforce our borders adequately. In my state, you have about 2,000 people a day, illegally, who cross the border. Now, this adds up to about 2 million people who compete for housing, who compete for classroom space.” She added: “In 1988, there were about 3,000 people on Medicaid. There’re well over 300,000 (people on Medicaid) today who are illegal aliens. That presents obvious problems.”

Tucker Carlson has a four-part explanation for the Democratic Party’s changing position on illegal immigration. He says, “One: According to a recent study from Yale, there are at least 22 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. Two: Democrats plan to give all of them citizenship.

Read the Democrats’ 2016 party platform. Three: Studies show the overwhelming majority of firsttime immigrant voters vote Democrat. Four: The biggest landslide in American presidential history was only 17 million votes. Do the math. The payoff for Democrats: permanent electoral majority for the foreseeable future. In a word: power.”

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

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RICHARD DREW | AP PHOTO | FILE

In this Aug. 5, 2014, file photo, specialist Michael Cacace, foreground right, works at the post that handles Gannett on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that MNG Enterprises, better known as Digital First Media, is preparing to bid for newspaper publisher Gannett Co.

Newspaper publisher Gannett faces takeover bid

By Mae Anderson The Associated Press NEW YORK — A hedge fundbacked bid to buy Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today and several other major dailies, is renewing fears of consolidation and job losses — as well as a decline in the quantity and quality of news coverage — in the already battered newspaper industry.

MNG Enterprises, better known as Digital First Media, offered $1.36 billion on Monday for Gannett, saying in a letter that it can run the company more profitably via tight cost controls and consolidation of operations such as printing and administration.

Gannett said its board will review the proposal.

Investors gave the deal a vote of confidence, immediately pushing Gannett stock up more than 20 percent to almost $12, the amount Digital First is offering.

The proposed deal is the latest indication newspapers aren’t done suffering from the punishing effects of the internet. Over the past decade, U.S. papers have struggled

as giants like Google and Facebook siphoned off readers and advertising dollars.

Many publications have already made dramatic cuts in their newsroom staffs and scaled back coverage. Even then, acquirers still often swoop in and make even deeper cuts. In July, for example, Tribune Publishing, then known as Tronc, cut half of the New York Daily News’ newsroom staff, including the editor in chief.

Digital First has a reputation for especially ruthless cost-cutting.

The takeover bid is “very bad news for anybody who works for a Gannett paper or reads a Gannett paper,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “Gannett is a publicly traded company, of course, and it runs its properties pretty lean, but nevertheless they have a reputation for offering a certain degree of quality.”

“Digital First is really the most avaricious of the newspaper chains these days,” and is “unique in the degree to which it is willing to cut” costs and jobs, Kennedy said.

Digital First is one of the biggest U.S. newspaper chains, with about 200 papers and other publications, including The Denver Post and the Boston Herald. Its biggest shareholder is Alden Global Capital, a New York hedge fund that invests in distressed companies.

Gannett publishes more than 100 papers around the country, including USA Today; the Detroit Free Press; The Record in New Jersey; The Tennessean in Nashville; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; the El Paso Times; The Des Moines Register; and the Arizona Republic.

Overall, estimated U.S. daily newspaper circulation, print and digital combined, fell 11 percent to 31 million in 2017, according to the Pew Research Center. As recently as 2000, weekday subscriptions totaled 55.8 million.

USA Today’s daily circulation was 3.1 million in 2017, down from 3.6 million in 2016, a count that includes both print and digital readers.

Gannett has faced declining profits for years. Its annual profit

fell 97 percent to $6.9 million between 2013 and 2017, although the company spun off part of its business during that period. In November, it cut its 2018 profit and revenue forecast. Its CEO, Robert Dickey, announced plans to step down by May. That’s despite several years of buying media companies and slashing costs. Gannett has substantially increased its digital ad revenue, and its journalism has won critical acclaim, including three Pulitzer Prizes last year.

Analysts said Digital First is seizing on Gannett’s weakness by making the offer now.

Digital First faced an outcry from employees about cutbacks at other papers it has bought. In April, the Denver Post ran an editorial headlined “As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved.” It called on Alden Global Capital to sell the paper after it cut 30 more positions in the newsroom. Then in May, three top figures at the Post, including its former owner, resigned amid budget and staff cuts.

Some fear a takeover of Gannett would cause a decline in quality journalism at a time of political turmoil and increasing antagonism toward the media.

“If Digital First acquires Gannett it will be good for their business but bad for everyone else, including employees that work at Gannett papers and the local com-

munities that those newsrooms serve,” said Victor Pickard, communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

The move would “hurt our democratic society at a time when we need more journalists, not fewer. DFM has a well-deserved reputation for being ‘vulture capitalists’ because they bleed these already-suffering papers dry and pick over their bones for profits.”

“MNG has extensive operational experience and a successful track record in the newspaper industry, enabling us to run newspapers profitably and sustainably so that they can continue to serve their local communities,” said Paul Caminiti, a spokesman for MNG. Gannett could reject the Digital First offer, but as the industry contracts, it is likely to face consolidation of some sort.

Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst at Harvard’s Nieman Lab, suggested it might consider a combination with a rival newspaper company such as Tribune Publishing. (Gannett tried but failed to acquire Tribune in 2016.) That would mean cost-cutting as well, but perhaps not as severe as what Digital First might undertake.

“From a journalistic point of view, they want to maintain the quality of the newsroom as much as they can, even though both companies would cut dramatically,” Doctor said.

Feds to ease rules on drone flights over crowds and at night

By David Koenig The Associated Press NEW YORK — Federal officials plan to ease restrictions on flying small drones over crowds and at night, which would give a boost to the commercial use of unmanned aircraft.

The Federal Aviation Administration outlined draft rules Monday that would let drone operators do those things without a special waiver from current rules.

For example, waivers for night flights would no longer be needed for operators who go through special training and put anti-collision lighting on their drones.

It’s not clear how long it might be before the FAA’s easing goes into effect. The FAA said it won’t take final action until it finishes another regulation regarding remote identification of small drones, which analysts say could be years away.

Critics have charged that the FAA has stymied the commercial use of drones by taking the rigid approach to safety involving airliners and applying the same standard

to the operation of small drones.

Regulators say they are trying to balance the commercial possibilities of drones with the potential threat they pose to safety and privacy.

Companies including CNN and insurance provider State Farm have won waivers to operate drones over people and out of the view of the device’s operator. Prodrone groups, however, argue that forcing companies to get waivers from the FAA is holding back beneficial technology for use in agriculture, energy and many other industries.

A major trade group of drone users praised Monday’s development.

Brian Wynne, president of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, said that allowing widespread operations over people without a waiver “will allow more operators to harness the great potential” of unmanned aircraft.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, whose department includes the FAA, sought to straddle the commerce-versus-safety debate.

“The department is keenly aware that there are legitimate public concerns about drones,” Chao said in remarks to a transportation group. The rules released Monday, she added, “will be a major step forward in enabling the safe development, testing and deployment of drones in our country.”

The proposal to let operators fly drones over crowds or at night without a special waiver will be put out for public comment as soon as possible.

In its draft rules, the FAA proposed to divide drone operations by weight, the potential for each unmanned vehicle to cause injuries if it crashes, and other factors.

Drones under 55 pounds (25 kilograms) would be permitted to fly over people if, on contact, they would not produce severe injuries.

Drone manufacturers could meet that standard by adjusting the weight, speed and materials they use, the FAA said.

The FAA is grappling with questions such as whether to set minimum separation distances and maximum speeds for small drones

weighing less than 55 pounds.

The agency is not currently considering setting so-called standoff distance requirements, which would require that small drones stay a certain distance from people. The agency said using precise numbers would be too burdensome to operators.

The United Kingdom sets minimum distances, and Canadian and European regulators recently proposed them.

The agency is also working on a process to let owners of national-security sites, amusements parks and other places petition the FAA for a ban on drones near their properties.

Rogue drones have been used to carry bombs on battlefields, to deliver contraband to prisoners, to interfere with firefighters and, last month, to cripple the operations of a major airport, Gatwick in London.

Last year, Congress approved a measure that will let the government develop a system to identify and hack or shoot down drones that authorities deem threatening.

“The department is keenly aware that there are legitimate public concerns about drones. ... [The rules] will be a major step forward in enabling the safe development, testing and deployment of drones in our country.”

Elaine Chao, Transportation Secretary

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2018

SPORTS

Blue Devils lose Tre Jones to injury, B3

ROB GOLDBERG | ECU ATHLETICS

Joe Dooley, who returned to East Carolina for a second tour of duty as basketball coach, is making progress with the young Pirates.

ECU changing expectations with Dooley, star freshman

the Wednesday SIDELINE REPORT NASCAR

J.D. Gibbs dies at 49 from neurological disease Huntersville J.D. Gibbs, eldest son of Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs, died Friday from complications a long battle with a degenerative neurological disease. He was 49. He was once president of Joe Gibbs Racing, before stepping away due to his illness, and is credited with launching the career of Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin and spearheading the team’s pivotal move to Toyota.

Gibbs played defensive back and quarterback at William & Mary from 1987-90 while his father coached the Washington Redskins, and transitioned into NASCAR and the family business when the elder Gibbs launched his NASCAR team in 1992. Gibbs was eventually cochairman of JGR, but began with the organization as a part-time driver and over-thewall crew member. He made 13 NASCAR national series starts between 1998 and 2002.

Gibbs is survived by wife, Melissa, and four sons.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

UNC, NC State add assistants Chapel Hill/Raleigh Mack Brown rounded out his staff at North Carolina last week, while NC State added West Virginia’s former defensive coordinator to its coaching staff. UNC added special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach Scott Boone and offensive line coach Stacy Searels to its coaching staff, Robert Gillespie has been retained as the team’s running backs coach, and Darrell Moody and Sparky Woods have been hired as senior advisers to the head coach. Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren announced that Tony Gibson will be the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach.

Gibson will work alongside defensive coordinator Dave Huxtable with the Wolfpack.

He fills the vacancy created when Ted Roof left after one season for Appalachian State, where former NC State offensive coordinator Eliah Drinkwitz was hired as head coach.

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Duke receiver T.J. Rahming had 12 catches for 240 yards and two touchdowns in the Blue Devils’ 56-27 win over Temple in the Independence Bowl on Dec. 27.

The 3rd annual NSJ N.C. All-Bowl football teams The best from N.C. schools and natives during the college football postseason

By Shawn Krest North State Journal NORTH CAROLINA schools went 4-1 this bowl season. Clearly, there were some impressive individual performances in the five games.

Here is our third annual North Carolina All Bowl Team for instate schools.

Quarterback: Duke’s Daniel Jones completed 30 of 41 for 423 yards and five touchdowns in the Blue Devils’ Independence Bowl win over Temple. That gave him a slight edge over Wake’s Jamie Newman (323 yards passing, 91 rushing, responsible for four touchdowns).

Running back: Darrynton Evans, App State: 14 rushes for 108 yards, including a 62-yard run.

One kickoff return for 21 yards.

Reggie Gallaspy, NC State: 14 rushes for 79 yards, one catch for 12.

Wide receiver: TJ Rahming, Duke: 12 catches for 240 yards and two touchdowns, earning him a spot on most national all-bowl teams.

Alex Bachman, Wake Forest: 7 catches for 171 yards.

Zachary Leslie, NC A&T: 6 catches for 119 yards and a touchdown. Two punt returns for 29 yards.

Tight end: Cary Angeline, NC State: 2 catches for 33 yards.

Guards: Phil Haynes, Wake For-

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est and Ryan Neuzil, App State.

Center: Garrett Bradbury, NC State.

Tackles: Tyler Jones, NC State and Robert Kraeling, Duke.

Kicker: Nick Sciba, Wake Forest: Three field goals of 36, 39 and 49 yards.

Defensive line: Darian Roseboro, NC State: 5 tackles, 5 solo tackles, 3 tackles for loss Okon Godwin, App State: 4 tackles, 2 solo, 2.5 sacks, 3.5 TFL Drew Jordan, Duke: 5 tackles, 4 solo, 1 sack, 1 TFL, 1 forced fumble Willie Yarbary, Wake Forest: 6 tackles, 6 solo, 1 sack, 1 TFL. Linebackers: Justin Strnad, Wake Forest: 11 tackles, 9 solo, 1 TFL, making him the only repeat member of the All-Bowl team.

Akeem Davis-Gaither, App State: 10 tackles, 7 solo, 1.5 TFL Antoine Wilder, NC A&T: 5 tackles, 3 solo, 1 TFL, 4 pass breakups.

Defensive backs: Damani Neal, Duke: 8 tackles, 7 solo, 1 sack, 1 TFL Richie Kittle, NC A&T: 9 tackles, 6 solo, 4 TFL Tae Hayes, App State: 4 tackles, 4 solo, 1 PBU, 1 interception, returned for 27 yards Brandon Feamster, Duke: 4 tackles, 4 solo, 1 TFL, 1 PBU, 1 interception, returned for 8 yards.

Punter: A.J. Cole, NC State: 6 punts for a 47.5 average and a long of 72 yards.

Return man: Malik Wilson, NC A&T: 4 returns for 112 yards, including a 79-yard touchdown.

There were also plenty of players

GREENVILLE — The East Carolina basketball team was 8-8, 1-3 in the American Athletic Conference heading into Wednesday’s game against Temple.

If that record sounds familiar, it should.

This marks the fifth straight season in which the Pirates have either been at or one game under .500 after the first 16 games. Any resemblance between those previous four teams and this one, however, is merely coincidental.

Thanks to arrival of new/old coach Joe Dooley and freshman sensation Jayden Gardner, there are signs that ECU might finally be ready to break its stagnant pattern and take some meaningful steps toward relevance on the hardwood.

“We’ve made progress the last few weeks,” Dooley said Monday on the AAC’s weekly coaches teleconference. “We’ve definitely gotten better. There’s still a long way to go, but I think we are gaining on becoming a better team than we were earlier in the year.”

The difference in the Pirates has been especially noticeable over the past three games. Although they were only able to win once in that stretch — an exhilarating 73-71 upset of AAC heavyweight Cincinnati — they showed that they’re narrowing the gap with their conference rivals in competitive road losses at Memphis and Central Florida.

Dooley’s influence is responsible for much of that growth.

Returning to Greenville as the only coach in school history to post a winning career record while at ECU, having gone 57-52 in his first tenure from 1995-99, Dooley has brought a culture-changing toughness and optimism since being hired from Florida Gulf Coast in April.

His offseason conditioning program and ingame adjustments both played major roles in the win against the Bearcats.

“Last year, we would have never thought we could have come back and beat Cincinnati,” said sophomore guard K.J. Davis, adding that the victory was a testament to “hard work and growth.”

As much as Dooley has brought to the program during his short time back, it’s the influence of freshman Gardner that has made the biggest impact.

Described as a “foundational player” by his coach, the undersized big man leads the AAC in scoring at 19.4 points per game and is second in rebounding at 9.5. Monday, he earned his third conference Rookie of the Week award

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“The good thing for us and for him is that he still has another level to go to.”

ECU coach Joe Dooley on Jayden Gardner

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TRENDING

Brett Moffitt: The NASCAR Truck Series champion joined GMS Racing on Thursday in a move that cost Johnny Sauter his ride. Hattori Racing Enterprises, Moffit’s championship team last season, had sponsorship struggles all last season and needed a driver that brought financial backing, so Moffitt was let go and replaced by Austin Hill. GMS Racing then released Sauter just one month before NASCAR reports to Daytona to open the season.

Keith Heckendorf: The former UNC assistant coach is the new offensive coordinator at Arkansas State. Coach Arkansas coach Blake Anderson was offensive coordinator at North Carolina before taking the head job with the Red Wolves in 2014. On top of being offensive coordinator, Heckendorf will take the playcalling duties from Anderson.

Anderson is trying to reduce his workload as his wife, Wendy, continues her fight against breast cancer.

Heckendorf spent the last eight seasons in multiple roles at North Carolina, including the last five as quarterbacks coach.

Kyler Murray: The first-round MLB draft pick and Heisman Trophy-winning Oklahoma quarterback declared himself eligible for the NFL Draft on Monday. The Oakland Athletics made the speedy outfielder the ninth overall selection last June and agreed to $4.66 million signing bonus.

The A’s agreed to let him continue playing football, and Murray is now considered a potential first-round NFL draft pick.

DOOLEY from page B1 after recording career highs of 35 points and 20 rebounds in Sunday’s 76-65 loss at UCF. “He’s a guy that from a dependability standpoint, every day you get the same type of effort, and I think it’s been rewarded,” Dooley said. “The good thing for us and for him is that he still has another level to go to.”

Gardner is already playing at a high level. He is only the second freshman in AAC history to score 35 points and the third player overall to record as many as three 30-point games in a season.

And yet, his most impressive performance to date may have been a game in which he was held scoreless during the entire first half. It happened against Cincinnati.

Instead of getting down on himself and struggling the rest of the way, Gardner adjusted in the second half. He went 7 for 10 from the free-throw line and scored 13 points, serving notice that he can be a difference-maker no matter what the circumstances or who he’s matched up against.

“I just had to stay patient and my time came,” he said after the Cincinnati game. “I had to stay aggressive, keep rebounding and play a lot of defense.

“I thrive in situations like this. I love playing against the best com-

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Thomas Davis will not be back with the Panthers for a 15th NFL season. The threetime Pro Bowl linebacker is the Panthers’ all-time leading tackler. He overcame a torn ACL in his same knee three times to record 1,094 tackles, 28 sacks and 13 interceptions. Davis was an All-Pro in 2015, the year he went to his only Super Bowl.

Davis posted on Twitter late week that the Panthers informed him they were moving in a different direction at linebacker.

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“Time goes fast, that’s all I can say.”

Hornets guard Tony Parker, who had eight points and four assists in Charlotte’s 108-93 win in the veteran’s return to San Antonio, on his 17 seasons with the Spurs.

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TENNIS

MLB

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“I don’t think we are that far off.”

Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers after Los Angeles was routed by New England, 41-28, in Sunday’s AFC divisional round.

PRIME NUMBER

21 Points the Tar Heels were beaten by in Louisville’s 83-62 win Saturday in Chapel Hill. It was the largest margin of defeat at home in coach Roy Williams’ 16 seasons at North Carolina. It was UNC’s worst home loss since January 2002, an 87‑58 loss to Duke under former coach Matt Doherty during an 8-20 season. petition. It’s nice to play against taller players, stronger players with different feels, different game plans.”

It’s a good thing Gardner likes those challenges because at 6-foot-6, every opponent he lines up against in the low post is bigger than him. Sunday, he gave up a full foot in height to UCF’s 7-foot‑6 Tacko Fall.

A three-star prospect coming out of Heritage High School in Wake Forest, Gardner would likely have been pursued by schools with a much higher basketball pedigree had he been a couple of inches taller.

As it is he has to work for everything he gets, a mindset Dooley hopes will soon become the trademark of ECU’s program.

The next step in the process is to surround him — and other young players such as sophomore guards Davis and 2018 AAC Rookie of the Year Shawn Williams — with even more talent and size so that close losses like those last week at Memphis and UCF will start turning into signature wins and a record well above the .500 mark.

According to Gardner, the recent upset is a sign of things to come for the Pirates.

“It’s a new era. It’s the Dooley era,” the star freshman said. “We practiced so hard, we worked so hard for this. So why not reward ourselves with wins?”

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Mel Stottlemyre, the ace who later oversaw stellar staffs for both the Yankees and Mets, died Sunday. He had multiple myeloma for nearly 20 years.

Stottlemyre, who pitched a season for the Greensboro Yankees in 1962, went 164-139 with a 2.97 ERA in 11 MLB seasons, all with the Yankees.

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Greensboro’s John Isner was knocked out in the first round of the Australian Open, losing 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5) to 97th-ranked Reilly Opelka in an all-American match. Isner, the ninth seed, had 47 aces against the 7-foot Opelka — one of the few tennis players taller than the 6-foot-10 Isner.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

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Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski led the Blue Devils to his 122nd week at No. 1 in the AP poll — a spot they will likely relinquish next week after Monday’s loss to Syracuse — breaking a tie with the late UCLA coach John Wooden for the most in history. No. 17 NC State slid two spots and No. 13 North Carolina one after both going 1-1 last week.

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Freshman Jayden Gardner leads the AAC in scoring at 19.4 points per game and is second in rebounding at 9.5.

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Duke loses Jones to shoulder injury with Virginia showdown looming The freshman point guard has been an all-purpose catalyst for the Blue Devils

By Shawn Krest North State Journal SYRACUSE BEAT Duke, 9591, in overtime on Monday, but the Blue Devils may have suffered a far more costly loss in the game.

Five and a half minutes into the game, freshman point guard Tre Jones collided with Syracuse’s Frank Howard while both were diving for a loose ball. Howard was called for a foul, but Jones remained on the floor in a great deal of pain.

“He’s the toughest kid, and right away he says, ‘I don’t know if my collar bone is broken.’ It was hurting that badly,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I saw it, and it was like boom. I knew he was hurting. I was hoping nothing was broken. You could see excruciating pain on his face.”

Jones was taken back to the locker room area, given something for the pain and X-rayed.

The good news was that nothing was broken. The bad: Jones suffered an acromioclavicular (AC) joint separation, commonly referred to as a separated shoulder The injury generally doesn’t require surgery, according to several sports orthopedic clinics. However, the recovery time ranges from a few days to 12 weeks, depending on the severity.

Based on Jones’ level of pain, it’s unlikely he’ll be on the shorter end of that spectrum. Duke has declared him “out indefinitely,” which likely means he’ll miss Saturday’s showdown with undefeated Virginia.

“He’ll be out for a while, I think,” Krzyzewski said.

The injury had an immediate impact on the Blue Devils,

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Duke’s Tre Jones collides with Syracuse’s Frank Howard during Monday’s game in Durham. Jones was injured on the play, and the Blue Devils lost 95-91 in overtime. one that will likely affect the topranked team in the nation’s title hopes.

With Jones in the lineup, Duke jumped out to a 12-0 lead over the Orange and led by eight at the time of the injury. Jones had four steals in 5½ minutes, taking the ball from Syracuse on a third of the team’s 12 possessions in the game to that point. He is the team’s best on-ball defender and keys Duke’s transition game.

Jones leads Duke with 33 steals — more than two a game — and he also disrupts opposing offens-

es. Teams often have someone other than the point guard handle the ball, to avoid Jones’ pressure.

That allows teammates to jump into passing lanes and get steals of their own. Cam Reddish and Zion Williamson also are getting nearly two steals a game.

With Jones out, Syracuse was able to settle into its offense, Syracuse shot .541 the rest of the first half, hitting 7-of-10 from 3-point range and taking the lead.

Duke’s offense was also impacted. Six of Duke’s 14 points with Jones in the game were on the fast

break. They would get one more fast-break layup the rest of the way.

With their transition game derailed, the Blue Devils struggled to penetrate Syracuse’s zone.

Duke hoisted up 43 3-point shots, shattering the old school record by five. RJ Barrett, who ran point much of the time in Jones’ absence, took 30 shots, the first Blue Devil in 51 years to take that many.

“It (was) a big difference,” Alex O’Connell said. “Tre’s a really good penetrator, especially with

“Life happens, and life happened to our team tonight.”

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski on the injury to Tre Jones that zone, so it would’ve helped us get even more open shots and just better spacing, and I think we would’ve been able to feed the bigs a little better.”

To put it bluntly, the team seemed lost without Jones on the floor.

“We’re a different team,” Krzyzewski said. “Obviously, we’re a different team. … Life happens, and life happened to our team tonight. …There is no game plan anymore. It’s a period of adjustment. You’re trying to figure out ways to win.”

Williamson pointed out that the team went undefeated on its summer Canada tour without Jones and Cam Reddish, who also missed the Syracuse game with a sudden pregame illness.

“It wasn’t like a new look for us,” he said. “We knew we could play that.”

Syracuse is a different level of opposition than McGill and Toronto, though, and Virginia on Saturday will be yet another step up. Duke’s struggles with the Syracuse zone don’t bode well for the team’s ability to handle the Cavaliers’ notorious pack line defense.

The Blue Devils will likely rely more heavily on Barrett as ball handler, while also giving more minutes to backup point Jordan Goldwire and O’Connell, a wing.

The sophomore O’Connell had a career night, scoring 16 points and showing that he can also disrupt opposing teams. Diving for balls and leaping into passing lanes, he had two steals on the night but also allowed Syracuse to get into the lane on occasion, when his gambles didn’t pay off.

“There are bumps in the road along the way for a lot of people,’ Krzyzewski said. “This was a very difficult night for our basketball program and our team. We’ll figure out ways of handling it.”

CIAA Tournament leaving North Carolina for Baltimore The postseason basketball tournament has been played in the Tarheel State since 1994

Elizabeth City State’s Shaquil Barber and Livingstone College’s Darnell Turner play during the 2013 CIAA Basketball Tournament at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte. The tournament, which has been played in North Carolina since 1994, will shift to Baltimore in 2021.

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE CENTRAL Intercollegiate Athletic Association has held its popular postseason basketball tournament in North Carolina every year since 1994.

But that’s about to change.

Beginning in 2021, the event will move from the conference’s home base of Charlotte to Baltimore in a shift commissioner Jacqie McWilliams described as both bittersweet and long overdue.

“Our headquarters are here in the city of Charlotte, so it’s easy for us to be here in the community and organize,” McWilliams said.

“It’s less travel for us, less cost. But at the end of the day, surveys have shown that fans have wanted us to consider other sites.”

The CIAA’s Board of Directors announced last week that Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena has been chosen as the site of the conference’s men’s and women’s tournaments for 2021-23.

It was a decision the board’s chairman said was based on the strength of Baltimore’s bid, which included a $2 million contribution to the CIAA’s scholarship fund as compared to the $1.2 million offered by Charlotte.

But Fayetteville State chancellor Dr. James A. Anderson also suggested that Charlotte may have taken the nation’s oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities conference for granted after 13 years as the tournament’s host.

The Queen City’s unsuccessful bid included only two days of games scheduled for the 20,200seat Spectrum Arena, with the majority of the event relegated to the older, smaller Bojangles Arena outside the uptown area.

It’s an arrangement that will be in effect for the remaining two years of the current contract.

“When I first came here as chancellor 10½ years ago, the tournament had the whole week at Spectrum,” Anderson said. “Now it’s been reduced to two days, Friday and Saturday.

“In fact, the ownership there did something I think was very unpro-

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fessional this year by scheduling two Charlotte Hornets games and that fake wrestling event during the week, never conferring with us or asking how we felt about it.

They just took those days on their own.”

In addition to the problems with Spectrum Arena management, Anderson said that local hotels have become guilty of price gouging during tournament week while restaurants have begun charging an extra “CIAA tax,” factors that have contributed to a noticeable decline in attendance in recent years.

Those are things, Anderson said, that are “really is going to hurt the city.”

According to Laura White, director of communications for the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, the CIAA tournament generated $28.8 million in direct spending and $50.5 million in economic impact to the city in 2018.

Although she said that CRVA officials are confident that they put together a competitive bid and that the loss of revenue will be made up

through the scheduling of other events — including the 2020 Republican Convention — Charlotte City Councilman James Mitchell was critical of the city’s effort to keep the CIAA Tournament.

He called Charlotte’s bid “piss poor,” saying it was “a proposal to lose.”

“We submitted a bad bid,” Mitchell told Charlotte television station WSOC. “I hope the citizens are not mad at the CIAA. They did make a good business decision to go to Baltimore.”

Besides Baltimore and Charlotte, Norfolk, Va., was also considered as a potential tournament host.

CIAA commissioner McWilliams said that Baltimore’s bid stood out above the others because of its financial package, the ability to play all games in a main arena located within walking distance of hotels and entertainment areas and a guarantee that room rates will be priced fairly.

The latter is possible because the city owns several major downtown hotels.

McWilliams said that the city of Baltimore and state of Maryland have also pledged their support to help offset some of the costs involved with staging the weeklong tournament. That includes use of the Baltimore Convention Center for nonbasketball events such as the annual cheerleader competition and step shows.

“We can own the city in Baltimore during the end of February,” she said. “We used to here (in Charlotte), but there are other things that are compressing us here.”

Another benefit to the move is that for the first time in more than two decades, it will bring the tournament closer to the league’s northernmost members. Officials at Bowie State, the only conference school located in Maryland, are especially excited about the opportunity to serve as the event’s host.

“Nobody likes change, but there will be change,” McWilliams said.

“What you can do is look forward to what opportunities we have for our members up north. This is a

chance to engage new fans, new alumni in the Northeast market.”

This won’t be the first time the CIAA Tournament will be played in Baltimore. It was also held there in 1952. Among the other sites that have hosted the event, which debuted in 1946 in Washington, D.C., are Durham, Greensboro, Norfolk and Richmond, Va. The tournament’s most recent run in North Carolina has included stops in Winston-Salem and Raleigh before settling in Charlotte in 2006.

Although eight of the CIAA’s 12 current members are located in North Carolina, the dean of the conference’s men’s coaches isn’t upset about the tournament leaving the state.

“I’ve enjoyed it tremendously when it’s been in North Carolina all these years,” said Johnson C. Smith’s Steve Joyner Jr., whose teams have won three CIAA tournament titles. “I’ll miss it not being in Charlotte since it’s right down the street from our campus. But this gives the conference a chance to reset itself.”

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How Ron Rivera’s post-Super Bowl record ranks

Hurricanes forward Micheal Ferland has been a perfect fit for the Hurricanes since he was acquired from Calgary in an offseason trade, but he is an unrestricted free agent this summer.

The Panthers coach will look to turn around the team after going 24-24 the last three years

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Hurricanes have a pressing issue with Ferland’s contract A bargain at $1.75 million this season, the 26-year-old power forward seems poised to cash in as an unrestricted free agent

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — Following Friday’s 4-3 home win over the Sabres, Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour highlighted the play of power forward Micheal Ferland.

“He’s a super effective player, and he was, I think, obviously our best player out there tonight,” Brind’Amour said.

Ferland had his first career three-point game in the win, opening the scoring on a fortuitous bounce and assisting on two more goals playing back on the top line with Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen in Carolina’s win.

When he’s on — physical, intimidating, scoring, creating space for his linemates — Ferland fills the exact role the Hurricanes envisioned when they acquired him, along with defensemen Dougie Hamilton and prospect Adam Fox, from Calgary for former firstround picks Noah Hanifin and Elias Lindholm.

The problem for the Hurricanes is Ferland is on the final year of his contract, earning a bargain $1.75 million this season. And at 26 years old, Ferland is poised to earn the biggest payday of his career.

The two sides mutually want to stay together.

“I’d like to stay here. I’d like to get a deal done,” Ferland said after Monday’s practice.

But, as often is the case, the sticking point is money.

While social media is plastered with “5 X 5!” comments, that’s clearly not enough to get a deal done.

And why should it be? Such is the asking price for the dwindling pool of old-school power forwards in the NHL. Evander Kane — with the opportunity to reach free agency for the first time last offseason — re-

BOWLS from page B1 from North Carolina who left the state for college. Here’s the North Carolina Products All-Bowl Team.

Quarterback: Kelvin Hopkins (Charlotte/Independence), Army: 11 carries for 170 yards and 5 touchdowns, 3-of-3 passing for 70 yards.

Running back: Larry Rountree (Raleigh/Millbrook), Missouri: 27 carries, 204 yards, 1 TD, 1 catch for 3 yards.

Kennedy McKoy (Lexington/ North Davidson), West Virginia: 17 carries, 73 yards, 1 TD, 1 catch, 3 yards.

Wide receiver: Deandre Thompkins (Hubert/Swansboro), Penn State: 4 catches for 74 yards.

Trevion Thompson (Durham/ Hillside), Clemson: 3 catches for 16 yards in two playoff games.

Tight end: Dontea Jones (Jireh Prep), Mississippi State Offensive line: Lamont Gaillard (Fayetteville/Pine Forest), Georgia: Started at center, served as team captain, recovered a fumble.

It’s his third straight year on the N.C. Products all-bowl team.

Eric Douglas (Charlotte/Mallard Creek), South Carolina.

Sean Pollard (Jackson Springs/ Pinecrest), Clemson. His second year on the team.

Chris Lutzel (Huntersville/

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upped with San Jose to the tune of seven years, $49 million. Players older than Ferland, like James Neal (five years, $28.75 million), Max Pacioretty (four years, $28 million) and James van Riemsdyk (five years, $35 million), all got more money on deals of similar length — and none of them is capable of playing with the ferocity Kane and Ferland can.

But as much as Brind’Amour recognized Ferland’s impact against Buffalo, he — and Hurricanes management — didn’t have to look far to see what happens if you swing and miss in this scenario.

Kyle Okposo signed for $42 million over seven years to be Jack Eichel’s running mate in Buffalo.

It’s now a role Jeff Skinner — not a power forward by any means — has filled perfectly.

But Okposo’s deal — and his 40-points-and-dropping production in 2½ seasons in Buffalo — could conceivably be what keeps the Sabres from paying Skinner before he tests free agency this summer.

He’s not the only example.

At age 31, Andrew Ladd got seven years at $5.5 million annually to go to the Islanders — essentially to replace Okposo. He’s managed just 67 points in his first 165 games there.

Milan Lucic, now 30, also received a seven-year deal, his worth $6 million a year from Edmonton.

He’s now the poster child for how rugged play can shorten the effectiveness of a player as the years go on.

Ferland, who will turn 27 in April, has more tread on his tires than any of those three players had when they signed. The Hurricanes also have the benefit of knowing how Ferland — like Kane in San Jose — fits with their team.

Yes, there’s a price to be paid for playing the type of game Ferland does nightly — he’s missed time in each of his NHL seasons, including this year with a concussion.

But there’s also a price to be paid for the team that needs the services Ferland provides.

While he didn’t get specific about which contract negotiations are moving forward and which

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Served as long-snapper.

Defensive line: Justin Foster (Shelby/Crest), Clemson: 4 tackles, 2 solo, 1 sack, 1.5 TFL Anthony Rush (Raleigh/Cary), UAB: 5 tackles, 2 solo, 1 sack, 1.5 TFL Julian Okwara (Charlotte/Ardrey Kell), Notre Dame: 1 tackle, 1 solo, 1 sack, 1 TFL Darius Hodge (Wake Forest), Marshall: 3 tackles, 3 solo, 1 TFL, 1 sack, 1 fumble recovery for 29 yards.

Linebackers: Spencer Eason-Riddle (Raleigh/Leesville Road), South Carolina: 4 tackles, 1 sack, 1 TFL Sherrod Greene (Rocky Mount), South Carolina: 6 tackles, 1 sack, 1 QB hit Dax Hollifield (Shelby), Virginia Tech, 3 tackles, 1 solo, 1 forced fumble.

Cornerbacks: Michael Shelton (Raleigh/Wakefield), BYU: 2 tackles, 2 solo, 1 PBU, 2 punt returns for 21 yards.

Mark Fields (Charlotte/Hough), Clemson: 2 PBU. Safeties: Jalen McClinton (Charlotte/Charlotte Christian), Army: 5 tackles, 3 solo, 1 sack, 1.5 TFL, 3 PBU, his second year on the all-bowl team.

Tanner Muse (Belmont/South Point), Clemson: 8 tackles, 7 solo, 1

have hit a crossroads, Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell did acknowledge that each situation has its own circumstances.

“It’s just hard to get deals done … certain players that are going to become UFAs worked their career to get to that point,” Waddell said.

“So they’re treating it that way.

We’d like to get deals done, but we have to have a willing partner on the other side to get a deal done and keep things moving.”

Waddell must also consider the rest of his roster and mentioned that while “the payroll might be low now,” new deals for Aho, Teravainen and others have to be considered as well.

What is Ferland worth? The easy answer is whatever the market will bear. And Ferland and his agent — Jason Davidson of Thunder Creek Professional Player Management, who declined to comment on talks with the Hurricanes — surely know the best place to determine that is negotiating with up to 31 teams instead of one.

If it comes to that, the Hurricanes will need to decide if they can afford to let Ferland walk away without compensation — some reports have the early asking price at a first round pick and a prospect — or hold onto him and treat him as their own trade deadline rental.

Ferland said it won’t be a distraction for him, and it clearly hasn’t been yet with five points in his last two games. At least for now.

“It’s not easy,” Brind’Amour said of being the subject of trade rumors during his career. “The funny thing is, generally, when you hear your name that’s usually when nothing happens.”

With wins in seven of eight games heading into Tuesday’s game in New York, Carolina is back on the playoff bubble. The question is can they stay there and climb higher without No. 79 on the top line.

Both Ferland and the team hope the trade chatter ceases thanks to an agreement on a new contract before Feb. 25. If a deal can’t be made, the Hurricanes will be left with a hard decision.

PBU, 1 Forced fumble in two playoff games.

Other N.C. products that appeared in bowl games for out-ofstate teams (based on participation reports from each bowl game): QB: Austin Kendall (Waxhaw/ Cuthbertson), Oklahoma: 1 snap RB: Jeremiah Hall (Charlotte/ Vance), Oklahoma; Michael Parrott (Canton/Pisgah), Miami; Diondre Overton (Greensboro/Page), Clemson; Jager Gardner (Black Mountain/Charles D Owen), Temple; Tre Harbison (Shelby/Crest), NIU; Sandon McCoy (Kannapolis/AL Brown), Army; Rico Dowdle (Asheville/AC Reynolds), South Carolina; Tre Turner (Greensboro/ NW Guilford), Virginia Tech; Moe Neal (Gastonia/Forestview), Syracuse; Abdul Adams (Hillside), Syracuse.

WR: Trey Ellis (Charlotte/ Ardrey Kell), Vanderbilt; Glen Coates (Davidson/Davidson Day School), Army; Michael Roberts (Charlotte/Vance), Army; Bryce Wheaton (Fuquay Varina/Holly Springs), West Virginia DL: Autry Lee (Albemarle), Mississippi State; Marlon Dunlap (Charlotte), Florida; Zion Debose (Salisbury/North Rowan), Virginia Tech, Raymond Wright (Charlotte/Ardrey Kell), Army; Jabril Robinson (Leland/North Brunswick), West Virginia; Rick San-

IN THE THREE years since Ron Rivera led the Carolina Panthers to the Super Bowl, the team has hit some rough patches, struggling to a 24-24 record and one playoff appearance.

A 7-9 record this year, his second losing season in the three years since Riverboat Ron won the NFC title and NFL Coach of the Year honors, had fans and media speculating that he might be on the chopping block.

It now appears that Rivera will return for another year with the Panthers. Is the front office’s patience merited? To try to get an answer to that question, we looked at the other coaches to lose their first trip to the Super Bowl and see how they did as an encore.

As might be expected from a coach with a .500 mark, Rivera’s .500 mark is smack-dab in the middle. Of the 27 Super Bowl losing coaches, Rivera’s 24 wins over the next four seasons are tied for 14th best.

Combined, the coaches went 632-504-8 over their three post-Super Bowl seasons, a .556 winning percentage.

That percentage is very close to the Super Bowl losing coaches’ performance for the rest of their coaching careers. After losing their Super Bowl debut, the 27 coaches went on to go 1,9831,586-25 in the NFL, a .555 percentage.

Rivera is decidedly behind schedule when compared to some of the bigger names on the list.

Tom Landry lost in Super Bowl V, then bounced back to win the title the following season. He added a second Super Bowl title six years later.

After losing to the Jets in one of sports’ biggest upsets in Super Bowl III, Don Shula returned to the Super Bowl in his third season. After losing that one, he won the next two.

Dan Reeves returned to the Super Bowl the following season, after his Broncos lost Super Bowl XXI, and made it back two of the next three years, although he never brought home a title.

Washington’s George Allen went to the playoffs three times in his next four seasons after losing Super Bowl VII. Andy Reid returned to the postseason four times in his next six years.

Marv Levy, of course, made history by returning to the Super Bowl the next three years, becoming the first coach to lose four in a row.

So, it’s safe to say that Rivera isn’t on pace to become a legendary or Hall of Fame coach. Still, he’s doing better than some coaches.

Oakland’s Bill Callahan was fired after going 4-12 the year following

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So, while the history isn’t overly promising, it appears that a fourth year for Rivera is probably merited.

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his Super Bowl XXVII loss to Jon Gruden and the Bucs. New York’s Jim Fassel (Super Bowl XXXV), Denver’s Red Miller (Super Bowl XII), Oakland’s John Rauch (Super Bowl II) and the Rams’ Ray Malavasi (Super Bowl XIV) were all fired after year three. Three of the four had sub-.500 marks — Fassel at 21-27, Malavasi at 19-22 and Rauch 19-22-1 despite returning to the AFC title game the following year. Miller was dismissed after a 28-20 three-year mark.

Then there were the coaches who, like Rivera, had the patience of management. Hank Stram went 19-19 after losing Super Bowl I, then won the Super Bowl in year four.

On the flip side, Forest Gregg went 22-19 after his Bengals lost Super Bowl XVI. He returned the team to the playoffs the next year and then never again over six years of coaching. Raymond Berry, whose Patriots lost Super Bowl XX to Rivera and the Bears, also had one more playoff berth the rest of his career, as did Sam Wyche.

Of course, it’s easy to decide whether or not to keep a coach in hindsight. Looking at the coaches whose record following the Super Bowl were most similar to Rivera’s, we see that it’s a mixed bag.

Reid was the only other coach to match Rivera’s 24-24 mark over the next three years with one playoff appearance. The Eagles went on to make the NFC title game in year four, starting a three-year playoff run. He’s also gone on to become one of the sport’s top coaches with a successful stint in Kansas City that includes hosting the AFC championship game on Sunday.

Ken Whisenhunt went 23-25 with one berth following Arizona’s loss to the Steelers in Super Bowl XLIII. He went 5-11 in year four, getting fired. In two years after getting another chance in Tennessee, he went 2-14 and 1-6 before getting fired.

Lovie Smith went 23-25, then produced an 11-5 record and a trip to the NFC title game in year four.

So, while the history isn’t overly promising, it appears that a fourth year for Rivera is probably merited. He’s not a superstar coach, nor is he a flameout who reached the game on a fluke. This upcoming season should give a better indication of which trajectory he’ll follow.

BILL FEIG | AP PHOTO

Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski stiff arms Chiefs free safety Ron Parker during New England’s 43-40 win on Oct. 14. The teams play Sunday in the AFC championship game in Kansas City.

Saints tight end Benjamin Watson pulls in a touchdown pass in front of two Rams defenders during New Orleans’ 45-35 win over Los Angeles on Nov. 4. The Saints will host the Rams in Sunday’s NFC championship game.

Brady, Patriots primed for rematch with Chiefs in AFC title game

Saints to host Rams in NFC title game after rallying past Eagles

New England topped Kansas City 43-40 in the regular season

Two high-powered offenses will meet in New Orleans for a berth in the Super Bowl

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By Kyle Hightower AP Sports Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England tight end Rob Gronkowski said the Patriots would take the night to enjoy it. Safety Devin McCourty said it would be closer to just a few hours of celebration.

However long the Patriots players planned to relax after their dominating 4128 divisional-round win over the Chargers on Sunday, this much is clear: A very good Kansas City Chiefs team is waiting in the AFC championship game.

New England needed a field goal from Stephen Gostkowski in the waning seconds to slip past the Chiefs 43-40 in one of the wildest games of the regular season in Week 6. Tom Brady had one of his best games of the season in the Oct. 14 victory over Kansas City, throwing for 340 yards and a touchdown and running for another to earn his 200th career victory as starting quarterback.

All of it was needed on a night in which counterpart Patrick Mahomes rallied his team from a 24-9 halftime deficit, throwing for 352 yards and four touchdowns in what was the Chiefs’ first loss of the season and his first as a starting quarterback.

Now comes a rematch against a Kansas City team that oddsmakers have installed as an early favorite. It will be rare air for the Patriots.

Sunday’s win over the Chargers sent the Patriots to the conference title game for eighth straight season. It will also be the 13th conference championship game appearance by the Patriots during the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick era.

McCourty said despite their unprecedented run and performance Sunday, nobody in the Patriots locker room believes they can just show up and win at Arrowhead Stadium.

“You go to eight straight AFC championship games, you’re in the playoffs 10 years in a row, you kind of get in a mode like it’ll keep happening, it’ll be there,” McCourty said. “But this is a special group, and I think we’re starting to realize that we have one opportunity to try to take advantage of everything that’s in front of us.”

New England got three first-half touchdowns from rookie Sony Michel to set the early tone against the Chargers. He finished with 129 yards rushing, his fifth 100yard rushing game of the season.

The Patriots scored touchdowns on their first four possessions, building a 35-7 halftime lead.

The Panthers, along with Denver and Oakland, cut the veteran running back who is now thriving with the Rams

Consecutive trips to the AFC championship game for the Patriots. They are 4-3 in the previous seven heading into Sunday’s game at Kansas City.

Buoyed by the run game, Brady was in vintage form at age 41, completing 34 of 44 for 343 yards and a touchdown. He improved to 8-0 as a starter against Philip Rivers, who drops to 1-8 against New England all-time.

Afterward, Brady acknowledged that he heard the voices this season who doubted the Patriots and thought “we can’t win any games.”

Asked if he thought the win might have quieted those voices, he simply smiled and paused.

“I just like winning,” he said. “I just like winning.”

The win was the Patriots’ 35th in a playoff game, tying the Cowboys for second alltime. With one more win, New England will tie Pittsburgh for the most postseason wins in NFL history.

Meanwhile, it will be the Chiefs’ first trip to the AFC title since 1994 after they dispatched the Colts 31-13 on Saturday.

“I think if you’re not from here, you don’t know,” said Chiefs receiver Xavier Williams, who grew up a short drive from Arrowhead Stadium. “People have been waiting for a long, long time.”

The Chiefs starting quarterback back then was Joe Montana, in the twilight of his career after winning four Super Bowls with the 49ers. Kansas City is hoping their homegrown, MVP favorite Mahomes, can take the Chiefs to their third Super Bowl berth — and then their first title — in nearly a half-century.

“We’re such a different team,” said Mahomes, who threw for 278 yards while running for a score. “We have such young players. We have such confidence we’re going to win every single game.”

Only the Patriots — winners of the last two AFC championship games and fivetime Super Bowl champions —stand in their way. That didn’t keep Chiefs coach Andy Reid from making clear the team’s ultimate goal.

“We have two more. Two more,” Reid said after Saturday’s win. “We are going to take it one at a time here, which is very important as we go.”

JIM COWSERT | AP PHOTO

Army quarterback Kelvin Hopkins Jr. had 170 yards rushing and five touchdowns against Houston in the Armed Forces Bowl on Dec. 22 in Fort Worth, Texas.

Deablo (Winston-Salem/Mount Tabor), Virginia Tech; Jefferie Gibson (Hope Mills), Arkansas State; Kahlil Robinson (Charlotte/Southlake Christian), Toledo; Aapri Washington (Charlotte/Moutain Island Charter), Buffalo; Caleb Farley (Hickory/Maiden), Virginia Tech.

By Arnie Stapleton AP Pro Football Writer AS THE TOP four point-producers in the NFL were advancing to the conference championship round for the first time ever, Dak Prescott was getting sacked by his own teammate, Tom Brady was embracing the underdog role a little too tightly and C.J. Anderson was making the most of his second, third ... no, fourth chance.

The Rams (14-3) won thanks to a 273-yard rushing effort that in-

“I’m just old and fat.”

Rams running back C.J. Anderson

cluded 123 yards and two touchdowns from Anderson, who howled afterward, “I’m just old and fat.”

The Broncos jettisoned his fat contract in the spring with Anderson coming off his first 1,000-yard season, even though the running back that helped them win Super

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The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — When the New Orleans Saints finally found their rhythm, they marched one step closer to the Super Bowl.

Using a dominant ball-control offense and a few gambles that paid off, the Saints got two touchdown passes from Drew Brees and two interceptions from Marcus Lattimore in a 20-14 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.

Brees took the Saints on scoring drives of 92, 79 and 67 yards after falling behind 14-0. Lattimore clinched it when Nick Foles’ pass from the Saints 27 deflected off usually sure-handed receiver Alshon Jeffery with about two minutes remaining. A couple dozen Saints players surged off the sideline toward the end zone in celebration, while Jeffery fell face-first to the turf in agony.

“We were real calm and poised and we knew we were going to get things done,” Brees said.

New Orleans (14-3) will host the NFC title game next week against the Rams (134). Los Angeles, which fell 45-35 at the Superdome in November, will try again next week, with the winner going to the Super Bowl. The Saints’ win finished off a sweep of the divisional round by teams coming off byes.

Brees, who turns 40 Tuesday, finished 28 for 38 despite the awful start, throwing for 301 yards. Aside from All-Pro receiver Michael Thomas, who was targeted 16 times — he led the NFL with 125 catches — no one caught more than four passes for New Orleans. Alvin Kamara had four for 35 yards and also rushed for 71 yards. Mark Ingram added 53 yards on the ground as the Saints outrushed the Eagles 137-49. New Orleans is 6-0 at home in the playoffs with Payton and Brees.

The Saints next host the Rams in the early game next Sunday.

With the Chargers losing to New England, the Rams became Los Angeles’ hope for a return the Super Bowl. The Los Angeles Raiders, won Super Bowl XVIII in 1984 — the only team from L.A. to reach the championship game.

The Rams earned their trip to the NFC championship game with a 30-22 victory over the Cowboys.

“Our sense of focus and the sense of urgency have gone up tremendously,” guard Rodger Saffold said at the team’s training complex Sunday while the Rams waited to

Anderson shines after being rejected by 3 nonplayoff teams

didge (Concord), South Carolina.

LB: Jack King (Matthews/Providence), Army; Jake Ellington (Zebulon/East Wake), Army.

DB: Daniel Jackson (Apex/ Middle Creek), FIU; Sean Kelly (Cary/Green Hope), Alabama; Jaylin Dickerson (Southern Pines/ Pinecrest) South Carolina; Divine

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Bowl 50 had relatively few miles on his football odometer.

The Panthers picked him up but then decided not to share many of Christian McCaffrey’s snaps with Anderson before cutting him late in the season. Anderson signed with his hometown Oakland Raiders but he was inactive for one game before they, too, waived him.

The Rams needed a fill-in after star Todd Gurley II buckled a knee in December, and Anderson quickly picked up his phone and L.A.’s playbook.

He rumbled for 299 yards and two TDs on 43 carries for a whopping 7-yard average over the final two regular-season games. Then, with Gurley back, Anderson ran all over the Cowboys, giving him

The last time a team from Los Angeles reached the Super Bowl. The Raiders won it that year, and the Rams lost in Super Bowl XIV to Pittsburgh.

find out who they would play.

The Rams have built a reputation for cerebral, clever play during two seasons of coach Sean McVay’s influential offensive schemes. But one big difference between last season’s team, which lost its first playoff game, and this season’s NFC championship-bound squad is the Rams’ provocative new defensive players, led by Peters and fellow cornerback Aqib Talib, along with a team-wide embrace of physical, disruptive play.

The Rams know they’ll have to be tough again when they visit New Orleans for the third time this season, counting a preseason trip to the Big Easy. Los Angeles took its first loss of the year at the Superdome on Nov. 4.

“I think we match up really well (with the Saints),” Saffold said. “I think we’ll have a better plan against them on the second go-round.”

The Rams are in their first NFC title game in 17 years because of their physical attitude in the way they manhandled the Cowboys on both sides of the line. Dallas entered the Coliseum with one of the NFL’s top rushing defenses along with their own powerful rushing offense led by NFL rushing champion Ezekiel Elliott, yet the Rams dominated on the ground.

Los Angeles’ rushing offense was historically good, with C.J. Anderson and Todd Gurley both topping 100 yards rushing on the way to a franchise-record 273. Both backs gave the credit to their offensive line, which led the Rams to average a whopping 5.7 yards per carry.

The Rams’ offensive line has been respected as one of the NFL’s best for the past two years while Gurley reigned as one of the NFL’s top running backs, yet the five linemen relished another chance to show what they could do on their biggest stage yet.

“The coaches saying they would just put it on our back and let us do our thing, that gave us a huge confidence boost and that shared sense of responsibility to just go out there and work a little bit harder on this one,” Saffold said.

422 yards and four TDs on 66 carries for a 6.3-yard average.

“I think the last two weeks without Todd, he showed what he can do,” Rams quarterback Jared Goff said. “Then, this week, having both of them is special and it gives you a real dual-threat of backs and different backs. ... It’s just been a really good combo.”

Anderson allows the Rams to take their own 1-2 backfield punch into the NFC championship against the Saints (14-3), who have running backs Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram to share their rushing load.

“I think C.J.’s done a great job since he’s gotten here and then, obviously, we know what a special player Todd is,” Rams coach Sean McVay said after Gurley ran 16 times for 115 yards and a TD against Dallas. “... I think they are a nice complement to each other.”

Anderson, 27, could have given up after three teams that didn’t even make the playoffs gave up on him in 2018.

Instead, he’s salvaged a career and surely has general managers

MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ | AP PHOTO

Rams running back C.J. Anderson, who released by the Panthers and two other teams during the regular season, has formed a 1-2 backfield punch with Los Angeles star Todd Gurley. salivating at the thought of his impending free agency this spring.

“I guess it was a good thing I got hurt,” cracked Gurley.

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TAKE NOTICE CUMBERLAND 18-SP-1197 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Jack L. McLean Sr., Jack L. McLean Jr., Ethel M. McLean and Bernice McLean, in the original amount of $78,665.00, payable to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans Inc., dated May 20, 2002 and recorded on May 24, 2002 in Book 5753 at Page 347, Cumberland County Public Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Stone Trustee Services, LLC having been substi-

18 SP 712 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Joshua C. Gould and Jessica E. Gould to Roger D. Murphree, Trustee(s), which was dated April 27, 2007 and recorded on May 3, 2007 in Book 7577 at Page 0863, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale

17 SP 1638 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Shirley P. Troy to Steve Penley, Trustee(s), which was dated May 29, 1998 and recorded on June 1, 1998 in Book 4871 at Page 0805, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the

18 SP 672 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Marco U. Evans and Brenda Evans to Brock and Scott, Trustee(s), which was dated June 5, 2015 and recorded on June 11, 2015 in Book 09665 at Page 0668, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the

18 SP 616 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Walter O. Whitfield to J. Powell, Trustee(s), which was dated January 29, 2004 and recorded on January 30, 2004 in Book 6412 at Page 571, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 741 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Gina R. Campbell and Kevin W. Campbell to The Law Firm of Hutchens Senter & Britton, Trustee(s), dated the 22nd day of June, 2005, and recorded in Book 6922, Page 735, in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 966 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Analyn T. Batican and Crystal M. Batican to H. Terry Hutchens, Trustee(s), dated the 28th day of April, 2016, and recorded in Book 09850, Page 0203, in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on January 28, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1389 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Lloyd Winger and Michelle Winger (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Lloyd Winger) to Verdugo Trustee Service Corporation, Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of January, 2015, and recorded in Book 9581, Page 51, in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on

JOHNSTON 17 SP 341 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Danny Allan Arsu and Sharron Renee Arsu to First American Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), which was dated October 25, 2005 and recorded on October 28, 2005 in Book 3005 at Page 864, Johnston County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Ser-

tuted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Cumberland County, North Carolina, on January 28, 2019 at 11:00am, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: BEING all of Lot 41, Evergreen Estates, Section TWO, as shown on plat of the same duly recorded in Plats Book 21, Page 41, Cumberland County North Carolina Registry.

Tax ID: 0416-55-5024 Said Property is commonly known as 1723 Stratford Road, Fayetteville, NC 28304 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308, in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each

One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or major fraction thereof, of the final sale price. If the Clerk of Court’s fee determined by the formula is less than Ten Dollars ($10.00), a minimum Ten Dollar ($10.00) fee will be collected. If the Clerk of Court’s fee determined by the formula is more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), a maximum Five Hundred Dollar ($500.00) fee will be collected. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner

of the property is Bernice Mclean and Jack Mclean Jr. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.16A(b)(2)). Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to con-

vey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 28, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING ALL OF LOT 40, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS LAKE FRANCES, SECTION TWO, ACCORDING TO A PLAT OF THE SAME BEING DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 81, PAGE 129, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 2245 Gladstone Court, Fayetteville, NC 28304.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Joshua C. Gould and Jessica E. Gould.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued

pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include,

but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 30, 2019 at 1:30PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 30, in a subdivision known as UNIVERSITY HILLS, SECTION TWO, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 43, Page 20, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3442 Bennett Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28301.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due

and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Shirley P. Troy.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of

superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the

loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 30, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: The land referred to herein below is situated in the county of CUMBERLAND, State of NC and described as follows: All That Parcel Of Land In Township Of Rockfish, Cumberland County, State Of North Carolina, As Described In Deed Book 9285, Page 231, Id# 0403-67-4793, Being Known And Designated As: Being All Of Lot 17 In A Subdivision Know As Steeplechase, Section One, And The Same Being Duly Recorded In Book Of Plats 114, Page 132, CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1414 Jockey Court, Parkton, NC 28371.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Marco U. Evans and

wife Brenda Evans.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

courthouse for conducting the sale on January 30, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: All That Certain Parcel Of Land In Township Of Carvers Creek,CumberlandCounty,StateOfNorthCarolina,AsMore Fully Described In Deed Book 4416, Page 0312, Being Known AndDesignatedAsLot104,SectionThree,TiffanyPines,Filed In Book Of Plats 44, Page 24.

This Being The Same Property Conveyed To Walter O. Whitfield And Wife Willie Mae Whitfield From The March Development Corporation By Deed Dated 10/26/1978 Recorded 10/26/1978 In Book 2683, Page 301 Cumberland County Records, State Of North Carolina. The Said Willie Mae Whitfield,WifeOfWalterO.WhitfieldHavingConveyedHerInterest To The Said Walter O. Whitfield By Deed Dated 11/29/1995 And Recorded 12/13/1995 In Book 4416, Page 0312.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 4388 Garnet Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28311.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHEREIS.” Therearenorepresentationsofwarrantyrelating tothetitleoranyphysical,environmental,healthorsafetyconditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrancesorexceptionsofrecord. Tothebestoftheknowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the

property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Walter O. Whitfield.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of

the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on January 28, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 160, in a subdivision known as RUNNYMEADE ACRES, SECTION TWO, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 111, Page 182, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3324 Benson Place, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS

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

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for

any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 99, in a subdivision known as Valley End, Phase One, and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 133, Page 130, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3904 Racking Horse Road, Hope Mills, North Carolina.

Parcel ID: 0404-15-5129 Property Address: 3904 Racking Horse Road, Hope Mills, NC 28348 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS 45-21.23.

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for

any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written

notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

January 28, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: All that certain parcel of land in Manchester Township, Cumberland County, State of NC, as more fully described in Book 7478 Page 542 ID# 0513-42-2626 and 0513-423632, Being known and designated as Lots 332, 333 and 344 Overhills Park, Section 5. Recorded in Book of Plats 33, Page 31. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3208 Cronkite Street, Spring Lake, North Carolina.

Being the same fee simple property conveyed by General Warranty Deed from Mickey Adams single to Lloyd Winger single, dated 01/12/2007 recorded on 01/18/2007 in Book 7478, Page 542 in Cumberland County Records, State of NC. For property 3208 Cronkite St. Spring Lake NC 28390.

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

Should the property be purchased by a third party,

that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS 7A-308(a)(1).

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

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater,

is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after Oc-

tober 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

vices of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 29, 2019 at 12:00PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Johnston County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 41, Phase 1, Spring Field Subdivision as same is depicted in Plat Book 63, Page 125-128 of the Johnston County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 495 Axum Road, Willow Spring, NC 27592.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent

(5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Danny Allen Arsu and wife, Sharron Renee Arsu.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Stone Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee By: _______________ Attorney At Law Stern & Eisenberg Southern, PC Attorneys for Stone Trustee Services, LLC David R. DiMatteo #35254 Christopher J. Culp #13466 5970 Fairview Road Suite 126 Charlotte, NC 28210 (704) 879-2777 (803) 929-0830

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-05768-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-17406-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-04123-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-04125-FC01

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Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-01002-FC01

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TAKE NOTICE RANDOLPH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 376 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by William E. West, Jr. and Twilla D. West to Kenneth J. Weleski, Trustee(s), dated the 27th day of September, 2005, and recorded in Book RE 1941, Page 1251, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 364 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by James Adam Wilson and Ashley Wilson to Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, Trustee(s), dated the 3rd day of February, 2010, and recorded in Book RE2168, Page 37, and Modification in Book RE2328, Page 1276, in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on January 22, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Randolph, State of North Carolina, and is described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pipe, the southeast corner of Roger Burrows 4.376 acre tract, being also the beginning

UNION NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 321 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Vidyia Williams, Steve Anthony Williams and Vijai R. Dick (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Vidyia Williams and Steve Williams) to W.R. Starkey, Jr., Trustee(s), dated the 29th day of May, 2008, and recorded in Book 4904, Page 438, and Re-recorded in Book 4940, Page 515, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 397 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Jason D. Surratt and Shonda Surratt to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 20th day of January, 2006, and recorded in Book 4046, Page 630, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on January 31, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Attached to, and incorporated by reference in, that certain Deed of Trust from Robert L. Johnson and wife, Tammy H. Johnson, to Robert L. Huffman, Trustee for Long Beach

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 1 8SP 715 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Earlene S. Hoff aka Earlene Simmons Hoff to PRLAP, Inc., Trustee(s), dated the 2nd day of July, 2010, and recorded in Book 05359, Page 0793, in Union County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Union County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00

WAKE 18 SP 2285 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Michael Edward Dahle and Tara Allred Dahle to Ryan D. Shoaf, Trustee(s), which was dated July 23, 2010 and recorded on July 29, 2010 in Book 014018 at Page 01966, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Ser-

16 SP 660 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Cassandra L Conyers to FFI, LLC dba Home Title of America, Trustee(s), which was dated October 3, 2014 and recorded on October 6, 2014 in Book 015802 at Page 01863, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the

17 SP 2031 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Clifton Champion and Norma Champion to Donna M. Haddock, Trustee(s), which was dated July 26, 2002 and recorded on July 29, 2002 in Book 009512 at Page 01487, Wake County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 30, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for

indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on January 22, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lots Nos. 81, 82, 83 and 84 of Trinity Heights Subdivision, a plat of which is duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Randolph County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 8 at Page 60. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5351 Trinity Boulevard, Trinity, North Carolina.

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

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

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

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

sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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point of that certain public right of way and easements recorded at Deed Book 1142, Page 47, Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point and with the western boundary line of the lands described in Deed Book 1059, Page 767, Randolph County Registry, South 05 degrees 01 minute 08 seconds West 286.03 feet to an existing iron pipe; thence North 84 degrees 20 minutes 05 seconds West 13.09 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 05 degrees 52 minutes 27 seconds West, 23.66 feet to an iron pipe in the northern line of the Bray Estates; thence with said northern line, North 82 degrees 11 minutes 12 seconds West 200.82 feet to an iron rod, a corner with Whetstone; thence with Whetstone’s eastern line, North 07 degrees 30 minutes 22 seconds East 303.12 feet (crossing an iron rod at 279.49 feet) to Burrow’s southern line; thence with Burrow’s line along a 60-foot road right of way, South 84 degrees 06 minutes 07 seconds East 200.90 feet to the point and place of beginning, being 1,453 acres, more or less, according to a survey entitled “Anthony Garland Kidd” dated March 18, 1992 by Cagle Surveys. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 3356 Fox Run Drive, Asheboro, North Carolina.

TOGETHER WITH a perpetual right of way and easement for ingress, egress and regress of sixty (60) feet, being thirty (30) feet on both sides of line described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe, the southeastern corner of Roger Burrow’s 4.376 acre tract, said pipe being also the beginning point of that certain public right of way and easement recorded at Deed Book 1142, Page 47, Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point and along the

centerline of a sixty (60) foot road, the following courses and distances.

North 86 degrees 02 minutes, West 200.67 feet to an iron pipe, Whetstone’s northern corner.

TOGETHER WITH all rights of this grantor in and to that public easement described in a document recorded in Deed Book 1142, Page 47 and subject to right of others in said easement.

SUBJECT TO a perpetual easement for ingress, egress and regress of thirty (30) feet to the south of the northern boundary line of the above-described 1.453 acres tract, said boundary line being described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe, the southeastern corner of Roger Burrow’s 4.376 acre tract, said pipe being also the beginning point of that certain public right of way and easement recorded at Deed Book 1142, Page 47, Randolph County Registry; thence from said beginning point and along the centerline of a sixty (60) foot road, the following courses and distances: North 86 degrees 02 minutes West 200.67 feet to an iron pipe, Whetstone’s northeast corner.

Parcel ID: 7790070186 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the

note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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Judicial Center in the City of Monroe, Union County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:00 PM on January 31, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a point located in pavement of Jim Parker Road, which beginning point is established by a nail set at a control corner located S. 30-14-17 E. 25.13 ft. distant in edge of pavement on east side of road, and runs thence from the beginning point and within the road right of way, S. 10-36-04 209.96 ft. to a point, J. Brice Birmingham et ux property corner, now or formerly (Book 304 pg. 415); thence running with Birmingham’s north line, N. 56-15-00 W. 330.00 ft. to an EIP, another common corner with the Birmingham property, now or formerly; thence with another line of Birmingham, N. 26-59-00 E. 133.97 ft., a new corner indicated by a 1” EIP control corner at N. 26-59-00 E. 232.63 ft.; thence a new line running with Marvin Ray Burgess and Jean C. Burgess property, S. 69-05-40 E. 270.00 ft. to the BEGINNING and containing 1.14 acres according to physical survey dated May 25, 1998 by Russell A. Courtney, Sr., RSL. Being portion of that property described in Deed Book 720, pg. 199, Union County Registry. 0.14 acre of above described property is

located within the right of way of Jim Parker Road, and this deed is made subject thereto. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 507 Jim Parker Road, Monroe, North Carolina.

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

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

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

ed releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a

rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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Mortgage Company, recorded in Book 1636, Page 124, Union County Registry.

BEGINNING at a nail and cap (F) in the centerline of Jack Davis Road (SR #2125) [right of way 60 feet wide], common corner with the property of Robert Blunt (568/814); thence South 57-46-36 West 190.02 feet to a point in the centerline of Jack Davis Road indicated by an iron in range of next line, 30 feet distant; thence North 32-13-24 West 301.99 feet to an iron set; thence North 65-20-00 East 183.27 feet to an iron found; thence South 33-56-39 East passing an iron found on line at 254.64 feet, a total distance of 278.01 feet to BEGINNING point and containing 1.24 acres, as shown on an unrecorded plat thereof by Walter Gordon and Associates, NCRLS, dated January 31, 2001. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 1109 Jack Davis Road, Monroe, North Carolina.

The property above-described is a portion of a tract described in Deed recorded in Book 283, Page 509, Union County Registry.

SEPTIC EASEMENT SERVING 1.24 ACRE TRACT BEGINNING at a common corner of the property of James Heyward Johnson and wife, Helen Plyer Johnson, and Robert L. Johnson and Wife, Tammy H. Johnson, and running thence with a line of the property of James Heyward Johnson and wife, South 65-20-00 West 75.00 feet; thence

South 32-13-24 East 75.00 feet; thence North 65-20-00 East 75.00 feet to a point in the common boundary between the two properties referred to above; along with said common boundary, North 32-13-24 West 75.00 feet to the BEGINNING as shown on an unrecorded plat thereof by Walter Gordon and Associates, NCRLS. Said property is commonly known as 1109 Jack Davis Road, Monroe, NC 28112.

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

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

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

such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk

of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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PM on January 31, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Union, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 119 of WINDY RIDGE, Phase 4 as the same is shown on map thereof recorded in Plat Cabinet J, File 777 in the Union County Pulblic Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2525 Spring Breeze Way, Monroe, North Carolina.

Being the same property conveyed to the Borrower(s) herein by Deed recorded contemporaneously herewith.

Parcel #: 09-345-350 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

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

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS,

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of

the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit.

The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date

stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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vices of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 30, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Lying and being in the City of Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina containing acres, more or less, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 106, Phase II, Willow Deer Subdivision, as shown on plat recorded in Book of Maps 1999, Page 1140, Wake County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 6408 Austin Creek Drive, Wake Forest, NC 27587.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Tara Allred Dahle

and husband, Michael Edward Dahle.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on January 30, 2019 at 10:00AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Lying and being in the City of Raleigh, Wake County: North Carolina containing acres, more or less, and being more particularly described as follows:

of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Cassandra L. Conyers.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and

against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the

loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Book 1519, Page 422, Dated 09/11/1962 And Recorded 09/12/1962, Wake County Records, State Of North Carolina.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 815 Shepherd School Road, Zebulon, NC 27597.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special

assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Clifton Champion.

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

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for

any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

BEING all of Lot 95, Riverside Subdivision, Tract 9, Phase 4, as shown on plat thereof recorded in Book of Maps 2003, page 999, Wake County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 8211 Candelaria Drive, Raleigh, NC 27616.

A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time

cash the following described property situated in Wake County, North Carolina, to wit: Beginning At A Point In The Western Boundary Line Of N.c. Highway No. 90 (Now U.s. Highway No. 64), 902 Feet North From The Northeast Intersection Of Said Highway And Glenn Street, The Same Being The Northeast Corner Of Lot No. 12 And Runs Thence In A Southerly Direction Along A Dividing Line Between Lots No. 12 And No. 13, South 88 Degrees West 200 Feet To An Iron Stake, The Northwest Corner Of Lot No. 12; Thence North 2 Degrees West 50 Feet To An Iron Stake In The Western Line Of Lot No. 13; Thence A New Dividing Line And Parallel With The First Course North 88 Degrees East 200 Feet To An Iron Stake In The Western Boundary Line Of N. C. Highway No. 90 (Now U.s. Highway No. 64), A New Dividing Corner; Thence Along The Western Boundary Of Said Highway South 2 Degrees East 50 Feet To The Beginning And Being The Southern 50 Feet Of Lot No. 13 Of “’The Bell Lots” According To A Survey And Map Made By Pittman Stell, C.s., Dated April 9, 1936.

By Fee Simple Deed To Clifton Champion And Wife, Norma Champion From Iva Carpenter, Unmarried, As Set Forth In

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-10276-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 16-02627-FC01

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-09937-FC01

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TAKE NOTICE WAKE AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 1709 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Lisa P. Richie and Keith G. Richie to Lynda R. Herring, Trustee(s), dated the 6th day of April, 2005, and recorded in Book 011300, Page 02585, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake

County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on January 28, 2019 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 37, as shown on plat of Athena Woods, Section Two, as recorded in Book of Maps 1981, Page 466, Wake County Registry, to which reference is hereby made for a more particular description of same. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5536 Kaplan Drive A & 5536 Kaplan Drive B, Raleigh, North Carolina.

See Book 3088, Page 676; Book 3357, Page 251; Book 3049, Page 735, all of the Wake County Registry.

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

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars

($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

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

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

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

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

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written

notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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