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A New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer pauses at the edge of the south reflecting pool at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum during ceremonies marking the 16th anniversary of the attacks in New York.

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Murray gets White House nod Charlotte Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray was nominated on Monday by President Donald Trump to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

Senate hearings have not been scheduled.

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Apple unveils iPhone X, a decade after the first one Cupertino, Calif.

The new iPhone X, unveiled Tuesday with the traditional Apple fanfare, features an edge-to-edge display with facial recognition to unlock the phone without a fingerprint reader or home button. The company, which has sold 1.2 billion iPhones since 2006, hopes this one will silence critics who say the company has lost its innovative edge.

Apple also released the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, which features a glass back for wireless charging. An updated Apple Watch and Apple TV were also released Tuesday.

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A North Carolina Air National Guard C-130 Hercules parked on an airstrip in Gadsden, Ala.

NC spared by Irma, readies to help Florida

Raleigh Department of Public Safety Secretary Erik A. Hooks expressed his condolences Tuesday in announcing the sudden death of Gwen Norville, deputy secretary of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice. A native of Kinston, Norville, 55, was a 30-year veteran of corrections and a graduate of Mount Olive College. “Gwen was a passionate champion for correctional officers and prisons,” Hooks said. “She served the citizens of North Carolina with distinction and honor. She will be deeply missed.”

Most of the storm’s impact was felt in western part of the state

By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — Officials say that at the peak of Irma-related power outages approximately 77,000 N.C. homes and businesses were dark, and by noon on Tuesday 63,000 were still without power, mostly in the west and parts of Charlotte.

The Blue Ridge Parkway closed briefly due to high winds, recorded at 50 mph. Crews had to clear a rockslide on U.S. 221 in McDowell County, but overall officials say that statewide damage from Irma was minimal.

“I’ve talked to county sheriffs and local officials out there.

They got a strong blow from the wind with a lot of trees down and some roads blocked,” said Gov. Roy Cooper in a press conference Tuesday.

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Survivors’ Presentation teaches children about the deadly 2001 terror attack

By Liz Moomey North State Journal APEX, N.C. — Sixteen years ago was the deadliest day for law enforcement officers and firefighters in the U.S. Every Sept. 11 at Kraft Family YMCA in Apex, first responders and survivors of the 2001 terrorist attack speak to kids about the event and teach them about their jobs and what to do in an emergency. The kids, ranging from fourth to sixth grade, learn about the gear, tour a firetruck and police car, and hear the story of a retired NYPD officer’s account of 9/11.

“We really wanted to keep the remembrance part of 9/11,” Beth Porter, director of volunteerism at Kraft Family YMCA, said. “It’s a way to honor them and to keep it alive, but give these kids an opportunity to be able to say thank you, recognize them and the lives that were lost.”

Keeping the memory alive was a key aspect of the 9/11 Survivors’ Presentation. Porter explained most have a story of where they were on Sept. 11, but kids this age weren’t alive yet and the presentation is teaching them about the importance of first responders.

“There are so many people in this crazy time of

“There’s no real way to teach kids about this age on what happened because it was violent and an ugly time in our history.”

— Bob Young, retired NYPD officer

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U.S. senator: ‘Somebody needs to go to jail’ Member of the Senate Banking Committee calls for a criminal investigation into Equifax

By Donna King North State Journal RALEIGH — The N.C. Attorney General says that 4.4 million people in N.C. may have been affected by the massive data breach at Atlanta-based credit bureau Equifax.

“My office has contacted Equifax to demand answers about how it will protect people and prevent future security issues,” said Stein in a statement.

Equifax announced last week that it learned on July 29 that hackers had infiltrated its systems in mid-May, gaining access to a wide swath of personal information, in what cyber security experts believe is one of the largest data hacks ever disclosed.

Three days after Equifax discovered the breach, three top company executives, including Chief Financial Officer John Gamble and a president of a unit, sold Equifax shares or exercised options to dispose of stock worth about $1.8 million, regulatory filings show.

“If that happened, somebody needs to go to jail,” said Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, at a credit union industry conference in Washington, D.C.. “It’s a problem when people can act with impunity with no consequences. How is that not insider trading?”

“In N.C., it is free to initiate a security freeze if you do it online,” said Stein. “A security freeze, or credit freeze, stops ‘new account fraud’ so crooks can’t take out new lines of credit in your name no matter how much stolen private information they have about you.”

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“My office has contacted Equifax to demand answers about how it will protect people and prevent future security issues.”

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our world where you could bring together that are different just to say thank you,” Porter said. “Police aren’t scary. For some kids, police and firemen are a scary thing but the importance of knowing they are really on their side and not to be scared of will make a difference. We need to show that they’re on our side, and this is a way to say thank you to them. This is a way to say you’re part of our community and we need to appreciate them for what they do.”

JD Power, a Cary firefighter, said it’s a similar message — helping kids understand what first responders do.

“It’s keeping the methodology that civil service is good, and everyone that’s trying to help is good, and that’s the bigger message,” Power said. “They’re not going to save a life, but maybe one day they’ll be in our position.”

Bob Young, who is a retired NYPD officer, spoke while showing the equipment he used during cleanup and talking to the volunteers about that day.

“A lot of people had people who were affected by it,” Young said.

“Some people in North Carolina remember it like yesterday. Some people don’t. It’s good when I get out there and talk to people, because they don’t realize how much NYPD did and what they’re still doing in order to combat terrorism.”

Young generally worked from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the World Trade Center, but on Sept. 11 he was leading training in a different location at 9 a.m.

“I would have not been here today,” Young said. “I was at home just getting ready to leave when the first tower got hit, so I jumped in my car and raced in. When the second tower came down, I was there.”

Teaching kids about Sept. 11 is difficult sometimes, he said. His kids, who were 5 and 3, learned about the attacks because he joined the terrorism task force after 9/11.

“You try to work with the older kids a little bit more on educating them on the event,” Young said. “With the little kids, you try to show them the equipment and have a fun time with them.

There’s no real way to teach kids about this age on what happened because it was violent and an ugly time in our history. It was a lot of death that occurred. These kids

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People stand in the Empty Sky memorial while looking toward lower Manhattan on the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in Jersey City, N.J.

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Left, people look at names of victims on the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Right, volunteers from TheeDesign built benches and patios for families transitioning out of homelessness with Families Together — a PLM Organization.

are too young to understand that and really to speak to them of what happened there.”

Porter said everyone comes in with a different knowledge of Sept.

11, but she wants the kids to leave with an understanding that we should never forget.

“Everyone comes from a different place,” Porter said. “We typically try to get police and firemen here to make it a little more show and tell and make it a little more

fun to watch and liven it up a bit knowing that we never want to forget. We want to appreciate and we want to serve them since that’s they’re job to serve us.”

The event in Apex is part of the National Day of Service, held every year across the country on September 11 in memory of those who sacrificed on that day in 2001, and in honor of those military members and first responders who still sacrifice for the nation every day.

9/11 Commemoration + Service Projects Sept. 19, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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The North Carolina Department of Military & Veterans Affairs remembers the heroes of 9/11.

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Three of four victims of Duke Life Flight helicopter crash ID’d

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A meeting of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors Committee on Educational Planning, Policies and Programs at the UNC Center for School Leadership Development in Chapel Hill on Aug. 1.

BOG weighs big changes UNC Board of Governors members show frustration over lack of communication and fractured issue groups

By Donna King North State Journal CHAPEL HILL — On Thursday the UNC Board of Governors passed four key resolutions that included lowering tuition and 45day studies on moving the governing General Administration body out of Chapel Hill and evaluating its scope. Board member Robert Rucho, a former Republican state senator, would chair the committee to evaluate the role of the UNC General Administration.

“We want to be completely transparent about this organization, which is 260 or so people and a $65 million organization,” UNC President Margaret Spellings told the board. “We look forward to showing very detailed information about how we spend our time.”

While the issues tackled by the board last week were big news, the general mood of the members reflected frustration over communication problems within the membership. Last week, a group of 15 members sent a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper criticizing UNC Spellings and Board of Governors Chairman Louis Bissette for requesting assistance ahead of a planned Silent Sam protest in the days after the Charlottesville violence. The letter said the entire board should have been consulted before UNC Chancellor Carol Folt reached out to the governor.

Other board members said they

too should have been consulted before the 15 members sent the critical letter.

“In all the years I’ve been here I’ve never seen a letter written like yours that all the board was not involved in. I knew nothing about the letter until I got it,” said UNC Board of Governors member Frank Grainger.

“When you put something like that in black and white it becomes very official. … We need to really think about how we handle these things going forward.”

The recent high-profile shifts on the Board of Governors has come after decades of criticism by those who say it was too liberal, too set in its ways, and too UNC Chapel Hill-focused. New members, elected by the N.C. General Assembly, have included more graduates of other UNC campuses across the state, and three Republican former members of the legislature.

“I do support the new folks coming around with new ideas, because the right answer is not ‘that’s the way we’ve always done it.’ Times have changed,” said member Bill Byers.

The issue of ideology came up particularly in discussing moving the General Administration to either to Research Triangle Park or the state capital in Raleigh, something that has been periodically discussed for more than 20 years.

“I realize that Chapel Hill has a reputation of being a hotbed of liberalism and people are trying to tear down Silent Sam and all these things are going on; we have protests out there and our meetings are disrupted and so forth and that’s all bad,” said member Joe Knott. “But I hope we are not in any way trying to

“My hope is that this board starts coming together.

There’s been a lot of he said, she said. We should put that behind us and start working together as a board, not as individuals or groups.”

— Harry Smith, UNC Board of Governors punish or teach one of our institutions a lesson.”

Anne Spangler Nelson, daughter of the namesake of the General Administration building in Chapel Hill, told fellow committee members that moving the GA out of Chapel Hill shouldn’t be a priority.

“Some people seem more in the know about this than others,” said Nelson. “This would not seem to be in alignment with, or at least a priority of, our strategic plan.”

The board also voted to re-evaluate the meeting structure, possibly having the system’s 17 chancellors call in to the board meetings rather than travel to them, and voted unanimously to cut tuition and fees at all the system’s schools.

“I’m all for reduced or low tuition, as long as we realize that excellence isn’t cheap,” said Knott.

Other members said cost reductions could be found in better management of debt and combining the buying power of the entire system, rather than cutting services or academics.

“Rather than having 17 duplicities, we could harness the size of the entire system to benefit the stu-

dents,” said member Harry Smith.

The day after the key votes, the board held another one, voting 24-3 to remove the UNC Center for Civil Rights’ ability to represent parties in litigation outside of a law school clinical program.

In the days leading up to the vote, students protested outside the General Administration building in support of the center, saying the policy change is an effort to wield political pressure against an organization that regularly fights the state in court.

Supporters of the proposed policy say the center has veered away from its stated clinical and educational purpose. Under accreditation standards set by the American Bar Association, students must have six hours of “experiential education” and groups supporting that standard must either have research or student education as its primary purpose.

BOG member Steve Long, a Raleigh lawyer who proposed the policy change, said the UNC Center for Civil Rights doesn’t follow the rules set by the ABA and has lost sight of its educational purpose by having full-time paid lawyers doing the litigating.

“I don’t really believe that a UNC entity ought to be filing litigation against other parts of our government — our cities, towns and state,” Bissette said. “If they do this kind of work under a sanctioned clinic, I have absolutely no problem with it.”

The center staff includes a director, two civil rights attorneys and administrative support. It operates on grants and donations but uses General Administration resources and tuition for things like payroll and benefits.

The next UNC Board of Governors meeting is scheduled for Nov. 3, 2017.

PERQUIMANS COUNTY — Duke Health has released the names of the three of the four people killed in a medical helicopter crash in eastern North Carolina on Friday. The crash occurred near Belvidere along the Virginia border, near the Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East complex.

The Life Flight EC-145 chopper was traveling from Sentara Albemarle Medical Center in Elizabeth City, N.C., and was en route to Durham with a patient on board.

Duke Health identified the flight operators Saturday morning as nurses Kris Harrison and Crystal Sollinger and pilot Jeff Burke. They were based out of Duke Life Flight’s facility at Johnston Regional Airport in Smithfield. The name of the patient killed in the crash has not been released. Duke has counselors available to help Duke staff members cope with the accident.

“The men and women of Duke LifeFlight put themselves at risk every day to save the lives of others, and the colleagues we lost in today’s terrible tragedy embodied Duke’s commitment to service and healing,” wrote President Vincent Price and A. Eugene Washington, chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the Duke University Health System in a letter to staff. “Our thoughts are with their families, friends and colleagues.

There will be opportunities in the coming days to join together in remembering these Duke colleagues and the lifesaving work they were committed to providing.”

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are still investigating the cause of the crash.

Duke Life Flight operates two critical care helicopters and a fleet of ambulances. According to their website, the service was started in 1985 and now flies more than that 800 critical care transport case a year. Helicopter transports account for approximately 20 percent of Duke Life Flight overall volume.

First Responders from a Fire Department in Lower Key West Florida, carry a patient from the Lower Keys Medical Center in Florida to a North Carolina Air National Guard C-130 Hercules for evacuation prior to the arrival of Hurricane Irma.

NATIONAL GUARD from pageA1 “We have deployed the North Carolina Forestry Service and North Carolina National Guard chainsaw crews to help out,“ he said.

When it became apparent over the weekend that N.C. would not face the same wrath from Irma as Florida, the N.C. National Guard switched gears, preparing to aid Florida in recovery. Currently guard members are on standby the to deploy as needed to Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

“We will be continuing to work closely with our National Guard partners in case they get requests to send mission packages down south to help out partners in Florida,” said Mike Sprayberry, director of N.C. Emergency Management.

Ahead of the storm, five shelters were opened across the state and operated by the Red Cross. An estimated 80 evacuees stayed there and approximately 400 meals were served over the past few days.

Also before Irma hit, a seven-member flight crew from the 156th Air Medical Evacuation Squadron (AMES), N.C. Air National Guard evacuated 13 patients from Lower Keys Medical Center in Florida, transporting them to Gadsden, Ala., for safety. On Monday N.C. Air National Guard crews flew supplies and personnel from the Midwest to Jacksonville, Fla. Irma’s trek up the East Coast came even as Texas continues to marshal crews to handle Hurricane Harvey debris. While FEMA is designed to handle two national emergencies at a time, the backto-back storms promise to stress recovery efforts and relief money.

The combined bill is expected to near or top the $2-billion tab for 2005’s Katrina, the largest to date.

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About $136 million in federal funds were released to Texas to help pay for initial efforts around Houston. The city’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, had issued a call for heavy equipment operators to help, but a spokesman said the city has 64 crews at work or soon to arrive, “all the help we need.”

The Gulf Coast bill “is going to be worse,” estimated said Hugh Kaufman, a retired EPA solid waste and emergency response analyst. While Irma’s shift west and weakening winds on Monday helped reduce its impact and likely bill, “There are a lot of question marks to know what the exact cost will be,” he said, as the storm

brings rain and wind to Georgia.

For N.C., officials say the hardhit communities in the eastern part of the state don’t want Matthew funding to dry up in light of the newer storm damage. Matthew, which hit N.C. on Oct. 6, 2016, killed 31 people in the state and caused $4.8 billion in damages to more than 100,000 homes and businesses. Today, many of the hardest hit, particularly poor, areas have not recovered, even though state and federal funding has been coming in through set funding cycles. Now, with Irma and Harvey on the radar, eastern N.C. worries.

“Clearly the federal government

needs to step up to help the people of Texas and Florida and Georgia,” said Cooper on Monday. “But we want to make sure the Matthew victims are not forgotten in this.

“We’ve been working with the bipartisan N.C. delegation in Washington. … Right now, FEMA is stretched thin and pouring resources into these other states,” Cooper added. “We hope money continues to flow to the places that need it, including North Carolina.”

The $15 billion aid package that passed the U.S. Senate this week was embroiled in political controversy because it was a deal Republican President Donald Trump agreed to with Senate Democrats.

It contained money for Harvey recovery, but also more than $7 billion that is broadly earmarked for FEMA and the Small Business Administration to help with all hurricane recovery.

Even as Irma and Harvey recovery continue, the National Weather Service has its eye on Hurricane Jose. On Tuesday, the NWS said Jose reduced in intensity and could further weaken into a tropical storm by Wednesday.

The hurricane is about 655 miles north-northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

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NEWS IN IMAGES

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A tightrope walker performs on a rope above the Old Harbour, with the Major Cathedral in the background, during a sport event in Marseille, France.

Competitors drive their homemade vehicle without an engine during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Kluisbergen, Belgium.

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An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh.

Trump calls for a tax reform ‘speedup’ in light of Hurricane Irma

Fate of Kentucky’s last abortion clinic goes to judge

Tribal clashes, political void threaten oil installations in Iraq’s south

China court releases video of Taiwanese activist confessing to subversion

WHO: More than 500 dead as Congo cholera epidemic spreads

Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump said this week that he will ask the Republican-controlled Congress to further speed up its efforts to overhaul the U.S. tax code, citing the impact of Hurricane Irma as a reason to hasten reforms. “I think now with what’s happened with the hurricane, I’m going to ask for a speedup. I wanted a speedup anyway, but now we need it even more so,” the president said at the outset of a Cabinet meeting at Camp David.

Louisville, Ky. The fate of Kentucky’s last remaining abortion clinic is in the hands of a federal judge following a three-day trial that could make it the first state without a single clinic. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin earlier this year moved to revoke the license of the EMW Women’s Surgical Center clinic in Louisville, citing deficiencies in its transfer agreements with local hospitals.

Basra, Iraq Worsening clashes among tribes and a political void is threatening security at oil installations in Iraq’s main southern oil producing region, officials and security sources said. Iraq has concentrated security forces in the north and west of the OPEC oil producer in the biggest campaign since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 to retake territory lost to the Sunni extremist group Islamic State in 2014.

Beijing A Taiwanese activist on trial in China confessed on Monday to attempting to subvert the Beijing government, according to videos of his hearing released

by Chinese authorities, although his wife refused to recognize the court’s authority. Lee Ming-che, a community college teacher known for his pro-democracy and rights activism, went missing on a trip to mainland China in March. China’s authorities later confirmed that he was being investigated on suspicion of “damaging national security.”

Kinshasa, Congo More than 500 people have died so far in a cholera epidemic that is sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said. Outbreaks of the water-borne disease occur regularly in Congo, mainly due to poor sanitation and a lack of access to clean drinking water.

U.S. high court justice temporarily preserves Trump refugee ban The full Supreme Court could act on the ban within days after the Trump administration challenged part of lower court ruling JORGE LUIS PLATA | REUTERS

Women hug while standing next to a destroyed house after an earthquake struck the southern coast of Mexico.

By Lawrence Hurley Reuters

Mexico rushes aid to millions after huge quake; death toll at 96

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday provided a temporary reprieve for President Donald Trump’s order blocking most refugees from entering the United States, putting on hold a lower court’s ruling loosening the prohibition.

Kennedy’s action gave the nine justices more time to consider the Justice Department’s challenge filed on Monday to the lower court’s decision allowing entry to refugees from around the world if they had a formal offer from a resettlement agency. The full Supreme Court could act within days.

The Justice Department opted not to appeal another part of last Thursday’s ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that related to Trump’s ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations. The 9th Circuit ruling broadened the number of people with exemptions to the ban to include grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins of legal U.S. residents.

Without Kennedy’s intervention, the appeals court decision would have gone into effect on

By David Alire Garcia Reuters JUCHITAN, Mexico — A powerful earthquake that struck Mexico last week has left some 2.5 million people in need of aid and killed 96 others, authorities said on Monday, as officials rushed to get food and water to afflicted communities in the poor south.

Oaxaca state Gov. Alejandro Murat said preliminary reports showed that at least 12,000 homes were damaged, and warned the number was likely to rise.

As a result of the quake, Mexico said in a statement on Monday that it will no longer send aid it had offered to victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas due to demands on its emergency services.

Murat said 1 million people in Oaxaca needed food, water, electricity and help rebuilding damaged homes, while in neighboring Chiapas state, which was closest to the epicenter of the tremor, 1.5 million people were affected, according to officials.

“We are united in facing this humanitarian crisis,” Murat said.

The 8.1-magnitude quake off the coast of Chiapas rattled Mexico City and sowed destruction across the narrowest portion of Mexico on the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Aftershocks continued into Sunday, and scores of people were wary about returning to fragile buildings hammered by the initial tremor, sleeping in gardens, patios and in the open air.

Sixteen people have been reported dead in Chiapas state and four in neighboring Tabasco. Many of the fatalities in Oaxaca were in the town of Juchitan, where more than 5,000 homes were destroyed.

Murat told Mexican television the quake hit 41 municipalities and had likely affected around one in five of the state’s 4 million-strong population.

“We’re talking about more than 800,000 people who potentially lost everything, and some their loved ones,” he said on Sunday.

The quake, the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in more than eight decades, was stronger than a 1985 temblor that killed thousands in Mexico City. However, its greater depth and distance kept the capital from being more seriously damaged.

President Enrique Pena Nieto on Friday declared three days of national mourning and pledged to rebuild shattered towns and villages.

However, some residents interviewed expressed frustration that the poor southern regions were still not getting the help they needed from the richer north and center of Mexico.

“Pena Nieto was able to make it here in his helicopter super fast.

That’s how help should be arriving, right? Exactly how he got here. But it hasn’t,” said 48-year-old Alma Alverez, grandmother of a 3-year-old boy killed when his house collapsed in the quake.

Two other funerals of quake victims were underway in the same cemetery as Fernando Lopez, a cousin of Maximo, stood near the back, his head bandaged from cuts suffered protecting his grandmother from falling tiles when the disaster struck.

“This is what you’re going to see the next few days,” he said, pointing to the other funeral services taking place.

“The whole town will be here in the cemetery or in the hospital.

We’ll tidy up what we can clean, but we won’t be celebrating anything on Sept. 15,” said Lopez, referring to the start of Mexico’s independence day festivities.

Juchitan’s mayor, Gloria Sanchez, agreed. “A great sadness overwhelms us,” she said. “The situation in Juchitan is critical, unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.”

Tuesday. In response, the state of Hawaii told justices it would be inappropriate for the high court to second-guess the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling.

Under the 9th U.S. Circuit’s ruling, up to 24,000 additional refugees would become eligible to enter the United States than otherwise would be allowed, according to the administration.

Trump’s March 6 order banned travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days and locked out most aspiring refugees for 120 days in a move the Republican president argued was needed to prevent terrorist attacks.

The order, which replaced a broader January one that was blocked by federal courts, was one of the most contentious acts of his presidency. Critics called it an unlawful “Muslim ban” that made good on Trump’s promise as a candidate of “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

The broader question of whether the travel ban discriminates against Muslims in violation of the U.S. Constitution, as lower courts previously ruled, will be argued before the Supreme Court on Oct. 10.

The Supreme Court in June partially revived the order after its provisions were blocked by lower courts. But the justices said a ban could be applied only to those without a “bona fide” relationship to people or entities in the United States.

New litigation was brought by

Hawaii over the meaning of that phrase, including whether written assurances by resettlement agencies obligating them to provide services for specific refugees would count.

Hawaii and other Democratic-led states, the American Civil Liberties Union and refugee groups filed legal challenges after Trump signed his order in March.

“The Trump administration has ended its odd and ill-advised quest to ban grandmas from the country,” Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said on Monday.

“With respect to the admission to the United States of refugees with formal assurances and the Supreme Court’s temporary stay order, each day matters,” Chin added, promising to respond soon to the administration’s filing.

In court papers filed earlier on Monday, the Justice Department said the 9th Circuit refugees decision “will disrupt the status quo and frustrate orderly implementation of the order’s refugee provisions.”

ACLU lawyer Omar Jadwat contrasted Trump’s efforts to keep alive his travel ban with the Republican president’s decision last week to rescind a program that protected from deportation people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, dubbed “Dreamers.”

“The extraordinary efforts the administration is taking in pursuit of the Muslim ban stand in stark contrast to its unwillingness to take a single step to protect 800,000 Dreamers,” Jadwat said.

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Irma’s death toll rises as officials assess the damage Parts of the Florida Keys reopened to residents on Tuesday as officials say at least six people are dead as more bodies found in south Florida

By Andy Sullivan and Robin Respaut North State Journal FLORIDA CITY/MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — Florida allowed some residents to return on Tuesday to areas hammered by Hurricane Irma winds and storm surge, while the death toll rose in the second major hurricane to hit the United States this year.

Irma had rampaged through the Caribbean as one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, but was downgraded to a tropical depression on Monday. It will likely dissipate from Tuesday evening, the National Hurricane Center said.

At its peak the storm prompted evacuation orders for 6.5 million people in Florida, the largest evacuation in modern U.S. history.

Irma killed nearly 40 people in the Caribbean and at least six in Florida and Georgia.

A local Florida official said there had been more deaths yet to be reported, particularly on the Florida Keys, where Irma arrived as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of up to 130 mph on Sunday morning.

Local authorities told around 90,000 residents of Miami Beach and from some parts of the Keys they could go home but warned it might not be prudent to remain there.

“This is going to be a frustrating event. It’s going to take some time to let people back into their homes particularly in the Florida Keys,” Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and a native of Newton, N.C., told a news conference.

FEMA was continuing to rescue people stranded by flooding around Jacksonville, in the state’s northeast, he said.

Irma devastated several Caribbean islands en route to Florida.

It destroyed about one-third of the buildings on the Dutch-ruled portion of St. Martin island, the Dutch Red Cross said on Tuesday.

The storm was the second major hurricane to make landfall in the United States in a little more than two weeks when it roared over Key Cudjoe. Hurricane Harvey plowed into Houston late last month, killing about 60 and wreaking some $180 billion in damage, largely through flooding.

Monroe County Commissioner Heather Carruthers said on Monday that people had been killed in the Keys, which have nearly 80,000 permanent residents, but she did not have a count on how many.

“We are finding some remains,” she said in an interview with CNN. Video footage of the islands showed homes torn apart.

Several major airports in Florida that halted passenger operations due to Irma limited service on Tuesday, including Miami International, one of the busiest U.S. airports.

More evacuation orders were lifted on Tuesday. Monroe County opened road access in the morning for residents and business owners from Key Largo, the main island at the upper end of the chain, as well as the towns of Tavernier and Islamorada farther to the south, fire officials said.

No timetable was given for reopening the remainder of the Keys, which are linked by a series of causeways and bridges down to Key West, a popular tourist spot on the southern tip of Florida.

One man was found dead in his crashed car on the Keys and two law enforcement officers died in a possibly storm-related fatal car crash on Sunday in Florida’s Orange County.

On Monday, two people were killed by falling trees in two Atlanta suburbs, according to local authorities.

A man was found dead in Winter Garden, Fla., after being electrocuted by a downed power line, local police said.

Insured property losses in Florida are expected to run from $20 billion to $40 billion, catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimated.

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6.9M homes and businesses were without power due to Hurricane Irma ages, utilities reported some 6.9 million homes and businesses were without electricity in Florida and neighboring states and said it could take weeks to fully restore service.

Between 2,000 and 3,000 utility workers from out of state, sent to inspect and repair power lines, were staying in Broward County in cramped conditions at BB&T Center, home to the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers, said Gus Beyersdorf, 40, of De Pere, Wis. Duke Energy, Florida’s second biggest power company serving the northern and central parts of the state, has been restoring power over the last 48 hours, but outages remained at about 1.2 million overnight, according to the company’s website. Meanwhile Duke’s outages in North and South Carolina climbed to about 160,000 as the

remnants of Irma moved north.

Irma hit Alabama on Tuesday and headed into western Tennessee

by Tuesday evening with maximum sustained winds of 25 mph.

In South Carolina, the Charleston Harbor area saw major flooding on Monday with water about 3 feet above flood stage and minor flooding was forecast for Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring another hurricane, Jose, which was spinning in the Atlantic about 700 miles west of Florida. About 2-1/2 months remain in the Atlantic hurricane season, which starts in June.

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WEST 23rd Annual Mountain State Fair draws big crowds The 2017 Mountain State Fair opened for its 23rd year at WNC Agricultural Center. On Saturday morning, crowds turned out early and continued to show up, with 26,355 fairgoers attending that the day for midway rides, games and food. Scheduled to run through Sunday, Sept. 17, the fair was closed on Monday, Sept. 11 due to inclement weather associated with Tropical Storm Irma.

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by US News rankings Jackson County The 2018 U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guidebook ranks Western Carolina University as a top university in the south in two categories: top public regional universities (13th) and best regional universities (38th). The guidebook ranking reflects WCU’s enrollment records for overall student body and freshman class, topping 11,000 students total.

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Asheville teen charged with kidnapping, rape of 12-year-old McDowell County The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office has charged Dylan Evan Smith, 18, of Asheville, with statutory rape and kidnapping. Warrants stated that Smith “unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did kidnap a 12-year-old female acquaintance by unlawfully removing the victim from one place to another, without the consent of the victim’s parent or legal guardian, and for the purpose of facilitating the commission of a felony, statutory rape.” The Sheriff’s Office says they received the case on a referral from the McDowell County Department of Social Services.

PIEDMONT State Troopers violated policy in audit Wake County State Auditor Beth Wood’s office says some highway patrol administrators and troopers violated agency policy by commuting large distances to work. The auditor office investigated the department and said that eight troopers failed to maintain their primary residence in the county where they worked with within 20 miles of the county line last year. Some of the officers lived more than 100 miles away. The distance driven with assigned vehicles increase maintenance costs and delayed response times to emergencies.

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Two charged in meth seizure at Hendersonville home

UNC Performing Arts receives largest art donation with $12M

Police served a search warrant at Holbert Road in Hendersonville last week where they seized Methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and a revolver. Michael Lee Brown, 35, and Christopher Dale Brown, 32, were charged with possession of methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling and possession of drug paraphernalia.

They were arrested and released from the Henderson County Jail on a $45,000 and $25,000 secured bond, respectively.

Orange County The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received its largest single donation for the performing arts, with a $12 million endowment to the PlayMakers Repertory Company and Department of Dramatic Art. Philanthropist, Joan H. Gillings, has been announced as the donor.

The money will be paid in three installments and will help build sustainable programs to increase community outreach and diversity.

Community sues town for racial discrimination Stokes County The 73-household Walnut Tree Community Association and four individuals filed a lawsuit against the predominantly white town of Walnut Cove, alleging racial discrimination.

The lawsuit is an attempt to accelerate annexation so Walnut Tree community members can participate in town elections and receive the benefits, such as, reduced water-sewer rates and services available to town residents.

Walnut Cove rejected a formal petition for annexation in January.

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RNC taps new NC state director Wake County Robert Andrews was selected this week by the Republican National Committee to be the organization’s state director for N.C. According to his biographical information, Andrews previously worked on former Gov. Pat McCrory’s re-election campaign and several other campaigns across the state. He also ran the RNC Victory Office in Fayetteville in 2012 before working as a legislative assistant in the N.C. General Assembly.

He started in politics as an intern for Sen. Richard Burr while attending Appalachian State University.

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Marine colonel found guilty of sexually abusing a child Onslow County Daniel Wilson of Mason, Washington, served in the Marine Corps for over 30 years and completed 11 deployments was found guilty of sexual abuse of a child, six counts of conduct unbecoming of an officer and gentleman and absence without leave on Saturday. Wilson was found not guilty of several additional charges, including rape of a child and sexual assault. He was sentenced at Camp Lejeune to 5 ½ years of confinement and dismissed from service.

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Winner of Rip Curl Grom dies while surfing in Irma Dare County Surfer Zander Venecia, winner of the Rip Curl Grom Search in Nags Head in August, was killed while trying to surf waves off the coast of Barbados during Hurricane Irma. Irma was still a Category 5 storm when it hit the island where Venecia lives. The 16-yearold Olympic hopeful was knocked unconscious when he hit a reef and drowned.

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Dare County Golden tilefish are prized catch by longline and hook-and-line fishermen up and down the East Coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proposed quotas for 2018 to 2020 at 14 percent lower than 2017 to prevent overfishing. Currently, golden tilefish are not experiencing overfishing, but fishery managers recommend reduction based on fishery evaluation.

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N.C. National Guard renames Goldsboro Readiness Center for fallen soldier Wayne County The Adjutant General of N.C., Maj. Gen. Greg Lusk will dedicate the NC National Guard’s Goldsboro Readiness Center as the Jocelyn Carrasquillo Readiness Center on Wednesday. Spc. Jocelyn (Joce) Luis Carrasquillo, 28, was killed in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2004, when an IED detonated near the vehicle in which he was riding. He was assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment. Carrasquillo entered federal active service Oct. 1, 2003, when his unit was activated as part of NC Guard’s 30th Heavey Separate Brigade “Old Hickory”, headquartered in Clinton.

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ELIZABETHTOWN — The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and the Chemours Company have reached a preliminary agreement to halt the future discharge of GenX into the state waters, after state officials sought a temporary restraining order against the company responsible for releasing unregulated chemical compounds into the Cape Fear River.

“By failing to disclose the presence of GenX and related compounds in its discharge, and by misrepresenting that GenX and related compounds were not present in its discharge, Chemours has caused a state of public alarm and uncertainty regarding the safety of public drinking water,” the state complaint read.

Legal teams deliberated privately for close to five hours on Friday, before Judge Douglas Sasser of the Bladen County Superior Court granted a partial consent order.

As part of the agreement, Chemours will continue measures to prevent wastewater contaminated by GenX and Nafion byproducts from being released into state waters. The company will also be required to provide the federal Environmental Protection Agency and NCDEQ with confidential business information, in a timely manner, to comply with their ongoing investigations.

The complaint comes as part of Gov. Roy Cooper’s response to reports that Chemours’ Fayetteville Works plant was releasing GenX, a fluorinated chemical, into the Cape Fear River as a byproduct of producing nonstick coating.

Chemours said the chemical has been released for 37 years and has a federal consent order in place that exempted the chemical when it was produced as a byproduct.

In June, NCDEQ inspected the Chemours plant and reported that they had properly isolated the byproduct from public water sources, but later stated concerns about two additional compounds — Nafion byproduct 1 and 2.

State lawmakers have criticized Cooper and his environmental head, Michael Regan, for a slow response to the crisis. Republican leadership questioned why it took months for the executive branch to issue a Notice of Violation — often an initial step in holding violators accountable and requiring them to bear the cleanup costs, and passed legislation to direct funding to measure and develop technologies to remove GenX from public water supplies.

NCDEQ eventually issued an NOV to Chemours on September 6, just days before a deadline set by the General Assembly.

The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, which monitors the main water supply affected by the contamination, said they were not consulted prior to negotiations with Chemours on Friday and were not invited to participate in the hearing. Regardless, after reviewing the order they were pleased with the results.

“We applaud the DEQ for taking this action and believe that the Court would have granted a TRO with or without Chemours consent,” the utility said in a statement on Monday.

NC Treasurer Folwell continues money-saving reforms

By Jeff Moore North State Journal RALEIGH — State Treasurer Dale Folwell, through the State and Local Government Finance Division (SLGFD) and with the approval of the North Carolina Council of State, announced the completion of a third refunding of bonds within the last six weeks.

The most recent refunding was of more than $243 million in GARVEE (Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicles) bonds with almost $225 million Refunding Bonds issued, resulting in $19 million in debt service savings. The bonds were issued and sold to lock in lower interest rates.

With the completion of the GARVEE bonds’ refunding, Folwell and the SLGFD have refinanced more than $1 billion in general and limited obligation bonds and GARVEE bonds, resulting in the reduction of debt service costs by more than $133 million.

“The refunding of the GARVEE bonds will allow additional resources to be available for important transportation projects across the state,” said Folwell, a Republican. “The refunding of the general and limited obligation bonds will provide capital for the Solvency Reserve Fund. Legislation establishing the fund has already been passed by the N.C. House, and I expect approval soon by the N.C. Senate. Once it is passed, it will be the first step in reducing the

state’s $50 billion in unfunded health care and pension liabilities.”

GARVEE bonds provide financing for various transportation projects and the State Transportation Improvement Program. Debt service on the bond is then paid from federal reimbursements to the state.

Folwell has also made progress in improving efficiency at the North Carolina Retirement Systems overall through process optimization.

The time it took to process a retirement application decreased from 40.2 days in July 2016 to only 5.3 days in July 2017, marking a nearly 87 percent decrease in processing times.

Members calling into the Retirement Systems waited on hold for an average of only one minute and 17 seconds, a 52 percent decrease over July 2016 average wait times of two minutes and 44 seconds.

“We’re in the check-delivery business, so increasing our ability to streamline our processes and increase our responsiveness to members is key,” said Folwell. “We need to continue to sustain this effort as we get ready for what will be a dramatic increase in the number of state retirees over the next 20 years.”

In a 2015 report provided by Conduent, the number of retired public employees in N.C. is projected to increase from approximately 295,000 members in 2017 to about 468,000 members by 2035.

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Local visioning team behind “Sunday Supper” wins national PR award The communal dinner that stretched down the center of Raleigh was conceived in the weeks following devastation in eastern N.C. from Hurricane Matthew, and raised almost $200k

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By NSJ Staff RALEIGH — Last November’s Sunday Supper, an event designed to gather the community together to raise funds for Hurricane Matthew, has earned local public relations agencies Eckel & Vaughan and Kohn Associates a national public relations award.

The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) honored the agencies with the Silver Anvil Award, an award designed to recognize excellence in public relations and communications. Eckel & Vaughan and Kohn Associates were presented the award for the two teams’ collaboration in establishing The Sunday Supper.

As Hurricane Matthew made its way up the east coast in early October 2016, it made landfall near Charleston and slowly engulfed the region with drenching rains and devastating wind gusts.

Eastern North Carolina suffered historic flooding, with nearly all major rivers exceeding record levels, leading to 26 deaths, 680,000 without power statewide, and an estimated $1.5 billion in property damage. People were forced to abandon homes and businesses, and in some cases, entire communities became ghost towns.

While Matthew’s immediate aftermath brought anguish and exhaustion, it also brought gratitude and hope. As families and neighbors checked in on each other, shared water and food, mopped basements, hauled away ruined furniture and fallen trees, help also began pouring in from near and far through impromptu book drives, fundraisers and care package parties. Inspired by the broad sense of community that was taking shape across the state, a vision began to form in Raleigh.

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The agencies developed The Sunday Supper with the goal of bringing people together for a meal, neighbors seated next to neighbors, at a giant table spanning the length of a football field down the main street of the Capitol City.

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“From restaurants to church families, florists to farmers, corporations to individuals—the community came together for our neighbors,” says Willa Kane, planning committee member. “Ultimately we had 1,000 volunteers who gave their time and talents toward the event. And, what an event it was.”

Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh was closed for the event on Nov. 13, 2016 and turned into a street of long community tables which served more than 1,000 people. The event brought together 55 corporate sponsors, three bands, a gospel choir, local breweries, more than 300 volunteers and raised $189,000 for N.C. Disaster Relief.

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THE BRIEF Charlotte vies for Amazon’s $5 bln second headquarters site

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The ‘Spaceship Earth’ dome looms above a fleet of utility trucks parked in a parking lot at Disney’s Epcot theme park ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irma in Kissimmee, Fla.

Utility crews stream into Florida for hurricane payday, adventure Caravans of line workers make their way into storm-stricken areas to do dangerous work that can often double their monthly income

By Brian Thevenot Reuters ORLANDO, Fla. — Nick Chilelli had been driving his utility truck with a broken air conditioner for about 18 hours, all the way from Cincinnati, when his convoy got trapped behind a car wreck just outside Orlando, Florida, at about 2 a.m. Saturday morning.

They were among thousands of line workers racing through the night to stage their trucks and tools for Hurricane Irma, a monstrous storm expected to knock out power to half of the nation’s third most-populous state.

They had been told to expect to work at least a month of straight 16-hour days, with no breaks, try-

ing to restore power to millions of homes.

Many of the journeyman linemen, as their union calls them, savored both the financial opportunity and the adventure of racing into a historic hurricane.

“I’ll probably make 30 grand this month,” said Chilelli, 48. “Everybody out here is killing it. Of course, you’re dealing with something that could kill you any minute.”

He has good use for the money.

As he chased work in the storm, Chilelli left his wife behind with a new foster child, 11-month old Gage.

A far bigger threat to the electric grid than Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Irma threatens to knock out power to more than 4.1 million homes and businesses served by Florida Power & Light, affecting about 9 million people.

“Everyone in Florida will be impacted in some way by this storm,” FPL Chief Executive Officer Eric Silagy said on Friday, preparing the utility’s customers for a multi-

week restoration process.

The NextEra Energy Inc unit is Florida’s biggest power company, serving almost half of the state’s 20.6 million residents. Utilities handling the rest of the state, including units of Duke Energy Corp, Southern Co and Emera Inc, have not yet estimated potential outages, which are likely to be substantial.

The utility workers whom FPL deployed shared their storm stories as they waited for more than an hour early on Saturday morning for authorities to clear an accident west of Orlando on U.S. Highway 27.

FPL had already amassed about 5,000 trucks in a staging area in Lake City, in northern Florida near Jacksonville, the utility workers said, just the first of legions more trucks and workers needed to restore the grid.

This is one example of the economic jolt from the enormous rebuilding process required after a storm of Irma’s magnitude.

“It’s a good gig - big bucks -

we’re all union contractors” with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said Brian Wilson, 34, who rode in the truck in front of Chilelli in the stalled convoy. “You never want to see a disaster, but it’s good for me.”

The utility repair workers typically make about $50 an hour, which jumps to $75 for overtime and $100 on Sundays, Chilelli said.

Wilson, who is from North Andover, Massachusetts, drove in Friday morning with 30-year-old Russ Konicke from Connecticut, where the two had been working.

“It’s my first hurricane,” said Konicke, who is from Fairbanks, Alaska. “I just became a journeyman lineman last year.”

The industry appealed to Konicke, in part because of the adventure of traveling the nation chasing storms and work. In Connecticut, he lived out of his car and a tiny tent - really, just a boxy cover on a cot - while he spent his money exploring New England.

He also likes working outside in the weather, which made the journey into the hurricane all the more tantalizing.

“I’m really excited about it,” Konicke said. “It’s a completely new experience ... I’ve been in extreme cold and extreme heat, and now extreme wind.”

United Tech not planning breakup after $23 bln Rockwell deal

By Alwyn Scott Reuters NEW YORK — Aerospace and industrial company United Technologies Corp said on Tuesday it has no immediate plans to sell off other businesses after it agreed to acquire avionics supplier Rockwell Collins Inc in a $23 billion deal that creates a powerhouse aerospace supplier.

United Tech also knocked down speculation that the acquisition would prompt it to spin off other businesses, such as Carrier air conditioners or Otis elevators.

“We need the cash flows from all the businesses to help pay down some of this debt” and retain an investment-grade credit rating, United Tech Chief Executive Officer Greg Hayes said on a conference call with analysts.

United Tech expects to borrow $15 billion to fund the deal, Hayes said, and it will assume $7 billion in Rockwell Collins debt as part of the transaction announced on Monday, which is expected to close by the third quarter of 2018.

“Because the deal is structured as a conventional acquisition with debt, United Tech has to pay some of this off before doing anything else,” said Robert Stallard, analyst at Vertical Research Partners.

Rockwell’s shares rose 0.9 percent to $131.75 in early trading.

United Tech shares, part of the Dow Jones industrial average, fell 3 percent to $114.37, reflecting the expected dilution in earnings from the stock-and-cash deal, analysts said.

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plane makers are pressing for price cuts and trying to compete against suppliers on services and spare parts.

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maker Zodiac Aerospace. Safran said Tuesday it would look at assets that might come up for sale after the United Tech-Rockwell deal.

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Amazon.com Inc broke news last week that it would build a $5 billion second headquarters in North America, kicking off a race between cities and states to offer tax cuts and incentives that could bring 50,000 new jobs. The largest e-commerce company said it intended to create “HQ2,” a headquarters that would be a “full equal” to its Seattle office, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said in a statement. The company wants a metropolitan area of more than a million people with an international airport, good education and mass transit. Amazon was likely to land its second headquarters in a cheaper city than Seattle and score subsidies. The company promised up to 50,000 jobs averaging more than $100,000 in annual compensation over the next 10 to 15 years. Cities and states immediately began saying they would bid, with Dallas, Houston, Toronto, St. Louis, Kentucky and Miami among the first few that committed.

Bryant stated, “This is a transformative opportunity for our region. We are prepared to support any location within our region that is competitive.”

Business summit postponed due to Hurricane Irma concerns Washington, D.C. U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (N.C. – 8th) announced that the North Carolina Congressional delegation has had to postpone this week’s North Carolina Business and Economic Development Summit in Washington, D.C. due to Hurricane Irma and is working to reschedule the event. The 21st annual business summit was scheduled for September 11th and 12th in Washington, D.C. This year, the summit was to be hosted by Rep. Hudson and the entire North Carolina Congressional delegation. In addition to briefings by the N.C. delegation, speakers at this year’s event were to include Speaker Paul Ryan, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, SBA Administrator Linda McMahon, North Carolina Lt. Governor Dan Forest, North Carolina Commerce Secretary Tony Copeland, and other members of congressional leadership and the Trump administration. Last year, nearly 200 workers and business leaders from across the state attended the summit to discuss ways to spur economic growth and bring jobs home to North Carolina. In addition to invaluable collaboration, attendees heard from special guests, including state leaders, officials from the Administration and Capitol Hill, and media experts.

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Morality and hurricane looters IN MANY AREAS of the country, a small minority of troublemakers inevitably look to take advantage of natural disasters by helping themselves to the property of others.

“Thinking about looting? Ask these guys how that turned out,” was a message published by the Miami Police Department on social media accompanied by blurred faces of 10 suspected looters sitting in jail. After Hurricane Harvey, Ft. Bend County Sherriff Troy Nehls message to looters went viral. In a media appearance, Nehls cautioned thieving opportunists to stay out “because you could leave this county in a [body] bag.” Harris County, which encompasses Houston, America’s fourth largest city, had over 40 arrests for looting in the wake of the historic One the flooding. Of course, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Matthew pales in comparison other side to the lawless stories of rape, thievery, and of absurdity, mayhem that emerged after Hurricane one author Katrina (some of it proven later to be false). and journalist While the media sometimes exaggerates instances of looting, they often play a role connected in apprehending the alleged criminals. A property local Fort Lauderdale television station rights to white recorded a group of looters at a pawn shop supremacy. and neighboring sneaker store that led to their arrests. Onlookers reportedly cheered.

During Harvey, ABC News anchor Tom Illamas was roasted on social media for pointing out looters at a grocery store. Illamas was attacked by individuals that felt like the looters were only helping themselves to food and other necessities. Regardless, looting and chaos can teach us a lot about human behavior in the wake of a storm or other natural disasters.

Morality One of the most important lessons that recent hurricanes are showing the country, despite deep political divisions, is the goodness and charitable nature of Americans. The contrast of those helping verse those taking advantage of people is enormous.

Save Katrina in New Orleans, looting has been relatively obscure and a minor problem in the wake of most disasters. Americans continually step forward to help others during tragic times. For every depiction of a figure ransacking a giant flat screen amidst

devastation, there are thousands of unsung heroes pouring their time and finances into the relief effort. One of the most indelible marks after Katrina was Christian relief agencies who had taken up residence in South Mississippi and Louisiana for years.

Some, like Mennonites dedicating themselves to relief, resettled permanently to help others.

Racism Twitter and much of social media is now a playground of petty ugliness, as any regular user can attest. One of the more unfortunate occurrences are individuals who seek to capitalize on the looting by making it solely about stoking racial divisions.

One person asked on Twitter, “Why is it that all the looters are black?” Statements like that one are repeated ad nauseam. Yet, one of the first arrests for looting in St. Lucie County Florida was of a white guy. One the other side of absurdity, one author and journalist connected property rights to white supremacy. The good news is that while a select few try to capitalize on disasters to foment racial strife, the overwhelming majority are coming together. Disaster and tragedies break down traditional barriers, particularly as many citizens step up to become the best version of their self.

Property Rights “I can’t think of anything more disgusting than to take advantage of people in a vulnerable situation.” Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke declared on Fox News. For many, it is one thing for an individual or family to have their homes and possessions survive only to come back to a looted home or business. Thankfully, the U.S. has a strong system of property rights. Law enforcement, especially in regards to Harvey and Irma, deserve immense credit for pro-active responses to squelch looters. Overall, when the miniscule amount of looting is compared to the millions of Americans helping each other, it’s a reminder that optimism for this nation is embedded in the strength of its people and not the brokenness that surrounds us.

EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

Should you be worried about tax reform?

NOT IF YOU are one of the 103 million taxpayers who chooses the standard deduction instead of itemizing every deduction on your tax return each year.

Two thirds of all American taxpayers are in this group. The only thing they must worry about in tax reform is whether their tax rate is going up or down.

Chances are tax reform will not affect these 103 million taxpayers much one way or the other. Tax rates should go down for them when all is said and done based on comments from the Trump White House.

The one tax When they hear deduction commentators bleating that seems to about “tax fairness” be the most and “the rich paying their fair share of vulnerable is taxes,” they can and the deduction should watch football for state and games, work in the local taxes yard, play with their kids or grandkids and paid. get plenty of sleep this fall instead of worrying a whole lot about tax reform.

One third of American taxpayers or 44 million households do, however, itemize their deductions on their tax returns.

According to the Tax Foundation, “(o)nly 6.0 percent of tax returns with under $25,000 in income chose to itemize

deductions in 2013. On the flip side, 93.5 percent of tax returns with over $200,000 in income were itemizers.”

Tax reform is very much a higher income concern to perhaps 20-25 million taxpayers then.

The question for higher-income taxpayers will be whether lower tax rates will offset the loss of some of the major tax deductions they have used to lower their tax liability over the years.

Why do we have tax deductions in the first place?

The income tax didn’t become a reality until the Civil War and was then promptly declared unconstitutional. Income taxes became “constitutional” in 1913 after ratification of the 16th Amendment. Class warfare almost immediately ensued as the highest tax rates exploded from 7 percent to 77 percent by 1918 to finance World War I to 94 percent during World War II. Tax deductions became very popular almost immediately simply because the top rate was so high. No one in their right mind was going to work in America and give 94 percent of it back to the government without a fight.

The tax deduction for employersponsored health plans started during World War II because of the wage-andprice freezes imposed by FDR. Providing health care coverage was a way to use the corporate tax code to offer fringe benefits

such as health care to recruit and keep the best workers while deducting the “cost of doing business” by counting the cost of health care as a cost of labor.

The corporate tax deduction for health care accounts for the largest net loss of taxes ($235 billion) to the federal treasury of any tax deduction on the books today.

It is also perhaps the safest deduction from elimination along with the mortgage interest deduction and the charitable deduction.

The one tax deduction that seems to be the most vulnerable is the deduction for state and local taxes paid. In a perverse way, this deduction effectively subsidizes high tax and spending policies in large states such as California and New York because it allows higher-income taxpayers a legal way to deduct those high state and local taxes which reduces their federal tax liability that would be used to fund federal programs for everyone, not just their states.

If learning about and understanding the inequities in the tax code today doesn’t make you want to throw your hands in the air and start praying for a consumption tax to replace it, nothing will.

Compressing the tax code to squeeze out as many deductions, exemptions and credits as humanly possible in return for lower rates across the board makes sense for all of us.

LETTERS Historic monuments not offensive THE AUGUST 30 issue guest opinion labeled “Fake history: It’s time to remove memorials that erase our past” fascinated me. The silly dichotomy of memorials that erase one’s past is as confusing as the mind set of finding offense in historic memorials. These memorials to courage, honor, and duty have been around for decades. Meaning offense to no one, perhaps a quiet inspiration to others; they’ve become a target in recent months for racial agitators.

These instigators, whether for political cause, personal power gain or some perverted hatred of our freedoms seek any opportunity to cause disruption and division in our country.

An assistant professor of sociology purporting to be a historian concentrates on the evils of the Confederacy, slavery being paramount.

His chief complaint that Confederate monuments are not “contextualized” is absurd as are his many unsubstantiated statements.

His support of the morons that destroyed the Confederate soldier in Durham and his solution of erecting a marker to commemorate criminal vandalism on its’ ruins are equally ridiculous.

Slavery was a hazard of life in that era of history and for thousands of years prior to then. POWs, entire populations of subjugated countries were made slaves.

People of all known races were subjected to slavery. All races have been enslaved at some time in history. As best I can tell, collectively, these races have managed to put history like this behind them and get on with their lives.

Our black population is full of people who, despite initial disadvantages, achieved great things with their lives. They did not pay much attention to Confederate monuments. A suggestion to those allowing the past to dictate their future: Learn from the past but do not live there. A suggestion to the assistant sociology professor: Don’t give up your day job.

History is not your thing.

Art Wilson Fuquay Varina, NC

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GUEST OPINION | FRANK DOWD IV

Washington could learn a thing or two from North Carolina

North Carolina has been the poster child for what successful pro-growth tax reform and conservative fiscal policy looks like.

HAVING FAILED to repeal or fix Obamacare, one of President Donald Trump’s signature campaign promises, the circular firing squad that is the Congressional Republican majority will now turn its attention toward the next major plank of the president’s platform – comprehensive tax reform.

Tax policy in the U.S. has not been reformed since President Ronald Reagan’s landmark legislation in 1986. Reagan signed into law the broadest revision of federal taxes in history, producing a simpler code with fewer tax breaks and significantly lower rates.

The changes affected every family and business in the nation and sparked an economic boom.

In the years since, however, rates have gradually gone back up and Congress has passed nearly 15,000 changes to the tax code. Many of the loopholes and special interest tax breaks that disappeared three decades ago have crept back in.

But with control of Congress and the White House, the GOP has a real opportunity to achieve pro-growth policies that will unleash our economy from the “new normal” sub-2 percent growth we experienced over Obama’s eight years. “Fat cat” corporations won’t pay their “fair share”, critics will say, which is nonsense. U.S. corporations already pay the highest marginal rates in the world among developed countries. And even as rates around the World are falling, the U.S. has remained steady at about a 40 percent marginal rate, making us uncompetitive against global trading partners.

As for what other tax reform measures might work, there is a blueprint they can turn to: North Carolina. Six years ago North Carolina’s unemployment rate was above 10 percent and the state was still reeling from the Great Recession.

But in 2013 a combination of the biggest tax-rate reductions in the state’s history, and a gutsy but controversial unemployment-insurance reform, supercharged N.C.’s economy and produced significant budget surpluses.

The tax cut slashed the state’s top personal income-tax rate to 5.75 percent, near the regional average, from 7.75 percent, which had been the highest in the South. The corporate tax rate was cut to 5 percent from 6.9 percent. The estate tax was eliminated.

But the story gets better. Because North Carolina lawmakers built in a trigger mechanism that applied excess revenues to additional rate cuts, the business tax has fallen to 2.5 percent – a 63 percent drop since 2013, which is the lowest corporate income tax rate among states that impose such a tax. And the State’s

personal income tax rate will drop to 5.25 percent in January of 2019.

Shortly after the North Carolina reforms were passed, the unemployment rate started to decline rapidly and job growth climbed. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been added to our economy and the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2 percent.

North Carolina now ranks 11th in the country for best business tax climate, according to the Tax Foundation, up from a dismal 44th in 2013.

But tax cuts, opponents always argue, mean less revenue, which means draconian cuts in education and other government spending. But in North Carolina, as in Reagan’s day, the tax cut’s impact on revenue was just the opposite. North Carolina’s projected revenue surplus grew to $580 million, according to projections released in May this year, because the state also cut discretionary spending at the same time they cut taxes.

What is North Carolina doing with all that extra money? First, the state is socking some of it away for a rainy day with 15 percent of all surplus revenue mandated to be set aside as a hedge against the next severe recession or natural disaster. A portion of it has gone toward increasing teacher pay in the state.

In 2014, starting pay for new teachers was raised to $35,000. In addition, most teachers received increases of 7 percent in 2015, a 2.1 percent bump in 2016 and another 3.3 percent raise in 2017. Another chunk of the surplus went to paying back the feds for unemployment insurance subsidies extended during the recession, eliminating more than $2 billion in state debt.

Eliminating debt is important because money spent servicing debt can’t be spent on other productive needs-like teacher pay or better roads.

At the federal level, President Obama doubled our national debt over his eight years in office to nearly $20 trillion dollars, creating a debt bomb which will blow up one day.

North Carolina has been the poster child for what successful pro-growth tax reform and conservative fiscal policy looks like. We should all thank the Republican General Assembly and former Governor Pat McCrory. If Washington would just get out of its Beltway bubble and pay attention, they might learn something.

Frank Dowd IV is Chairman of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company, a 116 year-old familyowned manufacturer with 7 plants scattered across the U.S.

President Donald Trump speaks next to Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm during a tax reform event with workers at the Andeavor Refinery in Mandan, North Dakota.

Trump and his supporters care about ‘wins,’ not ideology TO WORRY that Donald Trump was Lonesome Rhodes in a better suit. I’m starting ItoUSED wonder if he’s Chance the Gardener in a worse one.

Just in case you don’t get the references, Rhodes was the lead character, played by Andy Griffith, in Elia Kazan’s 1957 film “A Face in the Crowd,” the best movie ever made about the dangers of populism and mass media. Chance the Gardener was the lead character, played by Peter Sellers, in Hal Ashby’s “Being There,” a brilliant 1979 film based on the Jerzy Kosinski novel about a simple-minded gardener who had never been outside his employer’s home until the man died. Because Chance speaks in fortune cookie aphorisms about gardening (and has one impeccable custom-tailored suit), he’s mistaken for a man of deep wisdom and is lifted to heights of power in Washington.

President Trump isn’t nearly as kind-hearted as Chance, nor as dimwitted, but there are two relevant similarities. First, both have an unhealthy addiction to television, preferring it to reading. Second, neither really understands what’s going on around them but benefits from being surrounded by people who see what they want to see.

Last week, the president took the opening offer on a debt-limit deal from Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leaders in the Senate and House, respectively. A person close to the GOP leadership told Axios, “He accepted a shakedown when he was holding all the cards. ... This is quite literally a guy who watches ‘ER’ trying to perform a surgery.”

Aghast conservatives are probably exaggerating the significance of the move in terms of policy and tactics. Fights over the debt limit rarely yield the rewards conservatives hope for. But the move could have lasting consequences.

Why? Here’s a clue: According to reports, the president was ecstatic over the favorable coverage he received for his “bipartisanship.”

Despite his “fake news” refrain, Trump doesn’t hate the mainstream media the way his most ardent supporters do.

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COLUMN | TED RALL

Obama screwed the DACA Dreamers before Trump did

In a typically perverse Democratic attempt to outRepublican the Republicans, Obama became the “Deporter in Chief.”

JONAH GOLDBERG

ATTORNEY GENERAL Jeff Sessions’ September 5 announcement that the Trump Administration is repealing Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for children brought into the United States illegally marks another political low point for a president who stages his photos so he looks tough “like Churchill” but whose governance is so wobbly and noncommittal that he’s elevated waffling to an art form.

The DREAMers, Trump said in November, “shouldn’t be very worried.”

I love these kids,” Trump said.

But the president loves his far-right nativist base more.

You better bet those kids are worried now.

As Barack Obama said after Sessions’ statement: “These Dreamers are Americans in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper. They were brought to this country by their parents, sometimes even as infants. They may not know a country besides ours. They may not even know a language besides English. They often have no idea they’re undocumented until they apply for a job, or college, or a driver’s license.”

Totally true words.

And, coming from the man

who set the stage for Trump’s xenophobic and racist policies with plenty of his own, totally empty.

Obama promised comprehensive immigration reform, including legal protection for the DREAMers, during his 2008 campaign. As president, however, he didn’t make it happen — even in 2009 and 2010, when his Democrats controlled both houses of Congress.

Republicans went obstructionist on all things Obama after 2010, so a frustrated Obama administration shoved DACA through in 2012.

In a typically perverse Democratic attempt to outRepublican the Republicans, Obama became the “Deporter in Chief.”

Obama’s deportees, he promised us, were criminals. “Felons, not families. Criminals, not children.

Gang members, not a mom who’s working hard to provide for her kids.” Sounded like a reasonable policy. Trouble was, one-size-fits-all legal strictures don’t account for the complexities of real life.

Hundreds of children of Cambodian war refugees were deported “back” to Cambodia — a country they had never seen, where they had no friends or relatives — due to the kind of screw-up privileged whites call “youthful indiscretions.”

“Some don’t make it. We’ve had

suicides,” said Bill Herod, who founded a charity in Phnom Penh for U.S. deportees.

They weren’t all angels. But is it really so shocking that the children of survivors of the brutal wars in Southeast Asia — wars whose carnage can in large part be blamed on the United States — might have done a few stupid things as teenagers?

One-third of Americans of working age have a criminal record. Obama smoked pot. George W. Bush had a DUI; Dick Cheney had two. Roughly 17 percent of all Americans have a DUI conviction.

Trump and his fellow Republicans’ repugnant decision to expose DREAMers — who, by definition, have clean criminal records — to deportation is a classic example of the peril of the slippery slope. This is what happens when the Left goes to sleep because a Democrat is in the White House.

Trump came for the kids, but we said jack because they didn’t happen to have the right immigration documents.

By the time they come for U.S. citizens — you know the rest.

Ted Rall is author of “Trump: A Graphic Biography,” an examination of the life of the Republican presidential nominee in comics form.

“I got a call early this morning,” Schumer told the New York Times. “He said, ‘This was so great!’ Here’s what he said: ‘Do you watch Fox News?’ I said, ‘Not really.’ ‘They’re praising you!’

Meaning me. But he said, ‘And your stations’ — I guess meaning MSNBC and CNN — ‘are praising me! This is great!’”

Despite his “fake news” refrain, Trump doesn’t hate the mainstream media the way his most ardent supporters do. They sincerely believe it’s a hostile opponent in the culture war, while Trump’s anger is more that of a jilted lover. His whole life has been marked by an obsession with publicity.

His supporters, though, are oddly blind to that fact. Normally, when conservatives or Republicans deviate from the party line, the knee-jerk assumption among activists is that they are doing so out of a desire to win praise from the liberal media and invitations to Georgetown cocktail parties. If that’s often unfair, it may actually be the case for Trump, and yet his base insists that if he “wins,” it must also be a win for conservatives. So deep is the desire to see the Trump they thought they were getting, they bend the facts to fit their heroic narrative.

The widespread animosity toward the GOP leadership among many Trump supporters only fuels the delusion that Trump can do no wrong.

“Punishing” House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is now its own reward because they are part of the “globalist swamp” Trump was elected to drain.

In his “60 Minutes” interview, former White House strategist Steve Bannon insisted that the establishment is “trying to nullify the 2016 election.” Never mind that the House has passed most of Trump’s agenda (Obamacare repeal and replace, funding the wall, etc).

Bannon is working on the assumption that Trump has a mandate for Bannon’s potted theories of “economic nationalism.”

The truth is that Trump’s real mandate was to be “not Hillary Clinton” — and he fulfilled it on Day 1. With the exception of appointing conservative judges, all of Trump’s other scattershot policies earned only partial support from GOP voters, which is why Ryan and most other Republicans over-performed Trump in the election.

The other truth is that Trump craves praise more than he cares about implementing his defenestrated strategist’s political fantasies.

And his supporters want Trump “wins” more than conservative ones, which is why we can expect more of what we saw last week.

Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Blue Devil blitz Duke defensive tackle Mike Ramsay pressures Northwestern quarterback Clayton Thorson during the Blue Devils’ 41-17 win last Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Duke’s defense has helped them to a 2-0 start to the season.

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ECU’s Montgomery shuffles coaching staff

By Shawn Krest North State Journal

NC State, Duke, App St. earn votes in Coaches Poll

GOLF

Els pulls out of event to help with Irma aftermath Ernie Els has withdrawn from the European Tour’s KLM Open so he can help family and friends in Florida deal with the effects of Hurricane Irma. Els, a native of South Africa, lives in Jupiter, Fla. NHL

Peters: Hurricanes will have a captain in 2017-18 It’s been more than 18 months since the Carolina Hurricanes traded captain Eric Staal, and the team still hasn’t named a new “C” to succeed him. That will change for 2017-18. “We’re going to have one,” Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said when asked about the captaincy.

“We’ll have one for sure. We’ll have one before the season starts.” Newcomer Justin Williams, a former Hurricane with three Cups to his name, could be the frontrunner, while defensemen Jaccob Slavin and Justin Faulk, and forwards Jordan Staal and Jeff Skinner — the latter three wore A’s last season — are all considerations. The Hurricanes open training camp Friday.

Fast, aggressive defense keying Duke’s early success Players are looking to attack as we possibly can to be successand be physical ful,” Cutcliffe said.

East Carolina football coach Scottie Montgomery replaced defensive coordinator Kenwick Thompson on Sunday, a day after the Pirates allowed more than 600 yards for the second straight game in a 56-20 loss to West Virginia, falling to 0-2 . “While these decisions are difficult to make, both from a timing and personal standpoint, my responsibility is to sustain the best interest for our program,” Montgomery said in a statement. Associate head coach Robert Prunty will take over the defense, while Thompson will be reassigned within the program.

None of North Carolina’s seven FBS teams are ranked, but three earned votes in the season’s third Coaches Poll. NC State added a 10th vote after receiving nine last week (the Wolfpack had 39 in the preseason poll before losing its opener to South Carolina), while both Duke and Appalachian State each arrived in the “other receiving votes list. The Blue Devils, with two wins to start its season, received three votes, while App State received one after bouncing back with a win in Week 2. No N.C. teams received votes in the AP Poll.

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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton looks to pass against the 49ers during last week’s 23-3 win at Levi’s Stadium.

Panthers appear to be back to playoff form Week 1 win impressed, but work remains for Carolina

By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE CAROLINA PANTHERS took a big step in the right direction with their 23-3 win at San Francisco in Week 1.

While one game in a 16-game season wouldn’t seem to have a huge impact on a team’s playoff chances, the NFL’s Week 1 notes showed that opening day winners make the playoffs more than twice as often as losers. Since the league went to a 16-game schedule in 1978, Week 1 winners made the playoffs 52 percent of the time, compared to 24 percent of the losers.

The prospects for the Panthers rely on a fast start even more than the league average. Carolina has won its opener eight times in the history of the franchise. Five of those teams made the playoffs, including both Super Bowl teams, and have a combined .567 winning percentage. In the 14 seasons the Panthers lost on opening day, they made the playoffs just twice and had a .447 percentage.

Statistics aside, there were plenty of other reasons for optimism after the opener. Cam Newton shook off the rust from an inactive preseason to connect with eight different receivers and throw two touchdowns. He was perhaps at his best in leading a 42-second field goal drive just before the half.

Rookie Christian McCaffrey showed promise with 92 all-purpose yards, and the Panthers defense showed that it might be ready to return to the dominating level of two seasons ago. The Panthers forced two turnovers and

had more sacks than the 49ers had points.

As Carolina prepares for its home opener, Sunday against the Buffalo Bills, there are still some areas that need improvement.

Newton still needs more work, as the offense struggled to move early. He also appeared to have trouble getting on the same page with receivers at times, most notably Kelvin Benjamin, who was targeted five times for just one catch.

While Russell Shepard impressed on a spinning 40-yard touchdown reception, the wide receiver spot still needs to develop depth.

"I think I would have liked to see a little more mixture of wide receiver combinations because of who we've got," head coach Ron Rivera said. "(Rookie second-round pick) Curtis Samuel has got to get more snaps, and probably Damiere Byrd with their speed. You want to have them out there."

The Panthers now welcome some familiar faces. Former defensive coordinator Sean McDermott won his debut as Buffalo head coach, albeit against the hapless Jets. The Bills are also led by general manager Brandon Beane, who was assistant to former Panthers GM Dave Gettleman. Had Beane stayed, he might enter this week as Panthers GM, following Gettleman’s firing just before the start of training camp.

Fullback Mike Tolbert, who came with Rivera from San Diego after the former Chargers assistant earned the Panthers head job, is also a Bill and scored a touchdown for his new team on Sunday.

“This is going to be an emotional week,” Rivera said, “with a lot of people coming back. There is a lot of familiarity."

DURHAM — Duke has seen its offense explode for 101 points in the first two weeks, something a Blue Devils team hadn’t done in back-to-back games since 1945.

While the offense has been scoring points in bunches, however, it’s the defense that may be the key for the team’s success going forward.

“I thought our defense probably led the way in both games,” said head coach David Cutcliffe.

“They certainly led the way this past Saturday. They were the most consistent part in all three phases.”

Duke has given up a total of just 24 points so far this season.

By way of comparison, the Blue Devils gave up 24 or more in 10 of their 12 games last year, including each of the last six.

Duke has only had a stingier defensive performance in backto-back games six times in the last 18 seasons. And the point totals in the first two weeks could have been much lower.

“We gave up that score right before the half in the Northwestern game,” Cutcliffe said. “And we gave up the score late in the game against Northwestern.

During the Central game, there was just the one play.”

This is the same team that gave up 96 points to Pitt and Miami to close out last season.

What’s the key to the newfound success? Attitude.

“We have to stay as aggressive

Perhaps no unit has benefitted more from the aggressive mindset than the defensive line.

Thought to be too young and inexperienced to be anything other than the weakest link, the line has excelled in the early going, combining for 8.5 tackles for loss, four sacks, a forced fumble and four quarterback hits in two games.

“Coach always focuses on our get off,” said end Tre Hornbuckle.

“That’s something we focus on, just having that tenacious get off, trying to attack the line of scrimmage, trying to create dents in the line of scrimmage on every play. Good things happen when that offensive lineman plays on the opposite side of the line of scrimmage, when he’s moving backward.”

Cutcliffe said that the aggressive, attacking attitude is something the players developed on their own. They decided prior to the season that the team needed to be more physical, and to a man, the team says the difference is noticeable on the practice field and in games.

“As a defensive line, we try to attack the line of scrimmage every play,” Hornbuckle said. “I’m doing my assignment at 100 miles an hour, but also looking to – we call it smart swarming — running to the ball every play, because you never know what could happen. We don’t like to loaf around here.”

The difference was evident against a Northwestern team that has given the Blue Devils See DUKE, page B3

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TRENDING

Craig Littlepage: The University of Virginia director of athletics announced his retirement last week after 16 years leading Cavaliers sports. Among the highlights of his tenure was chairing the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament selection committee in 2005-06.

Jacoby Brissett: The former NC quarterback, traded to Indianapolis from New England on Sept. 2, might already be the Colts’ new signal-caller. Brissett replaced Scott Tolzien in the fourth quarter Sunday and could be Indy’s new No. 1 in Week 2. Starter Andrew Luck, who is coming off shoulder surgery, could be out until October, according to reports.

Manny Perez: The NC State freshman scored for the third time in as many games Friday, propelling the Wolfpack to a 1-0 upset of previously unbeaten Clemson. Perez scored in the seventh minute and goalkeeper Leon Krapf made five saves.

Dwight Howard: Charlotte Hornets coach Steve Clifford knows his new center and believes he can still be a dominant force. “Dwight is still an elite defender,” Clifford said of Howard. The duo were together as coach and player with the Magic when Howard was at his best and won three straight Defensive Player of the Year awards from 2009 to 2011.

Paul Maurice: The twice-fired former coach of the Carolina Hurricanes received a multiyear extension from the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday. Maurice, 50, is 136-112-33 with the Jets, making the postseason in 2015 but missing the last two years. Both he and GM Kevin Cheveldayoff received new deals.

beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

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“That is so much fun to watch.”

Duke coach David Cutcliffe on all three phases — the offense, defense and special teams — performing well in the Blue Devils’ 41-17 win over Northwestern.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Hurricane Irma caused millions of dollars in damage and disrupted the lives of people from the Caribbean to the Carolinas.

Among its victims was the Carolina League championship series.

So instead of playing the Lynchburg Hillcats for the league’s Mills Cup title in their inaugural season, the Down East Wood Ducks had to settle for being crowned a co-champion.

The Class-A Carolina League canceled the final best-of-five series because the threat Irma posed to the entire East Coast. By mutual agreement of the four teams involved, league officials decided to have the winners of its two semifinal series share this year’s championship.

The Wood Ducks clinched their share of the crown with a two-game sweep of Myrtle Beach in their weather-shortened best-of-three semifinal.

“Our game has a number of people who call Florida and the Caribbean home,” Carolina League president John Hopkins said in a statement announcing

the cancellation on Friday. “With the prospect of potentially devastating impact, it just felt right to call it a season after this weekend’s first round.”

While the Wood Ducks will have to be satisfied with half of a championship, two other North Carolina-based minor league teams will get the opportunity to win their league titles outright.

The Durham Bulls earned a spot in the International League’s Governors’ Cup final by beating the Indianapolis Indians 4-3 on Saturday. It is the Bulls’ 11th Governors’ Cup trip in the last 20 seasons.

Game 1 of the championship series was scheduled for Tuesday in Durham as the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays attempt to win the fifth league title in franchise history.

The Kannapolis Intimidators were also scheduled to begin play Tuesday in their South Atlantic League championship series against the Greenville Drive.

The Intimidators earned their spot in the final of the Class-A league with a semifinal sweep of the Greensboro Grasshoppers.

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“I feel like that every down.”

NC State wide receiver Kelvin Harmon on if he felt like Marshall couldn’t defend him in the second half.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

74% Completion percentage for NC State quarterback Ryan Finley through two games, tops in the ACC. Finley is tied for the most TD passes (five, with Louisville’s Lamar Jackson), second in yards with 756 (Jackson, 771) and has not thrown an interception. Finley has, however, been sacked six times so far, tied for the most in the league (Max Browne, Pittsburgh).

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The Washington Nationals, led by manager Dusty Baker, became the first team to punch its ticket to the playoffs Sunday, clinching the National League East. The Dodgers hold baseball’s best record, but the Nats are in first thanks to the otherwise dreadful East.

The Redskins’ 30-17 opening loss to Philadelphia was not without controversy. Washington challenged a Kirk Cousins fumble that was returned for a touchdown, arguing it fell under the “tuck rule,” but the replay was ruled inconclusive.

TENNIS

Americans held all four spots in the U.S. Open women’s semifinals, but it was the lone unranked player, Sloane Stephens, who came away with her first major title. Stephens, 24, defeated No. 15 Madison Keys in the final, 6-3, 6-0. Stephens is the first American woman not named Williams to win title since 1998 (Lindsay Davenport). Venus Williams and CoCo Vandeweghe were the other semifinalists, and Rafael Nadal won his third men’s U.S. Open.

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North State Journal for Wednesday, September 13, 2017

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N.C. A&T will be a stiff test for 0-2 UNC Charlotte 49ers need improvement on both sides of the ball to top FCS-ranked Aggies

East Carolina wide receiver Quay Johnson is tackled by three West Virginia defenders during the Mountaineers 56-20 win over the Pirates.

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Montgomery sticking with QB Sirk, as long as he’s cleared to play Quarterback in program’s concussion protocol ahead of big matchup with Virginia Tech

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal Scottie Montgomery may have changed defensive coordinators, but he’s staying with his starting quarterback.

As long as the doctors say it’s OK. The East Carolina football coach announced Monday that Duke transfer Thomas Sirk is in his school’s concussion protocol after taking a hard hit to the head during last Saturday’s loss at West Virginia. If he’s cleared to play, Montgomery said he will be back under center for the Pirates when they take on Virginia Tech at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium this week.

“If he is healthy and he is ready to go, more than likely he will be the guy that starts,” Montgomery said at his regular weekly press conference. “If there is something that we see throughout the week that changes that from a health standpoint, then we feel very comfortable going with Gardner

(Minshew).”

Sirk completed 16 of 34 passes for 191 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions against the Mountaineers in his first ECU start before getting knocked out of the game in the third quarter.

He was replaced by Minshew, who went 7 for 13 with 137 yards -- 95 of which came on one play, a touchdown pass to Trevon Brown that was the longest in school history.

Minshew, a junior in his second season with the Pirates, started the season opener against James Madison, but was benched in favor of Sirk in the second half.

Because neither quarterback has played a full game yet, Montgomery said it’s hard to say which has been more effective. His history with Sirk -- they teamed together to beat Virginia Tech in 2015 when Montgomery was the offensive coordinator at Duke and Sirk was his quarterback -- may have something to do with his decision to stick with the graduate transfer.

“Both of them have been in and at times both of them have looked great,” Montgomery said of Sirk and Minshew. “Gardner came in and looked great at the end (against West Virginia), Thomas

was real gutsy during the game.

Right now, Thomas is still our starting quarterback unless something changes and then we will move forward with it.”

While Montgomery isn’t planning on any significant personnel moves for Saturday’s game, his coaching staff has undergone a major shakeup.

On Sunday, he announced that defensive coordinator Kenwick Thompson has been reassigned to a non-coaching capacity within the program and replaced by defensive line coach Robert Prunty.

Montgomery then said Monday that he plans to take on a more active role in the offensive playcalling, currently done by offensive coordinator Tony Petersen.

“I’ve got nothing but trust and faith in what we do,” said Montgomery. Whose team has been outscored 90-34 in its first two games and has lost 11 of its last 12 games dating back to last season.

“What we’ve got to do is get on the same page in making plays.

We’ve had a few drives where one guy makes plays, another guy makes plays, we need everyone to make plays consecutively and we don’t need dropped balls here and there. Everybody just needs to play together.”

NC State vs. Furman

UNC at Old Dominion

Carter-Finley Stadium Saturday, 12:20 p.m. | ACC Network

Foreman Field Saturday, 3:30 p.m. | Stadium TV

Preview: NC State is just 4-8-4 all-time against Furman, including 2-7-1 at home. Furman has won the last two matchups, in 1984 and 1985.

Players to watch: Jaylen Samuels’ next catch will be a big one. Assuming it happens Saturday, it will be the 31st straight game in which he’s caught a pass, moving him past Torry Holt into fourth place on the NC State all-time list. It will also be his 147th career catch, tying him with Eddie Goines for third-most in Wolfpack history.

Furman running back Antonio Wilcox has led the team in rushing the last two years and topped 1,000 yards for his career last week.

Fast fact: Furman head coach Clay Hendrix started at guard for the Wolfpack from 1983 to 1985. Not to be outdone, NC State’s running backs coach Des Kitchings is in Furman’s Athletics Hall of Fame and still holds school kickoff return records.

What to expect: NC State should manage to post its first win in this series since 1982.

Preview: The Tar Heels are desperate for a win after losing their first two, but these aren’t the same Monarchs against whom UNC scored 80 on in the most recent meeting in 2013. Now an FCS program, ODU went 10-4 and won the Conference USA East last season and is 2-0 this season.

Players to watch: QB Chazz Surratt was the ACC’s Rookie of the Week, but missed the second half last week against Louisville because of a hip injury. If he can’t go, LSU transfer Brandon Harris will start for UNC. ODU already has 15 sacks this season with DT Miles Fox and DE Bunmi Rotimi leading with 3.5 each.

Fast fact: The Tar Heels rank last among Power 5 teams in total defense, surrendering an average of 587 yards per game.

What to expect: The Tar Heels enter the game a touchdown favorite, but will have their hands full if they don’t shore up their defense on the road against a solid opponent.

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Wake Forest vs. Utah State

App State at Texas State

BB&T Field Saturday, 3 p.m. | ACC Network Extra

Bobcat Stadium Saturday, 7 p.m. | ESPN3

Preview: The Deacons are coming off a 34-10 road win in their ACC opener at Boston College and are looking to start the season 3-0 for the second straight year. The Aggies are 1-1 after a lopsided loss to Wisconsin and an equally lopsided win against Idaho State.

Players to watch: Wake redshirt freshman WR Greg Dortch followed up an impressive debut with six catches and a touchdown last week against BC. Utah State cornerback Jalen Davis has a pair of interceptions, including one returned for a score.

Fast fact: This is the first of two visits the Aggies will make to Winston-Salem. They are scheduled to return again for the 2019 season opener. The Deacons lost to the Aggies 36-24 in Logan, Utah, in 2014 in the first meeting between the schools. The Aggies, with an alltime record of 535-534-31, are looking to stay above .500.

What to expect: Wake is rapidly becoming a formidable team after adding an improved offense to a stout defense that forced four turnovers against BC last week.

Preview: Both teams are 1-1 on the season with disastrous trips into Power Five territory. App State lost 31-10 at Georgia in the opener. Texas State lost at Colorado, 37-3, last week.

Players to watch: Texas State linebacker Easy Anyama returned from an injury that limited him to three games last year. He had two sacks, forced a fumble and blocked an extra point in the opener, winning Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Week honors. App State quarterback Taylor Lamb tied a school record by throwing for five touchdowns last week, despite not playing in the second half.

Fast fact: Texas State defensive coordinator Randall McCray is one of three former Mountaineers players on the staff. He played linebacker and running back on the 1987 Southern Conference champions. Safeties coach Preston Mason was a student assistant for App State, and former lineman Alex Farras is a Bobcats graduate assistant.

What to expect: The Mountaineers have won both previous matchups with the Bobcats. This is their first trip to Texas, but App should still have the edge.

— Brett Friedlander

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal The Charlotte 49ers will be facing their second straight nationally ranked opponent in their home opener at Jerry Richardson Stadium on Saturday at 6 p.m.

North Carolina A&T checks in at No. 25 in this week’s FCS poll.

That might not seem as impressive as the No. 19 beside the name of last week’s FBS foe Kansas State, which rolled to a 55-7 victory in coach Brad Lambert’s return to his alma mater. But that doesn’t mean the 49ers’ task will be any easier.

Especially on defense.

The Aggies have scored 101 points in their first two games and quarterback Lamar Raynard leads the nation in passing efficiency while throwing 92 passes without an interception.

While the competition they’ve faced is admittedly suspect — their 56-0 victory last Saturday came against Division II Mars Hill — they present a challenge to any defense they face because of their abundance of playmakers.

Seven different players have scored at least one touchdown in A&T’s two victories thus far.

“We’ve got weapons,” Marquell Cartwright, the team’s leading rusher, said after Saturday’s lopsided win. “When you’ve got that many weapons you’ve got to use them. That’s why our scores keep going up.”

Because the Aggies will be moving up a level against an FBS foe, the explosiveness of their offense will be just as tested as the resilience of Charlotte’s defense, which gave a much better accounting of itself in a season-opening 24-7 loss at Eastern Michigan.

The 49ers are allowing an average of 443 yards per game and while all seven of the touchdowns they’ve allowed have come on the ground, their first two opponents are averaging nearly 12 yards per reception and have converted almost half of their third down opportunities.

The defense, however, wasn’t totally to blame for the lopsided score at Kansas State — where Lambert was a defensive back during the mid-1980s. Two of the Wildcats’ touchdowns came off mistakes by the offense, a 30yard pick six and a 46-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown, both by Kendall Adams.

Giving up points hasn’t been the only problem for the 49ers’ offense.

N.C. A&T at UNC Charlotte when Saturday, 6 p.m. where Jerry Richardson Stadium

In fact, the 14 points it allowed Kansas State to score Saturday is the same number it has put onto the scoreboard in its first two games combined.

Quarterback Hasaan Klugh avoided the shutout last week with a 19-yard touchdown run late in the first quarter, but he and his teammates have struggled to move the ball while averaging only 226.5 yards per game. Klugh has completed only 46 percent of his passes for an average of just 3.13 yards per attempt. As a team, Charlotte has been intercepted five times and has not completed a pass of more than 26 yards.

“It’s a hard enough game when you don’t make those mistakes,” Lambert said earlier this season.

“But when you put yourselves behind the chains, it’s just too difficult.”

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Kansas State receiver Isaiah Zuber runs past Charlotte defensive back Marquavis Gibbs during the Wildcats’ 55-7 win over the 49ers last Saturday.

Duke vs. Baylor

DUKE from page B1 fits in recent years. The Wildcats came to Wallace Wade Stadium with an experienced quarterback and running back. They left wondering what hit them.

“His guys wanted it a lot more than we did,” said Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald. “We had ample opportunities to win oneon-ones, and I think we may have been 0-fer offensively.”

Cutcliffe agreed with the assessment.

“To start with, we put pressure on their quarterback relentlessly,” he said. “You could tell coming in they were going to go some empty and spread out, one-back stuff.

And it really didn’t hold up. They didn’t really have an answer.”

Duke can rely on an ultra-aggressive defensive attack, because the team has upgraded its athletic ability significantly over the last few recruiting years. Heading into the season, Cutcliffe promised that this would be the fastest Duke team he’s ever had. Through two games, they’ve proved him correct.

“It’s something that our coach-

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es have worked really hard to do in recruiting and it’s going to pay off,” he said. “Our people can run.

We’re quicker and faster, even up front in the defensive line. We knew we had some skill on offense that can run and we’ve got some people on the defensive field that can cover ground.”

Now the key for Duke is to continue to keep attacking against a higher caliber of offense, starting this Saturday against a Baylor team that, despite its early-season struggles, will be the most explosive offense Duke has faced this year, according to Cutcliffe.

“For the most part we’ve been consistent,” Cutcliffe said. “That’s critical as we get into the part of the schedule where offenses can burn you. We have to stay aggressive. We have to be well prepared to be consistent, because mistakes are going to start being maximized.”

Duke defensive end Victor Dimukeje sacks NC Central quarterback Micah Zanders in the Blue Devils’ seasonopening win.

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ON YOUR MARK Can Truex win his first title, or will Johnson become series’ first eight-time champ Stories by Cory Lavalette | North State Journal It’s playoff time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, with the 10-race postseason kicking off Sunday at 3 p.m. with the Tales of the Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. Martin Truex, who tied Kyle Larson for the most wins in the series with four, is the favorite after a dominating 26-race regular season that saw him finish in the top 10 a series-best 17 times.

Lurking are Kyle Busch — the 2015 Cup champion who Truex topped for the 2004 Busch Series title, the first of Truex’s con-

Photos by Eamon Queeney & USA Today Sports

secutive championships in what is now called the Xfinity Series — and Jimmie Johnson, who is tied with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. for the most Cup titles with seven and looking for his record-breaking eighth.

It’s also the goodbye tour for Dale Earnhardt Jr., who will retire a month after his 43rd birthday following the season finale Nov. 19 at Homestead.

Sixteen drivers will compete in the twomonth-long playoffs — previously called

the Chase for the Cup — in three, threerace stages, with a race win guaranteeing advancement to the next stage and four drivers being eliminated at the end of each stage. The four remaining drivers after the third stage will compete at the Ford Ecoboost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the highest finisher winning the title.

Here’s a look at the 16 playoff qualifiers, their postseason history and what to look for when the playoffs get underway Sunday in Chicago.

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoff schedule Date

Race

Speedway

Location

Time | Watch

Sept. 17

Tales of the Turtles 400

Chicagoland Speedway

Joliet, Ill.

3 p.m. | NBCSN

Sept. 24 ISM Connect 300

New Hampshire Speedway

Loudon, N.H.

2 p.m. | NBCSN

Oct. 1

Apache Warrior 400

Dover International Speedway

Dover, Del.

2 p.m. | NBCSN

Oct. 8

Bank of America 500

Charlotte Motor Speedway

Concord, N.C.

2 p.m. | NBC

Oct. 15

Alabama 500

Talladega Superspeedway

Lincoln, Ala.

2 p.m. | NBC

Oct. 22

Hollywood Casino 400

Kansas Speedway

Kansas City, Kan. 3 p.m. | NBCSN

Oct. 29

First Data 500

Martinsville Speedway

Ridgeway, Va.

3 p.m. | NBCSN

Nov. 5

AAA Texas 500

Texas Motor Speedway

Fort Worth, Texas

2 p.m. | NBCSN

Nov. 12

Can-Am 500

Phoenix Raceway

Avondale, Ariz.

2:30 p.m. | NBC

Nov. 19

Ford Ecoboost 400

Homestead-Miami Speedway

Homestead, Fla.

2:30 p.m. | NBC

Martin Truex Jr. in the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota heads through turn one late in the race during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on May 28 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

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Martin Truex

Jimmie Johnson

No. 78 | Furniture Row Racing

Denny Hamlin

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Kurt Busch

Kasey Kahne

Chase Elliott

Jamie McMurray

No. 48 | Hendrick Motorsports No. 11 | Joe Gibbs Racing

No. 17 | Roush Fenway Racing

No. 41 | Stewart-Haas Racing

No. 5 | Hendrick Motorsports

No. 24 | Hendrick Motorsports No. 1 | Chip Ganassi Racing

Truex won four races for the second straight year, but added even more consistency in 2017.

Could Truex become the fourth first-time champion (Brad Keselowski, 2012; Kevin Harvick, 2014; Kyle Busch, 2015) in the past seven seasons? Don’t bet against Furniture Row.

No one is going to underestimate the seven-time champion.

Johnson has made the playoffs in all 14 years since NASCAR implemented it, and the reigning champion — who notched three wins this season — is looking to surpass Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Sr. for the most titles ever.

Hamlin has been a factor nearly every week since mid-June with two wins and 10 total top 5’s in the past 15 races. His winning car was deemed illegal after the Darlington race, so crew chief Mike Wheeler won’t be available at Chicagoland as he completes his two-race suspension.

Roush’s two titles came in the last year of the old points format (2003, Matt Kenseth) and the first year of the playoff (2004, Kurt Busch). But Roush Fenway missed the playoffs each of the last two years, so for Stenhouse — who got in with superspeedway wins at Talladega and Daytona — making it is a step forward.

The elder Busch won it all in 2004, the first year of the playoff format, but is still searching for his second title in what will be his 11th season in the playoffs. He has one win this season — at the season-opening Daytona 500 — but has not won a postseason race since joining Stewart-Haas in 2014.

Kahne is back in the playoffs for the first time since 2014, thanks to his win at the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis in July — his first victory in more than 100 races.

Kahne has two playoff wins in his career, but as of right now has no ride next season with William Byron taking his seat at Hendrick.

Just 21 and in his second full Cup season, Elliott has made the postseason again after crashing the playoff party as a rookie.

Driving the Hendrick car made famous by Jeff Gordon, Elliott is looking to emerge from father Bill’s shadow. The younger Elliott will man Bill’s old No. 9 next year.

Kyle Larson

Kyle Busch

Brad Keselowski

Kevin Harvick

Ryan Blaney

Ryan Newman

Austin Dillon

Matt Kenseth

No. 42 | Chip Ganassi Racing

No. 18 | Joe Gibbs Racing

No. 2 | Team Penske

No. 4 | Stewart-Haas Racing

No. 21 | Wood Brothers Racing

Busch, the 2015 champion and racing’s biggest villain, has come on strong down the stretch with wins at Pocono (July 30) and Bristol (Aug. 19) along with a second-place finish at Darlington two weeks ago. But in nine previous playoff appearances, Busch has totaled just two race wins.

Keselowski is in the postseason for the fourth straight year and sixth time in his career, which includes his 2012 title. His five DNF’s match a career high (2010), but his two wins early in the season (Atlanta on March 5; Martinsville on April 2) secured him a spot in the playoffs.

Harvick, the 2014 champion, got his lone win on the road course at Sonoma, but he won two postseason races last year and is tied with retired Tony Stewart for second all-time in playoff wins with 11. Harvick has won at least one postseason race in each of the past five seasons.

Blaney made his first Chase courtesy his win at Pocono on June 11, also the first time the Wood Brothers have earned a spot in the playoffs. Blaney is scheduled to move to Team Penske next season, but he is guaranteed a top-16 finish in the standings — the Woods Brothers’ best since the mid-1990s.

No. 3 | Richard Childress Racing

No. 20 | Joe Gibbs Racing

Larson’s season started on a low note when he ran out of gas on the final lap while leading the Daytona 500, but he won four other times, including the regular season finale at Richmond and a month ago at Michigan. It’s Larson’s second crack at the playoffs, and he’s looking to give Ganassi its first title.

No. 31 | Richard Childress Racing This will mark the eighth time Newman has made the postseason, returning courtesy of a win at Phoenix, after missing the playoffs last year. Newman finished second in 2014, losing out to Kevin Harvick on a sideby-side, green-white-checkered finish at the Homestead finale.

Dillon, Richard Childress’ grandson, returned the famed No. 3 to victory lane this season with a win in Charlotte at the CocaCola 600, the first of his career.

However it was one of only four finishes in the top 10 for Dillon — but two of them have come in the last four races.

McMurray has had trouble reaching the winner’s circle (no points wins since 2013), but this is the third-straight year he’s made the playoffs. McMurray’s 13 top-10s were tied for eighth most in the series, and four of his seven career Cup wins have come at playoff tracks in Charlotte and Talladega.

Kenseth has missed the postseason just once in its 14 years (2009) but has never won a championship under the playoff format, having earned his title in 2003 in the last year of the old points system. Twice a playoff runner-up (2006, 2013), Kenseth — without a ride for next year — is looking for title No. 2.

With more than 180 wineries statewide, there is a wine for every taste.

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Sept. 13-17 Clayton Harvest Festival Clayton The Clayton Harvest & Music Festival is a five-day festival that includes family-friendly events with amazing food vendors, family entertainment, hands-on activities for the kids, local talent performances, concerts and carnival rides.

Sept. 15-16 Day at the Docks Hatteras A celebration of Hatteras watermen with seafood cooking demos, fishing boats and gear, fishing industry skills contests and competitions, live music and games for children.

Sept. 16 Collage: Atlantic Crossings - UNC Greensboro School of Music Raleigh Atlantic Crossings kicks off the yearlong celebration of UNC Greensboro’s 125th anniversary with a special free performance in Meymandi Concert Hall. Atlantic Crossings is an electric celebration of how musical ideas have traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and how cultures come together in unexpected and exciting ways.

Dublin Peanut Festival Dublin Celebrate the harvest in the peanut capital of North Carolina.

This event features a peanut bakeoff contest, parade, pageant, car show and tractor pull.

Girl Scout Day Grandfather Mountain On the 47th annual Girl Scout Day, explore Grandfather Mountain’s ecological wonders, take part in scout activities, see presentations and unite as one sisterhood.

Lincoln County Apple Festival Lincolnton Buy fresh apples by the bushel, plus enjoy live entertainment, kids’ activities, homemade crafts and, of course, a slice of apple pie.

Sept. 16-17 CenterFest Arts Festival Durham Voted one of the top 100 fine arts festivals in the country, the festival features continuous music, dance and entertainment by more than 70 performing acts, along with a kids’ zone area.

Sept. 19-24 Mayberry Days Mount Airy Live music, comedy, magic shows, Barbecue Cook-off, parade, games and family fun.

Hosted by the Surry Arts Council at various locations including the Andy Griffith Playhouse, Earle Theatre and Blackmon Amphitheatre.

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Seasons 52 delivers wine in the glass and on the plate

By Laura Ashley Lamm North State Journal RALEIGH – North Carolina is celebrating Wine and Grape month during September, and there are plenty of ways to enjoy these delicacies.

Grapes have a prominent place on cheese platters. Wine is the cure after a long, hard day.

Grapes dip well in chocolate fondue. Wine can help create the perfect cream sauce to slather over chicken. Everyone has their own recipe for using wine and grapes.

Seasons 52, a fresh grill and wine bar located at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, serves up its share of steak, seafood and classical American cuisine with a variety of wines for the palate.

The wine list features wine from around North Carolina and the globe with more than 100 wines by the bottle and 52 wines by the glass. Culinary delights such as the wood-grilled filet mignon is doused in a red wine sauce to maximize flavor.

“We are focused on finding the freshest and highest quality ingredients to offer our guests,” said Bryan Florence, executive chef partner. “We have a great culinary team that strives for new cooking techniques and different methods to bring out the real, natural flavors of the different products we use.”

Wine has three main uses in the kitchen — as a cooking liquid, a marinade ingredient, and as a flavoring in a finished dish.

“The most classic technique for using wine in cooking is for glazing,” said Florence. “Short ribs in a pan with a little bit of seared

wine can help release caramelized flavors from the bottom and help build a great flavor profile.”

While the food is cooking, the alcohol in the wine evaporates and only the flavor remains.

Boiling down wine concentrates the flavor, including acidity and sweetness.

“You want to cook with a wine you would drink,” said Florence.

“Cooking wines you can find in the grocery store are great options, but if you are really looking for a great flavor profile to build on then you want to cook with something you would drink. Not necessarily the expensive wines, but if you’re going to use a white wine, you could use a chardonnay.”

Wine is a primary ingredient at Seasons 52 when preparing sauces for dishes such as their popular Artisan Cheese Fondue appetizer.

“Choosing a wine to cook with is very much like choosing a wine to go with your meal,” said Florence. “The white wines tend to have fruitier, less robust flavors.

Red wines, with more robust flavors, tend to stand up well with your pork and beef.”

“Your heavier, red meat items would pair with a red wine while your seasonal, lighter items like fish would pair with a white wine,” added sales manager Cam Heinsohn.

For example, lobster and fresh mozzarella flatbread partners with sauvignon blanc.

“Wine is one of those things that is so subjective,” said Heinsohn. “Some people are very opinionated about what they like, some people are more equal opportunity consumer and feel any-

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A detail look at a glass of red wine inside Seasons 52 restaurant at the Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, Sept. 12. The upscale restaurant chain is based around eating seasonally and boasts a large selection of fine wines.

“This visit it may be an ingredient you have never tried before, the next visit it may be a wine that’s new for you to discover, or it may be a new cooking technique.”

— Cam Heinsohn, Seasons 52 sales manager thing is approachable. It’s about learning our guests, where our wine team comes into play, and having so many options available, you can bring them to the table to have the guests try different ones and really have fun with it.

“The 52 for our restaurant as a whole is really about having something new to experience 52

weeks out of the year,” she added.

“This visit it may be an ingredient you have never tried before, the next visit it may be a wine that’s new for you to discover, or it may be a new cooking technique.”

It’s a happy coincidence the wine list offers 52 varieties by the glass — a different one for each week of the year.

North Dakota crowned Miss America ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — An Ivy League graduate and national dance champion from North Dakota was crowned Miss America on Sunday, becoming the first contestant from the Peace Garden State to win the nearly 100-year-old contest. Cara Mund, from Bismarck, N.D., a graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island, who has been accepted to Notre Dame's law school, trained for several summers with the world-famous Rockettes. Mund, 23, was one of 51 contestants in the pageant, representing the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Mund, who adopted the Make-a-Wish foundation which

benefits children with life-threatening conditions as her platform for the competition, performed a jazz dance to "The Way You Make Me Feel" for the contest's talent portion, wearing a double-breasted black mini-dress with a matching fedora-type hat. In a question-and-answer session, Mund weighed in on the United States' recent withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, saying she thought it was a "bad decision." "Whether you believe it (climate change) or not, we need to be at that table," she added. The first runner-up was Miss Missouri, Jennifer Davis, followed by contestants from New Jersey, Kaitlyn Schoeffel, District

history marked

Sept. 11, 1987 Viaduct an engineering marvel

Sept. 10, 1934 Road for Charles Kuralt began, ended in NC

Linn Cove Viaduct — part of the Blue Ridge Parkway — was completed in Avery County. Internationally recognized as an engineering marvel, the curved bridge spans 1,243 feet and hugs an environmentally sensitive area of Grandfather Mountain. Construction began in 1979 and cost about $10 million to complete. The S-curve bridge consists of more than 150 precast individual segments joined together on Grandfather Mountain with epoxy glue and tension cables. Each of the segments weighs about 50 tons and is a different shape; only one is square and straight.To minimize damage to the environment, the bridge served as its own building platform. Workers placed one segment after another using the bridge as their access road.

As a consequence, the viaduct proved that bridges could both achieve their transportation function and preserve the environment at the same time. Since its opening, the viaduct has received numerous design awards including a Presidential Design Award in 1984 and the American Consulting Engineers Council Award for Engineering Excellence in 1985. It is operated by the National Park Service as part of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Celebrated CBS journalist, television news anchor and bestselling author Charles Kuralt was born on this day in Wilmington. The winner of 12 Emmys and two Peabody Awards, Kuralt showed early promise as a writer.

Voted “Most Likely to Succeed” by Charlotte’s Central High School class of 1951, the budding writer attended UNC, where he was editor of The Daily Tar Heel. Kuralt’s first professional job was with the Charlotte News, where he wrote an award-winning column called “Charles Kuralt’s People.” In 1957, at age 23, he became the youngest correspondent ever hired by CBS News. A decade later, during a period of war and riots, he experimented with a good news segment on “The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.” Called “On the Road,” the feature ran for more than 20 years. During that time, Kuralt and his crew wore out six campers, crisscrossing the country’s back roads and telling stories about ordinary Americans. He later anchored “CBS News Sunday Morning” before retiring in 1994. Kuralt died in July 1997, at age 62, of complications from lupus.

At his request, he was buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery on UNC’s campus.

Cara Mund of North Dakota named Miss America 2018.

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of Columbia, Briana Kinsey and Texas, Margana Wood. Miss North Carolina, Victoria Huggins, of St. Pauls, was first runner-up and received a $3,000 scholarship for National Miracle Maker, an award for service to Children's Miracle Network, the official National

Platform of Miss America. In the famous "Show us your Shoes" parade on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, Huggins celebrated the 80th anniversary of Krispy Kreme — founded in Winston-Salem — with green rhinestone pumps with doughnuts for heels.

Sept. 15, 1938 Namesake for Campbell’s Camel, baseball’s Gaylord Perry

Sept. 16, 1999 Hurricane Floyd devastating to eastern North Carolina

Major League Baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry was born in Williamston on this day. Perry grew up helping his tenant farmer family, but his father, who was an athlete and sports fan, gave him time to play sports. Though he played every sport at his high school, Perry was most competitive at baseball. A right-handed pitcher, Perry drew attention from scouts early and attended Campbell College for two years before turning pro. He signed with the San Francisco Giants and played in their farm system until his MLB debut in 1962. Quickly developing a reputation for using the “spitball,” Perry often appeared to doctor the ball by smearing it with various substances (like petroleum jelly). This might have accounted for the sometimes miraculous spin he could produce. Regardless of the cause, Perry was a pitching phenomenon. He earned the Cy Young Award, baseball’s top honor for pitchers, in both the National and American Leagues, and struck out out 3,534 batters during his 20-plusyear career. Over the course of his career, Perry played for eight major league teams and won 314 games. Perry became a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1973, and was honored with membership in Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991. Campbell University named its mascot “Gaylord the Camel” in honor of Perry.

On this day, Hurricane Floyd made landfall at Cape Fear as a powerful category 2 storm. At its peak in the Atlantic, Floyd was among the largest category 4 storms on record. Even as it came ashore it was almost twice the size of a normal hurricane. The 12 to 20 inches of rain that fell as a result of Floyd, which arrived only 10 days after another hurricane, caused every river in eastern North Carolina to flood. Among the towns most devastated by Floyd were Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Kinston and Princeville. The fate of the little town of Princeville, founded by freed slaves, tugged especially hard at the heartstrings of many North Carolinians — most of whom had never been there — as the whole town was underwater for days. A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official stated that, although he had worked through more than 100 disasters since 1992, he had never seen flooding as bad as in Princeville. FEMA declared 66 North Carolina counties as disaster areas after Floyd.

SOURCE: NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES

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2017 Debutantes Since the 1920s young ladies across North Carolina have been presented to society in a weekend steeped in Southern tradition and social graces. On Sept. 8, the Terpsichorean Club of Raleigh held its 91st North Carolina Debutante Ball at Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh.

The Terpsichorean Club, comprised of young gentlemen from the capital area, was formed to sponsor an annual statewide Debutante Ball with the purpose of presenting the state's up-andcoming young ladies and, in doing so, honoring their families. The ball has been a tradition since 1923 with the exception of the years the United States was involved in World War II. The Terpsichorean Club president is William Hargrave McElroy.

Selection of the debutantes is completed by more than 200 nominators from across the state with final selections made by the Terpsichorean Club members. Invitations are extended to the debutantes in recognition of the contributions their families have made to North Carolina in the areas of economic, cultural, social and civic life.

The leader of the ball was Mary Powell White Boney, of Raleigh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin McConnico Boney. The Assistant Leaders were: Ruth Barnett Brady of Beaufort, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglas Brady; Charlotte Barker Broadwell of Fayetteville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dohn Bedell Broadwell Jr.; Virginia Collier Caudill of Winston-Salem, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Collier Caudill; Mary McAfee Cowan of Greensboro, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Newton Farnell Cowan; Caroline Kirk Jordan of Asheville, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Watson Jordan II; Elizabeth Mason Sheridan of Charlotte, daughter of Mr. Robert Howard Sheridan III and the late Mrs. Robert Howard Sheridan III; Olivia Katherine Turnage of Rocky Mount, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Aaron Turnage; Marjorie Coddington White of Chapel Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Grier White Sr. The chairman of the 2017 ball is John Douglas Merritt Jr. who leads a committee to oversee the arrangements of the social events of the weekend and the formal presentation at the ball. Mrs. Christopher Jason Stoecker was chair of the Girls Committee.

The 2017 Debutantes Apex Hannah Leigh Schmitt Asheboro Margaret Katharine Redding Asheville Caroline Kirk Jordan Beaufort Ruth Barnett Brady Burlington Emma Chapman McQueen Cary Julia Anne Elizabeth Bullard Chapel Hill Marjorie Coddington White Charlotte Lyndsay McBrayer Cooper Mary Alexandria Edmiston Sydney Elizabeth Farris Elizabeth Mason Sheridan Catherine Ellis Shircliff Anne Garland Ullrich Erin Carey Werthmuller Clayton Katherine Taylor Riley Clinton Vanna Lucille Prestage Concord Sara Wilder Bryant

Dunn Morgan Elizabeth Goff Allie Dalrymple Snipes Durham Sarah Preston Rollins Edenton Lillian Frances Winborne Sarah Perryman Winborne Elizabeth City Lauren Elizabeth Luther Margaret Leah Small Fayetteville Charlotte Barker Broadwell Emma Kelley McCauley Jane Huske Schaefer Gastonia Natalie Montgomery Jordan Katherine Scott Pierce Goldsboro Margaret Newman Pope Greensboro Noelle Ann Cornelius Mary McAfee Cowan Olivia Reid Johnson Josephine Allen Myers Greenville Martha Campbell Bennett Sarah Hampton Stephenson Maggie Elizabeth White

Hickory Lily Chappell O’Hair Grace Beaver Simmons Mary Katherine Sowers Knightdale Emma Frances DeMent Lenoir Samantha Holmes Barnhardt Lexington Elliott Parker Klass Sydney Elizabeth Parker Emerson Jane Williams Littleton Virginia Maye Neal Manteo Jennifer Alexandra White Morehead City Alice Cox Pittman Horton Sloane Irwin Pfaff Murfreesboro Laurel Frances Boone Nashville Mackenzie Rose Lambert New Bern Anna Louise Flanagan Pinehurst Lydia Jane Seifert Sarah Ashcraft Seifert

Raleigh Catherine Gayle Bernhardt Mary Powell White Boney Callee Elise Boykin Anna Elizabeth Bunn Emerson Harmon Burkhardt Wynn Alexandra Burrus MaryClaire Katherine Caldwell Elizabeth Byrum Camak Anna Teague Capel Magen Taylor Colgan Anna Elizabeth Collawn Sandra Shawen Conway Olivia Cross Cummings Grace Landon Dorsett Rachel Avery Edwards Vaden Elizabeth Ellwanger Mary Ellis Fanney Dixie Marie Finley Caroline Whitehurst Fountain Logan Elyse Francis Catherine Charlotte George Ella Donnell Gilliam Elizabeth Darden Grubb Ryan Elizabeth Haar Georgia Craven Harris Katherine Ann Hawkins Mary Branch Henderson Lily Rutherford Highsmith Della Hobson Huffines Alison Merritt Hughes Mary Eleanor Hunter Julia Frances Hurst Mary Corinne Forehand Jackson Charlotte Healy Jones Hannah Elizabeth Jones Mary Louise Kehaya Daisy Shields King Sarah Grace Lasso Emilie Walton Lewis Madeline Bonneau McElveen Sarah Campbell Mitchell Margaret McKinley Payne Caroline Claire Poole Kathryn Bowen Powers Baye Bryan Reddy Lily Gray Revels Madeline Grace Rieker Lucy Baldwin Russell Amelia Nicole Rustin Sarah Elisabeth Sanchez Maribelle Lea Scoggin Lucy Carter Smith Mary Kendall Stephenson Elizabeth Louisa Taylor Katherine Connell Tehan Sara Scott Thompson Elizabeth LaRue Tollison Britt Olivia Warner Harriet Rhett Warner Kathryn Langill Watson Ella Margaret Webster Schuyler McFall Weisel Caroline Claire Wells Mary Glenn West Emma Suzanne Willard Hallie Royster Williams Margaret Reed Williams Allie Elizabeth Wilson Clare Kathryn Zaytoun Mattison White Zinner

Rocky Mount Mary Allison Barnes Catherine Courtney Bondy Caroline Elizabeth Carrier Elizabeth Corbett Gay Bishop Marie Godwin Anne Grant Larimer Belle Whitaker Rose Lucy Cooper Rose Lindsey Anne Ross Anne-Hunter Bailey Stone Olivia Katherine Turnage Roxboro Mary McCaskill Holler Salisbury Grace Ruthanna Steinman Mimi Scott Webb Sanford Colbie Normann Stephens Tarboro Mary McCall Leland Julianne Scott Mayo Emma Grace Sprinkle Wake Forest Kelly Ann King Charlotte Winston Welsh Washington Kylee Anna Rodman Clancy Svetlana Lee Douglas Madison Virginia Gerard Alexandria George Nolley Williamston Anna Grayce Chesson Mary Taylor Peele Wilmington Lela Elizabeth King Mary Leighton Mannen Rebecca Lynn Worsley Emma Katherine Wright Elizabeth Crawford Zimmerman Wilson Mary Catherine Boyette Susan Lindeman Edgar Julia Frances Horton Fulford Nell St. Clair Morrison Marie Page Barnes Smith Sydney Abbott Williams Windsor Taylor Randall Wilson Winston-Salem Virginia Collier Caudill Isabel Leslie Hanson Georgiana Dillon Hough Nancy Elizabeth Irvin Ellie Amalie Kangur Sarah Katherine Mann Mary Dudley Newman Elizabeth Edna Stockton Wrightsville Beach Jane Woodard Hawthorne

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