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WHAT’S HAPPENING Senate skeptical about making daylight saving time permanent despite Trump’s pressure Get ready to fall back. The Senate is unlikely to act on a House-passed bill that would make daylight saving time permanent despite pressure from President Donald Trump and Americans who don’t like having to change their clocks twice a year. Daylight saving time ends early Sunday, requiring much of the U.S. to move clocks back one hour. Several senators are holding up legislation that would eliminate that longtime U.S. tradition.

Alaska’s governor orders probe into Peltola’s Senate campaign The New York Times reports Alaska’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s team may have recruited another candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan to confuse voters. President Donald Trump said Thursday it’s “hard to believe” Peltola could even be allowed to run and “you’re going to have to see what happens.” Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation, saying tricking voters “strikes at the integrity of our elections.” Peltola dismisses the allegations as a distraction from key issues.

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Stanly voters to decide local, state, federal races Tuesday The ballot includes two contested county races By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal ALBEMARLE — Stanly County voters will weigh in on a high-profile U.S. Senate contest while deciding races for Congress, county commissioner, school board and state legislature in Tuesday’s general election. The Nov. 3 ballot also features judicial elections and three proposed amendments

to the state constitution. At the top of the ticket, former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper faces Republican Michael Whatley, a former Republican National Committee chairman, for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. Libertarian Shannon W. Bray and Green Party candidate Michael Dublin are also running. In North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Harris is seeking reelection against Democrat Colby Watson and

Green Party candidate Bo Whitehead. Among county races, Republican Bill Lawhon, Democrat Gwendolyn Harris and Libertarian Melvin B. Poole are competing for an at-large seat on the Stanly County Board of Commissioners. Lawhon, the board’s vice chairman and current District 2 representative, is seeking the at-large seat being vacated by Patty Crump, who is not running for reelection. Four other commissioner races are uncontested, with Republicans Lane Furr in Dis-

Municipal races draw crowded fields across Stanly County “Our responsibility is to ensure that elections are administered fairly, accurately, securely.” Sam Hayes, State Board of Elections executive director

Voters will decide 18 local races across 10 municipalities Tuesday By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal ALBEMARLE — Voters across Stanly County’s 10 municipalities will decide 18 local races Tuesday, including contested seats on the Albemarle City Council and an eight-candidate field for three Locust council positions. Municipal races are nonpartisan, and only residents of each city or town vote

in their respective contests. Although the elections share a ballot with state and federal contests, decisions by the winners will be much closer to home. Town boards and city councils approve budgets, set local policies and weigh land-use decisions, including development and infrastructure planning. The Nov. 3 election will also fill several uncontested mayoral and council positions. In Albemarle, Chris Bramlett, Lisa Kiser and See FIELDS, page A7

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trict 1, Shaun Morgan in District 2, Matthew Swain in District 3 and incumbent Trent Hatley in District 4 each seeking election without opposition. District 1 Commissioner Mike Barbee will leave office after losing the March Republican primary to Furr, while District 3 Commissioner Brandon King is not seeking another term. Morgan is seeking the District 2 seat being vacated by Lawhon. The Stanly County Board See RACES, page A6

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Suspects in Georgia school shooting plot had floor plan, date chosen, warrants say The FBI identified the plot after finding threatening social media posts about the school By Kate Brumback The Associated Press ATLANTA — Three people arrested over an alleged plot to carry out a shooting at a Georgia high school had gotten a floor plan of the school and chosen a date to carry it out early next school year, according to arrest warrants. Shane Keith Taylor, 17, and Michael Brandon Terry, 21, had reached an agreement with an unidentified juvenile suspect to provide weapons and had planned outfits and discussed buying body armor, video cameras and combat boots, according to arrest warrants. They chose next Aug. 20 as the date, just a couple of weeks after the first day of school on Aug. 2. The suspects are accused of planning a shooting at Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia, about 45 miles north of Atlanta, and are charged with conspiracy to commit

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Shane Keith Taylor murder, police said. The juvenile is also accused of disrupting or interfering with the operation of public schools. A lawyer for Taylor, who is considered an adult under Georgia criminal law, said he had just gotten the case and did not have a comment. Online records show that he was being held without bond and has a preliminary hearing set for Nov. 13. It was not immediately clear whether Terry, who was await-

ing transfer from California to Cherokee County, had a lawyer, and The Associated Press could not immediately locate contact information for him. Police did not release the name and age of the juvenile suspect. The FBI identified “threatening social media posts” and notified school police, who then contacted the Canton Police Department. Police figured out the identity of the juvenile suspect, who they said lives in Canton and was connected to the threats. He was arrested Oct. 20. Taylor, who lives in Metter, Georgia, 240 miles southeast of Canton, and Terry, who lives in Chatsworth, California, were arrested Oct. 23. It’s not clear what connection, if any, Terry has to Georgia, or how the suspects might have known one another. Investigators collected guns, ammunition and electronic devices as evidence, police said. No ongoing threat to the high school or any other school in the county was identified, and the investigation remained active, police said. Cherokee County School

“The mere thought of a school threat, let alone hearing of an alleged conspiracy to carry one out, is honestly devastating.” Mary Elizabeth Davis, Superintendent, Cherokee County School District District Superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis sought in a video message posted online Tuesday to reassure parents. “The mere thought of a school threat, let alone hearing of an alleged conspiracy to carry one out, is honestly devastating, and, like you, I have experienced the range of emotions that follow this type of news,” she said. But she added that law enforcement agencies working together had “completely disrupted” the alleged plot and said knowing that the processes in place worked the way they were supposed to was “reassuring.”

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• Timothy Raynard Bivens, 65, was arrested for possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of drug paraphernalia. Oct. 22 • Jazmyne Luria Thomas, 35, was arrested for assault inflicting serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and communicating threats, and other charges.

Oct. 23 • Tiffiany Eulanda Harris, 37, was arrested for felony conspiracy and felony larceny. Oct. 24 • Ashley Nicole Bowden, 36, was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of methamphetamine. • Jose Ricardo Escobar, 54, was arrested for driving while impaired and failure to maintain lane control.

• Natalee Devon Gilbert, 20, was arrested for driving while impaired; driving after consuming alcohol while under 21; and possessing an open container of alcohol after consuming, first offense, and other charges. Oct. 25 • Rodney Allen Lentz, 47, was arrested for assault on a female and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.

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Gas attack — blue states have the highest prices at the pump

Deep-blue states pay about 25 cents a gallon more for gas than deep-red states.

DEMOCRATS CAN’T SEEM to decide whether they want higher or lower gas prices. On the one hand, they’re promising that if they win a majority in Congress, they will work to bring down prices at the pump. On the other hand, they can’t bring down prices in their own blue states. We at Unleash Prosperity recently analyzed gas and diesel prices in the 50 states. Here’s what we found: The more Democratic a state, the higher the price of gas. For each additional percentage point of the state’s vote that went to former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, gas prices are about 2 cents higher. On average, deep-blue states pay about 25 cents a gallon more for gas than deep‑red states. Yes, we know correlation is not causation (umbrellas don’t cause rain), but it does suggest that relying on Democrats to lower gas prices is probably a fool’s errand. Take California, where gas now costs more than $6 a gallon. That’s because of climate change policies and taxes that reach up to 75 cents a gallon. All told,

Californians pay about $1.25 a gallon more than the average state. Yet California Gov. Gavin Newsom is considered a front‑runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Eight of the 10 states with the highest gas prices are run by Democrats. And eight of the 10 states with the lowest gas prices are run by Republicans. This isn’t a coincidence. Democrats are so deeply in bed with the radical climate change lobby that they have done everything they can to strangle the industry. Let’s not forget that one of former President Joe Biden’s first actions in office was killing the Keystone XL pipeline. That was followed by a plan that his “climate justice agency” promoted, the goal of which was to stop all new production of fossil fuels. The plan was even opposed to nuclear power and aimed to curtail highway spending to discourage Americans from driving — unless they were in an electric vehicle. New pipelines were to be banned. Meanwhile, several Democratic state attorneys general are suing the oil and gas

companies for climate change costs. None of this is increasing our supply of oil. When President Donald Trump announced a “drill, baby, drill” energy dominance strategy, Democrats in Congress nearly had a cardiac arrest. Trump’s energy policy has led to an all‑time high U.S. output of oil and natural gas. How high would gas prices be today if we weren’t now the world’s leader in oil and gas? Anyone remember that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in favor of natural gas until someone had to remind her that natural gas is a fossil fuel? America still gets the majority of its energy from the fossil fuels that the left hates: oil, gas and coal. To power the energy needed for the next tech revolution, we will need to double or triple our energy production, and it’s a fantasy to think we can do that with windmills. As for gas prices, you can’t in one breath talk about “net zero” carbon emissions and a war on our oil and gas producers and in the other breath promise lower gas prices at the pump. You don’t send an arsonist to put out a fire. Stephen Moore is a former Trump senior economic adviser and the co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, which advocates for education freedom for all children. (Copyright 2026 Creators.com)

COLUMN | VICTOR JOECKS

They aim to conquer

These groups don’t love America, France, Italy or whatever country they are in.

THE WEST WOULD do well to remember King Solomon’s most famous ruling. Last weekend, France erupted in widespread rioting. One French official put the number involved in protests at 550,000. Of those, more than 100,000 were in Paris, including on Paris’ famous Champs-Elysees Avenue. The marauders vandalized at least 3,000 shops. They stole from high-end stores like Apple and Louis Vuitton. And they turned cars and government buildings into bonfires. The most dramatic was the burning of the town hall of Limoges, France. The 143-year-old building had survived the Nazis but not this black-clad mob waving Palestinian flags. Police arrested about 2,400 people. French President Emmanuel Macron described the riots as “political and seditious acts by ultra-left groups whose aim is to bring down the Republic.” Far-left politicians and political groups are openly siding with the rioters. Seven left-wing political parties have objected to restrictions on new demonstrations. Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader of the far-left Indomitable France party, took part in the Paris protests. He lashed out at police for “unleashing” on the crowds. He seems to think that rallying with the rioters will help his chances in the April presidential election. What a contrast to a month ago, when Pope Leo XIV held an open-air Mass on

that same street, Champs-Elysees Avenue. It was attended by 800,000 people. There were many French flags in the massive crowd. The event took place during daylight, and attendees had no reason to hide their faces. France isn’t the only Western country dealing with violent uprisings. Recent riots in Milan, Italy, injured almost 200 police officers. Of the 330 people police detained, about half were foreigners or children of immigrants. Many of the rioters also flew the Palestinian flag. In recent years, America has seen similar scenes in New York City, Washington, D.C., and many college campuses. These protests aren’t merely organic uprisings. Dozens of groups that seek to destroy the West are coordinating and amplifying these violent outbursts. Some are anarchists. Some are communists and socialists. Some are foreigners. They may not share the same long-term goals, but they are rallying around a common cause — destroying the West. To understand their lust for violence, consider a dilemma King Solomon once faced. As 1 Kings 3 recounts, two prostitutes once came to him. They had each had a son and lived in the same house. One night, one of the boys died. One woman claimed she woke up to discover a dead boy next to her, but she realized it wasn’t her son. She claimed the other woman had switched babies during the night.

Since Solomon didn’t have DNA testing, he asked for a sword. He said he would cut the living boy in half and give a piece to each woman. The false mother agreed, but the true mother said the other woman should have the boy. Because she loved her son, she didn’t want him to die. Solomon then knew that woman was the boy’s mother. Here’s the point. Antifa, the Democratic Socialists of America, Muslims who want to impose Shariah law and some immigrants who don’t assimilate are like the mother who’d be perfectly happy with half a dead baby. These groups don’t love America, France, Italy or whatever country they are in. They want to destroy it and remake its government. They want to erase its past to write a new future. They want to plunder its wealth for themselves. They don’t value the country they are in because they don’t consider it — its heritage, its institutions, its values, its people, its land — to be theirs. This is why they are perfectly happy to use violence to accomplish their goals. They aim to conquer. It’s up to those of us who love this country — and the leaders we elect — to stop them. Victor Joecks is a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and host of the “Sharpening Arrows” podcast. (Copyright 2026 Creators.com)

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EDWUIN LAZARO TUN

JANE ADAMS SIDES

SHELBY JEAN SMITH

DEC. 17, 1971 – OCT. 12, 2026

DEC. 16, 1941 – OCT. 21, 2026

JAN. 15, 1942 – OCT. 24, 2026

Edwuin Lazaro Tun, de 54 años de edad, fue llamado al Jane Adams Sides, 84, of Albemarle, passed away Shelby Jean Smith, 84, of Albemarle, passed away descanso eterno el lunes 12 de octubre de 2026, mientras Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at Atrium Health Pineville peacefully on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at her home, se encontraba hospitalizado en Atrium Health Carolinas Hospital in Charlotte. surrounded by the love and comfort of those closest to Medical Center, en Charlotte, Carolina del Norte. Jane was born December 16, 1941, in North Carolina her. Edwuin nació el 17 de diciembre de 1971 en la Ciudad to the late Fred Taylor Adams and the late Alma Margaret A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, de Guatemala, Guatemala, hijo de Alfredo Roman y Adams. She was also preceded in death by husband Dolan October 30, 2026, in the Stanly Funeral Home Chapel of Concepcion Tun. Aunque su vida fue breve, Edwuin Lee Sides. Albemarle, with Rev. Delane Burris officiating. Burial will vivió una vida plena y significativa. Los recuerdos llenos Jane was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and follow at Stanly Gardens of Memory. The family will receive de cariño y amor que nos dejó vivirán para siempre en great- grandmother. She enjoyed spending time with the friends prior to the service from 10:00 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. nuestros corazones. Damos gracias a nuestro Señor grandchildren, going out with family and friends to get a at Stanly Funeral and Cremation Care of Albemarle. y Salvador por los años que compartimos con él. Que Diet Dr. Pepper and Wendy’s Frosty. Jane loved to listen to Born January 15, 1942, in Stanly County, Shelby was the descanse bajo el cuidado de nuestroJanuary Padre Celestial. Gospel and23, Billy Graham services T.V. Jane spent daughter of the late9,Ernest and Glenna Smith. 24, 1939 ~ January 15, Music June 1967 ~ January 10,on 2023 March 23, 1935 - January Recibió su educación en escuelas de Guatemala2023 y en her life caring for her family and helping Dolan on the farm. Shelby 2023 was a loving and devoted aunt whose life was April 1936 ~públicas Januaryde14, 2023York. Asistió a Suffolk October 1944 - January 10, las 17, escuelas Nueva She will be remembered for Roseboro, her list making faith,11, and caring for James Arthur 55, of from calendars centered around her family, her 2023 Community College, en Bayshore, Nueva York. Edwuin to sticky notes on the table. others. She had a kind and compassionate heart and Dwight Britten Farmer Sr., 83, Albemarle, passed away Tuesday, John grew up in the Millingport Barbara Jean Taylor Drye, años 86, comoofagente trabajó durante muchos de seguros A private January service will be held at a later date. found he great joyain being surrounded by those she loved. Norwood died Sunday morning, 10, 2023 at Anson Health community where drove school of Oakboro, passed away Saturday, Doris she Elaine Jones Coleman, 78, para Allstate Insurance. Survivorsand include daughter, Tammy Johns and bus and worked To her many was more than just January 15, 2023 at Forrest Oakes. Rehab. at the localnieces gas and nephews, January 14, 2023 at her went home into God’ s presence on Como hombre dehome. fe, Edwuin aceptóDwight a Cristowas desde Vincent; son, Eric was Sides andon wife, Jill; grandsons, an aunt; she was a source of love, encouragement, and born Januaryhusband, 24, Mr. Roseboro born station during his High School years. Barbara was bornyApril 17,familia 1936 asistían January 10 after a sudden illness and temprana edad, él y su iglesia Our to theWesley Morgan Katrina, Morgan, Matthew unwavering support. Shelby treasured time spent with 1939 ainlaStanly County late Juneand 23, wife, 1967 to the lateRoss Robert He graduated from Millingport in North Carolina to the late Robert a valiant week-long fight in ICU. Lady of the Annunciation, en Albemarle, Carolina delMartha Adkins Sides, Joshua great-grandson, Cooke; family and enjoyed traveling, especially trips to the beach Walter Virgil and andSides; Delena Shipp Roseboro.Bentley He High in 1954 and entered into LeeNorte. Taylor and the late Eva Belle Doris was born on October brother; Robert Adams andSouth nephew, Joseph Adams and with and theAirforce mountains, where she could appreciate life’s 11, Farmer. He was a 1957 graduate graduated from Stanly service the US WattsLe Taylor. 1944, in the mountains of Marion, sobreviven su amada esposa, of Yomarys Reyes pleasures lasting memories. Norwood HighTun; School andwife wasPaige. High School and was employed by immediatelysimple afterward. Upon and create She wasEdwuin also preceded death NC while herChurch, father was away su hijo, Tun Jr.in(Alexandria Allmond); sus hijas, may be made to Salem faithfulhemember Baptist Shelby’s a United States Army Veteran. In lieu of flowers, Triangle memorials Brick. He enjoyed watching return from theAservice, and his of Grace by husband 61 years,Mesa Keith(Joshua Furr Quinones) fighting in the US Navy during DeyaniraofDeLuna Grace Tun Methodist Church, NC 73 Hwy, Albemarle, Christian faith was an important part of her life and was He was ay member of Cedar Grove football 20987 and basketball, especially the NC. high school sweetheart Julie were Drye, and brothers, Robert Lee World War II. Raymond Jones was (Michael Martinez); su hermano, Jose Tun Methodist (Magaly); Church where 28001 Billy Graham Evangelistic 1 reflected in the kindness compassion she extended United he or The Carolina TarHeels and Miami.Association, married in 1956. He graduated from and Taylor, Jr. and George Kenneth sowas proud to return thework war and numerosos familiares y amigos; y suhad amado nieto perruno, Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, NC. 28217, to others. Her caring nature also evidentafter in her served as church treasurer and In addition to his parents he is or American Nashville Auto Diesel College later in Taylor. meetHealth his little girl! Doris grew up in Bruno. 1901in Brunswick Ave. #100, Charlotte, as ahis therapist the Mental Association, where choir member. He began his Cancer career Society, preceded death by his brothers 1959NC. and began career aswith a diesel Survivors include children, Durham, NC and graduated from Una rama caída 28207. she devoted herself to helping and supporting her clients. with the Stanly County Sheriff’s and sisters: Barbara Lee Roseboro, mechanic at Mitchell Distributing Una rama ha caído Hartsell Funeral ofVerna Albemarle is serving the Sides Shelby had a special gift for makingHigh others feel valued and Debbie (Mike) Williams ofdel árbol familiar. Durham School. She furthered Department moving to the Norwood DorothyHome Brown, Roseboro, Company, moving his growing Sigo escuchando voz que mePolice dice:Department «No lloren por family. cared for, leaving a lasting impression on the many lives Albemarle, Teresa (Tom)una Curry her studies at Watts Hospital and retiring as Henrietta Ingram, and Harold family to Charlotte where they lived mí. she touched. of Oakboro, Douglas (Tammy) School of Nursing in Durham and Chief of Police with the Town of Roseboro. until their retirement. Recuerden los mejores momentos, las risas y las Shelby is lovingly survived by her 15 and Nurse in Drye of Oakboro; grandchildren, graduated as anieces Registered Norwood after many years of service. He is survived by his sisters: When John purchased his first canciones. nephews, numerous great-nieces and great-nephews, Melissa (Don) Parrish of Albemarle, 1966. ROBERT PLEASANT Dwight was an avid gardener, Helen (James)DALE Roseboro Edwards Model A Ford at the age of 17, he Continúen conSmith mi legado; cuentobird conwatcher ustedes. and many dear friends who were herDr. love and Samantha (Destiny) of Dorisblessed marriedbyRev. Ted and Carolina fan. of NOV. Albemarle, Mary Roseboro said that he took the car to the 1, 1946 – OCT. 12, 2026 Mi mente está tranquila, mi alma descansa en paz. friendship. Oakboro, Bradley Smith of Oakboro, Coleman in 1966 and had two He is survived by his wife Hilda of Washington DC, and Marion community mechanic when he had Al recordar comprendo In addition to her parents, she wasAmy preceded in death Jonathan Stover oftodo, Peachland, and lo verdaderamente daughters and Laura. Doris Whitley Farmer; one son D. Britten Morrison of Albemarle; brothers: a small problem.The mechanic told Robert Dale Pleasant passed away on October 12, 2026, bendecido que fui. by her siblings, Claude, Faye, Ivey, Lillie Mae, Max Herman, Jessie Stover of Lylesville; sisterraised Amy and Laura in North Farmer Jr. (Mary) of McLeansville, Thomas D. Roseboro of Charlotte, him that if heJuanita, was going to keep the at his home in Albemarle, N.C., surrounded by his family. vivas lasmany tradiciones,NC; por one pequeñas que Bill, Roy, Ted Linwood, Shirley, in-law,Mantengan Beatrice Goodman; Augusta, SC. and Stevie Joe. daughter Sharon Farmer (Patricia) car,1,he needed to learn to work on Dale was Robert born inRoseboro Port Arthur, Texas,ofon November sean. The family would like to express theiranheartfelt gratitude nieces and nephews; and her beloved Lowe (David) of Norwood; one Doris was incredible neonatal Norwood, and Van Horne; a special it. This John’s passion for 1946, to Ned and Mary Jeanne Pleasant and grew up on is when Sigan se preocupen por las to the staff of Tillery Compassionate Care for for their cats, Bo and adelante Garfield. con sus vidas, no sister intensive care nurse most of her Geraldine Dennis of Troy; two bases friend of overthe 40country years, Michelle Model A Fords began and how he Air Force around due to his father’s Air caídas. was a member of kindness and compassionate care. A this special expression of Barbara career, and was her passion. grandchildren, Dwight Britten “Dee” McLendon of the home; special spent his happiest days with best to her dear friend, Dottie Harris, LosBaptist extraño profundamente así que mantengan Force career. appreciation is his extended Oakboro Church for over a todos, The Augusta Chronicle did a feature Farmer III and Whitley Rose Hui nieces: Nybrea friends fromand around globe niece, for the Janet Gray, for the extraordinary In 1964, Dale joined theMontague, U.S. CoastKnya Guard and was frente alto. over 30 years her the devoted 60 la years. Sheen worked on her in 1985. She was a clinical Lowe. Little, and Laquanza Crump; special stationed at the Lighthouse on Lake Pontchartrain, La. rest of his life! Hasta que llegue día en a estar juntos. love, care, and support they provided Shelby throughout at Stanly Knitting Mills.el After justque volvamos nurse manager in Augusta, Georgia He was preceded in deathInbythe flooding nephews: Robert Jr., Desmond waters and 135+ mile winds of Hurricane At age 50, after years as a Detroit Edwuin Lazaro Tun, 54, was called to eternal her declining health. two years of retirement, sheage began at University Hospital NICU and his son Alex, brothers, Tommy and in 1965, Roseboro, and Marcus and Betsy he volunteered for aLilly; dangerous rescue of Mechanic Diesel and rest, Monday, October 12, 2026, while a patient at Inhe lieu of Julie flowers, memorial contributions beDuring managing the Oakboro Senior worked there for 20may years. Jimmy, sisters, Nancy, Cornelia God daughter, Daphne Johnson; and Guard nine people and subsequently received a Coast decided to take the plunge and Atrium Medical Center, Charlotte, made to Tillery Compassionate Care, 960mentored N. First Street, Center andHealth did thatCarolinas for 18 years this time, Doris young Annabell, Glennie Mae, andCommendation Betty. special friends, Vetrella Johnson and Medal for heroism. open a full Model A Restoration North Carolina. 17, 1971, in Albemarle, NC 28001, or Grace Baptist Church, 644 the until this past week.Edwuin Barbarawas wasborn December nurses and assisted in saving Memorials may be made to Cedar Ben the McLendon. After leaving Coast Guard in 1968, Dale began an Shop. They thrived at their shopAlbemarle, in Guatemala City,cooking Guatemala of Alfredo Edgemont Street, 28001. known for her good and to the parentage livesNC of so many babies. She also Grove United Methodist Church, almost 30-year career in the expanding injection molding Cornelius, NC until their life retirement Roman andcare Concepcion Tun.also Although his life was short, Shelby’s was a beautiful reflection of love, faith, and always taking of others. She worked for Pediatrician Dr. William Cemetery or Choir Fund c/o Pam industry. After working his way up in the field, he led the in 1998 whenselfless they moved backto to others. Though her Edwuin’s life was well-lived. loving memories of devotion gentle presence loved going on day long shoppingFond and A. Wilkes in Augusta for several Smith 36071 Rocky River Springs sales department for Goodman Improved in Chicago. Cabarrus County. oncemissed, again the kindness she shared, the lives Edwuin will live ourand hearts We give thanks to Our will beJohn deeply trips - she could outin walk out forever.Road, years prior to her NICU career. Doris Norwood, NC 28128. Over the years, he conducted business in 68 countries set up shop in histouched, back yardand garage Lord and Savior for the years we shared. May he rest in she the love she gave so the freely will remainarea at shop people half her age. She kept retired from mother/baby and 48 states. Dale subsequently started his own injection where he attracted a loyal group of Our Father’s care. treasured gifts in the hearts of her family and friends. Her40 her mind and body active through Atrium Stanly in 2007 after over molding equipment company, DP&A. friends who visited He was educated inand Guatemala and the New York legacyalmost will livedaily. on in the countless memories and acts of gardening, word searches, years of nursing. In 1995, now in North Carolina, Dale took a turn While in his on thelove farmshe in Gold Hill, public schools. He attended Suffolk Community College, leaves behind. various other hobbies. Doris was a gentle and sweet career and established Select Investigations, a private John also began a lifelong love with Bayshore, New York. Edwuin was employed with Allstate spirit and loved her Lord. She never investigation firm. Dale partnered with his wife, Sally, for Alis Chalmers tractors after he Insurance as an insurance agent for many years. met a stranger, and she always left the next 30 years, conducting thorough, professional, restored his Dad’s tractor and began A believer, Edwuin accepted Christ at an early age, and JOYCE TUCKER BURLESON you feeling uplifted after talking and highly regarded investigations for a range of clients amassing his collection of tractors he and his family attended Our Lady of The Annunciation, with her. She would often claim that in North Carolina. During his long illness, Sally ran the MARCH 5, 1945 – OCT. 27, 2026 as well. Albemarle, North Carolina. she had “adopted” friends into her business and continues to do so. John restored many cars of He is survived by his loving wife, Yomarys Reyes Tun; family, and honestly, Along with his successful and varied career, Dale had a and had Joyce Tucker Burleson, immediate 81, of Locust, passed away on she his own the crowning son, Edwuin Tun Jr. (Alexandria Allmond); daughters: never madeMedical a distinction between full personal life. He was an avid scuba diver; hunted with Tuesday, October 27, 2026, at Ignite Resort. achievement of winning the most Deyanira DeLuna Mesa (Joshua Quinones) and Grace the two. Positivity radiated from her his beloved Springer Spaniel, Oreo; and especially loved A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, prestigious award from MARC, The Tun(Michael Martinez); brother, Jose (Magaly) Tun; a host like sunlight. She was selfless, funny, fishing for salmon on Lake Michigan. He was also a pilot October 29, 2026, in the Stanly Funeral Home Chapel in Henry for a restoration that garnered of other relatives, friends; and grand dog, Bruno. smart, and sentimental. During her and flew his plane on many trips around the U.S. Locust, with Rev. Dr. Kinney Wallace officiating. Burial will top points. He was also presented A Fallen Limb lifetime she was an active member Dale was known for helping others in ways they did not follow at Bear Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. with the Ken Brady Service Award A limb has fallen from the family tree. of First Baptist of Durham, expect. “When he saw a need,” said Sally, “he would step The family receive friends from 10:00Church a.m. until 10:45 the highest award given will to members I keep hearing a voice that says, “Grieve not for me. First Baptist Church of Augusta, January 7, 1973 ~ January 8, in and help out.” After his daughter Angie died as a teen in a.m. prior to the service at Stanly Funeral and Cremation at the national level. Remember the best time, the laughter, the song. Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church a tragic accident, he intentionally Care of sLocust. 2023 looked for ways to make This is what John’ Model A Continue my heritage, I’m counting on you. in Palestine United the world a better place. Those touched by Dale’s care and Born on March 5, 1945, in Augusta, Cabarrusand County, Joyce was Community had to say upon My mind is at ease, my soul is at rest. Methodist Church in Albemarle. assistance canDarrick attest to him having done the daughter of the late Paul and Naomi Tucker. Vashon Baldwin, agejust 50, that.learning of his death: Remembering all, How I was truly blessed. Sheloving especially lovedand helping at Dale wasentered blessedeternal with many family connections. He Joyce was a devoted wife, mother, proud rest, Sunday, January He was an active member of Continue traditions, no matter how small. church with older adults, youth, and was preceded in death by his brother, Art Pleasant;Wesley his Chapel grandmother whose life was centered around her faith 8, 2023, Albemarle, North Carolina. Go on with your life, don’t worry about falls. Methodist Church children. happiness in the simple daughter, Angie his Richard Pleasant. and family.asShe found BornPleasant; January 7,and 1973, inson, Stanly I miss you all dearly, so keep up your chin. where he loved serving greeter onher greatest Shespent was especially He is survived by hisNorth brother, Mark Darrick Pleasant, and sister-inblessings of life, especially time outdoorstalented and County, Carolina, was Until the day comes, we’re together again”. Sunday mornings. He also belonged at sewing from a young age law, Cyndi Pleasant. wife, Sally, was with work working alongside her beloved husband, J.D., on the and farm. the son ofHis Eddie James Baldwin Sr.him into the United Methodist Men. and in life and wasPhyllis stepfather to Sally’s four children, made lending gifts for friends, Christmas Whether tending to her garden, a helping hand andDale the late Blue Baldwin. John is survived by his wife who meant Darrick a great deal to him. He waskept preceded in death farm chores, or simply enjoying the beauty of God’s ornaments, Halloween Costumes, enjoyed life, always Julie Ussery with Kluttz, for 66 years EDWARD SCHONE by his stepsons, Bernard “Bern” Moorehead and creation, Joyce appreciated the peacepageant and fulfillment that doll clothes, dresses, prom thingsRobert lively and enjoyed making of the home. He is also survived Andrew Whitfield Moorehead. by came from a life well lived.dresses, A woman of strong Christian OCT. 20, 1958 – OCT. 13, 2026 coats, tote bags, scarves, others “Whit” smile. His presence isHe nois survived by a son John David Kluttz (Kim) his stepson,longer Charles “Bucky” daughter-infaith, she found comfort and joy in bluegrass outfits forlistening Amy andtoLaura, and in our midst,Moorehead, but his memory of Oakboro, NC; two daughters, law, Kourtney andingrandson, gospel music, whose familiar hymns reflected the beliefs Edward (Ed) Schone, beloved husband of Maria Davis Christening gowns for each of her willTaperek, forever live our hearts.Dash Moorehead; Sally Simerson of Denver, CO and stepdaughter, He Laura Moorehead; daughter-in-law, she held dear. Her gentle spirit, hardworking nature, and Schone, passed peacefully from this life on October 13, grandchildren. wasAnn educated in the Stanly Betsy Tusa (John) of Lafayette, CO; Rebecca “Beck” Pryor; and niece, Mary Jeanne Jones. unwavering love for her family werewas among the many 2026. Ed was a US Army Veteran and served in Germany, Doris preceded in death by County public schools and attended three grandchildren, Bonnie Kluttz MemorialAlbemarle service will begin at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, qualities that made her so her special toArthur those who knew Jones, her. Barbados, the Middle East, the Pentagon and MacDill AFB father Raymond Senior High School, Sammons (Ben) of Richfield, NC November 14, 2026, at Our Lady of the Annunciation Joyce is lovingly survived bymother her husband of 63 years, in Tampa, FL. her Mary Ellen Cameron Albemarle. John Alexander McKinnon (Sarah) Catholic Church Albemarle, N.C. Luncheon will follow at J.D. Burleson; her son, Tommy (Tammy); After leaving the military and earning his bachelor’s Jones,Burleson and her sister Maryanne Heinwas a great conversationalist of Asheville, NC and Seth William the Family Life Gifts may be made to Our Lady of grandsons, Wesley Burleson, Brett Burleson, and Matthew degree, he was employed at Peoples Gas in Tampa, FL, Jones Brantley. andCenter. loved meeting people. Darrick McKinnon (Amanda) of Germany; the Annunciation Catholic Church. Burleson (Kristina); great-grandson, Shane Burleson; and Burlington Industries in Greensboro, NC, Microsoft and never met a stranger and always five great-grandchildren, Charlotte, (Tim).Survivors include her two sister, Pam Satterfield Ally in Charlotte, NC. Ed’s passions were technology, precious daughters: Amy Cameron showed love and compassion for his Meredith, Grant, In Victoria additionand to her parents, Joyce (partner was preceded in death mountain biking, being outdoors and especially music Coleman Dr. Edward Neal fellowman. He also loved his dog, Ronan. Johnby is also preceded in her son, Paul Burleson; grandson, Jacob Burleson; rock and roll music. He sang day and night, at home, at Chernault) of Albemarle, NC, and and Rocky. death by his parents, J.S. Kluttz and brother, Flay Tucker. work and sometimes even in his sleep. Ed leaves Maria, his Laura Lindahl Coleman Oliverio He is survived by his father, Mary Wyatt Clayton Kluttz; a large Joyce’s life was a beautiful reflection of faith, devotion, wife of 44 years, and his two chihuahuas, Lalo and Birdie, (husband David) of Cincinnati, Ohio; Eddie J. Baldwin Sr.; sisters: Crystal and loving group of brothers and and the quiet joy found in life’s simplest moments. Though all who will miss him dearly. seven grandchildren: Cameron (Eric) Jackson, LaFondra (Stoney) sisters, Jack Methias Kluttz, Annie her earthly journey has come to an end, the love she “There is no other in World-Mine was the only one.” Oliverio, Stephanie Jae Dejak, Medley, and Morgan Baldwin; Lou Kluttz Honeycutt, Jake Nelsonof herDavid planted in the hearts family will continue to grow, John Good night sweet prince. Luca Beatty Oliverio, Coleman brothers: Eddie Baldwin Jr., Anton Kluttz, Juliusmuch Kluttz, Mary Patricia she so lovingly tended. Her family like the gardens Dejak, Carson Joseph Oliverio, Ryan Baldwin, and Lamont Baldwin; a Phillips and atakes grandson, Kevin comfort in knowing that the hands so Nicholas Dejak,that and worked Jadon Richard host of other relatives and friends. A Fowler Kluttz. faithfully and the heart that loved so deeply are now at rest Oliverio; and numerous in-laws, limb has fallen from our family tree. in the presence of her Lordnieces, and Savior. nephews, cousins, and loved We will not grieve Darrick’s death;

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Doris Jones Coleman

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AUG. 23, 1945 – OCT. 25, 2026 Mary Reveley Little (81) of Midland, NC passed away on October 25, 2026. Mary, born in Philadelphia, PA on August 23, 1945, grew up in Raleigh, NC where she graduated from Needham Broughton High School in 1963. She attended North Carolina State University and graduated from Meredith College in 1968. While a student at NC State, she met Jim Little in Statistics 311 in Harrelson Hall. When Jim saw Mary, he told his friend that he was going to date that girl. With Mary being so beautiful and Jim having a great personality, his friend chuckled and responded doubtfully with, “Sure”. Fate did not share the friend’s opinion. Jim and Mary were paired as statistics lab partners. Having an extensive knowledge of a Monroematic calculator, Jim quickly impressed Mary. He asked her to attend an Otis Redding concert that semester, and the rest is history. That statistics lab became the catalyst for a loving marriage that lasted almost 60 years and produced 2 adoring daughters, Rachel and Sarah. Mary was a math and science teacher in Cabarrus County for 21 years having taught at Northwest Cabarrus HS, Central Cabarrus HS, Winecoff MS, Hartsell MS, JN Fries MS, and CC Griffin MS. While she was a strict teacher, she cared deeply for her students who knew to always say please, thank you, and yes ma’am. In 1993, she quit teaching to join her husband at Riverbend Farm taking over the school tour curriculum for strawberries and pumpkins. Jim and Mary hosted the public at Riverbend Farm offering pick-your-own fruit and a pumpkin patch for 33 years. Mary was a very loving mother. She showed her daughters unconditional love, always provided a shoulder to cry on, and offered unwavering support as her daughters navigated life. Both daughters followed in her footsteps and became public educators. She taught her daughters to be strong women but also to craft. The Little Women spent many hours cross-stitching and crocheting together. Mary also loved music, particularly Janis Joplin, the Platters, and Culture Club. She was truly a beautiful person inside and out. Mary was the loving grandmother who lived next door to her 2 grandsons, Jordan and Justin. She could always be counted on to have a yellow cake with chocolate icing ready for spontaneous visits. For almost a decade, Jim lovingly took care of Mary, who suffered from dementia. He saw to her every need with help from his daughter, Rachel. His strength, love, and patience were a source of inspiration for family and friends. Mary was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She leaves behind a loving husband, Jim Little of Midland, NC; 2 daughters, Rachel Harkey (Trent) of Locust, NC and Sarah Little (Brian Gabbert) of Norman, OK; 2 grandsons, Jordan Hartsell (Jesie) and Justin Hartsell both of Midland, NC; 6 great grandchildren, Tripp, Silas, Judson, Jade, Ruby, and Joel; and her brother David Robert Reveley, Jr. She was preceded in death by her parents, Dr. David Robert, Sr. and Mary Floyd Reveley and her sisters, Nancy and Elizabeth. The family will not host a public service. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to a charity of your choice or support a local artist.

BONNIE LOU BRYAN FEB. 9, 1930 – OCT. 11, 2026 Bonnie Lou Bryan, 96, of Oakboro, NC, passed away on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center. In accordance with Bonnie’s wishes, no formal services will be held. Born on February 9, 1930, in Salem, Ohio, Bonnie was the daughter of the late Olin and Lucille Dodd. Her life was a remarkable testament to strength, resilience, and determination. Born during the Great Depression, weighing just one pound and eight ounces, Bonnie often enjoyed sharing the story of her extraordinary beginning. She spent her early childhood in an orphanage until the age of six, when she went to live on a farm with a foster family. These experiences helped shape her independent spirit and lifelong appreciation for the simple things in life. On January 5, 1952, Bonnie married the love of her life, Joseph “Bill” Bryan. Together, they shared 64 years of marriage, building a life centered around family, faith, and love. Bonnie is lovingly survived by her daughters, Kathy Riesen of Salem, Ohio, and Judy Potts (Ted) of Oakboro, NC; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one great-greatgrandchild. She also leaves behind her beloved furry companion, Maggie, the family’s 100-pound dog, who held a very special place in her heart. In addition to her parents, Bonnie was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph “Bill” Bryan; her son, Bill Bryan; and her sisters, Dorothy Gibson and Betty McCartney. Bonnie was a woman of deep and abiding faith, drawing inspiration throughout her life from the ministry of Billy Graham. Earlier in her adult life, she was a member of First Friends and was actively involved with Friends Disaster Service, reflecting her caring heart and willingness to help others. Blessed with a joyful spirit and a wonderful sense of humor, Bonnie never met a stranger. She loved to sing and was known to make up her own songs, often bringing laughter and smiles to those around her. She especially loved polka music and delighted in teaching anyone willing to learn the steps, cheerfully instructing, “Left, right, left; right, left, right!” Bonnie found happiness in life’s simple pleasures. She enjoyed watching country westerns, affectionately known to her as “cowboy shows,” following basketball, watching the birds, and indulging in her favorite treat, chocolate. Most of all, she cherished her family and the time they spent together. Bonnie carried with her the values of a generation that understood the importance of hard work, gratitude, and making the most of what they had. One of her favorite sayings was, “Wear it in, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” It was a simple expression that perfectly captured her practical wisdom and resourceful nature. Bonnie will be remembered for her unwavering faith, remarkable strength, welcoming heart, and the laughter she brought into the lives of others. Her family will forever treasure the stories she shared, the lessons she taught, and the love she gave so freely. Though she will be deeply missed, her memory will live on in the little things that made her so special; a familiar polka tune, the sight of a beautiful bird, or a simple reminder to appreciate life’s blessings. Her was a life well lived, a love generously shared, and a legacy that will continue for generations to come.

MAY 4, 1931 – OCT. 24, 2026 Miriam Judith Preiser, 95, of New London, North Carolina, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 24, 2026, surrounded by family and friends. Born May 4, 1931 in Hartford, Connecticut, Miriam was the daughter of the late Harold and Bertha McKown. She was a 1949 graduate of William Hall High School in West Hartford, and continued her education at Edgewood Junior College in Barrington, Rhode Island, graduating in 1951. Miriam spent her lifetime as a devoted mother, grandmother, and caregiver. Not only in her personal life, but also in her career, Miriam thrived in pouring herself into others as displayed by her many years of service at the Watch Hill Manor and the North Carolina Lutheran Home. She also found pleasure in the simple things of life and enjoyed baking, knitting, sewing, and spending time with her family, especially the grandbabies. Miriam’s favorite Disney characters were Mickey and Minnie Mouse as you could clearly see by the display throughout her home. Miriam always looked forward to the holidays. She also enjoyed going to events and activities involving her children and grandchildren. Miriam loved spending time at the beach, and her favorite pastime was traveling to visit her friends and family across the United States, often revisiting her old homestead New England. She was an active member of Antioch Baptist Church, participated in, and provided leadership for youth organizations throughout her lifetime, and played an important role as the matriarch to her family. Preceded in death by her husband, Robert Preiser, three sons; Keith, Stephen, and Eric Del Santo, son-inlaw Walter Mills, daughter-in-law Brenda Del Santo, Miriam is survived by five (5) children: Frankie Del Santo of San Diego, California; Anne Mills of Ashaway, Rhode Island; Mark Del Santo(Denise) of New London, North Carolina; Carol Laney(Steve) of Sylacauga, Alabama; Rhonda Morton(Jim) of Lexington, North Carolina and three (3) daughter-in-law’s: Genie, Becky, and Aida. She also leaves behind twenty-seven (27) grandchildren, forty-two (42) great-grandchildren, and sixteen (16) great-great-grandchildren, and two more on the way. The family would like to extend their sincere gratitude to special family friend, and caregiver, Christi Nance, and special friends Janet Bonney, Diane Jones, Debbie Marlitt, Barbara Davis, and Janet Long, who gave selflessly of their time to help care for Miriam and assist with daily tasks and activities. A Celebration of Life entitled “Remember the Time?” for Miriam’s family and friends will be held at her home on Friday, October 30th, 2026 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM, offering a reception and time of reminiscence, including words of comfort and prayer by Pastor Michael Lambert. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations are made in her honor to the children’s ministry of Antioch Baptist Church, PO Box 151, Richfield, North Carolina 28137.

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Trump in Ohio, Obama in Georgia make closing stretch appeals to midterm voters in pivotal states The final days feature legal challenges and antisemitism accusations reshaping key Senate races By Will Weissert, Josh Boak and Bill Barrow The Associated Press CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Georgia Democrats rallied with former President Barack Obama Wednesday night, at the same time President Donald Trump was in Ohio attempting to energize his base, as both parties began crystallizing their closing messages ahead of next week’s midterm elections. Trump has been on a weeks­ long sprint around the country, doing 20-plus rallies this month alone while packing upcoming days with more travel. But as Americans confront record fuel prices, rising costs and an unpopular war in Iran, the president has been keeping his focus on states that he won handily two years ago. “If you can get out to vote,” Trump told a raucous crowd in Chillicothe, south of Columbus, Ohio’s capital, “we’re going to have a tremendous victory.” The last Democratic president to serve two terms, Obama is increasingly campaigning for his party and gleefully acting as a foil to Trump — including criticizing the Republican for spending too much time leading White House renovations and for becoming wealthier while in office. He said Trump is “spending time supergluing gold medallions to the mantel in the Oval Office.” Obama appeared in suburban Atlanta with that city’s former mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, who could be the first black woman elected governor in the United States, as well as Sen. Jon Ossoff, running for reelection and considered a potential future presidential candidate. “Everywhere you go, it feels like change is in the air,” the former president said. Trump says Alaska Democrat should be prosecuted Even as he stages so many rallies, Trump also already turned to the courts to shape the midterms, directing his Department of Justice to file a lawsuit last week preemptively contesting the outcome of Alaska’s Senate race should Democratic challenger Mary Peltola win it.

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Left, President Donald Trump listens as Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) speaks at a campaign rally at the Shoemaker Center at Ohio University Chillicothe in Chillicothe, Ohio, on Wednesday. Right, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms, center, joined by former President Barack Obama, right, and Democratic candidate Sen. Jon Ossoff, walk off stage after a rally ahead of the Georgia primary election on Wednesday in Morrow, Georgia. That’s due to the presence of a second candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan. Speaking to reporters as he boarded Air Force One to fly to Ohio, Trump called on Peltola to drop out of the race and warned she could face prosecution. His comments followed a New York Times report that Peltola’s campaign was involved in an effort to recruit the second Dan Sullivan, which Trump called “voter fraud at the highest level,” adding: “It turned out it was a scheme by the Democrats. That’s what they do best: They cheat.” Peltola’s campaign said in a statement that it “has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign.” Accusations of antisemitism hang over Michigan Senate contest Another closely watched Senate race pits Democrat Abdul ElSayed against Republican Mike Rogers. Trump has intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against El-Sayed, who on Wednesday told a crowd at an event in Wyandotte, outside Detroit. “They want to point to me and my name. They’re doing this because they’re trying to distract us,” he said. “Michiganders are big-hearted. We’re open-minded. We don’t care as much how you pray; rather, we care what you pray for.” Republicans have argued El‑Sayed is antisemitic, which he denies. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who also is frequently mentioned as a 2028 presidential candidate, campaigned with Rogers in Birmingham, Michigan, at an event hosted by the Re-

publican Jewish Coalition. Cruz said that antisemitism is “a poison that is ripping the country apart” and that the Democratic Party was being taken over by “self-proclaimed communists and Islamists.” The event featured several voters who described themselves as lifelong Democrats voting Republican for the first time because of El-Sayed’s comments last year after a man attacked a synagogue in a Detroit suburb. El-Sayed tied the attack to Israel’s actions in the Middle East, saying at the time that “hurt people hurt people.” He later apologized for the statement. The issue was a focal point in the Democratic primary between El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, whom he narrowly defeated. Stevens has endorsed her former rival, but her fiance, Jason Turkish, told The Detroit News on Wednesday that he plans to back Rogers because he believes El-Sayed is an antisemite. Later, Stevens appeared on CNN and said of Turkish’s comments, “Like households across America, we’re a household divided.” “I still very much want our Democratic nominee — his name is Abdul — to win this race,” Stevens said. But she also warned that El‑Sayed is at risk of losing many of the black and Jewish voters who backed her in the primary. She urged him to disavow an ad by Rebellion PAC, an independent left-wing group, that linked U.S. support for Israel with high grocery prices. El-Sayed said, “I’m committed to the safety of the Jewish community like I’m committed to safety of all communities,”

and he distanced himself from the ad without addressing its substance, saying it “has nothing to do with our campaign” and it’s “not what I want to be talking about right now.” “He can do the right thing,” Stevens told CNN. “He can disavow these ads and he can reassure these undecided voters who are still left.” The president sticks mostly to red states in pre‑midterm blitz Trump’s stops in the closing stretch of the campaign reflect Republicans’ defensive posture even as the party’s finances — and the president’s signature super PAC, MAGA Inc. — have helped sustain candidates. Trump visited Mississippi on Monday and made another stop in a series of trips to Texas on Tuesday. He plans to be in South Carolina, Florida, Kansas and Iowa in the coming days. Going to so many deeply red states hasn’t always gone smoothly. Early in Wednesday’s speech, Trump was interrupted by a protester shouting about the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and made some rare remarks on his onetime friend, saying he’d expelled Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida decades ago. “That was a great thing I did, I must tell you,” Trump said, adding, “I threw Jeffrey Epstein the hell out of Mar-a-Lago.” The president then pivoted immediately into praising Ohio Sen. Jon Husted’s physique. Trump has been lavishly praising Republicans’ physical appearances on the trail, often diverting into tangents about

Husted — who played football in college — no matter where he’s campaigning. Husted is being challenged by former Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. Trump also chided his predecessor, slamming Obama for suggesting Trump has spent too much time renovating the White House. Trump said Obama “doesn’t understand cleanliness” and things like broken stone exteriors and sidewalks. “It’s more beautiful than it’s ever looked,” Trump said of the White House. Obama says “these are not serious people” Obama faced backlash for saying last weekend that Trump’s gilded flourishes to the White House looked like “Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory,” and he responded to the controversy Wednesday in Georgia. “These are not serious people. They don’t have solutions to actual problems,” Obama said of Trump and top Republicans. He also noted, “I lived at Chuck E. Cheese and California Pizza Kitchen and the Cheesecake Factory — that was my jam for about a decade.” At the same rally, Ossoff focused on Trump increasingly using his office as a profit source for his family business, though the White House has said Trump has ceded control to his sons. “In Washington and at Mar‑a-Lago, it’s a spectacle of grift unprecedented in American history,” he said. “Never before has so little effort been made to cover up so much corruption,” Ossoff added.

‘Dixie’ map that divided US into North, South going up for auction The map originally settled a Colonial border dispute before becoming synonymous with national division By Allen G. Breed The Associated Press IT’S PERHAPS the most consequential map in American history. And it could be yours. The hand-drawn chart of the Mason-Dixon Line that eventually divided the free from the slave states is going up for auction. Remounted on backing made of Japanese rice paper, the document went on sale Thurs-

RACES from page A1 of Education has a four-candidate contest for two at-large seats. Republican incumbent Meghan Almond and fellow Republican Hannah Chavis Lear face Democrats Patrice Barringer and Chody Harris, with voters allowed to select two candidates.

day in a livestreamed auction. “It’s not that often that you can really get this close to something that is so historically important,” said Lauren Brunk, vice president of Brunk Auctions in Asheville. “And it was awe-inspiring, really.” Brunk estimates it could fetch anywhere from $800,000 to $1.2 million for the anonymous seller. The survey by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon was originally meant to settle a border dispute between the then-colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania. But when it was used in the 1820 Missouri Compromise to establish the limits of human bondage in the still adolescent United States, it became

synonymous with the fundamental divisions that exploded into civil war four decades later. “The Mason-Dixon Line that most Americans know is this dividing line between the Northern free states and the Southern slaveholding states,” Brunk said. “But the line was not drawn for that reason.” A popular theory is that the term “Dixie” comes from Dixon, though the true origin is disputed. Soon after it was drawn, the linen-backed strip of paper — 76 inches long and 6.5 inches tall — was given to the family of attorney Benjamin Chew, who represented the descendants of Pennsylvania founder Wil-

Almond is seeking another term, while fellow at-large board member and Vice Chair Robin Whittaker is not running for reelection. Republican Matthew L. Hamilton is unopposed for the school board’s District 1 seat, which is currently held by Dustin Lisk, who is also not seeking reelection.

In the North Carolina General Assembly, Republican state Sen. Carl Ford faces Democratic challenger Gary R. Weart in Senate District 33. In House District 67, Republican state Rep. Cody Huneycutt faces Democrat Jocelyn Torres. Statewide judicial contests include an N.C. Supreme Court race between Democratic in-

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The original, hand-drawn survey of the Mason-Dixon Line at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, last Monday. liam Penn. The map remained in the family’s hands until 1982, when late publisher Malcolm S. Forbes outbid the Library of Congress and bought it for $360,000, Brunk said. At the time, it was said to have been the highest price ever paid at auction for an American map. The map changed hands again in 2002. (A vertical section showing the Delaware-Maryland border is housed at Princeton University.)

Brunk reached out to officials at the Library of Congress to see if they wanted to bid on it again. “I wanted them to be aware that this was coming back to the market,” she said. “And they said, at this point, budgets being what they are, they were just not in a position to buy it.” But if some patriot out there wants to purchase it on the library’s behalf, Brunk said, “they’d be happy to have it.”

cumbent Anita Earls and Republican Sarah Stevens. State election officials have expressed confidence in their preparations for Tuesday’s election. “We are confident that this process will be as smooth, secure and seamless as possible for voters,” N.C. State Board of Elections Executive Director

Sam Hayes said in a statement. Early voting concludes Saturday at 3 p.m. at Stanly County Commons in Albemarle and Locust Town Center. On Tuesday, polling places will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Voters must cast Election Day ballots at their assigned precincts and should bring an acceptable photo ID.

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How daylight saving time changes affect you, what you can do about it Health experts argue that standard time year-round better supports human sleep and biology By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press AN EXTRA HOUR of sleep is on the way for most Americans, though the “fall back” to standard time will bring darker afternoons too. One tip: Try to get outside for some morning sun — it’ll help your body clock reset faster. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, which means you should set your clock back an hour before you go to bed. Standard time will last until March 14, when we will again “spring forward” with the return of daylight saving time. There’s a lot of grumbling about the twice-a-year time changes. An AP-NORC poll last year found that only 12% of American adults were in favor of it, while almost half opposed it. Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., took up the issue yet again over the summer. People often find the spring switch harder, losing that hour of sleep we allegedly recover in the fall. But many people also mourn fall’s end of daylight saving time, when days already are getting shorter and moving the clocks can mean less daylight after school or work for exercise or outdoor fun. The poll found that, if forced to choose, most Americans would prefer to keep that extra hour of daylight in the evening. But health groups, including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have long urged adopting standard time year‑round. That’s because

to fall asleep on time. Those first few days have been linked to increases in car crashes and even an uptick in heart attacks. During the fall and winter, some people with seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression usually linked to the shorter days and less sunlight, often struggle. Many people easily adjust to the clock switch, like how they recover from jet lag after traveling. But a time change can add pressure on shift workers whose schedules already are out of sync with the sun or those regularly sleep-deprived for other reasons. About 1 in 3 U.S. adults sleep less than the recommended seven-plus hours nightly, and more than half of U.S. teens don’t get the recommended eight-plus hours on weeknights. Chronic sleep deprivation is linked to heart disease, cognitive decline, obesity and numerous other problems. How to prepare for time change

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A woman plays with her dog at sunset in November 2021 at a park in Kansas City, Missouri. it aligns more with the sun, which rises later in the winter, and with human biology, what’s called the circadian rhythm. Brighter mornings and less light at night are key to keeping that rhythm on track, making it easier to wake up on time and stick with healthy sleep patterns. Most countries do not observe daylight saving time. For those that do — mostly in North America and Europe — the date that clocks are changed varies. In the U.S., Hawaii and most of Arizona don’t change and stay on standard time. Here’s what to know about the twice-yearly ritual. How body reacts to light The brain has a master clock that is set by exposure to sun-

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light and darkness. This circadian rhythm is a roughly 24-hour cycle that determines when we become sleepy and when we’re more alert. The patterns change with age, one reason that early-to-rise youngsters evolve into hard-to-wake teens. Morning light is key to synchronizing that internal clock. By evening, levels of a hormone called melatonin begin to surge, triggering drows-

iness. Too much light in the evening — whether from later time outdoors during daylight saving time or from artificial light like computer screens — delays that surge and the cycle gets out of sync. And that circadian clock affects more than sleep, also influencing things like heart rate, blood pressure, stress hormones and metabolism. How do time changes affect sleep? Even an hour’s change on the clock can throw off sleep schedules because even though the clocks change, work and school start times stay the same. Right after the spring change, darker mornings and lighter evenings make it harder

In both fall and spring, changing bedtimes by as little as 15 minutes a night in the days before the change can help ease into it. But sunshine in the morning is critical to helping reset your circadian rhythm for healthful sleep. If you can’t get outdoors, sit by windows. Will U.S. ever get rid of time change? Every year, there’s talk about ending the time change. The nation even tried it in the 1970s, but it lasted less than a year after a public outcry. The latest attempt came in July, when the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent. President Donald Trump backs the idea and is pressuring reluctant senators to support it, even posting the cellphone number of Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, an opponent, on social media.

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er seats: Kevin Almond, David D. Fraley and Carson Yuckel. Mayor C.J. Crisco is unopposed. Stanfield voters will select two commissioners from Marcus Christensen, Brent E. Holbrooks and Greg Lucas. Mayor James Kluttz faces no opposition. Misenheimer’s three village council candidates — Jon Byers, Lane Peeler and Stephanie Webster — are running for three positions. In Norwood, Wes Hartsell and Keith Morgan are seeking two council seats. Red Cross has two candidates, Lisa Lowder and Andrew W. Smith, for two council positions. In Badin, Dale Ward is unopposed for the at-large council seat, as are Charlie Council in the East District and Jackie L. Burch in the West District. North Carolina election officials have outlined their responsibilities ahead of Tuesday’s vote. “Our responsibility is to ensure that elections are administered fairly, accurately, securely,” N.C. State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes said during an Oct. 15 news briefing.

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Republicans emphasize transgender ads, putting cultural issues over voters’ economic anxiety One in 10 voters rank transgender issues as their top election concern By Steve Peoples and Aaron Kessler The Associated Press NEW YORK — Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year’s midterm elections, betting that struggling GOP candidates can leverage the divisive cultural issue to overcome voters’ concerns about President Donald Trump’s leadership and the state of the economy. The massive investment through Oct. 25 produced about 217,000 TV spots nationwide and exceeds the amount Republicans spent on similar ads in 2024, a presidential election year, at the same point before Election Day, according to tallies provided to The Associated Press by data firm AdImpact. The spending campaign matched messaging from other Republicans on the campaign trail, led by Trump, who has played down surging gasoline prices and other rising costs, but highlighted what he described as an urgent threat to America’s children from Democratic policies. The Republican emphasis on transgender issues offers a consequential test of whether a theme that had worked in past elections — and especially in deep red states — can still be potent when voters consistently say high prices are their chief concern. Barely five minutes into his speech during Monday night’s rally in Corinth, Mississippi, Trump said that Democrats “promote the transgender mutilization of your children.” During his Sunday rally in Florida, Trump said “men in women’s sports” four times and gender “mutilization” — meaning mutilation — another four times. Having shifted away from abortion, few cultural issues reflect the Republican Party’s evolution on social issues in the age of Trump more than transgender rights. Though a tiny number of Americans are directly affected by legislation designed to protect transgender people from discrimination, Republicans have used the issue as a powerful emotional motivator, especially in Republican-leaning states where they need to win to maintain control of Congress. Texas’ high-stakes Senate contest alone has consumed the largest share of Republican-backed transgender-related spending, drawing an estimated $58 million for more than 50,000 airings, according to AdImpact. But the GOP is also investing heavily in related attacks against Demo-

crats in Ohio, Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa and Mississippi, according to an AP analysis of the data. The Republican Party’s focus stands in stark contrast to what voters say they care most about this midterm season. “Republicans clearly believe these issues expose a cultural disconnect between Democratic candidates and a significant portion of the electorate,” said Republican pollster Chris Wilson. “It’s not necessarily that transgender policy is a top voting priority, it’s that voters can use a candidate’s position on it as a proxy for their broader values and judgment.” Only about 1 in 10 registered voters say transgender issues are “one of the most important issues” in the election, according to an AP-NORC poll from October. That falls well below the roughly 8 in 10 who mentioned the economy or the cost of living, and also falls short of other issues that have surfaced during the campaign, including healthcare and the war with Iran. Republicans were more likely than independents and Democrats to say transgender issues are highly important to this election, but it still fell below other issues. The issue resonates with voters like Jerry Casner, a 74-year-old registered Republican and three-time Trump voter, who lives in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He retired from a nearby Army depot and works 12 hours a week at a grocery store in New Cumberland. “Well, I don’t like the way the Democrats operate,” Casner said, when asked what national issues are important to him. He explained: “If you can’t even determine the difference between a man and a woman, but yet you’re going to make life and death decisions for me, oh, I don’t think so. That’s disgusting.” Casner said he plans on voting Republican up and down the ballot. Issue dominating in some states Republicans across federal, state and local races have aired transgender-themed ads during the general election around 217,000 times at a cost estimated at $183 million through Oct. 25, AdImpact found. That’s up from $151 million in spending in the 2024 general election as of the same number of days prior to that year’s election. Democrats have spent roughly $11 million on transgender-related ads, largely to defend themselves from the attacks. This year’s spending was concentrated in a small number of races, according to AdImpact. Texas PAC, the Republican super PAC largely funded by Elon Musk and supporting Republican Senate candidate

Ken Paxton, has at least three separate TV ads hammering Democrat James Talarico on trans issues. One of them echoes a Trump ad from the 2024 campaign with the narrator saying that Vice President Kamala Harris is for “they, them. President Trump is for you.” The Texas ad accuses Talarico of supporting taxpayer funding of minors’ sex-reassignment surgery, charging that he’s “for they them, not you.” Another Texas PAC ad claims Talarico supports taxpayer funding of gender reassignment surgery for minors, while a third accuses him of backing child abuse charges against parents who do not support transitioning their children. “If you care about your children, do not vote for James Talarico,” the narrator says in the spot that has aired nearly 17,000 times at a cost exceeding $23 million. In Ohio, Republican groups led by the Senate Leadership Fund PAC are running multiple trans-themed ads against Democratic Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. In two of that fund’s ads, someone who underwent surgery as a minor and later de-transitioned is featured describing the regret and accusing Brown of supporting such surgeries for minors. Another accuses Brown of supporting “men competing in women’s sports.” Brown’s campaign said the ads were a “total lie” and a distraction from economic issues. The independent organization PolitiFact rated the fund’s ad false. Talarico has publicly stated that he opposes gender-reassignment surgery for minors. And the attack against Brown twists a 2023 interview where Brown stated that a child’s medical decisions belong between families and doctors, not politicians. Still, the Texas ads have aired an estimated 50,000 times overall at a cost of $58 million, representing roughly 2 in 10 ads run in the Senate race. The Ohio attacks against Brown have cost nearly $26 million. In deeper-red states like South Carolina, which has emerged as an unlikely Senate battleground, Republicans have spent more than $5 million on transgender-themed ads. And in the Kansas Senate race, Republican transgender ads have aired 7,000 times at a cost of nearly $7 million. “The interesting question isn’t why Republicans are running these ads, it’s whether they’re still persuading anyone or simply reinforcing attitudes voters already hold,” said Wilson, the Republican pollster. “Those are two very different things, and $100 million in spending doesn’t tell us which is happening.” He added, “We’ll find that out on Election Day.”

PUBLIC NOTICE RESOLUTION OF THE STANLY COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS CONCERNING THE COUNTING OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS On September 1, 2026, the Stanly County Board of Elections met in the Board of Elections Office at the Stanly Commons, Albemarle, North Carolina and adopted the following resolution: BE IT RESOLVED by the Stanly County Board of Elections that: The Stanly County Board of Elections shall meet at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, November 3, 2026 at the Stanly County Board of Elections Meeting Room at 1000 N First Street, Suite 4, Albemarle, North Carolina to count absentee ballots. Any voter of the County may attend this meeting and observe the count. The results of the absentee ballot count will not be announced before 7:30 pm on that day. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Stanly County Board of Elections that: The Stanly County Board of Elections shall meet as allowed by G.S. 163-234(11) &(12) to count cured absentee ballots received pursuant to G.S. 163-230.1(e1) at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, and UOCAVA absentee ballots received pursuant to G.S. 163-231(b)(2) at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, 2026. William N. Rigsbee, Jr., Chair Stanly County Board of Elections

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Gray Stone boys’ soccer regains conference crown The Knights were undefeated against league opponents By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal MISENHEIMER — Gray Stone’s boys’ soccer team has reclaimed the Yadkin Valley Conference championship once again, winning its sixth league title in eight seasons. After winning five consecutive conference championships from 2019 to 2023, the Knights finished as runners-up to Union

Academy in each of the past two seasons. This year, Gray Stone retook the title in convincing fashion, finishing the regular season with an 18-3-3 overall record and a perfect 10-0 mark in YVC play. The Knights extended their winning streak to six matches Monday with a 2-0 nonconference victory over Concord (16‑5‑2, 13-0-1 South Piedmont) in Misenheimer. Gray Stone completed its undefeated conference campaign Oct. 22 with a 2-1 home victory over Union Academy, over-

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coming a Cardinals program that had held the upper hand in recent seasons. Union Academy finished second in the YVC standings at 8-2. Winners of 13 of their past 14 matches, the Knights enter the

state playoffs with plenty of momentum. The first round of the state playoffs is scheduled for Monday, with official brackets having been released Thursday. Gray Stone has outscored its opponents 105-17 this season, a dominant stretch that followed an uneven start to the year. Coming off a 16-4-4 campaign and an appearance in the 2A state championship game last season, the Knights opened this fall with a 5-3-2 record through their first 10 matches before finding their stride. Now, Gray Stone will look to make another deep postseason run in the 2A bracket. The Knights captured the 1A state championship in 2023 before finishing as the 2A runner-up last season. Among Stanly County’s four other boys’ soccer teams, North Stanly was the only program to finish with a winning re-

cord overall or in conference play. The Comets (12-8-2, 6-4 YVC) secured their first winning season in more than a decade, climbing to third place in the YVC standings. Their 12 victories more than doubled last season’s total of five. In Albemarle, the Bulldogs (3-13-1, 1-9 YVC) slipped to sixth place in the conference after finishing third a year ago. South Stanly entered conference play with a promising 5-3 record but struggled the rest of the way. The Bulls (5‑12, 1-9 YVC), who had totaled 15 victories over the previous six seasons, finished fifth in the YVC. West Stanly (6-15-3, 3-8-1 RRC), the county’s lone Rocky River Conference representative, placed sixth in the league standings, falling two spots from its fourth-place finish last season.

Pfeiffer soccer teams finish fourth, turn to postseason Both teams begin USA South tournament play this weekend By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal MISENHEIMER — Pfeiffer’s soccer teams closed the regular season with different results Wednesday night against Brevard. However, both Falcons squads finished fourth in the USA South Conference and will enter postseason play this weekend. The men earned a 2-1 road victory behind first-half goals from Barrett Owens and Aiden Dualan, while the women fell 1-0 to the conference-leading Tornados at Lefko-Mills Field in Misenheimer. Pfeiffer’s men (10-3-3, 3-2‑2 USA South) head into the conference tournament riding a three-game winning streak. The Falcons won six of their final seven games and have not lost since Sept. 30. Led by 10th-year coach Tony Faticoni, Pfeiffer finished the regular season with the league’s top-ranked offense and third-ranked defense. Brevard dropped to 7-5-3 overall and 1-4-1 in conference play. The Falcons were picked second in the preseason coaches poll after setting a high standard in 2025. They went 13‑0‑4 overall and 5-0-2 in league play last season, winning their first USA South regular-season championship before finishing second to Methodist in the conference tournament. Those 13 victories were the most under Faticoni and Pfeiffer’s most since its 19-3 campaign in 2016, while the unbeaten record was the program’s best finish since its 25-0 national championship season in 2015. For the women, Wednesday’s

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Pfeiffer’s Caleb Yopp measures up the timing of his kick during a matchup earlier this season. loss capped a turnaround season under fourth-year coach Acasio Roche III. Pfeiffer (5-6-5, 4-3-2 USA South) climbed to fourth after being picked eighth in the preseason poll. The Falcons finished ninth last year, going 2-12-1 overall and 1-7-1 in conference play. Their five victories are the program’s most since 2019, although Pfeiffer enters the post-

season with one win, two losses and two ties over its final five games. Defense has been the stronger side of the Falcons’ game, as Pfeiffer ranks fourth in the conference defensively and ninth offensively. Pfeiffer’s defense kept Wednesday’s finale close, but Mikayla Rubin’s goal gave Brevard a 1-0 victory. The conference leaders improved to 11-1‑5

overall and 6-0-3 in the USA South, finishing their league schedule unbeaten. Both Pfeiffer teams qualified for their respective conference tournaments. Six teams make the men’s field, while eight qualify for the women’s tournament. First-round games are scheduled for Saturday, followed by the semifinals Wednesday and championship games Nov. 7.

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76ers’ Brown says no beef with former Celtics teammate Tatum The forward was traded to Philadelphia in the offseason By Dan Gelston The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Jaylen Brown says there’s “no beef” between himself and former Boston Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum even as their squabbles have dragged into the season. Now with the Philadelphia 76ers after an offseason trade, Brown didn’t quite seem ready to call a truce with Tatum. “There’s no beef,” Brown said after the 76ers beat Milwaukee 127-116 last Saturday night. “There might be a little lamb

chops and some gravy. He should stay ready at all times.” Tatum started the postgame back and forth after the Celtics beat the Knicks a night earlier. Brown posted a social media response that took issue with Tatum saying in a video on his YouTube channel that he was “just as much caught off guard as the rest of the world” by Brown’s trade to Philadelphia. Brown responded on his Instagram account with a baseball cap emoji. “Cap” is slang for something that is not true. Asked if he had any response, Tatum sighed before expressing his frustrations with the entire situation for several minutes. “I don’t have any animosity

“It’s turned into this drama type of thing.” Jayson Tatum or beef or ill will towards him,” Tatum said. “I think the toughest part is since he’s not on the Celtics anymore, the narrative or the conversations haven’t been enough about what we accomplished — all the games we won, winning a championship, how we’ve grown together. It’s turned into this drama type of thing.” Brown said he had no plans to talk to Tatum ahead of Boston’s first visit to Philadelphia this season on Nov. 10.

“We’ve both got so much stuff in front of us,” Brown said. Brown added: “Jayson comes from a wonderful family. We accomplished some great things. He’s a hell of a basketball player. He’s got a great PR team.” Both players have spoken glowingly at times about how they grew and thrived together during their nine years together as teammates. But it’s morphed into something else since the Celtics chose Tatum as the player they want to build around after trading Brown in what amounted to a move to cut one of the two players with $300 million contracts from the payroll. Brown celebrated his 30th birthday last week with 27 points

Brown, who posted more wins than any LSU basketball coach, dead at 90 The legend coached Shaquille O’Neal in college with the Tigers By Brett Martel The Associated Press DALE BROWN, who coached some of the most successful basketball teams in LSU history, as well as one of the Tigers’ most famous players in Shaquille O’Neal, has died. He was 90. Brown, whose death last Friday was announced by LSU, was just over a week away from what would have been his 91st birthday. The previous week, Brown was announced as the 2027 recipient of the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award. “We have lost the most loving and most loved man any of us has ever known,” Brown’s family said in a statement. “Dale Brown always put others first. He always led with the heart. He was always a great humanitarian before anything else. Dale long ago fell in love with Louisiana. And the people of Louisiana loved him right back. We are forever grateful for that.” Brown was named AP Coach of the Year in 1981, was a four‑time SEC Coach of the Year and has the most wins of a coach in program history. The panache with which his teams played and the rate at which they won packed LSU’s dome‑shaped Pete Maravich Assembly Center with crowds so wild that the stadium took on the nickname, “Deaf Dome.” The highlights of his 25 years as LSU’s coach included two trips to the NCAA Final Four with his 1981 and 1986 teams. He coached O’Neal for three seasons, from the 1989-90 cam-

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Former LSU player Shaquille O’Neal, left, and former LSU basketball coach Dale Brown talk about their careers during a news conference before a National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame induction in 2014. paign until the charismatic, 7-foot-1 superstar entered the 1992 NBA Draft and was selected first overall by Orlando. LSU earned bids to the NCAA Tournament during all three of O’Neal’s seasons, the first with Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, then known as Chris Jackson, also an All-American, but did not advance past the second round. The final years of Brown’s career were marred by an NCAA investigation over alleged recruiting tactics that now are permitted. During the 1996-97 season, the NCAA concluded that a

“The best potential of me is we.” Dale Brown booster had paid one of Brown’s former players, Lester Earl, about $5,000 while he played for the Tigers. Brown retired in 1997 and LSU was placed on probation in 1998. Still, Brown remained popular in Louisiana, where his enthusiastic, gregarious and ex-

pressive manner had long captivated fans. Many LSU fans also appeared to subscribe to a storyline — espoused in no small part by Brown — that he was unfairly singled out and persecuted by the NCAA. Brown later was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and LSU’s home basketball court was named for him in 2022 (and also subsequently for late women’s coach Sue Gunter in 2024). When Brown’s name was unveiled on the court during a halftime ceremony, Brown credited his former players and assistant

that included a late 3-pointer on a pass from Joel Embiid that gave the All-Star center a triple-double. Embiid had 28 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists and went 12 of 14 from the free-throw line. “I’m still getting used to the guys; where my spots are,” Brown said. “As I get more and more comfortable, I’ll be able to make more plays for myself and others.” Philadelphia is 3-0, with its first two wins over the NBA champion Knicks and Eastern Conference finalist Cleveland Cavaliers. Brown was serenaded with an off-key version of “Happy Birthday” by rookie Labaron Philon Jr. earlier in the day at shootaround. Sixers fans broke into their rendition of the song in the first half with Brown at the free‑throw line. There just might be more on the menu than birthday cake. “No beef,” Brown said. “It should never, ever be that. It’s just basketball. We’re both blessed. It might be a little lamb chop. We’re all right.”

coaches, many of whom were in attendance that night. “The best potential of me is we,” Brown said. “This is an example.” The late former Temple coach John Chaney called Brown “one of the true statesmen of college basketball,” according to a profile of Brown on LSU’s website. That same profile also quoted Hall of Fame UCLA coach John Wooden saying he will “always remember Dale for his enthusiasm.” “There are those who say he is a put-on — they just can’t believe that he can be what he professes,” Wooden said then. “But I never questioned that. He amazed me because there is a lot more depth to the man. He was much more than a basketball coach.” Brown was a native of Minot, North Dakota, and was a three‑sport varsity athlete in basketball, football and track at Minot State. After college, he spent a little more than half a decade as a high school coach in North Dakota and California before taking college assistant posts at Utah State in 1966 and Washington State in 1971. When he was hired by LSU in 1972, few Tigers fans had previously heard of him. His name recognition and popularity began surging after LSU knocked off then-third-ranked Memphis State in the home opener of Brown’s first season. Brown went on to coach an LSU squad forecast to finish last in the SEC to a 9-9 league record, resulting in his first SEC Coach of the Year honor. Brown went on to post a career 448-301 record at LSU. Following his retirement, Brown became a motivational speaker, a basketball analyst for television broadcasts and started the charitable Dale Brown Foundation, which aims to promote educational opportunities for students who have physical disabilities or come from families who’ve struggled financially.

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Duke, UConn, Arizona highlight MSG college basketball schedule featuring 14 NCAA champs

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By Mike Fitzpatrick The Associated Press NEW YORK — Duke, Arizona and Arkansas are among 14 men’s college basketball teams scheduled to play at Madison Square Garden this season that have won an NCAA championship. Plus the UConn women, with 12 national titles all to themselves. Visits by Virginia, Houston, Kansas and Kentucky also highlight a regular-season slate featuring 11 men’s programs in the preseason AP Top 25. Five schools ranked in the top 10, and seven in the top 13, will tip off inside “The World’s Most Famous Arena.” No. 2 Duke, No. 4 UConn and, of course, No. 13 St. John’s are set to make multiple appearances well before the Big East Tournament and NCAA Tournament come to MSG in March. It all begins Nov. 8 when St. John’s hosts Iona — where Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino revived his career before jumping to the Red Storm. A week later, the Johnnies welcome an old Big East rival in Syracuse — with new coach Gerry McNamara. Hall of Fame coach John Calipari brings No. 12 Arkansas to The Garden to face Indiana on Nov. 17, then big man Motiejus Krivas and No. 5 Arizona arrive Dec. 5 to take on St. John’s. Three days after that, the annual Jimmy V Classic to support cancer research and awareness opens with Duke against Georgia followed by No. 10 Houston versus No. 20 Alabama. The weekend before Christmas offers five games in three

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Coach Jon Scheyer, pictured last Sunday against Kansas, and Duke will play twice at Madison Square Garden this season.

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days, starting with a Saturday tripleheader. No. 17 Kansas plays Ohio State, and No. 23 Kentucky takes on UNC in the CBS Sports Classic beginning at noon on Dec. 19. Clear out the building, restock concessions and open the gates again a few hours later as a new crowd arrives to watch St. John’s in its Big East opener against DePaul at 8:30 p.m. The next afternoon, coach Dan Hurley and UConn, paced by senior guard Silas Demary Jr., meet No. 9 Virginia in the SentinelOne Showdown. And on Dec. 21, Duke returns

to the Big Apple for a rematch with No. 19 Texas Tech — their third MSG date since 2018. Last December, JT Toppin and the Red Raiders rallied from 17 points down in the second half to stun the third‑ranked Blue Devils, 82‑81. St. John’s, coming off its first Sweet 16 trip in 27 years, is scheduled to play 13 regular-season home games at The Garden — its most since the 1950-51 season. The others are ticketed for Carnesecca Arena on campus in Queens. In addition, the Johnnies will play all their conference home games at MSG for the first time. After back-to-back sweeps of the Big East regular-season and tournament titles the past two years, their next New York City showdown with rival UConn is Jan. 29 on a Friday night. The women’s teams will head into Manhattan too when Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma and the second-ranked Huskies visit St. John’s at The Garden on Jan. 24.

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West Stanly, girls’ golf Olivia Hughes is a junior on the West Stanly girls’ golf team. Two weeks ago, Hughes finished first at the conference championship meet, a spot she’d become familiar with after finishing there in most of this season’s events. She earned her third straight all-conference honor and was named Player of the Year for the second time in her career. This week, Hughes led West Stanly to a third-place finish in the NCHSAA Class 4A state championships. She was the highest-placing Colts golfer, tying for 10th at Longleaf with a first-round 84 and second‑round 85 for a total of 169.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS The undersigned have qualified as Co-Executors of the Estate of JERRY MARSHALL BRATTAIN, deceased, late of Stanly County, North Carolina (Stanly County File Number 26E000434-830). This is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against said decedent or his estate to present the same duly itemized and verified to the undersigned Co-Executors or their Attorney on or before the 18th day of January 2027, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, firms and corporations indebted to the decedent or to his estate are hereby requested to pay the said indebtedness to the undersigned CoExecutors or their attorney. This the 18th day of October 2026. LORI ANN BRATTAIN Co-Executor 215 Brattain Rd Locust, NC 28097 CHRIS MARSHALL BRATTAIN Co-Executor 215 Brattain Rd Locust, NC 28097 CHARLES P. BROWN BROWN & SENTER, PLLC PO Box 400 Albemarle, North Carolina 28002 Telephone: 704 982-2141 Facsimile: 704 982-0902 PUBLISH: October 18, 25, November 1, and 8, 2026

Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of Robert James Tomasek SS# xxx-xx-1043, deceased, late of Stanly County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, firms and corporations having claims against said estate to present them, duly verified, to the undersigned (at)(care of) Katharine S. Walker, P.C., K.S. Walker Law Group, 319 S. Sharon Amity Road, Suite 230, Charlotte, North Carolina 28211, on or before the 1st day of February 2027, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement with the undersigned. This the 1st day of November 2026. Jamie Tomasek Kent, Administrator File #: 26E000226-830

NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA STANLY COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NO. 26E000462-830 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Jana H. Gantt a/k/a Jana Hackman Gantt deceased, of Stanly County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said Jana H. Gantt a/k/a Jana Hackman Gantt to present them to the undersigned on or before January 20, 2027 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate please make immediate payment. This the 18th day of October 2026. Stephen Gary Gantt Jr. 40108A Gold Hill Road Richfield, NC 28137 Executor

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Having qualified as Executor of the Estate of Hazel Leen Reid, a/k/a Hazel G. Reid, deceased, late of Stanly County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, companies and other entities having claims against said estate to present them, duly verified, to the undersigned, care of Thomas J. Falish, Atty., 525 N. Tryon St., Suite 210, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202, on or before the 20th day of January, 2027, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement with the undersigned. This the 18th day of October, 2026. Deborah Lancaster, Executor

NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA STANLY COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NO. 26E000451-830 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having qualified as Co-Executors of the Estate of Joyce Soots Smith a/k/a Joyce S. Smith deceased, of Stanly County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said Joyce Soots Smith a/k/a Joyce S. Smith to present them to the undersigned on or before January 12, 2027 or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate please make immediate payment. This the 11th day of October 2026. Mark Dewayne Smith a/k/a Mark Dwayne Smith Po Box 805 Locust, NC 28097 Co-Executor Marian Lambert 1758 Pergola Place Charlotte, NC 28213 Co-Executor

NOTICE ALL PERSONS, firms and corporations holding claims against Richard William Arnold, deceased, of Stanly County, NC, are notified to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before February 4th, 2027, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment. This 1st day of November, 2026. Sarah Arnold Clay, Exec., c/o Clarity Legal Group, PO Box 2207, Chapel Hill, NC 27515.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS The undersigned, having qualified as the Executrix of the Estate of Betty Crump Hinson, late of Stanly County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against the Estate to present such claims to the undersigned Executrix at 1004 Melchor Rd., Albemarle, NC 28001, on or before the 5th day of February, 2027, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate will please make immediate payment. This the 23rd day of October, 2026. _________________________ Taske Carolyn McLaurin, Executrix 1004 Melchor Rd. Albemarle, NC 28001 David A. Beaver Attorney for the Executrix P.O. Box 1338 Albemarle, N.C. 28001 PH: (704) 982-4915 Dates of publication: November 1, 8, 15 and 22, 2026.

Notice to Creditors FILE NUMBER: 26E000430-830 Having Qualified as Executor of the Estate of Billy Joe Hartsell, deceased, late of Stanly County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 2nd day of February, 2027 or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This the 16th day of October,2026 Executor for the Estate Kaylie Reagan Parker 2704 Wolf Pond Road Monroe, NC 28112 Attorney for Executor R. Kenneth Helms, Jr. 15891 Helms Law Group, P.A. 314 N. Hayne St. Monroe, NC 28112

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Baby orangutans in India expose illegal wildlife trade burgeoning in the country Indonesia is working to repatriate the orphaned infants to their native rainforests

Vantara, which describes itself as a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center. The orangutan was treated for a respiratory infection and pneumonia before it was returned to Indonesia on Oct. 19 after 19 months at the private facility. India’s CITES authority didn’t respond to AP’s request for comment. “Vantara fully supported this process and worked with the relevant authorities to facilitate his return,” the company said in a written statement.

By Aniruddha Ghosal and Victoria Milko The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam — The villagers who first spotted the five baby orangutans in a casuarina forest in India in early September were puzzled by their reddish hair and unfamiliar faces. The three males and two females, aged 6 to 8 months, were left on a plantation in eastern India’s Odisha, over 1,700 miles from their native rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra, evidence of a growing illicit trade of apes being trafficked into India. They’re now at an Indian zoo, where keepers reportedly have been playing classical music to soothe them. Wild orangutans are native only to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, where they sustain rainforests by spreading seeds across vast areas, allowing trees to regenerate and store carbon that would otherwise contribute to global warming. The species is critically endangered, threatened by severe habitat loss. There are about 119,500 orangutans left in the wild, according to conservation organization World Wildlife Fund. The global illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be worth $34 billion annually, according to a 2026 study by National University of Singapore researchers, and India is emerging as an important market. Experts say seizures reflect a fraction of a booming trade in exotic or non-native animals sold to wealthy Indian collectors. India’s wildlife laws were mainly designed to protect native species such as elephants, rhinoceroses and tigers from being trafficked overseas. Gaps in controls on imported animals complicate efforts to trace the origins of exotic wildlife. In 2022, two juvenile Sumatran orangutans were found in boxes at a checkpoint between the northeastern states of Assam and Mizoram. Another was rescued in Mizoram in 2023, and a young orangutan was found in an apartment near Mumbai in November 2024. At least 23 gibbons were seized at Indian airports in 2025, according to an analysis by nonprofit Wildlife Trust of India. In May 2026, Egyptian authorities seized three India-bound, sedated baby chimpanzees. “India has become the number one destination for the live trade of primates,” said Sinan Serhadli, a wildlife trafficking expert at the Orangutan Information Centre in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province. India’s exotic wildlife trade, Southeast Asian trafficking routes Wealthy collectors who prize rare animals as “status sym-

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Rescued baby orangutans huddle together in Bhograi village in Balasore district of Odisha, India, in September.

“The profit margins are so high that they can afford to lose a few (animals) and still make a profit.” Uttara Mendiratta, wildlife trafficking researcher in India

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Veterinarians inspect a rescued baby orangutan at Nandankanan Zoo in Odisha, India, last month. bols” are driving the trade in trafficked animals from Southeast Asia, a regional hub for trade in species from elsewhere, said Uttara Mendiratta, a wildlife trafficking researcher in India. Expanding tourism has led to more direct flights to India through cities like Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, giving traffickers routes that are faster, albeit riskier, than overland border crossings. “The profit margins are so high that they can afford to lose a few (animals) and still make a profit,” Mendiratta said. Questions also surround legal trade. Most commercial trade in orangutans is banned, but exceptions exist for captive-bred animals. India imported 41 orangutans between 2021 and 2024, according to CITES, the global treaty regulating trade in endangered wildlife. Sinan Serhadli, a wildlife trafficking expert at Indonesia’s Orangutan Information Centre, questioned whether the animals were legitimately bred in captivity.

“It just shows the loopholes. And ... corruption as well,” he said. The CITES Secretariat declined to comment, saying the matter was under review. Loopholes in India’s wildlife laws enable wildlife trafficking Concerned about diseases spreading from animals to people during the COVID-19 pandemic, India allowed people to register their exotic animals in 2020 without proving their origins. They can report births, deaths and breeding of non-native species through an online portal. But the government lacks enough staff and expertise to adequately inspect collections and identify global species. The system also leaves room for trafficked animals to be misrepresented as registered ones, Mendiratta said. India tightened its wildlife laws in 2022, giving authorities clearer powers to seize illegally traded exotic animals and prosecute traffickers. But by then, it

already had “opened the floodgates,” she said. India’s exotic pet trade “sits at the crossroads of biodiversity loss, unbridled community demand, and organized criminal activity,” said a 2026 report by Humane World for Animals India. India’s forest ministry didn’t respond to AP’s request for comment. Indonesia renews push to repatriate orangutans from India Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry said it was taking “active steps” to bring home the five baby orangutans found in Odisha, sending experts to verify their origins and assess their health. Their mothers were likely killed, traumatizing infants that normally would depend on them for up to nine years. Conservationists have successfully returned orangutans to Indonesia from Thailand, but so far only one has been repatriated from India. When one orangutan was transferred last year to a private wildlife facility known as Vantara, run by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s family, India’s federal wildlife officials and India’s CITES authority were not informed, a federal wildlife official in New Delhi wrote in a report. Officials concerned over the orangutan’s care at a local public zoo ordered it transferred to

Vantara, a 3,500-acre wildlife facility in western India, has over 150,000 animals and over 2,000 different species. It has faced international scrutiny over its animal acquisitions. In November 2025, CITES questioned shipments to Vantara that included snow leopards from Germany, a bonobo said to have been bred in Iraq and a gorilla reportedly from Haiti. The primates are not native to those countries. CITES took no further action after questioning the snow leopard shipments. India’s Supreme Court cleared Vantara of wildlife trafficking and animal mistreatment allegations in 2025. In September, 27 wildlife conservation and animal welfare organizations issued a letter urging the facility to end imports of wild animals, raising concerns about endangered species and animal welfare. The groups said they had “never encountered anything comparable to the scale and diversity” of Vantara’s imports, citing more than 60,000 animals acquired in a short period. One controversial acquisition, according to Vantara’s 2024-25 inventory, is a Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape. Recognized as a distinct species only in 2017, it’s only found in a small area of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, where 716 remain in the wild. “The Tapanuli orangutan is hovering just above extinction,” said Serhadli, whose organization is one of the few that works with the species. The one at Vantara would be the only Tapanuli orangutan in captivity. CITES trade data shows that the animal left Indonesia in 2024 and arrived in India via the United Arab Emirates. In its statement, Vantara said the animal was legally imported into India, though it added that the “prior chain of custody remained to be clarified with the United Arab Emirates.” Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry said it was taking “seriously” reports that a Tapanuli orangutan might be outside the country. It said it couldn’t confirm the animal’s species, origins or how it got to India. An investigation would require checking permits and transfer records, along with scientific testing, the ministry said. A male orangutan is released after emergency translocation in Sumatra, Indonesia.

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this week in history

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is 53, Laura Bush celebrates 80, Sally Field turns 80

Truman defeats Dewey, KKK and neo-Nazis kill five in Greensboro massacre, Abraham Lincoln wins presidency

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THESE CELEBRITIES have birthdays this week.

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NOV. 1 Music producer David Foster is 77. Former Apple CEO Tim Cook is 66. Rock singer Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 64. Actor-TV host Jenny McCarthy is 54. Actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is 53. Actor Penn Badgley is 40. Actor Anthony Ramos is 35.

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Former Apple CEO Tim Cook will be 66 on Sunday.

NOV. 2 Tennis Hall of Famer Ken Rosewall is 92. Political commentator Pat Buchanan is 88. Singer-songwriter k.d. lang is 65. Actor David Schwimmer is 60. Rapper Nelly is 52. TV personality Karamo Brown (“Queer Eye”) is 46. NFL quarterback Jordan Love is 28.

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NOV. 3 Economist and Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen is 93. Vogue global editorial director Anna Wintour is 77. Actor Dolph Lundgren is 69. Olympic gold medal figure skater Evgeni Plushenko is 44. Actor Antonia Thomas (“The Good Doctor”) is 40. Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is 39.

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Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick turns 39 on Tuesday.

NOV. 4 Former first lady Laura Bush is 80. Author Charles Frazier is 76. Actor Ralph Macchio is 65. Actor Matthew McConaughey is 57. Jazz musician Gregory Porter is 55. Football Hall of Famer Devin Hester is 44. NBA All-Star player Tyrese Maxey is 26.

1948: In one of the most unexpected results in U.S. presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated the heavily favored Republican governor of New York, Thomas E. Dewey. 1984: Velma Barfield, from Cumberland County, became the first woman in the nation executed by lethal injection. 2016: Ending a championship drought that had lasted since 1908, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in extra innings in the deciding seventh game. NOV. 3 1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the first animal into orbit — a dog named Laika. 1979: Five Communist

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NOV. 4 1922: The entrance to King Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. 1979: The Iran hostage crisis began as militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants; 52 of the hostages were held for 444 days and were released on Jan. 20, 1981. 2008: Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was elected the first black president of the United States, defeating Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona. NOV. 5 1605: The “Gunpowder Plot” failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. 1872: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by casting a vote in the presidential election; she was later arrested and charged with “knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote.” 2006: Saddam Hussein was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to death by hanging. NOV. 6 1860: Former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was

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Magic Johnson reveals his HIV diagnosis during a news conference in Los Angeles on Nov. 7, 1991. elected president of the United States. 1861: James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born. 1947: “Meet the Press” made its debut on NBC; the host was the show’s co-creator, Martha Rountree, and it would become the longest-running television program in the United States. NOV. 7 1917: Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. 1940: Washington state’s original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” collapsed into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after opening to traffic. 1991: Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring. A mass of Iranian protesters is held back from the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 5, 1979. The day before, Iranian students overran guards to take over the embassy, starting a 444‑day hostage crisis that transfixed America.

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Singer Art Garfunkel is 85. Singer Bryan Adams is 67. Actor Tilda Swinton is 66. Actor Sam Rockwell is 58. Musician Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) is 55. Olympic gold medal marathoner Eliud Kipchoge is 42. Retired NFL player Jason Kelce is 39.

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell turns 83 on Saturday.

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Singer-songwriter Joni Mitch­ ell is 83. Retired Army general and former CIA Director David Petraeus is 74. DJ-producer David Guetta is 59. Actor Yunjin Kim is 53. Actor-comedian Adam DeVine is 43. Pop singer Lorde is 30. Actor Amybeth McNulty is 25.

Actor Sally Field is 80. Author Michael Cunningham is 74. TV host Catherine Crier is 72. Author Colson Whitehead is 57. Actor Ethan Hawke is 56. Actor Emma Stone is 38. Olympic swimming

1512: Pope Julius II inaugurated Michelangelo’s masterfully painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, which depicted biblical accounts including the creation of the world, the fall of man and the story of Noah. 1859: The Cape Lookout Lighthouse was lit for the first time. 1938: In a two-horse match, Seabiscuit defeated the favored Triple Crown winner War Admiral by four lengths in what was dubbed the “Race of the Century” at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

Workers Party members were killed in a clash with heavily armed Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis during an anti-Klan protest in Greensboro in what became known as the Greensboro massacre. 1992: Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating Republican President George H.W. Bush.

gold medalist Bobby Finke is 27. NOV. 7

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New Beatles attraction coming to Liverpool as interest in Fab Four surges The museum will open in 2028 where the band originated By Jill Lawless The Associated Press LONDON — The birthplace of The Beatles is about to get even more of the Fab Four. Plans were announced last Tuesday for a new visitor attraction that backers say will give Liverpool a tourist draw about its famous sons to rival Elvis Presley’s Graceland and Dolly Parton’s Dollywood. Apple Corps Ltd., the company that oversees The Beatles’ business interests, said an expanded version of The Beatles Story Museum is coming to the center of Liverpool in 2028. It’s scheduled to open soon after the release of Sam Mendes’ quartet of feature films about John, Paul, George and Ringo, which are expected to unleash a new wave of global interest in the band that transformed rock ’n’ roll. The plan will see Apple Corps take over The Beatles Story and move it from its current home in Liverpool’s docklands to the former St. John’s Market, a 100,000-square‑foot site across

from the city’s main Lime Street train station. Apple Corps said the new venue will use “immersive technology, original artifacts and spectacular reconstructed sets” to take visitors from the band members’ childhoods in postwar Liverpool through their hardscrabble years in the bars of Hamburg, Germany, to the explosion of “Beatlemania” and global fame. Sets and props from Mendes’ movies will create versions of Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where the band got its start; the famous Abbey Road studios in London; and Shea Stadium, the site of their legendary 1965 performance. “Just like Graceland or Dollywood, it’s fitting that The Beatles will have a world class destination for fans to visit in the center of the city where the story started,” Apple Corps chief executive Tom Greene said. The two surviving Beatles welcomed the development. Paul McCartney said the band’s success “couldn’t have happened without Liverpool and I can’t wait for people to be able to step into our story and share the experience.” Ringo Starr said, “Liverpool was, and still is, music city.”

The Beatles, from left, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, arrive in Liverpool, England, in 1964, for the premiere of their movie “A Hard Day’s Night.”

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The announcement is the latest chapter in a Beatles boom, 56 years after the band’s breakup. Apple Corps has already announced that a new fan experience will open in late 2027 in the band’s former London headquarters at 3 Savile Row, whose rooftop was the site of The Beatles’ last public performance in 1969. Mendes is directing a quartet

of biopics starring Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Paul Mescal as McCartney and Barry Keoghan as Starr. All are due for release in April 2028. Mike Jones, a Beatles expert at the University of Liverpool, said the “double boost” of the films and attractions will bring in many more Beatles fans. “I’m not sure that the city’s

quite prepared for it,” he said, calling it both a risk and an opportunity. “What we have to resist is the Disneyfication of Liverpool, the Disneyfication of the Beatles.” “There’s a rich story to be told about the relationship between Liverpool and the Beatles, a very rich story,” he said. “And I’m not sure that story’s been told.”

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Dunham to bring back ‘Girls’ for 5-episode run 10 years after finale By Andrew Dalton The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — “Girls,” the show that was the voice of its generation — or at least a voice of a generation — is coming back. HBO announced that creator and star Lena Dunham and nearly all of the core cast will return for a limited five-episode run a decade after its finale. Dunham, now 40, will again play her aspiring writer and sort-of alter-ego Hannah, along with Allison Williams as Marnie, Jemima Kirke as Jessa, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna and Andrew Rannells as Elijah. Hannah’s love interest, played by Adam Driver, is not yet on the cast list. Judd Apatow will return as executive producer. The show will begin production in 2027, 10 years after the finale of the series that ran for six seasons from 2012-17 and was nominated for 19 Emmys, winning two. “We always said we would only return to GIRLS if there was a specific story we were burning to tell,” Dunham said in a statement. “I’ve missed these characters, but for a long

time I couldn’t quite picture them in the present day. Then, right around my fortieth birthday, they started talking to me in the shower. And, as you may remember, once this fivesome starts talking it’s pretty hard to get them to stop.” The revival is among the first production announcements made by HBO since its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery was taken over by Skydance-owned Paramount. The show was both a touchstone and a lightning rod for its depiction of a group of millennial young women in New York, with its vocal haters often louder than its many devotees. Affection for it has seen a major surge in the decade since, especially among younger viewers, who see it as aspirational as well as endlessly quotable and meme-able. In one of its most repeated lines, Hannah, while asking her parents to keep supporting her, tells them, “I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice of a generation.” Dunham has kept making film and television, directing the 2022 movie “Catherine Called Birdy” and co-creating the TV series “Camping” and “Too Much,” but none of it has had nearly the cultural impact of “Girls.” Her screen appearances have been mostly limited to small guest roles.

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Lena Dunham attends the premiere of “I Wish You All the Best” at IPIC Theater in 2025 in New York. The “Girls” star and creator will return as Hannah Horvath in the hit HBO series in 2027. Williams has had several memorable movie roles, especially in horror films including “Get Out” and two “M3GAN” movies. But while the show was all about the lives of young women, the biggest star it spawned was Driver, who went on to star in a “Star Wars” trilogy and has been nominated for two Oscars.

‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ leaps from book to stage in Mazzoli’s new opera The performance is based on George Saunders’ novel

By Mike Silverman The Associated Press NEW YORK — The setting is a graveyard. Almost all the characters are dead. And then there’s Abraham Lincoln, alive but paralyzed by grief over the death of his 11-year-old son. If that capsule description makes “Lincoln in the Bardo” sound like a grim night at the opera, it’s actually far from that, according to its creators. “It does seem quite heavy,” said Royce Vavrek, who crafted the libretto for composer Missy Mazzoli from George Saunders’ Booker Prize-winning novel. “There’s such heartbreak, and such joy.” The inspiration behind both the novel and the opera is the concept of the bardo, which in Tibetan Buddhism is the period between physical death and rebirth. The ghosts populating Georgetown’s Oakhill Cemetery refuse to accept the circumstances — often abrupt or violent — that ended their lives.

“The opera honors that life is not all doom and gloom,” said Lileana Blain-Cruz, who directed the work for its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. “People have desires and hungers, and we’re silly and we’re funny. There’s something wonderful about encountering the fullness of life in all these characters.” Into this netherworld come Willie Lincoln, a victim of typhoid fever, and his distraught father, who pays a late‑night visit to his son’s crypt and cradles the boy’s body in his arms. By the end of the opera, Willie has accepted the fact that he is dead, and Lincoln leaves the cemetery, ready to take up his burden guiding the nation through the Civil War. For Mazzoli, the biggest challenge in composing the score was the fact that it deals with the death of a child. She solved the problem by focusing on the end of the story, when Willie realizes that since he is dead, he is freed from earthly constraints. “He sings this incredible aria where he says, ‘all is allowed me now,’” Mazzoli said. “’Now that I’m dead, I can go down to the party, I can fly out

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