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By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

RUTHERFORDTON — A complaint against Clerk of Court Robynn Spence was dismissed in special proceedings held in Rutherford County Superior Court on Friday.

Spence had been accused of misconduct over a custody case incident that occurred on Easter Sunday, April 4, of this year.

Tony L. McClellan alleged that Spence misused her office to help his ex-wife, Pamela Luckadoo, in her efforts to get their 9-year-old son back early, in violation of visi-tation orders in the case.

Superior Court Judge Vance Bradford Long of Asheboro, of Judicial District 19B, who pre-sided Friday in the matter, called an evidentiary hearing, allowed the defense motion to dismiss the complaint.

Long said Spence may have shown poor judgment in trying to be the go-between in a cus-tody fight, but he said that “does not rise to willful misconduct in office,” which the independent counsel, or prosecutor in the case, would have had to have shown.

The complaint case was pros-ecuted by David B. Freedman of Forsyth County.

Please see Clerk, Page 6 Spence

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierA Toyota Camry and a Dodge pick-up collided at the intersection of Ledbetter and Old Ballpark roads in Spindale Friday. Four people were reported injured and taken to Rutherford Hospital. Spindale fire and police responded to the call along with Rutherford County Rescue crews. No further information was available at press time.

By JEAN GORDONDaily Courier Staff Writer

FOREST CITY — The stars will be out Tuesday, May 25, when a National Geographic author, a NASA astronaut, the lieutenant governor, a member of the Council of State, and dozens of children and parents par-ticipate in the Super Star Evening.

Special guests are National Geographic author David Aguilar and NASA Astronaut Roger Crouch, Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and Lucille Dalton and Secretary of NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources, Dee Freeman.

Hosted by KidSenses Children’s InterACTIVE Museum, the event, described as “out of this world,” begins at 6 p.m. at The Foundation, Isothermal Community College, with a reception when visitors will have an opportunity to meet special guests and visit the museum’s Explorer Dome program. Tickets for the reception are $25 and $45 as visitors

will meet the special guests and enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres. Children will enjoy their own private reception.

Beginning at 7 p.m. the interac-tive show on space, astronomy and Aguilar’s book kicks off. Admission is $2 and all teachers are invited free, said Jessica Moss, director of pro-grams and exhibits for the children’s museum. Teachers will also receive credit for attending the event.

NASA’s Crouch will share his story of perseverance. “Being persistent, never give up on your dreams, be flexible with you goals and do not limit yourselves,” Crouch said Friday from the Kennedy Space Center’s visitors center where he volunteers a couple times of year.

“I was 56 years old when I finally got picked to fly,” Crouch said. “I had been trying to get into the Navy as a junior in high school. It took a long time to get where I wanted to get,” he said. An eye problem kept him from

Please see Stars, Page 6

By LARRY DALEDaily Courier Staff Writer

SPINDALE — Spindale’s first Dairy Goat Festival is scheduled Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. along Main Street.

The town is the longtime home of the American Dairy Goat Association, a national registry group, so it is fitting that Spindale would celebrate goats.

Like all festivals, this one centers around a day of family fun, but there is a serious side to the day too.

The festival includes a sanctioned goat show with more than 130 entries.

The youth show is at 10 a.m. The junior doe show begins at 2 p.m., and the senior doe show takes place after that, at about 3 p.m. All are ADGA sanctioned.

Championships in a sanctioned show are rec-ognized and recorded by the association, and the designations are added to the pedigrees of the win-ning animals. Shows give breeders and exhibitors opportunities to compete for awards and track progress for quality and ability to produce.

Please see Goat, Page 6

By SCOTT BAUGHMANDaily Courier Staff Writer

LAKE LURE — Lake Lure’s proposed budget for 2010-11 comes in at about $4.6 mil-lion, down from last year’s $4.7 million.

“We’ve seen our revenues go down from fiscal year 2009-10,” said Lake Lure Town Manager Chris Braund. “And we’ve lowered our operating expenses for almost every department. There are a bare minimum of capital expendi-tures included.”

One area where revenues have decreased is the ad valorem — or property taxes — which were $2,133,797 last year but are expected to be $2,127,182 this year. On the positive side are revenues from the town’s electric fund from hydroelectric power genera-tion at the Lake Lure dam. Power revenues in 2009 - 2010 were $152,500 and are expected to be $310,500 this year.

The budget does include $7,500 for more lake instru-mentation and $50,000 for silt removal through dredging. The dredging will be funded from boat permit fees.

The water and sewer fund will have $10,000 for plant improvements and $60,000 for a long-range sewer study. The study will receive a $50,000 grant from the Clean Water Management trust fund.

Some of those hydroelec-

Please see Budget, Page 3

Contributed photoSpindale’s first Dairy Goat Festival will be held today, highlighted by American Dairy Goat Association sanctioned shows.

Judge dismisses clerk complaint

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Stars come out at KidSenses

Budget for town is down slightly

Spindale Goat Festival today

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LOCAL

VBSThe following churches

have announced Vacation Bible School:

Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, “Son Harvest,” Saturday, June 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; fun, games, music, lunch pro-vided, petting zoo and more; concluding with a family cook out; rain date June 12.

Cane Creek Baptist Church, “Saddle Ride Ranch,” Monday-Friday, June 14-18, 6 to 8:45 p.m.

Music/concertsSinging: Bostic

Missionary Methodist Church, May 23, 6 p.m.; featuring The Royal Quartet.

Hymns in Movement: May 24-31, 9 to 10 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Relax and enjoy praise in dance, Diane Tucker Studios, 143 S. Ridgecrest St., Rutherfordton; pro-ceeds (donations) to Haiti.

Mass choir anniver-sary: Sunday, May 23, 3:30 p.m., Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church.

Special singing: Sunday, May 23, 2 p.m., Full Gospel Revival Church; featuring The Blairs.

Concert: Sunday, May 23, 6 p.m., Sandy Mush Baptist Church; featuring Living By Faith.

Mass Choir Anniver-sary: Sunday, May 23, 11 a.m. Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Forest City.

Concert: Sunday, May 30, 6 p.m., Crestview Baptist Church; featuring The Carolina Crossmen.

Gospel singing: Sunday, May 30, 6 p.m., Shingle Hollow Congregational Holiness Church; featuring Saxon Family of Gainesville, Ga.; for info, 288-9915.

Gospel singing: Sunday, June 6, 2 p.m., Village Chapel Hurch, Forest City; guest singers Mountain Angels from Saluda.

Special services

Spring Fling: United Sisters meeting Saturday, May 22, 2 p.m.; First Baptist Church fellow-ship hall, 144 Stewart St., Spindale; bring fin-ger food snack; activities planning luncheon; all denominations welcome;

Memorial Day ser-vice: Sunday, May 23, Robertson Creek Free Will Baptist Church, Pea Ridge Road, Bostic; Sunday School 10 a.m., worship service 11 a.m.; Pastor Timmy Hodge will speak; a covered dish lunch will follow.

Memorial Day service: Sunday, May 23, 11 a.m., Golden Valley Missionary Church; lunch after the service.

Revival: May 23-26, Fellowship Baptist Church, 210 Silvers Lake Road, Rutherfordton; Sunday morning ser-vice, 11 a.m., evening services at 7 p.m. Guest speakers: Sunday morn-ing – Dean Patton of First Baptist, Reidsville; Sunday evening – Anton Roos of Lake Lure

Baptist Church; Monday – Sam Henderson of Temple Baptist; Tuesday – William Swink of Pleasant Hill Baptist; Wednesday – Dr. Chris Osborne of Silver Creek Baptist Church

Camp Meeting 2010: May 24-30, Jesus Way Christian Ministries; ser-vices daily at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., prayer nightly, 7.

Special service: Sunday, May 30, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Temple of Jesus Church in Lake Lure; featuring Apostle Lindon Frost of Christ Fellowship International Church in Jasper, Ala.

Spring revival: May

26-28, Mount Pisgah United Church of God; starts at 7 p.m.

Annual Homecoming Day: Cornerstone Baptist Church, Mooresboro, June 6; Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. followed with worship at 11 a.m. and dinner on the grounds; nursery will be available. For information, call 704-434-4949 or visit the church website at www.cbc-web.org.

FundraisersCar wash: Saturday,

May 22, 8 a.m. to noon; S-D-O Fire Department; $5 minimum donation; provided by New Bethel Baptist Church Youth, and all proceeds will

go toward the youth’s summer trip to Camp Caswell.

Flounder fish fry: Saturday, May 22, 4 to 7:30 p.m.; Tanners Grove United Methodist Church; adults, $8, chil-dren 12 and younger $5; proceeds go to building/land fund.

Car wash: Saturday, May 22, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tractor Supply; hosted by Temple Baptist Church College and Careers Class; baked goods will also be sold; all proceeds go toward class projects.

Chicken pie supper: Saturday, May 22, 5 to 7 p.m., Spencer Baptist Church Family Life Center; all-you-can-eat, $8 adults, $5 for kids 12 and younger.

Poor man’s supper: Saturday, May 29, 4 p.m. until, Green Hill School Community Center, 2501 US 64-74A; dona-tion only; all proceeds go toward sending the youth of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church to missions camp.

Annual bazaar: Saturday, June 5, begins at 7 a.m.; Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Forest City; food, baked goods, chil-dren’s games, rummage sale items, music, and a motor scooter raffle; pro-ceeds go toward the new church.

Fish fry, chicken: Saturday, June 5, begins at 10 a.m.; Sponsored by Angel Divine Faith Church; the sale will be held at Temple of Jesus Church in Lake Lure; $8 per plate, include drink and dessert.

Men’s yard sale: Saturday, June 12, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.; breakfast bis-cuits 7 to 10:30 a.m.; Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Ball field; for additional information, contact Jeff Champion, 447-0018.

Fun day: Saturday, June 12, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., High Shoal Baptist Church, 284 High Shoals Church Rd., Henrietta; for all ages, with games, hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, dessert, drinks; proceeds to help build a well for those in need in India. For additional info, call 657-6447.

Other Chase Corner

Ministries is now open the first Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. to noon. The community is also welcome to bring yard sale items and set up in the parking lot on these Saturdays. The store is located on Chase High Road, directly across from the high school.

NA/AA meetings: Every Monday at 7 p.m., at New Life Christian

Fellowship Church of God, 601 E. Main St., Spindale; contact James Keeter at 247-4681 for more information.

Hispanic Baptist Church “Cristo Vive:” Services on Sunday after-noons in English, 6 p.m., every Sunday. The church is located at 929 Oakland Road. Contact the Rev. Jairo Contreras at 289-9837.

Foothills Harvest Ministry: Fill a grocery bag of clothes, all it will hold, for $5; Boyd’s Bears also available.

Food giveaway: Saturday, May 22, 10 a.m. until, Forest City Foursquare Church.

Monthly food give-away: First Baptist Church in Spindale holds a food giveaway the third Thursday of each month. Devotion and prayer ser-vice between 6 and 6:30 p.m. Bags of food given away afterwards.

Open support group: “Let’s Talk About It” meets every Monday from 7 to 8 p.m., at New Life Fellowship Church, 601 E. Main St., Spindale. This group is for anyone who needs to talk about any issues.

Mom’s Hope is a min-istry that offers hope and support for mothers who face daily struggles and fears when their children are addicted to drugs or alcohol. The group meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at Missionary Wesleyan Church, 811 Doggett Rd., Forest City. Next meeting Feb. 11. For more infor-mation contact Chris at 287-3687.

“Celebrate Recovery” is a weekly Christ-centered program that meets every Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at Cornerstone Fellowship Church, 1186 Hudlow Rd., Forest City. The group is open to anyone who wishes to find healing no matter what you’re going through. For more infor-mation call 245-3639.

Soup KitchensCommunity Outreach:

“Give By Faith Ministries” of Piney Mountain Baptist Church provides a soup kitchen, clothes closet and food pantry to those in need the second Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Samaritan Breakfast: Thursdays from 6 to 8 a.m., at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 395 N. Main St., Rutherfordton. Carry-out breakfast bags.

St. Paul AME Zion Church, Forest City, each Monday at 6 p.m.

St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 330 N. Ridgecrest Ave., Rutherfordton.

Church News

FOREST CITY — Singer Rita Gumm, known as the First Lady of the Carolina Opry at Myrtle Beach, S.C., and singer, hit songwriter Archie Jordan, will be in concert at Florence Baptist Church, Sunday, May 23, at 6 p.m. There is no admission cost.

Gumm is an original cast member of Calvin Gilmore’s “The Carolina Opry” which opened in 1986 and is celebrat-ing her 25th season with the show.

Jordan, a two-time Grammy nominee and recipient of numerous awards, will share his testimony and talent through word and song. Also known for his humorous side, Jordan will play the piano and guitar, and sing some of his most popular songs.

He has written eight num-ber one hit songs including, “It Was Almost Like A Song,” “Let’s Take The Long Way Around The World” and “What

A Difference You’ve Made In My Life.” More than 100 art-ists have recorded his music, including Ronnie Milsap, Barbara Mandrell, Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner, Engelbert Humperdinck, B.J. Thomas, The Tams, Amy Grant, Shirley Caesar, Larnelle Harris, and

Steven Curtis Chapman.After many years in Nashville,

he now divides his time between writing songs from his studio located on the old family farm in Perkins, Ga., and per-forming in concerts.

Opry and Grammy nominee to appear at Florence Baptist

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Just as we are physically what we eat, we are mentally what we think. And just as the body will not thrive on junk food, we will not thrive mentally or spiritually on bad thoughts. What we put into and turn over in our mind is the stuff that we are made of and this develops into character.

A person who is always thinking wholesome thoughts will develop a wholesome personality, whereas someone who is always thinking negative thoughts will develop a negative personal-ity. This can take many forms. Some people’s negative thoughts take the form of fear, others of anger or cynicism, or being overtly critical.

Developing a positive mental attitude is not something that we can just decide to do. It takes a concerted effort, and we may be overcoming years of negativity, some of which may actually have been reinforced by parents or siblings.

Fortunately, there are books which can help with harnessing the power of thought to give us a better life. A classic in this field is the little volume by James Allen entitled “As a Man Thinketh,” which was originally published in 1902.

Some more mod-ern approaches can be found in the field of positive psychology. The psychologist Martin Seligman has contribut-ed several helpful books, including “Learned Optimism” and “Authentic Happiness.”

Happiness is not some-thing that just happens to us; we must work for it. And the best place to start is within our own hearts and minds.

As A Man ThinkethFor as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

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state/local

tric revenues will be spent on con-version of the damkeeper’s house to town offices and improvements to the hydroelectric plant to make it function more efficiently and comply with regulations.

Some budget requests have already been denied, among them are:n a replacement phone system for

$14,000n document management software

for $5,000n one replacement police patrol car

$20,000n Morse Park improvements of

$50,000

n the community development town center plan at $50,000

When combined with other bud-get requests that have been denied already, over $500,000 has been deferred from the proposed budget. A plan to put floating docks at the Lake Operations office that was expected to cost over $45,000 has been cancelled as well as replacing the marina seawall for $30,000 and replacing the marina docks them-selves at $25,000.

But some facilities will get an upgrade with $15,500 set aside for renovations to the visitor’s center.

Contact Baughman via e-mail at sbaugh-man@thedigitalcourier.com.

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s jobless are having more success look-ing for work as the unemployment rate dropped for the second straight month in April to 10.8 percent.

The state’s Employment Security Commission reported Friday that the jobless rate fell from 11.1 percent in March and 11.2 percent in February, the worst since the current calcula-tion method started in 1976.

The improvement pushed North Carolina out of the top 10 states with the worst unemployment. Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia reported lower jobless rates in April, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.

There were 16,500 fewer people on North Carolina unemployment rolls in April than the previous month. The number of non-farm jobs increased by 7,500 in April. And evi-dence continued that people previ-ously discouraged by the lack of work started looking for jobs again.

The data also contained the good news that manufacturers added 700 jobs in the month and increase the hours worked by existing employees, a trend that could lead to more hir-ing.

Still, it’s likely to be another six months before hiring really begins gearing up, said North Carolina Central University economist Kofi Amoateng. Many economists predict it will take years for the job market to get back to normal.

“Unemployment is a lagging indica-tor for the economy. It lags behind stock market performance, which has been improving for the past six months,” said Amoateng.

But the positive trends could be sidetracked if Europe’s financial cri-sis, provoked by debt problems in Greece, causes investors to panic, exports to fall and North Carolina manufacturers to tighten their belts again, he said.

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue granted a par-don on Friday to a man absolved of a murder conviction in the first case of its kind in the country.

Perdue pardoned Greg Taylor after learning the results of DNA tests done by Raleigh police on clothes Taylor had worn the night of the 1991 killing of Jacquetta Thomas, for which he spent almost 17 years in prison.

“This should put the matter to rest,” Taylor told The Associated Press. “Now I hope the (Raleigh) Police Department puts this matter to rest and starts looking forward as to who actually committed this crime.”

Taylor already had plans to cel-ebrate his daughter’s 27th birthday on Friday night. He hadn’t been able to celebrate her birthday in freedom since she was 9 years old.

Taylor was exonerated of Thomas’ murder in February by three judg-es who heard the case as a result of the work of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, the only panel of its kind in the country.

Perdue had delayed issuing an offi-cial pardon, saying she wanted to see more evidence. On Friday morning, she learned the results of the DNA tests on Taylor’s clothing.

“To make sure there was no doubt cast on her decision, she wanted to wait for the results,” Perdue spokes-woman Chrissy Pearson said. “It was the final piece she was waiting for.”

Found innocent of the crime, Taylor is now eligible for $750,000 in com-

pensation payments from the state Industrial Commission thanks to the pardon.

Chris Mumma, an attorney for Taylor, said it was a big relief even though Taylor knew the DNA testing would come back with no connection to him.

“He’s been having this hanging out there for a while,” Mumma said. “Hopefully this removes any doubt in anybody’s mind.”

Taylor was the first person exon-erated through the work of the Innocence Inquiry Commission. In March, shortly after he was found innocent, Raleigh police asked to test Taylor’s clothing.

Police Chief Harry Dolan said then the testing was part of reopening the investigation into Thomas’ beating death and not meant to cast doubt on Taylor’s innocence.

Taylor had questioned Perdue earli-er this month for delaying his pardon while his clothes were sent for DNA testing. But he praised the governor Friday for acting quickly to sub-mit his pardon as soon as the DNA results came back.

“I’m impressed that she acted so expeditiously on my behalf,” he said.

Perdue was traveling Friday, and decided to sign the pardon in New Bern rather than wait until Monday, when she returns to Raleigh.

“She decided this man has waited 17 years for this, and he shouldn’t have to wait another weekend,” Pearson said.

In this Feb. 17 file pool photo, Greg Taylor reacts as hears the decision of the N.C. Innocence Commission exonerating him of murder charges as his attorney Christine Mumma sits next to him, in Raleigh. Gov. Beverly Perdue granted a pardon to Taylor on Friday,

Governor pardons man exonerated of murder

Associated Press

State’s jobless rate dips

CHARLOTTE (AP) — A North Carolina man is again a free man after spending 12 years in prison for kidnapping and other crimes he didn’t commit.

The Charlotte Observer reports Friday that 37-year-old Shawn Massey of Charlotte was released from state prison earlier this month. He had two years left on his 14-year sentence.

The innocence project at Duke University’s law school says it spent more than four years arguing Massey was the victim of an eyewitness’s mistaken identification.

Mecklenburg District Attorney Peter Gilchrist says his office botched the 1998 case by failing to tell defense attorneys the victim expressed doubt she had correctly identified Massey as her attacker.

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SAVING WITH THE COUPON QUEENJill Cataldo saves hundreds on groceries by making

the cost of the common coupon count. You can, too.

JILL CATALDO

Last week I introduced you to the concept of multi-stacking, a term I use to refer to any deal at the grocery store that involves applying multiple discounts to the purchase of the same items. Through multi-stacking, shoppers can enjoy even greater savings at the register each week, leveraging the power of store coupons, manufacturer coupons and additional sales or special promo-tions being held at the store.

My favorite deals are “money-back” supermarket sales, in which part of what you pay for your items is returned to you at checkout in the form of a Catalina coupon good for money off your next purchase. One of the stores I shop at recently had a “Spend $30, get $15 back” sale on a variety of items. I get very excited when I see these sales, because that $30 is the total before coupons are factored in. This particular deal included a variety of cereals. All of them were priced at $2 a box. By buying 15 boxes I could reach the $30 spending mark and qualify for the special sale.

Now, right away, I suspect a few of my readers may be snickering a bit. Fifteen boxes of cereal? In one shopping trip? You bet! At my store, these great, high-level money-back sales tend to come around only once every few months or so. When they do, it’s a great opportunity to stock up on the cheap. Cereal is an excellent item to add to your grocery stockpile at home. It typi-cally doesn’t outdate for 11 months or more.

I always take advantage of these sales when they come along. And I can’t remember a time when I paid more than a quarter a box for a name-brand cereal. Really. That’s actually the high end of what I’ll pay. I typically pay much less than that for cereal.

As I entered the cereal aisle, I was on the lookout for in-store coupons. It’s always a good idea to scan for coupons that may be in dispensers or on the shelves of your supermarket. Sometimes, the coupon you need to sweeten a deal is hanging right in front of you on the shelf. Keep your eyes open!

That was the case with my cereal buy. As I added 15 boxes to my cart, I spied a tear pad of $1 coupons for the cereal hanging on the shelf right under the boxes. So, I took 15 of them. I never clean out a store of coupons; there are typically more than a hundred coupons on a tear pad. Don’t be afraid to take what you will use! Remember, coupons are placed there in the hope that you will use them and try the product.

I headed to the register with my 15 boxes of $2 cereal and 15 $1 coupons. The cashier scanned my cereal and the register total came to $30. I handed the cashier my $1 coupons; after they were redeemed, my bill was $15. I paid $15… and I received $15 back in Catalina coupons good for my next shop-ping trip. So, I got back the same amount of money I spent on the cereal. My 15 boxes of cereal are, essentially, free.

I’ve stressed this point in previous columns but I can’t say it often enough: shoppers must think of coupons as cash. They are essentially a form of cash, for shoppers and for the stores where we do business. When a supermarket has a sale like a “Spend $30, get $15 back,” shoppers still spend $30 on the items. My $1 coupons “paid” for $15 of my $30 spending and the store will get that $15 back from the manufacturer when it redeems the coupons. The $15 in Catalina coupons that I received function just like cash in the store. They’re good for anything I want to buy on my next shopping trip. So, I view this as having exchanged one form of cash for another… but I’m still holding the $15 in my hand that I just paid for the cereal. It’s just in the form of a coupon now. And you know how much I love coupons!

Gather ye coupons …and multi-stack them JILL CATALDO

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■ A daily forum for opinion, commentary and editorials on the news that affects us all.

Jodi V. Brookshire/ publisherSteven E. Parham/ executive editor

601 Oak Street, P.O. Box 1149,Forest City, N.C. 28043Phone: 245-6431 Fax: 248-2790E-mail: dailycourier@thedigitalcourier.com

The American system of criminal justice has often been touted as the world’s finest and fairest,

but that reputation has been deeply tar-nished.

Recent cases in which individuals convicted of crimes have been found to be innocent, or cases in which the evi-dence against those convicted has been found to be tainted, are sobering.

That does not mean that the system is broken. Many of these cases have been altered by new evidence which was not available at the time of the original tri-al, especially those involving DNA find-ings. Others hinge on witnesses who come forth and admit to lying in their original testimony. Others are cleared when the actual perpetrator comes forth with a confession.

Still, many of these cases might have turned out differently if law enforce-ment and prosecutors had handled the cases differently.

The flaws that we are discovering in the court system can be remedied.

We can start by giving prosecutors, defense attorneys and law enforcement officers the best possible training avail-able. The legal system works best when everyone follows the procedural rules.

When we play fast and loose with those rules or when the key participants in the process are unfamiliar with the standards, problems are going to creep in.

The criminal justice system will prob-ably never be perfect, but it can always be improved.

What we have to do is continue to do what we have done since the system was started — correct our mistakes and learn from them. That is how our rules of procedure and policies have evolved over time.

When it comes to the legal system we will all be better served if we remember that the point is to protect the innocent as well as to identify and punish the guilty.

Our Views

Court system needs attention

Our readers’ viewsOffers thoughts on current political issues

To the editor: I certainly understood what

Ray Crawford was saying. Simply, if Obama is in favor of it, the Republicans are going to say no.

Democrats have tried time and again to negotiate with them, but they always say no.

As for health care, the plan provides all of this through pri-vate insurance companies. Why should people be required to buy insurance?

Let me give you an example. A person is capable of paying health insurance premiums and chooses not to. This person has to go to the hospital and can’t afford the medical bills. Who pays? Well, the taxpayers, including me, pay.

Why should I have to subsidize medical bills for someone who is perfectly capable of buying insur-ance?

Finally, if anyone doesn’t like what they consider socialism, I suggest that when they are eligible for Social Security and Medicare they tell the govern-ment, “No Thanks.”

Mike McCrawBostic

Suggests people donate band instruments

To the editor: I have been teaching band for

over 24 years now. Each year it has gotten more difficult for stu-dents to afford a nice, playable instrument.

With the layoffs in our area, parents have had to put their paychecks toward bills and other things.

My spring concert was May 18 at East Middle and I was so Proud of my students.

We need to keep the band pro-grams in our county thriving. Band is something a person can be involved in for many years.

Sadly, you can’t play sports when you’re 90 but, thankfully, you can still play a band instru-ment.

I would ask the kind folks in Rutherford County to please, please consider donating a band instrument that has been in your attic, to a local band program.

We need instruments so that our young students will have an opportunity to play in band if they are interested. We would write you a receipt for tax pur-poses and offer you our ‘sincere’ thanks.

Music has been my life. I don’t know what I would be doing if it were not for being in the band from the 5th grade until now, and, yes, I’m still playing my instrument too.

Think about donating an instrument. It’s a worthwhile cause.

Kathy WeirForest City

Says two cases show way regulation needed

To the editor: As I continue to observe the

phenomena in our national politics, I continue to see those things which should call our attention. One of the big ones going is the continuous ranting over the size of government.

I contend except for waste, the size of government proves noth-ing.

Two recent cases that come to mind are the economic meltdown and the oil spill in the gulf.

The smaller government argu-ment is that if government would get out of the way and let the free market control the financial world, everything would work better. The laxity of regulation led to the biggest crash since the depression.

Another disturbing event is the oil spill in the gulf.

We have learned that there were almost no regulations. Chances were taken that proved to be deadly, destructive and we don’t know what else.

We must stop with the notion that government needs to “get out of the way” of business.

Government must regulate for the welfare of all. We cannot and should not trust corporations to regulate themselves. Profit is the bottom line for corporations and should be; however an outside force must be there to provide regulatory guidance for the wel-fare of everyone.

Ray CrawfordRutherfordton

Stats do not support benefits of preventative care RALEIGH – I’m as fond of

proverbs and folk wisdom as the next person. But I don’t think that “an apple a day keeps the doctor way” suf-fices as an agenda for health care reform, or that “penny wise, pound foolish” is a suf-ficient guide for managing one’s investment portfolio.

Unfortunately, more than a few politicians and politi-cal activists seem to think that the familiar saying “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” constitutes not just a vague endorsement of prudence but also a statis-tically valid prediction.

Thus they’ve convinced themselves that it would save taxpayers money in the long run for government to spend more money in the short run – be it on crime prevention, early childhood education, or preventive health care.

It all sounds reasonable in theory. In the real world, though, the savings usu-ally don’t materialize. North Carolina’s recent, painful experience with “preventive” home-health services serves as a case in point.

In the N.C. Senate’s new budget plan for the 2010-11 fiscal year, lawmakers are proposing to cut tens of millions of dollars from Medicaid expenditures on in-home “personal care ser-vices.”

Right now, vendors cur-rently assist some 40,000 Medicaid patients with such daily needs as dress-ing, eating, or going to the bathroom. If something like the Senate budget becomes law, only about 5,000 North Carolinians will receive this level of in-home care.

Patients are upset. Private vendors are very upset. And the usual apologists for government giveaways are issuing the usual predictions about how taxpayers won’t end up saving money in the long run because the recipi-

ents previously receiving in-home services will end up in far-costlier institutions.

Experience and common sense tells us, however, that such cases will be rare. Most of the Medicaid patients who will no longer be eligible for in-home services were never at significant risk of insti-tutionalization in the first place.

The problem stems from two related phenomena.

The Prevention Myth is the previously mentioned idea that spending money on the front end always or usually saves much more money on the back end.

The Woodwork Effect is the tendency for reforms, whatever their immediate efficiency gains, to make ser-vices so much more attrac-tive to potential beneficiaries that increased enrollment and utilization swamp any savings.

In this case, the evidence is convincing that personal-care services have been overutilized. Only a tiny per-centage of current recipients are so severely disabled and

lacking in family support that they truly can’t func-tion without daily in-home care. It was reasonable for the Perdue administration to tighten eligibility for these services last year, and for the Senate to propose replacing them this year with a more targeted program.

The issue actually has a pretty long history. Back in the 1980s, there were several large-scale studies of pro-grams promising to manage the care of Medicaid patients and divert them to lower-cost alternatives. One of the official evaluations summed up the findings pretty well: the typical program “ben-efited clients and the fami-lies and friends who cared for them in several ways” but “contrary to its original intent, [it] increased costs. The costs of the additional case management and com-munity services were not off-set by reductions in the cost of nursing home use.”

Since then, there have been other state and local reforms intended to achieve better results. Some have,

but the savings remain small. In cash and counseling pro-grams, for example, recipi-ents of long-term care are given more control over the Medicaid dollars allocated to them. A 2003 evaluation of Arkansas’s program found that it did tend to reduce subsequent nursing-home costs, but it also induced more demand for home-health services. There were no net cost savings.

The Prevention Myth and the Woodwork Effect aren’t always present. There are some government interven-tions – typically low-cost, well-targeted programs – that do indeed pay for them-selves in foregone future expenses. But not many.

The program the Senate

now wants to end isn’t one of them. Sometimes a budget cut is just a budget cut – a necessary action that saves money, regardless of how loudly the affected parties object.

Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.

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Faye WashburnFaye Williams Washburn,

94, of Bostic, died Thursday, May 20, 2010, at Hospice House.

A native of Georgia, she was a of daughter of the late Berlin Dexter Williams and Isabella Arrowood Williams.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 45 years, John Reid Washburn.

She was a member of Bostic Presbyterian Church for many years and a member of Salem United Methodist Church. She retired as cor-porate secretary of Elmore Corporation.

She is survived by five sisters, Hazel Shires, Iva Williams, Bernice Williams, and Dorothy Briscoe, all of Forest City, and Frances Sheppard of Bostic; a brother, Paul D. Williams of Raleigh; and several nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery. The Rev. Lynda Ferguson will offici-ate.

In lieu of flowers, memori-als may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.

Washburn & Dorsey is in charge of arrangements.

Friends may sign the online guest book @www.washburndorsey.com.

James Gallion Sr.James W. Gallion Sr., 58, of

Flack Road, Forest City, died Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at Hospice House of Forest City.

A native of McDowell County, he was a son of the late Jim and Pauline McGee Gallion.

Survivors include one son, James W. Gallion Jr. of Forest City; two sisters, Marjorie Panel of Shelby and Barbara Jolley of Forest City; and two grandchildren.

Services will be held at a later date.

Greer-McElveen Funeral Home and Crematory, Lenior, is in charge of arrangements.

Online condolences may be left at www.greer-mcelveenfuneralhome.com.

Diane BlaisDiane Laura Mullen Blais,

69, of 4304 U.S. Hwy. 64/74, Rutherfordton, died

Wednesday, May 19, 2010, at her home.

She was the daughter of the late Charles and Alberta Fish Mullen.

She taught classes for men-tally challenged children in Florida. She was a member of the Forest City Church of the Nazarene.

Surviving are her hus-band of 53 years, Edmond Blais of the home: two sons, Charles Blais of Goshen, N.H., and Arthur Blais of Pelham, N.H.; four brothers, John Mullen of Landrum, S.C., Charles Mullen of Ariz., Joseph Mullen of Newburyport, Mass., and Thomas Mullen of Mexico, Mo.; three sisters, Alberta Kenney of Slidell, La., Dorothy Wilson of Bedford, N.H., and Patricia Vinson of Chester, S.C.; five grandchil-dren; and seven great-grand-children.

Memorial services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, May 29, in the Forest City Church of the Nazarene, Forest City, with the Rev. Dale Austin officiating.

Memorials may be made to the Forest City Church of the Nazarene, 728 Hardin Road, Forest City, NC 28043.

An on-line guest register may be signed at www.mcfarlandfuneral-chapel.com

James Richard FeimsterJames Richard Feimster,

83, of Spindale died Thursday, May 20, 2010, at White Oak Manor in Rutherfordton.

He was born in St. John County, Fla., to the late James Richard Feimster Sr. and Irene Donahue Feimster.

He served as a Sergeant in the 37th Armored Division in the Army during the Korean War. He was a member of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church and enjoyed hunting, fishing and the outdoors.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Elsie Mae Moles Feimster and by one daugh-ter, Eva Irene Feimster.

Survivors include three sons, James O. Feimster of Bostic, John E. Feimster

of Forest City and Richard Lee Feimster of Shiloh; two brothers, Earl Jenkins of Washington State and James Richard Feimster of Wilmington; three grand-children; two great-grand-children; and several step great-grandchildren includ-ing Maggie Morillo.

A graveside service will be conducted at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Sunset Memorial Park with the Rev. Johnny Willis officiating. Military Honors will be accorded by the Rutherford County Honor Guard. The family will receive friends Friday from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. at Harrelson Funeral Home.

Harrelson Funeral Home is serving the family of James Richard Feimster.

Donald MossFARMINGTON, Conn.

(AP) — Sports painter Donald Francis Moss, who painted covers and editorial illustrations for Sports Illustrated, Good Housekeeping and other magazines, has died of natu-ral causes. He was 90.

Moss illustrated Super Bowl posters, aerial ski maps and ski runs, art for the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, postage stamps, the New York City Marathon and U.S. Tennis Open. He also painted sports greats Ted Williams and Jack Nicklaus.

Dorothy KamenshekROCKFORD, Ill. (AP)

— A former star of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League who helped inspire the lead character in the movie A League of their Own has died.

Dorothy Kamenshek died Monday at her home in Palm Desert, Calif. She was 84.

Kamenshek played for the Rockford Peaches from 1943 to 1953. The left-handed infielder was named in the top 100 female athletes of the century by Sports Illustrated.

Sheriff’s Reportsn The Rutherford County

Sheriff’s Office responded to 149 E-911 calls Thursday.

Rutherfordtonn The Rutherfordton Police

Department responded to 38 E-911 calls Thursday.

Spindalen The Spindale Police

Department responded to 19 E-911 Thursday.

Lake Luren The Lake Lure Police

Department responded to seven E-911 calls Thursday.

Forest Cityn The Forest City Police

Department responded to 69 E-911 calls Thursday.n An employee from Ingles

reported a larceny. (See arrest of Whitton.)n An employee from B&L

Auto Sales reported a lar-ceny.n An employee from the

Town of Forest City reported an incident of damage to property.n Samuel Bailey reported a

larceny.n An employee from Ingles

reported an incident of check fraud.

Arrestsn Alexander John Whitton,

20, of Pumpkin Patch Road, Rutherfordton; charged with larceny, possession of malt beverage underage and underage consump-tion; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (FCPD)n Kevin Michael Davidson,

23, of 346 Collette St.; charged with felony proba-tion violation; placed under a $20,000 secured bond. (Probation)n Adarryl L. Landrum, 36,

of 362 Forest St.; charged with failure to comply; placed under a $2,000 cash bond. (RCSD)n Alexis Queen Warner,

16, of 1525 Doggett Road; charged with disorderly con-duct; placed under a $1,500 secured bond. (RCSD)n Heather Kay Jewett,

22, of 1525 Doggett Road; charged with simple affray; placed under a $1,000

secured bond. (RCSD)n Jessica Marie Calloway,

20, of 1686 Doggett Road; charged with simple affray; placed under a $1,000 secured bond. (RCSD)n Dylon Scott Lowery, 16,

of 319 Ellenboro/Henrietta Road; charged with misde-meanor larceny; freed on a custody release. (RCSD)n Rafael Vincent Watkins,

48, of 122 Spruce St.; charged with four counts of failure to appear and unau-thorized use of motor vehicle; placed under an $8,000 cash bond and a $5,000 secured bond. (Bondsman)

EMS/Rescuen The Rutherford County

EMS responded to 35 E-911 calls Thursday.n The Volunteer Life

Saving and Rescue, Hickory Nut Gorge EMS and Rutherford County Rescue responded to no E-911 calls Thursday.

Fire Callsn Cliffside firefighters

responded to a vehicle fire.n Forest City firefight-

ers responded to two motor vehicle crashes.n Hudlow firefighters

responded to a motor vehicle crash.

Obituaries

Deaths

Man says he wants death sentence

GASTONIA (AP) — A North Carolina man con-victed of first-degree murder says he wants a death sen-tence.

But Michael Ryan told a Gaston County judge Thursday that he doesn’t actually want to be executed. The Gaston Gazette reports that Ryan says being on death row would give him respect from other inmates and also more chances to appeal.

Jurors deliberated Wednesday afternoon and for about an hour Thursday before finding Ryan guilty of killing 65-year-old David Farrar in the backyard of his home outside Mount Holly in March 2007.

Co-defendant Wesley Adair pleaded guilty to murder in Farrar’s death and testified against Ryan.

Body of missing man found in lake

RALEIGH (AP) — Police say a body found floating in a lake on the North Carolina State University campus has been identified as a missing Raleigh man.

Authorities told multiple media outlets that 48-year-old Hugh Allen’s body was identified Thursday.

Allen was reported missing to Raleigh police last week after authorities said he wan-dered away from his apart-ment. Officials say Allen may have suffered from a cogni-tive impairment.

A family hiking in a nearby wooded area found Allen’s body floating in the south-

west corner of Lake Raleigh on Wednesday afternoon.

Police say Allen likely drowned, and they do not suspect foul play.

Three arrested in death of S.C. man

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Three people have been arrested in the death of a man found on the side of a South Carolina road.

Multiple media outlets report Friday that 18-year-old Jimmy Darrell Gagum Jr. of Myrtle Beach has been charged with murder. Nineteen-year-old Shelton Manquell Brantley has been charged with accessory after the fact, and 19-year-old Michael Jerome Conner has been charged with mispri-sion of a felony for knowing about a crime but lying to investigators. Both are from Conway.

Authorities say 21-year-old Edwin Donnell Salters of Myrtle Beach was shot in the head. His body was found early Wednesday on the side of a neighborhood road in Conway.

Officials: Church fire was an accident

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — Officials say a fire that destroyed the sanctuary of a church in northern South Carolina was an accident.

Anderson County Fire Chief Billy Gibson told multiple media outlets that an electri-cal short caused the fire that was reported shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday at Centerville Church of God.

It took firefighters about 45 minutes to put out the fire.

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John Mark Cobb

John Mark Cobb, 51, of Mt. Pleasant, SC, the husband of Tammy Henderson Cobb, died Sunday, May 16, 2010. Mr. Cobb was born December 16, 1958 in Anderson, SC to Dr. Charles F. Cobb and the late Sandra Cobb. Mr. Cobb graduated from R-S Central High School in Ruther-fordton, NC; then Appalachian State University. Mr. Cobb loved his family and friends. He loved the beach and had an avid love of baseball, playing throughout his school career. He was the Director of Facilities for the Charleston County School District and was an active member of East Cooper Baptist Church, SC. Mark will be sadly missed by his wife, Tammy; son, Adam Cobb; step-daughter Lindsey Henline and her fiancé, Phillip Davis and their son, Hudson Prevost Davis of Waynesville, NC; father, Dr. Charles Cobb and wife, Virginia; brother, Andy Cobb and wife, Cindy of Rutherfordton, NC; sister Marianne Gee and husband, Walter of Spindale, NC; father and mother-in-law, Charles and Joyce Henderson; brother-in-law Terry Henderson and wife, Glenda; nephews, Jonathan Cobb, Alex Cobb and Jeremiah Gee and niece Rachel Cobb. Funeral services were held 3:00 PM, Friday, May 21, 2010 at Adaville Baptist Church with Dr. Steve Cobb and Rev. Cal Sayles officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Memorials may be made to Adaville Baptist Church, 805 Oakland Road, Spindale, NC 28160. Arrangegements by McAllister-Smith Funeral Home, 1520 Rifle Range Road, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464. Condolences may be sent to the Cobb family via:www.mcalister-smith.com

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James Richard Feimster

James Richard Feimster, age 83, of Spindale, NC, died May 20, 2010 at White Oak Manor in Rutherfordton. James was born December 11, 1926 in St. John County, Florida, to the late James Richard Feimster, Sr. and Irene Donahue Feimster. He served as a Sergeant in the 37th Armored Division in the US Army during the Korean War. He was a mem-ber of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church and enjoyed hunting, fishing and the outdoors. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Elsie Mae Moles Feimster and by one daughter, Eva Irene Feimster. Survivors include three sons, James O. Feimster and wife, Rebecca of Bostic, John E. Feimster of Forest City and Richard Lee Feimster and wife, Donna of Shiloh; two brothers, Earl Jenkins of Washington State and James Richard Feimster of Wilmington, NC; three grand-children, Timothy James Feimster of Spindale, Justin Corey Feimster of Georgia and Lindsey Nicole Feimster of Shiloh; two great-grandchildren, Dyllon Feimster and Emma Feimster. He is also survived by several step great-grandchildren including Maggie Morillo. A graveside service will be con-ducted at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at Sunset Memorial Park with Reverend Johnny Willis officiating. Military Honors will be accorded by the Rutherford County Honor Guard. The family will receive friends Friday from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Harrelson Funeral Home. Harrelson Funeral Home is serv-ing the family of James Richard Feimster. An online guest registry is avail-able at:www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com

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Radford Cathy Millard “Grammie” Radford, age 48, of 124 Carver Lane, Forest City, NC, died Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at Rutherford Hospital. Cathy was born on November 10, 1961 to the late Grady Millard and Dot Taylor Millard. She was a faithful and long-time member of Adaville Baptist Church where she enjoyed keeping the nursery, working Vacation Bible School and playing on the softball team. She owned and operated Cathy Radford’s Daycare for over 30 years and loved taking care of children. She especially enjoyed spending time with her grandchil-dren and going to the beach. Survivors include her husband of 30 years, Ricky “Spanky” Radford; two daughters, Miranda Yelton and her husband, Derek, and Meagan “Rowdy” Radford all of Forest City; two grand-daughters, Blakeley Yelton and Bryndle Yelton; and a brother, Gary Millard of Marion. She also leaves a host of loving friends. Funeral services will be con-ducted at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at Adaville Baptist Church with Reverend Calvin R. Sayles officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. until service time at the church on the day of the funeral. Memorial donations are sug-gested to Adaville Baptist Church Music Ministry, 805 Oakland Road, Spindale, NC 28167. Harrelson Funeral Home is serv-ing the family. An online guest registry is avail-able at:www.harrelsonfuneralhome.com

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Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Laura Bridges, who received the McClellan complaint, had asked that the matter be taken out of her hands because of a conflict of inter-est. At the time, her daughter-in-law, Edna Walker, was running against Spence in the Republican primary for clerk of court.

The hearing took from 10 a.m. to slightly past 5 p.m., with an hour lunch break. The hearing was neither a civil nor a criminal matter, so vari-ous issues arose on how to proceed.

For example, when Freedman called Spence to the stand, her defense team of Roger W. Knight and K. Edward Greene said she should not be com-pelled to testify, since the sanction could be removal from office.

Freedman countered that the hearing was not adversarial, but an attempt to determine the facts. And he added that she could take the fifth in case of possible self-incrimination.

The judge agreed, saying the “public integrity of the clerk means she does not have the right to refuse to testify.”

Spence took the stand to dispute earlier testimony by officers with the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office.

The crux of the matter was what was said to RCSO officers Trey Hooper and Joshua Johnson, and their supervisor, Cpl. Ronald Shelton, on that Easter Sunday.

The officers said that at various times Spence told them that the 2006 paperwork was correct, that Judge Thomas Davis had changed the paperwork earlier in the week prior to Easter, and that Judge Davis wanted both parents arrested and the child turned over to DSS custody.

Spence said what she actually conveyed to the officers was that

Davis told her on that Sunday that McClellan needed to make sure he had his times right for when to return the child to his mother, or else Luckadoo could ask her attorney to file a motion for contempt, and McClellan could go to jail.

Davis took the stand to testify that Spence came to him about 10 days before the Easter Sunday incident to ask him to look at the McClellan file because DSS was worried that there would be problems, with Easter visi-tation coming up.

Judge Davis said Spence did not ask him to do anything specific, that she was just seeking guidance, and he told her that he couldn’t change the order without a hearing, and, besides, he had recused himself from the case at the request of McClellan.

When the defense asked Davis to go through the three-inch-thick file to withdraw the two orders, he admitted that he had trouble locating the 2008 order.

Davis also said he gave a hand-writ-ten outline of the order, apparently in 2009, when DSS approached him with concerns about an argument over spring break custody.

Magistrate Rhonda Alexander, who also communicated with the RCSO officers, said she did not remember the specifics of the messages from Spence that she conveyed to them.

McClellan took the stand to testify that he had a January 2008 order from Judge Davis that invalidated the 2006 order brought by sheriff’s officers. He said his son takes 10 pills a day for a seizure disorder, and was “terrified” by the ordeal of having the officers at the residence.

McClellan had alleged that Spence was friends with his ex-wife, but Spence told the judge she did not know Luckadoo.

Judge Long would later ask Freedman what Spence’s motive

would be, if she did not know Luckadoo. Freedman said he was unsure of a motive.

When the hearing began, the defense had asked for a dismissal right away. They contended that Judge Bridges did not have jurisdic-tion in the case, since she had asked the Administrative Office of the Courts to relieve her from the hear-ing. She, however, filed two probable cause orders in the case. The defense also contended that the matter should have been heard within 30 days of the filing of the official complaint.

Judge Long denied that motion to dismiss and the case was heard in court.

Knight, speaking on behalf of Spence after the hearing, said his cli-ent was happy with the result, adding “who wouldn’t be?”

“I was surprised it went as far as it did,” he said, “when there has to be willful misconduct. Not a solitary thing, even the arguments presented by counsel, did not amount to any-thing other than a person trying to do their best, trying to respond to people that she knows and works with in the law enforcement community, who asked for help. And she tried to give it. What you have is an Easter Sunday with a lot going on, people relaying information second, third and fourth hand.”

He noted that maybe the messages got crossed up.

“But that’s the most you can say,” he added, “the absolute most. Why it ever got to this point, I don’t know.”

“I thought the probable cause was improperly filed,” he added.

He asked why Spence would have any motive to try to “mess around with people’s visitation that she didn’t even know.”

Contact Dale via e-mail at ldale@thedigi-talcourier.com.

red CrossThe following blood drives are scheduled:May 24 — Spindale United Methodist Church, 3 to 7 p.m., call 245-8554;May 27 — Rutherford County Government, 289 N. Main St., Rutherfordton, noon to 4:30 p.m., call 287-6145;May 31 — Lowe’s, 184 Lowes Blvd., Forest City, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., call 351-1023;All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a cruise for two.

Meetings/otherAl-Anon meetings: Lake Lure Al-Anon Family Group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., at Lake Lure Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bills Creek Road, Lake Lure; call 625-0456 for information.

HARC book sale: Homeschool Association of Rutherford/Polk Counties annual used book sale on Monday, May 24, 6:30 p.m., at Second Baptist Church in Rutherfordton.

Booster meeting: Chase Athletic Boosters will meet Tuesday, June 7, at 6:30 p.m., in the office confer-ence room.

Fellowship Baptist Church, 210 Silvers Lake, Rutherfordton, will be having revival meetings May 23 through May 26. Sunday morning service will begin at 11 a.m. and all evening services will begin at 7 p.m.

MiscellaneousGeneology Class: “Climbing Your Family Tree,” Tuesdays (in May) from 5 to 6 p.m., at Mountains Branch Library; Bill Miller will guide you through finding family information on the internet, using Heritage Quest, the Census, and other helpful Websites; no charge.

Vendors are wanted for a multi-cultural festival, June 12 at Hardin Park. Items must be handcrafted. Call 289-9420 for info.

Soccer Try-outs: The 97 Ruther-ford Lady Rumble Classic Team will hold try-outs for girls born on or after Aug. 1, 1997 on May 25 and 26 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the R.S. Central Soccer Field. Cost is $10 and participants are asked to bring their own beverages, shin guards and cleats. The coach will be Ritchie Barclay.

‘97 Rumble Soccer Tryouts for kids born on or after Aug. 1, 1997 will be held 27 and 28 at the R.S. Central Soccer Field from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Cost is $10 and participants are asked to bring their own bever-ages, shin guards and cleats. For more information call 305-3746.

‘98 Rumble Soccer Tryouts for kids born on or after Aug. 1, 1998 will be held June 1 - 3 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at Tanner Field. For more info, call Betsy at 289-8587.

“Big Day in Ellenboro”: the “Big Day” is coming up again, July 3 in Ellenboro. The festival is seeking vendors for food, arts and crafts, etc., parade and car show. Please call 453-7414 or 453-0175.

Mass Choir Anniversary: Sun-day, May 23, 11 a.m. Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Forest City.

Washburn Community Outreach Center, 2934 Piney Mountain Church Rd. in Bostic, will have spe-cials daily throughout the month of May. The center is open Thursdays through Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Fundraisers4th Annual yard sale: Saturday, June 12, 6 to 11 a.m., at Big Dave’s Family Sea Food; Wayne Rollins of Rollins Cafeteria will be selling pancake breakfast for $6 per person (plus tax); ages 3-10, $3; all you can eat; yard sale, sponsored by Eaton Corporation, includes all Relay teams; contact Wavolyn Norville at 286-7770 to reserve space; all pro-ceeds go toward ACS Relay For Life.

Hymns In Movement for All Ages, May 24 - 31; Diane Tucker Studios, 143 S. Ridgecrest St., Rutherfordton; call 286-0846 for more informaion; 9 - 10 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 6 - 7 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday; all dona-tions will go to Haiti.

Relay for Life Day: Saturday, May 22, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the First Baptist Church of Forest City; car wash, bake sale, silent auction and hot dog lunch; all proceeds for ACS Relay for Life.

Breakfast buffet: Saturday, May 22, 7 to 10 a.m., Long Branch Road Baptist Church, 621 Long Branch Road, Forest City; no set price, donations accepted; proceeds for the building fund.

Fish fry and rib plates: Saturday,

joining the Navy and the same prob-lem almost kept him from becoming an astronaut.

He applied to be a payload special-ist, an exert who trained to conduct experiments for one single space flight. He flew twice.

He calls his blast off into space, “A long story. The ultimate motorcycle ride.

The school with the largest number of students attending will receive 25 National Geographic books for the school library. And one free set of books will be given to a school in Rutherford, Polk, Cleveland and McDowell counties.

The museum’s Explorer Dome is an inflatable and portable planetarium to teach students about science and geography.

Aguilar is director of Public Affairs and Science Information at the

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is author and illus-trator of Planets, Stars & Galaxies and the New Solar System, published by “National Geographic.”

A naturalist, astronomer, author, and artist, Aguliar communicates the wonderment of science.

He is the past Director of the Fiske Planetarium and Science Center and the originator of the Science Discovery Program at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Marketing Communications Director at Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, and Marketing Director for PBS’s Emmy-winning NOVA series, Evolution.

NASA’s Crouch, is an American sci-entist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997.

He served as Program Scientist on five different Spacelab flights. He also volunteers at Kennedy Space Center.

Crouch has logged over 471 hours in space. The Microgravity Science

Laboratory (MSL-1) Spacelab mis-sion, was cut short because of prob-lems with one of the Shuttle’s fuel cell power units. Mission duration was 95 hours and 12 minutes, traveling 1.5 million miles in 63 orbits. STS-94 was a reflight of the MSL-1 and focused on materials and combustion science research.

Mission duration was 376 hours and 45 minutes, traveling 6.3 mil-lion miles in 251 orbits of the Earth. He trained as the Alternate Payload Specialist on STS-42 (First International Microgravity Laboratory) which flew in January 1992.

Proceeds from the Super Star event benefits the KidSenses Children’s InterACTIVE Museum, to continue providing educational programs for children and students in Rutherford County and across the region and state.

Contact Gordon via e-mail at jgordon@the-digitalcourier.com.

Among the fun events will be a goat parade, at 12:30 p.m., and a goat beauty pageant /best costume event at 1 p.m.

Six bands are scheduled, with The Lone Derangers being the featured performers. Other bands are Carolina Jasmine; Stanley, Fish & Friends; Forever Kings & Queens; Kickin’ Chickin; and Dixie Moon.

Also, the Rutherford Community Theatre will present “Billy Goat Gruff” in three performances.

Children will find many fun things to do at the festival.

A bicycle safety course is being offered by the Spindale Police Department, and 100 bicycle helmets will be given away to children.

Also, a drawing will be held for a bicycle, at 5 p.m.

In another “bicycle” oriented event, there will be a reading of “Gracie Goat’s Big Bike Race.” “It’s about over-coming fears and trying something new,” Beverly Kalinowski, a festival organizer, explained.

In accord with the agricultural theme of the festival, Tom Gray of Spindale Farm & Garden has donat-ed hundreds of sweet potato plants, Kalinowksi said, “so we can send every child home with their own

sweet potato plant to plant in their yard.”

Money is being raised to donate dairy goats to Heifer International, a humanitarian group that gives live-stock to families and communities in need. Heifer International reports that some goat breeds can produce up to a gallon of milk a day. The family consumes some of it, and the rest can be made into cheeses and yogurts, or can be sold at the market. Then, when the goats have kids, project partners can pass on the animal gift to another family.

For more information about the fes-tival, go to www.goatfestival.com

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Lions .Club .golf . . .tourney .held

RUTHERFORDTON — The 6th Annual Rutherfordton Lions Club held a golf tourna-ment on Wednesday, May 19, at Meadowbrook Golf Club.

The foursome of Mike Stephenson, Matt Bradley, Terry Allen and Josh Philbeck shot a blistering team total of 52 to capture first place.

Elliott Byers, Zachary Byers, Wendell Vaughn and Chris Harris came in second with a solid 59 score.

Ned Hendrick won the Closest to the Pin Contest, while Josh Philbeck clubbed the Longest Drive.

Owls .offering .fan . . .bus .to .Gastonia

FOREST CITY — The Forest City Owls are offering a fan bus to the team’s game at Gastonia on Saturday May 29.

Game time is set for 7 p.m. and the bus will leave McNair Field’s parking lot around 6 p.m. and return after the game. Cost of the trip is $10 per per-son and includes the bus ride, a general admission ticket to the game, and a hot dog meal. A limited number of seats are available.

To purchase tickets, or for more information, contact the Owls front office at 245-0000.

Wall .thinks .Calipari .staying .at .Kentucky

CHICAGO (AP) — John Wall believes John Calipari will stay at Kentucky, even if he has a chance to coach LeBron James.

At the NBA combine in Chicago, Wall said Friday that it was Calipari’s “dream” to coach Kentucky.

GOLF9 a.m. 2010 Rutherford County Golf Championships at the Rutherfordton Golf Course

12 p.m. (ESPN) College Softball NCAA Tournament, Regional: Teams TBA. 1 p.m. (FSS) College Baseball Florida State at Clemson. 2 p.m. (ESPN2) MLL La-crosse Washington Bayhawks at Toronto Nationals. 2:30 p.m. (WHNS) UEFA Champions League Soccer Fi-nal: Bayern Munich vs. Inter Milan.2:30 p.m. (ESPN) College Softball NCAA Tournament, Regional: Teams TBA.3 p.m. (WBTV) (WSPA) PGA Tour Golf HP Byron Nelson Championship, Third Round. 3 p.m. (WYFF) NHL Hockey Conference Final.3 p.m. (TS) College Baseball Arkansas at Vanderbilt. 4 p.m. (FSS) College Baseball Florida at South Carolina. 5 p.m. (ESPN) College Soft-ball NCAA Tournament, Regional: Teams TBA.6 p.m. (ESPN2) Soccer Team TBA vs. United States.7 p.m. (WHNS) MLB Base-ball Regional Coverage. Boston Red Sox at Philadel-phia Phillies or Chicago Cubs at Texas Rangers or Detroit Tigers at Los Angeles Dodgers or New York Yankees at New York Mets.8:30 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Bas-ketball Eastern Conference Final, Game 3: Orlando at Boston9 p.m. (SHO) Boxing Israel Vazquez vs. Rafael Marquez.

Cavaliers .Hit .The .Highway

Garrett Byers/Daily CourierEast Rutherford’s Drew Reynolds, left, and Ali Ruppe, right, looked to help lead their respective baseball and softball teams to road wins on Friday night. The Cavaliers played in Oakboro against West Stanly, while the Lady Cavs visited Randleman to play Randleman High.

Cavs rained out; Lady Cavs advanceFrom Staff Reports

OAKBORO — East Rutherford’s 3rd round 2A NCHSAA Baseball Playoff game with West Stanly was post-poned until tonight due to heavy rain.

The Cavs (24-2) will take to the field this evening at 7 p.m.

West Stanly (23-6) is the No. 1 seed of the Rocky River Conference.

East, with a win, would advance to the fourth round of the playoffs and

face the winner of the Cuthbertson-Piedmont game. If Piedmont were to win, it would come to East Rutherford for a Tuesday game. A win by Cuthbertson would force the Cavs to travel to Monroe on Tuesday.

SOFTBALLEast Rutherford 6, Randleman 4

RANDLEMAN — Sally Harrill

knocked in Sara Hoyle in the top of the seventh with the go-ahead run and Ali Ruppe closed out a complete game in the bottom of the frame as East Rutherford advanced with a 6-4 win over Randleman in the 2A Softball Playoffs Friday.

The Lady Cavs (12-6) now move to the 3rd round of the 2010 NCHSAA playoffs and await the winner of

Please see East Rutherford, Page 8

NASCAR prepares for Sunday’s Hall of Fame ceremonyBy JENNA FRYERAP Auto Racing Writer

CHARLOTTE — The movers and shakers in NASCAR gathered this week at a gala to honor the five inductees into the new Hall of Fame.

Richard Petty and Junior Johnson, the only two liv-ing members of the inaugural class, reminisced with old friends. Richard Childress shared tales of his good friend, the late Dale Earnhardt, while Earnhardt’s widow, Teresa, stayed out of the spotlight, but politely accepted congratulatory greetings.

The big moment came during the cock-tail hour, when the family of Raymond Parks escorted the pioneer through the massive foyer. Two weeks shy of his 96th birthday, Parks is confined to a wheel-chair and silently nodded to the frequent well-wishers who gathered to say hello to the top-hat clad owner of the car Red Byron drove to NASCAR’s inaugural 1949 championship.

Nobody, including Parks, wants to miss this first cel-Please see NASCAR, Page 9

Kyle Busch taking financial bath as team ownerBy MIKE CRANSTONAP Sports Writer

CONCORD — It didn’t take Kyle Busch long to become an elite NASCAR driver. That success hasn’t carried over to life as a team owner.

Busch’s first year owning two trucks in NASCAR’s third-tier series has included a lost primary sponsorship, a driver leav-ing for a better job, a growing list of unpaid creditors and a rapid amount of money disappearing from his wallet.

“It’s a tough business to be involved with, and unfortunately I picked the per-fect get-wrong time to do it,” Busch said Friday.

The No. 18 truck Busch sometimes drives himself is without a primary spon-sor, and the No. 56 Toyota driven by Tayler Malsam also is scrambling for money. With the

Please see Busch, Page 9

Associated Press2006 Tour de France cycling champion Floyd Landis is sworn in during an arbitration hearing on the doping allegations against him, at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., in this May 19, 2007, file photo. Landis was stripped of the title and has now admitted to doping after claiming he was innocent.

WADA .to .Landis: .Put .up .or .shut .up

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The leaders of the IOC and World Anti-Doping Agency want Floyd Landis to provide concrete evidence to support his allegation of doping by seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.

“He has to bring proof that this is true,” International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge told The Associated Press on Friday. “These are accusations that need to be corroborated by proof.”

“You can’t condemn without proof,” Rogge added. “He would be better off by giving evidence to corroborate that, otherwise he is risking a lot of libels .... You can only sanc-tion an athlete with tangible proof.”

WADA president John Fahey, in a separate interview with the AP, said if there is any substance to Landis’ alle-gations, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency or International Cycling Union should intervene.

“If he has evidence, he should make that evidence avail-able to the USADA or UCI and I’m sure if there is any substance to that evidence, either of those bodies would act,” Fahey said. “There will always be rumors about it.”

Hein Verbruggen, former president of the cycling union, denied Landis’ contention that he helped cover up a posi-

Please see Landis, Page 8

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BASEBALLNational League

East Division W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 26 15 .635 —Florida 22 20 .524 4 1/2Atlanta 22 20 .524 4 1/2 Washington 21 21 .500 5 1/2New York 20 22 .476 6 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 24 18 .571 —Cincinnati 23 18 .561 1/2Chicago 19 23 .452 5Pittsburgh 18 24 .429 6Milwaukee 16 25 .390 7 1/2Houston 14 27 .341 9 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBSan Diego 24 17 .585 —Los Angeles 23 18 .561 1San Francisco 22 18 .550 1 1/2Colorado 20 21 .488 4Arizona 18 24 .429 6 1/2

Thursday’s GamesPhiladelphia 5, Chicago Cubs 4Atlanta 10, Cincinnati 9St. Louis 4, Florida 2Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 3N.Y. Mets 10, Washington 7Colorado 4, Houston 0Arizona 8, San Francisco 7L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 1Friday’s GamesAtlanta 7, Pittsburgh 0Baltimore at Washington, latePhiladelphia 5, Boston 1Cincinnati 7, Cleveland 4N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, lateChicago Cubs at Texas, lateTampa Bay at Houston, lateColorado at Kansas City, lateFlorida at Chicago White Sox, lateMilwaukee at Minnesota, lateL.A. Angels at St. Louis, lateToronto at Arizona, lateSan Francisco at Oakland, lateDetroit at L.A. Dodgers, lateSan Diego at Seattle, lateSaturday’s GamesFlorida (Volstad 3-4) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 1-4), 2:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (Kazmir 2-4) at St. Louis (Lohse 1-3), 2:15 p.m.Baltimore (Bergesen 3-3) at Washington (Stammen 1-2), 4:05 p.m.San Francisco (Cain 2-3) at Oakland (G.Gonzalez 4-3), 4:05 p.m.Colorado (Francis 0-0) at Kansas City (Davies 3-2), 4:10 p.m.Milwaukee (Gallardo 4-2) at Minnesota (Slowey 5-3), 4:10 p.m.Atlanta (D.Lowe 5-4) at Pittsburgh (Morton 1-7), 7:05 p.m.Cincinnati (Cueto 3-1) at Cleveland (Carmona 4-1), 7:05 p.m.Tampa Bay (Niemann 3-0) at Houston (W.Rodriguez 2-5), 7:05 p.m.Boston (Matsuzaka 2-1) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 2-1), 7:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 3-2) at Texas (Holland 2-0), 7:10 p.m.Detroit (Galarraga 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Ely 2-1), 7:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 5-0) at N.Y. Mets (Pelfrey 5-1), 7:10 p.m.Toronto (Eveland 3-3) at Arizona (E.Jackson 2-5), 8:10 p.m.San Diego (Richard 3-2) at Seattle (Snell 0-2), 10:10 p.m.Sunday’s GamesCincinnati at Cleveland, 1:05 p.m.Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m.Baltimore at Washington, 1:35 p.m.Boston at Philadelphia, 1:35 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Texas, 2:05 p.m.Florida at Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at Houston, 2:05 p.m.Colorado at Kansas City, 2:10 p.m.Milwaukee at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.L.A. Angels at St. Louis, 2:15 p.m.San Francisco at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Detroit at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m.San Diego at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.Toronto at Arizona, 4:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesPittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m.

American League

East Division W L Pct GBTampa Bay 30 11 .732 —New York 25 16 .610 5Toronto 25 18 .581 6Boston 22 20 .524 8 1/2Baltimore 13 29 .310 17 1/2

Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit 24 17 .585 —Minnesota 24 17 .585 —Kansas City 17 25 .405 7 1/2Chicago 16 24 .400 7 1/2Cleveland 15 24 .385 8

West Division W L Pct GBTexas 24 18 .571 —Oakland 20 22 .476 4Los Angeles 20 23 .465 4 1/2Seattle 15 26 .366 8 1/2

Thursday’s GamesKansas City 9, Cleveland 3Detroit 5, Oakland 2Seattle 4, Toronto 3Tampa Bay 8, N.Y. Yankees 6Boston 6, Minnesota 2Texas 13, Baltimore 7L.A. Angels 6, Chicago White Sox 5Friday’s GamesInterleague games

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

Playoff Glance

CONFERENCE FINALSEASTERN CONFERENCE

Boston 2, Orlando 0Sunday, May 16: Boston 92, Orlando 88Tuesday, May 18: Boston 95, Orlando 92Saturday, May 22: Orlando at Boston, 8:30 p.m.Monday, May 24: Orlando at Boston, 8:30 p.m.x-Wednesday, May 26: Boston at Orlando, 8:30 p.m.x-Friday, May 28: Orlando at Boston, 8:30 p.m.x-Sunday, May 30: Boston at Orlando, 8:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEL.A. Lakers 2, Phoenix 0

Monday, May 17: L.A. Lakers 128, Phoenix 107Wednesday, May 19: L.A. Lakers 124, Phoenix 112Sunday, May 23: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 8:30 p.m.Tuesday, May 25: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, 9 p.m.x-Thursday, May 27: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.x-Saturday, May 29: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix,8:30 p.m.x-Monday, May 31: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 9 p.m.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

Playoff GlanceCONFERENCE FINALS

EASTERN CONFERENCEPhiladelphia 2, Montreal 1

Sunday, May 16: Philadelphia 6, Montreal 0Tuesday, May 18: Philadelphia 3, Montreal 0Thursday, May 20: Montreal 5, Philadelphia 1Saturday, May 22: Philadelphia at Montreal, 3 p.m.x-Monday, May 24: Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.x-Wednesday, May 26: Philadelphia at Montreal, 7 p.m.x-Friday, May 28: Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Chicago 2, San Jose 0Sunday, May 16: Chicago 2, San Jose 1Tuesday, May 18: Chicago 4, San Jose 2Friday, May 21: San Jose at Chicago, lateSunday, May 23: San Jose at Chicago, 3 p.m.

x-Tuesday, May 25: Chicago at San Jose, 9 p.m.x-Thursday, May 27: San Jose at Chicago, 8 p.m.x-Saturday, May 29: Chicago at San Jose, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONSFriday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLMajor League Baseball

MLB—Suspended three Atlanta minor leaguer players, INF Albaro Campusano (Myrtle Beach-Carolina), INF Geraldo Rodriguez (Myrtle Beach-Carolina), and INF Amadeo Zazueta (Myrtle Beach-Carolina) 50 games apiece after each tested positive for an Amphetamine, a performance-enhancing substance.

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES—Optioned LHP Alberto Castillo to Norfolk (IL). Selected the contract of INF Scott Moore from Norfolk. Designated INF Justin Turner for assignment.MINNESOTA TWINS—Recalled INF Trevor Plouffe from Rochester (IL).

National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS—Signed RHP Bob Howry and added him to the active roster. Optioned RHP Justin Berg to Iowa (PCL). Designated RHP David Patton for assignment.MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Activated OF Carlos Gomez from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Adam Stern to Nashville (PCL). Placed C Gregg Zaun on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of C Jonathan Lucroy from Nashville. Transferred RHP David Riske to the 60-day DL.NEW YORK METS—Placed RHP John Maine on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of RHP Elmer Dessens from Buffalo (IL). Transferred RHP Kelvim Escobar to the 60-day DL.WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Released OF Willy Taveras.

American AssociationEL PASO DIABLOS—Signed LHP Alex Oles. Released RHP Clegg Snipes.WICHITA WINGNUTS—Signed OF Eric Williams.

Can-Am LeagueBROCKTON ROX—Released RHP David Erickson.NEW JERSEY JACKALS—Signed OF Kevin Clark. Released RHP Rudy Darrow.SUSSEX SKYHAWKS—Signed OF Kraig Binick.

Golden Baseball LeagueCALGARY VIPERS—Signed SS Guillermo Reyes.

United LeagueAMARILLO DILLAS—Placed INF Andrew Wong on the inactive list.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS—Named Doug Collins coach.

Women’s National Basketball AssociationSAN ANTONIO SILVER STARS—Signed F Chamique Holdsclaw.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

DENVER BRONCOS—Signed CB Syd’Quan Thompson.

COLLEGEBIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN—Named Chris Martin offensive coordinator.GARDNER-WEBB—Named Jay McAuley, Mike Netti and Michael Lee men’s basketball assis-tant coaches.GEORGETOWN—Announced the resignation of men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Steve Cartwright, effective at the end of June.GEORGIA SOUTHERN—Announced junior LB Tavaris Williams has voluntarily suspended him-self pending the results of a police investiga-tion.ILLINOIS—Granted senior basketball F Jeff Jordan his release to transfer to another school.ILLINOIS STATE—Named Cassie Kowaleski director of women’s basketball operations.MONTEVALLO—Named Chandler Rose base-ball coach.PRESBYTERIAN—Named Brian Rucke receiv-ers coach.UTSA—Announced the resignation of men’s tennis coach Dr. Oliver Trittenwein, effective July 31.

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tive drug test by Armstrong in 2002.

“He has never been (tested) positive,” Verbruggen told the AP.

The international officials spoke after Landis, in a series of e-mails sent to sponsors and sports officials, confessed to years of doping after having pre-viously denied cheating.

The American rider was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title and served a two-year ban for doping. He also alleged that Armstrong not only joined him in doping but taught others how to beat the system.

Armstrong denied the claims by his former teammate.

“We have nothing to hide,” Armstrong said at an impromptu news conference before the fifth stage of the Tour of California. “Credibility, Floyd lost his cred-ibility a long time ago.”

Pat McQuaid, president of cycling’s governing body, also questioned Landis’ credibility.

Rogge said the cycling body will require “more evidence than just an e-mail. They need to have more details to launch an

inquiry.”Rogge also expressed doubts

about Landis’ claim that Armstrong and longtime coach Johan Bruyneel paid Verbruggen to cover up a test in 2002 after Armstrong purportedly tested positive for the blood-booster EPO.

“To my knowledge it is not pos-sible to hide a positive result,” Rogge said, adding that each doping sample has a code known to laboratory testing teams. “The lab knows the code. WADA gets it also. Then it goes to the national and international fed-erations.

“One person cannot decide: ‘I can put this under the carpet.’”

Verbruggen said there was nev-er any positive test in the first place.

“Everyone can have a lot of doubts and say whatever they want — the guy has never been positive,” the Dutch official said. “Never has Lance Armstrong been declared positive by a lab.”

Verbruggen said Armstrong made one visit to cycling’s head-quarters at Aigle, Switzerland, in 2002 after the center’s new indoor training track had opened.

“It was a Monday morning,” he said. “I remember that because

we had a lot of the pupils and youngsters there. It was a great thing for them to be in the pic-ture with him.”

Verbruggen said he was told a few weeks ago that Landis would be making his allegations.

“The guy has been lying for three years and spending zil-lions of money to defend his own lies,” Verbruggen said. “Now he is broke and he comes out with a different story.”

The cycling body issued a state-ment denying changing or con-cealing a positive test result, and Bruyneel said, “I absolutely deny everything (Landis) said.”

Rogge welcomed Landis’s con-fession of his own doping.

“The fact that he is coming out is something that we applaud,” he said. “It will clear his con-science. An admission is proof under the WADA Code and you should be penalized.”

Fahey, reached by phone in Melbourne, Australia, said Landis’ confessions didn’t sur-prise him.

“There was absolutely no doubt about the decision in the Court of Arbitration for Sport on his final appeal,” Fahey said. “They saw him as being a cheat, and in this context, he has now admit-ted it, and I am pleased.”

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CONCORD (AP) — Qualifying for the NASCAR All-Star race has been rained out, giving Kurt Busch the pole based on the qualifying draw.

Joey Logano will start on the outside of the front row on Saturday in the 100-lap race that pays more than $1 million to the winner. Brad Keselowski will start third, followed by Jamie McMurray, Kyle Busch and David Reutimann.

Denny Hamlin, whose team won the Pit Crew Challenge this week to secure the first pit stall for Saturday’s race, blew an engine in practice and will start in the rear of the field.

NASCAR officials on Friday night were still hop-ing to complete qualifying for Saturday’s prelimi-nary Sprint Cup showdown. Juan Pablo Montoya had the provisional pole after 25 of 29 drivers had completed their runs.

All-Star qualifying rained out; Kurt Busch on pole

Wheatmore-Central Davidson. Regardless of the winner, East will remain on the road in the 3rd round.

“It’s working so far,” said East Head Coach Julie Powell, referring to the road trips of the Lady Cavs.

“We played a solid game,” said Powell. “Ali was real solid and we got the win.”

East posted four runs in the first inning and held that lead until Randleman responded with four in the fifth inning.

“We scored our four runs with two outs and they came back and did the same thing to us in the fifth,” said Powell.

Hoyle (2-for-4) drew a walk to open the top of the 7th and came around to score when Harrill lined a single. The Lady Cavs would add an additional run to hold a 6-4 lead heading into the bottom of the 7th.

Ruppe got a pop-up and a strikeout to open the final inning, but two Randleman hitters reached base to put two on with two outs.

Ruppe buckled down and struck out her fourth batter of the day to seal the playoff win.

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Associated PressAtlanta Braves’ Jason Heyward, right, trots past Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Ross Ohlendorf after hitting a two-run home run in the third inning of the baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jason Heyward homered and drove in three runs to support Tim Hudson’s eight dominating innings and the Atlanta Braves didn’t wait until the late innings to put away Pittsburgh, beating the Pirates 7-0 on Friday for their fourth consecutive victory.

The Braves had won three consecutive games in their final at-bat, including a 10-9 win over Cincinnati on Thursday in which they scored seven runs during the best ninth-inning comeback in franchise history. They have won nine of 11 overall.

Hudson (5-1) allowed only three singles, two by Bobby Crosby, while winning his fourth consecu-tive decision this month — allowing no more than one run in any victory.

Braves bomb Bucs, 7-0

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RC Cavaliers Win Global

Contributed PhotoThe RC Cavaliers 12 and under baseball team finished in 1st place at the USSSA Western North Carolina Global Spring Classic in Morganton on May 15 & 16. The Cavs are: Dylan Bradley (front, l to r), Riley Riffle, AJ Simmons, Seth Lowery, Jordan Munn; Blake Williams (middle, l to r), Jack White, Reece Oliver, Kevin Hopps, Ethan Stewart, Timothy Hardin; and coaches Randy Riffle (back, l to r), Aaron Munn, Mickey Munn and Jerry Stewart.

76ers hire Doug CollinsPHILADELPHIA (AP) — The

Philadelphia 76ers made Doug Collins their top choice for a second time.

Collins was hired Friday by the Sixers and charged with reviving a sagging franchise that has the No. 2 overall pick in the June draft.

Collins emerged as Philadelphia’s top choice out of seven candidates, marking the second time he’s come out on top with organization. The Sixers made him the No. 1 overall pick in the 1973 draft.

This is Collins’ fourth stint as an NBA coach. He’s worked as an analyst for TNT since leaving the Washington Wizards in 2003.

“We are excited to hire a head coach with the level of experience, knowledge and passion for the game that Doug Collins has,” team presi-dent Ed Stefanski. “He has been around basketball his entire life, has experienced success at every step throughout his career and we are confident in his ability to lead our team.”

Collins could not immediately be reached for comment. The Sixers have scheduled a news conference for Monday.

Collins went 332-287 in coach-ing stints with Chicago, Detroit and Washington. He led the Bulls to the

Eastern Conference Finals in 1989.The 76ers made him the No. 1 over-

all pick in the 1973 draft, and he played eight seasons with them. He was a four-time All-Star in a career shortened by injuries.

A person familiar with the negotia-tions told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday that Collins agreed to a four-year deal.

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costs for running in the Truck Series estimated at several million dollars apiece, much of the funding is com-ing from Busch himself.

“I would say that majority is a fair word. I would say it’s far above majority. It’s pretty much every-thing,” Busch said.

The 25-year-old Busch has already won 18 times in the Sprint Cup, 34 Nationwide races and 17 more in the Truck Series. Armed with money from his career winnings and just before he signed a new deal with Joe Gibbs Racing, Busch announced in December he was becoming an owner.

He hoped to field three truck teams, but sponsorship issues lim-ited him to two. Then just before the season opening race at Daytona, Miccosukee Resort and Gaming in Florida dropped out as primary sponsor of the No. 18 Toyota after the Indian tribe got a new leader.

Busch has lined up some compa-nies for single-race sponsorships and other smaller deals, but it hasn’t been

nearly enough to cover the costs, even as Busch’s No. 18 team sits first in the owner’s standings.

“Our trucks really run well, we’re fast,” Busch said.

It just hasn’t paid the bills. The Charlotte Observer reported

nearly a dozen companies involved in the construction of Busch’s race headquarters in Mooresville, have filed liens or intend to file liens because they are collectively owed about $1 million.

“Is it painful? Yeah, you work your whole life to make the money you make and do everything you do,” Busch said. “I’m not saying I’m throwing it away, but to see it all go away, it’s unfortunate.

“What it all boils down to is if I get hurt. If I get hurt I can’t go forward. There’s disability and there’s this and that, but I don’t need to put my fam-ily in that position. I think that’s a bad idea. I’ve just got to stay healthy and keep going.”

The financial hit Busch is taking comes as he prepares for another healthy expense: his upcoming wed-ding with girlfriend Samantha Sarcinella

“The truck team costs a lot more,” Busch said. “She’s on a good budget.”

ebration of NASCAR’s rich and colorful his-tory. The $195 million Hall of Fame opened May 11, and its first class will be induct-ed Sunday in what’s expected to be an emo-tional event.

The first class com-prises NASCAR founder Bill France Sr., his son, Bill France Jr., seven-time series champions Petty and Earnhardt, and moon-shine runner-turned-racing pioneer Johnson.

“The five choices that the voting panel made, they could not have made a better choice of anyone,” said team owner Childress, who will speak in Sunday’s ceremony for Earnhardt.

That’s not necessarily the unanimous deci-sion, though.

The inaugural class was selected last October by a 50-mem-ber panel, which spent two-plus hours in what’s been described as a spirited closed-

door debate over the 25 nominees. With only five initial slots avail-able to men considered pioneers for their con-tributions in establish-ing NASCAR and then transforming it from a Southern series and into a national sport, the voting members had to make difficult deci-sions.

There were some who felt that the two Frances must be includ-ed in the inaugural class. France Sr. for forming the National Association of Stock Car Racing in 1947, and France Jr., for the three decades he spent at the helm of America’s top motorsports series.

Others felt the inclu-sion of France Jr. could hold off a year, and that the inaugural class would be better served without two adminis-trators from the ruling family.

It made for a sus-penseful announce-

ment later that day, when current NASCAR chairman Brian France announced the inductees to a packed room at the Charlotte Convention Center. He received five envelopes from an independent accounting firm, and announced his grandfa-ther as the first induct-ee.

Petty, NASCAR’s all-time wins leader was the second name announced. The room then went silent in anticipation of the third selection, which went to France Jr.

Three-time champion David Pearson, whose 105 victories rank him second only to Petty on the all-time wins list, watched from the audi-ence.

“When I seen the two Frances was in, I knew I didn’t have a chance,” Pearson said moments after the ceremony end-ed. “The same people don’t like everybody.”

Junior Johnson waits to be introduced before NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees unveiled their signatures in the Ceremonial Garden, Thursday, May 20, 2010, in Charlotte.

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IndyCars heading to BaltimoreINDIANAPOLIS (AP)

— IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard says a road race in Baltimore will be on the schedule next year.

Baltimore officials have approved a con-tract and an IndyCar spokeswoman said the signing of a sanctioning agreement is a formal-ity.

“We’re excited,” Bernard said during Indianapolis 500 prac-tice on Friday. “There’s a bunch of them (Baltimore officials) flying in here. We’re excited to be heading to Baltimore.”

The contract with a group of local investors calls for the race to be held every August for five years. City officials have estimated it will draw 100,000 specta-tors and generate mil-lions in annual econom-ic impact.

The race would be the Indianapolis-based league’s only event in the mid-Atlantic region, giving it a foothold in a densely populated area that has little history with open-wheel rac-ing. IndyCar also says it’s considering adding a race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H.

New Hampshire is just one of Bruton Smith’s tracks.

“I have a lot of respect for him,” Bernard said. “He’s a great promoter. I’m sure I can learn a

lot from him. We want to go to his tracks.”

Bernard said there could be expansion in the future.

“We have a lot of interest from a lot of tracks and ovals which I’ve heard we haven’t seen in a long time,” Bernard said. “I think what we’ll see is we’ll have an opportunity to select the ones that are best for us and will make us financially viable.”

BERNARD’S FIRST 500: Bernard will attend his first Indianapolis 500 this year, and he doesn’t plan to spend his whole day in a suite.

“I’m going to move around. I’m going to watch from four or five different places. I want to be out with the fans and be in different areas where different fans sit,” he said.

Bernard came over to IndyCar from Professional Bull Riding and had no exposure to racing. When he saw his first IndyCar event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he was shocked.

“Danger is never talk-ed about here because it’s a bad word, but there’s a heck of a lot more danger than I ever thought there was,” he said. “More wrecks. It’s just blown my mind.”

TRACY’S SCRAPE:

Paul Tracy had the second-fastest lap on Thursday, but his luck wasn’t so good on Friday. The veteran scraped the wall on his 14th practice lap, end-ing his day prematurely.

“It looked to me like he got a little wide and just tapped the wall,” KV Racing Technology co-owner Jimmy Vasser said. “Maybe took a little too much down-force off. Maybe he was running a little bit high. He tapped the wall, met the lower right rear wishbone.

Vasser said mechan-ics were working on the car, which should be ready for Saturday’s qualifying session.

VISO’S ARTWORK: E.J. Viso’s helmets offer protection and person-ality.

The Venezuelan, who drives for KV Racing Technology, comes up with a different helmet design for nearly each race as a form of self expression. Some are given to charities to be auctioned after events.

“We came up with the idea to do a new helmet design for each race,” Viso said. “The idea was to express something significant.”

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GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) — Thick, sticky oil crept deeper into delicate marshes of the Mississippi Delta, an arrival dreaded for a month since the crude started spewing into the Gulf, as anger and frustration mounted over efforts to plug the gusher from a blown-out well and contain the spill.

Up to now, only tar balls and a sheen of oil had come ashore. But chocolate brown and vivid orange globs and sheets of foul-smelling oil the consistency of latex paint have begun coating the reeds and grasses of Louisiana’s wetlands, home to rare birds, mammals and a rich variety of marine life.

A deep, stagnant ooze sat in the middle of a particularly devastat-ed marsh off the Louisiana coast where Emily Guidry Schatzel of the National Wildlife Federation was examining stained reeds.

“This is just heartbreaking,” she said with a sigh. “I can’t believe it.”

Ralph Morgenweck of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday that countless animals could be feeling the effects of the spill, though work-ers have found only a handful hurt or injured.

BP PLC was leasing the Deepwater Horizon rig when it exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the massive spill. The company con-ceded Thursday what some scientists have been saying for weeks: More oil is flowing from the leak than BP and the Coast Guard had previously esti-mated.

“It’s anger at the people who are supposed to be driving the ship don’t have any idea what’s going on,” said E.J. Boles, 55, a musician from Big Pine Key, Fla. “Why wouldn’t they

have any contingency plan? I’m not a genius and even I would have thought of that.”

The BP executive in charge of fight-ing the spill, Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles, said he understands the public frustration. He told the CBS “Early Show” on Friday that in the worst case scenario, the gusher could continue until early August, when a new well being drilled to cap the flow permanently could be fin-ished.

But Suttles said he believes the rich Gulf environment will recover, in part because it is a large body of water and has withstood other oil spills.

“I’m optimistic, I’m very optimis-tic that the Gulf will fully recover,” Suttles said on CBS.

A live video feed of the underwater gusher, posted online after lawmak-ers exerted pressure on BP, is sure to fuel the anger.

It shows what appears to be a large plume of oil and gas still spewing into the water next to the stopper-and-tube combination that BP inserted to carry some of the crude to the surface. The House committee website where the video was posted promptly crashed because so many people were trying to view it.

“BP has lost all credibility ... It’s clear that they have been hiding the actual consequences of this spill,” said U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass.

At least 6 million gallons have gushed into the Gulf since the explosion, more than half of what the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled in Alaska in 1989. A growing number of scientists believe it’s more.

CHARLOTTE (AP) — A former Wachovia Bank vice president faces federal charges that he conspired with small-business owners to fleece the big bank out of $11.2 million.

Terry Scott Welch, 47, of Mooresville was charged with mail fraud and tax evasion. Federal pros-ecutors say Welch had been bilking the Charlotte-based bank for nine years.

Welch oversaw the payment of invoices submitted by outside ven-dors who provided goods and servic-es to Wachovia, authorities said. He got owners of a string of businesses to turn in fake invoices for goods and services the bank never received, an indictment filed Thursday alleged.

Welch’s attorney did not respond to requests for comment Friday.

John Cousar Jr., 47, of Albemarle and Delmar Dove, 59, of Charlotte also were charged with mail fraud and tax evasion. Attorneys for both

men said Friday they would plead guilty in agreements negotiated with prosecutors.

Welch is accused of receiving nearly $3.4 million in kickbacks from Cousar and Dove through false invoices claiming that Wachovia owed for fictitious moving and deliv-ery services.

The two men kept millions more for themselves as a result of the scheme that ran from about 2000 through November 2008, soon after Wachovia announced it would be bought by Wells Fargo, prosecutors said. Prosecutors did not say how the scheme was discovered.

“John feels terrible about getting involved in this, and he’s cooperated fully with the government in their investigation,” said Cousar’s attorney, Deke Falls.

An attorney for Dove said the land-scaping and concrete company owner took responsibility for his actions.

Smart kidnapper sentencedSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nearly

eight years after Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her Salt Lake City bedroom at knifepoint, the woman who pleaded guilty to the June 2002 kidnapping is headed to prison.

Wanda Eileen Barzee was sen-tenced on Friday to two terms of up to 15 years in prison in back-to-back hearings in state and federal court. The terms will be served con-currently and Barzee will likely be held at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas, where she can be treated for mental illness.

“I know the gravity of my crimes and how serious they are,” Barzee said during the federal court hear-ing. “I’m just so sorry again for all the pain and suffering I caused upon the Smart family.”

Barzee, 64, pleaded guilty in November to federal charges of kid-napping and unlawful transporta-tion of a minor across state lines in Smart’s abduction. The federal judge gave her credit for about seven years she’s already served.

In the state case, kidnapping and sexual assault charges against Barzee were dropped in exchange for a plea of guilty, but mentally ill in a parallel case for the attempted abduction of Smart’s cousin, Olivia Wright, also in 2002.

Barzee has agreed to testify in

pending state and federal cases against her now-estranged husband, Brian David Mitchell.

Smart was 14 when she was kid-napped at knifepoint from her bed-room. She was found nine months later, in March 2003, walking the streets of a Salt Lake City suburb with Barzee and Mitchell.

Toyota recalls 3,800 carsNEW YORK (AP) — Toyota Motor

Corp. said Friday it is recalling about 3,800 Lexus LS sedans in the U.S. to fix a problem with the vehicle’s steering system following a similar recall in Japan.

The company said the recall affects some 2009 and 2010 LS 460 and LS 600h sedans. The recall is designed to fix a problem in which the steering wheel becomes off-cen-ter after a specific driving maneu-ver. The problem should not occur during normal driving, the company said.

Toyota earlier Friday recalled 4,500 of the same models in Japan to address the steering issue. The recall affects roughly 2,750 vehicles elsewhere around the world.

The automaker has been work-ing to react faster to problems after coming under government scrutiny and being slapped with a record $16.4 million U.S. fine for its slow response to its accelerator pedal recalls. It is also facing hundreds of state and federal lawsuits.

Associated PressWorkers, bottom right, stand by to clean oil that encroaches on a boom and a land bridge which was built by the Louisiana National Guard to hold back oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Grand Isle, La., Friday.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market had another tumultu-ous ride this week as disarray in Europe heightened fears of a global economic slowdown. Despite a late-day comeback on Friday, major stock indexes are down about 10 percent from the peak they reached in late April.

Declines of that size are known as a “correction.” They are nor-mal during a bull market and are even seen as a healthy way for a market to regain its bear-ings after a long period of unin-terrupted gains. The correction that started this week is the first for the bull market that began in March of last year.

Whether the correction has mostly run its course or turns into a bear market, defined as a decline of 20 percent or more, is anyone’s guess. Stock indexes ended with solid gains Friday after starting the day lower and dipping below 10,000; the Dow closed up 125 points.

The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 376 points Thursday, its worst one-day drop in more than a year. Stocks are now about where they were in early February and down 2 per-cent for the year.

Jacob Gold, a financial advis-er and CEO of Jacob Gold & Associates in Scottsdale, Ariz., says the market collapse of 2008 is fresh in the memories of cli-ents who have been peppering him with calls and e-mails this week.

“They’re second-guessing themselves because they don’t want to end up giving the econ-

omy the benefit of the doubt and having it hurt them,” he said. “People are still licking their wounds from 2008 and they’re not in a position to put them-selves at risk like they once did.”

The immediate catalyst for this week’s sharp declines was deepening confusion over how Europe intends to get control of its public finances, restore order to financial markets and instill confidence in the continent’s shared currency, the euro.

Germany broke ranks from its European neighbors this week, single-handedly reining in speculative trading in European bonds. And on Friday it was rebuffed in its calls for harsh punishments for European coun-tries that consistently flout rules on fiscal spending limits.

Greece is struggling to cope with staggering debt, and inves-tors fear it could end up drag-ging other economically weak European countries down with it. If Europe’s banks crack down on lending, the thinking goes, other banks around the world could follow suit, tripping up economies around the world.

The unsettling news from Europe this week also reminded investors how tepid the U.S. economic recovery really is in historical terms. Gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the first three months of the year, but that’s not nearly as strong of a comeback as is typical after a deep reces-sion. Companies also aren’t hir-ing that much, unemployment is still 9.9 percent and the housing

market hasn’t recovered from its slump.

“Normally you would get a much stronger snapback,” said Paul Ballew, chief economist at Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, Ohio, and a for-mer senior economist with the Federal Reserve. “Given the magnitude of the downturn, growth should be much stronger than that already.”

U.S. markets opened lower again on Friday, but a rally in financial shares helped stocks move higher. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. were the biggest gainers in the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones industrial average. They and other financial shares rose after the Senate passed long-awaited financial reform legis-lation, removing a significant overhang for U.S. banks.

In other signs that some inves-tors were regaining an appetite for risk, the price of ultra-safe Treasury securities edged lower after spiking on Thursday, the dollar edged lower, commodity prices stabilized and gold prices fell.

The Dow rose 125.38, or 1.3 percent, to 10,193.39. The broad-er Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 16.10, or 1.5 percent, to 1,087.69. The Nasdaq composite index rose 25.03, or 1.1 percent, to 2,229.04.

About three stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume was 8.1 bil-lion shares, versus 8.5 billion shares Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AP) —People who are out of work for long stretches would get expanded unem-ployment benefits through the end of the year under a bill Democratic lawmakers plan to pass next week.

The bill would also extend, for a year, about 50 popular tax cuts that expired in January. The bill would be paid for, in part, by tax increases on investment managers and some U.S.-based multi-national companies.

In response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the bill would increase taxes on oil com-panies by $10.9 billion over the next decade to finance the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

House leaders said they plan to vote on the bill early next week, leaving just a few days for the Senate to act before Congress goes on a week-long vacation for Memorial Day. House leaders had planned to vote this week, but they were still wait-ing for some cost estimates, and a few issues were unresolved.

Delays in extending the tax breaks have left thou-sands of businesses unable to plan for their tax liabilities. Delays in passing a long-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits have forced thousands of laid-off workers to live month to month with no certainty of income.

Unemployment benefits for many will start to run out June 2, unless Congress acts. The bill would extend unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks in many states, at a cost of $47 billion.

Laid-off workers would continue to get subsidies to buy health insurance through the COBRA pro-gram through the end of the year, at a cost of $7.8 billion. States would get $24 billion to states to help cover Medicaid costs.

“This is a bill about creating jobs, preventing out-sourcing of jobs overseas, closing loopholes that corporations and wealthy individuals (use for) avoiding U.S. taxes and meeting the needs of those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said.

The bill started as a one-year extension of popu-lar tax breaks, but it has grown into a grab bag of unfinished business lawmakers hope to complete before Memorial Day. The overall cost of the bill will top $150 billion and could approach $200 bil-lion.

Most of that spending would be added to the federal budget deficit, generating opposition from Republicans and unease among some Democrats.

“It really seems to be a deficit extender bill, not a tax extender bill,” said Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee.

The tax cuts, which total more than $30 billion, would be retroactive to Jan. 1 but would again expire at the end of December. They include a property tax deduction for people who don’t item-ize, lucrative credits that help businesses finance research and develop new products, and a sales tax deduction that mainly helps people in states with-out income taxes.

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Trader Albert Young, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday.

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Name Div Yld PE Last Chg %ChgAT&T Inc 1.68 6.8 11 24.85 -.11 -11.3Amazon ... ... 54 122.72 +3.01 -8.8ArvMerit ... ... ... 13.59 +.51 +21.6BB&T Cp .60 1.9 32 31.36 +.94 +23.6BkofAm .04 .3 76 15.99 +.69 +6.2BerkHa A ... ... 21109000.00+350.00 +9.9Cisco ... ... 20 23.46 +.15 -2.0Delhaize 2.02 2.5 ... 79.82 -1.29 +4.0Dell Inc ... ... 17 13.35 -.97 -7.0DukeEngy .96 6.0 13 16.00 +.03 -7.0ExxonMbl 1.76 2.9 14 60.88 +.55 -10.7FamilyDlr .62 1.5 18 41.26 +1.02 +48.3FifthThird .04 .3 20 13.19 +.68 +35.3FCtzBA 1.20 .6 9 194.04 +1.64 +18.3GenElec .40 2.4 17 16.42 +.16 +8.5GoldmanS 1.40 1.0 6 140.62 +4.52 -16.7Google ... ... 21 472.05 -2.96 -23.9KrispKrm ... ... ... 3.60 +.10 +22.0

LeggPlat 1.04 4.6 24 22.80 +.26 +11.8

Lowes .36 1.5 20 24.20 +.50 +3.5

Microsoft .52 1.9 14 26.84 -.27 -11.9

PPG 2.16 3.4 18 62.69 +1.13 +7.1

ParkerHan 1.04 1.7 26 60.57 +.87 +12.4

ProgrssEn 2.48 6.4 12 38.46 +.18 -6.2

RedHat ... ... 65 29.22 +.96 -5.4

RoyalBk g 2.00 ... ... 55.84 +1.08 +4.3

SaraLee .44 3.0 34 14.55 +.09 +19.5

SonicAut ... ... 9 9.47 +.18 -8.9

SonocoP 1.12 3.6 18 30.76 -.05 +5.2

SpectraEn 1.00 5.1 14 19.68 +.31 -4.0

SpeedM .40 2.8 ... 14.24 -.14 -19.2

Timken .52 1.8 ... 28.68 +.79 +21.0

UPS B 1.88 3.0 25 62.38 -1.05 +8.7

WalMart 1.21 2.4 13 51.37 +.07 -3.9

STOCK MARKET INDEXES

MUTUAL FUNDS

DAILY DOW JONES

11,258.01 8,087.19 Dow Industrials 10,193.39 +125.38 +1.25 -2.25 +23.154,812.87 2,971.98 Dow Transportation 4,241.59 +81.08 +1.95 +3.46 +41.11

408.57 325.67 Dow Utilities 361.79 +1.96 +.54 -9.10 +9.877,743.74 5,552.82 NYSE Composite 6,775.45 +122.45 +1.84 -5.70 +17.031,994.20 1,451.26 Amex Market Value 1,743.94 +22.10 +1.28 -4.44 +13.602,535.28 1,677.54 Nasdaq Composite 2,229.04 +25.03 +1.14 -1.77 +31.741,219.80 869.32 S&P 500 1,087.69 +16.10 +1.50 -2.46 +22.63

852.90 539.03 S&P MidCap 749.97 +11.83 +1.60 +3.21 +36.0412,847.91 8,900.27 Wilshire 5000 11,396.40 +170.70 +1.52 -1.32 +25.67

745.95 473.54 Russell 2000 649.29 +9.25 +1.45 +3.82 +35.94

52-Week Net YTD 12-moHigh Low Name Last Chg %Chg %Chg %Chg

THE MARKET IN REVIEW

PIMCO TotRetIs CI 128,736 11.13 +0.5 +12.7/C +7.4/A NL 1,000,000American Funds GrthAmA m LG 67,975 26.14 -10.2 +19.0/E +2.2/B 5.75 250Vanguard TotStIdx LB 65,222 27.09 -9.9 +27.0/A +1.0/B NL 3,000Fidelity Contra LG 59,228 56.44 -9.1 +23.0/C +4.1/A NL 2,500American Funds CapIncBuA m IH 57,634 44.87 -7.6 +12.8/D +2.8/C 5.75 250American Funds CpWldGrIA m WS 55,402 30.39 -11.9 +13.4/E +4.0/B 5.75 250Vanguard 500Inv LB 51,508 100.46 -9.6 +24.9/B +0.2/C NL 3,000American Funds IncAmerA m MA 50,350 14.98 -6.7 +21.4/A +2.6/B 5.75 250American Funds InvCoAmA m LB 49,825 24.71 -9.8 +19.2/E +1.0/B 5.75 250Vanguard InstIdxI LB 48,636 99.80 -9.6 +25.0/B +0.3/C NL 5,000,000Dodge & Cox Stock LV 43,365 93.37 -10.9 +25.8/B -1.2/D NL 2,500American Funds EurPacGrA m FB 39,521 34.07 -12.5 +11.9/B +5.5/A 5.75 250American Funds WAMutInvA m LV 39,349 23.85 -8.7 +21.8/D -0.2/C 5.75 250Dodge & Cox IntlStk FV 38,799 28.92 -13.7 +18.0/A +3.7/A NL 2,500American Funds NewPerspA m WS 32,886 23.62 -11.3 +17.9/C +4.7/A 5.75 250PIMCO TotRetAdm b CI 32,666 11.13 +0.5 +12.4/C +7.1/A NL 1,000,000American Funds FnInvA m LB 32,183 31.13 -10.6 +20.1/D +3.4/A 5.75 250FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m CA 31,694 1.99 -6.0 +24.7/A +4.0/A 4.25 1,000Vanguard TotStIAdm LB 31,416 27.10 -9.9 +27.1/A +1.1/B NL 100,000American Funds BalA m MA 30,732 16.12 -5.8 +19.3/C +2.1/C 5.75 250Vanguard 500Adml LB 30,360 100.48 -9.6 +25.0/B +0.3/C NL 100,000Fidelity DivrIntl d FG 30,024 24.68 -13.7 +9.3/E +1.5/D NL 2,500Vanguard Welltn MA 29,838 28.43 -6.0 +19.1/C +4.6/A NL 10,000Fidelity GrowCo LG 29,370 67.92 -10.4 +29.5/A +4.5/A NL 2,500Fidelity LowPriStk d MB 27,372 32.43 -10.3 +30.1/D +4.0/A NL 2,500American Funds BondA m CI 27,146 12.10 +0.8 +14.5/B +3.3/E 3.75 250Vanguard TotIntl d FB 27,032 12.75 -13.9 +12.0/B +3.2/B NL 3,000Vanguard InstPlus LB 26,786 99.81 -9.6 +25.1/B +0.4/C NL 200,000,000T Rowe Price EqtyInc LV 17,190 20.98 -9.8 +28.9/A +0.8/B NL 2,500Hartford CapAprA m LB 10,065 28.99 -10.7 +19.5/E +3.2/A 5.50 2,000Pioneer PioneerA m LB 4,492 34.70 -10.2 +24.3/B +0.8/B 5.75 1,000Goldman Sachs ShDuGovA m GS 1,476 10.41 +0.4 +3.0/C +4.9/A 1.50 1,000Alliance Bernstein GrowIncA m LV 1,235 2.84 -9.6 +16.8/E -2.2/E 4.25 2,500DWS-Scudder REstA m SR 502 15.06 -5.5 +58.8/C +1.5/C 5.75 1,000Hartford GrowthL m LG 195 14.44 -12.3 +20.5/D -0.1/D 4.75 0

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

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

NYSE6,775.45+122.45

AMEX1,743.94 +22.10

NASDAQ2,229.04 +25.03

STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS

Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards.lf = Late filing with SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50percent within the past year. rt = Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within thelast year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Mutual Fund Footnotes: b = Fee covering market costs is paid from fund assets. d = Deferred sales charge, or redemption fee.f = front load (sales charges). m = Multiple fees are charged. NA = not available. p = previous day’s net asset value. s = fundsplit shares during the week. x = fund paid a distribution during the week.Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to belisted in tables at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press.Sales figures are unofficial.

uu uu uuGAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

Volume

Name Vol (00) Last ChgPwShs QQQ1786233 44.84 +.49Microsoft 1152297 26.84 -.27Intel 977968 20.91 +.12Dell Inc 975108 13.35 -.97Cisco 781808 23.46 +.15SiriusXM 723505 1.03 +.06BrcdeCm 716299 5.36 -.51ETrade 702262 1.46 +.03Oracle 618426 22.16 -.19Apple Inc 424933 242.32 +4.56

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg %ChgBBC pf II 11.80 +3.89 +49.2DearbrnBc 2.09 +.44 +26.7Stewrdshp 8.52 +1.51 +21.5Oculus 2.20 +.38 +20.9FCtyBFL 2.35 +.35 +17.5HKHighpw 3.87 +.52 +15.5KandiTech 3.44 +.45 +15.1OceanBio 2.19 +.28 +14.7Carmike 12.64 +1.60 +14.5RIT Tch rs 2.29 +.28 +13.9

Name Last Chg %ChgCarverBcp 6.51 -2.34 -26.4BridgfdFds 11.48 -2.30 -16.7CmtyCntrl 2.00 -.38 -16.0Tengion n 3.62 -.62 -14.6RedRobin 20.22 -3.34 -14.2MillIndia un 3.21 -.49 -13.2Perfuman lf 8.74 -1.11 -11.3TlCmSys 4.98 -.58 -10.4OCZ Tch h 3.50 -.40 -10.3FstPacTrst 8.55 -.94 -9.9

DIARYAdvanced 1,749Declined 946Unchanged 116Total issues 2,811New Highs 9New Lows 133

3,253,633,426Volume

Name Vol (00) Last ChgNA Pall g 49172 3.15 +.13Taseko 46145 4.92 +.24NovaGld g 45559 6.72 +.12NthgtM g 44051 2.83 +.03KodiakO g 38586 3.14 +.18NwGold g 36086 5.30 -.05GrtBasG g 35518 1.70 +.08GoldStr g 33901 4.05 -.01CFCda g 25678 14.57 +.21GranTrra g 20006 4.89 +.11

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg %ChgNewConcEn 4.70 +.98 +26.3Tofutti 2.10 +.28 +15.4CompTch 3.40 +.44 +14.9Versar 3.39 +.37 +12.3PudaCoal n 8.95 +.90 +11.2EngySvc un 4.50 +.40 +9.8DocuSec 2.95 +.25 +9.3OrienPap n 8.88 +.73 +9.0CheniereE 15.40 +1.26 +8.9EntreeGold 2.22 +.17 +8.3

Name Last Chg %ChgTelInstEl 7.08 -.92 -11.5CorMedix n 2.60 -.29 -10.0StreamG un 6.75 -.75 -10.0SuprmInd 2.61 -.19 -6.8Neuralstem 2.77 -.19 -6.4Arrhythm 5.52 -.37 -6.3Engex 4.15 -.28 -6.3ASpecRlt s 8.41 -.54 -6.0Rubicon g 3.23 -.19 -5.6Ever-Glory 2.83 -.15 -5.0

DIARYAdvanced 320Declined 172Unchanged 38Total issues 530New Highs 3New Lows 16

Name Vol (00) Last ChgCitigrp 12787704 3.75 +.12S&P500ETF4524705109.12+1.58BkofAm 2580335 15.99 +.69SPDR Fncl 1933229 14.75 +.51FordM 1711924 11.26 +.46iShEMkts 1615472 37.34 +1.18GenElec 1440288 16.42 +.16iShR2K 1254609 65.07 +.95DirFBear rs1218761 15.17 -1.77DrxFBull s 1055830 24.45 +2.26

MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)

GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)

LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)

Name Last Chg %ChgCAI Intl 13.81 +1.96 +16.5GlbGeoph n 9.69 +1.24 +14.7ZaleCp 2.75 +.35 +14.6DoralFncl 2.61 +.33 +14.5SemiMfg 3.86 +.38 +10.9DirLatBull 21.43 +2.01 +10.4DrxREBll s 40.50 +3.81 +10.4DrxFBull s 24.45 +2.26 +10.2DirxChiBull 28.65 +2.65 +10.2Ternium 32.80 +3.02 +10.1

Name Last Chg %ChgPitnB pr 300.05-74.95 -20.0DirLatBear 51.33 -6.21 -10.8GlbShip un 2.50 -.30 -10.7DirChiBear 40.80 -4.83 -10.6DirFBear rs15.17 -1.77 -10.4DirREBear 7.90 -.89 -10.1DirEMBr rs 55.25 -5.98 -9.8FtBcp pfA 6.45 -.70 -9.8MexEqt pf 7.54 -.80 -9.6GlbSAWxUS17.07-1.61 -8.6

DIARYAdvanced 2,380Declined 741Unchanged 93Total issues 3,214New Highs 11New Lows 96

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama directed the government Friday to set the first-ever mileage and pollution limits for big trucks and to tighten rules for future cars and SUVs, setting the nation’s sights on vehicles that run on half the fuel they now use and give off half the pollu-tion.

“The nation that leads in the clean energy economy will lead the global economy. And I want America to be that nation,” Obama declared at the White House as he signed a presidential memo-randum that would reshape the country’s driving habits long after he leaves office.

With the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico underscoring the risks of America’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels, Obama gave fed-eral agencies just over a year to come up with fuel effi-ciency and greenhouse gas emission standards for com-mercial trucks and buses.

Such vehicles are big pol-luters and fuel consumers even though they’re far out-numbered by passenger cars. The Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental advocacy group, said large trucks represent about 4 per-cent of all vehicles on U.S. highways but devour more than 20 percent of fuel.

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At the same time, the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will get to work on stricter standards for cars and light trucks like SUVs to kick in with the 2017 model year and carry through 2025.

A year ago, Obama announced plans for the first federal regulations of fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions in cars and light trucks, for the 2012-2016 model years. Those standards, rolled out last month, aim at reaching a fleet average of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, nearly 10 miles per gallon better than the current average.

“The disaster in the Gulf only underscores that even as we pursue domestic produc-tion to reduce our reliance on imported oil, our long-term security depends on the development of alterna-tive sources of fuel and new transportation technologies,” the president said.

“I believe that it’s possible in the next 20 years for vehi-cles to use half the fuel and produce half the pollution that they do today.”

Obama also asked the Department of Energy to work with carmakers and others to promote the devel-

opment of advanced vehicles including plug-in hybrids and electric cars, and to give technical help to cities pre-paring for them.

Obama moved forward with Friday’s announcement as a climate bill with much wider-ranging provisions awaited action in the Senate, its future uncertain. But Obama can take significant steps on fuel efficiency with-out Congress and once again showed his determination to do so, the Gulf oil spill acting as a spur.

Indeed the president is ahead of schedule compared with what he promised as a candidate. On the campaign trail, Obama pushed for the standards to increase 4 per-cent every year, which would have resulted in new cars and trucks achieving a fleet-wide 40 miles per gallon by 2022.

The big truck industry has known for years that fuel efficiency regulations were coming, and Clayton Boyce, vice president of the indus-try trade group American Trucking Association, said the new plans were not going to be controversial.

But Steve Graham, a vice president at Schneider National, one of the nation’s largest trucking companies, said truck prices could rise significantly as manufactur-ers make the changes need to comply with new rules.

Obama orders new fuel standards for future

Associated PressPresident Barack Obama, followed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, walks from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, to sign a Presidential Memorandum outlining the next steps for cleaner and more effi-cient vehicles.

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SHANGHAI (AP) — Citing “over-whelming” evidence that North Korea sank a South Korean war-ship, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned the com-munist state Friday of international consequences.

After discussions in Tokyo, Clinton planned to consult with counterparts in Beijing and Seoul on appropriate measures to take after an interna-tional investigative team on Thursday blamed North Korea for firing a tor-pedo that sank the South Korean ship in March, killing 46 sailors.

“This will not be and cannot be business as usual. There must be an international — not just a regional, but an international — response,” she told a press conference in Tokyo, flanked by Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada. The sub-ject has come to dominate her three-nation tour through Japan, China and South Korea.

The Chinese have the most lever-age over the reclusive regime, and Beijing’s support for any internation-al response to Pyongyang will be crit-ical to its success. But China, North Korea’s main ally and a veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council, has thus far remained neu-tral.

While it was “premature” to discuss exact options or actions that will be taken, Clinton said it was “impor-tant to send a clear message to North Korea that provocative actions have consequences.”

U.S. officials have refused to call the North’s attack on the ship an act of war or state-sponsored ter-

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Economic dialogue with China was supposed to be the main thrust of Clinton’s Asia trip, but with Thursday’s report blaming Pyongyang for sinking the Cheonan, her main task in Beijing will now be to try to persuade China to support U.N. Security Council action against North Korea.

In Shanghai, where Clinton trav-eled after her brief visit to Tokyo, two senior U.S. officials said she would try to persuade the Chinese to “acknowledge the reality” of what happened and support measures that would help persuade North Korea to change its behavior. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity due to the delicacy of the diplomacy.

Investigators from the five-nation team said a detailed analysis of the wreckage, as well as fragments recov-ered from the waters where the ship went down, point to North Korean involvement. Clinton described the examination as “thorough” and “sci-entific.”

“The evidence is overwhelming and condemning. The torpedo that sunk the Cheonan ... was fired by a North Korean submarine,” Clinton said.

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Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 44-year-old female with migraines. I’m 30 pounds overweight. I was diagnosed with migraines at age 12 and put on medication, but because of the side effects, my parents chose took me off it, and until recently, I haven’t had any trouble.

After smoking for 15 years, I quit. Immediately after quitting, my migraines came back and were so bad that I couldn’t function. This was not an option, so I started smoking again, and the headaches went away.

I have tried several different medi-cations (antidepressants, antiseizures and migraine-specific drugs) which didn’t work. I was on a blood-pres-sure medication briefly that worked well for the headaches, but after a while it caused my blood pressure to drop too much.

Can you offer any suggestions?

Dear Reader: I am not aware of any connection between smoking

and migraines. However, in your instance, this is clearly the case. I cannot recommend you continue smoking in order to control the head-aches.

Migraines are a type of headache that can be disabling.

Each sufferer usually has specific triggers. Triggers can include hunger, fatigue, hormonal changes, medica-tions, stress, head trauma, changes in environment, sensory stimuli and certain foods, especially those with preservatives, MSG or aged cheeses and wines.

I suggest you return to your prima-ry-care physician or neurologist to discuss your options.

Migraines controlled by smoking?

Dear Abby: I have been in a relation-ship with my boyfriend for 2 1/2 years. We have had our share of struggles, but worked through most of them over time.

Lately, our polar opposite political views have driven a wedge between us. I feel we are losing respect for each other as well as our sense of intimacy and love.

How can we learn to have a mutual respect for our different political opin-ions while not compromising what each truly believes?

— Riding A SeesawDear Riding: Accepting that not all

couples are in lockstep when it comes to their political beliefs. It is easier when you have respect for each other in other areas of your relationship. Then remember that when it comes to voting, individuals are not joined at the hip.

Dear Abby: Every time I go out with a man who says he wants a woman who treats him well and doesn’t play around, I get burned. I’m not a game player, and I end up tripping over my feelings every single time. I give every guy the benefit of the doubt, and I’m the one who is always disappointed! Aren’t there any men who actually mean what they say anymore?

— StephanieDear Stephanie: Start asking your

friends of both sexes what you may be doing to attract men who hurt you or flake out. When a woman is repeatedly hurt because she gives every guy “the benefit of the doubt,” she’s attracting

the wrong people.Dear Abby: A few years ago my hus-

band and I took in a family member’s infant daughter until her mother could get back on her feet. That time never came, and we went through the pro-cess of adoption.

I am now pregnant. Several friends and relatives have offered to throw us a shower. I am unsure of the proper etiquette since this is our second child (but our first biological child). My hus-band and I don’t want to seem to be asking for anything, especially if hav-ing a shower for a second baby is con-sidered improper. I would appreciate your thoughts.

— First and SecondDear First and Second: I see no rea-

son why there shouldn’t be a shower for your baby. It’s a lovely way to celebrate the new life you are bringing into the world. However, according to Emily Post: “Mothers and sisters of the moth-er-to-be should NOT give the shower. Naturally, mothers and sisters should be invited, but as with any other gift-giving event, they should not initiate an invitation that bears an obligation on the part of the recipient to provide a present to direct relatives.”

Polar politics threaten respect

Your Birthday, May 22Catch up on the latest

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) - If your partner doesn’t have the funds for a ven-ture, unless s/he can offer something else, back off.

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NatioN

WASHINGTON (AP) — Banking regulators shared the blame for the financial crisis that buckled Wall Street. Now they’re the ones lawmakers are counting on to give final shape to the new overhaul of financial rules.

In section after section of the massive 1,560-page Senate bill, lawmakers leave much of the details for the regulators to figure out. These are the bank and mar-ket overseers — the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission — who took a beating for not overseeing Wall Street more strictly and for failing to see the danger before it struck in 2008.

When it comes to key deci-sions about how to rein in complex, previously unregu-lated securities, how to liq-uidate large, interconnected failing financial firms, even how to protect consumers, the bureaucracies in charge of setting the rules get plenty of discretion.

Lawmakers and Obama administration officials con-fronted the question time and again, about when to be specific and prescriptive and when to give the regulators latitude.

“There is room for imposing more duties and responsibili-ties on the regulators, and the bill contains a number steps to do that,” Assistant Treasury Secretary Michael Barr said in an interview. “But we also don’t want to lock anything in stone.”

It’s a delicate balance. For the financial industry, the more leeway regulators have, the more they can influence the final rules.

“It gives them wiggle room and pressure points,” said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit organiza-tion in Washington.

Of prime interest to the industry will be the final rules on derivatives, how much money and assets they must have on hand as capi-tal, and to what degree they will have to give up their securities trading activities.

On each of those matters,

the House legislation, which passed in December, and the Senate’s, which passed Thursday, leave key decisions to regulators. For the next few weeks, all eyes will be on House and Senate negotia-tors who are blending both bills. In many respects the bills are similar and there should be no conflicts.

Overall, the bills aim to prevent a recurrence of the crisis that deepened the recession and cost millions of Americans their jobs and their savings. The legisla-tion would create an over-sight council of regulators to watch for risks in the financial system. It would create a consumer protection entity to police lending and enshrine a mechanism for liquidating large, intercon-nected firms.

On Friday, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd and House Financial Services Committee

Chairman Barney Frank both said they expect to have a bill ready for President Barack Obama to sign by July 4.

When it comes to capital standards, the House pre-scribes a specific leverage cap on financial institutions of 15-1 debt-to-net capital ratio. The Senate requires banks with more than $250 billion in assets to meet capi-tal standards at least as strict as those that apply to smaller banks.

But policymakers are tak-ing a second look at the Senate provision, saying that standard could have unin-tended consequences. The final capital standards could be left to the government bank overseers.

Likewise, the legislation requires that most deriva-tives deals be carried out through central clearing houses that would guaran-

tee payment and require the parties to post collateral. Deals that are not cleared would require the parties to post more capital, but the bill does not specify the amount.

“Implementation through regulation is going to be a huge issue,” said Arthur Wilmarth, a professor of banking law at the George Washington University Law School. “And then after the regulations are adopted, it’s how the regulators enforce them.”

For instance, while the Senate bill demands that commercial banks give up their ability to trade in risky securities for their own prof-it, it also requires that the oversight council conduct a study and recommend how to modify and implement the trading ban. That ban on so-called proprietary trad-ing has been supported by former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, an Obama economic

adviser.But Volcker also backed an

amendment that would have eliminated the study require-ment and been more specific about its implementation. That amendment failed to get a vote in the Senate.

Still, in other areas, the bill is fairly specific. In an effort to limit concentration in the financial industry, the Senate bill adopts an Obama administration recommenda-tion that prevents large bank holding companies from becoming so big through a merger or acquisition that it holds more than 10 percent of all the financial industry assets.

Some experts worry that over time, regulators could become lax once again and the industry would exploit the overseers who are least likely to enforce the rules.

Douglas Elliott, a former managing director at J.P. Morgan, said he had hoped the legislation would have done more to consolidate bank regulators.

“There is a lot of time for one regulatory body to become kind of rogue,” said Elliott, now a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Indeed, whether the legisla-tion will stop the next crisis from occurring is an open question.

John Dearie of the Financial Services Forum, an industry group that repre-sents the largest banks, said the Senate bill goes a long way to address conflicts of credit rating agencies and ensures the regulation of derivatives.

“The bill also puts us in a better position to deal with a future crisis — if a large institution teeters on failure, we would have a procedure to wind it down in a con-trolled way,” he said.

But as Goldman Sach’s CEO Lloyd Blankfein said on PBS earlier this month: “You can pass a law against excess, and somewhere down the road some excess will appear at some point from some direction, and no one will know it at the time, and everyone will know it in hindsight.”

Once criticized regulators get big say on rules

Associated PressSenate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., right, and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., walk out of the West Wing of the White House in Washington Friday to speak to the press after their meeting with President Barack Obama.

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Sealed bids for the project entitled NCDOT Enhancement Project E-4967 – Florence Mill will be received by the Town of Forest City at 2:00 p.m. local time June 16, 2010, in the City Hall Council Chambers, 128 North Powell Street and then publicly opened and read aloud.

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Embassy caterer among arrested ISLAMABAD (AP) — The co-owner of a cater-

ing company that organized events for the U.S. Embassy is among six men detained by Pakistan for allegedly helping the failed Times Square bombing suspect, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.

In a statement on its website, the U.S. Embassy warned that the catering company was suspected of ties to terrorist groups and said American diplomats had been instructed to stop using the firm.

Like Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American accused in the failed New York bombing, the six Pakistani detainees were all members of their country’s urban elite, including several who were educated in the United States. One was a former army major.

The suspects were a loose network motivated by hatred of America and the West, the Pakistani official told The Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the investigation.

No survivors found at crash siteKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Searchers found

no survivors Friday among 44 people on board an Afghan commercial airliner that crashed this week on a remote mountain north of the capital of Kabul, the aviation minister said.

The Antonov-24 operated by Pamir Airways disappeared Monday on a flight from Kunduz to Kabul. The wreckage was spotted Thursday by a search plane on a 13,500-foot (4,100-meter) mountain in Shakar Darah district north of Kabul.

Aviation Minister Mohammadullah Batash told The Associated Press that ground searchers reached the site Friday but found no survivors.

Three Britons and one American were among eight foreign passengers on the plane along with nationals from Pakistan and Australia, according to chief aviation investigator Ghulam Farooq. He did not have precise numbers for Australian and Pakistani passengers.

Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency said three Tajikistan citizens working for the airline were also aboard, possibly among the crew.

Gaza gunmen infiltrate IsraelJERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops killed two

Palestinian militants who had infiltrated Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday, the military said.

The firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants took place across the bor-der from the southern Gaza Strip. Security forces sealed off the entrances to the four Israeli com-munities in the area, where thousands of people live, until the gunbattle was over.

The military said it was not aware of any other militants having eluded troops. It said the gun-men entered Israel by cutting the security fence along the border.

PM calls for reconciliationBANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s leader prom-

ised an independent probe into “all events” sur-rounding the Red Shirt anti-government protests and called Friday for reconciliation to heal deep political divisions that led to widespread violence and 83 deaths in two months.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, addressing the nation in a televised speech, made no men-tion of new elections, a key demand of the Red Shirts.

“Fellow citizens, we all live in the same house. Now, our house has been damaged. We have to help each other,” Abhisit said.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The mothers of three Americans jailed in Iran for 10 months left Iran on Friday without securing an immediate release for their children.

The mothers had more time with their children on Friday after an emotional reunion a day earlier in a Tehran hotel over-looking Evin prison, where the three have been held since their arrest in July along the Iran-Iraq border.

The mothers “were willing to stay longer” to meet with Iranian officials to appeal for the three’s release, but “the conditions were not right,” the Americans’ law-yer, Masoud Shafii told The Associated Press. They were on a flight to Dubai that left Tehran on Friday evening, according to an AP photographer also on board. The mothers would not comment on their three-day visit to Iran.

Iran has accused Sarah Shourd, 31, Shane Bauer, 27, and

Josh Fattal, 27, of espionage and entering the country illegally. Their families say the three were simply hiking in Iraq’s largely peaceful mountainous northern Kurdish region.

The mothers had said they hoped their children would be allowed to return with them — or at least that they would be allowed to make an appeal for their freedom directly to Iranian leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

But so far, Iranian authorities have given no indication that the three could be freed, and the mothers are not known to have met any high-level officials.

One glimmer of hope came as state TV reported that the American military in Iraq has released two Iranians detained for entering Iraq without a passport. The two — Ahmad Barazandeh and Ali Abdolmaleki — have been

held for seven and two years, respectively, Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad was quoted by the report as saying. Iraqi and U.S. officials in Baghdad could not immediately confirm the report.

The Iranians’ release “may have some diplomatic effect on this case,” Shafii said.

The TV report made no con-nection between the release and the case of the three Americans. But Iran has hinted in the past that it wants to swap the three Americans for Iranians being held by the United States.

On Thursday, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington, “We’re not contem-plating any kind of a prisoner swap” for the three Americans.

“But if Iran has questions about any of its citizens and whether we have any informa-tion as to their whereabouts, we would be more than happy to receive that diplomatic note and respond to it,” he said.

Associated PressSarah Shourd, left, hugs her mother Nora Shourd, as Shane Bauer, second right, hugs his mother Cindy Hickey, during their meeting at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran, Friday.

Moms leave, Americans remain jailed

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