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INCHING UP: Report showsimprovement in furniture industry. 1B

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Ed Simpson, chairman of the Performing Arts Department and professor of theatre at High Point Univer-sity, recently was selected as a fea-tured playwright by Samuel FrenchInc. in “Samuel Goes Solo: Monologues from French’s 2008 Collection.”

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BY PAT KIMBROUGHENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – High Point resi-dents used to parking their rides on their front lawns will have to fi nd new arrangements starting Friday.

That’s when new regulations take effect aimed at getting mo-tor vehicles off front yards and on to parking surfaces – and thereby beautifying neighbor-hoods by getting what some view as eyesores out of plain sight.

The changes were enacted

in an ordinance amendment adopted by the High Point City Council in August.

They require vehicles parked in the front yard – or side yards for corner lots – of single-fam-ily and duplex residences to be on an improved parking area, such as gravel, asphalt or con-crete.

In recent weeks, city code en-forcement personnel have been going around to neighborhoods and distributing educational information at homes where they saw what could be a vio-lation, said Katherine Bossi,

High Point’s code enforcement supervisor. The information advises residents about the new regulations and what they need to do to comply.

“We’ve covered practically the entire city,” Bossi said.

Inspectors will respond pri-marily to public complaints about yard parkers. Violators will be cited and given a cer-tain number of days to comply with the ordinance. Enforce-ment offi cials will return to the scene to re-check the situation

New parking ordinance takes effect FridayREGULATIONS—High Point’s new regulations govern-ing the parking of vehicles in yards do not prevent parking in side or rear yards. The changes also limit to 50 percent the amount of front yard that could be improved for parking.

Another new requirement also went into effect mandating that disabled vehicles on residential lots be located behind the front building line of a dwelling so their visibility from the street is lessened. According to the city, several other municipalities in the state have adopted residential parking provisions like these in the last few years.

BY PAM HAYNESENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – Area home sale prices that declined 8 to 12 percent in 2009 may continue to drop well into next year thanks to a fl ood of foreclosed homes, local Realtors said.

The average home sale price in High Point fell 9 percent from $148,288 in October to $135,343 in November, according to the High Point Regional Association of Realtors. The drop in prices has been a trend in the housing mar-ket since its downturn began in October 2008.

Nationally, the average home sale price rose for the fi fth straight month, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index that was released Tuesday. Only 11 of 20 metropolitan areas tracked by the index reported a rise in prices, however, excluding Charlotte.

While the number of units sold in the area each month has con-tinued to improve, the housing market doesn’t have the foothold it needs to climb out just yet, said Tony Jarrett, regional vice presi-dent of Allen Tate Co. For that reason, prices won’t return to their normal levels any time soon, he said.

“The challenge we face now are foreclosures that are still coming into the market,” he said. “That’s

probably the biggest pressure we have. We don’t expect that to change until the unemployment situation changes.”

Foreclosures can cause resell homes, which usually are more expensive than foreclosures, to stagnate on the market. Jarrett said today’s buyers must choose between purchasing a fi xer-up-per for less money and making

improvements or purchasing the resell for more money.

“It’s not a doom-and-gloom situ-ation by any means,” he said. “But our sellers will have to be very careful about how they price property because of this competi-tion.”

The housing market’s recovery heavily relies on job creation, he added.

“I think 2010 is going to be a bet-ter year if we can pull some inven-tory off of the shelves,” he said. “If High Point and the rest of the country can create jobs in the sec-ond half of the year, we’ll be fi ne. If there is no job creation, the second half could struggle, and the price of a home will struggle with it.”

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BY DAVID NIVENSENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – Faced with an-other tough budget year, Kem El-lis, director of the Neal F. Austin High Point Public Library, wor-ries that another county budget cut could be for real next year.

For years, commissioners have battled over library funding, and the skirmishes could start again when they gather for a Jan. 7 retreat. This year, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners cut library support by $90,000, or 19 percent, to $385,000, but city of-fi cials defl ected the damage.

“They adjusted the city budget so that the library did not have a reduction because of the county cutback,” Ellis said Wednesday. “It

was not passed on to us, but I know the city is looking at another tough year, and I can’t predict what will happen. We could have a shortfall in the operations budget.”

The county has no library, but instead supports the libraries in High Point and Greensboro to help pay for county residents who use them. Neither library

charges fees to county residents. Library supporters say county

usage is 14 percent. The county appropriation is about 7 percent of the library’s $5 million budget.

Supporters estimate that 300 people a month use the High Point library for job searches.

Several years ago, county lead-ers agreed to increase contribu-tions gradually. Then they were faced with hard times and cut support. The Greensboro library allocation was cut by $1.8 million.

“We made a request to the coun-ty just to get money restored,” said Jim Armstrong of High Point, a library supporter. “We were hop-ing to see something after July 1. Our costs went up with the expan-sion. We had to seek money from our friends.”

Through the years, several commissioners have suggested consolidating the two city li-braries. But Republican Com-missioner Steve Arnold of High Point has argued for years that the libraries are city responsi-bilities.

“As long as county citizens use both libraries, the county should fund them,” Armstrong said.

The libraries receive city, county and state support.

“I think the funding is ad-equate,” said Democratic Com-missioner Bruce Davis of High Point. “The library should fi nd ways to do more with less. It should not grow any larger and provide just basic services.”


Library could get caught in budget squeezeFUNDING—In 2004, the county increased sup-port for the Neal F. Austin High Point Public Library to $340,000. Funding steadily was increased in following years to $475,000 until the Guilford County Board of Commissioners cut the alloca-tion this year to $385,000.

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OLDSMAR, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say a Florida man who called 911 claim-ing he’d been beaten and shot at was hoping the tale would get him a ride to a bar.

Instead, 37-year-old Gregory J. Oras is facing charges of misusing the 911 system and battery of

a law enforcement offi cer.An arrest report says Oras

called 911 three times before his arrest early Tuesday in Oldsmar, northwest of Tam-pa. He told the dispatcher he had a broken nose and bleed-ing ears, and claimed people were shooting at him.

Authorities say he was actually looking for a ride

to another bar. The report also says Oras kicked a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy in the knees and a Taser was used to sub-due him.

Online records show he is being held at the Pinellas County Jail but don’t indicate whether he has an attorney.

Man calls 911 for ride to bar

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and can issue a $10 fine at that point if the vio-lation persists. The fine carries a $25 late fee if it’s not paid within 15 days.

“Most of the time, that gets people’s attention and they’ll go ahead and correct it, but there could be several days in a row we could assess

the penalty,” Bossi said.Inspectors will use

their discretion in cas-es involving vehicleswith valid handicappedpermits and temporaryevents or gatherings athomes where vehiclesmay be parked on grassdue to a lack of space.


High Point police are seeking the following suspects:

• Taj Emory Jackson, 31, 5’7”, 180 lbs. Wanted for: Felony Failure to Appear

• Joshua David Watson, 23, 5’11”, 250 lbs. Wanted for: Attempted 1st Degree Murder

• Rhonda Brown Osborne, 50, 5’6”, 110 lbs. Wanted for: Felony Obtaining Property by False Pretense

• Raymond Oxendine, 24, 5’9”, 145 lbs. Wanted for: Felony Obtaining Property by False Pretense

• Tunisa Dawn Foster, 34, 5’7”, 170 lbs. Wanted for: Felony Failure to Return Hired Property

• Willie Albert Pope Jr., 21, 5’9”, 130 lbs. Wanted for: Felony Larceny

• Ronald Gene Boyd, 22, 6’, 150 lbs. Wanted for: Ob-taining Property by False Pretense Anyone with Information about these subjects should call Crimestoppers at 889-4000.

FROM WXII NEWS 12

DAVIDSON COUNTY – A four-month investigation in Davidson County led to several arrests at the Denton Amvets Post 240 and the Allied Veterans of the World on charges of illegal gambling and alcohol sales, WXII News 12 reported Wednesday.

“We received a number of complaints indicating illegal ABC outlets were wide open and operat-ing as nightclubs,” ALE special agent Chris Poole said in a news release. “We will continue to in-vestigate other illegal ABC outlets and gam-bling establishments in Davidson County as

information becomes available through the public.”

Alcohol Law Enforce-ment agents said they seized a large quantity of beer, liquor and wine as well as items used in gambling.

At Denton Amvets Post 240, Donald Hunt, 60, of Denton, and Robert Fuller, 71, also of Den-ton, were charged with possession of alcoholic beverages for sale with-out an ABC permit, sell-ing alcoholic beverages without an ABC permit, possession of non-tax-paid alcoholic beverag-es, unauthorized posses-sion of spirituous liquor, gambling, possession of

gambling devices and al-low gambling in a house of public entertainment.

At Allied Veterans of the World, Bobby Beas-ley, 50, and Mary Free-man, 52, both of Lexing-ton, were charged with possession of alcoholic beverages for sale with-out an ABC permit, un-authorized possession of spirituous liquor, gambling, possession of illegal punchboards, possession of gambling devices and gambling in a house of public enter-tainment.

During the investiga-tion at Denton Amvets Post 240, ALE agents dis-covered that board mem-bers of the post either ac-

quiesced or participated in the unlawful activi-ties, some for more than 10 years.

Robert Craven, 80, Charles Kirkman, 86, Bobby Sikes Jr., 61, Je-rome Peace, 64, and Woodrow Montgomery, 66, all from Denton, were charged with selling alco-holic beverages without an ABC permit, posses-sion of alcoholic bever-ages for sale without an ABC permit, unauthor-ized possession of spiri-tuous liquor, possession of non-tax-paid alcoholic beverages, gambling, allowing gambling in a house of public enter-tainment and operating gambling devices.

Agents make arrests after raid at Amvets Post, Allied Veterans

BY PAT KIMBROUGHENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

DAVIDSON COUNTY – Two men face robbery charges after an altercation at a Lexington residence.

The Davidson County Sheriff’s Offi ce received a report Dec. 5 from Bryan Jacobs alleging he had been the victim of a rob-bery on Dec. 5 at a Lazy River Drive home.

Jacobs said while he was

at the home of a friend, a confrontation broke out and a 10-karat gold neck-lace, valued at $4,500, was ripped from his neck, ac-cording to the sheriff’s of-fi ce.

Jacobs reported he left the residence to avoid fur-ther problems, but named two possible suspects – one person who alleged-ly took the necklace dur-ing the confrontation and a second person he said

was given the item by the other suspect after it was taken.

Detectives investigated and brought common-law robbery charges against both suspects.

Joseph Adam Spaugh, 30, of Old Mill Farm Road, Lexington, was arrested by deputies at his resi-dence on Dec. 21 and pro-cessed without incident, according to the sheriff’s offi ce.

Brandon Scott Lilly, 30, of Hoover Road, Lex-ington, was arrested Tuesday at the Davidson County Courthouse and processed without inci-dent, deputies said.

Both men were jailed under $50,000 bonds and have appearances sched-uled for Jan. 11 in Da-vidson County District Court.


Stolen necklace lands two in jail

RALEIGH (AP) – North Carolina’s longest-serving state senator said Wednes-day he won’t seek re-elec-tion next year as pros-ecutors pursue criminal charges over a shooting at his home in August.

Sen. R.C. Soles, D-Colum-bus, announced he won’t seek a 22nd consecutive term. He’s the state’s lon-gest continuously serving lawmaker, fi rst elected to the General Assembly in 1968 and in the Senate since 1977.

State prosecutors an-nounced this month they plan to seek a felony as-sault charge against Soles after a grand jury found probable cause that he acted criminally when he shot a former law client. Soles’ attorney has said Soles acted in self-defense.

“I plan to serve out the remainder of my term with the vigor and diligence my constituents deserve and I will continue to practice

law,” Soles said in a statement announcing his deci-sion. “Pub-lic service is a noble calling and I

have tried to live up to the ideals of a true leader.”

Soles made no reference to the case in the state-ment. But he said in an interview with The Associ-ated Press he would be less than truthful to say his le-gal troubles played no role in his decision.

“It sure was not the mo-tiviating force,” said Soles, who turned 75 on Dec. 17. “That alone would not have kept me from running.”

Soles is the latest power-ful Democrat leaving the Senate. Outgoing Majority Leader Tony Rand of Cum-berland County is to resign today to head the parole commission.

Finance Committee co-

chairman David Hoyle of Gaston County also won’t seek re-election.

Soles said he had consid-ered not running in 2008. He said his Senate district, which includes Columbus, Pender and Brunswick counties, has been increas-ingly diffi cult to win as transplants arrive from other states and register as Republicans.

Soles won by less than 3 percentage points in the November 2008 election while spending more than $839,000 in campaign ex-penses.

“It’s not that they dislike me. They just don’t know me,” Soles said.

Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, R-Rocking-ham, said Soles’ departure is another sign that pro-business Democrats “are choosing to retire rather than seek re-election in a political environment where they face likely de-feat.”

Soles, a soft-spoken at-torney, made headlines in the past two years when a house that he paid a for-mer client to build caught fi re and when young men he described as former clients were charged with trespassing.

A former client claimed recently that Soles molest-ed him a decade ago, but the accuser later said he made the story up.

Neighbors have made dozens of emergency calls in recent years telling po-lice they heard gunshots, screams and loud argu-ments coming from his home or law offi ce.

Most recently, the State Bureau of Investigation looked into the Aug. 23 shooting of Thomas Kyle Blackburn. Authorities say Soles shot Blackburn after he and another in-truder kicked in the front door of his Tabor City home. Blackburn wasn’t badly hurt.

Longest-serving senator won’t run amid criminal probe

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BUTNER (AP) – Bernard Madoff has left his North Carolina prison’s hospital unit and returned to his cell.

The 71-year-old disgraced fi nancier had been trans-

ferred to a prison hospitalon Dec. 18. Bureau of Prisonsspokeswoman Denise Sim-mons said Wednesday hewas transferred back to themedium security section.

Madoff leaves hospital, returns to cell

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MOGADISHU, Somalia – U.S. offi cials are inves-tigating a Somali man’s alleged attempt to board a fl ight last month carrying chemicals, liquid and a syringe in a case bearing chilling echoes of the plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

Terrorism analysts said the arrest in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, could prove highly valuable for the Detroit investigation if the incidents turn out to be linked.

Somali caught last month with chemicals, syringe

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistani Taliban claimed re-sponsibility Wednesday for the devastating bombing of a religious procession in Karachi – a rare attack in Pakistan’s commercial hub and a sign the militants may be escalating their war against the state.

Monday’s bombing, which killed 44 people in the heart of the southern port city, underscored the group’s ability to strike far from its sanctuary in the northwest and its determination to hit back at a government that has launched a military campaign against it.

Pakistani Taliban claim Karachi bombing

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Seven women on a 562-mile (900 kilometer) Antarctic ski trek reached the South Pole Thursday, 38 days after they began their adventure to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth.

Skiing six to 10 hours a day, the Commonwealth Women’s Antarctic Expedition trekked an average of 15 miles (24 kilometers) a day, each hauling a 176-pound (80 kilogram) sled of provisions and shelter to reach the United States-operated Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station science base.

7 women reach South Pole after 562-mile trek

SAN’A, Yemen (AP)– Yemeni forces raided anal-Qaida hideout and setoff a gunbattle Wednes-day as the governmentvowed to eliminate thegroup that claimed it wasbehind the Christmasbombing attempt on aU.S. airliner.

The fi ghting took placein an al-Qaida strongholdin western Yemen, havenfor a group that attackedthe U.S. Embassy here in2008, killing 10 Yemeniguards and four civil-ians.

A government state-ment said at least one sus-pected militant was ar-rested during the clashes.

Al-Qaida in the ArabianPeninsula, an offshoot ofOsama bin Laden’s group,claimed it was behind theattempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner.

Yemeni forces raid al-Qaida

hideout, clashes erupt

KABUL (AP) – A sui-cide bomber detonated his explosive vest at a military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednes-day, killing eight Amer-ican civilians, U.S. offi -cials said.

The explosion oc-curred at Forward Op-erating Base Chapman in Khost province near the Afghan border with Pakistan.

U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly confi rmed that eight Americans died in the attack.

“We mourn the loss of life in this attack, and are withholding further details pending notifi ca-tion of next of kin,” he said.

A senior State Depart-ment offi cial told The Associated Press on con-

dition of anonymity that all of the victims are ci-vilians. However, that could include military contractors and U.S. in-telligence offi cials.

In Kabul, a spokesman for the international co-alition force in Kabul said no U.S. or NATO troops were killed.

An attacker wearing a suicide vest caused the explosion, offi cials said.

8 Americans die in Afghan attack

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In reply to Cathy Brewer Hinson’s Dec. 26 letter (“President denies troops adequate support”):

I could hardly believe a person who has announced their candi-dacy for Congressman Howard

Coble’s seat for the 6th District thinks that she can fi ll the shoes of Coble.

Coble had the courage to speak out against the Bush war in Iraq quite sometime ago. He also is an outstanding supporter of the troops and

veterans. Veterans can always count on Coble and his staff to “go to bat” for them. As a matter of fact, one of the fi rst things I say to veterans is contact your congress-man’s staff for help, if the case is “hung up” in D.C.

If it is a case of claims and medi-cal help, there are other direc-tions to go. I too have “looked

into the eyes” of many American veterans and I have seen many of them with tears in their eyes. They know from the time they volunteer to join the military, they have an obligation to defend America and always must go where the commander-in-chief orders them. In my opinion, Presi-dent Obama certainly was right in taking time to make the decision to send more troops. There are far too many issues that needed to be addressed.

There is no way I would ever cast a vote for a candidate that does not understand the present war situation we have in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was never about a war that could be quickly won and get back home. It is a war on terror, and there is that possibil-ity of a terrorist attack anywhere. I know Rep. Coble is a military veteran who understands veter-ans issues. Hinson has a right to her own opinion but not to “make up her own facts.”

KAY PARKER SPANGLEHigh Point

Hagan abandons seniors

with Medicare Advantage

I am writing to encourage all seniors who currently have Medi-care Advantage policies to write Sen. Kay Hagan and “thank” her for her yes vote on the health care bill.

These seniors will be losing this coverage and will need to go on regular Medicare and will need a Medicare Supplement.

You may have noticed recently that AARP is aggressively adver-tising their supplement on televi-sion. These policies are costly and many seniors will have problems purchasing these supplements.

If you are interested in what a hospital stay could cost, I went to the offi cial U.S. government site for the information:

$1,068 for a hospital stay of 1-60 days;

$267 per day for days 61-90;$534 per day for days 91-150.Should a stay in a nursing facil-

ity be necessary, Medicare will

pay for the fi rst 20 days. After that you will pay $133.50 per day for days 21-100.

Seniors from three states man-aged to keep the Medicare Advan-tage programs for their seniors, and North Carolina was not one of these states; therefore, I feel North Carolina seniors need to “thank” her for what she has done to them.

ATHELENE CARTERThomasville

How will your smoking/dining habits change when the statewide ban on smoking in restaurants begins Saturday? Express your thoughts in 30 words or less (no name, address required) by e-mailing [email protected]. Here is one response:

• I plan to eat out more often when the smoking in restaurants ban goes into effect and I no lon-ger have to smell the unhealthy, unappetizing odor of cigarette smoke.

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T hey gathered on a cold February af-ternoon nearly 50 years ago in High Point – 26 high school students, 24 from

William Penn High and two from High Point High. United by the thirst in their hearts and souls for equality, they marched through the Wrenn Street entrance of the Main Street F.W. Woolworth Co., fi lling seats at the store’s “white’s only” lunch counter.

And they wrote a page in history.Like the four students at North Carolina

A&T State University who had inspired them 10 days earlier in Greensboro, these 26 high school students where ready for changes in the decades-old segregation practices in effect in North Carolina, across the South and in other areas around the nation.

Their actions that day, Feb. 11, 1960, still are widely believed to have been the fi rst, and very likely the only, lunch counter sit-in planned and carried out by high school stu-dents in those early days of the nation’s Civil Rights Movement.

After those initial days and a few years of subsequent demonstrations in High Point against segregated public facilities, those 26 high school students rushed into adulthood and their chosen career paths, spreading far and wide, with most losing contact with each other. Years later, however, some such as Mary Lou Andrews Blakeney and Rufus New-lin began feeling the magnetic pull and have returned to the city where they spent impor-tant formative years. Some had remained in or near the city and inconspicuously had gone about their lives. Some, such as Brenda Fountain Hampden and Lynn Fountain Campbell, moved away to stay away and for decades have not returned to High Point.

As the 50th anniversary of that historic day in High Point and in civil rights history approaches, and as plans for marking the event’s 50th anniversary are being fi nalized, curiously enough, some of the original par-ticipants in that initial sit-in are unaccounted for. In fact, members of a core group of an-niversary event organizers and the Feb. 11th Association, which led the drive for erection

of a monument on Wrenn Street last year, don’t yet have an of-fi cial, verifi ed list of the original 26 students and their roles in the event that fi rst day.

Blakeney, who returned to High Point in 1996 after a long career as a nurse and last year was elected to the High Point City Council, wants to change all that. A driving force behind efforts that led to the now an-nual commemoration of the Feb. 11 event, Blakeney and others

are spearheading an attempt to identify and locate or account for all 26 of the original sit-in participants – and they’re trying to get it all done in time for the event’s 50th anniver-sary on Feb. 11, just over six weeks away.

An impressive monument marking the event was erected last February on the former site of the Woolworth’s entrance on Wrenn Street as part of High Point’s 150th an-niversary celebration. Several days of events were held then, so this year’s ceremonies sponsored by the Feb. 11th Association – and to be announced soon – will not be quite as extensive.

However, I believe – as do Blakeney, Newlin and others – that this effort to identify, locate or account for the 26 original participants in that Feb. 11, 1960, sit-in is highly important in fully recording the historic nature of this event. That’s why Blakeney asks that anyone who may have information about any of the original sit-in participants to call her at 886-1033.

During the next few weeks, we’ll hear much about the internationally known Feb. 1 sit-in in Greensboro and the planned opening of a museum there commemorating that event, which sparked a regional, then national round of civil rights demonstrations.

But right here in High Point, there’s impor-tant Civil Rights Movement history still to be uncovered and fully recorded.


D on’t rev your hopes up too much too quickly, but signs, locally and across the nation, indicate that conditions

are getting better for the construction in-dustry. That is a good sign for the rest of the economy.

Staff writer Paul B. Johnson reported last week that construction employment increased in 26 states from October to No-vember, according to Associated General Contractors of America statistics. And, af-ter declining during the fi rst seven months of the year, Johnson wrote, construction employment in North Carolina has record-ed incremental gains the last three out of four months.

Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Fed-eral Reserve Bank of Richmond, told the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce early in December that single-family housing starts have increased by 33 percent and new home sales have increased by 31 percent. Com-mercial construction starts haven’t kept pace with housing

starts. McGraw-Hill Construction (MHC) reported Dec. 16, based on data it compiled, that “nonresidential building retreated after October’s elevated activity, and non-building construction (public works and electric utilities) also settled back.

Meanwhile, residential building in No-vember held steady with its October pace.” Even with the November decline, the evi-dence of recent months suggests that over-all construction activity has at least stabi-lized at a low level, MHC reported.

Locally, construction on the fi rst phase of a 32-acre, 62-lot single-family residential (Diamond’s Keep) subdivision off Archdale Road is expected to get under way early in the new year, with some of the homes being completed in four or fi ve months.

That certainly is good news as is the word that some contractors – slowly but surely – are getting loans once again, after what pretty much has been a year-long drought.

We’re not out of the woods yet, but we are able to see the sunshine more clearly between the trees.

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Sen. Don R. Vaughan (D) (27th Senate District), 612 W. Friendly Avenue, Greens-boro, NC 27401 (336) 273-1415

Sen. Stan Bingham (R) (33rd Senate District), 292 N. Main St., Denton, NC 27239, (336) 859-0999

Leonard Pitts’ column will return in January.

Obama certainly was right in taking time to make the decision to send more troops.

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I t’s New Year’s Eve and almost time to return to school for the second

semester. I learned a lesson last week related to school that I feel compelled to share with you. It is a lesson for which I am getting no sympathy at home. In fact, unless you are a teacher or have a dear friend who is one, you may simply dismiss this column as simply griping into the wind. That’s OK. I need to say it anyway.

In my 25 years of teaching, I do not ever recall going to school on Dec. 21 and 22 – the week of Christmas. I realize that folks in most jobs do work that close to Christmas; thus, the reason for no sympathy from most. However, asking children to go to school part of last week is another issue.

I have always held that the very purpose for attending school is to learn, and I think most people would readily agree with that. So imagine children sitting in school on Dec. 21 after a three-hour delay with 3 inches of snow still on the ground and only four days before Christmas and asking them to learn anything new! Then they were asked to come back to school on Dec. 22!

Don’t get me wrong. I have never seen teachers plan more creatively to use literature, math, science and cultural traditions to actually teach stu-dents than they did on Dec. 21 and 22, but we pretty much had time to come to school, check attendance and eat lunch, with just a few activities thrown in besides.

Regardless of the weather and the snow on the ground that caused the delays on both school days last week, I have a problem with going to school

simply to count those days as twoof our instruc-tional days. Attendance was considerably off at my school, as I am sure it was around the coun-ty. And being in school with only three days until Christmas just seemed unfair to young students.

School systems all around Guilford County, including Randolph County and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County schools,planned their calendars for Friday, Dec. 18, to be their last day before winter break this year. That planning was done without the knowledge that it would snow on Dec. 18 and 19. It just made sense.

I would be in favor of makingDec. 21 and 22 optional teacher workdays if they had to be a part of the school calendar. That would give students a break instead of expecting them to learn during the most exciting week of the year and would give teachers the op-tion to work or not. Counting school days as instructional should be done on days where optimal learning can take place, and that is not during the week of Christmas, in this one teacher’s humble opinion.

Happy New Year to you and yours, and may learning be a happy challenge for our students in Guilford County in 2010!

PAULA GULLEDGE WILLIAMS lives in High Point and teaches at Pilot Elementary School in Greensboro. Her columns appear on this page every other Thursday.

COMMENTARY

BY JAMES BRIGHAM

T he last dance is always a slow dance. The band delivers those notes ever

so slowly and holds them long. Standing eye to eye, hand clasped in hand, shoes shuffl e slowly across the fl oor. A slow dance is almost prayer-like, memories of the past mix with hopes of the future, a swell of feelings that all is good, all of what we are, all of what we do, is right.

Tonight we’ll ring out the old year while wishing each other the happiest of a New Year.

Lately, these days, these days of a slack economy, these days feel like a slow dance. So slowly that music plays, producing a slow-motion movie out of our real lives. In high defi nition, we’ve watched every job lost, one by one, two by two, till they added up to 8 million, each loss has its own sad story.

Early on in this, those stories existed only in the newspapers or the six o’clock news; now they’ve entered our neighbor’s house or are play-ing in prime time in our own living rooms.

The entire year has been rough; paying bills on time has turned to be a challenge. We’re better off than some. Two homes have foreclosed on our street, one family disap-peared in the night, the other I last saw in a U-Haul, heading north on College. I wonder where you go, when you have lost everything. I have a new respect for people in that world. I pray for the families that when this is over they are still a family.

By the end of the month, I pretty much have what you have: a mortgage payment, phone, gas and light bills, a car that needs repair, a yard that needs attention. I don’t believe we are all that differ-ent. At this point, I feel safe to say that we are all a bit nervous.

The stresses it puts on our every decision – is that tooth-paste cheaper than the other? Can we really afford to take time off to go visit mom?

This economy is making us more similar, more like each other and teaching us a

few things along the way.It’s taught me a few things:

how to do with less, how to pinch that penny. My most important lesson learned from this is the love and under-standing of my spouse, family and friends. I thank this slack economy for that, for open-ing my eyes to what’s really important in life. That love, her love, is my most precious possession. The things we used to depend on no longer can support us. But that love gets me through each day and gives me great hope for tomor-row.

So if you’ve been dancing that same slow dance, when you’re dancing the last dance tonight, whether in your liv-ing room or a ballroom, hold her tight, eye to eye, hand in hand. Think of all that is truly important and thank her for dancing this dance of your life.

My hope is that we are on the way out of these sorry days and that I am starting this new year stronger, with this newfound wealth. I hope the same for you.

Happy New Year.

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WASHINGTON (AP) – For all their differences, Americans largely agree on two things: 2009 was a lousy year for the nation, and 2010 is likely to be better.

Nearly three-fourths of Ameri-cans think 2009 was a bad year for the country, which was rocked by job losses, home foreclosures and economic sickness. Forty-two percent rated it “very bad,” ac-

cording to the latest AP-GfK poll.That’s clearly worse than in 2006,

the last time a similar poll was tak-en. The survey that year found that 58 percent of Americans felt the na-tion had suffered a bad year, and 39 percent considered it a good year.

Fewer than half as many people, 16 percent, said their family had a “very good year” in 2009 as said that in 2006.

Even though most said it was a badyear for the country, three in fi veAmericans said their own familyhad a good year in 2009, while abouttwo in fi ve called it a bad year.

Some 72 percent of Americanssaid they’re optimistic about what2010 will bring for the country.Even more, four in fi ve, are opti-mistic about what the year willbring for their families.

Poll: 2009 was bad for Americans

NEW YORK (AP) – A white van parked in the heart of Times Square with tinted windows, no license plates and a bogus law enforcement placard led the NYPD to briefl y evacuate the tourist hot spot and send in a bomb squad on the day before New Year’s Eve.

No explosive devices were found inside the van Wednesday afternoon, and the area was reopened to traffi c about two hours after the incident began.

The van was spotted by patrol offi cers around 11 a.m. Wednesday on Broad-way between 41st and 42nd Streets, and counterter-rorism and bomb squad crews responded. The

area was blocked off and two high-rise buildings home to Nasdaq and pub-lishing company Conde Nast were partially evac-uated but allowed back in around 1 p.m.

Nasdaq said its trading was unaffected. Conde Nast was in the process of evacuating when the or-der was lifted.

There were no corre-sponding terror threats involving the vehicle, said chief NYPD spokes-man Paul J. Browne.

But police take extra care around New Year’s Eve when the ball-drop celebration draws hun-dreds of thousands of revelers to Times Square from around the world.

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BY PAUL B. JOHNSONENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – An invest-ment group closed on the purchase Wednesday of a former furniture factory complex in southwest High Point, offering hope for the redevelopment of build-ings vacant for a year.

C&M Investments Inc., a local group of investors, bought the former Drexel-Heritage furniture factory and Henredon building along W. Ward Avenue near Green Drive. The 22 acres were bought from St. Louis-based Furniture Brands International, which shut down its fur-niture manufacturing ef-fective the end of 2008 and eliminated 300 jobs.

The deal involves three parcels, said Hal Craven, president/principal bro-ker of Craven Commercial Properties. Craven bro-kered the deal for C&M In-vestments. The purchase includes the 265,000-square-foot factory at Ward and Green that was the main facility for Drexel-Heritage furniture production. C&M

Investments also bought the former Henredon building covering 225,000 square feet and an adjacent parking lot.

C&M Investments envi-sions converting the build-ings from use for manufac-turing to distribution.

“We are thinking about removing the second fl oor of the main build-ing at Green and Ward, the Drexel-Heritage build-ing, and making that a 135,000-square-foot facility designed for distribution,”

Craven said. C&M Invest-ments will market its prop-erty for sale or lease and can subdivide, he said.

“It’s a good location be-tween Interstate 85 and downtown High Point,” Craven said.

The sales price wasn’t disclosed, though the properties sold by Furni-ture Brands International originally were listed $2.4 million.


BY PAM HAYNESENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – Furniture industry analysts hope they’re seeing a faint light at the end of the tun-nel in the results of the latest Furniture Insights report.

The report, compiled by Ken Smith at Smith Leon-ard Accountants and Con-sultants, revealed that Oc-tober was the fi rst month since October 2007 that res-idential furniture orders were not lower than the

same month a year ago. “At least for one month,

the bleeding appeared to stop,” Smith said in the report.

More good news fol-lowed when Smith report-ed that 41 percent of sur-veyed participants saw increased orders in Oc-tober, up from 33 percent last month and 20 percent in August.

The numbers might re-fl ect a small uptick due to the High Point Market, which was Oct. 17-22, but Smith said the event proba-

bly had little impact on the numbers as most orders are placed after market.

“It really depends on when (marketgoers) get back and enter their or-ders into the system,” Smith said. “We’ll have to wait for November num-bers to see what they look like.”

Shipments in October were 10 percent lower than October 2008 and were down 4 percent from September.

Those numbers fare bet-ter than the 14 percent

drop that took place from August to September.

Other factors, such as the rise of consumer con-fi dence, painted a brighter picture of the furniture in-dustry than Smith said he had seen in a while. The future months will deter-mine if the numbers really indicate the beginnings of a turnaround, he said.

“We’ve all been search-ing for the bottom,” he said. “I don’t know that one month means we’ve reached that. Many peo-ple I’ve talked with feel they’ve reached that and

are bumping along the bot-tom now.”

The greatest assurance he sees now is most as-pects of the industry didn’t worsen, according to his latest fi gures.

“This is the fi rst time we didn’t dig the hole deeper in a long time,” he said. “When the news was al-ways bad, people just start-ed to hunker down and pay off their debt. If we can see more positive news, I think we’ll start to see some peo-ple come out of that.”


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ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORT

GUILFORD COUNTY – The Guil-ford County Sheriff’s Offi ce this week arrested a Guilford County Schools teacher and a former For-syth County deputy in unrelated cases on sex charges.

The sheriff’s offi ce said Harold Robert Grant’s arrest on Tuesday stemmed from an investigation of crimes occurring from Feb. 18, 1993, to Dec. 31, 2001. Grant, 57, of Galway Drive, Greensboro, was charged with four counts of inde-cent liberties with a child, a count of second-degree sex offense, a count of crime against nature and a count of felony child abuse

by a sexual act. Guilford County Schools spokeswoman Hay Miller told WXII News 12 that Grant was a teacher at Southeast Guilford Middle School. Miller also told the TV station that the incidents weren’t related to any school ac-tivities. Miller said Grant’s sta-tus with the system hadn’t been determined since school offi cials hadn’t yet been able to talk to him, WXII News 12 reported.

Grant was placed in the Guil-ford County Jail under a $100,000 secured bond.

In an unrelated case, the sher-iff’s offi ce arrested former For-syth County deputy Brian Daniel Barker, 42, of Cokesbury Street,

Kernersville. Barker was charged with solicitation of a minor by computer to commit an unlawful sex act. The sheriff’s offi ce said Barker had been chatting on the Internet since June 2009 with an undercover deputy, who he be-lieved to be a 13-year-old female.

According to the sheriff’s of-fi ce, Barker arranged Tuesday to meet with the undercover deputy at an undisclosed location in Greensboro, where he was ar-rested without incident. Barker was placed in the Guilford Coun-ty Jail under a $15,000 secured bond.

WXII News 12 reported that Barker, the son of former Forsyth

County Sheriff Ron Barker, had been charged with solicitation of a minor to commit an unlaw-ful sex act. He was released after posting bond and was scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 12.

WXII News 12 also reported that Barker was in the news in 1999 when a judge banned him from law enforcement for shoot-ing up his patrol car and fi ling a false police report.

The judge later changed his mind, allowing Barker to go to work.

Barker was forced to pay the city of Winston-Salem more than $15,000 in restitution, according to WXII News 12.

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Harold RidgeHIGH POINT – Harold

Ray Ridge, 68, a resident of High Point died Tues-day December 29, 2009, at Forsyth Medical Cen-ter in Winston-Salem. He was born August 26, 1941, in Davidson Co., a son of James Burris and Nina Hiatt Ridge. Harold graduated with the class of 1960 at Led-ford High School. He was a veteran of the US Army serving in Viet-nam. He was employed with Kennedy Oil Co. Inc. for 43 years where he was president of the company. He was of the Methodist faith. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Eugene Ridge. On No-vember 30, 1963, he was married to the former Mary Kennedy and for 46 years they had a lov-ing and wonderful mar-riage.

Surviving in addition to his wife Mary Kenne-dy Ridge of the home are one son, Brandon Ridge and his wife Jennifer of Thomasville; one sister, Lela Sue Rich and her husband Jerry of High Point; his sister-in-law, Kay More and her husband Dick of High Point; sisters-in-law, Betsy Kennedy of Arch-dale, Maxine Ridge of High Point; his precious grandchildren he loved and was so proud of, Peyton and Jake Ridge and numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 11:00 a.m. in the Sechrest Fu-neral Chapel, 1301 East Lexington Ave., con-ducted by the Reverend Richard Howle. Inter-ment will be in Pleasant Grove United Method-ist Church cemetery. The family will receive friends at Sechrest Fu-neral Service on Thurs-day from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Memorials may be di-rected in Harold’s mem-ory to the charity of the donor’s choice. Serving as active pallbearers will be Dick More, Scott Hucks, Chris Moser, Lynn Shelton, Gary Ha-zelwood and Wes Allred. Employees of Kennedy Oil Co., Inc. are asked to serve as honorary pall-bearers are requested to meet at the chapel by 10:40 a.m.

Online audio and writ-ten condolences can be made at www.mem.com.

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Timothy L. SimsHIGH POINT – Mr. Timo-

thy L. Sims, age 64, passed away Friday, December 25 at High Point Regional Hospital following a sud-den heart attack.

A native of Michigan, Mr. Sims was born Sep-tember 30, 1945, a son of the late Presley Kenyon and Lorraine Ann Tapp Sims. In 1972, he moved his family from Kalama-zoo, Michigan to High Point. Tim enjoyed a suc-cessful 36-year career as a life insurance agent with New York Life Insurance Company. He was a life-time member of the New York Life Insurance Com-pany’s council, a member of the Society for Finan-cial Service Professionals and was also a member of the Winston-Salem Chap-ter of the National Asso-ciation of Insurance and Financial Advisors.

An active member of Christ United Methodist Church for many years, he was a member of the adult choir, the hand bell choir, served as a Sun-day School teacher, and was a past President and current Treasurer of the United Methodist Men. He was past President of the High Point Com-munity Concert Associa-tion. Tim greatly enjoyed spending time at his cabin in Fancy Gap, Virginia, playing golf, and being involved with the Tarheel T’s (a Model T enthusiasts club). He would proudly say that this greatest suc-cess in life was his family, which included his wife of 44 years, their three sons and nine grandchildren.

He married the former Donna J. Mosteller on De-cember 4, 1965, who sur-vives of the home. Also surviving are three sons, Jeff Sims, wife Sandra and children Shelby and Logan of Greensboro, Roger Sims, wife Jenna and children Allyn, Ke-nan, Cameron and Asher of High Point, and Jason Sims, wife Laura and chil-dren Laurin, Ryan, and Bryson of Thomasville; brothers Ron Sims, wife Sally and Pres Sims all of Michigan.

A memorial service to celebrate Tim’s life will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday at Christ United Method-ist Church in High Point with Dr. Perry Miller and the Reverend Carol Car-kin offi ciating.

Tim loved his church family and the fam-ily requests memorials be made to the Christ United Methodist Church Build-ing Fund.

Online condolences can be made at www.cumby-funeral.com.

Arrangements by Cumby Family Funeral Service in High Point.

Peggy HulinHIGH POINT – Peggy

Draughn Hulin, 81, passed away Monday, December 28th at her home on Anji Court.

A native of High Point Mrs. Hulin was born Feb-ruary 8, 1928, a daughter of A. Glenn and Maude W. Draughn. She gradu-ated from High Point High School and attended Jones Business College. She re-tired after working forty two years for the Federal Government, fi rst with the Selective Service System and later with the United States Department of Hous-ing and Urban Develop-ment in Greensboro. Fol-lowing her retirement, she worked as a consultant for several Housing Authori-ties in the Triad Area.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, William H. Hulin and a sister, Betsy Hackler.

Surviving are her daugh-ters, Dianne (Phil) Callicutt of Brunswick, Georgia and Cathy Tate (John Butte) of High Point; her grandchil-dren, Dr. Ashley Callicutt of Georgia, Heather Callicutt of Mississippi, Lindsay Tate (Tommy Andrews) of High Point and Jason Tate of Florida; one great-grand-son, Tyler Andrews of High Point; Two sisters, Nancy Draughn and Judy (Benny) Phillips; a brother, Bucky (Anna) Draughn; one brother-in-law, Don Hulin; one sister-in-law, Ruby Hu-lin; her companion. Martin Wisecup and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at 7:00 p.m. Sunday at Forest Hills Presbyterian Church with the Reverend Joe Blankinship offi ciat-ing. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Saturday evening at Cumby Family Funeral Service in High Point.

Memorials may be direct-ed to the Community Clinic of High Point, Inc., 779 N. Main Street, High Point, NC 27262 c/o Jerri White, [email protected], phone 336-841-7154.

Online condolences can be made at www.cumbyfu-neral.com. Arrangements by Cumby Family Funeral Service in High Point.

Hoyt Southards

THOMASVILLE – Mr. Hoyt Arvle Southards, age 64, of Thomasville, died Mon-day, December 28, 2009 at Thomasville Medical Cen-ter. He was born on Feb-ruary 27, 1945 in Swain County, NC to Burgin John Southards and An-nie Belle Day Southards. He was a US Navy veteran and employed with Trico Erectors. In addition to his parents, he was pre-ceded in death by his wife, Janice Black Southards on May 27, 2007.

Surviving is a son, Rodney S. Foley and wife Tracy of Trinity; brother, James Southards and wife Helen of Trinity; and two grandchildren, Levi and Dawson Foley.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, Janu-ary 2, 2010 at 4:00 PM at the J.C. Green & Sons Chapel in Thomasville with Rev. Roger Hedrick offi ciating. The family will receive friends im-mediately following the service at the funeral home and at other times at the families respective homes. In lieu of fl owers, memorials may be direct-ed to American Heart As-sociation, 202 CentrePort Drive, Greensboro, NC 27409 or to the charity of the donor’s choice. On-line condolences may be sent to www.jcgreenand-sons.com.

Shelia D. Hutchinson

TRINITY – Mrs. Shelia Draper Hutchinson, 63, resident of Trinity, died December 29th, 2009 at High Point Regional Hos-pital.

Mrs. Hutchinson was born April 8th, 1946, in Guilford County, a daugh-ter to John and Mildred Draper. A resident of Guilford and Randolph County all her life, she had worked at Cone Mills and was a member of Com-munity Baptist in Trinity. On May 16th, 1986, she married Dallas Hutchin-son who survives of the residence.

Also surviving is a brother, Terry Draper of Greensboro; and four step-children, Debra Ste-vens of Jamestown, Dar-rell Hutchinson of High Point, Donald Wayne Hutchinson of High Point and Dale Hutchinson of Trinity.

Funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Satur-day in the chapel of the Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale with Rev. Roger Porter, Rev. Roy Green and Rev. Ty Thompson offi ciating. Interment will follow in Lakeview Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Fri-day at the funeral home.

Memorials may be di-rected to Community Baptist Church 9006 Hills-ville Rd. Trinity NC 27370. On-line condolences may be made through www.cumbyfuneral.com. Ar-rangements by Cumby Family Funeral Service in Archdale.

Louise FaganPLEASANT GARDEN

– Mrs. Louise Fagan, 93, died December 30, 2009, at Clapps Nursing Home.

Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Moravian Church, Greensboro.

Lambeth-Troxler Fu-neral Home is assisting the Fagan family.

Jack HardyWINSTON-SALEM – Jack

Darden Hardy, 80, of Old Salisbury Road died De-cember 30, 2009, at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home.

Graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. today in Parklawn Memorial Park.

Davidson Funeral Home, Hickory Tree Cha-pel, is serving the family.

Louis “Buzzy” Patton Sr.

WINSTON-SALEM – Louis Benjamin “Buzzy” Patton Sr., 66, of Clearview Drive died December 30, 2009.

J.C. Green & Sons Fu-neral Home, Winston-Sa-lem, is assisting the fam-ily.

Bryant LovelacePALATKA, Fla. – Bryant

Lee Lovelace, 73, died De-cember 29, 2009.

Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the chapel of Masters Funeral Home, Palatka, FL. Visitation will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

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D ear Abby: I’m 41 and a single mom. My fi rst marriage

lasted 19 years, during which my husband cheat-ed on me three times that I know of. I have dated a few men since the divorce. I caught each of them lying to me, cheat-ing on me – or both.

I am now seeing a man who seems to be an hon-est family man. However, I can’t bring myself to trust him. We have been seeing each other for a year, and I care about him deeply. But I do not trust him, and the truth is I don’t trust anyone – not even my own mother.

I’m not sure I know how to trust, Abby, and I am destroying my relationship with this man because of it. He has evening meetings and occasionally needs to travel on business, and I am making us both miserable. I do feel he’s an honest, God-fearing family man, but when it comes to our relation-ship, I’m unable to trust. Please tell me what to do. – Desperate in Arizona

Dear Desperate: Your reasons for not trust-ing men seemed under-standable when I read that your husband had cheated multiple times, and that you had the same rotten luck with men after your divorce. Then I got to the line about your mother. If you don’t trust her, then how far back do your trust issues go? And is it possible that you have

turned your insecurity into a self-fulfi lling prophecy?

If you want to salvage this relation-ship, rec-ognize that you have a problem

that won’t go away with-out counseling to help you understand where your trust problems originated. Wouldn’t it be interesting if they had less to do with the men in your life than with your mother? You’ll never know until you look further – so before you chase this man away, explain that you realize you have been unfair to him and ask him to give you patience and some time to fi x the problem. He must care for you very much to have stuck it out this long.

Dear Abby: When

I was 18, I met a girl, “Ava,” who was 17. We became good friends but we lived an hour apart and only dated for four months. Ava called it off because she said she was in school and wanted to date other guys. I found out that the next year she got married.

Six years later, Ava called out of the blue and invited me to dinner. She was divorced, but I was in a relationship at the time, so I never called her back. I got married the following year and

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A couple of months ago I found out Ava’s mar-ried name and phone number and called her. I apologized for not hav-ing returned her call way back when, and we talked about her family and mine. Abby, I care for her and would like to be friends. I’d like to keep in touch, but I don’t want to invade her life or cause problems. Any advice would be appreci-ated. – Remembering in Richmond

Dear Remembering: I’m not sure what it is you’re looking for, but if you and Ava were meant to be friends, I think it would have happened before this. My advice is to let sleeping dogs lie.

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sure all of us are glad to bid a “fond farewell” to 2009. What a year this has been!

If you’re planning to celebrate the New Year with alcohol tonight, please appoint a desig-nated driver. And on this night of all nights, everyone – including the designated driver – should remember to drive defensively. To one and all, I wish a happy, healthy 2010. – Love, Abby DEAR ABBY is written by Abi-gail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear-Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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ASHEBORO – Mrs. Barba-ra Frances Sears Bell, 77, died December 29, 2009.

Memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Ellenboro. Visitation will follow the service at the church.

Arrangements by Ridge Funeral Home, Asheboro.

Thomas ChapmanLEXINGTON – Thomas

Carter Chapman Jr., 56, of Vanmar Drive died De-cember 25, 2009, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Win-ston-Salem.

Memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Satur-day at Pilgrim Freewill Baptist church. Visitation will follow the service at the church.

Davidson Funeral Home is in charge of arrange-ments.

Linda McMahanHIGH POINT – Mrs. Linda

McMahan, 59, died De-cember 30, 2009, at Hos-pice Home.

Arrangements are pend-ing with Cumby Family Funeral Service in Arch-dale.

Nancy FountainLEXINGTON – Nancy

Kline Fountain, 79, of Piedmont Crossing, for-merly of Pittsburgh, PA, died December 28, 2009, at Hinkle Hospice House in Lexington.

Memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Piedmont Crossing in Thomasville.

Piedmont Funeral Home of Lexington is serving the family.

JACKSONVILLE (AP) – William Miller’s fi nal errand was supposed to be a good deed, helping his estranged wife with car trouble. The Marine sergeant left home one night in 1972 and within the hour was found dead on a rural road.

Thirty-seven years later, three people face trial on murder charges for what prosecutors say was an ambush triggered by a love triangle around Miller’s wife and violence between Marine pals.

The case remained un-solved until Miller’s sis-ter contacted a newspaper reporter looking into cold cases and the resulting investigation elicited new information from a 1970s baby sitter.

Miller’s ex-wife Vickie Babbitt, 58, is scheduled to go to trial in March on charges of fi rst-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Also charged with murder and conspiracy are George

Hayden, 57, who marriedBabbitt after Miller’sdeath and later became asmall-town police chief,and Rodger Gill, 56, an ex-Marine who was friendswith the others.

“All these years I’vebeen carrying on this cru-sade trying to get the coldcase reopened. Everythingfell into place. I just knowwe have divine help,” saidMiller’s sister, SharronAguilar, 68, who with herhusband owns an automo-tive air conditioning andrestoration company inHouston, Texas.

Lawyers for the threepeople charged either de-clined to comment or didnot return calls. Trialdates for Hayden and Gillhave not been set yet. Allthree are free on bond.

Miller, Hayden and Gillwere all friends in the Ma-rines Corps.

On September 16, 1972,court records say Millergot a call from his wifeasking for help with cartrouble.

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This undated photo provided by Sharron Aguilar shows Marine Sgt. William Miller with his then wife Vickie Babbitt and their daughter Wendy in Jacksonville.

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North Carolina will have a number of new laws that take effect with the new year.

Perhaps the most wide-ly known new law – a ban on smoking in most res-taurants, bars and night-clubs in North Carolina -- won’t kick in until Sat-urday. But 38 other new laws offi cially go on the books Friday, including new ethic requirements

for local governments and changes to the state’s handicapped parking placards.

At least two new laws could directly impact the thousands of soldiers sta-tioned in North Carolina. Legislation sponsored by Sen. John Snow of Chero-kee County makes it eas-ier for military and over-seas voters to cast timely ballots.

The law clarifi es ab-sentee rules and reduces the number of witnesses

needed to sign an absen-tee ballot.

It also allows late bal-lots to be counted so long as they are received within three days of an election and postmarked prior by the election.

Another law, sponsored by Sen. Harry Brown of Onslow County, makes it easier for military person-nel to receive commercial driver’s licenses if they were tested and approved to drive similar-sized ve-hicles for the military.

New laws take effect Friday

FORT BRAGG (AP) – A military judge ruled against a defense motion to dismiss for double jeopardy the case of a master ser-geant accused of kill-ing a woman and two of her daughters in North Carolina.

Col. Patrick Par-rish denied the motion Wednesday. Parrish said the Army can pros-ecute Master Sgt. Timo-thy Hennis for the same offenses for which he was acquitted in civil-ian court in 1989.

Hennis is charged in the deaths of Kathryn Eastburn and two of her daughters, who were killed in their Fayette-ville home on May 9, 1985. He was convicted in civilian court in 1986 but was acquitted at a second trial in 1989.

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question: Who was John the baptist’s mother?

Answer to yester-day’s question: “Elis-abeth’s full time came that she should be deliv-ered; and she brought forth a son.”(Luke 1:57)

Today’s Bible ques-tion: What does God promise those who tithe?

BIBLE QUIZ is provided by Hugh B. Brittain of Shelby.

Guilford CountyThe following stu-

dents in Guilford County Schools were named to the A Team (students in grades nine-12 who received a 4.0 or better grade-point average the fi rst nine-week grading period):

Ragsdale High:Grade nine: Nayra

Abarca-Salmeron, Maya Anderson, Carlos Argu-eta, Robert Turner Ar-rington, Carmen Lou-ise Atwater, Gabrielle Baker, Julia Barber, Nazia Begum, Shrey Bhut, Benjamin Dennis Bingham, Ernest Bowie, Brandon Braswell, Em-ily Marie Broome, John Burrows, Isaac Heeseo Chang, Patrick Clouse, Alexander Cole, Tessa Darnell, Juana David, Maura Brianne Dre-wry, Ana Elezovic, Cait-lyn Ellis, Cassie Gayl Ellis, Thushan Anton Fernando, Nicholas Fu-cini, Megan Gregory, Austin Robert Harran, Emily Michelle Hay-worth, Bonritt Sam Hean, Colson Herndon, Anthony Hoang, Parker Hudson, Alison Hunt, Khawir Hussain, Chris-tine James, Eva Rac-quel Jones, Lucy Reed Kennedy, John Kilroy, Khya Renee Kimber, Megan Klebosis, Astrid La-Cruz, Brenda Lopez, Morgan Loveday, Cam-eron Mabry, Savanna Mackie, Abigail Marie Mantek, Sophia Men, Lauren Merritt, Kayla Michelle Miller, Evan Montpellier, Eric Mi-chael Mura, Jennifer Thi Nguyen, Tram Bich Nguyen, Justin O’Brien, Jisook Park, Kayen Pa-tel, Darien Payne, Na-thalie Perdomo, John Hong Pham, William Price, Michael Ray Rad-ford, Kirsten Alexandria Ramsey, Anna Rider, Matthew Ritter, Ulrika Rohman, Benjamin Wil-liam Rothermel, Bryan Andrew Rouse, Jamilah Simone Ruffi n, Reade Salerno, Lindsey Kath-leen Schaefer, Anne Elise Scheffer, Isha Shah, Jennifer Siu, Emi-ly Soukhaphon, Duncan Harrison Sparks, Timo-thy Spence, Brittany Stone, William Stumpff, Jacob Suggs, Jeffrey Swaim, Emily Denise Szamier, Luke Thomas, Sydney Turner, Chelsea Antoinette Tyson, Apple Tu Van, Tyler Jeffrey Voigt, Steven Andrew Walsh, Marlon Wash-ington, Lauren Weeks, Brendan Whitaker, Lin-da Zheng;

Grade 10: Gloria Ade-doyin, William Atkins, Jean P Boutym, Mer-edith Ann Butler, Jor-dan Alexis Cameron, Kierra Larue Camp-bell, Braden Anthony Carlson, Mitchell Scott Carstens, Dakota Ray Cary, James Chapman, Sandy Chung, Lily Am-ber Crane, Erin Eliza-beth Curtis, William Maclean Dameron, Hoa Kiet Dang, Bradley Leonard Davis, Sara Doster, Blake Cantey Dryden, Christopher Ebright, Marie Julie Erickson, Amy Marie Fix, Leah-Craig Eliza-beth Fleming, Patrick Blake Francis, Edgar Josue Gomez, Jakob Stefan Hjelmquist, Richard Hong, Sandra Leland Hoyt, Kather-ine Lyn Jessup, Eliza-beth Jones, Brittany Alexandra King, Dar-cie Elizabeth Knight, Tae Woo Lee, Daniel Adam Lile, Kneasha Shakeal Little, Natalie Rose MacDonald, Paul Nicholas Martin, Tra-vis Zachary McKinney, Claudia Sofi a Menji-var, Nikola Milisav, Rachel Michelle Mul-lins, Heather Renee Newman, Emily Nguy-en, Quoc Minh Nguyen, Randy Nguyen, Dayton Lee Oakley, Curtis M Pasit, Dilesh Harshad Patel, Emma Grace Phillips, Michael Poe-hler, Zachary Stuart Reck, Karson Perry Redfern, Tykori Keon Saunders, Cameron El-liott Smith, Emma Son-ricker, Sean Matthew Spencer, Doriane Lynne Taylor, Derek Alexan-der Varga, Amanda R Vita, Charles Gardner Wilkins, Shen-Li Yap, Erin Michele Yates, Ra-chel Heather Young, Jo-seph Franklin Young-blood, Marwan Khalid Zamamiri;

Grade 11: Ayra Leigh Ajel, Lawrence Alex-ander, Ashley Alysse Alston, Hamza Amin, Sadia Aslam, Emer-ald T Barnes, Nermin Bibic, Katelyn Anne Brereton, Barry Len Brown, Cori Michelle

Brown, Jonathan Lee Brown, Michaela Bri-ana Brown, Abelino Cabrera, Krystal Kayla Carmichael, Kathryn Paige Carter, Caleb Cates, Mia Faith Cham-berlain, Hannah Chong, Carleigh Christy, Zach-ary Austin Colby, Har-rison Ellis Cole, Stella Marie Daniel, Philip Grant Desjardins, Ay-anna Nicole Devaughn, Sarah Morgan Deweese, Tia Simone Diggs-In-gram, Nakiyha Symone Dumas, Erin Elizabeth Eberle, Logan Joseph Erath, Dena Mone Ev-ans, Brice O’Neil Ev-erett, Nabeela Farhat, Mckenzie Elizabeth Fielding, Emily Eliza-beth Forrest, Claiborne Brian Guernier, Ol-ivia M Harp, Kathleen Francis Harrington, Lukas Metz Heavner, Kevin Emmett Herron, Julianna Linda Hill, Morgan Claire Hooks, Gavin Shaun Hoover, Andrew Jacob Hunt, Tyler Austin Hunt, Ci-ara Royale Jackson, Colin Edward James, Alex David Jiros, Erin Sheila Jones, Lauren Ashlee Jones, Sarah Nichole Justice, Zach-ary Karlick, Isabel Winefred Kenny, Ste-phen Kerr, Justin Koe-nig, Kasey Michelle Ledford, Grace Kath-leen Lempp, Laura Jade Lillycrop, Morgan S Lo-man, Kayla Michelle Lundeen, Nhu Quynh Ly, Stephanie Marie MacDonald, Natalija Mandir, Matthew Ivan Martin, Austin Hugh McGugan, John Keifer McGugan, Jamie Lynn McGuinn, Michaela Ruth Meyers, Samuel Manly Millard, Thuong Hoai Nguyen, Vy Duc Nguyen, Thomas Ow-ings, Alexandria Chan-dler Phillips, Michael Macmillan Platek, Grace Anna Popek, Jaxon Lee Randolph, Clinton Tyrone Rease Jr, Nicole Lacoste Reyn-olds, Zacchary Riddle, Madelyn Joelle Rindal, Iliana Salas, Allison Elizabeth Scheffer, Ash-ley Caroline Shaver,

Cameron Slade, Emare Demonte Smith, Paul Kristian Steele, Robel Alemayehu Tessema, Riley Shannon Tucker, Cassandra Nicole Wag-ner, Aaron H West, Andrew William Wil-lard, Philip D’Mitrius Williams, David Brad-shaw Woody, Benjamin Douglas Workman, John Horton Wright, Fizah Gul Zafar;

Grade 12: Morgan Rey Alexander, Carla Dyanne Alimurung, Hannah Elizabeth Al-lison, Donald Patrick Anthony, Laura Marie Archer, Percy Leon Archie, Christopher Devone Armwood, Katherine Paige Atwa-ter, Ermin Bibic, Emily Jean Bingham, Alexan-der William Bissinger, Katelyn Faye Blair, Jessica Cathliya Bow-ie, Kristen Leigh Brab-ham, Daniel Graham Branston, Taylor Elyse Breeden, Christopher Madison Bruce, Amy Lynne Bumgarner, Caitlin Elisabeth But-ler, Emily Courson Byerly, John Daniel Carstens III, Laura Eungee Chang, Sean Patrick Cherry, Mary Chong, Jessica Nicole Clark, James Elliott Cobb, Amanda Chris-tine Coggeshall, Kath-erine B Cook, Matthew Coons, Nicholas Mi-chael Cox, Dylan Lee Culler, David Bryan Curtis, Martha Alice Delvecchio, Minshu Deng, Kristopher Mat-thew Dennis, Ashley Christine Ebright, Alyssa Jean Ecklund, Kristen Elena Eguren, Lindsey Danyelle En-trekin, Jacob Bruder Erickson, Edward Den-zell Faison, Benjamin Michael Fultz, Kyleigh Brea Garrison, Connor Ridgeway Gehling, Wil-liam Brown Gehling, Zaira A Gomez, Abigail Hall, Breanna Leigh

Harris, Kaitlyn LondonHarrison, Elizabeth An-nette Hartford, MorganElizabeth Hayes, MartyIrving Hepburn Jr, Jor-dan Niklas Hjelmquist,Loc Kim Hoang, AnhTuan Huynh, JulieanneMorgan Irby, CarrieMarie Irwin, ChelseaNicole Joyce, SarahKennell, Omer AliKhan, Jung Kim, LeahAnne Kouchel, AlexisKate Kubrick, MeganN Kurzec, Thinh PhuLam, Michael CameronLecompte, Dong WooLee, Stephen Ross Le-mere, Delaney Eliza-beth Lloyd, Tiffany MLove, Jose Lugo-Lopez,Mariah Ann Mueller,Aaron Ali Mustafa,Randi Nichole Nance,Jacquelyn Blake Neely,Hung Van Nguyen,Ngan Bao Nguyen,Trang Minh Nguyen,Oala Waleed Omer,Jamie Nicole Packer,Krishna Pravin Parikh,Binal Harshad Patel,Dip Prakash Patel,Erin Tyler Phelps, Sa-raina Nicoline Pierre,Jenna Lynn Pirone,Imani Cheri Press-ley, Hunter BenjaminPrice, Daniel AnthonyRankin, Kasey LoganRedfern, John RossRitter, Tyler David Rit-ter, Spencer CatherineRodriguez, Ana Re-gina Saravia, Amber EShaw, Michael JamesSheffey, Nicole HeatherSherwood, Ethan ScottSimpson, BrennanWells Smith, BritneyNicole Smith, AngelinaEun Song, Lukas EricSonricker, Bailey Eliz-abeth Spenski, AmbeurS Stevenson, WilliamRaymond Stone, TiaSunbai Sutton, EugenieSony Tim, Brandon Mi-chael Walker, AlisonMaya Walton, RichardLon Weeks IV, MelissaAnne Williams, AshleyDanielle Wilt, JordanNicholas Yokley, SarahElianor Zamamiri.

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Hospital employee thanks co-workers

High Point Regional Health System’s logo at the bottom of the, Dec. 16 paper caught my at-tention. There was also a statement, “Not just care, Total Care.”

These words hold spe-cial meaning for me. I am a HPRHS employee and have also been a patient many times. All care given to me by physicians, nurses and special groups was ex-cellent, seasoned with professionalism and true warmth.

On Aug. 13, I had sur-gery and am continu-ing to recover. Though this recovery has been longer than I anticipat-ed, this extended time has been full of many blessings. Because of excellent employee benefi ts, I am just now approaching the time when I am responsible for my insurance pre-miums.

And now for the “To-tal Care.” My “work family” participated in a bake sale on my behalf to ease the fi -nancial strain of ab-sence from work. The response and their generosity was over-whelming.

Thank you to HPRHS, my “work family,” for making me feel special.

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D ear Dr. Donohue: I am writing to ask you to fi ll in for

my doctor, who is quite tight-lipped. He told me I have protein in the urine. I am 43 and have three children. I asked him the signifi cance of this, and he just shrugged his shoulders. He wants me to give another speci-men in a week. I’m quite concerned about this, and, when I have asked people, I always get bad predictions. Will you shed some light on this? – A.H.

The kidneys’ main func-tion is to fi lter the blood. They remove useless and potentially harmful material. Proteins are useful material. They are large, and they don’t pass through the kidney’s fi lters into the urine. When protein appears in the urine, it indicates that the kidney’s fi lters have gaps, allowing these large structures to exit the body.

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Normally, less than 150 mg of protein is found in one full day of urine production. If the daily output of protein is less than 2,000 mg, the cause is often a benign condi-tion. Heavy exercise or

fever can produce such pro-tein loss. A condi-tion called orthostatic proteinuria is another unthreaten-ing cause of urine protein. Affected

people lose protein dur-ing the day when they are standing (orthostasis). They lose no protein when they’re asleep and horizontal. An early-morning urine speci-men, therefore, is free of protein. A specimen taken before retiring, however, has protein in it. This condition is not an indication of illness.

Illnesses that cause loss of greater amounts of protein are things like kidney infl ammation for a number of reasons, kidney infections and inherited kidney disease. Frequently, the cause requires a needle biopsy of the kidney. That can be done as an outpatient.

If your doctor is so tight-lipped that he doesn’t give you an answer in a short time, consider seeing another doctor.

Dear Dr. Donohue: All of a sudden I heard a swooshing sound in my left ear. It turns out I have a hole in the eardrum. The doctor said I need not do anything

about this. The noise has lessened, but I wonder if this wait-and-see policy is the correct one. Is it? – T.P.

The eardrum has an important job. It trans-fers sound to a linkage of three bones in the middle ear and they pass on the sound waves to the inner ear, where the hearing nerve is.

A hole in the eardrum is a perforation. A perforation has to have a cause. Getting hit in the head or on the ear, an infection of the ear, cleaning the canal with something like a paper clip or diving to great water depths can lead to eardrum perforations. Are you sure you can’t think of something that could have caused the hole?

Small holes heal on their own in a matter of weeks. Large holes gener-ally call for a patch.

While the hole is heal-ing, you have to exercise caution not to get water in the ear. Take baths, not showers. Wash your hair in a sink.

If the sound persists for longer than two more weeks, go back to the doctor.

DR. DONOHUE regrets that he is unable to answer individual let-ters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475

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DENVER (AP) – Charlie Sheen’s wife told police the actor pinned her on a bed, put a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her in a Christmas Day fi ght in Aspen that began when she said she wanted a divorce.

An arrest warrant affi da-vit released Monday quotes Brooke Mueller Sheen as saying that the actor strad-dled her on a bed with one hand grasping her neck and the other holding the knife. She said Sheen told her: “You better be in fear. If you tell anybody, I’ll kill you.”

He also told her, “Your mother’s money means nothing, I have ex-police I can hire who know how to get the job done and they won’t leave any trace,” ac-cording to the affi davit.

The 44-year-old Sheen denied threatening his wife with a knife or chok-ing her, and told offi cers they had slapped each other on the arms and that he had snapped two pairs of her eyeglasses in front of her, according to the affi davit.

An ambulance was sent to the house in Aspen, but police say no one was tak-en to the hospital.

Charlie Sheen, who is listed in the affi davit as

Carlos Irwin Estevez, told police he and his wife have been having mari-tal problems and that she abuses alcohol.

No phone listing could be found for Brooke Sheen, and it wasn’t clear whether she has an attor-

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Sheen was arrested on suspicion of menacing, second-degree assault and criminal mischief.

Warrant details alleged attack by Sheen

NEW YORK (AP) – The TV producer ac-cused of shaking down David Letterman to keep mum about his af-fairs is drawing on the Tiger Woods sex scan-dal to try to bolster his defense.

In court papers fi led Tuesday, Robert “Joe” Halderman’s lawyer cited published re-ports that Woods paid an alleged mistress millions of dollars to stay silent.

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Actor Charlie Sheen (right) and wife Brooke Mueller ar-rive at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in September.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hugh Jackman, Taylor Lautner, Mariah Carey and Sandra Bullock are among the stars expected at next week’s People’s Choice Awards.

Steve Carell, Carrie Underwood, Ellen De-Generes and LL Cool J are also set to attend

the celeb-rity-fi l led c e r e m o n y on Jan. 6 at the Nokia T h e a t r e in Los An-geles. The show will

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Executive producerMark Burnett says thestars “are coming out indroves to thank the fansfor their love and sup-port.”

Queen Latifah will hostthe show in which fansvote for their favorite ac-tors, musicians, moviesand TV programs.

Jackman, Lautner head to People’s Choice Awards

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L OS ANGELES – If a defense attorney, a prosecutor and a

judge were to walk into a music hall what would be the fi rst thing they’d do?

“Spend a half-hour arguing legal motions,” veteran Los Angeles lawyer David Waller says one of his colleagues told him when he learned Waller would be toting his cello to a rehearsal of the fl edgling Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic Orchestra.

But there was no time for that on this night.

The orchestra had just two hours to run through Johannes Brahms’ “Hungarian Dance No. 5,” Edvard Grieg’s “Trium-phal March” and a rous-ing John Philip Sousa number, followed by a couple more classical and pops pieces.

In just a few days the group’s 60-plus mem-bers would be decked out in black tie, playing their biggest gig to date – the grand opening of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s new downtown offi ce. Not that anyone in the ensemble of brass, woodwind, string and percussion sections seemed to be showing any nervousness.

“We’re not just a bunch of lawyers playing music. We’re actually a good orchestra,” maestro Gary S. Greene, who organized the ensemble earlier this year, said confi dently before putting his players through their paces.

Greene, a litigation at-torney, didn’t threaten to sue anyone who intruded on anyone else’s solo. But he did bring his baton down quickly when-ever various musicians wandered off to the beat of their own drummer during the rehearsal at Wilshire United Method-

ist Church, a cavernous but acoustically stunning old cathedral in a particu-larly tony section of Los Angeles’ west side.

“Blend. Play softly. That’s where I want everybody soft so you can hear the trombone,” Greene implored as they struggled with a challeng-ing selection from the Rodgers and Hammer-stein musical “The King and I.”

A few minutes later one could hear the crash of a music stand as it vibrated off an elevated rehearsal stage and came smash-ing down on the brass section.

Superior Court Judge Brett Klein, the orches-tra’s fi rst trumpet player, refrained from holding anybody in contempt. The judge, who earlier this year oversaw a dis-pute pitting the estate of music superstar Michael Jackson against an auc-tion house, was too busy concentrating on nailing

his part in “Trumpet Fanfare.”

By showtime, he and other members of “L.A.’s only legal philharmonic orchestra” were ready for their appearance in the large lobby of the bar association building, opening with a melodic “Trumpet Voluntary” be-fore moving on to uptem-po favorites like Souza’s “Washington Post.”

“I played in the UCLA Symphony Orchestra as a student,” said principal bass player Jack Lipton before the show. “It’s just wonderful to be playing in an orchestra again.”

The orchestra hit its stride this month at a Christmas-week holiday concert in which it per-formed a mixture of clas-sical and pops pieces. At the end of the two-hour performance emceed by actress June Lockhart, a longtime friend of Greene’s, the audience of more than 300 rose to give a standing ovation.

“The thing that’s so amazing to me is to see all these judges and all these lawyers who are such brilliant musicians,” said Lockhart. “As children they must have said, ’Mommy, I want to play the violin.’ And Mommy must have said, ’No, you’re going to go to law school and then you can play the violin.”’

The group joins a hand-ful of attorney-driven orchestras around the country, including the Chicago Bar Association Symphony where Judge Diane Wood, who was on a short list of candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, heads the oboe section. Atlanta and Boston also have orchestras.

But unlike those ensembles, which either augment their ranks with non-lawyers or are led by a professional musician, the L.A. group recruits only attorneys and is un-der the baton of Greene,

who in his spare time is also concertmaster for the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic.

The lawyer says he never doubted he could recruit an all-attorney orchestra for Los Angeles when he put out the call at the beginning of the year. What did surprise him, he said, was the quality of the players he quickly attracted.

“We have two Julliard grads and a number of people who studied at the nation’s top conservato-ries,” Greene said. “We have people who received master’s degrees in their instruments.”

First violinist Natalia Minassian, for example, simultaneously stud-ied music at Julliard and political science at Columbia University before going on to earn a law degree. When the opportunity to play in an orchestra came along the commercial litigator jumped at the chance.

New Year

THE EDWIN MCCAIN Band and Paul Freeman perform for a New Year’s Eve celebration at 8 tonight at The Aquarius Music Hall, 400 English Road. Tickets are $25, available in High Point at Planet Hardwear, 788-A N. Main St., www.etix.com

“TIME SQUARE at the Chair” will be held 8 p.m.-midnight today in the area of the Big Chair in Thomasville. The cel-ebration is sponsored by area churches. It features performances by Unifi ed Cry Youth Band, Sheltered Quartet, Canaanland Praise and Worship Group, Wet Cement Drama Team, Never the Same. A cross will be raised at midnight. Free

HOGMANY , Scottish New Year, will be cel-ebrated at 6 p.m. Satur-

day at Doubletree Hotel, 3030 High Point Road. Performers include Keltic Kudzu, local pipers and musicians. Activities in-clude the parading of the haggis, a silent auction, dancing and sing-alongs. Scottish dress is suggest-ed but not required. $35, 545-1292

THE GREENSBORO SYMPHONY gives a pops concert with guests West End Mambo at 8 tonight in War Memorial Audito-rium at the Greensboro Coliseum, 1921 W. Lee St. $21-$36, Ticketmaster outlets, 335-5456, ext. 224, www.greensboro-symphony.org comedian chris wiles give his “Hap-py Wheew Year” show at 9:30 tonight in Odeon Theatre at the Greens-boro Coliseum, 1921 W. Lee St. Jeremy Pierce and the Chris Wiles Comedy All-Stars also perform.

A DJ playing music, dancing and a buffet be-gin at 12:15 p.m. $25 for both shows, Ticketmaster

THE WINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY performs a New Year’s Eve celebration concert at 7:30 tonight at Reynolds Auditorium, 301

N. Hawthorne Road, Win-ston-Salem. Guests artists are from Cirque de la Sym-phonie, a production that combines cirque (circus)

with a live orchestral con-cert. $15-$55, 464-0145, www.wssymphony.org, $5 for student rush tickets at the door

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DINOSAURS----

Tracy Chevalier sits in the Vic-torian grandeur of London’s Mu-seum of Natural History next to the skeletal re-mains of a giant eye, the shape and size of a pineapple ring.

“It’s so big it’s kind of funny. ... It’s like a cartoon. But that’s often the quality of di-nosaurs. Every-thing about them seems to be ex-aggerated, their teeth, their size, their claws...,” says the author of “Girl With a Pearl Earring.”

The eye be-longs to a ple-siosaur and was found in the Eng-lish seaside town of Lyme Regis in the early 1800s by amateur fossil hunter and seller Mary Anning – the subject of Chevalier’s new novel, “Remark-able Creatures.”

From the mo-ment Anning is struck by light-ning as a baby – “which people said made her strange and e x t r a - b r i g h t ” – it is clear she is marked for great-ness, says Cheva-lier.

In the book, w o r k i n g - c l a s s Anning meets the middle-class unmarried Eliza-beth Philpot and through their mutual love for fossils, the two strike up a strange camara-derie.

Anning, the subject of the tongue-twister “She Sells Sea Shells on the Sea Shore,” is on the hunt for what she believes to be a giant croco-dile similar to one (later named an ichthyosaurus) she found in 1811 when she was 12, which later rocked the scien-tifi c world.

Then one fate-ful day, she fi nds herself staring into the eye of the strangest beast she’s ever encountered.“The eye is enormous,” says Chevalier, her voice echoing around the Richard Owen-designed “cathe-dral of nature,” while a dimly lit statue of Charles Darwin looks on from its rear.

The Winston-Salem Symphony performs a New Year’s Eve celebration concert tonight at Reynolds Auditorium in Road, Winston-Salem. Guests artists are from Cirque de la Sym-phonie, a production that combines cirque (circus) with a live orchestral concert.

AP

The Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic, “L.A.’s Only Legal Orchestra,” rehearses under the baton of founder-conductor Gary Greene.

LA lawyers put objections aside to make music

High Points this week

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Yesterday’s Puzzle SolvedThursday, Dec. 31, 2009CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Joe

McIntyre, 37; Val Kilmer, 50; Ben Kingsley, 66; Anthony Hopkins, 72

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: There are things to be done and changes to be made if you want to put the problems of the past behind you. Pick up the pieces and move on to a comfort zone that allows you to fl ourish. There is plenty to learn and to implement into your future so you don’t make the same mistakes twice. Your numbers are 9, 15, 18, 23, 26, 30, 34

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You don’t want to end the year on a negative note. Be willing to back down and let anyone who is overreacting or overindulgent pass by. Jealousy will not pay off, so put on a happy face and the world will smile with you. ★★

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Getting out with friends or someone you love and admire will lead to a warm and welcome beginning to the new year. You have so much going for you with plenty of opportunities just around the corner. ★★★★

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You can tie up some important loose ends that will save you at tax time. Listen to the advice you receive regard-ing health and looking and feeling your best. Practical action will bring positive results. ★★★

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your resolutions should be fi lled with wonderful changes, prom-ises and commitments. A chance to share your intentions will lead to valuable suggestions that can help you move with confi dence toward your goals. ★★★

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A little give-and-take, coupled with some creative thoughts will grab attention and lead to plans for the new year. Mix business with pleasure. The hard work that’s ahead of you will lead to a better future. ★★★

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Follow your heart. Socializing with people you fi nd interesting will lead to stimulating conversations that have a practical application. Love is in the stars and ro-mance will lead to a better personal life. ★★★★

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Stay put or get a designated driver if you plan to bring the new year in with a bang. As long as you are smart about the way you do things, you will have no regrets and could even turn out to be everyone’s hero. ★★

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Get away if you can. Visiting people you don’t see that often or setting up a private party for two will all work to your advantage. A change in your direction is apparent and the possibilities appear to be end-less. ★★★★★

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t drive or travel too far if you don’t have to. Something that sounds profi table to you will lead to an inter-esting meeting and possible partnership. ★★★

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are ready to put this year behind you. Any chance you get to initiate change as quickly as possible will help to set the stage for what’s to come. You are ready to mix and match some of your old ideas with your current ones. It’s time for a new beginning. ★★★

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t rule out any last- minute responsibilities. You have to take care of the people who have taken care of you in the past. The future is in your hands and must be dealt with competently if you don’t want to disappoint others as well as yourself. ★★★

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t limit what you can do because you haven’t taken care of some challenging personal situations. Once you have done what’s required, you will be able to face the world with the knowledge that you are free and clear to pursue your own destiny. ★★★★★

ONE STAR: It’s best to avoid confl icts; work behind the scenes or read a good book. Two stars: You can accomplish but don’t rely on others for help. Three stars: If you focus, you will reach your goals. Four stars: You can pretty much do as you please, a good time to start new projects. Five stars: Noth-ing can stop you now. Go for the gold.

TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

I was sitting in the club lounge with my friend the English professor when Wendy, our feminist member, came over.

“In some languages,” she asked, “don’t words have gender designa-tions?”

“True,” said the prof. “For instance, Spanish for shoe is the masculine ’el zapato.”’

“I’m not surprised shoes are male,” Wendy said. “They’re usually unpol-ished and their tongues are always hanging out.”

Wendy gave an unpol-ished performance as declarer at today’s four spades. She ruffed the third diamond, drew trumps, lost a heart fi -nesse with the queen and eventually lost a club.

HAD OPENEDSince West had opened

the bidding and hadn’t led or shifted to a heart, he was likely to have the king, hence Wendy could succeed by running all her trumps.

With fi ve tricks to go, West could save two clubs, one diamond and two hearts. Wendy could then take the K-A of clubs and lead dummy’s last diamond, pitching her last club. West would win

but would have to lead a heart to South’s A-Q.

DAILY QUESTIONYou hold: S 10 H K 8 7 3 D

A K Q 9 5 C 9 8 6. You open one diamond, your part-ner responds one heart, you raise to two hearts and he next bids two spades. What do you say?

ANSWER: Partner’s two spades is a try for game, asking you to pro-ceed with any maximum raise or with a fair raise that has help for his sec-ond suit. You have only 12 high-card points, but reasonable trumps, dia-mond winners and a use-ful singleton. Jump to four hearts.

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ExhibitsFIRST FRIDAY events will

be held 6-9 p.m. Friday in downtown Greensboro. Galleries and shops will be open for self-guided tours. New Year’s events include a community bon-fi re, demonstrations and musical performances. Free

“ALONG THE SILK ROAD: Art and Cultural Exchange” continues through June 5 at Ack-land Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill. It features more than 60 pieces created along the ancient Silk Road trade route between Asia and Europe. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursdays; 1-5 p.m. Sundays; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. the second Friday of the month, (919) 966-5736, www.ackland.org

“AMERICAN EXPATRI-ATES: Cassatt, Sargent and Whistler” contin-ues through April 25 at Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2250 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem. It focuses on the group of young American artists in the mid-19th century who moved to Europe to live, work and study. 758-5150, www.reynoldahouse.org

“BARBIE – Simply Fabulous at 50!” contin-ues through July 5 at the N.C. Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton St., Raleigh. In addition to dolls that represent 50 years of the American icon, the ex-hibit includes 16 personal Barbie stories from North Carolinians. Free, (919) 807-7900, www.ncmuseu-mofhistory.org

“WINTER SHOW” con-tinues through Jan. 15 at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, 200 N. Davie St., Greensboro. It features more than 500 pieces for purchase by more than 150 artists from throughout the state. 333-7460, www.greenhillcenter.org

“TINY ART SHOW” con-tinues through Jan. 8 at Circa Gallery, 150 Sunset Ave., Asheboro. The exhibit focuses on small art work. 736-8015, www.circagallerync.com

“PRINT FANTASTIC” con-tinues through Jan. 15 at Theatre Art Galleries, 220 E. Commerce Ave. More than 120 prints from 50 artists from the United States and Canada are on exhibit in three galler-ies. Works by area high school students are on display in Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays and by appointment on Satur-days. 887-2137

“IDENTITY THEFT: How A Cropsey Became a Gif-ford” continues through March 27 at the Mint Museum, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. The exhibit focuses on the mystery – and its solving – surrounding a paint-

ing at the Mint, “Indian Summer in the White Mountains” by Sanford Robinson Gifford. For more than 50 years, it was attributed to Jasper Francis Cropsey and titled “Mount Washington from Lake Sebago, Maine.” www.mintmuseum.org

“FIRE IN THE VALLEY: Catawba Valley Pottery Then and Now” continues through Jan. 31 at the North Carolina Pottery Center, 233 East Ave., Seagrove. The exhibit focuses on the history of pottery in the Catawba Valley and works by contemporary potters Michael Ball, Kim Elling-ton, Walter Fleming, Luke Heafner and Bob Hilton.

“THE PUREST: Cel-ebrating the Art of Susan Moore” continues through Jan. 29 at Mary Davis Holt Gallery, Salem Fine Arts Center, 601 S. Church St., Winston-Sa-lem. Works include draw-ings, paintings and prints.

“LOUIS MAILOU JONES: A Life in Vibrant Color” continues through Feb. 27 at the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. Jones (1905-1998) was a pioneering 20th century African-American artist who grad-uated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston at a time when race and gender preju-dices were pervasive. The exhibit is composed of more than 70 works from her estate and from pub-lic and private collections. www.mintmuseum.org

“KATHLEEN SPICER BAL-ANCE” continues through Jan. 8 at Piedmont Leaf Lofts, Suite 202, 401 E. 4th St., Winston-Salem. Spicer creates abstract, painted sculpture with the theme of nature. www.whitespacegallery.org, 722-4671

“IN SEARCH OF A NEW DEAL: Images of North Carolina, 1935-1941” continues through Jan. 31 at the North Carolina Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton St., Raleigh. In conjunction with the 80th anniversary of the stock market crash, the exhibit features 50 Farm Security Administration photo-graphs documenting daily life in rural North Carolina during the Great

Depression and artifacts from the period. 9 a.m.-5 p.m Mondays-Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. Sundays, free

“A NEW LAND , ‘A New Voyage ’: John Lawson’s Exploration of Carolina” continues through Feb. 15 at the N.C. Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton St., Raleigh. It is to commem-orate the 300th anniver-sary of Lawson’s “A New Voyage to Carolina,” pub-lished in London. Free, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, noon-5 p.m. Sundays

“A LAND OF LIBERTY and Plenty” continues through March 31 at the Museum of Early South-ern Decorative Arts, 924 S. Main St., Winston-Sa-lem. Items are from the museums collection of Georgia-made objects, including furniture, a sampler worked by Mary Smallwood circa 1778 and a ceramic jar. 721-7360, www.mesda.org

“THE ANDES OF ECUA-DOR” continues through May 30 at Reynolda House Museum of Ameri-can Art, 2250 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem. The painting, the largest and most ambitious work of Frederic Church’s career, was completed in 1855, following the 27-year-old artist’s fi rst trip to Columbia and Ecuador. 758-5150, www.reynolda-house.org

“FACES & FLOWERS: Painting on Lenox China” continues through Jan . 30 at The Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Road, Charlotte. The ex-hibit of porcelain by the American china maker includes more than 70 objects, including plates,

vases and decorative wares with paintings of orchids, fi gures, idealized women and landscapes. www.mintmuseum.org

“AMERICAN QUILT CLASSICS 1800-1980: The Bresler Collection” continues through Feb. 6 at Mint Museum of Craft + Design, 220 N. Tryon St., Charlotte. Items from the museum’s collection include American pieces from rare crib quilts to modern Amish textiles. www.mintmuseum.org, (704) 337-2009

KWANZAA, an African-American cultural cel-ebration, will be observed Saturday through Jan. 1 at locations in Winston-Salem. Free events focus on and are coordinated with traditional African values of family, commu-nity responsibility, com-merce and self-improve-ment. The schedule is:• Today (kuumba/creativ-ity) – N.C. Black Repertory Company Teen Theatre, 2 p.m. at Central Library, 660 W. 5th St.;• Friday (imani/faith) – Otesha Creative Arts En-semble, Soul: The Word, 6 p.m. at Body and Soul, 545 N. Trade St.

Music “PETER AND THE WOLF”

will be performed at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in Gray Auditorium at the Old Salem Visitor Center, Winston-Salem. Perfor-mances are by the Caro-lina Chamber Symphony Players’ Wind Quintet and Percussion, with narration by actress Leslie Hunt. $9 general admission, $5 for students and children, 721-7350

THE WAILERS brings its “40 Years of Fams” tour to the Carolina Theatre, 310 S. Greene St., Greens-boro, at 8 p.m. Saturday. The tour is in celebration of Aston “Family Man” Barrett’s 40-year tenure with the roots reggae band The Wailers. Tour proceeds benefi t the I Went Hungry charity. $46.50, $36.50, $26.50, plus a $1.50 per ticket fee, 333-2605

A GOSPEL SINGING will be held 6:30-8 p.m. every Tuesday at Bojangles, 2630 N. Main St.

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Vintage Ave., Winston-Salem. A newcomer lesson will be given at 7:30 p.m., and the dance begins at 10 p.m. Partici-pants are asked to bring clean, soft-soled shoes. Tickle, Scratch & Groove will provide music, and Louis Cromartie will call dances. $7, $5 for full-time students

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THE GARAGE, 110 W. 7th St., Winston-Salem, has the following shows:• The Bo Stevens, Mad Tea Party, Easybake –9 tonight; $10, includes champagne toast;• Ignite and Imagery, Seven, Doco – 9:30 p.m. Friday, $5;• Country Dan Collins Band, Box Wine, Minimal Side Effects – 9 p.m. Sat-urday, $5;• Open mic night – 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, free.777-1127, www.the-ga-rage.ws

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108 Oakwood 887-2147

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3030 CemeteryPlots/Crypts

2 Cemetery Plots. Flo-ral Garden, section S.Value $3200. each.Pr ice $2500. each.431-8753

Single Plot in FloralGarden, Section F,(atentrance), Retail value$ 3 2 0 0 . a s k i n g$2000. 869-2409

3040 CommercialProperty

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3060 Houses

2917 Whispering WaySophia. 3BR/21⁄2 BA ,W h i t e P i n e s S b d ,1,998sf, .92 ac lot,$230,000. 307-2269

4180 ComputerRepair

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4480 PaintingPapering

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6030 Pets6 AKC Golden Re-triever Pups. 2M/4FBorn 12/27. Ready in6wks $250 669-7810

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AKC New Year Wei-maraner Pups. 4M,2F. Parents on Site.$300. 336-345-1462

AKC Toy Poodles. 6weeks old. First shots& Dewormed. 1 Girl &1 Boys. Indoor, KennelTraining. $400. CallNicole 336-410-4770

Pomeranian puppies.Males. Adorable Col-ors. $200 7 up. Call336-859-8135

Reg. Pekingese,York-A-Nese &

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Shih Tzu pups DOB9/15/09 wormed, 1stshots, mult i co lor ,$325. CKC register-ed, 336-905-7954

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Showcase of Showcase of Real EstateReal Estate

19 Forest DrFairgrove Forest, Thomasville

$1000. Cash to buyer at closing. 1.5 ac Landscaped, 3BR, 2Baths, Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room with Fireplace, Den with Fireplace, Offi ce. Carpet over Hardwood. Crown Molding thru out. Attached over sized double garage. Unattached 3 bay

garage with storage attic. 2400sqft. $260,000. 336-475-6839

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remodeled. Great for starter home or rental investment. $64,900

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Schools $59,000.

336-869-0398Call for appointment

1210 N. Centennial4 BR/3 BA 3 level Newly remodeled; walking distance to HPU, app 3100 sq ft; FP; New vinyl siding, new gas heat w/central air, roof, windows, kitchen cabinets, appliances, hardwood fl oors, carpet & plumbing Fenced in yard. No selller help with closing cost. Owner

will pay closing cost.MUST SEE! $104,900 Contact 336-802-0922

3 bedroom/2 bath house for sale,Fairgrove Area, Thomasville.

Half basement, 2 stall garage,also detached garage.

Call 472-4611for more information. $175,000.

For Sale By Owner 515 Evergreen Trail

Thomasville, NC 27360

FOR SALE BY OWNER

273 Sunset Lane, ThomasvilleGET OUT OF TOWN! Immaculate brick home 3br/2ba/bsmt/carport tucked away on a deadend st. w/room to roam on 11.56 acres. Spring-fed creek along back of property, fruit trees, grapevines, several garden spots, greenhouse, workshop, Updates include HW heater, windows, hi-eff heat pump, whole

house generator, vinyl fl ooring & freshly painted rooms. Full bsmt w/workshop, fi replace, one bay garage. MH site on property may be leased for additional income. Horses welcome! Priced to sell

@ $199,500-call today.

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725-B West Main St., JamestownOffi ce Condo For Sale – Main St., Jamestown, 1400 Sq. Ft. 1st Floor,

3 Offi ces, Break Area, Storage, Plus 1/2 Bath, 2nd Floor 2 Offi ces, Another 1/2 Bath, Good Traffi ce Exposure, Divided so that you may rent Part of Offi ces.

Call: Donn Setliff (336) 669-0478 or Kim Setliff (336) 669-5108

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505 Willow Drive, Thomasville Recently updated brick home is nothing short of magnifi cent. Gourmet kitchen with granite counters and stainless appliances. Huge master

suite with 2 walk-in closets & private deck. Elegant foyer & formal dining room. Marble, Tile and Hardwood fl oors. Crown moldings & two fi replaces.

Spacious closets & lots of storage.

Wendy Hill RealtyCall 475-6800

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712 W. Parris Ave.High Point Avalon Subdivision

This house shows like new! Built in 2005, 1660 sqft., 3bed 2.5 bath, like-new appliances,Living Room w/ Gas fi replace, 1 car garage spacious Loft area upstairs, Great Location. We’ll work with

your situation! $165,000Price Reduced! Will will match your down payment.

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678 Merry Hills Dr.-Davidson County3 Bed 2 Bath 2 Car Garage. This beautiful 1900 sqft. home is well lacated in a well established neighborhood. It has a fi nished basement, Large Kitchen

outlooking beautiful wooded area. Large deck with Jacuzzi. Gas or woodburning fi replace in the basement. We’ll work with your situation!

$195,000Visit www.crs-sell.com or call 336-790-8764

son Countysqft. home is well lacated in d basement, Large Kitchen Jacuzzi. Gas or woodburning

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7741 Turnpike Road, Trinity, NC*PRICE REDUCTION-POSSIBLE SELLER FINANCING! Quality built custom

home on 40+ acres of beautiful woodlands & pastures. Many out buildings including a double hangar & offi cial/recorded landing strip for your private

airplane. Home features 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, sunroom, brick land-scaped patio, hardwired sound system, 4 car carport, covered breezeway.

You must see to fully appreciate this peaceful, private country estate -- Priced to sell at $579,000

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1844/1846 Cedrow Dr. H.P.New construction, 3BR, 2Bath, city utility, heat

pump, Appliances included $99,900.00

CALL CALL CALL336-362-4313 or 336-685-4940

Fairgrove/East Davidson Schools. Approximately

1 acre $15,000.More wooded lots available. Call Frank Anderson Owner/Broker

475-2446

PRICED REDUCED

406 Sterling Ridge Dr Beautiful home in the Trinity school district. 3br/2.5 bath,

walk in closet, garden tub/w separate shower, hardwoods, gas logs and more. $177,500.

Lamb’s Realty 442-5589

3930 Johnson St. A Must See! Beautiful home set on 3 acres, New cabinets, corian countertops, hardwood, carpet, appliances, deck, roof. Home has 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, formal living

room, dining room, great room. $248,900.Contact us at Lamb’s Realty- 442-5589.

821 Nance Avenue3 bedroom, living room, kitchen, 2 full baths, cen-

tral heating & air. Updated. BE ABLE TO MAKE THE PAYMENTS AS LOW AS $529.00 a month $95K.

Call for details!Rick Robertson336-905-9150

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$259,500. Owner FinancingCall 336-886-4602

NEW HOMESDAVIDSON COUNTYLots starting at $34,900

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Better than new! Low Davidson County taxes. 1 + acre lot, over 3,000 fi nished heated sq. ft., plus full unfi nished basement, all the extras.

Wendy Hill RealtyCall 475-6800

504859

189 Game Trail, ThomasvilleEnjoy living in a quiet, distinctive neighborhood with no through traffic.3 BR 2.5 BA, 2300 sq’, open floor plan, vaulted ceilings & lg. windows,

Oak floors & carpeted BRs, marble tiled bathrooms, lg. large master bath with separate shower, double fire place in master BR & LR w. gas logs,

kitchen w. granite counter tops, double oven, stereo system. 2 car garage, large patio overlooking a beautiful back yard. Low taxes.

$321,000Visit www.forsalebyowner.com/22124271 or call 336.687.3959

Quality construction beginning at $169,900! Eight Flexible fl oorplans! - Three to seven bedrooms - 1939 square feet to 3571 square feet - Friendship/Ledford Schools - Low Davidson County Taxes - Basement lots Available

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Debra Murrow, RealtorNew Home Consultant336-499-0789

$329,000

398 NORTHBRIDGE DR.3BR, 2BA, Home, 2 car garage, Nice Paved Patio

Like new $169,900OWNER 883-9031

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3152 WINDCHASE COURT 3 BR 2 BA 1164 SF, New carpet & paint, New HVAC, GE Appliances. End Unit $96,900

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9020 All TerainVehicles

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98 Lincoln ContinentalMark VIII, 171k miles,VGC. Blk EXT & INT,loaded, $4995, obo.336-906-3770

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05 Pontiac Grand Am$1200 dn

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9120 ClassicAntique Cars

FORD ’69. SELL ORTRADE. 4 29 eng . ,N e e d s r e s t o r i n g$1000/Firm. 431-8611

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9210 RecreationVehicles

’ 0 1 D a m o n m o t o r -home. 2 slides, 2 ACs,10k, loaded. 36ft. Verygood cond., $52,000.Back-up camera.431-9891

9 4 ’ C a m p e r , n e wtires, water heater, &hookup. Good cond.,sleeps 7, $6,400. Call301-2789

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98’ Jeep Wrangler4WD auto, a/c, cruise,ps/ brakes, ex. cond.,$9500. 215-1892

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9260 Trucks/Trailers

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WHO’S NEWS---

Texas Tech fi red Mike Leach on Wednesday after the coach took the school to court to try to overturn his suspension for alleged mis-treatment of an injured player.

Jerry Turner, vice chairman of the university system’s board of regents, said “other things” came to light during an in-vestigation of Leach’s treat-ment of receiver Adam James. The sophomore alleged the coach twice confi ned him a small, dark place after the player as diag-nosed with a concussion.

Leach was suspended Monday after he refused to agree to guidelines for dealing with players set forth by his bosses in a Dec. 23 letter.

INDEXSCOREBOARD 2DPREPS 3-4DBASKETBALL 4DFOOTBALL 4D BUSINESS 6-7DWEATHER 8D

Noon, ESPN – Col-lege football, Armed Forces Bowl, Hous-ton vs. Air Force, at Fort Worth, Texas

Noon, ESPN2 – College basket-ball, Michigan at Indiana

2 p.m., ESPN – College football, Sun Bowl, Oklahoma vs. Stanford

2 p.m., ESPN2 – College basket-ball, Ohio State at Wisconsin

3:30 p.m., ESPN – College football, Texas Bowl, Navy vs. Missouri, at Houston

4 p.m., ESPN2 – College basket-ball, Tennessee at Memphis

6 p.m., ESPN2 – College basket-ball, Penn at Duke

6 p.m., FSN – Col-lege basketball, N.C. State vs. UNC Greensboro in Greensboro

7:15 p.m., TNT – Basketball, Heat at Spurs

7:30 p.m., ESPN – College football, Chick-Fil-A Bowl, Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee

8 p.m., FSN – Col-lege basketball, Hockey, Rangers at Hurricanes

8 p.m., ESPN2 – College basket-ball, St. John’s at Georgetown

9:30 p.m., TNT – Basketball, 76ers at Clippers

10 p.m., ESPN2 – College basket-ball, Oklahoma at Gonzaga

TOPS ON TV---

YES, VIRGINIA: Cavaliers douse Blazers for upset. 4D

GOOD FOR THIRDS: Bison boys, Knox-ville girls end tourney in style. 3D

CABLE TALK: Time Warner, Fox resume discussions. 6D

A popular urban legend suggests that Jimmy Hoffa is buried somewhere underneath Giants Stadium.

That may or may not be true.The Carolina Panthers, however, left no

doubt that the New York Giants’ playoff hopes were buried at Giants Stadium on Sunday.

Carolina whacked the G-men for a convinc-ing 41-9 rout. That loss, coupled with Dallas’ victory over Washington, eliminated the Giants from the postseason chase.

The Panthers deserve tremendous credit for their performance. Carolina entered with no playoff hopes and no tangible reason to expect to destroy a New York team clinging to postseason hopes.

But Carolina showed great pride and poise. Quarterback Matt Moore looked like a star, passing for 171 yards and three TDs. The de-fense forced four turnovers and did not allow a touchdown until Carolina led 31-0.

The Panthers clicked on all cylinders, but nowhere was the motor running smoother than the ground game.

Jonathan Stewart rumbled for a team-record 206 yards and scored a touchdown, while Brad Hoover stirred memories of his days as an unstoppable force at Ledford High and Western Carolina with nine carries for 37 yards and a TD.

Carolina’s dynamic duo of Stewart and DeAngelo Williams became only the fi fth pair of running backs in NFL history to

exceed 1,000 yards in the same season.Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris did the

trick in the Dolphins perfect season in 1972. The others were Pittsburgh’s Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier in 1976. Cleveland’s Ear-nest Byner and Kevin Mack in 1985, and the Giants’ Brandon Jacobs and Derrick Ward last year.

In 2006, Atlanta running back Warrick Dunn and quarterback Michael Vick each surpassed 1,000 rushing yards.

Carolina can fi nish 8-8 with a victory over New Orleans on Sunday.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Panthers close this season with another bang.

– MARK MCKINNEYENTERPRISE SPORTS EDITOR

HIT AND RUN---

Trojans, Bison take titles

DON DAVIS JR. | HPE

Wesleyan Christian Academy’s Deng Leek shoots over Westchester Coun-try Day’s Cole Morgenstern as Davis Tucker looks on during Wednesday night’s title game of the Bank of North Carolina Christmas Classic at High Point Central. Leek and the Trojans prevailed, 72-63.

BY STEVE HANFENTERPRISE SPORTS WRITER

HIGH POINT – Somehow, Katie Bryson failed to land a spot on the Bank of North Carolina all-tour-nament team.

That was surprising, considering her impres-sive 3-point shooting, key assists and strong defense Wednesday night helped High Point Central to a 45-40 victory over Southwest Guilford in the champion-ship game.

Bryson fi nished with 15 points on 5-for-9 shoot-ing from long range, with no shot bigger than her 3 coming off a screen that stretched Central’s lead to 40-36 with just more than three minutes to play.

“I have not been shoot-ing the ball well at all,” Bryson said. “I knew that basket was the motivation to keep everybody going, that hope wasn’t lost.”

One couldn’t blame the Bison for a sinking feel-ing prior to that. After leading throughout, Cen-

tral endured a scoreless slump of six minutes that saw a 33-26 lead turn into a 36-33 defi cit.

Zena Lovette hit a 3-point-er and two free throws at the end of the third quar-ter for Southwest’s fi rst lead of the night. But the Cowgirls failed to capi-talize on Central’s slump early in the fourth, and turnovers killed any shot at a late rally.

“We were up three and they came straight down the court and scored fi ve points,” Southwest coach Jessica Bryan said. “I was pleased with the overall effort of my girls, but we had some crucial turn-overs.”

Brittany Gwyn – who was on the all-tourney team as MVP – recorded a pair of steals in the fi nal minutes to thwart South-west. She fi nished with fi ve points, four assists and three steals. Arielle Harris added 14 points and nine boards for the Bison.

“We made plays when

Central’s girls top Southwest

we had to and Katie hit some big shots,” Central coach Kenny Carter said.

Lovette led Southwest with 16 points, while Shannon Buchanan had nine and Shanel Lawrence seven. The Cowgirls fell to 5-5 for the year, while Central moved to 10-0. The teams will meet at

least two more times this season as new foes in the Piedmont Triad 4A Con-ference.

“All the hard work and practice – we just did not give up at all,” Bryson said of the tournament title.


CHAPEL HILL (AP) – Ed Davis had 18 points to help No. 9 North Carolina beat Albany 87-70 on Wednes-day night.

Deon Thompson added 15 points for the Tar Heels (11-3), who had an easy time in their next-to-last game before opening Atlantic Coast Conference play.

The Tar Heels played without fi fth-year senior Marcus Ginyard and soph-omore Justin Watts. Watts injured his right ankle dur-ing Monday’s win against Rutgers, while Ginyard has missed two straight since spraining his right ankle in practice. Will Har-ris scored 22 points to lead the Great Danes (4-10), who ended an eight-game road trip with just one victory. Albany hasn’t played at home since beating Robert Morris on Nov. 22.

Tar Heels roll past Albany

DON DAVIS JR. | HPE

Southwest Guilford’s Zena Lovette (left) and High Point Central’s Katie Bryson scramble for a loose ball during Wednesday night’s Bank of North Carolina Christmas Classic title game. Bryson scored 15 points as the Bison netted a 45-40 victory.

BY STEVE HANFENTERPRISE SPORTS WRITER

HIGH POINT – After watching Westchester Country Day School stars Deuce Bello and Ike Nwamu beat his team earlier this year, Keith Gatlin had other plans Wednesday night.

Wesleyan Christian Academy blitzed the Wildcats early with contributions from nearly every-one on the roster and then held on for a thrilling 72-63 victory in the Bank of North Carolina Christ-mas Classic championship game.

Star guard Leek Leek poured in 23 points in front of a packed house at High Point Central, but “it was a total team win,” ex-claimed fi rst-year Trojans coach Keith Gatlin.

“All the kids stepped up. We told them, ‘Don’t wait for Deng (Leek) and Leek – you guys are important, too,” Gatlin contin-ued. “The kids are starting to buy into that.”

The fi rst quarter saw Wesleyan (12-5) get 3s from Will Coble, Mitch Purgason (two), Drew Crenshaw and David Leonard, while Bello headed to the bench with a second foul – one that left Wildcat fans howling.

Westchester (9-1) stayed close behind the efforts of Cole Mor-genstern (12 points) and Nwamu (13), trailing just 42-35 at halftime. More hot shooting from Cren-shaw, plus inside points by 7-foot-er Deng Leek, soon stretched the lead to 12.

“Give them credit,” Westches-ter coach Pat Kahny said. “You obviously focus on their two studs, and Coble is a good player, but you take your chances on the

other guys. What do you do? You kind of run out of options.”

Just about the time fans might have thought a rout was on, Bello erupted.

He hit a jumper, then a break-away layup and two free throws on an intentional foul. Josh Bur-ton’s 3 capped a 9-0 run and pulled Westchester within 62-59 with 2:50 to play.

But Leek Leek nailed a tough jumper, Deng Leek blocked a la-yup attempt into the third row and Wesleyan made fi ve of six foul shots in the fi nal seconds to win it. Coble had 14 points and Crenshaw 12, while Deng Leek had nine points and Leonard sev-en. Bello ended with a relatively quiet 12 points.

“We were determined not to let two kids beat us,” Gatlin said.

The Trojans didn’t – and didn’t settle on two kids in red to win it.

Leek brothers lead Wesleyan past WestchesterALL-TOURNEY TEAMS---

BOYSMVP: Leek Leek, WesleyanCole Morgenstern, Westches-

ter Country DayC.J. Plummer, WestchesterDerek Grant, HP CentralWill Coble, WesleyanDeng Leek, Wesleyan

GIRLSMVP: Brittany Gwyn, High

Point CentralBekah Bennett, KnoxvilleShannon Buchanan, Southwest

GuilfordZena Lovette, SW GuilfordArielle Harris, HP CentralMegan Tate, HP Central

2D www.hpe.com THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2009 THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE

Bowl glanceTuesday, Dec. 29

EagleBank Bowl at Washington UCLA 30, Temple 21

Champs Sports Bowl at Orlando, Fla. Wisconsin 20, Miami 14

Wednesday, Dec. 30Humanitarian Bowl at Boise, Idaho

Idaho 43, Bowling Green 42Holiday Bowl at San Diego

Nebraska (9-4) vs. Arizona (8-4), late Thursday, Dec. 31

Sun Bowl at El Paso, TexasStanford (8-4) vs. Oklahoma (7-5), Noon

(CBS)Armed Forces Bowl at Fort Worth

Air Force (7-5) vs. Houston (10-3), Noon (ESPN)

Texas Bowl at HoustonMissouri (8-4) vs. Navy (9-4), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN)Insight Bowl at Tempe, Ariz.

Minnesota (6-6) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 6 p.m. (NFL)

Chick-fi l-A Bowl at AtlantaVirginia Tech (9-3) vs. Tennessee (7-5),

7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

SCOREBOARD

TRIVIA ANSWER---A. Randy White.

TRIVIA QUESTION---Q. Which Maryland defensive tackle earned the 1974 Outland Trophy as college

football’s best interior lineman?

FOOTBALL---

BASKETBALL---

HOCKEY---

NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCE

East W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Divx-New England 10 5 0 .667 400 251 8-0-0 2-5-0 7-4-0 3-1-0 4-2-0N.Y. Jets 8 7 0 .533 311 236 3-4-0 5-3-0 6-5-0 2-2-0 2-4-0Miami 7 8 0 .467 336 360 4-3-0 3-5-0 5-6-0 2-2-0 4-2-0Buffalo 5 10 0 .333 228 319 2-5-0 3-5-0 3-8-0 2-2-0 2-4-0

South W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Divx-Indianapolis 14 1 0 .933 409 277 7-1-0 7-0-0 10-1-0 4-0-0 6-0-0Houston 8 7 0 .533 354 306 3-4-0 5-3-0 5-6-0 3-1-0 1-5-0Jacksonville 7 8 0 .467 273 357 5-3-0 2-5-0 6-5-0 1-3-0 3-3-0Tennessee 7 8 0 .467 337 389 5-3-0 2-5-0 4-8-0 3-0-0 2-4-0

North W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Divx-Cincinnati 10 5 0 .667 305 254 6-2-0 4-3-0 7-4-0 3-1-0 6-0-0Baltimore 8 7 0 .533 370 248 6-2-0 2-5-0 6-5-0 2-2-0 3-3-0Pittsburgh 8 7 0 .533 338 300 6-2-0 2-5-0 5-6-0 3-1-0 2-4-0Cleveland 4 11 0 .267 222 358 2-5-0 2-6-0 4-7-0 0-4-0 1-5-0

West W L T Pct PF PA Home Away AFC NFC Divx-San Diego 12 3 0 .800 431 300 5-2-0 7-1-0 9-3-0 3-0-0 5-1-0Denver 8 7 0 .533 302 280 4-3-0 4-4-0 6-5-0 2-2-0 3-2-0Oakland 5 10 0 .333 184 358 2-5-0 3-5-0 4-7-0 1-3-0 2-4-0Kansas City 3 12 0 .200 250 400 1-7-0 2-5-0 2-9-0 1-3-0 1-4-0

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC Divy-Philadelphia 11 4 0 .733 429 313 6-2-0 5-2-0 9-2-0 2-2-0 4-1-0y-Dallas 10 5 0 .667 337 250 5-2-0 5-3-0 8-3-0 2-2-0 3-2-0N.Y. Giants 8 7 0 .533 395 383 4-4-0 4-3-0 6-5-0 2-2-0 4-2-0Washington 4 11 0 .267 246 313 3-5-0 1-6-0 2-10-0 2-1-0 0-6-0

South W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC Divx-New Orleans 13 2 0 .867 500 318 6-2-0 7-0-0 9-2-0 4-0-0 4-1-0Atlanta 8 7 0 .533 343 315 6-2-0 2-5-0 5-6-0 3-1-0 2-3-0Carolina 7 8 0 .467 292 298 4-3-0 3-5-0 7-4-0 0-4-0 3-2-0Tampa Bay 3 12 0 .200 234 380 1-6-0 2-6-0 3-8-0 0-4-0 1-4-0

North W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC Divx-Minnesota 11 4 0 .733 426 305 7-0-0 4-4-0 8-3-0 3-1-0 5-1-0y-Green Bay 10 5 0 .667 428 290 6-2-0 4-3-0 8-3-0 2-2-0 4-2-0Chicago 6 9 0 .400 290 352 5-3-0 1-6-0 4-7-0 2-2-0 2-3-0Detroit 2 13 0 .133 239 457 2-5-0 0-8-0 1-10-0 1-3-0 0-5-0

West W L T Pct PF PA Home Away NFC AFC Divx-Arizona 10 5 0 .667 368 292 4-3-0 6-2-0 8-3-0 2-2-0 4-2-0San Francisco 7 8 0 .467 302 275 6-2-0 1-6-0 6-5-0 1-3-0 4-1-0Seattle 5 10 0 .333 267 373 4-3-0 1-7-0 4-8-0 1-2-0 3-3-0St. Louis 1 14 0 .067 169 408 0-7-0 1-7-0 1-10-0 0-4-0 0-5-0

x-clinched divisiony-clinched playoff spot

Friday’s GamesSan Diego 42, Tennessee 17

Sunday’s GamesAtlanta 31, Buffalo 3Houston 27, Miami 20Green Bay 48, Seattle 10Carolina 41, N.Y. Giants 9Pittsburgh 23, Baltimore 20Tampa Bay 20, New Orleans 17, OTCleveland 23, Oakland 9Cincinnati 17, Kansas City 10New England 35, Jacksonville 7San Francisco 20, Detroit 6Arizona 31, St. Louis 10N.Y. Jets 29, Indianapolis 15Philadelphia 30, Denver 27Dallas 17, Washington 0

Monday’s GameChicago 36, Minnesota 30, OT

Sunday, Jan. 3Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m.Pittsburgh at Miami, 1 p.m.New England at Houston, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at Buffalo, 1 p.m.San Francisco at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.New Orleans at Carolina, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at Cleveland, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Seattle, 4:15 p.m.Philadelphia at Dallas, 4:15 p.m.Washington at San Diego, 4:15 p.m.Kansas City at Denver, 4:15 p.m.Baltimore at Oakland, 4:15 p.m.Green Bay at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.Cincinnati at N.Y. Jets, 8:30 p.m.

NFL playoff scenariosAFC

CLINCHED: Indianapolis-AFC South and homefi eld advantage; San Diego-AFC West and fi rst-round bye; Cincinnati-AFC North; New England-AFC East

ELIMINATED: Cleveland, Kansas City, Oakland, Buffalo, Tennessee

Baltimore— Clinches a playoff spot with a win

N.Y. Jets— Clinches a playoff spot with a win

Denver— Clinches a playoff spot with:1) Win and N.Y. Jets loss or tie and Balti-

more loss or tie OR2) Win and N.Y. Jets loss or tie and Pitts-

burgh loss or tie OR3) Win and N.Y. Jets loss or tie and Hous-

ton win OR4) Win and Baltimore loss or tie and Pitts-

burgh loss or tie OR5) Win and Baltimore loss or tie and Hous-

ton win OR6) Pittsburgh loss and Baltimore loss and

Houston loss and Jacksonville loss OR7) Pittsburgh loss and Baltimore loss and

Houston loss and N.Y. Jets loss OR8) Pittsburgh loss and Baltimore loss and

Jacksonville loss and N.Y. Jets loss OR9) Pittsburgh loss and Houston loss and

Jacksonville loss and N.Y. Jets loss OR10) N.Y. Jets loss and Baltimore loss and

Houston loss and Jacksonville loss or tie

Pittsburgh— Clinches a playoff spot with:1) Win and Houston loss or tie and N.Y.

Jets loss or tie OR2) Win and Houston loss or tie and Balti-

more loss or tie OR3) Win and N.Y. Jets loss or tie and Balti-

more loss or tie and Denver loss or tie

Houston— Clinches a playoff spot with:1) Win and N.Y. Jets loss or tie and Balti-

more loss or tie OR2) Win and N.Y. Jets loss or tie and Denver

loss or tie OR3) Win and Baltimore loss or tie and Denver

loss or tie

Jacksonville— Clinches a playoff spot with:1) Win and Pittsburgh loss and Baltimore

loss and Denver loss and Houston loss OR2) Win and Pittsburgh loss and Baltimore

loss and Denver loss and N.Y. Jets loss OR3) Win and Pittsburgh loss and Baltimore

loss and Houston loss and N.Y. Jets loss OR4) Win and Pittsburgh loss and Denver loss

and Houston loss and N.Y. Jets loss OR5) Win and N.Y. Jets loss and Denver loss

and Houston loss and Baltimore loss

Miami— Clinches a playoff spot with:1) Win and N.Y. Jets loss and Baltimore

loss and Houston loss and Jacksonville loss or tie

Baltimore, N.Y. Jets, Denver, Pittsburgh and Houston can also make the playoffs if they tie this week in combination with various other results.

Jacksonville and Miami cannot make the playoffs with a tie.

NFCCLINCHED: New Orleans-NFC South and

homefi eld advantage; Minnesota-NFC North; Arizona-NFC West; Philadelphia, Green Bay and Dallas-playoff spot

ELIMINATED: Detroit, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, Carolina, Atlanta, San Francisco, N.Y. Giants

Minnesota— Clinches a fi rst-round bye with:1) Minnesota win and Philadelphia loss or

tie OR2) Minnesota tie and Philadelphia loss

Arizona— Clinches a fi rst-round bye with:Win and Minnesota loss and Philadelphia

loss

Philadelphia— Clinches NFC East with:Win or tie— Clinches fi rst-round bye with:1) Win OR2) Tie and Minnesota loss or tie

Dallas— Clinches NFC East with:Win— Clinches a fi rst-round bye with:Win and Minnesota loss and Arizona loss

or tie

Tuesday’s late gameChamps Sports Bowl

Wisconsin 20, Miami 14Miami 7 0 0 7 — 14Wisconsin 7 10 0 3 — 20First QuarterMia—Cooper 16 run (Bosher kick), 14:37.Wis—Clay 3 run (Welch kick), 7:12.Second QuarterWis—Clay 3 run (Welch kick), 8:07.Wis—FG Welch 37, :12.Fourth QuarterWis—FG Welch 29, 4:01.Mia—Collier 14 pass from J.Harris (Bosher kick), 1:22.A—56,747.

Mia WisFirst downs 14 17Rushes-yards 23-61 42-170Passing 188 260Comp-Att-Int 16-30-0 19-26-1Return Yards 6 1Punts-Avg. 6-41.0 5-39.0Fumbles-Lost 2-1 2-2Penalties-Yards 3-20 6-60Time of Possession 20:45 39:15

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Miami, Berry 4-29, Cooper 5-29, Collier 1-3, J.James 4-1, J.Harris 9-(minus 1). Wisconsin, Clay 22-121, Ball 15-61, Gilreath 1-1, Team 1-(minus 3), Kendricks 1-(minus 4), Tolzien 2-(minus 6).PASSING—Miami, J.Harris 16-29-0-188. Wis-consin, Tolzien 19-26-1-260.RECEIVING—Miami, Collier 5-41, Graham 3-30, Byrd 3-29, J.James 2-2, Streeter 1-47, Hankerson 1-28, Benjamin 1-11. Wisconsin, Kendricks 7-128, Graham 6-77, Toon 2-26, Ball 2-14, Brown 1-9, Clay 1-6.

NFL injury reportNEW YORK — The National Football

League injury report, as provided by the league (OUT - Defi nitely will not play; DNP - Did not practice; LIMITED - Limited partici-pation in practice; FULL - Full participation in practice):

SUNDAYINDIANAPOLIS COLTS at BUFFALO

BILLS — COLTS: DNP: RB Donald Brown (illness), WR Austin Collie (not injury related), DE Keyunta Dawson (knee), G Kyle DeVan (ill-ness), DE Dwight Freeney (not injury related), DT Antonio Johnson (shoulder), T Charlie Johnson (foot), CB Jacob Lacey (biceps), DE Robert Mathis (quadricep), DT Fili Moala (knee), CB Jerraud Powers (hamstring), TE Gi-jon Robinson (knee), LB Clint Session (knee), RB Chad Simpson (concussion). LIMITED: S Melvin Bullitt (shoulder), WR Pierre Garcon (hand). FULL: RB Joseph Addai (shoulder), S Antoine Bethea (foot), LB Gary Brackett (foot), T Ryan Diem (elbow), S Aaron Fran-cisco (hand), LB Cody Glenn (shoulder), RB Mike Hart (ankle), CB Tim Jennings (ankle), DT Daniel Muir (shoulder), G Jamey Richard (shoulder), T Tony Ugoh (knee), K Adam Vi-natieri (right knee), WR Reggie Wayne (foot). BILLS: DNP: QB Trent Edwards (ankle), LB Nic Harris (knee), S Todd Johnson (hamstring), WR Josh Reed (ankle), S Bryan Scott (head), T Jonathan Scott (ankle), DT Marcus Stroud (back), TE Jonathan Stupar (knee). LIMITED: QB Ryan Fitzpatrick (ankle), LB Ashlee Palmer (ankle).

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS at CAROLINA PANTHERS — SAINTS: DNP: DE Bobby Mc-Cray (back), WR Lance Moore (ankle), S Dar-ren Sharper (knee), TE David Thomas (calf), RB Pierre Thomas (rib), LB Jonathan Vilma (knee), S Usama Young (abdomen). LIM-ITED: T Jermon Bushrod (wrist), TE Darnell Dinkins (foot), DT Sedrick Ellis (knee), G Jahri Evans (foot), CB Randall Gay (concussion), CB Jabari Greer (groin), RB Lynell Hamilton (shoulder), LB Jason Kyle (back), LB Scott Shanle (concussion), TE Jeremy Shockey (toe). PANTHERS: DNP: CB Richard Mar-shall (ankle), WR Muhsin Muhammad (ankle), T Geoff Schwartz (groin), WR Steve Smith (arm), RB Jonathan Stewart (Achilles), RB Tyrell Sutton (ankle), RB DeAngelo Williams (ankle). LIMITED: QB Matt Moore (rib).

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS at CLEVE-LAND BROWNS — JAGUARS: DNP: DT Atiyyah Ellison (knee), WR Torry Holt (hand), TE Marcedes Lewis (face, head), CB Rashe-an Mathis (groin), S Anthony Smith (ankle). BROWNS: DNP: DE Kenyon Coleman (ankle, elbow), WR Brian Robiskie (ankle), DE Ro-baire Smith (groin), T John St. Clair (ankle), RB Lawrence Vickers (groin), DT Corey Wil-

liams (ankle). LIMITED: LB David Bowens (knee), LB Titus Brown (hamstring), G Rex Hadnot (knee), T Joe Thomas (shoulder), S Ray Ventrone (fi nger). FULL: S Mike Adams (elbow), RB Chris Jennings (shoulder).

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES at DALLAS COWBOYS — EAGLES: DNP: QB Michael Vick (quadricep). FULL: WR Reggie Brown (shoulder), C Nick Cole (knee), S Quintin Demps (ankle), WR Jeremy Maclin (foot). COWBOYS: DNP: T Marc Colombo (ankle), S Pat Watkins (knee). FULL: WR Miles Aus-tin (thumb), CB Terence Newman (knee), S Gerald Sensabaugh (thumb), LB DeMarcus Ware (wrist).

CHICAGO BEARS at DETROIT LIONS — BEARS: DNP: S Al Afalava (knee), WR Johnny Knox (ankle), S Danieal Manning (calf), S Craig Steltz (foot). LIMITED: DT Tom-mie Harris (knee), WR Devin Hester (calf), S Kevin Payne (ankle). LIONS: DNP: S Louis Delmas (knee), LB Larry Foote (foot). LIM-ITED: CB Phillip Buchanon (shoulder), DT Joe Cohen (knee), LB Jordon Dizon (neck), DT Grady Jackson (knee), QB Drew Stanton (ankle), CB Brian Witherspoon (ankle). FULL: DE Dewayne White (toe).

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS at HOUSTON TEXANS — PATRIOTS: DNP: QB Tom Brady (right shoulder, right fi nger, rib), WR Randy Moss (not injury related). LIMITED: DE Jarvis Green (knee), DT Ty Warren (ankle), WR Wes Welker (not injury related), DT Vince Wilfork (foot). FULL: WR Julian Edelman (forearm), T Nick Kaczur (shoulder), CB Shawn Springs (knee), TE Benjamin Watson (knee). TEXANS: DNP: T Duane Brown (knee), DT Shaun Cody (knee), LB Brian Cushing (foot, ribs). LIMITED: TE Joel Dreessen (shoulder), WR Jacoby Jones (shoulder).

PITTSBURGH STEELERS at MIAMI DOLPHINS — STEELERS: DNP: LB James Farrior (not injury related), DE Brett Keisel (neck), G Chris Kemoeatu (wrist), DE Travis Kirschke (calf), WR Hines Ward (hamstring). LIMITED: LB Rocky Boiman (calf), RB Willie Parker (shoulder), S Troy Polamalu (knee). DOLPHINS: FULL: T Vernon Carey (knee), RB Ricky Williams (shoulder).

NEW YORK GIANTS at MINNESOTA VI-KINGS — GIANTS: OUT: RB Brandon Jacobs (knee). DNP: RB Ahmad Bradshaw (ankle, foot), WR Mario Manningham (shoulder), T Kareem McKenzie (knee), CB Aaron Ross (hamstring), CB Corey Webster (knee). LIM-ITED: DT Chris Canty (knee), WR Hakeem Nicks (hamstring), DT Fred Robbins (leg), G Rich Seubert (knee). VIKINGS: DNP: DT Jim-my Kennedy (thumb), TE Visanthe Shiancoe (thigh). LIMITED: S Eric Frampton (ankle), G Steve Hutchinson (shoulder), C John Sullivan (knee), DT Pat Williams (elbow), CB Antoine Winfi eld (foot).

CINCINNATI BENGALS at NEW YORK JETS — BENGALS: DNP: S Chris Crocker (ankle), DE Robert Geathers (knee), DT Tank Johnson (foot). LIMITED: DT Jonathan Fanene (shoulder), TE J.P. Foschi (neck), DT Domata Peko (knee). JETS: DNP: RB Thomas Jones (not injury related), CB Darrelle Revis (illness), RB Tony Richardson (not injury related), CB Donald Strickland (quadricep). LIMITED: DE Shaun Ellis (knee). FULL: RB Shonn Greene (shoulder), QB Mark Sanchez (knee), T Robert Turner (knee).

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS at ST. LOUIS RAMS — 49ERS: DNP: WR Isaac Bruce (ankle), CB Nate Clements (shoulder), K Joe Nedney (left hamstring), DE Justin Smith (not injury related), T Joe Staley (knee). LIMITED: QB Shaun Hill (back), T Chilo Rachal (knee). FULL: RB Glen Coffee (thigh). RAMS: DNP: CB Quincy Butler (knee), RB Steven Jackson (back), LB Paris Lenon (toe), DE Leonard Little (knee), C Mark Setterstrom (tricep). LIMITED: WR Donnie Avery (thigh), LB James Laurinaitis (knee), T Jason Smith (concussion).

ATLANTA FALCONS at TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — FALCONS: DNP: K Matt Bryant (hamstring), TE Tony Gonzalez (calf), P Michael Koenen (head), LB Curtis Lofton (shoulder, hamstring), S Charlie Peprah (ham-string), QB Matt Ryan (toe), RB Michael Turner (ankle), WR Eric Weems (head). LIMITED: DE Jamaal Anderson (chest), DT Jonathan Babineaux (shoulder), T Sam Baker (elbow, hamstring). BUCCANEERS: DNP: RB Derrick Ward (knee), G Jeremy Zuttah (toe). LIMITED: DT Roy Miller (hamstring), TE Kellen Winslow (knee).

GREEN BAY PACKERS at ARIZONA CAR-DINALS — PACKERS: OUT: S Derrick Martin (ankle). DNP: LB Nick Barnett (illness), LB Brandon Chillar (back), DT Ryan Pickett (ham-string). LIMITED: T Chad Clifton (knee), RB Korey Hall (elbow), DE Johnny Jolly (foot), DE Mike Montgomery (ankle), CB Charles Wood-son (shoulder). FULL: CB Trevor Ford (knee). CARDINALS: DNP: S Antrel Rolle (thigh). LIMITED: DE Kenny Iwebema (head), RB Dan Kreider (neck), WR Sean Morey (head), TE Ben Patrick (head), K Neil Rackers (right groin), CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (toe), RB Beanie Wells (groin). FULL: LB Will Davis (knee), WR Larry Fitzgerald (elbow), CB Greg Toler (elbow).

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS at DENVER BRONCOS — CHIEFS: LIMITED: G Andy Al-leman (back), CB Brandon Flowers (shoulder). FULL: DE Alex Magee (hamstring). BRON-COS: DNP: TE Daniel Graham (knee), WR Ed-die Royal (head, neck). LIMITED: LB Spencer Larsen (hamstring), CB Ty Law (hamstring), WR Brandon Marshall (hamstring), LB Dar-rell Reid (knee). FULL: RB Correll Buckhalter (ankle), S Brian Dawkins (knee), S Renaldo Hill (ankle).

BALTIMORE RAVENS at OAKLAND RAID-ERS — RAVENS: DNP: WR Derrick Mason (knee), DT Trevor Pryce (illness), S Ed Reed (groin), LB Terrell Suggs (thigh). LIMITED: T Oniel Cousins (knee), LB Tavares Gooden (groin). FULL: T Jared Gaither (foot), LB Jar-ret Johnson (back, knee), CB Cary Williams (thigh). RAIDERS: DNP: DE Greg Ellis (knee), RB Justin Fargas (knee), QB Bruce Grad-kowski (knee), T Langston Walker (ankle). LIMITED: WR Darrius Heyward-Bey (foot), CB Chris Johnson (hamstring). FULL: DT Gerard Warren (shoulder).

WASHINGTON REDSKINS at SAN DI-EGO CHARGERS — REDSKINS: DNP: DT Albert Haynesworth (hip), S LaRon Landry (head), WR Devin Thomas (ankle). LIMITED: LB Rocky McIntosh (back), WR Santana Moss (knee). CHARGERS: DNP: LB Kevin Burnett (neck), RB Jacob Hester (shoulder), WR Vincent Jackson (Achilles), NT Travis John-son (groin), LB Shawne Merriman (foot), WR Legedu Naanee (foot), S Eric Weddle (knee). FULL: DE Jacques Cesaire (elbow), P Mike Scifres (groin).

TENNESSEE TITANS at SEATTLE SE-AHAWKS — TITANS: DNP: DT Tony Brown (knee, quadricep), T Troy Kropog (calf), C Kevin Mawae (elbow), CB Ryan Mouton (ankle). SEAHAWKS: DNP: LB Aaron Curry (shoulder), LB Leroy Hill (knee), RB Julius Jones (rib), CB Josh Wilson (hip).

NFL free agency changesA list, obtained by The Associated Press on

Wednesday, of NFL players who would be re-stricted free agents if there is no salary cap in 2010. They would be unrestricted free agents under the current system:

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Hamza Abdul-lah, s; Justin Green, fb; Deuce Lutui, g; Mike Nugent, k; Jerheme Urban, wr; Gabe Watson, dt.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Tyson Clabo, t; Harvey Dahl, g; Jamaal Fudge, s; Michael Koenen, p; Jerious Norwood, rb; Quinn Ojin-naka, g; Charlie Peprah, s.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Chris Chester, g; Mark Clayton, wr; Billy Cundiff, k; Sam Koch, p; Dawan Landry, s; Tony Moll, t; Quinn Sypniewski, te; Adam Terry, t; Fabian Wash-ington, cb; Demetrius Williams, wr.

BUFFALO BILLS — Keith Ellison, lb; Gi-bran Hamdan, qb; Richie Incognito, g; Joe Klopfenstein, te; George Wilson, s; Ashton Youboty, cb.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — James Ander-son, lb; Thomas Davis, lb; Jeff King, te; Rich-ard Marshall, cb; Rob Petitti, t.

CHICAGO BEARS — Mark Anderson, de; Josh Bullocks, s; Dusty Dvoracek, dt; Danieal Manning, s; Jamar Williams, lb.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Abdul Hodge, lb; Rashad Jeanty, lb; Brandon Johnson, lb; Evan Mathis, g; Frostee Rucker, de.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Abram Elam, s; Arnold Harrison, lb; Jerome Harrison, rb; D’Qwell Jackson, lb; Brodney Pool, s; Matt Roth, lb; Lawrence Vickers, fb.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Miles Austin, wr; Stephen Bowen, de; Cletis Gordon, cb; Jason Hatcher, de; Sam Hurd, wr; Pat McQuistan, t; Duke Preston, c; Cory Procter, g; Gerald Sen-sabaugh, s; Marcus Spears, de; Pat Watkins, s; Shaun Suisham, k.

DENVER BRONCOS — Elvis Dumervil, lb; Chris Kuper, g; Brandon Marshall, wr; Kyle Or-ton, qb; Tony Scheffl er, te; Le Kevin Smith, de.

DETROIT LIONS — Daniel Bullocks, s; Dylan Gandy, c; Jason Hunter, de; Adam Jen-nings, wr; Daniel Loper, g; Ko Simpson, s; Cody Spencer, lb.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Atari Bigby, s; Will Blackmon, cb; Daryn Colledge, g; Nick Collins, s; Johnny Jolly, de; John Kuhn, fb; Derrick Martin, s; Jason Spitz, c.

HOUSTON TEXANS — John Busing, s; Rashad Butler, t; Owen Daniels, te; Ryan Moats, rb; Bernard Pollard, s; DeMeco Ryans, lb; Chris White, c.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Hank Baskett, wr; Antoine Bethea, s; Aaron Francisco, s; Tyjuan Hagler, lb; Marlin Jackson, cb; Tim Jen-nings, cb; Charlie Johnson, t; Freddy Keiaho, lb; T.J. Rushing, cb.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Clint In-gram, lb; Montavious Stanley, dt; Troy Wil-liamson, wr.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Brodie Croyle, qb; Derrick Johnson, lb; Corey Mays, lb; Rudy Niswanger, c; Ryan O’Callaghan, t; Jarrad Page, s.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Ronnie Brown, rb; Anthony Fasano, te.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Ryan Cook, t; Ray Edwards, de; Fred Evans, dt; Tarvaris Jackson, qb; Karl Paymah, cb; Naufahu Tahi, fb.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Stephen Gostkowski, k; Logan Mankins, g; Pierre Woods, lb.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Mike Bell, rb; Jammal Brown, t; Jahri Evans, g; Tony Hargrove, dt; Roman Harper, s; Herana-Daze Jones, s; Lance Moore, wr; Courtney Roby, wr; Zach Strief, t; David Thomas, te; Leigh Torrence, cb.

W. Carolina 87,UNCA 76UNCA (3-8)Williams 3-5 1-2 7, Primm 2-5 6-6 10, Ste-

phenson 2-11 2-2 8, Smith 3-6 2-4 10, Cun-ningham 3-6 5-6 11, Lane 3-8 6-6 12, Dickey 2-7 3-5 7, Davis 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 3-3 4-4 10, Stubbs 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 21-52 30-37 76.

W. CAROLINA (11-2)Giles 7-14 1-1 15, Russell 2-3 3-4 7, Mu-

tombo 2-6 5-10 9, Waginger 3-6 2-3 10, Gor-don 6-8 2-3 14, Cole 0-4 0-0 0, Gailliard 2-7 3-4 7, Gallagher 0-0 0-0 0, Robinson 7-10 5-6 25, Phillip 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-59 21-31 87.

Halftime—W. Carolina 43-35. 3-Point Goals—N.C.-Asheville 4-19 (Smith 2-5, Ste-phenson 2-7, Lane 0-1, Primm 0-2, Dickey 0-4), W. Carolina 8-20 (Robinson 6-9, Waginger 2-4, Mutombo 0-2, Giles 0-2, Cole 0-3). Fouled Out—Gailliard, Gordon, Primm. Rebounds—N.C.-Asheville 43 (Cunningham 9), W. Caro-lina 29 (Mutombo 6). Assists—N.C.-Asheville 10 (Stephenson 4), W. Carolina 20 (Waginger 8). Total Fouls—N.C.-Asheville 24, W. Carolina 27. Technical—Gordon. A—2,763. A—2,763.

Humanitarian BowlIdaho 43,

Bowling Green 42Bowling Green 14 0 7 21 — 42Idaho 7 7 14 15 — 43

First QuarterBG—Barnes 35 pass from Sheehan (Norsic kick), 11:44.Id—Bjorvik 3 pass from Enderle (Farquhar kick), 7:49.BG—Geter 59 run (Norsic kick), :19.

Second QuarterId—Greenwood 7 pass from Enderle (Farqu-har kick), :19.

Third QuarterId—Woolridge 8 run (Farquhar kick), 9:25.Id—Woolridge 13 run (Farquhar kick), 5:30.BG—Scheidler 15 pass from Sheehan (Norsic kick), 3:40.

Fourth QuarterBG—Barnes 5 pass from Sheehan (Norsic kick), 12:15.Id—P.Davis 30 pass from Enderle (Farquhar kick), 8:32.BG—Geter 2 run (Norsic kick), 3:51.BG—Barnes 51 pass from Sheehan (Norsic kick), :32.Id—Komar 16 pass from Enderle (P.Davis pass from Enderle), :04.A—26,726.

BG IdFirst downs 27 19Rushes-yards 24-150 38-212Passing 388 240Comp-Att-Int 34-48-1 15-28-0Return Yards 2 2Punts-Avg. 3-34.0 7-40.0Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0Penalties-Yards 5-35 9-79Time of Possession 29:28 30:32

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Bowling Green, Geter 14-96, Hodges 1-26, Sheehan 8-25, Barnes 1-3. Ida-ho, Woolridge 22-126, McCarty 9-75, Komar 1-6, Jackson 4-6, Enderle 2-(minus 1).PASSING—Bowling Green, Sheehan 33-47-1-387, Barnes 1-1-0-1. Idaho, Enderle 15-28-0-240.RECEIVING—Bowling Green, Barnes 17-219, C.Wright 7-72, Geter 5-65, Scheidler 2-16, Hutson 2-9, Hodges 1-7. Idaho, P.Davis 4-119, Shaw 4-61, Greenwood 3-19, Hardy 1-17, Ko-mar 1-16, McCarty 1-5, Bjorvik 1-3.

Virginia 72, UAB 63UAB (11-2) Crawford 5-9 4-6 14, Johnson 2-7 1-4

5, Sanders 2-9 0-1 5, Millsap 13-22 0-0 27, Drake 1-4 0-0 2, Cooper 2-2 0-4 4, Moore 1-1 0-0 2, Fields 1-3 0-0 2, Soko 1-2 0-0 2. Totals

Top 25 faredWednesday

1. Kansas (12-0) did not play. Next: at No. 18 Temple, Saturday.

2. Texas (12-0) did not play. Next: vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Saturday.

3. Kentucky (14-0) did not play. Next: vs. Louisville, Saturday.

4. Purdue (12-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 6 West Virginia, Friday.

5. Syracuse (13-0) did not play. Next: vs. Pittsburgh, Saturday.

6. West Virginia (11-0) did not play. Next: at No. 4 Purdue, Friday.

7. Duke (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. Penn-sylvania, Thursday.

8. Villanova (11-1) did not play. Next: at Marquette, Saturday.

9. North Carolina (11-3) beat Albany, N.Y. 87-70. Next: at College of Charleston, Mon-day.

10. Connecticut (9-3) lost to Cincinnati 71-69. Next: vs. Notre Dame, Saturday.

11. Michigan State (10-3) beat Texas-Ar-lington 87-68. Next: at No. 25 Northwestern, Saturday.

12. Kansas State (12-1) did not play. Next: vs. South Dakota, Sunday.

13. Georgetown (9-1) did not play. Next: vs. St. John’s, Thursday.

14. Tennessee (9-2) did not play. Next: at Memphis, Thursday.

15. Ohio State (10-2) did not play. Next: at No. 23 Wisconsin, Thursday.

16. Mississippi (11-2) did not play. Next: vs. UCF, Tuesday.

17. Washington (9-2) did not play. Next: vs. Oregon State, Thursday.

18. Temple (10-2) at Northern Illinois. Next: vs. No. 1 Kansas, Saturday.

19. New Mexico (13-1) did not play. Next: vs. Dayton, Friday.

20. Texas Tech (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. McNeese State, Friday.

21. Clemson (12-2) did not play. Next: at No. 7 Duke, Sunday.

22. Florida State (11-2) did not play. Next: vs. Alabama A&M, Thursday.

23. Wisconsin (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. No. 15 Ohio State, Thursday.

24. UAB (11-2) lost to Virginia 72-63. Next: at Arkansas, Saturday.

25. Northwestern (10-1) at Illinois. Next: vs. No. 11 Michigan State, Saturday.

Women’s Top 25 faredWednesday

1. Connecticut (11-0) did not play. Next: at No. 12 Florida State, Monday.

2. Stanford (9-1) at Fresno State. Next: vs. California, Saturday.

3. Notre Dame (11-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 18 Vanderbilt, Thursday.

4. Tennessee (11-1) beat Old Dominion 102-62. Next: vs. No. 14 Oklahoma, Sunday.

5. Baylor (11-1) vs. Texas-Pan American. Next: vs. Texas State, Saturday.

6. Ohio State (14-1) did not play. Next: at Northwestern, Thursday.

7. North Carolina (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. ETSU, Thursday.

8. Duke (10-2) did not play. Next: at Tem-ple, Thursday.

9. Georgia (13-0) beat Savannah State 80-45. Next: at Alabama, Sunday.

10. Texas A&M (10-1) at New Mexico. Next: vs. Lamar, Monday.

11. LSU (11-1) beat No. 15 Xavier 56-47. Next: at South Carolina, Sunday.

12. Florida State (12-2) beat Western Caro-lina 80-47. Next: vs. Temple, Sunday.

13. Nebraska (12-0) beat Albany, N.Y. 88-41. Next: at Vermont, Monday.

14. Oklahoma (9-2) vs. Cal State Fullerton. Next: at No. 4 Tennessee, Sunday.

15. Xavier (9-3) lost to No. 11 LSU 56-47. Next: at Missouri, Tuesday.

16. Michigan State (9-4) did not play. Next: vs. Michigan, Thursday.

17. Texas (9-3) did not play. Next: vs. Ar-kansas-Pine Bluff, Saturday.

18. Vanderbilt (11-1) did not play. Next: at No. 3 Notre Dame, Thursday.

19. Arizona State (8-3) did not play. Next: vs. Southern Cal, Thursday.

20. Pittsburgh (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. Mount St. Mary’s, Md., Thursday.

21. Kansas (10-2) beat Pepperdine 82-63. Next: at New Mexico State, Sunday.

22. Wisconsin-Green Bay (11-0) did not play. Next: at Cleveland State, Saturday.

23. Virginia (9-3) did not play. Next: at Colorado.

24. Georgia Tech (12-2) did not play. Next: vs. Army, Saturday.

25. James Madison (9-1) vs. Western Mich-igan. Next: at Drexel, Sunday.

Big South menAll Times EDT

Conf. Overall W L Pct. W L Pct.Coastal Caro. 2 0 1.000 12 2 .857Radford 2 0 1.000 6 5 .545UNC-Ashe. 1 0 1.000 3 8 .273Liberty 1 1 .500 6 8 .429Winthrop 1 1 .500 5 7 .417High Point 1 1 .500 5 6 .455VMI 1 1 .500 4 6 .400Gard.-Webb 0 1 .000 3 8 .273Charleston S. 0 2 .000 5 7 .417Presbyterian 0 2 .000 2 12 .143

Tuesday’s resultsTexas 95, Gardner-Webb 63Central Florida 82, Liberty 58, at UCF Clas-

sicHigh Point 70, N.C. Central 58Coastal Carolina 76, Georgia Southern 64N.C.State 68, Winthrop 52Auburn 77, Charleston Southern 62

Wednesday’s resultsWestern Carolina 87, UNC Asheville 76Buffalo 81, Liberty 64Radford 80, George Mason 53Florida 79, Presbyterian 38

Saturday’s gamesLiberty at VMI, 1 p.m.Winthrop at Coastal Carolina, 2 p.m.UNC Asheville at Radford, 4 p.m.Gardner-Webb at High Point, 7 p.m.Presbyterian at Charleston Southern, 7:30

p.m.)

Big South womenAll Times EDT

Conf. Overall W L Pct. W L Pct.Gard.-Webb 0 0 .000 11 2 .846Coastal Caro. 0 0 .000 9 3 .750Liberty 0 0 .000 7 3 .700Charleston S. 0 0 .000 6 5 .545High Point 0 0 .000 7 6 .538Winthrop 0 0 .000 5 7 .417UNC-Ashe. 0 0 .000 4 8 .333Radford 0 0 .000 1 9 .100Presbyterian 0 0 .000 1 11 .083

Monday’s resultsLiberty 70, Cornell 40, at Charlottesville

tourneyHigh Point 81, Mercer 71

Tuesday’s resultsWestern Michigan 64, UNC Asheville 53, at

James Madison tourneyCoastal Carolina 61, Elon 49College of Charleston 64, Charleston

Southern 59Virginia 63, Liberty 54

Wednesday’s resultsUSC Upstate 71, Presbyterian 52UNC Asheville 49, Lafayette 44, at James

Madison tourneyMercer 58, Winthrop 49Gardner-Webb 72, Longwood 58

Thursday’s gameRadford at Marshall, 12 p.m.

Saturday’s gamesCoastal Carolina at UNC Asheville, 2 p.m.Liberty at Gardner-Webb, 3 p.m.Presbyterian at Winthrop, 4 p.m.Charleston Southern at High Point, 4 p.m.

NHLAll Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GANew Jersey 38 28 9 1 57 112 81Pittsburgh 41 26 14 1 53 130 107Philadelphia 39 19 18 2 40 112 109N.Y. Rangers 39 18 17 4 40 105 112N.Y. Islanders 41 16 18 7 39 99 126

Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GABuffalo 39 24 11 4 52 107 90Boston 39 20 12 7 47 103 94Ottawa 40 20 16 4 44 112 119Montreal 42 20 19 3 43 109 115Toronto 40 14 17 9 37 113 139

Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAWashington 39 24 9 6 54 142 109Atlanta 39 18 17 4 40 124 125Tampa Bay 40 15 15 10 40 100 120Florida 40 16 17 7 39 113 128Carolina 39 10 22 7 27 99 143

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GAChicago 39 26 10 3 55 121 84Nashville 40 23 14 3 49 116 117Detroit 39 19 14 6 44 100 101St. Louis 39 17 17 5 39 102 111Columbus 41 15 18 8 38 109 138

Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GAColorado 41 23 12 6 52 123 118Vancouver 40 23 16 1 47 125 99Calgary 38 21 12 5 47 107 95Minnesota 40 20 17 3 43 106 114Edmonton 39 15 20 4 34 110 131

Pacifi c Division GP W L OT Pts GF GASan Jose 39 24 8 7 55 130 101Phoenix 41 25 13 3 53 108 92Los Angeles 39 22 14 3 47 116 115Dallas 39 17 11 11 45 116 121Anaheim 39 16 16 7 39 109 124

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for over-time loss.

Tuesday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders 2, Columbus 1, SOBuffalo 4, Pittsburgh 3Nashville 4, St. Louis 3Dallas 5, Chicago 4Phoenix 3, Vancouver 2, SOAnaheim 4, Minnesota 2

Wednesday’s GamesColorado 4, Ottawa 3New Jersey 2, Pittsburgh 0Montreal 2, Tampa Bay 1, OTBoston 4, Atlanta 0Philadelphia 6, N.Y. Rangers 0Toronto at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.Washington at San Jose, 10 p.m.

Today’s GamesMontreal at Florida, 5 p.m.Colorado at Detroit, 7 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 7 p.m.Vancouver at St. Louis, 7 p.m.San Jose at Phoenix, 7 p.m.Nashville at Columbus, 7 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Carolina, 8 p.m.Anaheim at Dallas, 8 p.m.Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8 p.m.New Jersey at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Edmonton at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Raptors 107, Bobcats 103

CHARLOTTE (103)Wallace 7-13 1-1 15, Diaw 3-6 2-2 9, Moham-med 3-4 2-2 8, Felton 10-12 2-3 23, Jackson 8-18 11-11 30, Diop 1-2 1-2 3, Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Graham 3-7 1-1 7, Murray 2-3 0-0 4, Augustin 2-7 0-0 4. Totals 39-72 20-22 103.TORONTO (107)Turkoglu 1-4 0-0 2, Bosh 11-20 11-11 33, Barg-nani 11-20 4-4 28, Jack 3-6 0-1 7, DeRozan 4-7 2-2 10, Weems 2-10 5-6 9, Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Banks 0-1 0-0 0, Belinelli 3-11 6-7 13, Wright 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 37-84 28-31 107.Charlotte 26 30 24 23 — 103Toronto 31 24 29 23 — 107

3-Point Goals—Charlotte 5-22 (Jackson 3-10, Felton 1-3, Diaw 1-4, Wallace 0-1, Graham 0-1, Augustin 0-3), Toronto 5-19 (Bargnani 2-6, Jack 1-2, Wright 1-3, Belinelli 1-6, Banks 0-1, Turkoglu 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Re-bounds—Charlotte 45 (Wallace 16), Toronto 40 (Bosh 13). Assists—Charlotte 19 (Jackson 5), Toronto 22 (Jack 6). Total Fouls—Charlotte 24, Toronto 21. Technicals—Charlotte Coach Brown, Graham, Banks, Toronto defensive three second. A—18,979 (19,800).

Cavaliers 106, Hawks 101

ATLANTA (101)Ma.Williams 4-5 0-0 8, Jos.Smith 4-11 3-4 11, Horford 4-8 2-2 10, Bibby 7-16 3-3 20, John-son 15-25 2-2 35, Pachulia 1-2 0-0 2, Crawford 3-12 4-4 11, J. Smith 1-3 0-0 2, Collins 0-0 0-0 0, Evans 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 40-83 14-15 101.CLEVELAND (106)James 15-23 14-16 48, Hickson 2-6 0-0 4, O’Neal 4-9 3-8 11, M. Williams 5-14 3-3 14, Parker 3-6 0-0 6, Ilgauskas 0-1 2-2 2, Varejao 6-8 1-3 14, West 0-3 0-0 0, Moon 0-3 5-6 5, Gibson 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 36-76 28-38 106.Atlanta 30 34 21 16 — 101Cleveland 23 29 25 29 — 106

3-Point Goals—Atlanta 7-16 (Johnson 3-6, Bibby 3-7, Crawford 1-2, Ma.Williams 0-1), Cleveland 6-18 (James 4-6, Varejao 1-1, M. Williams 1-5, Parker 0-1, Gibson 0-2, Moon 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Atlanta 44 (Horford, Ma.Williams 7), Cleveland 50 (James 10). Assists—Atlanta 22 (Bibby 6), Cleveland 24 (M. Williams 10). Total Fouls—Atlanta 24, Cleveland 15. Technicals—Bibby, Jos.Smith, Atlanta defensive three second 2, O’Neal, Cleveland defensive three second 2. A—20,562 (20,562).

Magic 117, Bucks 92MILWAUKEE (92)Mbah a Moute 3-7 2-2 8, Ilyasova 5-11 0-0 13, Bogut 6-15 3-3 15, Jennings 7-19 2-3 20, Redd 3-12 0-1 6, Thomas 0-0 0-0 0, Bell 0-5 0-0 0, Ridnour 7-10 0-0 16, Warrick 3-6 0-0 6, Meeks 3-8 0-0 6, Delfi no 0-2 0-0 0, Elson 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 38-97 7-9 92.ORLANDO (117)Barnes 4-6 2-2 10, Lewis 2-6 2-2 8, Howard 8-11 1-2 17, Nelson 1-7 2-2 4, Carter 10-16 4-4 25, Gortat 4-6 1-3 9, Williams 5-7 1-2 16, Bass 2-2 0-0 4, Redick 1-5 7-8 9, Pietrus 6-11 1-1 15. Totals 43-77 21-26 117.Milwaukee 25 24 25 18 — 92Orlando 21 20 38 38 — 117

3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 9-22 (Jennings 4-7, Ilyasova 3-3, Ridnour 2-3, Redd 0-1, Delfi no 0-1, Bell 0-3, Meeks 0-4), Orlando 10-21 (Wil-liams 5-5, Lewis 2-4, Pietrus 2-6, Carter 1-2, Barnes 0-1, Redick 0-1, Nelson 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Milwaukee 48 (Bogut 10), Orlando 52 (Howard 10). Assists—Mil-waukee 17 (Jennings 4), Orlando 21 (Williams 7). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 21, Orlando 16.

NBAAll Times EST

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBBoston 23 7 .767 —Toronto 16 17 .485 8 1⁄2New York 12 20 .375 12Philadelphia 8 22 .267 15New Jersey 3 29 .094 21

Southeast Division W L Pct GBOrlando 23 8 .742 —Atlanta 21 10 .677 2Miami 16 12 .571 5 1⁄2Charlotte 12 18 .400 10 1⁄2Washington 10 20 .333 12 1⁄2

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 26 8 .765 —Chicago 12 17 .414 11 1⁄2Milwaukee 12 18 .400 12Detroit 11 20 .355 13 1⁄2Indiana 9 22 .290 15 1⁄2

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBDallas 22 9 .710 —San Antonio 18 11 .621 3Houston 19 13 .594 3 1⁄2Memphis 15 16 .484 7New Orleans 13 16 .448 8

Northwest Division W L Pct GBDenver 20 12 .625 —Portland 20 13 .606 1⁄2Utah 17 13 .567 2Oklahoma City 17 14 .548 2 1⁄2Minnesota 7 25 .219 13

Pacifi c Division W L Pct GBL.A. Lakers 25 6 .806 —Phoenix 20 12 .625 5 1⁄2Sacramento 14 16 .467 10 1⁄2L.A. Clippers 13 17 .433 11 1⁄2Golden State 9 22 .290 16

Tuesday’s GamesOklahoma City 110, Washington 98Cleveland 95, Atlanta 84New York 104, Detroit 87Chicago 104, Indiana 95Houston 108, New Orleans 100San Antonio 117, Minnesota 99L.A. Lakers 124, Golden State 118

Wednesday’s GamesCleveland 106, Atlanta 101Memphis 121, Indiana 110Toronto 107, Charlotte 103Orlando 117, Milwaukee 92New Jersey 104, New York 95Miami at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Utah at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Boston at Phoenix, 9 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Portland, 10 p.m.Philadelphia at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Today’s GamesChicago at Detroit, 3 p.m.Miami at San Antonio, 7 p.m.Dallas at Houston, 7 p.m.Utah at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

ACC standingsAll Times EDT

Conf. Overall W L Pct. W L Pct.Florida St. 1 0 1.000 11 2 .846Wake Forest 1 0 1.000 9 2 .818Boston Coll. 1 0 1.000 8 4 .667Duke 0 0 .000 10 1 .909Va. Tech 0 0 .000 11 1 .917Clemson 0 0 .000 12 2 .857N. Carolina 0 0 .000 10 3 .769Maryland 0 0 .000 8 4 .667Virginia 0 0 .000 7 4 .636Miami 0 1 .000 13 1 .929Ga. Tech 0 1 .000 10 2 .833N.C. State 0 1 .000 9 3 .750

Sunday’s resultMaryland 72, Florida Atlantic 59

Monday’s resultsWake Forest 75, UNC Greensboro 60North Carolina 81, Rutgers 67

Tuesday’s resultsGeorgia Tech 78, Winston-Salem State 43Duke 84, Long Beach State 63N.C. State 68, Winthrop 52Clemson 70, S.C. State 67

Wednesday’s resultsVirginia Tech 85, Longwood 50North Carolina , AlbanyVirginia 72, UAB 63Miami 73, Bethune-Cookman 55William & Mary 83, Maryland 77.South Carolina at Boston College, 9 p.m.

(ESPNU)Thursday’s games

Alabama A&M at Florida State, 4 p.m.N.C. State at UNC Greensboro (Greens-

boro Coliseum), 6 p.m. (FSSO)Penn at Duke, 6 p.m. (ESPN2)Richmond at Wake Forest, 7 p.m. (ES-

PNU)Saturday’s games

Maine at Boston College, 12 p.m.Georgia Tech at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Seton Hall vs. Virginia Tech, in Cancun,

7:30 p.m. (ESPN2)

UNC 87, ALBANY 70ALBANY, N.Y. (4-10)Harris 8-16 3-4 22, McRae 1-7 0-0 2, Black

3-7 4-4 10, Ambrose 2-7 0-0 4, Gifford 0-0 0-1 0, Allen 6-8 0-0 16, Urli 1-2 0-0 2, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Metcalf 1-2 1-2 3, Tartt 0-1 1-2 1, Lindfors 1-3 0-0 3, Aronhalt 3-10 0-0 7. Totals 26-64 9-13 70.

NORTH CAROLINA (11-3)Graves 3-7 0-0 9, Thompson 6-15 3-5 15,

Davis 7-9 4-8 18, Strickland 0-2 3-4 3, Drew II 3-4 2-2 9, McDonald 4-10 1-1 9, Zeller 2-4 2-2 6, Henson 4-6 0-0 8, D.Wear 2-4 2-2 6, T.Wear 2-3 0-1 4, Thornton 0-1 0-2 0, Campbell 0-1 0-0 0, Petree 0-0 0-0 0, Gallagher 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-66 17-27 87.

Halftime—North Carolina 46-29. 3-Point Goals—Albany, N.Y. 9-30 (Allen 4-6, Harris 3-8, Lindfors 1-3, Aronhalt 1-5, Black 0-1, Urli 0-1, Tartt 0-1, Ambrose 0-2, McRae 0-3), North Carolina 4-11 (Graves 3-6, Drew II 1-1, D.Wear 0-1, Henson 0-1, McDonald 0-1, Campbell 0-1). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Albany, N.Y. 38 (Metcalf 8), North Carolina 41 (Davis 8). Assists—Albany, N.Y. 19 (Black 5), North Carolina 18 (Drew II 6). Total Fouls—Albany, N.Y. 22, North Carolina 14. A—19,225. . A—19,225.

28-59 5-15 63.VIRGINIA (7-4)Sherrill 0-0 0-0 0, Sene 0-1 1-2 1, Baker 3-8

1-2 8, Zeglinski 3-6 1-1 9, Landesberg 6-16 7-10 19, Evans 3-4 2-2 9, Farrakhan 3-5 2-2 10, Jones 0-2 0-0 0, Scott 4-7 2-2 10, Meyinsse 3-3 0-0 6. Totals 25-52 16-21 72.

Halftime—UAB 35-30. 3-Point Goals—UAB 2-14 (Millsap 1-2, Sanders 1-6, Crawford 0-1, Fields 0-2, Drake 0-3), Virginia 6-13 (Far-rakhan 2-3, Zeglinski 2-4, Evans 1-1, Baker 1-5). Fouled Out—Crawford. Rebounds—UAB 33 (Millsap 11), Virginia 32 (Scott 7). Assists—UAB 7 (Johnson 5), Virginia 15 (Baker 6). To-tal Fouls—UAB 18, Virginia 17. A—9,444.

William & Mary 83, Maryland 77

WILLIAM & MARY (9-2)

McDowell 8-14 9-9 28, Sumner 5-9 4-8 17, Kitts 5-8 1-2 11, Schneider 3-11 4-4 11, Mc-Curdy 2-6 0-0 5, Hess 2-2 1-2 5, Brown 0-1 4-4 4, Gaillard 0-1 2-2 2, Rum 0-0 0-0 0, Ludwick 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 25-53 25-31 83.

MARYLAND (8-4)

Milbourne 7-14 5-8 19, Williams 3-5 2-4 8, Hayes 3-11 0-0 8, Mosley 5-10 2-2 12, Vasquez 10-23 4-5 26, Bowie 0-1 0-0 0, Tuck-er 1-2 0-0 2, Gregory 1-2 0-0 2, Padgett 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-68 13-19 77.

Halftime—William & Mary 39-30. 3-Point Goals—William & Mary 8-23 (Sumner 3-5, McDowell 3-5, McCurdy 1-3, Schneider 1-9, Ludwick 0-1), Maryland 4-25 (Hayes 2-9, Vasquez 2-9, Bowie 0-1, Tucker 0-1, Milbourne 0-2, Mosley 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Re-bounds—William & Mary 35 (Kitts, Schneider 5), Maryland 37 (Milbourne 10). Assists—Wil-liam & Mary 15 (Schneider 5), Maryland 13 (Vasquez 6). Total Fouls—William & Mary 16, Maryland 18. A—16,418.

College ScoresMEN

SOUTHAugusta St. 86, Mount Olive 61Carson-Newman 76, Lees-McRae 57Davidson 63, Massachusetts 61Florida 79, Presbyterian 38Georgia 64, Pepperdine 47Louisville 73, South Florida 52Miami 73, Bethune-Cookman 55North Carolina 87, Albany, N.Y. 70Old Dominion 63, Duquesne 54Radford 80, George Mason 53Southern Miss. 87, Dillard 55Southern U. 67, Chicago St. 60Spalding 74, Mount St. Joseph 60Tulane 78, N. Carolina A&T 54Virginia 72, UAB 63Virginia Tech 85, Longwood 50W. Carolina 87, UNC Asheville 76William & Mary 83, Maryland 77

WOMENSOUTH

Alabama 87, Southern Miss. 61Appalachian St. 74, George Mason 54Campbell 84, Winston-Salem 54Carson-Newman 76, Augusta St. 46Chowan 85, Newport News 57Florida 80, Jacksonville 54Florida A&M 61, Alabama St. 59Florida St. 80, W. Carolina 47Gardner-Webb 72, Longwood 58Georgetown 72, Clemson 57Georgia 80, Savannah St. 45Georgia Southern 60, Florida Atlantic 43Mars Hill 66, Belmont Abbey 59McNeese St. 68, Norfolk St. 55Mercer 58, Winthrop 49Middle Tennessee 102, New Orleans 57Mississippi St. 108, Alcorn St. 67N.C. Central 84, S. Carolina St. 54Nicholls St. 56, Jackson St. 48S.C.-Upstate 71, Presbyterian 52Tennessee 102, Old Dominion 62Tennessee St. 74, Belmont 66Tennessee Tech 94, Bluefi eld 62UAB 75, Austin Peay 66Va. Commonwealth 70, Coppin St. 40William & Mary 55, Delaware St. 47

THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2009 www.hpe.com 3DPREPS

BY DANIEL KENNEDYSPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE

HIGH POINT – A sloppy fi rst half left High Point Central with a 32-22 half-time defi cit against Southwest Guilford Wednesday. Derek Grant’s layup at the buzzer left Southwest with nothing but questions of how the Bison pulled out a 51-49 thriller in the third-place game of the Bank of North Carolina Christmas Classic.

“We needed this win,” Central coach Patrick Battle said. “We had lost three or four, so no matter how bad it was, we got the ‘W’.”

Central’s Drew Adams sank a free throw to force a tie at 47 with two min-utes remaining. On the ensuing pos-session, Grant’s only steal of the fourth quarter led to a bucket by Sam Eber-hart, giving the Bison a 49-47 lead with a minute to go.

LaKeith Scott of the Cowboys nailed a jumper to create another tie with 35

seconds to play. Grant then missed apair of free throws to set up Southwestwith 16 seconds left.

Adams picked off a Cowboy passwith fi ve seconds to go and threw theball to Grant for the game-winner astime expired.

The fi nal two quarters were playedat a much different pace than the fi rst,with the Bison showing excellent re-solve to get back in the game.

Grant sparked a revamped Centraldefense with three third-quarter stealsleading to fast-break layups as theCowboy lead shrank to eight at the endof the period. The Bison also executedmuch more crisply in the halfcourtwhile closing the gap.

“I think they played extremely ag-gressive in the second half,” South-west coach Guy Shavers said. “On theoffensive end, my guys became a littlebit tentative. Our effort was solid allnight, but we didn’t execute the of-fense.”

Grant’s layup lifts Bison boys to win at buzzer

BY DANIEL KENNEDYSPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE

HIGH POINT – T. Wingate Andrews’ girls got off to a sluggish start Wednes-day afternoon against the Christian Academy of Knoxville and could not re-cover from a 32-14 halftime defi cit. com-ing up on the short end of a 64-33 fi nal in the third-place contest of the Bank of North Carolina Christmas Classic.

Knoxville came out fi ring on all cylin-ders the day after an exhaustive double-overtime game with Southwest Guil-ford, riding a wave of hot shooting from Alesa Hammaker to a 16-3 fi rst-quarter lead. Hammaker canned three 3-point-ers en route to 15 points in the fi rst half and fi nished with a game-high 25.

“We had talked about (the quick turn-around),” Warriors coach Steve Denny said of his team’s impressive display in light of the loss Tuesday. “We decided we wanted to come and do this to avoid the (holiday) layoff.”

Sequaya Jackson led the Raiders with 13 points and Elaina Skarote had eight.

“Yesterday and today, we came out fl at,” Raiders coach Weaver Walden said. “We found ourselves early in the fi rst quarter against a lead and that’s kind of hard. They fought hard in the second and third quarters and I was proud of them for that, but we’ve got to show a lot more effort.”

Wednesday’s contests held at South-west helped conclude a successful three-day event that included 13 teams of the greater Piedmont-Triad area.

The lone girls’ squad from outside the region was Denny’s Warriors. He also currently serves as athletic director in Knoxville, a position he formerly fi lled at Wesleyan Christian Academy According to Denny, the return visit to High Point went quite smoothly.

“It was good to talk to some old friends from Wesleyan,” he said. “Everybody enjoyed the trip and had a great time.”

Red Raider girls snowed under by Knoxville

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Christian Academy of Knoxville coach Steve Denny instructs his players during the Bank of North Carolina Christmas Classic. Denny, who grew up in the High Point area and coached at Wesleyan Christian Academy for many years, led his Warriors to a third-place tournament fi nish.

BY JASON QUEENSPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE

WALLBURG – The chal-lengers may change, but the result is still the same: East Davidson’s girls are tough to beat in the NewBridge Bank Christmas Classic.

The Eagles made big play after big play to hold off a feisty Central Da-vidson squad 73-69 in the tournament semifi nals at Ledford on Wednesday. The Eagles, who moved to 10-1, will face North Davidson in the fi nals at 5 p.m. today.

It wasn’t easy. East never trailed in the game and only led by double digits on two occasions. The Spartans, who came in hoping to prove their worth, certainly im-pressed Eagles coach Brian Eddinger.

“They shot the ball re-ally well tonight, they came out with a lot of intensity. They played really hard,” Eddinger said. “I was glad our girls could stay with it and fi ght through it. That’s always tough when somebody has a really good shooting night.”

The Spartans certainly did that. Central hit 11 3-pointers in the game and lived on the perimeter. Lydian Beck hit four of those 3s and fi nished with 18 points, and Mackenzie Burkhart drained three of her own and had 15. Jazmine Charles, with an array of jumpers and post moves, led the Spar-tans with 19 points.

But East always had an answer. The Eagles, who built their largest lead of the night at 42-31 early in the third quar-

ter, saw that evaporatewith Central’s 10-0 run.Beck and Burkhart hitcarbon-copy 3s from thecorner during the run toignite the Spartan crowd.Moments later, Burkharttied it with another bombfrom the same spot.

But East respondedwith an 11-3 burst ofits own, keyed by eightpoints from Stacy Hicks,to pull away.

Only fi ve East play-ers scored, but it wasenough. Haley Grimsleycame up with countlessclutch plays on her wayto 20 points, Hicks domi-nated the interior for 18points, and Taylor Hall-man countered Central’sshooting with the bulk ofher 16 points coming fromthe outside. Candace Fox,who hounded the Spar-tans’ guards all night,closed with 12 points.

East’s girls advance to tournament fi nal

BY JASON QUEENSPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRISE

WALLBURG – North Davidson’s boys fell victim to a furious rally in the semi-fi nals of the NewBridge Bank Christ-mas Classic to Ledford on Tuesday.

The Black Knights tried to pull off a similar comeback one night later in the consolation game, but East David-son was just a little too tough.

The Eagles, who led 55-39 after three quarters, got two huge defensive plays from Zach Palmer to gut out a 70-69 overtime win over North.

Bryce Williams and Landon Las-siter combined for 13 points in the fi rst quarter to stake North to a 21-10 lead early. But the Eagles got red hot in the second quarter, riding four 3-pointers from Taylor Warren to 37-32 lead at the half. East kept pouring it on in the third, with a 3 from Braxton Shetley, another from Warren and two more from Palmer to build what seemed like an insurmountable lead.

But the Knights rallied in the fourth,

ripping off 11 straight points to getwithin single digits, and they forcedovertime with three Jerry Houpe freethrows and Trevor Hinson’s bank-shot3 and free throw moments later.

Early on, it looked like overtimewouldn’t be necessary. North domi-nated the fi rst quarter, which started15 minutes early, and led 21-10 afterone. Jacobs conceded his team mayhave stuck with the original startingtime and decided to start playing atthe scheduled 5:30 start time. “We hada 10-point quarter, a 27-point quarter,an 18-point quarter and a nine-pointquarter,” Jacobs said. “That’s as big aroller-coaster ride as you can get on.

“When we’re focused, we’re reallygood. But North played extremely well,considering they were coming off anovertime game yesterday.”

Warren led all scorers with 22, andDodd kicked in 18 for the Eagles whoimproved to 6-5. Kelly Secrest led abalanced North attack with 12 points.Houpe scored 11, and Brennen Doddand Lassiter added 10 each.

Golden Eagle boys rally past Black Knights

ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORTS

BANK OF NORTH CAROLINACHRISTMAS CLASSIC

SOUTHERN GUILFORD GIRLS 51,WESLEYAN 34

HIGH POINT – Southern Guilford’s girls outscored Wesleyan Christian Academy 34-11 in the second half to take a 51-34 victory in the seventh-place game at the Bank of North Carolina Christmas Clas-sic.

Playing at High Point Central, the Storm (3-9) trailed 23-17 at halftime be-fore implementing a full-court trapping defense that led to steals and – at long last – points.

“We got some steals and made our la-yups,” Storm coach William Whitaker said. “We probably missed 15 in the fi rst half.”

Lindsay Inman sparked the surge with 11 of her 20 points in the third quar-ter. She also had 11 rebounds. Sylvia Bass added 11 points for Southern, and Nichelle Caudle and Jasmine Harper played well at the point.

CARDINAL GIBBONS GIRLS 49,CALVARY BAPTIST 38

HIGH POINT – Chloe Stapleton poured in 19 points to spark Cardinal Gibbons’ girls to a 49-38 victory over Calvary Bap-tist in the fi fth-place game of the Bank of North Carolina Christmas Classic on Wednesday at Southwest Guilford High School.

Brennan Ehlinger led Calvary with nine points.

W. GUILFORD BOYS 62, S. GUILFORD 54HIGH POINT – Western Guilford’s boys

went ahead of Southern Guilford in the fi nal three minutes to pull out a 62-54 vic-tory in the fi fth-place game of the Bank of North Carolina Christmas Classic on Wednesday at Southwest Guilford.

Western outscored the Storm 24-10 in the fourth quarter after trailing by six at the end of the third quarter.

Tyler Sutts led the Hornets with 16 points, while Antwan Wilkerson and Reggie Perkins each added 12,

Keemon Ingram of the Storm led all scorers with 23 points. Eddie Odom add-ed 12.

Southern girls top Wesleyan, 51-34

ENTERPRISE STAFF REPORTS

BASKETBALL

BISHOP MCGUINNESS BOYS 60, ROCKINGHAM CO. 50

WENTWORTH – Bishop Mc-Guinness’ boys topped host Rockingham County 60-50 and laid claim to a third straight Rockingham County Christ-mas tournament championship Wednesday night.

Tournament MVP Aaron Toomey scored 17 points, dished three assists and grabbed four

steals for the Villains, who led 39-21 going into the fourth quar-ter. Daniel McClurg added 12. Mike Banks had three assists, and Conner Brannan picked three steals.

Steve Marrujo and Atticus Lum of Bishop were also named to the all-tournament team.

BISHOP GIRLS 50, AMERICAN FORK (UTAH) 43

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Sarah Coon sank the go-ahead layup with two minutes to play as Bishop McGuinness’ girls defeated

American Fork (Utah) 50-43 in the Nike Tournament of Cham-pions on Wednesday.

The Villains (5-2) made 6-of-8 free throws in the closing mo-ments to seal the victory. Bish-op went 21-of-26 from the line for the game.

Megan Buckland paced Bish-op with 24 points. Erin Fitzger-ald added 11.

Amy Krommenhoek led American Fork (4-5) with 11 points.

Bishop plays host to the Australian Travel Team from

Gippsland on Saturday at 3 p.m.

HP CHRISTIAN BOYS 82, THOMASVILE 70

GIBSONVILLE – Mitchell Oates scored 30 points to help High Point Christian Academy’s boys defeat Thomasville 82-70 in the fi fth-place game of the Eastern Guilford tournament.

Joseph McManus added 19, Jordan Nix-Denmark 18 and Matt Loftus 12 for the Cougars (4-11). HPCA hosts Greensboro Home Educators on Tuesday.

SE GUILFORD GIRLS 66, WEST DAVIDSON 17

WALLBURG – Ayshia McNeilscored 17 points to spark South-east Guilford’s girls to a 66-17victory over West Davidson inthe consolation round of theNewBridge Bank ChristmasClassic at Ledford High Schoolon Wednesday.

Brittany Price tallied 14points for the Falcons, whileDestiny Locklear added 12 forSoutheast.

Nicole Morgan led West withfi ve points.

Bishop’s boys beat Rockingham for tournament championship


SPORTS


C H A R L O T T E S -VILLE, Va. – Sylven Landesberg scored 19 points and had two free throws and two key as-sists in the fi nal 2:36 on Wednesday night as Virginia ended No. 24 UAB’s 10-game winning streak with a 72-63 vic-tory.

The Cavaliers (7-4) beat a ranked opponent for the fi rst time since they topped Clemson last February, giving fi rst-year coach Tony Bennett his biggest vic-tory at Virginia.

The Blazers (11-2), who moved into the Top 25 this week for the fi rst time since the end of the 2006-07 season, got a ca-reer-high 27 points and 11 rebounds from Elijah Millsap.

ACC

WILLIAM & MARY 83, MARYLAND 77

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – William & Mary claimed another Atlan-tic Coast Conference victim Tuesday night, defeating Maryland 83-77 to extend its winning streak to nine games and hand the Terrapins their fi rst home loss of the season.

Sophomore Quinn McDowell scored a ca-reer-high 28 points and Danny Sumner added 17 for the Tribe (9-2), who beat Wake For-est in November. It’s the fi rst time in school history that William & Mary has defeated two ACC foes on the road in the same season.

Greivis Vasquez scored 26 – his fourth straight game with at least 20 – and Landon Milbourne had 19 for Maryland (8-4).

MIAMI 73, BETHUNE-COOKMAN 55

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – James Dews scored 12 points as Miami over-came an early Bethune-Cookman threat and de-feated the Wildcats 73-55 on Wednesday night.

VIRGINIA TECH 85, LONGWOOD 50

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Freshman Erick Green scored 15 points and Jeff Allen added 13 to lead Virginia Tech to an 85-50 win over Long-wood on Wednesday.

REGION

WESTERN CAROLINA 87, UNC ASHEVILLE 76

CULLOWHEE – Jake Robinson hit six 3-point-ers and fi nished with 25 points to lead Western Carolina to an 87-76 win over UNC Asheville on Wednesday. Robinson was 6-for-9 from 3-point range for the Cata-mounts (11-2), who hit eight of 20 3-pointers.

Landesberg leads Cavs past No. 24

UAB, 72-63


TORONTO – Chris Bosh had 33 points and 13 re-bounds, Andrea Bargnani matched his career high with 28 points, and Toron-to beat Charlotte 107-103 for its season-high fi fth

straight victory. Marco Belinelli scored 13 points and rookie DeMar DeRo-zan had 10 as Toronto avenged its worst defeat of the season, a 116-81 loss at Charlotte on Nov. 25.

Stephen Jackson scored 30 points for the Bobcats.

Raptors tame Bobcats

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TODAY’S BOWL CAPSULES---ARMED FORCES BOWL

Who: Air Force (7-5) vs. Houston (10-3)When: noon (ESPN)Line: Houston by 4 1⁄2.Series record: Tied 1-1.Last meeting: 2008 Armed Forces Bowl, Houston

34-28.What’s at stake: Houston, making its sixth bowl

appearance in seven years, goes for its fi rst 11-win season since 1979. The Cougars beat Air Force 34-28 in last year’s Armed Forces Bowl to snap an eight-game bowl losing streak that dated to a win in the 1980 Garden State Bowl. The Falcons will try to avoid their third consecutive Armed Forces Bowl loss. They are 0-6 on the TCU campus, including an 0-4 mark against the Horned Frogs.

Key matchup: Houston quarterback Case Kee-num and the nation’s best passing offense against an Air Force defense that is the best nationally vs. the pass. The Cougars lead the nation with 581 to-tal yards and 450 yards passing per game, and are second nationally with 44 points a game. Air Force, despite giving up 377 yards passing in its regular-season fi nale at BYU, allows just 149 yards through the air on average.

SUN BOWLWho: Oklahoma (7-5) vs. No. 19 Stanford (8-4)When: 2 p.m. (CBS)Line: Oklahoma by 10.Series record: Oklahoma leads 3-1.Last meeting: 1984 in Norman, Okla., Oklahoma

19-7.What’s at stake: Will it be the Toby Gerhart show?

The Cardinal running back led the nation with 1,736 yards rushing and 26 rushing touchdowns, fi nishing a close second in the balloting for the Heisman Tro-phy. Oklahoma, led by defensive tackle Gerald Mc-Coy, ranked seventh nationally in rushing defense, allowing 88.6 yards per game. The Sooners are ea-ger to fi nish with a bowl victory after losing fi ve regular-season games for the fi rst time in 11 years under coach Bob Stoops.

Key matchup: Gerhart vs. Oklahoma linebacker Travis Lewis, who led the Sooners with 100 tackles, including 55 solo and nine for losses. Gerhart aver-ages 144.6 yards rushing per game.

TEXAS BOWLWho: Missouri (8-4) vs. Navy (9-4)When: 3:30 p.m. (ESPN)Line: Missouri by 6 1⁄2.Series record: Missouri leads 2-0.Last meeting: 1961 Orange Bowl, Missouri 21-14.What’s at stake: Navy is chasing its third 10-win

season and fi rst since 2004. Navy coach Ken Niuma-talolo can set a school record with his 18th victory in his fi rst two seasons. The Midshipmen are trying to snap a three-game bowl losing streak. Missouri is trying to win a bowl game for the third consecutive year, which would be a school record.

INSIGHT BOWLWho: Iowa State (6-6) vs. Minnesota (6-6)When: 6 p.m. (NFL Network)Line: Minnesota by 2 1⁄2.Series record: Minnesota leads 22-2-1.Last meeting: 1997 in Minneapolis, Minnesota 53-29.What’s at stake: Both teams are trying to fi nish

with a winning record – no small achievement given the way they ended the regular season. The Golden Gophers lost four of their last fi ve games against major-college opponents, while the Cyclones dropped three of their last four. Despite their slow fi nish, the Cyclones improved by four games over 2008, second-best among BCS conference teams.

CHICK-FIL-A BOWLWho: No. 12 Va. Tech (9-3) vs. Tennessee (7-5)When: 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)Line: Virginia Tech by 5 1⁄2.Series record: Tennessee leads 5-2.Last meeting: 1994 Gator Bowl, Tennessee 45-34.What’s at stake: Virginia Tech, which closed its

regular season with four straight wins, is playing for its sixth straight 10-win season. The only team with a longer active streak is Texas, with nine. The Hokies, who won the Orange Bowl last season, also are looking for back-to-back bowl wins for the fi rst time in school history. Tennessee is trying to fi nish with a Top 25 ranking and give fi rst-year coach Lane Kiffi n his fi rst bowl win. Senior tailback Montario Hardesty needs 156 yards rushing to set the Vols’ single-season record, and Virginia Tech freshman Ryan Williams needs only 109 yards for the Hokies’ mark.

Bank of North Carolina Christmas Classic

Monday, Dec. 28At Southwest Guilford

Christian Academy of Knoxville girls 56, Wesleyan Christian 28

Wesleyan Christian boys 76, Western Guilford 72 (3 OTs)

Southwest Guilford girls 49, Cardinal Gibbons 43

Southwest Guilford boys 68, Christian Academy of Knoxville 53

At High Point CentralT. Wingate Andrews girls 51, South-

ern Guilford 40Westchester Country Day boys 63,

Southern Guilford 40High Point Central girls 50, Calvary

Baptist 21High Point Central boys 80, Calvary

Baptist 52

Tuesday, Dec. 29At Southwest Guilford

HP Central girls 72, T.W. Andrews 20Westchester boys 69, HP Central 67

(OT)SW Guilford girls 47, Knoxville 40 (2

OTs)Wesleyan boys 57, SW Guilford 46

At High Point CentralCardinal Gibbons girls 60, Wesleyan

35Southern boys 61, Calvary 58Calvary girls 62, Southern 61 (OT)Western boys 64, Knoxville 46

Wednesday, Dec. 30At Southwest Guilford

Fifth-place girls: Cardinal Gibbons 49, Calvary 38

Fifth-place boys: Western 62, South-ern 54

Third-place girls: Knoxville 64, An-drews 33

Third-place boys: HP Central 51, Southwest 49

At High Point CentralSeventh-place girls: Southern 51, Wes-

leyan 34Seventh-place boys: Knoxville 72,

Calvary 52Girls championship: HP Central 45,

Southwest 40Boys championship: Wesleyan 72,

Westchester 63

NewBridge Bank Christmas Classic

At LedfordSaturday, Dec. 26

North Davidson girls 60, Lexington 24Ledford girls 50, South Davidson 24Ledford boys 62, South Davidson 35

Monday, Dec. 28East Davidson girls 63, Southeast

Guilford 57Southeast Guilford boys 64, East

Davidson 59Central Davidson girls 41, West David-

son 27Central Davidson boys 49, West Da-

vidson 48

Tuesday, Dec. 29Lexington girls 53, South 44West boys 49, South 42North girls 53, Ledford 46Ledford boys 50, North 44 (OT)

Wednesday, Dec. 30Southeast girls 66, West 17East boys 70, North 69East girls 73, Central 69Southeast boys 54, Central 41

Thursday, Dec. 31Girls championship: North vs. East, 5

p.m.Boys championship: Ledford vs.

Southeast, 6:30 p.m.

Asheboro Courier-Tribune Christmas Invitational

BOYSAt Asheboro HighMonday, Dec. 28

Jordan-Matthews 72, Randleman 33Asheboro 77, SW Randolph 57

Providence Grove 67, Eastern Ran-dolph 49

Trinity 65, Wheatmore 30

Tuesday, Dec. 29SW Randolph 59, Randleman 56Wheatmore 54, E. Randolph 38Jordan-Matthews 71, Asheboro 53Providence Grove 78, Trinity 45

Wednesday, Dec. 30Seventh-place: Eastern 47, Randleman

25Fifth-place: Southwestern 45, Wheat-

more 34Third-place: Trinity 61, Asheboro 57Championship: Providence Grove 48,

Jordan-Matthews 46

Spencer ClassicFinals

At Joel ColiseumTuesday, Dec. 29

Seventh-place: Carver 58, Lexington 57

Fifth-place: North Forsyth 70, Glenn 62

Third-place: Mount Tabor 61, West Forsyth 59

Championship: Reagan 53, W-S Prep 43

Pizza Hut Invitational

At Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center

Thursday, Dec. 31BOYS (Court 1)

Northwest Guilford vs. Northeast Guilford, 11:30 a.m.

Greensboro Day vs. Smith, 1 p.m.Grimsley vs. Page, 3 p.m.Northern Guilford vs. Ragsdale, 4:30

p.m.GIRLS (Court 2)

Northern Guilford vs. Grimsley, 11 a.m.

Page vs. Ragsdale, 12:30 p.m.Smith vs. Northeast Guilford, 2 p.m.Northwest Guilford vs. Greensboro

Day, 4 p.m.Friday, Jan. 1

BOYSNorthwest-Northeast vs. Grimsley-

Page winners, 5:15 p.m.GDS-Smith vs. Northern-Ragsdale

winners, 7 p.m.Northwest-Northeast vs. Grimsley-

Page losers, 4 p.m. (Court 2)GDS-Smith vs. Northern-Ragsdale los-

ers, 5:30 p.m. (Court 2)GIRLS

Northern-Grimsley vs. Smith-North-east winners, 1:30 p.m.

Northwest-GDS vs. Page-Ragsdale winners, 3:15 p.m.

Northern-Grimsley vs. Smith-North-east losers, 12:30 p.m. (Court 2)

Northwest-GDS vs. Page-Ragsdale los-ers, 2 p.m. (Court 2)

Saturday, Jan. 2Seventh-place girls, 11:30 a.m. (Court

2)Seventh-place boys, 1 p.m. (Court 2)Fifth-place girls, 2:30 p.m. (Court 2)Fifth-place boys, 4 p.m. (Court 2)Third-place girls, 1:30 p.m.Third-place boys, 3:30 p.m.Girls championship, 5:30 p.m.Boys championship, 7:30 p.m.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government on Wednesday was moving ahead with a fresh mul-tibillion dollar cash in-fusion to stabilize auto fi nance company GMAC Financial Services as it continues to struggle with big losses in its home mortgage unit, according to a person with knowl-edge of the matter.

The person, who spoke on condition of anonym-ity because discussions weren’t complete, says the government aid would range around $3 billion. That would be less than the roughly $6 billion

the government had ear-lier thought GMAC would need to stabilize the com-pany.

Shoring up GMAC has been a major component of the Obama adminis-tration’s massive effort to rescue ailing automak-ers General Motors and Chrysler. The lender pro-vides critical wholesale fi nancing to thousands of GM and Chrysler auto dealers, allowing them to stock their showroom fl oors with vehicles. GMAC has already re-ceived $12.5 billion in taxpayer money and is 35 percent owned by the fed-

eral government.But GMAC also operates

a large residential mort-gage business, ResCap, which was battered by the recent housing collapse. GMAC was obligated by the Treasury Department to raise $11.5 billion in additional capital earlier this year after failing the government’s stress test for banks, largely because of ResCap’s big losses. However, GMAC had dif-fi culty raising money because of its fi nancial woes, making an extra government infusion nec-essary.

Treasury spokesman

Andrew Williams de-clined to offer details, but said: “Treasury is in dis-cussions with GMAC to ensure its capital needs as determined ... by the stress tests are met.”

GMAC spokeswoman Gina Proia said Wednes-day that GMAC is weigh-ing options for reviving ResCap. It is also review-ing its broader business as it tries to improve its fi nancial health and even-tually repay the taxpayer money it has already re-ceived.

Michael Carpenter, who succeeded Alvaro De Molina as the company’s

CEO in November, hassaid the company wouldneed no more than $5.6billion in aid. Lawmakersestimated the companywould receive between $2billion and $5 billion inadditional aid.

Despite the governmentsupport, GMAC still re-mains on shaky fi nancialground. Last month, it re-ported a quarterly loss of$767 million, though the re-sults were an improvementover a giant loss a year ago.ResCap lost $747 millionduring the third quarter ashomeowners continued todefault on their mortgagesin large numbers.

GMAC to get fresh aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is imposing new duties on imports of steel pipes from China, the latest sign of trade tensions between the two countries.

The case is the largest steel trade dispute in U.S. history and will impact about $2.7 billion worth of Chinese imports.

The U.S. International Trade Commission voted Wednesday to impose du-ties between 10.36 percent

and 15.78 percent on the pipes, which are mostly used in the oil and gas in-dustries. The duties are intended to offset govern-ment subsidies that the U.S. government says China is providing its steelmakers.

The move is in response to a complaint fi led in April by U.S. Steel and six other steel manufactur-ers, as well as the United Steelworkers’ union.

The U.S. industry al-leged that Chinese export-ers are selling the sub-sidized pipes at unfairly low prices in the U.S., a practice known as “dump-ing.”

The steelworkers union

said earlier this month that the dumping has harmed the U.S. steel in-dustry and caused more than 2,400 job losses since the beginning of this year.

Wednesday’s move by the ITC only addresses the U.S. industry’s con-cern that Chinese imports benefi t from government subsidies. The ITC will also vote in the spring

on whether to impose ad-ditional tariffs of up to 99 percent to penalize the Chinese steelmakers for dumping.

The Commerce Depart-ment said last month that imports of the Chinese steel pipes rose by nearly 360 percent from 2006 to 2008.

China and the U.S. are engaged in several trade disputes over market ac-

cess for goods ranging from poultry and tires to Hollywood movies.

In another steel dispute, the Commerce Depart-ment said Tuesday that it may impose antidump-ing tariffs of 14 percent to 145 percent on $91 million of steel grating imported from China. It defi nes steel grating as two or more pieces of steel joined by any assembly process.

China faces

new US duties

AP

A steel worker labors at a small-scale steel plant in Shenyang in northeast China’s Liaoning province in this June photograph.

The U.S. industry alleged that Chinese exporters are selling the subsidized pipes at unfairly low prices in the U.S.

Aetna expects charge in fourth quarter

NEW YORK (AP) — Health insurer Aetna Inc. said Wednesday it expects a fourth-quarter charge of up to $65 mil-lion to cover costs for a previously announced series of layoffs and of-fi ce consolidations.

In November, the com-pany announced plans to cut 625 jobs, or nearly 2 percent of its staff. It also said it would make a similar number of cuts by the end of 2010.

Aetna, based in Hart-ford, Conn., expects to employ about 34,300 em-ployees when the layoffs are complete in the fi rst quarter of 2010.

JAL shares dive to record low

TOKYO (AP) — Shares of strug-gling Japan Airlines Corp. nosedived to a record low Wednesday on growing fears the money-losing carrier could be put through bankruptcy court as part of restructuring.

Asia’s biggest airline, known as JAL, closed down 24 percent at 67 yen on the last trad-ing day for 2009 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Earlier in the day, JAL plunged 32 percent to 60 yen.

Oil prices dip as dollar rallies

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices dipped below $79 a barrel Wednesday as the dollar strength-ened and the govern-ment said the nation’s crude supply shrank less than expected.

Still, a strong run-up in crude prices this month has begun to tug the cost of gasoline higher. Pump prices jumped 1.5 cents over-night to a new national average of $2.623 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service.

Benchmark crude for February delivery gave up 7 cents to $78.80 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Top GM lobbyist to retire next year

WASHINGTON (AP) — General Motors Co.’s top lobbyist is expected to retire early next year.

A GM offi cial says Ken Cole, the automak-er’s vice president for government relations, will retire in early 2010 and his successor will be named later Wednes-day. The offi cial spoke on condition of anonym-ity in advance of a com-pany announcement.

LOS ANGELES (AP)— Bart Simpson andthe Sugar Bowl gameare among the possiblecasualties of a bitter dis-pute over fees that theFox network’s owner isdemanding from TimeWarner Cable systems inNew York, Los Angelesand other markets.

As a midnight Thurs-day deadline approached,though, Time Warner Ca-ble offered an olive branchthat could leave the Foxnetwork and some of itscable TV channels on thelineup for millions of sub-scribers — for now.

Time Warner CableCEO Glenn Britt saidWednesday the cable op-erator will agree to bind-ing arbitration and anyinterim steps necessaryto keep Fox channels onwhile talks continue.

“Consumers should notbe held hostage duringthese negotiations. That’sjust wrong,” Britt said inan interview Wednesday.

Britt disclosed suchwillingness in a letterto Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who had pleadedfor both sides to agree touninterrupted televisionfor football fans “throughthe college bowl season.”A copy of Britt’s letterwas forwarded to NewsCorp. Chief Operating Of-fi cer Chase Carey.

If a deal isn’t reached,programs that could disap-pear from Time WarnerCable Inc.’s lineup include“The Simpsons” and sev-eral football games, in-cluding the Sugar Bowl onFriday, the Cotton Bowl onSaturday and the NFL’s fi-nal regular season contestson Sunday.

Time Warner,

Fox resume talks

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ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines Inc. is offering travel credits to passengers on the Amsterstam-to-De-troit fl ight that a suspected terrorist tried and failed to blow up on Christmas.

Spokeswoman Susan El-liott told The Associated Press on Wednesday the world’s biggest carrier is notifying passengers about the vouchers. The amount wasn’t disclosed.

According to authorities, a Nigerian man who said he was an agent for al-Qa-ida tried to blow up North-west Airlines Flight 253 as the plane was preparing to land in Detroit on Friday. It was carrying 278 passen-gers and 11 crew members.

Delta is offering its grati-tude to one of the passen-gers who subdued the sus-pect. Elliott declined to say whether that passenger would receive additional compensation beyond the travel voucher.

Delta, which bought Northwest in 2008, is ex-pected to obtain a single operating certifi cate from the FAA by Thursday. That would allow the airline, based in Atlanta, to put its

code on Northwest fl ights and phase out the North-west name.

The 23-year-old suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutal-lab, arrived in Amsterdam on Friday from Lagos, Nigeria, on a KLM flight. Air France-KLM has a joint venture with Delta that involves sharing costs and revenue on trans-Atlantic flights.

After a layover of less than three hours in the in-

ternational departure hall, the suspect passed through a security check at the gate in Amsterdam, including a hand baggage scan and a metal detector, and headed to the Northwest fl ight. He did not pass through a full-body scanner.

Offi cials said Abdulmu-tallab apparently assembled the explosive device, includ-ing 80 grams of Pentrite, or PETN, in the aircraft toilet,

then planned to detonate it with a syringe of chemicals. Passengers intervened, and the plan failed.

Abdulmutallab’s name was in one expansive data-base, but he never made it onto more restrictive lists that would have caught the attention of U.S. counterter-rorist screeners, despite his father’s warnings to U.S. Embassy offi cials in Nige-ria last month.

Delta offers vouchers to passengers

AP

Cars drive to Murtala Mohammed in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday.

FRANKFURT (AP) — A German security expert has raised the ire of the cell phone indus-try after he and a group of researchers posted online a how-to guide for cracking the encryp-tion that keeps the calls of GSM-standard cell phone users secret.

Karsten Nohl, 28, told The Associated Press this week that he, work-ing with others online and around the world, created a codebook showing how to get past the GSM encryption used to keep conversa-tions on more than 3 bil-lion mobile phones safe from prying ears.

Nohl said the purpose was to push companies to improve security. The collaborative effort put the information online through fi le-sharing sites.

“The message is to have

better security, not we wantto break you,” he said ofthe move. “The goal is bet-ter security. If we createdmore demand for more se-curity, if any of the networkoperators could use this asa marketing feature ... thatwould be the best possibleoutcome.”

GSM, the leading cellphone technology aroundthe world, is used by sev-eral wireless carriers in theU.S., with the largest beingAT&T Inc. and T-MobileUSA. Verizon Wireless andSprint Nextel Corp. use adifferent standard.

The GSM Association, atrade group that representsnearly 800 wireless opera-tors, said it was mystifiedby Nohl’s rationale.

Claire Cranton, a spokes-woman for the London-based group, said “this ac-tivity is highly illegal in theUK and would be a seriousRIPA offense as it probablyis in most countries.”

Cell phone breach angers

industry

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended the next-to-last day of 2009 little changed as welcome news on manufacturing helped offset a drop in commodi-ties prices.

The market drew sup-port Wednesday from a key economic indicator that signaled growth in the Midwest manufactur-ing industry for a third straight month. The Chi-cago Purchasing Manag-ers Index rose to 60 in December from 56.1 in November. The report showed that production and new orders increased and employment im-proved.

A rising dollar and light volume held the market’s gains in check. A jump in the dollar makes com-modities, and thus the shares of companies that produce commodities, less attractive to foreign buyers. It also hurts the profi ts of companies that

do business overseas.Some investors have

been buying the dollar in recent weeks on the be-lief that the economy is improving and the Fed-eral Reserve will raise interest rates in the next year. That buying interest comes after a months-long slide in the greenback.

Rock-bottom interest rates have encouraged in-vestors this year to move out of cash and into riskier assets such as stocks and commodities that have the potential to earn bigger returns. While a rise in in-terest rates would be a sign that the economy is on the right track, it could hurt the stock market’s advance.

The Dow Jones indus-trial average rose 3.10, or less than 0.1 percent, to 10,548.51. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.22, or less than 0.1 percent, to 1,126.42, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 2.88, or 0.1 percent, to 2,291.28.

Stocks stay fl at on stronger

dollar

S&P 500 1126.42 +0.22 +0.02% s s s +24.71%Frankfurt DAX 5957.43 -54.12 -0.90% r s s +23.85%London FTSE 100 5397.86 -39.75 -0.73% s s s +21.73%Hong Kong Hang Seng 21496.62 -2.82 -0.01% s t s +49.41%Paris CAC-40 3935.50 -24.48 -0.62% s s s +22.30%Tokyo Nikkei 225 10546.44 -91.62 -0.86% s s s +19.04%

GlobalMarketsINDEX YEST CHG %CHG WK MO QTR YTD

Seoul Composite 1682.77 +10.29 +0.62% s s s +49.65%Singapore Straits Times 2879.76 +10.00 +0.35% s s s +63.48%Sydney All Ordinaries 4847.00 -9.70 -0.20% s s s +32.46%Taipei Taiex 8112.28 +58.45 +0.73% s s s +76.69%Shanghai Shanghai B 250.69 +0.20 +0.08% s t s +126.01%

ASIA

Amsterdam 335.14 -2.14 -0.63% s s s +36.27%Brussels 2510.66 -15.27 -0.60% s t s +31.54%Madrid 1241.72 -9.89 -0.79% t s s +27.23%Zurich 6545.91 -62.61 -0.95% t s s +18.27%Milan 23248.39 -127.85 -0.55% s s t +15.87%Johannesburg 27475.25 -179.96 -0.65% t s s +27.74%Stockholm 951.72 -14.08 -1.46% t t s +43.69%

EUROPE / AFRICA

Buenos Aires Merval 2320.73 +2.34 +0.10% s s s +114.95%Mexico City Bolsa 32448.74 -177.55 -0.54% r s s +44.99%Sao Paolo Bovespa 68588.41 +292.37 +0.43% s t s +82.66%Toronto S&P/TSX 11717.46 +15.65 +0.13% s t s +30.37%

SOUTH AMERICA / CANADA

MARKET IN REVIEW

ForeignExchange

The dollar was mixed in light trading on favorable reports on manufacturing and jobs. If the economy keeps improving, the Fed may hike interest rates next year, which would boost the dollar.

USD per British Pound 1.6069 +.0166 +1.03% 1.6462Canadian Dollar 1.0554 +.0120 +1.14% 1.1621USD per Euro 1.4334 -.0017 -.12% 1.4042Japanese Yen 92.46 +.50 +.54% 96.32Mexican Peso 13.0730 -.0040 -.03% 13.1585

6MO.MAJORS CLOSE CHG. %CHG. AGO

Israeli Shekel 3.8010 -.0002 -.08% 3.9350Norwegian Krone 5.8021 +.0002 +.12% 6.4293South African Rand 7.3925 +.0004 +.30% 7.7360Swedish Krona 7.1736 +.0008 +.57% 7.7101Swiss Franc 1.0370 -.0000 -.00% 1.0853

EUROPE/AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST

Australian Dollar 1.1185 -.0005 -.06% 1.2382Chinese Yuan 6.8265 +.0001 +.07% 6.8315Hong Kong Dollar 7.7539 -.0000 -.00% 7.7501Indian Rupee 46.533 -.0000 -.00% 47.895Singapore Dollar 1.4049 +.0002 +.03% 1.4484South Korean Won 1163.90 -.000000 -.00% 1281.75Taiwan Dollar 32.21 +.0002 +.64% 32.84

ASIA/PACIFIC

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FnInvA m LB 32.98 -.07 +34.4 +35.8 -2.7 +4.1

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Davis NYVentA m LB 31.18 -.02 +32.9 +35.1 -5.8 +1.3

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Stock LV 97.16 -.01 +32.7 +34.0 -9.0 -0.5

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Magellan LG 64.80 +.14 +42.2 +44.7 -5.1 -0.5

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TotBdId CI 10.37 +.01 +6.1 +5.8 +6.0 +5.0

TotIntl FB 14.46 -.38 +34.0 +35.4 -4.7 +4.9

TotStIAdm LB 27.74 +.01 +30.2 +32.4 -4.7 +1.2

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Welltn MA 29.01 +.01 +22.9 +23.7 +1.1 +4.9

WelltnAdm MA 50.11 +.03 +23.1 +23.8 +1.3 +5.0

WndsrII LV 23.90 +.01 +28.2 +29.9 -6.0 +1.0

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MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Dust, dust, dust. It’s every-where, burrowing under beds, piling up on win-dowsills, clogging guns and machinery, irritating eyes, noses and lungs. It soars thousands of miles over continents and oceans, sometimes oblit-erating the sky.

Enormous masses of the stuff – fi ne grains of soil, sand, smoke, soot, sea salt and other tiny particles, both seen and unseen – pervade Earth’s air, land and water.

Now scientists are be-ginning to have new re-spect for the way dust alters the environment and affects the health of people, animals and plants. As global warm-ing raises temperatures and forests are cleared for agriculture and other de-velopment, the amount of dust swirling through the Earth’s atmosphere is ex-pected to grow. The likely impact is unknown.

“Environmental sci-entists are increasingly recognizing dust as a ma-jor environmental driver and source of uncertain-ty for climate models,” said Jason Field, a soil researcher at the Univer-sity of Arizona in Tucson, who co-wrote a paper, “The Ecology of Dust,” published in t the journal Frontiers of Ecology and Environment.

By blackening snow and ice, dust even may have contributed to the end of the Ice Age 10,000 years ago.

Scientists study effect of dust on

Earth

SAN DIEGO (AP) – Amagnitude-5.8 earthquakein northern Baja Califor-nia rocked the U.S.-Mexi-co border region Wednes-day, causing buildings tosway more than 100 milesto the west in downtownSan Diego and southwest-ern Arizona.

The main quake wascentered about 20 milessoutheast of the Mexicanborder city of Mexicali,according to the U.S. Geo-logical Survey. It wasfollowed quickly by a 4.9quake and at least nineother aftershocks.

San Diego County sher-iff’s Lt. Anthony Ray saidthere were no immediatereports of damage or in-jury.

Quake shakes US-Mexico

border

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of Earth impact, even though U.S. scientists say such a scenario is unlikely.

Anatoly Perminov told Golos Rossii radio the space agency would hold a meeting soon to assess a mission to Apophis. He said his agency might eventu-ally invite NASA, the European Space Agency, the Chinese space agency and others to join the project.

When the 270-meter (885-foot) asteroid was fi rst discovered in 2004, astronomers estimated its chances of smashing into Earth in its fi rst fl yby, in 2029, at 1-in-37.

Further studies have ruled out the possibility of an impact in 2029, when the asteroid is expect-ed to come no closer than 18,300 miles (29,450 kilometers) from Earth’s surface, but they indicat-ed a small possibility of a hit on subsequent encounters.

NASA had put the chances that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 as 1-in-45,000. In October, after re-searchers recalculated the aster-oid’s path, the agency changed its estimate to 1-in-250,000.

NASA said another close en-counter in 2068 will involve a 1-in-330,000 chance of impact.

Don Yeomans, who heads NASA’s Near-Earth Object Pro-gram, said better calculations of Apophis’ path in several years

“will almost certainly remove any possibility of an Earth colli-sion” in 2036.

“While Apophis is almost certainly not a problem, I am encouraged that the Russian science community is willing to study the various defl ection options that would be available in the event of a future Earth threatening encounter by an as-teroid,” Yeomans said in an e-mail Wednesday.

Without mentioning NASA’s conclusions, Perminov said that he heard from a scientist that Apophis is getting closer and may hit the planet. “I don’t re-member exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032,” Perminov said.

Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid

AP

Let it snowA sudden storm blankets C Street with snow in downtown Vancouver, Wash., Tuesday.

Across The Nation

Around The World

0-2: Low3-5: Moderate6-7: High8-10: Very High11+: Extreme

The higher the UVindex, the higher the

need for eye andskin protection.

City Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx

ALBUQUERQUE . . . .41/17 s 46/19 sATLANTA . . . . . . . . .55/34 mc 49/24 pcBOISE . . . . . . . . . . . .34/32 sn 40/29 rsBOSTON . . . . . . . . . .40/35 rs 38/29 raCHARLESTON, SC . .59/48 ra 57/32 pcCHARLESTON, WV . .41/36 ra 41/25 rsCINCINNATI . . . . . . .39/23 rs 26/14 mcCHICAGO . . . . . . . . .30/16 sn 22/9 mcCLEVELAND . . . . . . .38/28 sn 30/17 snDALLAS . . . . . . . . . .49/30 mc 54/35 sDETROIT . . . . . . . . . .37/25 sn 30/16 mcDENVER . . . . . . . . . .35/17 pc 50/24 pcGREENSBORO . . . . .50/39 mc 43/21 shGRAND RAPIDS . . . .33/20 sn 25/14 mcHOUSTON . . . . . . . . .65/38 s 59/39 sHONOLULU . . . . . . . .81/68 s 80/67 sKANSAS CITY . . . . . . .23/9 mc 26/16 mcNEW ORLEANS . . . .66/46 mc 57/40 s


LAS VEGAS . . . . . . .54/39 s 57/42 sLOS ANGELES . . . . .65/49 pc 66/50 sMEMPHIS . . . . . . . . .50/28 ra 41/23 sMIAMI . . . . . . . . . . . .80/67 pc 80/54 shMINNEAPOLIS . . . . . . .12/-3 mc 6/-9 sMYRTLE BEACH . . . .58/49 ra 55/29 mcNEW YORK . . . . . . . .42/34 mc 43/27 rsORLANDO . . . . . . . . .76/60 mc 68/42 shPHOENIX . . . . . . . . . .63/40 s 66/44 sPITTSBURGH . . . . . .39/30 rs 30/17 snPHILADELPHIA . . . . .38/31 mc 41/26 rsPROVIDENCE . . . . . .38/33 rs 44/29 shSAN FRANCISCO . . .58/50 mc 57/47 tST. LOUIS . . . . . . . . .36/14 mc 28/18 pcSEATTLE . . . . . . . . . .46/41 t 46/41 tTULSA . . . . . . . . . . . .39/21 mc 45/26 sWASHINGTON, DC . .41/36 ra 41/25 rsWICHITA . . . . . . . . . .30/17 pc 38/22 pc

Flood Pool Current Level ChangeHigh Rock Lake 655.2 654.5 -0.2

Flood Stage Current Level ChangeYadkin College 18.0 4.79 -0.46Elkin 16.0 6.09 -0.17Wilkesboro 14.0 5.49 -0.10High Point 10.0 0.89 -0.05Ramseur 20.0 2.12 -0.23Moncure 20.0 14.51 0.00

High Point Enterprise Weather

Sun and Moon

Almanac

North Carolina State Forecast

Lake Levels & River Stages

Full12/31

Last1/7

New1/15

First1/23

Today

Mostly Cloudy

50º 39º

Friday

Few Showers

43º 22º

Saturday

Mostly Sunny

34º 18º

Sunday

Mostly Sunny

33º 20º

Monday

Mostly Sunny

34º 18º

Local Area Forecast

Pollen Forecast

UV Index

Air Quality


ACAPULCO . . . . . . . .87/71 pc 89/73 pcAMSTERDAM . . . . . .34/31 rs 34/28 rsBAGHDAD . . . . . . . .65/49 sh 66/49 sBARCELONA . . . . . .59/43 sh 55/40 shBEIJING . . . . . . . . . .28/10 s 35/12 sBEIRUT . . . . . . . . . . . . .64/54 s 67/55 pcBOGOTA . . . . . . . . . .73/41 pc 73/44 pcBERLIN . . . . . . . . . . .32/29 sn 31/27 snBUENOS AIRES . . . .81/66 s 85/66 tCAIRO . . . . . . . . . . . .72/54 s 75/55 s


COPENHAGEN . . . . .30/25 mc 28/26 clGENEVA . . . . . . . . . .49/40 ra 43/34 raGUANGZHOU . . . . . .56/54 mc 63/55 mcGUATEMALA . . . . . .75/59 pc 77/59 pcHANOI . . . . . . . . . . . .68/62 sh 69/64 shHONG KONG . . . . . . . .61/60 mc 65/51 mcKABUL . . . . . . . . . . .51/28 pc 52/29 sLONDON . . . . . . . . . .41/37 ra 40/32 rsMOSCOW . . . . . . . . .23/11 sn 16/12 clNASSAU . . . . . . . . . .80/70 pc 81/66 t


PARIS . . . . . . . . . . . .47/35 sh 36/28 rsROME . . . . . . . . . . . .62/51 ra 53/48 raSAO PAULO . . . . . . .78/69 t 77/69 tSEOUL . . . . . . . . . . . .18/7 s 24/9 sSINGAPORE . . . . . . .88/76 t 86/77 tSTOCKHOLM . . . . . . .19/17 sn 24/18 snSYDNEY . . . . . . . . . .76/70 sh 78/69 tTEHRAN . . . . . . . . . .51/43 ra 57/40 raTOKYO . . . . . . . . . . .45/36 pc 47/37 pcZURICH . . . . . . . . . . .45/37 rs 40/30 rs

Today Friday

Lake and river levels are in feet. Change is over the past 24 hrs.

Sunrise . . . . . . . . . . . .7:30 a.m.Sunset . . . . . . . . . . . .5:17 p.m.Moonrise . . . . . . . . . .5:18 p.m.Moonset . . . . . . . . . . .7:24 a.m.

Temperatures (Yesterday)

High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Normal High . . . . . . . . . . . .48Normal Low . . . . . . . . . . . .29Last Year’s High . . . . . . . .63Last Year’s Low . . . . . . . . .40Record High . . . . .76 in 1984Record Low . . . . . . .9 in 1970

Precipitation (Yesterday)

24 hours through 6 p.m. . . . . . . .0.00"Month to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.86"Normal Month to Date . . . . . . . . .2.95"Year to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45.87"Normal Year to Date . . . . . . . . .43.03"Record Precipitation . . . . . . . . . .1.08"

8 a.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1Noon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

UV Index for 3 periods of the day.


ALBEMARLE . . . . . .52/40 mc 46/21 shBREVARD . . . . . . . . .44/33 ra 37/18 mcCAPE FEAR . . . . . . .58/48 ra 56/27 raEMERALD ISLE . . . .59/46 ra 54/32 raFORT BRAGG . . . . . .55/43 mc 49/26 shGRANDFATHER MTN . .43/30 ra 31/17 snGREENVILLE . . . . . .55/43 ra 51/26 raHENDERSONVILLE .45/34 ra 36/19 mcJACKSONVILLE . . . .57/45 ra 54/27 raKINSTON . . . . . . . . . .55/43 ra 52/26 raKITTY HAWK . . . . . . .55/44 ra 51/33 raMOUNT MITCHELL . .45/33 ra 34/18 raROANOKE RAPIDS .53/41 mc 47/24 shSOUTHERN PINES . .54/42 mc 48/24 shWILLIAMSTON . . . . .54/44 ra 51/25 raYANCEYVILLE . . . . .51/39 ra 44/23 shZEBULON . . . . . . . . .53/41 mc 47/23 sh

Around Our State

Weather (Wx): cl/cloudy; fl/flurries; pc/partlycloudy; ra/rain; rs/rain & snow; s/sunny;

sh/showers; sn/snow; t/thunderstorms; w/windy

Today

Today Friday Today Friday Today Friday

Today Friday

Friday

Elizabeth City54/46

CapeHatteras60/47

Wilmington58/48

Greenville55/43

Raleigh52/40Charlotte

48/38

High Point50/39Asheville

46/34

Jamestown50/39

Randleman50/40

Denton51/40

Lexington50/39

Thomasville50/39

Winston-Salem49/38

Kernersville49/37

High Point50/39

Archdale50/39

Trinity50/39

Statistics through 6 p.m. yesterday at Greensboro

Shown is today’s weather.Temperatures are today’shighs and tonight’s lows.

Today: 48 (Good)

0-50: Good51-100: Moderate101-150: Unhealthy

(sensitive)151-200: Unhealthy201-300: Very Unhealthy301-500: Hazardous

Air quality data is providedby the Forsyth CountyEnvironmental AffairsDepartment.

0: Absent, 1-25: Low, 26-50: Moderate, 51-75: High, >75: Very High

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Today:Absent Predominant Types: None

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)– Attorneys general in13 states say congressio-nal leaders must removeNebraska’s political dealfrom the federal healthcare reform bill or face le-gal action.

Republican South Caro-lina Attorney GeneralHenry McMaster and adozen of his counter-parts are sending a letterWednesday night to HouseSpeaker Nancy Pelosi andSenate Majority LeaderHarry Reid objecting toNebraska getting a breakon Medicaid payments.

McMaster said last weekhe was leading a charge toprobe the constitutionalityof the deal he dubbed the“Cornhusker Kickback.”

Republican U.S. Sens.Lindsey Graham and JimDeMint asked McMasterto look at the bill amendedto win Nebraska Sen. BenNelson’s support.

13 AGs threaten health care suit

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