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The Carolina Panthersare on the verge of finaliz-ing a long-term deal withquarterback Cam Newton.The five-year extensionwould keep Newton undercontract through 2020 andwould pay Newton an aver-age of $20million to $21mil-lion a year, according to aleague source.The Observer addresses

questions about Newton’sdeal and what it means forthe organization’s ability tosustain success:

Q. Why now?There was a lot of specu-

lation that Newton’s campwouldwait for Seattle quar-terback Russell Wilson toget his extension, which re-portedly could reach up-ward of $25 million a year,to set the market for New-ton’s deal.But the new deal theMia-

mi Dolphins gave RyanTannehill, signed twoweeks ago, might have ac-celerated Newton’s nego-tiations. Tannehill, who re-ceived an average of $19.25million per year in newmoney, came into theleague a year after Newtonand has yet to lead the Dol-phins to a playoff berth.

Why now?Behind theNewtonextensionPanthers near deal tosign quarterback for$20M to $21M a year

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INSIDE, 1B• Sorensen: Newton aboutto be paid like elite playerhe will be.• Negotiations betweenPanthers and Newton in-tensified over the weekend.

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E-commerce giant Amazon has quietlyramped up employment at its Concord dis-tribution center over the last sevenmonths,part of a network of facilities around thecountry aimed at speeding up delivery.The facility, housed in a warehouse just

about a mile from Concord’s airport, has360 employees spread over three dailyshifts seven days a week, said site leaderBrad Stanbery. And the Seattle-based com-pany is still hiring locally: Its website onMonday listed seven Concord jobs.“We’re proud to be a part of the local com-

munities inNorth and SouthCarolina,” saidAmazon spokespersonAaronToso. “Theseareas have been great locations for us andwe’ve found quality talent in abundance.”The Concord workers walk through turn-

stiles roughly 7 feet high, underneath a signreading “Work hard. Have fun.Make history.”The site is part of a nationwide effort by

themega-retailer to exertmore control overits distribution network. In the past, freightcarriers such as UPS routinely collectedgoods from Amazon order-fulfillment cen-ters and shipped them to customers. But se-rious delivery delays during the 2013 holi-day season prompted Amazon to retaincontrol of its wares after they leave the ful-fillment centers.To do that, the company uses “sortation

centers” such as the one in Concord, whereworkers sort orders by ZIP code. The goodsthen go to customers through the U.S. Post-al Service, according to Marc Wulfraat,president of logistics and supply chain con-sulting firm MWPVL International, whohas studiedAmazon’s distributionnetwork.“By getting closer to the customer, it al-

lows them to get faster to themarket,”Wulf-raat said, adding that it brings shippingcosts down per carton. The switch to USPSfor the final leg of a product's journey alsoenables Saturday delivery, which UPS andFedEx aren’t aswell-equipped to do, he said.Amazon says the Concord center has al-

ready sped updelivery forCharlotte-area cus-tomers. Similar facilities around the countryhelped Amazon roll out same-day delivery in14 cities last week in an enhancement of its

Amazonrampsup inConcordDistribution center, with 360employees spread over 3 dailyshift 7 days a week, still hiring

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CENTRAL, S.C.—Sen. LindseyGra-ham of South Carolina returnedMonday to the neighborhoodwhere he was raised to announcethat he is running for president,

injecting a hawkish foreign policyvoice into a crowded field of Re-publican contenders.Graham entered the race a year

after his political career appearedbriefly to be on the ropes, whentea party conservatives portrayedhim as a moderate and tried toforce him out of the Senate.After fending off that challenge

with ease, Graham, 59, has said his

fear that the world is “explodingin terror and violence” inspiredhim to run for the White House.Hewill try to convince voters thata platformof pragmatism at homeand “security through strength”abroad is the formula to give Re-publicans the best chance to beatHillary RodhamClinton if she be-comes the Democratic nominee.

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U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., greets supporters Monday afterannouncing he will seek the party’s nomination for president.SEE GRAHAM, 3A

Graham focuses on protectingnation in his White House bidSenator from S.C. joins acrowded GOP presidentialfield as an underdog

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tection.McCrory praised the firm,

established in 2001, as an exam-ple of the state’s military-sup-port industry.“We cannot live off the service

MOORESVILLE — If you triedthis setting for an espionagenovel, your editor would sayit’s too far-fetched. Nobodybuilds spy planes on a little air-strip nestled among lakefrontmansions in a town synony-mous with motorsports.And yet, there it is. IOMAX

USA is a family business turn-ing out surveillance and preci-sion-strike aircraft on a penin-sula of Lake Norman on theedge of Mooresville.On Monday, Gov. Pat

McCrory turned out for theunveiling of the company’s lat-est version of its Archangel air-craft, a compact surveillanceandheavy-strikeweaponsplat-form designed for border pro-

industries or government jobs,”McCrory said. “This is the kindof talent we need to promote.”Filling three hangars at Lake

Norman Airpark, privately

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Gov. Pat McCrory praised IOMAX USA, established in 2001, as an example of the state’smilitary-support industry. “We cannot live off the service industries or government jobs.”

Warplane businessrises in MooresvilleCompany unveils 2ndgeneration of borderpatrol aircraft

By Mark [email protected]

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Guests at the Archangel’s unveiling were able to get a peek atsome of the aircraft’s new technology.

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