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LUMBERTON — The coun-ty Health Department doesn’t have enough personnel or fund-ing to promptly answer every call and complaint received about dogs running loose throughout Robeson County, according to its director.

“With only two of three Animal Control officers on duty at any one time — because of various reasons — we have to prioritize what calls we respond to,” said Bill Smith,

the director. “The order of our priorities are rabies, dog bites, dan-gerous animals, and then nuisance complaints.”

Lori Baxter, who supervises the three Animal Control officers and is manager of the county’s animal shelter in St. Pauls, agrees.

“Our officers are ridiculously overworked,” Baxter said. “I

could use five or six more officers and keep them busy, but I don’t have money in my budget to hire more.”

The number of dog complaints and calls that the officers must

answer varies daily, Baxter said.

“Some days we will have 40 dogs brought here to the shelter,” she said. “Some days there may only be five.”

On Tuesday, Rowland resident Eddie Franklin asked members of Rowland’s town board what can be done about dogs running loose in

the community. He told the board that there were at least

four dogs in his yard that dug up flowers earlier that day.

Franklin said that he called local police and an officer responded. By the time the officer arrived at his residence, however, the dogs were gone.

Rowland officials told Franklin that the county is required to respond to animal complaints. They also said that Rowland no longer has an employee designated as an Animal Control officer, and that there is no local animal

Smith defends Animal ControlToo few officers to cover county

Bill Smith Lori Baxter

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Lumbeeleader,Brooks,dies at 75Ali RockettStaff writer

PEMBROKE — Dalton Brooks, who left his mark on the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Robeson County’s education system and the religious community, died Friday. He was 75.

Brooks, of Pembroke, passed away at Southeastern Regional Medical Center suffering a heart attack this past week. As of late Friday, arrangements with Revels Funeral Home in Lumberton were still incomplete.

“He was one of the most hum-ble human beings that I have ever met,” said the Rev. Mac Legerton, co-founder and executive direc-tor of the Center for Community Action, where Brooks served as chairman of the board of directors for 10 years. “He would not have wanted to draw attention to himself or his accomplishments, but they are so great in number.”

Brooks completed his under-graduate studies at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he later returned to teach physics for three decades. He received his master’s degree from Temple University and a doctorate from the University of Miami.

While teaching at UNCP, he also served as the pastor of Dundarrach Baptist Church in Hoke County for nearly 40 years.

In 1988, when the five pub-lic schools systems in the coun-ty merged, Brooks was selected as the chairman of the Board of Education for the newly-formed Public Schools of Robeson County. He also was elected as the first chairman of the Lumbee Tribal Council when it was formed in 2001 — a seat which his brother, Paul Brooks, now holds.

According to Legerton, Brooks was a natural leader in the church and among his people, never knowing a stranger or seeing the color of one’s skin.

Dalton Brooks

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Photo by WGHPThe Montgomery County Sheriff described the man who killed three people Friday at a lumber company in Star as a disgruntled employee.

STAR (AP) — A gunman who opened fire at a North Carolina lum-ber company targeted four of his co-workers with a shotgun Friday, killing three of them and critically injuring the other person, police said.

Ronald Dean Davis went home after the rampage at the warehouse and shot himself in the head, leaving him critically wounded, Montgomery County Sheriff Dempsey Owens said. Davis, 50, was described as disgrun-tled, but the sheriff didn’t say exactly what he was upset over.

“He knew who he was after. He knew who he was going to see,” he said.

When a sheriff ’s deputy arrived at Davis’ house in Ether, in the central part of the state, they knocked on the door and no one answered. A deputy peered through the window and saw Davis sitting on the couch “with his head hung down.”

They entered and found him breath-ing, but with a single gunshot wound to his head, Owens said.

A handgun and a six-page note were found nearby. Police did not release what the note said.

“It goes into some details about some things. But really it rambles on,” Owens said.

About 16 other employees were at

the McBride Lumber Co. when Davis started firing.

“It appears he went into the build-ing with a loaded 12-gauge shotgun, went up to these four individuals and shot each one of the four,” Owens said.

The sheriff declined to release the names of the victims, saying investi-gators were still in the process of con-tacting their families. He said other than failing to validate a deer, Davis didn’t have a criminal history.

“This is indeed a dark day in Montgomery County,” he said.

3 die in workplace shooting

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is restoring full diplomatic relations with Myanmar, a landmark in the Obama administration’s drive to reward democratic reforms by a government the U.S. pre-viously treated as a pariah.

The decision announced Friday to exchange ambassa-dors with Myanmar for the first time in two decades followed the release of hun-

dreds of political prisoners, but Washington prob-ably will be looking for fair conduct in coming elections and an end to ethnic violence before it lifts sanctions.

The U.S. also wants Myanmar to open up to U.N. nuclear inspectors and sever illicit military ties with North Korea because of concerns that

Pyongyang has sold Myanmar defense hardware, including missiles, in defiance of internation-al sanctions.

Myanmar President Thein Sein pardoned 651 detainees on Friday, among them leaders of brutally repressed democratic uprisings, heads of eth-

nic minority groups, journal-

ists and even a former prime minister who had been blamed himself for incarcerating activ-ists.

President Barack Obama, in a statement, described the pardons as “a substantial step forward for democratic reform.”

The U.S. decision follows a historic visit by Hillary

Obama renews ties with MyanmarUnited States to restore full diplomatic relations with Asian country once treated as a pariah

Barack Obama

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n Break-insMAXTON — Monica Pittman, of N.C.

71 in Maxton, reported on Thursday that someone broke into her home and took two $200 wedding bands, a $50 MP3 player, a $129 Xbox 360 game console, $60 in games and a $200 cell phone, according to a sheriff ’s report.

Pittman reported about $350 damage to her door.

LUMBERTON — Tony Horn, of North Cedar Street, reported on Wednesday that someone broke into his home and took a $2,500 television, according to a police report.

n TheftsROWLAND — Randy Morgan, of

Canal Road, reported on Wednesday that someone went into his storage building and took a $300 Xbox game console, $120 in games and two $25 controllers, according to a sheriff ’s report.

LUMBERTON — Mary Locklear, of Old Allenton Road, reported on Tuesday that someone took her $600 poodle, according to a sheriff ’s report.

LUMBERTON — Steve Anderson, of Muffler King on Linkhaw Road, report-

ed on Thursday that someone took about $7,500 in vehicle tail pipes and parts from outside the store, according to a police report.

LUMBERTON — Ruby Kizar, of Eisenhower Street, reported on Thursday that someone took her $5,000 electric wheelchair from the front porch of her home, according to a police report.

LUMBERTON — Audrey Lewis, of Snake Road, reported on Thursday that someone entered her unlocked car at Bo’s Supermarket on Roberts Avenue and took $800 cash from her glove box, according to a police report.

LUMBERTON — Brittany Graham, of Maurice’s on North Elm Street, report-ed on Thursday that someone ran out of the store carrying about $800 in sweat-ers and tank tops, according to a police report.

n Vehicle theftLUMBERTON — Marcus Carmichael,

of Madison Street in Fairmont, reported on Thursday that someone took his 1994 Nissan Altima, valued at $1,000, from the side of Interstate 95 near near exit 10, according to a police report.

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NEW BERN (AP) — Three members of a home-grown ter-ror ring who conspired to attack the Quantico U.S. Marine Corps base and foreign targets were sentenced Friday to between 15 and 45 years in federal prison.

Hysen Sherifi, 27, will serve 45 years in prison; Ziyad Yaghi, 23, got nearly 32 years; and Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 24, was sentenced to 15 years. They faced the possibility of life in prison. Each said they would appeal their convictions and claimed innocence. Dozens of members of Raleigh’s Muslim community made the five-hour round-trip to coastal New Bern to witness the hearing for the men who supporters believe were unjustly convicted.

Defense attorneys argued for lesser sentences since the men were convicted of discussing ter-rorism rather than committing

terrorist acts.“I believe I am innocent. There

was no conspiracy,” said Serifi, who called his guilty verdict unfair and prosecutors tyrants.

But U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan said the men went beyond talk to planning vio-lence.

Yaghi was a “self-starter” in pursuing holy war against those deemed un-Islamic and brought several potential jihadi recruits to ringleader Daniel Patrick Boyd, whose rural Johnston County home was a warehouse of weapons, Flanagan said. Yaghi traveled to Jordan and Israel to look for avenues to join other militants and to scout tar-gets for an attack.

Sherifi discussed an attack on the Quantico, Va., Marine Corps base with Boyd, a Muslim con-vert who had lived on the base as a child with his Marine officer

father.Hassan used his Facebook

account and Internet forums to post his own comments and videos by others encouraging Muslims to fight nonbelievers and Muslims who did not agree with their desire to establish mandatory religious law, pros-ecutors said.

Hassan also attempted to contact Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American-born Muslim preach-er and al-Qaida propagandist, and emailed a co-conspirator a copy of Al-Awlaki’s tract “44 ways to support Jihad,” Flanagan said. Al-Awlaki was killed by an American airstrike in September in the mountains of Yemen.

“You willingly became part of the Internet propaganda machine that is a canker on this world,” Flanagan said. “You were prey, and a component, of

something that was incredibly harmful and destructive.”

The trio is among eight men who federal investigators say raised money, stockpiled weap-ons and trained in preparation for jihadist attacks. The plot “had a specific purpose — to inspire others to adhere to radi-cal Islam and if you did not you were fair game,” prosecutor Jason Kellhofer said.

Hassan called his actions stu-pid, but not a crime.

“I did post some highly inflam-matory things on the Internet, but I am no terrorist,” he said. He rejected Flanigan’s sentence, and his father, Aly Hassan, accused the judge and prosecu-tors of targeting Muslims.

“You’re prosecuting Islam. The judge should be sitting here with the government,” Aly Hassan said, pointing to the prosecutors.

Yaghi was convicted of con-spiracy to provide material sup-port to terrorism and conspira-cy to carry out attacks overseas. Sherifi was convicted of both crimes, two counts of firearms possession, and conspiracy to kill federal officers or employees for plotting the Quantico attack. Hassan was convicted of provid-ing material support to terror-ists, but acquitted of a charge of conspiracy to carry out attacks overseas.

Boyd pleaded guilty to terror-ism-related charges in February and has yet to be sentenced. Two of his sons pleaded guilty to similar charges and were sen-tenced to eight years and nine years in prison.

Another defendant, Anes Subasic, is set to be tried sepa-rately, while an eighth indicted man is at large and believed to be in Pakistan.

Terror ring

Three men get 15-45 years in prison

RALEIGH (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Lanier Cansler will leave Gov. Beverly Perdue’s Cabinet at the end of the month after three years running one of the largest and most complicated depart-ments in state govern-ment and return to the private sector.

Perdue announced Friday that Cansler, a Republican in a Democratic administra-tion, would head a new commission that the gov-ernor has yet to assemble on affordable health care in the state.

The governor’s senior poli-cy adviser — Al Delia — will become acting HHS secretary early next month. The depart-ment receives $4.5 billion in state funds, or nearly one-quar-ter of the state’s budget, to run

Medicaid, mental health facili-ties, social services and other health programs.

Cansler’s last day will be Jan. 31, according to department spokeswoman Renee McCoy. Cansler was unavailable for an

interview late Friday because McCoy said he was talking to staff about the transition. He was quoted in Perdue’s release as saying he had been honored to serve on Perdue’s staff “as she steered the state through incredibly difficult times and stabilized North

Carolina’s fiscal house.”“We cut spending, eliminated

waste and consolidated agencies — all to make state government more efficient without neglect-ing our core mission of serving the people,” Cansler, 58, said in a prepared statement.

Cansler’s department had taken heat recently from Republican legislators for managing the Medicaid pro-gram and the costs related to a new claims processing sys-tem. Cansler and other Perdue administration members had been at odds with the Legislature in the past few months over how to close a Medicaid budget shortfall of nearly $150 million.

Cansler largely had taken a more moderat-ing tone while dealing with the GOP leaders at the Legislature compared to Delia and others, who had been speaking out more forcefully against Republicans about the Medicaid hole and the blame for it.

Perdue said in the statement she will miss Cansler’s “calm,

wise advice” but that she would “continue to rely on his coun-sel.”

“The state is better for his service,” she added.

Cansler, from Asheville, served in the state House for

three full terms before leaving in 2001 to become deputy HHS secretary in Gov. Mike Easley’s administration under then-Secretary Carmen Hooker Odom. He left in 2005 and start-ed a consulting business that was involved in department issues.

Cansler’s consulting clients included Computer Sciences Corp., which landed a con-tract announced in late 2008 to complete an overhaul of North Carolina’s Medicaid billing sys-tem. The project has yet to be completed, and a state audit

finalized for release this week said a Medicaid agency didn’t fully document details on how the delays came about.

Cansler said he’s kept the project at arm’s length while secretary and hasn’t been involved in the contract details to avoid conflict-of-interest issues. He wrote a missive released Tuesday with the per-formance audit to State Auditor Beth Wood’s Office criticizing the work of auditors.

Delia, a former East Carolina University administrator, is a “trusted adviser” to Perdue who will be ready to go to work when he assumes the post, Perdue spokesman Mark Johnson said. Asked why Delia was named an acting replace-ment, Johnson said Delia and the governor “will assess the long term leadership needs and structure at the department.”

Health secretary leaving Perdue’s Cabinet

Lanier Cansler Gov. Perdue

GREENSBORO (AP) — Ex-presidential candidate John Edwards has a serious heart condition that will require a medi-cal procedure next month and his illness limits his travel including for an upcoming court case over possible campaign viola-tions, his doctor told a judge, who delayed the trial.

Federal Judge Catherine Eagles did not disclose the exact nature of Edwards’ ill-ness Friday or what procedure he needed. However, she said the two-time presidential candidate had “three episodes” and indicated his condition could be life-threatening if left untreated.

A cardiologist for the 58-year-old ex-North Carolina senator wrote two letters about his condition to Eagles, who talked about them dur-ing a hearing to consider whether the trial on six felony and misdemeanor counts should begin this month. Eagles said jury selection will now start March 26, at the earliest.

Edwards is taking medication and is scheduled to undergo a procedure in February from which it will take several days to recover, Eagles said. She did not describe what the episodes involved or if the procedure would require unclogging arteries or other common treatments. The doctor’s letters and other medical

records have been kept under seal by the court.

“The public has an interest in a speedy trial,” Eagles said from the bench. “Ordinarily, I would try to manage some-thing like this. But clearly there are some limitations on Mr. Edwards due to real and serious health issues.”

His doctor had recommended he not drive or travel, but at the judge’s request,

Edwards was in court. He didn’t appear to have any outward signs of illness, though he was without his usual quick smile or bounce in his step.

The trial has already been delayed twice, including a contin-uance granted so Edwards could attend his eldest daughter’s wed-ding.

Prosecutors took no position on whether the judge should grant the delay due the defendant’s health condition, but said they were ready to try Edwards. He is accused of concealing nearly $1 million in cash and checks from wealthy donors used to help hide his pregnant mistress during his 2008 White House run.

Edwards’s legal team and spokespeo-ple have been mum about his condition since his diagnosis last month, declining repeated requests for comment on his condition, including after the hearing.

Edwards trial delayedDoctor says former presidential hopeful has heart condition

John Edwards

RALEIGH (AP) — An 88-year-old Rocky Mount man who was separated from his dog when he left his home under duress is about to move to a new place, thanks to the work of volunteers and some generous benefactors.

Volunteers say they’ll start moving Walter Bryant Jr. and his 11-year-old dog, Koal, to a new rental house today. He’s able to move to the brick, two-bedroom, one-bath house because one anonymous benefactor has paid rent for one year while another donated $5,000 for expenses.

Other people have offered smaller amounts to help him pay bills, such as utilities, and volunteers will move his furniture and other belongings to the new home.

“There’s more life to me now than there was,” Bryant said in a phone interview, adding that he credited Koal. “There’s a big change because of him because he was my life and still is now. And I hope he will be for a while.”

Bryant got Koal when the mixed-breed, brindle-colored dog was 3 months old. Koal would wait at the door of their home for Bryant to wipe his feet. When

Bryant ate his dinner at a table, Koal ate his from a bowl on the floor, waiting for Bryant to wipe his mouth with a napkin when he finished.

The two were separated in November when Bryant left the house because it didn’t have heat. He also felt pressure because the city would like to procure his house for a redevelopment project, and he has relatives who stand to profit if the house is sold. The two have lived together in a hotel room since New Year’s Eve, when volunteers cobbled together donations to pay a discount rate the hotel offered.

Bryant had lifetime occupancy rights to the 109-year-old house that his father built, but other family members would own the house after he moves. The house was willed to Bryant’s siblings and is owned by them and their heirs.

Bryant said he has paid for everything at the house — taxes, utilities, mainte-nance and the like— since he was in his teens, even when his parents were alive. “I’ve treated it like my own house since I was 17 years old,” Bryant said Friday, even though he had no formal agree-ment with his family to do that.

Man, dog get new home

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Allen G. BreedJulie WatsonAssociated Press

Since before Achilles dragged Hector’s body around the walls of Troy in the 12th century B.C., warriors have been des-ecrating the corpses of their vanquished enemies, whether to send a mes-sage or exact revenge.

And for just as long, they have known in their hearts that it was wrong.

The video that surfaced this week of four Marines apparently urinating on three Taliban corpses has stirred outrage in the U.S. and beyond, but also focused attention on the brutalizing effects of war on those sent to wage it.

Reserve Marine Lt. Col. Paul Hackett, who teaches the law of war to Marines before they are sent off to Afghanistan, made it clear Friday that he was not condoning the Marines’ actions. But he warned against judging them too harshly, saying: “When you ask young men to go kill people for a living, it takes a whole lot of effort to rein that in.”

Little comparisonIn the long history of

war, the episode pales in comparison to other bat-tlefield atrocities. But one difference this time was that, in the Internet age, it was captured on camera and instantly shared with the rest of the world.

“This outrage is so interesting to me because it almost tops that” of other, more ghastly war crimes, said psychologist Eric Zillmer, a Drexel University professor and co-editor of the book “Military Psychology: Clinical and Operational Applications.” ‘’Because of the technology, the video, you actually see it. Most of the other war crimes, you heard about, you read about.”

The Geneva Conventions forbid the desecration of the dead, and officials in the U.S. and abroad have called for swift punish-ment for the four Marines, identified as members of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, which fought in the Afghan province of Helmand for seven months

before returning to Camp Lejeune, N.C.

The prohibition against desecrating the battlefield dead is almost as old as war itself.

In Homer’s “Iliad,” Achilles kills Hector and refuses to allow for a proper burial. He relents after Zeus sends word that Achilles “tempts the wrath of heaven too far” with his desire to “vent his mad vengeance on the sacred dead.”

In the 7th century, Abu Bakr, father-in-law of the prophet Muhammad and Islam’s first caliph, issued 10 rules to his people for their guidance on the battlefield. Among them: “You must not mutilate dead bodies.”

In 1907, the Hague Convention said that after every engagement, the combatants should take steps to protect the dead against “pillage.” The first Geneva Convention in 1949 addressed prevent-ing the dead from “being despoiled.”

The history of war is replete with stories of atrocities committed to send a message. In the 15th century, Prince Vlad III of Wallachia struck fear in his Turkish ene-mies — and earned his gruesome nickname, Vlad the Impaler — by litter-ing the battlefield with the impaled corpses of the vanquished.

Over the centuries, fingers, scalps and other body parts have been taken as battlefield tro-phies.

‘Inappropriate’Nevertheless, Zillmer

said the desecration of a dead foe is “taboo across cultures.”

“It doesn’t need to be explained to be inappro-priate,” he said. “Anybody who looks at it says it’s disgusting.”

But, like Hackett, he said it can be difficult for soldiers, particularly mem-bers of a tightknit group, to go on killing missions and then just “switch off.” And he said the inhibi-tions against such miscon-duct tend to fall away as the number of participants increases, a phenomenon he calls “diffusion of responsibility.”

Desecration ofthe dead is asold as war itself

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions rising by the day, the Obama administration said Friday it is warning Iran through public and private channels against any action that threatens the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf.

Spokesmen were vague on what the United States would do about Iran’s threat to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but military officials have been clear that the U.S. is readying for a possible naval clash.

That prospect is the latest flashpoint with Iran, and one of the most serious. Although it currently overshadows the threat of war over Iran’s dis-puted nuclear program, per-haps beginning with an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear structure, both simmering cri-ses raise the possibility of a

shooting war this year.“We have to make sure we

are ready for any situation and have all options on the table,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said, address-ing a soldier’s question Thursday about the over-all risk of war with Iran.

For several reasons, the risk of open conflict with Tehran appears higher in this election year than at any point since President Barack Obama took office with a pledge to try to bridge 30 years of enmity. A clash would represent a failure of U.S. policy on several fronts, and vault now-dormant nation-al security concerns into the presidential election contest.

The U.S. still hopes that international pressure will per-

suade Iran to back down on its disputed nuclear program, but the Islamic regime shows no sign it would willingly give up a project has become a point of

national pride. A bomb, or the ability to quickly make one, could also be worth much more to Iran as a bargaining chip down the road.

Time is short, with Iran making several leaps toward the abil-ity to manufacture a weapon if it chooses to do so. Iran claims its

nuclear development is intend-ed for the peaceful production of nuclear energy. Meanwhile, several longstanding assump-tions about U.S. influence and the value of a targeted strike to stymie Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon have changed.

For one, the White House is no longer confident it could prevail on Israel not to launch such a strike.

An escalating covert cam-paign of sabotage and targeted assassinations highlighted by this week’s killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist may not be enough to head off a larger shooting war, and could prod Iran to strike first.

The brazen killing of a young scientist by motorcycle-riding bombers is almost surely the work of Israel, according to U.S. and other officials speak-ing on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. The killing on a Tehran street followed the deaths of several other Iranians involved in the nuclear program, a mysterious explosion at an Iranian nuclear site that may have been sabo-

tage and the apparent targeting of the program with an efficient computer virus.

Iranian officials accuse both Israel and the U.S. of carrying out the assassination as part of a secret operation to stop Iran’s nuclear program. The killing came a day after Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parlia-mentary panel that 2012 would be a “critical year” for Iran — in part because of “things that happen to it unnaturally.”

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Panetta made a point of publicly deny-ing any U.S. involvement, but the administration tied itself in knots this week over how far to go in condemning an action that could further the U.S. goal of stalling Iranian nuclear prog-ress.

US warns Iran not to block shipping

Leon Panetta

WASHINGTON (AP) — A sign that Europe’s crisis has begun to weigh on the U.S. economy emerged Friday from a report that exports to the continent sank in November — far more than overall U.S. exports did.

Europe, which consumes nearly one-fifth of America’s exports, may already be in a recession.

A weakening Europe could further shrink demand for American goods and slow the

U.S. economy just as the job market has started to strength-en.

“The decline in our sales to Europe was fairly large and may be the start of a longer-term trend in declining exports to the continent,” said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors.

The U.S. trade deficit rose 10.4 percent in November to $47.8 billion, the Commerce Department said.

Higher oil prices were the

main reason the deficit wid-ened. Oil rose above $100 per barrel in November. It had been as low as $75 a barrel the previ-ous month. More expensive oil drove the value of imports up 1.3 percent, to a record $225.6 billion.

Overall exports dropped 0.9 percent to $177.8 billion. American exports to Europe fell much more sharply — near-ly 6 percent.

Economic growth weakens when exports decline because

factories tend to produce fewer goods. And U.S. companies earn less. Friday’s trade report led some economists to cut their growth estimates for the October-December quarter.

Many economists had expect-ed growth to be stronger after seeing more hiring, an increase in company stockpiles and fast-er production at U.S. factories. Most had been predicting that the economy would grow this quarter at an annual rate of roughly 3 percent.

But Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist for Capital Economists, said he now expects growth to be closer to 2 percent, in part because of the weaker trade report and also because of December’s dis-appointing retail sales.

“The widening in the U.S. trade deficit in November ... is perhaps the first real sign that the crisis in Europe and the more general global slowdown is starting to take its toll on the U.S.,” Dales said.

Weaker Europe starts to lose appetite for US goods

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uring the Great Depression, my father toiled in a box factory. The workers were all flat broke, he recalled, and desper-

ate for every nickel. But when overtime hours appeared, the men made sure they went to a guy with kids. The laborers were obeying the unwritten and unenforceable “humanity clause,” whereby one gives up some personal gain in defer-ence to another’s screaming need.

My father later built a pros-perous small business and became a reliable Republican (until the Bill Clinton impeach-ment). But he never saw working people as nobodies. Profits, while important, were not all.

A lack of similar empathy is what many find most disquieting about Mitt Romney, whose private-equity firm pumped his fortune to perhaps $250 million. It’s more than just the nature of the business. It was a cer-tain inhumanity of the Bostonians running Bain Capital, namely Mitt.

Private equity executives argue that by wringing costs out of the companies they buy, the firms emerge stronger. They often save ailing businesses for the good of the workers, as well as the investors.

Critics say such investors often loot companies. They slash workforc-es, pile on debt and enrich the part-

ners, leaving the weakened patient to die. Bain excelled at these leveraged buyouts. A steel mill in Kansas City serves as a vivid example, as Reuters reports.

Under Romney’s leadership, Bain bought majority control of Worldwide Grinding Systems in 1993. It put up $8 million of the $75 million purchase price and borrowed $125 mil-lion by issuing bonds. In busi-ness since 1888, the mill was renamed GS Technologies. Bain immediately sent investors $36 million in dividend checks.

“Paying distributions with debt is not uncommon,” Duke University finance professor

Campbell Harvey told Reuters. “The only thing that strikes me as a bit unusual is the size of the dividend. There would be logic in them saving some cash for a downturn.”

A steel business is capital-intensive and sensitive to economic conditions. That’s why it needs to conserve money for the lean years. When the economy did go south, so did GS Technologies. Its bean-counters reportedly started skimping on everything from earplugs to basic maintenance of equipment.

GS Technologies went bankrupt in 2001, the plant closed, and 750 workers lost their jobs. Bain skipped out on a previous agreement to pro-vide severance pay and health cover-age if that happened. The workers

saw their pensions slashed by up to $400 a month.

But Bain walked away from the smoking ruins $12 million richer, not including $4.5 million in consulting fees. And it had tapped government, as well. The company had extracted $3 million in tax savings from Kansas City and partook of a federal program putting taxpayer guarantees on loans to troubled steel compa-nies. The federal Pension Benefits Guarantee Corp. bailed out the com-pany’s underfunded pension plan to the tune of $44 million.

Bain blamed the company’s fail-ure on an economic downturn and cheaper steel imports. The compa-ny’s former CEO Roger Regelbrugge blamed burdensome debt and new managers from outside the steel industry. “I have no question that the company would have survived under different management,” he said.

The moral here is that there was no morality. In normal business, companies do fail, and layoffs some-times must happen. But after feast-ing off the company, Bain had the means to keep its word to the work-ers. That should have been a matter of honor.

I don’t think Romney took sadistic pleasure in firing the machinists and pipefitters. Possibly worse, he never saw them as human beings — but as potential subtraction to his personal bottom line. They never registered with him one way or another.

The missing humanity at Bain

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Mandate not the only problemost people have heard that Obamacare is being challenged as uncon-stitutional because it contains an individual mandate forcing

people to purchase health insurance. That challenge is due to be heard by the Supreme Court this year. But while the mandate is certainly problematic in a system that, at least notionally, is one of limited and enumerated pow-ers, the mandate is not the worst part of this bill — not by a long shot.

Truly, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act belongs in a museum somewhere in an exhibit about what can happen when you elect Democrat majorities to the House, Senate and White House. Like so much else in the Democratic agenda (Dodd-Frank, environmental regulation, mortgage relief), it relies not on incentives, competition or patient choice but on blatant government coercion.

The PPAC squeaked to passage only because it was rumored to contain (no one read it) cost-con-trolling measures. Even Democrats are aware that Medicare alone faces a $30.8 trillion shortfall over the next several decades. The president accordingly sold the legislation with the claim that Obamacare would reduce the deficit.

That promise is about as reliable as one feature of the bill, the so-called CLASS Act to provide long-term care. The CLASS Act is dead. Just months after the bill’s pas-sage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had to admit that the program ran afoul of basic arithmetic. She was forced to acknowledge this reality because

the canny Sen. Judd Gregg had slipped an amendment into the legislation requiring that HHS cer-tify the program’s actuarial sound-ness. (Why don’t all laws have this

requirement?)PPAC does contain a cost-

controlling measure — and this where the legislation careens not just into uncon-stitutionality but lawlessness. All decisions about controlling Medicare costs will be decided by the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

IPAB is a new thing in American government. Unlike most other boards and com-missions, the panel’s 15 mem-

bers (appointed by the president and approved by the Senate) need not be bipartisan. Also, unlike other boards, commissions and federal agencies, the IPABs decisions are virtually unreviewable. IPAB doesn’t have to adhere to the notice and comment rules of federal agencies, which permit citizens to respond to proposed rule-makings. IPAB dictates automatically become law unless Congress itself intervenes. Ah, but they’ve thought of that and made it virtually impossible. The law prescribes that Congress has a limited period of time in which it can modify IPAB rulings, and then it must do so by a three-fifths majority. Even ratifying treaties and amending the Constitution requires only two-thirds majorities. As for the courts, forget it. The judiciary is forbidden to review IPAB decisions.

The really bizarre part, remi-niscent of the “I wouldn’t do that Dave” scene in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” is that Congress can only repeal IPAB itself under strict conditions. Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute explains:

“Under the statute, any bill to repeal IPAB must be introduced within the one-month period between Jan. 1 and Feb. 1, 2017. If introduced, it must be enacted by a three-fifths super-majority no later than Aug. 15, 2017. If passed, the IPAB repeal will not become effec-tive until 2020 — leaving an out-of-control agency in operation for three years after Congress votes to abolish it.”

Call it Nancy Pelosi’s revenge. The Democratic Party, supposedly so close to the people, writes legis-lation to insulate government from democratic accountability.

Starting in 2014, the board will make recommendations to control Medicare spending, but the law prohibits IPAB from recommend-ing 1) rationing of health care, 2) increases in premiums, 3) increases in copays or deductibles, or 4) changing eligibility requirements or benefits. What’s left? Reducing payments to doctors and hospitals. This sets up the obvious problem that is already plaguing Medicaid — when doctors and hospitals receive reduced reimbursement, they become less likely to accept Medicare patients. So Medicare patients will find it harder to get treatment, which is, in effect, a form of rationing.

The Goldwater Institute Center for Constitutional Litigation has challenged the constitutionality of IPAB, and based on the Supreme Court’s history of displeasure with delegations of power by Congress (for example in the line item veto case), they may have a strong case. But whatever the outcome of these legal cases may be, the clamor for repeal — by the elected branches of government — of this poisonous hydra cannot flag.

he North Korean government says it’s willing to suspend the uranium enrichment program if the United States will send the impoverished nation some food.

The possibility of such an exchange has been talked about for months, long before Kim Jong Il died and was succeeded by his son.

Actually, the United States has indicated it would send North Korea food supplies without a deal involving the nuclear pro-gram. Now, the communist gadfly says it will negotiate an agreement if America makes a goodwill gesture of food assistance.

We don’t trust the mercurial North Korean leadership, but a deal could relax the tension between North and South Korea, at least in the short term.

North Korea and the United States are philosophical opposites. Communism and democracy abhor each other. But North Korea is socially stratified, with the upper echelon — mostly the political and military cadres — enjoying the perks of tyranny and everyone else forced to scramble for food and other everyday necessities.

These people are not the enemies of peaceful coexistence.

It is galling to many Americans that this nation’s leaders would consider dealing with communist caprice. But there are lots of hungry people in North Korea and not even China seems willing to help. Too, cur-ing the food crisis in North Korea probably is beyond the resources of any one nation.

This would not be the first time the United States has gone to the rescue of a communist country. After World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, a series of crop failures plunged much of Russia into starva-tion. Food wasn’t just scarce, it was non-existent for millions of people.

At first, the communists didn’t want help. But author and activist Maxim Gorky sent personal letters pleading for help. When America responded, the communists relent-ed. The bodies were piling up in Russia. Depending on the source, the final death toll from starvation was estimated at 3 mil-lion to 15 million people. Some sources inside Russia put the body count as high as 25 million.

The United States sent food at first, then food and seeds in an attempt to restore Russian agriculture. Seeds were sent later so a hungry population wouldn’t eat them and be left with nothing to plant.

The food crisis in Russia lasted into 1923 when a good harvest broke the famine. America sent tons of food to Russia without conditions or demands.

Later, when the Cold War escalated, Soviet leaders dismissed American largesse as hegemony — a political ploy aimed at influencing internal affairs.

We run the same risk of future denial of purpose with North Korea. The question, then, is whether the United States should provide desperately needed humanitarian aid and see if the communists hold up their end of the bargain, or do nothing about North Korean overtures.

We say deal. Allowing people to suffer from hunger is as repulsive to Americas as political tyranny. We don’t trust North Korea, and our attitude won’t change with or without an agreement. But there is a chance, however small, we can make a dif-ference.

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LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court on Friday sen-tenced Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison for murder of a young woman he met at a Lima casino, even as the family of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway sought to have him prosecuted in the U.S. over her disappear-ance in 2005.

The decision comes two days after the young Dutchman plead-ed guilty to killing Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old business student.

The court also ordered him to pay $75,000 in reparations to the victim’s family, deeming the kill-ing “cruel” and “ferocious.”

Van der Sloot showed no emo-tion as the court clerk read the sentence, describing how he elbowed Flores in the face then beat and strangled her with his bloodied shirt. He told the court he would appeal the sentence.

It is the first ever imposed on him, despite prosecutors’ repeated efforts to prove he was involved in Holloway’s apparent death on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.

The judges said that due to time already served, van der Sloot’s sentence would end in June 2038. But under Peru’s penal system, Van der Sloot could become eligible for parole

after serving half of the sentence with good behavior, including work and study.

The prosecution had sought a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder and theft.

Van der Sloot’s lawyer argued he killed Flores on May 30, 2010, in a fit of rage he blamed on psychological trauma from being hounded as the prime suspect in Holloway case.

The victim’s father, Ricardo Flores, complained after the sen-

tencing that Van der Sloot was living well in a Lima prison, where he has been set apart from the general population.

“A jail isn’t a five-star hotel,” Ricardo Flores told reporters. “Let’s hope the authorities take that into account and not just in our case.”

“Since the first day we’ve been complaining about the excessive privileges” that Van der Sloot allegedly enjoyed in jail. He said he would present evidence of

that at a news conference on Monday.

Unconfirmed news reports, denied by penal authorities, say Van der Sloot has also had a television and video gaming console. As in many developing nations, foreigners with money can buy superior treatment in Peru’s prisons.

The Holloway case remains open and a U.S. judge on Thursday declared her dead.

Her parents want Van der Sloot to eventually be extradited to the U.S. and tried on related charg-es, although Peruvian criminal law expert Luis Lamas said the law speci-fies that Van der Sloot must serve his time before he can be extradited.

Van der Sloot was indicted on extortion charges in Alabama the same day he was arrested for the Flores murder for allegedly accepting $25,000 in return for a promise to lead a lawyer for Holloway’s mother to her daugh-ter’s remains.

Van der Sloot didn’t deliver on the offer, and may have used some of that money to fly to Peru two weeks before the Flores murder.

After killing the Lima woman,

he took nearly $300 in cash from Flores as well as credit cards, and was captured four days later in Chile.

Van der Sloot told police he flew into a rage when she discov-ered his connection to Holloway via an instant message sent to him while they were playing online poker in his hotel room.

Police forensic experts dis-puted that story, and the three female judges who sentenced him noted that Van der Sloot later recanted the confession, claiming it was exacted under duress and without an official translator.

The victim’s family con-tends Van der Sloot killed Flores in order to rob her.

The imposing young man raised on a tourist island has been a staple of tabloids and true crime TV, as well as the subject of several books about Natalee Holloway.

“We’ve been dealing with her death for the last six and a half years,” her father, Dave Holloway, said after Thursday’s hearing in Birmingham, Alabama.

He said the judge’s order there on his daughter’s death closes one chapter in the ordeal, but added: “We’ve still got a long way to go to get justice.”

Peru court sentences Van der SlootHolloway case suspect gets 28 years for death of Peruvian woman

Karel Navarro | Associated PressJoran van der Sloot pleaded guilty in Peru to killing Stephany Flores two days before his sentence was handed down.

S. Flores

PARIS (AP) — Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s dealt a setback Friday to Europe’s ability to fight off a worsening debt crisis by downgrad-ing the government debt of France, Italy, Spain and Austria. But it kept Germany’s at the coveted AAA level.

All told, S&P cut its ratings on nine eurozone countries.

The downgrades could drive up yields on European government debt as investors demand more compen-sation for holding bonds deemed to be riskier than they had been. Higher borrowing costs would put more financial pressure on countries already contending with heavy debt burdens.

The rating agency ended France and Austria’s triple-A status. It also lowered Italy’s and Spain’s by two notches and did the same for Portugal and Cyprus. S&P also cut ratings on Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia.

“In our view, the policy initiatives taken by European policymakers in recent weeks may be insufficient to fully address ongoing systemic stresses in the eurozone,” S&P said in a statement.

France’s downgrade to AA+ low-ers it to the level of U.S. long-term debt, which S&P downgraded last

summer.S&P had warned 15 European

nations in December that they were at risk for a downgrade.

France is the second-largest con-tributor behind Germany to Europe’s financial rescue fund. The fund still has a rating of AAA. That means that it can borrow on the bond market at low rates.

Some analysts downplayed the impact of the downgrades.

“It’s going to create bad headlines for a day or two,” said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. But “there’s no underly-ing new information ... This will be quickly forgotten.”

Still, the cut in the French credit rating may lead bond traders to raise borrowing costs for the financial rescue fund, said Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott, a financial firm.

“There’s a legitimate reason to be concerned,” he said. “A weaker France means a weaker bailout fund.”

Stocks fell Friday as downgrade rumors reached the trading floors of Europe and the United States. But the declines were nothing like the wrenching swings of last summer

and fall, when the debt crisis threw the markets into turmoil.

The Dow Jones industrial average in New York was down 0.5 percent. Stocks fell 0.6 percent in Germany, 0.5 percent in Britain and 0.1 in France, but each of those markets closed before Baroin made his announcement on French television.

Borrowing costs for the French gov-ernment rose before the announce-ment. The yield on France’s 10-year government bond rose to 3.1 percent from 3 percent earlier. That is still less than the 3.36 percent rate on the same bond last week and far below the 6.6 percent that Italy has to pay to borrow money from bond inves-tors for 10 years.

Germany, the strongest economy in Europe, pays a yield of just 1.76 percent. The United States 10-year Treasury note paid 1.85 percent Friday, down 0.08 percentage points — a sign that investors were seeking safety in U.S. debt.

Speaking on France-2 Television, French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said the downgrade of France’s AAA sovereign debt rating was not “a catastrophe.” He under-scored that France still had a solid rating.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minis-ter appealed for support Friday from parliament in a standoff between his beleaguered government and the military, saying lawmakers had to choose between “democracy and dictatorship.”

Tensions between the armed forces and the civil-ian leadership have escalat-ed in recent months, rais-ing fears of a coup attempt or that the army might support possible moves by a partisan Supreme Court to oust the elected govern-ment.

The military and the gov-ernment have been locked in a standoff for months, but a scandal that erupted last year after an unsigned memo was sent to Washington asking for its help in head-ing off a supposed coup has caused friction to spike this week.

Opposition par-ties have spoken out against any military take-over, but they are seeking to exploit the crisis to push for early polls. General elections are not scheduled until early 2013, but many people expect they will take place sooner.

On Monday, the parlia-ment is set to vote on a “show of confidence” in Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

The resolution prepared by the government and its coalition partners pledges “full confidence and trust” in the political leadership and says all state institu-tions must act within limits imposed by the constitu-tion — an apparent rebuke to the military for crossing into politics. Given the rul-ing party’s majority in the house, it should pass and give something of a boost

to the government.Gilani said the parlia-

ment must choose Monday between “democracy or dictatorship.”

The government is determined not to step down before Senate polls scheduled for March. That vote is carried out by law-makers and is expected to give President Asif Ali Zardari’s and Gilani’s Pakistan People’s Party a majority in the upper house, handing it signifi-cant political power for the next six years.

The army has staged at least three coups in Pakistan’s six-decade his-tory. It still considers itself the true custodian of the

country’s interests. On Wednesday, it warned of “grievous consequences” for the country in an unusual statement, setting off the latest round of coup fears.

Earlier Friday, two officials — one in Britain, the other

in Pakistan — said Gilani had called the top British diplomat in the country this week expressing fears that the Pakistani army might be about to stage a coup. However, the British Foreign Office and Gilani’s office denied any such phone call had been made.

The prime minister also asked High Commissioner Adam Thomson for Britain to support his embattled government, according to the officials, who didn’t give their names because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The British Foreign Office said in a statement Friday there was “no phone call on this matter.” The prime minister’s office also said Gilani had “not spo-ken to the British High Commissioner in this regard.”

Pakistan PMseeks supportCaught in standoff with military

Yousuf Gilani

Europe suffers debt setbackStandard & Poors credit rating agency downgrades France, Italy, Spain

Standard & Poors has

downgraded the credit ratings of

nine eurozone nations.

Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the Arab League warned Friday that Syria may be sliding toward civil war, as security forces fired on thousands of people who poured into the streets in support of army defectors who switched sides to try to topple President Bashar Assad. At least 10 people were killed, activists said.

Also Friday, an activist group said two foreign journalists and a translator were arrested in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The group, the Local Coordination Committees, had no further

details. The government has barred access to the country by most foreign media, except on a limited number of escorted trips.

Over the course of the 10-month-old uprising, much of the bloodshed has been from security forces firing on unarmed protesters. But in recent months breakaway soldiers have been attacking the Syrian military, and some opposition members have taken up arms against the regime, adding to the violence.

Despite that, Assad appears to maintain a firm grip on power in the face of growing international

pressure to halt his crackdown and step down.

The Arab League chief, Nabil Elaraby, told The Associated Press that Assad’s regime was either not complying or only partially complying with an Arab League plan that Syria signed last month to end its crackdown.

“We are very concerned because there were certain com-mitments that were not complied with,” he said in Cairo, where the League is based. “If this continues, it may turn into civil war.”

The U.N. estimates more than

5,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 20,000 people were demonstrating Friday in the northwestern province of Idlib. Security forces fired on protesters there as well as in the southern province of Daraa, the eastern region of Deir el-Zour and the central province of Homs, all centers of frequent protests.

At least 10 people were killed, the Observatory said.

Arab League chief warns of Syrian civil war

shelter that meets state regulations.

“We try to get the coun-ty Animal Control people when needed,” Mayor Elizabeth Hunt told Franklin. “Sometimes they respond.”

Town officials suggest-ed that residents contact their county commis-sioners to express their concerns that they are not receiving a service for which they are paying taxes.

According to statistics provided by Baxter, there were 3,386 dogs brought to the county shelter dur-ing 2011, a majority of which were picked up by Animal Control officers

in response to complaints by residents. Baxter said that 26 of 27 dogs from Rowland brought to the shelter from October through December were brought in by county Animal Control officers.

Smith said that those communities that have their own dedicated employee for Animal Control can often respond to nuisance complaints that county officers may not be able to.

Also, he said, local authorities can respond faster to a complaint, arriving before the ani-mal disappears.

Communities that cur-rently have designated

Animal Control officers, according to Baxter, include: Fairmont; Lumberton; Maxton; St. Pauls; Red Springs; and Pembroke. Rowland used to have an officer who worked 10 hours a week.

Smith emphasized the county’s need for more Animal Control officers to handle the “steady” number of cases that offi-cers must respond to each year. Robeson, with 951 square miles, is the larg-est county in the state.

“We’re working with the same workforce that was here when I arrived in the late 80s,” he said.

Baxter said that with more money and staff

Animal Control services could be expanded.

“We could cut down on animal cruelty, dog fight-ing and overpopulation,” she said.

Currently, the county does not employ an ani-mal cruelty investigator.

“Since July, there have been 160 reported cases of animal cruelty,” Smith said.

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Death NoticesJoyce WestOcean Isle Beach

Joyce Lea Ivey Moore West, formerly of Fairmont, was born Feb. 7, 1936, in Robeson County. She died Jan. 12, 2012, at Brunswick Novant Medical Center in Supply. She was 75 years old.

A graveside service will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Floyd Memorial Cemetery in Fairmont, the Rev. John Michael Parnell officiating.

West was preceded in death by her husband, George Wayne West; her parents, Shelton H. and Doris Sealey Moore; and her maternal grandpar-ents, Rodney R. and Mabel Adams Sealey.

She is survived by three daughters, Stephana Melissa West of Ocean Isle, Sarabeth Ivy West of Durham, and Melody West Parnell and her husband, Dr. John Michael Parnell, both of South Boston, Va.; two grandsons, John Michael Parnell II and Weston Moore Parnell; and a host of other relatives and friends.

The family will receive friends following the ser-vice at the funeral home.

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James MonroeFairmont

James W. Monroe, 81, of 310 Floyd St., died Jan. 12, 2012, at Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Lumberton.

The funeral will be held 11 a.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church in Fairmont, the Revs. Brent Edwards and Len

Bergman officiating. Burial will be Monday at Eagle Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery in

Eagle Springs, located in Moore County.He was born Nov. 28, 1930, in Moore County to

the late John W. Monroe and Viola Brown Monroe. He was an U.S. Air Force veteran, a retired banker of 25 years, and a member of First Presbyterian Church in Fairmont.

Surviving are his wife, Dona H. Monroe of the home; a son, Mike Monroe and wife Teresa, both of Matthews; a daughter, Mary Lou Sealey and husband Fitzhugh of Fairmont; a sister, Virginia Williams of Eagle Springs; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday before the service at the church.

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Betty BarnesBladenboro

Betty Gunter Barnes, 75, of Bladenboro, died Jan. 13, 2012.

A graveside service will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Pinecrest Cemetery in Bladenboro.

Surviving are a son, Eddie Barnes of Wilmington; sisters, Nancy Smith of Mooresville and Judy Horne of Lumberton; brothers, Charles Gunter of Clarkton, Jerry Gunter of Darlington, S.C., and Billy Gunter of Bladenboro; and a grand-child.

Arrangements by Lewis-Bowen Funeral Home.

Fred SimmonsEvergreen

Fred Dodge Simmons, 79, of Evergreen, died

Jan. 12, 2012, at home.The funeral will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Boardman

Baptist Church, the Rev. Rodney Evers officiat-ing. Burial will follow in the Fields Cemetery in Evergreen.

Surviving are his wife, Nannie Britt Simmons of the home; daughters, Lorraine McLellan of Orrum and Sherry Inman, both of Evergreen; sons, Thomas Simmons of Palm Springs, Calif., Ralph T. Simmons, Michael T. Simmons, and Jeff Simmons, all of Evergreen; stepchildren, Pearl Freeman of Bladenboro, Linda Avant, Ronnie Collins, Lonnie Collins and Lorie Colman, all of Evergreen; a sis-ter, Carolyn S. Shockley of Evergreen; a brother, Talmadge Simmons of Linthicum, Md.; 17 grand-children; 26 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Worthington Funeral Home in Chadbourn.

Richard DawsonChadbourn

Richard Lee Dawson, 57, of Chadbourn, for-merly of Robeson County, died Dec. 26, 2011, at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCare Center in Whiteville.

A memorial will be 4 p.m. today at Worthington Funeral Home in Chadbourn, the Rev. Jonathan Simmons officiating.

Bessie LeakRed Springs

Bessie M. Vinner Leak, 77, 114 Malloy St., died Jan. 10, 2012, at Southeastern Hospice House.

The funeral will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Johnson Chapel Free Will Baptist Church in Red Springs. Burial will follow in Community Rest Cemetery in Red Springs.

Surviving are her husband, Willie Russell Leak of the home; son, Willie Demetrius Leak of Edison, N.J.; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchil-dren

The viewing will be 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday at L.E. Floyd Funeral Home in Red Springs.

Genevea BostickKingstree, S.C.

Genevea Bostick died Jan. 9, 2012, in Kingstree, S.C.

The funeral will be 2 p.m. Monday at Matthew Chapel AME Zion Church in Laurinburg. Burial will follow in Hillside Memorial Park in Laurinburg.

Surviving are her daughter, Uniqua Bostick of Spring Lake; a granddaughter; two broth-ers, Jimmy Bostick and Danny Bostick, both of Laurinburg; and four sisters, Bernice White of High Point, Darlene McLean of Greensboro, Elaine Harrison and Anita McLean, both of Laurinburg.

The visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Jackson Funeral Home Chapel in Laurinburg.

Harriet Miller Council

Harriet Miller, 79, of Council, died recently at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.

A memorial will be 5 p.m. Thursday at Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home, the Rev. Cameron McGill officiating. Burial will be 10 a.m. Friday in Sandhill Veterans Cemetery.

Surviving are three sons, Wayne Miller of Florida, Roger Miller of York, Pa., and John Miller of Whiteville; a daughter, Cindy Tominovich of Gathersburg Md.; two brothers, Harry F. Fowler Jr. of Clarkton and Charles M. Fowler of Maryland; and seven grandchildren.

Arrangements by Bladen Gaskins Funeral Home in Elizabethtown.

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IncompletesGeorge Bullard, 80, of 450 Sumpter Circle,

Maxton, died Jan. 13, 2012, at Scotland Memorial Hospital. Thompson’s Funeral Home.

Dalton Brooks, 75, 293 University Road, Pembroke, died Jan. 13, 2012, at Southeastern Medical Center. Revels Funeral Home in Lumberton.

FuneralsToday

Edith Floyd, 11 a.m. at Meadowbrook Cemetery in Lumberton.

Matthew Williams, 1 p.m. at Campbell University’s Butler Chapel.

Melba Sherrill, 1 p.m. at Parkton United Methodist Church in Parkton.

Nadyne Sampson-Locklear, 2 p.m. at Mt. Airy Baptist Church.

Jesse Black Jr., noon at St. James A.M.E. Zion Church.

Pamela Chavis, 2 p.m. at the Rock Church of God in Lumberton.

Dazzarene Chambers, 2 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church in St. Pauls.

Nancy McCall, 3 p.m. at Matthews Chapel AME Zion Church in Laurinburg.

Richard Dawson, 4 p.m. at Worthington Funeral Home in Chadbourn.

SundayWillie Johnson, 4:30 p.m. at Dellabrook

Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem.Nathaniel McLaughlin, 2 p.m. at Nazareth

MBC in Wagram.Paul Oxendine Jr., 3 p.m. at MacDonald

Holiness Church.James Oxendine, 2 p.m. at New Point Baptist

Church.John Walters, 1:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church

in Fairmont.Carrie Hester, 2 p.m. at St. Mathews

Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church in Maxton.Joyce West, 3 p.m. at Floyd Memorial

Cemetery in Fairmont.James Monroe, 11 a.m. at First Presbyterian

Church in Fairmont.Betty Barnes, 3 p.m. at Pinecrest Cemetery in

Bladenboro.Fred Simmons, 2 p.m. at Boardman Baptist

Church.Bessie Leak, 2 p.m. at Johnson Chapel Free

Will Baptist Church in Red Springs.

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“That is why he was elect-ed a chairman of the public schools, during such a conten-tious time, he was such a recon-ciler,” Legerton said. “He will be sorely missed as a spiritual leader, reconciler, and a model of kindness and compassion.”

Members of his immediate family were not available to comment for this story.

Surviving are a wife, a son and two daughters.

The Rev. Michael Cummings, a cousin of Dalton Brooks, gath-ered with other family members at Brooks’ Pembroke home to share their memories.

“One of my first memories of Dalton was in church,” Cummings said. “He was deeply committed to the church. He and his wife both were.”

Cummings called Brooks one of the most highly regarded intellectual members and lead-ers of the Lumbee community.

“He was just a sweet man,” Cummings said. “He was a most loved pastor. He spoke with such passion, but also such skill and intellect. You have a combi-nation there that produced such an incredible person.”

The company’s founder, Dorothy McBride, said she was shocked.

“Oh, my God, I can’t believe it,” said McBride, who’s no longer involved in the business. “I just can’t talk about it right now. I have to find out more.”

A family-owned business, the company makes pallets and treated wood for furniture and other products. A person who answered the phone at the business said they had no

comment.Owens said it took 30 min-

utes from the time law enforce-ment received a 911 call about the shootings to when they found Davis’ body. People in the community helped identi-fied the shooter.

“It’s a quiet area,” Owens said of Davis’ neighborhood. He was police chief of Star for 10 years before he was sheriff. “When I was chief, we could solve cases pretty fast because

people would help us out.”The entire community is

grieving, neighbors said. Star is a flyspeck on the map, with about 800 people living about 75 miles east of Charlotte.

One of Davis’ neighbors said she was in disbelief.

“This never happens around here. This is a great place to live,” Charlotte Epps said. “It’s a tragedy.”

Neighbor Beverly Barber said she knew something was

wrong when her sister called her and said to look out the window.

“There were flashing police lights everywhere,” she said.

Davis lived in a house in a wooded area across the street from her.

“I would see him around in his pickup. We never had problems with him. This is something you only see in the movies. This isn’t supposed to happen here,” Barber said.

Rodham Clinton in December, the first by a secretary of state in 56 years, as a way to deep-en engagement and encourage more openness in the country. That is part of a broader admin-istration policy to step up U.S. involvement across the Asia-Pacific region as well as a way to counter the growing influence of China, which has remained Myanmar’s core ally during its decades of isolation.

“As I said last December, the United States will meet action

with action,” Clinton said. “Based on the steps taken so far, we will now begin.”

The highest-level U.S. diplomat based in Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been a charge d’affaires rather than an ambassador. Washington downgraded its repre-sentation in 1990, when opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party swept elections but was barred from power by the military.

Myanmar’s own diplomatic representation in Washington

also currently is a step below the level of ambas-sador.

Clinton cautioned that exchanging ambassadors is a lengthy process — any candidate for U.S. ambassador requires Senate confirmation — and that the process would depend on contin-

ued progress toward reform.The U.S. limits diplomatic

relations with several countries for political reasons. In coun-tries without a U.S. ambassa-dor, such as Venezuela, a charge d’affaires is usually entrusted with directing diplomacy. The diplomat would lack the same standing as an envoy appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

In the cases of Iran and North Korea, with which Washington has broken off diplomatic rela-tions entirely, no American dip-lomats are posted.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — To hear the White House tell it, President Barack Obama has scant interest in politics as Republicans battle each other for the right to chal-lenge him. But in reality, Obama is increasingly involved in his re-election, staying in regular contact with his campaign staff, raising money and evaluating Republican debate performances.

Throughout the White House, Obama’s aides are knee-deep in the re-election business. There are daily conference calls between top aides in the White House and campaign staff at the Chicago re-election headquarters and close con-sultation on message and travel.

His pose of indifference allows Obama to try to position himself above the sometimes-ugly fray of the campaign, leaving the political back-and-forth to others as he focuses instead on the loftier work of governing. But as with any incumbent president seeking re-election, political concerns weigh heavily as the election approaches. It’s just smarter politics, for now, to pretend otherwise.

“Presidents like to act like they’re not paying attention to every little detail of every little thing, when I suspect they all do,” said Ari Fleischer, press secretary under

President George W. Bush. “The job requires you to act like you’re above all the less important stuff of the world — especially if the less important stuff is the guy who wants to take your job.”

White House press secretary Jay Carney said the president spends only about 5 percent of his time on the

campaign, and there will be plenty of opportunity to get more involved once the election is closer. “Because he does not need to now, he is not engag-ing particularly aggressively in his re-election cam-paign. It’s only January,” Carney said this week.

But the president’s schedule and sometimes even his own words paint another picture: of a White House increasingly driven by politics.

On Wednesday, a day after GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney solidified his front-runner status with a win in the New Hampshire primary,

Obama hosted a White House event on job creation — a way of countering Republicans’ attacks on the president’s economic stewardship. Similar White House counter-programming was on display last week, a day after the Iowa caucuses, when Obama announced he was going around congressional Republicans to appoint a new con-sumer protection chief.

And take travel, a good barometer of priorities because it requires that most precious commodity: the president’s time. Of a half-dozen domestic day trips Obama made in November, December and so far in January, five were to politically important states both parties will be contest-ing this fall — North Carolina, Ohio, New Hampshire and, twice, Pennsylvania.

Obama also visited his hometown of Chicago Wednesday, but in reliably Democratic Illinois he didn’t bother with any official presidential events; he just dropped by his campaign headquarters and hit a few fundraisers before coming back to Washington.

Carney downplays politics as the motivation behind Obama’s travel. “Every president ought to be able to travel everywhere in the country. It’s part of his respon-sibility,” the presidential spokesman said ahead of one Pennsylvania trip.

But Chris Lehane, an aide in Bill Clinton’s White House, said the president’s travel schedule reflects cam-paign imperatives.

“The White House scheduling office is going to know that there are certain targeted states, and in those states targeted markets, and in those markets targeted districts you’re going to want to spend time in,” Lehane said.

Matt Rourke | Assocaited PressRepublican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich walks to his bus Thursday after a rally for home ownership in Columbia, S.C.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Under pressure from some in his own party, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Thursday tempered his public attacks on front-runner Mitt Romney while defending his right to question the former Massachusetts governor’s business record.

“If you ask about his career, it’s because he’s running for president,” Gingrich said of the questions he and his allies have raised about Romney’s tenure as head of a private equity fund.

“I think he owes the country a much more detailed answer about what his career was like, what decisions they made, because we’re look-ing at the judgment, the values of a particular per-son,” he said during a Fox News interview Thursday night.

Gingrich and other GOP presidential hope-fuls have drawn the ire of an array of Republicans who believe the attacks on Romney’s record at Bain Capital could hurt the party in the general

election against President Barack Obama.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce entered the debate Thursday, say-ing it was “foolish” for Republicans to bash Romney for his work as a venture capitalist. A top South Carolina supporter of GOP contender Rick Perry, who had taken to calling Romney a “vulture capitalist,” said he was joining Romney’s camp out of irritation over Perry’s attacks.

Gingrich called the crit-icism “absurd” and said his questions had been misconstrued as an attack on capitalism.

A pro-Gingrich political action committee also has railed against Romney’s tenure at the helm of Bain Capital with the release this week of a 28-minute film assailing Romney for “reaping massive rewards” as head of the firm.

Gingrich is grasping for a campaign lifeline in South Carolina, which holds its primary Jan. 21, after a pair of disappoint-ing fourth-place finishes in the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

During two campaign appearances in South Carolina’s capital earlier Thursday, Gingrich stuck to a largely subdued cam-paign, focusing on his plans for saving Social Security, creating jobs and boosting domestic energy production.

He made no references to Romney, nor did he repeat his criticism of Romney’s record as a ven-ture capitalist. Instead, he tried to broaden his mes-sage with a call for audit-ing the federal bailout of the financial industry to see who got the money and why.

“When you have cro-ny-capitalism and politi-cians taking care of their friends that’s not free-enterprise. That’s back-door socialism,” Gingrich said during remarks to older voters at a senior citizen’s expo.

The former House speaker predicted that a win in the first-in-the-South primary would pave a path to the presidency.

“If I win South Carolina, I think I will become the Republican nominee,” he said.

Gingrich tempers Romneyattacks in South Carolina

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A 76-year-old great-grandfather who gives eye-glazing speeches on monetary poli-cy, displays a crotchety streak and dis-appears from the Republican campaign trail for days at a time to rest is captivat-ing young voters.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s libertarian mes-sage of less government, personal liber-ty and ending U.S. military involvement overseas clicks with young people, who are supplying zest for his stronger-than-expected presidential campaign. Nearly half of all voters under 30 went for Paul in the first two states to vote, helping to propel him to a second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary and third place in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.

Why would young people gravitate to the oldest guy in the field?

“Freedom is a young idea,” says Eddie Clearwater, a 22-year-old Des Moines photographer who attended a Ron Paul party in Ankeny, Iowa, earlier this month. “All of his policies are such a good, radical change. It’s what we need.”

Paul’s campaign events are charged with an energy that any politician would love, attracting an eclectic band of

youthful activists ranging from preppy college students to blue collar work-ers to artists sporting piercings and dreadlocks. At his party after the New

Hampshire primary, there were sponta-neous chants of “Ron Paul Revolution! Give us back our Constitution” and “President Paul! President Paul!”

A tickled Paul told the cheering crowd: “Freedom is a wonderful idea, and that’s why I get so excited. But I really get excited when I see young people saying it.”

“We are dangerous to the status quo of this country,” said Paul, who seems to relish making political mischief and has taken on the role of a feisty attacker in some of the GOP debates.

While Paul is unlikely to win the GOP nomination and young voters make up a relatively small slice of the electorate — 12 percent in the New Hampshire pri-mary and 15 percent in the Iowa caucus-es — their lopsided support has made Paul a force to be reckoned with in the 2012 campaign. And it could prompt a more serious consideration of his views by Republicans and Democrats alike.

“Ron Paul is bringing unorthodox ideas to the marketplace that don’t fit with the conventional pillars of either political party,” said Matthew Segal of OurTime.org, a nonpartisan group that promotes political participation among young people. “And because young peo-ple today are a uniquely independent-minded generation, he’s resonating with them.”

David Goldman | Associated PressIvy Littlejohn, 13, of Pacolet, S.C., watches as Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul speak in West Columbia, S.C.

Young voters propelling Paul’s campaign

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Time to steal the doughnuts! Apparently, that’s also the way to steal New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s heart.

In an interview with talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey, set to air this weekend, the hefty GOP governor said he knew that he had found a part-ner for life in wife Mary Pat when she suggested making an illicit late-night doughnut run.

The governor and Winfrey also dished about their struggle with weight and presidential politics. A full transcript of the interview was obtained in advance by The Associated Press. The hourlong interview, filmed at Christie’s home in Mendham, is airing Sunday at 9 p.m. EST on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Asked by Winfrey what drew him to Mary Pat, whom he met at the University of Delaware

in the 1980s when they were both involved in stu-dent government, he said it was her independence, her faith, and because she was fun.

“She was fun in a dif-ferent way than I’d ever experienced with anybody I’d ever dated. She was very spontane-ous,” Christie told Winfrey.

“ S p o n t a n e o u s like?” Winfrey asked.

“Let’s go break into the kitchen in the dining hall at college because we smell that they are baking dough-nuts for the next morn-ing,” he recalled Mary Pat saying. “So let’s sneak in and steal some of the doughnuts now.”

Christie and Winfrey spoke at length about controlling their weight and managing the criti-cism surrounding it; spe-cifically, what it feels like

to be on the short end of a Dave Letterman fat joke.

“It didn’t bother you?” Winfrey asked. “Because let me tell you, when David Letterman was making jokes about me, it bothered me.”

“I think I was girded for it, Oprah, I really do,” Christie respond-ed, saying he had developed “a shell about it.”

The conversa-tion also hit more serious overtones as Winfrey asked

him, Mary Pat and their four children — Andrew, 18, Sarah, 15, Patrick, 11, and Bridget, 8 — about the pressure of being asked to run for presi-dent.

Sarah lamented to Winfrey about being banned from having a Facebook page.

“By the way, who backed us up on you not hav-ing a Facebook account?”

Christie pointed out.“Mark Zuckerberg,”

co-creator of the social networking site, Sarah answered, reluctantly.

Christie, Zuckerberg and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat, appeared on Winfrey’s talk show in September 2010 to announce that Facebook was pledging a $100 million donation to the Newark public schools.

Christie said he want-ed his daughter to wait until she was a little older, given his position, so that she can better handle the “opportunity for mis-chief” that Facebook pro-vides — a position he said Zuckerberg supported.

While Booker, who has been rumored as a potential candidate to run against Christie in 2013, is close to Winfrey and her best friend, Gayle King, Christie met the daytime icon for the first time at the taping of the

show about Facebook’s donation.

Christie had been in office less than a year when he met Winfrey. Elected in a Democratic-leaning New Jersey 2009, Christie quickly became YouTube sensation and darling of the Republican party for his blunt style, and pressure quickly mounted for him to run for the White House in 2012. He briefly consid-ered changing his mind against running this fall, but didn’t and instead endorsed Mitt Romney, whom he has been cam-paigning hard for ever since.

Winfrey, who openly endorsed Barack Obama during the 2008 presi-dential elections, asked Christie what advice Christie he had for the president and what he thought Obama’s chances for re-election were.

Surprisingly, Christie warned that those who underestimate Obama as a campaigner do so at their own peril.

Dear Dr. Brothers: After a 10-year rela-tionship, I recently found myself back to being single at 47. I never had any trouble getting dates before, but I thought it was nice when a co-worker set me up on a blind date with a younger friend of hers. Well, it was a disaster. At the end of the night he actu-ally shook my hand and bluntly told me I was too old for him. Now I’m afraid to put myself out there again with anyone who isn’t at least my age. I don’t want this to happen ever again. — F.D.

Dear F.D.: In this age of cougars and generational relation-ships, it is easier than ever to buy into the popular notion that you can suc-cessfully date any-

body you choose, no matter what your age difference. But as you found out, the reality of the situation doesn’t always add up to the media-driv-en fantasy that many of us have bought into. There is an even stronger cultur-al tradition out there — that of the older guy and the younger girl — and when you find yourself swim-ming against the tide, things can get ugly. You don’t need to be afraid to date people who are younger —

women like that idea as well as men — but you do need to have more realistic expectations.

I only want to remind you that each prospective dating partner is dif-ferent and brings to the table his own vision of the perfect woman. And you need to try to take an objective look at what you have to offer. While you’ve been off the market for a decade, you may not have real-ized that it’s a dif-ferent experience to date as someone in her late 40s, as opposed to when you last sallied forth, con-fident that you would have no trouble attracting a man. Are you making the most of your looks, or are you stuck in a rut? A little self-evaluation

now might be all you need to jump-start your dating game again, and do it with your self-esteem intact.

Dear Dr. Brothers: My mom died three years ago, and recently my dad remarried a younger woman. In fact, she’s only about 10 years older than I am. It is hard to consider her my stepmom, and on top of everything, she tries to act old and responsible when she’s around me. I’d rather she just relax and be friends. She is very outgoing and enthusiastic, whereas my mom was like me — pretty quiet and laid back. How can I get this new person in my life to fit in and stop bugging me? — B.I.

Dear B.I.: They

say it’s impossible to change others, but you can change yourself. So perhaps through some care-fully thought-out, pro-active behavior, you can at least change the way she is react-ing to the challenge of stepmothering a young woman who can’t really accept her in that role. As far as the clash of personalities goes, maybe you can take a cue from your dad, who has found something in her that he can live with even though his first wife was much more low-key. Probably comparing the new wife with your mother is inevitable, but the more you can try to accept her at face value, the easier it will be for you to make this transition.

It’s probably very

difficult for this woman, only a decade older than you, to play the role of responsible step-mother when she probably feels that you are already a self-sufficient adult. So why not sit down with her and let her off the hook? There’s nothing wrong with letting her know that you think your relationship could benefit from a less-traditional style, and that she doesn’t need to worry about you — just about making your dad happy. The less you compare her to your mother, the better. Just let her know that you are open to getting to know each other and letting your relationship evolve a little more naturally. That should help the situation.

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ST. PAULS — Written on the chalk-board inside St. Pauls’ locker room prior to Friday’s game against East Columbus was the current standings in the Three Rivers Conference.

A win over the Gators would’ve given the Bulldogs a 3-0 start and created a tie with Fairmont at the top.

Similar to St. Pauls’ non-confer-ence season, the Bulldogs’ Hyde, not Jekyll, showed its ugly face.

St. Pauls squandered its oppor-tunity at first place in a frustrating 71-51 home loss that included 27 turnovers.

“We got into a streetball game and got embarrassed,” St. Pauls coach Travis Lemanski said. “I don’t care about losing … it’s how we lost that is really disappointing.”

Down by as many as 14 in the third quarter after pulling to within two at intermission, Antonio Henderson’s jumper trimmed St. Pauls’ deficit to six with 5:14 remaining in the game.

Then, as Lemanski would put it, the wheels came off.

East Columbus senior guard T.J. Wilson took over what was left in what became a one-man onslaught for the Gators. One of the confer-ence’s top scorers at 17.1 points per game scored eight of his team’s next 10 points during a 10-0 run that put the Bulldogs away.

Wilson knifed his way through the lane for a game-high 29 points to help East Columbus erase its 0-2 start in league play.

“After their guy got ejected and got the crowd into it, Wilson went to work,” Lemanski said.

The loss was St. Pauls’ 11th in 14 games and seventh overall by

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Photo by Sam Greenwood | Getty ImagesMatt Every plays a shot on the 9th hole during the second round of the Sony Open.

Every takes Sony Open leadHONOLULU (AP) — Matt

Every, finally making news for his golf, made the game look and sound easy Friday at the Sony Open.

Every closed with three straight birdies for a 6-under 64, giving him a two-shot lead over David Hearn, who kept the Canadian presence on the leaderboard with his second straight 66.

Brendon de Jonge shot 62 and Pat Perez was solid again with a 67 to finish three shots behind, while Steve Stricker made double bogey from a bad lie in a bunker that stalled his momentum. He had to settle for a 69 and was five shots back in his bid to become the first player since Ernie Els in 2003 to sweep the Hawaii events.

Fairmont native William McGirt shot a second straight 3-under-par 67 on Friday to stand tied for sev-enth place entering the weekend at 6-under-par 134.

McGirt started strong, birdieing Nos. 10 and 11 as he began play on the back, and then birdied the difficult No. 13 when his approach nestled less than a foot from the hole. He strung together eight straight par before his only bogey of the day, on No. 3, but he fol-lowed that by making a 12-foot putt to birdie the 216-yard par 3 No. 4.

He finished with all pars, miss-ing putts inside of 10 feet on the final two holes.

It was McGirt’s ninth straight cut made, and he is in position for his best-ever finish on the PGA Tour.

Every, however, dominated the day on and off the golf course.

He made news in the summer of 2010 when he was arrested and jailed on a misdemeanor drug pos-session charge after agents were called to a casino hotel because of a strong odor of marijuana coming from the room he was in.

Every confirmed he was sus-pended for three months, return-ing in time for the last event, leaving him little hope of keeping his card.

The 28-year-old Floridian said he has put it behind him. He is married, and his wife is expect-ing their first baby in June. But it didn’t keep him from talking about how the case was handled, how he is perceived and the company he keeps.

“I don’t do drugs. It was a crap-py deal, man,” Every said. “Wrong place, wrong time, perfect storm. And you know, I got three months out of it. It’s over with. I’m not mad at the tour. They did what they had to do. I totally under-stand it. But it’s over with.”

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Lumberton takes apart RichmondShawn StinsonHeartland Publications

ROCKINGHAM — Lumberton coach Ted Gaskins had the matchup with Richmond Senior circled on his calendar for a while.

Not because he takes extra pleasure in beating the Raiders, but because he wants to win so he doesn’t have to hear about losing the game when he visits friends and family.

Gaskins won’t have a problem this go around as the Pirates rallied from a first-quarter deficit and routed Richmond 91-68 in a Southeastern Conference clash Friday night at Raider Gymnasium.

“I didn’t want them to say anything to me next week when I come back for a birthday party,” Gaskins said. “I don’t mind them talking about football. I told the team this was going to be our hell week and if we were going to lose a game, let it be against Hoke.”

Christian McRae made sure his coach was going to be on the right side of the scoreboard. McRae scored 13 of his 19 points in the third quarter as Lumberton stretched its six-point halftime lead to 13. McRae didn’t miss a shot in the frame, which included a 3-pointer and sev-eral drives into the lane against the taller Raider defenders.

“I told the team at halftime that the first three minutes of the second half were going to be important,”

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Tornadoes fly highFairmont routs Red Springs, 65-41Kaleb RoedelSports Editor

FAIRMONT — As Jackie Oxendine calmly sunk a second-quarter 3-pointer, stretching the Fairmont boys basketball team’s lead over Red Springs to 27-9, the scoreboard zapped off.

Those prone to pun might say the Golden Tornadoes were shooting the lights out Friday night.

Hot-shooting Fairmont continued its domi-nance over Red Springs the rest of the way for a 65-41 Three Rivers Conference win at Fairmont High School.

Fairmont (10-4, 3-0) put Red Springs (1-13, 1-2) in its rearview from the opening tip.

After Jarrod Neal drove in a layup and netted a pull-up jumper and Draquine Floyd tipped in a missed shot, the Golden Tornadoes were off and running with a 6-0 lead in the blink of an eye. Neal finished with a game-high 14 points, followed by Oxendine and Shemar Barfied with nine apiece.

Alex Gilchrist put the finishing touches on Fairmont’s 17-6 first-quarter command when he drove baseline, elevated underneath the basket and scooped in a reverse in the frame’s final seconds.

The Golden Tornadoes opened the second quarter on a 14-3 run capped by a swipe-and-score from Barfield.

Inside the paint and out, Red Springs struggled to find any rhythm on either side of the ball. And the Red Devils, who were coming off a silver-lining two-point loss to 4A Purnell Swett, began showing their frustrations, leading to Drayvon Fairley drawing a technical foul early in the third. Fairley later fouled out in the fourth.

The Red Devils only run of the game came midway through the third when Julian Brown, who had a team-high 13, improbably scored six points in 10 seconds — dropping in a layup, a putback on his own missed free throw, following a Fairmont turnover, and a swipe-and-score.

Besides that small spurt, it was all Fairmont, which finished off its 65-41 league win with an 18-point fourth quarter to finish atop the Three Rivers standings at 3-0.

Red Springs girls run away to winD’Niqua Murphy and Shantanna Norris scores

13 and 11 points, respectively, leading the Red Kaleb Roedel | RobesonianFairmont’s Draquine Floyd elevates to make a pass over Red Springs’ Quinn Lowery during the Golden Tornadoes league win Friday night.See FAIRMONT | 3B

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UNCP softball tooffer winter clinicPEMBROKE — The UNCP

softball coaching staff announcedon Wednesday that the Braves willoffer a Winter Clinic on January21. The cost of the clinic is $25($20 each for teams of eight ormore from same school/travelteam) and the clinic is open togirls ages 8 to 18.The UNCP softball team will

hold its daily practice from 10:30a.m. to noon on January 21, withthe clinic scheduled to take placefrom 12:15-2:45 p.m. at LRA Field.Registration will be held at thesoftball stadium at 11:45 a.m. andthe deadline for applications hasbeen set for January 20.For more information on the

clinic, please contact assistantcoach Megan Brown at (910) 521-6348 or by email [email protected].

Alabamaassistantgoing toTennesseeKNOXVILLE (AP) — Sal

Sunseri, Alabama's associate headcoach and linebackers coach, hasbeen hired by Tennessee to be itsnew defensive coordinator.Tennessee officials announced

Sunseri's hiring on Friday.Sunseri, who's been a part of

two national championships in histhree seasons with the CrimsonTide, interviewed with Tennesseecoach Derek Dooley earlier thisweek. Sunseri replaces JustinWilcox, who left to take the defen-sive coordinator's job atWashington back in December."The chance to work with

Derek Dooley, who has beenaround championships and knowswhat it takes to build an elite pro-gram, combined with the rich tra-dition of the University ofTennessee, makes this opportunityso exciting to me," Sunseri said ina statement. "I am fired up to workwith all of the young talent on thedefensive side of the ball, and Ican't wait to get up to Knoxvilleand coach them."

Buckeyes eligiblefor BigTen purseCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) —

Ohio State won't be putting anymoney into the Big Ten's bowlbank account in 2012. It will bewithdrawing around $400,000.Despite being banned from

playing in a bowl game due toNCAA violations, there is nothingwhich prevents Ohio State fromcollecting the same amount thatMichigan, Wisconsin and otherBig Ten schools receive, confer-ence officials said."I can't speak on behalf of our

members, but it'd be the same as ifOhio State or any of our schoolsfinished 5-7 this year and were noteligible to play in a bowl gamebecause of their competitiverecord," Big Ten deputy commis-sioner Brad Traviola said Friday.

Former Dallas coachjoins Kansas staffLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) —

Kansas has hired former DallasCowboys secondary coach DaveCampo as its defensive coordina-tor, coach Charlie Weis announcedon Friday.Campo, who was the Cowboys'

coach from 2000-02, will alsocoach defensive backs.He coached in college for 18

years before joining the Cowboyson Jimmy Johnson's staff in 1989.He's been in the NFL since, includ-ing brief stints with the ClevelandBrowns and Jacksonville Jaguarsbefore returning to the Cowboys in2008. Campo followed Johnson toDallas from Miami, where theHurricanes won the 1987 nationaltitle.

Bryce Brown leavingKansas State

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) —Kansas State running back BryceBrown has withdrawn from schooland is strongly leaning towardentering the NFL draft, sourcessaid. Brown has two years of eligi-bility remaining after playing oneyear at Tennessee, transferringand playing sparingly last seasonat Kansas State.

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TV SCHEDULE

TODAYGOLF9 a.m.

TGC — European PGA Tour, Joburg Open,third round, at Johannesburg (same-daytape)

7 p.m.TGC — PGA Tour, Sony Open, third round,at Honolulu

MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL11 a.m.

ESPN2 — UConn at Notre DameNoon

ESPN — Kentucky at Tennessee1 p.m.

ESPN2 — Texas at Missouri2 p.m.

ESPN — North Carolina at Florida St.FSN — UAB at Southern Miss.

3 p.m.ESPN2 — Oklahoma St. at Baylor

3:30 p.m.CBS — National coverage, Oregon atArizona

4 p.m.FSN — Colorado at StanfordNBCSP — UNLV at San Diego St.

MOTORSPORTS9:30 p.m.

SPEED — AMA Supercross, at Phoenix1:30 a.m.

NBCSP — Dakar Rally, Nasca to Pisco, Peru(delayed tape)

NBA BASKETBALL8 p.m.

WGN — Toronto at ChicagoNFL FOOTBALL

4:30 p.m.FOX — NFC Divisional Playoffs, NewOrleans at San Francisco

8 p.m.CBS — AFC Divisional Playoffs, Denver atNew England

NHL HOCKEY12:30 p.m.

NBC — Chicago at DetroitRUNNING

3 p.m.NBC — Olympic Marathon Trials, at Houston(same-day tape)

WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALLNoon

FSN — Oklahoma at Oklahoma St.

NHLNBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic DivisionW L Pct GB

Philadelphia 8 3 .727 —New York 6 5 .545 2Boston 4 6 .400 3½Toronto 4 8 .333 4½New Jersey 3 9 .250 5½

Southeast DivisionW L Pct GB

Orlando 8 3 .727 —Miami 8 3 .727 —Atlanta 8 4 .667 ½Charlotte 2 10 .167 6½Washington 1 10 .091 7

Central DivisionW L Pct GB

Chicago 11 2 .846 —Indiana 8 3 .727 2Cleveland 5 5 .500 4½Milwaukee 4 7 .364 6Detroit 3 9 .250 7½

WESTERN CONFERENCESouthwest Division

W L Pct GBSan Antonio 8 4 .667 —Dallas 7 5 .583 1Memphis 4 6 .400 3Houston 4 7 .364 3½New Orleans 3 8 .273 4½

Northwest DivisionW L Pct GB

Oklahoma City 10 2 .833 —Portland 7 4 .636 2½Denver 7 4 .636 2½Utah 6 4 .600 3Minnesota 4 7 .364 5½

Pacific DivisionW L Pct GB

L.A. Lakers 8 4 .667 —L.A. Clippers 5 3 .625 1Phoenix 4 7 .364 3½Sacramento 4 8 .333 4Golden State 3 7 .300 4

Friday's ResultsDetroit 98, Charlotte 81Indiana 95, Toronto 90Philadelphia 120, Washington 89Houston 103, Sacramento 89Minnesota 87, New Orleans 80Chicago 88, Boston 79Dallas 102, Milwaukee 76San Antonio 99, Portland 83New Jersey 110, Phoenix 103Cleveland at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.Miami at Denver, 10:30 p.m.

Today's GamesMinnesota at Atlanta, 7 p.m.Golden State at Charlotte, 7 p.m.Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Washington, 7 p.m.Toronto at Chicago, 8 p.m.Portland at Houston, 8 p.m.New York at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.New Orleans at Memphis, 8 p.m.New Jersey at Utah, 9 p.m.Sacramento at Dallas, 9 p.m.L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday's GamesGolden State at Detroit, 6 p.m.Utah at Denver, 8 p.m.Phoenix at San Antonio, 9 p.m.

Pistons 98, Bobcats 81DETROIT (98)

Prince 5-11 0-2 10, Jerebko 9-12 2-2 22,Monroe 9-20 1-2 19, Knight 5-11 1-1 13,Gordon 5-11 3-3 14, Stuckey 2-8 3-4 8,Wallace 1-2 0-0 2, Wilkins 3-4 0-0 7, Bynum1-2 1-2 3, Macklin 0-0 0-0 0, Daye 0-1 0-0 0.Totals 40-82 11-16 98.

CHARLOTTE (81)Thomas 4-9 2-2 10, Diaw 1-2 1-2 3, Mullens9-19 0-0 18, Augustin 3-7 1-1 7, Henderson2-8 2-2 6, Walker 6-8 3-4 16, White 4-9 2-210, Biyombo 0-3 0-0 0, Brown 2-4 0-0 4,Higgins 2-3 3-3 7, Carroll 0-2 0-0 0. Totals33-74 14-16 81.Detroit 27 24 27 20—98Charlotte 23 16 20 22—813-Point Goals_Detroit 7-14 (Jerebko 2-3,Knight 2-4, Wilkins 1-1, Gordon 1-3, Stuckey1-3), Charlotte 1-8 (Walker 1-2, Carroll 0-1,Diaw 0-1, Augustin 0-4). Fouled Out_None.Rebounds_Detroit 53 (Knight 10), Charlotte37 (Diaw, Thomas, Mullens 7).Assists_Detroit 26 (Gordon, Monroe 5),Charlotte 22 (Augustin 13). TotalFouls_Detroit 17, Charlotte 15.Technicals_Gordon, Detroit defensive threesecond, Henderson. A_18,043 (19,077).

Pacers 95, Raptors 90INDIANA (95)

Granger 1-8 2-2 4, West 5-11 3-4 13, Hibbert6-10 3-5 15, Collison 2-9 5-6 9, George 4-61-2 10, Hill 7-11 6-6 22, Hansbrough 3-6 7-713, Amundson 1-3 2-2 4, Stephenson 1-1 0-0 2, Jones 0-1 3-4 3. Totals 30-66 32-38 95.

TORONTO (90)Butler 2-5 0-0 6, Davis 2-8 2-2 6, A.Johnson4-7 1-3 9, Calderon 5-12 4-4 15, DeRozan 8-15 7-11 23, Magloire 0-2 1-4 1, Forbes 2-2 3-3 7, Barbosa 9-17 1-3 20, J.Johnson 1-3 1-23, Kleiza 0-3 0-0 0, Carter 0-0 0-0 0. Totals33-74 20-32 90.Indiana 15 25 25 30—95Toronto 27 18 20 25—903-Point Goals_Indiana 3-8 (Hill 2-4, George1-1, Collison 0-1, Granger 0-2), Toronto 4-17(Butler 2-4, Barbosa 1-2, Calderon 1-5,A.Johnson 0-1, Kleiza 0-1, DeRozan 0-4).Fouled Out_Hibbert, A.Johnson.Rebounds_Indiana 46 (Hibbert 9), Toronto49 (Davis 10). Assists_Indiana 13 (Collison5), Toronto 17 (Calderon 9). TotalFouls_Indiana 22, Toronto 32.Technicals_Granger 2. Ejected_Granger.A_15,302 (19,800).

Mavericks 102, Bucks 76MILWAUKEE (76)

Jackson 3-8 0-0 7, Leuer 1-3 0-0 2, Gooden4-9 0-0 8, Jennings 7-12 2-2 19, Delfino 3-110-0 7, Ilyasova 3-8 3-4 9, Livingston 6-8 3-415, Harris 1-6 4-4 6, Sanders 0-2 1-2 1,Brockman 1-3 0-0 2, Hobson 0-8 0-0 0.Totals 29-78 13-16 76.

DALLAS (102)Marion 4-9 0-0 10, Nowitzki 4-7 2-2 11,Haywood 1-1 0-0 2, West 3-5 2-2 8, Carter 7-10 0-0 16, Odom 3-8 0-0 6, Mahinmi 0-2 2-22, Terry 5-9 4-5 17, Cardinal 2-6 0-0 5,Beaubois 7-12 0-0 15, Wright 2-2 3-5 7,Jones 0-1 0-0 0, Yi 1-3 1-2 3. Totals 39-7514-18 102.Milwaukee 23 22 18 13— 76Dallas 32 28 23 19—1023-Point Goals_Milwaukee 5-24 (Jennings 3-4, Jackson 1-5, Delfino 1-6, Harris 0-2,Ilyasova 0-3, Hobson 0-4), Dallas 10-22(Terry 3-5, Marion 2-2, Carter 2-3, Nowitzki1-2, Beaubois 1-3, Cardinal 1-4, West 0-1,Odom 0-2). Fouled Out_Sanders.Rebounds_Milwaukee 43 (Brockman 9),Dallas 49 (Odom, Wright, Beaubois 6).Assists_Milwaukee 15 (Hobson 3), Dallas 20(West 4). Total Fouls_Milwaukee 21, Dallas17. Technicals_Jackson. A_20,112 (19,200).

Bulls 88, Celtics 79CHICAGO (88)

Deng 8-17 3-4 21, Boozer 6-10 0-0 12, Noah4-10 2-4 10, Rose 9-21 5-7 25, Brewer 5-7 2-2 12, Lucas 0-3 0-0 0, Gibson 2-5 2-2 6, Asik0-0 0-0 0, Korver 0-1 2-2 2, Scalabrine 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-75 16-21 88.

BOSTON (79)Pierce 3-12 5-5 13, Garnett 4-11 0-0 8, Bass5-12 0-0 10, Rondo 5-10 4-6 14, Allen 6-132-2 16, O'Neal 2-6 0-0 4, Pietrus 2-5 0-0 6,Bradley 0-1 0-0 0, Wilcox 2-2 0-0 4, Johnson1-1 0-0 2, Stiemsma 0-0 0-0 0, Moore 1-2 0-0 2, Daniels 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-75 11-13 79.Chicago 26 26 15 21—88Boston 13 20 26 20—793-Point Goals_Chicago 4-13 (Deng 2-4,Rose 2-6, Lucas 0-1, Brewer 0-1, Korver 0-1), Boston 6-14 (Pierce 2-3, Pietrus 2-5,Allen 2-6). Fouled Out_None.Rebounds_Chicago 53 (Deng 16), Boston 39(Bass 9). Assists_Chicago 20 (Rose 7),Boston 20 (Rondo 11). Total Fouls_Chicago14, Boston 19. Technicals_Chicago defen-sive three second, Rondo, Boston defensivethree second. A_18,624 (18,624).

PREP SPORTS

BoysE. Colum. 71, St. Pauls 51

EC 11 19 15 26 — 71STP 13 15 7 16 — 51East Columbus — T.J. Wilson 29, RickyRatliff 11, Jenkins 6, White 5, Young 5, Ro.Ratliff 4, Gresham 4, Sanders 3, Edgell 2,Harris 2.St. Pauls — Antonio Henderson 20, DeonteMcMillian 13, Humphrey 7, Locklear 3,Williams 2, Gilchrist 2, Thompson 2, Canady2.3-Point Goals — EC: Wilson, White, Young,Sanders. STP: Henderson 4, Humphrey,Locklear.Technicals — EC: Gresham 2.Ejections — EC: Gresham.Records — East Columbus 5-6, 1-2. St.Pauls 3-11, 2-1.

Swett 68, Pinecrest 61PS 10 17 15 20— 68PC 17 12 14 18— 61Swett — Mitchell Hill 19, James Chavis 17,Juwan Jones 14, Tyrell McDonald 10,Harrington 3, Pipkin 3, Gillespie 2.Records — Swett 10-4, 2-1. Pinecrest 6-11,1-2.

Fairmont 65, R. Springs 41RS 6 5 14 16 — 41FMT 17 18 12 18 — 65Fairmont — Jarrod Neal 14, Oxendine 9,Barfield 9, Floyd 7, Taylor 7, Britt 6,Washington 5, Townsend 4, Gilchrist 2,Frierson 2.Red Springs — Ju Ju Brown 13,McGeachy 7, Fairley 4, Lowery 4,McLaurin 4, Baker 3, Chavis 2, Pratt 2,Leach 2.Foul out — RS: Fairley.Technicals — RS: Fairley.3-Point Goals — RS: McLaurin. FMT:Oxendine, Taylor, Barfield.Records — Fairmont 10-4, 3-0. RedSprings 1-13, 1-2.

Lumberton 91, Richmond 68LHS 20 22 28 21 — 91RHS 23 13 21 11 — 68Lumberton — Austin McNeill 20, ChristianMcRae 19, Dorian Davis 17, Smith 8,Johnson 8, Strother 7, Nagrampa 5, Fletcher4, Bullard 2, Haith 1.Richmond — Josh Calhoun 19, JustinGlenn 11, Trey Little 10, Wallace 9,Richardson 9, Clark 5, Bowden 5.3-Point Goals — L: 4 (Johnson 2,Nagrampa, McRae). R: 4 (Clark, Glenn,Wallace, Calhoun).Records — Lumberton 10-6, 2-1. Richmond11-2, 1-2.

GirlsSt. Pauls 43, E. Colum. 33

EC 5 6 14 8 — 33SP 14 11 11 7 — 43East Columbus — Meonti Campbell 18,Johnson 5, Hall 4, Walker 2, Jenkins 2,McCullum 2.St. Pauls — Bianca Palazzola 13, AlexisRoberson 10, Priest 9, Ti. Glover 8, D.Locklear 3.3-Point Goals — STP: Priest, Roberson.Records — East Columbus 8-3, 2-1. St.Pauls 8-6, 3-0.

R. Springs 41, Fairmont 28RS 6 16 8 11 — 41FMT 2 9 8 9 — 28Fairmont — D'Niqua Murphy 13,Shantanna Norris 11, Pecina 9,Murchison 4, McPhaul 2, McNeill 2.Red Springs— Anasia Evans 16,Thorndyke 5, Smith 5, Arnette 2.3-Point Goals — RS: Pecina 2.Records — Red Springs 7-8, 1-2.Fairmont 4-7, 2-1.

Richmond 57, Lumberton 45LHS 11 13 13 8 — 45RHS 20 9 19 9 — 57Lumberton — Azaya Graham 14, Ingram 9,Jones 9, McCoy 6, Ratley 4, Singletary 3.Richmond — Tiara Ellerbe 18, MalaysiaBloomfield 12, Kivana Keane 12, Jade Evans11, Stanback 2, Covington 2.3-Point Goals — L: 4 (Graham 3, Ingram).R: 2 (Ellerbe, Keane)Records — Richmond 11-2, 3-0. Lumberton10-6, 2-1.

State Leaders, BoysScoring

1. Shawn Lipscomb; Cresset ChristianAcademy; 32.4 PPG2. Travis Waldroup-Rodriguez; ThomasJefferson Academy; 32.3 PPG3. Greg Wilson; Waccamaw Academy;29.9 PPG4. Mikel Harvey; Perquimans; 28.8 PPG5. Taylor McCurry; Enka; 27.7 PPG6. Josh Cuthbertson; West Craven; 27.4PPG7. Tony Peele; Northside-Pinetown; 26.6PPG8. Clay Byrd; East Burke; 26.0 PPG9. K. Woods; Gaston Day; 25.9 PPG10. Shelton Mitchell; Cuthbertson; 25.2

NFL PlayoffsWild-card Playoffs

Jan. 7Houston 31, Cincinnati 10New Orleans 45, Detroit 28

Jan. 8New York Giants 24, Atlanta 2Denver 29, Pittsburgh 23, OT

Divisional PlayoffsTodayʼs Games

New Orleans at San Francisco, 4:30 p.m.Denver at New England, 8 p.m.

Sundayʼs GamesHouston at Baltimore, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Green Bay, 4:30 p.m.

Conference ChampionshipsJan. 22

TBDPro BowlJan. 29

At HonoluluNFC vs. AFC, 7 p.m.

Super BowlSunday, Feb. 5At Indianapolis

NFC vs. AFC, 6:20 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

N.Y. Rangers 41 27 10 4 58 118 86Philadelphia 42 26 12 4 56 142 124New Jersey 43 24 17 2 50 119 124Pittsburgh 42 21 17 4 46 124 112N.Y. Islandrs 41 15 20 6 36 98 129

Northeast DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Boston 40 28 11 1 57 148 77Ottawa 45 24 15 6 54 143 144Toronto 42 22 15 5 49 135 131Buffalo 42 18 19 5 41 107 123Montreal 43 16 20 7 39 110 119

Southeast DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Florida 42 21 13 8 50 109 116Washington 41 22 17 2 46 119 120Winnipeg 43 20 18 5 45 112 126Tampa Bay 42 17 21 4 38 115 146Carolina 45 15 23 7 37 118 150

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Chicago 44 26 13 5 57 144 127St. Louis 43 25 12 6 56 112 92Detroit 43 27 15 1 55 138 101Nashville 43 24 15 4 52 118 117Columbus 42 11 26 5 27 101 142

Northwest DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Vancouver 45 28 14 3 59 147 110Minnesota 44 22 16 6 50 103 110Colorado 45 23 20 2 48 117 127Calgary 45 21 19 5 47 110 127Edmonton 42 16 22 4 36 112 121

Pacific DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

San Jose 40 24 11 5 53 118 94Los Angeles 44 21 15 8 50 97 100Dallas 42 24 17 1 49 119 123Phoenix 44 20 17 7 47 111 114Anaheim 42 13 22 7 33 104 136NOTE: Two points for a win, one point forovertime loss.

Thursday's ResultsDetroit 3, Phoenix 2, SODallas 5, Los Angeles 4, SOBoston 2, Montreal 1Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Islanders 2Ottawa 3, N.Y. Rangers 0Carolina 5, Tampa Bay 2Vancouver 3, St. Louis 2, OTNashville 3, Colorado 2, OTSan Jose 2, Winnipeg 0Chicago 5, Minnesota 2Calgary 1, Anaheim 0, OT

Fridayʼs ResultsTampa Bay at Washington, 7 p.m.Phoenix at Columbus, 7 p.m.Toronto at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.Pittsburgh at Florida, 7:30 p.m.Anaheim at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Today's GamesChicago at Detroit, 12:30 p.m.Colorado at Dallas, 3 p.m.New Jersey at Winnipeg, 3 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7 p.m.Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.Buffalo at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.Boston at Carolina, 7 p.m.San Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.Minnesota at St. Louis, 8 p.m.Philadelphia at Nashville, 8 p.m.Los Angeles at Calgary, 10 p.m.

Sunday's GamesPittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Carolina at Washington, 5 p.m.N.Y. Rangers at Montreal, 7 p.m.San Jose at Chicago, 7 p.m.Los Angeles at Edmonton, 8 p.m.Anaheim at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

BASEBALLAmerican League

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Named AdamEverett special assistant to baseball opera-tions. Agreed to terms with INF Chin-lung Hu,INF Argenis Reyes and RHP Willy Lebron onminor league contracts.LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Named MikeMicucci manager, Trevor Wilson pitchingcoach and Al Sandoval strength and condi-tioning coach of Arkansas (TL); BillHaselman manager, Brandon Emanuel pitch-ing coach and Paul Sorrento hitting coach ofInland Empire (Cal); Jaime Burke manager,Chris Gissell pitching coach and Omar Uribetrainer of Cedar Rapids (MWL); Chris Wellstrainer of Orem (Pioneer); Brenton DelChiaro manager, Matt Wise pitching coachand Nathan Haynes hitting coach of theArizona League Angels; and Charlie Romeromanager, Santos Alcala pitching coach andEdgal Rodriguez hitting coach of theDominican Summer League Angels.

National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES — Extended theirplayer development contract with ColoradoSprings (PCL) through the end of the 2014season.PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed toterms with RHP Kyle Kendrick on a one-yearcontract.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

BOSTON BRUINS — Assigned D RyanButton from Providence (AHL) to Reading(ECHL).CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Activated FMarcus Kruger from injured reserve.Assigned F Ben Smith to Rockford (AHL).PHOENIX COYOTES — Assigned D DavidRundblad to Portland (AHL).WINNIPEG JETS — Re-assigned F PatriceCormier to St. John's (AHL).American Hockey LeagueBINGHAMTON SENATORS — Assigned FMaxime Gratchev to Elmira (ECHL).BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — SignedD Jon Landry to a professional tryout con-tract.SYRACUSE CRUNCH — Assigned F JoshBrittain and D Nick Schaus to Elmira (ECHL).ECHLELMIRA JACKALS — Loaned F Mike Radjato Houston (AHL).

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

FC DALLAS — Loaned D George John toWest Ham (English League Championship).

COLLEGEKANSAS — Named Dave Campo defensivecoordinator/defensive backs coach.TENNESSEE — Named Sal Sunseri defen-sive coordinator.

TRANSACTIONS

LeadersSCORINGG FG PTS AVG

Bryant, LAL 12 134 364 30.3James, MIA 10 106 290 29.0Durant, OKC 12 108 308 25.7Anthony, NYK 11 94 280 25.5Ellis, GOL 9 82 221 24.6Love, MIN 10 73 236 23.6Griffin, LAC 8 76 186 23.3Bargnani, TOR 11 89 245 22.3Aldridge, POR 10 91 222 22.2Rose, CHI 11 77 228 20.7Howard, ORL 11 82 225 20.5

ASSISTSG AST AVG

Rondo, BOS 9 91 10.1Nash, PHX 10 101 10.1Lowry, HOU 8 75 9.4Calderon, TOR 11 99 9.0Paul, LAC 8 70 8.8Rose, CHI 11 95 8.6D. Williams, NJN10 82 8.2Rubio, MIN 10 79 7.9Ellis, GOL 9 71 7.9Jack, NOR 9 71 7.9James, MIA 10 75 7.5Parker, SAN 11 80 7.3Wall, WAS 10 71 7.1Felton, POR 10 70 7.0

BLOCKSG BLK AVG

Jordan, LAC 8 27 3.38McGee, WAS 10 32 3.20Gasol, MEM 10 27 2.70Howard, ORL 11 24 2.18Ibaka, OKC 12 26 2.17Bynum, LAL 8 17 2.13

STEALSG STL AVG

Paul, LAC 8 22 2.75Shumpert, NYK 7 17 2.43Conley, MEM 8 19 2.38Lowry, HOU 8 17 2.13Allen, MEM 10 20 2.00James, MIA 10 20 2.00Teague, ATL 12 24 2.00

3-POINT PERCENTAGE3FG 3FGA PCT

Allen, BOS 27 43 .628Sefolosha, OKC 10 17 .588Morris, PHX 14 24 .583Jefferson, SAN 35 63 .556George, IND 20 36 .556Gibson, CLE 19 36 .528Collison, IND 10 19 .526Korver, CHI 24 46 .522Ginobili, SAN 14 27 .519Jones, MIA 15 31 .484Rush, GOL 14 29 .483

PGA Tour

Sony OpenFriday

At Waialae Country Club CourseHonolulu

Purse: $5.5 millionYardage: 7,044; Par: 70

Second Round(a-amateur)

Matt Every 66-64—130-10David Hearn 66-66—132-8Carl Pettersson 65-67—132-8Pat Perez 66-67—133-7Brendon de Jonge 71-62—133-7Doug LaBelle II 66-67—133-7Kyle Stanley 66-68—134-6Bud Cauley 66-68—134-6Charles Howell III 67-67—134-6Sean O'Hair 67-67—134-6William McGirt 67-67—134-6Jeff Maggert 69-65—134-6Spencer Levin 67-67—134-6Johnson Wagner 68-66—134-6Keegan Bradley 67-67—134-6Kris Blanks 68-66—134-6John Senden 68-67—135-5Duffy Waldorf 69-66—135-5Billy Mayfair 68-67—135-5Harrison Frazar 67-68—135-5Steve Stricker 66-69—135-5Gavin Coles 69-66—135-5Michael Thompson 70-65—135-5Will Claxton 66-69—135-5Tadd Fujikawa 69-66—135-5Chris DiMarco 70-65—135-5Stephen Ames 67-68—135-5Ken Duke 66-69—135-5Graham DeLaet 63-72—135-5Sang-Moon Bae 68-68—136-4Jerry Kelly 70-66—136-4Ted Potter, Jr. 68-68—136-4Roberto Castro 67-69—136-4Chris Stroud 68-68—136-4Stewart Cink 70-66—136-4Josh Teater 69-67—136-4Brendon Todd 68-68—136-4Bobby Gates 68-68—136-4Scott Piercy 69-68—137-3Zach Johnson 72-65—137-3Steve Wheatcroft 69-68—137-3Koumei Oda 72-65—137-3Tommy Biershenk 71-66—137-3Corey Pavin 70-67—137-3D.A. Points 68-69—137-3J.J. Killeen 68-69—137-3John Huh 72-65—137-3Harris English 67-70—137-3Colt Knost 66-71—137-3Seung-yul Noh 66-72—138-2Daniel Summerhays 69-69—138-2Brian Harman 72-66—138-2Nathan Green 69-69—138-2Greg Owen 69-69—138-2Vijay Singh 71-67—138-2Rory Sabbatini 67-71—138-2Webb Simpson 66-72—138-2K.J. Choi 65-73—138-2Jhonattan Vegas 67-71—138-2Brian Gay 69-69—138-2John Rollins 70-68—138-2George McNeill 69-70—139-1Ryuji Imada 71-68—139-1Tommy Gainey 73-66—139-1Chris Kirk 69-70—139-1Joe Ogilvie 71-68—139-1Kevin Chappell 72-67—139-1Erik Compton 71-68—139-1Jarrod Lyle 69-70—139-1Alex Aragon 69-70—139-1Alexandre Rocha 70-69—139-1Chad Campbell 70-69—139-1Jeff Overton 69-70—139-1Justin Leonard 71-68—139-1Tim Herron 68-71—139-1Tom Pernice Jr. 69-70—139-1Jason Kokrak 69-70—139-1Tadahiro Takayama 70-69—139-1Billy Hurley III 68-71—139-1Jonas Blixt 72-67—139-1

Failed to qualifyJimmy Walker 72-68—140EHunter Haas 72-68—140EMarco Dawson 71-69—140EJohn Mallinger 72-68—140EMichael Bradley 72-68—140EDavid Toms 73-67—140EToshinori Muto 72-68—140ERussell Knox 70-70—140EDavid Mathis 72-68—140EChad Collins 72-68—140ERocco Mediate 71-69—140ECameron Beckman 68-72—140EKyle Reifers 65-75—140EMark Wilson 73-68—141+1Scott Stallings 67-74—141John Merrick 72-69—141+1Shane Bertsch 72-69—141+1Arjun Atwal 70-71—141+1Ryo Ishikawa 71-70—141+1Blake Adams 71-71—142+2Jonathan Byrd 74-68—142+2Briny Baird 75-67—142+2Jason Dufner 71-71—142+2Ricky Barnes 67-75—142+2Troy Matteson 73-69—142+2Jim Carter 72-71—143+3WC Liang 70-73—143+3Richard H. Lee 70-73—143+3a-Hideki Matsuyama 71-72—143+3Patrick Sheehan 71-72—143+3

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Jonas Jerebko tied a career high with 22 points and the Detroit Pistons won the race to three victories Friday night against the Charlotte Bobcats, 98-81.

Both teams entered the game with identical 2-9 records and on lengthy losing streaks: the Bobcats having lost five straight and the Pistons six in a row.

The Pistons were able to snap their streak behind the inside play of Jerebko and Greg Monroe, who chipped in with 19 points and nine rebounds. The Pistons dominated inside, scoring 50 points in the paint through the first three quarters to open a 78-59 lead.

This one wasn’t even close as the Pistons led by 12 at the half and pushed it to 21 in the fourth quarter as the Bobcats never mounted a serious challenge.

The Pistons got numerous uncon-tested shots in the middle and made the most of them. shooting 49 per-cent from the field. All five starters finished in double digits for the Pistons, including Ben Gordon with 14 and Brandon Knight with 13 points and 10 rebounds.

Jerebko, from Sweden, tied his previous career high of 22 back in 2009. He also had nine rebounds.

Byron Mullens led Charlotte with 18 points, the eighth time in 10 games he’s reached double digits. Mullens, making his second start at center, had 12 points in the first half on 7 of 14 shooting. Mullens remains one of the few bright spots for the Bobcats, who continue to struggle with their shooting and their toughness inside. Prior to the game, coach Paul Silas questioned his team’s toughness and once again his team didn’t respond.

It was yet another quiet night for Charlotte’s Boris Diaw, who was held to three points after being held scoreless against the Atlanta Hawks the night before. Diaw, who has become a source of frustration for

Silas, attempted just two shots from the field.

The Pistons got several easy layups driving the lane, and Jerebko and Monroe tore apart Charlotte’s defense with some great interior passing. When the Pistons weren’t dominated in the paint, Gordon was hitting open shots from the wing.

Kemba Walker had 16 points and D.J. Augustin had 13 assists for

Charlotte.Once again, the Bobcats were

beat up on the boards, with the Pistons holding a 46-34 edge.

It was the Bobcats’ fourth game in five days and they looked like a very lethargic team. They complete a back-to-back-to-back Saturday night against Golden State.

The Pistons host the Warriors on Sunday.

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UNC on the road for 1st time in a monthCHAPEL HILL (AP) —

North Carolina has spent the past month at home, racking up lopsided wins and trying to fix some problems that lurked early in the season. Now the third-ranked Tar Heels will find out how much they accomplished as they return to the road.

The Tar Heels (15-2, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) won all nine games during that home stand, showing improve-ment on defense and rebounding after those areas lagged in early losses to UNLV and Kentucky.

They travel to Florida State on Saturday for their first game away from the Smith Center since losing to the Wildcats at Rupp Arena by a point on Dec. 3, a span of 42 days.

The Tar Heels have rare-ly been pushed since, even though coach Roy Williams was irked at times by the team’s wandering focus in those easy wins.

“I think we definitely got better,” Williams said Friday. “We had better rebound moments than we did early, had more bal-ance, different guys scor-ing and not just depending

on one or two guys. So I think there were many, many ways that we did get better.”

Now, as the Tar Heels prepare to play four of six on the road, Williams wants to see a team that has “a better attention span and maybe a higher level of attention to what we need to do.”

“Everyone had to find their identity,” sophomore Harrison Barnes said. “I think guys are really start-ing to step up.”

Among that group is junior Dexter Strickland, who had 14 points and

led the defensive effort that shut down Miami’s Malcolm Grant and Durand Scott in Tuesday’s win. But Williams said Strickland and freshman reserve Desmond Hubert each suffered sprained ankles during workouts Wednesday and missed Thursday’s practice, which could cut into the Tar Heels’ depth as they go for a sixth straight win against the Seminoles (10-6, 1-1) in Tallahassee.

Strickland practiced Friday, though the 6-foot-9 Hubert missed practice again.

Tar Heels, 15-2, travel to Florida State

Robert Willett | Raleigh News & ObserverNorth Carolina’s Harrison Barnes soars to the basket for a dunk. UNC won all nine games during its month-long homestand.

Rose, Bulls top Celtics, 88-79

Pistons top BobcatsBOSTON (AP) —

Derrick Rose returned from a one-game absence to score 25 points and help the Chicago Bulls hold off a second-half charge to beat the Boston Celtics 88-79 on Friday night.

The Celtics had trimmed a 52-33 halftime deficit to 67-66 on a 3-pointer by Mickael Pietrus with 10 minutes left in the game. Then Boston missed its next two shots, while Rose scored four straight points. Kevin Garnett responded with a short jumper, but Rose came through again with a 3-pointer for a 74-68 lead with 7:30 remaining.

Rose, who missed Wednesday’s 78-64 win over the Washington Wizards with a sprained left big toe, scored 12 points after Boston cut the lead to one. Luol Deng had 21 points and 16 rebounds for Chicago and Carlos Boozer and Ronnie Brewer scored 12 each.

Ray Allen scored 16 for Boston and Rajon Rondo had 14 points and 11 assists.

Chicago improved its NBA-best record to 11-2 with its 10th win in 11 games. Boston lost its third straight, all at home, and fell to 4-6.

Pacers 95,Raptors 90

TORONTO (AP) —

Tyler Hansbrough made two key free throws with less than 15 seconds to play and the Indiana Pacers overcame the ejec-tion of leading scorer Danny Granger to beat the Toronto Raptors 95-90 on Friday night.

George Hill scored a season-high 22 points for the Pacers, while Roy Hibbert fouled out with 15 points and nine rebounds. Hansbrough and David West each scored 13.

Indiana has won two straight and four of five.

DeMar DeRozan had 23 points and Leandro Barbosa came off the bench to score 20 for the Raptors, who have lost three straight and five or six.

Jose Calderon had 15 points and nine assists for Toronto, who made just 20 of 32 free throw attempts, including eight misses in the fourth quarter.

Granger was ejected in the second quarter after being called for his second technical foul. Granger got his first technical for argu-ing a non-call three min-utes into the first quarter, then picked up his second for staring down Toronto’s Ed Davis after a blocked shot with 29 seconds left in the half.

Granger came in leading Indiana with 15.9 points per game but struggled against the Raptors, shoot-ing just 1 of 8 and scoring four points.

Photo by Kent Smith | NBAE via Getty ImagesTyrus Thomas of the Charlotte Bobcats shoots against Greg Monroe, and Tayshaun Prince of the Detroit Pistons.

Richmond coach David Laton said. “It seemed like they didn’t miss anything in the third quarter.”

Gaskins felt the Pirates (10-6, 2-1) should have had a larger advantage at halftime and told his team as much in the locker room.

“I told the kids we missed free throws and we should have been up by 15,” Gaskins said. “I think that fired the kids up. I knew we could take them off the dribble because I didn’t think they were that good defensively man-to-man. Our plan was to penetrate and score, pen-etrate and pitch it out or back cut them.”

Lady Pirates outdone by Raiders

The Lumberton girls basket-

ball team couldn’t keep up with Richmond in a 57-45 Southeastern Conference loss Friday night.

The Pirates (10-6, 2-1) fell into a 20-11 first-quarter hole and never recovered.

“We really had problems with their press,” Lumberton coach Danny Graham said. “I think Richmond had more energy than we did tonight. We were very inconsistent. We played three min-utes hard and then we wouldn’t the next three minutes. I give Richmond all the credit, they play defense really well.”

Azaya Graham scored a team-high 14 points for Lumberton. Raven Ingram and Jordan Jones chipped in nine each.

Leading Richmond (11-2, 3-0) was Tira Ellerbe, who poured in 18 points.

Springs girls basketball team to a 41-28 Three Rivers Conference win over Fairmont.

The Red Devils (7-8, 1-2) doubled-up the Golden Tornadoes (4-7, 2-1) in the first half to hold a 22-11 advantage.

Anasia Evans helped Fairmont close the gap to single digits early in the fourth, 36-27, but that was as close as it would come. Evans scored a game-high 16.

Rams rally, seize road win

SOUTHERN PINES — Purnell Swett’s boys basketball team went on the road and came away victorious Friday night after beating Pinecrest, 68-61, to improve to 2-1 in the Southeastern Conference.

The Rams (10-4, 2-1) overcame a 12-point deficit in the first half and held on to win with 20 points in the final

stanza. Swett’s Mitchell Hill recorded his first double-double of the season with 19 points and 11 rebounds. James Chavis netted 17, Juwan Jones pitched in 14 points and Tyrell McDonald scored 10 off the bench.

“We played well in spurts and we’re happy to get the win,” Swett coach Jeremy Sampson said. “Juwan got in foul trouble early so he had to sit in the second quarter. We got some fresh legs

in the game and our bench played great for us. We just need to keep improving.”

Pinecrest guard Adam Cummings led the Patriots (6-11, 1-2) with 19 points.

Purnell Swett girls results were not available at press time.

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double digits. Most of East Columbus’ production came in transition, a result of run-outs and length-of-the-floor assists after long rebounds.

“We’ve been up and down all year, but our motto is defense,” said East Columbus coach Curtis Moss. “Our defense is our bread and but-ter, we just have to be ready to play it every night. That was probably our best (night of defense) this season.”

Henderson led St. Pauls with 20 points, followed by a 13-point effort from Deonte McMillian. St. Pauls’ top-scoring guard Deion Gilchrist had a single field goal.

“I’ve gone with the same starting lineup all season, but I told the guys after the

game if I have to make a change, I will,” Lemanski said. “Antonio is the only guy we have playing with consis-tency right now. A lot of guys are giving up when we fall behind.”

Palazzola leads Bulldogs’ 3-0 start

Fueled by a harassing defense and a talented senior forward, St. Pauls’ girls bas-ketball team ran its confer-ence win streak to three Friday night with a 43-33 decision over East Columbus.

In the first half, the Bulldogs forced 22 turnovers and scored 10 of their 25 points in transition to pull

ahead the Gators — previous-ly unbeaten in Three Rivers play. Bianca Palazzola scored 10 of her team-high 13 points in the first 16 minutes and anchored a 12-2 run to open the contest.

St. Pauls (8-6, 3-0) point guard Alexis Roberson chipped in with 10 points and five assists.

After trailing by as many as 16, the Gators (8-3, 2-1) pulled to within seven at 38-31 with 3:17 remaining. Over a span of 6:12, East Columbus center Meonti Campbell scored 14 straights points to lead the Gators’ late rally.

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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans are quite content to run against the grain in the pass-happy NFL.

Baltimore relies heavily on running back Ray Rice and a stingy defensive unit led by Pro Bowl linebackers Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs. Houston depends on the rushing prowess of Arian Foster and the NFL’s second-ranked defense.

Neither team intends to alter that approach in Sunday’s playoff game, so the one that stays true to form the longest likely will advance to the AFC champion-ship game.

The Ravens (12-4) respect rookie quar-terback T.J. Yates and the breakaway speed of wide receiver Andre Johnson, but they figure their best chance to win is to bottle up Foster and force the Texans to throw.

“The objective, first and foremost, is to stop the run. You can’t let him get going,” Baltimore defensive end Cory Redding

said. “And then No. 2, get guys on No. 80 (Johnson). Then No. 3, get after Yates, period. You have to stop the run, control the pass and get after the passer. That’s the formula for winning every single week. That’s been our formula from Week One, and it hasn’t changed.”

When Houston (11-6) came to Baltimore on Oct. 6, the Ravens limited Foster to 49 yards on 15 carries in a 29-14 victory. But Foster rambled for 153 yards and two touchdowns in a 31-10 rout of Cincinnati last week, leaving little mystery as to what

the Texans’ game plan will be on Sunday.“We’ve got to see how the game goes,

but I know that we need to stay commit-ted to running the football,” coach Gary Kubiak said. “Hey, we’re going to have to run the ball effectively to win this football game. We know that. We know it will be a difficult task, but we’re preparing to go do it.”

The Ravens have never allowed a run-ner to amass 100 yards on the ground in a playoff game, and they have every inten-tion of keeping that mark intact.

“Our focus is, No. 1, we’ve got to stop the run,” defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano said. “Their whole idea is to get third-and-manageable. There are a lot of third-and-2s, 3s, 4s and 5s, and then it puts the pressure back on the defense. You’re a little bit leery of coming after them in those situations because of the run and the pass. So if we do a great job on first and second down and get them in third-and-long, we’ll be able to dial some things up.”

The last thing Yates needs is to be drop-ping back in the pocket with the Baltimore defense looking for him to throw.

“They’ve seen it all. They’ve been through it all,” Yates said. “We know that they’re going to do things to try to trick us and kind of catch us off guard, so we have to do things to counteract that. We’ve been doing different things all week long to give us the best chance against an expe-rienced defense like that.”

Texans, Ravens make a run at glory in playoffs

Tebowmania steals spotlightfrom Brady

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — For his latest trick, Tim Tebow is mak-ing three-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady dis-appear from the headlines.

Now, with Tebowmania in full force, the Denver Broncos hope to make the New England Patriots van-ish from the playoffs when they meet Saturday night.

Photos of the devout, much doubted Denver sensation kneeling on the turf in prayer are a week-ly occurrence. There are plenty of shots of him with arms thrust in the air after a scoring play.

But where are those pictures of Brady pos-ing with supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen or with the Patriots title trophies?

That’s what hap-pens when Tebow leads the Broncos to four overtime wins in one sea-son, capped by last Sunday’s wild-card victory over Pittsburgh. For Brady, com-ing off one of the best of his 12 seasons, greatness is expected and not often celebrated.

“I’m never surprised at what gets talked about anymore,” Patriots left tackle Matt Light said with a smile. “I think I saw a seven-minute (video) piece on a girl that ate M&Ms while doing a handstand. That was inter-esting. I mean, I got into it for a while.

“I think it’s just any time there’s anything new — he’s obviously new (and) he’s done some incredible things this season. I think the hype is justified.”

If Tebow can stun the odds makers who have made the Broncos 13 1-2-point underdogs, the attention will grow heading into the AFC championship game. Forecasters are predicting the coldest day of the win-ter with temperatures in the single digits Saturday night.

Tebow, who played four seasons at Florida, hasn’t been in many games below 20 degrees.

“I’d say probably a hand-ful,” he said, “not as many as Mr. Brady has, prob-ably.”

The Patriots, winners of eight straight games but losers of their last three in the playoffs — the last two at home — beat the Broncos on Dec. 18 in Denver, 41-23.

New England (13-3) gave up 167 yards rushing in the first quarter and trailed 16-7 early in the second. But three Denver turnovers in that quarter

were costly. Defensively, the Broncos controlled receiving stars Wes Welker and Rob Gronkowski, but were hurt by the Patriots’ other tight end, Aaron Hernandez.

The Patriots gave up the second-most yards in the league this season, but, with Brady, they scored the third most. So pass rushers Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil must get to him early and defensive backs must cover as long as necessary.

Tebow won’t have lead-ing receiver Eric Decker, who hurt his left knee against Pittsburgh. But Willis McGahee ran for 1,199 yards and Tebow added 660 this season

on the NFL’s top rushing team.

“We can learn a little bit from our last game against them, but this is a whole new deal,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. “They’re a tough team to prepare for. They give you

a lot of looks on both sides of the ball.”

Tebow brought the Broncos (9-8) back from a 1-4 start all the way to the playoffs despite com-pleting 46.5 percent of his passes with a flawed motion and losing the last three regular-season games.

But the hype soared after last Sunday’s playoff victory.

On the very first play of overtime, Pittsburgh had no deep safety. All Demaryius Thomas had

to do was catch Tebow’s 18-yard pass over the mid-dle and run the rest of the way for an 80-yard touch-down and a 29-23 win.

That cranked up the Tebowmania volume on post-game shows but

not among his teammates.“For the most part, it’s

not like it’s something that you ask for,” Tebow said. “You care about going out there and trying to get bet-ter every day and trying to be a great teammate.”

And his teammates don’t focus on the hype.

“It’s nowhere in the lock-er room,” safety Quinton Carter said. “Everybody else outside of here can have fun with that. We’re here to work. We’re here to win. We don’t think about it.”

Tebow also has gotten plenty of attention for displaying his religious views by Tebowing — the description for his kneel-ing — and referring to his faith.

Patriots special teams captain Matthew Slater also is deeply religious.

Broncos will meet Patriots in playoffs

“We know that they’re going to do things to try to trick us and kind of catch us off guard, so we have to do things to counteract that.”

— T.J. Yates,Texans quarterback

Tim Tebow

Tom Brady

BLONDIE Dean Young/Denis Lebrun

BEETLE BAILEY Mort Walker

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Chris Browne

HI & LOIS Brian and Greg Walker

FUNKY WINKERBEAN Tom Batiuk

MUTTS Patrick McDonnell

THE FAMILY CIRCUS Bil Keane

DENNIS THE MENACE Hank Ketchum

CONCEPTIS SUDOKUby Dave Green

Today’s Answers

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012:

This year many new opportunities appear involving your public image and long-term desires. For some of you, the impact could involve your work; for others, it might even be a political commitment. No matter what your choices are, they will suit you. You opt to change your domicile in some manner, whether painting, remodeling or moving. If you are single, you meet several potential sweeties. The choice is yours. If you are attached, through a mutual com-mitment, the two of you will see an enhanced closeness. LIBRA pushes you into the limelight.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Visualize more of what is

happening behind the scenes. You could be a little off and nervous when dealing with the sporadic behavior of others. Excess comes forward. Someone might judge you. Whether this person says it or not, his or her face says it all. Tonight: Sort through invitations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHH Out of the blue, when you

least expect it, a stroke of good luck hits. At first you might not agree. If your attitude is positive, it could turn this situation into a victory dance. Someone lets you know how important you are. Tonight: Play it easy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)HHHH Allow (and relish!) more

give-and-take between you and anoth-er person. A friend’s message tosses your imagination into fifth gear. Peals of laughter also mark your interactions. Understand that not everyone is in your carefree mood. Share your hap-piness. Tonight: Where you are, the party is.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)HHH Slow down and listen to

feedback from a family member. You could discover that one particular person might be unusually controlling or difficult. Center on what is positive around you. Invite friends over at the last minute if you want to. Tonight: Order in.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)HHHH You see a situation through

another’s eyes as you listen and identify with him or her. You might be surprised by some of what this person says or shares when relaxed over a meal. In your mind, you might be imposing strong limits on what you do

and say. Tonight: Where your friends are.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)HHHH Your ability to let go and

move forward is marked by your choice of various activities. You laugh, and another person relaxes. Loosen up, and understand your personal needs as well as others’. If you need to indulge a little, by all means, do. Tonight: Your treat.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHH Follow your instincts right

now. Make plans with people you want to be with. You see trust develop in a key bond. Understand that this per-son’s controlling side has nothing to do with you, but with his or her own inse-curity. Tonight: Use your imagination.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH The unexpected causes

change and demands you to flex. You like plans to be locked in tight. Don’t resist the tide of events. Someone close could be extremely trying, yet you care about this person. Just don’t play his or her game. Tonight: Weave some mystery into the moment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)HHHH Your enjoyment of the

moment often is enhanced by having companions and friends around you. You cannot dismiss the importance of a child’s or loved one’s surprising behavior. You might wonder what needs to change. Tonight: Where the action is, go, do and be!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)HHHH Your creativity comes for-

ward, allowing greater give-and-take in a friendship. A key person shares a little too much, but look at the action rather than the words. This person trusts you. A need for a power play or a negative knee-jerk reaction won’t serve you. Tonight: Others are more observant than you realize.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)HHHH The unexpected occurs.

As a sign who loves surprises, you will find that this event is right up your alley. Investigate what might be pos-sible now that a dimension of your life has loosened up. Be direct with a loved one and a problem. Tonight: Follow the music.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)HHHH Your considerate and sen-

sitive behavior might not be noticed. A child or loved one might feel pushed. Adjust plans not only for him or her but for you. You don’t want to hang with a grumpy person! Tonight: Visit over munchies and a drink.

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PUBLIC NOTICENotice is hereby given, pursuant tothe code of the City of Lumberton, ofa Public Hearing to be held on Tues-day, January 17, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. inthe City Hall, City Council Chambers,Lumberton, North Carolina, at whichtime the Board of Adjustment shallconsider and act upon Appeals, In-terpretations and applications forVariances and Special Use Permitsfiled with the Board pursuant toChapter 35 of the Code of the City ofLumberton. In particular, the Boardwill consider the following request:Donnie Hunt is requesting a variancefrom the requirements of the FloodDamage Prevention Ordinance. Thisrequest is for a variance of six inches(6") below the required two foot (2')freeboard. The property is located at793 Kenny Biggs Road Tax Parcel#0208-01-004 (Deed Book 18-UPage 46. Further information con-cerning this request can be receivedfrom the Planning and NeighborhoodServices Department of the City ofLumberton at (910) 671-3838.On the basis of objections, debatesand discussion at the hearing,changes may be made from thatwhich is proposed.Laney Mitchell-McIntosh, City ClerkCN: 2647 COL010712 1/7 1/14

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