Stanly News Journal Vol. 145, Issue 88

Stanly NewS Journal

Sign of thanks

Mike Workman, left, and Mike Crutch eld, both with Casco Signs, install a new sign in front of Stanly County Rescue on Wednesday. The company donated the sign to the rescue squad for its new building in Albemarle. Earlier this year, Stanly County Rescue saved Casco owner Kevin Crutch eld’s son Mike and his family when they became stranded on a lake after their boat became disabled during a severe storm.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Charlotte included in list of airports targeted for shutdown ight cuts

Airports in Charlotte, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are among 40 of the busiest across the U.S. where ights will be cut due to the government shutdown. That is according to a list distributed to the airlines and obtained by The Associated Press. The Federal Aviation Administration said it will begin reducing air tra c on Friday to maintain safety as air tra c controllers go unpaid and show signs of strain during the shutdown. The plan is to curtail 10% of ights across the a ected airports. Airlines said they will try to minimize the impact on travelers. United Airlines said it will focus the cuts on regional routes that use smaller planes.

Pelosi won’t seek reelection, end her career in U.S. House

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t seek reelection. The announcement Thursday by the California Democrat will bring to a close a storied career that saw her become the rst woman to hold that job and arguably the most powerful woman in American politics. Her decision came as a seasoned generation of political leaders is stepping aside. Pelosi was an architect of the A ordable Care Act and other landmark policies. The 85-year-old congresswoman relinquished her leadership position three years ago.

Former President Barack Obama called her one of the best House speakers ever.

Stanly school board hears EC department presentation

The program is guided by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal

ALBEMARLE — Megan

DePasquale, executive director of Stanly County Schools’ exceptional children department, recently gave the Stanly County Board of Education a program update.

At the school board’s meeting Tuesday night, members listened to DePasquale’s presentation as she shared an in- depth update on the program’s operations, sta ng and funding.

“We want to empower our

students through individualized education, and we focus on custom support and success

pathways,” DePasquale said.

“The highest need is students with learning disabilities, fol-

Norwood City Council approves funding for Revolutionary War mural

The mural will be unveiled at the next Arbor Day Festival

By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal

NORWOOD — The Norwood Town Council has unanimously approved $1,000 in funding for a mural commemorating the Battle of Colson’s Mill, a Revolutionary War battle that took place in present-day Norwood. Norwood commissioners voted to contribute the funding during an agenda item at

their Monday night meeting.

The mural, which will honor a Colonial victory on July 21, 1780, will be unveiled during a countywide celebration as part of Norwood’s annual Arbor Day Festival on April 25, 2026.

The artwork will depict a battle where Colonial militia forces led by William Lee Davidson routed a group of British loyalists near the junction of the Rocky and Pee Dee rivers.

Local Albemarle artists Jack and Eli Williams, who have painted numerous murals

“This battle is Stanly County’s signi cant contribution to the Revolutionary War.”

Bain Jones, chair of the America 250 N.C. Stanly County Committee

lowed by other health impaired, speech impaired, developmentally delayed and then autism. Those are our ve top areas that students are identied in that we serve.”

The department, guided by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, serves students from ages 3 to 21 who have disabilities and require special education services. It supports 1,142 students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and 594 students with 504 plans across the district.

An IEP is a legal document that outlines a student’s specific educational needs, goals and the special services required to help them make progress. A 504 plan provides accommodations

The mayor won reelection comfortably with more than 70% of the vote

The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE — Voters in North Carolina’s largest city reelected their Democratic mayor, keeping her in place even as safety concerns in Charlotte have risen since the August stabbing death of a young Ukrainian woman on a commuter train.

Vi Lyles won comfortably on Tuesday over Republican and Libertarian challengers in a city that hasn’t elected a GOP mayor since 2007.

“I am just so grateful for the voters — for the people that helped me be here tonight — to be able to say that I have the opportunity to serve the city once more,” Lyles told WBTV on Tuesday evening.

The Aug. 22 killing of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car sparked outrage from President Donald Trump and other Repub -

licans about violent crime and pretrial release decisions. It also sharpened campaigning in Charlotte, where Republican candidate Terrie Donovan, a real estate agent, had made crime her top issue even before the stabbing.

Decarlos Brown Jr., the suspect in Zarutska’s stabbing, had previously been arrested more than a dozen times, and he was released earlier this year by a magistrate on a misdemeanor count without any bond. Public anger intensi ed with the release of security video showing what appeared as a random attack.

The GOP-controlled state legislature passed a law in late September that, in part, tightened pretrial release rules. Lyles, who easily won the Democratic mayoral primary, has highlighted additional safety measures for the light rail system, including a greater presence of transit system o cers.

Lyles, a former longtime municipal employee, said Tuesday that city o cials need to follow the lead of the Char-

lotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on what public safety improvements are needed “instead of trying just to say, ‘Well, we’ll just throw something out there.’”

City leaders announced just last week the hiring of recent Raleigh police chief Estella Patterson as Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s next chief. Current Chief Johnny Jennings is retiring at year’s end.

Brown is charged with rst-degree murder in state court and was indicted on a federal count in connection with Zarutska’s death. Both crimes can be punishable by the death penalty. Brown’s next state court hearing is scheduled for April.

Democrats outnumber Republicans by over 2-1 in voter registration in Charlotte, which has well over 900,000 residents. But the number of registered una liated voters is nearly on par with Democrats.

The mayor and 11 elected o cials comprise Charlotte’s city council. With Tuesday’s elections, Democrats will soon hold 10 of the 11 other seats.

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THE CONVERSATION

Trip Ho end, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor

VISUAL VOICES

When money replaces integrity, sports collapse

Beijing has poured hundreds of billions into African infrastructure through its Belt and Road Initiative Sports once shaped young men into leaders.

FOR GENERATIONS, sports were one of the last places in American life where hard work, discipline and fair competition still mattered.

But now, like so much of our culture, professional sports are being corrupted by the power of money, and gambling is accelerating that decay at a dangerous speed.

The FBI arrested Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier in connection with alleged illegal gambling operations and a sports-rigging scheme that reportedly used inside NBA information. He is also allegedly connected to a wider criminal investigation involving organized crime.

Former NBA star and Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups has now also been allegedly linked to Ma a-backed underground poker operations, raising further concerns about professional sports being compromised by criminal in uence. These are not isolated scandals; they are symptoms of a deeper and growing problem. Gambling money has now wrapped itself around American sports, and the integrity of competition is slowly su ocating because of it.

So much so that we are beginning to see federal agencies and Congress tightening their attention on the darker edges of sports gambling. The FBI has launched a Crime and Corruption in Sport and Gaming initiative to track illegal betting, matchxing matches and games, and the use of insider information by athletes or league sta . Working alongside the Justice Department, federal prosecutors are looking into organized crime, money laundering and unregulated betting platforms. Just recently, Congress has introduced bills like the SAFE Bet Act and Betting on Our Future Act, aiming to set national standards for advertising, age veri cation and college prop bets.

While these e orts face political headwinds,

the message is clear: The federal government is shifting from passive observation to active oversight, seeking to protect both the integrity of sports and the public drawn into its fast-growing betting culture.

The Rozier and Billups investigations are not simply about players breaking rules; they reveal a system where insider access now has a price tag. When professional athletes, coaches or sta realize information can be sold for fast pro t, temptation grows quickly. The purity of competition disappears. Once outcomes can be bought or in uenced, trust is destroyed. Meanwhile, professional leagues are not backing away from gambling; they are embracing it. The NHL recently signed multiyear deals with Kalshi and Polymarket, two real-money betting platforms. DraftKings has launched a peer-to-peer prediction platform, which allows users to wager against each other on nearly anything. Instead of taking a stand for integrity, sports organizations are cashing in. If integrity still mattered to these leagues, they would not be taking gambling money. They understand the risks. They know what gambling has done to boxing, horse racing and entire sporting cultures around the world. They simply choose money over principle.

Sports leagues regularly claim to stand for ethics, fair play and respect for the game, but their actions now reveal a di erent set of values. Betting money is too powerful. Television networks, gambling corporations and team owners are all pro ting heavily from the expansion of sports betting. Integrity did not fade away by accident; it was replaced by nancial interest.

When money becomes a nation’s highest value, higher than honesty, higher than character, higher than moral truth, decline is inevitable. What we are seeing is not just gambling expansion, it is

a rewiring of American sports. Sports used to build men; now it recruits gamblers. It used to teach toughness and discipline; now it teaches speculation. Gambling rewards risk without responsibility. It promises pro t without work. It feeds addiction and dependency. An industry that grows by preying on human weakness is not a healthy American institution; it is a predatory one. If sports leagues want to save the integrity of the game, they must separate from gambling money immediately. They cannot be both regulator and pro t participant. This ght is not about gambling alone; it is about national character. Sports once shaped young men into leaders. Now it tempts them toward vice. A country that trades virtue for entertainment is not headed toward greatness. It is headed toward collapse. Scripture warns that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. That truth is playing out in real time. This is not about being against sports or even against personal freedom. This is about refusing to let greed rewrite what is good, honorable and worth preserving. America must choose integrity again. Because when money replaces virtue, something far more valuable is lost.

Mark Minnella is founder and president of one of the rst investment advisories dedicated to biblically responsible investing principles. This column was rst published by Daily Caller News Foundation.

China is taking over Africa, but it’s not too late

AFRICA HAS BECOME the new great power chessboard. The pieces aren’t soldiers or diplomats — they’re ports, railways and ber-optic cables. And behind many of them stands China. For two decades, Beijing has poured hundreds of billions into African infrastructure through its Belt and Road Initiative. From Kenya’s railways to Nigeria’s highways to Djibouti’s deep-water port, China’s presence is everywhere. But as global scrutiny over “debt-trap diplomacy” grows, Beijing has changed tactics. The new strategy is proxy investment — a maze of shell companies, o shore funds and nominally “private” ventures that disguise state control. This is in uence without visibility.

China remains Africa’s largest trading partner and one of its biggest lenders. Increasingly, though, Chinese money no longer ows directly from state banks. It moves through holding companies in Hong Kong, Dubai, Mauritius or Singapore — jurisdictions with minimal disclosure rules. On paper, these rms look private. In reality, many trace back to state-linked investors. The purpose is clear: to expand Chinese control in strategic sectors such as mining, telecommunications, and digital infrastructure — the commanding heights of the modern economy. Proxy investment helps Beijing sidestep Western scrutiny, obscure its lending footprint, and operate in unstable or sanctioned markets. It also shields China from political backlash. In Zambia, Mauritius-registered rms backed by Chinese capital now hold key mining stakes. In Angola and Nigeria, investment vehicles based in the UAE channel Chinese funds into oil and energy projects. On paper, these are private deals; in practice, they extend Beijing’s reach.

To African governments, such capital can look like ordinary globalization. Yet opacity hides risk.

When ownership chains snake through o shore jurisdictions, it becomes nearly impossible for host nations to know who controls critical assets —

or how debts are structured. That secrecy breeds in ated costs, hidden liabilities and weakened sovereignty. Kenya’s railway loans were kept secret for years, sparking public outrage. In Zambia, even o cials admit they can’t identify who ultimately owns certain mines. Infrastructure meant to boost development instead fuels distrust.

Washington understands Africa’s strategic importance — for energy, trade and global supply chains — but America’s weakness isn’t capital; it’s clarity. There is no coordinated U.S. e ort to track Chinese proxy ows. Once money disappears behind shell layers, it vanishes from oversight. By the time a project becomes public, China already holds leverage. This intelligence gap keeps Washington reactive while Beijing moves quietly ahead.

The solution isn’t to outspend China — it’s to outshine it. The United States should wield transparency as a strategic weapon. Every major infrastructure deal in Africa should disclose its ultimate owners, bene ciaries and intermediaries. Washington can lead by example and by partnership.

A practical ve-point plan would include:

• A U.S.–Africa Transparency Task Force uniting the Departments of Treasury, State, Commerce, and intelligence agencies to map proxy ows

• Support for bene cial-ownership registries in African nations through U.S. technical aid

• AI-driven analytics to trace o shore capital patterns

• Tying IMF and World Bank lending to public disclosure standards

• Allied investment frameworks with Japan, South Korea and the European Union to o er clean, rule-based alternatives

Transparency isn’t just good governance; it’s economic defense. When citizens know who owns what, corruption shrinks, accountability rises and Beijing loses its cloak.

The stakes extend beyond Africa. China is using the same playbook elsewhere. In South Korea, Chinese investors now dominate foreign real estate purchases, many nanced by state-linked banks. Hidden leverage can become political in uence — quietly turning economic presence into strategic control.

At the Busan summit, Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump pledged to stabilize trade. But beneath the diplomatic smiles lies the real contest: Who will control the world’s resource corridors and technology supply chains? China is doubling down on its global infrastructure campaign. America, for its part, is signaling that it will compete through clean capital and transparent nancing — the foundation for resilient supply chains across Africa, Asia and the Americas. For African leaders, this isn’t a choice between China and the United States. It’s a test of sovereignty. Those who demand transparency can attract rule-based capital and reduce dependence on opaque nanciers. The new race for in uence won’t be won by dollars alone. In the 21st-century scramble for Africa, the most valuable resource isn’t money — it’s credibility. China hides its power behind shell companies. America should counter with sunlight.

Jacob Choe is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and serves as the Eurasia Center’s Asia program director. James Carter is a principal with Navigators Global. He previously served as deputy undersecretary for international a airs at the U.S. Department of Labor. This column was rst published by Daily Caller News Foundation.

IN MEMORY

DONAVON “DONNIE” KAY SMITH

APRIL 6, 1953 – OCT. 31, 2025

Donavon Kay Smith, 72, of Albemarle, North Carolina, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 31, 2025, at Atrium Health–Main in Charlotte.

A native of Hoke County, Donavon was born on April 6, 1953, to the late John P. Smith and Rosa Lee Tyler Smith. He was a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and dedicated his professional life to public service as a retired Probation and Parole O cer.

Donnie was a devoted husband, father and grandfather whose love for family and life was evident to everyone who knew him. He is survived by his wife, Jean Carol Baucom Smith, of the home in Albemarle.

Barbara Jean (Taylor) Drye

April 17, 1936 ~ January 14, 2023

Barbara Jean Taylor Drye, 86, of Oakboro, passed away Saturday, January 14, 2023 at her home.

Dwight Farmer

January 24, 1939 ~ January 15, 2023

VANN BURLESON JR. NOV. 24, 1944 – NOV. 3, 2025

Vann Burleson Jr., 80, of Albemarle, passed away Monday, November 3, 2025, at Atrium Health Cabarrus Hospital in Concord.

He was born on November 24, 1944, in North Carolina to the late Vann Burleson, Sr., and Alice Tommie Foreman. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Tommie Burleson.

James Roseboro

He leaves behind his children: Donavon Allen Smith (Samantha) of Aberdeen, NC; Leigh Smith Konen (Will) of Seven Lakes, NC; and Kimberly Alligood Russell (Justin) of Denver, NC. He is also survived by his brother Jimmy Smith (Nancy) of Charlotte, NC; his sister Shirley Melton (Mike) of Raeford, NC; and ve treasured grandchildren: Mason Konen, Cale Konen, Porter Smith, Everett Smith and Valerie Russell.

Dwight Britten Farmer Sr., 83, of Norwood died Sunday morning, January 15, 2023 at Forrest Oakes.

Barbara was born April 17, 1936 in North Carolina to the late Robert Lee Taylor and the late Eva Belle Watts Taylor. She was also preceded in death by husband of 61 years, Keith Furr Drye, and brothers, Robert Lee Taylor, Jr. and George Kenneth Taylor.

June 23, 1967 ~ January 10, 2023

Vann enjoyed tractors and antique farming equipment and was an avid collector. He often displayed his tractors and other machines at the annual Southeast Old Threshers Reunion in Denton. Vann enjoyed westerns and bluegrass music, notably the Malpass Brothers, and spending time in the garden and with his grandchildren.

James Arthur Roseboro, 55, of Albemarle, passed away Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at Anson Health and Rehab.

John B. Kluttz

March 23, 1935 - January 9, 2023

Doris Jones Coleman

The family will receive friends from 12-1:45 p.m., on Friday, November 7, 2025, at Hartsell Funeral Home of Albemarle, followed by the funeral service at 2 p.m., o ciated by Rev. Don Burleyson. A private burial will follow the ceremony.

October 11, 1944 - January 10, 2023

Survivors include daughters, Laura (Charles) Curcio, and Amy (Roger) Whitley, and grandsons, Tate Hudson Whitley and Laine Alexander Whitley.

He was preceded in death by his brother, John Smith, and sisters Ella Hogge and Jo Ann Gilliam.

Donnie will be remembered as a great father and grandfather who had a passion for coaching football, loved old cars, and enjoyed spending time with his dogs, Molli and Jake. He especially loved taking peaceful drives to Morrow Mountain State Park.

Mr. Roseboro was born on June 23, 1967 to the late Robert and Delena Shipp Roseboro. He graduated from South Stanly High School and was employed by Triangle Brick. He enjoyed watching football and basketball, especially the Carolina TarHeels and Miami.

A memorial service celebrating Donnie’s life will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at 1 p.m. at Stanly Funeral Home Chapel of Albemarle, o ciated by Rev. Keith Walters, with military rites to follow.

Survivors include children, Debbie (Mike) Williams of Albemarle, Teresa (Tom) Curry of Oakboro, Douglas (Tammy) Drye of Oakboro; grandchildren, Melissa (Don) Parrish of Albemarle, Samantha (Destiny) Smith of Oakboro, Bradley Smith of Oakboro, Jonathan Stover of Peachland, and Jessie Stover of Lylesville; sisterin-law, Beatrice Goodman; many nieces and nephews; and her beloved cats, Bo and Gar eld.

Donnie’s life was one of service, love, and quiet strength; a legacy that will continue to live on in the hearts of those who loved him.

In lieu of owers, memorials may be made to the Friends of Morrow Mountain State Park, PO Box 306, Badin, NC 28009.

Dwight was born January 24, 1939 in Stanly County to the late Walter Virgil and Martha Adkins Farmer. He was a 1957 graduate of Norwood High School and was a United States Army Veteran. He was a member of Cedar Grove United Methodist Church where he had served as church treasurer and choir member. He began his career with the Stanly County Sheri ’s Department moving to the Norwood Police Department and retiring as Chief of Police with the Town of Norwood after many years of service.

Dwight was an avid gardener, bird watcher and Carolina fan.

GERTRUDE MCMILLIAN ROBINSON

23, 1931 – NOV. 1, 2025

MARCH

Barbara was a member of Oakboro Baptist Church for over 60 years. She worked over 30 years at Stanly Knitting Mills. After just two years of retirement, she began managing the Oakboro Senior Center and did that for 18 years until this past week. Barbara was known for her good cooking and always taking care of others. She also loved going on day long shopping trips - she could out walk and out shop people half her age. She kept her mind and body active through gardening, word searches, and various other hobbies.

He is survived by his wife Hilda Whitley Farmer; one son D. Britten Farmer Jr. (Mary) of McLeansville, NC; one daughter Sharon Farmer Lowe (David) of Norwood; one sister Geraldine Dennis of Troy; two grandchildren, Dwight Britten “Dee” Farmer III and Whitley Rose Hui Lowe.

The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to the doctors and sta of the Levine Cancer Center in Albemarle for their exceptional care and compassion.

Doris Elaine Jones Coleman, 78, went home into God’s presence on January 10 after a sudden illness and a valiant week-long ght in ICU.

Memorials may be made to Hometown Heroes of Monroe.

In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by his brothers and sisters: Barbara Lee Roseboro, Dorothy Brown, Verna Roseboro, Henrietta Ingram, and Harold Roseboro.

Gertrude McMillian Robinson was born and raised in Badin, North Carolina. She was the third daughter born to William David McMillian and Martha Jane McMillian. Gertrude attended and graduated from West Badin High School. She was the last living member of the class of 1949.

Gertrude lived a full and productive life. She married Louis Robinson, Sr., and ve children were born of that union. From an early age, Gertrude was actively involved in her church, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, in Badin. She was a former Vacation Bible School teacher, past president of the Missionary Circle, member of the D.L. Thompson Gospel Choir, member of the Senior Choir and a former member of the Usher Board.

He was preceded in death by his son Alex, brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, sisters, Nancy, Cornelia Annabell, Glennie Mae, and Betty. Memorials may be made to Cedar Grove United Methodist Church, Cemetery or Choir Fund c/o Pam Smith 36071 Rocky River Springs Road, Norwood, NC 28128.

Community activities that she participated in included, but not limited to the Stanly County NAACP, Life Member of the Richmond County NAACP, member of the Thrifty Savings Club during its existence, and active in the Association of Community Groups. She was involved in youth activities and was an avid participant in Faye Allgood’s Transition House program. Gertrude was honored as Ms. West Badin for the West Badin 2023 Juneteenth Celebration.

Her hobbies included sewing, cooking, reading, gardening and traveling, which she dearly enjoyed. Gertrude was a worshipper, and she loved to attend church services, especially the services at her beloved Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents, daughter, Claudette Robinson King, son, William Fred Robinson; sisters: Parthenia M. Johnson, Beatrice M. Welch and, Evelyn M. Alexander.

She leaves to cherish memories of her life, a son, Louis Robinson; daughters: Debra Robinson and Dorinda Robinson; grandsons: John Brandon Robinson, Tyler Louis Robinson, and Theo Robinson; granddaughters: LaRhonda and Kashnesia Robinson; a loving godson, William Alexander Dennis (Grace); sister, Landis M. Byron, and brother-in-law, William Fulton. She is also survived by nieces, nephews, cousins, a special friend, Doris Billie Jean Rushing, and many other supportive friends.

RUBY BURRIS HUDSON DEC. 10, 1937 – NOV. 3, 2025

Hartsell Funeral Home of Albemarle is serving the Burleson family.

CHRISTOPHER “CHRIS” ERIC DENNIS

OCT. 26, 1964 – NOV. 4, 2025

Christopher Eric Dennis, 61, of Polkton, NC, peacefully passed away on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at his home surrounded by his family.

He is survived by his sisters: Helen (James) Roseboro Edwards of Albemarle, Mary Roseboro of Washington DC, and Marion Morrison of Albemarle; brothers: Thomas D. Roseboro of Charlotte, Robert Roseboro (Patricia) of Norwood, and Van Horne; a special friend of over 40 years, Michelle McLendon of the home; special nieces: Nybrea Montague, Knya Little, and Laquanza Crump; special nephews: Robert Jr., Desmond Roseboro, and Marcus Lilly; and God daughter, Daphne Johnson; and special friends, Vetrella Johnson and Ben McLendon.

John grew up in the Millingport community where he drove a school bus and worked at the local gas station during his High School years. He graduated from Millingport High in 1954 and entered into service with the US Airforce immediately afterward. Upon return from the service, he and his high school sweetheart Julie were married in 1956. He graduated from Nashville Auto Diesel College later in 1959 and began his career as a diesel mechanic at Mitchell Distributing Company, moving his growing family to Charlotte where they lived until their retirement.

Chris was born on October 26, 1964, in Stanly County to Margaret Hutchinson Gudger and the late Otto Dennis Jr.

Doris was born on October 11, 1944, in the mountains of Marion, NC while her father was away ghting in the US Navy during World War II. Raymond Jones was so proud to return after the war and meet his little girl! Doris grew up in Durham, NC and graduated from Durham High School. She furthered her studies at Watts Hospital School of Nursing in Durham and graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1966.

A loving husband, father, son and his proudest name was “PawPaw”. Chris was truly at home in his shop, tinkering on cars with his sons and grandchildren. He found great joy in the lope of a well-built motor. He completed several vehicles, including his ‘70 Chevelle and a ‘69 Camaro, as well as a few cars that he raced at the Mooresville Drag Strip.

Doris married Rev. Dr. Ted Coleman in 1966 and had two daughters Amy and Laura. Doris raised Amy and Laura in North Augusta, SC.

He had a special love for knowing how things worked, not too much that he couldn’t x or walk you through how to x it.

Chris is lovingly survived by his wife, Shelbra Hatley Dennis, who was steadfast by his side and could be found often curled up in a chair beside him, waiting to see what he needed next. Those also left to cherish his memory are his mother

When John purchased his rst Model A Ford at the age of 17, he said that he took the car to the community mechanic when he had a small problem.The mechanic told him that if he was going to keep the car, he needed to learn to work on it. This is when John’s passion for Model A Fords began and how he spent his happiest days with his best friends from around the globe for the rest of his life!

Margaret Hutchinson Gudger of Norwood, NC; Children, Dustin (Brittany) Dennis of Midland, NC, Cory (Ashley) Dennis of Oakboro, NC, Drew Dennis (Karmen Smith) of Oakboro, NC, Heather Whitley (Larry James) of Troy, NC, Ti any Keener-Daddy’s Girl (Cody Lisenby) of the home; grandchildren, Brook-Lynn, Hayden, Leela, Daylin (Madison), Carson, Harmony, Callie, Kohen; brother Reggie (Mena) Dennis of Albemarle, NC; sister Tonya (Chuck) Underwood of Norwood, NC; brother-in-law’s, Billy (Rose) Hatley of Albemarle, NC, Ronnie (Amanda) Hatley of Norwood, NC, along with numerous nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Chris was preceded in death by his brother, Gary Dennis.

At Chris’s request, there will be no formal visitation. The family will hold a Celebration of Life at a later date to honor Chris’s memory.

Doris was an incredible neonatal intensive care nurse for most of her career, and this was her passion. The Augusta Chronicle did a feature on her in 1985. She was a clinical nurse manager in Augusta, Georgia at University Hospital NICU and worked there for 20 years. During this time, Doris mentored young nurses and assisted in saving the lives of so many babies. She also worked for Pediatrician Dr. William A. Wilkes in Augusta for several years prior to her NICU career. Doris retired from the mother/baby area at Atrium Stanly in 2007 after over 40 years of nursing.

The family would like to thank the sta at Levine Cancer Institute, Stanly, and Tillery Compassionate Care for their care and support over the last several months.

Darrick Baldwin

At age 50, after years as a Detroit Diesel Mechanic he and Julie decided to take the plunge and open a full Model A Restoration Shop. They thrived at their shop in Cornelius, NC until their retirement in 1998 when they moved back to Cabarrus County. John once again set up shop in his back yard garage where he attracted a loyal group of friends who visited almost daily. While on the farm in Gold Hill, John also began a lifelong love with Alis Chalmers tractors after he restored his Dad’s tractor and began amassing his collection of tractors as well.

REBA WATKINS

OCT. 7, 1927 – NOV. 4, 2025

Reba Hill Smith Watkins, 98, of Norwood, passed away Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at Trinity Place in Albemarle.

January 7, 1973 ~ January 8, 2023

Ruby Marie Burris Hudson, 87, peacefully passed away on Monday, November 3, 2025, at Atrium Health Stanly.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at Poplins Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, o ciated by Rev. Delane Burris. There will be no formal visitation.

Born December 10, 1937, in Stanly County, Ruby was the daughter of the late Burch Elem Burris and Annie Maybelle Honeycutt Burris. She built a life centered on faith, hard work, and devotion to her family. Over the years, she worked with Stanly Regional Medical Center in Dietary Services. Also, she held positions with Stanly Knitting Mills, Trinity Place, the Stanly News & Press, and Susie’s Friends Daycare.

John restored many cars of his own and had the crowning achievement of winning the most prestigious award from MARC, The Henry for a restoration that garnered top points. He was also presented with the Ken Brady Service Awardthe highest award given to members at the national level.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at First United Methodist Church of Norwood. Rev. Angela Burris will o ciate, and an interment will follow at Norwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.

Darrick Vashon Baldwin, age 50, entered eternal rest, Sunday, January 8, 2023, Albemarle, North Carolina. Born January 7, 1973, in Stanly County, North Carolina, Darrick was the son of Eddie James Baldwin Sr. and the late Phyllis Blue Baldwin. Darrick enjoyed life, always kept things lively and enjoyed making others smile. His presence is no longer in our midst, but his memory will forever live in our hearts.

Mrs. Watkins was born on October 7, 1927, in Carteret County, NC, to the late George Daniel and Mary Evelyn Pelletier Hill. Reba was a hard worker. She served as the Town Clerk for the town of Norwood for over 27 years and was a faithful member of Norwood United Methodist Church.

This is what John’s Model A Community had to say upon learning of his death: He was an active member of Wesley Chapel Methodist Church where he loved serving as greeter on Sunday mornings. He also belonged to the United Methodist Men.

Doris was a gentle and sweet spirit and loved her Lord. She never met a stranger, and she always left you feeling uplifted after talking with her. She would often claim that she had “adopted” friends into her immediate family, and honestly, she never made a distinction between the two. Positivity radiated from her like sunlight. She was sel ess, funny, smart, and sentimental. During her lifetime she was an active member of First Baptist Church of Durham, First Baptist Church of Augusta, Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Augusta, and Palestine United Methodist Church in Albemarle. She especially loved helping at church with older adults, youth, and children.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands: Herman Francis Smith and Robert Johnson Watkins; children: Robert Jackson Smith and Nancy Elaine Kretz; grandson: Sam Smith; siblings: LJ Hill, Robert Earl Hill, Alice Garner, Laura Simpson, Juanita Pake, and Kay Arthur; and step-daughter: Margaret Davis.

He was educated in the Stanly County public schools and attended Albemarle Senior High School, Albemarle.

Ruby was active in Poplins Grove Baptist Church for as long as her health allowed and was known for her gentle heart and the unwavering love she showed her family.

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She is lovingly survived by her son, Rodney Lowder (Karen) of Albemarle; granddaughter, Elizabeth Pintea (Matt) of Stan eld; great-granddaughter, Savannah; and her sister, Susie Bowers.

He was a great conversationalist and loved meeting people. Darrick never met a stranger and always showed love and compassion for his fellowman. He also loved his dog, Rocky.

Ruby was preceded in death by her husband, William Lewis Hudson; her brother, Joe Lee Burris; and her sisters, Mary Roselene Schreppel, Sara Elizabeth Yow and Monzell Coley.

Ruby will be remembered as a devoted mother and a woman who cherished those she loved.

He is survived by his father, Eddie J. Baldwin Sr.; sisters: Crystal (Eric) Jackson, LaFondra (Stoney) Medley, and Morgan Baldwin; brothers: Eddie Baldwin Jr., Anton Baldwin, and Lamont Baldwin; a host of other relatives and friends. A limb has fallen from our family tree. We will not grieve Darrick’s death; we will celebrate his life. We give thanksgiving for the many shared memories.

She was especially talented at sewing from a young age and made gifts for friends, Christmas ornaments, Halloween Costumes, doll clothes, pageant dresses, prom dresses, coats, tote bags, scarves, out ts for Amy and Laura, and Christening gowns for each of her grandchildren.

Her children survive her: Herman Smith Jr. (Nancy), and James Taylor ‘Jimmy’ Smith (Amy); six grandchildren: Salem Smith Shupp (Chris), Megan Smith Lyon (Corey), Leslie Watts (Michael), Michelle Hicks (AJ), Jacquelyn Barrier (Blake), and Robby Kretz; Eight great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; sonin law: Bob Kretz; step-children: Sandra Turner (Sam), Bobby Watkins(Renee), and Beverly Britt (Terry); and numerous step-grandchildren and step-greatgrandchildren.

MARGARITE CARBAJAL

MARCH 24, 1955 – NOV. 4, 2025

La familia Gutierrez Lujano comunica el sensible fallecimiento de Victoria Margarita Lujano Carbajal, quien fue llamada a la presencia del Señor.

John is survived by his wife Julie Ussery Kluttz, for 66 years of the home. He is also survived by a son John David Kluttz (Kim) of Oakboro, NC; two daughters, Sally Simerson of Denver, CO and Betsy Tusa (John) of Lafayette, CO; three grandchildren, Bonnie Kluttz Sammons (Ben) of Rich eld, NC John Alexander McKinnon (Sarah) of Asheville, NC and Seth William McKinnon (Amanda) of Germany; ve great-grandchildren, Charlotte, Meredith, Grant, Victoria and Ronan. John is also preceded in death by his parents, J.S. Kluttz and Mary Wyatt Clayton Kluttz; a large and loving group of brothers and sisters, Jack Methias Kluttz, Annie Lou Kluttz Honeycutt, Jake Nelson Kluttz, Julius Kluttz, Mary Patricia Phillips and a grandson, Kevin Fowler Kluttz.

Su esposo,hijos, nietos y hermanos agradecen a Dios por el don de su vida, ejemplo de amor, fé, y entrega incondicional. Margarita dejó una huella imborrable en cada corazón qué la conoció, guiando con su bondad, su fé rme y su espiritu generoso.

Jehová es mi pastor; nada me faltara. Salmo 23:1

Doris was preceded in death by her father Arthur Raymond Jones, her mother Mary Ellen Cameron Jones, and her sister Maryanne Jones Brantley. Survivors include her two precious daughters: Amy Cameron Coleman (partner Dr. Edward Neal Chernault) of Albemarle, NC, and Laura Lindahl Coleman Oliverio (husband David) of Cincinnati, Ohio; seven grandchildren: Cameron David Oliverio, Stephanie Jae Dejak, Luca Beatty Oliverio, Coleman John Dejak, Carson Joseph Oliverio, Ryan Nicholas Dejak, and Jadon Richard Oliverio; and numerous in-laws, nieces, nephews, cousins, and loved ones.

BOARD from page A1 for students whose disabilities a ect a major life activity but do not necessarily require specialized instruction.

SCS serves students across 13 di erent areas of eligibility.

To meet those needs, the EC department employs 181 professionals, including ve school psychologists, six program specialists, 16 speech language pathologists, one physical therapist, one physical therapist assistant, one occupational therapist, ve occupational therapy assistants, 70 EC teachers, 65 EC teacher assistants, one sign language interpreter, one spoken language facilitator and 10 physical needs assistants.

“To serve all these kids, we are a very large and ever-growing department,” DePasquale said. “We’re growing daily based on students as they qualify and move into this district, so

those numbers are even higher as of today.”

DePasquale said the department prioritizes placing students in the least restrictive environment possible. Of the district’s EC students, 915 spend less than 40% of their time in a special education classroom, 176 spend between 40% and 79%, and 94 spend more than 80%.

While the department continues to expand, funding remains a consistent factor. Financial Director Terry Dudney told the board that state support only covers a fraction of the department’s needs.

Under state law, North Carolina caps funding for exceptional children at 13% of a district’s total student population. If more than 13% of students qualify for special education, the district must use local funds to meet those needs.

“As of last year, we spent almost $2.5 million in contract

services in our exceptional children department,” Dudney said. “Some of that is funded through state and some of it is small portions funded through federal, but the majority of it is where your local dollars are having to cover it. The salaries for the sta that we have employed are covered through the actual funding we get from the state.”

The school board thanked DePasquale for her presentation and expressed appreciation for the department’s work.

“Moving forward, we’re going to take care of our teachers and make sure that they have what they need,” Board Member Meghan Almond said. “I’m excited about seeing how the EC department is going to continue to grow.”

The Stanly County Board of Education will hold its next regular meeting on Dec. 2 at 6:15 p.m. in the Gene McIntyre Meeting Room at Stanly County Commons.

He was the de facto chief operating o cer of the George W. Bush presidency

By Calvin Woodward

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at 84.

Cheney died Monday due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said Tuesday.

The quietly forceful Cheney led the armed forces as defense secretary during the Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush before returning to public life as vice president under Bush’s eldest son, George W. Bush.

Cheney was, in e ect, the chief operating o cer of the younger Bush’s presidency. He often had a commanding hand in implementing decisions most important to the president and some of surpassing interest to himself — all while living with decades of heart disease and, post-administration, a heart transplant. Cheney consistently defended the extraordinary tools of surveillance, detention and inquisition employed in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“History will remember him as among the nest public servants of his generation — a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position he held,” Bush said.

Years after leaving o ce, Cheney became a target of President Donald Trump, especially after his daughter Liz Cheney became the leading Republican critic and examiner of Trump’s attempts to stay in power after his 2020 election defeat and his actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Trump said nothing about Cheney publicly in the hours after his death was disclosed. The White House lowered ags to half-sta in remembrance of him but without the usual announcement or proclamation praising the deceased.

Cheney said last year he was voting for Democrat Kamala Harris for president against Trump. For all his conservatism, Cheney was privately and publicly supportive of his daughter Mary Cheney after she came out as gay, years before samesex marriage was broadly supported. “Freedom means freedom for everyone,” he said.

In his time in o ce, no longer was the vice presidency merely a ceremonial afterthought. Instead, Cheney made it a network of back channels from which to inuence policy on Iraq, terrorism, presidential powers and energy. A hard-liner on Iraq, Cheney was proved wrong about the rationale for the

Iraq War, a point he didn’t acknowledge.

He alleged links between the 9/11 attacks and prewar Iraq that didn’t exist. He said U.S. troops would be welcomed as liberators; they weren’t.

He declared the Iraqi insurgency in its last throes in May 2005, when 1,661 U.S. service members had been killed, not even half the toll by the war’s end.

Cheney and Bush struck an odd bargain, unspoken but well understood. Shelving ambitions he might have had to succeed Bush, Cheney was accorded extraordinary power.

His penchant for secrecy had a price. He came to be seen as a Machiavelli orchestrating a bungled response to criticism of the Iraq War. And when he shot a hunting companion with an errant shotgun blast in 2006, he and his coterie were slow to disclose that episode. The victim, his friend Harry Whittington, recovered and forgave him.

Bush asked Cheney to lead a search for his vice president, eventually deciding the job should go to Cheney himself. Their election in 2000 was ultimately sealed by the Supreme Court after a protracted legal ght.

On Capitol Hill, Cheney lobbied for the president’s programs where he had once served as a deeply conservative member of Congress and the No. 2 Republican House leader.

On Sept. 11, 2001, with Bush out of town, the president gave Cheney approval to authorize the military to shoot down hijacked planes. By then, two airliners had hit the World Trade Center and a third was bearing down on the capital. A Secret Service agent burst into the West Wing room, grabbed Cheney by the belt and shoulder and led him to a bunker underneath the White House.

Cheney’s career in Washington started with a congressional fellowship in 1968. He became a protégé of Rep. Donald Rumsfeld (R-Ill.), serving under him in Gerald Ford’s White House before he was elevated to chief of sta , the youngest ever, at age 34.

He later returned to Casper, Wyoming, and won the state’s lone congressional seat, the rst of six terms.

In 1989, Cheney became defense secretary and led the Pentagon during the 1990 -91 Persian Gulf War. Between the two Bush administrations, Cheney led Dallas-based Halliburton Corp., an oil industry services company.

Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, son of a longtime Agriculture Department worker. Senior class president and football co-captain in Casper, he went to Yale on a full scholarship for a year but failed out.

He moved back to Wyoming and renewed a relationship with high school sweetheart Lynne Anne Vincent, marrying her in 1964. He is survived by his wife and daughters.

Trump unveils deal to expand coverage, lower costs on GLP-1 obesity drugs

Coverage will expand to Medicare patients starting next year

By Tom Murphy, Aamer Madhani and Jonel Aleccia

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump unveiled a deal Thursday with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to expand coverage and reduce prices for their popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy.

The drugs are part of a new generation of obesity medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists that have soared in popularity in recent years.

But access to the drugs has been a consistent problem for patients because of their cost — around $500 a month for higher doses — and insurance coverage has been spotty.

Coverage of the drugs for obesity will expand to Medicare patients starting next year, according to the administration, which said some lower prices also will be phased in for patients without coverage. Starting doses of new, pill versions of the treatments also will cost $149 a month if they are approved.

“(It) will save lives, improve the health of millions and millions of Americans,” said Trump, in an Oval O ce announcement in which he referred to GLP-1s as a “fat drug.” Thursday’s announcement is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to rein in soaring drug prices in its e orts to address cost-of-living concerns among voters. Drugmakers

P zer and AstraZeneca recently agreed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid after an executive order in May set a deadline for drugmakers to electively lower prices or face new limits on what the government will pay.

As with the other deals, it’s not clear how much the price drop will be felt by consumers.

Drug prices can vary based on the competition for treatments and insurance coverage.

Obesity drugs increasingly popular but costly

The obesity drugs work by targeting hormones in the gut and brain that a ect appetite and feelings of fullness. In clinical trials, they helped people shed between 15% and 22% of their body weight — up to 50 pounds or more in many cases.

Patients taking these drugs usually start on smaller doses and then work up to larger amounts, depending on their needs. Because of obesity being considered a chronic disease, they need to take the treatment inde nitely or risk regaining weight, experts say.

The fast-growing treatments have proven especially lucrative for drugmakers Eli Lilly and Co. and Novo Nordisk. Lilly said recently that sales of Zepbound have tripled so far this year to more than $9 billion.

But for many Americans, their cost has made them out of reach.

Medicare, the federally funded coverage program mainly for people ages 65 and over, hasn’t covered the treatments for obesity. President Donald Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, pro -

posed a rule last November that would have changed that. But the Trump administration nixed it last spring.

Few state and federally funded Medicaid programs, for people with low incomes, o er coverage. And employers and insurers that provide commercial coverage are wary of paying for these drugs in part because of the large number of patients that might use them.

The $500 monthly price for higher doses of the treatments also makes them una ordable for those without insurance, doctors say.

Medicare now covers the cost of the drugs for conditions such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease but not for weight loss alone.

Trump showing he’s in touch with cost- of-living concerns

The e ort to lower costs barriers to popular GLP-1 drugs comes as the White House is looking to demonstrate that Trump is in touch with Americans’ frustrations with rising costs for food, housing, health care and other necessities.

“Trump is the friend of the forgotten American,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Thursday’s announcement. “Obesity is a disease of poverty. And overwhelmingly these drugs have only been available for people who have wealth.”

Kennedy had previously expressed skepticism to GLP-1s in ghting obesity and diseases related to the condition. But he was full of praise for Trump for pushing to help a broader seg-

ment of Americans have access to the drug.

The announcement came after Republican gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia faced a drubbing in Tuesday’s election in which dour voter outlook about the economy appeared to be an animating factor in the races.

Roughly half of Virginia voters said “the economy” was the top issue, and about 6 in 10 of these voters picked Democrat Abigail Spanberger for governor, powering her to a decisive win, according to an AP voter poll.

In New Jersey, Democrat Mikie Sherrill won about two -thirds of voters who called “the economy” the top issue facing the state, the poll found. She defeated a Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Jack Ciattarelli. More than half of New York City voters said the cost of living was the top issue facing the city. The Democratic mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won about two-thirds of this group.

The White House sought to diminish the e ort by the previous Democratic administration as a gift to the pharmaceutical industry because the proposal did not include adequate price concessions from drug makers.

Trump, instead, consummated a “belt and suspenders” deal that ensures Americans aren’t unfairly nancing the pharmaceutical industry’s innovation, claimed a senior administration o cial, who briefed reporters ahead of Thursday’s Oval O ce announcement by Trump.

Another senior administration o cial said coverage of the drugs will expand to Medicare patients starting next year. Those who qualify will pay

$50 copays for the medicine. Lower prices also will be phased in for people without coverage through the administration’s TrumpRx program, which will allow people to buy drugs directly from manufacturers. starting in January.

The o cials said lower prices also will be provided for state and federally funded Medicaid programs. And starting doses of new, pill versions of the obesity treatments will cost $149 a month if they are approved.

The o cials briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.

Doctors applaud the price drop

Dr. Leslie Golden says she has roughly 600 patients taking one of these treatments, and 75% or more struggle to a ord them. Even with coverage, some face $150 copayments for re lls.

“Every visit it’s, ‘How long can we continue to do this? What’s the plan if I can’t continue?,’” said Golden, an obesity medicine specialist in Watertown, Wisconsin. “Some of them are working additional jobs or delaying retirement so they can continue to pay for it.”

Both Lilly and Novo have already cut prices on their drugs. Lilly said earlier this year it would reduce the cost of initial doses of Zepbound to $349.

Dr. Angela Fitch, who also treats patients with obesity, said she hoped a deal between the White House and drugmakers could be the rst step in making the treatments more a ordable.

“We need a hero in obesity care today,” said Fitch, founder and chief medical o cer of knownwell, a weight-loss and medical care company. “The community has faced relentless barriers to accessing GLP-1 medications, which has ultimately come down to the price, despite the data we have supporting their e ectiveness.”

Seltzer to present Health Heroes of Stanly County Part III (1975-1999) next week

The educational program explores the historical role of the family physician

By Melinda Burris Stanly News Journal

ALBEMARLE — Dr. Stephen Seltzer will on Thursday present the third and concluding chapter in the “Health Heroes of Stanly County” lecture series, an educational program sponsored by the Stanly County Historical Society. The presentation, which will cover the years 1975-1999, will take place in the fellowship hall of Central United Methodist Church at 172 N. 2nd St., Albemarle at 7 p.m.

Seltzer, a retired physician who practiced family and geriatric medicine in the county for nearly four decades, has served as a board member of the historical society for several years.

His upcoming lecture is a follow-up to the previous installment in the educational series, which took place in March 2022 and was jointly presented by Seltzer and Dr. Eric Johnsen. The second part of the program focused on telling the stories of physicians who lived and worked in Stanly County from the 1950s through 1975.

A storytelling approach, according to Seltzer, is in keeping with the mission of the historical society, which he emphasized “is about so much more

than just looking at old buildings.” If a subject has something to do with history and is somehow linked to people from Stanly County, those are the topics the organization wants to shed light on.

Thursday night’s presentation will include photographs and slides as visual aids. There will not be a PowerPoint slide deck, and no video will be used. This demonstration style was a deliberate choice made by Selt-

Slime, Battleship, Trivial Pursuit enshrined into Toy Hall of Fame

They beat out Catan, Tickle Me Elmo and snow

By Carolyn Thompson

The Associated Press

SLIME, that gooey, sticky and often-homemade plaything, was enshrined into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with perennial bestselling games Battleship and Trivial Pursuit.

Each year, the Hall of Fame recognizes toys that have inspired creative play across generations, culling its nalists from among thousands of nominees sent in online. Voting by the public and a panel of experts decides which playthings will be inducted.

Milton Bradley’s Battleship, a strategy game that challenges players to strike an opponent’s warships, and Trivial Pursuit, which tests players’ knowledge in categories like geography and sports, have each sold more than 100 million copies over several decades, according to the Hall of Fame.

Battleship started as a pencil-and-paper game in the 1930s, but it was Milton Bradley’s 1967 plastic edition with fold-up stations and model ships that became a hit

“Though slime continues to carry icky connotations to slugs and swamps — all part of the fun for some — the toy o ers meaningful play.”

Michelle Parnett-Dwyer, Toy Hall of Fame curator

with the public. Its popularity crested when Universal Pictures and Hasbro, which now owns Milton Bradley, released the 2012 movie “Battleship,” loosely based on the game. Battleship was also among the rst board games to be computerized in 1979, according to the Hall of Fame, and now there are numerous, electronic versions.

Trivial Pursuit lets players compete alone or in teams as they maneuver around a board answering trivia questions in exchange for wedges in a game piece. Canadian journalists Chris Haney and Scott Abbott came up with the game in 1979 and eventually sold the rights to Hasbro. Frequently updated, specialty versions have emerged

for young players, baby boomers and other segments and an online daily quiz keeps players engaged, chief curator Chris Bensch said.

Slime’s appeal is more about squish than skill. It was introduced commercially in 1976 and has been manufactured under various brand names, but it is even more accessible as a do -it-yourself project. The internet o ers a variety of recipes using ingredients like baking soda, glue and contact lens solution.

“Though slime continues to carry icky connotations to slugs and swamps — all part of the fun for some — the toy o ers meaningful play,” curator Michelle Parnett-Dwyer said, adding that it’s also used for stress relief and building motor skills.

The honorees will be on permanent display at the Hall of Fame inside The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.

This year’s inductees were voted in over other nominees including the games Catan and Connect Four, the Spirograph drawing device, the “Star Wars” lightsaber, Furby and Tickle Me Elmo. They also beat out classics including scooters, cornhole and snow.

“Back then, house calls were common. The doctor was part of your family. That made for a very disruptive life for many doctors.”

Dr. Stephen Seltzer

zer, allowing the information of the era to be presented in line with the technology available to doctors during the given time period.

“In the late 1990s, computers were starting to be used for accounting and business-type purposes, but they weren’t sophisticated like they are now,” Setzer said. “So we’re trying to re ect how the doctors back then practiced and what they went through.”

One of the recurring themes of the “Health Heroes of Stanly County” program has been the role of local physicians in shaping the community’s fabric. Seltzer noted there are doctors who “are just kind of loners or just don’t have a motivation to help the community.” Still, in many cases, they are heavily involved in local organizations and happenings.

“Both Dr. Johnson and I have participated in a lot of community events and donated time and

sometimes money to what we call causes,” Setzer said. “We feel good about that.”

Family is often referred to as the cornerstone of society, and Seltzer pointed out the close ties local doctors historically maintained with the families of their patients prior to the incorporation of healthcare.

“The doctor was part of your family,” he said. “Back then, house calls were a common practice. That made for a very disruptive life for many doctors.”

The rst part of the series was presented to the public in 2019. Seltzer addressed the reasons it took six years to complete the research and development of the three-part program, explaining that he and Johnsen were fortunate to have access to a wealth of original documentation not just from the historical society but also from the Stanly County Medical Society.

That amount of research and planning takes “a lot of time and sweat,” Seltzer said, but he maintained the positive reception from the large audience the rst two segments of the series have attracted has made all the demanding work worthwhile. Admission to this event is free. Space is limited, and preregistration is encouraged. Contact Pat Bramlett at 704 -985-3319 or psbramlett@ hotmail.com.

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across Stanly County, will create the new piece. It will be installed at the outdoor art gallery by the Farmer’s Market area between Main and Campbell streets.

The request for town funding came from the Stanly County Convention and Visitors Bureau, which sought Norwood’s participation in covering the mural’s $5,000 total cost.

Half of that amount is being funded by the America 250 N.C. Stanly County Committee — a group organizing local projects tied to the nation’s upcoming 250th anniversary — which then asked the CVB to contribute $2,500.

While the CVB supports the mural’s design, the agency de -

layed its decision, noting that it recently funded another mural in Norwood. It asked the town to consider assisting with part of the cost, leading to the council’s agreement to contribute $1,000 toward the project.

“This battle is Stanly County’s signi cant contribution to the Revolutionary War,” Bain Jones, chair of the America 250 N.C. Stanly County Committee and president of the Stanly County Historical Society, wrote in a letter to the CVB. “It is of the same importance as the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and Ramsour’s Mill. This battle severely diminished the active loyalist support and greatly contributed to the loss of 3,000 as a key moment in the Southern Campaign.

“A patriot militia under the leadership of William Lee Davidson confronted Loyalists near the mill. The battle was very intense, and the patriots so severely defeated the loyalists that the loyalists ed, abandoning their property, and Gen. (Charles) Cornwallis did not send his troops into Stanly County.”

Along with its downtown display, the mural will also appear online through the websites of the Stanly County Arts Council, Stanly County Historical Society, N.C. 250 Celebration, N.C. Arts Council and N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.

The Norwood Town Council is set to hold its next meeting on Dec. 1 at 6 pm at Norwood Town Hall.

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Stanly boys’ soccer teams compete in state playo s

Three teams advanced to the second round

By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal

ALBEMARLE — The NCHSAA state playo s are underway for Stanly County’s high school boys’ varsity soccer teams.

Each seeded between third and 24th in their respective brackets, three of the ve teams advanced to the second round with the prospect of third-round (Monday) and fourth-round (Thursday) matchups looming if they can keep stacking wins.

Gray Stone Day Knights

The Knights (12-3-4) — Stanly’s team with the most victories this season — entered the 2A bracket as a No. 3 seed with a rst-round bye, giving the team a brief rest following their second-place 8-1-1 campaign in the Yadkin Valley Conference.

Gray Stone is aiming to rebound from its most recent contest, a 3-1 loss at Union Academy which served as both a regular-season nale and a YVC battle for rst place. It marked the Knights’ rst loss since Sept. 2.

In a second-round contest, the Knights were set to host No. 14 Hayesville (6-8-1) on Thursday in Misenheimer. The Yellow Jackets defeated No. 19 Eno River Academy 2-1 at home in the rst round.

Albemarle Bulldogs

Placed in the 2A bracket as a No. 13 seed, the Bulldogs (10-9 -1) defeated No. 20 North Rowan (4-14-3) at home 2-1 in Tuesday’s rst-round action. It gave Albemarle backto-back victories following a three-game stretch in Octo -

ber where the team came up empty in the win department.

Albemarle, which had a third-place 5-4-1 record in the YVC this year, hit the road on Thursday to face No. 4 Mountain Island Charter for a second-round matchup; the Raptors had a rst-round bye.

West Stanly Colts

As a No. 19 seed in the 4A bracket, the Colts (11-10-2) are fresh o a fourth-place 7-4-1 campaign in Rocky River Conference play for their best RRC nish since 2022.

West Stanly took down No. 14 North Surry (9-10-3) in a 2-0 rst-round road win Tuesday and were set to travel to No. 3 Forbush (17-5-1) — fresh o a bye — for second-round action on Thursday. Following a series of losses throughout August and September, the Colts turned it

around with a 7-1-1 record since the start of October.

South Stanly Rowdy Rebel Bulls

After wrapping up the regular season with a last-place record (0-10) against YVC opponents, the Bulls (2-13) were given a No. 23 seed in the 2A bracket. Facing No. 10 South Stokes (12-6-2) in Round 1, South Stanly’s season came to a close as the Sauras won 11-2.

North Stanly Comets

Coming o a fth-place 2-6 -2 record in the Yadkin Valley Conference standings, the Comets (5-12-2) entered the 3A bracket as a No. 24 seed. On Tuesday, North Stanly lost 11-0 to No. 9 West Caldwell (14-6-1) in a rst-round road matchup, ending the Comets’ season.

Pfei er men’s cross-country team wins USA South title

The Falcons accounted for each of the top ve individual runners

By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal

MISENHEIMER — For the second year in a row, the Pfei er University men’s cross-country team has walked away from the USA South Athletic Conference Championship with a trophy in hand.

The Falcons accounted for each of the top ve individual runners — and 11 of the top 15 — as they took rst place at the Pfei er Cross-Country Course in Misenheimer on Nov. 1. It was the rst time Pfei er has hosted the event.

With their full sweep of the top ve spots, the Falcons attained a perfect score of 15 points in the 8K race, marking the rst time in six years a conference team accomplished the feat.

“The kids, the athletes — they earned this,” said Pfei er coach Bob Marchinko, who was named as the 2025 USA South Cross-Country Coach of the Year. “They’ve worked really hard, and I’m a big believer in talking about how you get what you earn. We’re really proud of them.”

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Pfei er’s men’s cross-country team had a rst-place nish at the USA South Championship in Misenheimer on Nov. 1.

Competing in a eld of ve teams, Pfei er posted a total time of 2:06:54 and averaged 25:23 per runner, setting both a conference and program record. Southern Virginia placed second with 57 points, followed by Brevard (74), Mary Baldwin (116) and Methodist (117).

The Falcons had a dozen runners nish among the top 20 out of 39 individual nishers.

Sophomore Bricen Burleson led the team with a rst-place nish in 25:05.5. He was followed in the top ve by senior Sawyer Helms (25:14.2), freshman Jorge Clemente-Garcia (25:20.6), junior Cannon Powell (25:27.1) and sophomore Alim Coleman (25:46.1). All ve runners earned USA South All-Conference rst-team honors.

Sophomore Ezequiel Cannas joined seniors Camden Misenheimer and Kohen Johnson in earning second-team All-USA South awards, while sophomore Austin Drewery joined freshmen Isaiah Watts and Eli Witte as third-team All-USA South winners.

The Falcons will try to build on their momentum as they prepare for the NCAA South Regional in Salem, Virginia, on Nov. 15. “We think we have a chance to make some noise,” Marchinko said. “We have some athletes that have been at the national championship before, and obviously we’d like to get there as a team. We still have to continue to get better over the next two weeks, but today was a good step in the right direction for us.”

Rozier, Billups won’t receive NBA salaries while on leave in gambling cases

Both were arrested as part of federal gambling-related charges

By Tim Reynolds

The Associated Press

NBA GUARD TERRY Ro -

zier and coach Chauncey Billups will not receive their salaries while on leave for their arrests on federal gambling-related charges, per AP sources.

Rozier had been due to receive the rst installment of a $26.6 million annual salary with the Miami Heat at the end of October. That, and future installments, will be held pending resolution of his legal case.

If Rozier is cleared and allowed to return to the NBA, which placed him on leave hours after his Oct. 23 arrest, he could receive the held payments in full.

The Heat will not receive any immediate salary cap relief by the NBA’s decision.

There are provisions in the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement that allow the league, in certain situations, to place salary withheld from a player in an interest-bearing account.

Billups, the Portland coach who has also been placed on leave by the league after his arrest last week, is having his salary held by the Trail Blazers. Billups is under contract into at least the 2026-27 season. He agreed to a multiyear extension in April.

The National Basketball Players Association indicated it would le a grievance on Rozier’s behalf.

“While we are in agreement with the league that upholding the integrity of the game is of the utmost importance, their decision to place Terry on leave without pay is counter to the presumption of innocence and inconsistent with the terms of our Collective Bargaining Agreement,” said an NBPA spokesperson. “We plan to challenge their decision via the proper channels.”

Rozier, a former Charlotte Hornet, is now on the Heat roster. He, Billups and nearly three dozen other individuals were arrested last week on gambling-related charges detailed in two separate indictments.

Billups’ attorney, Chris Heywood, has denied the allegations against his client.

Federal o cials alleged that

Duke’s Boozer headlines slate of talented freshmen to watch this season

Cameron Boozer is joined on the Blue Devils by twin brother Cayden

By Steve Megargee

The Associated Press

CAMERON BOOZER’S extraordinary potential is evident from the way Tennessee coach Rick Barnes described him before the Duke freshman forward even played a college game that counts.

“One of the best players in the country,” Barnes said after Boozer collected 24 points and 23 rebounds in No. 6 Duke’s 83 -76 exhibition victory over No. 18 Tennessee on Sunday.

Boozer ranks alongside Kansas’ Darryn Peterson and BYU’s AJ Dybantsa as the best players in a freshman class that’s loaded with star power at the top. They have a chance of being the

rst three players taken in next year’s NBA Draft. Boozer might have the most familiar name in the group because of his family ties. Boozer and his twin brother and Duke teammate, Cayden Boozer, are sons of two-time NBA All-Star Carlos Boozer, who won a national title at Duke.

Cameron and Cayden Boozer played on four straight Florida state championship teams at Miami’s Columbus High School. Cameron Boozer, a three-time Florida Mr. Basketball, was named the Gatorade national boys’ basketball player of the year in 2023 and 2025. He was the nation’s No. 3 prospect in his class and Cayden was ranked 20th.

“He is a warrior, man,” Duke coach Jon Scheyer said of Cameron Boozer. “I think that’s the best thing I can say about him.”

Scheyer made that comment

Rozier conspired with associates to help them win bets based on his statistical performance in a game when he was with the Hornets on March 23, 2023 — more than seven months before the lien was prepared and nearly eight months before it was

after the 6-foot-9 forward collected 33 points and 12 rebounds in a 96-71 exhibition victory over UCF. Boozer followed that up with his big performance against Tennessee.

“He’s as good as I’ve seen in a long time up close and personal,” Barnes said after that game.

Here are some other freshmen who should make an immediate impact this season.

formally led. Rozier played sparingly in that game, and gamblers who wagered that he would nish “under” certain statistical totals won those bets.

The charges against Rozier are similar to what former Toronto player Jontay Porter faced

Darius Acu , Arkansas

Acu scored 17 points in each of Arkansas’ two exhibition games — an 89-61 win over Cincinnati and a 99-75 triumph over Memphis. He also averaged 5.5 assists in those two games. The 6-foot-3 guard was ranked 11th in the 247Sports Composite and was one of ve nalists for the Naismith Award given annually to the nation’s top high school player. Acu is from Detroit but nished his high school career at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

Nate Ament, Tennessee

Ament is ranked fourth in the 247Sports Composite and is generally listed just below the trio of Dybantsa, Peterson and Boozer in terms of their potential 2026 draft position. The 6-10 forward was named the Gatorade Virginia high school player of the year. Ament had 14 points and 10 rebounds in the exhibition loss to Duke.

AJ Dybantsa, BYU

Dybantsa, who is 6-9, signed with BYU as the nation’s No. 1 overall prospect. He was one of ve players selected to The Associated Press All-America preseason team. Dybantsa averaged 24 points in No. 8 BYU’s exhibition games with Nebras -

before he was banned from the league by Commissioner Adam Silver in 2024.

Rozier did not play in thenal eight games of that 2022-23 season, with he and the Hornets citing a foot injury. The Hornets had several players injured at that time and were already eliminated from playo contention.

Sportsbooks detected unusual patterns of wagers on the Charlotte game in question — prop bets involving Rozier were agged and immediately brought to the NBA’s attention — and the league probed the matter but did not nd enough evidence to conclude that Rozier broke any rules. The NBA, unlike federal law enforcement, does not have subpoena power.

Rozier’s attorney, Jim Trusty, has said Rozier is “not a gambler” and looks forward to winning the case.

The NBA said earlier this week that it is reviewing how sensitive information like injury reports — which are public and updated hourly — should be handled going forward. Members of the House and Senate have both asked the NBA for more information.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the Republican chairman of the Commerce Committee, and Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on that panel, wrote Silver this week seeking detail “about how the NBA investigated and handled these allegations” and why the NBA allowed Rozier to continue playing.

ka and No. 25 North Carolina. Dybantsa was the Massachusetts state Gatorade player of the year as a freshman.

Darryn Peterson, Kansas

Peterson won the Naismith Trophy as the national high school player of the year last season. The 6-6 guard from Canton, Ohio, is rated second in his class. Peterson scored 18 points in the McDonald’s All-American Game to share MVP honors with Boozer.

Caleb Wilson, UNC

Wilson had 22 points and 10 rebounds in the Tar Heels’ 78-76 exhibition loss to BYU. The 6-10 forward from Atlanta was named the Gatorade high school player of the year in Georgia and is ranked fth in the 247Sports Composite. He had 21.7 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists, 3.6 blocks and 2.1 steals per game his senior year at Holy Innocents Episcopal School. He had 28 points and six rebounds in the Jordan Brand Classic.

Tounde Yessoufou, Baylor

This 6-5 wing is from the West African country of Benin but played high school basketball in Santa Maria, California. He was ranked 14th in his class.

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Kenadie Baker is a freshman for the South Stanly girls’ cross-country team. She didn’t waste any time in making her presence known, winning her rst high school race and setting a school record by more than a minute and a half.

Baker nished an undefeated rookie year by winning the NCHSAA Class 2A state title,

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becoming the rst South Stanly girl to win a cross-country individual crown. Making it even more remarkable, the win came just three weeks after Baker was hit by a car. While training on Oct. 10, a car didn’t see her as she crossed an intersection, throwing her up and over the hood and coming to a stop with a wheel on her foot. She had plenty of bruises and painful swelling but no broken bones. So in the same month, she won the state title by a 10-second margin.

in impressive debut

Luka was something that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”

By Bob Sutton The Associated Press

CHAPEL HILL — UNC new-

comer Luka Bogavac had his school eligibility issue resolved and was cleared to play shortly before tipo for the No. 25 Tar Heels in a 94-54 victory against Central Arkansas on Monday night.

Bogavac had 10 points and ve assists in just over 20 minutes o the bench.

Coach Hubert Davis informed the junior that he would be able to play.

“We found out right before the game,” Davis said. “Just to see the smile and the reaction from

The 22-year-old Bogavac, a 6-goot-6 guard from Montenegro, had been cleared by the NCAA and was still sorting through a school-level eligibility issue that was resolved and announced less than an hour before tipo .

“He has always, since the rst time that I talked to him, had a burning desire to be part of this team, this program, this university and this community,” Davis said.

His availability apparently surprised teammates. Bogavac didn’t join the team for some pregame on-court warm-ups.

“He was taking a little catnap when we walked out,” teammate Seth Trimble said. “He was just resting his eyes, we

Pearls, Sampsons part of trend of college coaches passing programs onto sons

Family arrangements have raised concerns over nepotism

By Dave Skretta The Associated Press

ABOUT A MONTH after leading Houston to the NCAA championship game, Kelvin Sampson agreed to a contract extension that not only bumped up his salary but could keep the 70-year-old in charge of the Cougars through the 2028-29 season. However long he lasts, there could be a Sampson calling the shots for a whole lot longer. For more than two years already, there has been a plan in place for his son, Kellen Sampson, to take over whenever his father hangs up the whistle. It is

spelled out in paragraphs in each of their contracts, one of which says: “UH acknowledges and agrees that Kellen Sampson shall have and maintain the functional title of ‘head coach in waiting’ for the team.”

The reason for the succession plan, the elder Sampson said, is quite simple: “Nobody knows the program better.”

They aren’t a rarity in college sports, either. In fact, the Sampson father-son duo is part of a growing trend of coaches employing their sons, many of them with an eye on not only their children’s future but that of their schools.

Just last month, Auburn coach Bruce Pearl announced he was retiring with this season six weeks away, leaving his son, Steven, to take the reins of a program coming o a trip to

thought it was that. I think he got woken up out of his sleep or something like that and told he was cleared.”

Guard Kyan Evans con rmed that scene.

“He was laying on the couch,” Evans said. “Next thing you know, he has all his gear on in two minutes.”

Bogavac didn’t play in either of UNC’s exhibition games. His mother has been in the area for about a week, Davis said.

When Davis received word that he could play, there was little time to digest the news.

“I told him to get his uniform on,” the coach said. “… I wanted him to get dressed. I wanted him to get taped. I wanted him to get warmed up and get ready to go.”

Bogavac was the game’s rst substitute, entering with 16:12 remaining in the rst half. He was greeted by a large ovation.

Recruiting rankings listed Bogavac among the top 10 incoming international players for the 2025-26 season.

“He’s a very impressive player,” Evans said. “That’s what he’s going to be able to do for us all year. He wasn’t even really preparing for this game,

so I don’t think he was able to show what all he can do. He had a good performance for the circumstances.

“When you’re as good as he is, I think it’s easy to t in.”

Bogavac shot 3 for 9 from the eld, including 1 for 5 on 3-pointers.

“He has a European playing style that you think about,” Trimble said. “He can really do it all. He’s a great creator for his teammates. We all know he’s a great jump shooter, so he has more than just that aspect to his game.”

the Final Four.

Such arrangements have raised red- ags about the role of nepotism across the landscape of college sports, with some arguing that coaches are getting jobs they don’t deserve simply because of who their father might have been.

Indeed, there are undeniable bene ts to passing the torch from father to son. In most cases, it means a relatively seamless transition at a time of great uncertainty and potential upheaval — the known quantity rather than a gamble on the unknown.

“The players know if a coach is good or not,” said St. Bonaventure coach Mark Schmidt, whose son, Nick, is on his sta . “And so you gain credibility by what you do in practice. And you can hire a big name, but if that guy doesn’t know what he’s doing, it

doesn’t matter. The kids see right through it. So (Nick) is going to do an extremely good job. He’s well educated. He’s been in the gym since he was 4 years old, and he’s loyal. That’s a big part of it too.”

One thing Nick Schmidt is not: “He’s not silver-spooned,” Mark said, “I can tell you that. He earned his stripes.”

In truth, despite the appearances of nepotism, most sons-in-waiting earned their stripes. They worked their way up through the ranks, often forging their own path along the way, picking up experience at numerous rungs on the coaching ladder.

Kellen Sampson played for his father at Oklahoma, and he worked for him at Indiana, back when he was starting his journey in the coaching world.

Bogavac played in 55 games over the past two seasons in the Adriatic Basketball Association. Considered a perimeter threat, he had multiple 3-point baskets in 16 of his 29 games during the 2024-25 season.

But he also spent time with other coaches at Stephen F. Austin and Appalachian State before returning to his father’s sta in 2014, where together they have built the Cougars into a national powerhouse.

Davidson coach Matt McKillop began his coaching career at Emory before joining his father Bob’s sta . By the time Bob retired after more than three decades with the Wildcats, Matt had spent more than a decade by his side.

That’s not always the case, though. Illinois coach Brad Underwood hired his son, Tyler, after his playing career ended. But even in that situation, the younger Underwood had to work his way from director of recruiting to a full- edged assistant coach.

“He works at it. He doesn’t take it for granted,” Brad Underwood explained. “He’s got his mother’s brains, which is a blessing. He’s very smart. The coach in me says he’s good at this job. The dad couldn’t be prouder.

“Whatever the path is for him,” Underwood added, “we’ll help him as we would any of our assistants gure out what that next step is. He’s very young. He’s had some opportunities this year to get involved in some things. That’s good for him.”

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Anatomy of a news story: ‘60 Minutes’ invites audience into editing process with Trump interview

The new leadership at CBS News released the full video and transcript of the interview

By David Bauder

The Associated Press

DURING HIS “60 Minutes”

interview, President Donald Trump said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer would rather see the country fail than Republicans do well, complained about investigators searching through his wife’s closet, spoke in detail about ending wars and turned the tables on interviewer Norah O’Donnell to ask about safety in Washington, D.C.

None of that was seen by people who watched the CBS telecast Sunday night.

Less than half of O’Donnell’s interview, conducted Friday, actually made it onto the air. But CBS posted a transcript and video of the full 73-minute discussion online so viewers could see for themselves what the president said that the network deemed worthy for inclusion in the 28-minute on-air segment. That o ered viewers a rare look inside the editing process at one of journalism’s best-known institutions, showing the dozens of decisions on clarity and newsworthiness that go into telling the story you see on television.

Beyond “60 Minutes,” the process is essentially the same throughout the world of journalism, from local newspapers to The New York Times, from specialty websites to The Associated Press. In short: Much like the old notion that everyone’s a critic, with this move everyone can be an editor.

A contrast to how “60 Minutes” has worked throughout its history

Release of the Trump “outtakes” contrasted with CBS’ treatment of the “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris last fall. Trump sued CBS, claiming the interview with his Democratic opponent was deceptively edited, based on two di erent clips that were aired on the newsmagazine and “Face the Nation.”

CBS did not release a transcript of its Harris interview for four months, and not until the Trump-controlled Federal Communications Commission had applied public pressure. On a routine basis, “60 Minutes” — and most journalists — don’t release raw material in this way.

If CBS News is going to change its practices routinely in the future, one former “60 Min-

utes” producer said it should be up front with its viewers about it. Tom Bettag, who worked at the broadcast in the 1980s and is now a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, said it’s a product of the times in which we live, but there’s a downside to the practice of letting people in on the editing.

“I think there’s a very good reason not to allow people to do that, in order to avoid the arguments of ‘you should have done this’ or ‘you should have done that,’” Bettag said. “The assumption has been that your audience trusts you to use good judgment and to be fair.”

From the very start, the edited Trump interview showed a clear di erence from the raw material. On the broadcast, O’Donnell’s interview began with discussion of the government shutdown. But when the two actually sat down, she started by asking the president about his just-concluded meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

That’s essentially a call journalists make every day in crafting reports: Pick material to emphasize that seems the most newsworthy or of interest to the most people.

“The newsiest portions made the broadcast, which is why programs edit in the rst place,” Brian Stelter wrote about the “60 Minutes” interview for CNN’s

“Reliable Sources” newsletter.

The rst words out of Trump’s mouth — “Democrats’ fault” — came before O’Donnell even completed her question. That clearly showed where Trump was going, and the broadcast interview re ected that. But it was edited several times for length to avoid tangents and the repetitiveness of partisan attacks.

Of Schumer, Trump said, “He would rather see the country fail than have Trump and the Republicans do well” — a comment left out of the broadcast.

On cutting room oor: Trump says O’Donnell “should be ashamed”

Trump also told O’Donnell that she “should be ashamed” to be asking him about political retribution. That was left o the broadcast. Trump’s complaints about New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey were abbreviated — although his comment that James was a “terrible, dishonest person” was left in.

“I was struck by how much of what didn’t air from the interview were the parts that seemed more rant- lled and often confusing,” wrote journalist Rick Ellis, who painstakingly compared transcripts of the full interview and what CBS broadcast for the website All Your Screens.

Trump brought up his predecessor, President Joe Biden, more than 40 times in the interview but only six instances made the broadcast, Ellis said. The headline for Ellis’ story read, “‘60 Minutes’ Edits (Most of) the Crazy Out of Its Interview with Donald Trump.”

CBS edited a handful of fact-checks into the “60 Minutes” story, most notably adding a military o cial’s refutation of Trump’s claim that China and Russia were testing nuclear weapons. There were a handful of missed opportunities, such as Trump’s claim that he was able to beat all of the legal “nonsense that was thrown at me.”

CBS removed an exchange during a discussion of crime in cities in which Trump asked O’Donnell whether she felt safer in Washington, D.C., after the president ordered the National Guard to patrol there. Generally, journalists like to keep the focus o themselves.

“You see a di erence?” Trump asked her.

Responded O’Donnell: “I think I’ve been working too hard. I haven’t been out and about that much.”

“60 Minutes” pointed out that O’Donnell’s interview was conducted exactly a year after Trump led his lawsuit regarding the Harris interview. But it left out of the broadcast Trump’s

discussion about management changes at CBS’s parent company Paramount since the company agreed to pay him $16 million to settle the case.

“They paid me a lot of money for that,” Trump said. “You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news. And I think that’s happening.” He praised Paramount’s new leaders along with the news division’s new editor-in-chief, The Free Press founder Bari Weiss. That editing decision angered a Trump critic, Tim Miller at the Bulwark website.

“‘60 Minutes’ did not air the part where Trump discusses his success extorting the network and calls them Fake News,” he wrote on X. “This edit is harmful to me and I’m considering suing.”

CBS’s editing seemed to draw fewer complaints from Trump supporters. The White House’s “rapid response” X feed posted copies of both the full interview and what CBS put on the air.

Jorge Bonilla, writing for the conservative media watchdog Newsbusters, wrote that O’Donnell’s rst interview with the newsmagazine contrasted with its “debacle” with Lesley Stahl ve years ago, when Trump walked out.

“It appears,” he wrote, “that the Bari Weiss era is now full upon us at CBS News.”

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Complete Plans and Project Manual will be open for inspection in the o ce of Stogner Architecture, PA, 615 East Broad Avenue, Rockingham, North Carolina (Designer); at the City of Albemarle, Department of Public Housing O ce; or complete Plans and Project Manual will be available for on-line viewing from the o ces of Construct Connect www.constructconnect. com; Dodge Data & Analytics http://dodgeprojects. construction.com; The Blue Book www.thebluebook. com; Construction Journal www.constructionjournal. com, East Coast Digital Plan Room (ECD – Minority Plan Room Provider) plans@speedyblue.com 252758-1616 and Metrolina Minority Contractor’s Resource Center, 2915 Rozzells Ferry Road, Charlotte, NC 28208, Phone: 704-332-5746, Fax: 704-342-9584; E-mail: mmca@mmcaofcharlotte.org. Complete Bid Documents may be obtained by download from Stogner Architecture, PA. by quali ed bidders. For instructions on downloading these documents email bids@stognerarchitecture.com. Documents may be obtained in printed form from Duncan-Parnell, 4275 Regency Road, Suite 100, Greensboro, NC 27410, Phone: (336) 855-1211, Email: Heinz.schmitz@duncan-parnell.com with production costs being paid by the contractor. The City of Albemarle has a 10% HUB Participation Goal for participation by minority and women owned businesses in the

famous birthdays this week

Susan Tedeschi turns 55, Sinbad is 69, Leonardo DiCaprio turns 51, Neil Young hits 80

THESE CELEBRITIES have birthdays this week:

NOV. 9

Film director Bille August is 77. Actor-bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno is 74. Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin is 66. TV writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy is 60. Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) is 55. Blues singer Susan Tedeschi is 55.

NOV. 10

Lyricist Tim Rice is 81. Country singer Donna Fargo is 80. Film director Roland Emmerich is 70. Actor-comedian Sinbad is 69. Actor Mackenzie Phillips is 66. Actor Hugh Bonneville is 62. Actor-comedian Tommy Davidson is 62. Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is 57. Rapper-producer Warren G is 55. Actor Walton Goggins is 54.

NOV. 11

Music producer Mutt Lange is 77. Actor Stanley Tucci is 65. Actor Demi Moore is 63. Actor Calista Flockhart is 61. TV personality Carson Kressley is 56. Actor David DeLuise is 54. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is 51. Musician Jon Batiste is 39.

NOV. 12

Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn is 82. Rock musician Booker T. Jones is 81. Sportscaster Al Michaels is 81. Singer-songwriter Neil Young is 80. Author Tracy Kidder is 80. Actor Megan Mullally is 67. Actor Ryan Gosling is 45. Actor Anne Hathaway is 43.

NOV. 13

Actor Joe Mantegna is 78. Hockey Hall of Famer Gilbert Perreault is 75. Actor Frances Conroy is 73. Actor Chris Noth is 71. Actor-comedian Whoopi Goldberg is 70. Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska is 61. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is 58.

NOV. 14

Britain’s King Charles III is 77. Filmmaker Zhang Yimou is 75. Musician Yanni is 71. Five-

DiCaprio,

51 on Tuesday.

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Run-D.M.C.’s Joseph Simmons (Reverend Run) turns 61 on Friday.

time Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault is 71. Basketball Hall of Famer Jack Sikma is 70. Rapper Joseph Simmons (Reverend Run of Run-D.M.C.) is 61.

NOV. 15

Singer Petula Clark is 93. Actor Sam Waterston is 85. Classical conductor Daniel Barenboim is 83. Pop singer Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad (ABBA) is 80. Fashion designer Jimmy Choo is 77. Actor Beverly D’Angelo is 74.

Waxahatchee releases ‘Snocaps’ with twin sister, surprises fans

Fans of he Crutch eld musical universe, sisterhood and twin telepathy take notice

By Maria Sherman The Associated Press

NEW YORK — For the recently converted Waxahatchee fan, Alabama-raised singer-songwriter Katie Crutch eld does not drum up the image of distorted ri s, scrappy lo- recordings and indie rock sensibilities. For many years, though, that was her reality. (Incisive, lyrical self-re exivity and emotional acuity have always been present in her work, now delivered in a familiar twang via her idiosyncratic folk style.)

Long before her 2024 album “Tigers Blood” or 2020’s “Saint Cloud” cemented Crutch eld as a leading voice in contemporary Americana, Waxahatchee more closely followed in the tradition of her early power punk-pop bands, P.S. Eliot and Bad Banana. Those were led by her and her twin sister, Allison Crutch eld, also of the in uential indie-punks Swearin’. It is impossible not to hear the impact of the pair’s clever harmonies, their ambling ri s and keen storytelling in generations of indie rock bands that followed.

Those groups dissolved as Waxahatchee took over, reuniting here and there for one - o performances for their devout listenership, and only when music-making seemed fun again. But a new project with both Crutch elds seemed o the table.

Unlikely, that is, until now: Snocaps, a surprise new project from Katie and Allison Crutch eld, released a self-titled debut album on Halloween. It is 13 tracks performed by the two, joined by close collaborators Brad Cook (longtime Waxahatchee producer) and guitarist MJ Lenderman (formerly of the band Wednesday, known to Waxahatchee fans as one-half of “Right Back to It,” one of

“Allison and I have been, in some way, shape or form, doing this together for over 20 years.”

Katie Crutch eld

AP’s favorite songs of 2024). It would be an oversimplication to say Snocaps sounds as if no time has passed — but there is no doubt a sense of comforting familiarity. “Heathcli ” opens with a warming bass lick and Allison’s spirited voice; that, and “Avalanche,” possess the unimpeachable melodicism of Swearin’. It bleeds e ortlessly into “Wasteland,” a Katie-led song where hints of modern Waxahatchee is heard. The style exists elsewhere, with her evolved and experienced tone (“Angel Wings”) and more subtly in swaying musical movements. The same is true of the sisters’ other projects: “Over

Our Heads” has echoes of Bad Banana, free of the scuzz and fuzz. And it isn’t just Katie and Allison taking turns on the track list: “I Don’t Want To,” and, in particular, “Hide” feel like an evolution from P.S. Eliot, perhaps a ripened “Tennessee” — a lovely slow burn with a simple pop melody. Then they dive into the ascendant “Cherry Hard Candy” with its jaunty cluster of guitars and hooky harmonies. In the last few decades, they’ve only become more expert at the style, meticulous and appearing e ortless.

In the limited press materials for the album, Katie Crutch eld wrote, “Allison and I have been, in some way, shape or form, doing this together for over 20 years.” It is likely, even when both are busy, that they will continue to do what comes more naturally — writing wise, revelatory songs with simple materials and expert vision. Here’s to 20 more.

2 Louvre heist suspects had prior theft conviction together

Authorities are exploring all leads to recover the jewels

By Sylvie Corbet The Associated Press

PARIS — The Paris prosecutor said Sunday that two of the suspects in the Louvre jewels heist had previously been convicted in a theft case together 10 years ago, as three alleged members of the team of four are now in custody.

Laure Beccuau said the DNA of a 37-year-old man who was charged Saturday was found inside the basket lift that was used to reach the museum’s window. He was handed preliminary charges of theft by an organized gang and criminal conspiracy.

His criminal record contained 11 previous convictions, 10 of them for theft, Beccuau said.

The criminal record of a 39-year-old suspect who was handed similar preliminary charges last Wednesday mentions 15 convictions, including two for theft, Beccuau said.

“What’s interesting about these records, when we compare them, is that … we see that they were both involved in the same theft case, for which they were convicted in Paris in 2015,” Beccuau said.

Another man aged 34 suspected of being part of

the “commando” team, as French media have dubbed the thieves, was also charged last week.

A 38-year-old woman who was handed preliminary charges of “complicity” on Saturday is the longtime partner of the 37-year-old suspect, Beccuau said, noting some “closeness” between all suspects.

All four are being held in custody.

Beccuau declined to answer a question about whether investigators are getting closer to nding the jewels.

“We are examining all the possibilities on the parallel market for selling this jewelry, which I hope will not happen anytime soon. … It could be used for money laundering, it could be used for trade, all leads are being explored,” she said.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said he remains “optimistic” about the investigation, in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper Saturday.

“There are four perpetrators, at least one of whom remains at large, plus possibly the one or those who ordered the crime and the jewelry,” Nuñez said.

“I have great con dence in the work of the police, so I’m optimistic. But my optimism doesn’t extend to thinking that the loot will be recovered quickly,” he added.

this week in history

Berlin Wall falls, dozens killed in Wilmington Coup,” “Moby Dick” published

NOV. 9

1906: Theodore Roosevelt made the first trip abroad of any sitting U.S. president to observe construction of the Panama Canal.

1935: United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.

1938: Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as thousands of Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in a pogrom that became known as “Kristallnacht.”

1989: Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in decades — a landmark event often referred to as the fall of the Berlin Wall.

NOV. 10

1775: The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

1898: A mob of white supremacists killed dozens of African Americans in Wilmington and overthrew the local government in the violent “Wilmington Coup.”

1954: The U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the ag on Iwo Jima, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia.

NOV. 11

1620: Forty-one Pilgrims aboard the May ower signed the May ower Compact, creating a local government calling for a “civil body politick.”

1918: Fighting in World War I ended as the Allies and Germany signed an armistice aboard a railroad car in the Forest of Compiègne in northern France.

1921: The remains of an unidenti ed American service member were interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

NOV. 12

1927: Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.

1948: Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and several other wartime leaders were sentenced to death by a war-crimes tribunal.

1954: Ellis Island o cially closed as an immigration station and detention center after processing more than 12 million immigrants since 1892.

NOV. 13

1775: During the Revolutionary War, American forces under Continental Army Gen. Richard Montgomery captured Montreal.

1956: The U.S. Supreme Court a rmed a lower court ruling that struck down Alabama’s bus segregation laws as illegal.

1971: The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 entered orbit around Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

NOV. 14

1851: Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or The Whale” was published in the United States, almost a month after its release in Britain.

“If

you want to do it, you can do it. The question is, do you want to do it?”

Nellie Bly

1889: Journalist Nellie Bly began her attempt to travel around the world in 80 days; she would complete the journey in a little more than 72 days by ships, trains and other means of transport.

1960: Ruby Bridges, 6, under escort by federal marshals, became the rst black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans.

NOV. 15

1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountain now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado.

1864: Late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman began their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta.

1959: Four members of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, were found murdered in their home; two men were later convicted and hanged in a case made famous by Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.”

1969: A quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War.