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Burlington, North Carolina www.TheTimesNews.com WEDNESDAY, November 8, 2006 119th year, No. 186 50 cents Details/Page B6 Weather High 65 , Low 48 Accent . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E1 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . .D1 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E6 Crossword . . . . . . . . . . .E5 Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . .A4 Markets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E5 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . .C2 Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . .C1 Sudoku . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E6 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B1 Television . . . . . . . . . . . .C5 Inside today Democrats take over U.S. House By David Espo The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Resurgent Democrats swept toward control of the House and gained ground in the Senate on Tuesday in elections shaped by an unpopular war in Iraq and scandal at home. “Mr. President, we need a new direction in Iraq,” said California Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, in line to become the first woman speaker in history. Aided by public dissatisfaction with President Bush, Democrats won gubernatorial races in New York, Ohio and Massachusetts for the first time in more than a decade, then put Colorado, Maryland and Arkansas in their column as well. Bush monitored the returns from the White House as the voters picked a new Congress certain to complicate his final two years in office. He arranged to call Pelosi on Wednesday morning, then hold an Foriest upsets Webster ‘It was the people in Alamance and Caswell that made the difference’ By Isaac Groves Times-News GRAHAM — Senator “no” is no more. Tony Foriest is the winner of the race for N.C. Senate District 24, which consists of Alamance and Caswell counties, beating incumbent Hugh Webster by 453 votes. ■ 16,787 votes for Foriest. ■ 16,334 votes for Webster. Caswell County vot- ers pushed Foriest over with 2,986 votes, compared with Web- ster’s 1,967 there. In Alamance County, Webster led Foriest by 501 votes. Webster, 63, is a semi-retired account- ant, tax and financial adviser and for- mer farmer. He owns homes in Bur- lington and Caswell County and has served 12 years in the N.C. Senate. Democrat Foriest, 58, lives in Graham. He is retired from Xerox. He and his wife, Clara, have two adult children and a grandson. Foriest, a former Alamance County Democratic party chairman, ran for the District 24 seat in 2004, when he lost by nearly 10,000 votes. It was Webster’s largest-ever margin of vic- tory. In a Times-News questionnaire, Webster said illegal immigration and immigrants’ demands on public serv- ices were the most important issues in this year’s race. Foriest said it was Foriest Webster Correction A story in Tuesday’s newspaper about David Leon Wells’ trial should have said Wells can be found guilty of second- degree murder or voluntary manslaugh- ter, or can be found not guilty. The Associated Press House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., fires up fellow Democrats at an election night rally in Washington. Alamance County keeps its sheriff Terry Johnson wins 64.6 percent of the vote By Robert Boyer Times-News Incumbent Terry Johnson handily defeated veteran deputy Donnie Compton in the race for Alamance County Sheriff. Johnson, a retired SBI agent from Snow Camp, captured 64.6 percent of the vote Tuesday. He defeat- ed Compton 18,306 to 10,005 His efforts to se- cure a second term were similar to his 2002 bid against appointed sheriff Gary Massey, when Johnson outspent Massey four-to- one in a high-profile campaign that swept him into office. Johnson staff- ed the sheriff ’s department with former local law enforcement leaders and implemented Operation Safe Schools, a five- month drug-sting operation in the Alamance-Bur- lington School System that led to the arrest of 60 students in February 2004. Other county-wide stings targeted property crimes and illicit drugs and netted sizable quantities and arrests. A sim- ilar sting operation involving the deputies and lawmen from other Vaughan in; Sutton out Johnson Sam Roberts / Times-News Ann Vaughan, left, and former Elon Mayor Beth Schmidt watch election results Tuesday night at the old courthouse in Graham. Vaughan won a seat on the Alamance County Board of Commissioners. By Robert Boyer Times-News Change was the theme of Ann Vaughan’s second campaign for Alamance County commissioner. Voters gave Vaughan her wish on Tuesday and made a bit of history in the process. Vaughan will be the first woman to serve on the Alamance County Board of Commissioners. The retired teacher from Mebane topped incumbent Tim Sutton and challenger Eddie Boswell in a tight race for two seats on the board. Incumbent Doug Fincannon was re-elected. County election records are in- complete, but apparently a woman has never served on the board. Vaughan’s election also makes her the first Democrat elected to the board since Rickey Moorfield won a four-year term in 1992. Top to bottom, it was a tight race. ■ Vaughan received 14,309 votes, or about 26 percent. ■ Fincannon, a Mebane resident who runs an insurance agency in Graham, came in second with 13,580 votes, or 25.04 percent. ■ Sutton lost by only 13 votes. Sutton, a three-term commissioner Sutton See interviews with Terry Johnson and Ann Vaughan TheTimesNews.com See ALAMANCE SHERIFF/Page A2 See DEMOCRATS HOUSE/Page A2 See VAUGHAN SUTTON/Page A2 See FORIEST WEBSTER/Page A2 N.C. STATE SENATE DISTRICT 24 Hugh WEBSTER (REP).................... Tony FORIEST (DEM)........................ SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE Sarah PARKER ............................ Rusty DUKE ................................ SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Mark D. MARTIN .......................... Rachel LEA HUNTER ................... SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Patricia TIMMONS-GOODSON ....... Eric LEVINSON ............................ SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Robin HUDSON ........................... Ann Marie CALABRIA ................. COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE Robert C. (Bob) HUNTER ............. Kris BAILEY .............................. COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE Donna STROUD .......................... Linda STEPHENS ..................... DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 15A Todd Allen SMITH .......................... Brad ALLEN ................................ BOARD OF EDUCATION Brenda Brown FOSTER .................. Tom MANNING ............................... Mary Alice HINSHAW ................ Martha Holt MOFFITT ................ Brad EVANS ........................... SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Fenton COVINGTON ....................... Fred BOWMAN ............................. DISTRICT ATTORNEY DISTRICT 15A Rick CHAMPION (REP).................... Robert F. (Rob) JOHNSON (DEM).... COUNTY COMMISSIONER Ann VAUGHAN (DEM)................... Eddie BOSWELL (DEM)................ Tim SUTTON (REP).......................... Doug FINCANNON (REP).............. SHERIFF Terry S. JOHNSON (REP)................ Donald R. COMPTON (DEM)........... CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT Diane A. PICKETT (DEM)................. N.C. STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 63 Alice BORDSEN (DEM)................... N.C. STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 64 Cary D. ALLRED (REP)................... US CONGRESS DISTRICT 6 Howard COBLE (REP)...................... Rory BLAKE (DEM).......................... 15,231 6,470 1,628 3,792 16,329 7,907 12,265 16,787 12,816 15,445 14,309 12,770 13,567 13,580 18,306 20,437 18,079 7,236 8,394 16,093 8,691 14,030 9,763 13,346 12,187 10,922 9,038 13,341 11,020 11,258 17,773 11,551 10,878 14,875 14,050 6,330 11,226 10,005 US CONGRESS DISTRICT 13 Vernon ROBINSON (REP).............. Brad MILLER (DEM)....................... 2006 Alamance County *Unofficial results GENERAL ELECTION David Michael SPRUILL ...............10,354
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Democrats take over U.S. HouseBy David EspoThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON — ResurgentDemocrats swept toward control ofthe House and gained ground in theSenate on Tuesday in electionsshaped by an unpopular war in Iraqand scandal at home.
“Mr. President, we need a newdirection in Iraq,” said CaliforniaDemocratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, inline to become the first womanspeaker in history.
Aided by public dissatisfactionwith President Bush, Democrats wongubernatorial races in New York,Ohio and Massachusetts for the firsttime in more than a decade, then putColorado, Maryland and Arkansas intheir column as well.
Bush monitored the returns fromthe White House as the voterspicked a new Congress certain tocomplicate his final two years inoffice. He arranged to call Pelosi onWednesday morning, then hold an
Foriest upsets Webster ‘It was the people in Alamance and Caswell that made the difference’
By Isaac GrovesTimes-News
GRAHAM — Senator “no” is nomore.
Tony Foriest is the winner of therace for N.C. Senate District 24,which consists of Alamance andCaswell counties, beating incumbentHugh Webster by 453 votes.■ 16,787 votes for Foriest.■ 16,334 votes for Webster.
Caswell County vot-ers pushed Foriestover with 2,986 votes,compared with Web-ster’s 1,967 there.
In AlamanceCounty, Webster ledForiest by 501 votes.
Webster, 63, is asemi-retired account-
ant, tax and financial adviser and for-mer farmer. He owns homes in Bur-
lington and CaswellCounty and hasserved 12 years in theN.C. Senate.
Democrat Foriest,58, lives in Graham.He is retired fromXerox. He and hiswife, Clara, have twoadult children and a
grandson.Foriest, a former Alamance County
Democratic party chairman, ran forthe District 24 seat in 2004, when helost by nearly 10,000 votes. It wasWebster’s largest-ever margin of vic-tory.
In a Times-News questionnaire,Webster said illegal immigration andimmigrants’ demands on public serv-ices were the most important issuesin this year’s race. Foriest said it was
Foriest Webster
CorrectionA story in Tuesday’s newspaper about
David Leon Wells’ trial should have saidWells can be found guilty of second-degree murder or voluntary manslaugh-ter, or can be found not guilty.
The Associated Press
House Democratic Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., fires up fellowDemocrats at an election night rally in Washington.
AlamanceCountykeeps itssheriffTerry Johnsonwins 64.6 percentof the vote By Robert BoyerTimes-News
Incumbent Terry Johnson handilydefeated veteran deputy DonnieCompton in the race for AlamanceCounty Sheriff.
Johnson, a retiredSBI agent from SnowCamp, captured 64.6percent of the voteTuesday. He defeat-ed Compton 18,306 to10,005
His efforts to se-cure a second termwere similar to his2002 bid against
appointed sheriff Gary Massey, whenJohnson outspent Massey four-to-one in a high-profile campaign thatswept him into office.
Johnson staff-ed the sheriff ’sdepartment withformer local lawe n f o r c e m e n tleaders andi m p l e m e n t e dOperation SafeSchools, a five-month drug-stingoperation in theAlamance-Bur-lington School
System that led to the arrest of 60students in February 2004. Othercounty-wide stings targeted propertycrimes and illicit drugs and nettedsizable quantities and arrests. A sim-ilar sting operation involving thedeputies and lawmen from other
Vaughan in; Sutton out
Johnson
Sam Roberts / Times-News
Ann Vaughan, left, and former Elon Mayor Beth Schmidt watch election results Tuesday night at the oldcourthouse in Graham. Vaughan won a seat on the Alamance County Board of Commissioners.
By Robert BoyerTimes-News
Change was the theme of AnnVaughan’s second campaign forAlamance County commissioner.Voters gave Vaughan her wish onTuesday and made a bit of historyin the process.
Vaughan will be the first womanto serve on the Alamance CountyBoard of Commissioners. Theretired teacher from Mebanetopped incumbent Tim Sutton
and challengerEddie Boswell ina tight race fortwo seats on theboard. IncumbentDoug Fincannonwas re-elected.
County electionrecords are in-complete, but
apparently a woman has neverserved on the board.
Vaughan’s election also makesher the first Democrat elected to
the board since Rickey Moorfieldwon a four-year term in 1992.
Top to bottom, it was a tightrace.■ Vaughan received 14,309 votes,or about 26 percent.■ Fincannon, a Mebane residentwho runs an insurance agency inGraham, came in second with13,580 votes, or 25.04 percent.■ Sutton lost by only 13 votes.Sutton, a three-term commissioner
Sutton
See interviews withTerry Johnson and
Ann VaughanTheTimesNews.com
See ALAMANCE SHERIFF/Page A2
See DEMOCRATS HOUSE/Page A2
See VAUGHAN SUTTON/Page A2
See FORIEST WEBSTER/Page A2
N.C. STATE SENATE DISTRICT 24
Hugh WEBSTER (REP)....................
Tony FORIEST (DEM)........................
SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE
Sarah PARKER ............................
Rusty DUKE ................................
SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
Mark D. MARTIN ..........................
Rachel LEA HUNTER ...................
SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
Patricia TIMMONS-GOODSON .......
Eric LEVINSON ............................
SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
Robin HUDSON ...........................
Ann Marie CALABRIA .................
COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE
Robert C. (Bob) HUNTER .............
Kris BAILEY ..............................
COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE
Donna STROUD ..........................
Linda STEPHENS .....................
DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 15A
Todd Allen SMITH ..........................
Brad ALLEN ................................
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Brenda Brown FOSTER ..................
Tom MANNING ...............................
Mary Alice HINSHAW ................
Martha Holt MOFFITT ................
Brad EVANS ...........................
SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR
Fenton COVINGTON .......................
Fred BOWMAN .............................
DISTRICT ATTORNEY DISTRICT 15A
Rick CHAMPION (REP)....................
Robert F. (Rob) JOHNSON (DEM)....
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Ann VAUGHAN (DEM)...................
Eddie BOSWELL (DEM)................
Tim SUTTON (REP)..........................
Doug FINCANNON (REP)..............
SHERIFF
Terry S. JOHNSON (REP)................
Donald R. COMPTON (DEM)...........
CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT
Diane A. PICKETT (DEM).................
N.C. STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 63
Alice BORDSEN (DEM)...................
N.C. STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 64
Cary D. ALLRED (REP)...................
US CONGRESS DISTRICT 6
Howard COBLE (REP)......................
Rory BLAKE (DEM)..........................
15,231
6,470
1,628
3,792
16,329
7,907
12,265
16,787
12,816
15,445
14,309
12,770
13,567
13,580
18,306
20,437
18,079
7,236
8,394
16,093
8,691
14,030
9,763
13,346
12,187
10,922
9,038
13,341
11,020
11,258
17,773
11,551
10,878
14,875
14,050
6,330
11,226
10,005
US CONGRESS DISTRICT 13
Vernon ROBINSON (REP)..............
Brad MILLER (DEM).......................
2006
AAllaammaannccee CCoouunnttyy
*Unofficial results
GENERALELECTION
David Michael SPRUILL ...............10,354
