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John Higdon to Lead Wholesale Mortgage Division for First National ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- First National Bank of the South has appointed John Higdon as Senior Vice President and Director of its wholesale mortgage lending division based in Greenville, South Carolina. The division, which was formed in January 2007, specializes in the origination, underwriting and closing of residential mortgage loans for community banks and mortgage brokers.

John has over 19 years of mortgage lending experience and was most recently employed as Vice President and Wholesale Mortgage Director for First National Bank in Christiansburg, Virginia. He brings with him an eleven- person team that collectively has over one hundred years of industry experience. John is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a bachelor's degree in economics.

COMPANY HIGHLIGHTS
First National Bank of the South provides a wide range of financial services to consumer and commercial customers through three divisions.

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Retiring detective's advice for community: 'Raise your kids'

Doyle Burke was a street cop fresh out of the Dayton police academy in 1978 and working the midnight shift when he first saw homicide detectives in action.

"We had a lot of homicides on the midnight shift — still do. The uniform officers would get little or no cooperation (from witnesses). But as soon as the homicide guys came in, they took charge and nobody challenged them. If somebody refused to talk, they'd say, 'OK, he's the first guy to go in for questioning.' I thought, 'OK, that's me. I want to be there.'?"

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Report: Auto industry decline will hurt Metro Detroit for decades

Dramatic losses in the domestic auto industry will keep Metro Detroit mired in economic crisis, fueling continued population losses and harsh changes in the job market for at least a decade, according to a bleak forecast issued today.

The report, issued by the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, predicts that, for the first time ever, the Big Three's market share will fall below 50 percent next year and that an auto-borne regional recovery is unlikely.

Only a significant rise in education levels -- more college graduates, more skilled workers -- can alter the dour prediction, according to the report from SEMCOG, a regional planning organization that serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, Monroe and St. Clair counties.

"What it takes is a new Michigan," said Don Grimes, an author of the study and a research specialist at the University of Michigan's Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.

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Car Wars: Wrestling for control with Capt. Kirk

As I drove up to a family get-together recently, my older brother asked -- in that tone men use to stick up for one another -- "Why don't you ever let your husband drive?"

How does this question make me crazy? Count me the ways!

First, I have never heard him -- or any other man, for that matter -- say to a guy: "Why don't you ever let your wife drive?" Second, I was in my car, not my husband's, and we were driving to my hometown -- which he knows not at all -- not his. Third, in all my single years, my beloved brother had never once remarked on the fact I drove myself to his home, so why would he raise the question just because I'm with a man?

So here's my little question: Does he think my bitsy VW is the Starship Enterprise, my husband's Captain Kirk, and that when he enters the bridge I'm supposed to salute and hand over the controls?

Or does said brother, who on other issues is downright feminist, believe Natural Law dictates: "When there is a man and a woman in a car, the man must drive."

You might think so if you watch the intricate dance that takes place when husbands and wives do drive-by drop-offs and pickups.

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Detainee admits beheading Pearl, plotting attacks

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, confessed to U.S. military officials he beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl "with my blessed right hand."
In revised transcripts released yesterday by the Pentagon of a Saturday hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to determine his enemy-combatant status, Mohammed said he decapitated "the American Jew" in Karachi, Pakistan, in January 2002 because he was seeking information about a now-convicted shoe bomber.
"For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head," he said.
The confession was withheld in the first release of the 26-page transcript on Wednesday night, Pentagon officials said, to allow time for Mr.