1. CLASSIFIEDS............B8
COMICS....................A7
CROSSWORD...........A6
EDITORIAL................A4
MOVIES....................A6
OBITUARIES.............B2
REGION....................B1
SPORTS....................B3
SUDOKU...................A6
TELEVISION..............B7
WEATHER.................A10
WORD SLEUTH.........A6
INDEX
MELANIE GARCIA LOPEZ Grade 5
Alexander Wilson Elementary School
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38Details/Page A10
Weather: Mostly sunny
Cheap oil doesn’t only mean cheaper gas in
the tank. NATION, A5
Veterinarian who ran
Alamance Animal
Emergency Hospital
opens a mobile clinic
that provides service at
patients’ homes.
REGION, B1
WORLD
Pope Francis
upholds church
teaching banning
contracep-
tion, but says
Catholics don’t
have to breed
“like rabbits”
and should
instead practice
“responsible
parenting.” A9
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TIMES AT A GLANCE>>
CONGRESS>>
HOPING FOR A MIRACLE>>
GOPrift
onhealth
caretactic
looms
Man needs new liver
due to genetics, clot
By Natalie Allison Janicello
Times-News
nallison@thetimesnews.com
At 35, with a wife of 13 years and
three children, Craig Edwards had
nearly a picture-perfect life.
Portraits of his family line the
walls of their Burlington home,
where Edwards, the primary bread-
winner by day and youth baseball
coach by night, has established a
life with wife, Bethany, whom he
met in college at UNC Greensboro,
and their kids, Audra, 12; Sam, 10;
and Mary, 6.
Butinthepastyear,amajormedi-
cal diagnosis has gradually affected
their lives, with the symptoms of se-
vere liver cirrhosis showing up even
more significantly in recent weeks.
Now, Edwards needs a miracle in
the form of a liver transplant.
“That’s the biggest hope,” said
Edwards, who is on a transplant list
butisattemptingtospreadtheword
about directed organ donation — a
little-known process that allows
the family members of someone
deceased to specify an organ re-
cipient, though the exchange must
take place in a matter of hours after
death.
Tea Party forces would
use budget process
to derail Obamacare
By Andrew Taylor
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Republicans run-
ning Congress have promised to use
every weapon in their arsenal to take
down President Barack Obama’s health
care law.
But now some are questioning
whether to use the congressional bud-
getprocesstoderailthe2010laworsave
the special step for more traditional
purposes like cutting spending or over-
hauling the tax code.
A potentially divisive
debate between Tea
Party forces and GOP
pragmatists looms.
At issue is an ar-
cane process known
as budget reconcilia-
tion. It’s the only fil-
ibuster-proof option
available to Repub-
licans, who control
the Senate with 54
seats but must still muster 60 votes to
pass other legislation.
Senate precedents limit the number
of reconciliation bills — one for taxes,
one for spending and one to raise the
government’s borrowing cap — and so
a major debate has begun among Re-
publicans over what to put in it.
Hard-line conservatives want to use
the process to force a showdown with
Obama over the law.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told a Heri-
tage Foundation gathering of con-
servatives last week that Republicans
should “use every procedural tool
available, including reconciliation, to
repeal Obamacare with 51 votes in the
Senate.”
That’s a view shared by conserva-
tive groups like the Senate Conserva-
tives Fund and Heritage Action, and
Photos by Sam Roberts / Times-News
Participants in Monday’s Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walk make their way down Church Street, above, and Front Street,
below, in Burlington.
CORRECTION
A story Jan. 11 incorrectly reported the class of rapids on the Haw River.
Depending on water level, the river has up to Class III rapids.
More to
the story
n As Obama
prepares to deliver
his State of the
Union address,
a look back at
promises he made
in 2014 / A3
By Martha Waggoner
The Associated Press
RALEIGH — A clue discovered just a few years
ago on a centuries-old map has led researchers
back to a North Carolina site in hopes of discov-
ering whether the men, women and children of
North Carolina’s “Lost Colony” settled there.
“If we were finding this evidence at Roanoke
Island, which is the well-established site of Sir
Walter Raleigh’s colony, we would have no hesi-
tation to say this is evidence of Sir Walter Ra-
leigh’s colonies,” said Phil Evans, president of
the First Colony Foundation. “But because this
is a new site and not associated with Sir Walter
Hoperisesthat
mapsites‘Lost
Colony’inN.C.
Scott Muthersbaugh / Times-News
Craig Edwards sits Thursday with his wife,
Bethany, in their Burlington home. Craig is in
need of an immediate liver transplant because
of a genetic condition.
ROANOKE ISLAND MYSTERY>>
Walk celebrates King
By Natalie Allison Janicello
Times-News
nallison@thetimesnews.com
Nearly 200 people lined up Monday
for a two-and-a-half-mile walk through
Burlington, an event organized by the
Alamance NAACP in honor and memory
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
With sunny
skies and warm-
er temperatures
than on the same
day in previous
years, this march
drew even more
people than the
last, according
to Alamance
NAACP Presi-
dent Barrett Brown. He said around 125
attended the event in 2014, which in-
cluded members of the Cummings High
School band. The band didn’t participate
this year.
Thegroupofaround190metinfrontof
Occasions after the MLK Coalition of Ala-
mance County’s annual breakfast, walk-
ing to North Park’s Mayco Bigelow Com-
munity Center on Sharpe Road, where
local groups performed songs, dances
and skits to gospel music.
Alamance County Commissioner Bob
Byrd was the single elected official seen
at the march.
“I think it’s important, especially this
year with all the strife going on,” Byrd
said.
Rottura Carlton had similar feelings
about the significance of this year’s
march, making the two-and-a-half-mile
trek her “first long walk” since having
knee surgery just a couple months ago,
and bringing her 14-year-old son along
with her.
“With everything that’s going on with
our young black men in the country, I
just wanted to bring my son here so he
can see and respect what our forefathers
did — Martin Luther King and other civil
rights leaders,” Carlton said. “So he can
actually do some of the things they did.”
ThreeElonUniversitystudentspartici-
pated in the walk, representing Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity — of which King himself
was a member — and Alpha Kappa Alpha
Nearly 200 march in
honor and memory of
civil rights leader
See LOST COLONY / Page A2
Urgency for transplant
gives Edwards priority,
but is no guarantee
See NEW LIVER / Page A2
See CELEBRATES KING / Page A2
See GOP TACTIC / Page A2
More to
the story
n See video of the walk
at TheTimesNews.com
n Tributes nationwide
honor the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. / A5
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move
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