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UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp’s wife, Patti, (from right) holds the bible, Patricia Timmons-Goodson administers the oath, and UNC President Erskine Bowles looks on as Thorp is installed as the university’s 10th chancellor in front of South Building on Sunday.

215th university day belongs to chancellor
CHAPEL HILL -- Holden Thorp's UNC as envisioned Sunday will be an institution that continues to attract and inspire the best students and faculty, a university that cooperates with local government entities for the good of the region, a place where solutions for the great problems of our time are sought.

Some on council resist removing bike lanes from project
DURHAM -- Public Works Department engineers want the City Council to scrap part of Durham's bicycle plan that calls for putting bike lanes on a stretch of Fayetteville Road that's due for a city-funded widening in three years.

• Welcome Baby celebrates 20 years

• Man charged with rape

• Bomb-detection dog major draw to airport open ouse

• Pumpkins almost like snowflakes at this patch

• Ivy Center gets new building as Lowe's moves in

• Bomb squad fields array of calls, none involving explosion

• Man faces drug charges

• A Q&A with UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp

• Schools vary on AP options

• Thousands attend open house for new airport terminal

• Visitors get a taste of terminal

• Group opposes tax on meals, backs Obama, Hagan, Perdue

• Functional, artistic quilts on display at Exotique

campus brief

Jordan High grad named a fellow

Crime log

Two men hit with cocaine charges
Toddler killed by lawn mower

Local briefs

Fair features 'DTV Trekker'
Museum focuses on earth sciences

ORANGE COUNTY

5K race to honor Eve Carson
CHAPEL HILL -- A 5K race on Nov. 15 will honor the memory of Eve Carson while raising money for education, a cause near and dear to the slain UNC student body president.

Early voting begins Thursday
HILLSBOROUGH -- After months of weighing political positions and choosing up sides, voters can finally make a choice this week.

• Orange County Early Voting Locations

• Women whose daughter was slain starts supprt group

• Honorables

• Financial crisis puts projects 'kind of on hold'

• E-mail messages split for, against library expansion

• Perdue: Election's now about 1 thing -- economy

• Hillsborough residents ready case vs. 2 waste site picks

• Peelings

• Challenge readers run dry

STATE

Fed approves Wells Fargo's Wachovia buy
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve on Sunday approved Wells Fargo's $11.7 billion acquisition of North Carolina-based Wachovia, removing the deal's last major regulatory hurdle.

Attorney: Marine fighting extradition from Mexico
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. -- The attorney for a Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague says his client is fighting extradition to the United States.

• NC community college students to cook for peers

• Dole commits personal cash to re-election campaign

• Former Brunsick sheriff faces state charges

• GOP's McCrory seeks move from mayor to NC governor

• Elizabeth Edwards cancels Detroit appearance

• Billy Graham released from NC hospital after fall

• Kmart announces 300 layoffs at 2 NC stores

• New immigration court in Charlotte to serve NC, SC

NATION/WORLD

• British banks to get $63B infusion from government	4:01 AM ET
• 15 reported killed in Pakistan fighting	2:09 AM ET
• 5 more Taliban killed in Afghanistan clash	2:07 AM ET
• Chinese dairy blames subcontractors for tainting	1:42 AM ET
• Conservatives ahead in Lithuania election	1:20 AM ET
• Car bombings in Mosul and Baghdad kill 13	12:32 AM ET

AP/Gerald Herbert

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks at a rally in Davenport, Iowa. Republican leaders are growing concerned about McCain's campaign strategy.

GOP frets about McCain's strategy, prospects
INDIANAPOLIS -- Three weeks before the election, Republicans are growing increasingly concerned about John McCain's ability to mount a comeback, questioning his tactics and even his campaign's main thrust in a White House race increasingly focused on economic turmoil.

Gov't eyes plan to take ownership stakes in banks
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders on Sunday that isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreading financial crisis. With a new trading week dawning, U.S. lawmakers urged quick action by the Bush administration on measures to make direct purchases of bank stock to help unlock lending.

• NKorea announces plan to resume nuclear disabling

• Is the era of easy credit over for the long haul?

• Holocaust survivors tell love story

• Yale celebrates Noah Webster's 250th birthday

• Recovery, ruin visible in Texas a month after Ike

• Several lawmakers face same opponent again

• Fire burns 2,000 acres northeast of Los Angeles

• Debt clock draws confused looks, anger or nothing

SPORTS

AP/SARA D. DAVIS

North Carolina's Brandon Tate (87) is flipped by Notre Dame's Steve Quinn (48) as Notre Dame's Mike Anello dives under him in the first half Saturday.

Tate's fate up in the air after injury
CHAPEL HILL -- One day after its dramatic victory over Notre Dame, North Carolina sobered up with the news that Brandon Tate could miss significant time with a knee injury.

• Bolts beat Pats 30-10 behind Rivers' 3 TD passes

• Dodgers top Phillies 7-2, fight way back into NLCS

• Red Sox LHP Lester, all better, unleashed on Rays

• Garcia leads Bucs past Panthers

• Palmer to see Mets team doctor about elbow injury

BUSINESS

Buzz: Donuts, followed by coffee, of course
Dunkin' update: Driving by the brand new Hope Valley Commons shopping center the other day, Buzz noticed that the Dunkin' Donuts there has its sign up, but is still in the midst of construction inside.

Federal regulators clear Wells Fargo-Wachovia deal
NEW YORK -- Federal antitrust regulators on Friday cleared Wells Fargo's $11.7 billion acquisition of Wachovia Corp., capping a weeklong battle for the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank.

• Stocks got slammed, but was it a `crash'?

• Stocks end worst week mixed after wild session

• AP source: GM could announce production cuts soon

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