The sales reports issued Thursday were better than expected, but still pointed to a consumer contending with rising gas prices, sagging home values and worries about jobs. 

This week’s 10’s most wanted is a man caught on video robbing a local bank.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says testing of Aretha Vinson’s brain tissue showed that she didn’t die of a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The illness has been associated with mad-cow disease.

Scam artists are putting a new twist to an old scam.  Investigative reporter Mollie Halpern explains how the check-cashing scam works.  And, shares what the Better Business Bureau says to do, and not to do, to protect yourself.

“Officers from the department entered Norris Hall that day while shots were still being fired. Officers chose to run toward the gunfire and an unknown risk without regard for their own safety. Many had no time to put on protective gear such as bulletproof vests,” the commendation for the department read.

Justin Baumgardner was found shot to death on Sunday in Amherst County.

The Danville Emergency Operations Center tells us Fall Creek overflowed its banks along Water and Halifax Street.

To reward the state for holding its primary in May this year, the national party made it a richer prize by giving it 25 percent more delegates than last time. More importantly, the late date just happened to put North Carolina in position to play kingmaker. 

I look at my little dog and think how nice it must be to get as much sleep as you want…