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TV 8 News has learned the FBI and local law enforcement authorities are conducting a statewide raid of service stations and businesses owned by Middle Easterners. Agents executed search warrants today at businesses from Tallulah to Ruston and in Monroe. The FBI says the raids are part of "an ongoing criminal investigation." Police sources tell TV 8 News the raids target possible money laundering and counterfeiting in connection with suspected domestic terrorist activity and homeland security. TV 8 News will have details at 5, 6,and 10.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A convenience store clerk shot a robber three times. The store manager said the shooting sends a message to thieves to stay out. Business is back to normal at a BP station on Ashley Road near Interstate 85 in west Charlotte after an early morning robbery attempt. Store manager Rebecca Williamson is hoping that what happened early Monday morning sends a loud message out to criminals. "It's 2005. People are not playing around anymore. There's a lot of stores getting robbed around here and there's a lot of people taking action," said Williamson. According to police, just...

Authorities questioned four men Friday for possible involvement in an alleged plot to kill Gov. Jeb Bush and held two others on immigration charges, but by day's end they had all but wrapped up the case after their most promising lead collapsed. The lead: a van investigators thought might contain traces of explosives after bomb-sniffing dogs reacted to it. Late Friday night, residue tests proved negative. Investigators already were skeptical of information provided by a jailhouse informant that four South Florida men with Arab names had plotted to blow up the governor in Tallahassee Friday. Additional information about the inmate ...

<p>SAN DIEGO(AP) - Jack in the Box has announced it will open a string of convenience stores and gas stations nationwide to accompany a number of its full-size, fast-food restaurants.</p> <p>The Quick Stuff stores will feature ATMs, fuel dispensers and pay-at-the-pump credit-card readers, along with traditional convenience store fare such as candy bars, lottery tickets and cigarettes.</p>

Jane Sims always knew her husband was a valuable employee to Wal-Mart. She just didn't know how valuable. Sims discovered recently that Wal-Mart, the company her husband, Douglas, worked for before he died, had taken out a life insurance policy in his name. When Douglas Sims died in 1998 of a sudden heart attack, Wal-Mart received about $64,000. She got nothing from that policy. "I never dreamed that they could profit from my husband's death," said Sims, whose husband worked in receiving at Wal-Mart's distribution center in Plainview for 11 years. Companies routinely take out secret life insurance policies on...