Retailing:  The Ridgewood Wine & Beer Co. doesn't open until Monday in the Ridgewood Shopping Center, but it's holding a preview with a beer tasting tonight and a wine tasting Saturday for those who want an early look.

Stocks had their worst day of the year Friday after Greece hit a roadblock on its way to a critical bailout.

Chinese PC maker Lenovo continued to defy a sluggish market in its fiscal third quarter, posting a 44 percent gain in sales and a 54 percent jump in profits that blew past analysts' expectations.

Road Worrier:  Heather Peters got the better of two big industries - international carmakers and high-dollar lawyers - when she spurned a class-action lawsuit and went one-on-one against American Honda Motor Co. in a California small claims court.

A Raleigh man is being investigated under the suspicion that he was running a Ponzi scheme out of his home.

Retailing:  Sheetz, the Pennsylvania convenience store chain, opened its 36th store in North Carolina on Thursday, just off U.S. 64-264 in Wendell.

Drivers are getting a little good news: Auto insurance rates are not going up this year.

Kellogg Co. is showing signs of easing its way out of a two-year slump. The cereal maker reported Thursday that its net income rose 23 percent on revenue gains.

Burt's Bees is looking to gain sales from younger women with a whimsical new brand of natural products that focus on fragrance as a key selling point.

Progress Energy will offer customers larger rebates to adopt energy-efficiency programs in their homes while doing away with some programs that are not working or are outdated.

As if bankrupt American Airlines didn't have enough problems, along comes consumer advocate Ralph Nader - who's really steamed that for a flight Saturday to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, the only way for a non-frequent flyer to get an aisle seat was to pay full-fare $2,680 instead of the $700 price he'd already paid.

Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company that brought photography to the masses more than a century ago.

After months of painstaking talks, the nation's biggest banks have agreed to a $26 billion settlement that could provide relief to more than two million current and former American homeowners harmed by the bursting of the housing bubble, state and federal officials said.

Three months after banks scrapped plans for debit-card fees, it's becoming clearer how they intend to recoup money lost in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

A Minnesota food company is widening its recall of hard-cooked eggs because of a potential for listeria contamination.

The Obama administration sent its top housing official to the Triangle on Thursday to tout the president's latest efforts to help struggling homeowners and stem the foreclosure crisis.

Facebook is baring its business soul. The unveiling came late Wednesday when the company that depends on people to share their lives online filed its plans to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock.

Ben Bernanke defended the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates at record-low levels for the next three years, during a contentious hearing before federal lawmakers.

Ben Bernanke defended the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates at record-low levels for the next three years, during a contentious hearing before federal lawmakers.

N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that Caterpillar Inc., will expand its manufacturing facilities in Johnston County. The company plans to create 199 jobs during the next five years and invest $33 million. Caterpillar, located off N.C. 42 East in Clayton, is the largest maker of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines in the world.