Final weekend of summer...Autumn official begins on Monday (11:44am)

Absolute Auction at Ernie Shore Field starting at 10am Saturday morning.
The Warthogs are cleaning house! Warthogs memorabilia, kitchen and office equipment…yes even the kitchen sinks must go! For more details about the auction: Call John Pegg at 996-4414
http://peggauction.com/

Despite the struggling U.S. economy, the nation's richest Americans are holding their own. The Forbes 400, the list of the richest Americans includes…#1 Bill Gates…with a net worth of $57 billion dollars. #2 Warren Buffett. Also…four members of the Walton family, who are related to Wal-Mart pioneer Sam Walton (founder of Wal-Mart). New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg...Newcomer to the list: 24-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook.

The Bush administration is asking Congress to give it the power to buy distressed assets in an attempt to rescue banks caught in Wall Street's financial crisis. With the government’s long term bail news, Asian stocks soared overnight.

Piedmont Natural Gas wants to cut your gas bill this winter. The company has asked the state for a 24% cut in the wholesale component of its rate. The request would drop the typical customer’s bill about 16%.

The yellow and blue t-shirts gathered together again yesterday in Davie County. Another state hearing between Forsyth Medical and Wake Forest Baptist Medical over who will be awarded approval to build a hospital in the Davie Clemmons area.

Sixteen stations across the state have received subpoenas to provide records on the prices they charged customers in the wake of Hurricane Ike. The average price of gas in the Triad was $3.98 Thursday, according to AAA, higher than the national average of $3.83. http://www.wxii12.com/news/17505968/detail.html

Hundreds of Gulf Coast residents in Texas whose beachfront homes were wrecked by Hurricane Ike may be barred from rebuilding under a little-noticed Texas law. And even those whose houses were spared by the storm could end up seeing their homes condemned by the state. California and Oregon have similar laws. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/09/19/ike.beach.houses.ap/index.html

College Football on Saturday:
#15-ranked ECU vs N.C. State
Wake Forest at Florida State
Souther Conference: Top ranked App State will take on JMU