The Cabarrus County Public Library is presenting a free show by storyteller and puppeteer Lona Bartlett this week.

Bartlett is president of the North Carolina Storytelling Guild and a teaching artist with the Blumenthal Theater.

Kids and their parents can catch the show at the Concord Branch of the Cabarrus County Public Library, located at 27 Union Street North in Concord, Wednesday June 12, at 3 p.m.

The cost is free, and the program is open to the public.

For more information on the Children's Summer Reading Program, call 704-920-2058.

SALISBURY - A well known local karate instructor who has been charged with the murder of his former girlfriend made his first appearance in court on Tuesday morning.

Wayne Eugene Hill, 55, is charged with first degree murder.

The body of Roxanne Fowler Maddry, 48, was found inside Hill's Poplar Street home in China Grove on Saturday night.  China Grove investigators said that Maddry was killed by blunt force trauma.

After a search that lasted through the night and early morning hours, Hill was found in the woods near the Stanly and Montgomery County line.

A court official told WBTV that local attorney James Davis was assigned to represent Hill.  Hill was also told that if convicted he could face life in prison or the death penalty.

Summer is the high season for door-to-door sales of everything from magazines to meat, alarm monitoring services to driveway repaving. Representatives will soon be ringing doorbells and peddling products in neighborhoods throughout the Southern Piedmont. While many of these companies are reputable, a few are not.

The BBB has tips for how you can shop at your front door without being scammed.

Out of all of the products sold door-to-door, magazine sales generate the most BBB complaints. “Some of these companies are legitimate,” said BBB President Tom Bartholomy, “but other companies have generated so many complaints that the BBB has labeled door-to-door magazine sales as a ‘highly-suspect’ industry.”

In the last 36 months, consumers have filed 92 complaints against local magazine sales operations. Charlotte-based Generations Making Differences (BBB grade F) has had 20 complaints filed against it, of which five are unanswered.