Police are seeking a man who robbed a 7-Eleven on Jefferson Avenue early Friday morning.

By Jeff Lawson A weak storm continues to organize off the South Carolina coast and will bring a chance of a shower or two to the southern Outer Banks overnight and today, but the precipitation should stay there.

NORFOLK An 11th-hour School Board rift over the budget ended Friday night when the board deadlocked on a motion to ask for more city funding. Board chairman Kirk Houston Sr. said the 3-3 vote means a $299.5 million budget request passed in March will stand as approved. The City Council is slated to approve the city's $1.1 billion budget, including spending for the schools, on Tuesday.

At 5-foot-5, Ari Dimas was an unlikely soccer star when he arrived at the University of Virginia in 2008. Four years later, the Chesapeake native has made a name for himself on and off the field, carving out a niche as the nice guy on campus.

NORFOLK A Maryland man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with the purchase of real estate on the Eastern Shore. Christopher G. DeBlauw, 44, of Millersville, Md. faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced in August, a news release from the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia said.

CHESAPEAKE The embroidery on some of the jerseys wasn't crisp, the private investigator testified. And some of them were missing serial numbers. And there were the prices: 50 to 75 percent off.

By Sarah Bruyn Jones ROANOKE A medical transport helicopter had a close call with three military jets Thursday night in Rockbridge County, just north of Lexington. A pilot and three crew members were on board the Carilion Clinic craft. They were returning after dropping off a patient at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, according to Carilion spokesman Eric Earnhart.

HAMPTON A man wanted in connection with a homicide that occurred in March was extradited from Georgia and charged. Darren Maurice Johnson, 45, of Hampton was charged with murder, abduction and carjacking, a Hampton police news release said.

NEWPORT NEWS A man was stabbed at the Warwick Restaurant after a verbal altercation escalated.

The owner of a Newport News restaurant was charged Friday with stabbing one of his cooks after the two men got into an argument, according to police.