By Kristen Hampton - bio l email

HUNTERSVILLE, NC (WBTV) - Rob Gilson thought his find might be significant. The biology student found a rare mouse inside at trap at Cowan's Ford Wildlife Refuge.

The mouse hasn't been seen in Mecklenburg County since 1968. Mecklenburg County Natural Resources coordinator Lenny Lampel mentors Ron.

"Although it does live in a field, it's different from a field mouse," said Lampel, "because a field mouse is just a name people call any old mouse running around in a field."

The species discovered by Gilson is called an oldfield mouse. The little guys usually don't go so far north. They're native to the more southern areas of the Southeast.

MATTHEWS, NC (WBTV) - Shoppers at a Matthews-area grocery store got quite a surprise when a deer ran into the Food Lion on Thursday evening.

The deer walked into the Food Lion at Highway 51 and Idlewild Road, which was open for business with customers inside.

Witnesses told WBTV that the deer first ran into a glass door at a dry cleaners in the same shopping complex as the Food Lion. The glass door shattered from the collision.

That's when witnesses say the deer ran down to the Food Lion, causing the automatic doors to open, allowing the deer to go inside.

Once inside, witnesses say the deer laid down in an aisle and was later removed from the store by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Animal Care and Control.

The deer was released into a wooded area behind the store unharmed.

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MATTHEWS - Police say a Charlotte woman has been cited after stopping at a yard sale and leaving her children unattended in a truck which started moving backwards.

The incident occurred on Saturday after 10 a.m. along the 3400 block of Fairfax Woods Drive in Matthews.