There is nothing inherently interesting or novel about this story about a woman who wrote a hot check to Sears in Malvern. I just like the fact that such a simple, routine crime got this much coverage. I wish the Gazette would give a whole page every day to crime stories – maybe I’m just a criminal voyeur or something.

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