Newscast: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 12:04 p.m.

The Vermont Tax Department is getting ready to issue refund checks to businesses that have paid the "cloud computing" tax over the past few years. A Rutland man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for defrauding nine banks and credit card companies out of several hundred thousand dollars. In Lyndon, a couple has won a nearly five-year battle to keep a 24-foot-tall cross on their hilltop property.