Charlotte Area News
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The Tar Heels aren’t the only team from North Carolina that will be playing in the NCAA women’s tournament. Joining them will be N.C. State, one of the tournament’s top seeds, and Charlotte.
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A bronze statue honoring Julius Chambers was unveiled over the weekend along the Little Sugar Creek Greenway. Chambers’ statue is part of the Trail of History, a collection of statues commemorating the lives of people important to the history of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.
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A North Carolina appeals court says officials acted properly when they fired a North Carolina probation and parole officer who had been accused of campaigning for Charlotte City Council while on community service leave.
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Nearly 75 years ago, there was one library serving African American residents in Charlotte called the Brevard Street Library for Negroes. The woman who managed that branch went on to become the first Black public library supervisor in North Carolina. And now, there’s a library bearing her name.
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Charlotte Motor Speedway delivered perhaps the most normal weekend since NASCAR returned from its COVID-19 shutdown. Drivers and race organizers believe NASCAR's momentum will continue this summer.
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On the latest episode of Tested, we spoke with Simone Weichselbaum, the national law enforcement reporter for the Marshall Project, about U.S. Marshal-involved shootings.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have arrested and charged two suspects in the shooting deaths of two transgender women found in Charlotte hotel rooms this month.
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A man has been arrested and charged with attacking a Korean-owned convenience store in uptown Charlotte on Tuesday, allegedly smashing the store's coolers with a metal post and hurling racial slurs at the store's owners.
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The owners of homes built by Habitat for Humanity tend to be in frontline and essential service occupations hit especially hard by the pandemic. Now, Habitat homeowners are having a harder time paying their mortgage. The organization’s Charlotte office reports that about 330 are behind in their mortgage payments – about triple the amount from a year ago.
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Mecklenburg County officials said they expect to move more than 200 people to shelters or hotel rooms — exceeding original estimates of 150 —by the time homeless camps near uptown Charlotte are shut down Friday. And the question over whose responsibility it is to clear the camps turned contentious between the city of Charlotte and the county.
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This time last year, thousands of families were visiting huge "choice fairs" and spiling into schools across the Charlotte region for tours and open houses. But now the application season coincides with a resurgent pandemic.
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Thousands of people crowded into Gastonia Municipal Airport on Wednesday evening for a rally with President Donald Trump.