As students head back to class one day after a student was shot by a classmate one campus, school and district administrators are making it clear that Albemarle High School is safe.

Albemarle High School parents got the calls Tuesday morning. From the moment the first bullet was fired, it took school staff and first responders just under 90 minutes to secure the building and evacuate all the students.

The suspect's mother spoke only to WCCB to explain why she believes her son shot classmate.

Parents and students came together to pray and sing. Police say this is an isolated incident, but parents don't see it that way.

Wallethub.com looked at salary, employment rate, and academic factors in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. North Carolina is ranked 51st overall.

Officials say a worker at an east Charlotte recycling plant was killed Tuesday.

Three-time NASCAR Champion Tony Stewart is breaking his silence days after a Grand Jury decided not to indict him in the death of dirt track driver Kevin Ward Jr.

A dangerous Queen City neighborhood transformed into a community built with a purpose.

A grand jury has indicted Joshua Houser on murder charges in the death of Kilah Davenport.

Police are searching for carjacker who they say kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman.

Prescription drugs are big business on the black market in the Charlotte area. WCCB learned thieves went to extreme measures to steal pills from a Charlotte drug store.

The team banned the forward from all team activities on Friday, a day after police in Michigan arrested him on domestic assault charges.

Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) will receive a job training grant of $2,499,378.

An off duty York County Detention Officer has been arrested for selling prescription medications.

In anticipation of flu and virus season, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system recently sent a letter to parents regarding ways to prevent the spread of viruses.

Police are searching for a suspect after they say one person was shot around 10:15 a.m. Monday on Rowan Street.

A man survived after he was underwater for at least 23 minutes at Freedom Park Saturday, officials say.

A dead man was found face down in a resident's yard after a fight Saturday night, officials say.

The Hornets announced the decision to suspend Jeffery Taylor indefinitely late Friday evening.