Several vigils and marches saw large crowds throughout the day in Uptown on Sunday. The George Floyd protests remained mostly peaceful but CMPD used crowd clearing measures when missiles started to be thrown later into the night.
President Trump says anti-facist group is behind the violence.
Brad Keselowski inherited his second win in a week when the leaders crashed in front of him with a lap remaining Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway. He won the Coca-Cola 600 seven nights ago at Charlotte Motor Speedway when a caution with two laps remaining helped him get to victory lane.
SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for Elon Musk’s company.
Watch live as we walk along with the George Floyd protest march in Uptown Charlotte.
Thousands came together at First Ward Park in Uptown to pray for peace and march.
Police are investigating a shooting that left two people injured in Rock Hill early Sunday morning.
Today, Congresswoman Alma Adams, released a video statement on the declaration of a State of Emergency in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.
Americans awoke Sunday to charred and glass-strewn streets in dozens of cities after another night of unrest fueled by rage over the mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of police, who responded to the violence with tear gas and rubber bullets.
Tensions mounted once again on Saturday night after peaceful protests earlier in the day. Morgan Fogarty, Drew Bollea, Marvin Beach and Trish Williford have the latest on the George Floyd protests in Charlotte, with highlights from Rock Hill, Columbia, Atlanta and New York.
A large crowd gathered at Fountain Park in Rock Hill on Saturday to peacefully protest the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died in Minnesota in police custody.
Protesters burned businesses in Minneapolis. They smashed police cars and windows in Atlanta, broke into police headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and chanted curses at President Donald Trump outside the White House. Thousands also demonstrated peacefully, demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a white officer pressed a knee into his neck.
Charlotte City Councilman Braxton Winston was one of the people arrested during the protest of the death of George Floyd on Beatties Ford Road Friday night.
CMPD Chief Kerr Putney and two community activists sat down for a candid conversation Friday that touched on race, trust, brutality and justice.
Michael Mawhorter of Taylorsville has been playing the lottery since he moved to North Carolina, and on Wednesday, his commitment paid off to the tune of a $230,724 Cash 5 jackpot win.
President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. will be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization, saying it had failed to adequately respond to the coronavirus because China has “total control” over the global organization.
The Minneapolis police officer who was seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in custody after pleading that he could not breathe, was arrested Friday and charged with murder.
North Carolina’s top health official asked Friday for more details on how GOP leaders will protect attendees of a Republican National Convention this summer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chase Elliott’s streak of bitter defeats in NASCAR’s frantic first push of rescheduled races finally ended with his first Cup victory of the season.
Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station that the department abandoned as three days of violent protests spread to nearby St. Paul and angry demonstrations flared across the U.S over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck.
A South Carolina man convicted of driving under the influence for a fourth time was sentenced to 17 years in prison in connection with a crash last year that left a 66-year-old man dead.
The Panthers have agreed to terms with free agent cornerback Eli Apple.
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