A preliminary examination of the blown jet engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that set off a terrifying chain of events and left a businesswoman hanging half outside a shattered window showed evidence of “metal fatigue,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet — and the “poop train” is just the latest example of the South being used as a dumping ground for other states’ waste.
CHARLOTTE, NC -- 71 years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, and helped ignite a push for equal rights, athletes are still speaking out against the same injustice Robinson…
A Charlotte City Council Member is in the middle of a social media firestorm after she posted a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terror attacks.
Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday, a family spokesman said.
Some town leaders are frustrated with CMS and want more local control, so now the town of Matthews is pushing to be able to open its own charter schools.
Americans are getting an extra day to file their taxes after key elements of the IRS website crashed on deadline day.
Starbucks, moving swiftly to confront a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia, plans to close more than 8,000 U.S. stores for several hours next month to conduct racial-bias training for nearly 175,000 workers.
CMPD has charged the driver they say is responsible for a deadly accident Tuesday afternoon.
A Charlotte man who was convicted last year on murder and robbery charges related to a 2009 incident at a club in west Charlotte will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg confirmed Tuesday that a weak tornado did touch down between Clover and Lake Wylie during Sunday's severe thunderstorms.
Police are still looking for the driver who clipped a student Tuesday morning while they were crossing the street to board the school bus.
A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blew an engine at about 30,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window and damaged the fuselage Tuesday, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said.
Tax Day is finally here once more. If you’re getting a refund, lucky you. But if you owe the government money, you may be worried that you have to pay the amount due by the filing deadline of April 17 – even if you asked for an extension.
U.S. health officials say a closely watched medicine made from the marijuana plant significantly reduces seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy and warrants approval in the country.
As the hours dragged on during a riot at a South Carolina prison, bodies piled up on the sidewalk. An inmate inside watched in dismay as several fellow prisoners, two he knew well, lay dead and dying, their bodies leaving trails of blood leading back inside the prison walls.
The cause of a rare eye cancer cluster near Huntersville remains a mystery, but the area where people are affected has grown. Town commissioners received results from a new study Monday night that looked for similarities among patients.
CMPD is looking for missing 21-year-old Alexus Fraley.
Police have charged the driver they say is responsible for a deadly accident Monday morning in northeast Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE, NC-- Charlotte has an affordable housing crisis, and some city council members agree, it will take a lot more money and possibly a…
Several school districts have announced delays for Tuesday, April 17th due to inclement weather.
Starbucks wants to add training for store managers on “unconscious bias,” CEO Kevin Johnson said Monday, as activists held more protests at a Philadelphia store where two black men were arrested after employees said they were trespassing.
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