After 146 years, the curtain is coming down on "The Greatest Show on Earth." The owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus told The Associated Press that the show will close forever in May.
Outgoing U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx helped break ground on phase two of the Charlotte streetcar project Saturday. The former Charlotte mayor has less than a week left in office.
Joel Embiid scored 24 points, blocked three shots and led the Philadelphia 76ers to their third straight victory, 102-93 over the Charlotte Hornets on Friday night.
House Democrats still seething over FBI Director James Comey's handling of the election-year inquiry of Hillary Clinton confronted the law enforcement officer over his refusal to say whether the FBI is investigating possible links between President-elect Donald Trump's campaign and Russia.
Police have identified the victim of Charlotte's seventh homicide of 2017 after a man was shot and killed in west Charlotte Friday.
Donald Trump tore into civil rights legend John Lewis for questioning the legitimacy of the Republican billionaire's White House victory, intensifying a feud with the black congressman days before the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and as the first African-American president prepares to leave office.
A teenager has died and another person was taken to the hospital following a wreck in Gastonia Friday night.
And, whether a warning from a local police chief fell on deaf ears.
Police have arrested two teens they say shot into a car as it was leaving a parking lot Monday.
Four of those are still unsolved as of Friday night
Stolen from a hospital just hours after she was born, an 18-year-old woman finally learned her true identity and was reunited Friday with her birth family, by video chat. The woman she thought was her mother was charged with her kidnapping.
Takata Corp. has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and will pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for a years-long scheme to conceal a deadly defect in its automotive air bag inflators.
A Morganton man was sentenced to two active sentences of 7-10 years and fined $200,000 after being found guilty of trafficking more than 300 grams of meth.
Officials with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools say an investigation into the alleged assault of a Muslim student by a teacher at David Cox Road Elementary shows no evidence of the event actually taking place.
Officials say both Dustin Hinson and Douglas Patrick were arrested Friday.
Several families are displaced after a two-alarm fire ripped through an apartment complex on Willow Ridge Road.
Police are looking for at least two suspects after the Cubbard Express on 2nd Street was robbed at gunpoint Thursday night.
Officials say a student brought a gun to Randolph IB Middle School Friday.
"He embodied and was the epitome of a kid who had great positive energy," said Harrisburg Elementary School Principal Steven Puckett.
After years of waiting, veterans who were exposed to contaminated drinking water while assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina may now be able to receive a portion of government disability benefits totaling more than $2 billion.
Court documents allege the late prominent Charlotte businessman Rick Siskey was operating a "Ponzi" scheme.
The case against Butler head football coach Brian Hales has been dismissed.
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