Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nationβs fallen service members, but itβs come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of discounts on anything from mattresses to lawn mowers.
A massive fire broke out Friday evening at the Daimler Trucks North America manufacturing facility in Cleveland, North Carolina.
Detectives from the Gastonia Police Department are investigating the shooting death of 50-year-old Frankie Carl Jones of Charlotte. The shooting happened on May 25th outside a home on Crescent Lane.
The lack of kennel space for dogs continues and this afternoon CMPD AC&C is once again down to a few open kennels. The shelter is concerned that going into a holiday weekend combined with the rainy weekend forecast, adoptions are going to be slow this weekend.
An Army veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style formation with fellow members of the Oath Keepers was sentenced Friday to more than eight years in prison, a day after the far-right extremist group's founder receivedΒ an 18-year prison termΒ in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
A woman died in a car crash after driving off the side of the road on Friday, May 26th.Β
One lucky player who took a chance on a Fast Play ticket Friday morning started the Memorial Day weekend by winning the largest jackpot in game history at $1,143,007. The lucky winner purchased the $10 Jackpot 777 ticket from Metcalfβs Grocery on Tryon School Road in Bessemer City.
A judge put South Carolinaβs new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold Friday until the state Supreme Court can review the measure, giving providers a temporary reprieve in a region that has enacted strict limits on the procedure.
A blow to the Uptown night scene as Roxbury Nightclub announces they are officially closing their doors in June.
The Biden Administration is launching a first of its kind national action plan to end gender-based violence.
Police say two juveniles are facing charges after calling in a bomb threat against the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport.
According to AAAβs 2023 Memorial Day Travel Forecast, just over 1.2 million North Carolinians will journey 50 miles or more. Thatβs nearly 80,000 more than last year and 4,000 more than before the pandemic, in 2019.
15 workers were rescued in the 5-alarm fire at a SouthPark construction site. 2 people were killed.
All lanes have reopened on I-485 after a tractor-trailer carrying a mobile home crashed near Moores Chapel Road.
The FBI has increased the rewards offered to capture people on the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitive" list to $250,000. This includes Charlotte murder suspect Alejandro "Alex" Castillo who is wanted for killing Sandy Le in 2016.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was sentenced Thursday after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power.
Pickleball has exploded in popularity over the last year and Northwood Office in Ballantyne has opened new, rooftop pickleball courts.Β
A Matthews man was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion on Thursday, May 25th.
CMPD will not be pressing charges in the threat to the Charlotte mosque. A police spokesperson tells us the caller who made the threat is 16 years-old.
Target once distinguished itself as being boldly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community.
CATS Interim CEO Brent Cagle spoke to the media following several weeks of violence on board CATS buses.
CMPD states officers have shut down various meet-ups and towed several cars involved in dangerous stunts in the city since February.
