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 received an 18-year prison term 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.
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 Metcalf’s Grocery on Tryon School Road in Bessemer City.
A judge put South Carolina’s 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 AAA’s 2023 Memorial Day Travel Forecast, just over 1.2 million North Carolinians will journey 50 miles or more. That’s 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.
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.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has entered the 2024 presidential race. DeSantis revealed his decision in a Federal Election Commission filing before a planned online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
A long-term Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leader and an international educator have been named principals for schools in the district. The appointments were announced at last night’s meeting of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education.
Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ‘70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," has died at 83.
An Indian Trail woman has been charged with scamming people out of charitable donation money after investigators say she set up a medical fund for a child who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness but then left the state after receiving the money.
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