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Two people were killed, including a 5-year-old, and several others were hurt in a crash involving a suspected drunk driver and golf cart in Iredell County, North Carolina late Monday night, police said.  Multiple emergency crews responded to a crash involving a golf car on Fort Dobbs Road near Dobbs Drive in Statesville around 9:45 p.m., the  North Carolina Department of Public Safet y said. Offic...

Charlotte City Council approved a $215 million plan to upgrade Spectrum Center in Uptown. As part of the plan, the Hornets' practice facility will move out of the arena and across the street, where the Charlotte Transit Center is located. The city will now build an underground transit center where the current CATS transit center is. The new facility will be used until 2045 at least. Voters in Sout...

A Heat Advisory is in effect for Charlotte and much of the area from 12 p.m. until 8 p.m. Heat index values could be up to 105º. Expect highs near 98º on today with heat index values of 105º and above across the Charlotte area. Temperatures and humidity levels will continue to rise on Tuesday and Wednesday. Expect heat index values near 107º on Tuesday, which meets the criteria for a heat advisory...

Rock Hill Mayor John Gettys spoke out for the first time  since the Carolina Panthers terminated agreements to build a training facility in Rock Hill  and David Tepper’s GT Real Estate  subsequently filed for bankruptcy , accusing Tepper of filing bankruptcy to avoid paying contractors for their work on the project.  Following a press conference announcing a new development on the south side of Ro...

A former  Myers Park High School  student is now launching a lawsuit against the board of education for  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools , claiming district leaders failed to properly address a sexual assault complaint she made during her time on campus. Serena Evans, who has previously spoken out about her experience at the school,  filed the suit this week with her attorney, Christiana Graziano. T...

Legislation making it lawful to smoke marijuana or consume cannabis-infused products for medical purposes in North Carolina cleared the state Senate on Monday evening. After no debate, the measure received bipartisan support by a vote of 36-7. The margin was similar to the outcome  of an initial Senate vote last week  that followed floor discussion. The bill now goes to the House, where chances fo...

 A husband and wife serving in the  U.S. Army  used their positions to obtain excess military products and either re-sell them or take them for their own private use, according to charging documents recently unsealed by federal prosecutors. Court documents revealed Christopher and Heather Hammond, both stationed in  Fort Bragg,  illegally obtained  Department of Defense  equipment such as gun barr...

Gunmen opened fire on worshippers and detonated explosives at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, leaving dozens feared dead, state lawmakers said. The attackers targeted the St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state just as the worshippers gathered on Pentecost Sunday, legislator Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole said. Among the dead were many children, he said. The presiding priest was abduc...

North Carolina’s highest education department is urging school districts to opt-in to an anonymous reporting app called  Say Something.  This comes after the tragic mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.  Say Something is a violence prevention program from the nonprofit  Sandy Hook Promise.  The program allows both students and adults to submit anonymous safety concerns through an app, website, or hotlin...

Four people were killed Wednesday in a shooting at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus,  police said .  Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish confirmed the number of dead and said the shooter also was dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It was unclear what prompted the deadly assault. However, the unidentified gunman carried both a handgun and a rifle duri...

Charlotte City Council  has voted to pass the  $3.24 billion 2023 fiscal year budget , which will mean no tax increase for residents and a boost in pay to city employees. While citizens won't see a bump on their taxes, there will be changes to parking in South End and uptown. Chiefly, hourly parking rates in both areas will go up by 50 cents, and drivers will now need to pay to park on Saturdays....

Two people, including a 4-month-old baby, were killed in a shooting in Monroe late Sunday night, police said.  Monroe police  were called to a reported shooting at a home on Morrow Avenue, near the intersection with South Church Street, around 10:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they found both victims dead at the home.  The victims were identified as 25-year-old Darion McClendon and Da'mari McClend...

A group of  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools  seniors is trying to undo what they say is a senior prank gone wrong.  CMS officials confirmed students vandalized the  Myers Park High School  campus earlier this week and the students responsible were disciplined according to the code of conduct. It was all in good fun, rumors of a senior prank swirling around the Myers Park campus. READ MORE: https://w...

The Carolina Panthers  paused work on its planned $800 million training facility  in Rock Hill the day before South Carolina Commerce Secretary Harry Lightsey, local leaders and the team's chief operating officer were scheduled to tour the site, newly obtained state records show. Department of Commerce emails and text messages obtained by WCNC Charlotte through a public records request suggest sta...

On Wednesday, the  Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners  heard public feedback from the community on its upcoming budget. The board, which was not allowed to engage with any of the comments made about the budget, heard over 40 people provide feedback on the budget proposal. Some of the speakers were parents, concerned over staffing and resources for their children -- especially in light of th...

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is recovering in a hospital after suffering a minor stroke Monday night, and he's thanking his wife for her quick thinking. According to a Facebook post shared on Tuesday, Stein and his wife Anna had walked their dog when he started exhibiting stroke-like symptoms. Anna Stein was able to get an ambulance, and doctors confirmed the details to them. Stein s...

The  Mecklenburg County health department  will begin offering Pfizer's  COVID-19  booster to children ages 5 to 11, beginning Monday, May 23.  Mecklenburg County Public Health announced the boosters will be available to kids five months after their most recent vaccine dose. The  Pfizer booster  is currently the only brand available to children.  “The booster for children 5 to11 years old comes at...

A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis,  the first of several flights  expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage that has sent parents scrambling to find enough to feed their children. President Joe Biden authorized the use of Air Force planes for the effort, dubbed “Operation Fly Formula,” because...

Kids ages 5 to 11 should get a booster dose of Pfizer’s  COVID-19 vaccine , advisers to the U.S. government said Thursday. If the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  agrees, as expected, it would open a third COVID-19 shot to healthy elementary-age kids — just like what is already recommended for everybody 12 and older. The hope is that an extra shot will shore up protection for kids ages...

The  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department  is looking for a man they said shot into a  Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS)  bus early Wednesday morning. The man fired three or four rounds into a bus at the stop along Nations Ford Road near Huntsmoor Drive, according to CMPD. There were no passengers on the bus at the time. The driver was unharmed, according to officials. CMPD released a survei...

The North Carolina race for U.S. Senate is down to two candidates , as Republican Ted Budd and Democrat Cheri Beasley won their respective primaries Tuesday. Budd, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, cruised to victory over former Gov. Pat McCrory and U.S. Rep. Mark Walker, while Beasley won in a landslide after her top competitor dropped out in December. Budd won the 14-candidate R...

StarMed Healthcare announced it will be handing out baby formula this week for parents who are  unable to find formula  for their children due to the  nationwide shortage .  In a tweet,  StarMed said it would be distributing formula at its Tuckaseegee and Central locations. StarMed said it keeps formula on hand for various reasons and after checking inventory, it's able to give it to families in n...

 A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five senior citizens before being stopped and hog-tied by parishioners in what a sheriff’s official called an act of “exceptional heroism and bravery.” Four of the five people wounded suffered critical gunshot injuries during the violence at Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city...

More than a dozen  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools  students were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a school bus was involved in a head-on crash in south Charlotte.  On Thursday,  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department  documentation revealed the driver of a dump truck told investigators he fell asleep while driving. The preliminary CMPD crash report said the dump truck then crossed over the ce...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper  said his proposed state budget for fiscal year 2022-2023 has sights set on everything from early childhood education to healthcare, while still cutting down on taxes. The price tag: $29,284,765,214. Cooper was joined in a Wednesday afternoon news conference by Charlie Perusse, the state budget director, to discuss the details of the budget during an afternoon news c...