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Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be U.S. Transportation Secretary, will be questioned Wednesday afternoon by the Senate?s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee…Click to Continue »

Interim Mecklenburg County Manager Bobbie Shields recommended a 2.5-cent tax rate hike Tuesday, largely to maintain current county services and help offset a shrinking tax base after the botched 2011…Click to Continue »

Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan announced Tuesday the team has submitted an application to change its name to the Hornets for the 2014-15 season.Click to Continue »

Mecklenburg County has agreed to pay former County Manager Harry Jones a severance package totaling $263,599.46, a county spokesman said Tuesday.Click to Continue »

Ann Clark, deputy superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, is one of three finalists for Wake County superintendent, the Wake board announced Tuesday. She will meet the public in Raleigh next week.Click to Continue »

A day after threatening to move the fall NASCAR race out of Concord, track owner Bruton Smith blamed Cabarrus County politicians for raising his taxes and not caring about the…Click to Continue »

Severe thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon left power outages and trees down in some areas south of Charlotte, including Matthews, Indian Trails and SouthPark.Click to Continue »

North Carolina has sued Duke Energy for polluting Mountain Island Lake, Charlotte?s major water source, with contaminants from its coal ash lagoons.Click to Continue »

Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school.Click to Continue »

The city’s mayor pro tem, Cannon is the first Democrat to formally enter the race to replace Mayor Anthony Foxx, who is up for a Cabinet post with the Obama…Click to Continue »

The number of North Carolinians receiving help on their mortgages through a massive state and federal settlement grew to 9,000 through the end of March, according to updated figures released…Click to Continue »

The number of North Carolinians receiving help on their mortgages through a massive state and federal settlement grew to 9,000 through the end of March, according to updated figures released…Click to Continue »

The number of millionaire households in Charlotte is forecast to grow 18.2 percent over the next five years, according to a finding released Tuesday by Bank of America.Click to Continue »

A man faces multiple charges after leading police on a four-county, two-state chase that ended early Tuesday in western Mecklenburg County, authorities say.Click to Continue »

Robert Michael Milton, 49, is accused of masterminding a three-year scheme that stole more than $600,000 from Walmart stores in three states. He is in Mecklenburg County Jail.Click to Continue »

The state Senate’s $20.6 billion budget proposal has no raises for state employees, puts new limits on health services for some Medicaid patients, anticipates a tax cut and eliminates 5,600…

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A mainstay of uptown Charlotte’s bar scene abruptly closed over the weekend. The bar sits on land owned by Levine Properties, which is working to develop a park on the…

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Charlotte’s mayoral race could come into sharper focus Tuesday with the expected entry of Democrat Patrick Cannon, the mayor pro tem and the City Council’s longest-serving member.

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U.S. Marshals have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled woman multiple times in East Hartford, Connecticut and fleeing to Charlotte to avoid prosecution.Click to Continue »

Charlotte?s mayoral race could come into sharper focus Tuesday with the expected entry of Democrat Patrick Cannon, the mayor pro tem and the city council?s longest-serving member.Click to Continue »

U.S. Marshals have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled woman multiple times in East Hartford, Connecticut and fleeing to Charlotte to avoid prosecution.Click to Continue »

The state Senate’s $20.6 billion budget proposal has no raises for state employees, puts new limits on health services for some Medicaid patients, and anticipates a tax cut.

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Duke Energy Carolinas? 2012 rate hike will stay in effect as the N.C. Utilities Commission reviews it under order of the state Supreme Court.Click to Continue »

A mainstay of uptown Charlotte’s bar scene abruptly closed over the weekend. The bar sits on land owned by Levine Properties, which is working to develop a park on the…

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Fifty years ago today, Reginald Hawkins led a march from the Johnson C. Smith University campus to the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, in a demand for an end to segregation in…Click to Continue »

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are questioning three people in connection with an east Charlotte bank robbery Monday morning that ended with a car crash nearby.Click to Continue »

The proposal represents a 2.3 percent increase over the current budget and is about $17 million short of the budget Gov. Pat McCrory proposed in March.Click to Continue »

The York County Emergency Response Team sponsors swift water rescue training, which includes zip-lining exercises and overcoming rocks and floating objects in the water.Click to Continue »