Provides the latest RSS feeds for Charlotte News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Charlotte Star.com http://www.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/dee48d631688e0a3/ en-us Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:18:14 -0400 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:18:14 -0400 30 STATESVILLE, N.C. -- Statesville police are searching for a man who stole a donation box set up to help the families of a mother and grandfather shot and killed in a convenience store robbery just bef... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17025192/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:54:19 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17025192/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Tropical Storm Fay may not provide much needed drought relief for North Carolina. National Weather Service forecaster Brandon Vincent said a high-pressure system settling in over th... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019563/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:15 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019563/ CANTON, N.C. -- The largest employer in western North Carolina's Haywood County is partially shutting down this week because drought has cut water available for the paper plant. The Asheville Citizen-... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019570/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:08 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019570/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- A former Raleigh mailman has admitted he kept people's junk mail in storage bins in his garage or buried in his backyard. Fifty-eight-year-old Steven Padgett pleaded guilty in federal... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019565/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:11 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019565/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's gubernatorial candidates are preparing for their first live, televised debate. Republican Pat McCrory and Democrat Beverly Perdue are scheduled to participate in an h... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019564/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:12 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019564/ COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A federal judge says the South Carolina teen accused of plotting to blow up his high school must undergo a mental evaluation. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Rogers wrote in documents f... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019569/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:09 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019569/ ***** NCAA Football Preview - Ohio University Bobcats ***** By John Agovino, Associate College Football Editor Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - 2007 SEASON IN REVIEW: After posting an impress... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019562/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:38:32 -0400 Sports Network http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019562/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- Investigators say a North Carolina mental patient died after nurses at a state mental hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours and failed to feed him or help him to the bathroom, a n... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019568/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:06 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019568/ SHELBY, N.C. -- Nine people went to the hospital after a wreck Monday night in Cleveland County.Dispatchers said the crash involved a church van. It happened before 11 p.m. on South Post Road near She... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019567/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:05 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019567/ DURHAM, N.C. -- College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019566/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:02 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17019566/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- As tropical storm Fay bears down over Florida, she could have her eye on the Carolinas.Charlotte's road crews and the local American Red Cross said Monday night that they're prepari... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17009821/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:56:08 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17009821/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Good eyes and quick thinking by neighbors helped police arrest five teenagers who had allegedly broken into a house in east Charlotte early Monday.Police said a neighbor saw the tee... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17005254/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:04:12 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17005254/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A jury convicted a Charlotte man on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of two teens killed 15 years ago.Antwan Sanders was found guilty in the deaths of Raylynn Chelton... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17005253/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:04:08 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17005253/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's governor signed three bills Monday to help home foreclosure filings, including one that requires lenders to provide 45 days notice before a foreclosure is filed. Gov.... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17005252/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:04:06 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17005252/ ROCK HILL, S.C. -- Should it be illegal to chain a dog in your yard? Even for a few hours?Monday night, the York County Council heard a presentation from animal rights activists pushing to strengthen ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17005251/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:04:02 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17005251/ 6 sports director Greg Bailey and former Panthers safety Mike Minter and will air immediately after the late newscast or 35 minutes after conclusion of NBC Sports Sunday Night NFL Football."All of us ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000188/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:55:49 -0400 Carolina Panthers http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000188/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- Newly released documents show that the DNA in blood spatter near where the body of a pregnant mother was found in her home matched that of the woman's husband. The News & Observer... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000193/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:49:07 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000193/ COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A convicted sex offender charged in the 2006 death of a Clemson University student who authorities say was strangled with her bikini top was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. The... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000192/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:49:06 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000192/ He's made a lot of plays for us. Again, you are always wanting everybody to get better, just like players are always looking to get better, and I think he's made a nice step. http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000189/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:55:49 -0400 Carolina Panthers http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000189/ MORGANTOWN, Ky. -- A Kentucky sheriff drove 4,100 miles to California to pick up a fugitive, then realized when he got back he had the wrong guy. Butler County Sheriff Joe Gaddie and a deputy used the... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000191/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:49:03 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/17000191/ HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. -- Forecasters say Tropical Storm Fay could bring much-needed rain this week to ease drought conditions in the mountains of western North Carolina. National Weather Service meteor... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994650/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:49 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994650/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Another worker from a Charlotte plant was rushed to the hospital with burns Monday morning.Paramedics were called to the Lance factory on South Boulevard just before 7:30 a.m. Monda... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994651/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:48 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994651/ MONTREAT, N.C. -- An elementary school teacher last seen over a week ago has been found alive on a popular North Carolina mountain hiking trail, a newspaper reported Monday. Police said Susan L. Taylo... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994655/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:41 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994655/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Police said a man was shot in the leg while he was walking with his son in northwest Charlotte.The shooting happened on Bradford Drive around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.The victim said a car... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994652/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:46 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994652/ DALLAS -- The suspect in the kidnapping and slaying of a Texas convenience store clerk is an unregistered sex offender who served time in prison for aggravated sexual assault. Wallace Bowman Jr. was a... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994660/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:29 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994660/ 17 Aug. 10:07 a.m. Armed Robbery from Business at 4000 Sunset Rd. in the North Division. A black male suspect with a husky build wearing a white hoodie with red sleeves robbed the Family Dollar store ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994658/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:32 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994658/ The deputy chief of staff of Russia's military said the withdrawal of forces in the conflict zone with Georgia has begun. His statement came amid uncertainty about whether Russia was fulfilling Presid... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994649/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:24 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994649/ A hearing began Monday morning in Texas, where child welfare authorities want to put eight children from a polygamist sect back in state custody.Authorities said their mothers haven't limited their co... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994659/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:30 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994659/ LINCOLNTON, N.C. -- An elderly woman hit by a car early Monday died at the hospital.Police said the 86-year-old woman was struck just before 7 a.m. on East Court Square in Lincolnton. She was transpor... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994653/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:45 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994653/ Muzak Holdings reports a second-quarter loss of $5.2 million, improving on its loss of $7.9 million a year earlier. Total revenue in the latest quarter was $63.3 million, up 0.9 percent from $62.8 mi... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994662/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:43:22 -0400 Charlotte Business Journal http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994662/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Veterans Administration Secretary James Peake is expected at the opening of a new VA outpatient clinic in Charlotte that officials hope will provide "one-stop shopping" for all vete... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994654/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:45:43 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16994654/ POLK CO., FL -- Police in Florida have arrested a man from Monroe who they said dropped his family off at Disney World and went to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl for sex.That young girl w... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16989724/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:02:02 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16989724/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte-Douglas Airport could be on the verge of a multi-million dollar face-lift.Public notice papers obtained by Eyewitness News detail a massive expansion plan.It calls for a t... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16989725/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:01:59 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16989725/ PHILADELPHIA -- A woman who's accused of kidnapping a baby girl, and then setting a fire that made authorities think the girl was dead, reportedly used fire to cover up a crime before. Carol... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16984666/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:40:47 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16984666/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- More than 1,200 Charlotte-Mecklenburg School bus drivers will start practicing their routes Monday morning.The bus drivers will spend the week doing dry-runs. Most of the buses will... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16981221/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:01:46 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16981221/ SONORA, Calif. -- A man was rescued from an abandoned gold mine Sunday after tumbling more than 100 feet and spending two nights at the bottom of the dark shaft, authorities said. A search-and-rescue ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16978430/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:13:18 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16978430/ LANCASTER CO., N.C. -- Crews were busy Sunday morning and afternoon putting out a fire at a Lancaster county, S.C. business.Firefighters said weather was the most likely cause of the fire. Storms roll... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16975737/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:33:58 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16975737/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Storms rolled through the Charlotte area Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning. Channel 9 meteorologists tracked the storm as it developed and moved from Cleveland and Ca... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16970891/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:15:37 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16970891/ MOSCOW -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Russian troops will begin a pullback toward Georgia's separatist-held region of South Ossetia on Monday. According to a Kremlin statement, Medvedev tol... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16970890/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:15:28 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16970890/ LAKE NORMAN, N.C. -- Homicide Detectives with Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department are interviewing the friends of a man who drowned off a sandbar in Lake Norman.Police say Brian Burdick, 31, repor... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16965234/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:14:33 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16965234/ BEIJING (AP) -- Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal Sunday at the Beijing Olympics as a member of the victorious U.S. 400-meter medley relay team, breaking a tie with Mark Spitz for most g... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16965233/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:14:32 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16965233/ CRAWFORD, Texas -- President George W. Bush is calling Russia's signing of a cease-fire plan with Georgia today "a hopeful step." At the same time, he's warning Russia not to make any claims on two di... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16962787/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:41:08 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16962787/ Panthers-Eagles Highlights       CHARLOTTE -- Piece by piece, the components of the Panthers' jigsaw puzzle began falling into place on Saturday morning as cornerback Ken Lucas and wide receiver S... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16960657/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:08:55 -0400 Carolina Panthers http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16960657/ IGOETI, Georgia -- Russian forces have pulled back from the center of a town near the Georgian capital after a cease-fire deal went into effect. But Russia's foreign minister said the withdrawal will ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16960659/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:03:20 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16960659/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Police discovered a street racing ring after getting an anonymous tip. Detectives said the group would meet at a parking deck at the UNC-Charlotte campus and then make their way to ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16958573/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:29:11 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16958573/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Police are searching for a suspect who shot a man in both his arms and both of his legs.The shooting happened at the corner of Beatties Ford Road and Tate Street just after 8 this m... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16958575/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:29:09 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16958575/ CONCORD, N.C. -- Firefighters were called out to a home on High Street in Concord just after 2 a.m. Saturday.When firefighters arrived on the scene, they said heavy smoke and fire were flowing out of ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16958574/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:29:08 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16958574/ CONCORD, N.C. -- A Concord man is in jail, charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy in a Wal-Mart bathroom.Concord police arrested 41-year-old Dennis Becker at his home Friday night.Officers... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16949974/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:24:03 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16949974/ CHESTER COUNTY, S.C. -- A multi-county, multi-agency operation led to the discovery of a marijuana field worth an estimated $20 million in Chester County, S.C., and three drug trafficking arrests in n... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16949973/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:24:01 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16949973/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has new rules for students who play sports.Students, parents and coaches now have to go to mandatory meetings and sign an honor code before the fall an... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16942898/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:30:50 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16942898/ CHESTER, S.C. -- A wild scene on a quiet Chester street has neighbors in shock, and police investigating a feud between two young women that nearly led to death.Chester high school senior Felicia Pard... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16942901/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:30:45 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16942901/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- Tougher penalties for people who commit gang-related crimes soon will be enforced in North Carolina. Gov. Mike Easley said Friday he signed into law legislation that makes punishments... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16942902/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:30:43 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16942902/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- The State Board of Community Colleges voted Friday to retain a policy barring illegal immigrants from admission while members study other states' admissions practices and consider dra... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16942903/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:30:41 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16942903/ 2008 Hydrogen Road Tour is making two stops in North Carolina. Hydrogen-powered cars from Nissan, Toyota, BMW and other manufacturers will be displayed Friday afternoon in front of the Chapel Quad at ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937712/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:59:33 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937712/ NEW YORK -- Horrified bystanders banded together to lift a 5-ton school bus off a pregnant woman pinned underneath, enabling doctors to save her son. Donnette Sanz, 33, a traffic agent for the city po... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937709/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:59:20 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937709/ GASTONIA, N.C. -- Police arrested a Gastonia man after a short standoff.Officers said they were trying to serve an arrest warrant to Thomas Mills around 10 a.m. Friday at his home on Moore Street near... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937714/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:59:36 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937714/ HOUSTON -- A 3-year-old boy who died when he was left inside a pickup truck tried to save himself from the sweltering heat, detectives said."The child was aware," said Lt. John Denholm of the Harris C... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937708/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:59:18 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937708/ COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina's unemployment rate has shot to its highest level in nearly three years, a jump forecasters blamed on manufacturing losses and a new federal assistance program. South ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937711/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:59:32 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937711/ Weichert Realtor-Rebhan & Associates of Charlotte has opened an office in Statesville and plans to expand into Mooresville this fall. The office at 300 E. Broad St. in Statesville is the former h... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937718/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:01:45 -0400 Charlotte Business Journal http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16937718/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- More than half of the public water systems in North Carolina have water restrictions in place because of the drought. Wayne Munden with the Department of Environment and Natural Resou... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932441/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:32:43 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932441/ CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Planes and personnel from Charleston Air Force Base have helped airlift Georgian troops from Iraq back to their country after the Russian invasion.Base officials said Thursday that... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932444/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:32:36 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932444/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Shots rang out in east Charlotte road Thursday night, and struck a woman while she was driving in her car.Before midnight on Thursday, the 20-year-old victim told Eyewitness News sh... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932440/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:32:45 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932440/ ST. STEPHEN, S.C. -- A woman has been shot to death in St. Stephen after someone fired into her apartment as she was asleep.Police Chief John Walters says investigators don't know if 24-year-old Kimbe... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932442/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:32:40 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932442/ Shares of Charlotte Russe Holdings Inc. rose after the San Diego-based women's apparel retailer said it would adopt a shareholder rights plan. Such a “poison pill” plan makes a hostile... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16929802/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:22:25 -0400 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16929802/ Poland . 'I was pretty good at hiding it and at making sure that nothing I ate was of any nutritional value.'But her folks were also rooting for her to succeed in dance, a discipline she'd studied and... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932448/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:55:11 -0400 San Francisco Examiner http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16932448/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Neighbors in one East Charlotte community are demanding action for Charlotte's City Council because they want to see a nearby apartment complex cleaned up.John Autry lives in Covent... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16922874/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:31:51 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16922874/ CHOCTAW, Okla. -- An Oklahoma family is looking for answers after someone shot its cat in the head with an arrow.The cat survived the incident and the family and police are trying to find out why some... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16922873/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:31:39 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16922873/ WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators have declared a bus company affiliated with the one involved in a fatal Texas crash an "imminent public safety hazard." In a statement released Thursday, the Federal M... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16922872/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:31:36 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16922872/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- An elderly woman who disappeared from her home earlier this week has been found.Cora Roseborough, who had been missing since Tuesday was found near the intersection of Woodland Lane... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917952/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:14:15 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917952/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The John Belk Freeway may take on a new look one day.Consultants said the highway loop, Interstate 277, is a barrier separating uptown Charlotte and the SouthEnd neighborhood. They ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917951/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:14:13 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917951/ SALISBURY, N.C. -- Three teens each pleaded guilty to a felony and misdemeanor in the Rowan County Courthouse on Thursday and, for the first time, they faced family members of the victim.Alston Vander... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917950/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:14:11 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917950/ CHESTER, S.C. -- Vicky Stultz feels like she can finally start her life over again. Animal fighting charges against her have been dropped."It's been a rough four years." Stultz was Chester County's an... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917949/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:14:07 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917949/ TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgia's government said a convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles has stopped en route to Georgia's second-largest city. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the troops are about... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917946/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:13:57 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917946/ NEW ORLEANS -- Police and deputies said a woman fleeing their pursuit dropped her baby in the street, WDSU-TV reported.Kenner police and Jefferson Parish deputies at the scene said the chase started i... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917947/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:13:55 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917947/ A Woodbury, Minn., teenager who underwent a heart transplant around five years ago, has been accused of hatching a plot to murder a stranger at random.Prosecutors in Woodbury said Andrew Busskohl, 19,... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917945/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:13:51 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917945/ HOUSTON -- A jury has rejected a flight attendant's claim that the wife of televangelist Joel Osteen assaulted her before takeoff aboard a December 2005 flight. The jury deliberated briefly Thursday b... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917944/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:13:48 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16917944/ INDIANAPOLIS -- Crews rescued three workers left hanging by ropes about 15 stories high at a downtown Indianapolis building after scaffolding collapsed. The roofing workers were on the south side of t... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16911780/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:55:14 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16911780/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Armed robbers hit a west Charlotte pawn shop early Thursday.Police said three men held up Quik Pawn and Bargain on Freedom Drive.No one was hurt.Officers recovered what they believe... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16911779/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:55:19 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16911779/ MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Myrtle Beach City Council has been given 33 pages of options to curtail motorcycle rallies. City Council raised property taxes to pay for studies on getting rid of the 10-day Har... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905613/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:44 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905613/ State employees who smoke may soon be paying more for their health insurance. The state Budget and Control Board will consider Thursday whether health care premiums should go up for smokers. Gov. Mark... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905614/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:46 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905614/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina high school football player has died after practice and officials are investigating whether he was dehydrated. Seventeen-year-old Atlas Fraley of Chapel Hill High Sch... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905611/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:42 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905611/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory began airing a television advertisement Wednesday about offshore drilling that he said is designed to neutralize another commercial that... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905609/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:38 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905609/ An eight-alarm blaze raced through a riverside apartment complex in suburban Philadelphia on Wednesday, destroying 125 units that housed 375 people.More than 300 firefighters battled the flames that d... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905607/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:30 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905607/ MEADVILLE, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania woman who claims Michael Jordan fathered her son, even after DNA tests proved otherwise, will spend a week in jail for not complying with a court order. A Pennsylvania... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905612/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:43 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905612/ LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Police said the man suspected in Wednesday's shooting death of Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney had just lost his job at a Target store. Police later shot and kille... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905606/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:28 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905606/ GORI, Georgia -- At least five explosions were heard Thursday near Gori as a Russian withdrawal from the key Georgian city appeared to have broken down. It could not immediately be determined if the b... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905605/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:24 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16905605/ LOS ANGELES -- A former member of the Crips who brokered a truce between warring inner-city gangs after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has died. Darren "Bo" Taylor was 42.His sister said Taylor died Mond... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16899711/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:27:36 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16899711/ MIDLAND, N.C. -- Cabarrus County deputies said a 2-year-old girl drowned after she wandered out of her house and into a neighbor's pool in Midland, N.C., Wednesday morning.Authorities told Eyewitness ... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16895052/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:26:06 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16895052/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- The shooting death of the Arkansas Democratic Party chairman at the state headquarters has prompted both parties in North Carolina to consider tightening security at their headquarter... http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16895051/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:26:04 -0400 WSOC TV http://story.charlottestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/dee48d631688e0a3/id/16895051/