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  • Charlotte Mayor Foxx picked as Obamas new transportation secretary

    WASHINGTON, April 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as the new transportation secretary. Foxx, who will succeed Ray LaHood, is the first African American named to serve in Obama's second-term cabinet. This is seen as a move in part to diversify the president's top advisers. Obama's pick highlighted Foxx's efforts to ...

  • 2 women arrested for prostitution in Concord

    Neighbors say there's a prostitution problem in a Concord neighborhood, and recently, police have been cracking down on the illegal activity near Ann Street and Buffalo Avenue. Police have already arrested two women in the last week for soliciting an undercover officer. They were arrested in daylight. "I leave to go to work at 6:30 in the morning, and I see them walking up and down the ...

  • Dog found by road shot malnourished

    The dog walks with a limp, his narrow frame still skin and bones. However, he has improved since a woman brought him to Randall Veterinary Hospital on Friday, after she found him wandering along Highway 801 in Moorseville. "She got him in her car and realized he had an injured leg, a wound on his neck, was bleeding from his nose and was very malnourished," said Pam Dingler, a vet ...

  • State lawmaker speaks against I-77 toll lanes

    The issue over a proposed toll road project along a stretch of Interstate 77 continues to heat up. In Mooresville on Sunday, the citizens' group wideni77.org, which opposes the move, turned out to encourage leaders to find another way to deal with the congestion. North Carolina Department of Transportation has proposed a $550 million widening project that would extend 27 miles, rebuild ...

  • Officials 1 killed in wreck on Providence Road

    Officials said one person died Sunday in a crash on Providence Road.The wreck happened around 6:30 p.m. at 3124 Providence Road.Eyewitness News has a crew headed to the scene. Check back with wsoctv.com for updates to this breaking news ...


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Going the Distance

Going the Distance

Anyone who has ever been through the travails of a long-distance relationship will find something familiar in Going the Distance, a fashionably vulgar romantic comedy in which Drew Barrymore and Justin Long, who were involved in real life a few years ago, star as a pai ... ...

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  • Johnson’s victory at Charlotte tinged with controversy

    So as the beer and champagne swirled in Victory Lane, angry fans pounced on the inconsistency and argued Johnson should never have been in position for the ...

  • Charlotte NC celebrates 1963 eat-in that desegregated restaurants set example for South

    In this May 16, 2013, photo, Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who was a prominent Charlotte civil rights leader, in Silver Spring, Md. In the spring of 1963, a Hawkins led 65 people on a four-mile march from an African American college to the center of Charlotte’s downtown. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis ...

  • Charlotte recalls 1963 protests

    In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte’s downtown.At the rally, Dr. Reginald Hawkins warned city leaders that if something wasn’t done to end segregation, future marches might not be so ...

  • 3 lanes of I-85 shut down after wreck near Graham St.

    An official with the Charlotte Fire Department said one of the drivers was trapped. The wreck happened before 4:20 p.m. Sunday. Three of four lanes of I-85 southbound are shut down. Eyewitness News has a crew on the scene. Check back ...

  • Reports Charlotte initiate Hornets name change

    A side-by-side look at jerseys for the Charlotte Bobcats (left) and Hornets. (Dan Lippitt & Andy Hayt / Getty Images & NBA E) The Bobcats have taken preliminary steps to bring the ';Hornets'; nickname back to Charlotte, according to multiple ...

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