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  • Report Bobcats set to re-adopt Hornets moniker

    The Charlotte Bobcats are beginning the process of becoming the Hornets, again. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) The Charlotte Bobcats are beginning the process to change their name back to the Charlotte ...

  • Ky. Busch wins in Charlotte ends Truck skid

    Kyle Busch showed he can still be dominant in the NASCAR Truck Series, even when facing adversity. Busch overcame a costly penalty to snap a seven-race drought on the Truck Series by winning Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch dominated the race early, but had to overcome a penalty for leaving the pit stall with gas can in his truck, drawing a penalty that forced him to the back of ...

  • Olympic HS dedicates fifth Habitat for Humanity house

    Bryan Buravah and family in front of their new Habitat home built by students from the Olympic Community of Schools. Buravah will purchase the home will a zero-interest mortgage from Habitat Charlotte. The bird house is a gift to the family from second graders at Charlotte Latin ...

  • Special unit puts 20 repeat offenders in jail this week

    This week, a special unit with the Mecklenburg County district attorney's office put 20 habitual offenders in prison. One of them was 35-year-old Jeremy Southern, who was just sentenced to seven years behind bars. This week he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaking and entering in addition to being a habitual felon. Southern had been arrested nine times before. Another is 24-year-old ...

  • Relay for Life event evacuated after bomb threat

    Police evacuated the Iredell County Fairgrounds after a bomb threat against the Troutman Relay for Life event Friday afternoon. Police did not take any chances at the event that benefits cancer research. They cleared out the fairgrounds, brought in a bomb-sniffing dog and searched the entire area. Executive Director for the Charlotte-area American Cancer Society Brooke Moose said, ...


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Nathaniel Hawthorne could have been thinking about Bob Crane when he wrote in The Scarlet Letter, No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Since he was brutally murdered by having his head smashed in with a camera tripod in a Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment in 1978, Bob Crane ... ...

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  • Police investigate death of man who died in police custody

    Mysheca Milhouse is grieving for her husband, Quinton, and is questioning how he died in police custody. Police were called to a neighborhood for an assault between Quinton Milhouse and another man and were told one of them had a gun. Officers separated the two men, and then realized Quinton Milhouse was severely hurt and stopped breathing. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said medic ...

  • NAACP to continue protests at General Assembly

    The North Carolina NAACP will continue its 1960s style sit-in protests at the General Assembly on Monday. The group has started calling this movement "Moral Mondays."More than 100 people have been arrested in the last three weeks. The group calls a series of bills going through the legislature an attack on poor people and minorities. "I feel like our community is under attack and ...

  • Police Store manager arrested for exposing self in public

    A Belk store manager is facing charges for exposing and fondling himself in public. Police said the incident happened in Concord, and they have evidence an incident happened in his store as well. Around 10 a.m. Wednesday, police said 46-year-old Chris Clark stripped naked. Someone who saw him called police, who said they caught Clark before he could put his clothes back on. They said he had a ...

  • Edwards wins pole for NASCAR All-Star race

    Carl Edwards captured the pole Friday for Saturday's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, an event he won two years ago. Qualifying for the all-star gathering consists of three laps around the Charlotte Motor Speedway plus a four-tire pit stop. Edwards did all that in 1 minute, 51.297 seconds to put a Rousch Fenway Racing driver on the pole for the first time in the history of the race. In a ...

  • Officials 1 killed in wreck on I-77 road shut down

    Medic officials said one person was killed in a wreck Friday.The crash happened on Interstate 77 southbound near Sunset Road.All lanes are closed on I-77 southbound at mile marker 17, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation. The road is not expected to open until later Friday night, according to officials.NCDOT gave alternate routes:Due to a vehicle accident, all lanes are closed on ...

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