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  • Mecklenburg Co. marines head to D.C.

    On Saturday, young Mecklenburg County Marines are heading to Washington, D.C. They will march down Constitution Avenue in the National Memorial Day Parade on Monday. The program includes boys and girls in elementary through high ...

  • Runners brave chill to raise awareness of domestic violence

    Dozens of runners braved the chill Saturday morning in southeast Charlotte to raise domestic violence awareness. The Charlotte Run for Peace at Home has been raising money for local programs for almost 20 years. All of the profits are going to Charlotte's shelter for ...

  • Blaze at two-story home off of US 221 inside Watagua

    Firefighters from three counties fought a house fire at a home just off US 221 in Watauga near the Ashe line on Moretz Farm Road on Saturday morning. Firefighters received reports that the house has smoke and flames visible from an upper level. All occupants of the two-story house escaped the fire. The Watauga fire marshal is assessing the cause and damage at this time. The American Red Cross is ...

  • Volunteers come together to honor fallen soldiers

    Volunteers in North Carolina are coming together to honor fallen soldiers ahead of Memorial Day. Twice a year, for Memorial Day and Veterans Day, volunteers come together to place thousands of flags at local cemeteries to say thank you. The flags line 13 Cumberland County-area cemeteries. In addition to lining the cemeteries, volunteers also read a special prayer for all of the men and women ...

  • Nike to donate $1M to Oklahoma victims

    Nike plans to donate $1 million worth of its products to tornado victims in Oklahoma. The shoe company said it is also working with the Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant to donate profits from sales of his KD V Elites. The money donated will come from sales of the shoes made on nike.com between May 3 to June 15. The funds will go to a charity that rebuilds playgrounds and the Moore ...


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Movie Review

21 Grams

21 Grams

Like his stunning feature debut, 2000s Amores perros, Alejandro Gonzlez Irritus English-language debut, 21 Grams, brings together the lives of a disparate group of people after a car accident. Again written by Guillermo Arriaga, some might see 21 Grams as a disappointing follow-up, considering how closely it mirrors its predecessor in terms of both narrative and theme. ...

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  • NC Ghost Town in the Sky to open

    State inspectors want an emergency access road cut underneath the chairlift at Ghost Town in the ski for safety reasons. As a result, park goers will not be able to visit the top of the ...

  • Officers more visible to keep Speed Street safe

    Over the three-day Speed Street, about 400,000 people are expected to swarm Uptown Charlotte for the fun. This year, some in the crowd noticed changes. "Years past were bigger and funner. More stages. This year, (it's) smaller, one stage and definitely more police officers," said Jennifer Parker. Officers are visible on patrol and watching in ways that some may not see. Cameras ...

  • 2 charged with growing marijuana in Watauga Co. home

    Drug detectives in Watauga County said they found more than $450,000 worth of marijuana growing inside a home. The Watauga County Sheriff's Office charged Jason Blount and Geneva Natale with cultivating and selling pot. Detectives said they found a well-developed growing system using water, not ...

  • Former Charlotte POW leads hymn at Nixon library

    He’d scribbled the lyrics and music of a hymn on rough toilet paper, using a fish bone whittled to a fine point and red ink concocted from medicine in a diarrhea pill. Quincy Collins of Charlotte, a fighter pilot whose plane was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965, was marking his fourth year in a North Vietnamese POW camp. Morale was awful and Collins had assembled a POW choir to raise ...

  • Police search for bank robber after 2 banks targeted

    Police are looking for a bank robber who they said targeted banks in Mooresville and Huntersville on Friday. Mooresville police believe the man tried to rob the Fifth Third bank on North Main Street first, but didn't get any cash. Then less than two hours later, just after noon, the robber hit a bank on Gilead Road in Huntersville. Chopper 9 Skyzoom flew over the Fifth Third Bank in ...

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