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  • Women dance for domestic violence victims Saturday

    Dozens of women put on their workout clothes to dance for domestic violence victims on Saturday morning. The event was also to support Zumba instructor Sandra Guynes. Guynes said she was abused by her ex-husband and at one point slept with a knife under the mattress. Since then she has started ...

  • Boston Marathon bombing victim returns home to Charlotte

    On Saturday, Boston Marathon bombing victim Nicole Gross and her husband, Michael Gross, returned home to Charlotte. The couple was greeted by a small group of friends, colleagues and supporters at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Eyewitness News is working on a ...

  • Police investigating fatal east Charlotte shooting

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating a fatal shooting in east Charlotte that happened early Saturday. Police found Adam Shawn Santiago, 25, in the 8500 block of Filbert Lane with an apparent gunshot wound. They responded to a call about a shooting about 1:12 a.m., according to a release from the police department, and Santiago was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Santiago ...

  • Charlottes dream - bionic limbs

    Quadruple amputee Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman dreams of bionic legs and hands allowing her to pick groceries from a supermarket shelf. The artificial limbs by world prosthetic leaders Touch Bionics are a few years - and around $200,000 - away for the 9-year-old survivor of meningococcal disease. But to Charlotte, they're worth the wait. When she turns 18, Charlotte wants to trade her short ...

  • Earnhardt has a connection with Charlotte track

    Dale Earnhardt Jr. climbs into his car for practice for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Bob ...


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Movie Review

Hulk

Hulk

Ang Lees ambitious big-screen version of Hulk is much like the titular green behemoth himself: Grand in scale and purpose, it is a weighty, muscular adaptation of the popular comic book series, but its own bulk often gets in the way. At times elegant and other times clumsy, Hulk is frequently entertaining, but too often dour and humorless, the clear result of the filmmakers passiona ... ...

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  • Friends to honor Charlotte man killed while helping car crash victims

    crash victims. Antonio Thrope died last week when he was hit by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 77. On Saturday night his friends will hold a benefit concert in his honor at the Chop Shop in NoDa. Bands from all over the community are to perform. Friends said Thorpe was a talented singer, writer and musician. Dozens of local musicians who heard that Thorpe died helping others have wanted to give ...

  • Over 90 drivers facing charges following CMPD DWI checkpoint

    Police Department's drunken driving checkpoint on Friday night came in on Saturday, and now more than 90 drivers are facing charges. Altogether 93 were charged, 12 of which were for DWI. Police said they caught another 15 behind the wheel with their license revoked, and 13 were charged for having no license at all. Police said four drivers were caught without having ...

  • Crews train for emergency calls on Catawba River

    On Saturday the York County Emergency Response Team hosted a swift water rescue class at the Duke Energy Dam on the Rock Hill side of the Catwaba River. The class had members of the team, York Sheriff's Department, Fort Mill Rescue Squad, Rock Hill Rescue Squad and Lancaster County emergency medical services. All of the divisions were training to be ready to respond to emergency calls on ...

  • Bobcats in process of changing name back to Hornets

    The Charlotte Bobcats are in the process of changing their name back to the Hornets. CBS Sports said there is no timetable for the switch. Owner Michael Jordan confirmed in February that the team hired a national polling group to determine how fans felt about the name change. Jordan called reaction to the poll very mixed. Charlotte's NBA team was known as the Hornets from 1988 to ...

  • Troopers hold classes to show importance of not texting while driving

    A survey released this week by the American Academy of Pediatrics found 45 percent of students nationwide admit to texting while driving. Troopers hold classes at local high schools to show how dangerous it is. They give students a piece of paper and tell them to read it while driving a course. "Texting is our way of communicating these days, and we just need to get them away from that and ...

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