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  • Federal budget cuts force emergency officials to scramble

    Homeland Security are forcing emergency officials around the country to scramble. For years, emergency planners in 38 states, including North and South Carolina, have relied on a web-based program ...

  • 9 Investigates Hunreds of complaints about alarm system telemarketing calls

    Conrad Tidswell told Eyewitness News he hesitated to answer his phone for some time. He said at one point telemarketers were calling him up to six times a day trying to sell him an alarm system. "The FBI says crime is increasing in ...

  • Local man relieved to hear family in Okla. is OK after tornado

    A local man has nieces and a nephew who attend the Oklahoma school that took a direct hit from Monday's tornado. He shared how he learned they were safe with Eyewitness News.Michael Long spent the day at his home in Bessemer City watching live streaming video from the storm.He used to live in Moore, Okla., and Tuesday, he saw his brother and sister-in-law interviewed by a local TV ...

  • Rumors spread about potential move of fall NASCAR race

    The billionaire owner of Charlotte Motor Speedway said he wants to move one of the track's major races to California, and now everyone is asking if it is just talk or a serious attempt to move a NASCAR race out of the home of NASCAR. The same day leaders released video that said Concord Speed City USA is trying to lure in the X-Games, Bruton Smith hit the brakes hard, threatening to pull ...

  • Some West Charlotte residents concerned about dark stretch of street

    West Charlotte neighbors told Eyewitness News walking down a dark stretch of 4th Street is dangerous.All of the underpass lights are broken and busted.Kris Kellogg travels from Wesley Heights and he's passed the burned-out lights for more than five years."It's a really dark, desolate stretch of the sidewalk," Kellogg said.Kellogg said the dark conditions make it dangerous for ...


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The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Kid Stays in the Picture

The title of The Kid Stays in the Picture, Brett Morgen and Nanette Bursteins portrait of Hollywood legend Robert Evans life, comes from the mouth of another Hollywood legend, the great producer/studio mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. Zanuck had personally selected Evans to play a role in the 1957 screen version of Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises. The rest of the cast disapproved of his ... ...

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  • Bobcats to make major announcement at 6 p.m.

    When the Bobcats take the floor in the near future, they could have a new name and a new look. Reports said team management is trying to 'Bring Back the Buzz' with the Hornets name.A press conference has been called to make a major announcement Tuesday, but team officials have not said what it is for.Team owner Michael Jordan will be at the press conference.Eyewitness News spoke to ...

  • N.C. sues Duke for polluting Charlotte drinking water

    North Carolina has sued Duke Energy for polluting Mountain Island Lake, Charlotte’s major water source, with contaminants from its coal ash lagoons. The N.C. Division of Water Quality added its claims about Mountain Island to an existing lawsuit filed in March. That litigation asked for a court injunction against a Duke subsidiary over coal-ash pollution at an Asheville power plant. It ...

  • Charlotte buzzes with Hornets return tonight

    Call it a Snapback revolution . As in the retro-cool of Charlotte Hornets gear stirring sentiment as much as anything in recent years. Burying the Bobcats brand a decade after it arrived reminds me of a conversation I had with the then-newly hired marketing and public-relations ...

  • The biggest social-media mistake youre probably making

    A common mistake companies make in their social-media campaigns is putting the efforts on an island, all alone, to sink or swim alone. When it comes to using social media for your business, there are a lot of mistakes that most people know to avoid - bad-mouthing a customer, deleting a critical comment or posting risqu pictures on the official company Twitter account, to name a few. But what ...

  • Teacher in Alexander Co. charged with taking indecent liberties with student

    A teacher in Alexander County is suspended with pay after being charged with taking indecent liberties with a student.The students Eyewitness News talked with at Alexander Central High said they were shocked to hear news of the arrest.The teacher, Nikki Icard, has been teaching math at Alexander Central High School since 2005.Investigators said they believe inappropriate texting may have started ...

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