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  • New form of heroin hits Charlotte streets

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers are seeing a new type of heroin on the streets. The market has been dominated by black tar heroin, but around six months ago white powder heroin began to show up in south Charlotte. “What heroin addicts tell me is it’s a much smoother high than black tar heroin, but black tar is more potent,” said Robert Martin, the director of Substance ...

  • Report 22 of Charlotte foreclosure homes vacant

    The Charlotte metro area might have a lot smaller population than Detroit, Houston and San Francisco. But the city has those places beat when it comes to one measurement: the number of homes that have been abandoned by their owners while they are in the process of being foreclosed on. A report released Thursday shows that, as of June, the Charlotte region had 1,146 such homes. Irvine, ...

  • 4 charged after meth found in Shelby Walmart parking lot

    Police said four people were arrested after officers found meth in a car in a Shelby Walmart parking lot.Officers said Tina Walters, Jennifer Mondonedo and Tyson Cash were held inside the store for trying to steal merchandise.When police went out to their car, they found Sarah Graves inside.After searching the car, police said they found bags of stolen clothing and meth.Walters, Mondonedo, Cash ...

  • Biologists stock Lake Norman with hybrid striped bass

    Fisheries biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission have stocked Lake Norman with hybrid striped bass to counter recent summertime kills.The commission says it stocked the lake with 162,500 hybrid striped bass, marking a shift in its management of the reservoir from a striped bass fishery to a hybrid striped bass fishery.Commission staff has traditionally stocked the lake with ...

  • Troopers Speeding driver to be charged with DWI in crash that hurt 3

    Troopers said a drunken driver was going more than twice the speed limit on Interstate 77 when he crashed early Thursday.The Highway Patrol said Nelson Kagika was going 115 mph in a 55 mph zone just after 2 a.m. He swerved to avoid hitting a car driven by an off-duty Charlotte police officer on I-77 South near Clanton Road and lost control, troopers said.Kagika's car bounced off a guardrail ...


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Movie Review

The Ruling Class [DVD]

The Ruling Class [DVD]

The historical rigidity and socially sanctioned elitism of the British class system has been a target of constant parody for centuries, from Jonathan Swift, to Oscar Wilde, to George Bernard Shaw, to Monty Python. With the onset of radical politics and social reform in the 1960s, overt satire of the British aristocracy died down as the view became more prominent that class inequalities were being ... ...

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  • Man sentenced to 10 years in fatal shooting

    A Charlotte judge sentenced a man Wednesday to more than 10 years in prison after he shot and killed a man nearly two years ago.Investigators said Miguel Silva shot and killed Keith Patterson on Cherrycrest Lane in southwest Charlotte.Investigators said Silva shot Patterson when he tried to rob Silva during a drug deal in October 2011.Until now, police had only charged Silva with drug ...

  • WSOC-TV viewers donate food to benefit local families

    Generous Channel 9 viewers stopped by the studios Wednesday to feed those in need. Second Harvest Food Bank will distribute all of the food collected starting Thursday. Local businesses and citizens dropped off thousands of pounds of food to feed the hungry. More than 600 food pantries, soup kitchens and other local agencies rely on Second Harvest to keep their shelves stocked. Local children ...

  • NC governors wife pushes bill opposing puppy mills

    Pat McCrory 's wife has taken a stand in the fight against puppy mills in North Carolina. Ann McCrory said Wednesday she wants puppy mills stopped in the state before they start. She urged Senate members to pass a House bill that requires large commercial dog breeders to meet minimum standards of care. The bill does not apply the kennels where most dogs are being bred or trained for ...

  • I-85 I-77 ramp shut down for repair to guardrail

    Crews are out Wednesday night at a busy ramp from Interstate 85 South onto Interstate 77 South to repair damage from a tractor-trailer crash Tuesday.One lane had to be shut down, but crews hope to reopen the lane before morning traffic.The ramp had to be shut down Tuesday when an 18-wheeler flipped and took out 400 feet of guardrail.Investigators haven't determined if wet roads or a wrong ...

  • Kids tell police they learned of smoking tea online

    It's a crazy trend all over the Internet right now. Rather than drinking tea, people are smoking it. "We tried to smoke a tea bag because we saw it on a YouTube," Josiah said. Josiah is 12 years old. He told Eyewitness News the same thing he told police, the YouTube video about smoking tea popped up while he was watching a music video with his little brother. He said he ...

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