THE FUNKY PLACE that never closed was set for demolition, but they decided to get married there anyway. Two months before the big day, she ran the Big Sur Marathon in California. At mile 23, there’s a famous fountain where runners…
Hundreds ran screaming for the exits. Police and paramedics responded en masse. Everyone prepared for another mass shooting. It was nothing.
If a federal court's ruling Thursday holds, Democrats will have a fighting chance to break Republicans' vise grip on the General Assembly.
If the ongoing N.C. DEQ flap over drinking water tests is just a 'disagreement,' as Pat McCrory says, why did the state's epidemiologist quit the job she loved?
TODAY, we debut the first episode of #DiscussCLT Podcast. This one explores the act of storytelling and why it’s so widely used in Charlotte right now, whether in the arts or the corporate and small business spheres. And we also…
What Katie Meili’s bronze-medal performance looked like to the Charlotte family that gave her a home
I'm not saying all these facts add up to anything. But all this talk of election rigging is putting me in a conspiratorial frame of mind.
Lawyers for Governor McCrory asked a federal court to put a hold on its order striking down North Carolina's voter ID law. Replied the court: Er, no.
It's National IPA Day. So what's your favorite IPA, Mr. or Ms. Journalist?
The McCrory Administration has accused a 27-year state employee of lying in a deposition about whether the water in people's wells was safe to drink. Something about the accusation doesn't hold up.
Not one but two federal courts have now established that the N.C. General Assembly passed a law to keep as many black people as possible from voting. Really, we should be more pissed about that.
SOLVED JULY 4, 1979 — Five people were shot and killed at the “Outlaw clubhouse,” a rented house at 2500 Allen Road South, where the Outlaw motorcycle gang kept a virtual fortress surrounded by eight-foot fences and vicious dogs. Gregory…
OPENING HIS ARMS WIDE, Casey Eichfeld welcomes home River Sydney Song, his golden retriever. The dog trots up, plants her paws on the Olympian’s chest, and soaks up the love. Eichfeld’s tan hands, the same hands that have paddled canoes…
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Four decades later, and still no answers
It’s been nearly nine years since the 24-year-old vanished after a night out in uptown
Sixteen years after Asha Degree disappeared, authorities in this Cleveland County town haven’t given up hope
HOW CAN a person vanish? How can nobody know what happened? For a few families in the Charlotte region—including those of Denise Porch, Asha Degree, and Kyle Fleischmann—these are more than just hypothetical questions. Click the photos below to read their…
A federal court ruling Friday was uncommonly blunt about North Carolina's 2013 voter law: Its intent was racially discriminatory, and its justification was nonsense.
ON AUGUST NIGHTS, we walk, compelled to waste not another minute of the last long days before school, of the last warm nights before fall, of the last of summer’s freedoms. Few places are better for a stroll than Daniel…
Common Market South End will close on Saturday, as developers plan an office building at the site of the deli/market and bar.
Sure, it's facepalm-funny. But the paranoia is most real.
In some modern-day families, pets aren’t just a step toward children—they’re replacing them
RICK ZOERB MOVED to the Charlotte area in 2008 because of an opportunity to buy into a car dealership. The former owner of Lake Norman Infiniti and two other Charlotte dealerships enjoyed great financial success, but always thought something was…
Donald Trump, in Charlotte on Tuesday, promised veterans a 24/7 hotline to field complaints he might handle personally. If you believe that, you are beyond help.
IN 2001, Marissa Boyle was 19 and living in California with her parents when she walked into a “shady strip mall store” called Pets Music that sold pianos and pets. A three month-old Rottweiler/German shepherd/Labrador mix bounced out of his cage…
I left Charlotte for New York, and I couldn’t wait to get back
The world through the eyes of the animals at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care and Control, where there’s no time like right now
