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A young woman who used to live in the Charlotte area was announced as the latest cover model for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition Monday night. More>>
An accused Mecklenburg County repeat offender, Grady Steele, was in court Friday for various charges, including felony accounts of breaking and entering into cars, possession of stolen goods and possession of marijuana. More>>
Holt Grier is one of only 400 kids in the country with a disease called Cystinosis. Only 2,000 children have it worldwide. More>>
A bicyclist who was struck by a vehicle in east Charlotte Monday afternoon suffered serious injuries. The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of Independence Boulevard just past the exit for Briar Creek Road. More>>
For the eleventh straight month, shoppers have cut their credit card usage. While that sounds like good news, experts attribute the drop to joblessness. Americans still owe an astounding $866 billion in credit card debt, a number that only grows the longer people struggle to pay off those cards. More>>
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Thou shall not steal. Methodist pastor Jesse Rogers says it's a sin, what the people who control your money are able to get away with. But he's not just passing judgment from on More>>
Another storm is heading to some parts of the WBTV viewing area and it is expected to bring a wintry mix to some counties in the North Carolina mountains and foothills. A Winter Storm Warning is now in effect for the higher terrain of Avery County. The ski slopes are in line for another four to six inches on Tuesday and Wednesday. More>>
Authorities in South Carolina are investigating the death of former York mayor Melvin Roberts whose funeral will be held Monday afternoon. More>>
The ad was made by a man from Cary and two of his colleagues and was submitted as part of a competition with the snack company for home-made ads. More>>
If the City of Charlotte makes it easier to recycle, will more residents take part in the program? The city's Solid Waste Services department is rolling out a new program that would take away some of the responsibility of the homeowner and add more items to the list of things you can place in your recycle bin. More>>
One CMS elementary school has 3rd, 4th and 5th graders all learning in one classroom. Administrators at Tuckaseegee Elementary claim this method works. More>>
Jan Pickett was asleep when her heart stopped beating. More>>
They are back from war and often flush with cash. Combat bonuses can leave our veterans with thousands of dollars sitting in their savings accounts. More>>
Reporter Steve Ohnesorge was in Haiti Monday afternoon when rescuers pulled a man out from a pile of rubble. The man had been trapped for 27 days since the deadly earthquake which killed thousands of people. More>>
Police are trying to determine what caused a person to die at the Mecklenburg County Health Department Monday morning. Police officers were called to the health department on Beatties Ford Road around 11 am. More>>
The Lincoln County District Attorney dropped all charges filed against Sheriff Tim Daugherty Monday morning just as jury selection in the case was scheduled to begin. More>>
Frank Del Vecchio of AMBER Ready in Rockaway, N.J., said Monday he hopes Benson Agency Investigations can bring fresh insight to the case. More>>
Officials allege the suspect gave one of his students a cell phone that he used to send explicit text messages. More>>
A student at West Rowan High School has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly pulled a knife and threatened another student on the bus. More>>
Murtha's congressional career was clouded by questions about his ethics - from the Abscam corruption probe in 1980 to more recent investigations into the special-interest spending known as earmarks and the raising of cash for election campaigns. More>>
Do you store your important papers at home in a metal file cabinet, desk drawer or safe? Recently, Consumer Reporter Kristen Miranda spoke with one family who lost nearly everything they own in a fire including their passports, marriage license and other important documents. More>>
A civil rights museum in North Carolina is now open at the site of a 1960 sit-in that sparked a movement. The International Civil Rights Center and Museum opened Monday, Feb. 1, with hundreds of people gathering in downtown Greensboro to celebrate the project. More>>
Police are looking for two men accused of shooting a store clerk during a robbery in west Charlotte Saturday evening. The shooting was at the Tienda Mexicana La Hidalguense which is located on Little Rock Road. More>>
Two people were injured by gunfire at a nightclub in Lancaster early Sunday morning. The shooting was at the Grown Folks club located at 1418 Kershaw Camden Highway and happened around 2:21 a.m. More>>
Monday Arden McLaughlin from the Public Library gave some suggestions for great books for Valentine's day later this week. She spoke about the following books live with WBTV Anchor Christine Nelson during Monday's noon show. More>>
Police have identified a Pineville man who was struck by two vehicles and died early Saturday morning. According to the Matthews Police Department, Jack Anthony Sweeney was walking along U.S. 74 East (Independence Blvd.) near N.C. 51 (Matthews Township Parkway) when he was struck by a vehicle. More>>
Seven people escaped from a burning home in east Charlotte early Monday morning. The fire was in a single-story home on Finchley Drive and it was reported after midnight. More>>
Police have charged a Monroe teen for allegedly robbing a Rite Aid store in Matthews Saturday afternoon. The robbery occurred at the Rite Aid on W. John Street around 2:45 p.m. More>>
Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department announced Friday night the arrest of a former teacher employed by Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. More>>
Three people have been charged in connection with a dead body found in a garbage dumpster in Charlotte's Steele Creek area Friday afternoon. More>>
A kayaker died after he and another man had to be rescued from a raging river in Gaston County this weekend. More>>
Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints became Super Bowl champions after rallying to beat Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 on Sunday in one of the NFL's most thrilling title games. More>>
The Oconee County coroner says a sheriff's deputy has died after he was pinned between his patrol car and a tree. More>>
Hoosiers and Who Dats. And, oh yes, the two best teams in the NFL also happen to be on hand for Sunday's Super Bowl. More>>
Former football star Warren Sapp was arrested Saturday following an alleged domestic violence incident at a Miami Beach hotel, police said. More>>
Cross-country skiers lapped the Reflecting Pool along the National Mall. Hundreds crowded Dupont Circle for a snowball fight organized with the help of the Internet. More>>
Fire officials say at least 41 homes have been damaged and 500 more ordered evacuated after a pounding winter storm triggered mudslides in wildfire burn areas north of Los Angeles. More>>
We put fire-safe boxes to the test to see if they're worth the money to protect the documents most important to you. More>>
Many areas of the North Carolina foothills and mountains received snow and sleet early Friday morning with as much as 10 inches of snow in some areas, but flooding became the major issue for many areas by the afternoon. More>>
If you are trying to get in or out of cities in the northeast like Washington, D.C.—good luck. A massive winter storm has brought travel by plane, train and bus to a standstill. More>>
A successful opening night in Southend for young artist, Ellie Potvin.
Her mom tells me she Ellie is a joy and inspiration to everyone she meets. More>>
A North Carolina judge Friday ordering a former aide to presidential candidate John Edwards to turn over a sex tape purportedly featuring Edwards and his mistress Rielle Hunter. If he doesn't the judge is threatening to send the aide to jail. PrimeTime's Jeff Atkinson has more in our Cover Story. More>>
New numbers released Friday revealed an unexpected decline in the national unemployment rate which fell to 9.7 percent from ten percent in December. More>>
A family who relocated to Charlotte after Hurricane Katrina is sharing their New Orleans-style cuisine with Super Bowl Fans. More>>
The memoir by South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford hits the book stores just ahead of a nationally telecast interview. More>>
LOS ANLGES, CA (WBTV) -- Charlie Sheen reported his SUV stolen from his driveway. It was recovered at the bottom of a ravine, where someone had driven it off of a cliff. More>>
Heavy snow mixed with freezing rain and sleet blanketed the North Carolina mountains on Friday for the second time in a week. More>>
Officials with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools say a middle school student in Huntersville may have pertussis. The student is enrolled at Bradley Middle School. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a contagious bacterial infection which is spread by coughing. More>>
A judge has declared that a former aide to John Edwards is in contempt, demanding that he turn over a "personal" videotape being sought by Edwards' former mistress. More>>
Fire damaged a house in southeast Charlotte Friday morning. The fire was at 7211 Essington Drive and it was reported at 9:52 a.m. Fire damaged a house in southeast Charlotte Friday morning. More>>
Authorities say a man was nearly hit by a light rail train in south Charlotte Wednesday night. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) shared with WBTV on Friday surveillance video that was taken from the top of the train just prior to the incident near the Woodlawn Road station. More>>
Police are looking a person who robbed a shoe store in west Charlotte Thursday evening. The robbery occurred just before 7 p.m. at the Shoe Warehouse at 3146 Freedom Drive. More>>
The email claims someone is sending pictures to all of your friends that you wouldn't want them to see. Scammers play on your curiosity to do major damage. More>>
Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Brad Dean says the adult industry is not one his organization wants associated with the city. More>>
A man in a large SUV tried to run over several Charlotte police officers in west Charlotte Thursday evening. The incident happened at 9:36 p.m. at 1309 Fairmont Street which is about a half block away from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Division office on Beatties Ford Road. More>>
The report also included an annual revision to the estimates of total payrolls, which showed there were 930,000 fewer jobs last March than previously estimated. More>>
Another massive recall for Toyota? A leading newspaper in Japan says the company is about to recall almost 300-thousand Prius hybrids because of brake problems. More>>
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – A Charlotte father says he knows firsthand how difficult it can be to prosecute child sex cases. He says his 14-year old daughter was in a relationship with a man in his 40's and More>>
A Lenoir family is in Durham tonight, waiting to see if their daughter will be able to find a match for a liver AND double-lung transplant. They also say they need the money to pay for it. More>>
During their annual meeting retreat, Charlotte City Council members discussed whether or not they will give city employees pay raises in 2011. More>>
Three Charlotte stores were burglarized all within in a half-mile, but the sloppy scofflaw left something behind. More>>
She had no idea what was waiting just a few feet behind her back. Cleveland Elementary School teacher Joy Jenkins was leading students in a song and dance during an assembly in the school auditorium Thursday morning. More>>
Police say a teen girl was sexually assaulted during a three-month period while riding a bus to the same Charlotte-Mecklenburg School that suffered a similar case with another teen girl recently. More>>
Sheriff's deputies are looking for the person who broke into recreational vehicles parked at a mini storage facility in Cabarrus County on Wednesday. The break-in was at Clutter Busters Mini Storage facility located at 391 NC Highway 24/27 west in Midland. More>>
With fights and protests on campus, Johnson C. Smith University is taking new steps to improve security.
This week students gathered to protest the punishment handed down after a big fight. More>>
Local Toyota dealers are ready to start making repairs to the models named in a massive recall.
In Salisbury at Cloninger Ford-Toyota, service technicians have been undergoing training on the process to prevent the unintended acceleration reported in certain Toyota models. More>>
A student was injured during a stabbing at a Charlotte Mecklenburg School Thursday morning. Two students at Garinger Business and Finance got into a fight and one student stabbed the other with a pair of scissors. More>>
Two police officers and a suspect were injured during a shootout while serving drug warrants at a home in Rock Hill late Wednesday night. More>>
The most devastating earthquake in Haiti's history left one clinic standing at the Double Harvest Mission. Within hours, that facility built by a philanthropist with direct ties to Charlotte became a focal point for thousands of victims. More>>
Two men who escaped from the Burke County jail three years ago pleaded guilty on Thursday and received a lengthy prison term. Three inmates overpowered and assaulted two jailors on January 10, 2007. They escaped from the jail and stole a personal car belonging to one of the jailors. More>>
The New York Attorney General's office is filing civil charges against Bank of America and its former CEO Ken Lewis, saying the bank misled investors about Merrill Lynch when it acquired the Wall Street bank in late 2008. More>>
Two West Virginia men were arrested and charged with drug trafficking following a traffic stop in Iredell County. More>>
Officials say a fire which damaged a single-story home in Concord early Thursday morning appears to have been intentionally set. More>>
Police are looking for a man who they say shot and killed another man in Concord last month. Police say Ingnacio Ochoa Martinez was found shot to death Thursday, Jan. 28 at the Lupita Garage on Cabarrus Avenue. More>>
Two people who police say were involved in a deadly street racing crash in South Charlotte early last year appeared in Mecklenburg County District Court Thursday morning. Tyler Stasko and Carlene Atkinson pleaded not guilty to three counts of second-degree murder. Their trial date will be set at a later date. More>>
The North Carolina Highway Patrol has released the name of a driver who died in an traffic accident in northeast Charlotte Wednesday night. The fatal victim was 52-year-old Vincent Harrelson. More>>
Defense attorneys say racial bias is behind federal prosecutors seeking the death penalty for a man charged with killing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson. More>>
Two people were taken to the hospital early Thursday morning following a wreck in uptown Charlotte. The accident happened around 2:30 a.m. at Eleventh and Brevard Streets. Two people were taken to the hospital early Thursday morning following a wreck in uptown Charlotte. More>>
The driver of a tanker truck was killed in a traffic accident in north Charlotte Wednesday evening. The accident was on I-77 just south of the Lasalle Street exit. The accident occurred around 6:40 p.m. More>>
A major road in east Charlotte that was closed earlier this week due to a sinkhole was reopened Thursday morning. The sinkhole was discovered Tuesday along the 1900 block of Randolph Road between Caswell Road and Colonial Avenue. More>>
The head of a citizen task force investigating complaints of high water bills says his group will issue a report within a couple weeks. More>>
Reports are circulating today that Bank of America paid its investment bankers and traders more than $4 billion last year, during the worst economic crisis of our time -- and one CEO Brian Moynihan said they had a hand in causing. More>>
Lincoln county superintendent J. David Martin, whose contract was not renewed, says it's not over. Martin accuses some board members of pressuring him to hire their friends and relatives. More>>
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood now says he misspoke when telling owners of recalled Toyotas to stop driving then. Instead, LaHood says take them to dealerships to get them repaired. More>>
Norrie Baird started working in NASCAR when safety wasn't exactly up to the standards it is today. More>>
Governor Perdue's office announced today that Solaris Industries will expand in Kings Mountain. The company builds steel tubing. More>>
Our "YOU on a Diet" team is getting a boost to their weight loss challenge. A 20-minute at-home workout you can do at your house too. More>>
Donations are running extremely low for one Fort Mill group which provides food to those in need. During November and December, the Fort Mill Care Center received over 50,000 pounds of donated food supplies. More>>
Gov. Mark Sanford says South Carolina has been designated a staging area for bringing in Americans from Haiti displaced by the earthquake. More>>
Some parents were upset on Wednesday to learn that school would be called off again in the Rowan-Salisbury School system.
The decision was made early Wednesday morning to cancel classes for the third straight day. More>>
A man who killed a Kannapolis bar owner will spend the rest of his life behind bars. A jury in Rowan County found 27-year-old Nick Steele guilty on Wednesday for his part in the August 2006 murder of Jeffrey Allan Wills. More>>
A traffic accident in east Charlotte brought down power lines Wednesday afternoon and could snarl traffic during the evening rush hour. Police shut down the 3000 block of Eastway Drive between Central Avenue and Medford Drive. More>>
The FBI is looking for a man who robbed a bank in east Charlotte Tuesday afternoon. The robbery occurred just before 5 p.m. at the First Citizens Bank on Milton Road. More>>
Since sending out an email Tuesday, Sergeant Christian Wagner has heard from more than 20 interested volunteers. They want to find out more about starting a "Court Watch" program in their own police division. More>>
Authorities are looking for an inmate who walked away from a minimum-security facility in Rock Hill on Wednesday. According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, Chucky James Elmore, 27, walked away from the Catawba Pre-Release Center on Milling Road around noon. More>>
A historic home in Chester that had been used in recent years as a bed and breakfast was completely destroyed by fire early Wednesday morning. The fire was at the Magnolia Inn Bed and Breakfast located on Academy Street. More>>
Police are investigating a carjacking which happened outside a popular nightclub just south of Center City Charlotte Tuesday evening. Two men robbed the owner of Amos' Southend Music Hall which is located along the 1400 block of South Tryon Street just before 7 p.m. More>>
A blown transformer knocked out power around noon Wednesday to about 1,000 people near Center City Charlotte. More>>
A man wanted for a murder in West Virginia was arrested Tuesday after authorities discovered he was living in Mooresville under a different name. More>>
By Jeff Rivenbark - email UNION COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - A man accused of killing his wife in Union County last year will appear in court this afternoon where he is expected to plead guilty to the murder. More>>
A road in Union County was closed for more than seven hours early Wednesday morning after a truck hauling turkeys flipped over. According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, the driver was traveling northbound on Old Pageland-Monroe Road just before 1 a.m. when he accidentally drove the trailer off the road. More>>
A drive-by shooting which left a 3-year-old hospitalized last week remains unsolved and neighbors in Charlotte's Hidden Valley community are concerned about what this shooting means for their once embattled community. More>>
This See, Click, Fix story is one of the first submissions we received from a Charlotte family who was tired of pulling up to a dark home ever since their street light went out.
After getting the run around they reported it See, Click, Fix for help. WBTV's Christine Nelson is shedding some light on what to do to get it fixed. More>>
On a rainy Tuesday, folks crowded into the Park Ministries building in East Charlotte to talk about Charlotte's huge unemployment problem. It was the first of four town hall meetings Democratic mayor Anthony Foxx is hosting on the issue of jobs. More>>
The past year has had a profound effect on the economy, but it's also changed the way people view home ownership. After years of excess, suddenly less is more. More>>
Some residents in Lincoln County are extremely upset because the Lincoln County School Board recently voted 4-2 not to renew the superintendent's contract. More>>
Tyler and Amy Ford have struggled with fad diets time and again without success. When the Fords heard about WBTV's plan to help viewers find healthy and effective ways to lose weight in 2010, they were thrilled. More>>
She eats a mixture of fruits and vegetables, and never bites people. More>>
A small steel shim the size of a postage stamp may fix what ails some Toyotas. The parts to repair sticky gas pedals were expected to start arriving at dealerships as early as Tuesday. The shims are designed to relieve the friction in the accelerators that can cause them to get stuck. The problem led to the recall of more than 2 million Toyotas, including the popular Camry and Corolla. More>>
A Jefferson County man is charged with attempted murder after authorities say he drove his truck through the window of a service station. More>>
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police are trying to find the burglars responsible for more than three dozen break-ins that have happened in east Charlotte within the last two weeks. More>>
A Stony Point man is in jail on a half million dollars bond after allegedly sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl. More>>
A fire which destroyed an old home in Belmont early Tuesday morning may have been caused by vagrants who were trying to keep warm. The fire was inside an vacant home on McKee Circle and was reported around 1 a.m. More>>
There are lessons for us to learn here, following the Haiti earthquake. Families who tried traditional technology to get in touch, found it impossible. More>>
Former Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph announced Tuesday afternoon on WBT radio that he will run this November for an At-large seat on the Mecklenburg County Commission. We'll have more details about this announcement on WBTV News at 11 p.m. More>>
There are new details in the case of a Charlotte teen who was shot and killed while waiting for her school bus last year. Tiffany Wright was pregnant at the time of the shooting. Her baby was delivered at the hospital and died less than a week later. More>>
Due to the threat of freezing rain Tuesday morning, many school districts across the WBTV coverage area canceled class. Rowan-Salisbury Schools were closed on Tuesday for the second day this week, and it was the third day students have had off since Monday of last week.
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Police were involved in a standoff with an armed robbery suspect in east Charlotte for about two hours Tuesday morning. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Violent Criminal Apprehension Team (VCAT) arrived at 3608 Edmund Court around 7:30 a.m. More>>
A Charleston County Grand Jury returned indictments for murder charges against Heather Kamp and Ethan Mack, said Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson in a press conference Tuesday. More>>
The federal government has agreed to pay a $52 million settlement to a North Carolina county, ending a decades-long dispute over the so-called road to nowhere. More>>
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was at Time Warner Arena in Charlotte this weekend, but due to the snow and icy conditions, many people were unable to go to the show to use their tickets. It was pretty much a wash-out this weekend and many of you have called the WBTV newsroom asking what you can do to get a refund. More>>
Authorities have arrested a Taylorsville woman for allegedly bringing two pipe bombs to a prison where she worked as a nurse in Alexander County. More>>
A sinkhole in east Charlotte may affect the evening drive home for some commuters Tuesday afternoon. Around 4 p.m., officials with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Department (CMUD) said there was as sinkhole near a sewer manhole along the 1900 block of Randolph Road. More>>
Two weeks ago Animal Rescuers in Rock Hill saved a 10 month old pitbull puppy from a yard where rescuers say she looked like the dog was already dead and decaying. When Dr. Elizabeth Hill at Ebenezer Animal Hospital first saw Hope she said it would be a miracle if she survived. More>>
Police have charged a Cherryville man for allegedly taking indecent liberties with a young girl in a grocery store parking lot. According to the Cherryville Police Department, Jason Michael Wells, 32, assaulted a child at the Food Lion in Cherryville on Tuesday, Jan. 12. More>>
The 15-year-old and the coach initially met online through a social networking site and the two had been talking back and forth for about a month, police said. More>>
Police have charged a man who formerly lived in NC in connection with the 2005 murder of his wife. Raven Abaroa, 30, was charged on Monday at his home in Idaho, according to WRAL.com. More>>
The Wall Street Journal says Charlotte-based Bank of America may split its headquarters between Charlotte and New York. The bank has recently and repeatedly promised not to move its center of operations from the Queen City. More>>
The Security Coordinator for the City of Rock Hill is in Haiti assisting in with the burial of victims who were killed during the recent Haiti earthquake. Tom Glenn is a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT4) and he was deployed to Haiti on Sunday, Jan. 31. More>>
A traffic crash in south Charlotte brought down utility lines and snarled traffic for commuters Tuesday morning. The accident happened in the inbound lanes of Providence Road near Sharon Road. The crash was reported around 6:36 a.m. More>>
Jeff and Anne Collins were devastated when Jeff lost his job. More>>
A suspected bank robber is dead in Horry County after turning a gun on himself during a police chase early Monday afternoon. More>>
After being on the clock for most of the weekend, a crew of snow plow drivers was on call Monday night into Tuesday morning, ready in case freezing rain hit the area. More>>
Homeless women and children sleeping in the same room they eat their meals. The Salvation Army women and children's shelter in north Charlotte told WBTV it's in uncharted territory. More>>
Some Charlotte businesses are seeing an economic growth because of the bad weather. More>>
The Charlotte area continued to thaw out Monday from the snow and ice which accumulated over the weekend. If you drive along the highway, you'll see lots of vehicles covered in layers of frozen ice and snow. More>>
Toyota Motor Corp. is telling dealers that they should get parts to fix sticky gas pedals later this week. But the 4.2 million customers affected by a large recall may have to wait a while for repairs. More>>
If you are looking for a way to show your sweetie that you care, spending a lot of money on Valentine's Day might not be how you do it. More>>
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