Jessica Dyer
On Your Side Tonight Producer
Charlotte, NC
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Let’s just say the Innovation Barn has come a long way in the past year. Bright lights, plants and more are starting to fill in the space.
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It’s that time of year when anxiety can start to rise for high school seniors and their parents. It’s time to start getting those college applications ready.
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These dancers have both have been waiting all pandemic to be in front of a live Charlotte audience. They finally get to next week, when the Charlotte Ballet returns to the stage. It’ll be a celebration of being able to make it, not just the last 18 months, but 50 years.
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Right now, Catholic Charities is preparing for 200 Afghan evacuees to arrive in Charlotte. The problem is, they’re scrambling to find homes for them.
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It’s been 75 years since Niner Nation was born. At the time, UNC Charlotte was just about 270 students at an evening college center. Today, it’s a research university of more than 30-thousand students.
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Charlotte’s Brooklyn neighborhood was once a thriving Black community.
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Swimming a few laps every week may not turn your child into the next Katie Ledecky or Michael Phelps, but it turns out that it may help them with their vocabulary.
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Is it rude to ask? Is there a polite way to do it?
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If students have a longer lunchtime, it’s proven they’re more likely to eat those healthy things.
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Mbye Njie says he wants to hold people accountable.
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Drive down Wilkinson Boulevard and you’ll see a big red sign for Bar-B-Q King. It hasn’t changed much since it went up in 1959.
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When it comes to our health, which one is better?
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After months of closures, business owners want to stay open. They want their customers and their employees to be safe. Now, it’s on them to make the call on how to do that.
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Right now, the FDA says full approval would help ease some vaccine hesitancy. It’s a lengthy process though.
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There have been concerns that drinking coffee could make your heart race. Doctors call this cardiac arrhythmia.
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It’s a tough adjustment to make after so many places just stopped requiring masks.
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Zillow has released its Paint Color Analysis. It surveyed 1,300 recent and prospective home buyers.
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Researchers found people who spent more time outside had more gray matter in the frontal lobe of their brains.
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The idea here is that it can paint a picture of history for us by showing us when major events happened. Then, we can use that history to look to the future.
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They help launch careers for those who may have been in prison, have battled addiction, or faced some other challenge in life.
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Now, fully recovered, he’s been back in the studio recording a new record.
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Four Neutrogena spray sunscreens and one Aveeno spray sunscreen were voluntarily recalled out of an abundance of caution.
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For 92 percent of people with long COVID, symptoms lasted at least eight months after that first positive COVID-19 test.
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Child tax credit: What’s the best way you can use it? It has been months in the making, and it means a big check for a lot of families.
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One of the big lasting effects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the economic impact felt by many businesses and industries. The latest blow is a liquor shortage.
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It’s a massive new park in Charlotte you probably didn’t know existed. Until just a couple months ago, it was the domain of golfers.
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This isn’t a case of a struggling company at all. It’s about resetting priorities - a side effect of COVID-19.
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The number of people making between $35,000 and about $50,000 a year - who are cost-burdened - has more than doubled since 2010.
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A hot topic at city council meetings is – what will Charlotte look like in the future?
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The American Red Cross says it has been getting questions like this, and it really needs more donors after a low turnout last month.
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This question comes after two Watauga County deputies were killed in the line of duty earlier this month.
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We are comparing two COVID-19 vaccines – Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.
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Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on everyone.
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Will MLB add Charlotte to one of its future destinations?
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As of Monday, North Carolina reports more than 1,000 hospitalizations due to complications with COVID-19.
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We have a Good Question about immunity
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So far, the idea of a booster shot has only been suggested for people who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
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What happens if you only get one dose?
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The only thing that may change depending on somebody’s weight is the length of the needle.
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On Tuesday, the CDC and the FDA called for a pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine distribution.
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Millions of people have already received that one-shot vaccination.
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When you receive your COVID-19 vaccination, you receive a card proving you are vaccinated.
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Have you seen the prices of lumber at Lowe’s or Home Depot?
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When meteorologists talk about the weather, interstates are often used as a reference.
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We are hopefully on the way to being fully vaccinated and reaching herd immunity.
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If you’ve only had one dose of the vaccine, the likelihood of you getting COVID is higher.
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Some of the normal side effects are fever, feeling sluggish and a sore arm, according to the CDC.
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We need two doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines