Updated: Aug. 26, 2020 at 11:47 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky and Associated Press
A group of North Carolina Republicans are joining a growing list of politicians and voters across the country who are blurring party lines ahead of the 2020 Presidential Election.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2020 at 12:27 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky and Chandler Morgan
A close call was caught on camera Tuesday when a paramedic in Lincoln County was nearly struck by an alleged impaired driver while leaving his house.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2020 at 5:49 PM EST
|By Jordan Sawyers, John Cominsky and WBTV Web Staff
The family-owned general store has become a staple for anyone travelling the country roads and looking for a bite to eat, a cold drink or just some friendly conversation around the old stove.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2020 at 5:27 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
The family-owned general store has become a staple for anyone travelling the country roads and looking for a bite to eat, a cold drink or just some friendly conversation around the old stove.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2020 at 6:22 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
Rodney Smith Jr. has traveled across the country to serve people in all 50 states by mowing their lawns.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2019 at 5:22 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
A German shepherd who will remain “puppy-sized” for life due to a condition called Pituitary Dwarfism has become a sensation online.
Updated: Nov. 20, 2019 at 6:16 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
A Kannapolis church is raising eyebrows again with another controversial sign involving the political divide among Americans.
Updated: Nov. 13, 2019 at 3:40 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
The internet has a new, adorable superstar - a puppy with a tail growing out of his head now appropriately named “Narwhal.”
Updated: Oct. 3, 2019 at 11:25 AM EDT
|By John Cominsky
CMPD said Thursday morning that the department understands there is concern about safety at theaters when the moving is screened.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2019 at 6:15 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky and WBTV Web Staff
Earnhardt Jr. released the statement on social media Monday afternoon.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2019 at 7:04 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr and his family were on board an airplane that crashed near an airport in Tennessee Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Jul. 4, 2019 at 12:11 AM EDT
|By John Cominsky and WBTV Web Staff
Investigators said Wednesday that a home explosion in Charlotte’s Ballantyne neighborhood that left a woman dead and her husband seriously injured Tuesday was caused by an interior gas leak.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2019 at 10:16 AM EDT
|By John Cominsky and WBTV Web Staff
A woman was found dead and a man was seriously injured after an explosion destroyed a home in Ballantyne Tuesday afternoon.
Updated: May. 5, 2019 at 4:56 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Riley Howell died a hero one day before the petition was filed when he tackled a gunman who had opened fire in a classroom on the UNCC campus, delaying the shooter and saving lives.
Updated: May. 2, 2019 at 6:09 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky and Steve Ohnesorge
21-year-old Riley Howell was shot and killed, but his actions delayed the shooter, giving police more time to respond and fellow students a chance to escape.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2019 at 8:10 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Doctors didn’t think he’d live... and if he did by some chance survive, they didn’t think he’d ever walk or speak again. Now 21 months later, not only is Jackson walking on his own - he sounded out his first words since the 2017 crash.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2019 at 6:34 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
The two-piece bedroom suite, “handcarved in the 1950s," was posted on the store’s Facebook page Tuesday afternoon. However, one of the pieces comes with a ghostly warning from the previous owner... the highboy is haunted.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2019 at 4:02 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
Alben G. Marcus was last seen on Jan. 21 getting on a CATS bus near Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center south of uptown.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2019 at 5:56 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
"You never know - the impossible might be possible. My girls are living proof of that. They are living miracles.”
Updated: Jan. 9, 2019 at 11:37 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
Keiry Nalleli Serrano was last seen Sunday evening at her home on Whisperwhood Drive in Salisbury. She is believed to be with her boyfriend, 22-year-old Eduardo Carlos Mendez.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2018 at 5:28 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
According to a press release from CMPD on Wednesday, the gun recovered at the scene was an Ekol Sava Magnum 9mm PAK.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2018 at 3:17 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Sydney Elizabeth Morrison, 15, was last seen on the 170 block of Wood Acre Drive in Mooresville. A Silver Alert was issued for her Monday afternoon.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2018 at 2:52 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Deputies say he picked up a 13-year-old girl under the pretense that he was taking her and others out to eat. However, before picking up the other members of their party he reportedly took the girl back to his home.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2018 at 4:09 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
According to the warrant, he hosted children at his home in Gastonia on numerous occasions. The warrant states he has a basketball court, trampoline, pool and “other toys seemingly to attract children to his residence.”
Updated: Sep. 12, 2018 at 3:53 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) announced Wednesday that classes would be canceled Thursday and Friday as Hurricane Florence gets closer to the Carolinas.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2018 at 3:03 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
The shooting happened around 2 p.m. at the Exxon “On the Run” station at the intersection of Hwy 5 and Hwy 161.
Updated: May. 21, 2018 at 9:13 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Councilman Tariq Bokhari says he requested the ride-along because it was Police Week, and because of negative coverage surrounding fellow council member LaWana Mayfield's recent social media post.
Updated: May. 18, 2018 at 9:49 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
The video shows the man, identified by CMPD as 26-year-old Alex William Freudenberg, launch off the end of the canopy, landing on his back on a white sedan before sliding off the car into the street as cars drive by.
Updated: May. 16, 2018 at 7:18 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
The committee, appointed by House Speaker Tim Moore in February, planned to make a formal, public introduction of its proposal on Thursday but previewed their recommendations exclusively with WBTV during On Your Side Tonight with Jamie Boll.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2018 at 6:45 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Davis, who has been with the team for over ten years, made the announcement on Twitter at 5:42 p.m.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2018 at 3:40 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
In his statement, NC Senate Leader Phil Berger called on Governor Cooper and Speaker Moore to join him in defending NC's fight against bad barbecue.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2018 at 5:29 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
"And just like that I am reminded (in the midst of all the turmoil in our education system right now) why I go to school everyday; why I love my job."
Updated: Jan. 9, 2018 at 8:34 PM EST
|By John Cominsky and David Whisenant
No charges have been filed in Erica's death. But that could soon change, according to Rowan County Sheriff's Office Captain John Sifford.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2018 at 8:32 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
The autopsy states Parsons' cause of death was "homicidal violence of undetermined means." The coroner wrote "we cannot exclude the possibility of a terminal blunt force injury, suffocation or strangulation."
Updated: Dec. 1, 2017 at 5:08 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
A video of a mother and son dancing in a talent show at a Charlotte high school is going viral after the school posted it to social media. The video shows Myers Park High School guidance counselor Ginny Jenkins and her son Scott dancing for the talent show Thursday night benefiting Susan G. Komen. Jenkins says she can't believe the reaction the video is receiving online. As of 4 p.m. Friday, the video already had more than 19,000 shares, 10,000 interactions and 1,300 comments...
Updated: Nov. 30, 2017 at 4:23 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
The study, published in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, focuses on the number of neurons in the cerebral cortex of several carnivores, including cats and dogs.
Updated: Apr. 24, 2017 at 4:37 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Jadarius Irving McCall, 26, in wanted in connection to the shooting death of 33-year-old Deon Davis.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2017 at 5:21 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Officer Matthew Watts is charged with communicating threats.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2015 at 4:25 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
The Forest Service said they will monitor the area over the next few weeks to "determine when to reopen the area to overnight camping. The area remains open for day use."
Updated: Apr. 9, 2015 at 4:29 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Jacob Matthew Morgan, 17, was arrested and charged with one count of murder and one count of first degree arson. The fire happened at a home in the Lesslie community on Catawba Church Road around 8:30 a.m. Friday morning.. Fourteen-month-old Joshua Hill was killed in the fire.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2013 at 9:55 PM EST
|By John Cominsky
Appalachian State University Police are reminding the public of safety precautions after an alleged incident where a man posing as a police officer pulled over a student.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2013 at 4:17 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
A man wanted in Virginia for murdering his wife and burying her in a cemetery was arrested in Mecklenburg County after a two-week manhunt, according to a report from the U.S. Marshals Service.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2013 at 5:59 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Ronald Billings, 38, was last seen at approximately 2:45 p.m. at a work location in Lincolnton, officials said.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2013 at 4:04 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
A Charlotte man pleaded guilty for his role in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme, The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
Updated: Jun. 20, 2013 at 2:18 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
A Hickory man was convicted in Catawba County Criminal Superior Court on two drug charges stemming from a traffic stop that occurred in 2011.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2013 at 5:57 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
A man wanted for the sexual assault of a disabled woman in Connecticut was arrested in Charlotte, according to a release from the U.S. Marshals Service.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2013 at 5:28 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in locating a man they say cut off his electronic monitoring device.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2013 at 3:59 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
A man was arrested in Statesville for breaking into the City Garage and burglarizing City vehicles, according to a release from the Statesville Police Department.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2013 at 8:21 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
A fatal accident on I-77 has forced officials to shut down all four southbound lanes of the interstate near exit 17, Sunset Road, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2013 at 3:36 PM EDT
|By John Cominsky
Authorities in Charlotte have arrested a man they say robbed a local bank and a local credit union, one while dressed as a woman, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.