The WBTV Investigation raises more questions about whether hospitals are complying with state law to notify patients of garnishments and their right to protest.
Data shows between January 1st and March 31st, CATS buses missed nearly 98 trips per day. The consequnces to riders can be significant but CATS isn’t the only transit organization struggling with providing the service its promised.
Homeowners in Indian Land started receiving reimbursements from Duke Energy for property damage after a WBTV Investigation exposed a pattern of power surges.
A WBTV investigation has uncovered illegal forms being used in Cabarrus County to remove children from their parents' custody and place them in the homes of other adults. A retired judge-turned-state lawmaker calls the forms astonishing. In the span of one interview, the director of Cabarrus County's department of human services confirmed the forms were used before denying they were ever used.
WBTV first reported on wastewater capacity issues in July 2021 and things have only gotten more contentious since between politicians, staff, developers and anyone else trying to figure out the future of Union County, one of the fastest growing areas in North Carolina.
The letter written by Winston’s attorney Glenn Brock, provided new details of the back-and-forth between the school board regarding former superintendent Earnest Winston prior to his termination last month.
Two families called WBTV to talk about their experiences with DSS after having children taken from their home without a court order. It's a practice the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has said is limited. But stories and records from these two families suggest otherwise.
Who is driving the plan and where to are questions WBTV is trying to get answers to, since hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in both Carolinas are on the line.
In Mecklenburg County, just ten percent of people in majority-white communities have medical debt in collections, while in communities of color it’s more than double.
LaTarzja Henry, a top staffer at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, interfered in the investigation into the handling of reported sexual assaults at Hawthorne Academy High School, sources familiar with the matter tell WBTV.
Shane Bare was quickly granted a victory in his appeal for coverage of a live-saving drug to treat his CIDP. It’s a far cry from his last battle against his plan sponor and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services when he had to appeal denials five times before finally winning approval from a judge.
The family of McCrae Dowless released a new statement Monday promising that more information will come out about allegations related to election fraud that has swirled for years, stemming from the 2018 election for the 9th Congressional District. Dowless died of cancer on Sunday.
A business owner who had to shutdown her company after the state license was surrendered is still collecting payments from customers who are stuck with broken equipment.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education voted Tuesday to release internal personnel documents of Earnest Winston that the board said prompted its decision to fire him.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education will hold a special meeting on Tuesday where it is expected to vote to fire Superintendent Earnest Winston. That vote comes after months of back-and-forth regarding Winston's future at the district, including an offer by board members to pay Winston to leave.
Clients provided WBTV with copies of letters they received from the North Carolina Department of Revenue saying their returns for 2018, 2019 and 2020 were under review and that they needed to provide documentation and records authenticating their business losses. Losses that don’t exist.
The builder had so many liens against his homes he often couldn’t sell the properties, according to testimony and records filed with the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.
The garnishment process allows hospitals to collect on unpaid medical bills, but a WBTV Investigation raises questions about whether debtors are told about their legal rights to protest the collection.
The American Legion is warning veterans about a North Carolina-based company it says preys on service members. Veterans Guardian charges veterans for help submitting benefit claims to the VA, which other organizations will do for free.
A new report from the watchdog for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Office of Inspector General, details problems with top regional VA leadership that it says led to decreased care for veterans.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has missed multiple deadlines to submit data to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. The data is required to be submitted each year and includes statistics on student population, discipline and reports of incidents on school campuses, including reported rapes and sexual assaults. A district spokeswoman has not provided an explanation for why the deadline was missed.
Records obtained and reviewed by the WBTV Investigates Team show the long and stressful road firefighters must face who end up on the wrong side of a disagreement with leadership of the department.
Homeowners in two Indian Land neighborhoods are being compensated tens of thousands of dollars from Duke Energy after WBTV Investigates quesioned the electric company about several power surges that caused major damage.
What are state leaders doing each day? By law, the public has a right to know. But we found some state agencies taking much longer to producer their leader's calendar than others.
Charlotte councilmembers Dimple Ajmera and Julie Eiselt say reliability of the bus system needs to get better before they would ask voters to approve a new sales tax for the mobility plan.
Some of the city’s biggest transit centers, where both drivers and riders meet, currently have no security officers, even in the wake of the shooting that killed driver Ethan Rivera.
One of those companies was part of the biggest economic development deal in the history of Concord, until it went bankrupt shortly after a Russian investor took control of the corporation.
In North Carolina, a social worker has to go to court and get a judge’s order to remove a child from their parents’ home. But a WBTV investigation has found social workers taking children from their parents' homes without a court order in Cleveland and Gaston Counties. No official in Cleveland County, Gaston County or at N.C. DHHS will answer our questions.
Diann Weston was reassigned from her job as Hawthorne Academy HS's principal to a job that pays substantially less after a WBTV investigation found Weston suspended a student who reported a sexual assault. Despite that, school records show she's still making more than $130,000 a year. Weston's former assistant principal, who was also reassigned, is making roughly $10,000 more than the pay scale for her new job.
Since January 1, Brian Williams says he’s had to find a different way to work at least half a dozen times because of buses not arriving on time or at all.
A WBTV investigation has uncovered a group of people living in eastern North Carolina who obtained nearly $250,000 in state and federal aid money by submitting fraudulent applications for assistance. The head of the state office that approved the fraudulent grants dismissed the findings as insignificant compared to the amount of money the program has awarded.
A top state senator is asking questions of N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Cody Kinsley after a WBTV investigation found an eight-year-old boy reported being sexually abused in a group foster home. DHHS officials continue their refusal to answer questions.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has taken no concrete action in response to a report with dozens of recommendations from a task force formed to study how the district can better handle reported sexual violence.
Attorney General Josh Stein defended a science that has sent at least four innocent men to prison in North Carolina. Stein refused to answer WBTV's questions on camera for nearly a year. But that changed in early February.
