Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather has created something he says is a first in North Carolina. His office now has a Diversity and Inclusion Team.
While Charlotte jumped in the rankings of the country’s largest cities, the city’s outlying towns continue to grow at a much faster pace, new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show.
A family that lives on Mountain Island Lake says a strange set of circumstances surround the disappearance of their two French Bulldogs earlier this week.
After five years in business off Central Avenue in east Charlotte, FuManChu Cup Cakes announced on Facebook they are closing their storefront this Sunday.
A new multi story, multi use building opened it’s doors Thursday along West Moorehead. ‘Refinery 1213’ near I-77 will house creative office and retail space. It the latest in a long list of projects that continue to transform the West Charlotte neighborhood.
After WBTV Investigates reported on some Charlotte council members exploring whether they could increase their salary by cutting CMPD crisis intervention training, council sought a massive course correction and clarification of what their intentions were.
Lowe’s is considering Charlotte as the home for its new global technology hub, where the home improvement retailer will employ thousands of software engineers and other IT professionals.
The situation was captured on multiple cameras. From one angle the suspect can be seen pulling a gun. The entire transaction is very fast. The suspect only spent about 10 minutes inside the store.
Lance Fenderson, a junior at Davidson Day, was injured during a lacrosse game earlier this month. Fenderson’s soccer coach said the teen collided with another player during the game and suffered a severe spinal cord injury.
During a City of Charlotte budget briefing Wednesday Councilman Braxton Winston requested the city manager raise city council and the mayor’s salaries in the FY2020 budget proposal. Council members Matt Newton and LaWana Mayfield asked city staff about cutting $1 million in police training.
Police have been going directly to where people are to have conversations about officers and the communities they serve -- as well as police issues on the streets.
Mecklenburg County has 7 splash grounds in all, five will open this weekend. Ahead of that, testing is required and we uncovered records showing nearly all of those opening this weekend had violations.
Vice President Mike Pence will attend the 2020 Republican National Convention kickoff in Charlotte on Wednesday as part of a day-long trip to the state that includes stops in Monroe and Greensboro.
The city may not have an ordinance right now, but with phase 2 of that uptown cycle track and this growing issue, CMPD is working with city leaders to create a city ordinance that would provide further language on what you can and cannot do inside of a bike lane, which could mean more citations.
Those numbers are the reason why Monarch opened a Youth Crisis Center in Charlotte back in December 2017. It was the first one of its kind in North Carolina.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, the incident happened near the intersection of W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. and S Graham St.
On Monday night, the group in charge of studying the idea of Huntersville running its own charter schools shared its final recommendations to the town board of commissioners.
Millions of people watched the final episode of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Sunday night as the series officially came to an end. Now, many people are dealing with different emotions about how it ended.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders condemned a new wave of state anti-abortion laws during a rally that drew around 1,500 people to the lawn of Charlotte’s Central Piedmont Community College on Friday.
There’s good news for property owners looking to lower their tax bills after the latest revaluation: the county has reduced more than $1 billion in property values through the appeals process.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a big problem in the U.S. among men. It’s also the single most important risk factor of stroke. And, for men - the risk of stroke is higher and more dangerous.
Cassidy Hooper is one of only a few people in the world born with no eyes and no nose. We first met her in 2008, at 11 years old. She’s now 22 and just graduated from Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte.
CMPD identified the man Thursday as 37-year-old Eric Henderson, warning parents as he was still being sought. Officials say Henderson was taken into custody without incident.
Over the last five months, some Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers have been running traffic safety operations on area roads to crack down on speeding.
Pescaro chowed down on a grilled cheese sandwich, fries drizzled with ketchup, pineapples, ice cream, a cookie and sweet tea- a meal suited for a survivor.
“What Riley did in that class was extraordinary,” said CMPD Lt. Brad Koch. “As a police department, as a community, as a city and as a nation we wanted to recognize this act.”
Topics ranging from equity, racism in the classroom, makeup school days for CMS students, and prohibited use of tobacco/smoking products on school property were discussed.
May has been designated as Mental Health Awareness Month since 1949 in an effort to remove the stigma associated with mental health. But doing that is no easy task.
Trauma patients have incredible hurdles to overcome, but a hospital in our area started a trauma survivors network to help patients get through it together.
A middle schooler says her routine of walking to and from the school bus stop changed on the morning of May 2 after she spotted a car but didn’t recognize the driver.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police says school resource officers (SROs) have identified 18 potential suspects after a large fight broke out on the campus of Vance High School Monday afternoon.
Part of that appreciation stems from a proposal to raise the lowest earning employees from $15 an hour to $16 and a $2,000 raise for employees earning less than $69,000 a year.
In Union County, each middle and high school has their own respective school resource officers but in elementary schools, one SRO splits their time between three different schools.
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, detectives have charged 17-year-old Diyondre Wilson with the murder of 31-year-old Derrick Lamar Chambers.
On a rainy Friday morning in South Charlotte, hundreds gathered inside Calvary Church to say their final goodbyes to fallen Mooresville Police Officer, Jordan Sheldon.
As the suspects left the arcade and were in the parking lot, police say shots were fired by both an armed security guard and by at least one of the suspects.
Thursday was an exciting day for meteorologists and weather geeks of all stripes around the greater Charlotte region as the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron from Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, MS (better known as the famed ‘Hurricane Hunters’) paid a visit to spread the word of weather safety
According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, 20-year-old Kiante Treshawn McClellan and another unidentified person are wanted for these crimes.
This Mother’s Day weekend there will be thousands of moms across the Carolinas who won’t be with their kids... because those moms are behind bars. Some are held on charges awaiting trial because they can’t afford to bond out while others, like Lyndsey Barr, are serving time.
WBTV was granted unprecedented access to The Mecklenburg County Detention Center North, where women are housed. We wanted to meet moms behind bars ahead of Mother’s Day.
CMS is asking for $529.8 million from the county. If CMS gets what they’re asking for - that means the county would foot the bill for about 33 percent of how the districts year would be paid for.
It’s been more than a week now since 19-year-old Reed Parlier was killed by a gunman on the campus at UNC Charlotte, and his family is still trying to feel their way through the thick fog of grief.
Charlotte resident Azaria Algarin posted a photo with the celebrity couple, along with her mother and brother, calling it “a special day that I will forever cherish.”
The South Carolina Senate voted 27-15 Thursday to approve an incentives bill to bring the Carolina Panthers’ headquarters and practice facilities across the border from North Carolina.
