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Women dance for domestic violence victims Saturday
Dozens of women put on their workout clothes to dance for domestic violence victims on Saturday morning. The event was also to support Zumba instructor Sandra Guynes. Guynes said she was abused by her ex-husband and at one point slept with a knife under the mattress. Since then she has started ...
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Boston Marathon bombing victim returns home to Charlotte
On Saturday, Boston Marathon bombing victim Nicole Gross and her husband, Michael Gross, returned home to Charlotte. The couple was greeted by a small group of friends, colleagues and supporters at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Eyewitness News is working on a ...
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Police investigating fatal east Charlotte shooting
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating a fatal shooting in east Charlotte that happened early Saturday. Police found Adam Shawn Santiago, 25, in the 8500 block of Filbert Lane with an apparent gunshot wound. They responded to a call about a shooting about 1:12 a.m., according to a release from the police department, and Santiago was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Santiago ...
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Charlottes dream - bionic limbs
Quadruple amputee Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman dreams of bionic legs and hands allowing her to pick groceries from a supermarket shelf. The artificial limbs by world prosthetic leaders Touch Bionics are a few years - and around $200,000 - away for the 9-year-old survivor of meningococcal disease. But to Charlotte, they're worth the wait. When she turns 18, Charlotte wants to trade her short ...
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Earnhardt has a connection with Charlotte track
Dale Earnhardt Jr. climbs into his car for practice for the NASCAR Sprint All-Star auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Bob ...
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Friends to honor Charlotte man killed while helping car crash victims
crash victims. Antonio Thrope died last week when he was hit by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 77. On Saturday night his friends will hold a benefit concert in his honor at the Chop Shop in NoDa. Bands from all over the community are to perform. Friends said Thorpe was a talented singer, writer and musician. Dozens of local musicians who heard that Thorpe died helping others have wanted to give ...
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Over 90 drivers facing charges following CMPD DWI checkpoint
Police Department's drunken driving checkpoint on Friday night came in on Saturday, and now more than 90 drivers are facing charges. Altogether 93 were charged, 12 of which were for DWI. Police said they caught another 15 behind the wheel with their license revoked, and 13 were charged for having no license at all. Police said four drivers were caught without having ...
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Crews train for emergency calls on Catawba River
On Saturday the York County Emergency Response Team hosted a swift water rescue class at the Duke Energy Dam on the Rock Hill side of the Catwaba River. The class had members of the team, York Sheriff's Department, Fort Mill Rescue Squad, Rock Hill Rescue Squad and Lancaster County emergency medical services. All of the divisions were training to be ready to respond to emergency calls on ...
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Bobcats in process of changing name back to Hornets
The Charlotte Bobcats are in the process of changing their name back to the Hornets. CBS Sports said there is no timetable for the switch. Owner Michael Jordan confirmed in February that the team hired a national polling group to determine how fans felt about the name change. Jordan called reaction to the poll very mixed. Charlotte's NBA team was known as the Hornets from 1988 to ...
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Troopers hold classes to show importance of not texting while driving
A survey released this week by the American Academy of Pediatrics found 45 percent of students nationwide admit to texting while driving. Troopers hold classes at local high schools to show how dangerous it is. They give students a piece of paper and tell them to read it while driving a course. "Texting is our way of communicating these days, and we just need to get them away from that and ...
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Police investigate fatal shooting on Filbert Lane
Police are investigating Saturday morning after one person was shot and killed in east Charlotte. Police said the shooting happened around 1 a.m. Saturday in the 8500 block of Filbert Lane in the Hickory Grove division. Officers said when they arrived they found a man who had been shot. The victim's identity has not been released at this time. Authorities said an argument happened between ...
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Report Bobcats set to re-adopt Hornets moniker
The Charlotte Bobcats are beginning the process of becoming the Hornets, again. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) The Charlotte Bobcats are beginning the process to change their name back to the Charlotte ...
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Male U.S. burglars steal to get money women steal for drugs
When selecting a target, most burglars said they considered the close proximity of other people including: traffic, people in the house or business and police officers; the lack of escape routes; and signs of increased security -- including alarm signs, alarms, dogs inside and outdoor cameras or other surveillance equipment. (UPI Photo/Ezio ...
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Ky. Busch wins in Charlotte ends Truck skid
Kyle Busch showed he can still be dominant in the NASCAR Truck Series, even when facing adversity. Busch overcame a costly penalty to snap a seven-race drought on the Truck Series by winning Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch dominated the race early, but had to overcome a penalty for leaving the pit stall with gas can in his truck, drawing a penalty that forced him to the back of ...
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Olympic HS dedicates fifth Habitat for Humanity house
Bryan Buravah and family in front of their new Habitat home built by students from the Olympic Community of Schools. Buravah will purchase the home will a zero-interest mortgage from Habitat Charlotte. The bird house is a gift to the family from second graders at Charlotte Latin ...
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Special unit puts 20 repeat offenders in jail this week
This week, a special unit with the Mecklenburg County district attorney's office put 20 habitual offenders in prison. One of them was 35-year-old Jeremy Southern, who was just sentenced to seven years behind bars. This week he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaking and entering in addition to being a habitual felon. Southern had been arrested nine times before. Another is 24-year-old ...
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Relay for Life event evacuated after bomb threat
Police evacuated the Iredell County Fairgrounds after a bomb threat against the Troutman Relay for Life event Friday afternoon. Police did not take any chances at the event that benefits cancer research. They cleared out the fairgrounds, brought in a bomb-sniffing dog and searched the entire area. Executive Director for the Charlotte-area American Cancer Society Brooke Moose said, ...
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Police investigate death of man who died in police custody
Mysheca Milhouse is grieving for her husband, Quinton, and is questioning how he died in police custody. Police were called to a neighborhood for an assault between Quinton Milhouse and another man and were told one of them had a gun. Officers separated the two men, and then realized Quinton Milhouse was severely hurt and stopped breathing. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said medic ...
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NAACP to continue protests at General Assembly
The North Carolina NAACP will continue its 1960s style sit-in protests at the General Assembly on Monday. The group has started calling this movement "Moral Mondays."More than 100 people have been arrested in the last three weeks. The group calls a series of bills going through the legislature an attack on poor people and minorities. "I feel like our community is under attack and ...
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Police Store manager arrested for exposing self in public
A Belk store manager is facing charges for exposing and fondling himself in public. Police said the incident happened in Concord, and they have evidence an incident happened in his store as well. Around 10 a.m. Wednesday, police said 46-year-old Chris Clark stripped naked. Someone who saw him called police, who said they caught Clark before he could put his clothes back on. They said he had a ...
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Edwards wins pole for NASCAR All-Star race
Carl Edwards captured the pole Friday for Saturday's NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, an event he won two years ago. Qualifying for the all-star gathering consists of three laps around the Charlotte Motor Speedway plus a four-tire pit stop. Edwards did all that in 1 minute, 51.297 seconds to put a Rousch Fenway Racing driver on the pole for the first time in the history of the race. In a ...
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Officials 1 killed in wreck on I-77 road shut down
Medic officials said one person was killed in a wreck Friday.The crash happened on Interstate 77 southbound near Sunset Road.All lanes are closed on I-77 southbound at mile marker 17, according to the N.C. Department of Transportation. The road is not expected to open until later Friday night, according to officials.NCDOT gave alternate routes:Due to a vehicle accident, all lanes are closed on ...
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Police arrest man charged in fatal shooting
A man charged with murder after a fatal shooting was arrested Friday, according to Statesville police. Byron Lee Smyre, 22, of Statesville, was arrested without incident at a home on Turnersburg Highway in Iredell County. Smyre is being held without bond in the Iredell County Detention Center. A second suspect was identified in the killing. A warrant was obtained Friday for the arrest of Dewayne ...
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18 arrested in narcotics investigation
On May 16-17, the Gaston County Police arrested 18 people as part of a warrant roundup following several narcotics-related investigations and undercover operations. Those arrested were from Gaston County as well as neighboring counties and had multiple charges ranging from misdemeanors up to felony narcotics trafficking related to pills, cocaine, and marijuana. The list of arrested persons is ...
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Family says mothers body left in parking lot for hours
The Rowan County Emergency Services Department is implementing new procedures after two men said their mother's body was left lying in a parking lot, in the rain, for hours after she died. David Smith said he was rushing his mother to the hospital late last month. When he noticed she had stopped breathing, he pulled into the Tamarac Marina on High Rock Lake and asked a worker to call 911. ...
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Middle and high school students becoming more isolated?
While the number of middle and high school students admitting to being bullied in surveys has gone up, the number of students actually reporting abuse is decreasing, suggesting that students may be withdrawing into themselves.
Students at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools get polled every two years by health officials in order to keep a watch on activities that might put them at risk, such as drug abuse, alcohol use, anti-social behavior and smoking. Read more
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