FBI returns captured Ten Most Wanted fugitive to Charlotte, North Carolina
The FBI on Friday, Jan. 16 captured Alejandro “Alex” Rosales Castillo in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico following a nearly 10-year manhunt, federal officials reported.
Sutton Foster Sets Concert Dates in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia, More
Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster, most recently on Broadway in the revival of Once Upon a Mattress, will bring her concert act to several cities around the country in the next few months. An Evening With Sutton Foster is scheduled for January 24 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston,...
Man sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for making race-centered threats with assault...
Hopkins called the victims terrorists, demanding they speak English and told them to go back to their country.
Charlotte Police Arrest Three Suspects Accused of Murder, Robbery, and Conspiracy in Graham Bennett...
Charlotte police have arrested three men in connection with the homicide of 30-year-old Graham Stanley Burnell Bennett. According to a press release from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) yesterday, detectives, through ongoing investigations, identified Za’Cariya Smith, 19, and Malik Rose, 24, who...
‘It’s devastating’: For the second year in a row, Mecklenburg homeless count finds someone...
For the second year in a row, volunteers found a person dead Thursday during Mecklenburg County's annual count to assess the state of homelessness. Starting in the pre-dawn chill, community volunteers pushed trolleys across uptown with sleeping bags, canned food, and water while they fanned out across sidewalks, bus...
Icy roads claim Mecklenburg County paramedic’s legs; 23 years later his message still saves...
Mecklenburg EMS Agency is urging the public to stay home this weekend if possible.
Specialty butcher shop open in Gaston County
A butcher shop offering specialty meat, a wine bar and a market opened recently in Belmont. The New York Butcher Shoppe is located at the corner of Bryant Street and McLeod Avenue. The shop opened quietly on Jan. 13 and held a ribbon cutting on Jan. 17, said co-owner Antonio Tillery. Tillery originally intended to...
FBI Director Patel arrives in Charlotte for handoff of wanted fugitive to CMPD
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – FBI Director Kash Patel paid a visit to Charlotte on Friday to announce one of the agency’s most wanted fugitives, Alex Castillo, is now behind bars in Mecklenburg County. Patel was joined by several law enforcement officials, including CMPD Chief Estella Patterson, as Castillo was walked off the...
Charlotte man found dead during annual homelessness count
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For the second year in a row, a person has been found dead during the annual Point-In-Time Count in Mecklenburg County, an organizer confirmed to WCNC Charlotte. A volunteer found the person near Woodlawn Road. The person's cause of death is not immediately available. This federally...
Nurse’s cancer battle inspires hope and kindness at Atrium Health
Porscha Barry is a nurse with the cardiac critical care unit at Atrium Health. You’ll occasionally find her at the piano in the Levine Cancer Center, spreading a little joy as she faces her own battle with cancer.

















