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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Mecklenburg County officials are outlining how they’ll handle Iryna’s Law, a package of new criminal justice changes. “We are bracing for Monday, as you do when there’s a hurricane or a tragic storm that is coming.” Elisa Chinn-Gary, Mecklenburg County Clerk of Courts said.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department was investigating a homicide in the parking lot of a northwest Charlotte church Tuesday night.

The City of Charlotte's Solid Waste Services will not provide curbside garbage, recycling, yard waste, or bulky waste collection on Thursday, November 27, 2025, because of the Thanksgiving holiday. Thursday customers will have their collection on Friday, November 28. Friday customers will be serviced on Saturday,...

Bodycam footage released by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department shows an encounter with Decarlos Brown months before he was charged in a deadly light rail stabbing, in which officers found Brown to be experiencing mental health concerns and urged him to seek medical help.

CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A man has been charged with allegedly obstructing the use of entrances on federal property, according to the Department of Justice. On Sunday, Nov. 16, William Stanley, 25, and Heather Morrow, 44, gathered outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement/Removal Operations (ICE/ERO)...

Doula Heidi Snyderburn-Campbell drove around the Charlotte apartment complex cautiously, looking for any signs of Border Patrol presence last Friday. She was there to pick up a Brazilian woman named Rose for a doctor’s appointment. Rose, who is 15 weeks pregnant and undocumented, initially wanted to skip the...

(The Center Square) – Enforcement of America’s laws, says a North Carolina congressman, makes a just society, not a mean one, and not an evil one. “Enforcing the law does not make us Klansmen, but failing to enforce the law will be our national suicide,” wrote U.S. Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., on social media...

FORT MILL, S.C. — A mother whose son was killed in Fort Mill is getting community support with funeral and memorial expenses. Damien Crandell died on Sunday, November 23rd at the Lakeview Apartments, according to the GoFundMe account. Crandell’s mom, Ericka Jackson, says her son tragically lost his life...

Drones have been spotted in Charlotte night skies in recent days, but who is flying them? What are they being used for? And how much longer will they be around? The Charlotte Observer has reached out to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to...

A chorus of speakers on Tuesday urged Mecklenburg County commissioners to use their limited leverage to ensure Atrium Health delivers on the affordable housing it promised when it won $75M in taxpayer funding for its medical innovation district, The Pearl. “I want to talk to you about the broken promises...