Man charged with felony hit-and-run after striking 7-year-old near school bus stop
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man is facing multiple charges, including hit and run, after police said he failed to stop for a school bus and struck a 7-year-old boy in the University City area Thursday morning. The suspect has been identified as Adarias Steffon Oliver. He is charged with...
SC TROOPER OF THE YEAR: Chester County trooper stops wrong-way vehicle stolen from Charlotte...
South Carolina Highway Patrol Lance Corporal R.A. Lee (Troop 4, Post C) earned 2025 Statewide Trooper of the Year for stopping a wrong-way stolen vehicle on I-77 in Chester County, N.C., on July 8, 2025. Chase Details. A pursuit from Charlotte crossed into SC; the driver, Chauncee Malek Platt (31),...
North Carolina’s Most Iconic BBQ Restaurants Are Worth Canceling Your Diet For
North Carolina has been hiding something from the rest of the country, and it smells like hickory smoke and vinegar. While other states argue about who does barbecue best, North Carolina just keeps quietly smoking the best meat in America. Their family-run joints have been perfecting their craft for generations....
Search continues for missing woman last seen in Union County
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, along with the Union County Sheriff’s Office, is continuing to search for a missing woman.
2 hurt in northeast Charlotte crash that shut down busy roadway
Two people are hurt, and part of The Plaza is shut down after a crash in northeast Charlotte Thursday morning.
Uptown Transit Meltdown as CATS Guard Caught Beating Teen on Video
A viral clip is once again putting security at Charlotte's main transit hub under the microscope, after a Charlotte Area Transit System guard was caught on video punching and repeatedly kicking a teenage girl in the head outside the Charlotte Transportation Center in Uptown. A second camera angle shows other security...
Big Builder Drops 280-Home Bomb On Charlotte Suburbs
M/I Homes is getting ready to crank up construction around Charlotte, with the builder saying Thursday it will start sales on more than 280 new residences spread across two regional communities. One of those projects, Montevue, is slated for roughly 93 homes on about 63 acres along Odell School Road in Concord, while...
Video shows security at Uptown transit center punch, kick 17-year-old girl
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A video circulating on social media shows a private security officer beating a 17-year-old at the CATS Transit Center in Uptown Charlotte, but security officials say it doesn’t show the full picture. The video posted on the ‘charlittt.nc’ Instagram page shows an officer slam the...
Driver dies in daylight head-on wreck in Charlotte, police say
A driver died in a head-on crash in Charlotte on Thursday, police said. Julian Allen, 35, was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck in the 9900 block of Statesville Road, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department news release. That’s just south of Interstate 485 and Huntersville. Just after 5:30...
No, no. ‘Not for me.’ 911 calls revealed from the Plaza shopping center road...
James Calvin Rothwell Jr., 55, faces first-degree murder and three counts of shooting into occupied vehicles after the February 19 road-rage shooting that killed 38-year-old Sean Brandon Mason outside the Food Lion at 7400 The Plaza in northeast Charlotte. Incident sequence. Road rage escalated around 4:30 p.m. when...
