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Ronnie Denton from Gastonia won $1 million on a $10 scratch-off ticket. He chose the $600,000 lump sum. The ticket came from Will's Food Store on South New Hope Road in Gastonia. Denton arrived at lottery headquarters Monday. He faced a choice: $50,000 each year across 20 years, or $600,000...

Two Mint Hill officers were shot, and one man, the suspect, is dead after a shooting at a Mint Hill shopping center Friday morning.

Dogs bring immeasurable joy to our lives, and it is heartbreaking when some are subjected to cruelty and neglect instead. Mable, a sweet and gentle dog, had never known the comfort of kindness. Her early life was filled with pain and mistreatment. She had been abused by the very people...

She has a whistle in her mouth, hornets buzzing around her torso and a mane of brown hair, with a message written above and below her head: “Get ICE out of Charlotte,” the top reads. “You’ve entered the NEST,” the rest of the message says. The artist, Makayla Binter , said the image is Queen Charlotte portrayed as...

Two people are seriously hurt Thursday morning after an overnight shooting in northwest Charlotte.

Mt. Zion Restoration Church, the organization behind Bountiful Blessings Food Pantry, is currently building a community restoration center that will eventually offer laundry facilities, showers and more to community members in need. In the meantime, Pastor Rodney Freeman is working with Gaston County, the city of...

Police in North Carolina are seeking the public’s help locating a statue of jazz legend Loonis McGlohon that was stolen from a gallery at a jazz club in Charlotte. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said officers responded to Middle C Jazz on South Brevard Street shortly before noon on Dec. 10 after...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Christmas Day is often about tradition, family and celebration. But for many in Charlotte, it was also about community and compassion. Block Love Charlotte spent the holiday serving hot meals and offering support to people experiencing homelessness, turning a day that can be especially difficult...

This courtroom had seen so many tears in 2025. The place where head-hung child defendants as young as 13 wearing chains on their wrists and ankles were led in by burly stone-faced bailiffs. Where stricken families cry and sit in rock-hard wooden gallery pews built not for comfort but to remind everybody courtrooms...