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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A woman who was shot in the face by a stray bullet in Charlotte last Fourth of July is asking people to think twice before recklessly firing guns. On July 4, 2025, the bullet struck Leah Hixon in the face, shattering her jaw, while she was inside a home in north Charlotte off Jane Avenue.

A Charlotte-connected attorney who once ran for City Council and his wife were reported killed in an apparent murder-suicide at their Mansfield, Texas, home on June 26, according to local online postings and funeral listings. Those accounts say the couple left four children who were not injured and that a Muslim funera

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Charlotte police are warning teens not to participate in takeover gatherings over the July Fourth weekend. The department posted on X Friday, July 3 — a day before America’s 250th birthday — saying, “A ‘takeover’ isn’t a flex. It’s a quick way to ruin everyone’s night — including your own.”

The exotic-car landscape of the Carolinas just got rearranged, and it happened with a handshake instead of a bidding war. Charlotte’s own Hendrick Automotive Group — the largest privately held auto retailer in the United States — has acquired Foreign Cars Italia, the Ferrari-anchored luxury operation that Benny Yount’s

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A Charlotte veteran who relied on his car to run his nonprofit is now stuck after it was destroyed and vandalized earlier this week. The alleged vandalism happened in the Fourth Ward neighborhood off North Graham Street and 9th Street. Charlotte Mecklenburg police are now working...

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) - A Huntersville Fourth of July event was cancelled for this weekend to ongoing drought conditions in Mecklenburg County, according to officials. On Thursday, July 2, Huntersville fire said that this year’s Wet Down Fourth of July tradition on Saturday, July 4, was cancelled due to mandatory w

Residents at The Oliver apartments in University City are dealing with uncertainty after the property's management company abruptly stopped overseeing the complex, leaving tenants unsure who to pay rent to and with unanswered maintenance requests.

The release of 911 calls is providing new insight into a deadly shooting during an apparent home break-in in east Charlotte last month.

The extreme heat in Charlotte is straining the power grid and emergency responders, with Duke Energy offering a voluntary Power Manager program to reduce energy demand and MEDIC responding to a high volume of heat-related calls.

The family of Juordan Malik Hill is still seeking answers and justice nearly nine years after he was killed in September 2018 on Pruitt Street in west Charlotte.