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The N.C. Music Factory complex spans 210,000 square feet on 7 acres. View Larger Rick and Noah Lazes spent a decade taking the N.C. Music Factory from idle daydream to reality.

By Ray Gronberg gronberg@heraldsun.com; 419-6648 DURHAM -- The proposed East End Connector, a link between the Durham Freeway and U.S. 70, offers high enough benefits and low enough costs that it merits full funding and a place on the N.C. Department of Transportation's short-term construction schedule, state engineers say.

July 30th, 2010 by Priscilla Tsai in Food News , Priscilla Tsai , Smorgasbord Patron tequila has put together the national Patron Secret Dining Society which hosts dinners created by local master chefs and mixologists.

All lanes of Interstate 85 have reopened after a collision forced the Highway Patrol to close several lanes during rush hour.

Charlotte firefighters battled three fires early Friday morning. One fire broke out at about 1:30 a.m. Friday on Royston Road in west Charlotte, off Camp Greene Street and Freedom Drive.

Even with the recession, one look at uptown Charlotte, and there's no question the city is still a banking center.

A Charlotte Mecklenburg police officer shot a robbery suspect in South Charlotte.

Published: Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 3:13 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 3:13 p.m. The entire Brunswick leg of the U.S. 17 Wilmington Bypass should be ready to drive on by 2020, according to an urban loop funding schedule released by the N.C. Department of Transportation on Thursday.

Two people were injured in a wreck involving a motorcycle at South Tryon Street and York Center Road around 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, Medic officials said.

A Charlotte man will spend 5 1/2 to 7 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty on Thursday to fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl in west Charlotte.

A Charlotte woman pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to probation for striking and killing a man who was changing his girlfriend's tire on I-85. Sandra Krasen, 45, was arrested last September after her Toyota Rav-4 plowed into Arthur Bankhead, 53, on the left shoulder of I-85 near Statesville Road.

Firefighters battled a blaze on Whitehall Drive in west Charlotte this afternoon.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Police are investigating an accident that claimed the life of a motorcyclist in the Steele Creek area Thursday afternoon.

Bianca Desiree Little is the fifth person to be charged in the shooting death of a man last weekend at a north Charlotte hotel.

A man was shot during a robbery attempt on Monroe Road Wednesday afternoon. The victim received non-life threatening injuries in the robbery, which happened near North Sharon Amity Road, according to police.

Stowe Park in downtown Belmont will be filled with music, food and fun during its Summer Celebration this weekend.

A man who was shot during an attempted robbery in southeast Charlotte Wednesday afternoon chased after the man who shot him.

With only today and Friday left to file, the Gaston County Board of Education has only one contested race.

An expert on slave literature will give a special presentation at the Gaston County Museum on Sunday.

Another day, another secret bar. yawn. you'll find the staircase that leads to Cienfuegos tucked away in the back of the Cuban sandwich shop Carteles.