Matthews News

Family Dollar said Thursday that profits during its most recent fell by a third, news that's unlikely to help the discount retailer fend off an activist investor who wants to see the company sold.

Filing will be available at the Union County Board of Elections, 316 E. Windsor St. in Monroe, until July 25, a Friday, at noon.

Closing her storefront meant Amanda Carroll could have more time to be creative.

They argue that black voters are more likely to use early voting and same-day registration and were more likely to have cast ballots in the wrong precinct, both practices prohibited under the new law.

For designer Amanda Carroll, her "aha" moment came a year ago in July, when she suddenly saw her decade-plus-old business, Bead Boutique, the way a customer might.

According to a memo sent this week, these schools will have new principals in 2014-15.

WOODSTOCK – The Family Dollar store in Woodstock will be closed by Aug. 30 as the discount store operator tries to boost sales and earnings.

The former Hops Brewery on Independence Boulevard in Matthews has undergone a major change recently, to become the latest member of the LongHorn Steakhouse family in the Charlotte area.

As part of its restructuring plan, Matthews-based Family Dollar is closing 30 stores across the Carolinas – but none in its home turf of Charlotte.

Filing will be available at the Union County Board of Elections, 316 E. Windsor St. in Monroe, until July 25, a Friday, at noon.

Five people were arrested earlier this week after investigators say they broke into a home and held three people at gunpoint while they robbed the home.

Family Dollar is one of the Charlotte region's most prominent homegrown companies.

The mercury will reach into the 90s for the umpteenth day in a row here in Charlotte on Friday.

Nationally board-certified fourth-grade teacher Brian Pattison, 41, works on a math problem for his students at the Lake Myra Elementary School in Wendell, N.C. on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Mackenzie Matthews of Pinnacle was recently presented with the Founder's Scholarship from Crumley Roberts.

As the temperature warms in North Carolina, we enter the height of culinary pleasures: fruit season.

Welcome to Sardis Plantation ; an all-brick community which was built primarily in the mid 1980's and lies between Sardis Road and Alexander Road off HWY 51 in Matthews, NC.

Due to popular demand, Piedmont Players will be adding a 3rd FROZEN Camp for Elementary Students to the summer schedule.

Elevation Church, based in Matthews, North Carolina, added Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 LED-based moving lights to the extensive roster of AV equipment it used for a series of Easter worship experiences this year.