Matthews News

Matthews, N.C. Activist investor Carl Icahn, who had been pressuring Family Dollar to sell the company, has reduced his ownership stake in the company from 9.39% to 6.09%.

In this photo taken May 13, 2009, file photo, Family Dollar CEO Howard Levine poses for a photo at the company's headquarters in Matthews, N.C. Dollar Tree is buying rival discount store Family Dollar in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $8.5 billion, the companies announced Monday, July 28, 2014.

A Friday afternoon wreck involving two passenger vehicles and a Charlotte Area Transit System bus sent six people to local hospitals, according to Matthews police.

The Lincolnton Police Department reported the following arrests: Craig Allen Deaton, 25, of 410 Madison Street in Lincolnton was charged July 21 with one misdemeanor count each removing, altering or defaming land, larceny and second degree trespass.

Brian Carney, second-place winner in the Yadkin Arts Council's "Eye of the Artist: Happiness Is" exhibit, poses with his ballpoint pen drawing entitled "I See You."

July 22--RALEIGH -- A North Carolina Senate committee Tuesday endorsed a measure that could prevent Mecklenburg County voters from approving a quarter-cent sales tax increase to supplement the pay of local teachers.

Students and staff at Elizabeth Lane Elementary School will have a familiar face as their new principal in the 2014-15 school year.

Mom of 2 Amy Thompson Taylor, 46 of Matthews, and mom of 3 Niki Middleton Hitch, 38 of Matthews, started their health coaching business, Spunky Avocado, this Spring.

A second Boggs Paving executive pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with charges that the company received more than $87 million in road projects by misrepresenting the role a minority-owned contractor played in the work.

The N.C. Senate finance committee on Monday discussed but took no action on a bill that would stifle Mecklenburg County’s ability to raise money from sales taxes for teacher raises.

Drenching thunderstorms pummeled the Charlotte area for the second time in less than a week Monday, dumping up to 6 inches of rain in spots and causing another round of flash flooding.

Sugar Creek Charter School teachers Tawana Wiggins, center, and Shanika Henderson, right, work together during a staff training session on Thursday.

Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon speaks at the Charles R. Jonas Federal Building on west Trade Street, Charlotte, N.C. after his plea hearing, Tuesday, June 03, 2014.

If some folks in North Carolina have their way, all convicted drunk drivers will have to have ignition interlocks installed in their vehicles.

A late-session surprise bill that would require counties to choose between education and public transportation if they want to use sales taxes to pay for them was delayed in the Senate on Thursday.

Rolesville Middle School student Asia Hicks concentrates as she works on an assignment in Mary Nelson's Common Core Math 7 Plus class at the school on Feb. 21, 2014.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn kept up his attack on Family Dollar and chief executive Howard Levine on Wednesday, with a terse pronouncement: "The CEO shouldn't be the CEO."

After more than 5 inches of rain fell in less than two hours, a creek behind the Hampton Green neighborhood in Matthews turned into a roaring river Tuesday evening.

The FBI says three men affiliated with a Mexican drug cartel are accused of kidnapping a South Carolina man and holding him for ransom in a dispute over $200,000 in marijuana.

All warnings and watches have cleared aside from a Flash Flood Warning in a small portion of Union County that is expected to expire overnight.