Matthews News

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.

Federal agents say they have rescued a 23-year-old St. Matthews man in North Carolina six days after he was kidnapped as part of an international plot.

Olin McKee of Rock Hill, S.C. McKee was part of the Allies' invasion of Normandy at Omaha Beach and in campaigns in northern France, the Ardennes, Germany's Rhine and central Europe.

Some describe the coyotes as vicious and responsible for killing cats, dogs and pet rabbits, while others are simply startled by their presence in an urban setting.

The robbery happened at 3:51 p.m. at the Sun Trust Bank on the 300 block of W. John Street.

Police released surveillance photos of a bank robber who they said held up the SunTrust Bank in Matthews Thursday afternoon.