Waxhaw News

State banking regulators have shut down a mortgage lending network that slipped past state regulation for years by selling sham licenses to unlicensed brokers and charging illicit fees to homeowners.

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Officers in Union County are investigating an attempted child abduction. A 9-year-old girl told her parents that two black men in a van pulled up to her in the Somerset neighborhood and asked her to get inside.

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Development near a busy intersection in Waxhaw has made a bad situation worse, but progress is being made to avoid a crash like the one on York Road that claimed three lives.

Union County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a man wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a neighbor Tuesday night.

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Police charged an 18-year-old man with murder after a woman's body was found last week in her Southport, N.C., home, according to Southport police.

Conway police searched for two armed men suspected of robbing a man and woman outside Campus Edge apartments, according to a police report.

North Carolina transportation leaders revealed the plan for making good on Gov. Bev Perdue's promise to finish Interstate 485 sooner rather than later.

An overturned tractor-trailer has closed the main route from Waxhaw to Fort Mill, S.C. The truck wreck happened on S.C. 75 near Hector Road.

Macon Alexandra Richardson has been selected to attend the 2009 session of the Governor's School of North Carolina, a six-week summer residential program for intellectually gifted high school students, integrating academic disciplines, the arts and unique courses on each of two campuses.

Jeanette Flint has spent the last 18 years at home with her children, trading mechanical engineering for volunteer work at school and in the community.

Students shovel at Omni Montessori School. When asked to explain her school to her friends, student Anna Kate Smith laughs.

The land provides the students woods, ponds and fields to learn in. David Kahn, executive director of the North American Montessori Teachers Association, says Omni's connection to its rural farming community is unique in the region.

A woman accused of abandoning her newborn to die by a burn pile in a Union County yard made her first appearance in court early Friday, and friends and family came out to support her.

A woman charged in the death of a newborn baby girl did not appear to have been pregnant, according to a friend interviewed Thursday evening by Channel 9 Eyewitness News.

FOX Charlotte's Eva Pilgrim has the latest on a Union County mother charged with killing her newborn baby girl.

Erica Denise Kelly of Waxhaw, charged with murder after authorities say she abandoned her baby near a trash pile in February.

FPI ceases talks for HRP naming rights FPI MB Entertainment LLC has now ceased talks Thursday evening with Hard Rock International in an attempt to sign over naming rights to a number of the park's rides and park in its entirety.