Queens University of Charlotte News

University Provost Joan Lorden wasn't pleased when she heard UNC Charlotte's ranking among other universities in an August edition of The U.S. News & World Report.

With obesity rates rising, more people are becoming aware of what they eat. But there are some things to think about before you sit down for your next meal.

Playwright Karen Brody had a fixation on childbirth in America. As a result, she conducted more than 100 interviews with pregnant women , before setting out to write her own play titled Birth .

In 24 Hours of Booty's eight-year history, more than 6,000 riders have raised more than $3.7 million.

The Phoenix Cos. Inc . said today four directors voluntarily resigned today so the Hartford insurer could shrink to an 11-member board, partly to cut expenses.

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The bank has broadened its search to find a replacement for retiring CEO Ken Lewis to include executives who want to live in New York, Bloomberg reported.

The manufacturing and furniture industries that built up the Hickory area have been hit hard in this recession, so the community is talking through what to do next.

Moonlight Creative Group, a leading Charlotte marketing communications firm, recently created an e-newsletter campaign for the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas .

Bank of America Corp. broadened its search for a chief executive officer to include candidates who want to live in New York, acknowledging the banka s biggest units are no longer based in its home of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Readers who were drawn into the small town world of "Olive Kitteridge," the novel by Elizabeth Strout that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year, can revisit the title character and her friends from Crosby, Me., when Ms.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is speaking at a North Carolina university about his new memoir.

A jury has found Seyi Odueso guilty of second-degree murder in the death of UNC Charlotte volleyball player Christy Galvin.

Parkway when he flies into town next week to speak at Queens University of Charlotte.

Don't despair. You can listen to it again on WFAE's " Charlotte Talks " program tonight at 9 p.m. when you tune into 90.7 on your FM dial.

The Coker men's soccer team dropped out of the latest National Soccer Coaches Association of America national poll that was released on Tuesday afternoon.

Four men in one family are accused of committing a series of intricately planned Charlotte bank robberies - dressing as painters before taking money and making off in stolen vans.

Ronald Tessneer of Shelby, Tina Williams of Shelby and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hudson Jr.

Want to see Jill Sobule? The singer-songwriter plays an acoustic set Friday at Charlotte Pop Fest.

Classrooms, libraries and parks promised to voters during recent bond campaigns will be built on slowed-down schedules, but commissioners still face tough choices about which projects feel the biggest pinch.