Mecklenburg County News

CHARLOTTE, NC The Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners met on Thursday. No voices were raised.

Rep. Robert Brawley of Mooresville, just north of Mecklenburg County, sent his House colleagues an email apologizing "for any discomfort caused" by his criticism of Speaker Thom Tillis, a Cornelius Republican.

Ellis Royster sat passively as witness after witness pointed the finger at him during his Mecklenburg County murder trial Thursday afternoon.

A former employee with the Matthews Police Department has been charged with embezzlement, according to a release from the department.

The contradictory changes are in the budget approved Wednesday by the Senate, and in a major transportation funding law approved by the House earlier this month.

Unless they're heading to the weekend races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, motorists in North Carolina can hit the road without too many headaches for the Memorial Day weekend.

An angry crowd of Interstate 77 toll lane opponents booed and shouted down members of the agency that sets Charlotte area road priorities Wednesday night after they were given 10 minutes to say why they feel tolls from Charlotte to Mooresville are a bad idea.

Iredell County officials and Charlotte-Mecklenburg firefighters responded to a 2-alarm fire on the Iredell-Mecklenburg county line Wednesday afternoon.

An Ohio man was arrested at a Charlotte McDonalds after police say he called them and asked to turn himself in for the shooting death of a teenager.

"I haven't had any problems in this neighborhood," Rodden says. "It's probably gotten a bad rap it doesn't deserve." Westover Hills is conveniently located near the interstates and West Boulevard.

Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Heath Morrison sits down with Sonja Gantt to talk about the new grading practice that's in place at three of the district's high schools on NBC Charlotte News at 4. Click above to see an extended version of the interview.

The state called three witnesses to the stand Wednesday in the trial of man accused of shooting and killing a toddler.

Bobbie Shields is introduced to the board members at the recent commissioners board meeting.

It's what victims of the devastating tornado in Oklahoma will do. But, that's no easy task for so much devastation.

Mecklenburg County commissioners return to work tonight, two weeks after the firing of County Manager Harry Jones and a week after board members exchanged insults and accusations in front of reporters and the public.

An open door into a small-town storage unit last month raised a window into Robert Michael Milton’s private world.

Dixie’s Tavern was owned by the Bar Investment Group, which also runs BAR Charlotte and Blackfinn, among others.

About 35 South Mecklenburg High School students are being tested for tuberculosis this week after a student there was diagnosed with an active TB case.

Uptown Charlotte's Dixie's Tavern has closed following the expiration of its lease with Levine Properties, according to a report from NBC Charlotte.

Some Charlotte residents are observing the 50th anniversary of a march that called for an end to segregation in North Carolina's largest city.