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Davidson College graduate injured in Boston Marathon explosions
A Davidson College graduate is in the hospital, recovering from the Boston Marathon explosion. J.P. Craven graduated Davidson in 2011. He played baseball there, was in a fraternity and started dating Nicolette Taggart, now his girlfriend of two-plus years. She said he's from Massachusetts and that he teaches math and ...
City Council sided with neighbors twice in 16 rezoning cases
Eyewitness News found out when neighbors fight rezonings in Charlotte, they almost never win. Channel 9 pulled every rezoning case the current City Council voted on. Eyewitness News found the ones in which enough neighbors were against it to require Council to have a certain vote, what the city labels ...
Charlotte City Council plan includes $800M in capital projects
The streetcar project has gotten so much attention, it has overshadowed other projects planned around Charlotte. There are roughly $800 million in other plans. "That's the goal and that was the goal with the whole package last year and continues to be the goal," said Councilmember David Howard. City leaders ...
Amount of transfers, new hires unclear for MetLife jobs
MetLife won't say how many people it's transferring to Charlotte and how many it will hire locally. When it moves to Ballantyne, the company plans to add 1,386 jobs to Charlotte’s economy. But, Eyewitness News found, when it applied for city and county incentives, it wouldn’t say how many of the jobs would ...
New local leaders could inherit divisive issues
Now that Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx isn't seeking re-election, a new mayor, new city manager and fairly new City Council will be running the city. And they could inherit very divisive issues. Sources told Eyewitness News Foxx really wanted the new city manager to be an outsider and was instrumental ...
Politicians consider run to serve as mayor of Charlotte
Now that Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx isn't seeking re-election, some politicians are already saying they're considering a run. They can start filing for the mayor's race July 5, which is three months from Friday. On the Democratic side, State Sen. Malcolm Graham said he's seriously considering the job. "We're going ...
Customers complain about towing at parking lot
Valerie Walker thought she did the right thing. She parked in a parking space, went into a sub shop and then ran next door to Dollar General. She says when she came out, someone had booted her vehicle and told her she was in the sub shop's parking not the ...
Leaders file bill to spend $34M on school security measures
Fewer school resource officers could soon be roaming halls and classrooms in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools as many districts consider adding police, CMS could be forced to cut them. Eyewitness News found out Wednesday that the concern for child safety is pushing city leaders to find the money. Each year, the city ...
Police looking for 2 men who robbed CVS in Matthews
Robbers hit the same CVS twice in the past few months. It's at the corner of Sam Newell Road and Highway 51 in Matthews, and is open 24 hours. The latest holdup happened Friday around 4 a.m. Police said two white gunmen went in the store. "Both masked, armed with ...
Salisbury police officer fired Wednesday, 2nd in 4 months
Salisbury police have fired two officers in the last few months. The NAACP is thinking about getting the U.S. Department of Justice involved. First, 22-year veteran Kenny Lane accused Salisbury police of shocking officers with Tasers repeatedly during training. He was fired in November. City Manager Doug Paris upheld the ...
Evacuation plan being reworked to account for changes uptown
If a major crisis hits uptown, you may have to flee. The current evacuation plan is from 2006. Charlotte's changed a lot since then, so emergency workers are reworking the evacuation routes to account for road changes and new buildings uptown. They're also working on how to communicate those routes ...
Unemployment rates went up in all NC counties in January
North Carolina's latest unemployment numbers are out. All 100 counties went up. Mecklenburg County went from 9.2 percent in December to 9.7 percent in January. The Charlotte metro area went from 9.4 percent in December to 9.7 percent in January. Shawn Huntley said she had a temp job that was ...
Lawmakers moving forward with bill on stadium renovations
North Carolina lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that could help the Panthers renovate Bank of America Stadium. A state House subcommittee worked on it Thursday and plans to send it to the House finance committee as early as next week. But it's not exactly what the team and ...
Marine killed in training exercise was from Hickory
Eyewitness News found out at least one of the Camp Lejeune Marines killed in the training accident in Nevada this week was from the Charlotte area. The Marines say they won't officially release all seven names until 9:45 p.m. Wednesday. But WSOC found out Lance Cpl. Mason Vanderwork was one ...
Hampton addresses courtroom after getting life sentence in son’s death
After 16 hours of deliberations, jurors agreed on a sentence in the Andre Hampton case. They sentenced him to life in prison without parole instead of the death penalty for killing his nearly 2-year-old son. Hampton heard life, not death, stood, and told the jury, "I'm sorry for what happened. ...
Jurors to continue deliberations Tuesday in Hampton trial
Jurors will pick up deliberations Tuesday. They are trying to decide whether to sentence Andre Hampton to life or death for killing his nearly 2-year-old son. They've been deliberating for roughly 14 hours since Thursday. The verdict sheet has six pages of questions. Jurors have to decide whether this murder ...
Jury deliberating in trial of man convicted of killing son
Jurors will keep deliberating Monday whether to sentence Andre Hampton to life without parole or death. Jurors said they are making progress and have not reached any "impasse." They spent about eight hours total discussing it between Thursday and Friday. A juror keeps telling the judge she has some personal ...
Sentencing for man convicted of killing son continues Friday
It is now up to the jury. Jurors spent more than an hour and a half deliberating whether to sentence Andre Hampton to life without parole or death for beating his 23-month-old son, Elijah, to death in 2008. Prosecutors insisted, during closing arguments Thursday, this was not an ordinary murder. ...
Closing arguments for Hampton death penalty trial expected Thursday
Closing arguments start Thursday morning in the sentencing phase of Andre Hampton's death penalty trial. Jurors found him guilty last week of beating his almost 2-year-old son, Elijah, to death. Defense lawyers called the toddler's mother, Lashinna Burger, to the stand last. She told jurors she forgives him. Moments later, ...
Sentencing phase continues for man convicted of killing son
Jurors could hear closing arguments in the sentencing phase of Andre Hampton's death penalty trial Wednesday. His sister came to court and testified Hampton was her "protector" and "inspiration" growing up, that he stood up for her when she was abused and that he should get life because, "I got ...
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