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Woman pleads guilty after hot grease thrown on neighbors
The woman who admitted attacking her neighbors -- five of them children -- with hot grease will spend almost five years in prison. Regina Terry, 34, pleaded guilty Thursday to seven counts of assault -- six of them felonies -- in the attack that happened in June 2012 when a ...
Hough High School evacuated twice Tuesday
Students and staff at Hough High School in Cornelius spent several hours outside Tuesday after two separate bomb scares. The first scare came at 8 a.m., when someone called in a bomb threat. The school was evacuated and a search did not turn up any potentially dangerous devices. But just ...
Trial to start Monday on street-racing collision from 2009
Four years after a street racing crash left three people dead, the families of the victims are headed back to court to try and make a developer pay for what they lost. The trial is set to start Monday in Mecklenburg County Court in a lawsuit that followed the collision ...
Man to serve 13 years for death of 2-year-old boy
A Charlotte man will spend 13 years in prison after admitting to killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old son. James Cleveland pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the death of Demytre Pendleton in September 2011. Ariacna Romero, the baby's mother, is facing a charge of being an accessory after the fact ...
People remember humility, humor of gospel singer
The Christian community is mourning the loss of George Beverly Shea, the soloist who traveled with Billy Graham for 60 years. Shea passed away Tuesday night at the age of 104. Billy Graham said he loved Shea like a brother. In a statement sent to Channel 9, Graham called him ...
Emergency crews hope to learn from what Boston experienced
Within hours of the bombings in Boston, Charlotte's police and firefighters began talking about their fallout here. "We have started some of those discussions about what we might do different for our city events," said Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Dulin on Tuesday. "What we'll do in the next several days ...
Police: Man shot, killed inside home with children in it
Police have identified the man shot and killed in a home invasion in northwest Charlotte early Friday morning. They say the victim was Davis Wayne Walthall, 42. Walthall was in his home on Maribel Avenue about 5 a.m. when three men with guns burst in and shot him. Neighbors told ...
15-year-old charged with attempted murder
A 15-year-old boy is charged with attempted murder after police say he attacked a teenage girl. Huntersville police said the incident happened after school Tuesday in the woods near the student parking lot at North Mecklenburg High School. Police said the boy told the girl that he wanted to show ...
Police say they found 275 gallons of jet fuel in storage unit
Vice detectives were expecting to find drugs. Instead, they found 275 gallons of jet fuel in a storage facility on Wilkinson Boulevard. Detectives were watching the facility that backs up to the department's West Service Center on Monday night when they saw a pickup truck with airport logos drive up ...
CMPD chief in D.C. for press conference about gun control legislation
Charlotte's top cop has joined the call for tougher gun laws. In a letter to North Carolina's two U.S. Senators, Chief Rodney Monroe asks Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr to support the bill that would toughen up background checks and ban the sale of assault rifles. "Under current law, ...
For 2nd time in 30 years, Charlotte goes month without homicide
Police in Charlotte know it can't last, but they're hoping the month of March is an indication that they are on the right track. For only the second time in the last 30 years, Charlotte has gone through a month without a single homicide reported. "It's always good to not ...
Search warrants reveal gunman in Harrisburg had small arsenal
Search warrants served at the home of a man who gunned down two of his neighbors in Harrisburg and then shot himself reveal that deputies found he had a small arsenal. Detectives began drawing up a warrant to search the home of Anthony Hardy, 50, on Coachman Court late Friday ...
911 call revealed from Harrisburg fatal shooting
A frantic call for help, critical clues that would help point deputies toward the gunman, and finally tears--they're all in the dramatic 911 call that the wife of a shooting victim in Harrisburg made Friday afternoon to the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office. "I need police -- there's been gunshots!" said ...
Police: Shots fired during grocery store robbery in east Charlotte
Robbery detectives are looking for the man who fired several shots as he was robbing a grocery store early Friday. Police said the suspect wearing a mask followed the manager into the Food Lion on the Plaza just after 6 a.m. and told him to open the store's safe. Moments ...
Police find 26 illegal poker machines in south Charlotte raid
Police in Charlotte made their first sweepstakes raid Wednesday morning. Detectives found 26 illegal machines at LPM Sweepstakes on Old Pineville Road in south Charlotte. The machines had poker, bingo and other video games, police said. In January, a new state law required parlors to install new software. Police showed ...
Injunction spells out conditions hotel must meet to stay open
Fencing, surveillance cameras and background checks on all guests. Those are some of the things owners of a north Charlotte hotel have agreed to do to stay in business. The owners of the Budget Inn on North Graham Street signed off on an injunction that spells out more than a ...
Man accused of flashing students at bus stop pleads guilty
A man accused of flashing students at a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools bust stop pleaded guilty and will not spend another day in jail. William Newell is in a wheelchair and couldn't get all the way into the courtroom, so he sat in the doorway from the holding cell and entered his ...
Mother to spend 10 years in prison for sex charges
A Charlotte mother will spend the next 10 years in prison for a crime that investigators said was the worst that they have ever seen. Eyewitness News was there Monday as Darlene Enos pleaded guilty to sex charges involving her 1-year-old daughter. Enos spoke clearly without emotion Monday afternoon as ...
Man pleads guilty to killing wife, gets 20 years in prison
A man who killed his wife then tried to hide her body in their south Charlotte home for several weeks pleaded guilty to her murder Thursday and will spend at least 20 years in prison. Brandon Blakeney did not say anything as he entered the plea to second-degree murder in ...
Woman pleads guilty to second-degree murder in toddler’s death
A Charlotte woman who was supposed to take care of her roommate's toddler will spend at least 15 years in prison for killing him. Cassandra Mingo pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday in the death of Coltton Doleman, who was 23 months old. Mingo had first told police that the ...
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