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  • Wreck kills 1 knocks out power to hundreds

    One person was killed in a Sunday evening wreck on Providence Road that police blamed on excessive speed. Police identified the dead man as 22-year-old Adrian Francisco Sanchez. Police say Sanchez was speeding in his 2003 Acura 3.2 TL S just after 6 p.m. when he lost control, drove off the right side of the road and struck a utility pole. Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say ...

  • Teenage girl shot in leg

    A teenage girl was shot inside a home on West Boulevard early Sunday. The shots were fired inside the girl’s home. She was hit in the leg but her injuries weren’t life-threatening. Assault with a deadly weapon detectives and robbery detectives responded to the scene, but police had only a vague description of the suspects. Officers were still investigating. Police encourage anyone ...

  • Zebulon houses hit by stray bullets

    Zebulon, N.C. - Zebulon police are investigating what appears to be stray rifle bullets that hit three houses on Braemar Highland Drive Saturday evening.Police Chief Timothy Hayworth said Sunday afternoon that an initial investigation found that two houses were occupied at the time and at least one bullet hit the bedroom of a 3-year-old girl."I was completely freaked out," said the ...

  • Legislator opposes I-77 tolls

    MOORESVILLE A second Charlotte-area state representative on Sunday announced his opposition to planned Interstate 77 toll lanes. “When you’re driving down a road that you already paid for, you shouldn’t be taxed again with a toll,” State Rep. Larry Pittman, R-Cabarrus, told members of Widen I-77, a Lake Norman-area citizens group fighting the state’s $550 million ...

  • Billy Graham isn’t finished preaching yet

    He’ll be 95 in November, but Billy Graham still isn’t finished preaching. His hearing and eyesight faltering, Graham is not up to any more stadium-size crusades. But he can still talk into a camera. And that’s what he’s been doing over the last six months, speaking about Christ, the cross and America in his mountaintop Montreat home. The Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic ...


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The Wasp Woman [DVD]

The Wasp Woman [DVD]

The Giant Gila Monster may have been the perfect make-out movie. After all, as a low-budget, B-movie sci-fi/horror hybrid aimed directly at the insatiable teenage market, it played drive-ins in the late 1950s and early 1960s, yet it is so inept and boring that I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to watch it all the way through. So, even if stuck on a blind date about whom you're ... ...

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  • Charlotte NC celebrates 1963 eat-in that desegregated restaurants set example for South

    In this May 16, 2013, photo, Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who was a prominent Charlotte civil rights leader, in Silver Spring, Md. In the spring of 1963, a Hawkins led 65 people on a four-mile march from an African American college to the center of Charlotte’s downtown. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis ...

  • Community raises money for man paralyzed in motorcycle wreck

    Knightdale, N.C. - The Knightdale community came together Sunday to raise money for a man severely injured in a motorcycle wreck last month.Bruce Basil Hemmingway is adjusting to live as a quadriplegic, but he requires 24/7 care."I can't move my arms. I can't feed myself," he said. "I was the breadwinner. That's shut down (this) definitely changed our lives ...

  • Traffic wreck shuts down I-85 south person trapped

    Southbound Interstate 85 is shut down because of a vehicle wreck where at least one person is trapped. The wreck happened around 4:30 p.m. near Graham Street. Firefighters and paramedics were on scene, but it was unclear how long the road would be closed. First responders did not have an update on the condition of the person who was trapped in the ...

  • Charlotte remembers historic1963 desegregation eat-in

    View Photo Associated Press - In this May 16, 2013, photo, Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who was a prominent Charlotte civil rights leader, in Silver Spring, Md. In the ...

  • Denver rallies to beat UNC 12-11 in lax quarters

    INDIANAPOLIS - Eric Law scored with 13 seconds left to cap Denver's big comeback in a 12-11 win over North Carolina in an NCAA lacrosse quarterfinal Sunday. Denver trailed by as many as six goals and was down five at halftime. "Every single head was up in the locker room," Law said of Denver's 9-4 halftime deficit. "We knew we were right there because of the chances we ...

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