1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (184+ words) A veteran detention officer at a North Carolina jail is facing 20 counts of felony forgery, after it was determined documents linked to deportations had fake signatures, according to investigators. The paperwork was used to hold suspected undocumented immigrants in jail…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (442+ words) There’s not much doubt about which is the biggest high school football game in North Carolina this week. Two teams ranked in this week’s NC Super 25 poll will face off Friday: No. 4 Lake Norman (4-0) will visit No. 9 Reagan in Pfafftown,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (799+ words) When Charlotte first began its major affordable housing push, the city identified a shortage of about 24,000 apartments available to low-income people. Nearly a decade and hundreds of millions of public dollars later, its estimate now stands above 42,000. The city’s answer…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (165+ words) The NWS Raleigh NC issued an updated weather alert at 5:07 p.m. on Saturday for strong thunderstorms until 6 p.m. The alert is for Halifax, Nash and Edgecombe counties. Residents may experience wind gusts of up to 30 mph. "At 5:07 p.m., Doppler radar tracked strong thunderstorms…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (473+ words) Summer is almost over, but good barbecue is forever. And Southern Living says two Western North Carolina joints are serving some of the best plates in the entire South. Ben’s Backdraft Barbecue in Waynesville and The Honey Hog in Morganton…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (293+ words) The 25-year-old man who died while kayaking in North Carolina’s Lake Waccamaw was a well known Ph.D. student at Clemson University in upstate South Carolina, the university says. Erick Ross went missing in the lake on Labor Day and…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1521+ words) In eight years, Jon Phillips will understand that this is necessary. In eight years, the father might be right that this is a phase, that his son Jaelan will return to the field, that Jaelan’s boiling resentment toward football is…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (485+ words) Ahead of the much-anticipated debut of Wegmans’ in south Charlotte, a new survey by the grocery chain made it clear what shoppers want: a taste of upstate and western New York. The family-owned Rochester, NY-based company launched a community survey…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1328+ words) For Wake Forest University Law School professor Tanya Marsh, it feels a little ironic that a company that turns human remains into compost is working to open a facility in North Carolina. After all, the state played a major role…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (15+ words) (Video) Charlotte Observer...