The city of Charlotte is now the nation’s 15th most populous city, surpassing San Francisco. Citing new census data, The Charlotte Observer reported Thursday that the city’s population jumped two spots in the past decade. Charlotte’s population rose 19.9 percent. ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) An 84-year-old North Carolina man with dementia has been cleared in his wife’s shooting death more than two years ago. The Charlotte Observer reported a judge dropped charges Thursday against Jim Norris, after two medical experts said he would never ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) A federal jury on July 19 rejected claims the former warden of one of North Carolina’s most dangerous prisons bore responsibility for life-threatening threats posed by inmates and even guards in the gang-infested lockup. Lawyers for convicted killer Stacey ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to falsely enrolling foreign teens sought by basketball recruiters and coaches in her small private school. WSOC-TV reports that Evelyn Mack faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty July 2 ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina civil rights leaders are threatening to sue the state over a recently passed law that allows mostly white communities near Charlotte to create their own charter schools and a potential new voter ID law. “Legislating state-sponsored ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) A former North Carolina doctor has pleaded guilty to multiple charges after prosecutors accused him of prescribing pain medication to female patients in exchange for sex. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that 65-year-old ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Craft brewers in a froth over a North Carolina law requiring beer-makers to hand over substantial control of their product to an outside company on May 15 sought communications involving one of the state’s most powerful political interest groups. ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) Detectives in North Carolina say a police officer is accused of shoplifting from a grocery store. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney told a news conference May 10 that officer Samuel Yaravitz was identified as a suspect in seven shoplifting ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) Years after a woman accused a police officer of yanking her out of her car and slamming her face-first while handcuffed to the ground, a federal grand jury has charged him with using excessive force and misconduct in ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The case against a man accused of murdering his infant daughter took another unusual turn March 20 when North Carolina’s appeals court ruled that a judge shouldn’t have bypassed a jury to find him guilty. Todd Eric Boderick’s 2016 ...

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