Sheriff Donald “Smokey” Belin patrolled Matthews before making history in West Virginia. Now the town is throwing a cornhole tournament to help him fight Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

A former flight attendant and her 10-year-old daughter now have a stable home near her school, a yellow reading chair included.

Teens told the CMS board that efficient buildings could shrink a budget already burdened by rising utility bills.

Town Council gave the new restaurant an official welcome, and it's already running $5 Tap Tuesday drafts.

Steven Downing Jr. pleaded guilty to killing Stephen “Jay” Carroll II outside a south Charlotte bar after both men were kicked out for fighting.

Corey Cook, 26, admitted using his dead family's cards to pay an online extortionist before setting their Troutman home ablaze.

A-B Tech's new Futures Factory rises near Pratt & Whitney, aiming to turn Helene recovery cash into a manufacturing pipeline.

A grocery run for a Labor Day cookout turned deadly on Grandhaven Drive after a minor car crash, neighbors say.

Tyquan Paige was sentenced after prosecutors said he didn't fire the gun that killed 17-year-old Aryan Jaswal.

Catawba's police chief wanted to keep the license plate readers after they helped find a murder suspect's car. The town council said no anyway.

A wrong turn near Chimney Gap left a hiker stranded overnight without food, water, or a way out — until rescuers bushwhacked in at dawn.

Vision To Learn is expanding into Raleigh-Durham and Greenville-Spartanburg with mobile eye clinics and Panthers-backed school assemblies this month.

A young crash victim remained in critical condition after a Saturday pileup shut down US 321 South at I-85 for half an hour.