A Mecklenburg County jury convicted Akingbiwaju Opadele, who never spent a day in jail before trial ended.

At a UNC Asheville forum, Quentin Miller and Gary Parris discussed staffing, mental health gaps, and immigration policy.

Matthews police want help naming two suspects caught on video in a string of business break-ins.

Four students went to the hospital after a cookie-eating incident at East Iredell Middle School. No arrests have been made yet.

Gwyneth Brown told a Rowan County judge that texts show Ladarius Dupree Frazier knew fentanyl was in the pills he supplied.

CMPD is investigating another deadly crash in the Metro Division, a corridor already marked by repeat fatal collisions.

Jake Barker, a sixth-grade math teacher at CHASE Middle School, was suspended after deputies say he sent a student explicit material.

Jeremiah Reed fled on foot when Mint Hill officers searched his car and found two more guns and drugs.

A single-vehicle wreck near the 18000 block left one person ejected overnight; crews handed the patient to Medic as police took over the scene.

CMPD stopped two men riding a sofa positioned across two e-scooters on South Tryon Street. No word yet on citations.

CMPD flagged a new homicide probe in the Metro Division as a separate Round Pond Road stabbing case heads toward prosecution.

A child allegedly struck Michael Bowman and another called 911 during the St. Albans incident, records show.

CMPD found a man with gunshot wounds in the Econo Lodge parking lot on Glenwood Drive; he later died at a hospital.