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.

CMPD is investigating an assault with a deadly weapon call on Reliance Street in the Thomasboro-Hoskins area.

Dozens of officers descended on the 2600 block of Forbes Road Wednesday morning as neighbors were told to stay clear.

Steven Tyler Philbeck kept two loaded Glocks and a shotgun near his drug stash, prosecutors say.

Three people were hospitalized with serious injuries after a sedan hit a guardrail and flipped near Mount Holly Road.

Timothy Lewis jumped a fence and hid under an Aurora Boulevard porch before a K-9 sniffed him out.

A brutal kick to the face at Blakeney Town Center has a Charlotte teacher pushing city council for safe nighttime hangouts instead.

Kristopher Sinclair pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2025 killing of Brianye Copeland near a Charlotte community center.

Roundabout at Kannapolis City Hall closes for the parade, but both parking lots stay open for visitors.

A 6:15 p.m. crash near McAlpine Creek Park left two with minor injuries as police withhold word on charges.

James T. Therrell, 63, faces up to a decade in prison if convicted on the grave charges. Deputies say the search is active.

CMPD swarmed Enderly Road near Freedom Drive after midnight gunfire, the second officer-involved shooting in Charlotte in just over a week.

Burke County deputies say Micheal Craig Hambrick never showed up to face his drug charges — and now they want the public's help finding him.