Gracie Hoyle called 911 after leading her sister to safety, then watched firefighters pull her great-grandmother from the smoke-filled Lexington home.

Willie Sanders vanished from Mountain Lakes Road wearing a gray hat and striped sweatpants. Deputies are asking neighbors to check sheds and cars.

Anna Baldwin was bitten, choked, and dragged over a stretcher — now she is leaving EMS work for good, even as her attacker avoids state prison time.

A second wave of storms was due around 8 p.m. Friday, with damaging winds and lightning threatening more outages overnight.

No one was hurt, but detectives say the shooter's SUV cut through Stone Hollow first. It's the second such shooting in Huntersville since June.

A retaining wall gave way near a Morganton wedding venue, and officials warn just half an inch more rain could seal off the only road west.

CMPD says detectives have identified everyone believed involved but haven’t named the victim or filed charges.

Briana Watkins was declared brain dead two days after a crash on WT Harris Boulevard, and the corridor has a violent track record.

A 2023 overdose death inside a Hickory auto shop led investigators to a Costa Rica-run drug pipeline. The owner now faces two decades behind bars.

A black car circled the block before shots struck a Southwinds home Thursday night — the third gun crime on this stretch of Skywatch Lane since 2024.

Bullets from the breakup-night rampage tore through a floor into an apartment holding a mother and three kids.

A traffic stop near Rocky River Church Road cracked open a two-house cocaine and gun stash — with nine people detained and more charges expected.

Eleana RaeAnn Pieffer, 16, vanished from a Walters Division Road home in Monroe. Investigators think she may be near Lancaster, SC.