The Latest Breaking News from Charlotte

While social media response to Sunday’s NASCAR All-Star Race at Texas Motor Speedway may have been predominantly negative, the track’s owner still saw plenty of positives.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina man is accused of striking a police officer with a large metal pole and punching others with his fists during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

This is the viral moment a woman tells how an old flame tried to extort her with 10-year-old nude photos before she deftly turned the tables on him.

ATLANTA — In 2012, Steve Hall was 46 and in a stage of life not unfamiliar to Georgia Tech graduates of his age. A chemical engineering graduate with an MBA from Emory, Hall was running his own private-equity firm in Charlotte, N.C., after 13 years in New York in the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the more than two decades since Michael Peterson’s wife Kathleen was found at the bottom of a staircase in their Durham home, the plot has thickened over and over and over again, so often that the whole story probably should have long ago hardened into a…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An American Airlines plane briefly veered off a runway at Charlotte Douglas International Airport Thursday afternoon, according to the airline.

When the card with their logo got pulled out of the envelope by NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum, revealing the Charlotte Hornets failed to jump up in the draft lottery Tuesday night, it surely didn’t incite many smiles.

RALEIGH, N.C. — After more than 30 years in Charlotte and North Carolina politics, Pat McCrory’s name appeared on a ballot Tuesday for potentially the last time.

After viewing the first episode of HBO Max’s “The Staircase,” Charlotte attorney David Rudolf — who defended Michael Peterson in the real-life murder case depicted in the dramatized limited series — was interested to watch the inspired-by-true-events show unfold.

The former Vol picked up the moniker after playing like another Charlotte native currently playing for the Golden State Warriors.

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — Almost five months after he became the fifth commissioner in ACC history, Jim Phillips stood in front of a crowded hotel banquet room in Charlotte and emphasized the single priority most critical to the league’s future. It was Phillips’ first major public appearance in his new…