Joe Marusak

Of his critics, Lake Norman developer Jake Palillo said, “you wonder, how do these people make it through life?”

A Charlotte first-grader and her mother were deported to Venezuela after a judge no-showed and a fake lawyer failed to help, her dad said.

“It’s been life-changing to be sober and to be fully present for my family again,” the lawyer told The Charlotte Observer on Wednesday.

The public hearing on the plan is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, at Huntersville Town Hall, 14704 N. Old Statesville Road.

The owners of the zoo described the past few days “as incredibly difficult” and “distressing” as they mourned the deaths of the baby goats.

Police said the man was “holding a gun” and trying to carjack someone. The man died at a hospital, police said.

Charlotte Islamic community leaders gathered outside the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 to speak in solidarity with the Mooresville Islam community after islamophobic remarks were made at a Mooresville town board meeting last week.

“We’re taking it through the process of getting it back to being track ready. We’re getting it back to where it looked like in the movie.”

One officer was arrested on Wednesday on charges of looking up the license plate movement of her partner’s ex-wife.

“If they were open seven days, I’d be here seven days a week,” a customer said at the restaurant where NASCAR pictures adorn the walls.