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Charlotte resident Crystal Jackson is facing charges of health care fraud and money laundering. Eight others were charged in the Western District of North Carolina for defrauding South Carolina's Medicaid out of $21 million.

Charlotte’s always been hot in the summer. In July 1970, the average temperature high was 89 degrees. Now, though, those average highs are at 91 degrees, and extreme heat is officially Charlotte’s number one climate risk.

The U.S. Senate is still deliberating Trump’s "big, beautiful bill." The House passed a version that cuts clean energy tax credits, a program that North Carolina Latinos are only starting to use.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein and the Workforce and Apprenticeship Council outline their first report today at Central Piedmont Community College.

Michael Bryant was officially sworn in as Mecklenburg County’s new manager Monday morning during a ceremony at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center.

It's been three years since the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, unleashing a wave of Southern states to enact restrictive bans against abortion. North Carolina enacted its own 12-week ban, but that hasn't stopped the state from emerging as a Southern hub for out-of-state abortion seekers. We discuss the state of abortion access and care in N.C.

Bank of America Stadium played host Saturday to the first of two knockout round matches of the FIFA Club World Cup.

The Charlotte Hornets made yet another off-season move on Sunday, trading center Jusuf Nurkić to the Utah Jazz for 26-year-old guard Collin Sexton and a second round draft pick. The Hornets first Summer League game is July 11 against the Jazz.

In South Carolina the race to be the state’s next governor is heating up. Two Republican candidates have announced their bids in the past week: Attorney General Alan Wilson and state Sen. Josh Kimbrell.

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis announces he won't seek reelection next year. A 50-mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway is slated to reopen this fall. The Charlotte Hornets trade center Yusuf Nurkic to the Utah Jazz. The FIFA Club World Cup wraps up it's Charlotte visit this afternoon.

Charlotte keeps growing, but one offshoot of that growth is certain places that seem not to grow at all. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in his "On My Mind" commentary, takes a look at two uptown structures that are frozen in place for different reasons.

Mayor Lyles’ tiebreaking vote made the proposal moot — Charlotte won’t even take the anodyne step of referring it to a City Council committee for study. The issue is complicated.