CMS Police car. Photo: Jennifer Lang

Police officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District are going door-to-door Uptown giving parents the run-down on bus changes and security restrictions during the Democratic National Convention.

CMS Police Chief Bud Cesena says the first week of September will pose some challenges for the 372 students and their families who live inside the I-277 loop.

"Some bus stops - because they're in the hot zone - won't exist any more," says Cesena. "So we're making sure the children and their parents know exactly where to go."

A child views photos of the shooting victims in Wisconsin. Photo: Michael Tomsic

Two weeks after a gunman killed six people and himself at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, Charlotte's Sikh community voiced its safety concerns Sunday with federal and local law enforcement agencies.

After walking through the front doors of the Sikh temple in Charlotte, the first thing everyone sees is six photos. A sign above them reads, "Remembering the victims."

Lowe's home improvement earned 10 percent less from May to August than it did last year. The Mooresville-based company now says it won't make as much money this year as it had previously estimated.

Lowe's earnings fell short of its own expectations and Wall Street analysts'.

Mecklenburg County has at least 270 known cemetery sites. Some are obvious, located along a main road or next to a church. But other burial grounds have become obscured by the passage of time, neglect, or urban sprawl. WFAE's Mark Rumsey reports on a few local cemeteries that are "hidden in plain sight."

A gravestone in the cemetery adjacent to the Grand Promenade Village in University City. Photo: Tanner Latham.

A school superintendent, a school board chairman and a former governor sat down to talk education last night as part of the build up to the DNC. They didn't solve any problems, but they discussed challenges facing North Carolina students and suggested ways to overcome them.

The challenges include fifth graders who can't read, teenagers who drop out, parents who don't check up on their kids, and teachers who don't get the support they need.

A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who shot and killed 28-year-old Michael Deangelo Laney during a struggle to arrest him in July will not be prosecuted.
Mecklenburg District Attorney Andrew Murray wrote in a letter Monday to the police chief that the use of deadly force by Officer A.J. Holzhauer was justified.
"There is no evidence that Officer Holzhauer acted unlawfully," Murray's letter to Police Chief Rodney Monroe said.

Listen to full interview below.

Matisyahu was born Matthew Miller. He was inspired to embrace the strict Lubavitch Hassidic sect of Judaism in part by references to the Old Testament in Reggae music. While in Charlotte for a performance, Matisyahu spoke to WFAE's Marshall Terry about trying to channel the power of prayer into his music, shaving his Hassidic beard, and motorcycle excursions into the country while on tour.

The United States Postal Service is removing 38 of its blue collection boxes and sealing up mail chutes within a three-block radius of Time Warner Cable Arena because of the Democratic National Convention.

The decision affects between 1,500 and 2,000 customers in uptown Charlotte. Those customers will have to go to the office on 201 North McDowell Street or the Charlotte Processing Facility at 2901 Scott Futrell Drive to pick up and send mail.

School uniforms donated by Belk. Photo: Lisa Miller

Parents and kids are shopping for school clothes. For many Charlotte-Mecklenburg School students it's not much of a choice. About a third of CMS schools require kids to wear uniforms like a solid color shirt and khakis. Most of them have lots of students from low-income families.

Regina Boyd is the principal of Winterfield Elementary school on Charlotte's east side.

Brenda Suits leads a small team doing prep-work for the Habitat house. Photo: Julie Rose