A processional will be held in downtown Mooresville tomorrow afternoon to remember a well-known football coach who died last week. Joe Popp's career spanned the high school, college, and professional levels.
Even long after Joe Popp retired, you could find him at the Mooresville high football field on Fridays just before game time, talking shop.
Ashley Judd and her dog Buttermilk. Photo: Tanner Latham.
Actress Ashley Judd was in Charlotte Sunday to stump for President Obama. She spoke at an event aimed at bolstering the female vote. And she sat down with WFAE's Tanner Latham to talk about her status as a celebrity, her role as a delegate for the upcoming DNC, and the influence her grandmother had in helping raise her and as a political activist.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have received city council permission to install technology that will identify the exact time and location of a gunshot.
CMPD Deputy Chief Harold Medlock says the city will deploy the system in one neighborhood with a high rate of violent crime. That test location has not been chosen yet, says Medlock.
A series of small antennae will be placed on rooftops to speed up police response.
Charlotte residents will soon be the proud owners of their very own deserted shopping mall.
Last night the City Council voted unanimously to acquire Eastland Mall for $13 million. An audience of film industry workers and east-side neighborhood leaders gave the vote a standing ovation.
Councilman John Autry says movie production companies have expressed serious interest in building soundstages on the 80-acre site.
A Concord woman struck gold in a thrift store after buying a $10 painting that's been valued at upwards of $20,000.
Beth Feeback found the painting at a Goodwill store near Greensboro and only wanted it for the canvas. She planned to paint over it with her own artwork.
"I paint kind of oddball stuff," Feeback says. "I'll like paint a cat head over Jesus' face on some kind of dollar store iconography painting and then, you know, Jesus is a cat, which is kind of fun."
Duke Energy is abandoning a plan hatched several months ago to give a one-year rate-cut to some of its biggest customers.
Duke Energy underestimated the allure of a bargain. It set aside $13 million to give some of its large industrial customers a boost in the form of a six percent rate reduction. The pilot program would last one year - and maybe longer if it was successful.
Then, like the gigantic lines that form outside the mall on Black Friday, demand quickly overwhelmed Duke.
Better just to call it off, says spokesman Jason Walls.
