A mummified monkey from Argentina dressed in a feathered skirt and headdress. Click the photo to see images of more mummies in the exhibit.

Ticket sales for the exhibit opening tomorrow at Discovery Place have already outpaced the museum's last big blockbuster: BodyWorlds featured actual human bodies preserved and posed to unveil their intricate inner workings.

"Mummies of the World" features bodies, too, but they're of humans and animals who lived hundreds - even thousands - of years ago.

The hottest pepper in the world?

In Rock Hill, one man is on a quest to grow the world's hottest pepper. And he may have achieved that goal. He's still waiting to hear back from Guinness World Records on whether or not his pepper is hotter than the Trinidad Scorpion "Butch T" from Australia, currently the hottest certified in the world. But this attempt at an even hotter pepper isn't about bragging rights. It's one man's hope to change the world. WFAE's Marshall Terry reports.

Watch video of Marshall Terry eating one of the peppers.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police reports show crimes reported at Harding University High School have more than quadrupled over the past year.

WCNC video: "The kids are scared. The parents are scared."

Yadkin River

The N.C. Supreme Court has upheld the powers of campus police departments at religious affiliated colleges and universities to enforce state law, saying they do not violate the U.S. Constitution's first amendment separation of church and state. In a ruling issued Thursday, the state's highest court said Davidson College police officers had the right to arrest a driver near campus in 2006 on charges of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving.

State health officials have determined an outbreak of E. coli that sickened at least 27 and caused several hospitalizations did in fact start at the North Carolina State Fair.

It wasn't a food vendor, but rather a livestock exhibit that led to the outbreak. State Epidemiologist Megan Davis says animals shed the E. coli bacteria in their feces, which apparently ended up on the floors or railings of the exhibit.

Bette and Wolfgang Roth in their home.

The Charlotte Symphony has launched an ambitious effort to raise $40 million over the next decade. That's money the organization needs to find stable financial footing after years of deficits.

Deese (far left) and Jefferson (far right) stood on opposite edges of the fire department parking lot while last-minute campaigning.

Most people know Marshville as the small town they pass through on the way to the beach. It's sleepy. Quiet. Lots of empty buildings downtown. But the mayor's race featured an incumbent with a redemption story and a challenger taking a long shot.

WFAE's Tanner Latham caught up with the candidates and filed this story yesterday before the votes were counted.

Bette and Wolfgang Roth in their home.

The Charlotte Symphony has launched an ambitious effort to raise $40 million over the next decade. That's money the organization needs to find stable financial footing after years of deficits.