BB DeLaine helped organize this lunch counter protest in

Charlotte . Joan Siler is second from the right.
Take two people. They grow up in the same state, contend with the same prejudices. They go to the same college. They fight the same fight against segregation. But their lives remain separate. They move away from the Carolinas. They get married to other people. They have children. Those children grow up. Death ends one marriage, unhappiness another. More than forty years go by, and somehow that shared history brings them together again.

Anger is building in Ballantyne.

Shouts and "booing" erupted repeatedly at a public meeting Monday night to discuss the future of

Mecklenburg

County 's Foxhole Landfill. About 150 neighbors of the landfill attended. The

County

Commission has approved $15 million to expand Foxhole and get it ready for household trash. Foxhole is currently only used as a dump for construction and demolition debris.

Nearby homeowners like Ed Devaney say they were led to believe Foxhole would never be a destination for smellier household waste.

Residents of Charlotte's Quail Hollow neighborhood have lost their fight to keep a fast-food drive-through out of the Quail Corners shopping center. The city council's vote last night ended a decades-long dispute.

Hundreds of residents in the neighborhoods surrounding the intersection of Park and Sharon Road West signed a petition urging the city council to resist last night's decision.

But in the end, Maria Smithson of the Park-Quail Neighborhood Coalition says other interests won out.

CMS plans to begin sending out lay-off notices soon to teachers and other district employees.

CMS Superintendent Peter Gorman sent an email to all of the district's 18,000 employees yesterday to let them know lay-off notices will soon be going out.

Next year's budget is far from finalized. The county and state must still decide how much to give CMS. But Gorman has planned for a $100 million budget cut. Under his plan, that would mean cutting 1,500 jobs, including 600 teachers.

Mecklenburg County Manager Harry Jones is a finalist for a job in Alabama. The Charlotte Observer reports that Jones is in the running to get a similar job in Jefferson County, Alabama. That's that state's largest county and home to Birmingham.

Jones is one of three finalists for the position. It would pay about the same as his $242,000 salary in Charlotte. Jones has been with Mecklenburg County for two decades. He's been county manager since 2000.

A meeting tonight in South Charlotte will give neighbors of the Foxhole Landfill a preview of big changes that may be in store. Mecklenburg County is preparing to spend millions of dollars expanding the dump for the possibility of taking household trash.

When the Foxhole Landfill opened near Ballantyne in 2000, surrounding neighborhoods were none-too-thrilled.

CMPD has nearly finished a report that concludes poilce used restraint last month when they arrested a man witnesses said police unnecessarily stomped and kicked.

Last month, police pursued Malcolm Xavier Springs because they say he had shot a man while robbing a gas station. The pursuit escalated to a shooting.

Police say that Springs shot police officer Brent Harrison in the lower leg. Springs was then shot in the chest.

Bank of America has scored a big victory in federal court. A judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a lawsuit filed by investors who bought mortgage-back securities from Countrywide Bank, Bloomberg reports.

BofA acquired Countrywide in the summer of 2008.

Read the Bloomberg report here.