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People in Charlotte expect to receive immediate help in an emergency when calling 911, but some are met with long wait times. In a life-threatening situation, a few minutes can make all the difference.
CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
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Mecklenburg County/What Mecklenburg County’s property revaluation may mean to your property tax bill. We hear from the county assessor and others. -
Steve Harrison/WFAE/Calls for transparency and accountability from Charlotte Area Transit System over last year’s hidden derailment. Huntersville rejects more development at Birkdale Village, but more is coming to SouthPark. And we remember the lives and contributions of former Mecklenburg County Commission Chair Parks Helms and former Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company chief and philanthropist Dale Halton.
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Raleigh police also cited Jonah Richard Mendys and Ryan Scott McGurt both of Chapel Hill, with misdemeanors related to the accident's aftermath. Both men face obstruction of justice charges. -
North Carolina State Treasurer Dale Folwell announced on Saturday he will run for governor in 2024, a bid that will likely require him besting Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to earn the Republican nomination.
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Hundreds of volunteers braved wet, rainy conditions to pick up litter from nine Mecklenburg County streams and creeks on Saturday. Organizers expected another record amount of trash would be collected.
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The Gantt Center opens a digital arts center that the public can use for free to work on art, animation, graphic design and other projects, using high-tech equipment.
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For the first time this century, two No. 1 seeds didn't make it to NCAA women's basketball's Sweet 16. And teams who geared up with transfers are challenging historically dominant programs.
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Mecklenburg Commissioner Laura Meier has asked assessor Ken Joyner to explain how several Charlotte golf clubs received lower tax assessments this year compared to 2019.
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Amid growing concerns about mental health, some schools seek to ease the pressure on first-year students. Critics say this "ungrading" amounts to coddling and could set them up for failure.
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President Biden approved a federal disaster declaration for Mississippi early on Sunday. State officials said that dozens of people remained injured.
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The nonprofit, which has a mission to provide "universal access to all knowledge," says it will appeal the ruling.
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President Joe Biden's choice to run the Federal Aviation Administration has withdrawn his nomination, a setback for the administration that comes after he appeared to lack enough Senate support.
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Police were called to a domestic dispute in an apartment Saturday morning. Majors was charged with assault, strangulation and harassment. A representative for Majors said he "has done nothing wrong."
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A decade after a landmark report on Americans' shorter lives, the problem has only gotten worse. Unlike other wealthy nations, U.S. life expectancy has not bounced back from the pandemic.
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This week on SouthBound, we’re replaying Tommy Tomlinson's conversation from 2020 with Fawn Weaver. Weaver founded the Nearest Green distillery in Tennessee in honor of a Black distiller who helped Jack Daniel develop his famous whiskey. Weaver talks about how she went from reading a story about Green to bottling a whiskey called Uncle Nearest.
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This week on SouthBound, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Josh Dawsey, a South Carolina native who covers national politics for The Washington Post. He also covered the Trump White House, and tells Tommy the story about the time the president called him a “lowlife” on Twitter. Plus he’s a long-suffering South Carolina football fan.
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UnsplashHospitals have long used temporary workers, who are often employed by third-party agencies, to help fill their staffing needs. But by December 2021, the average weekly travel nurse pay in the country had soared to $3,782, up from $1,896 in January 2020, according to a Becker’s Hospital Review analysis of data from the hiring platform Vivian Health.
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Peter Parks/AFP via Getty ImagesThe wild animals are more similar to foxes than to domesticated dogs. Data that suggested a link between raccoon dogs and the origins of the COVID pandemic was removed from an international database.
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Noel Celis/AFP via Getty ImagesThree years ago, the novel coronavirus swept the world. Here are 24 quotes and 13 photos that sum up the reaction in the weeks before the World Health Organization's declaration of a global pandemic.
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RINGO CHIU/AFP via Getty ImagesOnce U.S. stockpiles of COVID-19 vaccine run out, Moderna says it might charge as much as $130 per dose, but give people who lack health insurance a break. Critics say that's not enough help.
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