The Federal Transit Administration audited the Charlotte Area Transit System's safety plans after the August murder of Iryna Zarutska on a Lynx Blue Line train.
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The former owner of the Charlotte Checkers has been indicted on federal tax fraud charges.
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A man previously convicted of stealing mail in Charlotte — including tickets to the Broadway musical Hamilton — has been arrested again on federal charges.
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A Charlotte man has been indicted on a federal felony charge for allegedly assaulting officers during immigration enforcement operations in November 2025.
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The incident, which was caught on video, marks the second deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in less than a month.
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ICE says a man charged in a deadly hit-and-run was released from the Mecklenburg County jail before agents filed a detainer. However, local officials say he was held for over a week and ICE was notified.
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The hub of Charlotte’s Jewish community is reporting that Nazi symbols and antisemitic graffiti were found on its facilities. Shalom Park is home to Temple Beth-El, Charlotte Jewish Day School and Temple Israel, among other institutions.
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Austin Thompson, the teenage suspect of a 2022 mass shooting in Raleigh's Hedingham neighborhood that killed five people, will plead guilty to all charges.
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Six months after the deaths of local cyclists Lennie Antonelli and Jacob Hill, the community is working to channel their grief into advocacy.
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The city of Charlotte has pledged to end all traffic deaths by 2030. It’s an ambitious goal that’s part of the city’s Vision Zero plan, adopted in 2019. But so far, it seems the opposite is actually happening. Shannon Binns is the founder of the group Sustain Charlotte, and he joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry to talk about what his group is calling on the city to do.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police are investigating a hit-and-run Wednesday evening that left one person dead at The Plaza and 36th Street.