Sarah Delia
Health ReporterSarah Delia covers criminal justice and the arts for WFAE. Sarah joined the WFAE news team in 2014. An Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist, Sarah has lived and told stories from Maine, New York, Indiana, Alabama, Virginia and North Carolina. Sarah received her B.A. in English and Art history from James Madison University, where she began her broadcast career at college radio station WXJM. Sarah has interned and worked at NPR in Washington DC, interned and freelanced for WNYC, and attended the Salt Institute for Radio Documentary Studies.
Sarah is the lead reporter of She Says, an investigative award winning podcast that follows the journey of a sexual assault survivor as she navigates her way through the criminal justice system. She is also the host of the award winning series The List, which examines the child sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte.
She enjoys finding stories off the beaten path.
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Up to 300,000 North Carolinians currently on Medicaid could lose full health care coverage, as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes and the continuous coverage requirement is lifted. -
Over the next five years, the Corridors of Opportunity program will invest $109 million in public and private funds in six neighborhoods. The Beatties Ford Road Corridor in northwest Charlotte is one of those neighborhoods. It is a neighborhood that has served as a refuge to many Black Charlotteans displaced from the center city during urban renewal. Now, history may be repeating itself.
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Mecklenburg County commissioners kicked off their three-day budget retreat Wednesday to discuss priorities for the fiscal year ahead. Mecklenburg Health Director Dr. Raynard Washington told commissioners his major goals center around greater equity.
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A jury ruled Friday that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools did not violate the Title IX civil rights of a former Myers Park High student who said the school system didn't protect her after a 2015 sexual assault.
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Testimony is underway in the civil trial of a former Myers Park High student suing Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and the city of Charlotte, alleging her Title IX rights were violated after she was sexually assaulted. Numerous witnesses were called Tuesday, including the plaintiff’s father.
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A former Myers Park High student's lawsuit against Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and the city of Charlotte went to trial Tuesday with lawyers giving different accounts of a sexual encounter.
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A former Myers Park High student's lawsuit against Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and the city of Charlotte goes to trial this week, more than seven years after she reported being sexually assaulted in the woods near the school.
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Another COVID-19 wave is hitting the Charlotte region. Just last week the county announced Mecklenburg County moved to the CDC’s high COVID-19 community level. Slipping into this category, which is driven by reported cases and hospital admissions, may feel a bit like flipping the calendar back to 2020.
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The HIV diagnosis rate in Mecklenburg County have returned to pre-pandemic levels of 29.3 individuals per 100,000.
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The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state’s six week abortion ban is unconstitutional. The ruling found the ban violates an individual’s constitutional right to privacy.
