WFAE staff and wire reports

The Charlotte Hornets dropped two games in NBA Summer League play over the weekend, falling to the New Orleans Pelicans Saturday and the Boston Celtics on Sunday. The Hornets will wrap up their four-game schedule Wednesday night against the Milwaukee Bucks. Second-year forward Liam McNeely has led Charlotte in scoring in each of the three games so far.

Average gasoline prices in Charlotte rose 16.9 cents per gallon over the past week, reaching $3.62 per gallon on Monday, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 665 stations in the area.

Members of the “Save Morrison YMCA” coalition plan to gather outside the facility on Sunday, calling on the YMCA of Greater Charlotte to halt the $42.5 million dollar sale to Moments of Hope Church.

The city of Charlotte has suspended a focus group that was supposed to help the city come up with data center policies.

Water service is slowly being restored across Anson County after a major water main break on Tuesday left hundreds of homes and businesses without water.

A key committee of the Metropolitan Public Transportation Authority voted 5-4 Wednesday against adding a proposed West Craighead station to Charlotte's planned Red Line commuter rail.

A Mexican man has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in federal prison after admitting to trafficking hundreds of kilograms of meth supplied by the Sinaloa Cartel into North Carolina.

Kannapolis Police Chief Terry Spry is retiring after more than 30 years with the city.His final day on the job will be Sept. 29.Spry joined the Kannapolis Police Department in 1994 and worked his way through the ranks, serving as a patrol officer, traffic officer, criminal investigator and supervisor.He was named police chief in 2020.

Mecklenburg County Public Health is releasing a new report on primary care access that shows a drop in the uninsured rate in the county as well as gaps in use of primary care. It says communities in Mecklenburg County that are less likely than others to have access to insurance include younger adults, males, certain racial and ethnic minorities, and foreign-born non-citizens. Residents across the county also make visits to emergency departments and hospitals that are avoidable with better access to quality primary care.

Mecklenburg County’s sales tax goes up one percentage point Wednesday, rising to 8.25%. Voters approved the increase in November to fund a multibillion-dollar transportation and transit plan. It applies to items like electronics, meals at restaurants, clothes and alcohol. Many grocery items are exempt from the new tax, but prepared foods like hot bar items are not. Nor are things like soft drinks or candy.Major projects to be built with the new revenue include the Red Line commuter train to the north, along with road improvements across the county.