WFAE staff and wire reports

Danielle Belton, principal at Paw Creek Elementary, is the 2022-2023 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Principal of the Year.

Taking a look back at last week's Festival of India, a cultural immersion of all things South Asian Indian.

The State’s largest round of GREAT grant awards will connect nearly 85,000 households and more than 2,400 businesses to broadband.

One suspect was shot and is hospitalized and two other suspects have been arrested.

Charlotte to open the season on Oct. 19, and play its first home game on Oct. 21.

Baker Mayfield will take the first series, and Sam Darnold will take the second.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department announced the results of an operation targeting groups of individuals behaving erratically on bicycles and motorized vehicles.

The two $1 million tickets matched all five white balls in the drawing. One was sold in Charlotte at the Adam’s Mart on Elm Lane and the other in Mooresville at the Shop N Save on the Mecklenburg Highway. The $1 million wins in North Carolina were two of 26 nationally in the drawing.

CMPD said the group rides in a pack while doing wheelies, failing to obey traffic lights, riding on sidewalks, riding the wrong way in traffic, playing chicken with motorists, and other traffic violations.