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The state Board of Education has been exploring how it identifies and classifies students who are English learners. This week, they approved several changes making it easier for those students to move out of that classification.

Fogelman says he was genuinely surprised to learn that his NBC family drama has a reputation for making audiences teary. "It was not the intent, nor something I expected," he says.

The Broadway adaptation of the 1959 classic movie Some Like It Hot is the most Tony nominated show this year.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Interim Superintendent Hugh Hattabaugh recently walked out of a private meeting with the African-American Faith Alliance. Clashing accounts of that meeting reveal rifts over choosing a superintendent and educating Black kids.

Walk Into A Storm ably captures the group's earnest, ingratiating charm, dispensed via charisma-drenched songs that amble and soar.

The three-time defending champion lost to Stanislas Wawrinka in another five-set thriller. Djokovic joins other familiar names who have been beaten Down Under. They include Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova on the women's side.

Also: Toni Morrison's digital signing; our picks for the best books out this week; and William S. Burroughs in a Nike ad.

A slow fade, rather than a hard stop, used to be the popular way to end a pop song. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Slatereporter William Weir about the fade-out's history and recent decline.

CHARLOTTE A Lake Wylie couple was shot to death in their home in October to prevent one of them from testifying in court about the May robbery of their…

The National Baptist Convention has been in Charlotte all week for its annual session. It’s billed as the nation’s largest and oldest African-American…

The Government Reorganization and Efficiency Act - which has passed the North Carolina senate and will now be considered by the House – has gotten a lot…

NPR "did not present a complete or balanced view" of its program, the MSC writes in a statement.

William Moody, who as the pro wrestling character Paul Bearer embodied a sense of theater that was equal parts morbid and absurd, has died at age 58. A portly man known for his wild-eyed stare and habit of carrying a brass urn under his arm, Paul Bearer was most notably the manager of The Undertaker and Kane.

“Cheat Death” may have a short life as a hospital slogan, at least at CaroMont Health in Gastonia.The nonprofit company that operates Gastonia’s hospital…

William Mastro says he altered the 1909 Honus Wagner card that sold for $2.8 million in 2007. He also admits he used shill buyers to drive up the price of other memorabilia.

Critic Tess Taylor reviews journalist Jeffrey Brown's poetry collection, The News.

The Huffington Post held a panel in uptown Charlotte Wednesday to discuss how to bring down the nation's high unemployment rate. The event was designed to…

2: ALLEN and ALBERT HUGHES, 21-year old twins, and directors of "Menace To Society" (Fine Line). Their mother steered them away from drugs and gangs when they were twelve by buying them video equipment. After making several music videos and short films, they've made their first feature. It's a picture firmly in the gangster genre, an unflinching film about young men growing up in Watts. The film's 23-year old screenwriter Tyger Williams explains: "For every 'good' kid that makes it out of the ghetto, there are five more who don't. We asked the question, 'What's their story?'

Stand-up comics can say pretty much anything these days -- no matter how obscene or offensive their material -- thanks in no small part to Lenny Bruce. In the late 1950s and early '60s, the iconoclastic comedian often found himself in trouble with the law for saying whatever was on his mind. NPR's Juan Williams reports on a new book detailing Bruce's legal battles.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Randy Voepel, Mayor of Santee, Calfornia; Melissa Gern, a sophomore at Santana High School, where this week's deadly school shooting took place; San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst on 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams, who is in jail on murder and other charges; Vice President Dick Cheney and one of his cardiologists, Dr. Jonathan Reiner of George Washington University Hospital; Florida Judge Joel Lazarus sentencing 14-year-old Lionel Tate to life in prison after Tate's conviction for first-degree murder; President George W. Bush announcing a 60-day cooling-off period for Northwest Airlines and its mechanics union; O.V. Delle Femine, National Director of the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association; Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (Republican, Illinois) and Representative Charles Rangel (Democrat, New York) on this week's passage by the House of part of President Bush's tax plan.