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It's Time Out For Sports. The CIAA tournament is back in town for its 75th anniversary and its 15th year in Charlotte. High school basketball playoffs…

The final week of the regular season for the Charlotte Hornets is here. It's playoff time for the Carolina Hurricanes and two local high school football teams win state championships.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s easing of COVID-19 restrictions will have a big effect on high school and professional sports. Meanwhile, there was lots of action in high school basketball this weekend, and the Charlotte Hornets took center stage in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch.

It was a big week for sports: Charlotte Hornets rookie guard LaMelo Ball set an NBA record, COVID 19 is leading to scheduling problems for college basketball games, and a well-known Carolina Panthers player may not be back next season.

From counterprogramming for a GOP debate to a booking on charges in Georgia, Donald Trump had a busy week. A chart-topping song holds extreme themes. Russia's Wagner mercenaries recruit for Africa.

It takes a village to make the music we love. We remember the singers, songwriters, composers, instrumentalists, producers and journalists that we lost in 2024.

Congress is ramping up its probe into hundreds of reports of migrant child labor in the U.S. A House panel grilled a top official of a program responsible for placing these children in safe homes.

Mecklenburg County’s top health official is recommending that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools require masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 when classes start next month. The CMS board will vote on masking plans on Friday.

The 2020 election results were barely finalized by the time the 2022 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina started heating up.

We know the names of the stars: Mikaela Shiffrin, Shaun White, Adam Rippon. But what about the athletes who compete and receive virtually no attention?

Despite all of the possible female candidates waiting in the wings, many political observers express doubt that a woman will be elected president — or even nominated — in the near future. Which is weird. Because in just about every other aspect of American life, women are taking over.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mac Warner, West Virginia's secretary of state, about a bipartisan campaign by state election officials to fight misinformation ahead of the 2022 vote.

Esther Phillips was a hugely popular teenage R&B singer who, in 1962, recorded the top-10 hit "Release Me."

Democrat Patrick Cannon won the mayoral race for Charlotte with 53 percent (50,768) of the vote. Republican Edwin Peacock had about 46.9 percent of the…

http://66.225.205.104/LM20120613.mp3Carolinas Healthcare System is taking its first step into the Triad area. The hospital chain has agreed to manage Cone…

The latest fundraising numbers are in for the campaigns of North Carolina’s top two races.Those races are for governor and U.S. senator. And in both…

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' graduation project is almost certain to come to an end Tuesday, though it may be reborn in a new form.The school board is…

http://66.225.205.104/LM20120613.mp3Carolinas Healthcare System is taking its first step into the Triad area. The hospital chain has agreed to manage Cone…

Weekend Edition essayist Bonny Wolf suggests making a family recipe for Mother’s Day. She tells NPR's Liane Hansen the ingredients and instructions for gas company candy and her neighbor Bill’s mother’s war cake.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said 27 people were arrested Monday night as a fourth consecutive night of protests in the city turned violent. Although two…