Salisbury

Salisbury Mayor Karen Alexander has died, the city confirmed on Monday. Alexander was first elected to the Salisbury City Council in 2013 and started her first term as mayor in 2015.

A new art exhibit is open in downtown Salisbury with works by Picasso, Monet and Renoir all displayed side by side. The collection was owned by a wealthy man who grew up in Salisbury, and every student in Rowan County will have a chance to see it this school year.

A forum at Catawba College in Salisbury on Thursday focused on the impacts of climate change on marginalized communities and how to alleviate environmental challenges those communities face.

VanVan, 5, of Salisbury has amassed a huge social media following for her freestyling hits and wiggling dance moves. "When the beat drops, I just feel the beat and I just get a bar," she says.

On the next Charlotte Talks, a conversation with the mayors of Kannapolis, Concord and Salisbury. We hear about their achievements and challenges.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is scheduled to lead a conversation on national bail reform and over-policing at Livingstone College on Thursday. Other participants will include Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden and District Attorney Spencer Merriweather and more.

The city of Salisbury will cover the cost of repairing broken headstones that were pushed off their bases or knocked over in recent weeks at the historic African American Dixonville Cemetery off Old Concord Road.

The Salisbury Cease Fire initiative, once a summer program, will now take place all year. The program encourages residents to participate in conflict resolution to slow down gun violence.

A lawsuit filed by a Black Georgia woman claims white officers from Rowan County, North Carolina, used excessive force during a traffic stop when they pulled her from the car by her hair and tore her rotator cuff.

A Salisbury police officer who was captured on video lifting a K-9 by its leash, shoving it into the side of a patrol car, and appearing to strike it, has resigned following an outside investigation into the incident.