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Family Sues Uber After Two Young Girls Were Trafficked
The Uber drivers transporting the two girls are accused of not canceling the rides after learning of the girls' ages. A South Carolina family says two daughters, both under 14, were trafficked using Uber. And now the family has filed a lawsuit against the ride share company. Attorney Tracey Cowan...
RM's Battle to lead East in 2025 East-West All-Star Football Game
Rocky Mount’s Jason Battle will lead the East football team in the 2025 North Carolina Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game. Battle, the head coach for the Gryphons, will be assisted by Will Bland (J.H. Rose), Ernest King Jr. (Westover), Scott Loosemore (Scotland), Ben Penny (Triton) and Johnathan Sherman (Gray’s Creek). “It’s a tremendous honor,” Battle said. “I am humbled by it as well as I am really appreciative that somebody...
Reigning PDRA Elite Top Dragster World Champion Steve Furr Reflects on Hot to Start 2024
Few drivers have been as dominant in the Red Line Oil PDRA Drag Racing Series’ sportsman classes as Steve Furr. The Harrisburg, North Carolina-based driver won the first three races of the six-race 2020 season to secure his first PDRA world championship in Laris Motorsports Insurance Top Dragster presented by Greenbrier Excavating & Paving.
Johnston Man Receives Sentence For Planning To Attack Energy Grid
Federal prison sentences have been handed out to three individuals who conspired to attack the United States’ energy grid. Among them is a 25-year-old man from Johnston. Liam Collins received a ten-year sentence for the weapons charges associated with the scheme. Paul James Kryscuk of Idaho and Justin Wade...
ACC Continues to Grow Financially, Further Growth Expected
The ACC isn’t the financial powerhouse that the SEC or Big Ten can claim to be, but the conference continues to trend upward. According to the latest 990 forms, which ACC commissioner Jim Phillips touted earlier this week, the ACC surpassed $700 million in total revenue in the 2022/23 fiscal year — with a 14% increase in distributable revenue from the prior year.
More reel time for Independent Picture House
Charlotte’s hub for indie films expands with a new, larger theater and more space for community gatherings. Earlier this year, Independent Picture House executive director Brad Ritter was just beginning to plan a two-year anniversary celebration of Charlotte’s only independent theater dedicated to art-house films. Instead, he found...
New York Old School Bagel & Deli is on a roll
New York Old School Bagel & Deli serves up a taste of Gotham in south Charlotte. Mark Stordeur’s journey to overnight success as a bagel baker was years — and miles — in the making. Not long after Stordeur, 60, opened New York Old School Bagel &...
Coast to Coast: Carolina Basketball's Top 100 Players
Because of its long history of success, trying to put North Carolina Basketball into any confines can be a tough task. Inside Carolina analytics expert Adrian Atkinson takes the spotlight on this special episode of the Coast to Coast show, as Sherrell McMillan and Joey Powell discuss Atkinson's recently released, updated comprehensive ranking of UNC's Top 100 Basketball players.
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