Jersey Mike’s knocked out 7,000-plus boxed lunches for first responders.

The tweets, posts and calls kept flying around Charlotte at a seemingly breakneck pace during the Democratic National Convention.

Former Time staff photographer Bill Eppridge talks about his exhibit "One America, One American: Robert F. Kennedy Through the Lens of Bill Eppridge." Housed in The Charlotte Observer lobby the exhibition is open to the public September 4 through October 19 1012.

Charlotte’s host committee paid for one of the biggest Democratic convention expenses – $5 million for use of Time Warner Cable Arena – from a fund that accepted cash from corporations.

When the city of Charlotte passed a new “extraordinary events” ordinance for the Democratic National Convention, police were given new power to stop and search.

Two California delegates and another from Washington State were waiting for the signal to change at Stonewall and Tryon streets on Friday afternoon when they noticed the badge on a Charlotte Observer reporter who was returning to the newsroom.

Democrats said that holding their national convention in Charlotte would boost President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. On Friday they released numbers to show that it had.

President Barack Obama closed his party’s convention in Charlotte Thursday night by laying out a case for a second term and casting the election as a choice between “two fundamentally different visions for the future.”

Protesters peacefully exited Marshall Park on Friday shortly after the noon deadline came for them to leave.

Sixty-five thousand people may have been disappointed by the relocation of President Barack Obama’s Bank of America Stadium speech Thursday, but Charlotte’s homeless and hungry were celebrating in high style on Friday.