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Less than a year after regulators shut down Charlotte-based bus company Sky Express after a deadly wreck, federal records show another bus company operating from Sky Express' old building ranks as one of the country's worst offenders for unsafe driving.
As Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools continues working on data-accuracy issues, people who care about public education are debating the best path to restore confidence in school measurements.
Theories flew Saturday about the ghostly lights seen prowling the slopes of Brown Mountain since antiquity.

In 1994, when she was running for a seat in the U.S. House, Sue Myrick pledged to serve no more than three terms. She announced Tuesday that she won't run for re-election and will leave Congress after completing her current term - her ninth.

Editor's note: With the nation's first African-American president poised to preside over the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this fall, the Observer will look back each Sunday this month (Black History Month) at trailblazing black political figures of the region's past.

Brian Wickersham, director of transportation for the Democratic National Convention, knows big events.

On May 24, 1772, William Moultrie took a break from surveying the South Carolina-North Carolina border to visit little Charlotte Town, which he described as having five or six houses, "very ordinary built of logs."

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