Local and breaking news from the Charlotte region

By Ely Portillo | E-mail | 1:46AM

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.

CMS data issues lead to debate on getting it right

By Ann Doss Helms | E-mail | 1:23AM

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.

Your Schools: More about dropout and graduation data

Shining light on a flashy mystery

By Mark Washburn | E-mail | 1:25AM

Theories flew Saturday about the ghostly lights seen prowling the slopes of Brown Mountain since antiquity.

Note the talk, but mind the action

Tommy Tomlinson | E-mail | 11:35PM

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.

Motley led his way into history

By April Bethea | E-mail | 11:35PM

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.

Transit director used to crowds

Celeste Smith | 10:35PM

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

N.C.-S.C. border may move

By Adam Beam | E-mail | 10:35PM

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."