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Nicole Gross and 200 Charlotte runners reclaiming marathon

About 200 runners from the Charlotte area will be participating in this year’s Boston Marathon. Among the spectators will be Charlotte’s Nicole Gross, who was injured in last year’s bombing.

Nicole Gross one year after Boston race bombing
Boston prepares for huge wave of marathon visitors
Wells Fargo cuts 37 mortgage jobs in Fort Mill
By Deon Roberts | E-mail | 3:57PM
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Wells Fargo said it has given layoff notices to 37 employees in Fort Mill, the latest round of job cuts in the Charlotte area's mortgage industry.
Iowa resident: N.C. prison escape who lived across the street seemed like perfect neighbor
By Joe DePriest | E-mail | 3:50PM

The stranger who moved in across the street from Nathaniel Cunningham in Waterloo, Iowa last summer seemed like the perfect neighbor.

Commissioners: County can’t pick up full school raise tab
By Hilary Trenda | E-mail | 3:22PM

The superintendent’s request for $27 million in county money to give Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools employees 3 percent raises is raising early doubts among county commissioners, who say that’s asking county taxpayers to assume a state responsibility

FBI talks to city, county officials in Cannon case
By Ely Portillo, Rick Rothacker and Steve Harrison | E-mail | 6:47AM
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Federal agents have been talking to Charlotte and Mecklenburg officials as investigators follow up on public corruption charges facing former Mayor Patrick Cannon.

Cannon’s ex-aide confirms her role in FBI affidavit
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Shelby’s Gabe DeVoe tops All-Region team

DeVoe, a senior Clemson recruit, is the Charlotte Observer’s All-Region boys player of the year.

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Story of alien who wants to become human (or so I concluded) sticks in the memory. Grade: B+

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Bubba Watson’s win at the Masters last weekend has paid a dividend for Charlotte-based Bojangles – he had already been filmed for the company’s commercials.

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