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Waxhaw Mayor Daune Gardner faces an Aug. 15 court date on a driving while impaired charge from this month where her blood-alcohol content level was 0.18., more than twice the legal limit, Union County court records show.

Two challenges have been filed to South Carolina’s permit, renewed earlier this month, that allows the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utility Department to spread sewage sludge on 6,400 acres south of Charlotte.

At least two men were wounded, one seriously, in a shootout during a police drug undercover operation Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of Hidden Valley Elementary School in north Charlotte, police say.

Mecklenburg commissioners formally approved a $1.7 billion budget with a 2.35-cent tax rate increase Tuesday night, but not without great theater – and rhetoric.

Charlotte is lobbying against the state Senate’s tax reform bill, saying it would cost the city at least $31 million a year in lost revenue and possibly require a property tax increase.

A bill to transfer control and ownership of Charlotte’s airport from the city to a new, independent authority is in a holding pattern.

Two women were shackled at the Rock Hill jail after police arrested them when a bar brawl fraught with racial tension resulted in one getting drunk and running from police, and the other one assaulting a bouncer on Tuesday.

Four Rock Hill women were arrested Tuesday after police say two of them attacked a repo man with fists and car keys, while two others fought each other with a golf club.

Fire investigators say the blaze that destroyed a mobile home Tuesday evening in Caldwell County was not accidental.

The Charlotte City Council approved 11-0 Monday a rezoning change that allows for a 19-unit luxury townhome development on the east side of Providence Road, between South Wendover Road and Providence Drive.

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