Democratic Convention

A motorcade carrying Vice President Joe Biden arrived around 12:20 p.m. at the home of Erskine and Crandall Bowles in south Charlotte.

Back from a trip to help Chicago deal with NATO protests, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police worry that uptown might not have public spaces large enough to accommodate masses of activists.

Officially, the big event Tuesday was naming 13 N.C.-based event planners who won contracts to throw 12 parties welcoming 6,000 delegates to Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention.

With both the red – and blue – carpets literally rolled out, politics and Hollywood merged at Johnson C.Smith University on Tuesday, with actress Alfre Woodard headlining an announcement about the school hosting a cybersummit during the week of the Democratic National Convention.

Like Charlotte, city leaders in Chicago declared downtown would remain 'open for business' during its milestone political event - the NATO summit that concluded Monday.

Activists who staged a massive protest march at the NATO summit here Sunday vowed to bring thousands of demonstrators to Charlotte during the Democratic National Convention.

People sure have a lot to say about Charlotte these days.

A 19-year-old from Shelby will be among the state’s voting delegates at the Democratic National Convention in September.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski will be in Charlotte convention week to do their show from the EpiCentre.

A Charlotte-based creative communications firm won the $30,000 contract to design the Democratic National Convention credential badges to be worn by thousands of attendees.

Charlotte’s Echo Foundation is looking for students now in grades 10 and 11 who want to see America’s democratic process up close as volunteers at the Democratic convention in Charlotte and Republican convention in Tampa.

Real estate broker Andy Pressley needs homes. Center city condos in particular. One-bedroom, one-bathroom units are ideal, he said.

Once a bright spot for President Barack Obama, North Carolina is now more like a political migraine less than four months before Democrats open the party's national convention in Charlotte.

Texas prison inmate Keith Judd got 72,544 votes in last week’s Democratic presidential primary in West Virginia.

The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte now has three official barbecue sauces.

The Democratic National Convention Committee is returning $50,000 in Walmart gift cards after a labor union said the giant retailer “flies in the face of the values we stand for as Democrats.”

This year’s grant winners from the Wesley Mancini Foundation – which benefits the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community – are creating projects focusing on the Democratic National Convention.

Some of those protesters planning to demonstrate in Charlotte during the big convention have decided to march under a different banner.

Charlotte’s uptown transit center will be moved for three days in September during the Democratic National Convention, the city announced Friday.

Business Empire Consulting is an 11-employee company founded by N.C. State students.

Protesters will welcome Duke Energy shareholders at their annual meeting Thursday morning.

MSNBC has signed a deal to broadcast from the first floor of the EpiCentre during the Democratic National Convention, the new owners of the uptown entertainment complex told the Observer Monday.

The city of Charlotte said Monday that upcoming Duke Energy and Bank of America shareholders meetings will represent the first test of expanded police powers that grant officers more leeway to stop and search people in or near protests.

Business Empire Consulting beat out 11 other competitors for the $70,000 contract to design and host the website for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. The 11-employee company was founded by N.C. State students.

Some of Charlotte’s biggest companies are considering telling employees to steer clear of uptown during the Democratic National Convention this September.