A Mooresville community leader is looking to a Smithsonian-backed project to link local African-Americans to their past and perhaps to discover if former slaves are among those buried in a once-overgrown section of the town-owned Green Acres Cemetery.
Twenty-five years ago Lupie’s original sign disappeared during Hurricane Hugo, but last week Lupie’s Cafe employees recovered the broken sign in Matthews, leading to questions about how it got there.
More than 2 1/2 years after a fight over control of Charlotte’s airport began, the fight is in seemingly permanent limbo, and the new airport commission’s lawyers still haven’t been paid.