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June 17, 2015

• So a recipe got a local 8-year-old invited to The White House
• Skip the line at Starbucks and get your fancy coffee drink faster. And other development news
• Ladies honored at 50 Most Influential Women Awards
• Garden and nature calendar
• Observer-area week-by-week prep football schedules
• Fishing Forecast: Hit limits at great offshore coastal spots
• Outdoors events calendar for 06.17.15
• Early catch proves biggest at Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament
• Mecklenburg commissioners consider doubling the length of their terms
• Panthers promote Brandon Beane to assistant general manager
• Carolina Hurricanes GM Ron Francis open to new-look roster through bolder changes
• Punishment yet to arrive, but UNC already feeling pain
• NASCAR teams will bear most costs for new rules change
• Lake Norman’s Carly Vacarro is All-Observer girls’ lacrosse player of the year
• Providence Day’s Anna Cockrell is NC girls’ track runner of the year
• Observer-area high school stat leaders
• Drug ring took marijuana on flights between Charlotte and San Francisco, federal complaint says
• Regulator lifts foreclosure action against Bank of America, restricts Wells Fargo
• Legislation to stop cheating companies in NC passes another hurdle
• Tempers and temperature soar as fights break out at Panthers minicamp
• A home for Uber, Lyft at CLT?
• Charlotte’s SouthPark mall to undergo significant interior, exterior renovation
• House passes watered-down gun bill
• Nonprofits say Senate budget would hurt
• How to avoid the identity trap: Focus on what will be
• Sen. Jeff Tarte plans to introduce bill to stop I-77 tolling
• Philanthropy doesn’t close funding gap for charter schools, study shows
• Rowan County man arrested on child porn charges
• Steel Tube Inc. expanding in Statesville
• NC police officer shoots man holding McDonald’s worker
• Hot streak to continue Wednesday in Charlotte
• Chatham County agrees to take coal ash landfill for $19 million
• Zillow: ‘Hidden’ homeownership costs cheaper in Charlotte than rest of U.S.
• Man charged in kidnapping, sex assault
• With Ramadan set to arrive, local Muslims prepare for hot days of fasting
• Pineville-based Carolina Cutlery Service merges with Chicago firm
• Analysts: Dollar Tree deal could bring lower prices at Family Dollar
• Wait for the tone, and ... never mind. Voice mail is on the way out.
• Erik Johnson’s career night carries Knights to 2-0 victory over Pawtucket
• Charlotte Knights box score 06.16.15
• Charlotte traffic: Myers Park water main break prompts detours
• Classroom Central appoints Curt Walton as interim leader
• Tab is in for Charlotte Fire Department investigation: $214,000
• Iredell County pair charged in heroin distribution case
• NC switches to BofA debit card for jobless benefits
• ABC brings ‘Bachelor’ casting call to Charlotte
• More child sex charges filed against former Rowan County resident
• Three MRSA cases confirmed at Daimler Trucks plant
• Hearing Wednesday to weigh possible wrongdoing in NC senator’s campaign
• Panthers’ Kelvin Benjamin out with 2nd hamstring injury in a week, reported to OTAs overweight
• Expect something different at Chambers Bay
• Teenager taken to hospital after Lake Norman jet ski accident
• Bird survey trip offers dramatic sights
• Football ‘humanizes’ policemen, firefighters who play for Cobras
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Reimann announce: They’re engaged
• D9 Brewing is sweet on sour beers
• Your guide to Saturday’s entertainment in Charlotte
• Free Stuff: Juneteenth Festival features 3 days of fun
• Theater review: ‘Closer’ reveals the distances between lovers
• Michael Chitwood celebrates hard work’s gritty grind and glory
• See the wild and wacky photos from The Light Factory’s Shoot Out event
• $26,000 awarded to Carolina artists
• What to Watch on Wednesday: ‘Ripper Street’ season ends
• Kentucky’s Willie Cauley-Stein would welcome chance to play for Michael Jordan, Hornets
• Hornets’ Clifford intrigued by Spencer Hawes’ shooting and passing