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June 14, 2022

• 350-pound bear rips into sleeping family’s tent in Smoky Mountains, claws mom and child
• Racial bias, other concerns surface ahead of Mecklenburg reset of property values
• Do fans actually keep you cool in a heat wave? The answer may surprise you
• Medical Society CEO: Nursing bill won’t improve healthcare in rural NC
• Clear backpacks, chairs and a piano: CMS auctioning off unwanted equipment to public
• Panthers begin minicamp without Baker Mayfield. Here’s where trade talks stand
• All-Observer Boys Track: Mountain Island’s Moyer, Washington take top honors
• Seby Zavala promoted, Gavin Sheets demoted as Charlotte Knights start series Tuesday
• Panthers observations: Veterans turn into coaches as younger players earn valuable reps
• Michael Jordan hooks 24-pound dolphinfish in tournament off North Carolina coast
• He planned to make a famed pilgrimage alone. He died, while doing it, among friends.
• Kevin Siers: Duty, Honor . . . and Jan. 6
• A gun show buyout? One NC city took a remarkable stand
• ‘Families will prosper.’ Eli Lilly breaks ground in Concord on $1 billion medicine plant
• 6-year-old girl dies after drowning in neighbor’s pool, Gastonia police say
• What Flag Day is all about, and how to celebrate the holiday in the Charlotte area
• You can exchange your old IKEA furniture for store credit. This is how it works
• What’s the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke? How each affects people, pets
• 2 dead, 4 critically hurt when intoxicated driver crashes into golf cart, NC cops say
• This NC high school track and field star takes the next step toward her Olympic dream
• All-Observer Girls Track: Harding’s Garrett, Providence Day’s Lawrence take top honors
• ‘Music is healing.’ How one CMS teacher is building an award-winning, inclusive classroom
• A tampon shortage is happening. Here’s what causing it, and alternative products to try
• How homeowners can beat the heat and keep cool without raising energy costs
• Fire erupts on a Lake Norman island. Billowing smoke can be seen for miles.
• Charlotte heat wave enters ‘Code Red’: Here are rules for kids going outside
• What happened to 100 degrees Tuesday? Mother Nature delivers an unexpected twist
• Charlotte greenlights Hornets deal to extend team’s lease, build practice facility
• The results are in: 68% of Charlotte drivers would travel at least 10 miles for cheap gas
• These six Charlotte area counties are seeing spikes in COVID-19 transmission
• Concert review: Tears for Fears rides wave of ’80s nostalgia, mixed with the new
• A near miss for Charlotte chef Greg Collier on James Beard Award
• Free movie summer: Get ready for 80s and 90s movies (and a free arcade!) at Camp North End
• HeroesCon at 40: NC comic book convention soars back for a big anniversary show