Friday May 4 | The Charlotte Observer
21 students win National Merit awards
Twenty-one high school seniors from the Charlotte region, including 13 from Mecklenburg County, have been named winners of National Merit Scholarship awards.
All these years later, serving in the Vietnam war remains a vivid memory for many of the veterans who attended the Vietnam Veterans Homecoming Celebration Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Towns struggle with new building code
According to state law, all North Carolina towns and counties had to switch over to the 2012 building code for residential housing inspections as of March 1. The problem is that a draft of the building code wasn't completed until Tuesday, Feb.