Mecklenburg County News

Facing possible removal from the bench by the North Carolina Supreme Court, Mecklenburg County Judge Bill Belk resigned late Friday afternoon.

Mecklenburg County sheriff's deputies and several local police officers made surprise visits to registered sex offenders on Halloween night.

There are 742 registered sex offenders in Mecklenburg County and only 70 of them are in jail.

Law enforcement officers are spreading out across Mecklenburg County A Saturday night to protect your children from more than ghosts and goblins.

The two men vying to be Charlotte's next mayor went head-to-head Wednesday night in the final debate before the election on Tuesday.

A North Carolina judge says a state panel has recommended his removal for misconduct after allegations he failed to resign as a corporate board director and fought with another judge.

Two armed robberies were reported at two different pizza restaurants in a span of 24 hours.

A Charlotte fugitive was arrested Saturday night after a child ran into a gas station to ask for help, saying he had been kidnapped.

Tommy Cochran Jr. INDIAN TRAIL a ' Mr. Tommy Franklin Cochran, Jr., 80, died Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at Hospice of Union County.

Three more cases of motorists hitting deer were reported on roads in the Charlotte metro region before sunrise Wednesday, bringing the two-day total to at least six.

There is a plan in the works to raise the age of a juvenile offender from 16 to 18.

For Mooresville's fire chief, the ability to communicate orders to four fire stations simultaneously through video conferencing has numerous advantages, some of them life saving.

From the N.C. Depaortment of Transportation: HEAVY TRAFFIC EXPECTED ON CHARLOTTE AREA ROADS Beginning early morning on Thursday, October 15th, and ending early morning on Sunday, October 18th, race events at the motor speedway in Concord, Northeast of Charlotte, will generate significant delays in northeast Mecklenburg County and southwest Cabarrus ...

Despite bad weather, early voting in Mecklenburg is open to all registered voters for upcoming elections.

RALEIGH Twenty murderers, rapists and robbers - sentenced to life in N.C. prisons in the 1970s - will be freed at the end of October as a result of recent court rulings.

With only days to go before the deadline, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Chipp Bailey signed an agreement to keep an immigration program at the jail.

The charges against a man accused of raping his adopted teenage sister, who was gunned down in north Charlotte last month, have been dropped.

A judge refused to lower the bond of a middle school teacher accused of raping a teen at his home in Huntersville.

Pharmacist Sharon Erdman gets a dose of the swine flu vaccine Monday in the Occupational Health Clinic at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis.

The North Carolina Symphony is adopting some unusual fundraising tactics to take advantage of money that legislators dangled in front of the orchestra.