Lisa Worf

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden has apologized for racial slurs that were secretly recorded — and published last week.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board will vote later this month on student assignment changes that largely impact magnet schools. Tuesday night a few dozen parents and students signed up to weigh in.

Charter school leaders hoping to open Trinitas Academy in Mooresville finally got a state review Monday. Its leaders tried to bypass the state’s review process for charters and go straight to the legislature.

The percentage of students passing math in North Carolina and in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools continued to inch up last year as schools recovered after the coronavirus pandemic disrupted instruction. But math scores are still well below pre-pandemic levels, and reading scores have been harder to move.

North Carolina threatens the safety of foster children by failing to supervise county departments of social services — that’s the claim of a federal class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of nine children in the state’s foster care system.

The former owner of Charlotte’s Scorpio nightclub has pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy charges involving an auto dealership and the club.

Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather released a review Thursday of the the shooting that killed four law enforcement officers in east Charlotte this spring, in the deadliest day for law enforcement in the city's history.

A person died early Monday morning in east Charlotte after a tree fell on an apartment building.

Two teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection with a series of shootings that killed one person early Tuesday morning. Officers arrested a 16-year-old early Thursday morning and Carlos Roberto Diaz, 18, Thursday afternoon.

The lawsuit brought this week by Russell Fincham's parents says the Mecklenburg sheriff's “policy of deliberate indifference” to the safety and medical needs of inmates resulted in their son’s death. It claims the pattern was so widespread that it became the department’s “unwritten policy.” It also says McFadden told staff he has to “cover it up” when he receives delayed reports of issues in the jail.