4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (38+ words) Morning news brief'WFAE - On Air Now Playing The Charlotte Jazz Channel White House responds to correspondents' dinner shooting with praise and blame, investigation into the shooting and suspect continues, King Charles arrives in U. S. for state visit....

4+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (351+ words) Jim Beam is scaling back. Starting today and for the rest of the year, it's pausing production at its flagship distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. That's where the first barrel of its bourbon was sold in 1795. Jim Beam, which is now…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1344+ words) The 2025 legislative session was notoriously unproductive. Only 97 bills became law, a record low for odd-year legislative sessions, sometimes called "long sessions." During the long sessions, lawmakers are supposed to iron out the details of a biennial budget. In 2025, they didn't....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (806+ words) The North Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday overturned its own 2022 decision in the long-running Leandro school funding case, potentially ending the decades-long quest to force the General Assembly to significantly increase school funding. That decision had ordered the state to…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (213+ words) Developers behind a massive Stokes County data center are reacting to a lawsuit challenging their plan. In the suit, plaintiffs allege Stokes County didn't follow state-mandated procedures when they approved a rezoning measure for the data center back in January....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (161+ words) A federal judge in Charlotte has ruled that immigration officials violated a man's due process rights when they detained him and ordered that he be immediately given a bond hearing. U. S. District Judge Max Cogburn ruled that U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…...

7+ mon, 1+ day ago  (135+ words) Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police are investigating shots fired near a school bus Tuesday morning in South Charlotte. According to CMPD, the shooting happened on Baltimore Avenue during morning pick-up. The bus was not hit and no students were injured in the shooting....

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (597+ words) A truck driver " who died in a road accident while working in the region to haul supplies related to Hurricane Helene recovery " is the latest victim to be added to North Carolina's list of those killed as a result of…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (838+ words) Ford is making a multi-billion-dollar bet on electric vehicles. At the Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky this morning, Ford executives announced that they plan to retool the factory so they can roll out a midsize pickup truck in the $30, 000 range…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (256+ words) MICHAEL COPLEY, BYLINE: Hey, Juana. SUMMERS: So, Michael, over the past couple of weeks, so many of us have been really just shocked to see the intensity of some of this flooding. What can you tell us about why we're…...