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The family of a deaf man who was shot & killed by police in Charlotte calling for a change
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“If they saw a Black man with a gun they would have emptied the whole damn precinct,” said poll watcher Tim Carmichael, a Black man and retired Navy veteran.
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🚨 FIRE IN SOUTHPARK: Fire crews are responding to a massive fire in SouthPark right now. WHAT WE KNOW: The three-alarm fire broke out just after 9am at 7700 Liberty Row Drive. - According to transportation officials, Fairview Road East is closed near Park South Drive. This is
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Thread: As several prominent local female politicians spoke at precinct 212, one of the largest Democratic polling places in the state, the event was cut short when a maskless white man open carrying a gun showed up and began circling the property.
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The Panthers' social media wizard Amie Kiehn stepped down from her job last week to spend more time with her three-year-old son. Read her message to Panthers fans:
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DOCTORS KNEEL: At 1 p.m. Friday, medical professionals and other employees of Levine Children’s Hospital joined the growing movement for Black lives, taking a knee for 8 minutes, 46 seconds. Many held signs with the hashtag #whitecoatsforblacklives
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New mural named ‘Pure’ll Gold’ now up in NoDa. "I hope this piece can offer some comedic relief in what is a very serious and trying time for humanity," posted artist Darion Fleming. It took about 80-90 hours of work. "Stay safe, stay healthy, and stay creating."
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Presidential candidates love NC BBQ, and today Joe Biden’s team got their fix from Mac’s Speed Shop. His staffers picked up a large to-go order from the BBQ spot during the former VP’s visit to Charlotte. Secret service checked the order at a separate location.
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Protesters gathered in downtown Waxhaw this afternoon to oppose systematic racism and police brutality. The crowd took a knee in memory of George Floyd, who was killed by Minneapolis police last week.
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NEW HORNETS UNIFORMS: The Charlotte Hornets have unveiled new a City Edition uniform for the 2020-21 NBA season. The uniform colors, mint with gold and granite accents, are a nod to Charlotte’s history as home of the first U.S. Branch Mint and the Carolina Gold Rush of the 1800s.
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Update: Per CMPD, officers have arrested Justin Dunn for trespassing. He voted at precinct 212, was asked to leave, but returned two hours later. CMPD says the original call they received was “regarding Dunn possibly intimidating other voters.”.
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Pat McCrory roasted by full page newspaper ad on his 60th birthday.
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DABABY IN CHARLOTTE: Throughout the day, Charlotte native @DaBabyDaBaby is stopping at several polling places around the city. He will be at Mallard Creek Elementary, Hidden Valley Elementary, U City Library, and Garinger High. Expect music and freebies.
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Today, local artists painted an entire Uptown block with three words: Black Lives Matter. Artists worked for about 12 hours in nearly 90 degree heat to finish the project, which runs along Tryon Street between 3rd and 4th Streets. 📹: @SpiracleMedia for Charlotte Agenda
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North Carolina is an open carry state, so he technically was not breaking the law. Still, voters and volunteers here are describing this as voter intimidation.
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Thousands took to the streets today for the 2018 Charlotte Women’s March
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That would be the sun rising for the first time this week. ☀️🙏
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🏆 Rory McIlroy just won his fourth @wellsfargogolf at Quail Hollow Club in south Charlotte. 🏡 He says a he does go on Zillow quiet a lot and look at homes around Quail Hollow, but he’s set with his home in Florida.
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PEDESTRIANS ONLY: The Black Lives Matter mural block Uptown will remain closed to drivers through September 30 as part of a pilot program for a pedestrian-only plaza, the city said Thursday. Local artists painted the street mural, located on Tryon between 3rd and 4th, last month.
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🎓 NBA superstar Steph Curry will receive his degree from Davidson College today as a member of the class of 2022.
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⚽️ MESSI IN CLT: @CharlotteFC has opened the upper deck at Bank of America Stadium for their regular season finale vs. @InterMiamiCF now that Lionel Messi signed with Miami. DETAILS: Tickets for the upper deck start at $75 standard admission. The match is scheduled for Saturday,
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Precinct volunteers called CMPD, who took down the man’s information to share with other polling places. The man was not arrested, but he was told not to return.
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Raise your hand if you feel personally victimized by this week’s weather.
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🗳️ Democratic U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson will be North Carolina's new attorney general after defeating Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop.
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🏟️ The Charlotte 49ers are leveling up their facilities.
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HIGHER ED NEWS: @DavidsonCollege trustees are personally donating $200,000 to cover travel expenses for the graduating class of 2020 to return to campus for an in-person ceremony, once it is safe to do so.
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A working list of Black-owned businesses in Charlotte, and how you can support them:
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VP CANDIDATE ARRIVES: Senator Kamala Harris is wheels down in Charlotte. President Donald Trump is expected to land here in four hours before heading to a rally in Gastonia.
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Special report: The Panthers' digital channels produce nearly 1 billion impressions a year. But few people know that Amie Kiehn manages those popular accounts — and even fewer know the story of her "miracle child," Tripp. By @michaelngraff
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Congresswoman Adams was quickly whisked away, and Mayor Lyles left soon after. Poll watchers said the man was here for nearly an hour before heading in to vote.
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We’re excited to announce that Paige Hopkins starts today as a reporter and producer for Charlotte Agenda. A native of the Charlotte area, Paige joins the team after nearly four years in television news.
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Cheers to @Jonathanstewar1 and @nathills! The couple eloped in Seattle over the weekend 🎉 . (Photos courtesy of The Stewarts)
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Update: Pins has closed.
“We’re breaking a rule by opening but this will probably be one of the safest places you’ll be in Charlotte,” says Rise Brands CEO Troy Allen. Pins Mechanical, a Rise Brands bar, reopened Thursday despite statewide Covid-19 restrictions.
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New Panthers art going up on the parking deck at the corner of W. MLK Blvd and S. Graham St.
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Tara Smith of The Cupcake Queen in downtown Waxhaw gave away free cupcakes to protesters today
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HALLOWEEN SPIRIT: Villa Heights resident and local real estate agent Chelsea Ernst has been sharing some Halloween fun this season. Her lawn is an ever-changing display of skeletons doing various activities — practicing yoga, washing the car, roasting marshmallows. 💀💀💀
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Here, @michaelngraff spoke with 38-year-old state senator @JeffJacksonNC of Charlotte, who is considering a bid to become his generation’s first U.S. Senator.
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After you enjoy a meal/drink at home, send a virtual tip to a service industry professional who's been financially affected by coronavirus. Just click the link below, and it will randomly generate the Venmo of a service industry worker in need. #tipCLT
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NC MOVING TO PHASE 2.5: Beginning this Friday at 5 p.m., North Carolina will move to a new phase of reopening, “phase 2.5,” Governor Roy Cooper announced Tuesday. This means gyms, playgrounds, and museums can open at reduced capacity. Bars and nightclubs are to remain closed.
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We’re excited to announce that Symphony Webber will join our team on August 3 as a reporter and photographer covering things to do around the city. @SymphonyWebber is a Charlotte native and 2019 graduate of Duke University. Welcome Symphony!
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"We know that Democratic governors are the strongest and last line of defense to protect abortion rights," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper told Axios today.
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STREET MURAL: Local artists are painting a Black Lives Matter mural on a block of Tryon between 3rd and 4th streets Uptown today. The project is a collaboration between local artists, the city, Charlotte is Creative, Brand The Moth, and BlkMrktClt. Photos by @andyjweber
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🍿Grab your popcorn and put on your green and white. A documentary about Charlotte 49ers football called “Mining for Greatness” will air this football season.
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Volunteers say a handful of people left without voting when they saw him. “I wasn’t intimidated. The polls are safe,” city councilwoman Renee Perkins Johnson said.
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Giant bunnies have invaded Uptown. The exhibit by Australian artist Amanda Parer kicks off Charlotte SHOUT!, a 13-day celebration of art, music and food throughout Uptown.
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Charlotte’s 9/11 flag memorial is on display at Romare Bearden Park. Each flag is tagged with the name and photo of a victim who died in the attacks in 2001.
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🚨 Good news! The notorious “bump” on Wilkinson Boulevard is finally gone.
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CONFIRMED: @shakeshack is coming to Park Road Shopping Center. 🎉🍔. We told you back in April Shake Shack had a Ch…
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Charlotte is now officially on track to build a new light rail line between Matthews, Uptown and the town of Belmont in Gaston County by the year 2030.
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If Charlotte's transit plans from the 1990s had gone accordingly, today the city could've had five light rails traveling from Uptown to the suburbs.
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Among the protesters is Carolina Panthers linebacker Shaq Thompson
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⚽ SAVE THE DATE: @charlottefc’s inaugural home opener is March 5 vs. @lagalaxy at 8 pm at Bank of America Stadium.
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The inaugural Around the Crown 10K shut down I-277 inner this morning as 4,500+ runners took to the interstate for the new race. @ATC10K . (As of about 9am, the interstate was back open on both sides.)
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❄️ Last night’s snow is sticking around. Be careful if you’re on the roads. ☃️ Charlotte has seen about 4 inches of total snow between Sunday’s and Friday’s winter storms. ❄️ Stay cozy, Charlotte.
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Charlotte’s 9/11 memorial is on display at Romare Bearden Park today. The memorial is also being live-streamed this morning. Each flag has the name and photo of a victim who died in the 2001 attacks. Never forget 🇺🇸
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A strategy for Charlotte's West End that's been in the works for years proposes tearing down acres of highway infrastructure that divided the historically Black neighborhoods from Uptown.
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Be cool, everybody.
Alright, entire state of North Carolina. Don't do anything embarrassing ahead of our Amazon HQ2 submission.
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🇺🇦 PROTEST: Over 150 people gathered in Romare Bearden Park Thursday afternoon to support Ukraine following the invasion by Russian forces, sharing stories, tears, singing the Ukrainian national anthem and chanting "stop the war."
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Converting Charlotte's millions of square feet of unused or underused office space into other uses like housing could help solve a major problem for the city.
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Charlotte's Jeff Jackson has announced he's running for U.S. Senate in 2022. The race will surely be one of the most watched and most expensive Senate contests of the midterms.
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Hundreds of peaceful protesters gather Sunday afternoon in Uptown Charlotte for a third day of demonstrations following the police killing last week of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Spoiler alert: The advertisement did not come from a local funeral home — in fact, Wilmore Funeral Home doesn't even exist.
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👑 CLTFC WINS: It rained goals in Charlotte FC’s first win in franchise history. Karol Świderski scored twice and rookie Ben Bender sealed the deal in Charlotte’s 3-1 win vs. New England at Bank of America Stadium.
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CHARLOTTE MED SCHOOL: Today, Atrium Health CEO Gene Woods shared a first look at the Charlotte medical school campus that Atrium is partnering with Wake Forest Baptist Health on. It'll focus on the latest in virtual reality and AI to advance medical science, the hospitals say.
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Meet Hook Shot Charlie, the 62-year-old Charlottean who’s mastered the art of the half-court hook shot. | Full story:
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⛈️ SEVERE WEATHER: Much of the Charlotte area is under severe weather warnings and watches. - Mecklenburg County is currently under a severe thunderstorm warning, flood watch, tornado watch and wind advisory, according to the National Weather Service. - The video of the flooding
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Latest: Atrium opens a drive-thru testing site on the Charlotte Motor Speedway complex. After being directed to the site by a physician, patients are tested from inside their car. More on Charlotte hospitals:
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Skiptown, a 24,000 square-foot indoor/outdoor dog park and bar with beer and cocktails, plus a doggie daycare and boarding facility, opens in August. Think of it like the “Whitewater Center for dogs in the middle of South End,” CEO Meggie Williams says.
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Former "American Idol" contestant Clay Aiken is running as a Democrat to replace long-serving Rep. David Price in North Carolina's redrawn 6th District.
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“Taking over a program that has not reached its potential where you can exceed expectations and do more than what has been done is important to me,” Healy said.
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NEW: Amtrak's new proposal means that you could soon travel from the Carolina coast to the city of Charlotte to the mountains by train.
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Legacy Union will join Uptown giants as the fourth-tallest building in the city and InterContinental at Belk Place will become the new tallest hotel — plus dozens more buildings on the way.
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Last year, a group of Charlotte professionals from a range of backgrounds came together with a big idea: To turn the 200-plus-acre rail yard just outside Uptown into an expansive community park. The group has been working quietly to push the plan forward.
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We at Axios Charlotte wish to send our condolences to the friends and family of WBTV's Jason Myers and Chip Tayag, who died in a helicopter crash today. WBTV is our news partner, and the people who work there are among the best humans in the business. We are devastated for them.
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New name, same us. Read our *first* newsletter as Axios Charlotte here:
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Exclusive: Charlotte FC’s inaugural head coach is a teacher at heart. Miguel Ángel Ramírez may have arrived in the U.S. to coach in Major League Soccer, but one day he’d like to teach somewhere like Harvard University.
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Happy 79th birthday to a Charlotte icon. Dot Counts-Scoggins integrated the city’s schools in 1957 and she’s still showing us the way in 2021. 📸 @cmlibrary and @AtriumHealth
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Good Wurst, a deli and restaurant that recently opened in an old laundromat space on Central Avenue, has a meat-focused menu with brats, schnitzel, and pastrami — all made in-house.
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🏈North Carolina and South Carolina will kick off on Sept. 2 at 7:30pm at Bank of America Stadium in the Duke's Mayo Classic. 📺The game will be broadcast on ABC. 🎟Tickets go on sale to the public on June 6 on Ticketmaster. 🏟The 2023 Duke’s Mayo Bowl featuring ACC and SEC
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BIDEN ARRIVES: Former Vice President Joe Biden deplaned in Charlotte at 12:04 p.m., according to the White House press pool. He is expected to speak in Charlotte this afternoon at Camp North End. The event is closed to the public.
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Here is a closer look at Charlotte's 9/11 memorial where each flag represents a life lost on this day 16 years ago.
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Senator Harris stops in Social Status in Plaza Midwood to speak with owner James Whitner. Whitner shows her the shop's 2020 election high-tops with phrases like Black Lives Matter on them.
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