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The long-awaited report on the investigation into CMS Superintendent Crystal Hill is not on the agenda for Tuesday night's school board meeting. But board member Charlitta Hatch says she plans to make a motion at the start of the meeting to add it.
CHARLOTTE TALKS WITH MIKE COLLINS
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Steve Harrison/WFAEThe fate of the I-77 toll lanes: After public opposition, the project was voted down. But the state passed a law requiring local governments to repay millions to the N.C. Department of Transportation if that vote stands. That has some municipalities rethinking their decisions. We hear from leaders in the region about what comes next, and about how Charlotte reached its decision. -
Candidate's websiteDr. Annie Andrews is a pediatrician and mother from Charleston. She is the Democratic candidate running for the open U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina. No Democrat has won a Senate seat in S.C. since 1998. She discusses her hopes to flip the seat.
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LOCAL NEWS
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The CMS board enters the fall having spent hundreds of thousands of dollars apparently digging into district operations over the summer. We’re on the cusp of a board leadership ouster. CMS faces a criminal investigation into “financial irregularities,” and the state auditor is looking at CMS, too. -
It’s time for a fact check of North Carolina politics. This week, we take a closer look at President Donald Trump’s campaign rally last week in Gastonia, where he appeared in support of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley. Trump and Whatley repeatedly attacked Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and former Gov. Roy Cooper over crime. Paul Specht of WRAL joins WFAE’s Marshall Terry. -
On a 5-2 vote, the board approved changes to WakeMed's articles of incorporation and a transfer agreement. The Federal Trade Commission will have to approve the deal before it becomes final. -
The State Laboratory for Public Health will now test for Infantile Krabbe Disease and Guanidinoacetate Methyltransferase Deficiency. -
Vice President J.D. Vance was at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro Monday to rally support for U.S. Senate Candidate Michael Whatley, who is locked in a tight race with former Gov. Roy Cooper. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board is set to vote Tuesday on removing the board chair, amid a criminal investigation into “financial irregularities” and an ongoing leadership dispute over board contracting practices. -
Braxton Winston went from joining his first protest after the 2016 police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott to serving six years on Charlotte City Council. Ten years later, he reflects on what changed in Charlotte — and himself.
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The estimated $584 million project in Richmond County would have been the sixth combustion turbine at Duke's Smith complex, joining a pair of combined cycle gas units there.
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