Charlotte
Sending students back to school during a pandemic has proven to be a major challenge and its causing a some headaches for parents. While some students have been sent home due to being infected with the virus, others have been sent home to quarantine due to close contact with an infected person. This is posing […]
For a minute, the need for Covid-19 testing greatly decreased. However, the new surge of Covid-19 infections in the Queen City has created a demand for more testing locations. Well, Novant Health, Atrium Health, StarMed and American Family Care are answering the call by expanding their testing locations. So, if you, your family, or someone […]
Mecklenburg County Public Health officials issues a mask mandate for the City of Charlotte for indoor and public spaces regardless of vaccination status. The mask mandate went into effect Wednesday, August 15 at 5 PM. Officials said this requirement applies to all individuals who are five years old or older. This mandate comes as the […]
Every day there is something to celebrate. July 29 is proclaimed National Chicken Wing Day. Celebrate this national holiday and stop by a local chicken wing spot and place an order. Charlotte has a few great chicken wing sports. The Queen City has a handful of restaurants to offer chicken wings that will leave your […]
The travel site named North Carolina as their top state with the most hospitable hosts, according to internal data collected over the past year. The Tar Heel State was complemented for having a noticeable southern charm, including an Asheville property named Lucky W Cottage which received over 530 5-star reviews from visitors.
“We’ve just had our highest numbers of cases and hospitalizations in about two months,” Cooper told reporters on Wednesday “There are a number of things, particularly in getting people vaccinated, that we are able to do because we’re in a state of emergency.” New cases have increased from near all-time lows.
A problem spawned by global supply chain issues and a worker shortages that has forced business owners to explore alternatives to mass produced products. During a recent meeting of the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission (ABC), chairman Zander Guy Jr. addressed the liquor shortage in the state, according to the Charlotte Observer.
The new-generation device was implanted into a 39-year-old man by a surgical team led by Dr. Jacob Schroder and Dr. Carmelo Milano on Wednesday. A process that seems pretty routine, but it was a difficult decision considering no procedure like this has been done before. Matthew Moore from Shallotte, North Carolina was referred to Duke with heart failure earlier this year, according to WNCN.
“We had a thousand new cases a day reported yesterday and today," Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen said Thursday. "That’s more than three times the number of cases we were seeing just two weeks ago." She went on to say the agency believes the spike of cases is due to the Fourth of July holiday. A majority of those as the Delta variant, first discovered in India.
Eric Parker, 62, and his wife Tangela Parker, 50, had been on the run from authorities after they were wanted in connection to the murder of Phelifia Marlow, who was shot and killed at TCS Designs in Hickory on January 13. The U.S. Marshals office announced they arrested the fugitives on Tuesday following a series of leads connected to Phoenix, Ariz. in recent weeks.