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CHARLOTTE – On their fourth try, about 150 Myers Park homeowners living near Queens University last week won a court victory in their fight against the city of Charlotte over two new buildings that opened on the private school’s campus ...

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WAXHAW — Waxhaw police on Thursday morning identified the worker killed Tuesday in a construction site accident as Gilberto Cruz, 31, of Lincolnton. The N.C. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health division is investigating the fatality. The construction worker ...

Just north of Fort Mill, in the area of unincorporated York County known as Fort Mill Township, the York County Council last week approved a rezoning petition allowing light industrial-office development on 38 acres west of the S.C. Welcome Center ...

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CHARLOTTE – The City Council this week unanimously approved an under-protest rezoning petition that allows 15 single-family homes to be developed on Sardis Road between Waverly Hall and Chevron roads. Sardis Road Land Co. requested the 5-acre rezoning from an ...

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CHARLOTTE – Two defendants in a $1.7 million “straw-buyer” mortgage fraud conspiracy that targeted Charlotte-area homes in the mid- to late 2000s were sentenced to prison this week. Gregory D. Anderson, 47, of Kingstree, S.C., on Tuesday was sentenced to ...

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CHARLOTTE – A public-private venture to develop a $76.7 million amateur sports complex on land around Bojangles Coliseum is on hold while negotiations continue, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority said this week. In June, GoodSports Enterprises ...

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CHARLOTTE – After additional monetary penalties were added if Levine Properties does not live up to its part of the bargain, the City Council on Monday OK’d changes to a public-private development agreement for a long-delayed revitalization effort in Uptown’s ...

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CHARLOTTE – David Botsko is a double agent. For 27 years, Botsko was a federal investigator. After he “retired,” he put in 11 years running the fraud investigation arm of Arizona’s Medicaid agency. Now, at 67, after “retiring” again, in ...

CHARLOTTE – As the first 90 retailers get ready for Thursday’s grand opening of the Charlotte Premium Outlets mall, three future tenants of the 400,000-square-foot mall have been announced. Clarks Bostonian shoes, Travelpro luggage and Maurices young women’s fashion outlets ...

FORT MILL – The Town Council this week approved a mixed-use, 235-unit subdivision with up to 170,000 square feet of commercial space. At same meeting, on Monday morning, the council deferred a 150-unit town house-only community pending a revised traffic ...

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