The Charlotte Observer

10 hours ago | charlotteobserver.com | Jeff A. Chamer

A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed after someone fired into an apartment near the 1000 block of Merrick Street in northeast Charlotte Thursday night. Screenshot from Google Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are looking for the person who fired into an occupied northeast Charlotte apartment Thursday night, killing a 15-year-old boy. The shooting occurred just before 11:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of Merrick Street, a CMPD press release said.

13 hours ago | charlotteobserver.com | Jeff A. Chamer

A man accused of blowing up his Dilworth home in May was indicted by a grand jury in Mecklenburg County Superior Court on several arson charges this week. Michael Edward Barnette, 46, was indicted Monday on three counts of first-degree arson, one count of second-degree arson, and one count of first-degree arson resulting in injury of a fire investigator. He was also charged with three counts of malicious damage by explosives.

1 day ago | charlotteobserver.com | Jeff A. Chamer

First responders in multiple southeast U.S. states are searching for the crash site of a fiery object that was seen barreling toward the ground Thursday afternoon. Videos of a fireball streaking through the sky were posted online from people in North Carolina and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. The American Meteor Society, which tracks reports of fireball sightings, logged multiple calls from those states on Thursday as well.

1 day ago | charlotteobserver.com | Pete Fiutak

The BYU offense was fine. Not amazing, but fine.It didn't run well, was pedestrian through the air, and overall, it finished 11th in the Big 12, averaging 392 yards per game. But it scored well over 100 points more than it did in 2023, was strong when it had to be, it managed to stay in control of games even though it wasn't any good on third downs, and it hit on enough big plays to overcome most of the negatives.There's more than enough back to be even better, starting with ...

1 day ago | charlotteobserver.com | Pete Fiutak

That's the BYU program the Big 12 was hoping for.For years, there were few more reliable pageview grabbers than "Will BYU join a power conference?" It was one of the only available programs that looked, played, and had everything in place to belong among the big boys.Life as an independent worked out just fine under Kalani Sitake after Bronco Mendenhall made BYU a Mountain West superpower, and then two seasons ago, the program got the call to the show, and ...