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Minor League Hockey Team Buys Home for 11-Year-Old Super Fan
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsIn January, AOL News first told the story of Zach Bennett, an 11-year-old boy from Albany, N.Y., who suffers from neurofibromatosis 1, a rare genetic disorder in which tumors grow on his nerves. When Bennett's favorite hockey team, the Albany River Rats, a farm team for the Carolina Hurricanes, was moved to Charlotte, N.C., to become the Charlotte Checkers, Zach wanted to move with it. Zach's family discovered that a Charlotte medical center offered specialized treatment for his disease, so they decided to put their house on the market and make the move. But the real estate market did not ...
Cops: Perp Left T-Shirt With His Mug Shot at Crime Scene
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThere are crimes against fashion and there are crimes solved by fashion. Police in Charlotte, N.C., say they arrested a home invasion suspect who accidentally left a T-shirt featuring his own face -- in the form of a mug shot -- at the scene of the crime. Following his release from a North Carolina prison after serving seven years for armed robbery and breaking and entering, Jonathan Huntley, 25, acquired a T-shirt printed with his own mug shot and the words "Making Money Is My Thang," The Smoking Gun reports. ...
Democrats Pick Charlotte: Southern Charm Meets Political Steel
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyIn the end, was it Southern charm or the lure of the number 15 – as in North Carolina's 15 electoral votes? That combination, along with a compelling story and city leaders who really, really wanted the 2012 Democratic National Convention pushed Charlotte past St. Louis, Minneapolis and Cleveland. "Reaching for tomorrow" -- Charlotte's slogan while campaigning for the convention – fittingly echoes the president's "win the future" State of the Union refrain. Charlotte welcomes its first national political convention and the international attention, the better to highlight the ...
Why the Democrats Picked Charlotte for 2012 Convention
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsCharlotte, N.C., better get ready. In a year and a half, the city will be invaded ... by Democrats. The Democratic Party has selected Charlotte as the site of its 2012 national convention. Charlotte beat out St. Louis, Cleveland and Minneapolis, which had also hoped to win the right to host the Democratic National Committee. This will be the first time North Carolina has hosted a presidential-nominating convention. Sponsored Links So why Charlotte? Well, it's impossible to miss the electoral implications. North Carolina was a swing state in 2008. Obama won it, but only by 14,000 votes ...
Democrats Pick Charlotte, N.C., to Host 2012 Convention
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyThe Democratic National Committee has selected Charlotte, N.C., as the site of the party's 2012 presidential nominating convention. The DNC announced the selection for the 46th quadrennial gathering on Tuesday morning. Republicans earlier chose Tampa. In an e-mail to fellow Democrats, First Lady Michelle Obama said, "Charlotte is a city marked by its southern charm, warm hospitality and an 'up by the bootstraps' mentality that has propelled the city forward as one of the fastest growing in the South." She also noted that her first trip outside of Washington as first lady was to Fort Bragg, ...
Source: Democrats Pick Charlotte for 2012 Convention
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A Democratic official says the party will hold it's 2012 presidential convention in Charlotte, N .C. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement was not intended to be made public until later Tuesday. The North Carolina city beat out three others; St. Louis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Cleveland. ...
Wintry Blast Blankets Southern States; NYC Preps for More Snow
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBIA, S.C. -- It could be days before icy, treacherous conditions improve for areas of the South hit by a wintry blast that sent cars sliding off the road, emptied grocery shelves and had officials nervously watching ice-laden powerlines and tree limbs. Meanwhile, New York City was about to confront its third snowstorm in less than three weeks, a day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration admitted a series of mistakes in its handling of a Christmas weekend blizzard and promised immediate changes. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning from Tuesday evening ...
Kitty Saved: NYC Firefighters Pull Off Purrfect Rescue
By not in system - AOL NewsA very fortunate feline is feeling fine today after being rescued from a fire that swept through a New York City apartment building. NY Daily News Firefighters saved Robbin Schwartz's cat, Charlotte, from a fire in the East Village of New York City early Tuesday. The fire started around 3:50 a.m. in a grocery store on Second Avenue in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood. Flames caused damage to the two floors above the grocery, and smoke spread quickly through the 10 apartments in the six-story building, the New York Daily News said. All the people got out, and firefighters ...
Woman With Gun at Charlotte TV Station in Custody
By not in system - AOL NewsCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A woman distraught over her financial situation walked into the lobby of a TV station during its Tuesday evening news broadcast, pulled out what turned out to be an unloaded gun and put it to her head, the station's general manager said. The station went off the air for about an hour and the building was evacuated and locked down. No one was taken hostage or injured and police took the woman into custody, said WSOC-TV's general manager Joe Pomilla. "I think the experience was more about protecting our employees," Pomilla said. "It's one of those things I'm thankful we had ...
NEWSFLASH: 'Sex and the City' Is Off the Air (So End the Obsession!)
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyIs there Nothing Else Out There? Are we so stuck that only a decade-old television show (which can be called aspirational, if we're being charitable, and ludicrous, if we're snarky) can describe the State of Modern Womanhood? I'm talking about "Sex and the City." It's done. It's over. It's not you. It's us. We've changed. Moved on. Found new loves. Look. I loved the show, at the time, for its time. I loved the neologisms. I loved the clothes. I mean, I wrote a coffee table book about it. Seriously. That's me on "E! True Hollywood Story," blathering on about what SATC meant for Women with ...
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