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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Lunch Break (9/23/15): Oakland sues Wells Fargo over discriminatory predatory lending
Posted By Ryan Pitkin on Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:30 AM
The city of Oakland, California has sued Charlotte-based Wells Fargo & Co. for allegedly practicing predatory lending among minority residents of the city. The federal lawsuit claims the bank targeted African-American and Hispanic residents as well as minority churches with higher risk loans than those regularly given to white clients. Wells Fargo has refuted the allegations.
A CATS bus hit a cyclist on Statesville Road late this morning, sending the cyclist to the hospital with life threatening injuries. Investigators have not yet released details about the accident. In this week's Creative Loafing, we look at cyclist safety in Charlotte in the wake of a death earlier this month.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina will speak at Winthrop University tomorrow at 6 p.m. Fiorina changed the address of her speech from the nearby Magnolia Room at Laurel Creek to McBryde Hall on the Winthrop campus. Tickets are free but attendees are asked to RSVP at the candidate's website. Winthrop has seen the most presidential action among presidential hopefuls in the greater Charlotte area as of yet, as Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders addressed a crowd of 3,000 at the college earlier this month.
Three people were able to escape a house fire in south Charlotte this morning, and they're crediting the dog with their swift escape. Residents in the home on Laurel Grove Lane say a barking dog alerted them to the fire. A man visiting the burning home attempted to put out the fire, which started on the front porch, with a garden hose but was unsuccessful. The man and two women inside the home were not injured, but the house has been deemed unlivable.
A York County man accused of dragging a dog to death behind his pickup truck has confessed, saying it was an accident. William White said he was holding his friend's dog on a leash when he tied it to the bumper to go look for a funnel to put gas in his truck. By the time he found a funnel, he said he forgot about the dog and drove for two to three miles before the friend called him asking about the dog. Although the suspect first lied to his friend about the dog, and dumped the body into a gully off the road, police said he was very remorseful and admitted to it once they followed the blood trail. The friend reportedly tried to not press charges against the suspect but the state will pursue charges that could land White in prison for up to five years.
More details have been released about what led to a shooting on the property of Central Elementary School in Iredell County just 15 minutes after school let out yesterday afternoon. Police said it was a domestic situation between a husband and wife that escalated. The wife allegedly shot her husband twice in front of their two kids, including a third-grader they had just picked up from school. About 75 kids were still on school property at the time of the shooting.
A CATS bus hit a cyclist on Statesville Road late this morning, sending the cyclist to the hospital with life threatening injuries. Investigators have not yet released details about the accident. In this week's Creative Loafing, we look at cyclist safety in Charlotte in the wake of a death earlier this month.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina will speak at Winthrop University tomorrow at 6 p.m. Fiorina changed the address of her speech from the nearby Magnolia Room at Laurel Creek to McBryde Hall on the Winthrop campus. Tickets are free but attendees are asked to RSVP at the candidate's website. Winthrop has seen the most presidential action among presidential hopefuls in the greater Charlotte area as of yet, as Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders addressed a crowd of 3,000 at the college earlier this month.
Three people were able to escape a house fire in south Charlotte this morning, and they're crediting the dog with their swift escape. Residents in the home on Laurel Grove Lane say a barking dog alerted them to the fire. A man visiting the burning home attempted to put out the fire, which started on the front porch, with a garden hose but was unsuccessful. The man and two women inside the home were not injured, but the house has been deemed unlivable.
A York County man accused of dragging a dog to death behind his pickup truck has confessed, saying it was an accident. William White said he was holding his friend's dog on a leash when he tied it to the bumper to go look for a funnel to put gas in his truck. By the time he found a funnel, he said he forgot about the dog and drove for two to three miles before the friend called him asking about the dog. Although the suspect first lied to his friend about the dog, and dumped the body into a gully off the road, police said he was very remorseful and admitted to it once they followed the blood trail. The friend reportedly tried to not press charges against the suspect but the state will pursue charges that could land White in prison for up to five years.
More details have been released about what led to a shooting on the property of Central Elementary School in Iredell County just 15 minutes after school let out yesterday afternoon. Police said it was a domestic situation between a husband and wife that escalated. The wife allegedly shot her husband twice in front of their two kids, including a third-grader they had just picked up from school. About 75 kids were still on school property at the time of the shooting.
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