Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Lunch Break (1/6/15): Unlike city council, county commission votes against toll lanes

Posted By on Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:30 AM

Just one night after the Charlotte City Council voted to move ahead with the roads plan that includes the controversial I-77 toll lanes, the Mecklenburg Board of County of Commissioners voted last night in a landslide to take a stance against the $650 million plan. The board voted 8-1 to direct its representative on the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization to either vote to cancel the state's contract with Cintra, the developer in charge of building the toll lanes, or to vote more broadly against using optional toll lanes in the Charlotte area. The CRTPO will vote Jan. 20 on whether to reaffirm its roads plan, which includes optional toll lanes, or move in a different correction. (Jonathan McFadden, Charlotte Observer) 

A large truck repair shop in north Charlotte burnt nearly to the ground this morning, as around 60 firefighters worked for over an hour to get the flames under control. Officials said Ryder Truck Repair Shop on West Craighead Road went up in flames at around 3 a.m. The fire was under control just after 4 a.m. but the building is a total loss, and investigators and clean-up crews have been on the scene all morning sifting through the wreckage to try to find a cause of the fire. No one was inside the building at the time of the fire and no one was injured. (Fox46 Staff) 

Ernest McDonald Beatty, Jr., an employee at a Mooresville assisted living facility, was arrested yesterday and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault against a resident there, including rape. Beatty has been charged with three counts of second-degree rape and one count of second-degree sexual offense after fellow staff members at Crown Colony Assisted Living reported the assaults to police. As of now, it is believed the assaults involved one woman in her early 60s who lived at the facility. He is currently being held in the Iredell County Jail. (WBTV Web Staff) 

Carolina Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis has been awarded the Bart Starr Award, an award voted on by players around the league and given to a player who exemplifies leadership and character on and off the field. Davis is a past winner of the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, which recognizes a player for his work with charity. He founded both the Thomas Davis Defending Dreams Foundation and the Thomas Davis Youth Leadership Academy. On the field, Thomas Davis has played with the Panthers since 2005 and is the first player in NFL history to recover and return after three ACL tears, all of which came in consecutive years. This year, he has made the first Pro Bowl of his career. (WSOC Staff) 

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A woman who federal authorities to be involved in a string of armed jewelry store robberies across the southeast has apparently arrived in North Carolina. The FBI released photos of a woman who tied up two employees at gunpoint at a Jared store in Mebane, North Carolina before making off with jewelry. She's also believed to be involved in robberies in Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. (Associated Press via WCNC) 

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