Briana Richard


Briana Richard
CMPD investigators announced early this morning that they have located a woman who went missing on Saturday and charged a man in her disappearance. Police released a missing person alert on Saturday stating that 21-year-old Briana Richard had gone missing under suspicious circumstances. This morning, they announced that Richard has been located and that police have arrested and charged Allan Spencer with breaking and entering with the intent to terrorize. CMPD also said additional warrants have been signed in this case but did not identify what those charges were. 

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A staff member for N.C. Sen. Phil Berger tweeted out a picture of the state senator’s birthday cake this morning and it looks like something out of The Colbert Report’s graphics department. We present the following tweet without further comment: 


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Investigators with CMPD, North Carolina Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are looking into a fatal accident that occurred in north Charlotte on Sunday evening. Police say 46-year-old Dexter Marion was operating a “yard hopper” at Howell Motor Freight on Metromont Industrial Boulevard when he exited the vehicle and it rolled back from the dock and struck him. 

A yard hopper is an unregistered tractor trailer cab that  is used solely to move trailers around a business property. Marion was pronounced dead by MEDIC on the scene at 6:50 p.m., just four minutes after the call came in. 

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Concord firefighters rescued a man from a burning building early this morning. Crews responded to reports of a house fire on Arbington Drive at around 3 a.m. and entered the home to see if anyone was trapped inside. That’s when they found the man, who was unresponsive. The man was transported to the hospital for treatment, but fire officials expect that he’ll recover. While the man was taken away for treatment, an estimated 33 firefighters were on-scene fighting the fire. Officials haven’t determined what caused the fire or the extent of damage. (WBTV Web Staff) 

This article appears in Aug 3-10, 2016.

Ryan Pitkin began his journalism career at Creative Loafing as an intern, later becoming the writer of CL's satirical column, The Blotter, and recently became the News Editor. Other publications he has...

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