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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

News Lunch Break (8/10/16): Charlotte shooting suspect shot by officers following chase to Catawba County

Posted By on Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:51 AM


A suspect was shot by police multiple times today in Catawba County following his alleged involvement in a shooting in southeast Charlotte and a long chase with responding officers. CMPD says that officers responded to a call for service at Brook Canyon Drive and W.T. Harris Boulevard, where two victims were reportedly shot. The officers engaged in a pursuit with two suspects in the shooting, and the pursuit came to an end when the suspects struck a utility pole on Highway 16 in Catawba County. According to a statement from police, "Officers attempted to arrest the suspects. One suspect displayed a gun and refused to comply with the officers' commands and made movements with the weapon that threatened the safety of the officers." The suspect was shot multiple times by officers. He was transported to Catawba Regional Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The second suspect was taken into custody without incident. 

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Beginning today, Uber riders in Charlotte will be able to pre-schedule rides, compared to the "come pick me up right this very second" style the app usually offers. "Even though we pride ourselves on providing on-demand rides, we totally get it. When you've got somewhere to be at a very specific time, it’s nice to have extra assurance that a ride will be available when you need it," said Billy Warden in a statement announcing the arrival of scheduled rides in Charlotte. The global rollout of this feature was announced in June. Riders will be able to schedule rides for as little as 15 minutes in the future to as many as 30 days. 

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Tenisha Wells
  • Tenisha Wells
Patrick Chambers
  • Patrick Chambers
CMPD is taking advantage of a lull in homicides so far this month to go back and wrap-up investigations on some of July's unsolved murders. Yesterday, police announced the arrest of two suspects in the death of a two-year-old child in east Charlotte on July 25. The child had been found unresponsive at a home on Farm Pond Lane and investigators later found that the toddler had been assaulted. Following the  child's death, police said there were "several adults who were in the position to provide care to the child in the days leading up to his death." Yesterday, detectives arrested the child's mother, 25-year-old Tenisha Wells, and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Patrick Chambers. Both suspects have been charged with murder.
Ricco McHam, Jr.
  • Ricco McHam, Jr.
 

Police also arrested a man this morning for the Independence Day slaying of 19-year-old Markas Vereen. Vereen was one of two people suffering from gunshot  wounds inside a car that struck the emergency room entrance at Novant Presbyterian Hospital on July 4. This morning, police wrapped up an interview with their suspect in the case, Ricco McHam, Jr., 18, and charged him with murder and possession of a firearm by a felon. 

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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Tuesday

Posted By on Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:00 AM

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Aug. 9, 2016 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.

• Bush at Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheater
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• Newsies at Belk Theater

• Jelly Roll w/ Whitney Peyton at Visulite Theatre

• Best Of Columbia at The Comedy Zone

• Charlotte Knights vs. Louisville Cardinals at BB&T Ballpark

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Monday, August 8, 2016

Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Monday

Posted By on Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:36 PM

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Aug. 8, 2016 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.

• Yoga on the Roof at Rooftop 210
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• Kayak Jones w/ No Dice, Futurist, Squid Beach at Milestone

• The Monday Night Allstars at Double Door Inn

• Knocturnal at Snug Harbor

• Bingo at Big Al's

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News Lunch Break (8/8/16): Phil Berger's birthday cake is somewhat disturbing

Posted By on Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 11:55 AM


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) 

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Sunday, August 7, 2016

Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Sunday

Posted By on Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 7:00 AM

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Aug. 7, 2016 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.

• Charlotte Comicon at Embassy Suites Concord

•Cornhole Tournament at Kickstand

•Clambakes at Corkbuzz

• The Charlotte Blues Society Monthly Meeting feat. The Full Grown Band Reunion & Roadshow Band at Double Door Inn

• Carolina Bridal Fair a Cabarrus Arena and Events Center

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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Saturday

Posted By on Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 7:01 AM

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Aug. 6, 2016 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.

• Let the Good Times Roll exhibit reception at Twenty-Two
Skateboard by Dana Vindigni
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• Reeve Coobs at Neighborhood Theatre

• Charlotte Knights vs. Norfolk Tides at BB&T Ballpark

• Bon Odori 2016 at Wells Fargo Atrium

• OTC Improv at Carion Hotel

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Friday, August 5, 2016

Arts Theater review: Miss Julie

Posted By on Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 5:06 PM

There is danger beneath the summer moon in August Strindberg’s Miss Julie as a spoiled, wanton, and impulsive heiress toys with daddy’s dutiful and ambitious valet. But there are ambiguities about Miss Julie – a fairly wide latitude in how she can be portrayed – and the echoes of Strindberg’s 1889 script reverberate into Oscar Wilde’s Salome and a bunch of Tennessee Williams dramas, further complicating our response.
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Shakespeare Carolina is giving us the opportunity to view Strindberg’s classic up close in a new production at the fine Johnson Hall black box on the Winthrop University campus. Up close, we can easily see that director S. Wilson Lee has skewed his casting a little younger than the 25 prescribed by the playwright for his title character and the 30 advised for Jean, her valet. Caitlin Byrne seems a little more innocent as Julie than Strindberg perhaps intends, a little less stung and desperate because her recent fiancée has broken it off.

Still we can see her kinship with Salome in her awareness of her allure, her earthy wantonness, her expertise at manipulation, and her seething desire to command the men who desire her – leading to Julie’s contempt for all of them. She’s just not as evil and cruel as Wilde’s wicked temptress. Nor does she completely enjoy the upper hand with Jean.

When he’s a few years older, David Hensley will be able to mix more of Jean’s worldliness in with his youthful confidence and ambition. Right now, when the master’s bell startles him, Hensley’s reaction looks inbred where his reflexive response should be at odds with his better judgment. But there’s enough self-assurance in this Jean for us to see that Strindberg considers him to be the Darwinian winner in his on-again-off-again romance with Julie.

If Hensley were a little more commanding, we’d see the parallels between Jean-Julie and Stanley Kowalski-Blanche DuBois more readily, but you’ll likely leave Johnson Hall perceiving the template. You really can’t miss the affinity between Julie and so many toxic women in heat that have proliferated since the days of Strindberg and Wilde.

She comes into the servants’ quarters from a Swedish Midsummer Eve celebration, exhilarated and maybe tipsy. We’ve already heard about the break-up of her engagement, her bold improprieties during the Midsummer revels, and it isn’t long after she arrives that Julie expresses her admiration for Jean’s dance moves. Kristin, the cook who believes Jean’s future domestic bliss will be with her, quickly senses the threat of Julie’s impulsiveness and caprice.

Gayle Taggart has Kristin beautifully measured. She’s prim and proper in her apron, equally alarmed by Jean’s gropings above his station and Julie’s dips below hers. Strindberg actually sets her age five years above Jean’s, in a region where marriage and family have become more urgent for Kristin than for Julie. With Taggart, that biological urgency pretty much disappears, subordinated to her fear of losing Jean. You could imagine her as older than Hensley, but I doubt it. What comes to the fore with Taggart is that Kristin is more of a woman than Julie, an element that spices up the drama.

With her conventional attitudes and pieties, you don’t think Kristin is going to matter, but in the denouement, she does.

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Arts / Today's Top Five Today's Top 5: Friday

Posted By on Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 1:26 PM

Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Aug. 5, 2016 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.

• Oh Pep! at The Evening Muse
Pepita Emmerichs and Olivia Hally of Oh Pep!. (Photo by Giulia McGauran)
  • Pepita Emmerichs and Olivia Hally of Oh Pep!. (Photo by Giulia McGauran)

• Joedance Film Festival at 10th Street Townhomes courtyard

• School of Rock Charlotte performing Avett Brothers Tribute at Broken Spoke

• Summer Olympic Bar Crawl at Rooftop 210

• Jazz at the Bechtler: More and More Monk at Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

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News Lunch Break (8/5/16): Environmentalists file FOIA request to make McCrory prove perjury accusations

Posted By on Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:16 PM

Michael Zytkow and Debra Baker, a neighbor of the Allen Steam Station who's been living off of bottled water supplied by Duke Energy for over a year, speak at a press conference in Charlotte this morning. - PHOTO BY LEYSHA CARABALLO
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  • Michael Zytkow and Debra Baker, a neighbor of the Allen Steam Station who's been living off of bottled water supplied by Duke Energy for over a year, speak at a press conference in Charlotte this morning.

Residents and organizers with groups like Greenpeace held a press conference at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center after delivering an official public records request to Gov. Pat McCrory's local office there.

The request asks for any correspondence from McCrory, his communications director Josh Ellis, and a number of other state employees on April 2, 2015, the day Dr. Kenneth Rudo testified he was called to McCrory's office and asked to rescind or revise a do-not-drink advisory he had helped draft for those living near Duke Energy's coal ash ponds. McCrory has denied being involved with any such meeting with Rudo. Yesterday, Creative Loafing reported on the reactions of some residents affected by the toxic leakage from coal ash ponds to the Rudo testimony. 

"We would hope that the government will fulfill its duty to provide this information," said Michael Zytkow, who delivered the request this morning. "I think the public has a right to know, especially when we have McCrory's staff directly calling Rudo a liar. We have two different stories floating out there and I think the public has a right to now which is true and how the government acted in response to this crisis." 

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Amy Chiou
  • Amy Chiou
Queen City Forward (QCF), a Charlotte-based hub for social entrepreneurs, announced the appointment of Amy Chiou as its next executive director yesterday. Chiou is co-founder and CEO of Ballot, a free mobile app that makes voting easier. She's been living in Philadelphia for much of 2016, working with the Democratic National Convention. She has served on QCF's Advisory COuncil since November 2015. 

"I have watched Queen City Forward blossom over the years, by creating opportunity and fostering innovation in our community," Chiou said in a press release. "I see incredible potential and look forward to helping Queen City Forward find its voice as a place where great ideas grow." 

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Rain or shine, it's safe to say thousands of fans will turn out for a much anticipated Carolina Panthers Fan Fest at Bank of America tonight. It's the first Panthers football action in Charlotte since the team's disappointing Super Bowl loss in February. This year marks the first time tickets are needed to enter the event, which is basically a glorified practice.

The tickets were given out free by the Panthers organization, although some people are selling them for as much as $100 online, according to this story from Alex Giles with WBTV. Either way, the event will surely be full of fans who have been starving for some football during the dog days of summer. 

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Thursday, August 4, 2016

News Neighbors weigh in on recently unveiled coal ash testimony

Posted By on Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 2:57 PM

A yard sign in Gaston County near the Allen Steam Station calls for clean tap water. Many in the area are still living off bottled water provided by Duke Energy, as they have for about a year and a half now. - PHOTO COURTESY OF AMY BROWN
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  • A yard sign in Gaston County near the Allen Steam Station calls for clean tap water. Many in the area are still living off bottled water provided by Duke Energy, as they have for about a year and a half now.


Local residents and organizations are calling for answers after the release of testimony from toxicologist Ken Rudo that highlights the way he says Gov. Pat McCrory tried to cover up the dangers involved with drinking well water near Duke Energy's coal ash ponds.

In his testimony, Rudo stated that he was called to McCrory's office in 2015 and challenged by a staff member about an advisory he had helped draft warning residents near Duke's coal ash pits not to drink their water. The do-not-drink advisory was eventually reversed by the Department of Health and Human Services in early 2016 in a move that Rudo called "highly unethical" and "possibly illegal."

Following the release of Rudo's testimony, McCrory called a late-night press conference denying that he was part of any such meeting, accusing Rudo of perjury. 

This morning, Creative Loafing received a statement from Amy Brown, a resident who lives with her children near Duke Energy's Allen Steam Station in Gaston County. Brown explained why she trusts Rudo's testimony.

"Dr. Rudo has been consistent in this nightmare of over a year that Duke Energy's neighbors have been forced to live," Brown said. "So many times we asked, 'Who is protecting us?' while our neighbor Duke Energy continues to deny contaminating our well with their unlined, leaking, toxic coal ash ponds that sit in the groundwater. As our governor ignored our cries for help for over a year, Dr. Rudo was consistent."

Debra Baker speaks at a previous coal ash press conference in front of the Allen Steam Station. - PHOTO COURTESY OF DEBRA BAKER
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  • Debra Baker speaks at a previous coal ash press conference in front of the Allen Steam Station.
We also heard from Brown's neighbor, Debra Baker, who agreed. 

"Dr. Rudo wasn't laying the blame on anyone," Baker wrote in an email. "He is a true medical professional that cared for his fellow human beings' safety! Who else makes 200 personal calls to inform us about our water results and to not drink, ingest, or cook with it? I trust Dr. Rudo and no one else!"

Both Brown and Baker are still living on bottled water provided by Duke Energy and have been for well over a year. 

In a statement released yesterday, Progress NC Action executive director Gerrick Brenner called on McCrory to prove his claims that he did not participate in the meeting with Rudo by releasing records of his whereabouts on April 2, 2015.

“Gov. McCrory’s latest desperate attempt to cover up Duke Energy’s coal ash pollution is a new low,” Brenner wrote. “If you’re going to accuse a 30-year state employee of lying under oath, you’d better be able to show some evidence — which the governor’s office has failed to do. If Gov. McCrory was not phoning into this meeting, then where was he? What was he doing? We know he was not meeting with any of the hundreds of families across North Carolina who are struggling with contaminated well water near coal ash waste pits. The well water families have been calling for a meeting with the governor to plead their case for last year. Pat McCrory, the former Duke Energy employee, has completely ignored them.”

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