NC residents are advised to watch out for a new phone scam making the rounds across the state, leading to several recent ...

Homelessness in Charlotte hits 15-year high, with rise in unsheltered cases and limited shelter beds, 2025 Point in Time data ...

Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office apologizes to a murder victim's family after they were outraged when they saw the alleged killer featured in videos promoting the detention center's new music ...

HANDCUFFED to a chair and sweating profusely in a puffer jacket, Alana Moor was terrified she’d never be allowed to go home. ...

The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an inmate death. CCSO reports that a female inmate was pronounced dead ...

Nearly six years after 17-year-old Alysha Johnson was shot and killed outside a north Charlotte convenience store, the man ...

As North Carolina officials look to reduce their use of solitary confinement, several mentally ill inmates have killed ...

Culley, 18, and Charlotte May Lee, 21, were arrested with a day of each other and face decades in foreign jails, but they are ...

Higdem's mother, Jessica Allen, said it is a comforting ritual for the boy, whose mother died alone in a Rolette County jail cell when Liam was just 5 months old, and who he will never know except ...

The Mecklenburg County Arrest Processing Center in Charlotte. Some people who are arrested and held in jail are too ill to proceed to trial ... that can entangle someone in detention for years. Cells ...

Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture of an inmate they said escaped from his jail cell in Craven County Sunday afternoon. John Matthew Nigh, 27, broke out of ...

The Craven County Sheriff’s Office ... removed the ceiling grate from their cell. Nigh climbed through the ventilation system and managed to get through to the roof, the sheriff's office said. Related ...