Updated: Jun. 30, 2023 at 12:13 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
NCDOT dumps millions to operate ferries while charging Charlotte drivers to build new highways
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 5:39 AM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
WBTV Investigates: N.C. officials says staffing shortage leading to delayed inspections
Updated: Apr. 12, 2023 at 2:39 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner, Brandon Hamilton and Nikki Hauser
An autopsy of Shanquella Robinson conducted in Charlotte found Robinson’s spine intact.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2023 at 5:59 AM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
Representative Tricia Cotham is switching parties, moving from being a registered Democrat to a registered Republican. Cotham's decision to switch parties gives Republicans veto-proof majorities in both chambers, which all but guarantees legislation on critical issues, including new abortion restrictions, will become law this session.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 4:47 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner
The families of the two men killed in the Sky3 helicopter crash shared statements Wednesday reflecting on their loved ones’ lives.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 6:56 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner
A WBTV investigation has uncovered a group of people living in eastern North Carolina who obtained nearly $250,000 in state and federal aid money by submitting fraudulent applications for assistance. The head of the state office that approved the fraudulent grants dismissed the findings as insignificant compared to the amount of money the program has awarded.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2021 at 6:24 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
WBTV Investigates: School administrators at Hawthorne Academy High School accused the female student of filing a false report and suspended her
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 6:22 AM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
A man was arrested in Kannapolis with a van full of guns and explosives with plans to carry out an act of terrorism, including trying to assassinate Joe Biden.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2020 at 9:22 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
US Senate Candidate Cal Cunningham is under investigation by the US Army Reserve following revelations he had an extramarital affair, according to a spokesman for the US Army Reserve.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2020 at 2:26 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner
A North Carolina company is charging veterans thousands of dollars for services obtaining disability benefits that veterans could get for free, a WBTV investigation has found. The VA has warned about companies engaging in such practices.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2020 at 7:31 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner and Laura Barrero
A concerned Gaston County woman put a hidden camera in her mother's room at a nursing home to ensure her mom was getting appropriate care. Instead, the video caught two nursing assistants abusing her mother within 24 hours of the camera being installed. The DA won't press charges.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2019 at 11:29 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner and WBTV Web Staff
The CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has resigned at the company’s request, according to a Wednesday night statement from Blue Cross NC’s Board of Trustees.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2019 at 11:37 AM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
Nearly 500 undocumented immigrants have been released from jails across the state in the past ten months despite administrative detainers filed against them by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2019 at 4:25 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
McCrae Dowless and six of his associates were indicted on allegations of election fraud stemming from the 2018 general election on Tuesday.
Updated: May. 7, 2019 at 11:18 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner and WBTV Web Staff
Chester County Sheriff Alex Underwood has been suspended and an interim sheriff appointed after Underwood, his chief deputy and a lieutenant were indicted by a federal grant jury.
Updated: May. 1, 2019 at 5:09 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
A man was arrested at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Tuesday en route to the United States from Pakistan.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2019 at 8:37 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
NCGOP Chairman Robin Hayes, who spent a decade in Congress representing a district that stretched from the Charlotte area to Fayetteville, surrendered himself to authorities and made a first appearance at the US Courthouse in Charlotte on Tuesday.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2019 at 12:27 PM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner and WBTV Web Staff
Three search warrants were unsealed Wednesday, giving new details in the ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District and other races in Bladen County.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2019 at 12:20 AM EDT
|By Nick Ochsner
The Department of Justice has issued subpoenas for a federal grand jury investigation into allegations of election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2019 at 2:17 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner and Mark Davenport
Harris, who was the unofficial winner of the 9th District election in November, made the announcement just days after a four-day hearing into alleged election fraud held by the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2019 at 11:55 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner and WBTV Web Staff
On the fourth day of the North Carolina State Board of Elections hearing, the board voted unanimously to hold a new election in the 9th District. Prior to the vote, Republican Mark Harris said he believes there should be a new election.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2019 at 7:55 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner
A judge in Wake County denied a petition Tuesday morning that would have certified the results of the 9th Congressional District race.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2018 at 6:50 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner
A new complaint and affidavit submitted by a Republican judge in Robeson County has raised new allegations of voting irregularities in the county, separate and apart from anything to do with absentee ballots.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2018 at 7:17 PM EST
|By Nick Ochsner
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety has hired a company to administer a portion of the Hurricane Florence recovery effort that a previous state evaluation panel found had a history of previous work that should disqualify it from getting similar jobs in the future.