The Latest Breaking News from Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers have found a veteran mentor for their pending first overall draft pick.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Avett Brothers never planned on making a musical, let alone a dark, twisty tale of the sea featuring more than a dozen of their songs.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers pounced on a blockbuster trade with the Chicago Bears on Friday, ensuring that the franchise will be able to select its top choice of quarterback in April’s NFL draft.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If you were to try to imagine in your head what life as an entertainment star might look like, it could conceivably manifest as something along the lines of where Reneé Rapp is right now.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A traditional sports documentary goes something like this: Find a championship team. Round up as many of the former players and coaches as you can from that team. Interview them all. Splice in some spectacular highlights. Set them to swelling music. Voilà! You’re done.

Morrow, who played 11 NBA seasons, is facing multiple charges stemming from a recent incident in Charlotte, his hometown.

Jerry Richardson, the self-made millionaire who brought the NFL to Charlotte and founded the Carolina Panthers, died Wednesday. He was 86.

Richardson became the first former NFL player to own a team since the Bears’ George Halas when he landed the expansion Panthers in 1993.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jerome “Jerry” Richardson, the founding owner of the Carolina Panthers franchise, passed away on Wednesday night at his Charlotte home at the age of 86.