School and you cannot lock the down manpower to cover the entrances. If a student leaves campus without permission protocols are in place to return the student to campus but that did not happen. The mother says her son will not return to Lincoln Academy while she figures out his education, he has learned a lesson. Next time, i will not walkout of school. Dedrick russell wbtv on your side. Lincoln heights is a school for students who struggle academically. Cms tells us it works with parents to resolve situations. The mother claims the school has not reached out to her about this happening and she has hired a lawyer. The chairperson of the school board says the district is responsible for every student in its care everyday. Three people arrested after police found 18 pounds of marijuana and 35,000 worth of cash in a home. Police raided the house and this is near lake wylie. Rick around enabled, tyler and julie flow arrested and charged. More testimony in the trial against a cornelius bus
Could turn for help. The 20yearold Victim Told Police she is shaken up and it happened in broad daylight. She started her walk near stewart avenue and continued towards laurel Wood Cemetery when she noticed the person and started hearing footsteps and saw the man running towards her and the Victim Told Police that he had a knife and was chasing after her talking to himself during this ordeal. She was able to runin side a bank and hide in a restroom to get away from the man who did not stick around long. Police did review video from the bank and saw a man following the woman and will release the video to us. Police will tell us what the woman did right and more at 5 00. Live in rock hill, Michael Clark wbtv on your side. Scary story. Thank you. First at 4 00 disruption in uptown. Firefighters battle flames and the circle k on graham street. The fire is now out. Investigators working to find the cause. A South Carolina deputy shot twice is expected to recover but it will take time corpor
What the proposal means if it is approved. Reporter john, i can tell you the biggest change right off the bat is a charlotte area district without an incumbent. I want you get you back to the map get you closer view of what were talking about. The map used to look different. Especially in our area. The 12th district no longer snakes through our state from 85 from charlotte to greensboro. Now the district much more charlottecentric, compact in the area. Alma adams no longer represents any part of charlotte under this map. She falls in the 13th district. Overnight she sent a statement saying for now im focused o on doing my job and continuing to represent the people of North Carolinas 12th congressional district. She will continue to look over the map and weigh her options moving forward. The deadline for lawmakers to approve the new map is on friday. That is why they are getting together in special session to make the final decisions, well reporting live, Mark Davenport, wbtv on your si
56 in rock hill, 55 in gastonia. Does get cooler north, 52 salisbury, statesville, 52 morganton, hickory. Lots of clouds, wont be as warm as yesterday, low 60s, above average. Deeper through the day the rain chances pick up and we have a wet start to the work week here you can see the rain loitering to the south of us, that is heading in our direction. Talk about it in the seven day forecast in a few minutes. Back to you. John Charlotte City Council Members are expected to vote on an ordinance designed to protect people from discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and gender identity. Governor pat mccrory is vowing to intervene if it passes. He emailed two City Council Members saying it could create major Public Safety issues. The ordinance failed to pass council last year over concerns about a clause changing accommodations for public rest rooms and locker rooms. Michael clark brings us both sides of the story. Proposed changes that would protect people are long overdue. Nobody sho
School districts in the area are closed or delayed today. Officials with charlottemecklenburg schools tell us they are on a normal schedule and are expected to decide on any changes to the schedule any minute now so if we hear of anything well let you know first. The latest closing and deb lays on the bottom of the screen and wbtv. Com closings. John to make it clear, charlottemecklenburg on normal schedule, lets find out what we can expect in the area, charlottes mothers most experienced meteorologist, al conklin. Al temperatures areawide are below freezing. Snowing in the mountains, shortly have a report from Ashton Pellom up there, you can see snow is coming down across the high country. Gets spottier toward i40, some of this may not be reaching the ground but again the potential there with temperatures that are well down in the 20s. South of there, very very spotty around the metro area, that is the good news. Really be uneventful in terms of precipitation. The bad news is anything