Gaston County Mugshots August 31st

WCCB Charlotte 9/1 5:25A WCCB Web Staff

Check out the Gaston County Mugshots from Monday, August 31st. *All are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Romeo Miller releases new single, “Selfie”

WCCB Charlotte 9/1 5:20A Joseph Duncan

HOLLYWOOD, CA Romeo Miller is all grown up and still making us say, Oh Romeo! He s got new music, a fresh new sound, and a new single called Selfie. Rising s Joe Duncan caught up with him to find out all about it and more.

Neese’s Sausage back on store shelves

WCCB Charlotte 9/1 5:05A Joseph Duncan

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Breakfast lovers, this is the comeback North Carolina has been waiting for! Neese s Country Sausage is finally making its way back onto grocery-store shelves! After production problems left that familiar sausage missing for...

Mass burials in Nepal as death toll from flash floods exceeds 1,000

WCCB Charlotte 9/1 4:39A DJ Beal

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) Rescue teams with search dogs continued to search through mud, rocks and debris on Tuesday on the border with Nepal and China for thousands of people still missing following the catastrophic floods that tore through...

Suspect arrested after hours-long standoff in Charlotte

WCCB Charlotte 9/1 4:05A Shalaunda Bacon

CHARLOTTE, N.C. A man is in custody after a 12-hour police standoff in northeast Charlotte. According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, the response started just before 5 p.m. Monday at the Evoke Living at Sugar Creek Apartments on...

Behind the Scenes of “Queen City Country”

WCCB Charlotte 9/1 3:16A Adam Wurtzel

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Adam Wurtzel took Rising viewers on a Behind the Scenes tour of Queen City Country . Wurtzel also hosts Queen City Country, alongside Kim Coon, now in Production for Season 3. The new season premieres Sunday 10/25 at 7:30pm on...

September heat wave with near record highs

WCCB Charlotte 9/1 2:50A Kaitlin Wright

Forecast: Tuesday: Very hot. Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Feeling like 100-104. Very isolated rain chance. Wednesday: Sunny and hot! Highs near 98. Heat indices pushing 105. Thursday: Dangerously hot again with highs in the mid to upper 90s....

Army to spend $2B to build nuclear microreactors at 5 bases as US seeks to ramp up nuclear power

WCCB Charlotte 8/30 6:12A Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Army announced Wednesday that it plans to add nuclear microreactors at five military bases from New York to Texas as a reliable source of energy independent of the commercial electric grid. The announcement comes as the...

In Dolly Parton’s theology, God and acceptance shared the same stage

WCCB Charlotte 8/30 4:10A Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) In her 1994 memoir, Dolly Parton recounts in vivid detail the place where she found God. It was an abandoned church, in rural Tennessee where she grew up, that had become known as a haven for sex, drugs and violence. Rather than...

Need spiritual guidance? Gurus join chatbot trend as people turn to AI for answers

WCCB Charlotte 8/30 3:09A Associated Press

CHENNAI, India (AP) When Kripa Vaidyanathan s 27-year-old niece died in an Alaska car crash in 2024, her family in Chennai, India, felt shell-shocked. They questioned why this tragedy would befall them when they had such immense faith in God....

Dolly Parton’s philanthropy was based on ‘her belief in the goodness of people’

WCCB Charlotte 8/29 7:26A Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) Dolly Parton didn t think her philanthropy made her special. She thought it was just part of being human. I think it s important for everyone to do their share to help their fellow man, she told The Associated Press in 2022, adding,...

What to know about the Mount Kailash pilgrimage site after floods in Nepal and Tibet

WCCB Charlotte 8/29 5:22A Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) Devotees on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash a sacred site in the Himalayas were among the many people missing after the massive floods along the border between Nepal and China. Here s what to know about the mountain and its...

A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games

WCCB Charlotte 8/29 4:20A Richard Groves

BEIJING (AP) A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday, beating its robot competitors and the fastest recorded human time. The race was part of China s World Humanoid Robot Games, an...

Dolly Parton built a better world, with rhinestones and songs

WCCB Charlotte 8/29 3:18A Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) There are few inalienable truths: Everyone was born, everyone will die, and everyone loved Dolly Parton . Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died...

Trump says US has entered deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil reserves

WCCB Charlotte 8/29 2:32A DJ Beal

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country s oil reserves. Trump in a social media post announced the agreement he...