CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mecklenburg County's district attorney said on Friday that he will not bring charges against an officer who shot and killed a suspect six months ago in north Charlotte. Aaron Winchester was hit twice in the back.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mecklenburg County leaders decided Friday to delay their search for a person to fill a job described by some as a "crime czar." A member of the task force that made the position its number one recommendation said Friday that he's getting frustrated.

An accident causes major problems for drivers in Charlotte Friday night, and two people were taken to a hospital.

At least seven of the nine people who will be Mecklenburg County commissioners on Dec. 1 said if they voted today, they'd vote to hold off on revaluation.

ROCK HILL, S.C. -- It's going to be a little colder in class at Winthrop University come Monday morning. A massive 15 percent cut in state funding is forcing the college to cut costs any way it can.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A new report says the budget shortfall in North Carolina state government has widened. General Assembly researchers said Friday state revenues are $320 million below what lawmakers had expected through October when they drew up this year's budget.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office has cleared an officer in a deadly shooting last May. Aaron Winchester died when Officer David Jester shot him on Sylvania Avenue in north Charlotte.

Winds made it more difficult for firefighters to stop a fire at a house.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A North Carolina doctor will pay more than $1 million to settle allegations he bilked the government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Disputing a New York Times report, a spokesman for Hillary Rodham Clinton said the New York senator is still in discussion over whether to accept the secretary of state's job, though the talks are "very much on track."

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- AAA Carolinas says fewer people in the Carolinas are planning to travel this Thanksgiving as economic concerns outweigh the benefits of falling gas prices.

LINCOLNTON, N.C. -- NASCAR team owner Ray Evernham says he is negotiating to buy a small track in North Carolina so he can "get back into grassroots racing."

Police said Donald Oakes Jr., 35, is charged with six counts of attempted murder after firing at Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers in a Texaco parking lot.

Snow is beginning to pile up in the North Carolina mountains, and several flurries even fell in the Charlotte metro area during the early morning hours.