Charlotte at Six
What connects Gadsden, Alabama to Addison, Michigan? Just the world’s longest yard sale! It’s over 700 miles of people selling anything and everything and starts this Thursday and Mark Garrison spoke with Hugh Stump of the Gadsden Tourism Office to talk about the strange things you might find for sale.
She’s been the face of WBTV’s news for nearly two decades. On Friday, Maureen O’Boyle will deliver the news for the last time. She’s just burned out on all the bad things she has to report and looking for a new direction. She spent time talking to Mark Garrison.
After this week’s election, Charlotte’s city council will mostly have the same people serving for yet another year. Nearly all of them are Democrats — who’ve promised for years to fight crime in Charlotte. Now they’re promising the same thing. But Mark Garrison asks: will council finally do something about the violence?
When Vice President Kamala Harris was in Charlotte this week, she said that even people of faith should support women’s abortion rights — but Evangelicals are pushing back on that idea. Mark Garrison spoke with Pastor David Chadwick who says the VP is wrong.
A local roadside service is seeing a boom in business. As people try to stretch every gallon of gas given the current prices, more people are finding themselves stranded in the summer heat without fuel. Mark Garrison spoke with Nick Brown of Hero Patrol, who is helping many people out of these sticky situations.
Charlotte police now have the picture of the killer of 48-year-old Karen Baker at an ATM. Mark Garrison and WBT’s Joe Gillespie have the latest on the investigation including some heart-wrenching comments from the victim’s son.
Mark Garrison introduces us to a young man in Charlotte who had a flash inspiration one day when he saw some window-washers uptown. Suddenly his imagination began soaring to new heights…and so did his business.
Not only did the pizza joint on Freedom Drive get a low health score — but the health inspector says she left because she felt threatened by the person in charge. Mark Garrison went to the pizza shop looking for answers.
With seven Republicans running for school board spots in Cabarrus County, there is controversy over which ones are truly conservative, with one of the candidates even being a Democrat until recently. Mark Garrison spoke with incumbent Laura Blackwell about all the attention the school board race is getting four months before election day.
With grocery prices up well over 10% and other costs increasing across the board, food banks are feeling the pressure more than ever since the peak of the pandemic.
