A passenger was arrested Tuesday at Charlotte Douglas International Airport after U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers found 23 pounds of cocaine hidden in his wheelchair on Tuesday. According to CBP, 22-year-old Alexander A. Lopez-Morel arrived in Charlotte on a flight from the Dominican Republic and was stopped by a CBP officer utilizing an electric wheelchair. […]
Acting, dancing, and singing might be hard for some to do all three, yet, Coco Jones makes it looks so easy. Eric Kelley II and Kiara J. caught up with Coco to talk about her new single Caliber, her role as the iconic Hilary Banks on the Peacock series ‘Bel Air‘ and what type of […]
A loaded gun was found at a Charlotte high school Monday morning, according to local news reports. WOSC-TV reports a student was found with a loaded gun on campus at Philip O. Berry Academy of Technology. The weapon was found while the student walked through one of the school’s body scanners. The school was not […]
A surveillance video obtained and released by Rolling Stone shows what happened during a 2018 altercation between DaBaby, 19-year-old Jaylin Craig, and Henry Douglas. DaBaby is confronted by Craig and Douglas inside a Huntersville Walmart before a physical altercation breaks out between DaBaby a.k.a Jonathan Kirk and Douglas. Craig is seen with a gun before […]
The Charlotte Douglas International Airport is ranked the fifth busiest airport worldwide and sixth in passenger traffic, according to  Airports Council International (ACI) 2021 preliminary rankings. In 2020, Charlotte Douglas was ranked the sixth busiest airport worldwide for arrivals and departures and 18th in passenger traffic. ACI data for 2021 now marks CLT as the […]
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Rapper, producer T-Pain has been making hits for year. If you didn’t have a T-Pain track on repeat in the 2000s what were you really listening to?! The king of autotune brought the throwback vibes to Dreamville Festival 2022. He got the crowd rocking with all his hits from ‘Buy U A Drink’, ‘I’m Sprung’, […]
Charlotte native Lute hit the stage at Dreamville Festival 2022 on day one of the two-day festival. After signing to Dreamville record label in 2015 Lute has been making noise. The 32-year-old is always repping Charlotte, especially Betties Ford Rd. Lute named his recent project West 1996 because he’s from the west side of the […]
Day one of Dreamville Festival 2022 102.5 The Block linked with Fayetteville, North Carolina artist, Morray. If you are not familiar with Morry, you will soon. He is one of the biggest breakout stars in hip-hop in 2021. Morray currently has a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, each honoring him […]
Congratulations to multiple Charlotte-area schools that won the NCHSS High School State Basketball Championship. Six different Charlotte-area school Men’s and Women’s high school basketball programs claimed the state title for their division. On Thursday Rock Hill High Schools’ Lady Bearcats beat Summerville High School 52-44, claiming the 5A NCHSS State Championship. The Salisbury Lady Hornets […]
Former Miss North Carolina and Miss USA 2019 was found dead after jumping from her New York Apartment Sunday morning, according to The New York Post. Reports say, 30-year-old Cheslie Kryst jumped from the 29th floor of the 60-story high-rise building in New York around 7:15 a.m. and was found dead in the street below. […]