Author: Living Legends
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — You could soon drive faster on some North Carolina roads. State lawmakers are considering raising the state’s maximum highway speed limit from 70 to 75 miles per hour. This would likely mainly affect areas where the speed limit is already 70. “It ain’t got to be 5 o’clock traffic for the last 10 years to get us 10 miles in 45 minutes,” said Jordan Tate, a Charlotte driver. State, national human trafficking prevention groups working to combat the ongoing issue He’s full speed ahead on the idea of the fast lane getting faster. “Please…
NORTH CAROLINA (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Thousands of federal workers are losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to cut federal spending. The U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service are set to fire a combined 4,400 workers who are still within their probationary period, or within their first one or two years on the job. The layoffs which have sparked concerns about wildlife protection efforts across the country, have left some state agencies in limbo about potential impacts. According to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, forest covers more than 60% of the land across the state. Whether…
MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Gastonia man has been arrested in connection to a woman found dead in a Mount Holly home Sunday. According to the Gaston County Police Department, officers conducted a welfare check at 3:30 p.m. at a residence on Mistywood Drive, off of Kelly Road. Upon arrival, they discovered an unresponsive individual, later identified as 28-year-old Carly Bentley, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect, identified as Michael Lee Wall, 39, reportedly fled when officers arrived but was apprehended following an extended K9 track. Wall is being charged with: First Degree Murder,…
LENOIR, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Lenoir police have identified the human remains found behind the shutdown Lenoir Mall last month. According to the police department, officers responded to 1023 Morganton Blvd on Tuesday, Jan. 21 after being alerted of remains found in a wooded area behind the property. PREVIOUS | Human remains found behind shutdown Lenoir Mall: Police Investigators, with assistance from the NC State Bureau of Investigators, processed the scene through the evening into Wednesday morning. On Thursday, Feb. 13, investigators received confirmation from the North Carolina Chief Medical Examiner’s Officer that the human remains found were identified…
DALLAS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Dallas, North Carolina, may seem a world away from Washington, D.C. But at the Gaston County Museum an exhibit called “Nell Yates: Woman in the Wing” spotlights a local woman who became a White House staff fixture. “She wouldn’t say a lot to any of us about their affairs,” said Kelly Privette, Yates’s great-niece. Her Aunt Nell worked for a staggering seven presidents from 1953 to 1986. “It started with Eisenhower and went all the way to Reagan,” Privette told Queen City News. “She was the personal assistant, she did not like the word…
(PINPOINT WEATHER) — It was a chilly day across the Carolinas behind the cold front that moved through Sunday. The big focus this week will be potential wintry weather we are tracking for Wednesday into Thursday. The latest trends are showing a weakening storm system for the area with minor amounts of snow and ice for the Carolinas along with some cold temperatures. This weekend our temperatures should moderate back into the low 50s. As for tonight and Tuesday, mostly clear skies and chilly temperatures are expected this evening with lows likely dipping down in the upper 20s. Tuesday will…
EXCLUSIVE: Dylan Clark Productions, producer of The Batman and its hit limited series offshoot The Penguin, has appointed John-Eric Capps to serve as its new Executive Vice President of Television. Capps joins from Sister (Black Doves, Eric), the independent studio founded by Liz Murdoch and Jane Featherstone, where he served as Vice President of Development. […]
Hulu has handed a series order to Not Suitable For Work, a half-hour, single-camera comedy from Warner Bros. Television. Additionally, Mindy Kaling, the series’ creator and executive producer, has renewed her big overall deal with Warner Bros. TV Group, Deadline can reveal exclusively. The project, fka Murray Hill, was taken out at the start of […]
Wicked‘s Cynthia Erivo will play the title role of Jesus Christ Superstar at a Hollywood Bowl presentation of the classic Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical this summer. Performances of Jesus Christ Superstar will start on August 1 and run through August 3. Additional casting will be announced at a later date. Sergio Trujillo […]
Benedict Cumberbatch and writer-director Dylan Southern arrived in Berlin for the European bow of their family drama The Thing With Feathers, which recently had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Cumberbatch talked about how he sees grief and despair differently in his life, producing under his SunnyMarch label and also showered praise on […]