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As Johnson C. Smith University prepares to welcome a record number of students to campus, a big barrier leaves hundreds of them sitting in limbo.

"Though many folks want to be here, under this new FAFSA they may not have received as much aid so that has generated a gap," Davida Haywood, the vice president of student affairs at the university, said.

Haywood said financial limitations, aid changes, delays, and glitches are also impacting families who may end up paying some out-of-pocket costs.

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We are now less than a week away from the first day of school for dozens of North Carolina districts, including Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the district leaders will give their annual back-to-school briefing. It's happening at the brand new Knights View Elementary School, which is set to welcome students for the first time on Monday.

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One person has been killed in north Charlotte and a homicide investigation is underway, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. That investigation started Saturday night, when police said they found a person dead from trauma on Trailer Drive.

It was a violent weekend in the Queen City. Early Sunday morning, police responded to Hamilton Street just north of Uptown after two people were shot. Both people had life-threatening injuries. Then late Sunday night, two people were shot on Fortune Street, which is near Bojangles Coliseum. One person has life-threatening injuries and another person has minor injuries, according to Medic.

Read more: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/police-investigating-north-charlotte-homicide-sunday/275-17638cdd-d048-4186-a0eb-06d2f9b9eb25

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Authorities caught a convicted murderer on Friday morning after his escape led to a multiple-day manhunt.  

Ramone Alston, 30, was arrested in a Kannapolis hotel early Friday morning.  

The operation included FBI Charlotte SWAT agents, Kannapolis Police and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.

He had escaped in Orange County while authorities were taking him to the UNC Hospitals Hillsborough campus.  Alston was wearing handcuffs connected to a belly chain with a black box over the junction at the time.

Read more: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/crime/convicted-murderer-escapes-prison-van-hillsborough-north-carolina/275-ce7195fb-90ee-4359-8c68-56a3b3bcc7df

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Independence is a luxury Rose Ruiz Ocana said is cherished the most once you reach a certain age. Ocana said that’s why she uses the transportation app GoGastonia, a tool that she said enhanced her mobility -- until it didn’t. She  said she used the app to get to a location just fine, but when booking a trip back home things took a turn.

Ocana said it took 15 to 20 mins to get a ride, and she sat patiently, but the patience ran thin after waiting more than three and a half hours.

Read more: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/gastonia/residents-gastonia-concerned-microtransit-transportation-system/275-f8f2785e-bbca-4e76-991b-eb865f7cf089

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Charlotte leaders held a special meeting Tuesday afternoon about the proposed one-cent sales tax to pay for transit and road projects and gave an update on purchasing the tracks needed for the Red Line commuter train to Lake Norman.  

Charlotte City Council's transportation committee discussed draft legislation language enabling a countywide 1% sales tax to fund these projects and create a regional transit authority to oversee the spending. The meeting comes a day after Matthews leaders rejected the sales tax proposal, voicing frustration over long-discussed plans to extend light rail service to the town were changed to a rapid bus transit line along U.S. 74. 

Read more: https://www.wcnc.com/article/travel/charlotte-leaders-transit-plan-red-line-commuter-rail-silver-line-extension/275-c9872bf5-e195-4a6d-92ba-b64b38b9cee8

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On Monday, Matthews town leaders voted against a new sales tax proposal to fund new regional transportation.

"While intended to improve regional transit, this plan fails to provide fair benefits to all communities," Matthews Town Commissioner Ken McCool wrote on social media this weekend.  

Matthews officials had been optimistic that a long-discussed Silver Line train would run through east Charlotte and to Matthews. However, in May, town officials learned the plan was being cut back. The future train line would only be built between Charlotte Douglas International Airport and Uptown Charlotte. A bus rapid transit line would be implemented from Charlotte to Matthews instead.

Read more: https://www.wcnc.com/article/money/matthews-oppose-transit-funding-sales-tax-silver-line-train-charlotte-mecklenburg/275-390820e2-187d-4e18-9415-662e51f6d658

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Thousands of students in Iredell County are heading back to school Monday. 

The Iredell-Statesville School District will welcome back students two weeks before most other districts in the state.

Students and staff can expect some new safety upgrades when they return to class. WCNC Charlotte is taking a closer look.

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A Delta flight carrying Carolina Panthers players was met with emergency vehicles after it ran off the runway at Charlotte Douglas International Airport early Friday morning, the airline said.

The plane, Delta Flight 8860, landed on taxiway 36R closest to the Billy Graham Parkway around 2:35 a.m., before it went into mud, the airline said.  No injuries were reported following the incident, according to officials.

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Tropical Storm Debby made landfall in South Carolina early Thursday morning and is bringing the impacts of heavy rain and flash flooding to North Carolina.

Chief Meteorologist Brad Panovich said while we can't rule out severe weather from Debby in the Charlotte area, the biggest impact so far is flooding. This threat is made worse by how slow Debby is moving north. Because it's crawling, the storm is dumping heavy rain for long periods. 

A large portion of the Charlotte area is under a flash flood warning due to Debby's torrential rain. The flash flood warning is in effect for Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Richmond, Stanly and Union counties in North Carolina, plus Chester, Chesterfield, Lancaster and York counties in South Carolina.  

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