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New Charlotte 49ers football coach Biff Poggi is hard at work. Numerous Charlotte-area players have reported offers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte over the past three days.

The fourth round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association football playoffs is complete, and we now know which eight matchups next week will determine the title-game participants. Here's a breakdown of all the action that took place across the state Friday night.

Chambers' hopes of defending its back-to-back state championships are still alive. The Cougars picked up a road win over Weddington in the fourth round of the state playoffs on Friday night, 45-14.

In the last season with the namesake of the former North Carolina governor, the Vance Cougars claimed the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4AA championship with a 35-14 win over Rolesville.

Vance grabs second straight championship with 35-14 win over Rolesville Vance grabs second straight championship with 35-14 win over Rolesville By NCHSAA | May 8, 2021 at 11:00 PM EDT - Updated May 9 at 12:49 AM Press release provided by the NCHSAA RALEIGH, NC – The Vance Cougars knocked out Rolesville 35-14 to win their second straight State Championship. Austin Grier threw for 200 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Cougars and grab the game’s Most Valuable Player honors. Gri...

officials and students. >> i would be meeting him. >> thats u.b. ross. that is one of seven brothers and sisters of marckel ross devastated by this. now you heard his mother, elizabeth, talk about haters. there has been a lot of chatter on social media that the kids use at school about robbery as a motive. police have cautioned us again and again not to make much of that. the motive in this and the facts of the case are not known at this time. they are continuing to investigate this ve...

outside of the box about what was inside. now fortunately, seth was home at the time. he heard the knock on the door and brought the package inside. can you imagine what could have happened if that package had been sitting out there for hours and had gotten into the wrong hands? just look, one door down is a place called the dance place. i have seen so many children coming in and out of this building. just imagine if that package had gotten into the wrong hands. derek. >> its a frighte...

wednesday night on the 1300 block of g street northeast, another shooting and robbery. police say a man walking around 11:30 was approached from behind by two men who demanded his iphone. they say when he resisted they shot him in the jaw. >> i was stunned by the whole situation. i live a few houses down the street, and i was -- i was up at that time. i was very stunned that that had happened. ripe the crimes are in-- >> reporter: the crimes are indeed troubling. tommy wells says for y...

morning temperatures and we are on the warm side. very humid conditions. 83 right now in washington. so we just never got out of the 80s overnight. and here we are off and running again. 81 baltimore. 76 this morning in ocean city. 73 in winchester. looking at the radar a few showers popped up during the overnight hours and a lot of cloud cover out there as well. the trend will be more and more in the way of cloud cover and a better chance of showers and some thunderstorms developing p...

you can see these temperatures extraordinarily warm for this time of day. -- 81 out at baltimore. it is uncomfortable out there. we are not going to be dealing with the extreme heat we had around here yesterday as well have more in the way of cloudiness and showers and storm moving in eventually later today. there is your sentinel radar. one or two showers there south and east of the city. the main event will be later this afternoon as the cold front arrives. weve got the best chan for...