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May 3, 2021
Williams purchased his winning 20X The Cash ticket from the GA Mart on Wilkinson Boulevard in Charlotte.
He claimed his prize Thursday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh. After required federal and state tax withholdings, he took home $176,876.
The new 20X The Cash game launched in February with 10 top prizes of $250,000. Three top prizes remain to be won.
Ticket sales from scratch-offs like 20X The Cash make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $725 million per year for education. For details on how $60.5 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Mecklenburg County in 2020, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.
Lack of infrastructure
“It doesn’t make sense what we were trying to put people though,” said Wil Neumann, who lives in the Timberlake neighborhood on the west side of Armstrong Ford Road – a two-lane road without a shoulder or turning lane – located in the town limits of Cramerton. Timberlake sits across the street from the proposed Del Webb community, named the South Fork Senior Community.
Neumann, a former North Carolina house representative who serves as chairman of Cramerton’s zoning board, isn’t against the proposed development, but rather the future traffic congestion in the area if more developments are green-lighted.
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This drawing shows how the proposed Silver Line might eventually curve around the north side of uptown Charlotte toward 11th Street, with a station at Graham Street.
Charlotte Area Transit System s board has approved revisions to the proposed Lynx Silver Line light rail route, including extensions to Union and Gaston counties.
Wednesday s vote by the Metropolitan Transit Commission, which oversees CATS, means design work can continue on the 29-mile, east-west line through uptown Charlotte. It comes after months of public workshops that examined possible route alignments in six focus areas.
Charlotte Area Transit System The approved route map for the Silver Line shows how it connects Gaston County (left) with the airport, uptown and Matthews and Union County (lower right) .
Two people killed in separate shootings in Charlotte
CMPD investigates two separate homicides By WBTV Web Staff | April 15, 2021 at 5:53 AM EDT - Updated April 15 at 8:18 AM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Two men were killed overnight in separate Charlotte shootings.
The first shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday on Wilkinson Boulevard at Rosemont Street. Police say a man, identified as 25-year-old Demontravis Reid, was shot and killed.
Around three hours later, a man was killed in a shooting at University City’s Sleep Inn on N. Tryon Street near W.T. Harris Boulevard. Police say they were called to a disturbance call at the hotel around 2:30 a.m. Thursday and found a man with a gunshot wound in a room. Medic pronounced him dead on scene.
CMPD: 25-Year-Old Shot, Killed In West Charlotte
April 15, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. A 25-year-old was fatally shot in west Charlotte Wednesday night sparking a homicide investigation, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
#CMPD has been on the scene of two separate homicide investigations after two people were killed in shootings in Charlotte. The first on Wilkinson Blvd, the second at the Sleep Inn on N. Tryon Street. #WCCBpic.twitter.com/6TMffaIoKY
Officers responded to Wilkinson Boulevard around 11:40 p.m. after a report of an assault with a deadly weapon. Upon arrival, they located a man suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim, identified as Demontravis Davonte Reid, was pronounced dead at the scene by medic.