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"It was Gerald - you knew he'd get up," said Charlotte Bobcats teammate Matt Carroll, following a 116-115 overtime home loss to the Kings. "Then I saw his eyes were shaking and I knew he was really out." (www.charlotte.com....05480.html)

RALEIGH - Bank of America Corp. will start considering carbon dioxide as a potential liability when it mulls financing utility sector projects, said Ken Lewis, the Charlotte bank's chief executiv (www.charlotte.com....90070.html)

That sums up the Charlotte Bobcats Tuesday. Their marksmanship was off by record proportions. They shot an all-time low 28.2 percent, leading to an 85-65 loss to the reigning-champion San Antonio Spurs. (www.charlotte.com....01262.html)

Charlotte (19-35) was down five with 101/2 minutes left when the Spurs sucked all the air out of the Bobcats' lungs. They went eight minutes without a field goal to trail by 23 (www.charlotte.com....01262.html)

THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Nick Mackey (center) leaves the Government Center after a decision was announced for a new election to be ordered. Robert Lahser rlahser@charlotte observer.co (www.charlotte.com....75454.html)

After the decision was announced, Mackey and his attorneys left the Charlotte -Mecklenburg Government Center trailed by a pack of television cameras and reporters. They made no comment (www.charlotte.com....75454.html)

The hearing before the state Democratic Council of Review ended at 8:11 p.m., when the panel went into closed session to deliberate. Panel members, meeting before an overflow audience at the Charlotte -Mecklenburg Government Center, heard two grievances challenging voting precincts that quickly formed before the election (www.charlotte.com....75454.html)

County commissioners refused to appoint Mackey, a former police officer who resigned from the Charlotte -Mecklenburg force after a 2003 probe into whether he lied about his work hours. Mackey denied wrongdoing (www.charlotte.com....75454.html)

Ron Leeper, a former Charlotte City Council member, testified that he and his wife never attended a precinct organizing meeting - despite a list supplied by party officials showing they did. Leeper said he never got word of such a meeting (www.charlotte.com....75454.html)

George Wallace, past chairman of a precinct in southeast Charlotte 's Grier Heights neighborhood, said he was told he was no longer chair when he attended the Dec. 6 election . Wallace said he didn't know the people now listed as precinct official (www.charlotte.com....75454.html)

AP Charlotte Bobcats rookie Jared Dudley (left) is among the young players in which the Bobcats hope to see improvement this season. (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay) (www.charlotte.com....04255.html)

As of noon Thursday, Charlotte Bobcats general manager Rod Higgins speculated there was a 50-50 chance his team would make some sort of deal by the 3 p.m. deadlin (www.charlotte.com....04255.html)

House of Raeford Farms, Inc. is further investigating allegations by The Charlotte Observer critical of its workplace safety practices and hiring programs. In response to The Observers alleged findings, House of Raeford issued the following statement (www.charlotte.com....84515.html)

In Raeford, about 100 miles east of Charlotte , former line worker Claudette Outerbridge lay awake nights because of pain pulsating in her right hand. The ache, she said, stemmed from her work, which included cutting thousands of turkey gizzards each day (www.charlotte.com....87187.html)

In Raeford, about 100 miles east of Charlotte , former line worker Claudette Outerbridge lay awake nights because of pain pulsating in her right hand. The ache, she said, stemmed from her work, which included cutting thousands of turkey gizzards each da (www.charlotte.com....87187.html)

The leaders of Charlotte -Mecklenburg Schools apologized Wednesday, a day after outraging thousands of workers by ordering them to sign forms authorizing an intense series of background checks or risk getting fired (www.charlotte.com/education/)

WASHINGTON - Charlotte Bobcats forward Gerald Wallace will miss at least two weeks while recovering from the concussion he suffered Friday, according to coach Sam Vincent (www.charlotte.com....06419.html)

Continental Tire is nearly done with Charlotte . What started with slowly cutting jobs in the city over the years and then stopping tire production two years ago will end with the company moving its North America headquarters to South Carolina next year (www.charlotte.com/280)

Beazer Homes USA, a home builder under federal investigation, said Friday it will stop building in the Charlotte market and close its national mortgage unit - a business in which it says employees violated federal housing regulation (www.charlotte.com/122)

Albert Lowery was an 18-year-old in 1974 when he started working two days a week at the Old Hickory House barbecue restaurant on North Tryon Street in Charlotte (www.charlotte.com/157)

Select a County/Area. 1 Mecklenburg County (N) 2 Mecklenburg County (E) 3 Mecklenburg County (SE) 4 Mecklenburg County (SSE) 5 Mecklenburg County (S) 6 Mecklenburg County (SSW) 7 Mecklenburg County (SW) 8 Mecklenburg County (W) 9 Mecklenburg County (NW) 10 Union County 11 Cabarrus County 12 Iredell County 13 Lake Norman 14 Lincoln County 15 Lake Wylie 16 Gaston County 17 York County 21 Rowan County 23 Stanly County 24 Lancaster County 42 Mtn.Island Lake 99 Uptown Charlotte Other NC/S (www.charlotte.com/361/)

Charlotte 's master plan for bicyclists will get a public airing Wednesday evening with a pair of briefings planned at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Cente (www.charlotte.com/251)

There's an ancient Chinese curse that, roughly translated, means "May you live in interesting times." I live in interesting times. It's not boring covering the Charlotte Bobcats these days. It's occasionally tense, often odd and sometimes amusing. Comment (www.charlotte.com/310/)

Remember Rodney White? White and his agent sure wish someone in the NBA would. The former Charlotte 49ers forward was once a lottery pick. Long out of the NBA, he's now playing in China, scoring bushels of points and trying to get back stateside (www.charlotte.com/310/)

Charlotte Area Transit System is inviting the public to two meetings to kick off the preliminary engineering phase of the proposed Northeast Corridor light-rail line.The $30 million preliminary engineering study will look at the environmental impact of the 11-mile, $750 million light rail line from the Lynx terminus uptown to the UNCC area (www.charlotte.com/274)

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The Charlotte Observer has won a George Polk Award for its yearlong series on the area's high rate of housing foreclosures and the questionable sales practices by Beazer Homes USA, one of the nation's largest homebuilders (www.charlotte.com/523/)

The Lincoln County Republican Party will hold its annual precinct meetings and county convention Saturday. Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory will give the keynote speech. (www.charlotte.com/233)

Gray, who said he received the letter after buying his house in 2001, said he wishes now that he had another opportunity to rate Beazer. His home sits in Barrington, a north Charlotte Beazer development where more than a third of the original owners have lost their homes to foreclosure (www.charlotte.com....03020.html)

To all our hoops fans, we say have a good time. We hope you leave impressed with Charlotte 's hospitality. We also hope you check out what the city and the region have to offer, other than the basketball and other activities at the arena. And we hope you come back (www.charlotte.com....13600.html)



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