The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office is urging visitors and staff at the courthouse to comply with security rules. It comes following a recent rise in weapons confiscations.

The 18-year-old got “preferential treatment,” prosecutors said, and a magistrate was “wholly inappropriate” in not requesting bond payment.

As part of a plea agreement, an Amelia County man admitted in court to raping and sexually assaulting his girlfriend — a move that caps his potential prison time at nine years and two months. John ...

The charges against an 18-year-old accused of shooting and killing a man in east Mecklenburg County were dropped. According to court records, 18-year-old Michael William McAllister was driving his ...

Nhan “Tom” Tran, 60, was booked into the Mecklenburg County Jail in the early morning hours of Thursday, Feb. 13.