My budget’s gonna be tough,” said Gaston County resident Diane Monico. “If I have food, I have food. If I don’t, I don’t.” ...

The one constant in Matt Solter’s childhood was baseball, now as an adult, he fights to keep the sport in his life.

From sidewalk cash to fashion splash, these sisters turned a stroke of luck into a thriving business with two locations.

When the first railroad line came to Charlotte in the 1850s, the area around South Boulevard thrived with textile mills and manufacturing. Then those grand buildings sat abandoned for years, and “the ...