If you're thinking about burgers or tacos this weekend, you may want to check your ground beef. Due to E.coli contamination, over 60 tons of beef from Cargill's Fort Morgan, Colorado plant has been recalled. The beef was sold in stores nationwide and the consequences of eating it could be quite serious. At least one person has died and 17 others have gotten sick, according to the USDA and Centers for Disease Control.
If the meat in your fridge is on this list, throw it out. It's not worth the risk.
You know what they are. But you don't know who is making the call. Normally it's an out-of-area number and if you pick up, there's normally silence or someone trying to sell you something. Well, those calls are only going to get worse. According to a report from First Orion, nearly half of all cell phone calls in 2019 will be placed by scammers.
Here in Charlotte, the trend is particularly bad. In April, phone numbers with the 704 area code received 29.4 million robocalls. That's an average of 17 per person. For 980 phone numbers, there were 4.5 million robocalls, down to about a dozen or so robocalls per person.
To block these robocalls, there are apps you can arm yourself with, like Truecaller, Hiya and Nomorobo. There's also one called Youmail. It's a free service that tricks robocallers into thinking you don't even exist.
"So we play an out of service message, 'This number is out of service' to any number that we recognize is a bad number," said Alex Quilici, a Youmail CEO.
About a month ago, NBC Charlotte reported that the lead level in several CMS schools' water supply was well above the federal guidelines.
Now, CMS is testing the water in 35 additional schools. And parents aren't happy about it. Not because they're testing, but because they claim the district never told them about repairs made to correct the lead levels in the first place.
CMS said they either repaired, replaced or shut down the water sources that had elevated levels. But they never notified parents, telling NBC Charlotte there was no need since the problem was fixed.
“It’s enough to make you infuriated,” said Nakisa Glover, another parent at Thursday’s meeting. “To find out a year later and on social media is completely unacceptable."
Wells Fargo plans to cut its workforce by 5 percent to 10 percent within the next three years as the embattled U.S. bank executes cost-saving efforts and copes with customers switching to digital self-service options.
The decline would involve job displacements as well as normal attrition, CEO Tim Sloan told Wells Fargo employees Thursday in a companywide town hall meeting.
The downsizing plan comes as Wells Fargo tries to regain the confidence of customers and investors following a scandal over millions of accounts opened without authorization from customers and a series of other regulatory issues. It is unclear how the cuts would impact Wells Fargo employees in the Charlotte area.
A 13-year-old was arrested in connection with a series of armed robberies in southwest Charlotte earlier this month. CMPD said the crimes happened between September 2 and 15, and in two of the cases, the victims were actually shot by the suspect, who has not been identified.
The teen was charged with four counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, three counts of conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.
CMPD said investigations are still active and ongoing. Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
