The Charlotte in 2012 Convention Host Committee says it has selected 13 companies with local ties for event planning services during the Democratic National Convention. Charlotte in 2012 Executive Director Dan Murrey will lead a press conference at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday to announce the chosen vendors. Murrey will be joined by the Democratic National Convention Committee Chief of Staff Travis Dre ...

China's Dalian Wanda Group has struck a $2.6 billion deal to buy U.S. theater group AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., making the Chinese company the largest theater operator in the United States, Reuters reports. Wanda, a private company that previously operated solely in China, generates $16.7 billion in annual revenue from its commercial development and entertainment businesses, the company sa ...

7-Eleven Inc. plans to add 630 stores in the United States and Canada by the end of the year. The Dallas-based company built or acquired about 600 stores in the U.S. and Canada, and about 4,600 worldwide in 2011. About 56 percent of the chain's U.S. growth was due to acquisitions in New York, Florida, Illinois, Colorado and the Northwest, 7-Eleven says. The company is re-entering the Charlot ...

Employment in North Carolina’s construction industry – considered an economic indicator – is on a seesaw, says the Washington, D.C.-based Associated General Contractors of America. As of April, the state had 173,300 workers in construction jobs, down 2,100, or 1.2 percent, from April 2011. It was one of 28 states that shed building jobs over year, according to AGC of America. Meanwhile ...

Airline industry economist Daniel Akins says a merger between US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines is inevitable. Bloomberg reports Akins told the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York last week that AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines, is backed into a corner and must look to a merger with US Airways (NYSE:LCC) to turn the company around. Akins testified on behalf of the flight attendant ...

The Vue Charlotte luxury condo tower will be put up for sale on June 12 at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse. New York-based real estate investment firm Northwood Investors launched foreclosure proceedings in April against the limited liability company that owns The Vue. Clerk of Superior Court Martha Curran signed off on the foreclosure at a hearing today. No attorneys or representatives of ...

Lowe’s Cos. Inc. earned $527 million, or 43 cents per diluted share, in its fiscal first quarter, a jump of 14 percent from a year earlier. However, the home-improvement retailer on Monday lowered its earnings forecast for the full year to $1.73 to $1.83 per diluted share. The updated forecast is down from Lowe’s previously projected range of $1.75 to $1.85 per share for the fiscal year end ...

Gasoline prices in the Charlotte area have leveled off after six straight weeks of decline. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in the Charlotte market is now $3.58, unchanged from a week ago, according to AAA Carolinas. The price was $3.84 a month ago. Across the Carolinas, gas prices have continued falling. The average price in North Carolina is $3.56, down from $3.64 a ...

Time Warner Cable has been growing steadily in Charlotte in recent years, and it is set to expand further with the addition of more than 100 workers at its Ballantyne operation. A story in the May 18 print edition of the Charlotte Business Journal outlines the planned expansion of the company’s business-services unit in the Hixon building in Ballantyne Corporate Park.

Joe Stettinius Jr., president of commercial real estate firm Cassidy Turley, cited “some real underpinnings of optimism” for the economy and the real estate sector in an interview last week with the Charlotte Business Journal. Stettinius was in town for the company’s annual executive meeting. His interview with senior staff writer Will Boye is featured in the CBJ’s May 18 print edition. ...

The family of an Ardrey Kell High School student killed over Christmas break took part in a rally Saturday in Chadbourn to bring more attention to the case.

Highway Patrol Troopers in South Carolina are looking for a car that hit two men on a neighborhood street Saturday night, leaving one in critical condition.

The Charlotte Chamber of Commerce flight to London was canceled early Sunday morning.

Monroe police have issued attempted murder warrants for three people after a fight broke out.

Tropical Storm Alberto is moving eastward as it spins off the coast of Florida.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools announced their “Teacher of the Year” at Carowinds Sunday night.

Forecasters say Tropical Storm Alberto is churning off the Southeastern U.S. seaboard as a tropical storm watch continues on a stretch of South Carolina coast.

NASCAR drivers likely will have an easier time getting around Charlotte Motor Speedway than the race fans trying to get to the track.

York County Councilman, Eric Winstead announced his resignation late Saturday night. Winstead’s office sent a letter to news media announcing the decision.

Charlotte got its first real glimpse Saturday of what to expect when the Democratic National Convention arrives.

Study says that could be because they are more likely to use tanning beds than men.

A new study tracked about 60,000 nurses and found that use of any kind of hormones for 10 years or more slightly raised the chances.

Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer.

The FDA has rejected a petition from environmentalists that would have banned BPA from all food and drink packaging.

The disease jumped from 9% of the adolescent population in 2000 to 23% in 2008 in what could be a grim sign for the future.

Blood testing is especially important for poor children, although few of the highest-risk kids are ever tested.

Utah residents know all about how to prevent one illness spread in pool, thanks to education campaigns started after a 2007 outbreak.

Should pre-1978 homes be tested even if no children live there? Are home-testing kits OK? Answers to your questions.

U.S. health officials want all baby boomers to get tested for hepatitis C.

In France, autistic children are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy.

A young woman fighting a flesh-eating bacteria has said "Let's do this" after being told that she will lose her hands and remaining foot.

A judge ordered Padge Windslowe to stand trial on charges that include aggravated assault, and practicing medicine without a license.

An antibiotic widely used for bronchitis and other common infections seems to increase chances for sudden deadly heart problems.

Authorities in California charged a tuberculosis patient who they say refused to take medication.

"Music is therapeutic" for him, says daughter Ashley, who backed up the legendary singer on banjo.