CHARLOTTE -- A 17-year-old shocked with a Taser by police after an altercation at a northern Charlotte grocery store died from cardiac arrest, according to an autopsy released Friday.

Teens charged with vandalizing amphitheater

Aaronita Belton dreamed of launching a summer camp for kids that would be fun but focused on learning. She started with 25 kids.

Ten-year-old Summer Langston is being treated for rabies after a fox chased her and scratched her leg with its teeth two weeks ago as she played in her Clover neighborhood.

Tatiana Sosa, a 21-year-old rising Winthrop University senior from Clover, will serve as chair of the school's Council of Student Leaders for 2008-2009.

• What are rabies symptoms in humans? The first symptoms are usually non-specific flu-like signs, such as generalized weakness, fever or headache, which may last for several days. If the exposure occurred through a bite, discomfort or numbness may occur at the site. Within days or weeks, symptoms of brain dysfunction follow, such as anxiety, confusion and agitation, which progress to delirium, abnormal behavior, hallucinations and insomnia.

COLUMBIA -- A third of South Carolina's magistrates are in a special "holdover" status -- several going on more than 10 years, which, critics say, gives state senators too much control over them.

FORT MILL -- Without Dorothy Ingram, some of you would never read these words. For six years, the 49-year-old mother of three has spent the dark hours after midnight delivering The Herald. Not one route, but two, for a little extra money.

Valencia Jefferson pulled her silver Honda into the Valero gas station on Celanese Road. She needed gas, and the big sign advertising $3.83 a gallon was a good deal.

WASHINGTON -- If Andrew Jackson created the notion of a president's "Kitchen Cabinet," Sen. John McCain is reinventing it months before his possible election to the White House.