The Lake Norman Chamber of Commercewill honor north Mecklenburg public safety officers and volunteers at a special luncheon Thursday, Oct. 20 at the Havana Banquet and Ballroom at Kenton Place in Cornelius. Officers from the Cornelius, Davidson, Huntersville and Davidson College police departments will be honored, as well as members of the North Meck Rescue, the local fire departments, and Crime Stoppers. Read the full story

Police have identified the victims in a double homicide that occurred Friday on Centennial Commons Drive, off Huntersville-Concord Road in Huntersville. Stephanie Boardman Hamilton, 56, and James Ralph Hamilton, 73, were found dead around 1:10 p.m. Friday, and police found evidence to confirm they were victims of homicide. The cause of death has not been released. Read the full story

Police are looking for a man who reportedly exposed himself Wednesday evening outside businesses in downtown Davidson. Davidson police said Friday that two citizens had complained about the man, who “appeared to be adjusting himself” in public. One caller saw him around 6 p.m. Wednesday near Toast Café and he may he been “exercising.” A second witness saw him near the Dance Davidson studio off Jackson Street. Read the full story

Former Davidson firefighter John Allen and company at last year's "Fill the Boot" campaign for MDA

Davidson firefighters will once again be raising money this Saturday for the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s annual “Fill the Boot” campaign. Watch for emergency personnel stationed at the intersection of Main Street and Concord Road from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers will be accepting donations as drivers wait at stop lights, but donations may also be sent to the Davidson Fire Department at P.O. Box 579, Davidson, NC 28036. Firefighters ask that checks written directly to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Meanwhile, firefighters put out a fire in a gas line that had ruptured and ignited during Sunday’s severe thunderstorm. Also this week, three students were freed from an elevator that was stuck in the Davidson College Chambers academic building, and firefighters assisted Mecklenburg County Medic ambulances with patients at two separate vehicle collisions (2 hurt in Concord Road crash).

Details on these calls and more (along with a tally of the week’s medical calls) may be found below.

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Jeremy A. Hester, a former Charlotte Mecklenburg police officer who shot himself and his ex-wife following an argument at her east Davidson home Saturday, has died of his wounds, police said Wednesday. Read the full story

A man snatched purses from two women dining at the Char-Grill restaurant in Davidson Commons Tuesday afternoon. But after the women cried for help, bystanders tackled and held the man until police arrived to arrest him. Read on for details on that and other incidents, along with a tally of the week’s arrests, citations, and traffic violations. Read the full story

Emergency workers care for a man whose car flipped in an accident on Concord Road around 12:15 p.m. Monday (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Updated 5:36 p.m.
Two drivers were injured in an automobile crash on Concord Road in Davidson shortly after noon Monday. The crash happened around 12:15 p.m. on Concord Road, just west of the intersection with Thompson Street. Read the full story

Update 11 a.m.
A former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer shot his ex-wife and himself early Saturday at a home east Davidson’s Runnymede neighborhood. The two people are in serious condition at Carolinas Medical Center. And Charlotte Mecklenburg Police are investigating the case, which they say involved a family dispute.

The incident happened just after 2 a.m. at 19701 Callaway Hills Lane, off Shearers Road in east Davidson. Davidson police also responded to the incident. CMPD is leading the investigation because the neighborhood is outside Davidson’s town limits.

Just after 9 a.m., CMPD identified the victim as Erin Marie Cobb, 28. The man was identified as Jeremy A. Hester, 31, a former Metro Division officer with the police department. He was hired on May 14, 2007, and resigned March 20, 2010 “to pursue other employment,” CMPD said.

Ms. Cobb was hospitalized in stable/critical condition this morning, after surgery.

Mr. Hester was hospitalized in critical condition.

Here’s more information from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department early this morning, and an update after 9 a.m.: Read the full story