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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A raffle for two tickets to the Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour in Charlotte raised $12,000 for local nonprofits. What You Need To Know A raffle for Beyoncé tickets, dinner and a ride for the night raised $12,000 for two local nonprofits Community Link and BCDI-Charlotte are splitting the funds Beyoncé was in Charlotte on Aug. 9 at Bank of America Stadium Z3 Carolinas donated two 100-level Beyoncé tickets. Proceeds from the tickets, raffled off with a dinner at Sea Level and a ride for the night with Charlotte Black Car Service, are benefiting nonprofits Community Link and Black Child Development Institute of Charlotte. President and CEO of Community Link, Tameka Gunn, said this is the first time they did a fundraiser like this one. Typically, the nonprofit ru...

An important Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina was severely damaged on Wednesday after a powerful tornado ripped through the area, threatening production lines that normally provide huge amounts of medicine to U.S. hospitals. Meanwhile, torrential rain flooded parts of Kentucky and communities from California to South Florida endured scorching heat that at times reached record-high temperatures.Pfizer confirmed the large manufacturing complex was damaged by a twister that touched down shortly after midday near Rocky Mount, but said in an email that it had no reports of serious injuries. A later company statement said all employees were safely evacuated and accounted for. Parts of roofs were ripped open at the Pfizer plant in Rocky Mount, which is a complex composed of several ...

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Beyoncé tickets raise money for Charlotte-area nonprofits

Tornado damages Pfizer plant in North Carolina, will “likely lead to long-term shortages” of medicine