Charlotte Mayor Rob Harrington used his first veto — the first by a Charlotte mayor in at least a decade — to stop City Council from delaying the vote on a new $2.1 billion airline lease at Charlotte Douglas. We look at why council wanted to wait: airport contract workers pushing for better pay, and a city that says state law won't let it write wage rules into the deal. Plus: Carowinds shuts Fury 325 and Thunder Striker after a death on a Six Flags coaster in Georgia, the data center moratorium hearing, and Cornelius names its first woman police chief. And a murder-mystery dinner where you solve the case before dessert.

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