New York City mayor and giant among men Bill de Blasio has announced that he will not be attending this year’s Groundhog Day ceremony. Does his decision have anything to do with the sudden, mysterious death of the very same groundhog he sent flying just days prior back in 2014? We’ll let you decide.

According to WSOCTV (and Twitter), an active shooter was reported at Northlake Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday afternoon.

After he found out his flight from Charlotte to Jamaica was overbooked, and arguing loudly with airline staff didn’t change anything, an irate passenger just gave up Wednesday morning. He stopped yelling, went silent, and stripped off all his clothes in front of a U.S. Airways desk.

After roughly a decade of living in nightmarish captivity and being forced to view a man's exposed dick on a weekly basis, residents of one Charlotte, N.C. neighborhood are organizing to rise up against their nude oppressor.

Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon was arrested on Wednesday and charged with theft and bribery. Cannon, a Democrat, allegedly accepted more than $48,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents between January 2013 and February 2014.

According to the Misery Map, a live map that combines real-time weather and flight data, the most miserable airport in the country is currently Charlotte, followed closely by all New York area airports. Feel free to share your Thanksgiving travel misery with all of us.

According to a police report, a student at Charlotte's Independence High School spiked a teacher's coffee with a "butt-enhancing drug." Ellen Vick, a technical education teacher at the school, reported the incident Monday of last week. School investigators then discovered a package of GluteBoost, which contained three empty capsules and a full one, although it's not exactly clear where the package was found.

Barack Obama's DNC speech tomorrow will be given indoors, not in a football stadium, due to "severe weather forecasts."

Here is President Obama made out of sand.

Would it be good optics for President Obama to deliver his convention speech at Bank of America Stadium, in order "to sell more skyboxes to wealthy donors"? Nope, not really.