Browse past news stories for Ranson Middle School in Charlotte, NC.

• Teacher accused of rape could face more charges (WCNC Charlotte)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 09:24:59 pm
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A teacher accused of raping a 15-year-old could face additional charges. The assistant district attorney says investigators have videotapes showing Ernest Nichols having sex with the victim, and those tapes could lead to federal child pornography charges.
• Prosecution: Teacher Coerced Sons Girlfriend Into Sex Acts (WSOC-TV Charlotte)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 05:11:06 pm
  Prosecutors said videotapes show Ernest Nichols talking a 15-year-old girl into having sex with him.
• Search warrant released in teacher rape case (WCNC Charlotte)
  posted on October 5, 2009 at 09:25:03 pm
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A search warrant shows that a teacher accused of raping a 15-year-old girl impersonated his own son on Facebook. Ernest Nichols was arrested last week at his home in Huntersville.
• N.C. teacher accused of raping girl (UPI)
  posted on October 3, 2009 at 07:40:28 pm
  HUNTERSVILLE, N.C., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A 44-year-old middle school teacher in Huntersville, N.C., is facing rape charges for a series of alleged attacks on a 15-year-old girl, authorities say.
• CMS middle school teacher faces rape charges (The Charlotte Observer)
  posted on October 3, 2009 at 06:15:16 pm
  A Charlotte-Mecklenburg middle school teacher has been arrested by Huntersville police and charged with raping a 15-year-old girl, authorities say.
• NC middle school gym teacher charged with rape (Rocky Mount Telegram)
  posted on October 2, 2009 at 10:16:57 pm
  HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Police say a North Carolina middle school teacher has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl.
• Middle school teacher faces rape charges (The Charlotte Observer)
  posted on October 2, 2009 at 02:50:17 pm
  A Charlotte-Mecklenburg middle school teacher has been arrested by Huntersville police and charged with raping a 15-year-old girl, authorities say.
• Middle school teacher faces rape charges (WCNC Charlotte)
  posted on October 2, 2009 at 12:09:53 am
  HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. -- A middle school teacher has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl. Huntersville police have charged 44-year-old James Nichols with second-degree rape, statutory rape, kidnapping, forcible sex offense, crimes against nature and indecent liberties.
• CMS Teacher Charged In Rape Of Teen (WSOC-TV Charlotte)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 09:14:25 pm
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher is charged in the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl. Huntersville police searched Ernest James Nichols’ home on Willow Grove Way on Thursday afternoon. Nichols is a teacher at Ranson Middle School on Statesville Road.
• Bizarre crimes from Charlotte police files (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 03:44:22 pm
  By Ryan Pitkin All-Time Low: Police were called to a local church after a woman caught a Peeping Tom videotaping up her dress every time she stood up in the church pew. Witnesses detained the man until police arrived. Officers confiscated two CPU's, a video camera, a cell phone, two digital cameras, a thumb drive and a flash drive. In return the man received a one-way ticket to hell. Unruly ...
• CMS Teachers Prepare For First Day Of Class (WSOC-TV Charlotte)
  posted on August 18, 2009 at 10:16:00 pm
  Teachers across Mecklenburg County had their first day of school Tuesday, a week before any student steps into a classroom.
• Health dept. offers free immunizations (The Charlotte Observer)
  posted on August 13, 2009 at 11:00:17 am
  Nurses from the Mecklenburg County Health Department will offer free immunizations to returning school children on four upcoming weekends as part of the 15th annual Big Shot Saturdays program.
• Commissioners set hopes on 2011 for CMS bond sales (News 14 Carolina)
  posted on August 5, 2009 at 11:34:12 am
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• EOG testing begins in NC (WBTV Charlotte)
  posted on May 18, 2009 at 05:19:17 am
  CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Tens of thousands of students across North Carolina are gearing up for the biggest, most important week of the year. Starting Monday, End of Grade testing begins for all students in grades three through eight.
• Mother recalls creativity of drowned teen (The Charlotte Observer)
  posted on February 23, 2009 at 11:32:39 am
  TyShawn Graves had always been good with his hands, his mother said Sunday. The eighth-grader at Ranson Middle School liked to draw and hoped to be a cartoonist. He enjoyed playing football with friends. And he liked to build things, said his mother, Monique Baines. In recent months, he and his friends even built a treehouse and raft in their north Charlotte neighborhood. But the homemade raft ...
• Family of 15-year-old drowning victim speaks (WBTV Charlotte)
  posted on February 23, 2009 at 04:16:56 am
  Charlotte, NC (WBTV) - The family of a 15-year-old boy who drowned in a pond Saturday afternoon, believes he panicked in the water. TyShawn Graves died when the makeshift raft he was on, broke apart.
• 15-year-old dies after falling in pond (WCNC Charlotte)
  posted on February 21, 2009 at 07:27:26 pm
  CHARLOTTE, N.C.-- A 15-year-old fell into a pond early Saturday afternoon but never came back up in North Charlotte. Rescue crews spent 3 hours searching for the boy in the Meadow Hills neighborhood.