Traffic was backed up on NC 115 and on Bailey Road (in this photo) as parents arrived to pick up their kids at Hough after 1:30pm Monday. (Melinda DuBois Greene/Via Facebook)

Updated 4:48pm
Police on Monday arrested two more students Monday in connection with a series of bomb scares at W.A. Hough High School in Cornelius over the past two weeks. The arrests came Monday afternoon after another bomb scare at the school on Bailey Road that brought a Charlotte police bomb squad to check on a suspicious item.

The item did not turn out to be a bomb, and police said at around 1pm Monday they were questioning two people about the incident and a similar scare last week.

4:18pm: See the Cornelius police statement about the latest arrest below. Read the full story

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A sinkhole widened Sunday night on Old Canal Street in the Antiquity Cornelius neighborhood. (David Boraks/CorneliusNews.net)

Updated 4:40pm
By DAVID BORAKS
CorneliusNews.net

That sinkhole in the Antiquity Cornelius neighborhood has expanded over the past two weeks from a 10- to 12-foot depression into a significantly larger cave-in. After the heavy rains Sunday, the hole now appears to be about 50 feet across, and about 8 foot deep. Read the full story

Workers examine a sinkhole on Old Canal Street in the Antiquity neighborhood. (John Young photo)

Updated 8:04am
A sinkhole on Old Canal Street in the Antiquity neighborhood east of downtown Cornelius widened Sunday night, leading to a power outage that threw the neighborhood into darkness. Residents of nearby townhomes were evacuated for several hours amid fears that a gas line under the street might be affected.  Read the full story

Huntersville fire units responded to a couple of wrecks Sunday morning, including one that closed Sam Furr Road/NC 73, at Northcross Drive. The crash also knocked down power lines cutting electricity to Energy United customers in the area. Officials said power could be restored by around 1:40pm. Read the full story

Firefighters responded to a washing-machine explosion at a home in the Spinnakers Reach neighborhood off Jetton Road Friday, where a resident tried to wash blankets with gasoline on them. Read the full story

A loud roar that some residents described as sounding like a jet engine was heard in the Lake Norman area Friday afternoon and evening, followed by the smell of gas from Cornelius to Davidson to Mount Mourne. The odor prompted more than two dozen fire and medical calls in Davidson and Cornelius, as well as calls in south Iredell. Piedmont Natural Gas confirmed later Friday night that the smell was the result of venting gas as part of a pipeline construction project in Davidson. See the full story on DavidsonNews.net.

By DAVID BORAKS
CorneliusNews.net

The long-planned commercial phase of the Antiquity Cornelius development in downtown Cornelius is about to get a big kick-start, with the construction of a grocery story and two other retail buildings near the neighborhood entrance on NC 115. Read the full story