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Man killed in West Charlotte, marks Charlotte's 43rd homicide - Story

CHARLOTTE, NC (FOX 46) - The Charlotte- Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating after a man was shot and killed at the Arbor Glen Apartments Sunday afternoon in west Charlotte. The man has been identified as Zachary Finch, 21. The family has been notified of his death.  "He was basically in a pool of his own blood," Daisy Buckman said, who is an Arbor Glen tenant .  "Like there was blood everywhere. It was blood everywhere," Shante Teasley said, who also lives at Arbor Glen.  #BREAKING HEADING TO SCENE NOW. https://t.co/OTico7dCDE — Yolian Ortiz FOX46 (@YolianFOX46) June 18, 2017 "In broad daylight, that's really disturbing. You know someone could have been out with their kids having a Father Day thing , walking the dog, cause bullets have no name," Verenon Jeffery said, who lives at Arbor Glen.  CMPD telling us the man was shot once & died here. They were responding to shots fired in the area & got a call for this victim. — Yolian O...

Douglas Elliman’s Sonia Stock on Her Journey From Tennis Pro to Broker – Commercial Observer

Among the residential brokers who take a whack at commercial, there is a steep learning curve . The businesses, everyone will tell you, are extremely different. Success in one rarely translates to success in another, and very few manage the transition. But Sonia Stock, an associate broker at Douglas Elliman, is good at taking a whack at things—be it a tennis ball or a client from out of nowhere. Like this one time… In the summer of 2004, Stock (then focused solely on residential) had a dental appointment in Union, N.J. Coming from New York and being a runner, she figured she’d take the train from Penn Station to Rahway (the station closest to her appointment) and sprint the eight miles to her dentist. But when the train arrived late , she knew running wouldn ’t get her there in time. So the experienced world traveler hit the side of the road and stuck out her thumb and was picked up by a woman in a Mercedes. “We got along very well,” Stock said, recalling what would turn out to be one...

Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...