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The last eight months have seen some of the highlights and low points of Tim Newman's six years as head of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority.

He admits having a romantic relationship with an employee who later resigned.

NASCAR Hall of Fame, which Charlotte got partly because of CRVA's prediction it would attract 800,000 visitors a year, loses $350,000 by the end of 2010, drawing fewer than 200,000 visitors its first eight months.

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Democrats announce they will hold 2012 national convention in Charlotte.

The Central intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament, which the CRVA says has had a $200 million economic impact since coming to Charlotte in 2006, generates a record $44 million.

It's revealed that Newman routed $100,000 in bonuses from the CIAA to a CRVA staff member through the authority payroll.

Amid outcry over the bonuses, renewing Newman's contract hinges upon a consultant's report on CRVA pay policies, scheduled to be completed in mid-June.

Thompson replaces Noski as BofA CFO carousel continues

In April, Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. named Bruce Thompson chief financial officer, its sixth in seven years. Thompson, the bank's chief risk officer, follows Chuck Noski (2010-11), Joe Price (2006-10), Al de Molina (2005-06), Marc Oken (2004-05) and Jim Hance (1988-2004). Noski had planned to move to Charlotte when he accepted the job, but an ill family member kept him in California.

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The report that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released on the death of Delvonte Tisdale, whose body fell from a wheel well of a Boston-bound Boeing 727 as it prepared to land. The report blames inadequate police presence at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, but most of it--including an "opinion" about how the 16-year-old got on the plane--was redacted.

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