CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Vance High School had 111 arrests during the 2010-2011 school year which was an increase of 300-percent compared to the previous school year.

The crimes included a variety of offenses including fighting, possession of marijuana, and arson.

The spike in crime at Vance High School, in particular, concerns officials with Charlotte Mecklenburg School. They admit something is going on and they want to fix it.

Security leaders say they will beef up security at the school for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year. 

Sgt. Randy Hagler, who is with CMS's police department, says he plans to have four campus security associates and two school resource officer assigned to the school. That's more than what other high schools have.

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) -- No more exceptions. Sheriff Chipp Bailey says all courthouse deputies must now wear bullet proof vests.

Out of 294 deputies, seven at the courthouse had signed waivers asking not to wear them.

"It's important for our people to be safe and you never know when you're going to be presented with a situation," said Bailey.

He says deputies wouldn't be in the courthouse, if there wasn't the potential for danger. He pointed to heated divorces, child custody and criminal cases where emotions run high.

While it would be difficult to bring a gun into the courthouse, there are other types of weapons or physical confrontations where the vests could help protect a deputy.

They also patrol outside the courthouse. On Tuesday, deputies escorted the prosecutor and members of the jury from the Michael Mead trial to their cars.

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - U.S. airports may still be vulnerable to terror attacks.  But it's the Transportation Security Administration that's in the cross-hairs on Capitol Hill.

Testifying before a House committee this week, Charlotte Douglas Aviation Director Jerry Orr. 

Orr says the TSA is plagued by a "rigid attitude of arrogance and bureaucracy."

This is about airport security, and some in Congress are saying that we're no safer now than we were on 9/11.

Who can't remember the old cartoon Spy versus Spy?  It was always a battle of good versus evil.

What was fun and games 50 years ago.. is life and death in the real world today.  Nearly 10 years since the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil the bad guys haven't stopped trying to get us.