Bookworm88,
I ran your recipe, changing max_articles_per_feed to 5, so that I could get a general sense of what was happening without downloading the entire history of Charlotte. I fetched articles in 6 categories - Local News, Breaking Local News, Politics, National, World and Business. All of the categories except Business downloaded 5 articles, except Business which had 1. This highlights an important notion to be aware of:
If an included RSS feed is empty at the time you run the recipe, you won't get any content in that feed. This can happen for a number of reasons, including a timeout from the remote server, remote server maintenance, or an error of any sort. Often, running the recipe again a few minutes later works.
For the feeds that generated no content (e.g., Sports, Carolina Panthers) a quick look at the
RSS feeds shows different URLS than the ones you're using. You should check each of the feeds from this page to make sure yours are the same.
I would encourage you to reduce max_articles_per_feed to a lower number, and try again. Other than needing to confirm your feed URLs, I don't see anything wrong with your recipe.
G