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State Law Enforcement Deputy Director Neil Dolan says ballistics of the gun and bullets found on the man Monday in Gastonia match those used to kill residents in and around Gaffney, some 30 miles away.

The South Carolina company that employed four workers who died following an explosion as they unloaded fireworks over the weekend on North Carolina's Outer Banks has had previous problems with worker safety.

Friday is June 19th, the day African-Americans celebrate as Juneteenth. The day marks the end of slavery because it's the day, June 19, 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas found out they'd been freed years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Mr. and Mrs. Craig Earwood and Mr. Horace Emory would like to announce the engagement of their daughter, Mandy Leigh Emory, to Joshua Robert Thackerson.

He has the porch swing and love of the homegrown bluegrass from Cleveland County.

Asheville was well represented at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival , hailed by Rolling Stone as "one of the 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll." A plethora of local artists, industry insiders, vendors and music fans made the 6-hour trek down from the mountains into the muggy farmlands of Manchester, TN last weekend to ...

Lydia Carol Denkler and Brandon Roberts of Gastonia were married on Oct. 11, 2008, at Coggeshell Place, an ocean front home on Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. The Rev.

The annual meeting of the Symphony Guild was held May 21 at Waterworks Visual Arts Center at 5:30 p.m. The meeting opened with a reception, after which President Debbie Elliott welcomed members and guests and recognized the many volunteers and the community for their support during the year.

A former financial adviser in North Carolina has admitted taking nearly $3 million from an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease to buy a beach house and a wine collection.

A team of federal agents is standing by to begin investigating the cause of an explosion that killed three people and injured dozens at a North Carolina snack factory.

Amid the thatched-roof cottages of a quaint Irish village, Adare Manor was hosting its liveliest party in nearly 200 years.

From his bed at Mission Hospitals, Paul Reynolds wants to release his secrets and live what remains of his life in joy and peace.

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Allen Hughes of Kinston was a young man when he was killed at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.

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Marlowe Higginbotham has been at the top of her class not once, but twice. The former valedictorian at Gaston Day School graduated May 9 as one of 122 valedictorians at N.C. State Univer-sity with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

The subject of blacks who fought on the side of Confederates in the Civil War will be discussed in conjunction with the National Geneaological Society's annual conference in Raleigh.

A Richmond County man was arrested by Hamlet police when he sought medical treatment for a gunshot wound.

Historians such as Earl Ijames have learned that very little about the Civil War was black and white, even when it came to the hues of the soldiers' skin.

Sam Currin, a former U.S. attorney and protégé of the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, may get time shaved off his prison sentence for agreeing to help federal prosecutors try to convict one of Currin's former associates.