Gaston News

Glynis Brooks will be the new principal at South Point High School in Belmont . She's been the principal at Southwest Middle School in Gastonia for the past five years.

They say it's your birthday We're gonna have a good time I'm glad it's your birthday Happy birthday to you - The Beatles, "Birthday," from the White Album They say it's your birthday - but what if "they" had forgotten the date? As communities around Lake Gaston gear up this weekend for the climax to an ongoing 50th anniversary party on the ... (more)

BESSEMER CITY Thomas Ellis started shaping a vision for Bessemer City's new police department when he was still just a candidate for the chief's job.

A bill that now sits on the governor's desk could restart executions in North Carolina after a seven-year de facto moratorium.

Lloyd Arneach yearns to carry on the tradition of Cherokee storytelling, being propelled by the desire to educate through entertainment.

Several hundred people lost utility services, but most of Cleveland County appeared to escape damage from a strong line of storms that rolled across western North Carolina on Thursday afternoon.

A wrestling coach at East Gaston High School was charged Wednesday morning with 15 child sex crimes and jailed under a $100,000 bond.

Some drive school buses in the morning. Others work one on one with children on reading and other subjects.

About half of the students referred to Gaston County Police because of suspected gang affiliation had their names entered into a statewide database that tracks gang members.