Gastonia News

The Stanley Community Choir Annual Gospel Fundraiser takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at First Baptist Church of Stanley, 407 Old Mount Holly Road.

Dr. Robert Kahn has a simple answer when he looks back at his nearly four decades practicing medicine in Gastonia.

The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Standards Division has collected fines from stores in Caudwell, Cleveland, Gaston, Johnston, Mecklenburg, Robeson and Rockingham counties for excessive price-scanning errors.

Police in North Myrtle Beach say a Gastonia woman and her husband lied about her drowning and filed a false police report so she wouldn't have to appear in a NC court.

David Phillips, who currently serves on the school board representing South Point Township, said he will not seek re-election.

A Gastonia teen reportedly stabbed a man Monday night that he had first met in jail.

Made-to-order food at QT: Two local QuikTrip locations will soon be selling made-to-order food.

"We're extremely excited about the move," Mike Loveland, Pennsylvania Steel's general manager said.

A Gastonia man decided to flash people when they refused to fight him at a local coffeehouse Monday, according to arrest warrants.

The Gastonia Police Department says someone broke into more than a dozen buses at the Webb Street School in Gastonia last week.

As part of the effort, Gastonia Police, Gaston County Sheriff's Office and the North Carolina Highway Patrol conducted a DWI checkpoint Saturday night on Red Bud Drive near Independence Way.

Last year North Carolina's conservative Republican legislature got tough. It sharply reduced the duration of unemployment benefits and made them much more difficult to collect.

Steaks, liquor and beer were taken from an upscale Gastonia steakhouse over the weekend.

A Gastonia woman will serve jail time for defrauding family members and the state, though not all of her sentence will be carried out behind bars.

Reporter's note: This is part two of an occasional series profiling the Gaston County Department of Health & Human Services' 2014 Public Health Heroes.

There are no major traffic problems in the Charlotte region at 7:15 a.m. Monday, but motorists are contending with a number of smaller-scale headaches.

Gastonia police are looking for the thief or thieves who might have had quite a feast over the Independence Day weekend.

Daily arrest blotter - list of arrests made by the Gastonia Police Department, Gaston County Police Department and Gaston County Sheriff's Office.

American & Efird needs permission from Alex Spencer to fix and reroute a company sewer line that runs across his residential property.

Gastonia garnered an unwanted title in a recent study. We earned 43rd-place in the America's Most Dangerous Small Cities study.