Gastonia News

Giving Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" a Southern twist is something Janet Sims has wanted to do for a long time.

Navy Seaman Recruit Aliyah Shakir , daughter of Jahid Shakir, of Gastonia, and Sabretta Spann, of Iron Station, graduated from the United States Navy's basic training at Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill.

Ronnie Phillips was taken aback when he got a phone call from a man accused of taking his wallet and trying to steal his identity.

Two area businesses owners recently settled civil lawsuits that claimed their negligence caused an E. coli outbreak that killed one child and sickened more than 100 people nearly two years ago.

Project scope encompasses installation of finishes and merchandising fixtures only for new tenant in a previously unoccupied space.

Police have had few tips in the search for two separate drivers who struck and seriously injured a man Friday night.

Chad Terrell Kendrick, 23, of 2600 Cove Creek Drive, Gastonia, was charged with common law robbery and possession of cocaine.

Andrea's note : For this occasional column, I'm hitting up local gyms and fitness companies to give my perspective on some of their class options.

Crowder's Mountain Fire & Rescue responded to a motor vehicle accident with entrapment on Bethany Road at Chapel Grove School Road at 3:07 p.m. Sunday in Gastonia.

But that hasn't stopped Gastonia police from coming to their door twice in the last year and a half, once in the middle of the night, with accusations of illegal conduct.

At 18, Cody Cornwell has fought cancer, and he's won. His inspirational clothing line, 696, grew out of that battle.

There was a moonshine war in Gastonia on Saturday. Gunfire blasted between moonshiners and revenuers blew up the Behind Enemy Lines paintball field.

The drivers did not stop their vehicles after striking 53-year-old John Wayne King, said Sgt.

When I was a child growing up on the Arlington Mill village, my mother dressed my sister Judy and myself as if we were twins, although I was two years older.

The Tree of Knowledge Luncheon was held on March 29 at the St. John's Outreach Center in Gastonia, sponsored by the UNCF Gaston County Committee.

Rena Mae Sellers Wallace, age 90, of Sellerstown Rd., died Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Neighbors hope an old mill and eyesore in Gastonia, which is about to open as new loft-style apartments, will revitalize an area known for crime and blight.

Gaston County Police have announced a third arrest in the murder of a man whose body was dumped on a roadway in west Charlotte in late-March.

Activists in the world of historic preservation have long staked a claim to rescuing architecturally important train stations, government buildings and private estates.

The chief executive of Charlotte-based Park Sterling Corp. was awarded $750,846 in total compensation for 2013, about 32 percent more than the year before, as the bank's earnings rose and its nonperforming loans shrunk.