Gastonia News

North Carolina rising junior Reilly Hovis will represent the Orleans Firebirds in the 2014 Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game, the league announced recently.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and dinner is slated to be served at 6 p.m. Organizers decided to go with individual ticket sales for this year's event.

Wearing a pink dress, she explored the dance floor, listened to music and checked out the ballet barre at a recent open house for DanceAbilities Academy, a special needs dance studio opening in Gastonia.

A GROUP of talented young musicians is enjoying a tour of America after raising A 60,000 to make the trip a reality.

But landscaping, tearing out underbrush, trimming branches and building bridges over gullies comes easier with more manpower.

Lincoln County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Gastonia man they said raped a girl seven years ago.

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.

The following is a daily arrest report provided by the Gastonia and Gaston County police departments and the Gaston County Sheriff's Office.

Allen Petty makes a mental note every time he drives past a Gastonia bus stop where no one is waiting.

Gastonia leaders aren't ready to renew a contract with the firm that manages the downtown conference center.

"I Have and Idea for a Novel - What Do I Do Next?," 6 p.m. July 23, Steele Creek Public Library, 13620 Steele Creek Road.

ANNIE BLACKBURN Staff Writer A Gastonia man was arrested on Friday by Lincoln County Sheriff's deputies in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in Lincoln County in 2007.

The AM Optimist Club of Gastonia recently presented the Optimist International Community Service Award to Sgt.

Beverly and I, her twin sister Beth Wolfe, husband Max, and Annie Robinson attended an "old-time" gospel singing concert this past Sunday evening at Unity Baptist Church in Gastonia.

The Gastonia ABC Board has been given the OK by state officials to move its Cox Road shop from one side of Gaston Mall to the other.

The death of a worker Tuesday morning at a Kings Mountain plant marked the second workplace death in Gaston County this year.

A pair of entrepreneurial siblings chose Eastridge Mall for an independent coffee shop - Java House - after long careers in sales.

Former high school wrestling coach Scott Goins was in court Thursday, July 17, 2014 as jury selection continued at the Gaston County Courthouse on North Marietta Street in Gastonia.

According to police, the man used someone else's identification information to open a credit card and account at a Gastonia business.

A funding shortage has forced a Child Advocacy Center that helps children who are victims of crimes to close its doors.