Gastonia News

Shelly Foreman of the Smoky Mountain Center updates the Board of Commissioners on the recent changes taking place with LME-MCOs throughout North Carol... This graphic shows the counties that will be covered once the "Western Regional Partnership" is finalized.

Police are looking for the person responsible for setting a fire in the men's bathroom of a Gastonia fast food restaurant.

Police say a Gastonia woman reported as missing really isn't. Police marked the case unfounded and closed, but did so after it was already publicized through Facebook.

YORK Arrest warrants have been issued for a York pastor already on North Carolina's sex offender registry who is now accused of sexual contact of a child at his church.

Wardell Pressley cried in Gaston County court on Tuesday as a judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison.

Marshall F. and Doris McClure of Gastonia celebrated their golden wedding anniversary January 11, 2014, with a lunch reception, hosted by their family, at Flint Groves Baptist Church fellowship hall.

Wal-Mart will begin accepting applications this summer for nearly 100 jobs at its new Neighborhood Market store in Kings Mountain, officials said.

Police are still looking for the 29-year-old man accused of throwing his ex-girlfriend from his truck and running her over.

A small road used more as a commuter shortcut than for local traffic will soon close for road maintenance.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services office, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, stands in Woodlawn, Maryland.

Gastonia police are searching for a man who they said grabbed the bank deposit bag from a Pizza Hut worker.

Around 4:30, crews from Crowder's Mountain Fire & Rescue were dispatched to the 3000 block of Old Church Road in Gastonia.

About 40 Canton residents got their first glimpse of the three finalists selected by the town aldermen to fill the town manager post.

Morningstar Properties LLC, which operates self-storage properties under the Morningstar Mini-Storage brand, has purchased four self-storage facilities in North Carolina and two in South Carolina.

Gastonia Police are investigating a rash of car break-ins throughout the city. The incidents happened on East Hudson, Ashwood Court, Pebblestone Way, Bradford Heights and Shuda Avenue.

LaToya Hankins is Carolina through and through. Born in Southport, in Brunswick County, she grew up in Raleigh, attended East Carolina University and moved to Gastonia in 1993 and Charlotte in 1998.

Invite him for an interview and photo shoot at the newspaper, and Carter asks if he can bring a model, a hair and makeup stylist and a videographer to shoot footage for a possible TV documentary.

Crews in Gaston County battled a pair of wildfires Wednesday, including a blaze that scorched about 1 1/2 acres on Chespark Drive in north Gastonia.

Christopher Clinton and Jessica Curtice of York are the parents of a son, Bryson Lee Clinton, born on Feb. 10, 2014.

Residents of neighborhoods along Haywood Road repeatedly told authors of a long-range plan for the corridor they want to encourage pedestrians and bicyclists, local businesses and the street's historic feel.