High Shoals News

Gaston County's landfill would be about the last place you'd look for buried valuables, but as the old adage proclaims: One man's trash is another man's treasure.

A woman faces more than 20 counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or forgery for allegedly calling in prescriptions to CVS in Dallas.

By Melany Dawn Crouse LINCOLNTON - South Fork Fire and High Shoals firefighters responded to 3232 Long Shoals Road at intersection of Lightview Lane earlier this evening around 7:55 p.m. Smoke was reportedly coming from the building.

A 17-year-old boy had to be flown to Carolinas Medical Center after falling off a dam in Gaston County Sunday night.

A Gaston County teen was rescued Sunday evening after falling from a dam into a rocky area of the South Fork River near High Shoals.

It took emergency workers more than 1 1/2 hours to get a man out of the South Fork River in a swift water rescue made more difficult by the remote location of the incident near the Hardin dam.

Selling dogs and cats at public places in Gaston County will become illegal if Gaston County commissioners take expected action tonight.

A nondenominational Easter Sunrise service is observed at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Lincolnton.

Not many people can say they clinically died and were brought back to life. Even fewer can say it happened twice.

It took about an hour for High Shoals volunteer firefighters to rescue a horse that had been stuck in the mud off New Ground Road Monday.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM EST FOR SOUTHEASTERN CLEVELAND...LINCOLN AND GASTON COUNTIES... AT 757 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE ...

Two men face statutory rape charges in Lincoln County in separate incidents. In the first incident, Detective Steve Grinnell charged Adam Lee Braddy, 22, of 4995 Amity Lane, Iron Station on charges of one count ...

Lincoln County authorities have made arrests in two sexual assault cases. According to the Sheriff's Office, Adam Lee Braddy, 22, of Iron Station was arrested Friday on one count of statutory rape, one count of ...

A sudden thirst may have saved Willie Rathbone's life Thursday morning. Rathbone was in the living room of his home at 405 Hoffman Road in Gaston County when he walked into the kitchen for a glass of water.

Check your lottery ticket from the Dec. 6 Powerball drawing. A store in Dallas sold a ticket that matched four of five numbers, plus the Powerball, and is worth $50,000 to whoever holds it.