Gaston County News

The Gaston County Republic Women visited and made donations of money, gift cards, clothing, household items and various other gifts to the Faith Farm in Dallas on May 16.

Clouds will clear out today to make way for sun on the weekend, said Jeffrey Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Thirteen Gaston County Schools have reported the results of the $65,000 anniversary gift made by The Carrie E. and Lena V. Glenn Foundation last fall when the foundation commemorated its 40th anniversary of grant making.

On Tuesday, May 7, the suspect posed as a Raleigh woman and cashed the checks at the State Employees Credit Union in Gastonia, according to police.

Gaston County's largest employer is striking a deal with American military veterans who complained that a name change indicated people are forgetting the sacrifice of World War II vets.

A Gaston County child protective services worker has been arrested after police said he urinated and exposed himself to people outside a York County middle school.

The contradictory changes are in the budget approved Wednesday by the Senate, and in a major transportation funding law approved by the House earlier this month.

York County parents are demanding that a local child protection services worker lose his job, after he was arrested for Indecent Exposure and DWI outside a local middle school.

State water quality officials this week amended a March lawsuit involving Duke Energy Progress' coal-fired power plant in Asheville in order to address similar environmental compliance issues at Duke Energy Progress' coal-fired power plant in Gaston County.

Neighbors tired of piles of rocks, dirt and asphalt near their homes are trying to get a construction storage site shut down for good in Gaston County.

Shoppers at Habitat for Humanity ReStore were treated to a demonstration on creative container gardening recently sponsored by the Master Gardeners Group of Gaston County.

A man faces multiple charges after leading police on a four-county, two-state chase that ended early Tuesday in western Mecklenburg County, authorities say.

A 22-year-old inmate serving time for firearm possession by a felon and burglary convictions escaped from a minimum-security prison in Gaston County on Saturday afternoon, state officials said, but he was found a short time later.

On May 16-17, the Gaston County Police arrested 18 people as part of a warrant roundup following several narcotics-related investigations and undercover operations.

Police allege two people received $26,187 worth of fraud stamps in a fraud that lasted more than five years.

Legislators' budget plans for 2013-14 include a clause permitting ads on district-owned buses that transport students to athletic contests and other extracurricular activities.

Upper-level Spanish students at Cherryville High School are excited about the chance to learn vocabulary and help their communities at the same time.

Gaston County EMS tells NBC Charlotte a white Volkswagen collided head-on with a white pickup truck as the car attempted to pass another vehicle in the 5900 block of Union Road, or Highway 274.

On April 9, the Gastonia woman had her wallet taken while shopping at a Gastonia grocery store.

An 88-year-old man accused of firing a fatal shot into his 80-year-old roommate appeared confused during his first court appearance Monday.