Gaston County News

Tire marks suggest at least one car drove over a homemade bomb without exploding it on heavily traveled U.S. 74 near Kings Mountain, N.C., police said.

Gastonia police arrested a second man for a Monday night shooting they call a gang retaliation.

The Gaston County school system plans to offer jobs to more than 600 teachers whose contracts weren't renewed earlier this year.

RALEIGH A bill that would double penalties for employers who violate North Carolina's child labor laws will move to the full Senate today after clearing a chamber committee Tuesday.

A judge has ruled a jury that will hear evidence in the slaying of a North Carolina trooper won't be local, but the judge hasn't decided whether to move the trial another county.

A Gastonia man is waiting to be brought back to York Co., S.C. on child sex charges.

Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A+' rating to the City of Gastonia, North Carolina's $23,035,000 combined utilities system revenue refunding bonds, series 2009 .

Real estate transactions represent transfer of real property recorded with the Gaston County Register of Deeds.

Somewhere in this state, somebody is trying to figure out how to give more financial aid to Apple.

When Michael Jackson died Thursday at age 50, the singer was preparing to do the one thing that sustained him through a lifetime of travail: Perform on stage as one of the most spectacular dancers and singers pop music has ever produced.

Gastonia native scores in the talent competition. June 25, 2009 - 5:10 PM Lorie McCroskey Here are photos of Gaston area contestants participating in the Miss North Carolina and Miss North Carolina's Outstanding Teen competition taking place in Raleigh.

Gaston County law enforcement and The Department of Corrections is on the lookout for a man that escaped from the Gaston Correctional Center Saturday morning.

Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that tore through a Gaston County home Tuesday night.

A man accused of killing his fiancA© and then calling 911 is behind bars charged with first-degree murder.

The beauty queens representing Gastonia and Gaston County are in Raleigh this week for the Miss North Carolina and Miss North Carolina's Outstanding Teen pageants.

Gaston County police said today they have arrested the boyfriend of a woman found dead in her home near Stanley.

Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered inside a house Saturday afternoon.

An unruly Gaston Memorial Hospital patient allegedly rammed his fist through a heart monitor early Saturday.

Cashword Cash-in has frustrated thousand of people over the past several months, but a Bessemer City Middle School teacher conquered the puzzle and bagged a $4,000 prize.

More than 100 workers are being recalled to truck plants in western North Carolina.