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Jul 10, 2009 Officials have decided a Dallas, N.C., couple will get a $30,000 award for calling in the tip that led to a man who authorities say was a serial killer who shot to death five people in South Carolina.

Officials have decided a Dallas, N.C., couple will get a $30,000 award for calling in the tip that led to a man who authorities say was a serial killer who shot to death five people in South Carolina.

While cleaning his shed Thursday afternoon, Michael Claypool glanced up and saw a stream of gray smoke rising from his home.

A man who police say shot and killed his accomplice during a botched robbery was arrested on a first-degree murder charge Thursday.

Patrick Tracy Burris, a North Carolina felon with a lengthy arrest record was the serial killer who slew five people last week in Cherokee County, S.C., police said Monday night.

Patrick Tracy Burris spent his last days taking drugs in a partying binge. When police found him early Monday in an abandoned house near Dallas, N.C., he was so impaired he could barely walk.

The man investigators say shot five people in South Carolina before police killed him Monday was charged with several crimes, including armed robbery, in Alamance County in 1990.

A man police shot and killed early Monday morning in North Carolina's Gaston County is the serial killer that killed 5 people in Cherokee County, S.C., the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said Monday evening.

Law enforcement officials stand near the scene of shooting in Dallas, N.C., Monday, July 6, 2009.

A Gaston County police officer was shot and wounded and a burglary suspect was killed early this morning during a confrontation northeast of Gastonia.

A Gaston County police officer was wounded and a man was killed in a confrontation near Dallas Monday morning.

A Dallas woman faces a charge of having drugs in jail after police say they found cocaine in her shoes and underwear at Gaston County Jail on Sunday.

Local pet owners have had access to a low-cost spay/neuter option for four years.

By Jason Saine LINCOLNTON - A Lincoln County icon, Fox's Fish Camp, will close the doors this Friday for the final time.

Local authorities charged two men with habitual impaired driving after a pair of unrelated traffic stops late Saturday night and early Sunday morning in Gaston County.

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

If you were a regular at Time Out, Teresa Dickerson became your friend one sandwich or one pack of cigarettes at a time.

Police have charged a Gastonia pharmacy cashier with stealing prescription painkillers from the store's stock.

DALLAS, N.C. - An inmate serving 58 years for armed robbery, larceny and assault has escaped from the Gaston Correctional Center.

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