Gaston News

Tropical Storm Beryl put a damper on many Memorial Day celebrations in Florida and Georgia Monday.

Mike Hollowell of Raleigh-Durham RC Club prepares his beautiful scale WWII B-25 Mitchell bomber for a flight during the 95th Squadron Warbird Fly-in at last year's event.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Twenty-seven alleged members of the United Blood Nation gang were arrested on Friday, May 18, 2012, and charged with racketeering and related charges.

Mecklenburg: 485 Guilford: 167 Gaston: 161 Pitt: 142 Buncombe: 139 Source: N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation.

A North Carolina man whose innocence claim on a rape conviction will be heard later this year was released from prison Monday on parole after serving almost 24 years of his life sentence.

Anne Jeffreys, who has acted in numerous television shows over her career including "Topper," "General Hospital," and "Falcon Crest," appears in the video clip encouraging support for the United Way of Gaston County's annual "Purse Power" fundraising event.

According to a bill of indictment filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Larry Michael Bollinger “did knowingly travel…from the United States to Haiti, and engage in illicit sexual conduct” with two minors less than 18 years of age.

Hospital spokeswoman Stephanie Crayton confirmed the 91-year-old Gaston County native was in the hospital Wednesday, but didn't release any other details.

Choir practice was held Thursday afternoon, May 3, 2012 at South Point High School on South Point Road in Belmont.

Flash Flood Watch in effect through late tonight, The NWS in Greenville-Spartanburg has issued a Flash flood watch for portions of piedmont North Carolina and western North Carolina, Including The Following areas, In piedmont North Carolina, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan and Union NC.

Gaston County voters echoed the feelings of voters statewide in approving a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

When Rozlyn Sorrell hit that last, glorious high note of the song "I Loves You, Porgy," there was a moment of awed silence.

A habitual DWI offender faces another DWI charge from early Friday and is now sitting in the Gaston County Jail being held under a $1 million bond.

Supporters of the controversial Garden Parkway in Gaston County have cited a study projecting the proposed toll road will create nearly 18,000 jobs.

A man suspected of five bank robberies across North Carolina has been seen in Gaston and Cleveland counties, according to the Charlotte division of the FBI.