Gaston News

Gaston County authorities, dealing with twice the number of animal control calls of comparable counties, is launching a crackdown on residents whose pets do not have licenses or up-to-date rabies vaccinations.

Freightliner asks Rowan County for incentives to build military trucks, but hasn't requested any-thing from Gaston yet July 8, 2009 - 6:33 PM Daniel Jackson Hundreds of people recently laid off from the Freightliner plant in Mount Holly have been hoping for a $16 million government contract, recalling about 400 workers to make military trucks.

School's out, but fortunately the lunch lady didn't go on vacation. Despite millions of meals served during the school year to children from low-income households, those same children may be at risk of going hungry over summer break.

Investigators hunting for a serial killer who left five people dead in Cherokee County were called to Gaston County, N.C., on Monday after police there shot and killed a robbery suspect who in some ways matches the description of the serial killer.

At 16, Frank Buckles was too young to fight in World War I, but he enlisted in the Ambulance Service of the U.S. Army and set sail for France anyway, where he drove toward the shell-shattered front-line trenches to fetch the wounded and the dead.

Producing power for homes and businesses in Belmont and Mount Holly creates waste - namely coal ash.

Gastonia native Ashley Beasley finished third runner-up late Saturday in the Miss North Carolina Pageant.

Eighty-two of North Carolina's 100 counties experienced an unemployment rate increase in May, according to statistics released Friday by the North Carolina Employment Security Commission.

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.

Will Mount Holly have its own emergency room? Two medical providers are counting on it and competing to be the one to break ground on the project.

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

Keeaira Dayvon Pendergrass was around two weeks pregnant when a gun shot wound to the neck caused her death April 16, according to autopsy results.

On June 5 Bob Herbert, op-ed columnist for The New York Times , wrote an article that every educator in St.

By Janelle Clevinger Times Staff Writer If you happened to hear music coming from the Wilson County Fairgrounds April 18, it wasn't because a concert was going on.

Published: Monday, June 1, 2009 at 8:48 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 1, 2009 at 8:48 a.m. This gardener takes his work home with him, and on Saturdays, he takes it on the air.

Northampton County Manager Wayne Jenkins officially presented the county's upcoming budget and everyone had something to say about it.

Northampton County Sheriff Wardie Vincent has a warning for those calling in bomb threats to local schools: it will not be tolerated.

The jobless rate decreased in 83 North Carolina counties last month, but Gaston County was not one of them.

Police say a Gastonia man ripped a screen door off its hinges and hurled it at a city woman, then attacked her car when she returned home after receiving treatment for her injuries at Gaston Memorial Hospital.

By Amanda VanDerBroek Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald Published Tuesday, May 19, 2009 JACKSON - "It might get a little hot in here." With that said, Northampton County Manager Wayne Jenkins took his seat for a second budget work session after turning on the air conditioning in the Board of Commissioners room.