Gastonia News

BESSEMER CITY Thomas Ellis started shaping a vision for Bessemer City's new police department when he was still just a candidate for the chief's job.

It started with an Easy Bake Oven. At 9 years old, Karren Walls received the gift from her dad and started baking cakes.

Coley Phillip Craft, 42, of 490 Calvary Ch. Rd. in Lincolnton was charged June 11 with one count of failure to appear.

A Gastonia fireman hit the jackpot in the North Carolina Education Lottery last week.

Fire crews say they found a man unconscious and suffering from symptoms of heat exhaustion at Crowders Mountain State Park on Sunday.

Southern Gospel duo Jeff and Sheri Easter will perform at 7 p.m. June 21 at Goshen Free Will Baptist Church, 1300 W. Catawba Ave. in Mount Holly.

Landen Bryant Corl, 22, was listed in good condition Sunday at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

Matthew Steven Black, 42, of 805 W. Airline Ave., faces a charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

The Dallas High School Class of 1947 held its reunion in May at the Golden Corral in Gastonia.

The Gastonia Debutante Club announces the debutantes to be presented at the 2013 Debutante Ball.

A motorcycle crash on Friday night sent the driver to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to Crowders Mountain Fire and Rescue.

Leslie Ledford, 66, of Gastonia, was sick of the unsolicited phone calls he was getting, so one day he answered.

Alexander Memorial Baptist, 208 S. Main St., presents "Colossal Coaster World!" from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 19-21, for children ages 3 through high school.

Grace Evangelical Church, 206 N. 14 th St., presents the Songfellows in concert at 6 p.m. June 30 in the church sanctuary.

Two men accused of stealing credit and debit cards were captured on video using them at a local store.

But it's not the first time the Lincoln County wife and mother of two has earned pink wheels for performance.

People accused of stealing money from a local Kingsway store used a hole made from a previous robbery to break in, according to police.

GASTONIA, N.C. A Gastonia fireman is nearly half a million dollars richer after playing Cash 5 jackpot.

The $65 million state-of-the-art Stuart Cramer High School, which opens in August, is a symbol of challenges facing Gaston County commissioners as they wrestle with another tight budget.

GASTONIA Vandals spray painted a Gastonia church with anti-religious words and images, the same week that children are at Covenant Baptist Church for vacation bible school.