Gastonia News

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 South Carolina man allegedly told a police officer about his heroin habit while his car was being searched in Gastonia Saturday.

Police say a man lying in the road was struck and killed by a pickup truck Saturday morning.

Authorities say a teen has been shot in the parking lot of a Gastonia bank. Multiple media outlets reported that 18-year-old Adrian Perkins died shortly after he was shot around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

Sixteen-year-old Kerra Lynch only had time to put a towel on when the men in masks pushed her from the bathtub to her living room - at gunpoint.

A 55-year-old man allegedly was intoxicated when he armed himself with a .22-caliber Springfield rifle Sunday and walked down Havencrest Court in Gastonia, according to an arrest warrant.

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

Authorities have detonated two dangerous homemade bombs in southwestern North Carolina but it's unknown where the bombs came from.

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

Three Gastonia nightclub bouncers were charged with working as unlicensed security contractors Friday.

Three men were arrested Saturday on charges of robbing and beating a Gastonia man Friday night.

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 .

A standoff involving Gastonia police ended this morning with no injuries. It happened at a residence on Jackson Street near Jones Street, in southwest Gastonia.

A Gastonia teenager attacked his ex-girlfriend when he found her talking to another boy Tuesday, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.

Gastonia police arrested 11 people in Rankin Lake and Lineberger parks Tuesday. The undercover operation resulted in 23 charges, ranging from felony sex crimes to drugs and weapons charges.

A 25-year-old Gastonia man was shot in the thigh with a small-caliber handgun while standing outside an East Park Avenue residence early Tuesday morning.

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.

Police have charged a Gastonia man with huffing aerosol carburetor cleaner while driving.

U.S. trade data show that more cotton yarn was exported from the United States last year than was actually produced here -- a number that sounds awfully hinky to a Gastonia, N.C., mill executive.

A task force of state and federal investigators are taking a closer look at the unsolved killing of a North Carolina police officer.