Gaston County News

Vehicular chaos, sometimes ending in tragedy, has long been a hallmark of the intersection of U.S. 321 and Robinson Road.

A man told emergency dispatchers his girlfriend was having a seizure, then threatened to shoot police if they arrived to check on her.

A Gaston County grand jury indicted a Gastonia woman this week on charges that she refused to take her 12-year-old daughter to a doctor after the child told her a 21-year-old man had raped her July 4. The ...

North Carolina residents who believe in access to public information have reason to feel disappointed about the General Assembly's recent session.

Gaston County Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday arrested a Grover man who ran away when authorities tried to serve him with warrants last Thursday.

The Gaston County Sheriff's Office has lost track of a convicted sex offender and wants help in finding him.

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A Gastonia woman was charged Sunday with whipping an 8-year-old girl with a cord, leaving bruises all over her body, according to an arrest warrant.

Police arrested a Belmont man Friday after he allegedly hit a woman and kicked a Gaston County Police officer in the stomach.

A woman was killed in an early morning house fire in Gaston County. The fire broke out the home on Hidden Meadow Court around 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Members of a local animal rescue group are upset about the county's perceived inaction after a report of animal abuse earlier this year.

Gaston County Fire Marshal Eric Hendrix said he knows where the fire started in the 4844 Hidden Meadows Court home.

A Gaston County woman died Wednesday morning in a house fire that police are investigating as a case of arson.

The Gaston County Sheriff's Office has lost track of a convicted sex offender and wants the public's help in finding him.

Posted by: Kathy This is just awful!! If you read the news article, she was 4 months pregnant!! I do hope they get to the bottom of this and fortunately the children were in good care.

Gaston County Police arrested an Illinois man accused of various sex crimes committed more than four years ago.

The House and Senate overwhelmingly approved "Jessica's Law" on Thursday - a plan that would imprison some child sex offenders for at least 25 years and monitor them by satellite if they're released.

If you couldn't see the regret in his face, you could hear it in the voice of Frank Winkles as he talked about the fire that killed his pregnant neighbor.

Gaston County police say it appears a fire that killed a woman was intentionally set.

If Lucy Johnson was in fact pregnant when she died in a house fire Wednesday the person accused of setting the blaze would not face a second murder charge under North Carolina law.