BRIEF: Woman charged in Dallas shooting

Gaston County police have made two arrests after an early-morning break-in Tuesday at a convenience store. Charles Eugene Truett, 41, is accused of taking tobacco products and scratch-off lottery tickets from the Kingsway Store on Chapel Grove ...

A Gaston County Children's Protective Services employee is accused of urinating in front of a York County school Monday while students were being dismissed. York police say Derrick Sean Hensley, 44, of Gastonia, was charged with indecent exposure ...

A high school science teacher and wrestling coach is under investigation after he was charged with 15 felony counts of sex crimes against children. According to records in Gaston County, 44-year-old Gary Goins was booked in the Gaston County jail on ...

A Gaston County man was jailed under $1 million bond after allegedly holding police at bay and firing several shots during a standoff that lasted more than seven hours. James Morris Thomas, 52, was arrested about 3:45 a.m. Monday, after Gaston ...

Inside a gray brick fortress, past a barbed-wire fence, two women in prison guard uniforms traded words about their pregnancies. "Did he tell you we was having a son?" Tiffany Linder asked, according to court documents recounting the conversation.

A wild series of events -- which police say included a knife assault, a kidnapping, a hostage thrown from a vehicle, a wrong-way pursuit that ended in a crash, and a power outage -- ended late Thursday night with a 47-year-old Gastonia man arrested.

A Bessemer City man faces multiple felony charges for allegedly raping a 14-year-old Lincoln County girl, Lincoln County sheriff's deputies said Thursday. Jeffrey Scott Callahan, 47, was arrested after police received a report that the victim was ...

Complainant told police in 2008 that she had actually been assaulted by her brother Gerald Gaston Barton was 19 years old and living in Digby County, N.S., in 1970 when a teenaged neighbour accused him of raping her and fathering her child. "You're ...

(The Charlotte Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Gastonia police have identified the two men who were found dead in a parked car Friday night. Police on Saturday said the victims were Michael Anthony Rice Jr., 24, of ...