Gastonia's city attorney will retire March 1 after 30 years of service. City Attorney Ash Smith said that he was drawn to legal work because, growing up in Elizabethtown, his two best friends' fathers ...

A new law increasing the penalty for street racing also honors the life of a Gastonia boy who was killed by street racers.

To this day, police had no forensic evidence linking Marcus Meadows to a murder in 2018. In 2020, his codefendant, Britney ...