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Cherryville, Jones win Exemplary School Award from NCHSAA Tags: Posted May 10, 2021 2:29 p.m. EDT Chapel Hill, N.C. — The North Carolina High School Athletic Association announced the selection of Jones and Cherryville High Schools as the 2020-2021 Exemplary School Award winners. This award is presented annually from nominations received from member schools. The awards are given as a cooperative venture among the NCHSAA, the North Carolina Coaches Association and the N...

Shooting of Cherryville man now a homicide case A Cherryville man shot in the head on Monday, May 3, has died, and police upgraded the charges against the suspect in the shooting to first-degree murder on Friday, according to court records. Rhonschoci Markee Flack Jr., 24, of 2573 Crab Apple Trail, Denver, died Tuesday, May 4, from his injuries at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, according to Cherryville Police. Kendra Adaire Odums, 22, who lives at 218 Heather Lane, had...

Gaston County Star Students, Teachers announced Sponsored by  The Gaston Gazette each year, the school district selects an exceptional student from each high school as the school’s Star Student.   Each student then named their respective Star Teacher, who had the greatest influence on the student during their Gaston County Schools education, and wrote an essay about how the teacher motivated and inspired them.  Each student honoree will receive a framed Star Student certificate and ...

Police say a Cherryville mother is responsible for her 3-year-old daughters death. On Tuesday, Cherryville Police charged Jenna Michelle Melton, 26, of Dellinger Circle in Cherryville, with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her daughter, Anna Lee Tadych who died on Jan. 5.   Melton was booked into Gaston County Jail Tuesday and placed on a hold. She appeared in court Wednesday, where she was assigned a $500,000 bond.  Methadone use  Officers were first called to Dellinger Circle on...

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Letters which made their way from Cherryville to Clover and from Clover to Cherryville. You see, neither Harry nor Mamie had a telephone in their respective homes. Neither had a car. And yet a romance, born of a chance encounter in the downtown Gastonia bus station, blossomed and grew. About that bus station encounter. Mamie dropped a coin on the floor. Harry, a gentleman, retrieved it for her but also asked for her name and her address. "She was an attractive girl," said Harry of young Mamie. ...

Updated: Apr 24 2021, 14:34 ET EX-NFL star Phillip Adams left "cryptic writing and emblems" in his home before slaying six in a horrific bloody rampage, say cops. The sportsman "had been acting differently and was possibly following a new religion or ideology," reported investigators in South Carolina. 9 Phillip Adams gunned down Dr Robert Lesslie, his wife and his two grandchildren before taking his own lifeCredit: Getty 9 Shooting victim Dr Robert Lesslie, his wife Barbara and their two grand...

By Meg Kinnard and Michelle Liu, Associated Press Published April 12, 2021 Former NFL Player Phillip Adams, (AP Image) The brain of Phillip Adams _ the former NFL player who killed a South Carolina physician, three family members and a repairman before fatally shooting himself _ will be tested for a degenerative disease that has affected a number of pro athletes and has been shown to cause violent mood swings and other cognitive disorders, according to the local coroner. York County Coroner Sab...

WCCB Charlottes CW April 13, 2021 1/5 A woman adjusts notes from children before a memorial service and prayer vigil for the Lesslie family at Fountain Park, Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Rock Hill, S.C. Dr. Robert Lesslie and his wife, Barbara Lesslie, their grandchildren Adah Lesslie and Noah Lesslie, and two men working at the Lesslie home, Robert Shook and James Lewis, were fatally shot last week by former NFL player Phillip Adams. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford) 2/5 People listen during a memorial se...

Vigil honoring S. Carolina shooting victims draws hundreds By MICHELLE LIUApril 12, 2021 GMT ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Hundreds gathered Sunday at the vigil for the prominent South Carolina physician, his wife and two of their grandchildren — all dead at the hands of former NFL player Phillip Adams, authorities said — to reflect on the lasting impression they made on their communities. People settled on camp chairs and picnic blankets for the service at a park in downtown Rock Hill, dressed ...