A Bessemer City woman was killed in a two-car crash in Kings Mountain Saturday afternoon.
According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, Joy Johnson, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene following a head on collision on N.C. 161 just north of Velvet Drive.
Troopers indicated the crash happened around 3:40 p.m. Saturday after Johnson, driving north in a 2005 Buick passenger car, crossed the center line and collided with a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu.
Johnson was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, according to troopers.
Multiple occupants of the Malibu were transported to CaroMont Regional Medical Center with serious injuries, according to Trooper Ray Pierce.
Gastonia Police Chief Travis Brittain announced four new sergeants and eight recently hired officers during a virtual promotion and swearing-in ceremony on Dec. 17.
“This ceremony is different than how we’ve done it in the past due to the pandemic, and this is a proud moment for us as we formally recognize our new officers and sergeants,” Brittain said. “We look forward to the great work they will do with our department and our community.”
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Sgt. Shane Johnson, promoted on Dec. 3, joined Gastonia Police Department in 1998 and has served in patrol, and as a community coordinator, field training officer, police training officer and shift tactical officer. Johnson served the N.C. Air National Guard for 23 years.
A holiday meal for environmental services workers and for frontline COVID-19 nurses at CaroMont Regional Medical Center was provided on Dec. 21 through the efforts of the Gaston Regional Chamber of Commerce s Ambassador Program.
The Chamber Ambassadors recruited not only donations of meals from local restaurants but also financial contributions from local business leaders to purchase additional meals.
At a brief outdoor ceremony to accept the donation, CaroMont CEO Chris Peek spoke of the unique community which exists in Gaston County and of which CaroMont is a part. This is why we re here, Peek said. We are a community hospital. We are part of a community which treasures love, compassion, caring, and acts of kindness.
A Kings Mountain Police officer is expected to recover after being shot Saturday night while responding to a suspicious person call near the country club in Kings Mountain. The suspected shooter also was injured in the shooting.
Kings Mountain Police Cpl. Frank Lee Whittington Jr. was taken to Atrium Health-Cleveland in Shelby after exchanging fire with an unidentified man after responding to a call about a suspicious person at a home on Downing Drive, said Kings Mountain Police Chief Lisa Proctor.
“We are very thankful that he is alive and that we are not planning funeral number three in the last week and a half for another law enforcement officer,” Proctor said.
How a former big-time Charlotte radio host reacted to losing a foot: It is what it is. Théoden Janes, The Charlotte Observer
Dec. 18 It s been 14 months since John Hancock retired from WBT-AM (1110), the Charlotte radio station that helped turn him into an icon, so he s had plenty of time now to get used to not sitting in a sound booth.
He s had just one month, meanwhile, to get used to sitting in a wheelchair.
On this afternoon, Hancock, 68, is sitting in that wheelchair in the middle of the living room of the house he shares in Belmont with his wife, Susan, and a visitor asks him what thoughts go through his mind when he looks down at where the lower part of his right leg used to be.