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Thursday, January 31, 2013  Daimler Trucks North America is warning 1,300 jobs could be lost at three North Carolina factories, reversing course a year after announcing plans to rehire more than a thousand workers there.

Friday, October 07, 2011  The Highway Patrol says 34-year-old Earl Burr of Gastonia, N.C., was driving a sports utility vehicle shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon when he struck a car in Fairfield County, causing it to run into a tree.  Lance Cpl. Billy Elder says a 23-year-old Shelby, N.C., man died. His name has not been released.

Monday, December 07, 2009  Danny Hembree is charged in the deaths of 30-year-old Randi Dean Saldana and 17-year-old Heather Catterton.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009  Investigators still don't know why Patrick Burris went on a shooting spree, killing five people in less than a week. He was gunned down in a shootout with police Monday. It happened in Gastonia, North Carolina. Police there responded to a possible burglary at a vacant house. Investigators say Burris fired at officers, hitting one in the leg. Cops then fired back and killed him. Officials say Burris had at least 12 aliases and a 25 page rap sheet. With those numbers, some authorities wonder why he was even back on the streets.