Another dog killed a raccoon with rabies in Gaston County on Sunday, police announced on Tuesday. The rabies case marks the county’s third of 2025 and is the second time in just two weeks that a dog has killed a rabid raccoon in Gastonia.

A raccoon in a Gastonia neighborhood tested positive for rabies, Gaston County officials say. On March 9, Gaston County Animal Care and Enforcement received a call around 5:45 p.m., saying a dog had killed a raccoon in the 2200 block of Robinwood Road.

A woman was arrested over the weekend after she allegedly stole a dog in Gaston County and then crashed while driving impaired. The woman, 49-year-old Suzette Joye Ainsworth, stole the dog in a Dallas neighborhood on the afternoon of Saturday,