" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

* 1962 – Tim Gaines, Austrian Christian metal bass player ( Stryper )

Despite the less than spectacular response to the Chris Gaines project, Brooks gained his first – and only – US Top 40 pop single in " Lost in You ", the first single from the album.

* 1933 – Ernest J. Gaines, American author

* 1922 – William Gaines, American publisher ( d. 1992 )

* 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.

* 1949 – Steve Gaines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) ( d. 1977 )

* March 19 – Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist

* John P. Gaines, ( 1795 – 1857 ), born in Augusta County, United States Congressman from Kentucky and governor of the Oregon Territory.

William Maxwell Gaines ( March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992 ), better known as Bill Gaines, was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics.

After four years ( 1942 – 46 ) in the Army Air Corps, Gaines had returned home to finish school at New York University, planning to work as a chemistry teacher.

* Childs – A hamlet east of Gaines village on Route 104 at the junction of NY-98.

* East Gaines – A hamlet east of Gaines village on NY-104.

* Gaines – The hamlet of Gaines was established in 1832.

* Gaines Basin – A hamlet named after a wide place in the Erie Canal for barges to turn around.

* West Gaines – A hamlet west of Gaines village on NY-104 that is now a small cluster of houses.

* Manhattan – A village just east of Gaines on U. S. Route 6.

* Tioga State Forest – Much of eastern and northern Gaines Township is covered by the Tioga State Forest.

* Albion Central School District ( middle third, roughly covering Albion village and the towns of Carlton, Gaines, Albion, and Barre )

On June 26, 1831, Gaines launched an assault against Saukenuk, only to find that Black Hawk and his followers had abandoned the village and recrossed the Mississippi.

Gaines is a village in Genesee County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

The village is within Gaines Township.

New York State Route 279 ( Gaines Waterport Road ) is a north-south highway intersecting NY-104 at Gaines village.

* Watrous – A village about two miles west of Gaines, just off of U. S. Route 6.

The village is centrally located in the county and is partly in both the towns of Albion and Gaines.

* Gaines, Michigan, a village

* Gaines Township, Genesee County, Michigan, a civil township in which the above village is located

In Earnest J. Gaines ' novel, " A Lesson Before Dying " Bayonne, Louisiana is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.

Gaines noted Iowa State's park-like expanse of central campus, and the use of trees and shrubbery to draw together ISU's varied building architecture.

State officials considered both Gaines ( then more populous ) and Newport as the county seat due to their central location within the new county.

Buffalo and Gaines Creeks drain the southern part into the Kiamichi River, a tributary of the Red River.

In the state legislature Cameron Park is part of the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican Dave Cox, and the 4th Assembly District, represented by Republican Ted Gaines.

The Town of Barre was founded in 1818 from part of the Town of Gaines.

The Town of Gaines is in the north-central part of the county and contains part of the Village of Albion, the county seat.

Gaines and his lawyers were not hoping to overturn the " separate but equal " standard set out by the Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision allowing legal racial segregation, but rather to subtly undermine it by holding states that did segregate along racial lines to the " equal " part of the doctrine.

On June 29, 2004, Howard and Magic teammates Tracy McGrady, Tyronn Lue and Reece Gaines were part of a seven-player trade that sent starting guards Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley plus Kelvin Cato to the Magic.

Gaines currently lives on Louisiana Highway 1 in Oscar, Louisiana, where he and his wife built a home on part of the old plantation where he grew up.

A website contains allegations by some church members that the church is, under the leadership of Gaines, moving toward becoming part of the " church growth movement ", moving toward an elder-led ( as opposed to congregation-led ) form of governance, mismanaging its finances, paying its leadership too much, intimidating members that want the church's leadership to be more open, and otherwise " moving away from its traditional roots.

In response to the site's accusations, Gaines said that the church is not leaving its traditional roots, is not a part of the church growth movement, and that the website is creating confusion.

Sable's presence was part of a scheme by the Gaines twins to manipulate Spider-Man into thinking Kraven killed Mary Jane in the hopes that he would kill Kraven.

Although once a brand of General Foods Corporation as part of its Gaines Division which included Gaines Meal, Gaines-Burgers, Prime & Top Choice, Gravy Train has been a brand of Del Monte Foods Pet Products division since 2002.