Conway News

Rising ninth-graders attending Horry County Schools will have the opportunity to explore careers and technology at the Academy for Technology and Academics from June 10-13. The free summer experience will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., with lunch provided, at the school, which is located at the intersection of U.S. 701 and S.C. 22, Conway.

The N.C. Department of Corrections said 38-year-old Ronald Billings was captured around 9:45 p.m. in Conway, S.C. He's now in custody in the Horry County jail.

A group of educators and community members has spent the last year and a half creating a plan that would change school culture to improve student achievement in the cluster of eight schools, but the Horry County school board said this week it may not approve the $150,000 needed to launch the program.

GEORGETOWN, SC A man told deputies he stopped a truck driving through Georgetown last week after he saw a dog being dragged behind it.

A man from Trinity Road in the Yauhannah Community said he was outside his home Friday afternoon when a man driving a pickup truck passed by dragging a dog behind the vehicle.

The car you drive may have one and you may not even know it. Event data recorders collect several pieces of information seconds before a crash such as: speed, brake pressure, and seat belt use.

The Horry County school board on Monday made several amendments to the superintendent's comprehensive budget for the 2013-14 school year before giving its preliminary approval.

Join us for eight terrific events in our speaker series this May and June. These public presentations and discussions focus on the cultural creativity, history, and heritage of the societies and pottery enterprises that flourished in the landscape of the Edgefield District of South Carolina.

Officers were called at 10:15 p.m. Sunday to a home on Gemini Circle for the shooting, police said.

"I Live At Zoo Valdes," an exhibit of works by graphic artist Marius Valdes, opens, continuing Mondays-Fridays through June 14.

The mass transit system's board of directors awarded a consulting contract to a North Charleston firm, which will conduct a feasibility and needs assessment study, said Myers Rollins, Coast general manager.

The cost of new programs for next year concerned some Horry County school board members, who got a look at the preliminary budget for the 2013-14 school year on Monday night.

Approximately 739 graduation candidates of the Class of 2013 walked across the stage on Saturday, May 11, to receive their degrees.

A warrant for Pierce's arrest was issued Friday on a charge of third-degree assault and battery, said Sgt.

CONWAY, SC Coastal Carolina commencement speaker US Sen. Tim Scott gave advice to the 739 CCU students who walked across the stage at CCU's spring commencement ceremony Saturday morning.

"I know that Gavin will never come up to me and say 'Happy Mother's Day,'" Monica Schrader said of her 3-year-old son who was diagnosed with autism about a year and a half ago.

Jordy Wayne Calhoun, 19, of Conway pleaded guilty Thursday to felony driving under the influence with death results and Circuit Court Judge Larry Hyman sentenced him to 10 years in prison, according to court records.

A Confederate cannon still faces Winyah Bay at Battery White, a large earthwork battery built around 1862 during the Civil War on the current site of the Belle Isle Yacht Club, has been preserved and added to the register of National Historic Places.

Horry County tried to enact a burnout ban for last year's rally, but SBB got an injunction to keep the county from enforcing the new law.

Marquis McDonald stares at assistant solicitor Brad Richardson as McDonald's bond is denied during at the Horry County Courthouse in Conway on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.