Conway News

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.

Coastal Carolina University will hold its annual Campus Salvage community sale May 18 from 8 a.m. to noon at the PODS parking lot located at 370 Allied Drive in the university's Atlantic Center in Conway.

A man arrested and charged in connection to the death of another after a fight at a party in 2011 has been convicted of manslaughter.

Horry County's Local Emergency Planning Committee is learning more on how to be prepare themselves and the community in the event of a hurricane for the 2013 season.

Cheryl Mabry Becker, 43, of Conway was charged with purse snatching and booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center at 7:10 a.m. Tuesday and released on $2,000 bail at 10:37 a.m. Wednesday, according to jail records.

An Horry County jury has found a 24-year-old Mullins man guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a 2011 death at a party in Conway.

CONWAY, SC Anthony Jamell Grate from Tabor City, NC pled guilty to Criminal Sexual Conduct in the First Degree, according to Martin Spratlin, Assistant Solicitor with the Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office.

Kendall Williams, 22, of Mullins died April 10, 2011, after he was punched and kicked while at the home of his cousin, Kelli Williams, on Chanticleer Village Drive, according to authorities.

A former school employee is facing charges after accusations arose that he was in a relationship with a minor student.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau found that the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area is number four in the country for percentage of unmarried mothers aged 15 to 50.

Santee Cooper has proposed combining the two ponds and then encasing the coal ash in a cement-fortified vault topped with a multi-layered synthetic cap.