Myrtle Beach News

The Brunswick Bloomers Plants and Gifts Sale opens for two days through Saturday, in a benefit for Lower Cape Fear Hospice.

A Charlotte, North Carolina woman had her son arrested for stealing her Pop-Tarts earlier this week.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC Myrtle Beach Police are searching for the driver who hit and killed a motorcyclist from Lumberton.

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC Thousands of people are expected to pack Grand Strand beaches this Memorial Day weekend, which kicks off the busiest time of the year for emergency crews like lifeguards in North Myrtle Beach, and doctors in the emergency room.

New Directions is operating Life Line, a program to help area domestic violence victims find safe emergency shelter and help them transition from abuse, said Mary Jo Rogers, board chairwoman of New Directions.

Sandra Causey, youth services librarian, engineered a redesign of the teen reading room when she joined the branch a month and a half ago.

In "Spring Wildflowers," walk through maritime, upland forest and wetland habitats to see spring in bloom.

Johnathin Matrice Rogers, 31, of Gresham was booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center at 12:01 p.m. and released at 5:14 p.m. Tuesday on $2,500 bond, according to jail records.

May and June are the prime months for fledging of this year's crop of birds' reproductive efforts, and many of our earliest arrived neo-tropical migrant breeding birds are fledging their first broods, while some resident birds have already finished up with their first broods of the season and are well into their second nesting attempts.

Myrtle Beach passed first reading of an ordinance last week that included increases in sewer, stormwater, ambulance and fire safety inspection fees.

A memorial service is this weekend for a newly married Detroit-area youth minister who was killed in a traffic accident as he and his wife were en route to their honeymoon in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The service for 21-year-old Jordan Costa is 11 a.m. Saturday at Connection Church in Canton Township, Mich.

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.

Football field – or in case of rain, in gym – at Shallotte Middle School, 225 Village Road S.W. U.S. Rep.

The 15th annual Waccamaw Arts & Crafts Guild Juried Exhibition, with more than 40 artists' works, continues two more days through Thursday, and "Fore! Images of Golf in Art" is open through Sept.

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.

John Sachs, 37, was wanted on charges of kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct in connection with the incident that occurred between 2 and 4 a.m. Feb.

Officers were alerted on Monday that the men were in the area driving a 2002 maroon Chevrolet Blazer that was reported stolen from Ohio, police said.

Kmart's beach chic swimwear is on sale through Saturday, May 25, with savings of 50% off men's and women's favorites.

New to this year’s Myrtle Beach Military Appreciations Days is a Veterans Beard and ‘Stache Beach Bash, where participants will compete in a number of facial hair categories – including one for women.

The band Parmalee, riding on its latest single, "Carolina," will play May 26 at he Boathouse Waterway Bar & Grill in a free concert.