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Hail Mary: (noun) “a long, typically unsuccessful pass made in a desperate attempt to score late in the game.: After the findings of the State Law Enforcement Division were released this past Thursday by 15th Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson, irate citizens are calling for the removal of County Administer Chris …

The City of North Myrtle Beach held a special called city meeting this afternoon. Ordinances similar to the city of Myrtle Beach were passed. Those ordinances allow the city to no longer pay Horry County a 1.5% hospitality tax. The tax will still be collected under a new ordinance and …

Mylife.com is a data aggregation site. The business address for MyLife is 1100 Glendon Ave Floor 7, Los Angeles, CA 90024-3511 Practically any a Google search on any average resident’s name in Horry County features a page one listing from that site in the results. The company charges a fee to help …

The article posted by David L. Hucks yesterday on MyrtleBeachSC.com exposing the name of the owners of a local motel,  which was the focus of an investigation and a subsequent drug bust, has brought a lot of attention regarding the writers intention. Reader participation has brought a slew of interesting …

It has been a bad week for the SCDOT. First news broke that former SCDOT Commissioner (and Loris native) John Hardee plead that he “altered, destroyed, mutilated or concealed” a “record, document or other object” so it could not be used in an investigation. And, the agreement states, he “did …

In a letter sent to all members of Horry County Council, County Administrator Chris Eldridge pleads for continuing in his job, stating ‘I have done nothing wrong’. “I will not have my integrity attacked without means of defense in public,” Eldridge wrote. “I should add that this effort appears to …

A lawsuit was filed in Federal Court yesterday on behalf of a group of ten current Myrtle Beach merchants who each operate businesses inside the city limits. The lawsuit was filed under the 1983 Civil Rights Act.  Mayor Brenda Bethune, City Councilman Phil Render, City Councilman Mike Chestnut, City Councilwoman …

2018 will long be remembered locally as a turning point year in all things Horry County.  While 1968 was different in many ways,  these two years hold one key change ingredient in common. Life Magazine Named 1968 “The Year That Changed The World” On November 5, 1968, Richard M. Nixon …

Yesterday Horry County Council in an untimely 2:00 midday meeting sat to discuss and approve an agenda which many feel was a full purpose to boost the funding of 1-73 and a direct agenda to throw the people of Horry, especially police, fire and emergency workers “to the bears”, in …

CHARLESTON, SC—This afternoon, Horry County Council passed a resolution committing $23 million—more than half of the revenue from the County’s hospitality tax—for the next 20 years to funding Horry County’s portion of I-73. In response to the vote that commits $23 million annually to the unnecessary interstate, Coastal Conservation League …