South Carolina’s Tax Free weekend is coming up. During the annual tax free weekend, a variety of purchases are exempt from the state’s 6% sales tax and any applicable local taxes. Tax-free items range from clothing, accessories, and shoes to school supplies, backpacks, and computers. As long as an item is eligible, it is tax-free whether purchased in-store or online….
The dates for the 2026 edition of the PGA Tour’s Myrtle Beach Classic have been announced. Next year’s ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic will kick off on May 7 with golfers teeing up through the 10. The field size will be 12 players less than before totaling to 120. Dunes Golf and Beach Club will host the event for the third…
An investigation is underway after an apparent road-rage incident unfolded in Horry County. Around 2:15am Wednesday, a dark colored SUV with tinted windows pulled alongside a car that was traveling along Highway 57 near Riverside Elementary School. Shots were fired from the SUV toward the victim’s vehicle which turned onto Sunny Heights Road. The SUV did not reportedly follow him…
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has officially banned transgender women from competing in women’s sports. The new policy forces the federations overseeing swimming, athletics and other sports, to act on its “obligation to comply” with an executive order issued by President Trump. The ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’ order signed in February threatens to “rescind all funds” from…
A second court voted to block President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. On his first day of his second term in office, Trump signed an order. It said people born in the U.S. should not automatically get citizenship if one parent is undocumented and the other isn’t a citizen or green-card holder, or if both parents are in the…
Officers in Ohio were met with gunfire during an ambush Wednesday. Two police officers were parked side-by-side in their patrol vehicles at the end of a dead-end road to eat lunch. They were located in an undeveloped industrial park in Lorain. The suspect was armed with an “arsenal of weapons” and appeared to be waiting for the officers before firing…
Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced after pleading guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students. In 2022, Kohberger entered an off campus house and brutally stabbed the four victims to death. He pleaded guilty earlier this month as part of a plea deal that spared him from the death penalty. A hearing was held Wednesday that lasted for…
The Socastee Swing Bridge is scheduled to close soon for an exciting reason. On July 29, the bridge will be closed as it will be featured in the popular Netflix show ‘Outer Banks.’ Film Office Manager in South Carolina, Matt Storm, said it the filming will involve stunt work. The bridge will be used from 10am-8pm. Dick Pond Rd will…
The Myrtle Beach City Council unanimously voted in favor of a motion involving a curfew for minors. A change was previously enforced during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. It was temporarily adjusted from 10pm to 9pm for juveniles under the age of 18. Now, council members passed a curfew motion that permanently enforces a 9pm-6am timeframe in which minors…
One man has been sentenced in connection to a string of robberies along the Grand Strand. In 2023, Samuel Smith broke into some of the area’s best-known locally-owned restaurants and bars. The items stolen include safes, some with thousands of dollars inside, a firearm and more. That includes the ashes of a former bartender at the Old Bull and Bush…
