President Trump is receiving swift backlash after stating he doesn’t support emergency funding for the United States Postal Service. The service warned without that funding, millions of mail ballots may not arrive in time for the election. This comes during a year where a record breaking number of Americans are expected to vote by mail. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused…
A man has been charged in connection to the fatal shooting of a 5-year-old boy from Wilson, North Carolina. On Sunday evening, Cannon Hinnant was riding a bike in his front yard when he was shot in the head. While waiting for help to arrive, his father noticed their neighbor, 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, in the yard next door. Sessoms was…
The North Carolina State Board of Elections is in need of 25,000 poll workers for November. Normally, they rely on older populations to serve. However, since they are more at risk of contracting Covid-19, many of their usual volunteers will not be returning. It’s a paid position and workers will be trained. The only requirement is that applicants are registered…
The 30th annual Pawleys Island Festival of Music & Art has been postponed to October of 2021. The event’s board of directors said “while this was a very difficult decision to make, we are absolutely certain that this is the right choice.” Along with a set of new performers who will be announced soon, all performers expected to play this…
Two children who went missing in Horry County late last night have been found safe. 14-year-old Ileina Sarapio and 7-year-old Delinda Penkinos were last seen around 10:15 p.m. near Miyabi’s on North Kings Highway. As of early this morning, the children were located by authorities. It was not immediately disclosed by police as to where they were found. The circumstances…
One Surfside Beach restaurant was forced to call the cops after a pair of patrons refused to wear masks. The owner of Hamburger Joe’s, who received backlash over the incident, wanted to clarify it was not the customers refusal to wear masks that led them to call police. It was the “disruptive” behavior they exhibited in protest of the mask…
Lake City police have apprehended the suspect believed to be involved with a gas station shooting. Fortunately no one was injured during the incident which occurred last night at a Busy Corner gas station. 25-year-old Leon Hannah III was arrested early this morning. He’s currently being held at the Florence County Detention Center. Hannah’s pending charges include pointing and presenting…
And as millions anxiously wait for a vaccine, it appears congressional stimulus talks will be put on hold once more. Republicans and Democrats have gone back and forth for weeks now over the possible new economic stimulus package. At stake is potentially trillions of dollars, but how to divide up the money has left the parties in a stalemate. Republicans…
The CDC is now predicting the U.S. coronavirus death toll could hit 200,000 by Labor Day. This latest prediction comes as schools have begun to reopen. Globally, there have been over 20.9 million people infected with Covid-19 and over 753,000 fatalities. The U.S. remains to be the worst impacted country in the world with more than 5.2 million diagnosed cases…
A man has been charged in connection to the fatal shooting of a 5-year-old boy from Wilson, North Carolina. On Sunday evening, Cannon Hinnant was riding a bike in his front yard when he was shot in the head. While waiting for help to arrive, his father noticed their neighbor, 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, in the yard next door. Sessoms was…
