Area News
Arrests in P&R shootings, not murder
By DEUCE NIVEN Arrests have been made related to nightclub gunfire near Loris early Sunday, and there are ties between a murder there and the killing of a man during a series of drive-by shootings in Longs less than an hour later, an Horry County Police Department spokeswoman said Wednesday evening. There have been no…
Read MoreTruck rammed, shot at: “This has frightened me”
By DEUCE NIVEN A case of parking lot road rage in Williams Township escalated into a highway altercation with gunfire and vehicles rammed Monday afternoon. It was a violent encounter victim Eric Matthew Ward said was taking a heavy toll. “This has frightened me,” Ward said Tuesday. “I was trying to get…
Read MoreUPDATE: Man who died in nightclub shooting identified
By DEUCE NIVEN Sunday evening UPDATE: Laquint Oneil Boyd, 37, died from a gunshot wound to the chest following gunfire at the P&R Club west of Loris, Horry County Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick said. Boyd has ties to Loris and Tabor City, his mother living in the latter, and Hendrick said he had…
Read MoreOlder nephew charged in arson cases
By DEUCE NIVEN A relative of at least one of the teens charged with setting two abandoned homes ablaze earlier this month has been arrested for related crimes. Roby Alan McPherson III, 24, of the 15000 block of Peacock Road, was charged Thursday with breaking and entering, and burning buildings. Roby McPherson…
Read MoreHCSB to become UCBI
By DEUCE NIVEN & JOYCE GRAHAM Horry County State Bank has been acquired by Georgia based United Community Banks, Inc., the transaction approved by directors of both companies. Closing of the deal is expected in the third quarter of this year, with HCSB signs from the Tabor-Loris Community to the Grand Strand to…
Read MoreCorrectional Officer charged with sex with inmate
By DEUCE NIVEN A correctional officer at Tabor Correctional Institution has been charged with having sex with an inmate. Elizabeth Ann Parker, 45, of Chadbourn was arrested by Tabor City Police Monday, charged with sexual activity by custodian, Columbus County Detention Center records show. Parker is accused of engaging in a sexual…
Read MoreWright named City Clerk/Treasurer
Story & Photo By JOYCE GRAHAM After serving as acting Loris City Clerk/Treasurer for the past six months, Kenya Wright was formally appointed to the permanent post during a special City Council session Thursday. Wright, who has served as the city’s Clerk of Court for more than seven years, will be paid $40,000 a…
Read MoreWright named City Clerk/Treasurer
Story & Photo By JOYCE GRAHAM After serving as acting Loris City Clerk/Treasurer for the past six months, Kenya Wright was formally appointed to the permanent post during a special City Council session Thursday. Wright, who has served as the city’s Clerk of Court for more than seven years, will be paid $40,000…
Read MoreJunior firefighter among teens charged with arson
By DEUCE NIVEN Three young people, including a volunteer junior firefighter and a juvenile, have been charged in three separate arson cases that claimed two unoccupied homes north of Tabor City last week. Zachary Paul McPherson, 18, and Joshua Michael Sutton, 16, have each been charged with three felony counts each of burning…
Read MoreJunior firefighter among teens charged with arson
By DEUCE NIVEN Three young people, including a volunteer junior firefighter and a juvenile, have been charged in three separate arson cases that claimed two unoccupied homes north of Tabor City last week. Zachary Paul McPherson, 18, and Joshua Michael Sutton, 16, have each been charged with three felony counts each of burning an…
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