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1 month ago | 
fox2now.com | Adam Benson |Steve Roth |Dennis Bright
by: Adam Benson, Steve Roth, Dennis Bright Posted: Mar 2, 2025 / 09:29 AM CST Updated: Mar 2, 2025 / 09:29 AM CST HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Evacuations are underway after a wildfire broke out in the Carolina Forest in Horry County, South Carolina.
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2 months ago | 
counton2.com | Adam Benson |Adrianna Lawrence
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) - Senate Republicans on Tuesday pushed forward a Washington-style DOGE bill aimed at looking into possible government waste, fraud and regulatory burdens - but not before some pushback from opponents who questioned its necessity. "If we're just doing this to look good for the rest of the nation, then let's call it what it is and not waste our time on this," state Sen. Margie Bright Matthews, D-Walterboro, said during a Senate Finance Commitee meeting.
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2 months ago | 
myfox8.com | Adam Benson |Adrianna Lawrence
Editor’s note: This story contains information that may be disturbing to some readers. HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — By the time Jaremy Smith’s violent, cross-country crime spree ended with his March 15 arrest in Albuquerque, New Mexico South Carolina investigators were nearly certain the Marion man killed a beloved Pee Dee paramedic who disappeared two days earlier.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Adam Benson |Adrianna Lawrence
The Secret Service locked Rage Against The Machine in their dressing room after bassist tried to “attack” a billionaire on SNLRage Against The Machine were locked in a room by the US Secret Service after bassist Tim Commerford tried to “attack” billionaire Steve Forbes …
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
myfox8.com | Adam Benson |Scotty Powell
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — An arctic cold front is expected to move through the region tonight, bringing bitterly cold temperatures and potential wintry weather through midweek. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Sunday issued a preliminary 72-hour snowfall estimate of up to two inches around the Grand Strand and Pee Dee and between a 47 and 50% chance for accumulation in Lumberton.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
wfla.com | Adam Benson
CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) — Two weeks after using a hot tub in his South Carolina home, 72-year-old Wayn Van Der Plaats was fighting for his life, his body racked by a deadly bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease. Van Der Plaats died Oct. 22, 2023 of multifocal pneumonia after two days at the Conway Medical Center. A lawsuit filed Tuesday by his wife Kelly in Horry County Common Pleas Court blames North Carolina-based Hot Tub Taxi, its owner Darius Clark and Oceanside Pools LLC.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
myfox8.com | Adam Benson
CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) — A Coastal Carolina University sprinter’s track career was derailed after a botched medical procedure left with a torn knee tendon in 2023, a newly filed lawsuit claims. Zahria Jones, who in 2019 set high school state records in both the 4×100 and 4×400-meter relays, is suing CCU, Carolina Clinic of Chiropractic and its doctor Gregory Shirley for negligence and medical malpractice. Her suit was filed on Jan. 9 in Horry County Common Pleas Court.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
wspa.com | Adam Benson
FLORENCE, S.C. (WBTW) — Five South Carolina physicians want a federal judge to let them continue performing abortions in certain situations beyond the state’s current nine-week threshold. Among those suing is Jessica Tarleton, a Florence obstetrician and current vice-chairwoman of the American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists’ South Carolina chapter.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
wspa.com | Adam Benson
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — An unknown number of students across South Carolina had their personal information accessed via a nationwide cybersecurity breach, the state Department of Education announced Tuesday. Officials said unauthorized access to a PowerSchool access portal was part of an “international incident over which the state and local districts had no control” and that company leaders confirmed “personally identifiable information” was compromised.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
myfox8.com | Adam Benson
by: Adam Benson Posted: Jan 8, 2025 / 06:51 AM EST Updated: Jan 8, 2025 / 06:51 AM EST HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A Loris golf course on Tuesday agreed to pay more than $450,000 to settle a wrongful death suit stemming from a 2023 crash involving a 90-year-old man.
