Casey Jones

General Assignment Reporter at The Horry Independent

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Local authors pack the stacks at downtown Conway bookstore

1 week ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

Proprietor Bob Martire packed the stacks at Our Next Chapter Bookstore with four of his best-selling local authors on Tuesday, May 20. The quartet of Horry County resident writers crowded into the front foyer of the independent book store at 325 Main St. in Conway for a multi-author book-signing event. Each manned a table lined with their latest and greatest published works, and fans got the chance to chat with the authors and get their books signed.
Inaugural Coastal Carolina Pro Rodeo promises rank bulls, bucking broncs, good times

1 week ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

The next go-round has finally come around for professional rodeo fans on the Grand Strand. There will be buckin’ broncs, rank bulls, buckles, boots and chutes when the cowboys, cowgirls and rodeo clowns converge on Horry County for two days of roping and riding in June.
Developer seeks approval for Loris apartment complex

1 week ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

Loris, where single-family housing is the norm, may be getting its first large apartment buildings. The Loris Planning Commission Thursday, May 22, voted unanimously to recommend that city council approve a Planned Development District agreement with Waccamaw Industrial Associates of Charleston. The developer is seeking permission to build a 120-unit rental apartment complex behind the IGA grocery store off Highway 701 South and Meadow Street.
After 11 were injured in Little River shooting, police have more questions than answers

1 week ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

Police have gathered video and physical evidence, and interviewed multiple witnesses, but the shooter or shooters who injured 11 people where the Hurricane II charter boat was docked on Sunday night in Little River remains at large. Horry County Police Chief Kris Leonhardt, at a press conference at the Horry County Emergency Operations Center on Tuesday, May 27, said law enforcement needs the public’s help to crack the case.
'Such a tradition': Tabor City's Swap Shop show moves from radio to online

2 weeks ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

WTAB-AM of Tabor City is gone, but its signature show the Swap Shop lives on. Tabor City native Matt Jernigan has revived the popular listener-driven buy-sale-trade show in a new format. He broadcasts live on Facebook and YouTube each Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., and hopes to capture the large audience the show had in the Tabor City-Loris-Whiteville radio market.
Your guide to Myrtle Beach-area Bikefest and Memorial Day celebrations

2 weeks ago | myhorrynews.com | Sazie Eagan |Tommy Cardinal |Casey Jones

The Myrtle Beach area will kick off the vibrant summer season with a string of festivities and celebrations this Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day in the United States is the final Monday in May, a day set aside as a tribute to military service members who gave their lives in defense of their country. And across Horry County this coming weekend (May 24-27), residents will gather to pay their respects.
Downtown Conway health center to provide 'whole-person' care

2 weeks ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

Health Care Partners of South Carolina’s new Conway facility is just what the doctor ordered for a healthy population, and a healthy downtown business district. The new $18 million health center will consolidate HCPSC’s scattered Horry County operations and bring more than 100 employees under one roof on a 5-acre tract at 1500 Fourth Avenue in Conway.
Conway man convicted of sexual assault of a minor

3 weeks ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

A Conway man will spend 15 years in state prison for sexual crimes against a minor. Rodolfo Moreno, 45, of Conway, was found guilty after a five-day trial by an Horry County jury, which deliberated several hours on Friday, May 16 in Conway before handing down the verdict. Moreno was convicted on two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
Quintessential Conway: Historic city hall building turns 200 years old

3 weeks ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

Conway City Hall is so old, so historic, that city council members could wear white wigs and sign documents with quill pens and not look out of place. When they cut the ribbon, the Grand Strand was a sand dune, Carolina Forest was a forest, Conway was named Conwayborough, and there were 24 states in the nation.
'It's gonna change everything': Locals give input about proposed South Strand connector

3 weeks ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

The last time planning was underway for the South Strand connector, John Fleming’s 100-acre family farm west of Conway was in the crosshairs of the preferred route. “At the time it was going to cross over my property and divide the farm,” Fleming said Tuesday, May 13, at a public meeting at Pee Dee Elementary School for the four-lane highway project.