Casey Jones

4 days ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

If the measure of a man’s impact on his community is the size of his funeral, Shorty’s Grill owner David “Shorty” Conner was a giant in his hometown of Loris. Friends waited in line to console the family at the funeral home, packed the Loris First Baptist Church to the rafters for his funeral service, and stood along Main Street to show their respect when the funeral procession drove by on Friday, June 20. “He helped a lot of people in this town.

1 week ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

Senior Assistant Prosecutor Leigh Waller of the South Carolina 15th Judicial District framed her case as a “tale as old as time,” with an affair, a pregnancy and then a murder. For the Murrells Inlet woman on trial for the shooting death of her ex-husband, the end of the tale was positively nightmarish. An Horry County jury took only two hours Tuesday, June 17, to convict Meagan Marie Jackson, 39, of murdering Gregory Rice, 46, the father of her four children, after a trial that spanned five days.

2 weeks ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

The man at the center of a love triangle that turned deadly testified against his co-defendant in her murder trial at the Horry County Government and Justice Center on Thursday, June 12. Christopher Allen Dontell, a former Horry County deputy coroner, told a 10-woman, two-man jury how his girlfriend Meagan Marie Jackson jumped from a van and fatally shot her ex-husband, Gregory Rice, the evening of Oct. 2, 2020. Dontell pleaded guilty to disposing of the body the following day after the murder.

2 weeks ago | carolinapanorama.com | Casey Jones

The man at the center of a love triangle that turned deadly testified against his co-defendant in her murder trial at the Horry County Government and Justice Center on Thursday, June 12. Christopher Allen Dontell, a former Horry County deputy coroner, told a 10-woman, two-man jury how his girlfriend Meagan Marie Jackson jumped from a van and fatally shot her ex-husband, Gregory Rice, the evening of Oct. 2, 2020. Dontell pleaded guilty to disposing of the body the following day after the murder.

2 weeks ago | myhorrynews.com | Casey Jones

Your child’s injured; or you’re experiencing chest pain; or that fever seems dangerously high. What to do? If you go to an urgent care office, and they re-route you to the emergency room, you’ve lost precious time and you’re stuck with two bills. But if you go to an emergency room, when urgent care would have sufficed, you’ll wait longer and pay much more than was necessary.