MYRTLE BEACH

At least two popular restaurants along Ocean Boulevard require an ID and credit card to hold onto while you dine in.

Lack’s Beach Service is being accused of negligence in the drowning death of 41-year-old Zerihun Wolde. But the company’s lawyer says it was an unavoidable accident.

Cheddar was shipped to Red Lobster, but employees noticed her rare, bright orange color and found a home for her at an aquarium.

The alligator grabbed ahold of the victim and dragged them into a nearby pond, police said.

The Shibumi Shade “works with the wind, not against it” according to the company’s website.

Arguments were spurred in the comments of Facebook posts featuring this historic beach photo so we did some fact-checking.

Remains found in a wooded area in South Carolina have been confirmed to belong to 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, according to police.

Brittanee Drexel’s remains were found and details of the investigation are finally released.

The home features an office, a climate controlled storage room and an outdoor patio.

“Even if you swept up one little crumb, she would thank you for that,” an employee of Northern Bites Cafe said of their owner, who died Jan. 31.

A couple staying at an Ocean Boulevard hotel claims that they were bit by bed bugs, which traveled with them from Myrtle Beach back to Florida, causing an infestation in their home.

In one small Canadian town, mask wearing, high vaccination rates and COVID testing are the norm. It’s an alternate reality compared to South Carolina.

The Florence County Coroner confirmed to a local TV station that Sheridan Wahl suffered internal injuries. Her body was found at the bottom of the fire station’s training tower.

A court found that the volume of calls for service at the Coral Sands Motel related to drugs, drug use and overdoses was “alarming.” Here’s what might happen next.

An enhanced episode of “When Sharks Attack” focuses on one day in Myrtle Beach when 4 shark attacks occurred on a small stretch of beach.

Tourism officials expect that this Independence Day weekend could draw the biggest crowds since the pandemic began, and possibly be one of the busiest travel weekends in years.

Sen. Lindsey Graham is pushing for federal funding to help construct a new interstate in South Carolina, connecting I-95 to Myrtle Beach. “I believe it is a critical infrastructure project for the Grand Strand and the state of South Carolina as a whole," Graham said in a statement provided to AP, describing a beach resort area at the heart of the state's multi billion-dollar tourism industry. “The Grand Strand is a cash cow for the state, and I am determined to help provide a better means of transportation for those traveling to and from this tourist destination,” he added.

Antisemitism organization: “Sad to think Jewish children are waking up seeing this while on vacation with their families.”

Police said the man hit someone in the head with a handgun during a fight near Ocean Boulevard.

A man convicted of sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman aboard a flight from Chicago to Myrtle Beach during the summer of 2019 was sentenced late Thursday to two years in federal prison.

The victims of Myrtle Beach’s two most recent homicides have been identified by the coroner.

A small private plane that crashed in South Carolina last month, killing the pilot, had a key part installed upside down and backward after maintenance, according to a federal report. James Harper, 60, died in the May 21 crash of his Piper PA-31 just after taking off from Myrtle Beach International Airport. The small plane's primary and secondary flight controls had been removed, painted and reinstalled two days before the crash, according to a preliminary accident report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

Restaurants, bars and hotels all want to see Memorial Day crowds, but they ask tourists to “pack your patience” amid an ongoing worker shortage. Plus, other tips for traveling to Myrtle Beach this summer.

Restaurants, bars and hotels all want to see Memorial Day crowds, but they ask tourists to “pack your patience” amid an ongoing worker shortage. Plus, other tips for traveling to Myrtle Beach this summer.

To much fanfare, state leaders, legislators and local mayors came together Sunday to welcome the nation’s largest domestic airline to Myrtle Beach’s fast-growing airport.

The spike in gas prices is the second this year for the Carolinas after the winter storm in Texas shut down oil refineries in February and could potential have lasting effects into summer.

Visits to the malls tracked, which Placer.ai declined to name, peaked prior to the pandemic, in February, climbing 10.7% from 2019 levels. In March — when retail stores and malls began to shut down to try to slow the spread of Covid — visits tumbled 59.5%. A data analysis released this week by Placer.ai shows how shopper visits to malls have ebbed and flowed amid the Covid pandemic . The uptick shows, for some consumers, malls still serve a role as a convenient shopping option. Some retailers also discussed their plans this week to hold off on investing in mall stores, due to the rapidly changing shopping patterns.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The city of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was motivated by race when it created a traffic plan designed to “suck the fun” out of Black Bike Week, a federal jury has found. But the same jury sided against the bikers, saying the city probably would have imposed the plan anyway. The Black bikers have been particularly frustrated by a 23-mile (37-kilometer) one-way no-exit traffic chute that funnels them out of town during the peak nights of Atlantic Beach Bikefest, otherwise known as Black Bike Week. The NAACP has tussled in court with the city, as well as local restaurants and a hotel, over their responses to the Black bikers for nearly two decades. That settlement expired in 2015, when the new traffic plan was established.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Motorcycle clubs roar into Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, each May for separate week-long rallies, one mostly white, the other mostly Black. White bikers rolling in days earlier for Harley Week each May are treated differently, Black bikers say. In opening arguments last week to five Black and four white jurors, an NAACP lawyer said Myrtle Beach during Bikefest is “like a city under martial law," The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported. The Atlantic Beach event soon sprawled into nearby towns, including Myrtle Beach, where most of the 35,000 residents are white. Myrtle Beach city and Chamber of Commerce officials refused to talk about the trial.

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Hurricane Isaias has made landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Hurricane Center said it expected the storm to make landfall early Tuesday near southern North Carolina. Still, on this part of the South Carolina and North Carolina coasts that has been affected to varying degrees by seven tropical storms or hurricanes since 2014, residents weren't panicking. Up the coast in southern North Carolina, high winds from Isaias inner core knocked down trees and power lines, blocking roads. Farther up the coast into North Carolina, the hurricane center predicted storm surges of 3 to 5 feet (0.9 to 1.5 meters) when Isaias moves onshore.

A sign in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Thursday, June 18, 2020, asks people to maintain social distancing on the beach. People are flocking to South Carolina's beaches for vacation after being cooped up by COVID-19 for months. In bathing suits, they walked out of the hotel, across the pool deck and into the sand in what is fast becoming South Carolina's hot spot for COVID-19 Myrtle Beach. The figures do not count anyone who tests positive after taking COVID-19 home along with a souvenir hermit crab or an airbrushed T-shirt. South Carolina now has the fourth-highest new infection rate in the nation when adjusted for population, trailing just Arizona, Arkansas and Alabama.

J.C. Penney is set to close six of its department stores in 2020, a spokeswoman confirmed to CNBC. Penney still has roughly 850 stores up and running, and the company says the closures come as part of an annual review of its real estate. In early 2019, Penney announced it was shutting 18 department stores and nine furniture stores. Analysts have said they anticipated Penney still needs to close hundreds of stores to get its business back in good shape. Macy's earlier this month confirmed it would be closing nearly 30 stores in 2020.

Police in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, found a 6-week-old potbellied pig behind an area restaurant on Sunday, The News & Observer reports. Earlier that day, he escaped from his family, who was vacationing in the area from North Carolina, police said in a statement.

Authorities hauled a red Jeep Cherokee off the beach Friday after it was left alone in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, due to Hurricane Dorian. "He didn't abandon the Jeep but he went out to get help but no one could go out to help him because the storm was coming," she said. Meanwhile, as Dorian raged, a North Carolina homeowner who was monitoring his Ring doorbell cam from 150 miles away saw his house get blown away. And the damage in the town of Emerald Isle, North Carolina, was devastating as a tornado developed in the area. RELATED STORIESBahamians Help Each Other Crawl From the Debris After Hurricane DorianMan Drives Smart Car Into Kitchen So It Won't Blow Away During Hurricane DorianHurricane Dorian Leaves a Trail of Destruction as It Winds North

CNN video(CNN) - The owner of the Jeep abandoned on Myrtle Beach during Hurricane Dorian will probably think twice before giving someone his car keys. It turns out the SUV's owner had lent it to his cousin so that guy wouldn't have to ride his motorcycle in the bad weather, the owner told CNN affiliate WMBF. So, the owner's cousin "got on the beach and started driving it," the owner told WMBF. Then I called (my cousin) and spoke to him and he told me exactly what happened," the Jeep's owner told the station. Workers used a backhoe loader Friday morning to tow the Jeep away, video posted by Myrtle Beach police shows.