By MICHELLE LIU Associated Press/Report for America COLUMBIA (AP) — 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 ...

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Y’all won’t believe this @#$%! In 2017, the City of Myrtle Beach made over $22,000 dollars from fines collected from the prosecution of people who swore in public, according to the Myrtle Beach Sun News. The city’s disorderly conduct statute, ...

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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) A state senator from South Carolina who suffered a brain aneurysm last month is in a medically induced coma because of a staph infection. Sen. Greg Hembree was hospitalized July 26 for an aneurysm and was awake ...

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CONWAY (AP) Authorities say it appears an inmate has killed himself in a county jail in South Carolina. Horry County officials said in a news release that 46-year-old Michael Todd Jordan was found dead around 6 p.m. Sunday in the ...

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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) It appears questions about jurisdiction delayed a police response to a shooting death in South Carolina last week. News outlets reported 42-year-old Mark Verhasselt was found dead in the parking lot of a condominium complex near Myrtle ...

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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) Two parents are under arrest after their 4-year-old son shot himself with his mother’s gun in a South Carolina hotel. News outlets report Myrtle Beach police have charged Heather Lynn Odom and Jeremy Barrett with child neglect ...

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A Myrtle Beach attorney, who had his law license suspended in September after he committed a criminal act of voyeurism, was arrested June 5 in Surfside Beach and charged with indecent exposure. Police said Jacob Leon Parrott was charged after ...

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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments this week in an NAACP lawsuit that says a traffic control plan during what’s known as “Black Bike Week” in South Carolina is discriminatory. The NAACP is seeking an ...

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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) A local chamber of commerce in South Carolina has been sued over its spending practices in the last three years. Media outlets reported a woman filed a lawsuit in Conway accusing The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of ...

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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) A high school’s 2015 teacher of the year has been charged with assault and battery on a student in his classroom. Media outlets report 48-year-old science teacher Timothy Beck turned himself in to police in Myrtle Beach, ...

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