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2024 Early Lookahead: Game 12 - Coastal Carolina
For the first time since the 2021 season, Georgia State Football will get to mark Senior Day to close out the year when the Panthers will host Coastal Carolina on November 30th in the final regular season game of Dell McGee's first season in charge in Atlanta. This will be...
Cook Out Southern 500 returns for 75th anniversary
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — The final race for the NASCAR regular season and a Labor Day tradition for NASCAR fans is back again for the 75th year of the Cook Out Southern 500. Drivers are competing for their playoff position, as well as to win the Johnny Mantz...
Mega Millions jackpot jumps to $535 million ahead of Friday’s drawing. How late can you buy a ticket in South Carolina?
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD)- Lottery players have a chance to take home more than half a billion dollars on Friday night. The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $535 million ahead of the Aug. 23 drawing, according to the South Carolina Education Lottery. The cash payout is $265.6 million. It marks the third time […]
Alex Murdaugh crime books to be released, including two by murder trial jury members
Even as the post-conviction case of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is set to go before the South Carolina Supreme Court in hopes of a retrial, a second wave of books on the internationally known Murdaugh murder saga hits bookshelves, including chronicles from a Wall Street Journal reporter and two members of Murdaugh's jury. ...
Brick Manufacturer, Shipping Container Firm Grow In South Carolina
US Brick, a manufacturer and direct supplier of residential and commercial brick, is expanding its Richland County, South Carolina operations. The company’s $5.5 million investment will create 33 new jobs. With a focus on continuing its legacy of “Born Here. Built Here,” US Brick will modernize its facility, located in Columbia, SC with a secondary kiln and manufacturing line that will double its capacity at the site. Operations are being phased in and will be completely online by the end of 2025.
S.C. forms Smalls Monument Commission
The state’s new Robert Smalls Monument Commission is expected to hold its first meeting Aug. 28 to begin the process to place a statue on the Statehouse grounds to honor the Beaufort native. Ten members of the S.C. General Assembly have been appointed to the commission. If Small’s statue...
South Carolina extends, raises tax credit in hopes of revitalizing abandoned buildings
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – South Carolina leaders are hoping to further incentivize the redevelopment of abandoned buildings across the state with the expansion of a decade-old program. Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing for S.1021 on Wednesday, a bill that extends the state’s tax credit for abandoned buildings through 2035. It also raises the […]
Softball Adds Sydney Bickel as Graduate Assistant Coach
CONWAY, S.C. – Coastal Carolina softball Kelley Green announced the hiring of graduate assistant coach Sydney Bickel to the 2024-25 coaching staff. "We are excited to welcome Sydney into our program. As one of the top players in the Sun Belt the past two years, she will bring some great ideas and assist us in many areas on and off the field," stated Green. Bickel started her collegiate career at Louisville, where she played in 70 games while recording 15 runs and a .920 fielding percentage before transferring to Sun Belt foe Marshall her junior year. The Peoria, Ariz., native...
MB Invitational brackets set for November
MYRTLE BEACH – The bracket for the sixth annual Myrtle Beach Invitational has been released as the 2024 in-season tournament will be played November 21, 22 and 24 at the HTC Center on the campus of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. The upper half of the bracket has Ohio (Mid-American) playing Middle Tennessee (Conference USA) and South Florida (American) meeting Portland (West Coast) in […]
SCDNR & CMC work to finalize sale of International Drive land near nature preserve
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — Conway Medical Center is working to complete a land sale with the South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources (SCDNR). The property is located on International Drive by the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve. It was originally proposed that the roughly 350 acres be rezoned...
Georgetown County man charged with fentanyl trafficking
GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — A Georgetown County man was arrested Saturday on charges of trafficking fentanyl, Sheriff Carter Weaver said. Shyheim Gardner, 29, of Wedgefied Village Road, was also in possession of a loaded pistol that was seized along with 846 grams of a substance that tested positive for fentanyl taken during a warrant […]
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