Carolina Bank has donated $1,500 to Henry Timrod Elementary School to help provide incentives for its students.

Residents from Marlboro and Williamsburg counties traveled to the Statehouse to join fellow residents from across the state to protest the growing number of so-called “megadumps” in South Carolina.

A group of Myrtle Beach photographers is teaming up with a local business to offer free familiy portrait sessions and photo packages for the spouses and children of local military personel serving overseas.

Myrtle Beach firefighters are investigating an early-morning fire that destroyed a warehouse near the airport and Coastal Grand Mall.

Small and new business ventures officially have a new resource at Francis Marion University through the most recent expansion of its business school, the FMU Center for Entrepreneurship.

Liberty National Life Insurance Company has announced plans to open a new branch office in Myrtle Beach.

The Aroma Underground building at 700 Pamplico Highway has long been absent the sweet, thick scent of roasted coffee beans, but Florence residents Carol Anderson and Marty Stephens aim to change that.

Nicky Demetrious played tennis, rode a bike into the hinterlands bald headed, personified good health and was one of the most well-known people in Darlington.

J&M Supply Co. has been one of Florence’s best hidden secrets for 46 years. It was founded by Dickey Marshburn and Larry Jackson. Marshburn bought out Jackson’s interest in 1987.

People across the country are cutting back on spending and trying to reduce and reuse, but the recycling industry in the Pee Dee still is turning other people’s trash into money.

Fred Giuliano, a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Panel Trustee for Delaware, says preliminary findings show that there won’t be enough equity left over once secured creditors are paid back.  He explains the secured creditors are owed more than $300 million.

Three suspects didn’t get far after a robbery Tuesday night at a Lake City clothing store, Lake City Assistant Police Chief Bobby Williams said. It happened about 10:15 p.m. at Downtown Fashion at 120 E. Main St.

The New Year started in a way that could leave your wallet a little lighter if you have service with Pee Dee Electric, which hiked rates by 23 percent starting Thursday.

Mel Pennington and his business partner, Tygh Bailes, detected a new clothing market when the former had some University of Virginia insignias sewn on khaki pants and gave them to Bailes at a University of South Carolina-UVA game.

Carolinas Hospital System plans to continue moving forward with the momentum it has built up in 2008, chief executive officer Jim O’Loughlin said.