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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Health
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Grande Dunes resident sues HOA, security company after 2024 home invasion, shooting
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A Grand Dunes resident is suing his HOA and security company after he says three people tried to invade his home and shot his hand last year. At about 9:30 p.m. on April 8, 2024, Kelvin King says he woke up on his couch to a loud noise. He says he grabbed his gun but did not see anyone on his property. So, he kept the gun near him and fell back to sleep. Two hours later, King says he heard glass break from his back door and realized people threw a rock and fired a shot into his home. 'It was very traumatizing,' King said. 'I have nightmares every single night. I'm seeing a therapist. Every time I hear a boom, a snap, a crack, I'm jumping up out of the bed.' The bullet bounced off a wall and hit an artery in King's hand. He says there was blood everywhere. King has had six surgeries since then. 'The pain is constant, 24/7,' he said. 'I can't tie my shoes. I can't button my pants. I can't button my belt buckle. I can't pick up my grandchildren.' King says he shot back at three people, and they all ran away. 26-year-old Jayquan Pollard is the only one in jail. In December, King filed a lawsuit against his HOA, Waccamaw Management, and security company, Allied Universal Security, alleging negligence. 'Those guys were hiding,' King said. 'These guys were on the premises for two-and-a-half hours. The security company never stopped them, never seen them, never patrolled. These guys were in here with guns and masks. So, what are we paying for?' King says it took about 30 minutes for security and police officers to get to his house after the incident. Before King was treated for his injury, he says officers asked him if he had narcotics in the house. 'If my skin would have been a different color, it would have been a different sense of urgency,' he said. 'I started to feel that way a lot.' King says no one at Grande Dunes or Waccamaw Management has apologized or checked in on him since the incident. He says Grande Dunes has been keeping the incident under wraps, so it can keep its reputation as a safe community for golf events and potential buyers. King says he has not been able to work in more than a year. However, he says he is grateful to be here, with his family and friends. 'It's tough,' King said. 'It's tough. But I'm alive, and that is the biggest blessing I can ask for.' Allied Universal Security says it does not comment on pending litigation. News13 reached out to Grande Dunes and Waccamaw Management, but we have not yet heard back. * * * Skylar Musick is a multimedia journalist at News13. Skylar is originally from Long Island, New York. She joined the News13 team in June 2024 after graduating from Villanova University in May 2024. Follow Skylar on X, formerly Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, and read more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
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Myrtle Beach businesses feel tariffs' effects; Chamber of Commerce may offer resources to members
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — As tariffs on imports continue to affect Myrtle Beach businesses, the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce asked its member businesses on Tuesday if they need more help navigating the changes. The Chamber sent out a survey to its member businesses to see if the Chamber needs to give those businesses more educational resources to better handle tariffs' effects. News13 spoke to the owner of Maz Fresco Supermarket, which is not a Chamber member business. It is scheduled to open in two weeks. The owner, who wanted to remain anonymous, says tariffs have not yet affected the supermarket. However, he is worried that may change and impact the store's success. 'As a grocery store, we want to be able to bring the best price to the market,' the owner of Maz Fresco said. 'By that being in place, it would actually change the pricing, which would hurt the customers and us because people won't buy anything.' He also says he cannot stock up on his products from Mexico and Latin America because they will not last. 'Our cookies and anything else other than canned goods only has about a month, a month-and-a-half-worth of shelf life,' the owner said. 'So, you can't really sit there and stock a lot of things because we don't have the space to stock things like that.' News13 also spoke to the owner of Asian Mart, another non-member business. Sak Yiengjuntuek said the market gets many of its products from China and Japan. Unlike Maz Fresco, Asian Mart can stock up. Therefore, its customers can pay the same prices, even if tariffs increase. But when suppliers raise their prices, Yiengjuntuek says he needs to do the same. 'Sometimes suppliers, they change my price,' he said. 'I have to do, probably, a 2% to 5% increase. That's the most that I can do right now because I don't want to hurt the customers and local community here.' The U.S. currently has a 25% tariff on Mexican imports and a 20% tariff on Chinese imports. * * * Skylar Musick is a multimedia journalist at News13. Skylar is originally from Long Island, New York. She joined the News13 team in June 2024 after graduating from Villanova University in May 2024. Follow Skylar on X, formerly Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, and read more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
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North Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach PDs prepare for Memorial Day weekend
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — Memorial Day weekend is the official start of the summer tourist season on the Grand Strand, and two local police departments are working to keep visitors and residents safe. Leading up to the holiday weekend, North Myrtle Beach police officers say they drive around with pamphlets, educating people on how to stay safe in the city. 'It has safety information, some laws, and ordinances that we see as a problem, like burnouts, stopping in the road, that kind of thing,' Lt. Sean Downey said. 'It's just a quick leaflet that says, 'Hey. Welcome. Thanks for being here. This is what we expect from you. If you need us, this is how you contact us.'' Downey says hundreds of officers will patrol the city's streets during the holiday weekend. 'We've upstaffed with out-of-town, state and local, partners,' he said. 'They all come in today, so we'll brief them today. We house them and feed them for the weekend. We'll have north of 70-plus officers that will augment our officers. So, we'll have right around 200-plus officers on the road.' For the Atlantic Beach Bikefest, Downey told News13 the city is setting up a traffic chute on Friday. It will affect northbound traffic from 37th Avenue South to 27th Avenue South. The South Carolina Highway Patrol and SLED will also be along the traffic chute. Similarly, the Myrtle Beach Police Department says traffic will be one-way on Ocean Boulevard this weekend. The northbound lanes are reserved for emergency personnel. News13 asked beachgoers how they feel about the upcoming summer traffic. 'I'm sure, later on, it'll get kind of bad, which I'm kind of dreading,' Mina Jung said. 'But it'll be OK. I love coming to the beach, so it's worth it.' Downey says North Myrtle Beach Ocean Rescue also increased lifeguard staffing for Memorial Day Weekend. Many lifeguards are already on the beach. 'We have QR codes on all of our lifeguard towers and our beach crossovers,' Downey said. 'So, people can scan that, and it gives them the current conditions.' Downey says the city spends months preparing for more than 100,000 people Memorial Day Weekend. He says that when people feel safe, they come back. 'People have come here for years,' Downey said. 'Most everybody you talk to came here on vacation and moved here for that reason. There's a reason for that. There's a reason they want to come, and we want to keep that going.' The Myrtle Beach Police Department said that during any weekend or special event, it plans to have additional resources and staffing in 'areas of interest.' * * * Skylar Musick is a multimedia journalist at News13. Skylar is originally from Long Island, New York. She joined the News13 team in June 2024 after graduating from Villanova University in May 2024. Follow Skylar on X, formerly Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, and read more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
News18
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Dad Reveals Ex-Wife's Affair After Daughter Mocks His Girlfriend As 'OnlyFans Chick'
Last Updated: In a moment of fury, the man confronted his daughter and revealed the long-held secret: her mother had cheated on him multiple times, leading to their divorce. In the unpredictable maze of human relationships, few moments are as explosive as when buried truths come hurtling to the surface. That's exactly what unfolded between a father and his teenage daughter – an emotional confrontation that not only fractured their private lives but quickly spilled into the public realm after the man turned to the internet for clarity and validation. The incident, shared on a Reddit forum (r/AITAH) by an user named @Sad-Special-936, quickly went viral, racking up over 34,000 upvotes and thousands of comments in just a short span. In a deeply personal post titled, 'AITA for telling my daughter that her mom cheated on me when my daughter said my new girlfriend looks like an OnlyFans chick?", the 49-year-old father laid bare a dramatic clash that began with a snide remark, and ended with a painful family revelation. According to the post, the man had divorced his wife 'Emily" (name changed), also 49, several years ago. They share two children: Nick, 22, and Skylar, 19 (again, names changed). While Nick reportedly sides with his mother, Skylar has always been emotionally closer to her father. However, both children have long assumed the divorce stemmed from their father's failings, something he says is far from the truth. He claims the real reason the marriage collapsed was Emily's repeated infidelity, affairs that came to light only after the couple had built a family. But until now, he had kept that detail from their children. The simmering tension reached its boiling point when the man introduced his new girlfriend, Lisa – a 54-year-old woman he described as kind, attractive, and confident – to his daughter during a recent visit. The encounter took a sour turn when Skylar, visibly upset, allegedly remarked that Lisa looked like someone from OnlyFans, a website associated with adult content creators. Stung by what he described as a disrespectful and baseless insult, the father snapped. In a moment of fury, he confronted his daughter and revealed the long-held secret: her mother had cheated on him multiple times, leading to their divorce. The revelation left Skylar speechless. She fled to her room, and later relayed the incident to her mother. Emily, furious, called her ex-husband the next day and accused him of crossing a line. But the man stood firm. 'I reminded her that I never promised to keep her cheating a secret," he wrote in his post, adding, 'She said that I 'implied' that it would be a secret based on the fact that I never said whether or not I would tell our kids." As the post gained traction online, reactions poured in. While a few criticised the timing and emotional impact of the father's confession, the majority sided with him. Many users felt he had every right to defend his girlfriend and himself, especially when his daughter's insult was reportedly parroting cruel gossip. Check the viral post here: In a poignant update to his post, the father added another twist: later that evening, Skylar sent him a long, heartfelt message apologising for her comment. She admitted she had heard the derogatory comparison not from her own impressions, but from a conversation between her mother and aunt. She told her father she didn't actually harbour any ill feelings toward Lisa and now felt embarrassed and ashamed for what she had said. She also expressed a desire to apologise to Lisa in person, but confessed she needed a bit of time, to gather the courage to do so without crying. Commenters flooded the thread with support and compassion. Some praised the father for being honest under pressure. Others lamented how children often get caught in the emotional fallout of broken marriages, absorbing biased narratives from one side or the other. Several suggested that the real issue wasn't what the daughter said, but where she heard it. The post has since become a lightning rod for broader conversations about truth-telling in families, the ethics of shielding children from adult realities, and the complicated legacies of divorce. As one commenter succinctly put it: 'Sometimes the truth hurts; but not as much as the lies we grow up believing." First Published: May 22, 2025, 18:29 IST News viral Dad Reveals Ex-Wife's Affair After Daughter Mocks His Girlfriend As 'OnlyFans Chick'
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Business
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Federal study announced for potential $450M Horry County hurricane escape route
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — For more than 25 years, Horry County leaders have signaled the need for a hurricane escape route that would funnel traffic southward — avoiding possible catastrophic delays on its major arteries. Through on-again, off-again promises of federal funding, environmental pushback and the need to address more immediate transportation priorities, the Southern Evacuation Lifeline — more commonly known as SELL — has never made it beyond the idea phase. The latest effort to finally get the proposed 28-mile corridor built began April 24, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced plans for a draft environmental impact statement. No timeline has been set for its completion, and a finished SELL is likely at least a decade away. The first of four public input meetings are set from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on May 12 at the Robert H. Reed Recreation Center in Myrtle Beach. By 2040, Horry County's population is projected to surpass 423,000 people as it remains one of the nation's fastest growing — and with a land size larger than the state of Rhode Island, managing traffic flow in emergencies has long been a concern. 'In 2018 flooding from Hurricane Florence nearly closed US 501. Large temporary barriers were constructed to contain high water levels for an extended duration. Businesses that are only accessible from US 501 were impacted, with some relocating for weeks at a time,' a 2023 state Department of Transportation SELL analysis said. 'Due to the long clearance times and the fragility of the evacuation routes due to flooding and traffic concerns, a secondary evacuation route would provide redundancy relief through the evacuation zone,' DOT said. Groups including the Coastal Conservation League have long been opposed to the project, citing irreversible environmental impacts. ' SELL will induce sprawl in western Horry and Georgetown Counties and increase traffic on the already crowded Highway 17 and throughout the Grand Strand and Waccamaw Neck. The new highway will impact the Waccamaw Wildlife Refuge, forever alter traditional Gullah communities of Bucksport and Burgess, and spur the loss of rural farmland,' the organization says on its website. 'Horry County residents have repeatedly spoken out against large scale development in rural and farming communities, gentrification, flooding concerns, and traffic congestion.' * * * Adam Benson joined the News13 digital team in January 2024. He is a veteran South Carolina reporter with previous stops at the Greenwood Index-Journal, Post & Courier and The Sun News in Myrtle Beach. Adam is a Boston native and University of Utah graduate. Follow Adam on X, formerly Twitter, at @AdamNewshound12. See more of his work here. * * * Skylar Musick is a multimedia journalist at News13. Skylar is originally from Long Island, New York. She joined the News13 team in June 2024 after graduating from Villanova University in May 2024. Follow Skylar on X, formerly Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, and read more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
