While the agency overseeing restaurant inspections may have changed, determining which restaurants are clean throughout Horry and Georgetown County has not. Two new agencies have replaced the former South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. The South Carolina Department of Environmental Services and the South Carolina Department of Public Health will now oversee SCDHEC’s […]
A woman is dead after a fire broke out at a home in Georgetown on Saturday night. Around 10:49 p.m. crews were called to 238 East Main St. for reports of a fire. Upon arrival, firefighters were greeted with heavy flames shooting about 20 feet high from the roof of a single-family home. Four people […]
GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — Organizers of a Juneteenth celebration in Georgetown said the memory of a shooting that took place at a Juneteenth festival in Round Rock one week ago is still fresh. Despite this, they said the message of the holiday must persevere and overcome any fear of future tragedies. Late last Saturday, two […]
GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — A Georgetown man pleaded guilty this week after he was charged with shooting and killing his wife in December 2022, Georgetown District Attorney Shawn Dick said in a news release Thursday. He will serve a sentence of life in prison. The shooting happened on Dec. 27, 2022. This was less than […]
GEROGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Georgetown County deputies are investigating shots fired into a home on Britton Avenue in Oatland Monday night, authorities said. The shooting happened around 10 p.m. and residents told deputies they heard two shots fired. Deputies said one bullet appeared to have struck a house, went through the wall and into […]
GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — The Georgetown Planning Commission met Thursday evening and voted to recommend a plan to county council that some say would bring more development and density to areas like Murrells Inlet and Pawleys Island. The land use element of the comprehensive plan was last drafted in 2007 but the county is […]
Georgetown school district voters have come out strongly in favor of a $649.5 million bond package, according to the early but incomplete vote count. The bond proposal, split into four propositions, will pay for a new elementary school, middle school and high school at the 13,000-student district. The money would also be used for a […]
. A federal jury convicted a Georgetown woman in connection with receiving $2.4 million after submitting fraudulent loan applications to a federal paycheck protection program, officials said. Tiffany Fullerton, 47, was convicted on Monday of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to a […]
UPDATE 4/14/24, 2:40 p.m. — The Metropolitan Police Department said the woman was later pronounced dead. WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — DC Fire and EMS and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) rescued a woman out of the water at the Georgetown Waterfront on Saturday night. In a post made just after 8 p.m., DC Fire […]
GEORGETOWN, Texas – Water is the talk of the town at the Georgetown Public Library on Saturday. Georgetown held its second water conservation expo ever. “We saw the need to do this because we had so many customers with questions, and what better opportunity to bring in subject-matter experts from around our community and our […]
An off-duty Georgetown firefighter was arrested on Tuesday night in Kansas during a hostage situation, police said. The firefighter, Jonatas Pereira, 41, is charged with 17 counts, including kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated burglary, endangering a child, disorderly conduct and criminal restraint, according to court records. On Feb. 20, at approximately 9:46 a.m., the Colby Police […]
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A Williamson County grand jury indicted a Georgetown homebuilder on three felony charges. According to the Office of the Attorney General of Texas (OAG), 46-year-old Norman Ashby was arrested on charges of misapplication of fiduciary property (greater than $300,000), theft of services (greater than $300,000) and tampering with a witness. […]