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Trevor Varinecz was described as a compassionate, caring and happy 16-year-old, not the kind of person who would attack a school resource officer with two knives, according to friends who attended a memorial for the Carolina Forest High School junior Wednesday afternoon.

Members of the Myrtle Beach chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plan to contact Horry County Solicitor's Office, and then have the state Law Enforcement Division investigate an incident that involved a man who was incarcerated last month, said Mickey James, president of the Myrtle Beach branch.

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Dorolena Scott, 26, died early Sunday morning after the car she was riding in went off the road and struck a tree.

A 13-year-old Myrtle Beach boy tried to assault his younger brother with a knife and a baseball bat while they were being watched by a babysitter, according to a police report.

The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce recently completed its largest-ever fall marketing campaign and preliminary results show that it was successful at showing and telling out-of-market residents about the Myrtle Beach area.

Myrtle Beach will host two national track and field youth championships in 2011, which officials say will draw thousands of tourists and millions of dollars for the city of Myrtle Beach, adding to the area's growing roster of sports tourism events.

Another national sporting event is coming to Myrtle Beach, providing a boost in visitors late in the summer, officials from the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday.

Myrtle Beach has landed another sports tourism event that officials expect will not only draw nearly 1,000 participants, but also hundreds of spectators.

With more money for out-of-market tourism advertising on its way, the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce is figuring out how to spend it.