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The Horry County Council voted to keep county attorney John Weaver as its interim county administrator while it focuses on a second round of interviews for the permanent position.
The jobless rates in Horry and Georgetown counties jumped in October as the hospitality industry shed jobs heading into the offseason, and officials don't anticipate the rates will get better any time soon, the S.C. Employment Security Commission reported this morning.
A federal jury on Friday found three South Carolina men guilty of swindling more than $80 million from thousands of investors, many of whom prosecutors say fell victim to the Ponzi scheme because of their mounting debt.
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In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.