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Wind speed and storm surge have sat side-by-side on the Saffir-Simpson scale since it's development in the 70s, but now, that's changing.
The statistics prove skin cancer can strike anyone - even a face you see each night on the news. How can you protect yourself against the deadly disease before it's too late?
Dirty dishes, insects and unsanitary kitchen conditions - they're some of the deepest, darkest secrets at a handful of Grand Strand restaurants.
After years of planning, months of construction, and millions of dollars, local leaders say the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk is a success.
After talking with veteran healthcare providers who deal with traumas at the beach, we've narrowed down the Top 5 Beach Dangers for your family.
When the tiny tick bites, it can change your life forever, leaving you susceptible to what can be a deadly reaction to red meat.
People rely on coastal forecasts to plan vacations, fishing trips and protect their homes from flooding, but how reliable are these forecasts and what is being done to make them better?
On the playground, internet and cell phone your children are taunted, tortured and bullied until they become another statistic, another headline.
Using DNA testing, an undercover investigation has revealed customers who order grouper at restaurants in the Myrtle Beach area are sometimes served a less expensive fish.
With undercover cameras rolling, within ten minutes of walking into a Myrtle Beach strip club, sex was offered to a reporter and photojournalist at WMBF News.
You hear the sirens almost every day, but do you know what South Carolina law requires you to do? Many don't, and it could cost a life.
Your odometer says a lot about your car. It can determine it's worth, it's resale value and even the amount you pay for car insurance. However, in a WMBF News Investigation, we learned odometers don't have to be that precise.
A company that makes a variety of backpacks it says can stop 90 percent of bullets that have killed or injured students in school shootings over the years. Do they work, and should parents buy these ballistic bags?
Drivers making a late-night run to the supermarket or having to commute to work before the sun rises face a potentially dangerous situation along some major Myrtle Beach highways, an investigation has found.
A panel of teenagers from Socastee High School agreed to sit down and candidly talk about bullying, what really happens, and what parents probably don't know.
Staged auto accidents are a growing problem in the Palmetto State, according to recent data, and they cost billions of dollars across the country in increased insurance premiums.
They look like your everyday window covering, but the company that makes the "screens of steel" says they can stop a whole lot more than mosquitoes from entering your home.
What do you think Myrtle Beach is known for? The beach? The golf? The restaurants? What about the strip clubs? For some, that's the case.
In 2008, one out of every three fatal accidents is alcohol-related across the country.When you look at the data for South Carolina, that figure almost doubles, making the Palmetto State the second worst for DUI deaths in the country.
A recent study from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project reveals a shocking number of teens text while driving, but a WMBF News investigation has found that's not the only bad habit going on behind the wheel.
It's a moment many teenagers wait for in the days leading to their 16th birthday, but a WMBF News investigation has found younger drivers are among the most dangerous on area roadways.
If you saw men dressed in fatigues using assault rifles and shooting one another and didn't know that it was a game, even the people that play admit there could be a problem.
Nearly 1,500 homeless live day-to-day on the streets in Horry County. Seven hundred of those men, women and children live right here in Myrtle Beach.
A state lawmaker says a WMBF News investigation into stores re-selling meat customers have brought back could lead to a change in South Carolina law.
They lurk online looking for sex with disregard for the law and little concern for their victim's age. Think online predators are not looking for children along the Grand Strand? The South Carolina Attorney General's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force has proof they are.
Nearly 1,900 businesses are scattered across the Grand Strand who are licensed to sell alcohol, but how many can get away with slipping a drink or two to someone under the legal drinking age?
A WMBF News investigation has found many of us are driving through stretches of road every day where traffic patterns can be chaotic, tempers flare, and a driver's mind may be on the text coming into his cell phone.
There is a blood test that promises with 95 percent accuracy to tell you long before a doctor would be able to. In a WMBF News investigation, we set out to see if Pink or Blue is all it claims.
There is no law in South Carolina that makes it illegal for you to own any type of exotic animal, but how easy is it to get a deadly snake shipped right to you?
How much does turning off the lights, turning off the TV, or turning off any other appliance in the house really save you on your energy bill?
Everyone knows they should diet and exercise, but for some, it's not always that easy.
For diabetes or weight loss, artificial sweeteners may be the way to go, and despite some of their names, they're not all created equal.
In a WMBF News special investigation, Anchor Chandi Lowry went to a number of retailers across the Grand Strand to see if she could get away with using a credit card that did not belong to her.
As the economy goes south, people are bartering their services for what they need.
With so many people looking for extra money these days, more and more people are sending old wedding rings, necklaces and earrings for the promise of cash. But how does it work and does it really pay off as promised?
If you think a night of sleep can sober you up enough for a drive home, you might be surprised. A group of volunteers proved otherwise in a WMBF News Investigation.
The concept sounds like something straight out of a big-budget Hollywood drama: high-stakes and even higher altitudes, but the members of the Aeromedical Evacuation Squad make the characters on "ER" look like amateurs.
A WMBF News investigation has uncovered Grand Strand supermarkets selling packages of meat that had been returned to the store.
It's what some call a "dating leap of faith," but now new information shows online dating isn't exactly what it's cracked up to be.
A Murrells Inlet woman lost thousands of dollars to an online hacker.
A hidden treasure could be right underneath your nose as you are walking through a parking lot, or out on a trail.
High gas prices, rising car insurance rates and the inability to make a car payment - these are just a few reasons why many drivers are finding themselves ditching their 4-wheeled automobiles for something a little smaller.
There is a new language out there - one that is evolving and one that your child knows how to speak. It is one that you probably do not know how to translate, but WMBF News is giving you the tools to decipher the tech-savvy language your kids may be using.
Millions of tourists swarm to the sandy beaches of South Carolina on vacation each summer, but while everyone in town may seem like a stranger for four months out of the year, some are more dangerous than others.
It's a drug that's being called the "new pot" and it's raising some pretty big eyebrows among lawmakers nationwide. Already this year, one South Carolina lawmaker has tried to ban the drug salvia.
