Police search for 13-year-old who disappeared from resort
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) Myrtle Beach police are searching for a 13-year-old girl who went missing at an area resort.
Multiple news outlets report Jalene Olivia Coward disappeared from the Palace Resort around 9 p.m. Saturday while on vacation with her family.
Authorities say Jalene left the room to take the trash to the trash chute and did not return. Police say Jalene and her family were preparing to visit an arcade prior to her disappearance.
Investigators are seeking information on two vehicles of interest. Investigators received information Jalene may have spoken to the occupants of a red Chevrolet Impala with chrome rims. Investigators also learned of a Grand Marquis that was in the area during the time of the incident.
22 children taken to hospital after bus AC breaks
BELMONT, S.C. (AP) - The Belmont Fire Department says around two dozen children were taken to the hospital to be checked out for heat-related injuries after the air conditioning broke on their bus.
Multiple news outlets report the children were traveling from Atlanta to Virginia Sunday around 7 p.m. when one person on the bus became unconscious on I-85 in Greenville County. All the children on the bus were transported to an area hospital due to the heat, officials said. EMS officials and firefighters assisted in transporting the children from the interstate.
Crews blocked off all I-85 northbound traffic and the ramp leading from Augusta Road to the Interstate for a period of time. It has since reopened.
Agents look into photos of Beaufort area dolphin feeding
BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) - A federal agency is looking into complaints that boaters in the Beaufort area were giving food to dolphins.
It's against the law to give marine mammals food, according to the The Island Packet newspaper on Hilton Head Island.
The newspaper reports that a community website posted pictures of local boaters offering food to dolphins. The images were reported to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and later taken down.
The government agency confirmed it was looking into the complaints but declined further comment.
Lt. Michael Paul Thomas of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources said that feeding dolphins may encourage them to swim closer to boats, putting them in danger of being hit by the boat or propeller.