Multiple wrecks were reported Friday as vacationers poured into the Grand Strand for Memorial Day weekend.

The IMAX Theatre at Broadway at the Beach, which shut down in November, won’t reopen, but a new business will be moving into the former theater in time for the summer season, officials said.

The Waccamaw River wanders for about 148 miles from Lake Waccamaw, N.C., to Winyah Bay in Georgetown. This week, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar named the entire river as a model in the America’s Great Outdoors River Initiative.

South Carolina state Rep. Ted Vick officially dropped out of the running Friday for the newly-created 7th Congressional District seat following his arrest for weapons and drunk driving charges.

The Horry County Election Commission unanimously denied two protests to Tuesday’s Atlantic Beach special election at the end of an almost four-hour hearing that often became contentious and heated.