Extra traffic in town for Memorial Day in Myrtle Beach had police working overtime.

“Every United States citizen’s responsibility is to remember those who lost their lives,” Sgt. Maj. Charles Jarrell III, told those gathered at VFW Post 7288 in Calabash, N.C. He recounted the history of Memorial Day dating back to the Civil War and explained that since 1775 more than one million men and women have died to protect our freedom.

The storm that dampened Memorial Day beach vacations in Florida and Georgia will start affecting Horry County on Tuesday and could have lingering effects through Friday.

Myrtle Beach police are searching for two men suspected of trying to rob a woman at an ATM and shooting at a car as the driver tried to leave the parking lot, according to a police report.

While many people attended Memorial Day ceremonies on Monday morning, there was a ceremony of another kind going on at the Good Shepherd Anglican Church in Myrtle Beach.

“Continual Condition,” pop-culture paintings and collages by Craig Hill, continues through June 13. Details at 349-6454 or www.coastal.edu/bryanartgallery.

Police are looking for a man who reportedly tried to rape a woman in Myrtle Beach Monday afternoon.

A Brunswick County, N.C., man died after his girlfriend hit him with a car Sunday night, police said.

Only the police tape, the bloodstain on the ground and a grotesque mystery remained after the brutal attack on the MacArthur Causeway in which one naked man was shot dead by police after he attacked another naked man and began eating his face.