GEORGETOWN, SC (WCSC)- A Georgetown bar and restaurant owner recently charged with multiple counts of solicitation for prostitution will also be hit with two drug charges, according to Georgetown police.

Georgetown Police Captain Nelson Brown said investigators arrested 46-year-old Kenneth Carl Terry, owner and operator of the Krazy Fish, located at 619 Front Street.

Terry, who was charged with four counts of solicitation for prostitution, has also been charged with simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The charges stem from a police investigation into allegations of prostitution and the sale of alcohol to minors, and the proposition of young, teenaged boys at the restaurant, authorities say.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - A South Carolina man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for robbing more than a dozen banks in multiple states.

Court records show 43-year-old Wesley Todd McCracken of Myrtle Beach was sentenced in federal court in Charleston last week.

McCracken pleaded guilty in December and had faced up to 20 years. Prosecutors say he robbed the first bank in October 2011 when he held up a bank in Florence.

During the robberies, McCracken wore little in the way of a disguise
except for a navy Nike baseball-style cap. He used a similar method in
virtually all of the robberies. After entering the bank he would hand
the teller a note demanding cash in certain amounts or denominations
while warning against giving him bait money or dye packs. Although
McCracken never displayed any weapon, his notes usually stated that he
had a gun.

By BRUCE SMITH
Associated Press

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) - Rising sea level may be hard to notice in cities where seawalls and docks line the shorefront. But it's easy to see down a winding coastal dirt road in Georgetown County.

Clemson University researchers have compared aerial photographs taken over six decades at Strawberry Swamp at Hobcaw Barony on Winyah Bay. And their study shows rising sea levels have resulted in about a 300% increase in salt marsh in the area - from about four acres to more than 16 acres.

As the freshwater forest wetlands have been converted into a salt marsh, dead trees in the water bear silent witness to how rising sea level is changing the landscape.

The study says sea level rise in the area has averaged 3 to 4 millimeters a year during the past century.