Hardeeville News

Several dozen students in Jasper County apparently walked home from school this week amid allegations of inappropriate behavior on the school bus.

The 13 students of Abundant Life Academy's Class of 2013 graduated Thursday in the school's gymnasium in Hardeeville.

Jessicah Peters/Bluffton Today Beaufort County Community Emergency Response Team volunteers stand and await to board the Palmetto Breeze motor coach during the mock evacuation Monday.

Hardeeville Police Chief Richard Nagy said this is the first double homicide he has handled since joining the Hardeeville Police Department six years ago.

Ravindra Parmar, 57, was an owner and shareholder of a hotel from 2005 through 2011, according to a news release from the state agency, which did not identify the hotel.

Members of the city's accommodations tax committee in April took no action on a request for $15,000 for the festival.

Brock Vaigneur has been hired as the new head football coach at Beaufort Academy, filling the vacancy created when Wheatley Alford resigned April 23.