While President Obama honored the return of eighteen Americans who were killed in Afghanistan, this week, here at home, one group is making sure its heroes who gave their lives for freedom are not forgotten. Thursday morning, the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall arrived in Barnwell County. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story.

Lifeguards at Carolina Beach have a new system of waterproof colored wristbands to help lost children find their parents. The Star-News of Wilmington reports that each lifeguard stand on the beach is painted a different color, and parents and children can match their wristbands with the color of the nearest stand.

“Lost” is marking its 100th episode this week, an achievement its producers consider as surreal as the ABC TV drama’s plots.

Franklin Weeks figures he lost his college class ring sometime in the 1980s while helping his church put in new playground equipment. Luke and Sam Lytle can vouch for the 95-year-old Lufkin man’s theory. They found the missing ring - Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College, Class of 1937 - on Monday while testing their new metal detector at the Ryan Chapel Church playground in Diboll.

A New Jersey mother says the hospital where she delivered her baby threw his body in the trash after he died. The hospital says it’s investigating. Jeff Pegues has the story.

A sock plant in Whitmire is closing, leaving 570 workers without a job.