The judge has sent the jury and all other parties home for the night in S.C. v. Temple. The Oconee General Sessions trial is to resume at 10 in the morning.
The judge has sent the jury and all other parties home for the night in S.C. v. Temple. The Oconee General Sessions trial is to resume at 10 in the morning.
A co-defendant who turned State’s evidence testified in Oconee General Sessions Court against the man with whom she was arrested last summer when the police pushed open a guest’s room door at Seneca’s Town and Country Motel. The police, armed with a search warrant, arrested and charged the two people inside the room with drug…
The warrant officer for the Seneca police has gone to Orangeburg County today to bring back a suspect in a case alleging unlawful communication. According to John Covington, Seneca police chief, the suspect was arrested yesterday by Orangeburg authorities and is to be brought back to Oconee County to face charges in an incident alleged…
The local taxes that Oconeeans pay through the years for their public schools have made for dramatic knock-down, drag out sessions with the County Council. But Dr. Michael Thorsland, assistant superintendent for school district operations, envisions a budget process without major squabbles. Because, as Thorsland put it today, district administration expects to recommend holding the…
Voters in the Franklin County, Georgia town of Carnesville are voting today on whether to allow liquor-by-the-drink. According to Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR, the referendum was created several months ago when the Carnesville city council approved putting a request from the owner of a restaurant to the electorate. The Carnesville mayor has said that, until…
By the time public school students arrive at the 12th grade, they tend to coast through their final year of high school. But, perhaps, no longer. Dr. Mike Lucas, Oconee superintendent of education, today announced the 12th grade school year is being redesigned, with the help of Tri-County Technical College. “Try to make it more…
Duke Energy Carolinas filed yesterday with the South Carolina Public Service Commission a request to raise electric rates by about $220 million—an overall increase of 15.1%. However, the average rate increase applying to Duke’s residential customers would exceed 16%. Duke gave this example of how a residential customer would be affected: “Today, a residential customer…
A Richland County grand jury has indicted a 55-year old Columbia man on the charge of embezzling money belonging to the South Carolina Lottery. Attorney General Alan Wilson says the indictment charges that Anthony McNeil, while a lottery financial division employee, embezzled more than $100 thousand between April 2010 and August 2012. The felony offense…
Trial opens at 10 this morning in Walhalla in the State’s case against Dan Lavert Temple. The 41-year old Temple faces two drug charges: possession of a controlled substance second degree and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine third offense. In pre-trial motions yesterday, the defense failed to convince the judge to suppress a…
An auditor has given Seneca an unqualified opinion for its financial records covering the budget year that ended June 30 last year. City Clerk-Treasurer Joel Seavey says outside auditor Mike Stancil’s report was given last week, during city council’s regular March meeting. “Which means,” Seavey says, “there were no internal control problems or weaknesses that…