Author: Dick Mangrum

Teenager Jesse Osborne now faces a potential sentence of 30 years and a maximum life sentence, should he be convicted of murder and attempted murder charges that arose from the September 2016 day of the Townville school shootings. His case has been remanded from juvenile to adult court, as the result of a week-long hearing at the Anderson County Courthouse. […]

Greenville Health System issued a further reaction to the announcement that a group of Greenville state lawmakers are behind legislation to force the sale of the hospital system. The discord between the two has implications for Oconee, as Oconee Memorial Hospital is part of the GHS system. “Unfortunately, the most recent attack on locally-owned, not-for-profit health care includes proposed legislation […]

The judge in Anderson, at the end of a week-long hearing, announced Jesse Osborne will be tried in the General Sessions Court on the charges that arose from the September 2016 day of the Townville school shootings.  Solicitor David Wagner said no trial date is certain but, in his words, it “will be sooner than later.”

The state police said this afternoon they continue to investigate an Anderson County incident yesterday in which a confrontation during a foot chase following a traffic stop resulted in a shot fired by a deputy sheriff. State Law Enforcement Division’s investigation includes interviews with responding officers and others and the gathering and the analyzing of forensic evidence. There is no […]

After a break for lunch, the Jesse Osborne hearing resumes at 2:15 this afternoon at the Anderson Courthouse. Having called a minister and three psychiatrists this morning, the defense may have called its last witnesses. And, if that’s the case, the courtroom audience will look to Judge Edgar Long for a decision on whether the boy will be tried as […]

At least one more meeting will be required of the board of the Fair-Oak Youth Center before the Fair Play Community Volunteer Fire Department will receive property for which to expand its station. According to officers of the youth center, some board members missed last night’s meeting. Tony Adams, the president, said there’s concern about asbestos that will have to […]

Here is a 101.7/WGOG NEWS correction. During a county committee meeting this week, the Westminster city administrator did not request of Oconee County $500 thousand dollars for a building project, according to Mayor Brian Ramey. The mayor said Chris Carter’s purpose at the meeting of the county council’s building and grounds committee was to secure a written offer from the […]

Greenville state lawmakers who are part of a lawsuit to stop Greenville Health System’s proposed merger are now introducing bills in the legislature to force the sale of the system to another health care provider. Sen. William Timmons says the time it will take for the lawsuit to move its way from the circuit court to the state Supreme Court […]