Author: Dick Mangrum

An 86-year old Oconeean has been arrested on two charges of murder. Arrest records show Nicholas Bonelli, the accused, as sharing the same Smith Farm Road address as one of the women he’s accused of killing. A statement released last night by the Oconee Sheriff’s Department said Bonelli was incarcerated and no bond haring has been scheduled. The arrest warrants […]

An officer of Oconee Sheriff’s Department says more details about yesterday’s double homicide will be released, as they become available. Capt. Travis Tilson said the investigation continued through the night, after the discovery of the victims. Officers arrived at 350 Smith Farm Road in southern Oconee around 5 p-m yesterday, after a family member found the two women following unanswered […]

An assault whose origin the police believe was money took place early last night at a Seneca intersection. The police say a woman with a bloodied-face was discovered at Stribling and E.S. 2nd and the man suspected to have been perpetrator ran away. Jeremy Rothell, Major of Operations for the Seneca Police Department, says the identity of the suspect is […]

In a brief ceremony, Oconee Hospice of the Foothills broke ground this week on the third and final phase of the Cottingham Hospice House. The full-time residential facility that cares for patients near the end of life features 15 rooms, but seeks to add another 10 once the state approves a certificate of need. Estimates for finishing what is to […]

South Carolina Highway Patrol and its “MAKE” accident reconstruction team are investigating last night’s double-fatality traffic accident south of Seneca. Troopers say involved in the accident at S.C. 24 and 59 late last night were a car, a pickup truck, and a moped. The 17-year old moped riders, Adam George Ostrander Jr. and Charles’c Aviana Skelton, both died. A spokesman […]

The deaths of two Oconee teenagers aboard a moped last night bring to six the number of traffic deaths in the last two weeks in Oconee. And those one-half dozen deaths raise this year’s county traffic deathtoll to 19, with about two months to go in the year. It’s an unusually high number when compared to recent years and the […]

Fire broke out in what’s described as an unoccupied house last night in the Waterford subdivision near S.C. 130. The Keowee Fire Department, with assistance from others, answered the call shortly after 8 o’clock and remained on scene for nearly two and a half hours. No injuries reported.  

With remarks by Auditor candidate Betsy Redmond, the long series of Oconee County political forums that began early in the year came to an end last night in Fair Play, five days before next week’s big vote. Redmond’s appearance, alongside her opponent Ken Nix, made for the first time in the campaign that the two had spoken at the same […]

A late night accident in rural Oconee involving a moped and a pickup truck killed the two people who were the apparent operators of both vehicles. Last night’s accident at 10:40 at S.C. 24 and 59 in the Tokeena-Crossroads community took the lives of Adam George Ostrander Jr., of Mary Sue Lane, Seneca and Charles’c Aviana Skelton of Delphi Drive, […]

S. C. Attorney General Alan Wilson warns South Carolinians to beware of opportunities in investment schemes in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy. Wilson says cold-calling telephone salespersons, advertisements, and Internet postings that promote investment pools or bonds to help storm victims, or promote water-removal or purification technologies, electricity-generating devices and distressed real estate remediation programs should […]