Author: Dick Mangrum

101.7/WGOG NEWS and 94.1 The Lake are learning today of shootings last night near Westminster and in Royston, Georgia.  Jimmy Watt, spokesman for Oconee Sheriff’s Office, says an announcement will be made today about the shooting of a woman in the back last night near Westminster.  No other details are immediately available.  Sheriff Crenshaw says what happened near Westminster during […]

A man near Columbia is in jail in Spartanburg as part of an investigation of a homicide last week near Westminster.  Oconee Sheriff’s Office this morning announces the charge of murder against 34-year old Swansea, South Carolina resident Phillip Ronald Miller.  According to the sheriff’s office, Miller is charged in a warrant with murder in the shooting death of Michael […]

Parts of Earlestead Road near Walhalla were closed to traffic for one hour last night, as the fire department and other public safety responders dealt with a tree that fell across the road.  The mishap created a power company service call for one home on Earlestead.

101.7/WGOG NEWS has received word of a pre-trial settlement in a civil lawsuit between a man’s estate and an assisted living care facility near Seneca.  No details of the settlement were given during a hearing yesterday in the Oconee Common Pleas Court in the case of Charles Ward, as personal representative for the estate of Charles Ward Jr. versus Inn […]

The motorcyclist killed in yesterday’s early morning Pickens County accident involving a low-hanging tree along SC 133 was a  27-year old Six Mile man.  According to Chad Hope, deputy Pickens County coroner, Zane Kevin Marcus lost his life in the 12:50 am accident a few miles from his hometown.

A new major crime impacts the community of Utica near Seneca.  Sheriff’s officers are trying to find the person or persons responsible for the death of a Pendleton man who had taken up residence at Utica’s 14 Padgett Street.  The body of Richard Dennis Keese, 62, was found late Tuesday night in front of the home.  Deputies were sent there […]

From South Carolina DHEC:  3,554 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state.  In Oconee County, 82 new cases.  Statewide, there were 73 deaths counted in a 24-hour period, including two each in Pickens and Anderson counties.  Of 29,217 test results received, the positivity was 17.3%. (These numbers reflect the count at Monday’s finish)

The state patrol reports a motorcyclist was killed last night when his chopper hit a low-hanging tree in Pickens County.  By mid-morning, the coroner had yet to identify the fatality.  The patrol reported the accident shortly after 12:30 this morning on two-lane SC 133, three miles north of Six Mile.  The motorcyclist was helmeted and ejected from the motorcycle.

A public official closely tied to the aging populations of Oconee and Anderson says once the latest warnings about Social Security and Medicare are absorbed, there’ll be a shudder that permeates many senior citizens of a certain age.  The board of trustees for Social Security warned that trust funds are projected to deplete one year earlier than previously predicted, and […]