Category: News

The occasion of Oconee County’s 150th year is moving closer, and Phil Shirley hopes a meeting this week will play a big part in determining just what kind of a celebration there will be next year to mark this milestone.  Shirley meets Wednesday with a committee planning the county’s role.  Coming out of the meeting, the director of county Parks, […]

A lawsuit has been filed against an Oconee County man accused of killing his wife and then hiding her body.  The lawsuit alleges wrongful death and fraudulent conveyance, among other legal grounds, against Lee Mikael Cawthon and a second man who the plaintiff believes to be Cawthon’s half-brother, Thomas Monroe. The lawsuit names as plaintiff Lutrica Murray, the personal representative […]

Pickens County Sheriff’s Office has charged two boys in its investigation of last week’s fire that destroyed the abandoned mill commonly called the Cateechee Mill.  Detectives investigated leads that pointed to two boys who have been charged with intentionally setting the fire.  Investigation determined the fire occurred after paper was lit with a lighter and thrown on the floor.  Ultimately, […]

A Seneca judge slapped a contempt of court citation on a family member of the late Ricky Nickles during today’s proceeding for Keena Brown, the man charged with murdering Nickles.  The contempt citation was issued against a man identifed as a brother of Nickles, after Judge Danny Singlton and others in the crowded courtroom saw the man make a threatening […]

  The burglary case against two Oconeeans has expanded.  The Sheriff’s Office announces that Emmanuel Alejandro Hernandez of Dixon Road, Westminster and Amy Nicole Carranza of Davis Mill Road, Seneca were arrested Thursday on charges of 3rd degree burglary and grand larceny at a building on Coneross Creek Road.  A motorcycle, among other items, was taken.  Deputies found the motorcycle […]

Accident near Seneca An accident that is believed to have involved a motorcycle and as many as two other vehicles around 1 pm left part of Wells Highway blocked near Seneca.  State troopers are reporting injuries at the scene in front of Yogo’s restaurant.

Eddie Grant and Brad Hobbs have been waiting since May for the evening of July 11.  At 6 o’clock Tuesday evening, incumbent Eddie Grant meets challenger Brad Hobbs for a seat on the board of Pioneer Rural Water District. Grant and Hobbs were nominated to run during a May 11 vote by customers who live in Pioneer District #5. In this […]

A bond hearing for murder defendant Keena Jerome Brown is tentatively set this afternoon in front of Seneca Municipal Judge Danny Singleton.  The police announced warrants alleging murder and possession of weapon while in commission of a crime.  The affidavit to the murder warrant alleges Brown, a Clemson resident, shot Ricky Nickles multiple times yesterday “at or near 802 Laing […]

A second high school football player in Stephens County, Georgia died this morning of fatal injuries that he and three companions sustained in a Jeep accident last week on Brookhaven Circle near Toccoa.  According to WNEG, the school Instagram and Facebook pages reported the death this morning of Kainan Green.  He was 17.  Three others, including one of Green’s teammates in that Jeep, died the night of the accident.  Green […]

One person has been referred to his healthcare provider after being potentially exposed to rabies by an OconeeCounty woodchuck, also known as a groundhog or whistle pig. That woodchuck tested positive for the disease. According to DHEC, two woodchucks were observed fighting with one another before one turned on the victim, who was subsequently bitten and scratched. This exposure occurred near the intersection […]