Category: News

Weekend crime in Westminster. The city police and the Oconee Sheriff’s Office are combining to determine who stole a city pick up truck. Dean Awalt, Westminster chief of police, said the truck has been recovered, and officers have taken a couple of statements designed to help solve who took the truck.

The impact to South Carolina of potential nuclear waste from Germany and other countries will be discussed during a public meeting tomorrow night at Clemson. Everyone is invited to the meeting, sponsored by the Foothills Sierra club and the League of Women Voters of the Clemson Area. Guest speaker Suzanne Rhodes, former environmental policy manager for South Carolina DHEC, will […]

Bring pen and pencil to the meeting tomorrow night of the Westminster City Council. Outside auditor Jason White will present the city’s 2014 audited financial statements. The council will consider the election of a mayor pro tem. It also will take up a zoning change at 207 N. Isundega Street and consider a request to close Retreat Street, between 123 […]

U-S Senator Tim Scott has issued a statement to observe the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Scott said, “…Because of Dr. King’s leadership and the leadership of many others, our country has seen powerful things happen since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Brave men and women, like Dr. King, believed that the future of the country, the […]

No mail delivery today on the holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Oconee public schools are closed and there are no classes at either Clemson University or Tri-County Technical College. At Clemson this week, the university hosts events to honor the legacy of the slain civil rights leader. Events will include a day of service; a blood drive; a […]

A sailboat capsized in strong winds late yesterday afternoon on Lake Hartwell near Clemson. The lone male occupant of the sailboat was able to call for help from a cell phone and emergency responders fanned out on both sides of the lake in the vicinity of Clemson Marina. The sailor made it out of the water uninjured.

A fatal accident near the Pickens County municipality of Easley. The Pickens County coroner, Kandy Kelley, says a 47-year old Easley resident, Gregory Alan Duncan, died in a moped accident at 7 o’clock Saturday night at Old Pond Road and Arial Street. According to Kelley, Duncan was not wearing a helmet.

The Walhalla police have now added kidnapping to the charges against two of the three individuals arrested in the homicide at 505 N. Laurel Street. Chief Ronald Wilbanks says the warrants obtained Friday charge 23-year old Kenneth Strother Collins Jr. and 18-year old Megan Brianna Crowe with kidnapping. Previously, Crow was charged as an accessory and Collins was charged with […]

Campus police at Clemson came knocking to the door of a student’s residence hall room. And they arrested Anthony Joseph Rizzo. The charges allege that the 19-year old from Simpsonville possessed marijuana with intent to distribute and possessed marijuana with intent to distribute within proximity of a school. Rizzo was released Friday on a $10 thousand dollar personal recognizance bond. […]

An investigation involving sheriff’s officers in two counties has led officers to a Pickens man. The Oconee Sheriff’s Office today identified a 28-year old Pickens resident as the suspect, for whom it is holding arrest warrants arising from a crime last week near Seneca. Investigators believe Joseph Coy Kilby broke into a building the night of January 5 on Woods […]