Category: News

A police-involved shooting turns fatal last night at the Wal-Mart in Easley.  Deputy Coroner Tommy Page says the victim was 33-year-old Easley resident Shawn Elrod.  Elrod’s death at 7:13 last night is described as an active investigation by the coroner’s office, the Easley police, and the state Law Enforcement Division.

The Oconee coroner will release the name of a traffic fatality that occurred this morning near Townville.  So far, she has bee3n identified as a 67-year-old Westminster woman involved in what the state patrol called a head-on crash on SC 24 near Nally Valley Lane.  That accident was reported around 7:15 this morning to Oconee 9-1-1. The name of the […]

South Carolina Secretary of Commerce Harry Lightsey will keynote a Clemson event next week in Greenville.  Lightsey is featured speaker for the university-sponsored Global Tire Industry Conference Tuesday through Thursday, April 23-25 at the Clemson Greenville One Center on Greenville’s N. Main Street.  In the business part of the meeting, current tire and vehicle topics will be addressed by expert […]

A “lifesaving” blood event takes place next week in Seneca.  At the Ripple of One resale thrift store, the Blood Connection will team with the Oconee Humane Society 9 to 11 am Tuesday, April 23.  The first 25 donors that morning will receive a voucher for a free pet adoption.

An Oconeean looks forward to a one-week vacation getaway to Seabrook Isle, a private island just off the South Carolina coast.  And she promises that while basking in the sun, she’ll think about us landlubbers.  She and other South Carolina beachgoers this summer should be able to rely on government’s effort to monitor beach water for any kind of elevated […]

A Cross Creek golf tourney brought out more than 200 people and raised about $16 thousand dollars for the K-9 unit of the Seneca police.  The occasion also served as a tribute to the retiring K-9 Rogue.  She goes to the sidelines with the praise of Chief Casey Bowling.  He credits 10-year-old Rogue in sniffing out illegal drugs and helping […]

Two people were hurt last night in a rural Oconee County car accident.  The wreck around 9:30 last night involved two cars at SC 11 and the Country Junction Road.  According to a Walhalla Fire Department report, the injured were sent to hospitals — one of the patients went to a Greenville hospital.

The South Carolina DOT is making plans to replace a rural Pickens County bridge.  And the state agency invites public comment on the project for a new bridge on SC 8 over the Oolenoy River.  All comments received between now and May 17 will be reviewed and included in the project record.

The state police in Georgia have arrested a former school paraprofessional who worked at the Hart County High School.  Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR quotes the GBI as saying 27-year-old Bowersville, Georgia resident Keenan Anderson is charged with sexual assault by persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority and tampering with evidence — incidents alleged to have occurred while Anderson worked at […]

South Carolina’s Tim Scott decries conditions in the U-S in which many Americans struggle to afford rent and mortgage payments and homelessness rates are at record-high levels.  The state’s junior U-S senator addressed comments yesterday during a housing committee hearing in Washington with the acting secretary for Housing and Urban Development and the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.  […]