Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
Westminster City Council will meet at an alternate location for their May meeting tomorrow night. Usually the council meets at city hall, but Tuesday’s meeting will take place at the MD Cleveland Civic Center on Anderson Avenue. During the meeting, a public hearing will be held on the city’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The council will also entertain […]
Read moreOn Saturday, 23 participants and 30 volunteers raised more than $300,000 for the Prisma Health Cancer Institute during the hospital’s Dragon Boat Upstate Festival at Portman Marina on Lake Hartwell. This marked the first time in three years that the event has been held on the water, as recent festivals were held virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the festival […]
Read moreAgents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division charged Oconee County Councilman Matthew Durham with domestic violence second degree and unlawful neglect of a child, a felony, after they were requested by Sheriff Mike Crenshaw to investigate allegations filed against the District Two representative. In the domestic violence warrant, Durham is accused in a Mountain Rest incident September 4, 2020, […]
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Anderson County Sheriff’s Deputies are working to locate a suspect involved in a shooting incident. Deputies said they responded around 6:30pm Sunday evening to Meadow Run Apartments where they said at least one person was shot. No other details were immediately released. Anyone with information is asked to call the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.
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A spokesman for the South Carolina Attorney’s General said he has learned of the arrest of an Oconee County councilman, Matthew Durham. AG Spokesman Robert Kittle said the charges against Durham are domestic violence second degree and unlawful neglect of a child. Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said the arrest was made by the State Law Enforcement Division, and Durham was […]
Read moreThe Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man yesterday on two outstanding arrest warrants related to two separate investigations. 36 year old Justin Turner Cheek of Samuel Drive was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center at 2:15pm Thursday after being arrested in Walhalla. Cheek was transported to the Oconee County Detention Center by a deputy from the Warrants […]
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DHEC and the South Carolina EMS Association (SCEMSA) are expressing their gratitude to emergency medical services (EMS) professionals for their life-saving efforts during National EMS Week and encourage Palmetto State residents to do the same. EMS Week runs from May 15-21 this year. And this week and next, National Police Week will be observed from May 11–17. The National Law […]
Read moreAround 7:00am Thursday morning, Seneca Police served a felony arrest warrant to Christopher Alonzo Robinson, age 28. He was booked into jail on a charge of malicious injury to personal property less than $2,000. He was booked into and released from the Oconee County Detention Center on bond, according to jail records. Also on Thursday, Seneca Police arrested 49 year-old […]
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About 100 residents turned up Tuesday night in Westminster at the Cleveland Recreation Center to hear about a concept design of what a second recreation complex might offer. The city’s leaders gauged the public about investing in recreation enhancements, about a year after the council named a committee to plan the Hall Street Community Park complex, which, if developed would […]
Read moreEasley Police have charged a truck driver with possession of marijuana and DUI after a crash Thursday afternoon in Pickens County with a school bus. Police said the driver of the truck, identified as Drake Lesley, clipped the front of a Pickens County School Bus when he tried to exit on Calhoun Memorial Highway around 4:45pm. The bus overturned as […]
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