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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing teenager who left her home Thursday afternoon. 16 year old Ashlyn Bailey Miller reportedly left her home, which is located on Cherokee Lake Road in Tamassee, through her bedroom window Thursday afternoon, according to a family member.  Ashlyn was wearing white shorts, a green shirt and […]

Shelters Join Together to Launch “Summer Slam Emergency Rescue” August 13 – 22 North Charleston, SC — The lives of thousands of animals in shelters across South Carolina are at stake, as homeless animals have been pouring into shelters for weeks. “Nearly every shelter in the state, including the largest shelters [Greenville County Animal Care, Charleston Animal Society, Horry County […]

From the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office: The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has announced an update to the Intake process at the Oconee County Animal Shelter.  The new program will be called Managed Intake. “The goal and the purpose of the Managed Intake process is to offer to owners of pets, who are thinking of surrendering their animals to Animal Control, […]

Late yesterday evening, investigators from the Criminal Investigations Division received word that 25 year old Sayphonh Miranda Aquilla Xayachack of Westminster, who was wanted on charges in a shooting incident last week on Ora Road in the Holly Springs Community, was taken into custody last night by authorities in Panama City, FL. Xayachack was charged with one count each of […]

Our sister station WNEG in Toccoa, Georgia has reported that police there are searching for a suspect involved in a bank robbery. Toccoa Police said that at about noon on Wednesday, a white male with brown hair and a beard wearing a gray t-shirt, jeans, a ball cap and sunglasses entered the Northeast Georgia Bank on Big A Road. Police […]

Yesterday was the first day back to class for middle and high schoolers here in Oconee County. Public Information Officer for the School District Jennifer Dodd said that, overall, it could not have been a better start to the new school year, even though the district is still having to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic… Ms. Dodd offered some good […]

The bipartisan federal infrastructure bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate and to soon be taken up by the U.S. House would greatly benefit SCDOT’s efforts to improve the state’s infrastructure and will integrate well with the agency’s 10-Year Plan to upgrade South Carolina’s road and bridge network. SCDOT currently receives approximately $733 Million annually in federal road and bridge […]

Leadership from the Clemson University College of Education, Tri-County Technical College and multiple Upstate school districts have formed a collaborative partnership, called “Expressway to Tiger Town”, that will open a seamless pathway from high school to a degree in education from Clemson University. The schools involved are in Anderson One, Two, Three, Four, and Five, Oconee County and Pickens County […]

From the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office: The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster man yesterday on three arrest warrants, which included a warrant on a charge of Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor – 2nd Degree. 19 year old Jerad Milton Grimes of Butler Street in Westminster was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 8:03am yesterday.  Besides […]

Earlier this morning, investigators from the Criminal Investigations Division arrested one of the suspects who has been charged in a shooting incident that occurred last week on Ora Road in the Holly Springs Community. 18 year old Gavin Lamar Tukes of N. Spring Street in Westminster was taken in custody around 10:25am Wednesday and booked into the Oconee County Detention […]