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Last week, the South Carolina House approved a bill that will increase penalties for passing a stopped school bus and requires all buses to have longer stop sign arms to extend across a lane of traffic. The bill also gives the state Education Superintendent the power to move a bus stop if it’s deemed to be at a dangerous location. […]

(Walhalla, SC)—————-The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Walhalla man yesterday on a charge of Disseminating Obscene Material to a person who he believed was a teenage girl. 27 year old Aliester Shawn Ford of W. Halfway Branch Road was booked into the Oconee County around 11:49am.  Ford was also charged with one count of Criminal Solicitation of a Minor. […]

A missing Anderson woman’s car has been found in McCormick County, South Carolina, but there is still no sign of her, according to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said Alexis Ware was reported missing from Anderson on Tuesday. She was last seen on Highway 29 North this past Sunday, January 30th. Anyone with information is asked to call the […]

The South Carolina General Assembly held Judicial Elections on Wednesday. Locally, The Honorable Perry H. Gravely of Pickens was re-elected to Seat 1 on the 13th Judicial Circuit and for Seat 2 of the 10th Judicial Circuit’s Family Court, The Honorable Karen F. Ballenger of Seneca, was re-elected. The Honorable D. Garrison Hill of Greenville was re-elected to Seat 9 […]

Area law enforcement officers were kept busy on Thursday, according to records from the Oconee County Detention Center. Seneca Police charged 34 year-old Samuel Scott Horton of Travelers Rest with Grand Larceny. Warrants allege that Horton took a 2010 Chrysler 300 from a residence on Northwoods Drive late last month. His bond was set at $10,000 and he remains in […]

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) released 16 more tagged coyotes statewide recently as part of the Coyote Harvest Incentive Program, and any hunter who successfully takes and reports one of these tagged coyotes will be rewarded with a free lifetime license. The Coyote Harvest Incentive Program was created in 2016 by the General Assembly, which directed SCDNR to develop and […]

Seneca Police charged Jerry Bernard Lawrence, Jr., age 40 of a Townville Street address, with trafficking cocaine and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Lawrence, Jr was arrested around 1:00am Wednesday morning following a traffic stop by officers on patrol in the area of East South 3rd Street, who said that they initially stopped the […]