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A man and a sheriff’s office K-9 were killed and a woman was injured following a shooting involving deputies Tuesday night in Anderson, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. It began about 10:30 p.m. on Clemson Boulevard when Anderson County deputies tried to stop a car for reckless driving, and the suspects drove away. When the chase became […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) released new data that indicates local mask ordinances are helping to slow the spread of COVID-19. Analysis of local mask ordinances show nearly 40 percent of residents, or approximately 2,000,000 South Carolinians, reside in jurisdictions that have local mask requirements in place. When comparing the jurisdictions that have mask requirements […]

DHEC announced 712 new confirmed cases and 19 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 45 additional confirmed deaths and one new probable death. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 102,143, probable cases to 831, confirmed deaths to 2,057, and 87 probable deaths. Oconee County had three new cases yesterday, Pickens County had five and Anderson […]

About thirty members of the public were in attendance at last night’s August meeting of the Westminster City Council. A series of expose articles published in the local newspaper, The Journal, recently were cited by the public and apparently helped create tension between the council and the public. Four of the councilmen were accused of excluding the mayor and two other councilmen from […]

After Westminster’s former Mayor, nonagenarian Cecil Sandifer, had his utility service disconnected recently, the City Council last night changed it’s disconnect policy to include a series of robo calls to alert a customer when payment is due before their utility services are turned off. Customers will now receive “a courtesy call” 48 hours in advance of losing service. The city […]

DHEC on Tuesday announced 928 new confirmed cases and 16 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 45 additional confirmed deaths and four new probable deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 101,360, probable cases to 770, confirmed deaths to 2,012, and 86 probable deaths. There were five new cases confirmed in Oconee County and one […]

On Tuesday, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) unveiled a new online dashboard that provides detailed county-level data that helps provide a localized look at the impacts of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in South Carolina. This new dashboard was developed by DHEC’s data analysts, GIS specialists and epidemiologists using information gathered through the agency’s expansive disease […]

Mayor Dan Alexander said the City of Seneca has an interested party in the old Hometown Supermarket building in downtown… A verbal agreement for the sale is reportedly now in place, but neither the sale price nor the identity of the prospective buyer was disclosed yesterday during a city hall meeting. Seneca’s Improvements Corporation gave its chairman, Scott Moulder, the […]