Category: News

Through a joint investigation by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Agency, a man with ties to Oconee County has been jailed on drug charges.  According to warrants, 48-year-old Heraclio Perez was indicted in U.S. District Court in Atlanta on charges of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, with the said conspiracy involving at least […]

Generation Opportunity, a national, non-partisan youth advocacy organization, is announcing its Millennial Jobs Report for August 2013. The data is non-seasonally adjusted and is specific to 18 to 29-year-olds.  The effective unemployment rate for 18 to 29-year-olds, which adjusts for labor force participation by including those who have given up looking for work, is 16%. The declining labor force participation rate has created an […]

The Department of Justice –Office of Justice Programs notified the U.S. Attorney’s Office that it has awarded the S.C. Law Enforcement Division over $900,000 in the form of a federal grant to improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.  This system is used in part to verify that an individual seeking to purchase a firearm is not prohibited from […]

Tickets for two Clemson University home football games, South Carolina State on Saturday and Florida State on October 19, are now sold out, the Clemson Athletic Ticket Office announced Thursday. Kick off for tomorrow’s game in Death Valley at Memorial Stadium is set for 12:30pm and the game will be televised on RSN. The South Carolina State sell-out is the first time […]

Heavy rains this summer have drained the South Carolina Department of Transportation’s reserve account for emergency road repairs.  Nearly $6 million will now be used on unscheduled repair work.  Officials with the South Carolina DOT say it has cost $5.9 million to repair 14 bridges, 93 road washouts, 56 pipe failures, and other storm damage from across the state.  The agency […]

Good news for motorists traveling through West Union, a bridge replacement project is complete.  The South Carolina Department of Transportation re-opened the bridge on Burns Mill Road near West Union at 9am today.  Since March 2012, traffic has been detoured around the bridge after the DOT announced the discovery of a deteriorated bridge pile.

More South Carolina drivers are buckling up.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that the Palmetto State improved its seat belt usage percentage in 2012 by 4 points. The rate for South Carolina is now 90% seat belt usage. The South Carolina Department of Public Safety credits the rise in seat belt usage to increased enforcement and education in recent […]

As our population ages, the need for in-home, non-medical health care grows.  However, medical and non-medical home care companies still are not regulated in the United States.  Bonnie Holmes owns and operates Loving Health Care in Oconee County.  She recently went to Columbia to discuss licensing of in-home, non-medical health care. “We want the most quality for seniors that they […]

City of Seneca employee Donna Bradley and her husband Bob will be competing in the 2013 Skyhoundz Xtreme Distance World Championship on September 25, 2013 in Chattanooga, TN. Three of their dogs are World Finalists and one of their dogs, Abbey Moose, was adopted from the Oconee County Animal Shelter last year. Abbey has qualified in three divisions Women’s Microdog, […]

A Pew Internet survey reveals that most of us have taken steps to try to hide what we are doing while online. Lead author Lee Rainie tells why people want to keep their activities under wraps.  “One of the big motives for people wanting to be anonymous online is they don’t want others to steal stuff from them.” Rainie tells […]