Category: News

A search is underway for an overdue hiker in Table Rock State Park.  Oconee County Emergency Services is searching for a missing 45-year-old male.  Oconee County Emergency Management director Scott Krein reports that responders searched trails, access roads and old logging roads in the Mustard Grounds area within Oconee County. Oconee County Emergency Services working with Pickens County was able […]

Oconee County has a new tool to alert residents about emergencies in their area.  The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications/E-911 Division, in partnership with Oconee County Emergency Services and Twenty First Century Communications, Inc., has instituted a regional notification system that will be able to send telephone notifications to residents and businesses within Oconee County impacted by, or in […]

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham raised over $1.4 million for his re-election campaign during the 2nd Quarter, the strongest fundraising tally Graham has ever reported in a single quarter. The additional donations bring the campaign’s cash-on-hand to over $6.25 million, which is the most cash-on-hand ever reported by Graham’s campaign. Early reports suggest that Graham’s over $6.25 million cash-on-hand ranks as one […]

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said he will offer three amendments today in the Senate Appropriations Committee to protect American businesses from the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) job-killing tactics. “The NLRB has been the Grim Reaper of job creation,” said Graham.  “In South Carolina, we have seen first-hand just how destructive their actions can be to job creation […]

With thousands of eligible U.S. military veterans being added to the Veterans Administration’s available medical services programs each week, there is often confusion surrounding the qualifications and availability of these programs. Mia Temple, a VA medical representative from the Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, will be available to all area military veterans and their spouses at 6pm, Tuesday, July 16 at the […]

Clemson University is one of the Top 50 public U.S. colleges in the return on the investment in a degree, according to a new ranking. The College Database said the 30-year return on investment in a Clemson degree is $409,200.  The website set out to find the post-secondary institutions whose graduates enjoy the largest earnings gap between non-degree holders over a 30-year span. […]

Oconee County continues to position itself to compete globally for new capital investment and job creation in the new economy by being proactive on the industrial recruitment front. The most recent example is moving forward with renaming an industrial park and having this same park become a “South Carolina Certified Industrial Park” by the South Carolina Department of Commerce. Both […]

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch through late tonight. A cold front will approach from the Tennessee Valley today, and that will increase the coverage and intensity of showers and thunderstorms across the Western Carolinas and Northeast Georgia. The National Weather Service says storms may be particularly severe this afternoon and this evening with damaging winds […]

A former Clemson University student has been sentenced to 20 years following a guilty plea in the case of a DUI involving a death.  21-year-old Patrick Michael McCool of Vienna, Virginia entered a guilty plea in the case involving an October 2012 accident, which claimed the life of 22-year-old Tyler Sands of Pennsylvania, a senior at Clemson University. McCool was […]

An autopsy was performed Wednesday at the AnMed Medical Center on the body of James Evan Tyner.  Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis reports that the autopsy found that Tyner died as a result of cervical spinal cord trauma due to a gunshot wound to the neck. His manner of death is classified as homicide.  The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has […]