Category: News

More arrests have been made in the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office continuing anti-drug sweep called Operation Infinity. As of a press release that was issued back on August 22nd, nine individuals out of twenty-three being sought were arrested. Friday afternoon’s announcement states an additional ten persons have been arrested in the second phase of Operation Infinity and booked into the […]

Anderson County Coroner Don McCown reports that 45-year-old Robert Scott Batson of Simpsonville drowned after falling from a dock at Lake Hartwell.  Dispatch received the drowning call around 8:30pm Saturday night at Portman Marina. McCown says Batson had returned from watching the Clemson football game and riding his boat on Lake Hartwell. Batson and his brother were on the dock […]

The SC Highway Patrol is investigating a wreck that caused traffic to back up Saturday on I-85 in Anderson County. Troopers say the incident happened around 5:40 pm Saturday at mile marker 33, near Pelzer. Troopers say a motorcycle rider was changing lanes when he hit the back of a boat a car was pulling. They say the rider of […]

A 47-year-old Seneca man died at the scene of a single vehicle collision around 4:20pm Saturday afternoon. This collision occurred on the Wolfstake Church Road near the intersection of Courtney Smith Drive in Seneca. The South Carolina Highway Patrol continues to investigate this collision.  Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis identified the decedent as Jason Patrick Smith of 157 Courtney Smith […]

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.