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“The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is updating its isolation and quarantine guidance to reflect certain aspects of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) updated federal guidance issued earlier this week. Below are key points of DHEC’s current recommendations: If You Tested Positive (Isolation): If you test positive for COVID-19, you need to isolate […]

     75 year old Samuel Capsouto, who was the subject of a Missing Person’s News Release earlier today, has been located and is safe.  Dispatch was notified of Samuel’s location around Noon today.      According to Investigator Jimmy Dixon, Samuel was located in a wooded area at the Summit Subdivision near Seneca.  Out of an abundance of caution […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating a missing Salem man.   Late yesterday evening, around 9:33pm, a deputy was dispatched to Keowee Place Assisted Living, which is located on Highway 130, in regards to a reported missing person, 75 year old Samuel Capsouto.   A search for Samuel, by employees of the Assisted Living facility, […]

89,383 Anderson County residents were employed as of November, according to new data released by the SC Department of Employment & Workforce. The county’s 2.7% unemployment rate represents a decrease from the 2.9% recorded in October and is the lowest rate observed since the onset of economic disruptions related to the pandemic. By way of comparison, the county’s unemployment rate […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting incident that was reported this past Thursday afternoon near Westminster. Around 4pm, Deputies were sent to an address on Breezewood Drive near Poplar Springs Road. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis identified the victim as 40 year-old Shaun D. Vaughn. Addis morning said, “The autopsy showed that Mr. Vaughn died of a […]

The Oconee County Coroner’s Office reported the death of a jail inmate over the Christmas weekend. On Sunday morning, Addis said CPR was performed on 71 year-old Calvin Caroll Cochran, however, he passed away in the ER at Prisma Health Oconee. The Coroner’s Office said that an autopsy revealed a cardiovascular condition and deemed Mr. Cochran’s death to have been […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an active death investigation after a shooting incident was reported near Westminster. Deputies were dispatched around 4:02pm this afternoon to an address on Breezewood Drive, which is near Poplar Springs Road.  As deputies were heading to the scene, dispatch was advised that CPR was in progress.  Investigators were also dispatched to the scene, […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will be spreading some Christmas cheer to the citizens it serves over the next few days, thanks to a gift from the Isaiah 40:31 Foundation. Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw met with the Chairman of the Foundation yesterday and received a cash gift totaling $5,000.00. “The gentlemen who is making this gift wants to remain […]

Seneca Fire Chief Richie Caudill said that a fire broke out last night at a home located near 6th Street. Both Seneca City and Volunteer Fire fighters from Friendship Fire Department responded Wednesday night just after 7:00pm to 515 South Cherry Street and remained on the scene for a little over an hour, after they put the fire out in […]