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An armed robbery one year ago at a convenience store near Salem remains unsolved, and Oconee County Sheriff’s Master Deputy Jimmy Watt said that the investigator assigned to the case would like any information or evidence that could help resolve the case… That robber left the Key Mart clerk with her hands tied around her back. Just moments before, the […]

37-year old Randall Adam King of Travelers Rest is out of jail on bond after he was arrested on Tuesday by Seneca Police. A warrant alleged that back in October 2020, King deposited a $500 check from Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative into his bank account, however, according to police, that check did not belong to him. A customer who had […]

The investigation of a domestic violence incident last weekend in Westminster led to charges of first degree domestic violence and malicious injury to property being filed against a Sunshine Circle apartments resident. A warrant from Westminster Police alleged that, early Sunday morning, between 3:30am and 4:00am, Bobby Justin Peay, 28, kicked and punched the victim, while in the presence of […]

Agents with the “SLED” Fugitive Task Force tracked a man wanted by North Carolina authorities to an address near Seneca, where he was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon without incident. Records released by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office show Jacquerius Tyquale Johnson was taken into custody on Woodgate Drive near the Davis Mill Road. A warrant issued by Seneca […]

CRIME STOPPERS OF OCONEE COUNTY, INC. is announcing an additional $20,000.00 reward for information regarding the death of Tucker Hipps’ on September 22, 2014. The North American Interfraternity Conference and the Anti-Hazing Coalition have pledged an additional $20,000.00 reward for information that will solve the investigation and provide the truth as to what happened to Tucker Hipps on an early […]

SAVANNAH, Ga. – The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hartwell Lake Office is accepting natural Christmas trees (no artificial trees) for recycling beginning Dec. 26, 2021, through Jan. 26, 2022. Christmas trees can be dropped off at designated donation sites at Big Oaks and Poplar Springs boat ramps in Georgia and in South Carolina at Twin Lakes and Coneross Creek boat ramps, […]

(Walhalla, SC)————–An investigation into the theft of a Bobcat Loader and an Interstate Trailer, with a combined value of $73,000, has led Investigators from the Criminal Investigations Division of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office to charge two men in the case with one count each of Grand Larceny. 25 year old James William Green and 26 year old Matthew Kevin […]

Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway with the South Carolina Highway Patrol said that a motorcycle rider has died following a crash in Anderson County late last week. It happened this past Thursday evening around 5:45pm on US 76, about two miles east of Pendleton. He joins us now with more…

No one was hurt during a multi-vehicle crash Tuesday evening, according to reports. State Troopers responded to the scene around 6:00pm on US 123 near Jacobs Road, which is between Seneca and Clemson.

Nearly three-quarters of $1 million dollars in American Recovery Plan money allocated to Oconee County is on its way to hundreds of county workers who stayed on the job during the first year of the pandemic. At the request of County Administrator Amanda Brock, last night the county council agreed to consider an ordinance, to be devised by the county […]