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An investigation into a suspicious vehicle call in West Union Sunday evening led to the arrest of a West Union man on a charge of Trafficking in Cocaine. An arrest warrant was obtained today by a deputy from the Uniform Patrol Division against 24 year old Joshua Dillon Ford of Dusty Drive.  Ford was booked into the Oconee County Detention […]

An active investigation by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office into a Monday morning shooting incident on the Utica Mill Hill has led to the arrest, and charges being filed, against a Seneca man. Investigators from the Criminal Investigations Divisions have charged 30 year old Manuel James David Paulino, of Padgett Street, with one count each of Attempted Murder and Possession […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) made these statements on protests for freedom in Cuba. Ø  “President Biden: freedom in Cuba needs you now. Don’t be AWOL.” https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1414585931479277569?s=20 Ø  “Communism is the worst enemy of individualism, free expression, and free enterprise – which represent the best hopes of mankind. Death to communism in Cuba and everywhere else in the world […]

SDOC 2021-2022 Registration Dates School Event Date Time(s)   Blue Ridge Elementary Back to School Night August 13th, 2021 4:00pm  to  6:00pm Fair-Oak Elementary Back to School Day August 12th, 2021 12:30 pm  to  6:00 pm James M. Brown Elementary Registration Back to School Night Aug. 3rd – 5th, 2021 August 12th, 2021 8:00 am  to  4:00 pm 5:00 pm  to […]

The CDC issued its COVID-19 prevention guidelines for K-12 schools ahead of the 2021-2022 academic year. The guidelines were released two weeks before some of South Carolina schools begin their fall semester, and as the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is preparing its guidance for public schools across the state. The CDC’s guidelines can be found here. They include: Schools should fully reopen […]

A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Division, responding to a welfare check at a business location on West-Oak Highway Thursday, arrested a Central, SC man on a charge of Trafficking in Methamphetamine. After being dispatched to the scene, the deputy observed a white male, identified as 41 year old Paul William Leroy of Jones Mill Road, being loaded into an […]

Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw was notified Friday evening that 38 year old Christopher Lee O’Donald was captured late Friday afternoon in Hampton County, SC, which is in the southern part of South Carolina, northeast of Beaufort and Hilton Head. O’Donald was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Fugitive Task Force. […]

Anderson County Sheriff’s Deputies have charged Amber Christine Fernandez Cruz, 33, of Pickens, with Murder and Possession of a Weapon During the Commission of a Violent Crime, in the death of Cleveland Jenning Sanders, III. Deputies were called to a home on Poinsettia Drive, in the Anderson County section of Easley, on Thursday, July 8, to take a missing person […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) reminds parents, caregivers and anyone who drives with children in their vehicles to remember the dangers of leaving a child in a car for any period of time, especially during the hot summer months. An unattended child in a vehicle can result in heat stroke or death. In South Carolina, […]

Seneca’s Fire Chief Richie Caudill said that the cross-trained fire fighter/EMTs in his department have become familiar with a new medical helicopter operated by Prisma Health. One of the duties of Seneca fire fighters is to arrange landings and take-offs of medical choppers in the area. He said recently the department took part in a class to get better acquainted […]