Charges filed in sex crime case

A Seneca man remained jail yesterday, at the Oconee County Detention Center, after his arrest on charges related to a Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor investigation. 27 year old James Arthur Davis, Jr., of Overbrook Drive, was given a combined $203,000 dollar surety bond during a bond hearing. According to the sheriff’s office, Davis has been charged with 10 […]

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18 new charges against defendant Simpson

An Investigator with the Violent Crimes Unit, of the Criminal Investigations Bureau with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, charged a Seneca man with 18 additional charges yesterday in an ongoing Child Sexual Abuse Material Investigation. 30 year old Cory Donavan Simpson was charged yesterday with 18 counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor – First Degree. Simpson, who was arrested […]

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2nd phase approach for Oconee’s YMCA

A busy Foothills Y is approaching a second phase expansion.  The CEO, Christle Ross, confirms that a legal ad for a request for qualifications is aimed, in part, in finding a construction manager at risk for a new phase that might include a gymnasium as well as a second swimming pool.  Often the YMCA parking lot on the grounds of […]

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Summertime staple returns Monday, June 5

Free summertime meals will be offered once again to Oconee’s youngest population.  The school district’s no-charge lunch meals will be distributed at five locations across the county Monday through Friday, June 5-July 21.  Meals will be available to any Oconee child under the age of 18 and any child with disabilities under 21.  The distribution places will be the Westminster […]

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Candidate issues warning

Former Seneca Councilman Ernest E. Riley is worried that should his city ever be struck again by the magnitude of an EF3 tornado, as it was three years ago, there won’t be money to rebuild the electric power system.  Which the city faced when the EF3 hit three years ago.  Riley spoke last night in response to  the candidates’ political […]

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