Author: Dick Mangrum

The National Center for Missing & Exploited is marking 25 years since Jason Knapp disappeared. Jason mysteriously vanished from his university apartment in Clemson, South Carolina on April 12, 1998. Originally from York, PA, the 20-year-old was a Clemson University student studying mechanical engineering. The night before his disappearance, Jason was last seen by his roommates leaving their apartment complex. […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office sees the public’s help in an investigation of a stolen enclosed trailer that was taken from a church. A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Bureau began an investigation, after being notified on April 6th, into a white Covered Wagon single axle, 7’x12,’ enclosed white trailer that was stolen from Return Baptist Church, which is located […]

Late at night Sunday, a Dodge truck moving in the direction from Miracle Circle north toward Walhalla caught the attention of a Seneca policeman.  He, with the aid of a K-9, stopped the vehicle and confiscated a pink .380 handgun, along with 12 bags of a white crystal substance, according to a report released by the police department.  Law enforcement […]

Oconee Humane Society is urging the community to consider adopting to help save long-stay shelter dogs and is temporarily waiving adoption fees for many dogs.  Oconee County Animal Shelter, including the humane society adoption center, is experiencing an extremely high volume of dogs in need of care.  The kennels are full and intake appointments for people to surrender pets through […]

Those in need of food are welcome tomorrow at a Walhalla church for a giveaway.  From 4:30 to 5:30 tomorrow afternoon, St. Luke’s pantry on E. Main will open for a regular food giveaway.

If you can’t pay your tax bill, do not delay filing your return. Filing on time will reduce the amount of penalty and interest you will owe, which is based on the amount of tax not paid by the due date. If you can’t pay the full amount, pay what you can by the filing deadline. Your balance can accrue […]

  From an airplane, researchers from Clemson and Harvard saw miles of forest trees that looked like matchsticks after a category 5 hurricane.  But they when they got into the forests on the West Indies island of Dominica they were surprised that the category 5 killed only 10% of the damaged trees.  Many of the trees had respouted nine months […]

A lawsuit alleging negligence against the Pickens County sheriff is laid out in a filing at the end of March in the Pickens County Court of Common Pleas.  The complaint is titled, Deborah Couch as the personal representative for the estate of Zane Kevin Marcus vs. Rick Clark, in his official capacity as Pickens County sheriff.  Plaintiff’s attorney is listed […]