Child sex abuse material investigation snares Oconeean

Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, in cooperation with the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office and the Department of Homeland Security, has arrested and charged a Westminster man with Sexual Exploitation of a Minor – 2nd Degree.   45 year old Randy Lynn Quinn, Jr., of Longcreek Highway, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 6:17pm Monday.  At this time, […]

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George Thomas Sandifer Sr.

George Thomas Sandifer, Sr, 85, of Mountain Rest passed away Sunday, November 27, 2022.  He was the husband of the late Edna Duncan Sandifer.   A native of York County, SC, Mr. Sandifer was the son of the late John Mintz Sandifer and Lena Petty Sandifer.  He was a 1959 graduate of Clemson University with a degree in Agriculture-Animal Husbandry.  […]

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Fair Play business burglary

Oconee County Sheriff’s Office seeks the public’s help to solve a burglary and larceny investigation at a Fair Play area business which occurred on November 11th.   The Sheriff’s Office is also seeking the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in the investigation.   A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Bureau responded to Sweet Water Wine and Spirits […]

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Environmental cleanup in downtown Seneca

A DHEC official says an executed copy of a voluntary cleanup contract for a corner property in downtown Seneca is imminent.  Mark Berenbok, project manager for the state’s Brownfields program, says no one responded with comments to a legal advertisement announcing a voluntary cleanup contract involving one acre at 100 and 102 WN 1st and 207 N. Fairplay.  On part […]

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The fight vs. online disinformation to intensify

The fight by Clemson University against online disinformation gets a boost, courtesy of a $3.8 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support the university’s Media Forensics Hub at the Watt Family Innovation Center.  Researchers with the Hub study disinformation and inauthenticity online and create tools to educate people and stop the spread of disinformation.  […]

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Two injured in 123 By-Pass accident

Traffic snarled late in the afternoon yesterday when three vehicles collided on the 123 Seneca ByPass.  The wreck occurred in front of the former Dienner’s restaurant.  Police Chief Casey Bowling said one of the two injured was taken to a Greenville hospital; the other to the Prisma Oconee Memorial.  Traffic eastbound backed up, in sections where it came to a […]

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