Fake money investigation in Oconee

Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in a counterfeit money investigation.   The Sheriff’s Office is also seeking the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in relation to the investigation.   A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Bureau responded to the Dollar General, on Wells Highway near Seneca, on October 26th in regard to […]

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Betty Walker Gray

    Betty Jean Walker Gray, age 88, passed away on October 29th, 2022 at Lila Doyle Skilled Nursing Center in Seneca, SC, with family by her side.    Betty was born in Atlanta, GA on February 20, 1934, the daughter of Rogers Raymond Walker and Mary Gladys Kemp Walker.  She lived in Atlanta until 1942 when her family moved […]

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Jury verdict guilty … and sentenced follows

An Oconee jury today found Damian Bennett guilty of assault and battery second degree.  The judge’s sentence spares Bennett from prison.  A court officer reports Judge McIntosh handed down the following sentence:  18 months in prison, suspended to five years’ probation.  Bennett, who defended himself without an attorney, went on trial yesterday accused of assault and battery in a West […]

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Arrest alleging burglary near Seneca

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested an Easley man on multiple charges last Friday, including a charge of First Degree Burglary.   41 year old Marshall Adam Race, of Fledging Way, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center on October 28th around 11:22am.  Race was transported from the Pickens County Detention Center to the Oconee County Detention Center and […]

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A 3 on 1 briefing (RSV, flu, and COVID)

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA), Lexington Medical Center (LMC), McLeod Health, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and Prisma Health are teaming up to caution residents to take actions now to reduce impacts of respiratory illnesses on our state’s families and hospitals. Such illnesses include respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza […]

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Verna Hunnicutt, aunt to Senator Graham

Sandifer Funeral Home of Westminster has confirmed it is handling the arrangements for Verna Hunnicutt and will post her funeral announcement shortly.  A Seneca resident, Hunnicutt was an aunt of Lindsey Graham and is credited with having helped rear the U-S senator after he lost his parents within an 18-month period.  A spokesman for Graham said the senator was in […]

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Courtroom expectations

Expectations are this morning that SC vs. Bennett will be no longer than a two-day trial in Oconee General Sessions and will finish sometime today.  Damian Laurier Bennett went to trial yesterday, charged with assault and battery second degree — arising from an incident last January in the parking lot of a West Union supermarket.

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Changing Clemson students’ voting apathy

During the last midterm elections of 2018, only about two out of every five eligible Clemson students voted.  A class of university honors college students has developed social media tools to help change that leading up to Election Day next week.  Students taking a seminar used voting research to create info-graphics to encourage their fellow students to cast a ballot […]

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Trial opens at Oconee Courthouse

On a cold day last winter, two men confronted each other in the parking lot of a West Union supermarket.  From that encounter, one man was left bloodied; the second man was arrested.  Yesterday trial opened in South Carolina vs. Damian Laurier Bennett.  The defendant is charged with assault and battery second degree.  According to the prosecutor, an aggressive rhetorical […]

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