Long-time educator stabbing victim

A long-time northeast Georgia school teacher is identified as a stabbing victim in rural Stephens County.  An arrest has been made.  Reports carried by Toccoa WNEG and Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR indicate an arrest and charges of murder and aggravated assault against 39-year-old Toccoa resident Christopher Vaughn. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Stephens deputies responded yesterday morning to […]

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Missing kayaker

During a second day of search, divers looked for a missing kayaker at Lake Hartwell.  The target search area:  the Port Bass section of the lake in the Fair Play area.  The missing man, described to 101.7/WGOG NEWS, as an elderly person seen Wednesday struggling with the kayak.  Yesterday divers used sonar and other equipment, to no avail.

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Christmas afternoon chase ends with arrest

Oconee Sheriff’s Office has brought multiple charges against a 30-year old Seneca man after a Christmas morning chase that started near Clemson and ended near his home.   Law enforcement records identify the arrested man as Demarcus Shawntez Taylor. Sheriff Crenshaw today gave the following account:  “On Christmas Day at approximately 3:16 pm deputies were dispatched to the Epoch housing community […]

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Clemson home fire

A garage is all that stands the result of a late Tuesday home fire in Clemson, according to one of the public safety responders.  Clemson and surrounding fire departments were alerted to a fire in Clemson Downs, at 40 Hickory Way.  No one was hurt and, at the time, the 10 o’clock hour Tuesday night, no one was home.  The […]

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SC 93 repairs in Clemson

A section of a Clemson thoroughfare undergoes repairs next week.  The city of Clemson announces that highway 93 westbound lanes will close Tuesday, January 2 to Friday, January 5.  Undergoing repairs will be the westbound lanes of 93/the Walter T. Cox Boulevard between Calhoun Drive and Sherman Street.  The eastbound lanes will be temporarily converted to single-lane traffic in both […]

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Crime scene at closed restaurant

A rural Tennessee man has been arrested in Oconee County, charged in a pre-Christmas crime at the former Mountain Rest Café, the Highlands Highway.  Law enforcement records show the arrest of Rodney Gerald Briggs, a 53-year old resident of Flag Pond, Tennessee near Johnson City, on the charge of trespassing and malicious injury to real property.  Deputies decided to pursue […]

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