Category: News

In a confrontation on I-85 in Anderson County, authorities say a suspect that police sought in a stolen vehicle case was shot dead by a deputy sheriff yesterday afternoon where the interstate meets highway 8.  The county deputy coroner identified the man shot dead as Anderson resident Jonathan Zachary Combs.  Deputies first tried to stop 40-year old Combs on Anderson’s […]

A 24-year old man surrendered to police custody last night in a Seneca neighborhood and was headed to jail on multiple charges.  Melvin Cabrera gave up after a four-hour standoff.  Cabrera had barricaded himself inside a home in the vicinity of S. Walnut and 5th streets, but Police Chief Bowling says the incident ended peacefully.  Police had gone to Cabrera’s […]

Mike White, chairman of Friends of Lake Keowee, will be the guest speaker today when the Seneca Rotary Club holds its weekly meeting at Lakeside Lodge.

  An advancement in Pursuit Alert technology means new features designed to help keep safe motorists in Oconee County when there’s an in-progress pursuit by law enforcement.  Those new features include a new name:  Digital Siren.  “Citizens and visitors who have downloaded the Pursuit App need to delete that app and download the new Digital Siren app to be able […]

The latest South Carolina DHEC numbers reflect the count at the end of the day on Sunday.  New cases:  785 (16 of them in Oconee County). New deaths statewide:  17.  Of 14,263 test results received, the new positivity:  7.5%.

One of two cars involved in a head-on crash during the noon hour near Seneca left the road and went down an embankment.  The highway patrol says the 17-year old driver of a Nissan sedan, the car that wound up down an embankment, was sent to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.  Patrol spokesman Joe Hovis said the accident was […]

Zoning matters are on the agenda for a meeting next week at the Walhalla City Hall.  The planning commission will consider extending the downtown design overlay from Maple to Johnson streets.  And it will sit in judgment on an application to re-zone 201 N. College Street from office commercial to core commercial.  That property, containing a former school building, is […]

Nikki Haley has been named to the board of trustees at Clemson University.  She’s a former South Carolina governor who, during the early part of Donald Trump’s presidency, represented the country at the United Nations.  The Bamberg native and Kiawah Island resident has also been speculated as a possible candidate some time on a presidential ticket.  On the Clemson board, […]

Tenth Circuit Judge Scott Sprouse signed an order settling the case of an estate against a nursing home near Seneca.  It’s a pre-trial settlement in the 2019 case of Ruby Taylor, personal representative of the estate of Victor A. Taylor, versus SSC Seneca Operating Company, doing business as Seneca Health and Rehabilitation Center.  Sprouse’s order notes that the defendant agreed […]

Walhalla’s Wayne Garland on foot this morning is in Hiawassee, Georgia.  For Garland, that’s a notable achievement.  It means he’s fewer than 70 miles from the finish line of his north-south hike on the two thousand-plus mile Appalachian Trail.  He projects he’ll be able to finish his hike between noon and one o’clock Saturday afternoon.