Suspect arrested

  An arrest is reported in the Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigation of a stabbing last weekend in a home in rural Oconee.  Reports indicate Eric Raymond Lavoie has been arrested on charges of attempted murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.  The victim in the case is described as a man who intervened when 51-year-old Lavoie allegedly […]

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Fatal gun shot fired in Seneca

Coroner Addis’s report last night: “A 21-year-old Greenville man died Wednesday night from a gunshot injury.  His  death is being investigated as a homicide.   This incident occurred at Laing Court within the apartment complex known as Seneca Gardens and was reported shortly before 11:00 pm.   Seneca Police is the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction.   An autopsy will […]

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Ellenburg Road case back in court

A ruling is promised by week’s end on whether an appeal in the case of Ellenburg Road leading to Lake Keowee may be heard by a jury or whether the matter is better suited for a judge’s ruling.  Judge McIntosh this afternoon heard from both sides in the civil case Frances Ratliff and others versus Oconee County and others.  In […]

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Attempted murder suspect sought

The following announcement received this afternoon by 101.7/WGOG NEWS: “Investigators from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office are seeking the public’s help today in locating a suspect wanted on a charge of Attempted Murder. 51 year old Eric Raymond Lavoie, of Misty Hollow Lane, is also wanted on a charge of Possession of a Weapon during Commission of a Violent Crime. […]

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Harsh cold this weekend

Frank Strait, weather prognosticator with South Carolina DNR, says a storm crossing the Intermountain West will pass through this part of the country tomorrow night into Friday morning.  But for nearly all of South Carolina, he says, it will be too warm for anything other than rain to fall.  There’s a chance for the part of the Upstate well northwest […]

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Motorcyclist killed at Clemson

A 20-year-old motorcyclist from Summerville, Jacob Walter Noack, died in an accident yesterday afternoon at Clemson, on the Old Greenville Highway at the Anderson Highway.  The Pickens Coroner’s Office states Noack’s motorcycle was involved in a collision with a second vehicle.  He was wearing a helmet.  The investigation by the coroner’s office and the Clemson campus police is continuing.  An […]

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Quashing the thought of crossover voting

South Carolina will be the setting next month for separate Saturday preference votes on who should be the nominees this year to run for president.  Tempting as it might be for a voter of one political persuasion, crossover voting won’t be allowed.  In other words, as explained by Kristi Burr of Oconee Elections, voters must declare their party vote — […]

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