Author: Dick Mangrum

Reports of gunfire late yesterday afternoon in the Anderson County town of Belton led authorities to a home scene case of murder-suicide.  Preliminary investigation on Belton’s Cherokee Road leads to the following conclusion by county coroner Greg Shore “indicates the father of the deceased female was at the residence visiting his daughter under supervised visitation and upon the visitation ending, […]

Smoke inhalation secondary to home fire is given as the cause of death for two young Oconee County brothers in their single-wide mobile home yesterday in the Holly Springs Community near Westminster.  Coroner Addis classifies the deaths of four-year-old Heath Morse and five-year-old Jacob Morse as accidental.

An Easley woman, Kerry Hamilton, lost her life last night as a moped passenger in a multi-vehicle accident in rural Pickens County.  Hamilton was identified as the fatality this morning, in an announcement by Tommy Page, deputy Pickens County coroner.  The accident which also involved two pickup trucks remains under investigation by the state patrol.

Jim Mann believes he can confidently predict that at least two of the Republican candidates for president will make Oconee County stops during the run-up to the state’s early preference primary election in February.  And the two, he told us, are apt to be frontrunners.  At this time Mann says he’s not at liberty to say which ones.  In part, […]

The fact that Oconee’s Jim Mann is supporting Ron DeSantis for the GOP presidential nod and his wife, India, supports Donald Trump may prove emblematic of the political choices South Carolinians will make at the start of the 2024 election season.  The state Election Commission wants South Carolinians to begin to study the candidates and the issues between now and […]

The Oconee coroner, Karl Addis, has identified the young boys whose bodies were removed from a heavily-burned mobile home yesterday near Westminster.  They were brothers 4-year-old Heath Trey Daniel Morse and 5-year-old Jacob Edward Todd Morse. Autopsies take place today.  The fire scene early yesterday afternoon–a single-wide mobile home on Misty Hollow Lane in the Holly Springs Community.  Whenever there’s […]

State troopers are investigating a fatal accident last night in Pickens County.  Master trooper Gary Miller says a passenger on a moped died — the result of three-vehicle accident in rural Pickens County on SC 183 near Albatross Road.  The troopers counted three vehicles, a moped and two pickup trucks, in the accident reported at 9:45 last night.  The patrol […]

Oconee government offices are now in shutdown as part of the Christmas weekend, to allow the workers the chance to enjoy the holiday weekend with family and loved ones.  They’ll return to service Wednesday morning, December 27.  The closings include the sheriff’s office; however, as usual, normal and routine law enforcement operations continue through the weekend.