John Anthony Creech, 28, of 105 Ella Drive, was charged with one count each of second-degree burglary and grand larceny with a value more than $10,000.

Due to the approach of Hurricane Florence, the South Carolina Forestry Commission has issued a State Forester’s Burning Ban for all counties in the state, effective at 7 a.m. this morning. 

The company selected to buy Walhalla’s public restroom building on East Main Street has released the purchase agreement back to the city.

Clemson University marked the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Tuesday with a special ceremony featuring two people who experienced that fateful day in different ways.

A 14-year-old faces allegations of attempted murder after allegedly firing a weapon toward a home with people inside on Friday night.

Ozzy, a 1-year-old miniature Aussiedoodle, has joined the department’s victim services department and will accompany handler and victim services coordinator Debra Shockley to work most days.

Jared Lathel Dobson, of Northwood Drive, is charged with four counts of ill treatment of animals.

Steven Lee Reynolds, of 3 Padgett St. in Seneca, was arrested without incident shortly after 7 p.m. after deputies received a tip that he was on Coffee Road near Stribling Shoals Road in Walhalla, according to an Oconee County Sheriff’s Office news release.

Lee Mikeal Cawthon, 42, appeared before Judge Lawton McIntosh in a courtroom inside the Oconee County Courthouse where he pleaded guilty Monday morning to murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. 

Residents around Padgett Street in the Utica community, where two people were shot to death Monday morning, voiced concerns over drugs and violence they say are prevalent in the neighborhood.

Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis identified the victims as 54-year-old Timothy Wayne Caldwell, who lived at the home, and 29-year-old David Thomas Tranah of Seneca. Tranah recently lived at a home on West Oak Highway, according to Addis.

Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said in a news release over the weekend that Keith Randall Moore was pronounced dead at the scene from “blunt force traumatic injuries.” 

Oconee County Council will hear presentations from Sheriff Mike Crenshaw and Salem director of operations Ryan Hardin before getting down to business at its meeting tonight.

Clemson City Council incumbent Jerry Chapman, who is seeking a second term, said traffic is a major problem facing the city and one that “is not going to get better without some serious long-range planning and an ‘all-in’ commitment to public transportation.”