Seneca News

July 8, 2009 - 10:42 p.m. EST WALHALLA - A growing accounting firm based in Spartanburg is taking over the annual audit of Oconee Countya TMs financial books.

A company that makes hospital supplies has laid off 119 workers at its South Carolina plant.

July 8, 2009 - 10:44 p.m. EST CLEMSON - Clemson City Council on Monday night approved the city's annual CAT operating contract with Clemson University, in which the university will pay a total matching contribution of $1,351,251 for transit service in FY 2009-10. But City Administrator Rick Cotton cautioned that CAT must draw at least $220,000 from ...

July 8, 2009 - 12:21 a.m. EST While most of the St. Luke's Methodist Church was heavily damaged, these pews and literature readings have been left untouched within a scorched sanctuary.

A reward up to $10,000 is being offered for information about a stolen Clemson University van with up to 6,000 pieces of U.S. mail that was torched in the vehicle, a spokesman said Thursday.

July 3, 2009 - 09:59 p.m. EST SENECA - Paul Corbeil 1 Admiral Lane, Salem Occupation: Financial Services Manager, retired Age: 64 Education: BA degree in business administration, Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y., 1966; Chase Manhattan Bank, Special Development Program, 1969.

July 2, 2009 - 09:58 p.m. EST SENECA - A 30-year-old Walhalla man is still behind bars with no bond yet set for allegedly burglarizing his own aunta s residence.

The following have called for Gov. Mark Sanford's resignation: Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler ; Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman ; Chairman of Senate Rules Committee Sen.

CLEMSON - Unlocking the "untapped potential" of the Upstate is the first step in a plan to boost the economic impact of tourism in South Carolina from $17.2 billion to $40 billion annually by the year 2020.

Larry Nolan basically lived on a bike as a kid. He grew up riding BMX, did some mountain biking in high school and college, then picked up road cycling in 2002.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford tearfully admitted to having an affair during a news conference in Columbia, S.C., Wednesday, June 24, 2009.

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A woman has been found shot to death at a closed medical clinic in northwestern South Carolina, where a man was found with a gunshot wound to the head.

An estimated 22,000 chickens perished in a fire that destroyed a chicken house near Seneca, a loss the owner placed at about $200,000. Townville Fire Chief Billy McAdams said the blaze struck the Floyd McPhail chicken farm, at 2051 Pine Grove Road, at about 10:30 p.m. Friday.

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June 18, 2009 - 11:19 p.m. EST SENECA - A man deemed responsible for a two-car collision that took the life of a Walhalla man two years ago is now facing a charge of reckless homicide.

June 18, 2009 - 11:45 p.m. EST WALHALLA - Civic and business leaders from across Oconee County were singing from the same hymnal Thursday and the lyrics were all about teamwork and cooperation.

A summer opening is planned for the Our Daily Rest Homeless Shelter in Seneca. Funding to help operate the first-of-its-kind facility in Oconee County will be, in part, made possible by a July 25 benefit concert in Walhalla.

CLEMSON - A stolen Clemson University mail van was found in flames and Clemson University Police Chief Johnson Link said the van and its contents are a total loss.

Prosecutors say there have been more guilty pleas in a check-cashing scheme to defraud South Carolina's social services agency of up to $5.2 million.