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Update: Laurel County Sheriff’s Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said Thursday that Anthony Johnson was struck multiple times in the top of the head with a hammer. “The autopsy found numerous wounds in the top of his head,”...

Mark White is Editor of The News Journal. As those of you, who have read our front page this week know already, Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison is headed back to the drawing board in his effort to place a measure on the ballot that would allow for packaged alcohol sales in...

W. Felix McFarland,  68, of Powder Springs, TN passed away Sunday April 3, 2016 at North Knoxville Medical Center. The funeral will be held 2 p.m. Friday, April 8, at the O’Neil-Lawson Funeral Home Chapel, with Minister Jerry Brown officiating. Burial will follow in the...

INVITATION TO BID The City of Corbin, KENTUCKY, will accept sealed bids to repair and rebuild the Corbin Public Works Transfer Station. Bids will be accepted until 4:00 P.M., ON MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016, at the office of the City Clerk, in the City Government Center, 805 South Main...

Former Corbin Fire Chief Gary Price will be laid to rest today. The 33-year-veteran firefighter, who retired from the department in August 2008, died Saturday at the age of 63. “He loved the fire department,” said Battalion Chief Aric Young, who started at the department in 1997...

The first steps in returning Corbin’s rolling railroad stock back to pristine condition will begin Saturday. Corbin Tourism Director Maggy Kriebel, who led the effort to bring the L&N 2132 steam engine, tender, caboose and Pullman car to Corbin, said volunteers are welcome...

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While local leaders in Corbin and Laurel County have monitored with interest attempts in the Kentucky General Assembly to pass legislative amendments that would change the laws on annexation, it’s a measure that has not been filed yet that could have the biggest impact of all. An...

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers says an effort that would allow cities like Corbin to annex into another county won’t likely pass this year. After two attempts by Senate President Robert Stivers (R-Manchester) to change the law on annexation — and essentially allow...

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