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American Idol contestant Elvie Shane Payton was announced this week as one of the musical acts to take the main stage at the 2016 NIBROC Festival in downtown Corbin. He will be the opening act for returning festival favorite County Wide on the Friday of the festival. The main...

Two months ago Whayne Supply employees were advised that layoffs were coming. On Tuesday morning, the employees found out just how many jobs are being cut. Now employees must wait until Friday to find out if they are the fortunate ones who are keeping their jobs. A source close...

Donors are beginning to step up in an effort to make the Corbin Railroad Museum a reality. Corbin Tourism Director Maggy Kriebel told the Corbin Tourism and Convention Commission during its regular monthly meeting Tuesday that a potential major donation from a local private...

Tammy Sewell resigned and has agreed to pay restitution. A Corbin High School bookkeeper has resigned and agreed to make full restitution but will not face any criminal charges in connection with more than $5,500 that was found to be missing from the school’s fundraiser accounts....

If you are going to burglarize a car lot in the middle of the night, then don’t get your getaway vehicle stuck in a ditch with the stolen loot inside. Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies say this is what happened to two alleged Pulaski County burglars, who are accused...

A Corbin child has been selected to be among the 400 whose photographs appear in a video in New York’s Times Square to help kick off Down Syndrome Awareness Month in October. Four-year-old Lenox Lawson was selected from among 2,000 submissions to have his picture included. “There...

Autopsy results indicate that a Corbin woman, who is the wife of a well-known Whitley County public defender, and an Oak Ridge man, who were found unresponsive in a hot tub in April, both drown with alcohol and pre-existing medical conditions playing contributing factors. Read...

A public hearing was scheduled for last Thursday to discuss the possible annexation of three segments of state highways into the city of Corbin. Henry Heaberlin headed the hearing then opened the floor to hear the opinions of the residents of the proposed area. The annexation, if...

Two Knox County women have been sentenced in U.S. Federal Court to serve prison time. Patsy Carnes and Diana Hill were sentenced to 22 and 16 months respectively in prison, respectively for activity from 2011-2012 while working at the Bailey Switch Pawn Shop in Knox County....

A federal judge could decide as early as next month whether to grant an injunction that would force the University of the Cumberlands to pay its former president Dr. James Taylor nearly $400,000 in annual salary and benefits until a lawsuit Taylor filed against the university is...