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Jerell Cornelius Cloud, age 78, husband of Wilma Dean Cloud of Black Diamond Road, Corbin, Kentucky passed away on Wednesday, January 19, 2022. The family will receive friends from 1 pm until the memorial service at 2 pm on Saturday, January 22, in the Laurel Funeral Home Chapel...

Riley Shorter, age 79, of Corbin, Kentucky, passed away on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, at the UK Medical Center in Lexington, KY. Visitation will be from 6 until 8 pm on Saturday, January 22, at the Vankirk-Grisell Funeral Home. Funeral service will be held on Sunday, January 23...

A Corbin man wanted for parole violation and multiple warrants for violating parole and failing to appear in court was arrested Monday night. Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Tommy Francis, 32 on Robert E. Cox Road, off of American Greeting Card Road, at approximately...

By Jeff Ledington The Mountain Advocate Once pardoned from a murder conviction that saw him serving 19 years behind bars, Patrick Baker will spend the next 39 and a half years in federal prison. Baker’s federal sentencing Tuesday by Judge Claria Horn Boom saw him receive 42...

Construction on the Corbin Career Center, which will house carpentry and HVAC programs, is progressing with a tentative May completion date. At the recent regular monthly meeting of the Corbin Independent Board of Education, Superintendent Dave Cox updated the board on the...

You’ve still got a few more days to file, if you are thinking about running for elected office in Whitley County this year. Gov. Andy Beshear recently signed HB172 into law, which extended the candidate filing deadline until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 25. It was originally set for...

Whitley County was blanketed in snow after winter weather dumped approximately seven inches of precipitation on the area Sunday evening. While snow totals varied throughout the county, schools, businesses and government offices closed Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day...

Whitley County Sanitation’s garbage service will now be able to a run more smoothly since the new transfer station is officially open and operational. Community leaders cut the ribbon on the transfer station located off Happy Hollow Road behind Wendy’s in Williamsburg on Jan. 12....