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Update: The juvenile has been reported as found. The individual allegedly returned of his own volition, according to the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department.   The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s assistance to help locate a missing...

It is now a six-person race to be the next Whitley County Jailer as Rocky Moses, Jr. withdrew from the race on Thursday. Moses announced the decision on his Facebook page Thursday morning. “I want to start off by saying thank you to each and every one of you that has supported me...

Fans packed The Corbin Arena Saturday for a WWE Supershow featuring some of the biggest names in sports entertainment.

A Corbin man, who was recently shot by a Kentucky State Police trooper after allegedly shooting at the trooper, is now out of the hospital and in jail. Jeffrey Parade was booked into the Laurel County Correctional Center on Jan. 25 charged with fleeing or evading police and...

Norma Jean Powers Crawford, age 94, of Nevisdale, Kentucky passed away on January 25, 2022 at Homestead Post-Acute in Lexington, Kentucky, following a long battle with Alzheimer. Jean was born April 19, 1927, in Whitley County, Kentucky, to the late Lida Powers and Pearl Duff...

Wesley Emerly Lay, age 98, of Goshen, Ohio, formerly of Jellico, Tennessee, passed away Saturday, January 22, 2022 at The Glen at Eastgate, OH. He was born on May 6, 1923 to the late Silas L. Lay and Meldia (Davis) Lay in the Wooldridge Community of Jellico. His paternal...

Frances Sue (Sowders) Proffitt, age 82, of Corbin, Kentucky, formerly of Long Island City, New York, and Jellico, Tennessee, passed away Monday morning, January 17, 2022, at Baptist Health Corbin. Frances was born on December 28, 1939, in Bonnie Blue, Virginia, to the late Cal...

Another “eyesore” will soon be gone in downtown Corbin. A subsidiary of Queens Domain LLC has purchased the property currently housing the Karaoke building, aka the blue building, beside Sweeties at the corner of North Main Street and Gordon Street. Jim Bruso, owner...

With the election coming up in May, a few times over the last couple of months, I gave serious thought to writing a column with the headline, “I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my candidacy for…”, and then conclude the column with “my candidacy for nothing. I haven’t...

Please join me in congratulating our news staff for winning 19 awards, including the General Excellence award for being the best large weekly in the state, at the recent Kentucky Press Association’s winter convention. I hope that I can impress upon you the fact that this...