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Corbin man sentenced to 43 years in prison for violent kidnapping

A federal judge threw the proverbial book at a Corbin man Friday afternoon, who was one of the leaders in a 2018 case that saw a woman kidnapped in Tennessee and brought to Corbin where she was bound, blindfolded and repeatedly assaulted. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier...
Posted On 29 Jan 2022

Area basketball games are missing atmosphere of fans

There are more than 2,500 high school students between Corbin, Whitley County and Williamsburg. There are 35,000 people living in Whitley County. So why are the high school gyms so sparsely populated during basketball games? Granted, despite the stereotype, not everyone in...

New Partnership Formed to Meet Student Needs in Whitley County

Almost 550 retired teachers live in Whitley County. Out of this number is an organization known as Whitley Area Retired Teachers Association (WARTA). When they retire, many teachers find that the desire to help students and give back to their communities doesn’t go away. One of...

From KIPA to KPA

I almost never became a journalist.  The first time I attended a Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA) Conference was the summer before my second year at Eastern Kentucky University in 2017.  I had just been hired on as the opinion’s editor at The Eastern Progress,...