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Charlie West (Story by Mark White and Trevor Sherman) Alcohol involvement is suspected and one person is behind bars in connection with an early Wednesday evening shooting, which took place on KY 1481 about five miles north of Williamsburg, according to an arrest citation and the...

A single-vehicle crash along I-75 near Exit 11 sent two people to the hospital Thursday afternoon, with both having to be airlifted due to extensive injuries. According to officers with Williamsburg Police Department, a 1979 GMC truck was traveling northbound on I-75 between...

A Gray man, who escaped and walked away from the Bluegrass Career and Development Center in Richmond on July 31, was apparently apprehended in Knox County Wednesday afternoon. The initial investigation indicates that Billy R. Lowe, 43, walked away from the facility in Richmond....

The Williamsburg City Council has approved an amendment the city’s alcohol ordinance that will expand hours of sale for a specific type of businesses. A second reading of the amendment was presented to council members during a special-called meeting last Thursday evening via...

WOW! We have been truly overwhelmed with the response today to our EKY Disaster Relief Donation Drive! That is the opening sentence from the post by the Corbin Arena on Facebook. The same outstanding response can be applied to numerous people and towns, not from just Kentucky,...

Before I came back to the News Journal full time about two months ago, I was working a sales job that required me spend a good amount of time in several different areas of eastern Kentucky, including many of the communities that were hit hardest by last week’s historic flooding.

Elementary and intermediate students at Williamsburg Independent will be returning to refreshed classrooms this school year following a recent redesign of the school’s instructional spaces. A variety of new furniture, made possible through Elementary and Secondary School...