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The Corbin City Commission approved the first reading of a measure Friday morning that would raise the minimum wage for the city’s employees to $9 per hour. At a special called meeting at city hall, the commission voted 3-1 in favor of the proposal. Mayor Willard McBurney joined...

The signs went up Tuesday and Corbin Downtown Directory Andy Salmons said the city’s trolley bus will begin running its regular route on Monday. “That is going to give us enough time to get the last little pieces together,” Salmons said of the leadtime. The trolley will initially...

Laurel County Sheriff’s Deputies have made one arrest and are looking for a second person in connection with an armed robbery at a north Corbin gas station Wednesday morning that they have determined was staged. According to Sheriff John Root, deputies arrested 30-year-old...

A London woman was arrested at the Corbin Walmart Monday for allegedly shoplifting while intoxicated. According to Laurel County Sheriff John Root, Deputy Tommy Houston arrested 24-year-old Rachel Rudder on charges of theft by unlawful taking – shoplifting and public intoxication...

A Corbin man is facing charges of possessing and distributing child pornography in Laurel County. Sixty-four-year-old Lloyd Wilson was arrested at his residence on American Greeting Card Road Thursday afternoon following an undercover investigation by Kentucky State Police....

First responders were busy Friday searching the Cumberland River near Williamsburg for a possible vehicle, which was seen in the river Thursday afternoon, that might be connected to a missing person case. Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird said that shortly after 4 p.m....

A Corbin man is facing multiple charges, including DUI, after leading vehicle enforcement on a high-speed pursuit through the streets of Corbin Thursday night. Thirty-five-year-old Roy L. Garland was arrested after running his 1998 Nissan Frontier pickup truck off the road at the...

A Corbin restaurant has been closed by order of the state for failure to pay more than $100,000 in taxes. Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell posted the notice and changed the locks on Dino’s Italian Restaurant on Falls Hwy. at 11 a.m. Wednesday. “He was friendly about it,”...

A Corbin establishment is the subject of an investigation into complaints filed against it with the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not...

Downtown Corbin will come alive with the sights and sounds of Christmas Saturday as the tourism commission presents the annual Christmas parade. Corbin Tourism Director Maggy Kriebel said at least 25 different groups have already signed up to take part in the parade, adding that...