Member Login | Contact Us | Call Us Today! 1-606-528-9767 | info@thenewsjournal.net
default-logo

Bunch, Patrick square off in rep. race

In a year when state and national races dominate the primary election ballot, voters will have one local race in which to weigh in on as Alex Patrick is challenging State Representative Regina Bunch, R-Williamsburg in the 82nd district. The district encompasses Whitley and...

Wallen’s Towing recovers one of company’s old tow trucks

Wallen’s Towing and Recovery has recovered one of its own. The company founded by Luther Wallen in 1933, has bought back the 1970 Ford F600 that Danny Wallen built into a tow truck for Luther. Soon after Luther died in 1986, the truck was sold to David Watkins of Pineville. “It...

Tennessee man previously charged in high speed motorcyle chase, arrested for DUI

A Knoxville, Tennessee man who is facing numerous charges stemming from a high-speed chase on I-75 that reached speeds of 150 mph last month, is back in the Laurel County Detention Center after he was stopped for speeding on I-75 in London and arrested for DUI. Officials with the...

Former local auto dealer pleads guilty to bank fraud

A former owner of a local car dealership is scheduled to be sentenced in August after pleading guilty to two counts of bank fraud. Fifty-two-year-old Gregory Wilcheck of Corbin, who owned Myers Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Inc., Tri-County Cycles in Barbourville and Check...

Man assaulted over ‘pill money’

A Corbin woman has pleaded not guilty to a charge that she pushed a man and hit him with his cane in December. Forty-three-year-old Angela M. Moore is being held in the Knox County Detention Center following her arrest last Thursday morning on the warrant charging her with one...

Two local residents facing federal meth charges

A federal grand jury has indicted two men for allegedly conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in Whitley County. In the indictment returned Friday in U.S. District Court in London, 33-year-old Bradley Justin Lawson of Corbin and 24-year-old Christopher L. Jones of Lily are...

Parks department authorizes repairs to Cumberland Falls pool

The pool at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park will be open for business in 2016. Officials with the Kentucky Department of Parks announced Friday that $150,000 has been allocated to replace the pool liner and make any other needed repairs. Cumberland Falls Park Manager Roy...

Three injured in rollover wreck on I-75

  Three people, including a three-year-old child, were injured Wednesday night when their car hydroplaned on the rain-slick roads and overturned on Interstate 75 near the 30-mile marker. According to Sheriff John Root, the driver of the 2015 Chrysler 200, identified as...

Swimming pool closed, conference building condemned at Cumberland Falls State Park

Cumberland Falls State Park will be missing two of its amenities, at least for 2016, as the swimming pool will remain closed and the Blair Conference Building has been condemned. Park Manager Roy Johnson said the pool is in need of a new liner, which will cost approximately...

Man passes through Corbin on cross-country walking journey

Chris West, standing next to a statue of KFC Founder Colonel Harland Sanders in Sanders Park in downtown Corbin. There is an old adage that when you are not feeling good mentally, the best thing to do is take a walk. Chris West of Newport, North Carolina, is taking that advice a...