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Police seek public’s help in identifying north Corbin hotel thief

The Laurel County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help to find the man who emptied the cash drawer at the front desk of the Comfort Suites in North Corbin Friday night.

Prosecutors may seek death penalty for man who killed grandmother

While the case against Jeremy Owens, 32, who has admitted to shooting and killing his 74-year-old grandmother, Bernice Champlin, has moved to Laurel Circuit Court following his indictment Friday on a murder charge, Commonwealth's Attorney

Laurel County Sheriff rounds up suspected drug dealers

For the third time in 2011, Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies and Kentucky State Police spread out across the county for and early-morning roundup of suspected drug dealers.

Corbin man captured after allegedly robbing 92-year-old business owner

A Corbin man is being held in the Laurel County Detention Center on a $50,000 for allegedly beating and robbing a 92-year-old business owner in London.

Beating, car theft ‘all over a girl,’ local police say

Corbin Police are searching for 25-year-old Robert Jones whom they said beat a man with a 2-by-4 and then stole his car before dumping it in the Laurel River at the 312 boat ramp early Monday morning.

Corbin hires new Main Street Manager

The Corbin City Commission approved a motion Monday night to hire Andrew Salmons as the new Main Street Program Manager.

Police investigating Corbin woman’s death

Laurel County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a Corbin woman found slumped over in the living room floor of her home Sunday morning.

Printing company employee arrested for making phony prescription pads

An employee at a local printing company was arrested Tuesday on charges he was printing phony prescription pads and writing his own prescriptions for Hydrocodone.

Police searching for suspects in strong-armed robbery in Corbin Monday

Laurel County Sheriff's deputies are searching for four men who robbed a customer at a North Corbin gas station Monday night.

Argument over drugs, woman sparked savage beating, police say

In what Chief Deputy Derek Eubanks called a fight over a woman and drugs, Albert Sawyers and Terry Hubbard have been arrested on charges that they severely beat Billy Hopkins with at least one baseball bat outside his Corbin home Sunday night, while the search continues for...