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Frances Katherine Privett Collins,  82, of Williamsburg, passed away Saturday July 30, 2016 at the Williamsburg Health and Rehabilitation Center in Williamsburg. Funeral services were held Monday August 1,  at the Ellison Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Doyle Lester and Rev. James...

Kayly Lynn Lockaby,  16 of Line Creek Road, Lily,  passed away on Friday. Funeral services for Miss Kayly Lynn Lockaby will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning in the Laurel Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Kenny Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in the Pine Hill...

Johnny Mack Lunsford, 56, of Barbourville passed away Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at his home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, August 2,  in the Hart Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Bobby Joe Eaton officiating. Burial will follow in Brafford Cemetery with family...

Baptist Health Corbin, Baptist Health Lexington and Baptist Health Richmond were among a select group of hospitals nationwide recognized for promoting enrollment in state organ donor registries in a national campaign sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’...

Trent Knuckles is publisher of The News Journal. Since the Corbin City Commission banned the NIBROC Festival from Main Street several years ago, you may have noticed it’s a little smaller than it used to be. Fewer vendors. Less room for the carnival. Read this story and more for...

To the Editor: My story comes about when my son was in an auto wreck. Our Dodge truck was demolished. I had insurance on me and my son and have had it for a number of years. Well, I decided to drop the insurance because I don’t want to pay insurance on a truck we can’t drive. A...

All of us here at the News Journal are truly saddened this week by the passing of Bena Mae Seivers. During all of my two decades working for this newspaper, Bena Mae has been an extremely popular fixture in our pages. Her column, “Bena Mae’s Kitchen,” was about so much more than...

Trent Knuckles is publisher of The News Journal. It was about nine years ago that Gibson’s Music owner Betty Comer implored me to take time out of a busy Tuesday to watch Tommy Emmanuel play guitar. Emmanuel, an Australian-born guitar wonder of the world, was playing a show at...