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Author, and Nelson County native, Fenton Johnson left his home for college just two weeks before the famous Kentucky State Police kidnapping and murder of colorful marijuana-farmer, and storyteller Charlie Stiles from neighboring Marion County in 1971. That incident, and the...

One of over 100 uneven areas on downtown Corbin’s sidewalks that will be fixed. Sidewalks on three of Corbin’s main downtown streets have over 100 “trip hazards,” and the city’s leaders voted Monday to do something about them. During the regular monthly meeting of t...

Pamela Jane Coker, 60, won her seven year fight with breast cancer and received the reward of eternal life on March 20, 2016. The funeral will be held Wednesday, March 23, at 2 p.m. at Mountain Ash Baptist Church with Pastors Billy Carpenter and Lester Cox officiating. She will...

Trent Knuckles is publisher of The News Journal. Until last year, I’d never heard of Bainbridge, Georgia. The town, located in the extreme southern part of the state, is now forever linked to Corbin. Bainbridge donated the old steam engine and coal tender you now see parked along...

Josephine Daniel, 97, of Corbin passed away Sunday, March 20, 2016, at Christian Health Care in Corbin. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in the Hart Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Bennie Bush officiating.  Burial will follow in Pine Hill Cemetery....

Dora Decker Johnson, 66 of Corbin, passed away Friday, March 18, 2016 at the Baptist Health Corbin. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at the Harp Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Keith Decker and Brother Gene Muggridge officiating. Burial will be in the...

Albert Carson Davis, 64, of Oak Ridge Road,  Williamsburg, passed away on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at his home. The funeral service was held Thursday, March 17, at the Croley Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Brian Roundtree officiating. He was laid to rest in the Piney Grove...

Lisa Gail Pridemore Lotton, 46, of London, passed away on Thursday March 17, 2016 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in London. Funeral services were held Monday March 21, with Rev. Forester Baker Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in the McHargue Cemetery. Vankirk-Grisell Funeral Home is...

Michael Anthony Webb,  56 passed away Friday, March 18, 2016 at the Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, OH. The family will receive friends for visitation: 6 – 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 23 at the Harp Funeral Home in Jellico. Funeral services will be held at 8 p.m....

Bertha Robinson Stanley, 89, of Rockholds, passed away on Friday, March 18, 2016 at The Heritage in Corbin. The funeral service was held Tuesday, March 22, at the Croley Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Mike Gray officiating. She was laid to rest in the Wofford Cemetery,...