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  Nobu Smith Nobu Smith, 78, of Verne Road, Williamsburg, passed away on Thursday, February 4, 2016 at Baptist Health in Corbin. Visitation will be after 6 p.m. Saturday, February 6, at Croley Funeral Home. The funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, February 7, at the...

Virginia Jones Logan Virginia Jones Logan, 87, passed away Wednesday. Visitation will be held at 10 a.m. until the funeral hour at 12 p.m. Saturday at Grace Baptist Church. Funeral service will be held at 12 noon Saturday at Grace Baptist Church in Lexington Hart Funeral Home,...

Evelyn Sergent Cooper Evelyn Sergent Cooper, 75, passed away Monday, February 1, 2016 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Funeral services will be held on Sunday, February 7, at 3 p.m. with visitation beginning at 1 p.m. at Vankirk-Grisell Funeral Home....

The big question on everyone’s mind now that Barbourville residents have approved the sale of alcohol is will it be sold on Sunday. The answer is yes. The second reading of Barbourville’s Resolution 2016-1 was held last Friday; however, the vote by the city council to...

Why do so many people seem to think it’s the funniest thing in the world to witness another person fall? First, allow me to fill you in a on a little personal history. There are moments in your life that, while they may seem inconsequential to some, shape your attitude about...

A Corbin native is one of only a few surgeons in Kentucky performing a state-of-the-art ankle replacement procedure that has given one local man a “new lease on life.” Dr. Collin Ball, a podiatric surgeon with KentuckyOne Health Orthopedic Associates, said that when Somerset...

An event to encourage organ donation and to support a program that advocates for it will be held at the Whitley Circuit Clerk’s office in Corbin in honor of a former employee, tragically murdered in his home along with his wife and daughter last year. On Friday, Feb. 12, Trust...

Dear Corbin Community, According to the Old Testament, when Israel was saved from Egypt, they were saved for something: the Promised Land. Some 1500 years later, the apostle Paul reminds the Galatians that, like their forefathers, they have not just been saved; they have been...

A 66-year-old Somerset man, who is accused of sexually abusing three female relatives about 20 years ago, has agreed to accept a five-year prison sentence for his crimes. On Oct. 21, 2013, a Whitley County Grand Jury indicted Roger Martin Ruggles for first-degree rape, incest,...

A CTA employee had to be airlifted after a piece of equipment fell on his leg Tuesday afternoon. Knox County EMS and Corbin firefighters were called to the facility on CTA Blvd. in the Southeast Regional Business Park about 2:45 p.m. Firefighters said the employee, whose name was...