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Baptist Health Corbin seeking volunteers

If you are a teenager or adult, who wants to help give back to their community or who needs to log some volunteer hours for school, then you may want to keep reading as Baptist Health Corbin is looking for volunteers. “As you take on your new role as a volunteer, you will soon...
Posted On 13 May 2022

Corbin Police Department answers 1,074 calls in April

The Corbin Police Department answered 1,074 calls during the month of April. Officers issued 137 total citations for traffic or criminal offenses, and made 72 total arrests. Out of those arrests, there were 21 criminal arrests and 51 warrants served. Corbin Police opened 39...
Posted On 13 May 2022

Woodbine man acquitted in 2021 fatal crash

Following a two-day trial, a Woodbine man facing a murder charge stemming from an April 2021 fatal crash was found not-guilty Thursday evening in Laurel County Circuit Court. William Petrey, 38, faced one lone count of murder in connection to the crash, in which he was the driver...
Posted On 12 May 2022

Once I think voters got educated before casting their ballots

Let’s face it, when it comes to elections much of the time voters cast their ballots because they are friends with a particular candidate or went to school with a candidate or they know a candidate’s brother or their parents go to church with a candidate. I tend to talk to people...
Posted On 12 May 2022

W’burg plans scary ‘Friday the 13th’ outdoor movie night

The towns of Corbin and Williamsburg are both planning free outdoor movie presentations in the coming days, but each will involve a very different type of movie. Williamsburg is hosting a “Friday the 13th Drive-In Style Movie Night” on Friday, May 13 starting at 9 p.m. at the...
Posted On 12 May 2022

Three out of five inmates involved in escape plot were facing a murder charge

Three out of the five Whitley County Detention Center inmates allegedly involved in an April 29 jail escape conspiracy were being held in jail in connection with murder cases, and a fourth was jailed in connection with a manslaughter case. Paul Brock and Nicholas Rucker are two...
Posted On 11 May 2022

First of three days of early voting starts Thursday (May 12)

Whitley County voters will have 12 hours each day on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (May 12-14) to cast early ballots in the race for sheriff, jailer, PVA and other contested races on the May 17 ballot. Whitley County Clerk Carolyn Willis said that her offices in the old...
Posted On 11 May 2022

Nearly a year later, no trial date set yet in Corbin killing

A London man and a Corbin woman remain jailed in the Whitley County Detention Center in lieu of $1 million cash bonds in connection to a homicide that occurred nearly one year ago. On July 19, 2021, the Whitley County Grand Jury indicted Adam Alloway, now 38, and Melissa Summers,...
Posted On 11 May 2022

Portion of I-75 northbound in Whitley Co. reduced to one lane until 7 p.m. (May 11)

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) advises motorists that a portion of I-75 northbound at mile point 14.651 in Whitley County will be reduced to one lane until 7 p.m. this evening (May 11). The lane closure is necessary to allow crews to perform bridge maintenance...
Posted On 11 May 2022

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Posted On 11 May 2022