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Corbin man sentenced to 43 years in prison for violent kidnapping

A federal judge threw the proverbial book at a Corbin man Friday afternoon, who was one of the leaders in a 2018 case that saw a woman kidnapped in Tennessee and brought to Corbin where she was bound, blindfolded and repeatedly assaulted. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier...
Posted On 29 Jan 2022

Multi pound meth trafficking organization with Corbin ties dismantled

Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies have made two arrests in connection with a local multi pound methamphetamine drug trafficking organization, which they say has been dismantled and was distributing drugs in the Corbin area, according to a sheriff’s department release late Friday...
Posted On 28 Jan 2022

W’burg man pleads guilty to trying to kill officer with vehicle

A Williamsburg man, who tried to run over a Kentucky State Police trooper nearly 20 months ago before being subsequently shot by another trooper, will have a quite a bit of time behind bars to think about his mistake. Randy Sullivan pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted murder....
Posted On 28 Jan 2022

Rumor false about planned school shooting at WCHS

Social media rumors Thursday evening about a message supposedly left on a bathroom wall at Whitley County High School concerning a plan for a school shooting are untrue, the Whitley County School District wrote in a Facebook post late Thursday evening. “Local law enforcement,...
Posted On 28 Jan 2022

W’burg school board votes to join education agency

The Williamsburg Independent School District is joining a group of other regional school districts in forming a new local education agency in partnership with Berea College in order to apply for bigger grants that typically only very large school districts can get. During a...
Posted On 28 Jan 2022

Public’s help sought to locate missing juvenile

Update: The juvenile has been reported as found. The individual allegedly returned of his own volition, according to the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department.   The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s assistance to help locate a missing...
Posted On 27 Jan 2022

Photo Gallery: WWE Supershow at The Corbin Arena

Fans packed The Corbin Arena Saturday for a WWE Supershow featuring some of the biggest names in sports entertainment.
Posted On 27 Jan 2022

Paradise released from hospital, jailed Wednesday for shooting at officer

A Corbin man, who was recently shot by a Kentucky State Police trooper after allegedly shooting at the trooper, is now out of the hospital and in jail. Jeffrey Parade was booked into the Laurel County Correctional Center on Jan. 25 charged with fleeing or evading police and...
Posted On 27 Jan 2022

Some interesting races will be on the ballot in May

With the election coming up in May, a few times over the last couple of months, I gave serious thought to writing a column with the headline, “I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my candidacy for…”, and then conclude the column with “my candidacy for nothing. I haven’t...
Posted On 27 Jan 2022

Election Day delay? Probably not

Tuesday at 4 p.m. was the deadline to file to run for elected office in the upcoming May primary elections in Kentucky, but it’s possible that the filing deadline and the primary election itself, could get postponed due a legal challenge over of the state’s new redistricting...
Posted On 27 Jan 2022