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(Editor’s Note: Knox, Laurel and Whitley counties didn’t issue COVID-19 updates over the Labor Day weekend. The weekend totals from those counties will be included in the News Journal’s next COVID-19 update.) COVID-19 cases continued to rise slightly over the...

Rest in peace Cpl. Billie Joe Hash, who was killed during the Korean War, and finally got to come home to Corbin last week after 70 years. Hash was laid to rest Saturday at Worley Cemetery, which is close to where his family used to live. It was an honor to be on hand Friday and...

Once again Cumberland Falls State Resort Park has made Kentucky Living’s 2020 Best in Kentucky winners list. “The votes are in, and the readers of Kentucky Living, the most widely-circulated publication in the Commonwealth, have chosen the 2020 winners in the magazine’s 11th...

A fitness website has listed Williamsburg as one of the top 25 “Best Cities for Fit Lifestyles 2020.” BarBend describes itself as the online home for “all things strength,” on its website. “We’re a news, analysis, entertainment, and opinion platform for what’s relevant in...

In 2018, while she was still 13 years old, Whitley County native Sydnee Floyd founded Jumbled Dreams Changing Lives, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to connecting individuals to service opportunities while providing education, support and guidance on the needs of...

Unemployment rates rose in every Kentucky county between June 2020 and July 2020, and unemployment rates rose in 109 Kentucky counties between July 2019 and July 2020, including Whitley, Laurel, Knox, Bell and McCreary counties, according to figures from the Kentucky Center for...

The Laurel County Health Department reported its sixth COVID-19 fatality Friday afternoon. “Our condolences go out to the family of the 72-year-old male, who was one of our previously reported cases,” the health department wrote in a release. On Friday, the Laurel County Health...

As it stands now, Williamsburg Independent School students will be allowed to participate in sports this fall, and fans will be allowed to be in attendance although potentially not as many fans as might have attended in year’s past. Also, everyone from players on each side to...

For the third time in seven days, the Bell County Health Department has reported a COVID-19 fatality. The Bell County Health Department reported its 12th COVID-19 fatality Thursday afternoon, which involved a 62-year-old male. On Aug. 31, it reported the death of a 77-year-old...

Geeta Patel was someone who loved children, and her husband, Ishwar “Ish” Patel, wanted to do something in her memory, so he had his children deed the piece of property where the Economy Inn used to sit to the city on June 7, 2019, in order for something to be built for children...