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The Whitley County Grand Jury handed down three separate sexual related indictments Monday, including indictments charging two men with incest. The grand jury indicted Matthew Salyer, 31, address unknown, charging him with first-degree rape and first-degree incest. Both counts of...

The Whitley County Grand Jury returned 16 drug-related indictments while issuing its monthly report Monday, according to the grand jury report and indictments, including: Michael Perkins, 39, of Corbin – first-degree possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), and...

As part of his training for his first year as a new superintendent, Williamsburg Superintendent Tim Melton had to come up with a phrase or statement about what he was looking for from this school year, and after much thought he came up with a phrase that he feels sums it up...

Over the course of about four hours on July 23, 2017, Michelle Marlow was viciously beaten to death at a home on Old Mud Creek Road. Her attackers thought she had taken $300 from them. The money was never found. The beating was so severe that the mother of nine children and three...

Various people affiliated with Whitley County High School and several Whitley County schools are doing their part to help those in Whitley County have a free community Thanksgiving lunch next week. Local residents will have the chance to enjoy a free Thanksgiving meal Wednesday,...

Help wanted: artist needed to help design and execute a new mural in downtown Williamsburg. The job pays $5,000, which includes the cost of supplies. The Whitley County Community Green Dot program is seeking a muralist to design and execute a mural to cover the white wall at the...

On July 23, 2017, then Kentucky State Police Sgt. Tony Dingess followed a trial of blood and drag marks from a gravel road through Chris Lowe and Lori Mattie’s yard up to the backdoor of their Old Mud Creek Road home. Dingess saw more blood in the kitchen floor and then in the...

About six hours after police found Michelle Marlow’s dead body inside the home that Lori Mattie shared with Chris Lowe on July 23, 2017, Mattie gave Kentucky State Police a nearly 50-minute sometimes rambling statement about what lead up to Marlow’s death. She offered few details...

A police investigation late Friday evening in eastern Whitley County lead to the seizure of one pound and six ounces of suspected methamphetamine and the arrest of two people on drug trafficking charges at a residence, and a police vehicle pursuit nearby. The investigation...

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