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For nearly a year, a group calling itself the Corbin Racial Justice Initiative has been meeting concerning in part to a planned event next month commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the 1919 incident when 200 African Americans were forced out of Corbin on a freight train....

A Whitley County Detention Center inmate, who walked away from a work release detail on June 6, was captured Thursday morning hiding under a trailer in eastern Whitley County. Whitley County Sheriff Todd Shelley said that Jeremy Lynn, 26, of Williamsburg, was captured shortly...

A Whitley County Grand Jury indicted a Williamsburg man Monday in connection with a May 17 accident that involved a Whitley County school bus being hit head on, according to an indictment. The grand jury indicted Ronald Anderson, 33, charging him with 12 counts of first-degree...

“He was supposed to tell where the body was,” an anguished Carolyn Anderson cried out in Whitley Circuit Court Monday afternoon after one of the men involved in her daughter’s death was sentenced to 10 years in prison. “Where’s justice?” Immediately prior to this, Judge Paul...

A Grinch Village, annexation of Immanuel Baptist Church into the Corbin city limits, and the paving of sidewalks were all items on the agenda for Monday’s monthly Corbin City Commission meeting. Kaleen Turner, a representative with the Corbin Arts and Literary League, proposed...

The Whitley County school district’s finances are looking pretty good for the current school year, and include the purchase of over $200,000 worth of new textbooks for grades kindergarten through sixth grade, and the purchase of two new buses. During its regular monthly meeting...

If you own a $100,000 home and you live in the Williamsburg Independent School District, then you will be paying about $12 extra on your property tax bills starting next year. The Williamsburg Independent Board of Education approved the 2020 real estate tax rate and the personal...

Whitley County Clerk Kay Schwartz received relatively good news regarding her fee account Thursday, according to information in a release from the office of Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts Mike Harmon. The review of the 2018 fee account only identified three issues that the...

One week after its closure because of structural issues, the Jellico Creek Bridge on Ky. 92 West has reopened. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced Monday afternoon that both the eastbound and westbound lanes on the Jellico Creek Bridge in Whitley County, which is...

Funeral services are planned for Wednesday afternoon for a southern Whitley County husband and wife, who were found dead inside their home early Friday morning. No foul play is suspected in the blaze. Visitation for Rebecca Luntsford, 57, and her husband, Jimmy Luntsford Jr., 63,...