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Former Whitley County Board of Education chairman and long-time local accountant Delmar Mahan died Friday morning following a long illness. Mahan served on the board of education for nearly 27 years, including 19 years as chairman, before announcing his surprise resignation at...

A couple of homes were evacuated and a Kentucky State Police bomb squad was called to Williamsburg Saturday evening to investigate a suspicious box that was found outside of a home which turned out to be a toolbox. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe...

There were a few tense moments in Whitley District Court Monday morning prior to the start of a scheduled preliminary hearing in a recent homicide case involving Michael Worley, 40, of Williamsburg, who is charged with murder in the June 21 killing of his aunt, Wanda Richardson,...

Recently, I got up at 5 a.m. on a Wednesday so I could catch a flight to Salt Lake City, Utah. I got there about 7 p.m. our time the next day. Mark White is Editor of The News Journal. When it comes to air travel, it seems like nothing is ever easy, and this was one of “those”...

The manhunt for accused murder suspect Nicholas M. Rucker, who has been on the run since the May 22 killing of Vicki S. Conner in Woodbine, is over. He was captured overnight near Corbin. About 12:30 a.m. on July 4, Knox County Sheriff’s deputies Mikey Ashurst and Hunter Luttrell...

A pair of Williamsburg police officers and Whitley County’s emergency management director are being credited with saving an Emlyn woman’s life after was she trapped inside a burning house early Tuesday afternoon. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to...

Lawyers for a Corbin man, who is facing a possible death sentence for allegedly killing three people in 2018, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, want to have his statements to police suppressed although it isn’t exactly clear why they want those statements...

Unemployment rates fell in 91 Kentucky counties between May 2018 and May 2019 – including Whitley, Knox and Laurel counties – rose in 22 and stayed the same in seven counties, according to the Kentucky Center for Statistics (KYSTATS), an agency of the Kentucky Education and...

A trio of Williamsburg police officers graduated from the police academy Thursday, including two officers, who graduated with honors. Williamsburg police officers Trevor D. Teague, Steven Hill and Joseph “Ladale” Rider were among 30 officers, who were part of the Department of...

The City of Jellico has a number of events planned for its Red, White & Boom celebration that is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, July 3, and Thursday, July 4, at Veteran’s Park. From 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. both days there will be a street fair in Veterans Park with arts,...