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The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s assistance to find two men, who are wanted for recently robbing a southern Kentucky grocery store employee. About 11 p.m. on May 16, Deputy Jason Strunk responded to Save-A-Lot near the Kentucky-Tennessee state...

A routine traffic stop in Whitley County last week resulted in the arrest of a convicted sex offender. About 10 p.m. on May 16, Kentucky State Police Trooper James Creekmore observed Jeffrey Canada, 60, allegedly strike a curb on north US25 with his 1999 Green Ford F150 truck....

Angelika Lewis-Bowling, a victim’s advocate for the Williamsburg City Police Department, has been selected as the narrator of the Kentucky Victim Assistance Academy (KVAA) scheduled to take place in September 2018. The KVAA was created by the Kentucky Justice and Public...

The Whitley County Fiscal Court has gotten a clean financial bill of health in regards its financial statement for the 2016-2017 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2017. Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts Mike Harmon made the report of the audit of the Whitley County Fiscal Court...

Two local developers are planning to construct a 71-home subdivision in Williamsburg sometime over the next decade, Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison announced during Monday’s monthly city council meeting. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get...

What do the candidates for sheriff think the sheriff’s department can do, if anything, to better combat the drug problem in Whitley County? What, if anything, do the jailer candidates think the jail can do to help prevent inmates from re-offending once they are released from...

Eight defendants were scheduled to stand trial Monday morning in connection with an alleged conspiracy to smuggle drugs into the Whitley County Detention Center in 2016, but instead four of them entered plea agreements, and three others were held in contempt of court for failing...

John Siler has officially been hired as the next superintendent of the Whitley County School District. The board of education voted unanimously during its regular meeting Thursday to offer Siler a four-year contract, which begins July 1, and he signed the new contract during the...

The addition of five new Williamsburg police officers, who will serve as school resource officers at the University of the Cumberlands, the replacement of most vehicles in the police department, and the possibility of purchasing a ladder truck for the fire department were all...

Williamsburg is playing host this week to a three-day federal conference that is looking at immigration issues and ways to prevent fraud. The Kentucky Consular Center is hosting the three-day H&L Fraud Prevention Workshop, which includes 41 participants from the U.S....