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A Whitley Circuit Judge has overruled a motion at least for the time being to move a well-publicized murder trial to McCreary County or in the alternative to have the jury sequestered during the trial. “We have to at least try to get a jury” seated in Whitley County, Judge Dan...

Williamsburg Independent Superintendent Dr. Amon Couch promises that he understands how angry and frustrated Williamsburg alumni were last week after video came to light on social media showing school officials throwing about 40 old trophies into a school dumpster, and he...

Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison’s efforts over recent weeks to get local residents to fill out pre-screening applications so a perspective business will open up shop in Williamsburg have apparently been successful. Harrison said that he was informed last week that Senture has...

Former Whitley County Judge-Executive Leroy Gilbert was a man who loved politics and who wanted to help people. “He was hard working, gentle. He tried to help people. He would give you the shirt off his back,” noted one of his sons, Lee Gilbert. “He was a good dad. I will miss...

A Williamsburg woman, who told police that she shot her husband on Jan. 13 because he had spent the majority of a cash settlement she received last year and who allegedly shot her two daughters because she didn’t want them growing up without a mother and feeling unloved like she...

Former Whitley County Judge-Executive Leroy Gilbert passed away Thursday at his home at the age of 78. He served as judge-executive from 1993-1998, and was a life-long member of East Corbin Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Mary Ann Gilbert; one daughter,...

Courtney Taylor told police that she shot her husband on Jan. 13 because he had spent the majority of a cash settlement she received last year and she shot her two daughters because she didn’t want them growing up without a mother and feeling unloved like she was. This was part...

Commonwealth’s Attorney Allen Trimble. An Oak Ridge man’s plea in a Whitley County homicide case was thrown out by the Kentucky Court of Appeals Friday after the court found that Commonwealth’s Attorney Allen Trimble had committed “prosecutorial misconduct” in the case....

Courtney Taylor is charged with three counts of murder in the death of her husband and two children. Prosecutors haven’t decided yet whether they will seek the death penalty against a Williamsburg woman, who allegedly shot and killed her two teenage daughters and her husband on...

One person had to be flown out by emergency medical helicopter following a three-vehicle crash Monday morning in Whitley County, and was listed in critical condition Tuesday afternoon at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. The crash happened about 5:30 a.m....