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Firefighters say arson is definitely suspected in an early morning fire Saturday, which burned one of the oldest homes in Rockholds.

In recent years, the number of cases that Commonwealth's Attorney Allen Trimble prosecutes in Whitley and McCreary County has jumped from about 440 cases annually to about 500 cases.

Nearly one year ago, Bob Hammons appeared as a candidate at a Whitley County UNITE Coalition community forum for county attorney candidates.

A four-man, eight-woman Whitley Circuit Court Jury deliberated for nearly 40 minutes Thursday afternoon before convicting a Williamsburg man of stabbing his girlfriend 16 times earlier this year.

There doesn't appear to be much, if any, dispute that Anthony Spicer stabbed his one-time girlfriend Ashley Warren 16 times about 11 p.m. on Feb. 22, 2013, and then led police on a nearly four-hour manhunt. He got on television and talked about it.

Nearly a dozen police officers from various agencies fanned out across Whitley County Tuesday morning searching for 14 suspects wanted for drug trafficking following a Whitley County Sheriff's Department investigation.

Williamsburg Police Officer Brandon White has joined an elite group achieving a feat that includes less than 1 percent of police officers across the nation.

Whitley District Judge Fred White entered not guilty pleas Thursday morning for 20 Whitley County Detention Center inmates, who are facing first-degree promoting contraband charges in connection with a recent investigation.

 A Corbin man, who is accused of allegedly offering $5,000 on the popular Topix website to have someone kill a former local radio personality and business owner, got some good news and bad news Monday.

Miraculously no one was seriously injured or killed when a tractor trailer when through the median, across the opposite lane of travel and nearly 100 yards down an embankment without flipping over on I-75 in Whitley County.