A Williamsburg couple is free on bond after allegedly falsely reporting that their flat screen television was taken during a staged burglary, according to a press release by Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird.
Two local residents are being held in the Whitley County Detention Center in lieu of $50,000 cash bonds following their arrests on methamphetamine related charges.
Two people had to be flown via emergency medical helicopter following separate crashes in or near Williamsburg Wednesday.
A Williamsburg father and son are being held in the Whitley County Detention Center in lieu of $25,000 cash bonds for allegedly burglarizing a residence late last month, and police are planning to charge a third family member in connection with the case.
On a day when many firefighters and first responders were being recognized for service to their communities, firefighters from three local departments battled a blaze near Corbin that they initially feared was far worse than it turned out to be.
A former University of the Cumberlands wrestler was released from jail Tuesday afternoon after allegedly tying up his girlfriend and ripping part of her cloths off in a school parking lot during the early morning hours of Sept. 2.
Emergency officials from Whitley and McCreary counties had to use ropes and a Stokes basket to carry a 70-year-old woman up a 30-foot embankment off a trail at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park late Tuesday afternoon.
The race to become Whitley County's next jailer has now increased to six people, including four write-in candidates.
Nearly 100 people turned out Friday afternoon at the Williamsburg-Whitley County Airport for the dedication ceremony of the only fixed wing air medical ambulance base in Kentucky.
Two days before former Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge is expected to be sentenced to at least 15.5 years in a federal prison, Kentucky State Auditor Crit Luallen released two more scathing audits on Hodge's books while he was in office.
