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If a madman walks into a school and starts shooting, Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell wants his deputies to have the firepower to stop the shooter quickly.

Special Judge Jerry Winchester sentenced two Corbin men to 15 years in prison and ordered them to pay $6,025 in total restitution Tuesday morning in connection with a 16-day crime spree last year where they burglarized several local businesses and then got on the six...

An argument over someone allegedly sleeping with someone else's girlfriend resulted in two local residents being assaulted with a machete early Saturday morning, and a Corbin man being held in the Whitley County Detention Center without bond on attempted murder charges.

uthorities have tentatively identified a man, whose body was found floating in the Cumberland River Thursday morning near Maiden Bend Road.

Former Williamsburg attorney Ronnie Wayne Reynolds will have to serve 27 months in a federal prison for his role in a conspiracy with former Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge to extort money from Reynolds' clients in exchange for lenient plea deals.

Whitley County Sheriff's deputies discovered three one-step methamphetamine labs early Tuesday evening while answering a complaint about suspicious activity inside a vacant Woodbine house.

The biggest changes to this year's 14th Annual Whitley County Fair are the addition of a three-hour Bluegrass music concert Friday night and the absence of the donkey race, which had taken place for the last five years.

Nearly one week after the Republican party picked its nominee for Whitley County Jailer in the upcoming special election this November, the Democratic party has picked its man.

Whitley County Sheriff's deputies seized marijuana plants that would have been worth $34,000 when fully matured while investigating a tip Friday afternoon in the Canadatown community.

A Williamsburg man is being held in the Whitley County Detention Center in lieu of a $500,000 cash bond following his arrest on charges that he sexually assaulted a girl under the age of 12 years old.