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Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a fatal crash that occurred Tuesday morning in Keavy. Forty-six-year-old William J. Hubbard of Corbin was pronounced dead at the scene of the two-vehicle crash on Level Green Road. Firefighters and emergency personnel were called...

Emergency officials say a man is lucky to be alive after flipping a car onto its side and knocking down a small tree that came to rest against the vehicle late Saturday afternoon. Shortly before 5 p.m., a single vehicle crash involving a Honda Prelude occurred on Chestnut Road...

Corbin Schools Superintendent David Cox will be honored later this month as the seventh recipient of the annual Daniel Boone “Visionary” Award, given to those who embody the values of the Boy Scouts of America. Cox has been named 2017 Visionary Award winner by the Mountain Laurel...

Sims Bark Co. of Georgia LLC, a provider of mulch, soil, rock products and other landscaping material, will locate a new 21-job manufacturing operation in Whitley County, Gov. Matt Bevin announced today. “The new facility by Sims Bark adds to the Commonwealth’s thriving timber...

Paul Parsons is guided to a waiting jail vehicle after his preliminary hearing Tuesday afternoon in Whitley District Court. A woman, who was inside the trailer where a double homicide occurred on Fred Nash Lane early last Wednesday morning, apparently hid in a closet while the...

A now former Corbin man, who spent 570 days either incarcerated in the Whitley County Detention Center (WCDC) or on home incarceration for charges that were later mostly dismissed, wants the county to reimburse him $13,338.91 for fees and expenses related to his incarceration....

If the Williamsburg City Council approves a proposed rate increase during a special meeting next Monday, then three years from now the average Williamsburg resident, who has both water and sewer service, will be paying a combined $10.16 more per month on both bills than what they...

The Corbin Tourism and Convention Commission got some good news during a special called meeting Tuesday afternoon. Revenues for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, are $85,026 higher than what they were at this point last year. “Wow! That is really good,” noted Corbin...

Members of the Corbin and Whitley Library Boards of Directors met in joint session Tuesday to work out a tax revenue sharing agreement. After several back-and-forth contract proposals, members of the Corbin and Whitley County Library boards came together Tuesday night to hammer...

Two Knox County Sheriff’s deputies were shot Monday as they attempted to serve an indictment warrant in the Trosper Community in eastern Knox County. Knox County Sheriff Mike Smith identified the deputies as Claude Hudson and Keith Liford, and the resident as 50-year-old John...