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The Corbin City Commission voted to terminate a city employee during a special called meeting Wednesday morning. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not a Member? Join Us

Update: The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department announced at 3:30 p.m. on June 2 that the missing juvenile has been located. Original story The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s assistance in an attempt to locate a missing teenager....

UPDATE: The Williamsburg attorney arrested Wednesday morning on DUI charges while on his way to court has recanted his initial statements regarding the incident, in which he called his arrest “politically motivated.” James Wren, 67, notified the News Journal sometime...

It is unclear why a Whitley North Elementary School student allegedly injured another student with a kitchen knife that he brought to school Monday morning. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this...

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating an incident Monday morning involving a Whitley North Elementary School student, who brought a kitchen knife to school and injured another student. According to an automated call that Superintendent John Siler sent out to...

A Corbin man accused of beating a three-year-old child to death while babysitting her in February and the child’s mother were both indicted Monday morning by a Whitley County grand jury. Jordan Blake Taylor, 22, and Alexandra Ward, 20, were named in separate indictments in...

Update: A Golden Alert D, which was issued during the early morning hours Saturday for a missing Whitley County woman, has ended with a tragic outcome. About 8 a.m. Friday (April 7), Stephanie Patterson, 48, was reported missing to Whitley County officials. She was last seen...

A Golden Alert D has been issued for a missing Whitley County woman. About 8 a.m. Friday (April 7), Stephanie Patterson was reported missing to Whitley County officials. Patterson, 48, is described as a white female with short brown hair. She was last seen wearing a black jacket...

A Corbin Primary student died Monday evening following an accident with a basketball goal. Corbin Independent School District provided the News Journal with a statement early Tuesday morning regarding the accident, which reads as follows: “Yesterday afternoon around 5:00pm,...

Daniel Nantz entered a guilty plea to a federal murder charge Thursday afternoon, which marked the four-year anniversary of the day Geri D. Johnson was shot multiple times before being dumped out at Baptist Health Corbin and left for dead. Nantz appeared in U.S. District Court in...