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Tennessee woman facing robbery charge after shoving store clerk at Pleasant View Dollar General

A Tennessee woman is facing a robbery charge in connection with a shoplifting incident at a Whitley County Dollar General that turned physical. Corbin Police arrested Latoya D. Dople, 34, on a warrant stemming from the Jan. 15 incident charging her with second-degree robbery....

Williamsburg woman pronounced dead following Thursday crash near London

A Williamsburg woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a three-vehicle crash Thursday morning in Laurel County involving her Chevrolet and two tractor-trailer trucks. Laurel County Sheriff’s Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, identified the victim...

Whitley County’s Nick Wilson wins immunity, sent to Edge of Extinction in Survivor episode featuring two tribal votes

Whitley County’s Nick Wilson survived one more tribal council in Wednesday night’s two-hour episode of Survivor: Winners at War by winning the immunity challenge, but could not garner the necessary allies to save himself in the second vote of the two-hour show. As a result, Nick...

Williamsburg Independent School Salutes Class of 2020

High school seniors will not get the send off they envisioned this year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but local schools are finding different ways to honor the Class of 2020. Senior photos were used to make congratulatory signs that are currently on display in front of...
Posted On 07 May 2020

Photo Gallery: Williamsburg Health & Rehabilitation Center Wave Parade

Family members of residents at Williamsburg Health and Rehabilitation were invited to participate in a wave parade at the facility Friday afternoon. With no contact permited because of the the danger the COVID–19 virus presents to the senior community, family members were invited...
Posted On 07 May 2020

Baptist Health spearheads breakthrough COVID-19 plasma treatment

Clinicians treating severely suffering COVID-19 patients at Baptist Health Corbin now have access to the FDA-sponsored, Mayo Clinic-led expanded access treatment program through a clinical trial using plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients as a potential treatment option. The...
Posted On 06 May 2020
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Courtney Taylor triple murder sentencing hearing delayed until judicial center opens again

The sentencing hearing for a Williamsburg woman, who allegedly killed her husband and two teenage daughters in their southern Whitley County home on Jan. 13, 2017, has been delayed again. On Feb. 19, Courtney Taylor, 44, entered an Alford plea to three counts of capital murder in...
Posted On 06 May 2020

Two more COVID-19 cases confirmed in Laurel County; All Whitley and Knox cases released from isolation

When it comes to COVID-19, there is some good news locally and some bad news. It has been nearly two weeks since a new COVID-19 case was confirmed in either Whitley or Knox County, but two new cases were reported Tuesday in Laurel County, according to local health departments....
Posted On 06 May 2020

W’burg Police arrest suspect in road rage incident on I-75

A Leslie County man is facing an attempted murder charge in Whitley County after police say he fired gunshots into a tractor-trailer truck on I-75 Sunday. Williamsburg Police arrested Jerry Melton, 70, of Wooton, following a traffic stop near Exit 11. According to officers, the...

Police: Corbin man running naked at car wash was intoxicated

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Corbin man Saturday night after responding to a complaint of an intoxicated individual who was running around naked. Walter L. Harrison, 64, is facing charges of second-degree indecent exposure, third-degree terroristic threatening,...