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Hepatitis C used to be a death sentence. Doctors couldn’t offer patients much hope when they were diagnosed with it. The good news is medications can now treat 95 percent of the people diagnosed with the disease. The bad news is that insurance companies want a liver scan before...

Thanks to the efforts of a local charitable group, 53 less fortunate children got to go on $150 back to school clothes shopping sprees Sunday evening. About 50 volunteers were on hand at JCPenney in Corbin, which closed its doors to the public at 6 p.m. but stayed open in order...

Vice President Mike Pence met with supporters at the London Corbin Airport where he landed Thursday while en route to meetings in Manchester. Mr. Pence landed at approximately 11 p.m. and was greeted by Governor Matt Bevin, and Congressman Hal Rogers, R-KY, who represents...

Classes have already begun at Lynn Camp Middle/High School, but new art teacher Jesse Hemphill will be giving his students, and more than one million people who tune in to History’s “Forged in Fire,” the chance to watch him show off his skills as a knife maker on Aug. 14. The hit...

The man he was riding with has pleaded guilty to DUI, but Corbin Police say they have not yet determined if the Corbin man killed in a motorcycle crash last Wednesday on Scuffletown Road was under the influence. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to...

Lily firefighters have all new hoses and nozzles, and will have better control of their water flow thanks to a $15,000 grant. Chief Doug Jones said the department received a $15,000 grant from the Thompson Foundation in Knoxville, Tennessee to purchase 49 sections of hose and...

“It is a literal dream come true!” That is how Miss NIBROC 2019 Katelyn Hope Johnson described winning the crown Saturday night. The 2018 Whitley County High School graduate, now a sophomore at University of the Cumberlands is the 67th woman to wear the crown. Johnson said she...

A Gray woman was charged with robbery after she allegedly hit a man in the face after he stopped her from leaving the scene with his car keys and cigarettes that had been taken from his vehicle. Barbourville Police arrested Pamela Wilder, 36, Thursday night after the victim...

Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a burglary-in-progress call Friday morning at a north Corbin business, arresting two people in connection with the incident. Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said James F. Tankersley, 47, of London,...

After more than two years of work, construction on the new $25 million Laurel County Correctional Facility is expected to be completed in late September. Jailer Jamie Mosley said the facility located on Hammock Road in the Fariston community between London and Lily will have 668...