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Traffic on Ky. 26 in Woodbine has been reduced to one lane after a tractor trailer ran off the road. The truck went over a steep embankment, landing on it’s side in an area between Ky. 6 and the Corbin bypass. Emergency personnel are working to determine how to move the...

A portion of East Ky. 92 in the Yaden community of Whitley County will be reduced to one lane for approximately two months as state transportation workers work to stabilize the nearby hillside. Work is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. Tuesday and conclude on August. 6. The effected...

A Corbin man will serve 30 years in prison for four counts of interstate murder-for-hire and one count of possession of firearm(s) by a convicted felon. William Timothy Sutton, 55, was sentenced to 360 months of incarceration on Wednesday after he attempted to hire a fellow...

Kentucky is the cancer capital of the nation, and while cancer deaths have declined about 20 percent nationwide since 1980, they have increased in Whitley County and in most of the other 119 Kentucky counties. Deaths due to cancer in Whitley County, at 238 deaths per 100,000...

A Bowling Green man was airlifted to the University of Kentucky Medical Center Monday after suffering severe burns in a motorcycle wreck on Interstate 75 in Whitley County. Law enforcement and emergency personnel were called to the scene near the 27-mile marker just after 11 a.m....

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help to find the individual(s) responsible for the vandalism at a Gatliff area cemetery. According to Sheriff’s Colan Harrell, deputies were called to Rose Creek Cemetery on May 22 after caretakers discovered 25 to 30...

The Corbin City Commission approved Code Enforcement Officer Mike Mahan’s request to file lawsuits on four dilapidated properties with the goal of having the structures demolished. At Monday’s regular commission meeting, the commissioners unanimously approved a motion authorizing...

Corbin Police officers are among numerous law enforcement agencies across the commonwealth participating in the “Click It or Ticket’ seatbelt enforcement campaign. Through June 3, officers will be on the lookout for motorists that fail to use seat belts and ensure all of their...

Court of Appeals Judge Debra Lambert and Whitley and McCreary Circuit Court Judge Dan Ballou are headed to the run off election on November 6 for the Kentucky Supreme Court third district seat. Lambert received the highest number of votes, 63,884, followed by Ballou with 32,192...

The Whitley County Fiscal Court is getting two new fiscal court members next year, and one new constable. In the Second Magistrate District, incumbent Lon “Chuck” Head was upset by challenger Mondo Cima, and in the Fourth Magistrate District two-term incumbent Robbie Brown lost...