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A Corbin area law firm is pledging $20,000 toward the purchase of metal detectors for Corbin Independent Schools. In a video released on Copeland and Romines Law Office’s Facebook page Thursday morning, attorney Shane Romines “I don’t know about you, but I have been sickened and...

In today’s society, boys may be growing up, but many of them are stuck in adolescence and aren’t becoming men for quite some time. “We have all these measures of manhood that have nothing to do with character,” Stephen Meeks told the Williamsburg Kiwanis Club Thursday. “Manhood...

The Whitley County Board of Education’s newest member is someone who is no stranger to the board. Brenda Rose worked 27 years in the Whitley County school district, including nearly seven years as the board’s secretary before retiring in September. Late Thursday afternoon,...

A crew from Woodbine Search and Rescue was called upon Tuesday morning to help a woman trapped by the floodwaters by delivering her insulin to her. Woodbine Battalion Chief Rickie Fore said firefighters used the department’s flat bottom boat to make the mile-long trek through the...

The Knox County Utilities Commission has issued a boil water advisory for its customers in Knox, Bell and Whitley Counties. Officials said the advisory is the result of the severe flooding throughout the area. Two lines have been completely blown out, serving approximately 350...

Two local men are among six people named in a federal indictment stemming from an investigation into drug trafficking at a Tennessee pain clinic. James Bradley Combs, 40, of Woodbine and Larry Karr, 73, of Keavy were named in the superseding indictment handed down Jan. 25 in U.S....

A Gray woman is being held in the Knox County Detention Center on charges that she left her six children alone inside of a residence with no food Tuesday night. Thirty-eight-year-old Mary Meek is facing charges of endangering the welfare of a minor, third-degree possession of a...

A Williamsburg man, whose children were found with bruises, bite marks and burn marks in mid-December, is now behind bars after a more than one-month long search by police. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to...

The bouts with winter weather are, or close to, wreaking havoc on the local schools systems calendars. Icy roads forced Corbin, Whitley County and Williamsburg school systems to cancel classes Monday. While several periods of rain are forecast into the weekend, the National...

Woodbine and Oak Grove firefighters spend nearly three hours Tuesday battling a house fire off of Ky. 6. Firefighters were paged to the scene on Sycamore Street at approximately 2:45 p.m. “There was heavy smoke showing and two rooms were fully involved,” said Woodbine Battalion...