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About 80 Whitley County school buses travel nearly 5,000 miles daily during the school year hauling more than 3,000 students over about 65 school bus routes in addition to school trips and extra curricular activities. This isn’t including travel by school buses from other...

Corbin Police were forced to shoot and kill a runaway mule last Thursday that couldn’t be captured after it escaped from a local man who owned the animal. According to Corbin Police Capt. Coy Wilson, the mule was shot by Maj. Rob Jones, with a rifle, at the request of the mule’s...

Downtown Corbin will be roaring with life Saturday night as the Cumberland Valley Cruise-In takes over Main Street. The third of four scheduled car shows will begin at 4 p.m. Cars, trucks and motorcycles, and any other street-legal vehicles are welcome. “If you think your car is...

A Whitley County inmate was stuck in a holding cell at the judicial center for nearly a day after court security personnel forgot him Monday. The inmate, identified as 41-year-old James Thomas Adkins, had appeared in court Monday afternoon for failure to pay fines and failing to...

  Miss Nibroc 2016 Makenna Thibodeaux continued her whirlwind foray into the world of pageants finishing in the top 11 in the Miss Kentucky Pageant Saturday night. “It was an absolutely amazing experience,” Thibodeaux said of the week. Following preliminary competition...

The family of a man shot and killed by Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Mikey Ashurst in June 2016, has filed a lawsuit against the county, sheriff’s department, Ashurst and Constable Brandon Bolton. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, claims intentional homicide and...

A Corbin man indicted earlier this month on charges of first-degree rape and first-degree unlawful imprisonment is in the Laurel County Correctional Center after surrendering himself to authorities Wednesday afternoon. Laurel County Sheriff’s Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the...

July 6 has been declared “Team Reed” Day in Corbin and the Corbin Kiwanis Club is hosting a prayer gathering and balloon release for the man of the hour, six-year-old Reed Elliott. Kiwanis member Heather Barrineau said Reed, son of fellow Kiwanian Larietta Elliott and her...

Williamsburg Superintendent Dr. Amon Couch received the highest marks possible on his recent evaluation by the board of education. First year Superintendent Dr. Amon Couch got the highest marks possible on his superintendent’s evaluation from the Williamsburg Independent Board of...

If you like fireworks, then you will have the opportunity to view them over the course of three different nights in local towns. London will kick-off Independence Day celebrations on Saturday, July 1. Corbin and Barbourville will follow on Monday, July 3, and Williamsburg and...