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Female Williamsburg High School students will soon be getting a lesson in self-defense. The Williamsburg Police Department plans to start offering Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) system, training first seniors at Williamsburg and then hopefully to other high school students as...

Restoration and repairs of L&N 2132 are on hold until spring. Restoration and repairs to the L&N 2132 steam locomotive along with the coal tender and caboose are on hold until spring. Corbin Tourism Director Maggy Kriebel told the tourism commission Tuesday during its...

Hundreds of people turned out at Calvary Missionary Baptist Church Friday morning for the funeral of former Williamsburg Police Chief and Whitley County Sheriff’s Deputy Russell Jones, who died Saturday after a long fight against cancer. Jones spent nearly 30 years in law...

The new Arena manager has booked her first show and it will have the house rockin’ with the sounds of Ratt, Lita Ford, Jack Russell’s Great White, FireHouse and Trixter.

Concerts with bluegrass, gospel and country-rock artists, a large car show and several new food vendors will highlight this year’s 33rd Annual Old Fashioned Trading Days festival that will kick off Thursday and run through Saturday evening in Williamsburg. “It is...

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison to the Kentucky 911 Services Board. Bevin made Harrison’s appointment to the 911 Services Board Friday afternoon along the appointment of three other people: Daniel L. Bell, Robert J. Leeper and...

Adam Childress is accused of murder after allegedly getting drunk at VFW and running over a man on a sidewalk. The case has sparked various litigation. An attorney for a Williamsburg man, who allegedly ran over and killed a man out walking his dog along a sidewalk nearly five...

Miles from the nearest navigable body of water, Corbin firefighters were called to battle a boat fire last Thursday morning Corbin Fire Lieutenant Chad Jackson said firefighters were called to the parking lot of the former Basil’s Restaurant on Beatty Ave. about 4:45 a.m. Jackson...

Two Corbin teens are facing trespassing and criminal mischief charges for allegedly setting fire to a trash can at Miller Park Friday morning. Corbin Police Lt. Glenn Taylor arrested 18-year-old Dakota Hicks and 18-year-old Cameron Bledsoe at the park on Barton Mill Road just...

A Woodbine man was arrested Sunday morning for allegedly robbing a man at knifepoint at the High Top boat ramp parking area and breaking into three vehicles that were parked there. According to Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell, Deputy Brian Hensley arrested 29-year-old Isiah...