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UC Nursing Program to host suicide awareness walk

The University of the Cumberlands Nursing Program is trying to do what it can to help prevent suicide and raise awareness about it, and wants your help this weekend. On Saturday, April 2, the inaugural Out of the Darkness Campus Walk will be held at 11 a.m. at the UC campus in...
Posted On 01 Apr 2022

No more tickets available for Drew Brees UC speech

If you were hoping to see NFL Super Bowl champion and MVP Drew Brees when he speaks on Tuesday, April 5, at the University of the Cumberlands Excellence in Leadership Series, which is sponsored by The Forcht Group of Kentucky, then you are probably out of luck. While the event is...
Posted On 01 Apr 2022

Whitley County Board of Health sells property by Corbin office

Parking may be a little harder to come by at the Whitley County Health Department’s Corbin office over the next couple of years. During a special called meeting Monday evening, the Whitley County Board of Health, which oversees the health department, voted to sell 1,584 square...
Posted On 31 Mar 2022

Laurel County Sheriff’s Dept. reminds residents of home monitoring service

With area schools spring breaks coming up, the Laurel County Sheriff’s Department is reminding residents of its home monitoring service. “If citizens will be out of town, contact our office to schedule our deputies to drive by and check on your home while you are out of town,”...

Huff co-sponsors bill to increase penalties for 1st-degree abuse of children under 12

Child abuse laws in Kentucky have gotten tougher as House Bill 263, which would increase the prison term for individuals convicted of first-degree criminal abuse of a child under the age of 12, was signed into law by Gov. Andy Beshear last Friday. Under Kentucky law, the charge...

Jury convicts Brock on three counts of murder, fetal homicide

A Corbin man was found guilty of the 2018 murders of Aaron Byers, Mary Jackson, Tiffany Byers and the fetal homicide of Tiffany Byers’ unborn child last Thursday in Whitley Circuit Court. Paul Oliver Brock, of Corbin, was also found guilty of one count of tampering with physical...

Elizabethtown man charged with assault in connection with road rage incident outside Arena

An Elizabethtown man wanted for a punching another man in the face in what witnesses told police was a road rage incident in The Arena parking lot following the Ryan Upchurch concert on Jan. 8 was charged after turning himself in to Williamsburg Police Thursday night. Read this...

Father tells Brock that he forgives him for son’s murder

After four years, the families of Mary Jackson, Aaron Byers, Tiffany Byers and Tiffany Byers’ unborn child will finally have closure. Paul Oliver Brock, of Corbin, was sentenced Tuesday morning to life without the possibility of parole. He was convicted of three counts of murder,...

Florida woman indicted on theft charge by Knox Co. Grand Jury

A Knox County Grand Jury has indicted a Florida woman on identity theft and theft by deception charges in which the victim was the Knox Circuit Court Clerk’s Office. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view...