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Williamsburg Municipal Utilities was awarded a third-place finish for the Best Tasting Water in Kentucky at the annual Kentucky Rural Water Association’s Conference and Exhibition. Sixteen water districts, water associations, and municipal utilities from around Kentucky submitted...

A Whitley County Middle School student is well on her way to reaching her goal of raising $1,000 for the Williamsburg Police Department’s Shop with a Cop program.  HayLee Baird, 13, has already donated $640 to the cause.  “I know some families are struggling right now, and...

Having worked at Ground Zero for nearly three weeks after the attacks, Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley has a little bit different perspective than most people when it comes to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “It was a very sobering feeling,” Croley said about when he...

University of the Cumberlands faculty, students and staff turned out at Patriot Park on Sept. 9 for the 9-11 Never Forget program. The program included comments and reflections from participants about where they were on Sept. 11, 2001, and what they were doing when they heard...

Williamsburg Police arrested a Tennessee man Thursday after locating two pounds of marijuana, a 9 mm handgun and a small child in the apartment where he was located. Antwaun Johnson, 28, of Memphis, was charged with possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, trafficking...

What began as a traffic stop for running a stop sign and careless driving Thursday morning in east Corbin resulted in the discovery of a large amount of methamphetamine, marijuana and a handgun in the possession of a convicted felon. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents...

(Editor’s note: Paul Brock later withdrew his guilty plea in the case.) The trial of Paul Brock, 41, is officially over after he pleaded guilty to three counts of murder, one count of fetal homicide, one count of tampering with physical evidence and being a first-degree...

Baptist Health Corbin is one of 21 hospitals in Kentucky that will receive support from the Kentucky National Guard. On Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that 310 additional Kentucky National Guard members will assist with nonclinical functions within hospitals to allow...

Corbin Mayor Suzie Razmus said her video to the community,  which was posted to Facebook on Wednesday, was born from a state of helplessness after speaking to healthcare workers. Razmus’s video depicts her addressing the community regarding the effects of the Delta variant...

The Whitley County Health Department announced 125 new cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed since Friday Sept. 3 on Tuesday. Of the new cases, officials reported 19 cases involved children and three cases were considered breakthrough cases meaning the individual had been fully...