Coroner identifies victim of house fire on Brooks Road
Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley identified the man who died in a house fire on Brooks Road Wednesday night as Burnis Jessie Gerald.
Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley identified the man who died in a house fire on Brooks Road Wednesday night as Burnis Jessie Gerald.
A late-night fire on Brooks Road, in rural Whitley County, proved deadly Wednesday, and investigators are trying to determine exactly what caused the blaze.
A federal drug trafficking investigation has resulted in the arrest of three Whitley County residents so far on drug trafficking charges, and has implicated former Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge and former Williamsburg Police Chief Denny Shelley in purchasing pain...

A sign on the door to the Employment and Training Office in Corbin says the facility will be closed until Thursday due to 'toxic fumes.'
Some minor...
When Blake Shelton belts out "The More I Drink" at his March 20 concert at The Arena in Corbin, concert goers will not be raising a cup of beer to salute the country music star.
Less than two months after Corbin City Commissioners voted to revive the city's long dormant Ethics Board, city leaders now want to abolish it.


Vonda McGee, left, and Shonda R. Peace, right, are accused of trying to...
A judge will hold a hearing March 10 to determine if a McCreary County Master Commissioner and Trial Commissioner should lose his license ... over three and a half years after he was initially arrested for drunk driving following an automobile accident in Williamsburg.
After about 15 years in operation, Baptist Regional Medical Center announced this week that it has discontinued its in-patient chemical dependency program, citing financial "non-viability" as one of the main reasons for the move.
While former Williamsburg Police Officer Brad Nighbert's sentencing was pushed off until March 24,two of his co-defendants pleaded guilty to their parts in transporting prescription drugs from Michigan to resell in Kentucky.
