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WATCH: 29th Annual Gateway to the Cumberlands Jeep Jamboree

Photo by  TIMOTHY WYATT Watch a short clip of our coverage from the 29th Annual Gateway to the Cumberlands Jeep Jamboree event here.

Progress continues in Williamsburg Ind. football field upgrade project

Progress toward getting an athletics upgrade project started at Williamsburg Independent’s football field is continuing to move along. During the Williamsburg Independent Board of Education’s regular monthly meeting last Tuesday, board members approved a surveyor to inspect the...

Stolen sports cards sold to Corbin business

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Kentucky indicted two men Thursday for allegedly stealing over $75,000 worth of sports cards from businesses in Tennessee and Kentucky and then selling some of the merchandise at a business in Corbin, according to their indictments....
Posted On 26 Oct 2022

Mayes gets 15-year prison sentence in child sexual abuse case

Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday that David Mayes, 30, was sentenced in Whitley County Circuit Court for charges of child sexual abuse. In July, Mayes pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree criminal abuse (Class C Felony), two counts of first-degree rape...
Posted On 26 Oct 2022
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Deputies seize 3 pounds of meth in southern Laurel County

Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies seized approximately three pounds of crystal methamphetamine and two firearms during a traffic stop earlier this month in southern Laurel County. Deputies arrested the driver, Kenneth Edward Broyles, 43, of Mosheim, Tennessee, and passenger Ernest...
Posted On 26 Oct 2022

Williamsburg hosts Jeep Jamboree last week, once again largest in the world

                Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT and MARK WHITE More than 175 Jeeps descended upon Williamsburg late last week for the 29th Annual Gateway to the Cumberlands Jeep Jamboree event. Jeeps and their drivers began arriving Thursday, Oct....

Police Taser Knox County woman twice on her way to jail

Corbin Police Sgt. Steve Meadors arrested and charged Ashley E. Hubbard, 36, of Heidrick, with alcohol intoxication, second-degree disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, menacing and fourth-degree assault in connection with an incident at a restaurant. Ashley Hubbard The Knox...
Posted On 26 Oct 2022

Baptist Health Corbin collects unused medicine to help curb drug abuse

You had a bad toothache or surgery and the doctor prescribed you some pills for the pain. Fortunately, you didn’t need all of the pills or hopefully none of them. Then you have the issue of what to do with your leftover pain pills, because studies show that a majority of abused...
Posted On 26 Oct 2022
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East Bernstadt man finds his share of T-R-O-U-B-L-E during Travis Tritt concert

One of country music legend Travis Tritt’s signature songs was the title release off of his second album, T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Steven Barrett Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not a Member? Join Us
Posted On 26 Oct 2022

London woman indicted in June crash that killed one, injured two

A London woman who was the driver in a single-vehicle crash that killed one person and injured two others in June was indicted Friday by a Laurel County grand jury. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this...