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A local physician on the front lines of the fight in the COVID–19 pandemic is asking the public to follow the Center for Disease Control recommendations in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. Dr. Christopher Troxell is a Hospitalist at Baptist Health Corbin where he has...

A Whitley County Board of Education member was elected Monday night by her school board peers as the Upper Cumberland Region Chairperson of the Kentucky School Board Association. Brenda Sears Rose will represent the Upper Cumberland Region of school boards. The board is composed...

During his daily press conference Thursday, Gov. Andy Beshear honored a Corbin doctor who died recently after battling COVID-19. Dr. Mohammad Jawed, a loving father to three daughters, a beloved husband and one of our frontline health care workers, was only 59 when he passed away...

For the second time this week, the Whitley County Health Department has reported additional COVID-19 fatalities. “We are terribly sad to report two more deaths as well,” the Whitley County Health Department wrote in a release Thursday. The Whitley County Health Department...

Gov. Andy Beshear announced Thursday that 80 of Kentucky’s 120 counties are now COVID–19 incidence rate red zones. “Virtually the entire state is seeing a surge,” Beshear said adding that 38 of the remaining 40 counties are now orange. Russell and Owen counties are the two yellow...

Saint Joseph London will be offering a free flu shot clinic beginning Saturday and continuing, weekly throughout November. Officials said the clinic will be hosted from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Nov. 7, 14, and 21 at the hospital’s drive-thru clinic on Mountain View Drive, off of...

A Corbin man was arrested early Wednesday morning after Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies discovered him in possession of suspected heroin, marijuana and pills. Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said Deputy Justin Taylor arrested Andrew D. Jackson,...

The investigation of suspected drug activity at two locations in north Corbin Tuesday afternoon resulted in 10-drug related arrest. Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies arrested eight people at a residence off of Foley Road, off of Byrley Road, and two others at a residence off of...

Organizers with the Corbin Sunup Initiative said approximately 100 people tuned in to the Zoom meeting Friday for night the presentation of Black in Appalachia’s, “The Corbin Expulsion of 1919.” The documentary was the work of William Isom, director of Black in Appalachia, and...

There is a new participant in the legal battle between the Corbin City Commission and London City Council over London’s attempt to annex property off Exit 29 in southern Laurel County. The City Utilities Commission of Corbin voted during an Oct. 28 special called meeting to...