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Area counties report 20 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday

Bell, Laurel, Knox, McCreary and Whitley County each reported additional COVID-19 cases Tuesday. The Whitley County Health Department reported six new COVID-19 cases Tuesday. The Whitley County Health Department reported five new cases Monday, four new cases Sunday, three new...
Posted On 29 Jul 2020

Corbin Police find meth, pills, scales during Thursday traffic stop

Corbin Police arrested a London man after they located scales, syringes, methamphetamine and prescription pills inside a vehicle following a traffic stop Thursday morning. Zachary A. Jarvis, 30, is facing charges of trafficking controlled substances within 1,000 feet of a school,...

Whitley County Health Department issues public notice concerning potential COVID–19 exposure at Saxton Baptist Church

The Whitley County Health Department has issued a public notice concerning the potential exposure to COVID–19 of those who attended Sunday services at Saxton Baptist Church in Williamsburg. Health Department Director Marcy Rein said she elected to issue the notice after learning...

Case of police chase that went to the jail now headed to grand jury

Following a preliminary hearing Monday morning, a Whitley County Grand Jury will now hear evidence against a Knoxville man, who was allegedly driving a stolen car with marijuana and fake money inside, when he led police on a high-speed chase from Tennessee into Kentucky on I-75...
Posted On 29 Jul 2020

KHSAA approves Sept. 11 start date for football games, Sept. 7 for cross county, soccer and volleyball matches

In a nearly three-hour online board of control meeting Tuesday, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association has outlined how school sports should proceed as we enter into the fall season. KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett spoke early on during Tuesday’s meeting saying that he...
Posted On 28 Jul 2020
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Corbin woman charged with trafficking morphine

A traffic stop in north Corbin early Tuesday morning resulted in the seizure of suspected morphine, methamphetamine and marijuana, and the arrest of a Corbin woman on a drug trafficking charge. Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Tiffany Paige Whitehead, who was a passenger...

Kentucky launches new program for young people transitioning from foster care

The Kentucky Department for Community Based Services (DCBS), an agency of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), is launching a new program this month to help young people who reach adulthood in foster care, one of the groups the most impacted by the novel coronavirus...
Posted On 28 Jul 2020
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Bell, Laurel, Knox and Whitley counties all report additional cases Monday

Bell, Laurel, Knox and Whitley County are all reported additional COVID-19 cases Monday. The Bell County Health Department reported 21 additional cases Monday, including four individual independent cases and 17 long term care cases. These new cases bring the total number of...
Posted On 27 Jul 2020

Whitley County Health Department reports nine new COVID–19 cases since Saturday

The Whitley County Health Department announced nine new COVID–19 cases Monday afternoon. Officials noted that five of those are from Sunday and four are from Monday. With those new cases, 89 cases have been reported in Whitley County since early April. Twenty-seven of those cases...

Breaking News: Gov. Andy Beshear announces closure of all bars, reduces restaurant capacity to 25 percent

Gov. Andy Beshear announced Monday afternoon that he would be closing all bars in Kentucky bars for two weeks and that he is reducing the capacity of restaurants for in-person dining to 25 percent in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in Kentucky. “We are in an...
Posted On 27 Jul 2020