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A 17-year-old is facing multiple charges for allegedly breaking into a building belonging to Corbin Parks and Recreation and taking a utility vehicle and later a department pickup truck for a joyride Sunday night. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe...

Two Ohio brothers were arrested outside a north Corbin motel early Saturday morning following separate confrontations with Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies during which one allegedly kicked a constable, and the other allegedly bit a K-9 deputy. Read this story and more for just...

According to indictments and its monthly report, the Whitley County Grand Jury issued 24 drug-related indictments Monday, including: 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

The Whitley County Grand Jury issued its regular monthly report Monday, indicting a Williamsburg man for assault with a hammer, a Tennessee man for unlawful imprisonment, and an Ohio woman in connection with a police chase involving a stolen vehicle. Read this story and more for...

A Williamsburg man, who allegedly tried to run over a Kentucky State Police trooper in May, and was subsequently shot by another trooper, has been indicted by a Whitley County Grand Jury. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day!...

Williamsburg City Hall is now back open to the public, but if you don’t want to get out of your car in this heat, then you can still do the bulk of your city business at the drive-thru window for the water department. Mayor Roddy Harrison said that the city put up signs on city...

Whitley County has suffered its first COVID-19 death. “We are sad to report the first death of a Whitley County resident associated with COVID-19, but we will not be releasing further details,” Whitley County Public Health Director Marcy Rein said in a release Tuesday afternoon....

A press release sent out by Whitley County Schools Tuesday afternoon announced Julie Osborne as the new principal at Whitley County High School. Osborne comes to WCHS from Knox Central High School in Barbourville, where she was serving as assistant principal.

Gov. Andy Beshear reported Sunday afternoon that 979 newly reported cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed statewide, including three new deaths. This was the largest single-day total of new COVID-19 cases in the commonwealth. “We typically have limited reporting on Sunday which...

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