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A woman, who was wanted in connection with a 2016 fatal crash in Whitley County, was returned to the state of Kentucky from the Oregon early Sunday morning. Efforts to get her here to answer charges were delayed by the fact that her original indictment in late 2017 listed an...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell painted a nightmare scenario of what a Democratic takeover of Washington, D.C. could look like if this year’s presidential and legislative elections don’t go well for Republicans. During a fundraising event Saturday evening at the home...

John “Buddy” Woods, who has been an icon in the flower business in Corbin for 60 years, died Saturday in Lexington at age 82. Buddy, as he was known throughout the community, owned and operated Corbin Flower Shop with his wife, Rhoda, and son, Johnny. “People talked about how he...

Accused killer Courtney Taylor has agreed to spend the rest of her life behind bars for the killing of her husband and two teenage daughters nearly three years ago. Prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty in her case, and her capital murder trial was set to begin on March...

Funeral services were held Tuesday evening for former Ellison Funeral Home owner Ruth “Marie” Paul, who passed away Friday at age of 84 at Williamsburg Health and Rehabilitation Center. Marie Paul and her late husband, Carl Paul, purchased Ellison Funeral Home on May 1, 1971, and...

A portion of southbound Interstate 75 between London and Corbin will be closed beginning early Wednesday morning. Officials with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced the right lane between mile points 29 and 34 would be closed from 6:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. in order to...

A former Corbin Utilities employee with 27 years of service to the company is suing the utilities commission and its members for wrongful termination and violation of the Kentucky Whistleblower Act. Melissa Finley, who served as office manager and bookkeeper, filed the lawsuit in...

  The 20 contestants that kicked off Survivor: Winners at War were whittled down to 18 during Wednesday’s two-hour season premier, and Whitley County’s Nick Wilson is still in the game after his Dakal Tribe had its first tribal council. The episode opened with the...

A Whitley County man has pleaded guilty in federal court to using Facebook to threaten a witness in an ATF investigation into the trafficking of methamphetamine. Kenneth Andrew Dodd, 28, pleaded guilty Feb. 12 to charges set out in an information. According to the information,...

The Department for Public Health (DPH), within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), reminds Kentuckians to follow safety guidelines following severe flooding and water run-off events from recent rainfall across the state. Governor Andy Beshear, who today visited the...