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If you want to get in some exercise before filling up on turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day while also donating some money to a good cause, then keep reading. The 13th-Annual Williamsburg Turkey Trot 5-K run/walk will take place Thanksgiving morning. Last year...

A Rockholds man, was arrested late Monday night for allegedly attempting to use an old tire to set fire to a wooded area on Tyes Fairy Road. Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Leland D. Evans, 45, on charges of setting fire without consent of owner, and second-degree...

The Knox-Whitley Humane Association is asking for the public’s help to get more animals a home for the holidays by lowering adoption fees. The shelter, which serves Whitley, Knox and Clay counties, is accepting donations to make the lower fees possible. “We need to raise $2,500...

A total of 24 law enforcement dispatchers graduated Friday from the Public Safety Dispatch Academy at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training, including Whitley County dispatcher Casey M. Guidi, who was a trainee of distinction. The graduates hail from communications...

“To Serve and Protect” is the motto of law enforcement, and Kentucky State Police are working to serve those in need across the commonwealth with the 10th annual, “Cram the Cruiser” holiday food drive. Through Dec. 9, each of the 16 KSP posts will be accepting donations of...

Dr. Roemer Dobson (Dobby) Pitman was the classic small town, call him anytime day or night doctor, recalled Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison. “When I was in high school, I broke my ring finger at football practice. It was wrapped around the middle one, so a couple of coaches...

A Corbin woman is facing a kidnapping charge after the search for a missing Knox County teen ended when sheriff’s deputies found him hiding in the basement of her home Saturday. Darlene Elliott, 57, was arrested in connection with the disappearance of 14-year-old Jacob Boyd from...

As millions of Americans celebrate Small Business Saturday, University of the Cumberlands announces a host of new businesses, collectively called Marketplace on Main & 3rd, opening early next year in downtown Williamsburg. Located on the 300 block of Main Street (former...

By Samantha Walden for the News Journal A Corbin man was arrested in the theft of a Knox-Whitley Humane Association donation jar in Corbin on Friday, November 22. Knox County Sheriff Mike Smith and SGT Carl Bolton located Troy Grubb, 36 of Corbin, inside one of the apartments at...

The Community Thanksgiving meal will be served 5 to 7 p.m. Monday in the cafeteria at Corbin High School. The event, which is free and open to the public, is the brainchild of Corbin High School Assistant Principal Steve Jewell. Heater Martinez, grant coordinator at the high...