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With its numerous businesses, including multiple restaurants, bars and event spaces, Main Street in Corbin is a hive of activity. Local attorneys Seth Reeves and Wes Tipton are seeking to expand that beyond Main Street, and the building that once housed a car dealership and, most...

A student teacher at Corbin Elementary School is leading a drive to collect winter clothing for students in need. Brittney Johnson, who is working under the tutelage of math teacher Wendy Philpot, is set to graduate from the University of the Cumberlands in December. “One of the...

A Whitley Circuit Judge approved a request Thursday morning for hair samples to be taken from a suspect in a triple homicide for comparison purposes to a hair tie found at the crime scene in the hand of a dead child. Darnel Chivers, 39, Anthony Hester, 34, and Jeremy Hatfield,...

Whitley County’s Elaine Stott used her trip to the Island of the Idols to throw a major curveball that kept her in the hunt for the $1 million prize Wednesday night and put her and her former Lairo tribe mates in the driver’s seat of the revamped Vokai tribe. Elaine, along with...

A southern Whitley County couple, who were found with a dead body in their bedroom and blood on them more than two years ago, has turned down plea deals offered to them by the prosecution and are instead opting for a jury trial, which is scheduled to start in mid-November. Chris...

With state legislators preparing to take up a new budget beginning in January, school superintendents joined together Tuesday to push for funding increases for education. Local superintendents joined with others members of the Southeast/South-Central Educational Cooperative in...

Corbin Middle School’s Junior Redhound Theatre will open its season Nov. 7 with an original production based on Mary Shelley’s classic novel, “Frankenstein.” Instead of a mad scientist whose experiment goes horribly wrong, Zac Pensol’s play, “Violet Frankenstein Makes a Friend,”...

In case anyone wondered why an unusually high number of young adults in neon T-shirts were spotted seemingly everywhere in Whitley County recently, here’s why. Approximately 1,500 students, faculty, and staff from University of the Cumberlands put their faith into action by...

Local ghosts and goblins, who were planning to trick-or-treat in Williamsburg, Whitley County or Corbin on Thursday need to make new plans. The City of Williamsburg and Whitley County announced Tuesday morning that they are both postponing trick-or-treating, which had been...

Knox County Sheriff Mike Smith is reminding everyone to have a happy and safe Halloween this year with the following tips to keep trick or treaters safe, including: Decorate costumes and bags with reflective tape or stickers. Costumes should consist of light colors. Masks can...