Category

Grammy Award-winning 80s pop legend Rick Springfield will be the featured entertainment at this year’s NIBROC, a big return to prominence for the festival … made possible by generous support from Forcht Group of Kentucky and Forcht Bank. Springfield is a musician, singer and...

A Whitley County Sheriff’s deputy and a Corbin Police K-9 team tracked down a Corbin man early Sunday morning following a shooting investigation at his home. No one was injured, and alcohol involvement is suspected. Deputy Chad Foley arrested Mark Adam McFarland, 49, of 365 Bacon...

It isn’t the amount of alcohol in his system, but the .272 a Corbin man blew on the breathalyzer test police administered early Sunday morning led to his fourth DUI arrest, which is a felony under Kentucky law. Corbin Police arrested Steven W. Powell, 31, on charges of operating...

One week after a federal grand jury indicted him for the murder of Geri D. Johnson on March 16, Daniel S. Nantz is scheduled to make his initial court appearance. Nantz, 29, of Woodbine, is scheduled to be arraigned at 4 p.m. today in U.S. District Court in London on charges of...

In the not too distant past, school districts were encouraging students to bring their own electronic iPads, tablets, iPhones, etc. to learn on because the schools just didn’t have the money to bring their technology up to date. Thanks to some donations and educational...

A Whitley County man died during a farming accident late Thursday evening near Watts Creek Road. Published reports have identified the man as Tony L. Adkins, 60. Adkins was reportedly on his tractor mowing with a bush hog when he fell from the vehicle.

A Williamsburg man was arrested Thursday morning on a felony DUI charge. Roy Sumner, 32, is facing charges of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol – fourth or greater offense, and driving on DUI suspended license following a traffic stop on Ky. 26 in Corbin....

A traffic stop Thursday morning led Kentucky State Police Division of Commercial Vehicle Enforcement officers to a man wanted in North Carolina on assault and auto theft charges. Officer Steve Douglas arrested Michael Brandon Holmes, 40, of Tabor City following the traffic stop...

Want to know what’s it’s like for someone who is blind to experience a feature film? August 13 will be a good chance to do just that as The Freeman Foundation is hosting its first ever “Movie in the Dark” at Tri-County Cineplex. The movie will begin at 7:00 p.m. Participants will...

Days after she allegedly shot and killed her family, and then got shot after she pointed a gun at a Whitley County Sheriff’s deputy, Courtney Taylor gave police a nearly 90-minute statement explaining in part why she killed her family. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents...