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The man police say robbed a Corbin bank on Nov. 27 is now in custody in Tennessee in connection with another bank robbery in Knoxville last Friday. Corbin Police Lt. Coy Wilson, the department’s public affairs officer, said FBI agents in Tennessee arrested Timothy Michael Sample,...

Whitley and McCreary counties will soon have a new domestic relations commissioner, and he is a familiar face. Commonwealth’s Attorney Allen Trimble, who is leaving office Dec. 31 after serving 31 years as the county’s head prosecutor, has agreed to accept the domestic relations...

Williamsburg officials have begun planning to celebrate Nick Wilson’s $1 million victory on TV’s “Survivor.” The Williamsburg native took home the title and top prize last week. “It is huge,” said Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison. Harrison said officials will be presenting...

A Keavy woman, who is charged with showing up recently at a Whitley County elementary school while allegedly under the influence of drugs, is being held in the Whitley County Detention Center in lieu of a $7,500 cash bond. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or...

A Williamsburg man pleaded not guilty Thursday afternoon to charges related to a recent vehicle chase and foot pursuit. Cody Mullis, 28, pleaded not guilty to charges of failure to wear seatbelts, speeding 26 mph over limit, first-degree fleeing or evading police (motor vehicle),...

Four adults are facing child endangerment charges and various other offenses after police found drugs, guns and a one-year-old boy inside a vehicle late last Thursday evening. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login...

Christmas came early Friday morning for 460 area children thanks to the Corbin Rotary Club and numerous donors to the Empty Stocking Fund. The club raised $26,000 over the last year to purchase toys, socks and shoes for each child. “We want to make sure all of the children that...

A 22-year-old former Corbin High School football star is the winner of the News Journal’s fourth annual Secret Phrase Game contest. Corey Taylor, a 2015 graduate of CHS, and currently an Education major at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, received the $500 cash prize that...

Kentucky is only one of two states that award just one single championship in high school basketball. Delaware is the other. Lexington native Jarrett Van Meter, who is author of the book “How Sweet It Is,” which is about Kentucky High School basketball, has gone behind the scenes...

The B Squad Project, a local charity, is helping to host a Community Christmas Dinner that will be held at the Williamsburg Pizza Hut from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Christmas Day. The effort is a collaboration between Pizza Hut, Jon Eva Jack’s restaurant in Corbin, and Oral Lewis, who...