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Corbin Police are investigating after receiving a complaint of a suspicious man outside the playground at Corbin Preschool. Superintendent Dave Cox said one of the school system’s school resource officers, was called to the school on Master Street at about 11 a.m. after teachers...

Two Corbin Elementary School students are facing terroristic threatening charges after making threatening comments during school Friday morning. “It was nothing specific,” said Superintendent Dave Cox, explaining that another student overheard the comment and told a teacher. The...

Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley said he’s thankful for the “tight knit” community full of positive influences he’s had during his lifetime, and called being named Leader of the Year a “humbling” experience. Croley was presented the award last Thursday during the Leadership...

Two new shows have been announced for The Arena in Corbin. Arena Director Kristi Balla said Thursday that country comedian Rodney Carrington will perform April 27. Sesame Street Live will be at the venue on Saturday, May 5. “I’ve had a lot of people request him,” Balla said of...

A Williamsburg woman opted to take a plea agreement Wednesday morning that calls for her to receive a 25-year prison sentence rather than stand trial for murder in connection with a fatal July 2016 traffic crash that killed Teresa Bennett. Sonia Askins, 47, was scheduled to be...

The Corbin man charged in the murders of four people, including an unborn child, made his first appearance in Whitley District Court Tuesday. Via video arraignment before Judge Cathy Prewitt, a not-guilty plea was entered on behalf 37-year-old Paul Brock on four counts of murder...

A world-renowned female violinist — who performed in the tri-county area six times since 1999 — died last Wednesday of breast cancer. She was only 36-years-old. Anna Karkowska, who immigrated to the United States from Lodz, Poland in 1997, was living in Astoria, New York. She...

What began as a pledge by a Corbin area law firm towards the purchase of metal detectors for Corbin Independent Schools has blossomed into an effort to help school systems across the region and the state. In a video released on Copeland and Romines Law Office’s Facebook page...

Practice lockdown drills. Communicate with your community. Invest in more in-school police officers. That was the advice of Jon R. Akers, Executive Director of the Kentucky Center for School Safety, to administrators with the Corbin Independent School system Monday. Akers met...

A Corbin man was indicted Friday on kidnapping, robbery, assault and terroristic threatening charges stemming from a Dec. 26 incident in which he allegedly jumped into a woman’s car on U.S. 25W and forced her to drive to a location on American Greeting Card Road....