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A Corbin woman was indicted Friday for on multiple counts of prescription fraud. Forty-five-year-old Melissa A. Helton is facing four counts of fraud or false statement in obtaining a forged prescription and four counts of criminal possession of a forged prescription. According...

Hundreds of people will be pouring into Williamsburg for the 56th Annual Old Fashion Brush Arbor Meeting, which is a tent style revival. The five-day event starts Wednesday and runs through Sunday and is located off Brush Arbor Road in Williamsburg with meetings starting at 7...

A Keavy couple was arrested Tuesday night on drug trafficking charges after Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies found methamphetamine, Suboxone, marijuana, scales and cash inside their vehicle. Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said deputies arrested...

A suspicious activity report Saturday afternoon about people removing items from a vehicle while wearing rubber gloves resulted in the arrest of three Williamsburg residents on drug-related charges. About 4 p.m., Deputies Jonas Saunders and E.J. Miller made contact with two men...

Laurel County Jailer Jamie Mosley says that drugs has contributed in some way to each of the more than 450 inmates that are currently housed in the Laurel County Correctional Facility. Mosley is asking the community to come together in prayer in an effort to change that. At 7...

A Corbin man was arrested Thursday night after police say a head-on collision between his motorcycle and a Knox County Sheriff’s deputy’s cruiser was narrowly avoided. Deputy William Stewart, the department’s public affairs officer, said deputies arrested 53-year-old Joseph H....

A former Corbin police officer is facing more legal trouble, this time in federal court. Forty-three-year-old Charlie Bronson Fugate is one of three individuals named in a federal indictment returned Thursday. Fugate and co-defendants Tiffany Hamilton, 32, and Richard Stanley,...

Corbin High School’s Roastin’ Redhounds ended their season as the runner-up in the junior chef competition. The team of Sarah Sawyers, Ken Trudell and Makenzie Bellew lost Friday’s state final match held at the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville to Montgomery County. Coach Jessica...

Discovery of the U.S.S. Indianapolis — a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1945 during WWII — brings up long-buried memories for one local man whose brother was on the ship when it went down. Seventy-six-year-old Cleland Thorpe, a resident of Fifth Street in...

Corbin Arena Manager Kristi Balla told the Corbin City Commission that close to 100,000 people will walk through the facility’s doors in 2017, but commissioners are asking, at what cost? Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day!...