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A Lily man has been charged with first-degree assault after Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies say he was driving under the influence when he crashed his car, resulting in serious injuries to the passenger Thursday night. According to Sheriff John Root, deputies arrested...

Williamsburg officials are hoping to have another big crowd for the Turkey Trot race on Thanksgiving Day and have announced dates for several other upcoming holiday events. Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison told the city council during its regular monthly meeting Monday that last...

The project to turn the former Thomasville Furniture building in downtown Corbin into apartments and commercial space may soon be in private hands. Officials with the Greater Corbin Housing Authority confirmed Tuesday that a contract is pending to sell the building at the corner...

Work on the new Corbin Middle School is on schedule to open as planned in time for the start of the 2018-19 school year. At Tuesday’s special called meeting of the Corbin Board of Education, Kevin Cheek with Sherman, Carter, Barnhart Architects and David Jackson with Hacker...

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help to locate the man who attempted to rob the Dollar General Store on Cumberland Falls Highway Sunday night. According to Sheriff Colan Harrell the man came into the store at the intersection of Falls Highway and...

A motorcycle rider was killed late Friday night on the Corbin bypass when his bike struck a car and both vehicles caught fire.   Whitley County Coroner Andy Croley identified the victim as 38-year-old Roger Lee Wilson of London. “They found helmets at the scene, but he...

A former University of the Cumberlands football player, who was allegedly assaulted last year by another football player and an ex-football player, who had been kicked out of school, is now suing the university in federal court seeking an $8 million judgment. Zane A. Parker filed...

Gov. Matt Bevin and Kentucky Justice Secretary John Tilley announced Thursday that grant money to help victims of violent crime is more than doubling this year – all thanks to an aggressive effort to capture federal funding and pair grants with Kentucky organizations. This...

The Whitley County Fiscal Court has collected more than $5,000 in delinquent occupational tax funds thanks to a series of recent small claims lawsuits. Whitley County Fiscal Court Occupational Tax Administrator David Owens filed 16 small claims lawsuits in September in Whitley...

The first fixed-wing, i.e. airplane, air medical ambulance in Kentucky, which was based at the Williamsburg-Whitley County Airport, has moved. Joe Bradshaw, program director for Air Evac Lifeteam’s Williamsburg base and a member of the Williamsburg-Whitley County Airport...