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Gofundme.com page established to help Dixie Cafe owners pay back taxes

Less than a week after it began, a gofundme.com effort to raise the tax money owed by The Dixie Café is almost halfway to its $5,500 goal. Ed and Carolyn Garr have been making payments to the city in an effort to catch up on the quarterly restaurant tax payments dating back to...

Halloween trick or treating hours set locally

Local ghosts and goblins, cowboys, wizards and princesses will have plenty of time for trick or treating on Halloween. Trick or treating will take place in Williamsburg and in Whitley County on Monday from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Trick or treating hours for Corbin downtown...
Posted On 26 Oct 2016

Two Corbin women indicted for stealing SUV

Two Corbin women were indicted Friday in Laurel County for allegedly stealing a Chevrolet Avalanche SUV that was later found burned. Twenty-three-year-old Taylor Renee and twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Bourland are each facing one count of theft by unlawful taking of the value of...

Whitley deputies seeking public’s help to identify suspect who passed counterfeit $100 bills

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies have a suspect in the case of the counterfeit $100 bills that were successfully passed at two area businesses and are asking for the public’s help to identify her. Stills from surveillance video at the Dollar General Store off of Fifth Street in...

UPDATED: Williamsburg man dies in Friday wreck on Corbin bypass

UPDATED: A Williamsburg man who was airlifted to the University of Kentucky Medical Center following a head-on collision Friday on the Cobin bypass died, while the Corbin man who was driving the other vehicle remains in serious condition at UK. Corbin Police say 63-year-old...

Meeples on Main: Board game tournament to be held in downtown Corbin Saturday

The popular board game Carcassonne will be the subject of a first-of-its-kind tournament in downtown Corbin Saturday, and organizers are offering an impressive array of prizes to entice players to take part in the event. It’s being called the “Meeples on Main” Carcassonne...

Laurel Co. Sheriff’s K-9 unit makes first drug bust

Less than a week on the job, Laurel County Sheriff’s K-9, Edge, scored his first drug bust Wednesday morning during a traffic stop in north Corbin. According to Laurel County Sheriff John Root, Edge alerted to the presence of methamphetamine inside a black colored Jeep Cherokee...

Counterfeit $100 used to pay property tax bill among five discovered in Whitley County

Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell is advising area businesses and residents to be extra vigilant after five counterfeit $100 bills have been discovered, one of which was brought into the sheriff’s department as part of a property tax payment. “We put the pen on there and it...

Court documents reveal details about Burke’s charges; lawyer denies allegations

Kentucky State Police arrested Leigh Burke Tuesday for theft and abuse of the public trust. A former chief financial officer for the Whitley County school district, who was fired in June amid allegations of misappropriation of school funds, has pleaded not guilty to charges of...
Posted On 19 Oct 2016

EXTRA CONTENT: 911 recordings released in deadly Corbin shooting; case being taken to grand jury

The case of a Corbin woman who shot and killed her husband last Thursday is headed to the grand jury. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not a Member? Join Us