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The Ninth Annual Sally Gap Bluegrass Festival will kick off Wednesday with a talent show and gospel music concert before transitioning into three days of bluegrass music on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. “We have campers from out of town that come in earlier in the week. It...

One man is in the hospital and another is in the Knox County Detention Center after state police were called to a Gray residence in response to a complaint of a stabbing Friday night. Police say the victim, identified as Justin Wilburn had been stabbed seven times, twice in the...

Visitors to the Williamsburg Tourism and Convention Center are now being greeted by a large mural, which runs the length of one side of the building facing 10th Street. “I have been on Facebook the last two days and everybody has been very complimentary of it,” said...

Out of the seven applicants for the Williamsburg Independent School Principal position education veteran Tim Melton was the consensus choice by the interview committee for the job. During a press conference Tuesday morning in the school lobby, which was attended by about...

A London man was pronounced dead at the scene after he was thrown from a motorcycle that struck a pickup truck in Keavy Monday night. According to Laurel County Sheriff John Root, the victim was 22-year-old Shawn H. Couch. The wreck occurred about 9:30 p.m. at the intersection of...

After 11 years of waiting, Corbin city officials decided Friday that the city can wait no longer to somehow reach an agreement with Knox County to divide occupational tax revenue. Under the terms of a resolution the commission approved during a special called meeting Friday,...

Following an investigation into a double shooting Thursday in Keavy, Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies have charged a London man with two counts of criminal attempt to commit murder. Twenty-eight-year-old Landon Collins, who had admitted to deputies to firing the shots that...

Danielle Stansberry-Matlock gave a gripping, emotional, first-hand account Tuesday of what it is like to be addicted to drugs and at the rock bottom in life. It was the Independence House that helped her turn her life around. “I have my life back today,” she said in the very...

The family members of Gray resident Josh Wren, who was struck by a car Tuesday afternoon, talk with KSP Trooper Jay Sowders, who is investigating the accident. A Gray man is in what police describe as “very critical condition” after he was hit by a car at the intersection of U.S....

A joint effort by Corbin Police, Williamsburg Police, Knox County Sheriff’s Department and Constable Ron Bowling has resulted in the arrest of six people in connection with a home burglary in Corbin Sunday afternoon. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or...