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A 25-year-old man is back home after surviving a 50-foot fall out of a tree Monday morning. Jacob Beverly was working as part of a crew from Phillips Tree Experts to clear hanging branches around power lines off of Log Cabin Road between Canadatown and Falls Road when he fell...

A Whitley County Grand Jury indicted an Indianapolis man for rape, a Nevisdale man for a cutting his brother-in-law, and two Corbin men in connection with the kidnapping and assault of a woman, according to the grand jury’s monthly report Monday morning. The grand jury...

Kentucky’s Republican Presidential Caucus this past March apparently didn’t have much impact on the voter turnout for Tuesday’s Primary Election in Whitley County where about 18 percent of registered voters went to the polls to cast their ballots. Read this story and more for...

Members of the Whitley County UNITE Coalition heard from a representative of a Willisburg rehabilitation facility Monday that utilizes an electrotherapy device to ease withdrawal symptoms for clients. Isaiah House President Michael Cox was the keynote speaker for Monday’s...

If you live in Williamsburg and have a vehicle parked along a city street that hasn’t been used in quite some time, then you might want to move it onto your property if you want to keep it and avoid a tow bill. The Williamsburg Police Department started towing abandoned...

The federal case against the fourth of 17 individuals charged in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and oxycodone in Knox, Laurel, Rockcastle and Madison counties was officially closed last week when he was sentenced to six years, three months. Read this story and more...

A Whitley County Grand Jury indicted a Williamsburg man Monday morning for murder in connection with the vehicular death of a Williamsburg man, who was run over while walking his dog along a sidewalk last month. The grand jury charged Adam David Childress, 31, with murder,...

The Corbin Tourism Commission received some financial help Saturday in its on-going effort to return the L&N 2132 locomotive, along with its coal tender and caboose to their former glory. The board of directors of the L&N Historical Society, which held its quarterly...

Cleanup efforts are continuing on Bacon Creek following a diesel fuel spill Monday night. Whitley County Emergency Management Director Danny Moses said approximately 350 to 400 gallons of fuel spilled into the creek from Baptist Health Corbin. The fuel was held in a 500-gallon...

Yet another round of layoffs is set to hit the employees at Whayne Supply in Corbin. According to a letter sent to employees at the company’s Corbin facility, obtained by The News Journal, Whayne Supply Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Joe Yoerg announced the...