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Former local auto dealer pleads guilty to bank fraud

A former owner of a local car dealership is scheduled to be sentenced in August after pleading guilty to two counts of bank fraud. Fifty-two-year-old Gregory Wilcheck of Corbin, who owned Myers Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Inc., Tri-County Cycles in Barbourville and Check...

Vandals damage Williamsburg parks

When Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison was a teacher and school officials were trying to find out who was responsible for something bad that happened at school, he used to tell his students, “I know somebody saw them. I know somebody saw something.” Then he told his...
Posted On 04 May 2016

Report: Driver who killed pedestrian was over 3 times legal limit

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Posted On 04 May 2016

Task force releases recommendations on inappropriate student-teacher relationships

In response to a request by Rep. Regina Bunch, R-Williamsburg, a state task force released a list of 10 recommendations Friday that are designed to combat inappropriate relationships between students and educators. Prompted by concerns from Bunch last April, the Education...
Posted On 04 May 2016

Man assaulted over ‘pill money’

A Corbin woman has pleaded not guilty to a charge that she pushed a man and hit him with his cane in December. Forty-three-year-old Angela M. Moore is being held in the Knox County Detention Center following her arrest last Thursday morning on the warrant charging her with one...

Two local residents facing federal meth charges

A federal grand jury has indicted two men for allegedly conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in Whitley County. In the indictment returned Friday in U.S. District Court in London, 33-year-old Bradley Justin Lawson of Corbin and 24-year-old Christopher L. Jones of Lily are...

Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast is Thursday

Rev. Ande Myers will be the keynote speaker Thursday during the 17th Annual Williamsburg Kiwanis Club National Day of Prayer Pancake Breakfast. Myers, who is pastor of First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, is a minister, a father, a runner, a coach and a musician in addition to...
Posted On 04 May 2016

Parks department authorizes repairs to Cumberland Falls pool

The pool at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park will be open for business in 2016. Officials with the Kentucky Department of Parks announced Friday that $150,000 has been allocated to replace the pool liner and make any other needed repairs. Cumberland Falls Park Manager Roy...

Three injured in rollover wreck on I-75

  Three people, including a three-year-old child, were injured Wednesday night when their car hydroplaned on the rain-slick roads and overturned on Interstate 75 near the 30-mile marker. According to Sheriff John Root, the driver of the 2015 Chrysler 200, identified as...

W’burg VFW Post closes in midst of investigation over fatal crash

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Posted On 27 Apr 2016