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Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers says an effort that would allow cities like Corbin to annex into another county won’t likely pass this year. After two attempts by Senate President Robert Stivers (R-Manchester) to change the law on annexation — and essentially allow...

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Monday afternoon Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison was feeling a little like the television character Maxwell Smart from the 1960s television show “Get Smart,” whose famous catch phrase was “missed it by that much.” “I wish Agent 99 would come and...

A Corbin man who is wanted in Missouri will be going back to answer the charges following his arrest Friday morning. According to Laurel County Sheriff John Root, deputies arrested 31-year-old Aubrey Blankenship off Flatwoods Road in Keavy after deputies developed information...

Whitley County will likely soon be joining a growing list of communities in Kentucky offering a needle exchange program. The Whitley County Board of Health unanimously voted last month to begin the process of starting a clean needle exchange program in Whitley County provided...

Arson is suspected as the cause of a Monday afternoon forest fire/brush fire that scorched 36 acres in the Beck’s Creek area just west of Williamsburg. Jennifer Turner, a public information officer with the Kentucky Division of Forestry, said that there is no way of knowing...

Goldbug and Emlyn volunteer firefighters and the Kentucky Division of Forestry spent several hours Monday afternoon battling a brush fire/forest fire in the Beck’s Creek area of Whitley County. Goldbug Volunteer Fire Chief Brandon Woods said the fire was reported around noon...

A Corbin man was arrested Tuesday after his three-year-old was brought to Baptist Health Corbin for treatment of cuts and bruises. Forty-two-year-old Creighton Hill was charged with one count of second-degree criminal abuse following an investigation by Kentucky State Police....

The Whitley County school bus driver, who was fired for leaving an 11-year-old autistic boy on a school bus for over five hours on March 15, has been identified. The News Journal filed an open records request with the Whitley County school district on Friday afternoon to obtain...

A pair of bizarre attacks involving a squirrel last week briefly had students, faculty and administrators on edge at Corbin Middle School, and made off-limits certain outdoor areas near where the attacks happened. The squirrel suspected of the attacks was trapped last week and...