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A complaint about a stolen purse early Sunday morning resulted in the arrest of two people on child endangerment charges. About 2:45 a.m., Whitley County Sheriff’s Deputy Derek Eubanks responded to the Highway 1804 area when a woman reported her purse had been stolen,...

Joe Moses Whitley County officials have issued a Golden Alert for a missing Williamsburg man. About 1:50 p.m. Monday, the family of Joel S. Moses, 48, of the Brush Arbor community, notified Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies that they were concerned about his safety. His vehicle...

About 15 percent of registered Whitley County Republican voters went to the polls and cast their ballots Saturday during Kentucky’s first ever Republican Presidential Caucus. Nearly 3,200 people cast ballots in the gymnasium at Whitley County High School, which was the only...

A $1.2 million ‘Rocket Docket’ pilot project that is being funded by the Kentucky General Assembly in 30 judicial circuits across the state, designed to expedite the court process in some felony cases, has crashed landed in Whitley and McCreary counties at least for...

A common misconception many people are having about Saturday’s Republican Presidential Caucus is that if they don’t cast a ballot in that race, then they can’t vote in the May Primary election or November General Election, which simply isn’t the case. Read...

Knox County deputy jailers had their hands full Friday, Feb. 26, with the excessive number of inmates they have to haul over and back from circuit court. But, by that time, however, the worst was nearly over. The Knox County Detention Center is set up for 35 inmates; however,...

Starting this week, parents will be able to pick up free saliva-based drug testing kits at various locations in Whitley County. The “Give Me A Reason” drug prevention initiative is a voluntary drug-testing program through the Appalachian High Intensity Drug...

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A Corbin man must repay $43,000 to a local company and will spend a year on home incarceration after admitting Tuesday to using the company credit card to purchase prepaid cards and keeping them for himself. Twenty-four-year-old Roy Branham, Jr., who was arrested last week...

The News Journal brought home a total of 24 Excellence in Kentucky Newspaper Awards, including a second-place award for General Excellence in the large weekly newspaper division, during the Kentucky Press Association’s annual banquet Thursday night. “I’m very...