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Meetings to be held to lay out options for furloughed CSX workers

What happens next with the 180 employees affected by CSX’s decision to shut down the locomotive shop, service center and car shop at its Corbin facility and how the decision will affect the community will begin to clarify Monday.

Excavation underway for third ‘spec building’ at local industrial park

Excavation has begun for the construction of a third speculative building in the Southeast Kentucky Business Park — a project slated to cost just over $1.6 million.

Quarles makes Corbin stop during 17-county campaign blitz

The Republican candidate for Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture made a final push for votes last week with a stop in Corbin at a popular downtown restaurant.

One killed in wreck on I-75

A  Booneville truck driver was pronounced dead at the scene Saturday morning when his tractor-trailer tanker truck ran off the round on southbound Interstate 75 and struck a tree.

Posted On 24 Oct 2015
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Fire damages two units at Emma’s Place Apartments

  West Knox firefighters say a fire that damaged several units at Emma’s Place Apartments in north Corbin Thursday night was caused by a tenant cooking French fries on the stove.

CVE officer first to focus on local ‘no-texting’ law violators

In the course of just a few hours during a two-day stretch last week, one local police officer issued twice the number of citations to local motorists for texting-while-driving than had been given out total since the law took effect in Kentucky in 2011.

Four arrested in connection with Canadatown meth labs

Whitley County Sheriff's deputies arrested four people in connection with three methamphetamine labs found at a Canadatown home during two separate incidents that occurred over a 48-hour period this weekend.

Posted On 21 Oct 2015

‘Rocket Docket’ concept being implemented in Circuit Court

At some point nearly everyone has fast-forwarded through a long movie in order to get to the end to see what happens.

Posted On 21 Oct 2015

CSX announces layoff of at least 180 employees in Corbin

CSX is laying off at least 180 people and closing its Corbin maintenance facility, the company announced Tuesday. Corbin Mayor Willard McBurney said CSX officials contacted him Tuesday morning about the layoffs and closing of the locomotive shop, service center and car shop....

Future Corbin horse track changes name to ‘Cumberland Run’

A planned Corbin quarter horse track has undergone a name change in recent days, and officials say a start to construction of facility has been delayed by a species of bat that apparently has its home in the wooded area off the Corbin Bypass where the track will be located.