A municipal order, issued earlier this month, to freeze salaries in the Corbin Police Department was done to halt what officials are saying was a budgetary mistake approved in 2011 that led to automatic raises with no prior review.
Firefighters say arson is definitely suspected in an early morning fire Saturday, which burned one of the oldest homes in Rockholds.
As transportation officials review the feedback they received last Thursday at a planning meeting for the expansion of U.S. 25 between London and Corbin, they are awaiting the next step, which is in the hands of the state legislature.
A London man has admitted to robbing the Taco Bell in North Corbin and another Laurel County business in exchange for a recommended 12-year prison sentence.
In recent years, the number of cases that Commonwealth's Attorney Allen Trimble prosecutes in Whitley and McCreary County has jumped from about 440 cases annually to about 500 cases.
A former inmate at the Whitley County Detention Center is claiming he was isolated, beaten and doused with pepper spray, all without provocation, while housed at the jail last November.
The City of Corbin took in more than $700,000 in revenue from taxes on the sale of alcoholic beverages during the first year of legalized sales.
Nearly one year ago, Bob Hammons appeared as a candidate at a Whitley County UNITE Coalition community forum for county attorney candidates.
Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies say they don’t know what drove a Texas woman to run around a North Corbin hotel naked and then jumped into the pool when confronted by deputies, but determined it was not drugs or alcohol.
A four-man, eight-woman Whitley Circuit Court Jury deliberated for nearly 40 minutes Thursday afternoon before convicting a Williamsburg man of stabbing his girlfriend 16 times earlier this year.
