A fight over a PlayStation game console has led to the arrest of two local men on robbery charges.

  Six people were named in an indictment returned last Thursday in federal court alleging a conspiracy to traffic heroin and/or methamphetamine in Whitley County after receiving the drugs in the mail.

Two-term Whitley County Judge-Executive Pat White Jr. cruised to victory in Tuesday’s Republican Primary Election, winning a third term over political rival and Third District Magistrate Jamie Fuson.

Incumbent Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell fended off challenges from four opponents, including two other sitting office holders, to win re-election to a second term in office Tuesday.

The Whitley County Sheriff’s Office and one of its deputies are named as defendants in a lawsuit claiming they are responsible for the death of an elderly man this past January.

After nearly three weeks on the run, a Corbin man who was wanted by police for an April 30 robbery has been captured and is behind bars.

While providing funding for several new events, the Corbin Tourism Commission announced a change in priorities in approving its $1.42 million budget for 2014-15.

Two Corbin men are in jail following the shooting of another man in the early morning hours Wednesday on Little Spruce Creek Road in Whitley County.

(Editor's note: Due to the amount of subject matter, this is the second part of a two-part story on the Whitley County UNITE Coalition's May 5 forum for jailer's candidates. The first part of the story appeared in the May 7 edition of the News Journal.)

A Tennessee woman purchased a grand prize ticket in a Kentucky Lottery scratch off game at a Corbin gas station.

A Corbin man, who allegedly offered $5,000 on a website to have someone killed last year, has been placed on home incarceration and must wear an ankle-monitoring device until his August trial, a judge ruled Thursday morning.

Whitley County officials are awaiting the results of a toxicology test on the man who drown Sunday at Laurel Lake.

Knox County Sheriff’s deputies have video of a masked burglar leaving Cope’s Market on Old Barbourville Hwy. with his duffle bag of stolen guns and cigarettes early Thursday morning.

Two people are in critical condition at the University of Tennessee Medical Center when a Cadillac T-boned a Ford Focus in Williamsburg Tuesday morning.

A Rockholds parent is facing felony assault charges over an incident involving two Whitley County High School baseball coaches that occurred during a Tuesday evening ballgame.

A Georgia-based food supply company is suing a Williamsburg pet treat manufacturer, and its owner, for allegedly failing to pay for $155,000 worth of chicken breasts and other items it had ordered — and it is the latest in a flurry of litigation against the company.

Why are they running for Whitley County Jailer? What program at the Whitley County Detention Center would they most like to keep? What programs would they like to see improved?

Police are looking for a local man they say is responsible for an armed robbery Wednesday, and they are asking for the public's help in locating the suspect.

New details have emerged in the case of a southern Whitley County man, found dead on a four-wheeler trail near I-75 in early January after being missing for week … and family members are now saying they are contemplating a lawsuit because they feel the entire...

The company that operates Jellico Community Hospital has announced it plans to cease operating the hospital in the near future.