An insurer for the Whitley County Fiscal Court paid a local man $140,000 to settle claims he made against three Whitley County Sheriff's deputies that they "savagely" beat him during a traffic stop in early May, according to documents obtained by the News Journal...

A popular Whitley County High School student is fighting for her life after receiving life-threatening injuries Monday night in a three-vehicle collision on the Corbin Bypass. She is currently being treated at a Lexington hospital.

For parents or grandparents, raising children can be a difficult and expensive thing, especially at Christmas time.

A Republican has held onto the seat that former Kentucky Senate President David Williams vacated earlier this fall in order to accept an appointment as a circuit judge.

After almost three hours of deliberations Thursday a jury found that Williamsburg Police Officer did not violated Kimberly Perkins' civil rights, nor did he assault or batter her, or inflict undue emotional distress upon her when he arrested her outside the Days...

About 20 law enforcement officers from agencies across Whitley County hit the streets before dawn Thursday morning to round-up about two-dozen suspected drug dealers as part of Operation Christmas Spirit.

Four Corbin residents and one Gray man were among eight drug-trafficking arrests Knox County Sheriff's deputies made Tuesday morning.

Knox County Sheriff's deputies moving through the Gray area during Tuesday morning's drug roundup appears to have been the cause of rumors that the Gray Post Office had been robbed.

A popular local radio personality, and pioneer of a program created to tackle environmental problems in southern and eastern Kentucky, passed away Monday following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

More than three years after it was initially filed, a Jellico, Tenn. woman's police brutality lawsuit against Williamsburg Police and the Whitley County Detention Center is scheduled to go to trial in federal court, today.

Williamsburg firefighters say an electrical problem is likely to blame for an early morning fire Sunday that severely damaged a home.

Over 200 Corbin High School students did their best to entertain and instill a love for reading in the hearts of 1,200 of their younger counterparts during the 18th Annual Storybook Christmas, held Tuesday at the Corbin Center for Technology and Community Activities.

A Corbin man remains in serious condition at the University of Kentucky Medical Center following a head-on collision Tuesday morning in Laurel County.

Accusations that three Whitley County Sheriff's deputies severely beat a local man during a traffic stop in early May were quietly settled out of court in advance of a potential lawsuit, but questions still remain surrounding the details of exactly what transpired that led...

Education at Corbin Elementary is not about just about reading, writing and arithmetic. Over the last five years, Jeanie Helton has schooled students at Corbin Elementary in character.

Instead of going to trial, a mother accused of trading her baby to a Corbin couple for a pickup truck in July, received a probated prison sentence.

Two Williamsburg residents allegedly stole a pair of heat pumps, which were valued at nearly $3,000 each, from a church earlier this month and then used the money to buy pills, according to a Whitley County Sheriff's Department press release.

An Ancil Leach Hollow teenager, who was seriously injured Friday afternoon when a motorcycle he was driving collided with a car in Rockholds, was listed in stable condition Tuesday afternoon in the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

Corbin Police were called to Corbin High School after a two-year-old girl was found wandering inside the tennis court area alone and shoeless Wednesday morning.

Two Williamsburg residents are facing burglary charges after allegedly breaking into the same church twice this month.