If you want to see a bear, you don't have to go to a zoo. Chances are a trip to Williamsburg might just suffice.

The story of six women and how they deal with life and loss is the focal point of Corbin Redhound Theater's first performance of the year, "Steel Magnolias" which will run this Thursday through Saturday at the Corbin High School Auditorium.

On Saturday at approximately 4:54 p.m. the Whitley County 911 Center received a call from a CSX Railroad employee reporting a person has stepped in front of a south bound train and had been struck.

For the third time in 2011, Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies and Kentucky State Police spread out across the county for and early-morning roundup of suspected drug dealers.

Local authorities released surveillance video photos this week in hopes the general public can provide information regarding who is responsible for robbing the Gordon Hill Circle K store in Corbin late Saturday night.

A Williamsburg couple is free on bond after allegedly falsely reporting that their flat screen television was taken during a staged burglary, according to a press release by Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird.

Two local residents are being held in the Whitley County Detention Center in lieu of $50,000 cash bonds following their arrests on methamphetamine related charges.

Two people had to be flown via emergency medical helicopter following separate crashes in or near Williamsburg Wednesday.

A Corbin man is being held in the Laurel County Detention Center on a $50,000 for allegedly beating and robbing a 92-year-old business owner in London.

The Corbin Tourism and Convention Commission voted unanimously to give $9,200 to the Downtown Merchants Association for seasonal decorations, and to help support to seasonal events coming up later this year.

A Williamsburg father and son are being held in the Whitley County Detention Center in lieu of $25,000 cash bonds for allegedly burglarizing a residence late last month, and police are planning to charge a third family member in connection with the case.

Corbin Police are searching for 25-year-old Robert Jones whom they said beat a man with a 2-by-4 and then stole his car before dumping it in the Laurel River at the 312 boat ramp early Monday morning.

The Corbin City Commission approved a motion Monday night to hire Andrew Salmons as the new Main Street Program Manager.

Laurel County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a Corbin woman found slumped over in the living room floor of her home Sunday morning.

On a day when many firefighters and first responders were being recognized for service to their communities, firefighters from three local departments battled a blaze near Corbin that they initially feared was far worse than it turned out to be.

A former University of the Cumberlands wrestler was released from jail Tuesday afternoon after allegedly tying up his girlfriend and ripping part of her cloths off in a school parking lot during the early morning hours of Sept. 2.

Three Corbin men were arrested Wednesday for stealing scrap metal from a southern Laurel County truck stop that is in the process of being demolished.

Emergency officials from Whitley and McCreary counties had to use ropes and a Stokes basket to carry a 70-year-old woman up a 30-foot embankment off a trail at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park late Tuesday afternoon.

An employee at a local printing company was arrested Tuesday on charges he was printing phony prescription pads and writing his own prescriptions for Hydrocodone.

The race to become Whitley County's next jailer has now increased to six people, including four write-in candidates.