Photo by  TIMOTHY WYATT Watch a short clip of our coverage from the 29th Annual Gateway to the Cumberlands Jeep Jamboree event here.

Progress toward getting an athletics upgrade project started at Williamsburg Independent’s football field is continuing to move along. During the Williamsburg Independent Board of Education’s regular monthly meeting last Tuesday, board members approved a surveyor to inspect the...

A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Kentucky indicted two men Thursday for allegedly stealing over $75,000 worth of sports cards from businesses in Tennessee and Kentucky and then selling some of the merchandise at a business in Corbin, according to their indictments....

Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday that David Mayes, 30, was sentenced in Whitley County Circuit Court for charges of child sexual abuse. In July, Mayes pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree criminal abuse (Class C Felony), two counts of first-degree rape...

Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies seized approximately three pounds of crystal methamphetamine and two firearms during a traffic stop earlier this month in southern Laurel County. Deputies arrested the driver, Kenneth Edward Broyles, 43, of Mosheim, Tennessee, and passenger Ernest...

                Photos by TIMOTHY WYATT and MARK WHITE More than 175 Jeeps descended upon Williamsburg late last week for the 29th Annual Gateway to the Cumberlands Jeep Jamboree event. Jeeps and their drivers began arriving Thursday, Oct....

Corbin Police Sgt. Steve Meadors arrested and charged Ashley E. Hubbard, 36, of Heidrick, with alcohol intoxication, second-degree disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, menacing and fourth-degree assault in connection with an incident at a restaurant. Ashley Hubbard The Knox...

You had a bad toothache or surgery and the doctor prescribed you some pills for the pain. Fortunately, you didn’t need all of the pills or hopefully none of them. Then you have the issue of what to do with your leftover pain pills, because studies show that a majority of abused...

One of country music legend Travis Tritt’s signature songs was the title release off of his second album, T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Steven Barrett Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not a Member? Join Us

A London woman who was the driver in a single-vehicle crash that killed one person and injured two others in June was indicted Friday by a Laurel County grand jury. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this...

The Whitley County Board of Education has received a clean bill of financial health Thursday evening during its regular monthly meeting, where board members were presented with an audit report of the district’s 2021-2022 fiscal year. The report, prepared by Marr, Miller and Myers...

If you’re looking for the chance to get in some more exercise while hearing some spooky stories and supporting anti-bullying efforts, then you probably want to head over to downtown Williamsburg Saturday night. From 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29, the ‘Say Boo to Bullying’...

Four individuals allegedly involved in a rash of burglaries at area businesses over the span of several months were indicted Friday by a Laurel County grand jury, making it the third time indictments have been handed down in connection to the alleged burglaries. B.J. Hubbard, 31,...

A South Laurel Middle School teacher was indicted Friday by a Laurel County grand jury on several sexual-related charges involving a minor. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not a Member? Join Us

If you are going to be out of town or can’t physically go vote during the three-day early voting period from Thursday, Nov. 3, through Saturday, Nov. 5, and Election Day, which is Nov. 8, then you will still be able to cast an early ballot. Whitley County Clerk Carolyn Willis...

Baptist Health Corbin is getting a $1 million federal grant to help purchase new equipment, including: pulmonary function test body box, nuclear camera, laryngoscope, defibrillators, and a centrifuge, all of which will improve the emergency department’s capacity to diagnose and...

Just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday evening parents and guardians of children in the Corbin Independent School system unexpectedly received text messages, e-mails and an all-call informing them of a supposed threat that had been made concerning Corbin Primary School earlier in the day.

Efforts to build a new addition onto The Corbin Center are moving forward. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content. Not a Member? Join Us

According to its monthly report and indictments, the Whitley County Grand Jury indicted eight people on drug related charges Monday, including: Woodrow Lawson, 49, Nancy Sulfridge, 28, Stephen Barrett, 41, and Johnny Bryant, 48, all of Williamsburg – two counts of first-degree...

Forcht Group of Kentucky Founder, Chairman and CEO Terry Forcht and his wife, Marion Forcht, were recognized recently for helping make the new Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College campus in Barbourville a reality. The new Barbourville campus is housed in the former...