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Update: Man missing since Monday in Whitley County located

Update: As of 7:36 p.m. Tuesday, this Golden Alert was canceled as the subject was located by family in Pine Knot. Original Post Whitley County E-911 is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing man. According to a release from E-911, Charles W. Pryor, 58, was last seen...
Posted On 18 Oct 2022
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Rockholds parents arrested after child calls 911

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies investigating a 911 call from a nine-year-old stating that he had been left home alone, arrested his parents. Sheriff Colan Harrell said deputies and social services workers were called to the residence on Johnny Holler Road about 3 a....

W’burg council adds 911 fee to water bills, but still not happy about it

Williamsburg has begun adding a $3 per month charge onto its water bills to help fund the Whitley County E-911 Communication Center, but city officials still aren’t real happy about being told by a county entity what they have to do. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents...
Posted On 15 Mar 2017

Remaining charges dropped against 911 dispatcher

All charges have been at least conditionally dropped against a Whitley County E911 dispatcher, who was cited with a criminal summons in July, the day after she took out an EPO against her ex-boyfriend, a then police officer. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or...
Posted On 26 Oct 2016

Harrison appointed to Ky. 911 Services Board

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has appointed Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison to the Kentucky 911 Services Board. Bevin made Harrison’s appointment to the 911 Services Board Friday afternoon along the appointment of three other people: Daniel L. Bell, Robert J. Leeper and...
Posted On 07 Sep 2016

EXTRA CONTENT: Johnson distraught speaking to 911 about dead brother

Recordings of the 911 call to Laurel dispatch, in which 30-year-old Antonio Johnson reports the death of his brother on April 5, indicates that he was in the room where Anthony Johnson was found dead for at least 10 minutes before coming out and calling 911. (Hear the 911...