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If you didn’t get the opportunity to get out to the Corbin Civic Center Saturday night for the debut of Allied Pro Wrestling, you missed a heck of a show. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day! Please login to view this content....

I have seen girls out on the high school football field. I don’t remember the exact team, but the center was a girl. It wasn’t a local team, but she hung right in there with the boys. The majority of times that I have seen girls on the football field has been as the place kicker....

I witnessed some old-fashioned baseball on Saturday. The game was Whitley County hosting Rockcastle County on a cold windy day. I stayed for a few innings as I was getting pictures. I’m not the diehard that I used to be when the weather could do anything and I was staying until...

I know there is a reason why the schools in the area of Kentucky located in Jackson, Clay, Laurel, Whitley, Knox, Bell and Harlan counties make up the 13th Region. As Tom Hanks’ character, Jim Lovell, famously, told his wife in the blockbuster movie, “Apollo 13” when she asked...

A funny thing happened on the way to the ballfield. I expected to come into the office Monday morning preparing to write up my final basketball stories for the season and get ready for spring sports to begin. I’m not a homer when it comes to the teams that I cover. I want to see...

The girls’ basketball district tournaments are under way. The girls wrestling tournament was held Monday. Spring sports, including softball, along with tennis and track for both the boys and girls will begin in just a few weeks. Corbin’s Lady Redhounds, Whitley County’s Lady...

Sports like cross country, golf, wrestling, tennis and track and field are unique in that while athletes are competing as part of a team, they have the opportunity to win individual titles as well. At the Region 7 wrestling tournament Saturday at McCreary Central, Corbin’s Seth...

The fans at Charles Lawson Gymnasium last Wednesday witnessed something epic that is one of the things that makes amateur wrestling so intriguing. In the 144-pound match, Corbin’s Koryon Smith tossed Whitley County’s Andrew Meadors every which way for most of the match to build a...

There are more than 2,500 high school students between Corbin, Whitley County and Williamsburg. There are 35,000 people living in Whitley County. So why are the high school gyms so sparsely populated during basketball games? Granted, despite the stereotype, not everyone in...

The News Journal claimed 19 awards Friday at the annual Kentucky Press Association Convention awards banquet, including its fifth First Place General Excellence Award in six years. News Journal Publisher Don Estep said that he was proud of the News Journal staff, which he said...