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Whitley Emergency Management: Buck Creek Road bridge over railroad tracks to be closed into Monday evening

Whitley County Emergency Management Director Danny Moses said it will be well into the evening before the bridge on Buck Creek Road is cleared and reopened to traffic. The bridge crossing the CSX tracks has been closed since approximately 6 a.m. when a tractor-trailer carrying...

Medical helicopter forced to make emergency landing

A mechanic and pilot unsuccessfully tried to make repairs to this U.T. Life Star helicopter that made an emergency landing near Williamsburg early Monday morning.  The helicopter had to be returned to Tennessee on a truck. An emergency medical helicopter had to make an emergency...
Posted On 13 Sep 2017

Local families benefiting from new energy efficient homes

Crews with Wayne Manufacturing Systems worked Tuesday morning to set in place the components for a new energy efficient home that is being placed in the Emlyn community. Five years ago, Emlyn resident Joshua Cox was paying rent to live in an old trailer that didn’t have...
Posted On 28 Sep 2016

Deputy finds meth lab at Emlyn home

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies discovered an active one-step methamphetamine lab at an Emlyn residence late Saturday afternoon. About 5 p.m., Deputy Jonas Saunders went to the US25W South residence about four miles south of Williamsburg after getting an anonymous tip...
Posted On 07 Sep 2016

Fire guts interior of Emlyn church

A Go Fund Me page has been set up for a Whitley County church, which was destroyed by fire last week. An electrical short in a window air-conditioning unit is believed to be the cause of a fire that gutted the interior of Little Cane Creek Church of God on July 6, but that...
Posted On 07 Jul 2016