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What do a woman kidnapped over allegedly stealing drugs, a man fatally shooting himself in the head, and two pipe bombs have in common? The answer is a 2018 kidnapping that started in Tennessee and ended in Corbin. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe...

A Corbin man, Douglas M. Edmonson, 38, pleaded guilty Thursday, before U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier, to kidnapping. According to the investigation and his guilty plea, Edmonson and his three co-defendants lured a victim to a location in Tennessee, using an unrelated party’s...

A Corbin man accused of attempting to kidnap a three-year-old from his yard made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court on Monday. Ronnie L. Helton, 73, pleaded not guilty to the charge at his arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hanly A. Ingram. Ingram appointed...

The case against a Corbin man, who is accused of attempting to kidnap a three-year-old and then trying to buy the child from its grandparents, will be moving to federal court. A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Ronnie L. Helton, 73, on Thursday. According to the...

A Whitley County man, who pleaded guilty in February to federal charges of cyberstalking a witness in an ATF investigation, and making false statements to a federal agent, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison. Kenneth Andrew Dodd, 28, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge...

Nine months after prosecutors began the process, U.S. attorneys filed paperwork declaring their intention to seek the death penalty again Daniel S. Nantz, who is accused of the 2019 kidnapping and murder of Geri D. Johnson that also resulted in the death of her unborn child....

A South Carolina man arrested in Knox County after sheriff’s deputies located two pounds of marijuana, more than $8,000 in cash and a loaded handgun in his pickup truck pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges Tuesday. Joe Barlow Owens, 44, of Blacksburg, South...

A Knox County man was convicted Tuesday for his part in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Whitley, Knox and Laurel Counties. Charles W. Warfield, 51, of Artemis was one of 19 people named in federal indictment returned in a superseding indictment returned on March 21....

A Louisville man has been indicted in U.S. District Court in London for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams of more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine in Whitley County. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access...

The federal trial of a Corbin man accused of attempting to pay to have four people, including Commonwealth’s Attorney Allen Trimble and Whitley County Attorney Bob Hammons, killed, is scheduled to begin Tuesday, but a judge must decide whether or not prosecutors may use phone...