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Federal lawsuit filed for breach of contract in most-recent closure of Jellico Hospital

A lawsuit filed in federal court last month peels back the curtain on some of the events that took place behind the scenes that caused Jellico Hospital to close once again earlier this year. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or subscribe to get access every day!...

Two women claim they were wrongly accused of illegal activity at Corbin cosmetology school

Tara Dizney and Kendra Arthur were among the four women indicted in 2022 in connection to the Creations School of Cosmetology in Corbin. All four subsequently had their cases dismissed in 2023 after prosecutors decided there had been no wrongdoing. Now, Dizney and Arthur have...

Whitley Co. Sheriff’s Dept. denies wrongdoing in Coker lawsuit

The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department is denying wrongdoing in connection with a federal lawsuit alleging false arrest and excessive force stemming from an incident in early 2021. Williamsburg’s Robert L. Coker filed suit on Aug. 13 in U.S. District Court in London against...
Posted On 02 Oct 2021

Federal judge rejects Tristan Hall’s bid to withdraw from lawsuit settlement

A federal judge has rejected the efforts of a local man to back out of a settlement agreement with the last remaining defendants in his federal court lawsuit. Tristan James Hall previously had charges related to criminal solicitation to commit murder, making a fraudulent...
Posted On 08 Feb 2018

Whitley County Fiscal Court suing wholesale drug distributors over prescription drug problem

Between 2013 and the middle of 2017, more than 21 million doses of prescription opioids, including hydrocodone, oxycodone, tramadol and oxymorphone, were dispensed in Whitley County, which has a population of about 36,000 people. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents...
Posted On 20 Sep 2017

Most of Tristan Hall’s federal lawsuit has been dismissed

Tristan Hall is currently representing himself in a lawsuit filed against the City of Williamsburg, Police Chief Wayne Bird and several other entities, which have now been dropped from the federal court lawsuit. In late December, a now former Corbin man, who spent about 570 days...
Posted On 07 Jun 2017

Ex-UC football players added as defendants in lawsuit against university

The University of the Cumberlands doesn’t want to be the only defendant in a lawsuit filed against it last year by a former U of C football player, who was allegedly assaulted in 2015 by another football player and an ex-football player, who had been kicked out of school. William...
Posted On 31 May 2017

Lawsuit accuses former Knox County sheriff of framing man for murder

A former Knox County Sheriff and half a dozen other law enforcement officers have been sued after a man was acquitted of murder charges last year. William “Bill Bill” Anderson, 37 of Campbell County, Tennessee., filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in London against...
Posted On 24 May 2017
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Cumberlands answers lawsuit, denies wrongdoing

The University of the Cumberlands is denying any wrongdoing in its answer to a lawsuit that was filed against the school on Nov. 9 by a former U of C football player, who was allegedly assaulted last year by another football player and an ex-football player, who had been kicked...
Posted On 28 Dec 2016

Ex-U of C football player sues school for $8 million

A former University of the Cumberlands football player, who was allegedly assaulted last year by another football player and an ex-football player, who had been kicked out of school, is now suing the university in federal court seeking an $8 million judgment. Zane A. Parker filed...
Posted On 12 Nov 2016