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The Laurel County Health Department announced the county’s 11th COVID–19 related death on Friday. Officials identified the individual as a 77-year-old female. Laurel County reported its last COVID–19 deaths on Oct. 23, Officials announced 48 new COVID–19 cases on Friday, bringing...

The Whitley County Health Department announced the county’s 15th COVID–19 related death on Thursday. Details on the individual were not available. This is the first such death in Whitley County since Nov. 5 when two deaths were reported. Officials announced 11 new COVID-19 cases...

Gov. Andy Beshear is warning every Kentuckian that they must take the pandemic more seriously in order to protect themselves, their families and their community. Kentuckians are in significantly greater danger of contracting COVID-19 now than they were in March or April. On...

The Whitley County Health Department announced 19 new COVID–19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the county’s total to 1,049. There are currently 142 active cases, of which four are currently hospitalized. With the new cases, Whitley County’s COVID–19 incidence rate is 50, placing it in...

The Whitley County Health Department announced five new cases of COVID–19 on Monday. With the six new cases on Saturday and six new cases on Sunday, Whitley County has now had 1,030 total cases. There are currently 141 active cases, of which, four are hospitalized. With the...

Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help to find the individual who vandalized a cemetery in the western part of the county Friday night. Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said the suspect drove a large pickup truck through...

Whitley, Laurel, Knox and Bell counties all reported double-digit increases Friday in the number of new COVID-19 cases reported. The Whitley County Health Department reported 20 new COVID-19 cases Friday, seven new cases Thursday, 13 new cases Wednesday, 19 new cases Tuesday, 29...

For the second time this week, the Whitley County Health Department has reported additional COVID-19 fatalities. “We are terribly sad to report two more deaths as well,” the Whitley County Health Department wrote in a release Thursday. The Whitley County Health Department...

The investigation of suspected drug activity at two locations in north Corbin Tuesday afternoon resulted in 10-drug related arrest. Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies arrested eight people at a residence off of Foley Road, off of Byrley Road, and two others at a residence off of...

Knox, Laurel and Whitley counties all reported double-digit increases in the number of new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. The Knox County Health Department (KCHD) reported 48 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, including one case involving a child. “We have been notified that 21 of these...