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Corbin police catch robbery suspect who was hiding in drainage system

Dean Manning | Filed under Featured

Wesley Varga

Corbin Police spent more than 20 minutes chasing down a man who allegedly grabbed a handful of cash from a customer at the Speedway store on U.S. 25W and then fled on foot.

Read Full Story | Sep 10, 2010

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Corbin police seize pills, $15,000 during traffic stop Tuesday

A former Corbin resident who had moved to Michigan is now touring the Knox County Detention Center after Corbin Police allegedly caught her with more than $1,000 worth of prescription pills and about $15,000 in cash.

Read Full Story | 09/08/10

And then there was one ... Whitley tobacco growers on the brink of extinction

Dean Prewitt is the only contract burley tobacco grower left in Whitley County. Only a decade ago, the county produced over 800,000 lbs. annually. It will produce about 10,000 lbs. this year.

As Dean Prewitt surveyed one of four barns last week in which about 9,000 lbs. of burley tobacco will hang to cure until mid-November, he was doing something that has now become a rarity in a county that used to count the crop as the backbone of its agricultural economy.

Read Full Story | Comments (2) | 09/08/10

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