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UPDATED: Six hurt in Corbin crash; Sheriff says grand jury will decide if cause was criminal
Dean Manning | Filed under News
A two-vehicle accident just north of the intersection of US25E and US25W (malfunction junction) caused serious injuries to at least four people Saturday morning.
Corbin police seize pills, $15,000 during traffic stop Tuesday
Dean Manning | Filed under News
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.
Corbin police catch robbery suspect who was hiding in drainage system
Dean Manning | Filed under News
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.
Corbin Schools officials investigating how student was left on bus
Filed under NewsCorbin Schools officials are working to improve their policy regarding children who ride the school bus to and from school after a Corbin Primary student fell asleep on the bus on the way home Thursday and was left alone on the bus when it was parked at the school for the night.
Furnace causes mobile home to catch fire
Dean Manning | Filed under News
West Knox Firefighters were called to a trailer on Appaloosa Trail Monday morning after the trailer's heater caught fire.
UPDATED: Authorities says someone sabotaged Williamsburg officer's vehicle
Mark White | Filed under News
Williamsburg Public Affairs Officer Shawn Jackson is used to talking about crime on a regular basis.
Tuesday morning, Jackson issued a press release about the attempted murder of a police officer. What made this release different is that not only is Jackson the one releasing the information, but he is also the victim in what police think may be a murder for hire type case.
And then there was one ... Whitley tobacco growers on the brink of extinction
Trent Knuckles | Filed under News
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.
EXTRA CONTENT: Local man, Whitley Board of Education locked in battle over Superintendent hiring records
Trent Knuckles | Filed under News
A Whitley County man is locked in battle with the Whitley County School System over records he says may shed light on the selection, earlier this year, of a new Superintendent for the school district. The state's Attorney General is now involved and will decide the issue later this month.
Police target 60 'deadbeat parents' in Whitley County child support roundup
Mark White | Filed under News
Over 30 officers across the region hit the streets late Monday evening looking for 60 parents, who were wanted for not paying their child support in Whitley County.
Local day care evacuated Thursday because of small fire
Dean Manning | Filed under News
Forty-six children between the ages of 1 and 5 along with the faculty and staff at Laurel County Child Development on Ky. 1223 were forced to evacuate the building Thursday when a washing machine caught fire.
