Linda Carpenter

A Williamsburg tow truck operator, accused of shooting and killing a Woodbine man at the Root Beer Stand in Corbin late Friday, remains in jail with no bond as of Monday.

Authorities now say a Williamsburg tow truck operator has formally been charged with murder and first-degree wanton endangerment in the wake of a shooting late Friday in Corbin that ended in the death of a Woodbine resident.

A Corbin native's lifelong struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and his slide into alcoholism because of the illness, are the subject of a candid autobiography that is making waves in both secular and Christian media.

Passionate pleas to transform a venerable and vacant local school building into something useful have met with very little actual interest say Corbin school officials who are currently struggling to find anyone willing to take over the facility for a community purpose, but may instead have to declare it surplus property and put it on the auction block in the near future.

Before the neighbors across the street went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for a vacation last week, they asked if I wanted a souvenier. I said, partly in jest, "Sure, get me a hermit crab."