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Corbin High School senior football standout Treyveon Longmire may not be suiting up for the University of Kentucky next fall. Longmire, who had committed to play for Coach Mark Stoops back in the spring, announced on his Twitter page that he would be looking at other schools. “After talking to my family, I am going to re-open my recruitment and explore all my options,” Longmire wrote Friday afternoon hashtagging it with #GODSPLAN. Corbin Football Coach Tom Greer said while Longmire has not decommitted to UK, he is having second thoughts and has elected to use his four remaining official college visits. “Other universities continue to call, call, call, call,” Greer said. Greer declined to...

The Corbin Board of Education voted unanimously to make masks optional district wide beginning Monday, Nov. 15 during Thursday’s meeting. The “Motion to make masks optional (ie. Parent/guardian preference) throughout Corbin School District,” was made by board member Todd Childers. The motion also included the caveat that the mask policy could be changed in the future. The board agreed that masks would be optional district wide including on school buses. The motion was made since Whitley County is currently no longer in the red zone for COVID incidence rate. As of Wednesday, the state reported Whitley County’s COVID incidence rate at 15. The rate places Whitley County in the 25 lowest counties in...

A Corbin man is facing assault charges involving a frying a pan, his teeth and alcohol, stemming from an incident early Friday morning. James Faircloth, 61, was charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault – domestic violence, first-degree terroristic threatening, second-degree fleeing or evading police, menacing, first-degree wanton endangerment, alcohol intoxication in a public place and endangering the welfare of a minor. Whitley County Sheriff’s Deputy Chad Estep was called to an apartment on Little Spruce Creek Road, off of Corinth Cemetery Road, in response to a disturbance complaint. Estep said as he arrived on the scene, an individual flagged him down and pointed out a male subject fleeing the scene on foot. Estep...

A single vehicle accident resulted in two downed electric poles and virtual learning for students at the Corbin Educational Center and Corbin High School Wednesday morning. Crews were dispatched to the accident on Main Street in Corbin near City Hall at approximately 7 a.m. The driver was not injured, but the collision with an electric pole caused the pole to break, said Corbin Fire Department Battalion Chief Jack Partin. The downed pole caused tension on another line at 9th and Main and caused it to break as well. Electricity is down in the area and is expected to remain down for several hours. Corbin High School and Corbin Educational Center are both without electricity,...

The Corbin Lady Redhounds are 13th Region Volleyball Champions. Corbin defeated Whitley County in four sets, 25-19, 16-25, 25-12, 25-16. Corbin will host the 10th Region champion in the first round of the state tournament on Monday. The 10th Region championship is scheduled to be played on Thursday.

The Williamsburg-Lynn Camp high school football game, which had been scheduled for Friday night in Williamsburg, has been canceled. We Rock Sports is reporting that Lynn Camp has forfeited the match-up because it doesn't have enough healthy players. The game would have been Williamsburg's senior night. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association already has Williamsburg officially winning the game 1-0 as a result of the forfeit. Williamsburg's next game is an away game at Perry County Central. The forfeit means that Williamsburg is undefeated in the district and will be the number one seed in the district when the playoffs start Nov. 5, and it will be hosting the first round playoff game...

A Whitley County grand jury has cleared Corbin Police Corporal Steve Meadors of any wrongdoing in the February fatal shooting incident. The grand jury returned, “no true bill” in the case, meaning it found insufficient evidence to return an indictment. Kentucky State Police were called to investigate after Meadors shot and killed Phillip N. Davenport, 20, of Corbin, during an altercation at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Dogwood Cove off of Sanderlin Drive. According to state police, Meadors, who lives on the street, had been contact by a neighbor in reference to a prowler complaint. “The officer and Davenport became involved in an altercation, during which the officer discharged his agency’s issue firearm striking...

A black Ford Taurus ran up the guy wire of an electric pole at the intersection of Kentucky Avenue and Gordon Street Monday afternoon. Corbin Fire Department was dispatched at 12:11 p.m., said Battalion Chief Chad Jackson. The driver stated he was coming down Gordon Hill and lost his brakes, said Jackson. The driver said he swerved to avoid hitting another car, and he went up the guy wire. The male driver and female passenger were still inside the vehicle when the fire department arrived. Corbin Fire Department deployed its rescue struts to stabilize the car and then removed the passengers. No injuries were reported, said Jackson. Corbin City Utilities responded to the scene...

Update: A Golden Alert for Arnold Young and his son, Darrick Young, has been canceled. Both subjects were located safe, Whitley County 911 said in an e-mail to media outlets at 5:33 p.m. Tuesday. Original story The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department issued a Golden Alert late Monday afternoon for a missing father and son. The Golden Alert is for Arnold Young, 62, and his son, Darrick E. Young, 31, who both require daily medication, which they don’t have with them, according to the sheriff’s department alert. Both were last seen at 5 p.m. Saturday leaving a residence at 199 Incline Drive in Williamsburg in a 2013 Nissan four-door silver Altima with Kentucky tag...

U.S. 25 between Corbin and London is, once again, open to traffic following a Tuesday morning fatal crash. Laurel County Sheriff’s Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said the crash occurred at approximately 10:45 a.m. in the Lily community. The crash involved three vehicles and resulted in one death with four other people suffering serious injuries. For more information, see Wednesday’s edition of The News Journal.