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Three people were arrested Monday at a Woodbine residence after police received a complaint of a fight in progress with gunshots fired. According to a press release from the Knox County Sheriff’s Department, Deputy Mikey Ashurst responded to the complaint on Pay Lake Road. Arrested were: Robert R Anderson age 32 of Williamsburg, on a Whitley County Bench Warrant for failure to pay fines on no registration plates and no insurance charges. While being processed at the Knox County Detention Center, plastic baggies containing suspected crystal meth and marijuana where found concealed on his person. He was additionally charged with promoting contraband 2nd degree, possession of controlled substance 1st degree, trafficking...

A Corbin man was arrested last week for allegedly threatening a female jogger on Master Street. According to police, Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Mikey Ashurst received a cell phone call from a “hysterical female” jogging on Master Street in Corbin. She told Ashurst that a man was following her and “screaming vulgar slurs at her.” The man also allegedly said he was going to kill her and “blow up the police.” While Ashurst was on the phone with the woman, the man began chasing her. A passing motorist witnessed the incident and stopped to allow the woman to get inside their vehicle. After obtaining a description of the man, Ashurst located and arrested...

A Corbin man charged Saturday night in connection with a 2015 double homicide in Lily pleaded not guilty to murder and robbery charges Monday in Laurel District Court. Thirty-four-year-old Bradley Justin Lawson is charged with shooting and killing 62-year-old Donnie and 58-year-old Sharon Jackson at their home on Slate Ridge Road on March 8, 2015. Lawson remains in the Laurel County Detention Center on a $500,000 cash bond. Lawson is scheduled to return to court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is probable cause to present the case to a grand jury. The grand jury meets Monday, meaning it will not have the opportunity to hear the case this...

A Woodbine couple has been charged with methamphetamine related charges after items associated with meth production were discovered in a tent Thursday morning in the Faber community. Whitley County Sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Anderson responded Barton Hollow Road after receiving information that methamphetamine was allegedly being manufactured in a tent. When Anderson arrived at the scene he located items associated with meth production or meth precursors, but nobody was in or around the tent, according to a sheriff's department release. Whitley County E911 advised deputies that Whitley County EMS had recently transported a woman from that location after she had given birth, the release noted. Anderson made contact with the newborn's mother and father...

A downtown Corbin park dedicated to Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Harland Sanders is being highlighted by the Kentucky Department of Travel and Tourism as one of 99 places in Kentucky tourists should visit. The effort, called “99 days of summer” is an interactive calendar on the Department of Travel and Tourism’s website (www.kentuckytourism.com) that provides travel suggestions within the state. Sanders Park is on that list. The calendar includes pictures, event listings and detailed information about each destination. Suggestions began May 30. Examples include “cooling off at a Kentucky State Park pool or beach, finding the perfect fishing hole along the western Kentucky waterways, touring a horse farm or enjoying a...

Out of the seven applicants for the Williamsburg Independent School Principal position education veteran Tim Melton was the consensus choice by the interview committee for the job. During a press conference Tuesday morning in the school lobby, which was attended by about two-dozen people, including faculty, staff, board of education members, parents and students, Melton was introduced as the new principal. "This is a real exciting day. This crowd is a testament to just the love this community has for this school and this district," said Dr. Amon Couch, who is the current principal but will take over as superintendent on July 1. "Tim is a proven school leader, who knows how...

A London man was pronounced dead at the scene after he was thrown from a motorcycle that struck a pickup truck in Keavy Monday night. According to Laurel County Sheriff John Root, the victim was 22-year-old Shawn H. Couch. The wreck occurred about 9:30 p.m. at the intersection of Ky. 312 and Ky. 363 near the Keavy Grocery. Neither the driver of the pickup truck, identified as 37-year-old Jess Boswell, nor the passenger, 35-year-old Tiffany Boswell, was injured. Deputies determined that the collision occurred as the pickup truck turned left into the path of the oncoming motorcycle. The motorcycle collided with the right rear of the pickup truck. Deputy Shannon Jones along with accident reconstructionist...

After 11 years of waiting, Corbin city officials decided Friday that the city can wait no longer to somehow reach an agreement with Knox County to divide occupational tax revenue. Under the terms of a resolution the commission approved during a special called meeting Friday, Corbin will begin collecting its own occupational tax from individuals working within the Knox County portion of the city beginning July 1. “Corbin has got to take care of Corbin,” said City Manager Marlon Sams when asked why now. Commissioner Freddy “Bruce” Hodge said the city had to find additional revenue. “We’re broke,” Hodge said. “We are just hurting and everybody knows it.” Sams estimated that the tax would bring...

Following an investigation into a double shooting Thursday in Keavy, Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies have charged a London man with two counts of criminal attempt to commit murder. Twenty-eight-year-old Landon Collins, who had admitted to deputies to firing the shots that injured the two men, was arrested Thursday afternoon. Laurel County Sheriff's Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department's public affairs officer, said the victims have been identified as 57-year-old Ralph T. Boggs and 57-year-old Garrett Turner, both of London. Laurel County Sheriff's Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department's public affairs officer, said the shootings appear to be domestic incident. "The trailer is rented by Collins' ex-girlfriend," Acciardo said. "One of the men who was shot is...

Danielle Stansberry-Matlock gave a gripping, emotional, first-hand account Tuesday of what it is like to be addicted to drugs and at the rock bottom in life. It was the Independence House that helped her turn her life around. “I have my life back today,” she said in the very common area at Independence House where she spent months of her life in recovery. “I owe that to this place. I really do. If you’ve never seen hopeless, just watch an addict come in for treatments for the first time. That’s no hope,” she added. “When they leave here, there’s hope.” Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear was in town Tuesday to present the Independence...