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A Williamsburg woman was arrested Saturday night after Corbin Police found her walking around naked in the emergency room at Baptist Health Corbin. Forty-six-year-old Donna Cox has been charged with one count of second-degree indecent exposure. Corbin Police Officer Lonnie Sawyers was called to the scene just before 7 p.m. in response to a complaint of a female creating a disturbance in the ER. “Upon my arrival I observed Donna Cox in the nude in the ER,” Sawyers wrote in the arrest citation. Corbin Police Major Rob Jones, the department’s public affairs officer, said Cox, who had been brought into the ER as a patient, was yelling and screaming Cox was taken into custody...

Dispatchers will receive a new, state of the art, system to communicate with in Whitley County. This is all thanks to a grant awarded to Whitley County E-911 through the Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS). Whitley County Fiscal Court officials said they are pleased to announce the reception of this grant, which will be used to purchase a new Computer Aided Dispatch and Mapping System (CAD). “We are very excited CMRS picked our project for funding,” said Whitley County Judge-Executive Pat White, Jr. “Our dispatch center was in dire need of a new CAD system.  Many times the system was not available for use and dispatchers were forced to document calls by...

State Parks officials, led by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, were in Whitley County last week to kick off the “Refreshing the Finest” campaign — an $18 million effort to improve the state’s park system, including repairs and upgrades at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. Bevin, alongside Tourism, Arts and Heritage Secretary Don Parkinson and Parks Commissioner Donnie Holland, announced details of “Refreshing the Finest” at a special press conference held Thursday at the DuPont Lodge at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park; the most visited of the state’s 49 parks. Seventeen of the state’s parks are resort parks like Cumberland Falls. “We have a stunning array of state parks here in Kentucky, but...

About 60 people turned out at the Cumberland Inn Thursday afternoon to help the Williamsburg Kiwanis Club celebrate its 35th anniversary. "This is a great opportunity for us to celebrate the 35 years we have been in existence here," said current Williamsburg Kiwanis Club President Alvin Sharpe. Chuck Fletcher, Kiwanis Governor for the Kentucky-Tennessee District, noted that is amazing to come to a place like Williamsburg that has such "excitement." "When you see excitement taking place. It gives you more excitement to do more and more for your community," Fletcher said. "Thank you for what you do in your community. It is very important that we work with the community and network...

Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Corbin man on drug possession and public intoxication charges Tuesday morning after responding to a complaint from employees at a north Corbin restaurant. According to Sheriff John Root, deputies arrested 53-year-old Timothy Long of Corbin on charges of first-degree possession of a controlled substance – methamphetamine, public intoxication and three counts of controlled substance prescriptions not in original container. Deputy Shannon Jones and Sgt. Larry Parrott reported finding Long “almost passed out in his hash browns” at the restaurant. Upon speaking with Long, deputies notice he had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and could hardly walked. “This subject stated he had taken meth and Suboxone,” Root said. Deputies reported...

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 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 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...

The Ninth Annual Sally Gap Bluegrass Festival will kick off Wednesday with a talent show and gospel music concert before transitioning into three days of bluegrass music on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. "We have campers from out of town that come in earlier in the week. It is kind of designed to give them some entertainment before the actual festival," organizer Vicki Cooper said about Wednesday shows. Organizer Sarah Williams added that last year the campers started arriving on the Monday before the festival and that there were jam sessions going all week long. The addition of Wednesday's talent show and gospel show are the two biggest changes to this year's festival. The...

Visitors to the Williamsburg Tourism and Convention Center are now being greeted by a large mural, which runs the length of one side of the building facing 10th Street. "I have been on Facebook the last two days and everybody has been very complimentary of it," said Williamsburg Tourism Director Alvin Sharpe. "It has been needed for long time, something on that wall." The 113-foot long and 16-foot high mural was installed on May 23. It contains more than a dozen photographs of various places or things in or around Williamsburg ranging from Kentucky Splash and the courthouse to historic homes and Cumberland Falls. "We racked our brains to see what we could...