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Corporal punishment is no more in the Whitley County school district. During its regular monthly meeting Thursday, the Whitley County Board of Education updated its policy and procedures immediately removing corporal punishment as a disciplinary option in the school district....

Update: Whitley County E-911 canceled the Golden Alert for Perry Reed at 2:42 a.m. Monday. He has been located. Whitley County E-911 officials have issued a Golden Alert for a missing Whitley County juvenile, who requires daily cardiac medication. Perry E. Reed is a 17-year-old,...

The Whitley County Grand Jury has indicted a Harrodsburg man, who allegedly fired three rounds from a .22-caliber rifle on Jan. 29 while outside Baptist Health Corbin from a truck he was allegedly attempting to steal. Read this story and more for just $.99 cents today, or...

Courtney Taylor didn’t directly acknowledge Wednesday morning that she killed her husband and two teenage daughters in their southern Whitley County home on Jan. 13, 2017. However, she did plead guilty acknowledging that prosecutors likely had enough evidence to convict her. For...

A Whitley County Grand Jury indicted a Williamsburg pharmacy employee and local educator Monday for stealing drugs from the pharmacy, but pharmacy officials said that the type of drugs that police initially indicated were missing are incorrect. The Whitley County Grand Jury...

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) advises motorists that a portion of I-75 southbound (right lane) from mile points 1.5 to 2.0 in Whitley County will be closed on Thursday, Feb. 20, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The lane closure is necessary to allow District 11 crews to perform...

A federal judge has sentenced two men from Whitley and Laurel counties to nearly 20 years in prison in connection to an area kidnapping case. On Tuesday in U.S. District Court in London, Judge Claria Horn Boom, sentenced Gene Jones II, 40, of East Bernstadt, to 235 months in...

A woman, who was wanted in connection with a 2016 fatal crash in Whitley County, was returned to the state of Kentucky from the Oregon early Sunday morning. Efforts to get her here to answer charges were delayed by the fact that her original indictment in late 2017 listed an...

Accused killer Courtney Taylor has agreed to spend the rest of her life behind bars for the killing of her husband and two teenage daughters nearly three years ago. Prosecutors had been seeking the death penalty in her case, and her capital murder trial was set to begin on March...

Funeral services were held Tuesday evening for former Ellison Funeral Home owner Ruth “Marie” Paul, who passed away Friday at age of 84 at Williamsburg Health and Rehabilitation Center. Marie Paul and her late husband, Carl Paul, purchased Ellison Funeral Home on May 1, 1971, and...