Whitley City News

South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation recently held a golf scramble to benefit the Rogers Scholars Program.

Local banks holding strong With Congress finally approving the 700 billion dollar bailout bill last week, leaders are hoping to shore up a flagging United States economy.

McCreary County Board of Education heard a presentation of the district's recently released Kentucky Core Content Test data during their September 25 regular meeting.

A well-known McCreary County native has joined The McCreary County Record as advertising director.

Knoxville Police Department has reported a prisoner who had escaped from police custody Wednesday morning has been recaptured.

A National Research Council committee has recommended that waste created from destroying chemical weapons in central Kentucky should be moved elsewhere for disposal.

A U.S. military spokesman says a 101st Airborne Division soldier who was killed in Afghanistan over the weekend died when an Afghan policeman opened fire on U.S. troops at a police station.

Gov. Steve Beshear says Kentucky went ahead with a $390 million bond sale Tuesday.

This weekend will mark the first annual Scenic McCreary County Hiker’s Retreat Weekend, with hikes all weekend in the Daniel Boone National Forest, the Big South Fork and along the Sheltowee National Trail.

Nashville, TN Governor Phil Bredesen is designating October as Disability Employment Awareness Month to generate awareness about the talents and abilities of Tennessee's citizens with disabilities.

Kentucky state Rep. Larry Belcher has died in a crash with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 65 in south-central Kentucky.

Grand Jury indicts home invader Friday, 26 September 2008 A young man who broke into a local residence earlier this year, only to be shot as he fled the scene, was indicted by a grand jury this week.

Fire destroys home Written by Greg Bird Firefighters from the North McCreary, Eagle/ Sawyer and Whitley City Fire Departments battle a blaze Tuesday night at the home of Randy Corder near Parkers Lake.

Governor Steve Beshear wants help from President Bush to get counties, hit hard by the remnants of Hurricane Ike, back on track.

Local woman gets 10 years Written by Voice Staff Report Friday, 19 September 2008 A Whitley City woman is facing ten years in prison after pleading guilty Monday in four separate ...

The man who lost his wife in an assault at their Strunk home last year pled guilty to drug charges Tuesday and now faces five years in prison.

" A five-month undercover investigation by Operation UNITE into illegal drug trafficking in Knox County resulted in 23 indictment warrants last week.

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If you have a chance to speak with Coy Sumler, don't pass it up. The 63-year-old Strunk Ridge resident has quite a story to tell but finds that many are afraid to speak with him once they see he has no legs.

Metal thieves are cashing in on anything they can get their hands on and officials in one Eastern Kentucky county say enough is enough.