Month: April 2023

A Jamestown man was arrested by the Russell County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday evening for fleeing or evading police and other traffic offenses, according to jail records. Dustin Arnold, age 28, was charged with fleeing […]

During the month of March, the Lake Cumberland District Health Department’s Harm Reduction Syringe Exchange Program saw 79 total visits with 42 repeat visitors and nine new visitors in Russell County. A total of 2,880 […]

A new bill will require Kentucky health insurers to cover biomarker testing for cancer. House Bill 180 passed with bipartisan support and was signed by Governor Andy Beshear this week, going into effect Jan. 1. […]

Judge-Executive Randy Marcum and the Russell County Fiscal Court in conjunction with the Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland program, will be distributing commodities at the Russell County Fairgrounds in Russell Springs beginning at 11 a.m. today […]

Two Russell County residents were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Adair County Monday afternoon. According to the Adair County Sheriff’s Office, the collision occurred two miles north of Columbia on Highway 55 when 20-year-old […]

Strong to severe storms are possible across the area late this afternoon and into the evening hours. The main threat is damaging winds, but an isolated tornado or two cannot be ruled out. More details […]

Much of the region, including the Lake Cumberland area, finds itself with a threat of severe weather for today. WJRS participated in a conference call with Meteorologist Michael Kochasic of the National Weather Service in […]

A Russell County man was among those indicted by an Adair County grand jury this week, along with an Alabama man accused of stealing a new Dodge Hellcat from a Somerset car dealership. Cody Allen […]

Governor Andy Beshear signed a bill yesterday aimed at protecting domestic violence victims. The new law builds on a program shielding victims’ home addresses from voter rolls, and expands the program to mask their addresses […]