School Resource Officer and Class Instructor Bill Eckler talked with WJRS News about the level one Department of Criminal Justice SRO training in Richmond recently attended by four local school resource officers… Tomorrow we’ll have […]

The Jamestown City Hall will be open on Thursday, July 4th as the city prepares for the Lakefest celebration. However, city hall in Jamestown will be closed on Monday, July 8th.

During the month of June, there were 27 traffic accidents investigated by the state police working in the 11 counties of the Post 15 area, including Russell County. There were four fatal collisions during the […]

Kentucky State Police in Columbia will be conducting safety traffic checkpoints in the Post 15 area, which includes Russell and surrounding counties. Troopers will be checking for impaired drivers, children that are not properly restrained […]

Kentucky State Police is participating in Operating C.A.R.E. (Crash Awareness Reduction Effort) during the Fourth of July holiday season. Beginning on July 3rd and extending through July 5th at 11:59 pm KSP Troopers will be […]

Officers Jackie Grider, Troy Young, Jeremy West and Anthony Darnell are the Russell County School District’s first level one certified school resource officers, per Senate Bill 1, from the very first SRO 1 Department of […]

WJRS News Director Derek Aaron files this report today for local news detailing the Russell County Health Department’s syringe exchange program statistics for June…

WJRS News talked with Marty Rabon, the lead singer of the Grammy-award winning country band Shenandoah, about the group headlining Lakefest in Jamestown on Saturday night… Raybon also gave attendees a preview of what to […]