University of the Cumberlands News

Special to The Times-Tribune Robert Reising, a professor of education at University of the Cumberlands and co-author of "Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams' Doc Graham," has been named a finalist for the 2009 CASEY Award.

Rogers Explorers adds EKU to LWC, Cumberlands campuses The 2010 summer dates for Rogers Explorers program are June 6-8, Lindsey Wilson College; Columbia, KY; June 9-11, University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, KY; and July 21-23, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.

WIN EVENT Thursday evening, 185 local children participated in Williamsburg Police Department's Shop with a Cop program.

Corbin has long had a problem admitting this simple fact - there are a lot of poor people here.A And maybe community leaders should take more initiative in helping them.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor It started as an ice plant. Then it was home to a mining equipment provider... later a trucking company... then the Bounce Factory.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor In what he called "the post 'South Park' America," Keith Semmel, chairman of the communication and theater arts department at University of the Cumberlands, said it's hard to imagine "The Simpsons" as a highly controversial TV show.

Special to The Times-Tribune University of the Cumberlands has been approved for a $100,000 grant from the Charles E. Schell Foundation through Fifth Third Bank as trustee.

By Becky Manley / Staff Writer The Corbin Recreation Center was filled with students doing sit-ups, doing laps around a track and dancing to zesty Latin tunes Tuesday.

'Kentucky should gets its fair share' By Adam S. Sulfridge / Staff Writer Dr. Rand Paul, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, explained his position on taxes, government spending, the drug abuse epidemic, welfare and other government benefits during an exclusive interview with the Times-Tribune, just hours before his appearance at the University ...

Special to The Times-Tribune University of the Cumberlands Theatre Arts program announces the opening of the fall show "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas" on Thursday, Nov.

Indiana University-East volleyball setter Lauren Crump was named the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's Player of the Week for Sept.

Sungkook Kim, who pleaded guilty in April to 24 federal counts of identity theft, extortion and computer fraud at the University of the Cumberlands and was later convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced Thursday to 12-and-a-half years in prison.

A former University of the Cumberlands student has been sentenced to 12 years and one month in federal prison for trying to blackmail a fellow student into sending him a sexually graphic video of herself and for possessing child pornography.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Former University of the Cumberlands student Sungkook Kim was sentenced Thursday to 12 years and one month in federal prison.

Berry Collegea s Callie Bennett shares the lead in the opening womens round of the Chick-fil-A Collegiate Invitational.

Special to The Times-Tribune University of the Cumberlands will host "Fitness Five/Dare to Compare: A Heath and Fitness Fair" Thursday from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the O. Wayne Rollins Center gym and the James H. Taylor II track and football field.

By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor Authors are dropping dead onstage during Corbin High School's latest theatrical production, "Murder by the Book." In CHS's first performance of the season, nine members of The Raven Society, assuming the persona of their favorite authors of classical literature, have arrived for their annual weekend retreat in ...

Sometimes the law is a mysterious thing. Like God, it often works in mysterious ways.

An attorney arguing a Kentucky Baptist College is eligible for state funding for a pharmacy school faced some skeptical questioning from Kentucky's Supreme Court on Thursday.

A Baptist university is asking the Kentucky Supreme Court to allow state funding for the construction of a pharmacy school on its campus in southeastern Kentucky.