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Nancy Man Arrested in RC on Drug and Other Charges

According to jail records, Timothy Helm, age 57, of Nancy was taken into custody by Deputy Wine with the Russell County Sheriff’s Department and charged with Terroristic Threatening, 3rd Degree, Resisting Arrest, Possession of a […]

Several RC Highways to See Some Resurfacing Projects

During Monday night’s meeting of the Fiscal Court, the magistrates and Judge Gary Robertson heard from Kayla Frye, representing the State Transportation Cabinet, about roads in Russell County which will soon be resurfaced…  Judge Robertson […]

RC Fiscal Court Met Monday

It was mostly routine business during last night’s meeting of the Russell County Fiscal Court, as County Judge-Executive Gary Robertson shared with WJRS Local News… Two members of the Russell County Jaycees, Justin Adkins and […]

RC Fiscal Court Meets this Evening

 Money…. that will be the main topic of tonight’s monthly meeting of the Russell County Fiscal Court.     The Court will consider the transfer of $19,000 from the general fund to the grant fund to assist […]

RC Resident Graduates from Dispatch Academy

A Russell County resident was one of nineteen law enforcement dispatchers graduated Friday from the Public Safety Dispatch Academy at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training. WJRS would like to congratulate Elizabeth E. Bennett […]

RC Man Indicted in Wayne County

A Russell County man has been indicted by a Wayne County Grand Jury on numerous felony offenses.    According to reports, 34-year-old Barney Warner of Russell Springs was indicted last week on four counts of Trafficking […]