My children] lost their uncle. My beautiful nieces have lost their father,” Letcher County Commonwealth’s Attorney Matt ...

Police say the sheriff of rural Letcher County, Kentucky, shot district judge Kevin Mullins several times after an argument ...

Kentucky State Police announced a significant development in the ongoing manhunt for 32-year-old Joseph A. Couch, who is ...

Gov. Andy Beshear said the state police crime lab and Kentucky's chief medical examiner had identified the body found near ...

Whitesburg is a very small, close-knit community in the Eastern Kentucky mountains and to say the community is in shock would ...

A Kentucky judge was shot and killed by the county sheriff after exchanging phones just before the shooting happened, ...

The violence erupted after an argument inside the courthouse, police said. It wasn’t clear what led to the shooting.

Today, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that Kentucky’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. William Ralston, and the Kentucky State Police crime lab, have confirmed the body found near the area of the I-75 mass ...

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Kentucky District Judge Kevin Mullins, who was killed Thursday.

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — Residents of a tiny Appalachian town struggled Friday to cope with a shooting involving two of its ...

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, was taken into custody at the scene without incident, police said. He was charged ...

Governor Andy Beshear addressed the deadly shooting of a Kentucky judge during a press conference Friday morning.