Kentucky officials said a Letcher County district judge was fatally shot in his chambers Thursday afternoon.Gov. Andy Beshear noted he had been informed of the ...

An eastern Kentucky community is in a state of shock: their sheriff accused of murdering their district judge.

The Letcher County Courthouse is closed to the public. Several people are in a state of shock as a result of the incident.

Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines has been arrested in connection to a shooting at the Letcher County Courthouse on ...

LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Organizers of the Mountain Heritage Festival announced that changes will be made to this year’s festival. Officials said the changes are due to recent events. The festival ...

The fatal shooting stunned the tight-knit town of Whitesburg, the county seat, with a population of about 1,700 people.

KSP’s preliminary investigation indicates that Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines, 43, shot Mullins following an ...

Residents of a tiny Appalachian town struggled Friday to cope with a shooting involving two of its most prominent citizens: a ...

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins multiple times following an argument inside the ...

Thursday night as a Kentucky state trooper gave reporters details that state police had pieced together about a judge’s ...