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

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

Kentucky State Police say Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins multiple times ...

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

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

In a civil lawsuit, the sheriff was accused of ignoring one of his subordinate’s sexual abuse of female prisoners.

Kentucky State Police are searching for motive as they investigate the fatal shooting of a district judge by a sheriff after ...

"Does the motive suggest this is really a one-off? Or does the motive suggest there is a systematic problem that needs to be ...

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.

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