Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, was taken into custody at the scene without incident, police said. He was charged with one count of first-degree murder.

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

On any given day, thousands of people pass through the Wake County Justice Center. Throughout the building are 50 deputies ...

LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (TND) — A judge in a Kentucky town was shot and killed Thursday at the local courthouse and the local ...

This case is, from the prosecutor's perspective, is in the finest hands, said Matt Butler, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for ...

Director of Greene County Schools hopeful for students to return to South Greene High School following fire ...

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 ...

The two men were seen getting ready to go to lunch on the day of the shooting. Hours later, Judge Kevin Mullins was dead from ...

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.

A man initially interviewed as a witness at the scene of a murder has now been arrested in the alleged road rage slaying, ...

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