They'd been friends for years and were two well-known elected officials. So why would Letcher County's sheriff shoot its only judge in the courthouse?

A small, tight-knit southeast Kentucky community has been reeling after their sheriff was arrested for the killing of a ...

A small, tight-knit southeast Kentucky community has been reeling after their sheriff was arrested for the killing of a prominent district judge in his chambers Thursday – spurring ...

Mike Watts, the Letcher County Circuit Court clerk, shared new information Friday about what he knows regarding the shooting death of District Judge Kevin Mullins. Sheriff Shawn M. Stines allegedly ...

The sheriff charged with murder in the shooting of a rural Kentucky judge in his courthouse chambers was accused in a federal ...

We’ve not only lost our sheriff and district judge, but I’ve lost two personal friends I worked with daily,” said Letcher ...

Whitesburg residents gathered outside of the Letcher County Veterans Memorial Museum to pray for the community after Sheriff ...

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

As the aftermath of Thursday’s Letcher County shooting unfolds, LEX 18 has learned more background information on the victim ...

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

WHITESBURG, Ky. — When Judge Kevin Mullins and Sheriff Shawn Stines, two longtime officials in a rural eastern Kentucky ...

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 ...