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

Matt Butler, who is a commonwealth attorney for Letcher County, remembers Kevin Mullins, who was shot dead on Thursday, as having 'endless patience' and was always 'kind.' ...

We have a violence problem in this country. and we have an economic problem in this region. We believe they are ...

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 ...

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 Stines has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Kentucky District Judge Kevin ...

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

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

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

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 ...