A sheriff who participated in the infamous manhunt for escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat in 2015 compared it to ...

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.

Officials said a body they believed to be that of suspected gunman Joseph A. Couch was found Wednesday near the site of the ...

A Kentucky sheriff charged with fatally shooting a judge inside his chambers was accused of failing to investigate claims ...

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

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 ...

Days after combing through a national forest before finding a body near the site of the shooting, Kentucky authorities ...

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

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 ...