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

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 ...

Mike Watts, the Letcher County circuit court clerk, joins "Banfield" to discuss what he calls a great loss for his community, the shooting death of District Judge Kevin Mullins allegedly at the hands ...

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

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — Residents of a tiny Appalachian town struggled Friday to cope with a shooting involving two of its ...

"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 ...

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 ...