A Kentucky sheriff is facing charges of first-degree murder after shooting and killing a local judge inside his chambers last ...

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

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 ...

Sheriff Shawn M. Stines allegedly shot and killed Mullins on Thursday in his Letcher County, Kentucky chambers. State police ...

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

In a civil lawsuit, the sheriff was accused of ignoring one of his subordinate’s sexual abuse of female prisoners.

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, was taken into custody at the scene without incident, police said. He was charged ...

A sheriff fatally shot a judge in Kentucky on September 19, 2024. Learn about the situation and find out the identity of the ...

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

A judge in a rural Kentucky county was fatally shot in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged ...