At Tuesday’s Fiscal Court meeting, Pulaski County Judge Executive Marshall Todd commissioned Riley Pierce, of the ...

Pulaski County Judge-Executive Marshall Todd said the Center for Rural Development ... Andrew McNeil, the president of the conservative Kentucky Forum for Rights, Economics & Education, criticized ...

As planned, the Fishing Creek Bridge officially closed to traffic on Monday, and will remain that way until a month or so ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — Residents of a tiny Appalachian town struggled Friday to cope with a shooting involving two of its most prominent citizens: a judge who was gunned down in his courthouse ...

WHITESBURG, Kentucky – Since the local sheriff here allegedly gunned down the district judge last month, the people of Letcher County remain unsettled and perplexed by this one-of-a-kind killing.

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) — A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed at the local courthouse on Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged in the shocking slaying, police said.

A judge in a rural Kentucky county was killed in his chambers on Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in connection to the shooting. District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54 ...

Shawn "Mickey" Stines, the Kentucky sheriff accused of shooting a district judge dead in his chambers, did not plan the killing and was not in his right mind, according to his lawyer. "It was not ...

The Kentucky sheriff accused of first-degree murder in the death of a district court judge entered a not guilty plea Wednesday during his first court appearance since the killing that shocked the ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A judge in a rural Kentucky county was fatally shot in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in the killing, police said.

A sheriff has been arrested and charged with one count of first-degree murder in the killing of a judge inside a Kentucky courthouse on Thursday, Kentucky State Police confirmed to HuffPost. Letcher ...