WHITESBURG, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Kentucky judge was ... 25, Stines appeared virtually before a judge alongside the Leslie County jailer and public defender Josh Miller to enter his plea.

remains behind bars at the Leslie County Detention Center. Chief Regional Judge Rupert Wilhoit decided there was enough evidence presented to send the case to a grand jury. Kentucky State Police ...

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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.

Stines Leslie County Detention Center via AP On Thursday, Stines allegedly killed Kentucky District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, inside his chambers in the Letcher County Courthouse, officials said.

(Leslie County Detention Center) An Eastern Kentucky sheriff charged with murdering a judge earlier in September has retired from his elected office following a request from the governor to step down.

a Kentucky sheriff displayed no emotion at his first court hearing Wednesday since being accused of walking into a judge's chambers and fatally shooting him — a tragedy that shocked and saddened ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WKYT) - Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines will be arraigned on Wednesday. Stines is facing a charge of ...

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 ...

The Kentucky ... where Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was shot to death six days earlier. Prosecutors did not present evidence during the arraignment, leaving a possible motive for the killing a mystery.

WEST LIBERTY, Ky. − With former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines in court Tuesday, attendees at a hearing about the killing of District Court Judge Kevin Mullins ... the then-sheriff while ...

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 ...