Kentucky State Police Commissioner Phillip Burnett Jr. said "articles associated with the body," suggest the remains could belong to Joseph Couch.

Mike Watts, the Letcher County Circuit Court clerk, shared new information Friday about what he knows regarding the shooting death of District Judge Kevin Mullins. Sheriff Shawn M. Stines allegedly ...

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

Police say the sheriff of rural Letcher County, Kentucky, shot district judge Kevin Mullins several times after an argument ...

Staff report Kentucky’s Chief State Medical Examiner Dr. William Ralston and the state police crime lab have confirmed that a ...

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

Kentucky’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. William Ralston and the state police crime lab identified the remains through DNA ...

Whitesburg is a very small, close-knit community in the Eastern Kentucky mountains and to say the community is in shock would ...

Today, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that Kentucky’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. William Ralston, and the Kentucky State Police crime lab, have confirmed the body found near the area of the I-75 mass ...

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Kentucky District Judge Kevin Mullins, who was killed Thursday.

Gov. Andy Beshear said the state police crime lab and Kentucky’s chief medical examiner had identified the body found near ...

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