A flash flood warning remains in effect for Clay, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry and Pike counties until at least 1 p.m. The ...

The preferred site in Letcher County identified by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons for a high-security prison is a spot at Roxana that was flattened by surface mining. Bill Estep bestep@herald-leader ...

Kentucky State Police Trooper Matt Gayheart provided an update Thursday night after state police said Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines fatally shot Judge Kevin Mullins. Kentucky State Police ...

A 63-acre purchase by a local land restoration group in eastern Kentucky could potentially delay the building of a proposed $500 million federal prison. The plot is located in a critical portion of a ...

ATTORNEYS FOR MICKEY STEPHENS MADE THAT REQUEST IN COURT THIS MORNING. HE IS SEEN ON CAMERA SHOOTING LETCHER COUNTY DISTRICT JUDGE KEVIN MULLINS IN HIS CHAMBERS IN SEPTEMBER. STEIN’S ATTORNEYS ...

ZANESVILLE ‒ A man who escaped the Muskingum County Jail Saturday evening was still at large Sunday morning. Wayne Samuel Pletcher, 37, of Zanesville, had been detained for multiple low-level ...

(LEX 18) — Former Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines, charged with the murder of District Judge Kevin Mullins in September, appeared before a judge Friday morning for a status hearing.

ZANESVILLE ‒ A man who escaped the Muskingum County Jail Saturday evening was still at large Sunday morning. Wayne Samuel Pletcher, 37, of Zanesville, had been detained for multiple low-level felony ...

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Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn "Mickey" Stines has been jailed since the killing last September, but his attorneys indicated they will ask that bond be set at another hearing not yet scheduled.