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.

Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was fatally shot at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky, on Thursday afternoon, according to Kentucky State Police spokesperson Matt Gayheart.

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - Letcher Countians voted by majority to allow alcohol sales throughout the county. Alcohol sales were already allowed in the cities of Whitesburg, Jenkins and Fleming-Neon. Now ...

In her old house — built more than 100 years ago by a coal company — Lois Thompson says she couldn’t afford to run the heat ...

Less than a month since a Kentucky sheriff was arrested at the scene of a district judge's fatal shooting, the murder case against Shawn "Mickey" Stines is now in the hands of a grand jury for a ...

When Tony Brown stepped down as pastor of First Baptist Church in Whitesburg last year, he knew his days of preaching were ...

Not even in the furthest recesses of my brain did I even possibly think that any of this would be occurring in the future, ...

Rogers, who has long pushed for construction of a new prison in Eastern Kentucky, said he was ... roughly 10 miles to the west of Whitesburg. Rogers said design work and property acquisitions ...