After announcing he was recusing himself from the case because of his relationships with the two men, the commonwealth's ...

The Letcher County Sheriff accused of killing a judge is a defendant in a federal lawsuit. Here's what the lawsuit says.

After Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines allegedly shot District Judge Kevin Mullins to death, the manager of a popular ...

A Kentucky sheriff is facing charges of first-degree murder after shooting and killing a local judge inside his chambers last ...

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

They'd been friends for years and were two well-known elected officials. So why would Letcher County's sheriff shoot its only ...

They'd been friends for years and were two well-known elected officials. So why would Letcher County's sheriff shoot its only judge in the courthouse?

A small, tight-knit southeast Kentucky community has been reeling after their sheriff was arrested for the killing of a ...

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43 - a man whose role made him responsible for judges’ personal security - gunned ...

Sheriff Shawn M. Stines allegedly shot and killed Mullins on Thursday in his Letcher County, Kentucky chambers. State police ...

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