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 ...
Kentucky State Police Commissioner Phillip Burnett Jr. said "articles associated with the body," suggest the remains could belong to Joseph Couch.
Kentucky State Police say 43-year-old Sheriff Mickey Stines shot and killed 54-year-old District Judge Kevin Mullins inside ...
The sheriff charged with murder in the shooting of a rural Kentucky judge in his courthouse chambers was accused in a federal ...
Staff report Kentucky’s Chief State Medical Examiner Dr. William Ralston and the state police crime lab have confirmed that a ...
Kentucky State Police spent days looking for Joseph Couch, who shot five people driving down I-75 in Laurel County earlier ...
The violence erupted after an argument inside the courthouse, police said. It wasn’t clear what led to the shooting.
Investigators are trying to determine why a Kentucky sheriff allegedly shot and killed a district judge after they argued ...
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 ...