Residents of a tiny Appalachian town struggled Friday after a judge was gunned down in his courthouse chambers and a local sheriff was charged with his murder.

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

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WJHL) — Three things were abundantly clear when a librarian, a pastor and two construction workers described ...

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

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WJHL) — Three things were abundantly clear when a librarian, a pastor and two construction workers described ...

Kentucky State Police say Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins multiple times ...

Whitesburg residents gathered outside of the Letcher County Veterans Memorial Museum to pray for the community after Sheriff ...

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

The violence erupted after an argument inside the courthouse, police said. It wasn’t clear what led to the shooting.

Communities across Kentucky were rocked on Thursday after a courthouse shooting took place in the small town of Whitesburg.

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WJHL) — Blue lights flashed in the background Thursday night as a Kentucky state trooper gave reporters ...