Police in Letcher County arrested a man for breaking into a truck and ended up also charging him in a package theft case.

Shawn "Mickey" Stines, the former Letcher County sheriff, is due in court on Thursday afternoon for a status hearing in the ...

Shawn Mickey Stines was in a Letcher County courtroom for hearings on bond and possible change of venue. Neither took place.

A district judge is dead and a county sheriff has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The Mount ain Eagle, a local newspaper in ...

Former Kentucky sheriff reportedly admits to courthouse shooting of judge, plans insanity defense citing extreme emotional ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (FOX 56) — Communities across Kentucky were rocked on Thursday after a courthouse shooting took place in the small town of Whitesburg. Whitesburg residents Kim Hicks and Yetta Collier ...

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. In ...

LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - One man was taken to jail after he was accused of threatening to kill a physician. On Dec. 10, a ...

HURRICANE, W.Va. — A team from the city of Hurricane, West Virginia has arrived in the flood ravaged town of Whitesburg, Kentucky ready to help in any way they can. The ten member crew is a “mobile ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (WJHL) — A Whitesburg, Kentucky firefighter died on Monday after being in a coma for three days. According to the Kentucky Firefighters Association, Assistant Chief Joe Back collapsed ...

Whitesburg is a city in Letcher County, Kentucky, with a population of 2,335. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single adult ...

Whitesburg, Kentucky, was an area once known for coal mining but most of those jobs have dried up. Limited opportunities force many residents to leave, but some are able to find their way back.