Officials said a body they believed to be that of suspected gunman Joseph A. Couch was found Wednesday near the site of the ...

Bone DNA extracted from the body found in Laurel County was confirmed to belong to Joseph Couch, the suspect wanted in ...

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

A body found in Kentucky is confirmed to be that of the man suspected in an interstate shooting that left five people wounded ...

Police are investigating a deadly shooting at a courthouse building in southeast Kentucky on Thursday afternoon.

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, was taken into custody at the scene without incident, police said. He was charged with one count of first-degree murder.

A sheriff who participated in the infamous manhunt for escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat in 2015 compared it to ...

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

The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins ...

Gov. Andy Beshear announced that Kentucky’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. William Ralston and the state police crime lab have ...