At 11:15 on the morning of March 9, 1976, Virgil Coots, a foreman at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, called to the ...

A lawsuit implicating a slain Kentucky judge and former deputy in a "sex-for-favors" ring was quietly settled on Tuesday, ...

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 ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. — A former eastern Kentucky sheriff was arraigned on a murder charge Monday at the same courthouse where he is accused of fatally shooting a county judge about two months ago. A grand ...

Water more than six feet high flooded the Appalshop main building, including the WMMT community radio station studio, in Whitesburg, Ky., last summer during a flood that devastated Eastern Kentucky.

The Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Ky., is where Sheriff Mickey Stines is accused of fatally shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins, a friend and co-worker, on Sept. 19. (Arden Barnes for NPR ...