This story has been updated with new information. Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection to a shooting at the Letcher County ...

Letcher County's judge-executive signed an order closing the county courthouse on Friday. The courthouse is in Whitesburg, which is 146 miles (235 kilometers) southeast of Lexington. Mullins ...

Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was fatally shot at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky, on Thursday afternoon, according to Kentucky State Police spokesperson Matt Gayheart.