The preferred site in Letcher County identified by the U.S. Bureau ... is on 500 acres of land leveled by mountaintop removal coal mining in Roxana, roughly 10 miles to the west of Whitesburg.

The federal government has granted approval of a new federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky, per an announcement Monday.

WHITESBURG In her old house — built more than 100 years ago by a coal company — Lois Thompson says she couldn’t afford to run ...

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines is accused of killing District Judge Kevin Mullins in the judge’s chambers in the city of Whitesburg on Sept. 19 Kentucky Court of Justice/AP ...

and coal mine explosions in Letcher County that killed 26. Carroll administered a reorganization of the state’s antiquated court system, which voters authorized by approving a 1975 ...

The Central Appalachian mountain ranges in Kentucky are home to some of the poorest - and most fervent - Trump supporters. But what happens in the next few weeks hundreds of miles away in ...

A new sheriff is on the job in Letcher County, Kentucky as the former sheriff awaits trial for allegedly killing a judge inside his chambers.The shooting happened at the Letcher County Courthouse ...

Judge Kevin Mullins was in his district office when he was shot shortly before 3 p.m., and Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines has been detained in the slaying, Kentucky State Police said ...

A county sheriff shot and killed a judge in the Letcher County Courthouse on Thursday, according to Kentucky State Police (KSP). State police said Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines ...

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 ...

It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in late July, two years ago in rural Pike County, Kentucky ... That rain often falls on ground where coal mining excavations removed mountaintops.

Plans for construction of a new medium-security federal prison in Letcher County have been approved ... of land leveled by mountaintop removal coal mining in Roxana, roughly 10 miles to the ...