They'd been friends for years and were two well-known elected officials. So why would Letcher County's sheriff shoot its only ...

Residents of a tiny Appalachian town struggled Friday to cope with a shooting involving two of its most prominent citizens: a judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers and a local sheriff ...

Coplen Lay is accused of abusing a dog after being caught on surveillance footage throwing it in the air and injuring it.

You will need a vision screening every time you renew your drivers license,” Matt Cole, commissioner for the Department of ...

A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said.

Fred and Sheila McCoy, a couple related to the well-known Hatfield-McCoy feud, assisted state police in finding a body near I-75 Wednesday.

When a gunman perched atop a cliff’s ledge opened fire on a dozen cars on Kentucky’s Interstate 75, wounding five people, it ...

Investigators believe they have found the body of a man they say shot five people and a dozen cars on an interstate highway ...

The unidentified body was found Wednesday in Laurel County, where authorities said Joseph Couch, 32, opened fire at vehicles on Sept. 7.

Officials are working to confirm the identity. It was not clear if the discovery was related to the shooting this month that ...

Kentucky State Police detectives are working to confirm the identity of the body found near Exit 49 in Laurel County.