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Letcher County courts were closed the Friday after the shooting. [10] Hundreds of mourners attended Mullins' funeral service at Jenkins Middle and High School on September 22. Several judges spoke favorably of him during the service, including Kentucky Supreme Court deputy chief justice Debra H. Lambert who lauded Mullins for "his passion for ...
Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting Thursday at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg officials from ...
Letcher County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,548. [1] Its county seat is Whitesburg. [2] [3] It was created in 1842 from Harlan and Perry counties, [4] and named for Robert P. Letcher, Governor of Kentucky from 1840 to 1844. [5] [6] [7]
Meridith Funeral Home/Family Handout Valentine, 43, had been the resident circuit judge for Edwards County since he was elected to the position in 2016. He was reelected in 2022.
The 911 operator guided the Fletchers as they allegedly performed CPR on Lacey (audible over the phone). Emergency services and the coroner arrived at the home and discovered Lacey's dead, partially clothed and malnourished 96-pound (44 kg) body fused into the family's leather couch, with clear signs of neglect.
A national funeral service, with a religious theme, is traditionally held at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., or at another church, depending on the president's religious faith. Funeral services for Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter were held at the cathedral. [93]
Whitesburg is located in central Letcher County at (37.117867, -82.821068) [9] in the valley of the North Fork of the Kentucky River, five miles (8 km) west of the border of Kentucky and Virginia Kentucky Route 15 passes through the city, leading northwest 31 miles (50 km) to Hazard .
Although the first Catholic services were held as early as 1888, at the Letcher School, the small community was not able to muster the resources to build a church until 1900. [2] This structure, of balloon frame and clapboard construction, is "a vernacular example of late Gothic Revival architecture." It was damaged by a tornado in 1924, but ...