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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 ...
WHITESBURG, Ky. (WJHL) — Days after Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines allegedly shot and killed District Judge Kevin Mullins in his court chambers, people in the county are still ...
Letcher County’s sheriff of eight years is being jailed in Leslie County and his first court appearance is scheduled for September 25 before a judge in Carter County, said Jackie Steele, the ...
Image credits: Letcher County Sheriff’s Office Fields was fired and given six months in prison and six years on probation for charges including rape, sodomy, perjury, and tampering with a ...
Stines, 44, was indicted on one count of murder of a public official after video footage captured him aiming a gun at District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, inside the jurist's office on Sept. 19, 2024.
The county was formed, as Kentucky's 95th county, from portions of Harlan, Perry, and Pike counties, and named for Robert P. Letcher, who was the governor of Kentucky at that time. Its county seat, Whitesburg, was called Summit City before becoming the county seat.
Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines was arrested and booked in the Leslie County Detention Center Sept. 19 in connection to the killing of Letcher County District Judge Kevin Mullins.
Leonard Woods was a 30-year-old Black miner who lived in Jenkins, Kentucky.Jenkins was a new company town in Letcher County, built to accommodate the workers of the Consolidation Coal Company, or Consol, which was opening mines on the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Kentucky, and had managed to get the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to extend its line to serve its needs.