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.

Letcher, Bell, Leslie, Johnson, Boyd, Ohio, Hopkins, Webster, Harlan and Breathitt counties. Projects that are eligible to receive the funding in Kentucky are those affected by coal mining that ...

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 ...

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 ...

LETCHER, CAROL A. Carol A. Letcher passed away April 24. Services, Tuesday April 29, at 9:30 a.m., Broomfield Methodist Church. Visitation, Saturday, April 26 and ...

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 ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (FOX 56) — It’s a case many in the Commonwealth have been following since the very beginning, when Letcher County Sheriff Shawn ‘Mickey’ Stines allegedly killed district ...

Both men wooed West Virginia voters with the promise of more mining jobs and fewer regulations ... On a recent night in Boone County, where coal was first discovered in the state, longtime ...

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 ...

Coal mining has been an essential part of British industry since Roman times. This collection looks at the hardship of the day-to-day toil beneath the earth as well as the effects of industrial ...

The explosion took place around 1,000 feet deep inside the mine when the mineworkers were busy digging the coal. In February, four mineworkers died when part of the coalmine collapsed in Duki ...

LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WJHL) — The Letcher County Sheriff has retired amid allegations that he shot and killed a district judge in the county courthouse. A letter from the Law Office of Jeremy A.