LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A sheriff in southeastern Kentucky was ... on Thursday afternoon, according to Kentucky State Police spokesperson Matt Gayheart. Police arrested Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines at the scene and charged him with one count of ...

A Kentucky State Police Post 13 spokesperson told the Louisville Courier-Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network, that a suspect was arrested.

A district judge in Kentucky was fatally shot in his chambers Thursday afternoon, Gov. Andy Beshear said. "Sadly, I have been informed that a district judge in Letcher County was shot and killed in his chambers this afternoon,