SALYERSVILLE, Ky. — A Magoffin County man was arrested after police received a tip that he was on his way to sell meth. Deputies with the Magoffin County Sheriff’s Office were told that Matthew Roger Owens, 50, of Salyersville, was at a Salyersville gas station and on his way to sell meth. The officers found him in the passenger seat of an SUV still at the gas station and went to talk to him. The police report notes that when they asked Owens to step out of the vehicle to talk to them, they noticed a square bulge in his […]

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GULNARE, Ky. — Two people are dead following a house fire early Sunday morning in Pike County. The fire was reported just before 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning at a home along Brushy Road. Firefighters discovered two bodies inside the home. The bodies have been sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy and identification, but Kentucky State Police says foul play is not suspected. The case remains under investigation.

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WHITESBURG, Ky. — A judge has ordered former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, after his attorney announced he would pursue an insanity defense in his upcoming murder trial. Stines, 44, of McRoberts, is charged with capital murder for the Sept. 19 shooting death of Letcher District Judge Kevin Mullins while the two men talked in the judge’s chambers. The shooting was captured on security cameras, leaving no doubt as to who pulled the trigger. But last month, Stines’ attorney asked to present “expert evidence relating to a mental disease or defect or mental condition […]

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