WHITESBURG, Ky. (WJHL) — Three things were abundantly clear when a librarian, a pastor and two construction workers described their small community hours after a local judge had been shot and the ...

A new anthology features poetry and stories from Appalachian writers, including an Eastern Band of the Cherokee author, who ...

Residents of an Appalachian town are shocked after a Kentucky judge was gunned down in his courthouse chambers and a sheriff ...

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, was taken into custody at the scene without incident, police said. He was charged ...

A district judge is dead and a county sheriff has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting at the Letcher County ...

Reports of an active shooter led to someone being taken into custody in Letcher County in southeastern Kentucky. The shooter ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Caldwell School District has canceled Friday’s Caldwell High School homecoming parade because of “possible threats,” according to a letter sent out to families and the media.

Schools in a Kentucky country reopened Tuesday under heavy police guard for the first time since a massive search was ...

A hundred high school students from eight counties across the Commonwealth comprise the first class. Less than 2% of Kentucky high school students earned an industry certification in computer science.

By Dee Davis The Daily Yonder Sigmund Freud says we embrace mythical origin stories of leaders, warriors, and saints to disguise their true identity and to give them mystical powers or political ...

It's hard to pinpoint what a school choice program would mean for Kentucky because the amendment does not include specifics on how it will be implemented. But programs in other states show a mixed ...