UPDATE: Kentucky State Police has announced that Whitaker has been found safe. ORIGINAL STORY: HAZARD, Ky. — Police are asking for the public’s help locating a missing man. Donald “Ryan” Whitaker, 38, of Hazard, was reported missing by his family on Thursday. He was last seen…
Read MoreWISE, Va. – The man who admitted killing a Big Stone Gap police officer in 2021 has received a second 100-year sentence for the crime. Michael Donivan White, 36, originally of Cross, South Carolina, was sentenced Thursday in Wise County Circuit Court for the first-degree murder of Officer Michael…
Read MorePRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Defendants in the Amber Spradlin murder case are due back in court today, and Mountain Top News plans to livestream the proceedings. Spradlin’s body was found in the Arkansas Creek home of Dr. Michael McKinney on June 18, 2023. She had been stabbed at least 12 times in the…
Read MoreWHITESBURG, Ky. — After his attorney notified the court that he would be pursuing an insanity defense in his upcoming murder trial, prosecutors are requesting that former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines undergo a psychiatric examination. Stines, 44, of McRoberts, is charged with capital…
Read MorePRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Floyd County man has been indicted on child porn charges, following an investigation by Prestonsburg Police. Police received a complaint from a person who got into a dispute with Simon Roxas, 22, of Prestonsburg, after finding child porn on his phone. His phone was seized…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — The son of a former Paintsville doctor who pleaded guilty last year to a federal drug conspiracy charge has now also been charged in the scheme. Jeremy Bryson, son of former doctor Don Bryson, was indicted Friday on charges of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy…
Read MorePIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man who was arrested on child porn charges back in January has now been indicted by a federal grand jury. Lonnie James Maynard, 53, of Raccoon, has now been formally charged with one count of producing child porn and one count of possessing it. The indictment alleges…
Read MoreROBINSON CREEK, Ky. — Two Pike County residents were arrested Thursday on charges of trafficking in fentanyl and other drugs.Pikeville Police obtained a search warrant for a Groundhog Road home at Robinson Creek, as part of a drug investigation by Detective Zach Bowens. When they searched the…
Read MoreFRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Judicial Nominating Commission has put forward three nominees to fill the district judge position left vacant following the death of District Judge Kevin Mullins. Mullins was shot and killed in his chambers on Sept. 19. Former Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines was arrested…
Read MoreWHITESBURG, Ky. — The former sheriff accused of killing a district judge is planning to use an insanity defense, a court filing shows. Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Mickey Stines, 44, of McRoberts, is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Letcher District Judge Kevin Mullins…
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