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A grand jury indictment, unsealed Friday, alleges Garcia, smuggled immigrants through Tennessee and other states
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Jurors delivered the verdict not long after they began deliberations Friday in Bowling Green. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
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Clearing its first major hurdle, a Jefferson County judge ruled Monday the victims of the 2023 Old National Bank shooting and their families have the right to sue the gun seller and manufacturer who furnished the shooter.
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A jury found former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his ex-top aide guilty on corruption charges tied to a secretive political vendor.
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Five county jails in Kentucky are now certified to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees indefinitely.
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In Tennessee, prosecutors can charge people for crimes committed by another person, even if they weren’t directly responsible. Activist groups are working with state legislators to change that.
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In southern Kentucky, the Barren County community is grieving the unthinkable. Local teenager Eli Heacock died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound last month. Investigators are looking into what role an online extortion scheme played in the death.
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Kentucky State Police say a Lyon County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a Smithland man early Monday morning after the suspect fled a separate shooting incident.
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The Lexington Herald-Leader's Taylor Six spent months investigating jail deaths across the state.
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Prosecutors have requested a mental evaluation for a former Kentucky sheriff charged with gunning down a judge in a courthouse last year after his attorneys said they will argue he was emotionally disturbed at the time of the shooting.
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Prisoners in Tennessee will soon be able to receive free books again. Last year, the Tennessee Department of Correction made it impossible for books-to-prisons nonprofits to mail books to prisoners in Tennessee.
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The Boone County Detention Center holds people detained for ICE. Civil rights investigators have found deficiencies in the jail’s health and safety protocols.