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Warren County Regional JailJurors delivered the verdict not long after they began deliberations Friday in Bowling Green. He was sentenced to 17 years in prison. -
Tasha A.F. Lemley/WPLN NewsThe state of Tennessee executed Oscar Franklin Smith Thursday morning. It was the first lethal injection since 2019, and comes on the heels of a third-party investigation into the state’s protocol that found failures in testing the drugs used during executions.
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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. -
Five county jails in Kentucky are now certified to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees indefinitely. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
The Boone County Detention Center holds people detained for ICE. Civil rights investigators have found deficiencies in the jail’s health and safety protocols. -
President Donald Trump wants local officers to help deport immigrants. Here’s what Kentucky law enforcement told KyCIR about that.
