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Harlan County, Kentucky, is no stranger to violence. Its long mining history means it's seen its fair share of corruption, moon-shining, and murder. The coal mining wars may be over, but with a ...

Soft-voiced, hard-eyed men in Kentucky’s “Bloody” Harlan County began saying Ambrose Metcalfe was a “candidate” (meaning, for the graveyard) almost as soon as he pinned on a policeman ...

Harlan County, Ky., has a history of violence and corruption associated with coal mining, but because that industry in Appalachia is a shell of its former self, law enforcement is dedicating its ...

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. — Authorities in Kentucky said they were searching for an inmate accused of walking off from a work crew in Harlan County Tuesday afternoon. In a release, the Kentucky State ...

Kentucky State Police are searching for an inmate who escaped a work crew in Harlan County.Robert Taylor, 46, of Richmond, Kentucky, left a detention center wor ...

Harlan County, Kentucky, had a drug overdose rate two times the national average. Through funding and community programs, those rates are declining.