Boone County spends $2.5 million a year on housing inmates in other counties because its own jail is overcrowded.

A former West Middle School teacher who was arrested for a second time earlier this month is no longer listed on the Boone ...

In our Reality Check stories, Herald-Leader journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? hlcityregion@herald-leader.com. Brian Maurer ...

The former Cooper County court deputy accused of neglecting medical care for an inmate will face a bench trail beginning in ...

A Watauga County jail inmate died following an apparent medical emergency, according to the Watauga County Sheriff's Office.

A woman who was charged with manslaughter in a fatal crash from November is facing a wrongful death lawsuit in Boone County.

At least four Kentucky jails with contracts to hold ICE detainees have withheld how much feds have paid those jails.

The Kentucky State Police (KSP) are investigating two separate incidents at two different lockups, including one where an ...

Since July 2023, Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has called the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverhead, ...

After Tiger Woods was taken into custody following a rollover crash on Friday, fans wasted no time putting his latest mugshot on a T-shirt.

Former SMU cornerback Theodore Knox, the driver of the Corvette that was racing Rice’s Lamborghini on a Dallas highway before ...