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A Montgomery County jury found James Hunter Stallard, 39, guilty of first-degree murder charge in the June 2022 strangulation death of 44-year-old Crystal Hannah. Stallard faces up to life in prison when sentenced in November.
A Big Stone Gap man charged with the 2020 stabbing and strangling death of his grand mother has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
Ja'Zion Robertson, 18, faces three felony charges in connection with the death of 22-year-old James R. Griffin III.
A Fayette Circuit Judge ruled Tuesday that a Lexington mother charged with killing a man was actually acting in self-defense. She still faces other charges, but her manslaughter charge was dismissed.
Jennifer Kashuba was overcome with emotion as a judge dismissed the manslaughter charge she’s been facing for the last 18 months.