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Shawn “Mickey” Stines was indicted on one count of murder of a public official by a Letcher County grand jury, prosecutors said. Stines was sheriff of the southeastern Kentucky county when authorities say he walked into District Judge Kevin Mullins’ chambers in Whitesburg, spoke with the judge and then opened fire on Sept. 19. Mullins, 54, who held the judgeship for 15 years, died at the scene, and Stines surrendered without incident. Stines pleaded not guilty to murder and has been held in another Kentucky county jail. Stines, 43, stepped down as sheriff more than a week after the shooting and his replacement, Billy Jones, was sworn in on Oct. 1. Jones was a former resource officer at a high school in Letcher County. Prosecutors did not comment after the indictment was returned Thursday in Letcher County. Attorneys for Stines did not immediately respond to a phone call and an email seeking comment.

Jared Ian Sumrall was being held without bond this week in the Jackson County jail for commercial burglary. Police arrested Sumrall the week before the break-in for another local burglary, and he was out of jail on bond when he allegedly entered the elementary school, Ocean Springs Deputy Chief Steven Dye said. The Ocean Springs School District said Sumrall broke in Nov. 9, a Saturday, and left by Monday morning. Police identified Sumrall from the school’s video surveillance and arrested him again Nov. 12 in Biloxi. The Ocean Springs School District said Sumrall never crossed paths with students. “They were not in any danger,” said Trey Brennan, the communications director for the district. “We are very confident in that.”

An Australian teenager has become the sixth foreign tourist to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos, as a growing list of countries warned of the potentially fatal consequences of drinking tainted alcohol in the Southeast Asian country. A British woman, another Australian teenager, an American and two Danes have also died in recent days following a spate of suspected poisonings in theHolly Bowles, 19, had been on life support in critical condition for several days in neighboring Thailand after being evacuated from Laos following a night out, according to CNN affiliate Seven News. Her friend, Bianca Jones, also 19, died on Thursday. “It is with broken hearts and we are so sad to say that our beautiful girl Holly is now at peace,” Bowles’ family said in a statement late on Friday, Seven News reported.

The house next to Bear Creek looked like something out of a fairy tale, growing right out of the earth alongside towering pine trees. Snow covered the ground, pristine except for a few animal tracks. The stream, nearly frozen over, meandered through the piles of white. "It was pure bliss," Taralyn Romero recalled. A playground even sat on the other side of the creek that she pictured her partner's daughter enjoying But as the weather started to warm, pure bliss turned into a nightmare. And Romero, pitted against her neighbors and