More than a decade after her 2015 disappearance, a jury has found a Kentucky mother’s then-boyfriend guilty of her murder — ...

BARDSTOWN, Ky. (WDRB) -- More than 40 people at the Nelson County Detention Center have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the county Judge-Executive Dean Watts. Watts said 70 tests were ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - An inmate released from Nelson County Jail on parole escaped custody and officials are seeking the public’s help to find him. Charles Noe was released from Nelson County Jail ...

NELSON COUNTY, Ky. (WAVE) - A man has been taken into custody after a high-speed pursuit with Kentucky State Police and Nelson County officials Saturday afternoon. The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky State Police is investigating after a man died in the Nelson County jail last week. LaBrent Maddox was found unresponsive in his cell on March 19.

The Nelson County Fiscal Court has approved the hiring of two additional deputies for the county's jail, which has been operating with just 12 full-time employees since 1995.

nelson county, ky. — A Nelson County Jail employee is charged with giving police equipment to a man accused in a murder plot. Russell Griffin, 41, of Elizabethtown, was arrested on Tuesday as ...

The inn is located in the former Nelson County Jail. The back jail was built in 1874 and is completely surrounded by a stone wall. It was the oldest operating jail complex in the state of Kentucky.

According to that resolution, which was filed by Kentucky state Sen. Jimmy Higdon, R-Lebanon, Nelson County’s fiscal court declared Sept. 14 to be “Sheriff Ramon Pineiroa Day.” ...