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 ...

Deborah Reeder of Harlan County tells LEX 18 she and her husband Josh were lighting off fireworks in an open field around 11:30 Thursday night when a mortar firework exploded in Josh's hand.