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Kanawha County judge appoints monitor to oversee CPS children placed hotels
(WOWK) — A Kanawha County judge is trying to change a ... In court on Friday, Judge Maryclaire Akers, DoHS Cabinet Secretary Alex Mayer and DoHS Deputy Commissioner Lorie Bragg addressed the ...
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White couple, who enslaved adopted Black children, sentenced to hundreds of years in prison
A White couple were found guilty of abusing and enslaving their five adopted Black children. Their sentence is hundreds of ...
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Sissonville couple sentenced in historic child abuse case as adopted children testify
Before getting started with the sentencing, Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire Akers denied Donald Lantz, 62, and Jeanne Whitefeater's, 63, motion for a new trial. Whitefeather's ...
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A West Virginia judge orders monitor for foster kids in hotels as another dismisses a federal suit
Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire Akers said the West ... Child’s suicide attempt in hotel heightens scrutiny In Kanawha County Court, Akers said a 12-year-old boy in state care who was being ...
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Charleston man convicted on two counts of murder following five day trial
Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers has been presiding over the trial. She read off the jury’s verdict Friday. “The jury form reads, “the the jury, find the defendant, Markus Guy ...
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Couple gets the max in Sissonville shed case
Sentencing for Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 63, and Donald Ray Lantz, 62, was held before Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers. Whitefeather was sentenced to 215 years in prison and Lantz 160 ...