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Former Wasilla teacher now accused of sexually abusing 8 young people since 2002

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By Zaz Hollander Updated: February 11, 2019 Published: February 11, 2019 Four more victims have come forward to accuse a once-popular Wasilla elementary school teacher of touching them inappropriately or sexually assaulting them. That brings the total to eight victims in what started as a child sex abuse case filed last fall against Lukis Nighswonger, […]

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Fairbanks Four suit alleges misconduct, questions settlement agreement

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By Dana Bross, KUAC – Fairbanks July 16, 2018 A judge will decide whether a federal civil rights suit filed against the city of Fairbanks can proceed. Four Native men, known as the Fairbanks Four, allege racial bias driven police misconduct, including coercion of false confessions and fabrication of evidence, lead to their being wrongfully

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Dip netting dilemma: Alaska Supreme Court hears subsistence arguments about fishery in Fairbanks

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By Tim Mowry/[email protected] Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Dec 5, 2011 Updated Jan 16, 2013 Editor’s note: The original article had the incorrect date for the adoption of the eight regulatory criteria used by the Board of Fisheries to judge whether a fishery is customary and traditional. The regulations were first adopted in 1982. FAIRBANKS — The Alaska Supreme

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Two Alaska families file federal lawsuit against embattled child abuse doctor, Providence alleging child abuse misdiagnoses

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By Michelle Theriault Boots Updated: July 14, 2022 Published: July 13, 2022 Two Alaska families who lost custody of their infants after what they say were flawed diagnoses of abuse by the state’s embattled former top child abuse physician are suing Dr. Barbara Knox, her former supervisor and Providence Alaska Medical Center in federal court. The

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Adoptive mother accused of abusing children in Anchorage Hillside home sentenced – six years after charges filed

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Author: Lisa Demer Updated: November 2, 2017 Published November 2, 2017 A woman whose parenting of six adopted children on the Anchorage Hillside included abuse, deprivation, humiliation, and torment finally faced judgment  Thursday. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton ordered Anya James to serve eight years, with another two years suspended, plus five years of

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Marvin Roberts, one of Fairbanks Four, files civil rights suit against city

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By Robin Wood, [email protected] Dec 7, 2017 FAIRBANKS—Marvin Roberts, one of the Fairbanks Four, is suing the city of Fairbanks and four Fairbanks Police Department officers over what he maintains was his wrongful imprisonment for the 1997 beating death of 15-year-old John Hartman. Roberts held his daughter, Lorelai, dressed in purple fleece, as his attorney

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Lawsuit says Fairbanks Four man was wrongly convicted and jailed for 18 years

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Author: Lisa Demer Updated: December 11, 2017 Published December 9, 2017 Marvin Roberts, one of the Fairbanks Four, photographed on Oct. 19, 2016. (Loren Holmes / ADN file) He was high school valedictorian before he became one of the Fairbanks Four convicted in the 1997 beating death of 15-year-old John Hartman. Now Marvin Roberts is suing the

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