By Bill Oberly and Luke Hopkins Mar 14, 2018 FAIRBANKS — On Dec. 15, 2015, the convictions of Marvin Roberts, Kevin Pease, George Frese, and Eugene Vent, known collectively as the Fairbanks Four, were vacated and all of the charges against them were dismissed. The four were free to walk out of the courthouse but […]
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Author: Zaz Hollander Updated: September 27, 2018 Published September 27, 2018 Lukis Nighswonger appears in court telephonically for his arraignment on charges of sexual abuse of a minor Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in Palmer. (Loren Holmes / ADN)Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via EmailShare on TumblrShare on RedditShare on LinkedInShare on Google PlusPrint article PALMER
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By Jill Burke | Posted: Thu 9:30 PM, May 02, 2019 | Updated: Fri 7:10 AM, May 03, 2019 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) — As many as 3,000 children are in foster care in Alaska on any given day, spread across some 1,300 licensed foster homes, according to Alaska’s Office of Children’s Services. The workload for front
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Author: Michelle Theriault Boots Updated: October 25, 2017 Published October 24, 2017 Adoptive mother Anya James, center, listens to testimony during her sentencing at the Nesbett Courthouse on Tuesday. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News) The adopted children of an Anchorage woman accused of abusing them for years in a Hillside home finally confronted her
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Sam Friedman, [email protected] Jul 27, 2017 FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks city government must pay more than half the bill for cleaning up toxic dry cleaning chemicals at the Shoppers Forum Mall, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason issued the order Tuesday in the dispute between the city and Shoppers Forum owner
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Sam Friedman, [email protected] May 23, 2017 FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks child sex abuse victim will have another chance to sue Alaska’s foster care system due to an Alaska Supreme Court opinion published Friday. In 2012, a woman who was sexually abused by foster brother Rolin N. Allison Jr., sued the state in a civil case. She claimed
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Weston Morrow [email protected] Dec 2, 2014, Updated at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District will pay $920,000 to the family of a student who allegedly was raped by a tutor at Hutchison High School last school year. Hutchison tutor Claude Fowlkes III was arrested in March on allegations of sexual
By Weston Morrow / [email protected] May 7, 2014 FAIRBANKS—The family of a student who was allegedly sexually abused by a tutor at Hutchison High School is pursuing a claim against the district. The family claims the district may have ignored warning signs during the course of its employment of the tutor, Claude Fowlkes. Fowlkes was
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Michelle Theriault Boots – September 6, 2015 “Zemira James was a bone-thin 15-year-old when she was rescued from the home of the woman who had adopted her from Alaska’s foster care system. That was back in October 2010. When Anya James was arrested seven months later, in May 2011, the case made headlines. Prosecutors alleged the Anchorage woman forced
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“The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District will pay $920,000 to the family of a student who allegedly was raped by a tutor at Hutchison High School last school year. Hutchison tutor Claude Fowlkes III was arrested in March on allegations of sexual abuse of a minor, which allegedly took place during several months last
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