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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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Wasilla teacher charged with sexual assaults on students over a decade

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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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Child Protection in Alaska struggles to maintain staff, manage caseloads.

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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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In emotional hearing, former adopted children confront Hillside mother accused of abuse

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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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City ordered to pay for most of Shoppers Forum mall chemical cleanup

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Sam Friedman, sfriedman@newsminer.com 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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Fairbanks school district to pay $920,000 settlement to alleged sex abuse victim’s family

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Weston Morrow wmorrow@newsminer.com 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

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Family claims Fairbanks school district at fault in sex abuse case

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By Weston Morrow / wmorrow@newsminer.com 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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