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HUNTINGTON — While in a pool of vomit in her childhood bed, Holly Cooper stayed verbally silent but physically shaking as her mother, Heather, kept talking to her.
HUNTINGTON — The Huntington YMCA Chess Club is hosting “Chess Fundamentals,” what organizers say is the first and only youth chess camp in West Virginia, this week.
shutterstock.com CHARLESTON – An attorney has asked a circuit judge to bring sanctions against a law firm and another attorney who he says assassinated his character with false statements about his work ethic. Michael M. Cary filed a Motion for Sanctions against Michael D. Mullins and Steptoe & Johnson on April 16 in Kanawha Circuit Court. In the accompanying Memorandum of Law in Support, Cary says he and his firm Cary Law Office was appointed Guardian ad Litem in a civil complaint last year. In the memorandum, Cary says Mullins made statements about Cary as a “del...
W.Va. governor agrees to live in government seat, ending case
CHARLESTON – Maryclaire Akers has been appointed as a Kanawha Circuit Court judge, taking over the seat left by the death of Judge Charles King. Akers, who has practiced law for 21 years, currently is a Senior Assistant Prosecutor with the Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney’s office. She also has served as that office’s chief of staff. In addition, she was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, general counsel for the state Ethics Commission and an assistant state Attorney General. She will serve the rest of King’s term, which expires in 2022. Senior Status Judge Dan O’Hanlon has been ...