CHARLESTON – A nearly $12 million agreement has been reached to settle seven civil lawsuits regarding abuse of special needs students at a Kanawha County elementary school.
CHARLESTON – A Charleston attorney has been accused of negligently handling a case by not filing a civil complaint before the statute of limitations expired.
CHARLESTON – A well-known Kanawha County educator, coach and school board member and his wife have sued Sam’s Club for injuries she sustained at the store.
CHARLESTON – A second civil lawsuit filed against a Holz Elementary teacher says she degraded a special needs student by, among other things, forcing her to stand in a garbage can and eat her lunch out of the sink.
CHARLESTON – The parents of a Kanawha County student with special needs has filed a civil lawsuit against their son’s former teacher claiming she physically and emotionally abused the boy.
CHARLESTON — The mother of a fourth child has filed a lawsuit against Kanawha County Board of Education alleging a special needs child was abused at Horace Mann Middle School.
CHARLESTON — The family of a third child has filed a lawsuit against Kanawha County Board of Education alleging a special needs child was abused at Horace Mann Middle School.
CHARLESTON – Three instructors at Horace Mann Middle School have been named in two civil lawsuits alleging they physically and verbally assaulted two special education students.
CHARLESTON – A Kanawha Circuit Judge has denied the temporary restraining order sought by the state's two largest teacher’s unions that sought to postpone a return to full-time in-person schooling until all school personnel receive a complete vaccination against COVID-19 and to allow county school boards to determine how and when in-person instruction and activity will resume.
CHARLETON – The state's two largest teacher’s unions have filed complaints seeking to have the state Board of Education and others refrain from requiring in-person schooling until all school personnel receive a complete vaccination against COVID-19 and to allow county school boards to determine how and when in-person instruction and activity will resume.
CHARLESTON – Two female Capitol High School students have sued the Kanawha County Board of Education claiming they were sexually and physically abused by male students, former students and guest instructors in a firefighting program.
