Jeanne Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced to up to 215 years. Donald Lantz, 62, was sentenced to up to 160 years, the Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney said.

A West Virginia couple has been sentenced to decades in prison for abusing and enslaving their Black adopted children, forcing them to perform heavy labor and endure inhumane conditions.

A West Virginia couple convicted of the mistreatment of their adopted children, including locking some in a shed, received maximum sentences of decades in prison.

Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather tortured five children they forced into slave labor, locking them in a shed without ...

Braxton County parents were charged after a report revealed that their infant daughter had a fatal amount of alcohol in her system when she died in November.

Days after a West Virginia woman was reported missing, her body was found wrapped in a blanket inside a camper, prosecutors ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — One state's effort to exempt young school-aged children from vaccines appears to have stalled as states contend with a burgeoning measles outbreak. In January, West ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their adoptive children, which included heavy labor, locking them in bedrooms ...

A West Virginia man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in the ... A witness said the couple had been fighting, and Marshall threatened Smith in connection with a red SUV he is accused ...