LAKE COUNTY, IN Nov 25 2017- A 24-year-old Indiana teacher was arrested Wednesday after students at the school where she teaches tipped off the principal, police said. Samantha Cox, of Northwest Indiana and a teacher at Lake Central High School, is being held at Lake County Jail pending charges of possession of controlled substance and possession […]
BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa. Nov 23 2017 Northampton Community College security said that a Bethlehem man trying to sell drugs on campus had a pair of hatchets tucked into his pants. Jonathan E. Sivonda is facing weapons and drug charges following his arrest Tuesday on the Bethlehem Township college campus. District Judge John Capobianco arraigned the 25-year-old […]
RICHMOND, Va. Nov 23 2017 8News investigates to see how Richmond Public Schools bus camera system is keeping students safe. RPS is the only district in Central Virginia that has installed a stop-arm camera system on their school buses. The second district in the state. The camera system is designed to catch reckless drivers illegally passing […]
SAN JOSE CA Nov 22 2017 A San Jose State University police officer was briefly hospitalized after being punched while responding to a disturbance at the campus-run Hammer Theatre overnight, a university spokeswoman said Tuesday. Two officers on patrol in the area of the theater at 101 Paseo de San Antonio, located a few blocks from […]
Atlanta GA Nov 19 2017 Atlanta Public Schools is dealing with another cheating investigation. A quarter of the police officers in the district’s recently sworn-in force admitted receiving answers on a state-administered test. Disciplinary proceedings are coming for at least 18 employees. One dispatcher allegedly fed answers to 17 officers while they took the open-book, 30-question, […]
BILOXI, MS Nov 16 2017 A former Biloxi School District police chief is now accused of embezzling more than $150,000. State Auditor Stacey Pickering said Paul Gordon Cannette was arrested Tuesday after he was indicted on one count of embezzlement. Pickering reports Cannette embezzled the money from the Mississippi Association of School Resource Officers (MASRO) […]
BRIDGEPORT CT Nov 16 2017 — School security officers in the city aren’t exactly giving students the shirt off their backs — just the cost of them. James V. Meszoros, a security guard and president of NAGE Local R1-200, told the city school board Monday they are giving back $200 of a $424 uniform allowance […]
Lake County FL Nov 15 2017 A Lake Minneola High School student shot and killed himself outside the school Tuesday morning, school district officials said. The student died in the bus loop, Lake County Schools spokeswoman Sherri Owens said. The school is secure and law enforcement officers collected the gun, Lake County Sheriff’s Office spokesman John […]
WEST LAFAYETTE IN Nov 11 2017 — Purdue University reported the most rapes among Indiana’s four-year public universities. According to Purdue’s annual safety report, there were 23 reported rapes in 2016 — the most reported out of all of Indiana’s public colleges. Out of all the four-year universities, though, Purdue is one of the highest […]
SIOUX CENTER, Iowa Nov 10 2017 – A northwest Iowa teacher has been charged with 140 criminal counts after allegedly sexually abusing several students. Sioux Center Police released information about the charges against 35-year-old Curtis Van Dam Wednesday, according to WHO. The alleged abuse happened while Van Dam taught at Sioux Center Christian School. The investigation […]