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A teacher who allegedly chugged booze and hurled curse words at students during a lesson that she interrupted to have them dance the Macarena has been fired. Alice Ashton from the UK was swigging from a water bottle full of orange liquid which smelled of alcohol and blaring music from her laptop during the health class, one of her 16-year-old students told a hearing on Tuesday, reported the Telegraph. She also called students “little s—ts” and “put her middle finger two to three inches” from another teen’s face during the “out of control” class at Ysgol Bro Caereinion school in...

The title is from a song by Warren Zevon, I’d always heard the line as a telegram from a banana republic in crisis, and that the whole line was, “Send lawyers, guns and money; all Hell has broken loose.” Still, this is a column about lawyers that is favorable, and kind. This morning, a lawyer I’ve known all my life invited me to go to the beginning of the session of the Superior Court in Sylva, the seat of Jackson County. (For those unfamiliar with that town in the Blue Ridge Mountains, many of the late scenes in “My Fellow...

Do the ketchup Las Ketchup ... starting a new dance craze Also in today's Bizarre • Noel's minders roughed me up • Hayley: I am gone on Gareth • Madeley's makeover IT’S a dance craze you can’t have missed if you were on holiday in Europe this summer – now it’s on its way here too. The Ketchup Song by LAS KETCHUP is, dare I say it, the new Macarena. Sung in Spanglish, it could turn into the most irritating hit of the year – which is saying something with the current charts.La Ketchup are three sort-of-gorgeous sisters (think...