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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A former Arkansas teacher and leader at Immanuel Baptist Church has taken a plea deal related to sexual assault charges. Reagan Gray, who worked as a teacher for Pulaski County Special School District and volunteer at a local church, was accused of having a sexual relationship with a minor while working as a church volunteer back in April of 2024. Following her "no contest" plea to a reduced charge of 2nd degree sexual assault, Gray is now required to register as a sex offender and has been given six years probation. Gray was initially arrested in...

A married Illinois special education teacher has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old student during a tutoring session, according to prosecutors. Christina Formella, 30, was busted in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove on Sunday — days after a student told police she molested him in a Downers Grove South High School classroom in December 2023. Formella — who married her college sweetheart in August 2024 — also coached soccer at the school.

According to startribune.com, about five months ago, the Minnesota House-Senate conference committee inserted a ban on eating beavers into the 2024 omnibus environment and natural resources bill. The ban only applies to nuisance beavers taken because they are doing damage. Beavers taken as part of the normal trapping season may legally be consumed by humans. Landowners who have beavers that are doing damage to their property do not need a permit to take beavers to stop the damage. From dnr.state.min.us:You can take some animals which are normally protected by Minnesota Statute without a license or permit if they are doing...

Metro Long Island Politics World News Search Type to Search Search Breaking News Trump pauses all US military aid to Ukraine after heated Oval Office meeting with Zelensky US News High school Spanish teacher, 33, accused of having sex with 17-year-old student: police By Patrick Reilly Published Feb. 27, 2025, 4:15 p.m. ET A high school Spanish teacher from California is accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage student, according to police. Dulce Flores, a teacher at Riverbank High School outside Modesto, is charged with having sex with a 17-year-old while he was a student in 2023, according...

A Missouri math teacher is likely headed to prison after admitting last week that she had sex with a 16-year-old student while other students served as her “lookouts” — and the boy’s dad still faces felony charges for allegedly condoning the disturbing relationship. Hailey Clifton-Carmack, 26, was arrested in January after a student reported their illicit relationship to a school resource officer, then showed cops a photo of the scratches she left on her victim’s back. On Friday, she pleaded guilty to sexual contact with a student, a charge that could imprison her for the next four years, according to...

Reagan Gray, 26, is accused of sexually abusing a 15 year old boy and sending him naked photos 'on a daily basis' - the abuse started in the autumn of 2020 at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock.A 26 year-old teacher has been accused of sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy and inundating him with explicit images. The accused, Reagan Gray, who was a volunteer at one of Arkansas' largest churches, claimed she limited their sexual activity to oral interactions so he could "stay pure".It is alleged that Gray, working from Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, initiated the abuse in...

A married substitute teacher was arrested in Nebraska after she was caught undressed in the backseat of a car with a teenage boy, according to authorities. Douglas County Sheriff's deputies identified Erin Ward, 45, on Saturday after they were notified about a suspicious car parked on a dead-end road around 3am near 10200th block and North 189th Street. As they approached a gray 2015 Honda Pilot, police said that they spotted Ward and a 17-year-old boy in the backseat as she was putting her clothes back on. The boy then hopped into the driver's seat and fled the scene before...

A married teacher has been arrested over an alleged sexual relationship with a student after they were caught in 'states of undress' in a nature preserve. Jessica Sawicki, 37, from Point Pleasant, New Jersey, taught English at Hamilton High School West in Trenton, which is about a 20-minute drive from the preserve. She is accused of sexually assaulting the student - who has been described as 'at least 16 but not yet 18' - at the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area in Upper Freehold.

A Florida woman, 23, accused of pretending to be a 14-year-old to molest a teenage boy has been hit with more charges as victims continue to come forward. Alyssa Ann Zinger of Tampa, Florida, allegedly pretended to be a homeschooled 14-year-old girl to prey on middle schoolers and engage in sex acts with younger boys. The 23-year-old was arrested in November for engaging in more than 30 sexual acts with at least one student as young as 12 from Wilson Middle School. Zinger was taken into custody over claims she posed as a home-schooled teenager to contact the victim...

A female teacher has been charged with sexually abusing a 15-year-old male student at the same Arizona high school where another teacher had allegedly committed a similar crime seven months earlier. Alyssa Todd, 23, was arrested for 'inappropriate contact' between her and a student, making her the second teacher in seven months to be arrested for a sex crime at Odyssey Institute for Advanced and International Studies High School in Buckeye. In mid-September, 42-year-old teacher Jessica Kramer was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old male student at the same school. And in October, a 23-year-old female teaching...

A special education teacher and dance team coach faces criminal sexual conduct charges after she allegedly had sex with one of her students and bought alcohol for minors. Ann Margaret Bacon, 24, told cops she had sex five times with an 18-year-old student in a hotel room in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota, according to the criminal complaint. She was charged on Monday in Ramsey County District Court with felony third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Bacon soon resigned from her position at Tartan High School, located in Oakdale, the principal of the school announced in a statement on Tuesday. Although the student was...

A former South Carolina teacher was arrested Wednesday for preying on a 17-year-old high school football player, according to a local news station. Married mother-of-two Reagan Anderson, 27, is facing two counts of sexual battery on a Holly Hill Academy student for the alleged abuse, WCSC reported. The alleged victim's mother blasted Anderson at a bond hearing on Thursday. "A trusted coach, teacher and friend that abused our trust and violated her oath as an educator. She has ruined our son's life," the teen's mother read from a statement in court. "He should be 100% focused on being a fun-loving...

Megan Gaither, 31, an English teacher and varsity cheerleading coach at St. Clair High School, told the Post-Dispatch that she was put on leave Friday after her X-rated moonlighting job was revealed. “Teaching does not financially support a person. It’s really hard to stretch those paychecks during the summer. That’s why I did it,” she told the news outlet.

A female teacher allegedly sent nudes to a 16-year-old student and then invited him over for sex while her husband was out of town. Rikki Lynn Laughlin, 24, sent the explicit photos to the boy at St. James High School in Missouri - where Laughlin worked as a special education teacher, according to Maries County Sheriff Department. The married mother-of-one faces six felony charges for allegedly pursuing the 16-year-old, sending him pornographic images and soliciting photos from him.

A 24-year-old school counselor has allegedly admitted to having sex with a 13-year-old boy after being 'busted' during a three-way call with cops and his mother. Ohio investigators discovered a disturbing video of Payton Shires having sex with the young boy following a report from his worried parent in September. Columbus Police officers charged Shires, of Mount Sterling, Ohio, with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor The boy told detectives they had sex at least twice at different places in Columbus. Police set up a three-way call between the mother, detectives and Shires, where the social worker reportedly admitted to...

A fourth-grade teacher in Tennessee could face 25 years behind bars after she was arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old and befriending other former students online. Alissa McCommon, 38, was arrested outside her home Friday by Covington Police Department and booked into the Tipton County Jail. The mother-of-two has been accused of sexually assaulting a former student in 2021 in her home, Covington Police Chief Donna Turner said. The Charger Academy teacher admitting to inappropriately communicating with students, the police said. McCommon was suspended without pay on August 24 after a parent came forward with the allegation, according toAfter the...

A middle school teacher's sickening messages to a 14-year-old boy she allegedly groomed and raped have surfaced in the wake of her arrest. Melissa Rockensies, from Queens, is charged with rape, criminal sexual act and acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17-years-old. The teen, who did not want to be identified, told the New York Post that Rockensies began grooming him shortly after she began filling in as an educator at his school last year. He claims that the mother-of-three began messaging him on Instagram, sending a slew of lewd messages including one that allegedly said...

A staffer at a Pennsylvania middle school was arrested after she had sex with a 15-year-old student from her district in her car and sent nude photos and videos to his 16-year-old friend, police said. Megan Carlisle, 37, who worked as a paraprofessional and in-school-suspension (ISS) monitor school monitor at the middle school for the Elizabethtown Area School District in Lancaster County, was fired for the predatory behavior.

A Pennsylvania javelin coach was charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy she coached and told authorities she was romantically involved with, according to prosecutors.

BEDFORD A 33-year-old school counselor is accused of having sex with a ninth-grade student nearly a dozen times and even told the student's sister that she would leave her husband for him, according to an arrest affidavit. The student ended the relationship after his mother caught them in bed in his room, the affidavit says. Shannon Hathaway, a former school counselor at Harwood Junior High School, surrendered to Bedford police on Thursday morning on a charge of improper relationship between an educator and a student. She said that Hathaway told her she was in love with her brother and would...