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TAMPA, Fla. -- In the past two weeks, three female teachers have been arrested in the Tampa, Fla., area, accused of having sex with male students. First came the arrest of a middle school math teacher, Stephanie Ragusa, 28. She was charged with having sex with a 14-year-old, authorities said. Investigators monitored phone calls between teacher and student in which Ragusa allegedly acknowledged having sex with the boy. Last Thursday, high school honors English teacher Mary Jo Spack, 45, also was arrested. She is accused of meeting a 17- and an 18-year-old student at a liquor store and leading them...

"Montgomery County police said Charles R. Bouma, 43, of Beltsville was driving in the area of Rockville Pike and Tuckerman Lane in North Bethesda about 3:15 p.m. Monday when he encountered a school bus transporting the crew team of the Academy of the Holy Cross, a private girls school in Kensington. "He was driving alongside the bus and proceeded to pull his pants down and expose himself to the students," police spokeswoman Melanie Hadley said. "He then followed the bus and drove around each side of the bus, causing a commotion and continuing to expose himself and engage in a...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In a tragic twist to a familiar story, a teenager who had sex with his married 30-year-old teacher was fatally shot outside the woman's home, and authorities have charged the woman's husband. "You see all this stuff with teachers involved with their students. It just comes up time after time on the national news," said Norman McLean, father of suspect Eric McLean. "Well, this is the first time where one has actually died over it."

Teacher's union begins plans to promote homosexual marriage in public schools The National Education Association is set to endorse homosexual marriage at their convention coming up in Orlando June 29 through July 6. The new NEA proposal essentially says schools should support and actively promote homosexual marriage and other forms of marriage (two men and one woman, three women, two women and three men, etc.) in their local schools. The new proposal, expected to pass overwhelmingly, is found under the B-8 Diversity paragraph: The Association... believes in the importance of observances, programs and curricula that accurately portray and recognize the...

(PADUCAH, Ky.) -- A teacher in western Kentucky has been suspended and will not have her contract renewed after administrators found out she appeared in an adult movie more than a decade ago. Tericka Dye, a science teacher and volleyball coach at Reidland High School in Paducah for the last two years, was suspended Wednesday and told she would not return to the classroom in the fall. "Your presence in the classroom would cause a disruption to the educational process," McCracken County Schools Superintendent Tim Heller wrote in a letter to Dye. "I fear there would be less than a...

REJECTED: Debra LaFave's plea deal shot down A judge in Marion County has rejected Debra LaFave's plea deal. A trial is now scheduled in Marion County for April 10. LaFave, a former schoolteacher, is accused of having sexual relations with one of her students. She faced separate charges in both Hillsborough and Marion counties. A plea deal was made for the Hillsborough charges, but today's ruling has had the plea deal rejected for only Marion County. What we understand this to mean is that the judge in Marion County has a problem with the plea as it relates to LaFave's...

Once-forbidden lovers Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade student Vili Fualaau sound like any soon-to-be newlyweds as they prepare for their nuptials. The former Washington state teacher is already bubbling about her dress: "It's perfect for my body. It has just the right lines and is simple." At 22, he's thinking more about what kind of work he'll need to support his ex-jailbird 42-year-old fiancée and their two kids: "Something in graphic designs, industrials, maybe design houses." The pair spill their guts on segments of TV's "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" starting Thursday.