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A female teacher from Australia, who had sex with a student after a night of drinking, has been deregistered. Ainsley Greer Gregson, who had joined students for a year 12 end-of-year function at a pub in December 2008, had made plans to stay at the house of another teacher, but ended up drinking till about 1am. She then left the hotel with a group of students who took alcohol to a park. A Victorian Institute of Teaching disciplinary panel was told Gregson and a year-11 male student returned to the hotel car park at about 3am and had consensual sex...

SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday. "We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around," said Lisa Broxson, a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Seattle. The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years old, broke into campers' coolers and, using his claws and teeth to...