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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...

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.

BOUNTIFUL — A judge ruled Monday that a former Davis High School teacher will face separate trials on charges of sexually abusing three students. Brianne Altice, 35, faces a total of 14 felony charges — including rape, forcible sodomy, forcible sexual abuse, unlawful sexual activity with a minor and dealing in materials harmful to a minor — stemming from alleged sexual relationships with three former Davis High students who were 16 or 17 years old at the time. Second District Judge Thomas Kay ruled Monday that it was "appropriate and necessary" to split the 10 original charges into three trials,...

It seemed to be common knowledge around Carter-Riverside High School in Fort Worth. Jennifer Riojas, a 25-year-old teacher who taught freshman science, was spending a lot of time with a 16-year-old student. Friends even asked the boy if he was intimate with Riojas... He just laughed it off without answering, giving the distinct impression that he and his teacher were having an affair. They would spend their lunch times together, and she would also attend his sporting events. But at least for the kid, the fun and games turned into something a little less exciting when Riojas ended up pregnant....

Schoolgirls banned from lessons by headmaster for being 'too blonde' By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 22nd January 2009 A headteacher has come under fire from parents and pupils after banning two 16-year-olds from school for being 'too blonde'. Raegan Booth, 16, and Aby Western, 15, say they were threatened with expulsion by David Alexander unless they dyed their hair brown. The girls claim they are being forced to adhere to the strict dress code of Rednock School in Dursley, Gloucestershire, in order to sit GCSE exams. But Raegan remains adamant that her hair is a natural shade of blonde. Furious: Reagan...

Polish court reprimands topless sunbathers Nov 7 02:34 PM US/Eastern A Polish court Friday reprimanded two Polish women, including a model who has appeared in men's magazines, for indecent exposure after they sunbathed topless, a rarity in the deeply Catholic country. "Showing nudity goes beyond social customs and norms in Poland," read part of the verdict issued by a court in Szczecin, northwest Poland. "Personal freedom ends where the freedom of another person begins." "I completely respect the court's verdict, but at the same time I disagree with it and I will certainly appeal it," Dorota Krzysztofek, 28, told Poland's...

Everyone is having a good belly laugh at the expense of Lauren Caitlin Upton, the contestant in the Miss Teen USA pageant who imploded in a painful display of verbal and intellectual chaos in response to question about geographically challenged Americans. Lauren Caitlin Upton of Lexington, S.C., shown in this undated modeling photo. The 18-year-old has become national sensation after her gramatically challenged response to a question at the Miss Teen USA pageant in Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 24, 2007 (photo courtesy Locke Management) While everyone is fixated on the answer, no one has taken time to respond to the question...