Mary Kay Letourneau, the former Seattle-area teacher who married a man she was convicted of raping when he was in sixth grade, has died of cancer, her lawyer said Tuesday. She was 58.The lawyer, David Gehrke, did not provide additional details.Letourneau gained infamy after her 1997 conviction for second-degree child rape of 12-year-old Vili Fualaau.…
A California special education teacher was fired from her school district after a video went viral of her allegedly intentionally coughing on a 1-year-old at a yogurt shop.FLORIDA REPORTS 14 PERCENT CORONAVIRUS POSITIVITY RATE, MIAMI-DADE AND BROWARD COUNTY REACH RECORD HIGH LEVEL OF CASESThe president of the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP told KTVU on Friday, that…
A beloved Connecticut school teacher who left his family home after midnight on his 50th birthday has seemingly vanished.Gil Cunha, who had been experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, left his family home two months ago.Nearly 300 "missing" posters have been plastered around West Haven, Conn. Police bulletins and large billboards dedicated to his disappearance haven't netted any…
A spinal cord injury suffered while playing with children on an inflatable waterslide has left a Georgia teacher paralyzed from the chest down, according to reports.Since entering a hospital and undergoing surgery, Valerie Feske of Richmond Hill has managed to regain some arm movement, family members told WTOC-TV of Savannah. “It's devastating, you know, to…
A teacher swapped lectures for lyrics in a viral video tribute to the class of 2020. Joyce Suslovic has been a history teacher at Henninger High School in Syracuse, N.Y., for 40 years. She regularly uses rap music in her classroom, going by the name “J Sus.”"Part of being a good teacher is getting to know…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…