The San Francisco Giants won the World Series title last night against the Kansas City Royals. This is the Giants’ third title in the last five years and the franchise’s eighth in the modern era, the first being in 1905. The Giants went on to beat the Royals 3-2 in Game 7 at Kauffman Stadium […]
As news of Ebola hitting the United States spreads, about 1,400 U.S. troops will head to Liberia this month for a mission to curb the spread of the deadly virus. About 700 of those troops will come from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Ky. The other half will be combat engineers from […]
In the wake of hundreds of protests to curb police brutality by police departments nationwide — including Ferguson, the NYPD, and LAPD — hundreds of teachers in Staten Island, NY plan to wear pro-NYPD shirts the first week of school. The educators are wearing the shirts in protest against their union’s backing of an Eric […]
Public school teachers will be packing heat this Fall in 28 states to protect their students all the way from kindergarten through high school. Adults who legally own guns will be allowed to carry them in public schools this coming academic year. Teachers or staff who choose to carry a firearm in their classrooms are […]
An Oklahoma teacher, who clearly isn’t here for first impressions, decided to show up drunk and without pants for the first day of school. We can’t make this stuff up. Lorie Ann Hill, 49, was arrested and booked into the Wagoner City Jail after she showed up to the school inebriated and half-dressed. From Tulsa World: […]
So this happened. A Georgia teacher was fired from her position after a group of 14-year-old students took naked selfies from her cell phone and posted them online. The school board voted to fire Lekeshia Jones, 34, last week for not properly handling the incident. She claims, however, she was wrongfully terminated from Myers Middle School […]
A white teacher in Iowa is under investigation after demanding a black student refer to him as “master.” Jabre White, a senior at Roosevelt High School, said teacher Shawn McCurtain made the demand while telling a group of students to head downstairs to take a final in economics. “Yes, sir,” Jabre recalls telling him. “You meant to […]
Officials at Rikers Island Jail are under fire after a mentally ill man locked in a cell for seven days died alone. After Bradley Ballard made a lewd gesture to a female guard at the facility, he was locked alone in his cell, denied his medication, clogged his toilet and tied a rubber band around […]
A high school student in Duluth, Georgia is facing some harsh punishment after hugging a teacher at Duluth High School. Sam McNair, a 17-year-old senior, has been suspended for one year and will not graduate on time after a school hearing officer determined he violated the Gwinnett County Public Schools’ rules on sexual harassment by hugging […]
This is scary. The National Transportation Safety Board has released new footage of the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International Airport in July. In the raw footage, you can see the Boeing 777 skidding down the runway before tumbling up into the air in a cloud of smoke. Watch above. [NDN] Bad teacher? Michael […]
A U.S. teacher was shot to death as he jogged in Benghazi on Thursday, the same eastern Libyan city where a U.S. ambassador was killed last year, according to Libyan and U.S. officials. The assailants who shot Ronnie Smith are unknown. There is suspicion, however, that the doing is likely that of Islamic militants active in the […]
Mark Berndt, a Los Angeles school teacher, has pleaded guilty to abusing 30 students and making them eat cookies laced with his own semen. He had been abusing students at Miramonte Elementary School for the last two decades, according to police. Berndt was caught after investigators found semen on a spoon in the trash bin of […]
