A middle school music teacher has been reassigned to an adult education program by Johnson City school administrators after it was found that he asked nearly two female students to pose for a photograph in a mermaid costume. Les Leonard, who was a music teacher since last 17 years with the school, agreed to get transfer from Johnson City's Indian Trail Middle School to a vacant position in adult education. His new job includes testing coordination and also teaching some adult education.

Wayburn Allen, a clerk at a Conover convenience store, got the surprise of her life when an apparently hasty mistake won her $200,000. Allen's luck struck her way Tuesday when she accidentally printed two powerball tickets for a customer. After being unable to sell the extra second through the day, Allen paid for the ticket herself.

School district officials were left stunned when $250 worth of pay-by-view adult entertainment showed up on a February Cablevision bill. Authorities are now investigating who might have watched the pornographic movies at a school cable television box after business hours. One of the five cable boxes in the Board of Education building was used to order the films, which are priced between $4. 95 and $9. 95.

An effort by a substitute teacher to quiet her chatty students has cost her her job. The officials at Amanda-Clearcreek school district in Fairfield County permanently suspended Ruth Ann Stoneburner after she admitted to using clothespins on the mouths of four students to silence them. In a letter sent to parents this week, Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School principal Mike Johnsen said that each of the four boys had confirmed having a spring-type clothespin placed over their upper or lower lips for talking too much in class.

A Toronto school principal faces a serious board of education review after admitting to throwing feces at a young boy who was not in her care. Maria Pantalone, 49, pleaded guilty to assault against a child Monday out of "total frustration" but was given an absolute discharge to keep her from having a criminal record stemming from the incident last June - but she now faces peer sentencing for her actions.