A teacher at an Arizona charter school has been caught by a principal having a sexual encounter with one of her students in her classrooms.

The school's principal, Leonard Miller, reportedly had suspicions that something improper was going on between the American Heritage Academy's biology teacher, 34-year-old Emili Kay Daniels, and her 17-year-old student.

The father of an 11-year-old girl who perished after trying to walk 10 miles in the snow on Christmas Day, is now facing charges of second-degree murder and felony injury to a child.

Robert Aragon, 55, of Jerome, arrived in court on Monday, where Judge Mark Ingram assigned a public defender for him. The judge denied Aragon's request to lower his $500,000 bond. He was being held in the Blaine County Jail.

A married man in the northern Philippines has admitted to the police that he stole nine underwear, a cell phone, charger and contact lenses from a young woman.

Investigators identified the suspect as Philip Datu, a resident of Bengcag village, in Laoag, northern Philippines.

"Hello, truth. Hello, freedom." The slogan was printed on the T-shirt Robert McClendon wore in court Monday when his release from prison was ordered, 18 years after conviction of child rape.

Franklin County's Common Pleas Court Judge Charles A. Schneider ordered the release of McClendon, 52, of Columbus after new DNA tests showed that semen in the underwear of the then 10-year-old rape victim was not his.

Bullet-proof bras designed to be comfortable and injury-proof have been issued to 3,000 policewomen in Germany for their protection.

The bras are made of cotton or polyester and are padded. Unlike bullet-proof vests, they have no metal or plastic under-wire or fasteners that can pierce skin and injure the wearer when a bullet hit the body armor.