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January 11, 2007
A high school teacher, who zoomed in for close-up shots of the girls' crotches, was charged under Texas' "peeping Tom" law for filming girls' wrestling matches for his sexual gratification. David Ware, 28, the first-year speech and drama teacher has been charged by police this week on charges of improper visual recording, which carries up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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January 10, 2007
Two mothers and their two teenage daughters were arrested following a brawl in the middle school when one mother drove her already suspended daughter to school to fight a teenage rival. The mothers Ana Rivera and Maribel Santiago are scheduled to be appear in the court on Thursday following a charge of simple assault in connection with Monday's brawl. All four of then were charged with disorderly conduct.
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January 7, 2007
A Michigan man decided to make good on a 47-year-old debt. Robert Nuranen returned a library book he'd checked out as a ninth grader. The extra-long check out totalled a $171. 32 late fee. Nuranen paid the fine with a check.
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January 6, 2007
A village school in Norfolk, East Anglia in eastern England is planning to build a new classroom made entirely from straw bales. The pupils at St. Andrew's school, have designed the environmentally-friendly room in a project on Celtic round houses. The school has 59 students from 2-years-old to 11. The school has been given permission to construct the straw classroom.
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January 5, 2007
Tamara B. Tootle, a teacher at Ernest Ward Middle School, Pensacola, FL pleaded no contest to six felony counts of third-degree bribery resulting from her daily one dollar charge for students to skip her gym class. Not only has Tootle lost her teaching certificate, but she will serve three-hundred hours of community service.
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