A Georgia middle school teacher has been removed from the classroom for allegedly allowing students to have sex in his classroom closet, WSB-TV reports, and a judge has issued a warrant for his arrest. One outraged mother discovered what was going on after she looked at her 14-year-old son’s phone and saw the text messages…

Ronald Nelson is book-smart but also money-smart, with an eye for long-term thinking, it seems. The high school senior was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools but opted to turn them all down, as well as other prestigious schools like Stanford and Johns Hopkins, to accept a full scholarship at the University of Alabama,…

A Jackson, Miss., officer was injured during a shooting Sunday night in an incident that reportedly left the local Police Department stunned, according to the Clarion-Ledger, coming just a week after the shooting deaths of two other police officers. No one was killed in the latest incident, but several shots were fired, one of which…

A St. Charles County, Mo., jury recommended six decades in prison for 23-year-old Michael L. Johnson, who was convicted of infecting one of his sexual partners with HIV, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the jury recommended a 30-year sentence for infecting one partner with the virus that causes AIDS. With Johnson’s other…

The man who allegedly shot at George Zimmerman during a traffic dispute in Florida is not exactly remorseful: Cops note that they overheard him saying, “I hope I got him this time,” WESH reports. Matthew Apperson, the 36-year-old who has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon…

A Boston jury has given Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the death sentence, finding the lethal punishment “appropriate” for six of the 17 death-penalty-eligible counts, ABC News reports. The seven women and five men of the jury found Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts in the April 2013 bombing that stunned the nation and left three…

An Illinois high school employee has been arrested and charged after allegedly pursuing a sexual relationship with an underage male student, WLS reports. Joi Taylor, 32, charged with felony sex assault and indecent solicitation of a child, is being held on a $25,000 bond after allegedly performing a sex act on a 16-year-old student in…

Tommy Schaefer, the 21-year-old convicted of murdering his girlfriend Heather Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, is demanding a portion of the $1.56 million trust fund that Mack’s mother set up for her before the couple killed her, the Daily Mail reports. According to the Daily Mail, Schaefer claims that he is entitled to a share…

David Baril, suspected of being the hammer-wielding man responsible for a series of attacks in New York City earlier this week, has been charged with seven counts of felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon, the New York Times reports. Baril remains in critical condition after an encounter with two police officers on Wednesday…

An Illinois cop won’t face charges for the fatal shooting of a black teen in April, prosecutors have decided, saying that the use of lethal force was justified, Reuters reports.  Zion Police Officer Eric Hill shot Justus Howell, 17, twice in the back. According to witnesses and police, Howell was carrying a firearm he had…