A middle school teacher in New Jersey with experience coaching sports at more than a dozen schools was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office says John Denuto, 43, was arrested Saturday following an investigation that found he allegedly had sex with a minor. The age of the minor was not disclosed by the...

An eighth grade social studies teacher had students act as if they were picking cotton and lay on a dirty floor while pretending to be slaves

A New Jersey school district has cleared a teacher of wrongdoing for having students pretend to be slaves as part of a history lesson. A spokesman for Toms River Regional School District said in a statement issued late Thursday that it was not the intention of eighth-grade social studies teacher Lawrence Cuneo to offend his students, the Asbury Park Press…

When Dese’Rae Stage interviews survivors of suicide attempts for a website she created, she asks herself a question news reporters may not always consider: How much did it hurt? A survivor herself, she wants to be sure that readers of her website “Live Through This” come away with a real picture of suicide — no romance, no facile explanations and...

In response to a deadly crash, New Jersey has a new law requiring shoulder belts as well as lap belts on school buses. Wale Aliyu reports.

Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said.

The teachers are accused of making racist comments in a slide show after showing a photo of a gorilla following by a picture of four African American students with the captions “Monkey see” and “Monkey do.” NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

When Doña Milagros Matos Marquez and her husband Don Cruz Marquez received the news that Hurricane María was approaching Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico, they expected some rain and maybe a little bit of wind, like with previous storms. Instead María blew their roof off once the storm made landfall exactly two years ago on Friday. In the months after...

A Virginia teacher was charged with assault after he allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old girl by the ankles and held her upside down.

A substitute teacher berated a Utah fifth grader after he said during a pre-Thanksgiving lesson that he was thankful he’s finally going to be adopted by his two dads, the parents said. The boy’s classmates said the teacher told him, “that’s nothing to be thankful for” and lectured the 30 kids in the class about her views on homosexuality. She...

Montclair High School was placed on lockdown Wednesday morning, according to the district superintendent.

A brief ground stop was ordered Friday at LaGuardia Airport, which experienced a “ripple effect” because of a spike in staff sick calls at other hubs as tensions boiled over the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. Erica Byfield reports.

An elementary art teacher on Long Island is accused of sexually abusing a child in an afterschool program, and school district officials fear there may be more victims.

A 10-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault for an incident at an elementary school, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.

A former student at a prestigious Brooklyn school is suing the school, saying she was repeatedly raped by a janitor there when she was 8 years old.

A limousine carrying 18 people crashed over the weekend in upstate New York, killing all the occupants and two pedestrians, making it among the nation’s deadliest ground-traffic accidents. A look at some others:

Police in the Dominican Republic have arrested six people in connection with the death of American teacher Patricia Ann Anton, who was found strangled in her apartment last week. Anton, 63, was robbed and killed in Puerto Plata, on the country’s northern coast, Dominican national police said. Police announced her death Nov. 12. National police on Sunday said six men,...

With a combined 211 years between them, Charlotte and John Henderson, from Austin, Texas, have been named the oldest living couple by Guinness World Records. John Henderson is 106 — he turns 107 next month — and Charlotte Henderson is 105. They will be married 80 years on Dec. 15. The pair met in 1934 as students at the University...

The pilgrims arrive early and from all over, gathering hours before daybreak in an old pecan grove that surrounds a country church. They come, they say, for a dose of simple decency and devotion wrapped up in a Bible lesson. The teacher is the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Nearly four decades after he left office and...

A man has been sentenced to 15 years in the death of a retired schoolteacher during what authorities said was a robbery in her New Jersey home.