Comments from GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum during a June Meet the Press roundtable have gained new context in light of his recent appearance at an Ohio Christian Alliance event, where he said that the U.S. public school system is "stuck in the factory era."

During the roundtable,...

Austin Smith, a 15-year-old from Ida Township, Mich., was spending a Saturday morning working on a car with his grandfather when tragedy struck, WDIV Detroit reports.

While Austin was inside the car, it shifted and collapsed, pinning his grandpa, Ernest "Papa Ernie" Monhollen, under 2,000 pounds of steel....

On the heels of a shocking and racist YouTube post by two teens in Gainesville, Fla., an uncannily similar video has surfaced in the state that purports the same disparaging sentiments against black students.

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School officials at Santaluces High School in Lantana, Fla.,...

Anne Wampole, a 39-year-old teacher at Bayshore High School in Manatee, Fla., is on administrative leave after blowing 40 percent above the state legal alcohol limit in the classroom, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports.

Last month, Assistant Principal Ginger Collins walked into Wampole's classroom with a question about...

After two minors from Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Fla., posted a nearly 14-minute-long racist rant on YouTube, the girls are "no longer students at the school," WCJB-TV reports.

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Last week, eight police officers were brought to the campus in light of death threats...

Despite claiming that he never visited pornography sites depicting minors, three weeks before Josh Powell killed himself and his children in a fire, Utah authorities disclosed that Powell's computer at one time held around 400 images of "cartoon sex and incest," the Salt Lake Tribune reports.

The...

David Pecoraro, a math teacher at Beach Channel High School in New York City, has been "reassigned to an administrative office" after a video of him swatting at and spitting on a student surfaced online, the New York Daily News reports.

According to the Daily News,...

Oh boy. This is going to be interesting: Lindsay Lohan is set to host "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday, March 3, the New York Daily News reports.

This will be the first time Lohan will be on the show since 2006 -- with the stars' many troubles...

In an appearance at an Ohio Christian Alliance event Saturday, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum called the viability of the public education system into question, the New York Times reports.

According to the Times, Santorum said that while the goverment has a place in education, its current...

Peter Skyllberg, a 44-year-old man from Sweden, survived two months trapped in his snow-covered car due to a "natural igloo" that formed from the air trapped in the vehicle, the Telegraph reports.

In a stroke of luck, a passerby found Skyllberg in his car in Umea, a...

Tracy Lynn Betts, a 40-year-old teacher's aide from Temecula, Calif., was arrested last week after police say her 12-year-old daughter was found naked, abandoned and eating out of a trash can near Veil Elementary School, KCAL-TV reports.

Authorities were called Wednesday after residents claimed to see a...

Stacy Hintz, a 28-year-old mother from West Bend, Wis., has been removed from her volunteer position as a Girl Scout troop leader because of her connection to her husband's gothic website, Wisconsin Sickness, WDJT TV reports.

The website's about section gives a description of the...

It looks like this otter from the Whipsnade Zoo outside of London had a lot on its mind last week when one photographer snapped a photo where the furry animal appears to be praying, ABC News reports. (Scroll for photo)

The Sun reports the perfectly-timed...

Lincoln Brown, a 48-year-old Chicago Public Schools teacher, has filed a federal lawsuit against the district after being suspended without pay for five days for using the "n-word" as a part of a lesson highlighting the "perils of racism," the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

The incident occurred last...

Schools across the country are pioneering big changes in the classroom -- to accomodate the 17 percent of U.S. children who are overweight or obese, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Schools have started to provide separate chairs and desks for the increasing...

According to YouTube user NRucker5, a recent trip to a cafe inside the Memphis Zoo turned into a surprise encounter with one very jealous, very acrobatically talented monkey.

"The manager of the cafe told me that the alpha male monkey noticed me the second I walked in the door and...

When the world tuned in to watch the primped and pampered elite pooches of the Westminster Dog Show, they might not have guessed one of the dogs had not only been severely abused, but was also found and rescued on Craigslist, ABC News reports.

“[He] was a rescue...

Bill Kucic, a teacher at the Pioneer Career and Technology Center in Shelby, Ohio, was rushed to the hospital by helicopter after he was attacked by a steer during a classroom meat-processing demonstration, WJW-TV reports.

According to the station, the attack occurred when Kucic was leading the...

Wild raccoons have invaded the Woodlands Middle School in Lake Worth, Fla., and parents are reaching out to WPEC-TV to break the school's silence,.

"Nothing. No phone calls, no letters came home. Nothing, not a word," one mother told the station.

One student, whose name is being...

Seventeen students from the Bay Path Technical Vocational Regional High School in Charlton, Ma., are shocked after finding out that their Facebook photos and personal information had been used on a porn website, the New England Cable News reports.

Although police documentation states that all the girls...