LEBANON — A new trial date has been set for the former Mason High School teacher who allegedly supplied three of five male students with alcohol and then bedded them in her Springboro home last fall.
Stacy Schuler, 33, is accused of allegedly having sexual relations with the students on several occasions at her Cobblestone Lane home last year. She originally entered a plea of not guilty, but Common Pleas Judge Robert Peeler approved a plea change last week to not guilty by reason of insanity.
Schuler’s attorneys contend the students took advantage of her and since she was impaired, she was helpless to stop it.
Because of the plea change, Schuler will now undergo psychological evaluations. The
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The Swaziland Industrial Court has given the go-ahead for a two-day strike by labour unions, overturning an earlier order that granted the government a last-minute injunction blocking the mass labour protest. According to a report in The Times, Judge Dumsani Mazibuko dismissed the government’s urgent application to ban the strike, ruling in favour of unions that had argued the government failed to demonstrate the urgency of its request. The decision overturned a court order granted in the early hours of Wednesday morning that stopped unions from striking over the kingdom’s moves to slash civil servants’ salaries in an effort to resolve a deepening financial crisis. Find more information…
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SANTA FE, N.M. – Gov. Susana Martinez’s top budget official says no worker furloughs or cutbacks in state services are expected if federal revenues are disrupted because of a failure to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.
Finance and Administration Secretary Rick May said New Mexico has balances of $1.4 billion in the state treasury that can provide cash flow to cover expenses for about 22 days if federal revenues are temporarily disrupted.
On an average business day, the state spends about $65 million for all government programs, including workers’ salaries. “No one should be panicked about this because we do have some flexibility and we’re trying to maximize that flexibility,” May said.
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Two people were reported breaking into cars at 12:29 a.m. in the 200 block of West Warren Street. The suspects ran into a woods and were not found. One person reported a car radio had been stolen.
A rock was thrown at the window of a residence in the 400 block of East Silver Street.
A vehicle was keyed while parked at a residence in the 500 block of West Main Street.
Laura Thomas, 49, 950 Grandstone Court, was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct after police received a nuisance complaint at 4:33 p.m. in the 900 block of Grandstone Court.
A home was egged and vandalized in the 100 block of Clubhouse Lane.
A unlocked car was broken into while it was parked in the Walmart parking lot.
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Harare court officials yesterday ordered a 52-year-old Zimbabwean man to stand trial for allegedly telling a work colleague that President Robert Mugabe’s death was imminent, says a report on the News24 site. Zebedia Mpofu allegedly mocked a colleague, informing him that a soft drink and packet of biscuits he was having for lunch came courtesy of Zimbabwe’s economic policies under Mugabe’s main rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Mpofu, a general labourer at a private security firm in Harare, has been charged with undermining the authority or insulting the President. ‘He went further to say that President Mugabe had ruined the country and that he was going to be dead by December 2011. Find more information…
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SANTA FE – Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration is trying to crack down on parents with unpaid child support.
The governor announced Wednesday the state will offer a weeklong amnesty for people with outstanding warrants for their arrest because they failed to appear in court for not paying child support.
Under the program, individuals can visit a Child Support Enforcement Division office in , Rio Rancho or Los Lunas without fear of arrest and pay a bond to have the warrant canceled.
The amnesty runs through next Thursday.
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LEBANON — Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell wants to know why concerns are now being raised about the sanity of a former Mason teacher accused of having sexual relations with five male students last year.
Late Monday afternoon, Lebanon attorney Charles Rittgers entered a motion in Warren County Common Pleas Court to change Stacy Schuler’s plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
“This is highly unusual this late in the case,” Fornshell said. “This is usually done around the time of arraignment. Why is this coming up now? What has come up between April and July?”
Fornshell said it was also “unusual” for a defendant to change their plea after discovery was exchanged with her defense counsel. Discovery is wh
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