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Authorities arrest man in connection with high school fire EUGENE (AP) — An 18y«tar nld man has been arrested on arson and criminal mischief charges in connection with a 51 million fire at Willamette High School. jama! Seligman George was arrested Wednesday The fin* early Monday destroyed a woodworking shop, computer design lab and some office space Eugene polif e l4. fan Clements said investigators had not determined a motive for the fire George did not attend Willamette High and hadn't lived in the Eugene area for long He may have taken classes at lame Community College, authorities said George apparently had no permanent address but stayed with acquaintances in the area, (dements said. Band director tapes students undressing, receives suspension PORT ISABEL. Texns (AIM — A high school band dtrei tar was suspended for videotaping female students changing (or practice, and liis assistant was suspended for going through their purses mid gym bags Band director Joe Martinez told school officials that a video camera was placed in a storage room twhind his office to catch a thief, hut instead, two tapes show 10 female band members changing their clothes. His assistant, Eugene Cottrell, was caught on tape searching through belongings, but the tape did not show him taking anything. Cottrell didn’t know about the tapes. School Superintendent Martin Pena said. "No one except Mr Martinez was aware of the tupings," he said. The two were suspended with pay on Wednesday It was not immediately clear when or if the men would get their jobs back. The tape was found in a trash can by a couple who turned over copies to the district attorney's office and a TV station, which aired segments Monday. District Attorney Luis Saenz said he will decide whether to bring criminal charges against Martinez and Cottrell, "! think, anv time you have photos or take pictures of children undressing, that's a serious matter." Saenz said. NJ Teachers, Seeking Pay Increases, Withhold College Recommendations NEWARK. N.J (AP) Teachers in some New Jersey school districts ore refusing to write letters of res wnmrudation for college-bound seniors until they get better pay, and students are getting worried as application deadlines draw near "I ngrtH> the teat hers should get paid more monev Verona High School student council president Dave Occhino told the school board Tuesday "Their job* are important and they do a good jolt I just don't agree with what they're bargaining with In Verona, teal hers' pay averages from about S K).(HX) to a cap of $50,700 I no salaries art.* sovoral thousand dollars below the average in comparably wealthy Now Jersey communities, said Pamela Klesch. a teat.Iters union representative. Klesch said the association would meet Friday to try to resolve the problem. "We are trying to work it out.' she said. "We yviint to make the kids happy." Maurice Moran, president of the Verona Education Association, told The New York Times, "When we did job actions before, the community didn't seem to notice We felt this would be something yvhere people would take notice, ant) they did " Teen shoots teacher, turns gun on self BLACKVILLE, S.C (AP) — A suspended student whose father said he sometimes got picked on because he yvas small walked into his high school Thursday, shot and seriously wounded >» teacher, then killed himself. A second teacher died, although authorities yvere unsure whether she was shot or suffered a heart attack Toby R Simino. 16, was expelled early last school year but was bark in school on probationary status Ho was suspended Again Wednesday after making an obscene gesture on a school bus am) fm ed another as puls i on On Thursday. h» walkod through a Ivu k door at RUtckville Hilda High School armed with a ,12-< nliber ravolver Hi* strode by two classrooms and entered n third where he fired the gun at math teacher lohnnv Thompson. ,18, investigators said Sim ino continued down the hall where he apparently confronted another math tea* her, 56 year-old Phyllis Senn, who was later found dead in a teachers' work room, State Law Enfbn ement Div ision spokesman Hugh Nfunn said No wounds were visible on her body and an autopsy will la' conducted today to determine how she died Thompson was in serious but stable condition, said Kubenia Hammond, a spokeswoman for Aiken Regional Medh al (‘enters Sincino's body was found outside the school office door He had shot hint self in the right temple. Mtmn said leacner-oi-me-Year, Husband Arrested on Drug Charges SLIDKl.L. U (AIM — A former teacher of the year was arrested along with her weight lifter husband Thursday after deputies found 10 marijuana plants growing in their home Ijiurie Wilder Mast hek. a fifth grade teacher, and her H-year old husband, lames Mas* hek. were charged with marijuana cultivation and oilier offenses carrying a total of more than 50 years in prison Mrs Mast hek, t2. was named teacher of the year by her St Tammany Parish st hooi system in 1992 "There's no indication that they were stilling at the school or out of their house at this point,"' sheriff's spokesman Larry Like said. The marijuana, worth about $15,000 on the street, was growing in a room with a 1 .OOO watt light bulb, deputies said. Officers also seized two shotguns and two bottles of bodybuilding steroids. 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