10 Million

Spanish teacher with 10 million child porn images commits suicide

Madrid - A Spanish teacher who was detained on charges of owning 10 million pornographic images of children has committed suicide, police said Tuesday. The primary school English teacher jumped into a river in the northern city of Aviles. He had been released pending trial after being arrested with 65 other suspects last week.

Bomb 'joke'

Community college fires teacher for alleged bomb comment; other schools probe possible threats

A community college fired a teacher who allegedly joked in class about being a suicide bomber, and other schools investigated possible threats of violence after this week’s massacre on the Virginia Tech campus.

Students reported that their geography instructor at Ozarks Technical Community College walked into class Wednesday, set his briefcase on a table and said, "I’m a suicide bomber," according to school spokesman Joel Doepker.

Police and the school did not identify the part-time instructor, pending an investigation.

He told an Ozark police investigator that he felt bad afterward and only meant to lighten the mood while students were preparing for a test, according to a police statement.

"Even without the Virginia Tech situation, (the instructor’s comments) still would have been cause for termination," Doepker said.

Suicide Attempt In Class

Substitute teacher threatens suicide in class, officials say

A veteran substitute teacher reportedly pulled out a small kitchen knife this morning at Washington High School and expressed feelings of suicide to three students, district official said.

The students, who had remained in the room after second period, immediately told school administrators, said district spokeswoman Gentle Blythe.

The female substitute was removed from the classroom without incident and police were called, Blythe said.

A police spokesman said the woman was taken into custody on an involuntary psychiatric hold and transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where she was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.

Principal Suicide

Elementary principal jumps off bridge, commits suicide

The woman who jumped to her death Thursday afternoon from the tallest bridge in Ohio was the principal of a Clermont County elementary.

At approximately 4:40 p.m., Eileen M. Murphy, 55, of Cincinnati, parked her 2002 Honda Accord in the right lane of northbound Interstate 71, near the south end of the Jeremiah-Morrow Bridge, got out and jumped off into the Little Miami River some 240 below.

Update

Teacher in teen sex case tried suicide

A teacher accused of having sex with a former student who was shot to death outside her home tried to commit suicide five days later with a drug overdose, Nashville police said.

Nashville's 911 call center was contacted on March 15 by a Knoxville police officer, who said Erin McLean's family there believed she had taken an overdose.