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A former Nebraska teacher has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for having sex with a student on his 16th birthday. Emily Lofing, 27, was charged with debauching a minor as the boy was 16 years old, the age of consent in Nebraska. The married former teacher was working in Weeping Water at the time of the offence.

The scene at the swim-up bar at the Mexican resort where Abbey Conner was pulled listless from the pool in January was full of young tourists last month when an attorney hired by Conner’s family showed up. It wasn’t surprising. It was a typical scene at an all-inclusive five-star resort where foreigners from both sides of the equator flock to escape their cold winters. But as he watched, the attorney noticed something disturbing. “They serve alcoholic drinks with alcohol of bad quality and in great amounts, mixing different types of drinks,” he wrote in his native Spanish. That single paragraph, buried near the end of a four-page report summarizing how 20-year-old Conner drowned within a couple

It was meant to be a health initiative that would change their lives for the better. Instead, a mother and son’s diet pact turned into an obsession that would prove fatal for one of them. Melanie Brazier and her son Stevie’s nightmare began back in 2007 when she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Doctors warned Melanie that she urgently needed to lose weight from her 5-foot-four-inch, 222-pound frame in order to manage the condition. Her then 14-year-old son was also overweight, having ballooned to more than 264 pounds after breaking his leg in a motorcycle accident. So when Stevie offered to join his mom on a diet, she was initially delighted. “He’d noticed on his hospital notes he’d been classed