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ABC News reports New York police say Knicks player Raymond Felton has been arrested on three counts of criminal possession of a weapon.

Sgt. Thomas Antonetti says Felton turned himself in at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday and was questioned in the 20th Precinct in Manhattan, hours after his team lost at home to the Dallas Mavericks.

The sergeant says the charges don't stem from him using the firearm in a menacing manner but of possessing a gun he wasn't registered to have.

Antonetti says the 29-year-old is now under the purview of court system and will face a hearing sometime Tuesday. The charges include criminal possession of a weapon in the second, third and fourth degrees.

The Huffington Post repots a theater teacher in Newport, South Wales is accused of having sexual contact with a teenage student.

Kelly Burgess, 26, is charged with four counts of sexual activity with a boy between the age of 13 and 17, according to the Telegraph. The alleged victim's exact age was not reported.

Burgess was suspended from her job as a drama teacher at St Katherine’s School in Bristol, England.

"I don't want to say anything. I'm OK, thank you." Burgess said through tears when asked for comment by the Telegraph.


The BBC reports that the alleged offenses took place between January 1 and August 28 of last year.

According to the Daily Mail, Burgess may have developed a relationship with the teen while she was directing a school musical production last year.
It's unclear how the alleged sexual activity came to the attention of authorities.

Newsday reports two teens have been arrested and charged as adults with an Inwood street robbery after strong-arming another teen and taking a cellphone, Nassau police said Sunday.

Joshua Mackay-Smith, 16, of Hewlett Bay Park and Oskar Puk, 16, of Inwood, second-degree robbery and fourth-degree grand larceny charges stemming from the Saturday night incident, police said.

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LA Timesreports a Fullerton middle school teacher was arrested Friday on suspicion of sexual misconduct with at least two male students, authorities and school district officials said.

Melissa Lindgren, 28, of La Mirada, was charged with multiple felonies, including child molestation, child annoyance and “dissemination of harmful matter to a minor,” Fullerton police said in a statement. The Nicolas Junior High School teacher was booked and released after posting $100,000 bail, the statement said.  

School officials were alerted to the possible misconduct Friday by two “brave” students, according to a district statement.  Fullerton Police Chief Dan Hughes said Lindgren was arrested within five hours of the school district discovering the allegations.

In its statement, Fullerton School District officials said Lindgren admitted her misconduct, and called the situation an “isolated incident.”

“This occurrence is in direct conflict of Fullerton School District zero-tolerance policy on staff misconduct, where the District's teachers, faculty and staff are held to a higher standard,” the statement said.

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NY Daily News reports a New Jersey teacher may lose her job after two of her kindergarten students were found "having sex" while naked in the classroom's bathroom.


The rural South Jersey school district of Mullica Township seeks to remove kindergarten teacher Kelly Mascio after two 5-year-old students — a boy and girl — were found naked in the bathroom at her classroom on Sept. 30, reports the Press of Atlantic City. The students told the teacher they were "having sex," the newspaper reports.

Mascio, a teacher in the district for 15 years, reported the incident to her supervisor and police were called regarding the incident. The teacher was immediately suspended with pay, the newspaper reported.

No criminal charges were filed.

The Mullica Township Board of Education voted Wednesday to bring charges against the educator through the state to seek to remove her from her position, the newspaper reported.

But the teacher has a lot of support in the community as 200 people came to support her at the meeting.

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