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WNEP reports a teacher from Luzerne County faces charges after police say he sexually assaulted a high school student.

Authorities charged Edward Evans, 33, Hanover Township this morning with two felony counts of institutional sexual assault.
Officials at Hanover Area School District told Newswatch 16 that Evans has been a social studies teacher at the high school near Nanticoke since 2003.

Court papers said Evans brought a male student to his home in March 2013, and the two engaged in sex acts.

Authorities said Evans was released without having to post bail.
The district superintendent released a statement that said Evans is on unpaid leave indefinitely, and that the district will terminate the teacher if he is found guilty of the criminal charges.

District officials confirmed that the teacher facing criminal charges is the son of school board president Evelyn Evans.

KEND 5 reports a Southside ISD middle school teacher was arrested Monday morning for continuous sex assault of a child, according to Bexar County Sheriff's Office.


Raymond Casillas, 43, has been the English and language arts facilitator at Matthey Middle school, according to initial reports.

A letter sent home to parents on Jan. 7 said Casillas "had not been with the district for over a year." The letter also encouraged parents to talk with their children about the importance of reporting any incidents immediately.

He was charged with a first degree felony of continuous sex assault of a child in incidents that could date back to as early as 2011.

According to a Bexar County spokesperson, some of the incidents may have taken place in Casillas' classroom. The claim was made in mid-December of 2013.
Casillas posted his $75,000 bond.

Truth Revolt reports back from his $4 million Hawaii vacation, President Barack Obama seems poised to sound the populist trumpet in an effort to turn the page on 2013’s disastrous Obamacare rollout.


Many pundits are speculating that Obama, seeing the popularity of liberal populists like New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio, will use the current debate over unemployment insurance to engage in more divisive rhetoric:

The Obama administration has set the stage for a push that could rekindle cries of class warfare -- calling for renewed long-term unemployment benefits, a minimum wage increase and a campaign against what Democrats call "income inequality."
Ahead of his multi-week, holiday vacation in Hawaii, President Obama pushed Congress to move forward on extending federal unemployment benefits that weren't included in the budget deal Senate Democrats and House Republicans struck to fund the federal government for the next two years. The White House has scheduled an East Room event on Tuesday in which the president will appear with people who lost that insurance.

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