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Boone County Sheriff’s Police have charged a North Boone High School teacher on multiple counts of criminal sexual assault.

You likely could do this in the street and not be arrested, but should you be able to do it in the classroom and keep your job? The answer in eastern Illinois is "no." That's where a teacher has been fired for stepping on a small U.S...

BELVIDERE, Ill. (AP) — A former Belvidere teacher has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 17-year-old female student. The Rockford Register Star reports 31-year-old Jenee Blackert was sentenced Monday in Boone County court...

SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — Sexual assault charges have been filed against a high school teacher in the northern Illinois community of Sycamore. The Daily Chronicle in DeKalb reports Leah Eames of DeKalb is free on $75,000 bond after being charged Wednesday with criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse...