courtney bowles

Students at a Mountain View school will be released at 1:30pm today so teachers and other staff can meet with representatives of the S-EX-ual Assault Victims Advocate Center. School workers and people SAVA will then join small groups and altogether during a session of 2 hours.

The sessions are designed to help students and families cope with the arrest of Mountain View teacher Courtney Bowles. Prosecutors charged this week with two 31-year-Bowles crimes and a misdemeanor after police found her naked in a car with a student 16 years Friday night. Bowles, Fort Collins, is accused of S-EX-ually assaulting a child by one in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, both class 4 crimes. She is also accused of an offense of S-EX-ual assault on a child.

So a horrific tale has come to an end as the teacher is charged for her misdemeanours in the case.

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ohio unemployment

Ohio's unemployment figures were chalked up at the end of the year as a 9th year in a row where the rates of people being employed has fallen, and a fall in payroll numbers was put in the shade by a bigger drop in people searching for employment. The state Department of Job and Family Services on Friday declared that Ohio’s jobless rate hit a seasonally adjusted 9.6 percent in December.

That’s down from 9.8 percent in November and more than a percentage point below the 10.8 percent jobless rate seen a year ago. Over the month, nonfarm payroll dropped by more than 9,000 jobs to hit 5 million workers. That’s largely on a 7,300-job decline in Ohio’s goods-producing sector, which saw declines in construction and manufacturing. The much-larger service sector only lost 1,300 jobs over the month.

So lean times in the Ohio area continue to worsen and the state will be hoping there are areas which can help tackle the bleak state.

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