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By TIMES WIRES
Published March 9, 2007

CRYSTAL RIVER

DRIVER IN TROUBLE FOR STUDENT'S LEWD ACTS

For the high school students on Bus 4895, the ride home was unlike any episode of the educational show The Magic School Bus. On Jan. 29, a 10th-grader flashed her breasts at the bus driver and then at other passengers to get back a bottle of Gatorade that the driver had confiscated. Weeks earlier, the same girl performed oral sex on a teenage boy while other students on the bus watched. At least six students, including the 10th-grade girl, said the bus driver did little to stop them. And he never reported the incidents to his supervisors. Superintendent Sandra "Sam" Himmel has recommended that the School Board fire the driver, Don Allender. The board could vote on his firing next week.

Elsewhere

SEXUAL BATTERY CHARGE: Deputies added another charge of sexual battery against an Odessa man on Thursday. Deputies say an 8-year-old girl told her mother that Adam Michael Downing touched her on several occasions when she visited his home on Equestrian Trail. Downing, a Sickles High School student, already faces sexual battery charges after deputies accused him of inappropriately touching a 7-year-old girl.

TEARFUL POT BUST: The River Ridge High School resource officer found a student trying to leave school at 7:35 a.m. A search of his backpack yielded four small bags of marijuana, at which point the sophomore started crying. The teen admitted to an administrator that he had been selling the drug. As he waited for his parents, he got a text message from another student wanting to buy.

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