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A teaching assistant at a high school in South Carolina was arrested after he was accused of tainting the air in the building, causing students and staff to feel ill and damaging the air conditioning system.

While it is not uncommon for kids to say “school stinks” in a metaphorical context to express their displeasure, at the end of August, West Florence High School in Florence experienced a situation involving a literal interpretation of the phrase. It was reported that on the last Monday in August, a noxious smell began permeating throughout the corridors and classrooms. The odor did not dissipate, and several students and employees reported that they started feeling sick. In an attempt to determine the cause of the issue, the air conditioning system was inspected by professionals, but they did not believe it was the source of the odor.

The authorities were notified, and during their investigation, the Florence County Sheriff’s Office learned that the malodorous situation started on August 25 and continued until September 19. When trying to pinpoint the culprit, they were led to a 32-year-old teaching assistant. They believed the man ordered fart spray online and had been spraying it inside the school with enough regularity to cause it to linger.

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A man in Kentucky is facing multiple charges after the father of a 13-year-old girl found him lying naked on his daughter’s bedroom floor.

According to reports, a 20-year-old man from Louisville had been communicating with a 13-year-old girl whose family home is in Florence. The pair reportedly decided to meet, allegedly to have sex, and on the evening of April 28, the man went to her residence to see the teen.

When the man got there, the pair went to her bedroom, and they made enough noise that her father woke up. When he went to investigate the sounds, he went into his daughter’s room and reportedly saw a naked man lying on the floor. Her dad has a gun, and he went to get it after saying he was going to call the authorities. Before he was able to grab it, the man quickly left the home and drove off in his vehicle. The angry dad stepped outside onto the porch, aimed the gun at the ground, and fired the gun three times before calling the police.

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A former Kentucky high school teacher was arrested after the authorities allegedly learned that she engaged in sexual acts with a former underage student.

27-year-old Mollie Verkamp lives in Florence and used to teach at the high school in the Walton-Verona Independent School District.

According to the authorities, in May 2019, the school district reported Verkamp and accused her of sharing texts and videos with sexual content with an 18-year-old student while she was employed at the high school.

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When an allegedly intoxicated father reportedly challenged and lost several arm-wrestling matches with his juvenile son, the man allegedly became angered and fired bullets into the ceiling of the home before holding the police in a stand-off for more than 7-hours.

A short time after midnight on July 6, 55-year-old Curtis Zimmerman was at his Florence, Kentucky home with his wife and 16-year-old son.

He was reportedly intoxicated, and Zimmerman allegedly made his son arm-wrestle with him many times, but the man did not win any of the matches.

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