Former chorus students from Poston, Kino, Smith and Stapley junior high schools are invited to participate in the final concert for Janice Colburn, who is retiring after 40 years. The concert will be held at Stapley Junior High School, 3250 East Hermosa Vista Drive, Mesa, on May 12. Information: (602) 885-7544.

A 35-year-old former social studies teacher at Chandler’s Andersen Junior High School was sentenced to 16 years in prison Friday for child molestation-related offenses involving a 10-year-old girl.

A former Scottsdale Chaparral High School science teacher will spend two months in jail and be on probation the rest of his life for having a sexual relationship with a female student nearly 25 years ago.

A former Scottsdale Chaparral High School science teacher has pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual conduct with a minor for a sexual relationship he had with a female former student in the early 1980s.

The Maricopa County Prosecutor’s Office formally announced this morning the indictment of Paul Knutson, a former science teacher at Scottsdale’s Chaparral High School accused of having sex and doing drugs with a female student at the school in 1983 and 1984 when she was 16 and 17.

A former science teacher at Scottsdale’s Chaparral High School was arrested in Arkansas on suspicion of sexual conduct with a minor, after a former student came forward more than 20 years after the alleged incidents happened.

A former Tempe teacher who had sex with a student could be sent to prison and will lose her teaching license under a plea deal she agreed to Wednesday.

A former elementary school teacher in the Scottsdale Unified School District was sentenced Friday to 46 years in prison for molesting his fourth-grade students. "I deserve to punished for what I have done," a sobbing David Renaud said. "I fully expect that."

A former choir teacher who impregnated a teenage student could avoid jail time under a plea deal he reached with the state Monday.

A former Higley High School teacher who pleaded innocent to a count of sexual misconduct with a minor is scheduled to change his plea Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court.

Attention all former chorus students from Poston, Kino, Smith and Stapley junior high schools: After 40 years teaching chorus, Janice Colburn (Tongring ) is retiring. Colburn will conduct her final concert at Stapley Junior High, 3250 E. Hermosa Vista Drive, 7 p.m. on May 12. Call Tim Colburn with any questions at (602) 885-7544.

A former English teacher at Paradise Valley High School pleaded guilty Friday morning to sexual conduct with a student and faces up to six years in prison.

The 20-year-old woman who told police Monday she became sexually involved with a Mesa teacher while she was a student was arrested earlier this year on domestic violence charges.