ALERT: School nurse caught allegedly stealing elementary school students' ADHD medicine and swapping it for Aleve. Rachel Hoffman, 37, was a nurse for the Klein Independent School District in Texas when a mother of a student noticed her twin boys' ADHD medicine was running out faster than the 30-day supply. During a routine audit, Kuehnle Elementary School informed the mother that her sons' prescriptions were actually just Aleve pills and that Hoffman was “effectively giving them placebos.” If found guilty of controlled substance fraud and theft charges, a second-degree felony, Hoffman faces up to 20 years in prison.

ALERT: Man astonished and wondering, "Am I powering the entire crypto mining grid?" after opening his electric bill and seeing the total was over $3,000. Micah Reed said he set the thermostat in his San Fernando Valley home to 74° in August so his wife and 2 sons “wouldn't melt.” California has been experiencing a historically hot summer, and the San Fernando Valley averages a high of 91° in August. Reed opened his statement for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power bill and saw it was $3,322, which included a sewage charge of almost $350. “They’re literally charging me a f*cking car payment just to flush the toilet.” Reed has launched a petition to “demand an independent audit and summer rate relief." Reed argues that keeping your home cool when it is that hot outside is a basic health and safety necessity.

ALERT: Shirtless man smoking a cigarette seen driving a “NOT IN SERVICE” city bus with no windshield in California. The man was seen driving around the retired San Francisco Municipal bus through Oakland. The front windshield is missing, and 'XX' appears to be spray-painted on multiple parts of the bus, with a paper license plate attached to the front, yet the “NOT IN SERVICE” electronic sign on the front still works. The man's identity is unknown, but some speculate he bought the bus on Craigslist after seeing a listing for a similar bus (in much better condition) for only $8,000.

ALERT: Indian cop holds on for dear life as he is flung around on top of a car swerving through lanes to evade police. The Coimbatore District Police Department pulled over a suspicious vehicle at a toll booth, and the driver started to take off towards the police. Head Constable Velmurugan then jumped onto the car to avoid being run over and “prevent the accused from escaping.” The car was going about 60 miles per hour for almost 25 miles before being intercepted by police. The 3 suspects were caught smuggling 440 pounds of a banned chewing tobacco product called gutkha.

ALERT: Plane carrying valuables for a bank overshoots the runway and runs off a cliff, sending it plummeting into the street below. A Cuencana Airlines cargo plane was flying into Mariscal Lamar International Airport in Cuenca, Ecuador, when it suffered a severe mechanical failure. The plane couldn't stop and ran through the airport perimeter before flying off a small cliff. The Cessna was carrying high-value cash assets belonging to the Central Bank of Ecuador. The pilot and a crew member were the only 2 passemgers on board and were miraculously uninjured.

ALERT: Teacher found guilty of s*xually grooming a 15-year-old student, gave him a “koala hug,” showed him her collection of s*x toys, and put on a “Harley Quinn” costume. Melanie Rock, 34, was an assistant teacher at Medina College, a secondary school in the Isle of Wight. Rock contacted the 15-year-old student on Instagram and convinced him to go to an arcade with her, where she gave him $25 and bought him a tracksuit and vapes. Rock then took the boy to her house and said he could call his mom from her room, and when they got to her room, she showed him a bag of s*x toys, lingerie, and bondage gear. She then gave the teen a “koala hug,” wrapping her arms and legs around him while he was on her bed, and then proceeded to put on a Harley Quinn costume with “tight shorts.” A few days later, Rock took the boy to Pizza Hut and saw a fellow staff member of the school and lied, saying the boy was her godson. Rock was convicted of meeting a child following s*xual grooming and s*xual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.

ALERT: Flight bound for New York City had to make an emergency landing after dropping 25,000 feet and sent 8 people to the hospital. An Avianca flight left Medellin, Colombia, bound for JFK Airport when extreme turbulence hit the plane. The plane descended around 25,000 feet in a matter of minutes and was diverted to Miami International Airport. Maria Paula Jimenez, a passenger, said that when they landed, “we saw that very close to where we were going to disembark, there were more than five or six ambulances.” 8 people were transported to the hospital, with one passenger being rushed to the Ryder Trauma Center.

NEW: Hall of Famer and legendary Bears coach Mike Ditka has passed away at the age of 86. Ditka revolutionized the tight end position and won a Super Bowl as head coach of the Chicago Bears in 1985. Ditka also had an iconic role in the movie Kicking & Screaming starring Will Ferrell.

ALERT: Scottsdale man accused of stalking his rich friends' social media and robbing them while they were on vacation. Tyler Lee Johnson, 41, allegedly stalked wealthy victims through mutual social circles and followed their accounts on Instagram. When the victims would post about being on vacation, Johnson would use the updates to confirm houses were empty and then go and rob them. Johnson would drive a white Toyota Camry to rob the homes and cut the main power to the homes to disable security cameras, then use his 6-foot-5 frame to bust down the rear glass doors or windows. Dressed in all-black clothing with a ski mask and gloves, Johnson stole Rolex and Cartier watches, Louis Vuitton and Chanel bags, a signed Kobe Bryant MVP jersey valued at over $100,000, and much more. Investigators believe Johnson could have robbed over 20 different victims in at least 5 different cities. Johnson is being held in the Maricopa County Jail on $20,000 bond and charged with second-degree burglary and possession of burglary tools.

ALERT: Sheriff allegedly tried to frame the killing of a 16-year-old high school girl as a hit-and-run after he ran her over. Persephone Berger was found lying in the road after sneaking out of her house to attend a party in Missouri. Jarred Berger, Persephone’s father, was allegedly told by the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Office that her daughter was the victim of a hit-and-run, according to her aunt, Kimberly Cabuchola. But the preliminary autopsy revealed that the injuries she sustained were consistent with those sustained from the responding Deputy’s vehicle,” Cabuchola says she would not have been angry and “accidents happen” if the 23-year-old deputy, who has been with them for only 3 months, had been transparent with the family. The Missouri State Highway Patrol has taken over the investigation and is waiting for Persephone’s toxicology report and a full autopsy.

ALERT: Transit bus driver loses control of the vehicle and slams into a parked car before ramming into the neighbor's house. Bus 166 was en route to its first stop of the morning in Englewood, New Jersey, when it veered into a home's lawn. The bus destroyed the house's new landscaping before running into a car and then smashing into the neighboring house. Witness Karina Martinez, who moved into the house with her husband a few months earlier, described a “loud thud” that startled them at 5:30 in the morning. "So we were up already. It was like 5:30 in the morning. We heard a loud, like. Like a thud. And we usually think it's, you know, the trucks passing by. We're right off of the highway. But then it continued. So we're like, OK, something's going on. My husband looked at the window. He's like, ‘Oh no, my car.’" Emergency crews arrived shortly after and removed the bus driver from the vehicle on a stretcher before taking him to the hospital, where he was later released.

ALERT: Jewelry store owner hears a truck smash through the front of his store and opens fire, sending the would-be thieves running. The attempted robbers drove a Toyota Tacoma through the glass window at Medina Jewelers in Lynnwood, Washington. Once the truck smashed the glass, several masked men ran into the store to steal jewelry from the display cases. When the store owner heard the attempted burglary, he grabbed a gun and fired, sending the thieves running. He then came out of the office area and allegedly opened fire on the suspects who had yet to run away from the store, sending them fleeing into a car waiting out front. Though no injuries were reported, police are unsure if any of the suspects who escaped in a BMW SUV and a silver Toyota or Infiniti sedan were struck by the gunfire.

ALERT: McDonald's employee gunned down by police after he shot and injured a coworker in California. The Lodi Police Department responded to the fast-food chain after receiving a call about an armed suspect in the restaurant's back storage area. Surveillance footage shows Jonhatan Anguiano armed with a gun and pointing it in the direction of 2 of his coworkers. Officers arrived and started evacuating employees but heard gunshots, and Anguiano had struck one of his coworkers. An officer approached Anguiano and opened fire, inevitably killing Anguiano. The injured employee has been released from the hospital and is back at work while police try to find a motive for Anguiano’s attack.

ALERT: The once-endangered giant tortoise population is thriving, with a new survey finding 180,000 on an island in the Seychelles. The Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) and the University of Exeter conducted a new survey and found the slow-moving reptiles on Aldabra Atoll. The island was home to just 1,000 Aldabra tortoises after exploitation in the 19th century, before it became a nature reserve in 1981. Researchers are calling it the greatest conservation success in the history of the Indian Ocean.

ALERT: “Really low IQ” thief breaks into a tech store and steals armfuls of empty Mac Mini computer boxes. A Tempe, Arizona, tech company was the victim of an attempted burglary when a man broke through a window and stole a bunch of Mac Mini boxes, which cost anywhere from $899 to $6,799. Though the thief didn't steal the actual products, he just stole the empty boxes. “Just empty boxes… Our computers were right there in front of them…Really low IQ." "They stole empty boxes. Everyone was laughing about it." The company is offering a $1,500 reward for any information about the burglar that leads to an arrest.

ALERT: Cars stopped at a red light were smashed into by 2 massive tires that flew off an 18-wheeler in Utah. Two cars stopped at a red light in Salt Lake City were struck by two tires that came off a FedEx semi-truck. The orange Nissan took the majority of the impact straight to the front bumper, while the car to its left was also struck on the passenger side. 🎥: slcscoop | IG

ALERT: New Jersey teen runs over 6 of his classmates and is put into a "full nelson" by a bystander performing a "citizen's arrest." 6 teens, ages 14 to 16, were walking along the sidewalk after school when a 16-year-old drove a white Cadillac Escalade onto the curb and ran them over. 5 of the victims were transported to a local hospital by ambulance, and one of the victims, who had to be rescued from underneath the car by first responders, was transported by medical helicopter in critical condition. Arturo Caselin, who says his friend was trapped under the car, said, "It's crazy to know that he was just there and helpless and everybody here was just watching. They couldn't do anything, but I'm just glad he's all right." The driver was taken to the Camden County Juvenile Detention Center and charged with one count of second-degree aggravated assault, six counts of third-degree aggravated assault, and one count of joyriding.

ALERT: Elderly man cleared of attempted murder charge after shooting a deranged homeless flasher who threatened to r*pe his legally blind partner. Michael Grover Phill, 71, and his partner were on the MAX train in Portland, Oregon, when 40-year-old Lance Hicks exposed himself to them. “All of the crotch of his pants is cut out, and his penis is in his hand, and he’s snarling.” Phill and his partner got up to leave after Hicks, who has a history of mental illness, threatened to rob and s*xually assault the couple. Hicks then ran towards them, and Phill shouted, “Do not run up on me!” before shooting Hicks. Phill was charged with attempted murder, assault, being a felon in possession of a weapon, and unlawful use of a weapon and faced 10 years in prison, but a jury found him not guilty of attempted murder. Phill, who received his last felony a decade ago, said he carries a gun on him after being attacked multiple times in Portland. The jury convicted Phill of the firearms charges, and he will spend 2 years in prison.