Investigations

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The South Bend teacher who was fired following a REAL News Michiana investigation that uncovered she was moonlighting as a pornstar now claims her children are to blame for her ruining her life. Sarah Seales (Juree) was fired from her teaching job in June of last year after RNM published a story showing the educator was having her 10-year-old students call her by the nickname she used in her porn, "Miss Buttercup."

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- REAL News Michiana has learned Mishawaka Mayor Dave Wood's son, Joe Wood, has been arrested for Operating While Intoxicated after the 22-year-old crashed his car in South Bend.

MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- An attorney for the Penn Harris Madison School Corporation sent what appears to be an intimidating letter to one of the conservative members of the school board for simply speaking to REAL News Michiana regarding issues of public interest.

MISHAWAKA, Ind -- REAL News Michiana has learned the Penn Harris Madison School Corporation has banned a parent from all PHM property and from even attending any school board meeting virtually. It turns out, the parent had filed a Civil Rights complaint against the school corporation earlier this year, prompting an investigation by the Department of Education. The investigation concluded earlier this week, with PHM being forced to admit that the school district violated the Civil Rights of straight white children. The parent was sent a letter banning him from the property the very next day.

MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- The Penn Harris Madison School Corporation admitted to violating the Civil Rights of students during a recent investigation by the U.S. Department of Education. The issue was investigated following a story by REAL News Michiana earlier this year that led to a complaint being filed by a parent.

NILES, Mich. -- Teachers and activists who are fighting to give children unfettered access to pornography at Brandywine schools appear to have partnered up with a self-identifying member of Antifa who has made a name for herself by threatening and attacking conservatives and journalists for the past several years. According to posts and commentary on the private Facebook page called "Brandywine Alumni, Parents, and Educators for Educational Freedom," the group has at least been in loose contact with Tonna Robinson of Elkhart, Indiana, and her group of Antifa members sometime in the past several weeks.

NILES, Mich. -- Sources have provided REAL News Michiana screenshots from a conversation between several activists and teachers at Brandywine schools looking to pressure the Niles Daily Star into removing a reporter from covering issues regarding a controversial book policy at Brandywine Schools, despite the activists and teachers admitting the reporter's coverage has been accurate.

NILES, Mich. -- REAL News Michiana has obtained the grant and supporting emails showing two Brandywine teachers purposefully violated school district policy while undermining the current school board when they unilaterally applied for a grant from a radical organization to add politically motivated books into school library circulation. Both of the teachers have been vocal advocates for allowing students to have unfettered access to sexually explicit material in Brandywine school libraries.

MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- REAL News Michiana has learned Penn High School is hosting an event this week excluding college bound students solely based on their race. The event invite was sent to all juniors and seniors, but let them know only black students were welcome.

FISHERS, Ind. -- REAL News Michiana has discovered Hamilton Southeastern High School administrators and staff appeared to dismiss sexual abuse allegations brought by the parents of a child with special needs earlier this year. Now, police have arrested the suspected abuser for an alleged rape of a different girl that occurred just a couple of months later.