5 staffers at school district in trouble

GRANITE CITY -- There's plenty of misbehavior at schools in the small southern Illinois community of Granite City, but it's the staff -- not the students -- who keep getting into trouble.

Five employees, including a truancy officer and a high school vice principal, have either recently been fired or are under investigation.

Their alleged misdeeds range from sending sexually inappropriate messages to co-workers to having inappropriate relationships with students or drinking alcohol with them.

Granite City School District Superintendent Harry Briggs says the number of allegations all at once is unprecedented in the community of 30,000.

Briggs says he just wants to make it until Christmas without any more incidents.

He wouldn't release the names of any of the staff involved.