Edison High teacher accused of helping suspect in Oakdale slaying evade arrest
An Edison High School teacher has been arrested on suspicion of being an accessory in connection with a September slaying in Oakdale that claimed the life of a 39-year-old woman. Teacher Nikkole Scruggs, 30, was arrested at 10 a.m. Wednesday at her Oakdale home and booked into the Stanislaus County jail as an accessory in the Sept. 26 homicide of Katrina Allen, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. Edison’s website lists her as a teacher in the AVID program. Allen was shot in the 2300 block of Twildo Road later died in an Oakdale hospital. Scruggs is accused...