U.S. education employee charged with child porn

A career U.S. Department of Education employee was arrested Thursday by federal agents and charged with collecting child pornography on his work computer, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Joseph Butler, 66, of Clarkston, has been suspended without pay pending the investigation. According to federal prosecutors, Butler found a way around the filtering software that prevents government employees from visiting illicit web sites. In June, agents seized Butler's work computer and found he collected child pornography from foreign web sites, prosecutors said.