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An assistant principal at a Florida middle school sent a topless photo of herself to a 14-year-old boy, police say. Lauren Shreve Tilo, a 30-year-old assistant principal at Middleton High School in Tampa, allegedly sent a cell phone picture of her breasts to the teenager on May 7 after meeting him while playing the popular online game World of Warcraft, MyFoxTampaBay.com reports. Tilo and the boy were initially just friends before they began exchanging text messages about "conducting sexual acts to one another," according to an arrest report filed in Manatee County, where deputies say they learned of the allegations...

CLINTON, N.C. - A former North Carolina middle school teacher accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student has been arrested again after police found her with the same boy. Jeannie Michelle Hodges resigned as a language arts teacher from Hobbton Middle School just before she was charged in July with statutory rape and accused of having an affair with a former student. Released on bond, the 40-year-old Autryville woman was ordered to stay away from the boy. But WRAL-TV reports Friday that Hodges was arrested Aug. 30 after authorities stopped her car at a checkpoint. The teen was driving,...

Hacking's Attorney to Challenge Confession 1 hour, 57 minutes ago By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - The attorney for Mark Hacking said he will raise the issue of mental illness and challenge his client's confession to relatives that he killed his wife, Lori, and dumped her body in a garbage bin. Hacking, 28, reportedly made the statement to his brothers when he was a psychiatric patient in the hospital, said defense lawyer Gil Athay. "To me that creates a substantial issue," Athay told Salt Lake television station KUTV Thursday. "Mental illness, mental deficiency certainly will be...