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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - It was a stunning development for students and staff at duPont Manual High School: a teacher has resigned and police say she could face serious charges after being found partially clothed with a student in a local park. Now we're learning more about 38-year-old Carrie Shafer. Manual students say Shafer's resignation Sunday was all the talk around school Monday. And they say the reason it's so shocking is because, according to them, Shafer is a married mother who also led their chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Manual students we spoke with had nothing but...

Special Ed teacher accused of sodomy and rapeUpdated: Mar 04, 2011 12:47 PM EST ANDALUSIA, AL (WSFA) - Andalusia police say that 31-year-old Amy Caudle, a Special Education Teacher at Andalusia Middle School, has been arrested on charges of rape and sodomy. Caudle is facing two counts of second-degree rape and three counts of second-degree sodomy following allegations of misconduct. The superintendent of Andalusia schools refused comment, but confirmed Caudle is on administrative leave pending the outcome of the case, the Andalusia Star-News reported. Caudle is being held at Covington County Jail on a $1 million bond.

And in the "Is there anyone more outrageous than Charlie Sheen" category, we have Tina Belinda Masta. Witnesses say a drunken Tina Belinda Masta, 46, cursed at three men, threw rocks at them, pulled her clothes off and threatened to beat them up in Naples on Saturday evening, reports the Naples Daily News.

A WIFE told yesterday how she became the world's youngest gran - at just 23. Mum-of-two Rifca Stanescu was 12 when she had her first child Maria. She urged the girl not to follow her example - but Maria gave birth to son Ion while only 11. Rifca had married jewellery seller Ionel Stanescu when she was 11 and he was 13. They eloped because Rifca feared her father wanted her to marry another village lad in Investi, Romania. She was forgiven when she had her daughter - making her mum, also Maria, a great-gran at 40. Son Nicolae was...

A WIFE told yesterday how she became the world's youngest gran - at just 23. Mum-of-two Rifca Stanescu was 12 when she had her first child Maria. She urged the girl not to follow her example - but Maria gave birth to son Ion while only 11. Rifca had married jewellery seller Ionel Stanescu when she was 11 and he was 13. They eloped because Rifca feared her father wanted her to marry another village lad in Investi, Romania. She was forgiven when she had her daughter - making her mum, also Maria, a great-gran at 40. Son Nicolae was...

She's studying at a college in Florida, and like any typical American teenager she loves shopping and hanging out with her friends. But at weekends she is one of the deadliest shots in the brush. Regis Giles, 19, is one of America's hottest hunters - and she's taking the big game world by storm. She's killed buffalo, wild boar, deer and a bear in her hunting career, which began when she was aged just nine. And she's already drawing parallels to Sarah Palin, America's most famous gun-toting wilderness-loving woman. Miss Giles is a lifetime member of the NRA. She was...

A lesbian Army captain sent home from Afghanistan after she was accused of an 'inappropriate relationship' with a sergeant was behaving like a 'love struck teenager' and undermining operations, a tribunal heard today. Karen Tait, 29, who is claiming sexual discrimination against the Ministry of Defence and her commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Deborah Poneskis, upset the chain of command with her 'sly and underhand' behaviour, the employment tribunal in central London heard. Claims: Captain Karen Tait at the tribunal. She says her commanding officer objected to her sexuality Cpt Tait, an operations officer with the Royal Military Police, was sent...

CALVERT CITY, Ky. -- A mother charged with endangering her children said she was wandering along a western Kentucky interstate with them after snorting bath salts. Kentucky State Police said they found a 2-year-old boy with a head injury lying on the inside edge of Interstate 24 in Marshall County and his mother carrying a 5-year-old child in the median. Police said 29-year-old Cynthia Palmer told officers she had been snorting bath salts and began to hallucinate Monday night while driving from the Tennessee side of Fort Campbell. Officers said she stopped and attempted to carry both children across the...

Two Fayetteville police officers were injured after a fight at IHOP in Fayetteville. Police said officers responded to the business before 3 a.m. Wednesday after employees called about an intoxicated customer. Officers attempted to arrest Hiram Graham, 35, of Fayetteville. Officers applied one handcuff before Hiram yanked his arm away and tucked it into his torso. Police attempted to use a taser, but it didn't work properly. Shortly after, Hiram's brother, Joemo Graham, 33, began a physical fight with an officer. Police attempted to deploy another taser. Hiram was able to grab an officer's baton. According to police reports, Hiram...

She is doing Fox and Friends this morning.

By Ed Richter, Staff Writer Updated 8:30 PM Friday, February 4, 2011 MASON — A female Mason high school gym teacher is accused of having sexual misconduct with five students, most of them football players at the school. A Warren County grand jury on Friday indicted Stacy Schuler of Springboro on 16 counts of sexual battery, a third-degree felony; and three misdemeanor counts of offenses involving underage persons. Schuler, who will turn 33 next week, allegedly had sexual contact with the students on five different occasions between August and December, according to officials with the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office. She...

"An Illinois woman who was busted for threatening a cop with a sex toy is claiming self defense, saying the officer spooked her by walking into her bedroom. "Carolee Bildsten, 56, was arrested when police said she attacked an officer with a 'clear, rigid feminine pleasure device' in her apartment last November after he escorted her home while she was drunk."

Men watching a news broadcast are more likely to pay attention if a sexy anchor is delivering the day's stories. Just what they're captivated by, however, is another matter entirely. According to a new study from researchers at Indiana University, male viewers snap to attention at the sight of a female anchor they find attractive, but are distracted by her looks and therefore less likely to remember what she had to say. In other words? "Men might want to reread the story in the newspaper," Maria Elizabeth Rabe, one of the study's authors, told AOL News in a phone interview.

The Plainfield North High School physical education teacher accused of having sex with a student pleaded not guilty this morning in a Will County courtroom. Ashley M. Blumenshine, 27, of Lisle appeared in court this morning with her attorney, George Lenard, where she pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse. Blumenshine, who wore a long pink coat and black slacks, said nothing but stood by her attorney before Will County Judge Richard Schoenstedt. Her next court date is March 2. Blumenshine and two adults who came with her to court Wednesday declined comment after the hearing. Lenard...

A German porn actress suffered a fatal heart attack following her sixth breast augmentation operation, leading to a police investigation."Sexy Cora," a 23-year-old porn actress and former Big Brother reality television star was in a coma for nine days after complications during the operation to increase her breast size from an F to a G cup, according to German media reports Friday.She died Thursday at the Hamburg University Hospital, leading to an investigation into the Hamburg plastic surgery clinic where she received the breast operation.

A Southern California middle school teacher seduced and molested a 14-year-old student in a sexual affair that lasted several months, until the teacher's husband, a Los Angeles police officer, discovered the relationship and threatened to kill the boy, his family claims in a lawsuit. The suit, filed Tuesday, claims LAPD officer National Beck threatened to kill the teen and his family with his police department-issued weapon in retaliation for the affair. The incident allegedly occurred when Beck found his wife, Amy Beck, and the boy in his Burbank, Calif., home and she confessed to the relationship.

A top cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church is under fire for saying that women who wear miniskirts and get drunk should not be surprised if they get raped. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the head of the Orthodox Church's department for relations between the church and society, complained that Russian women dressed like strippers and suggested a nationwide dress code should be introduced to ensure both sexes dress more conservatively. "If she (a woman) is wearing a miniskirt, it is provocative," he said. "If she is drunk at the same time then she is even more provocative, and if she herself...

A former student-teacher at a Sussex County elementary school would be sentenced to four years in prison if she pleads guilty to having sexual relations with one of her students, under a plea bargain offer made today. Lindsay Massaro, 25, was given until Feb. 14 to accept the offer, which would require her to plead guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault. Superior Court Judge N. Peter Conforti, sitting in Newton, told Massaro that she could face up to 46½ years in prison if she is convicted of all of the six charges against her, including first-degree aggravated assault....

A Plainfield North High School teacher has been ordered not to have unsupervised contact with anyone under age 18 after a judge set her bond this afternoon at $75,000, following charges she had sex with a 16-year-old boy. Ashley M. Blumenshine, 27, of the 4000 block Nutmeg Lane in Lisle was charged with criminal sexual abuse after police say she allegedly had sex with the 16-year-old, who is a junior at Plainfield North, in a vehicle behind Kohl’s, 11860 S. Route 59. Police chief Bill Doster said police approached the scene behind Kohl’s when they noticed two suspicious vehicles “at...