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A female teacher allegedly sent nudes to a 16-year-old student and then invited him over for sex while her husband was out of town. Rikki Lynn Laughlin, 24, sent the explicit photos to the boy at St. James High School in Missouri - where Laughlin worked as a special education teacher, according to Maries County Sheriff Department. The married mother-of-one faces six felony charges for allegedly pursuing the 16-year-old, sending him pornographic images and soliciting photos from him.

A former teacher at a Christian high school in Florida was arrested for inappropriate behavior with a student for a second time this summer — this time stemming from accusations she twerked on a male student at prom. Julie Hoover, who used to teach at Point of Grace Christian School in Perry, was cuffed last week on charges of an authority figure soliciting or engaging in lewd conduct with a student and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to police records obtained by WCTV. Hoover, 39, was previously arrested in June and charged with one count of an...

WASHINGTON — Not everyone thinks imitation is the best form of flattery. In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website aimed at unseating him that the freshman Democrat has asked that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder investigate the Lake County activist who started the anti-Grayson website “mycongressmanisnuts.com.” Specifically, Grayson accuses Republican activist Angie Langley of lying to federal elections. His four-page complaint highlights the fact that the Clermont resident lives outside his district, but that Langley still uses the term “my” in “mycongressmanisnuts.com.”“Ms. Langley has deliberately masqueraded as a constituent of mine, in...

Here is video of CNN's Rick Sanchez getting angry at a guest and having their mic shut off during a discussion about why a police officer chose to go to jail instead of apologizing...(Video)

Look who’s Hitler-fixated … As I posted yesterday, Frank Rich called the tea party movement “Hitler-fixated.” Rich was presumably referring to one tea party where one person was photographed holding one sign of a swastika with a slash through it. Based on this one instance, the New York Times’ resident ignorant of the fact that for eight stright years virtually no anti-Bush rally occurred that was not festooned with dozens of Bush-Hitler references. Nancy Pelosi, who imagined swastikaaaas at summertime town halls, was apparently ignorant of this too. But if Rich was really looking for a group that is truly...