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The Editors of The Fashion Time Magazine search for a glamorous Hollywood starlet was met with a startling success … Blake Lively was an example of a head-to-toe perfection at the New York premiere of “Sherlock Holmes”.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A 34-year-old female teacher at Kerman High School was arrested this week for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student.

TAMPA - A judge is set to decide Thursday whether former teacher and convicted sex offender Debra LaFave can have limited contact with children of her family and friends.

Hi Lefty losers. Congrats on being this week’s weekend weasel. Hope your search for naked pictures of Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe is turning up sour grapes; more benefits of supporting that corrupt and now disgraced organization called ACORN.

An heroic army medic treated seven injured comrades after a Taliban attack in Afghanistan despite being wounded with shrapnel herself, it emerged today. Lance Corporal Sally Clarke, of 2 Rifles, ignored the searing pain caused by the shards embedded in her shoulder and back and set about treating the rest of her patrol. The worst hit was Corporal Paul Mather who incredibly managed to radio instructions for jets circling above to open fire on Taliban insurgents despite bleeding heavily from wounds the size of his fist. Corporal Mather, 28, and Lance Corporal Clarke, 22, from Cheltenham, were on patrol south...

<p>A judge acquitted Amy Winehouse on Friday of assaulting a fan who asked to take her picture.</p> <p>District Judge Timothy Workman found the 25-year-old singer not guilty of punching dancer Sherene Flash in the eye after the fan asked to take her picture following a charity ball in September.</p>

Danica Patrick on Friday rejected skeptics who say she is incapable of switching from driving lighter, aerodynamic Indy cars to the much bulkier and heavier stock cars used on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Patrick, 27, is in the last year of her contract with the IndyCar team Andretti Green Racing and is evaluating options for next season. Patrick last year became the first woman to win a major U.S.-sanctioned open-wheel race when she won the IndyCar race at Motegi, Japan. She already had become a major sports figure after nearly winning the Indianapolis 500 in 2005, her rookie year....

A Beaver County jury adjourned yesterday without reaching a verdict in the trial of a man charged with disrupting a public meeting for taking a gun to an Obama rally in Beaver last year. John Noble, 51, of Industry, openly carried his Glock pistol to the Aug. 29 outdoor rally in a park across from the Beaver County Courthouse. At the rally, Mr. Noble was carrying a Bible and handing out pro-gun fliers. The jury went home for the day at 4:15 p.m. after deliberating for nearly five hours. "This is the first time that I've received a request from...

TMZ has learned "Three's Company" star Joyce DeWitt was arrested for DUI on July 4th in El Segundo, California. Law enforcement sources tell us DeWitt drove past a barricade Saturday afternoon -- and when an officer approached her, she smelled like booze. She was given field sobriety tests and then arrested for suspicion of DUI. The 60-year-old actress, who played Janet Wood on the 80's sitcom, posted bail for $5,000.

A former Holly High School music teacher accused of having sex with two students was sentenced to jail Wednesday and barred from most unsupervised contact with minors. Ranee Sue Proper hugged supporters before facing Oakland Circuit Judge Edward Sosnick, who sentenced her to five years probation, with the first nine months of that in Oakland County Jail. The judge also ordered her to participate in sex offender treatment and not to have any unsupervised contact with minors under 18 other than her own children and relatives’ children.

OLD BRIDGE -- A drama teacher at Old Bridge High School pleaded guilty today to having a four-month sexual relationship with one of her students last year. Lisa Glide, 35, of Howell Township, tearfully admitted to Superior Court Judge Frederick De Vesa in New Brunswick that she had sexual relations with one of her male students twice. But under questioning by her attorney, Michael Nolan, she said neither time was on high school property. Glide pleaded guilty to fourth degree endangering the welfare of a child and faces up to 364 days in the Middlesex County jail when she is...

Paula Abdul maintains that she’s never been drunk, but she does admit that she can “get weird.” In the June issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, it’s revealed that Abdul had a condition, reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, that required aggressive pain management. She wore a patch that delivered a pain medication 80 times more potent than morphine, took a nerve medication, and sometimes took a muscle relaxer, according to LHJ. It was this combination that Abdul said caused her to “get weird,” at times. It’s been confirmed that all four “American Idol” judges will be back next year, but LHJ reports...

Residents Say They're Terrorized By Pit Bulls Posted: 6:16 pm EDT May 1, 2009Updated: 6:33 pm EDT May 1, 2009 SANFORD, Fla. -- Some Sanford homeowners say they're being terrorized by their neighbor's pit bulls. One of the dogs has already attacked a neighbor near Lily Court in Sanford. Eyewitness News has learned the dogs' owners are not keeping their fence secure. Some of the breaks in the fence are big enough for an adult to easily climb through. After many calls to animal control, neighbors say they want the fence fixed once and for all. "Chasing children, attacking children....

Pink announced recently that she and her estranged-husband Carey Hart are getting back together. And by "getting back together" I mean they're gonna put their wedding rings back on, live in the same house, but bang other people. Sweet! From the Chicago Sun Times: Turns out all that hoopla about breakup of the marriage of rocker Pink and her motorcross star hubby, Carey Hart, was a bit exaggerated. Seems the couple never got around to filing for divorce. Anyway, now they're back together, but have apparently worked out what the couple is calling an "open marriage" deal. According to a...

Megan Fox squeezes herself into a pair of denim hotpants in thrilling new Transformers 2 trailer By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 01st May 2009 As if watching giant robots fighting for control of the planet wasn't enough, producers have given film fans another reason to watch the new Transformers sequel - the sight of Megan Fox in hotpants. The stunning actress squeezes her curves into a tiny pair of denim shorts as she reprises her role as sexy biker Mikaela Banes in the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In the opening scenes of the latest trailer of the action movie,...

After failing to stop recent gay marriage approvals in several states, opponents have found an attractive, telegenic poster woman in Miss California, a move reminiscent of beauty queen Anita Bryant's 1970s crusade against gay rights. Miss California, a Christian college student named Carrie Prejean, joined in a television ad campaign against gay marriage this week, upsetting homosexual rights advocates, including a head of the Miss California pageant. In the commercial from the National Organization for Marriage, Prejean is shown at the Miss USA competition last month where she answered a question about same-sex marriage by saying she opposed it, drawing...

WEST PALM BEACH, FL-- A woman has been arrested and charged with stalking a teacher who was fired for working in a bikini. Felisha Nally has been arrested and charged with stalking Tiffany Shepherd. Shepherd gained national attention when she was fired from her teaching job at Port St. Lucie High School for working on a charter boat featuring bikini clad and topless women. The probable cause affidavit from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says Nally is the ex-girfriend of Shepherd's fiance. Officials say Nally posted information on MySpace that she would harm Shepherd by beating and shooting her....

<p>Reigning Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza caused more than a few jaws to drop when she described her recent tour of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as "a lot of fun" and a "relaxing, calm, beautiful place," Reuters reported Tuesday.</p> <p>"It was a loooot of fun!" Mendoza wrote of her time at the camp, a prison surrounded by barbed-wire fence and minefields. She wrote that she went to a bar on the naval base and visited the "unbelievable" beach, Reuters reported.</p>

Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist. Excerpt Full article HERE

An ancient Egyptian queen regarded as the Mona Lisa of the ancient world may not have been such a looker after all, German scientists said on Tuesday. A delicately carved face in the limestone core of the famous bust of Nefertiti suggests the royal sculptor at the time may have smoothed creases around the mouth and fixed a bumpy nose to depict the "Beauty of the Nile" in a better light. The bust of Nefertiti was found in Egypt in 1912 at Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived capital of Nefertiti's husband, the Pharaoh Akhenaten. It is now housed in Berlin's Altes...

Never mind Benjamin Netanyahu and Tzipi Livni. Israelis are chattering about the candidacy of Orly Levy, a 35-year-old former fashion model running for Parliament from the state's hard-right Israel Beitenu party. Local wags have made quick work of her thin résumé, and even Levy herself admits, "I have no political experience at all." Some Israelis are amused. "This would be like Paris Hilton going to the Senate," says filmmaker Etgar Keret. "You could make a reality show about this." A scary one: according to the latest polls, Levy's ultranationalist party is surging, and could win as many as 18 seats...

Crystal McCahill is set to make an appearance in Playboy magazine as Miss May 2009. But first, the Chicago area woman must appear before a Cook County judge in connection with a Jan. 7 DUI arrest. The 5-foot-7 brunette, who has also appeared on the E! Playboy reality show "The Girls Next Door," had a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit when she drove a 2005 Volkswagen Passat through a red light at West Chicago Avenue and North Wood Street, according to a Chicago Police report. McCahill, 25, told police, "I had three shots at Climax [nightclub],...

A CHINESE man who beheaded and hacked a Canadian bus passenger to pieces has been found not guilty of murder on mental grounds. Vince Weiguang Li, 40, who had been charged with murdering 22-year-old Tim McLean on a Canadian Greyhound bus on July 30, 2008, has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Li had repeatedly stabbed Mr McLean, who had been asleep on the seat next to him, sawn off his head, removed his internal organs, pocketed his nose, tongue and an ear, and taunted police and bystanders with the severed head. Police said in court documents Li "appeared to smell,...

Rachael Ray Doesn't Regret Racy Photo ShootMonday March 2, 2009 Photographed for FHM by www.cahanphotography.com Buzz up! Rachael Ray's mother was furious when she stripped down for a racy 2003 FHM photo shoot, but the 40-year-old talk show host has no regrets. "I think I was 35 at the time," she tells ABC's Nightline in an interview airing Monday. "And I thought about it for a while, and I said, 'You know what? This magazine has as young as 17-, 18-year-olds in hottie bikinis, and these are all actresses, models, pin-up girls. I don't belong to any even remote club...

Model who left student scarred for life in glassing attack is jailed for two years By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 27th February 2009 A glamorous model and air stewardess was jailed for two and a half years after she smashed a wine glass into a student's face, causing horrific injuries. [See URL pic] Lisa Kee threw red wine over Liam Sharratt before punching him and smashing the glass into his face. The attack was so severe that it slashed the PhD student's cheek open and left him with permanent scarring.

Danica Patrick is sizzling hot in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition 2009. This is Danica’s second appearance in SI Swimsuit and she’s hotter than ever. Danica can drive race cars and she can definitely wear a bikini!

A Former New Jersey beauty pageant contestant and her mother were two of three suspects arrested in a counterfeit money-making plot, MyFOXPhilly.com reported. Ashley Fuhrmeister, who was Miss North Wildwood in 2007, was arrested Friday and accused of using fake $50 bills at two stores, according to MyFOXPhilly.com. Police said that Fuhrmeister and her 44-year-old mother, Kelly A. Nowacky, made the phony cash.

Eight years after Hoop Magazine controversially airbrushed one of Iverson's tattoos for its cover shot, Sports Illustrated has airbrushed Indy Racing's biggest star. The victim? Patrick's American Flag tattoo on the small of her back.

Hungary's PM catches fainting spokeswoman In a display of gallantry not often seen in the world of politics, Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany came to the aid of government spokesperson Bernadett Budai when she fainted during a news conference on Sunday. Budai, 29, who was reportedly suffering from a bout of the flu, is shown in video footage of the conference attempting to walk off the stage. She appears disoriented however and proceeds to crash into the Prime Minister, before swaying and fainting in his arms. Gyurcsany, who nearly fell over himself when Budai collided with him, quickly regained his...

Miss Indiana crowned new Miss America The 22-year-old student battled laryngitis during competition week Dashing the dreams of 50 other beauty queens, 26-year-old Texan View photos from the competition. Sat., Jan. 24, 2009 In ball gowns, blue jeans and bikinis, 52 young women took to the stage Saturday to compete for the Miss America 2009 title. But only one beauty took the crown — Miss Indiana Katie Stam. While accepting her new position from host Mario Lopez and Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund of Michigan, Stam shared her glory with fellow contestants. “I’m gonna thank all these amazing girls behind...

Schoolgirls banned from lessons by headmaster for being 'too blonde' By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 22nd January 2009 A headteacher has come under fire from parents and pupils after banning two 16-year-olds from school for being 'too blonde'. Raegan Booth, 16, and Aby Western, 15, say they were threatened with expulsion by David Alexander unless they dyed their hair brown. The girls claim they are being forced to adhere to the strict dress code of Rednock School in Dursley, Gloucestershire, in order to sit GCSE exams. But Raegan remains adamant that her hair is a natural shade of blonde. Furious: Reagan...

A Northern Kentucky teacher is facing criminal charges after police say she sexually abused a student. Twenty-five-year-old Nicole Howell, of Covington, turned herself in to police Tuesday morning. Howell, a teacher from Dayton High School, is charged with one count of sexual abuse. Police say a student traveled to Covington to meet her. Investigators say the alleged relationship occurred between September 1 and November 1 of last year. Howell is out jail after posting a $5,000 bond. We will update this story as more information becomes available. Kentucky Post

 GAME 1: Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Giants. The Eagles cheerleaders are a plucky bunch with big plans. They have their own 2009 calendar, and each cheerleader has her own introductory video on their website. We like their multimedia approach.  GAME 1: Philadelphia Eagles vs. New York Giants. Eagles cheerleader Stephanie is a senior at the University of Delaware majoring in Nursing. This is her fourth year as an Eagles cheerleader. We like the stick-to-it-iveness that represents.       GAME 2: Arizona Cardinals vs. Carolina Panthers. Freshman Cardinals cheerleader Stephanie's favorite food is filet mignon, and she enjoys cooking,...

....Aside from exposing herself physically, Aniston also reveals her feelings toward on-again-off-again boyfriend, John Mayer. Aniston, who's been reserved about the relationship in the past, goes on rumor patrol and squashes some of the biggest in the GQ interview (On newsstands Dec. 23).

SAN DIEGO – The teenage son of former state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez and three friends, all from Sacramento, pleaded not guilty Thursday afternoon in San Diego Superior Court to charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Esteban Nuñez, Ryan Jett, Rafael Garcia and Leshanor Thomas are accused of stabbing to death a Mesa College student and injuring three others in a knife fight at San Diego State University on Oct. 4. Judge David Szumowski set bail Thursday at $2 million for Nuñez, Garcia and Thomas, who are all 19 years old. Bail was denied for Jett, 22,...

Winona Ryder — who was convicted of shoplifting more than $5000 worth of clothing and accessories from Beverly Hills' Saks Fifth Avenue in 2002 — is in the middle of yet another accessories crisis. Winona rocked a Bulgari diamond bracelet and ring worth more than $125,000 at the Marie Claire awards in Madrid last week. The problem is, the jewels were on loan — and Winona's set was not returned, according to Voici, a French celebrity gossip magazine. Winona said she put the jewelry in an envelope and handed it to the front desk at the hotel before she flew...

..and now for something completely different..OK, I'm tired of all the woe is me vanities, so I'm posting a thread for fun. Who do you think are the hottest female rockers (rock, not pop), not just in appearance or voice (IMHO, vocals are key here). Have At It!

Bossier City, LA (AHN) - Miss Teen Louisiana was dethroned 10 days early after pot was found in her pocketbook that she left behind when she left a restaurant without paying her bill.Lindsey Evans, and her friends, skipped out on a dinner bill of $46 at Posado's Restaurant in Shreveport. When the 18-year-old went back to the restaurant to pick up her purse police were waiting for her. Evans was charged with possession of 2 grams of suspected marijuana and theft. Pageant officials have asked the teen to return her crown and sash but say she can keep her other...

Somehow, a 22-year-old University of Alaska student named Richard Millay got his hands on a videotape that's eluded the media since John McCain asked Sarah Palin to be his running-mate — original footage of her 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant. Of course, this is all very frivolous and has nothing to do with the current campaign. But like Barack Obama's high school basketball footage, it's a little glimpse into the early life of a highly-visible national figure. In the first part added to YouTube, he posted the portion from the swimsuit competition, prefaced by a brief introduction mentioning the demand for...

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,...

What happens when you cross Karen Bass, the L.A. Democrat who leads the Assembly? Nicole Parra, the lone Assembly Democrat to refuse to vote for her party's spending plan, on Sunday shared the answer as her staff packed for a sudden banishment move to a small office across the street from the state Capitol, Nancy Vogel reports. (That's Parra in the photo at right.) Bass ordered Assemblywoman Nicole Parra of Hanford out of her fifth-floor Capitol office and into an office building across the street where legislative staffers work. “They wanted us to have everything packed up by 4 p.m.,”...

HOUMA, LA (WAFB) - Houma police officers and Terrebonne Parish sheriff's deputies say an attractive woman named Patches has been arrested after her "calogne samples" made at least two men pass out. One of the incidents prompted a statewide alert to Louisiana law enforcement agencies. The first complaint happened in early June. Police say an 18-year-old man says he was leaving a Houma restaurant at lunchtime when he was approached by a woman who said she was selling cologne. Police say the woman asked the victim is he was interested in buying some cologne she was selling. "The suspect produced...

TAMPA - The ankle monitor has come off. Schoolteacher-turned-sex-offender Debra Lafave no longer will have to provide Florida Department of Corrections officials her daily schedule, and they no longer will keep minute-by-minute track of her whereabouts. With Lafave having served more than 2 1/2 years of a three-year house-arrest sentence, a judge commuted the final five months to probation. She will remain on probation for seven years. Probation officials were to remove Lafave's electronic ankle monitor at their Plant City office this morning, said DOC spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger. Shortly before 10 a.m., officials in Plant City said Lafave already had...

Forty-two-year-old Janelle Batkins of Harrison Township pleaded Thursday to two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct in Macomb County Circuit Court. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated as such for sentencing.

French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been compared to Marie Antoinette by one of the country's most influential political journals. According to Marianne, the country is sick and tired of the 40-year-old's repeated preening and showing off for the world's media, which has intensified in recent weeks as the former model-turned-pop-star prepares to release her third album of songs. This is followed by everything from nude pictures of Bruni - released by Christie's auction house on the eve of her state visit to Britain - to intimate interviews in which she talks about her chequered love life and her Left-wing...

An airline pilot and flight attendant who ventured into a wooded area, apparently to have sex last month in Lower Swatara Township,each pleaded guilty this afternoon to disorderly conduct. Jeffrey Paul Bradford, 24, of Moon Twp., a Pittsburgh suburb, and Adrianna Grace Connor, 24, of Belleville, Mich., each paid a $300 fine for the summary offense. Saying they didn't have enough evidence, prosecutors withdrew charges of indecent exposure, open lewdness, public drunkenness, loitering and prowling at night against Bradford, and theft from a motor vehicle, public drunkenness, and loitering and prowling at night against Connor.

A Bollywood starlet who made her name going beyond the call of duty in Who Dares Wins, an Australian TV stunt show, has been accused of having sex with soldiers while on a tour to entertain troops in Afghanistan. Tania Zaetta (above) was named in a confidential briefing paper to Australia’s Defence Minister as having slept with special forces soldiers last month at a military base in Tarin Kowt, the capital of Oruzgan province. Pictures and a video were said to have been taken. But Australia’s military was in retreat last night, admitting that it broke its privacy regulations by...

PHILADELPHIA — A young beauty set to plead guilty to identity theft after a year of lavish globe-trotting hasn't changed her ways, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, stole and used an acquaintance's credit card in California, where she has been living while awaiting her federal plea, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lou Lappen told a judge. A tense-seeming Kirsch, wearing a gray University of Pennsylvania sweat shirt, was taken into custody Wednesday and appeared in court in handcuffs for a bail hearing. A judge put her on house arrest, with electronic monitoring, pending her expected guilty plea next week. •...

It is not the sort of appointment Gordon Brown would make to his cabinet. But then Mr Brown is no Silvio Berlusconi, playboy and man of ostentatious political gestures. The Italian prime minister, long known for his fondness for pretty women, has named former topless model and beauty queen Mara Carfagna as equal opportunities minister in his new cabinet. Miss Carfagna, 33, turned to politics after a career on TV following her sixth-place finish in the 1997 Miss Italy contest. She has also posed topless and semi-naked for photoshoots but has always underlined her family values and stressed none of...