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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. - A high school teacher recently charged with having a sexual relationship with a student was found dead Wednesday morning, along with her husband, in an apparent murder-suicide, according to Huntersville police. Officers were called around 8 a.m. to the home of 63-year-old Garinger High School teacher Emma Ogle, who last week was arrested after being accused of having sex with a student. [ALSO READ: Garinger HS teacher, 63, accused of having sex with student] Detectives said Emma Ogle's husband, 59-year-old Michael Ogle, did not show up for work Wednesday morning and a relative went to the home...

Science has confirmed what women have known for years - men really do look at women's bodies more than their faces. But a study published in the journal Sex Roles shows that women are just as guilty of staring at other women's bodies more than their faces. The US study took 29 women and 36 men who were fitted an eye-tracking system which measures how many milliseconds the eyes remain on a certain spot. Photographs of 10 women were shown, each with three digitally altered body shapes - curvaceous, much less curvaceous and in-between.

OGLE COUNTY (WREX) - Illinois is the last state to adopt some kind of concealed carry law. People in Ogle County will have a chance to voice their opinion, again, on the matter very soon. Ogle will join several other Illinois counties this spring and vote on whether people should be able to carry a weapon. "Actually it started a few months ago when people started circulating a petition to put this question on the ballot," said Jim Barnes, Chairman of the Ogle County Board. Nearly a thousand people signed that petition. After the County Board reviewed it, members voted...

Astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets. “It looks like a scale model of our solar system,” said Scott Gaudi, an assistant professor of astronomy at Ohio State University. Dr. Gaudi led an international team of 69 professional and amateur astronomers who announced the discovery in a news conference with reporters. Their results are being published Friday in the journal Science. The discovery, they said, means...

(Camden) February 20, 2007 - A Camden minister charged with cyber sex crimes is waiting for an extradition hearing. The minister, 42-year-old Kevin Ogle, is accused of sending graphic pictures of himself over the internet to a teen girl. The people he preached to on Sunday held a meeting about his arrest. A man of God, he's now arrested and charged with cyber sex crimes. Kevin Ogle, 42, is accused of soliciting sex over the internet. Officers say he thought he was chatting with a 14-year-old girl, and instead it was an officer in Georgia. Deacon Mike Clifton tells WIS,...

Astronomers announced today the discovery of a frigid extrasolar planet several times larger than Earth orbiting a small red dwarf star roughly 9,000 light years away. The finding alters astronomers' perceptions of planetary system formation and the distribution of planets in the galaxy, suggesting that large rock-ice worlds might outnumber gas giants like Jupiter. The newfound planet is about 13 times more massive than Earth and likely has an icy and rocky but barren terrestrial surface, and it is one of the coldest planets ever discovered outside of our solar system. It orbits 250 million miles away from a red...