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London: The saying love is blind really did turn out to be true for 16-year-old Jessica Anderson, for she’s getting set to exchange wedding vows with her 50-year-old boyfriend Clive Richards. Richards, a grey-haired father of two, left his third wife Julia for deputy head girl Anderson six months ago. Anderson, a schoolgirl, set up house with Richards, a teacher, and is waiting to become his fourth wife, in September next year, when she turns 18. More offbeat stories | Science updates “Despite common predictions we’re still together and very happy,” the Sun quoted him as saying. “I am frustrated...

Everyone knows that Lindsay Lohan has a little sister Ali, but OK! can now exclusively reveal that there is yet another, secret sister — that even they have never previously known existed!

A female special education teacher and sponsor of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes club at a middle school in Alabama has been charged with having sex with at least eight high school students between the ages of 15 and 19. Julie Pritchett, 34, is facing two counts of second-degree sodomy and one count of second-degree sexual abuse of two boys younger than 16 years old, the Birmingham News reported. The incidents allegedly took place between February and April. Pritchett is not facing additional charges for having sex with the other six boys because the remaining incidents involved students who are...

Britney Spears' 17-year-old sister Jamie Lynn, star of Nickelodeon's popular TV show "Zoey 101," has given birth to a baby girl, People magazine reported on Thursday. Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to Maddie Briann on Thursday morning at a hospital in Mississippi, the magazine said. A high school student who lives in Louisiana, Jamie Lynn Spears reportedly met the father, Casey Aldridge, the son of a Tennessee paper mill worker, at church. The couple are engaged, People magazine said. ...

Just days after photos emerged of Lindsay Lohan kissing her deejay gal pal, Samantha Ronson, rumor now has it that there's a lot more to the smooch - a wedding in fact. Whether for real or for show, there's talk that the troubled 21-year-old actress is engaged to Ronson, 30, who's openly gay, and has been Lohan's inseparable sidekick for more than a year. But let's not start calling them the "Rohan Clan" just yet.

<p>TAMPA, Fla. -- Documents obtained by a Tampa television station reveal many new details in the case against a school teacher accused of having sex with multiple teenage students.</p> <p>Stephanie Ragusa, 29, had sexual relationships with four underage boys, investigators said. In the past two months, Ragusa has been arrested and charged three times in connection to two of the cases, Tampa Bay FOX affiliate WTVT reported.</p>

NORTH WALES, Pa. - May 1, 2008 (WPVI) -- A teacher's aide from North Wales finds herself at the center of a scandal. Michele Zulkowsky, 28, was arrested for allegedly carrying on an inappropriate relationship with a 10th grade boy at her school. Zulkowsky is a teacher's aide at North Penn High School in Lansdale, Montgomery County. She is charged with corruption of a minor and endangering the welfare of children.

PORT ST. LUCIE — Tiffany Shepherd, a biology teacher at Port St. Lucie High School, learned last week that she will not be asked to return when school starts next year, nor will she finish this school year. Shepherd doesn't think it's her teaching skills that the St. Lucie County School District found objectionable but, rather, her after-school job as a bikini mate aboard Smokin' Em Charters fishing tours.

A former Florida teacher already arrested twice for allegedly having sex with two of her students has reportedly scored a hat trick, after police say she again had sex with a previous victim. Stephanie Ragusa, 29, of Tampa was taken into custody yesterday shortly after Hillsborough County detectives saw her exiting the home of the 16-year old boy. It's Ragusa's third arrest since last month on similar sex charges. "She's in need of help," sheriff's Lt. Fred Asteasuainzarra told the Tampa Tribune. Her arrest affidavit indicates she drove to the boy's home in her boyfriend's pickup, saying she wanted to...

Those deep thinkers known as the neoconservatives like to make comparisons between the so-called "war on terror" and World War II. Very well then, here's a comparison. Six years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adolf Hitler had already been dead and gone for 2 1/2 years. By that time, the United States had raised and trained a military of 16 million. By Dec. 7, 1947, much of that force had been disbanded because the enemy had been so thoroughly defeated. But today, six years after the in cident that began the war on terror, Osama bin Laden is alive...

Pop star Ashlee Simpson has apparently agreed to model for lingerie company Victoria's Secret just days after turning down an offer from Playboy. The singer will reportedly be the face of the company's new girly line, known as 'Pink'. According to Gatecrasher, Simpson beat Kelly Clarkson to get the job. Previously Simpson was adamant that her body would remain private, despite an offer of $4 million (£2.2 million) to pose in Playboy. Speaking to PageSix, she declared: "My body is for me and for whoever my love interest is at that moment, and that's the only person who gets to...