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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.

THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS Orders Pronounced May 7, 2020 MISCELLANEOUS RELATOR IS ORDERED RELEASED IN THE FOLLOWING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDING: 20-0363 IN RE SHELLEY LUTHER; from Dallas County relator's motion for emergency relief granted response requested due by 4:00 p.m., May 11, 2020 [Note: The petition for writ of habeas corpus remains pending before this Court.]

A hairdresser has been jailed for life after deliberately infecting at least five men with HIV. In the first conviction of its kind in the UK, sadistic Daryll Rowe, 27, was found guilty of unleashing the “cynical campaign” to infect as many men as possible – targeting them through dating apps including Grindr. The sick plot was in “revenge” after he was diagnosed with the potentially killer disease, with the man today jailed for a minimum of 10 years and 253 days. Police had alleged that Rowe, who consistently denied having HIV, had refused treatment. A court previously heard during...

A hairdresser went on trial in Norway on Thursday for refusing a Muslim client wearing a hijab, in the first case in the country to go to court over the Islamic head covering. Merete Hodne risks up to six months in prison for religious discrimination for turning Malika Bayan away from her hair salon in Bryne, a small town in southwestern Norway, in October last year. […] The 47-year-old hairdresser told the court she saw the hijab as a political symbol representing an ideology that frightens her, rather than as a religious symbol. “I see it as a totalitarian symbol....

Just heard from a source who quoted his source in a good position to know that it will be Rice named as VP choice for GOP. For what it's worth.

A London hairdresser, who used a photo of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to attract customers having a “bad hair day”, was visited by embassy officials who demanded its removal because it was "disrespectful" to their supreme leader. Mo Nabbach, the manager of M&M Hair Academy in South Ealing, had to call in police after the two North Korean agents took photographs of his shop window and made notes. Beneath a picture of Kim Jong-un, the advert said: “Bad hair day? 15 percent off all gent cuts through the month of April. Tuesday–Thursday.” The diplomats, who are based at the...

EU to ban hairdressers from wearing high-heeled shoes or jewellery Daily Mail April 11, 201212:00AM hairdressers in Europe. Photo: Joel Christie Source: National Features Hairdressers will be banned from wearing high heels and jewellery under proposals being drawn up in Brussels. A health and safety directive orders stylists to wear ‘non-slip soles’ when they are cutting hair and bans wedding rings and watches as unhygienic. The plans will see hairdressers told not to let staff do too many haircuts in one day to prevent ‘emotional collapses’. And the bizarre rules will tell salon workers to have a regular ‘social dialogue’...

Former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has been engaged in a lengthy divorce case with soon-to-be ex-wife Jamie McCourt for quite some time. Now, the pair find themselves back in court, as TMZ reports that the embattled former owner is being sued for failing to pay the couple's hairdresser. According to court documents, David Mackey claims that the McCourts put him on a $300-a-day retainer to be their full-time hairdresser, regardless of whether he cut their hair or not.

A Washington County hairstylist who claims she didn't know a .38-caliber handgun was a "deadly weapon" will spend five to 20 years in prison for shooting a dissatisfied client in the lower back. Forty-year-old Monique Reed, of Washington, was convicted in May on aggravated assault and other charges in the March 6, 2008, shooting of 28-year-old Lauren Newton. Police say Ms. Reed shot Ms. Newton when she scuffled with the customer and her sister about a hair weave Ms. Reed did for Ms. Newton. Ms. Newton has recovered from her wound.

30 December 2009 "BEWARE THE ONE-HANDED, THREE-FINGERED HAIRDRESSER..." SNIPPET: "Close-up of a document currently being circulated among beauty salon supply businesses in the greater Detroit area:"

...Friedman's departure left outgoing Houston Mayor Bill White and hair-care millionaire Farouk Shami as the two main contenders for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and lessened the chances of the race going to a runoff. While it does not clear the field for White, it gives him the advantage over a less-known and less experienced opponent. White has a track record in office and proof he can win elections. Shami says he will spend $10 million of his own money to win the nomination with his rags-to-riches life story, but he still will have to answer the ultimate question: Is Texas...

The customer has always been listed in the salon’s appointment book as “Sarah P.” “We would talk about pedicures and manicures and moose and politics, all while Sarah was having foils in her hair and holding my baby on her lap,” said Jessica J. Steele, the owner of the Beehive Beauty Shop in Wasilla, Alaska, where Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, has visited over the last six years ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Umm Doha cuts hair and waxes eyebrows in secret from her living room because making women look pretty can get a person killed in her Sunni-dominated Baghdad neighborhood. Hardline Muslim extremists who believe it is sinful for women to appear beautiful in public have forced many beauticians to move their trade underground. Sunni and Shiite militants began blowing up salons roughly two years ago. They killed several stylists and bullied others into putting down their scissors and makeup brushes for good, all in an effort to stamp out what they view as the corrupting spread of...

Husband beats wife to death for defying 'orders' By Samir Salama, Bureau Chief Abu Dhabi: A man beat his wife to death because he says she "disobeyed his orders and looked out of the balcony", a police source said. The incident occurred at midnight on Friday. The Syrian man has been arrested and charged with the 20-year-old woman's murder. The man, a hairdresser, was returning home from his shop at around 10.30pm, when he saw his second wife, also Syrian, looking out of the balcony of his flat on the first floor. He got angry, rushed to his flat and...

3 are slain in Belleville beauty salon By Doug Moore and Robert Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch 03/02/2005 Authorities were working both sides of the Mississippi River late Wednesday night in their search for a killer who stabbed a popular Belleville hairdresser and two of his customers earlier in the day. A customer who showed up at the salon just after 11 a.m. Wednesday found the bodies of salon owner Michael J. Cooney, 62, and sisters Dorothy E. Bone, 82, and Doris J. Fischer, 79. Police believe Cooney knew the killer, who fled in Cooney's sport utility vehicle. Authorities were seeking...

Ahmed Resain has his back to the door, so he does not see the gunman alight from a car outside his rudimentary Al Pasha hairdressing salon, in Baghdad's dusty Al-Salam quarter. The assailant strides deliberately into the shop and coldly turns to face Ahmed. He presses a pistol to the stunned barber's lower lip, carefully angling the weapon to ensure that the bullet exits through his left jaw. Ahmed, 37, is still standing - but three shots to his legs as the gunman makes his getaway drop him to the floor in a pool of his own blood. His survival...

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

It is a time of crisis - with America at war and hurricanes at the door - and the Democratic Candidate for the President of the United States feels his fingers twitch nervously. It is time to make the call. The well-manicured hand smacks down upon the phone, heavy with decision. Now is not the time for waffling; now is the time for resolve. He dials, knowing the world hangs in balance... "Get me Christophe! CHRISTOPHE!?! Tell Isabelle to come quickly - it is the HAIR! Oh god oh god oh god oh god my HAIR!" Yes, indeed, when it...

Homosexual/Catholic/Republican/Pro-Life Couple hire Surrogate Mother, Abort 1 Child, Baptize 4 in Catholic Church   Michael Meehan and Thomas Dysarz are part of a nontraditional family that includes three adults and eight children, among them a set of quadruplets.(ABCNEWS.com) A Different Arithmetic Pioneering Parents Raise New Questions About What Defines a Family Feb. 5 — In Lexington, Ky., there's a family that consists of eight children, three adults, and every conventional notion of family turned upside down.                                       There's one dad, Thomas...