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The attractive new substitute teacher at Strongsville High School proposed a novel incentive to her class of special-education students: Improve your grades and win a dinner date with the teacher. No one says the contest was fixed, but the winner was the 17-year-old captain of the football team, Steven Bradigan. Dinner at the Dairy Queen was nothing special, but what happened afterwards was enough to melt his ice cream. In the car in the parking lot at Westfield SouthPark mall, Bradigan said the 36-year-old teacher, Christine Scarlett, wrapped her arms around him and tried to kiss him. "I said, 'Whoa!'...

The television show "Entertainment Tonight" has won the rights to the planned May wedding of Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade pupil Vili Fualaau, the father of her two youngest children. ET and its sister show, "The Insider," planned to begin offering the first in a series of interviews with the couple Thursday. The date and location of the wedding have not yet been disclosed. Letourneau, 43, served 7 1/2 years in prison after she was convicted of raping Fualaau, 22. She was released last August. The couple first met when he was in second grade. Their relationship became...

Once-forbidden lovers Mary Kay Letourneau and her former sixth-grade student Vili Fualaau sound like any soon-to-be newlyweds as they prepare for their nuptials. The former Washington state teacher is already bubbling about her dress: "It's perfect for my body. It has just the right lines and is simple." At 22, he's thinking more about what kind of work he'll need to support his ex-jailbird 42-year-old fiancée and their two kids: "Something in graphic designs, industrials, maybe design houses." The pair spill their guts on segments of TV's "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" starting Thursday.