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Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, wife of California treasurer, acknowledges substance abuse, affair (Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer at a public event in San Leandro, Calif., April 22, 2011.) Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, wife of California Treasurer Bill Lockyer, said Tuesday that she's in rehabilitation for a substance-abuse problem after an extramarital affair culminated in a beating by her ex-lover. The announcement marked a sharp turn in the career of a woman who at 40 had been seen as a rising star in California politics. The scandal is also an ugly footnote on her husband's nearly four-decade-long career, which made him...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We're finally hearing from the woman at the center of the child pornography case against former KGO Radio host Bernie Ward. Until now, you haven't seen her face and didn't know much about her except that she went by the screen name "Sexfairy" and called police when Ward sent her child porn. Please note: Understand that before reading this story or watching the interview that the topic is graphic and may be disturbing to some.

Danielle Woodwyk says her pagan faith is about love, but worries others may draw darker conclusions from a criminal-sexual conduct case police say involved paganism. The Kentwood mother says nothing in her religion condones the sexual relationship and pagan marriage that authorities say teacher Elizabeth Miklosovic, 36, had with a 14-year-old former student. "We support bonds of love, whatever you feel is right for you, but you have laws to abide by," said Woodwyk, 24. Other members of West Michigan's small pagan community also condemned Miklosovic's alleged use of a pagan ceremony to initiate the abuse. "Paganism strives for responsibility,"...

MANATEE COUNTY (Fla.) -- For a decade, Donna Scott's blindness has not deterred her from collecting donations for the Salvation Army each Christmas season. The reliable bell ringer who plays a keyboard to attract donations believes wholeheartedly in helping the less fortunate. Yet this week, a petty thief took advantage of Scott's lack of sight and her charitable heart. Knowing she couldn't identify him, the thief snatched Scott's donation kettle outside a busy Bradenton shopping plaza and casually walked away. "It's a sad thing at Christmas time that somebody would take money from the Salvation Army," said Lt. Col. William...

LISBON (AFP) - Seven suspects, including a popular TV star and a retired diplomat, arrived at a Portuguese court at the start of a high profile trial over the sexual abuse of minors at state-run children's homes. The hearing, in Lisbon's Boa Hora tribunal, is the first major paedophile case of its kind in Portugal and got underway amid tight security. As the suspects entered the court, a horde of journalists and onlookers crowded in, while an association acting in defence of children handed out leaflets calling for justice. The public will be able to sit in on the first...