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A Bible school teacher is facing up to five years in jail after being accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Heather Daughdrill, 28, of Westlake, Louisiana, is alleged to have begun the affair with the teen after meeting him at a summer Bible school camp. She is alleged to have checked the boy out of school without parental permission and taken him to her home where they had sex. Investigators discovered several sexually explicit text messages that had been sent by Daughdrill to the boy. The alleged relationship went on from June until October of this year. Daughdrill,...

Socialite Ivana Trump had to be escorted off a plane after launching a foul-mouthed tirade at noisy children. The former wife of billionaire property mogul Donald Trump started screaming the F-word as several excited youngsters ran up and down the first-class aisle. The grandmother of one became even angrier as flight attendants tried to calm her down, allegedly rushing towards the cockpit. When the pilot asked her to leave the New York-bound flight before take-off, the hysterical Miss Trump refused to budge. The former Olympic skier and model, 60 - who split from her much younger fourth husband this month...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Meet Paris Hilton, grown-up. "Before, my life was about having fun, going to parties," says Paris Hilton. She says she's changed. The 26-year-old socialite has vowed to change her party-girl image after serving a 23-day jail sentence in June for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. "There are a lot of bad people in L.A. Before, my life was about having fun, going to parties -- it was a fantasy," she tells Newsweek magazine in its October 22 issue, now on newsstands. "But when I had time to reflect, I felt empty inside. I...

Paris Hilton is calling on her fans to help her stay out of jail - by endorsing an online petition they can sign. The desperate socialite, who was sentenced to serve 45 days in jail last week after violating terms of her 2006 drink-driving arrest, has teamed up with a pal called Joshua to urge fans to help her. In a post on her MySpace blog, Hilton, who is also asking California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her, writes, "My friend Joshua started this petition. Please help and sign it. I love you all!" The petition, which is addressed to...