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John Edwards Sex Tape Worth "Gigantic Amounts of Money," Says Former Aide

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RALEIGH, N.C. (CBS/AP) What's a sex tape allegedly featuring John Edwards and his mistress Rielle Hunter worth? "Gigantic amounts of money," according to former Edwards aide Andrew Young who says he's rejected offers to release the video.

Photo: John Edwards, Rielle Hunter.

Young claimed in a book released last week that he found the tape in a box left in a home he and his wife had shared with Edwards' mistress, videographer Rielle Hunter.

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Aja Daniell Johnson: Missing 7 Days and Counting, Okla. Cops offering $20,000 Reward

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OKLAHOMA CITY (CBS/AP) Aja Daniell Johnson has been missing for over seven days, after allegedly being abducted by her mother's husband, Lester Hobbs, and now the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and the US Marshal's Service in Oklahoma are offering a $20,000 reward for her return and for the capture of her abductor.

Photo: Aja Daniell Johnson, 7, reported missing Jan. 24.

Aja's mother, Tonya Hobbs, was found beaten to death in her RV Jan. 24 in Geronimo, about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City. She was there with her two daughters, Aja and her older half-sister Kressa, visiting her estranged husband. Relatives got worried when they hadn't seen Tonya Hobbs and Aja for a couple days. They broke into the RV and found Tonya dead and Aja missing.

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Morgan Harrington's Mother Mourns Murdered Daughter's "Lovely Bones"

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NEW YORK (CBS) Morgan Harrington's mother referred to her murdered daughter's "lovely bones" at a press conference last week, a day after her daughter's skeletal remains were found in a hayfield outside of Charlottesville, Va.

Photo: Morgan Harrington.

Gil Harrington repeated the sentiment in an interview with the Today Show, when she said that she has looked at pictures of Morgan from pre-natal sonograms to photos of her remains and saw "lovely bones, a lovely girl."

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Michael Douglas Bails Out Drug-Dealing Son Cameron Douglas

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NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Oscar winning actor Michael Douglas showed up in federal court Friday to support his son Cameron Douglas, 31, who pleaded guilty last week to dealing large quantities of meth and cocaine.

Photo: Michael Douglas leaves Manhattan Federal court, Jan. 29, 2010 in New York.

Michael Douglas appeared in a Manhattan courtroom to sign paperwork so his son could get out on bail, according to the NY Daily News.

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Baptist "Human Trafficking" Update: Some Haitian Children Weren't Orphans

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CBS/AP) As a group of American Baptist charity workers waits to hear if they will be tried on child trafficking charges for attempting to take 33 children out of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Associated Press has learned that not all of the children they were transporting were orphans.

Photo: Infant who was amongst group that Baptists wanted to move to Haiti is seen at SOS Children's Villages.

"One (8-year-old) girl was crying, and saying, 'I am not an orphan. I still have my parents.' And she thought she was going on a summer camp or a boarding school or something like that," George Willeit, a spokesman for SOS Children's Villages, said. SOS, an Austrian-based charity working in Haiti, now has custody of the children.

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Rip Torn Fully Loaded: "Men in Black" Star Broke Into Bank Drunk with Loaded Gun, Say Conn. Cops

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LITCHFIELD, Conn. (CBS/AP) Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has a date with a Connecticut judge Monday as he faces allegations that he broke into a bank with a loaded gun while drunk.

Photo: Rip Torn's 2006 drunk driving mug shot.

State police say the 78-year-old "Men in Black" star was arrested Friday night after authorities found him inside the Litchfield Bancorp in Salisbury with a loaded revolver.

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"Geezer Bandit" Hits 6 Banks in 6 Months, Pretty Good for an Old Man

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SAN DIEGO (CBS) They call him the "Geezer Bandit' and he is shattering senior stereotypes and giving the FBI a run for their money - literally.

The FBI has released surveillance images of the elderly robber who has apparently hit six banks in six months in the San Diego area.

The most recent heist took place Wednesday at the San Diego National Bank in the Point Loma area. The tellers described the suspect as a white male, 60-70 years old.

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Morgan Harrington Mourned by Metallica: Band "Profoundly Saddened" by Va. Tech Student's Death

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RICHMOND, Va. (CBS/AP) To Metallica, Morgan Harrington was a fan gone too soon.

Photo: Morgan Harrington.

PICTURES: Morgan Harrington Missing

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Haiti Post-Quake Rape Fears Rise; Threat High After Earthquake Prison Break

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CBS) Already vulnerable Haitian women and girls who survived the devastating earthquake are being harassed and raped in the makeshift camps that have sprung up all over the capital of Port-Au-Prince - possibly by some of the prisoners who escaped the National Penitentiary after it collapsed.

Photo: A young Haitian girl waits for supplies after the devastating earthquake Jan. 12.

Haiti's national police chief, Mario Andresol, told the London Times more than 7,000 prisoners have escaped the prison since the quake on Jan. 12.

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Abraham Shakespeare's Body Positively Identified; Lottery Winner Dead

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PLANT CITY, Fla. (CBS/AP) The family of Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare has probably been dreading this day since they reported him missing last November.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's office confirmed Friday that remains found a day earlier were those of Shakespeare. Police used fingerprints to identify the 43-year-old truck driver's assistant who won a $31 million lottery jackpot in 2006.

The body was found in Plant City, about 25 miles northeast of Tampa, at a home connected to Dorice Moore, a woman who had befriended him and now lives in the $1 million home he bought with his winnings.

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