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BERLIN (CBS/AP) A German man has been sentenced to two years in jail for trying to extort $100,000 from supermodel Cindy Crawford.

Edis Kayalar, 26, obtained a photo of Crawford's 7-year-old daughter gagged and bound to a chair, a photo her nanny took as a joke during a game of "cops and robbers."

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BURBANK, Calif. (CBS/AP) Amy Beck, a teacher at David Starr Jordan Middle School, surrendered to the Burbank Police Department on Monday for allegedly having sex with one of her students. The sexual encounters allegedly occurred over a period of several months.

The 33-year-old English and social science teacher was booked on suspicion of lewd or lascivious acts with a child of 14 or 15 years and was held on $400,000 bail, Burbank police Sgt. Robert Quesada said to CBS affiliate KCAL.

"She said she had sexual relations with one of her students," Quesada said.

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NEW ORLEANS (CBS/AP) The body of missing Texas oil executive Doug Schantz was found in the Mississippi River Tuesday, officials said.

Schantz planned to meet his daughter at the New Orleans airport for an early flight back to Houston on March 5, but never showed up.

PICTURES: Douglas Schantz

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) She's an American convert to Islam, who allegedly called herself Jihad Jane online. And authorities say Pennsylvania woman Colleen LaRose expressed a willingness to become a martyr on behalf of all Muslims.

A federal indictment says the 46-year-old used the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas - and that she even agreed to move to Europe to try to kill a Swede. An official says she had targeted a Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed with the body of a dog.

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INTRODUCTION
Lancaster County, Pa., July 25, 2008

Michael Roseboro, a funeral director and father of four, claims he found his wife, Jan, drowned in the family swimming pool.

But after an autopsy shows she was beaten and strangled, police get a tip that Michael has been carrying on an affair with a woman named Angela Funk.

They bring the mistress in for questioning, and tell her some surprising news.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (CBS/AP) Kathy Taft, a longtime member of North Carolina's state school board, has died from the injuries she suffered in a weekend assault.

Her family said in a statement issued by WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh that Taft was attacked Saturday while staying at the Raleigh home of her boyfriend, who was in Florida at the time.

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HICKORY, N.C. (CBS/AP) A North Carolina man has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman and carving the word "mine" into her stomach.

Alan Campbell, a 41-year-old man from Hickory, allegedly tied up the woman, used a box cutter to carve the word "mine" on her stomach, and cut her in the face, throat, chest, stomach and legs, said CBS affiliate WBTV.

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NEW YORK (CBS/AP) When a congressman resigns under the cloud of a sexual harassment investigation, one might assume that the reason for his departure was, say, the aforementioned sexual harassment investigation cloud.

Not so, says New York Democratic Congressman Eric Massa. He resigned on Tuesday, but has said it was in fact related to his recent push against health care reform.

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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (CBS/AP) Amber Hanley, a 21-year-old college student who met NFL star Ben Roethlisberger in a Georgia bar, says the Steeelers quarterback wanted more than a just a cute photo with the young co-ed, but she just rolled her eyes and moved on, earning a tongue lashing from Big Ben.

Later, she says, Roethlisberger was hitting hard on another girl.

Illegal, poor taste or just drunk fun?

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NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Lindsay Lohan, apparently also known as "milkaholic Lindsay," has filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming a television ad for the Wall Street firm "E-trade" that aired during the Super Bowl and Olympics was modeled after her.

Talking babies in the ad engage in chatter that refers to "milkaholic Lindsay."

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