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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - The Tiger Woods scandal which began with a Nov. 27 car crash, but quickly took on a life of its own including a police investigation and a slew of mistress claims, may finally get some clarity this afternoon, as Rachel Uchitel, the first woman alleged to have had an affair with Woods plans to hold a 11:30 a.m. PST news conference in Los Angeles.

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WASHINGTON - According to a poll conducted by the Associated Press & MTV, there is a good chance your teenager has sent or received a sexually explicit or nude picture over a text message.

"Sexting" — sharing sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online — is fairly commonplace among young people. More than a quarter of young people have been involved in sexting in some form, according to an Associated Press-MTV poll, despite sometimes grim consequences for those who do it.

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NEW YORK - Despite avoiding criminal charges after running over a fire hydrant and kissing a tree with his SUV, Tiger Woods has not been able to stop the flow of rumors about his alleged extra-marital affairs, which now allegedly include nightclub promoter Rachel Uchitel, Los Angeles cocktail waitress Jaimee Grubbs, and Las Vegas club manager Kalika Moquin.

Now, as Uchitel firmly denies any involvement with Woods, Grubbs proudly promotes what she claims are sexy texts from the king of swing, and Moquin coyly refuses comment, Woods has issued a statement in which he says he has let his family down and regrets "transgressions."

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ORLANDO, Fla. - Tiger Woods has successfully skirted one trap. The $100 million man must pay $165 to settle a careless driving citation, the less-than-dramatic conclusion of a Florida Highway Patrol investigation into the Nov. 27 SUV crash outside Woods' Florida home.

Maj. Cindy Williams of the Florida Highway Patrol made the announcement during a press conference Tuesday Dec. 1, 2009.

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ORLANDO, Fla. - Regardless of what caused the yet-to-be-explained Tiger Woods car accident on Friday Nov. 27, the swing king's wife, Elin Nordegren, came to his rescue and asked two next door neighbors to call 911 after the 2:25 am crash, an attorney for the neighbors said Tuesday.

Linda Adams and her two adult sons went outside their home in the exclusive gated community of Isleworth, Fla., after hearing the crash and found Nordegren kneeling beside her husband, upset about his injuries.

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NEW YORK - Rachel Uchitel has been adamant that she is not having an affair with Tiger Woods, the golf great whose strange Nov. 27 car accident still remains a mystery despite an ongoing and frustrated police investigation.

But the 34-year-old New York nightclub hostess' love life has been in the spotlight before, for radically different reasons.

Uchitel first gained attention in the wake of September 11, when she lost her fiancé, Andy O'Grady, in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

Her grief stricken photo appeared in the New York Post as she clutched her fiancé's picture.

CBS affiliate WCBS-TV spoke with her a year after the 9/11 attacks at Ground Zero.

"When I think of Andy I no longer cry. I smile and I laugh. I'm at that point now. I can go on everyday knowing that somebody like him chose me to love," Uchitel told the New York station.

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NEW YORK - "This is ridiculous. Not a word of it is true," Rachel Uchitel told the New York Post on Tuesday in response to rumors that she was having an affair with golf great Tiger Woods. She even offered to take a lie-detector test to prove it.

Uchitel has suffered in the last few days as major news organizations have regurgitated a tabloid story that claimed the New York nightclub hostess and the world's greatest golfer were romantically involved and that a Nov. 27 car accident outside Wood's Ilseworth, Fla., home occurred in the aftermath of his wife, Elin Nordegren, finding out. That accident is currently under police investigation.

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NEW YORK - As Tiger Woods works to repair his scratched face and ruined car after a Nov. 27 car accident outside his Ilseworth, Fla. home, the golf great is also working to repair his image amidst tabloid-fueled rumors that the crash, now being investigated by police, occurred after his wife discovered an alleged affair with party promoter and Sept. 11 mourner Rachel Uchitel.

"Although I understand there is curiosity, the many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me are irresponsible," Woods said in a statement released on his Web site.

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CLEVELAND - More than a dozen steamy photos of all-star center fielder Grady Sizemore have made their way to Web sites across the Internet, but the Cleveland Indians star complains the shots were "stolen" from his girlfriend's e-mail and says that he is taking legal action.

Sizemore said that the nearly-nude pictures, including one where he is completely naked except for a tea cup covering his privates, were only meant for his girlfriend Playboy playmate Brittany Binger.

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NEW YORK - Meghan McCain, the daughter of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, has taken to task fallen beauty queen Carrie Prejean and opponents of same-sex marriage, in the wake of news that the former Miss California USA has filmed a sex tape.

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