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NEW YORK - Nude, yes. Lewd, no.

A New York judge dismissed public lewdness and other charges Monday against 26-year-old model Kathleen Neill who posed for a nude photo shoot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art while visitors looked on.

Neill, also known as "K.C.," was arrested in August during photographer Zach Hyman's shoot in the arms and armor department in the Met.

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NEW YORK - Charlene Lugar, wife of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run after hitting a parked car in northern Virginia.

Fairfax County Police say an officer stopped 76-year-old Charlene Lugar Wednesday evening at a McLean intersection after seeing damage to her car and smoke coming from the hood. Police later determined that she also hit an unattended parked car about two miles away from the traffic stop.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Police say Boynton Beach newlywed Dalia Dippolito thought she had the perfect plan to off her husband, Michael Dippolito, but the hit man she tried to hire was an undercover officer, and he's got the video to prove it.

Investigators have now released that video and others, including Dalia Dippolito's shocking interrogation by police, along with 400 pages of documents.

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BERLIN - Edis Kayalar, the man who German police say tried to extort $100,000 from former supermodel Cindy Crawford, has turned himself in to police, according to German prosecutors.

Prosecutors in the southwestern city of Stuttgart said Tuesday that Kayalar walked into a police station late Monday.

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SAVANNAH, Ga. - Spc. Alexis Hutchinson, a Georgia-based Army cook who's the single mother of a 10-month-old son is in hot water for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan, saying there's no one to care for her child and she feared the Army would force her child into foster care. Military police arrested her Nov.6 at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah.

The 21-year-old from Oakland, Calif. remained confined to the Army post Monday while her case is investigated.

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LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Embattled ex-boxing champion Mike Tyson has a fresh legal fight on his hands.

California police are investigating conflicting accounts of an airport confrontation between the former heavyweight champ and photographer Tony Echevarria, in which the shutterbug says he was attacked and Tyson claims he was protecting his family.

The scuffle resulted in both men being booked and released on suspicion of misdemeanor battery, with both wanting to press charges, police said.

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ATLANTA - Comedian and rapper Katt Williams was released on bond Monday night after he was arrested for breaking into a home and stealing thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and coins.

Williams said he was staying in suburban Atlanta while filming a movie about President Barack Obama.

As Williams emerged from the county jail, he called the alleged burglary "a misunderstanding between me and two stupid detectives."

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ATLANTA - Comedian and rapper Katt Williams was jailed in suburban Atlanta on Monday after police said they arrested the entertainer for breaking into a home.

Williams, who police say is 38, is charged with burglary and criminal trespassing, according to Coweta County Sheriff's Office Major James Yarbrough.

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NEW YORK - Famed Argentine opera singer Gabriela Pochinki has delivered encore performances before, but never from behind bars.

Yet that's exactly what happened last week as the beautiful soprano found herself performing to fellow cellmates after an alleged loudmouthed dust up in a chic New York restaurant landed her in jail.

How did it come to this?

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SPRINGFIELD, Va. - All Eric Williamson wanted was a cup of coffee to start his day.

With his roommates already out of the house, the twenty-nine-year-old Virgina man decided to help himself to some joe while in the buff.

Ok.

But things got complicated when a passer-by spotted the bare-skinned barista while taking her 7-year-old son to the local school bus stop.

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