BREAKING NEWS

Prestonwood Baptist Church minister Joe David Barron has been arrested for soliciting sex from a minor. Somebody call Chris Hanson!

Cops say Barron used the Internet to arrange to have sex with what he believed was a 13-year-old girl. The Baptist minister then drove 3 hours from Plano, Texas to Bryan to follow through with his plans to have sex with the minor.

When Barron arrived he was arrested by undercover officers. His car was searched and officers found condoms, religious CDs and a webcam.

The minister was taken to a nearby jail and later released on $7,000 bond.

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Larissa Schuster got life in prison without the possiblityfor killer her husband by knocking him out and cramming him into a vad of acid.

Schuster was convicted in December of murdering Timothy Schuster with the special circumstance that the murder was committed for financial gain.

Timothy's half-dissolved body was found a few days after his 2003 death in a barrel that was inside a storage unit his wife rented.

At Schuster's sentencing hearing on Friday, a Superior Court judge also rejected her attorney's motion for a new trial.

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Robert Mondavi, a pioneering vintner who helped establish California's wine country, died at his Napa Valley home Friday. He was 94.

According to his spokesperson, Mondavi died peacefully at his home in Yountville, Robert Mondavi Winery.

In 1966, when he was 52 years old, Mondavi opened the winery that helped turn the Napa Valley into a world center of the wine industry.

Born in Virginia, Minn., Mondavi got an economics degree from Stanford University in the 1930s and went to work at the Charles Krug Winery, which his Italian-born parents had bought after moving to California from Minnesota.

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Dennis Rodman was charged with domestic violence after he allegedly hit his girlfriend in a Los Angeles Hotel last month.

A spokesman for Los Angeles prosecutors says Rodman was charged Wednesday with spousal battery, brandishing a deadly weapon and dissuading a witness. All of these charges are misdemeanors.

Dennis was arrested at the hotel after his girlfriend Gina Peterson called hotel security reported that Rodman slugged her. Cops says she suffered injuries to her arm.

Rodman's spokesperson said the 46-year-old former Chicago Bull had too much to drink when he got into an altercation with Peterson. The spokesman added that Rodman and Peterson are still dating.

Before retiring to become a full-time freak, Rodman was a part of the championship teams with both the Bulls and the Detroit Pistons.

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DMX pleaded not guilty to 11 different charges on Thursday including accusations of drug possession and animal abuse.

The former rapper was indicted last week for various charges on felony marijuana and paraphernalia possession and seven counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty.

His arrest was the result of an August raid when authorities raided his house investigating if he was neglecting 12 pit bulls. Many of the dogs didn't even have food or water. Investigators also found three dogs buried in his back yard.

This isn't DMX's first run-in with the law. In June 2006, Scottsdale police nabbed him for carrying a concealed handgun outside a nightclub. DMX also served jail time in 2005 for violating his parole following a 2004 incident in which he posed as an undercover federal agent and crashed his sport utility vehicle through a security gate at Kennedy International Airport.

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President George Bush has fallen under criticism for landing a low blow on Barack Obama claiming that some people want the President to negotiate with terrorists.

Take a look at the video here:

This is really just a sample of what the Republicans will do to Barack Obama if he is the Democratic nominee.

George Bush and John McCain may not see eye to eye on a lot of things, but you can guarantee that Bush would rather see anyone in the White House than the Junior Senator from Illinois.

It will take a lot to face the Republican powerhouse in November. Party unity is key if the Democrats want to win. I say it is time to revisit putting both Clinton and Obama on the same ticket this fall.

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She's baaack!

Everyone's favorite self proclaimed "YouTube Superstar and Warrior" Tricia Walsh-Smith has put together another one of her perfectly edited husband bashing videos and released it on the internet.

Take a look here:

Tricia is one angry estranged (with an emphasis on the "strange") wife!

Quick Facts (to catch those up who need it):

1. Tricia is trying to destroy her extremely rich husband, Philip Smith.
2. She's all upset that she's getting kicked out of her posh Park Ave apartment as the result of a solid prenup written up before the Walsh-Smith union.
3. At first Tricia said she wanted to expose Philip and his divorce deceit. Now, I'm not really sure what she's trying to accomplish, but it is definitely good TV!

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The woman who created a fake Myspace to play a hoax on a 13-year old girl has been charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorisation to obtain information to inflict emotional distress.

Lori Drew evidently created a MySpace page and convinced teenaged neighbor Megan Meier that she had a new boyfriend named Josh.

Megan and fictious "Josh" formed an online relationship that developed over seven weeks before Lori used her character to demean Megan.

The teen girl eventually killed herself and the Meier family blames Lori.

If convicted, Drew could get up to 5 years in jail for each of the three charges.

In this photo:
Tina Meier holds two pictures of her daughter Megan who committed suicide in 2006 after receiving cruel messages on MySpace. Inset: Ashley Grills who denies instigating MySpace attack.

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It looks like Reese Witherspoon is finally over Ryan Phillipe and ready to tie the knot with Jake Gyllenhaal.

OK! Magazine is reporting that Reese and Jake might be ready to get married.

"They've been talking marriage for a while," a source close to Reese said. "They'll be formally engaged any day now. They want to spend the rest of their lives together."

The insider also says that Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal won't be shacking up before they tie the knot.

"This is a very serious relationship," the source explains. "But Reese is very conservative and traditional. I'm sure she doesn't want her kids to see her 'living in sin.'"

Neither Reese or Jake's reps are talking.

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"America's Next Top Model" winner Whitney Thompson made the talk show rounds on Thursday morning basking in the glory of her Wednesday night win.

Whitney, who has clearly known she won for a while, also made headlines for being the first "plus sized" or "full figured" model.

Appearing on "Live with Regis & Kelly" Thompson talked about being considered large and revealed her size as 8-10.

Over on the View, Whoopi Goldberg blasted the idea that Whitney might be considered "large" by the modeling industry or "America's Next Top Model."

I'm glad Whitney won. Whether she is a "normal sized" or "plus-sized" model, it is good to see someone other than a skinny girl considered a "Top Model."

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