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Sarah Jones Pleads Guilty to Having Sex With Minor

Former NFL cheerleader Sarah Jones has pleaded guilty to having sex with her 17-year-old former student while she was a teacher at a Kentucky high school. Jones will NOT serve jail time as a result. In a tearful admission in Kenton County Circuit Court in Covington, Ky., Sarah Jones , 27, pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct and custodial interference. “I began a romantic relationship while he was a student and I was in a position of authority ,” Jones said, her voice cracking as family members wiped their tears. The one-time Cincinnati Ben-Gal then detailed her dalliances with the boy. Jones admitted that the two had sex, that she sent him sexually explicit text messages and lied about the relationship to police, beginning in February 2011. The teen had been in Jones’ freshman English class in 2008, and she was his peer tutor in 2010 and 2011 before he graduated at the age of 17 this year. In accepting the plea agreement, Judge Patricia Summe granted prosecutors’ recommendation to sentence Jones to five years of diversion but no jail time. The ” female Sandusky ” won’t have to register as a sex offender, either. The diversion requires Jones to report to a probation officer and undergo drug tests. Prosecutors said they were willing to make the deal because the teen, now 18, and his family were uncooperative with them and on Jones’ side.

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Sam Champion and Rubem Robierb: Engaged, Thankful

The forecast for weatherman Sam Champion is clear: bright and clear with a lifetime of happiness to come. The Good Morning America star announced this week that he’s engaged to photographer Rubem Robierb, appearing yesterday on the program and thanking viewers for their “amazing response” to the news. Sam Champion Talks Engagement “I felt like we lived in a small town,” Champion said of the reception he’s enjoyed. “I was born in Paducah, Kentucky and to me that’s exactly what it felt like. We walked out on the street and everyone was like, ‘Hey, congratulations.'” Champion went on to thank everyone “for the tweets, and the Facebook and just coming up on the street and saying the most wonderful things.” Robin Roberts , who is recovering from a bone marrow transplant and hopes to return to work later this year, chimed in via Twitter and said to the couple: “You know how thrilled I am for you, @SamChampion and Rubem! Hope to be well enough to attend the wedding. Much love to you both.” Concluded Champion, with Robierb standing off to the side of the set: “I have met the most wonderful, giving, loving, caring person. I am so, so lucky to have someone like this in my life.”

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Lady Gaga and Julian Assange: Random BFF Alert!

Who knows. Before you even ask, that’s our answer. Why exactly Lady Gaga swung by the Ecuadorian embassy in London for some QT with embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, only she can say. All we can say is this is the most random pic ever: Apparently, Mother Monster was in London for a “personal appearance and tea party” to promote her new perfume Fame. Singer/rapper MIA caught wind of this. MIA tweeted at Gaga on Sunday night, “if ur at harrods today, come visit Assange at the Ecuador embassy across the st. im there. ill bring TEA and CAKE.” Fast forward 24 hours and the Lady had posted the above photo. Who knows what the two of them talked about, or if MIA was actually there. Perhaps they discussed her (indirect) role in bringing WikiLeaks to prominence? You may recall that famous whistleblower Bradley Manning referenced her in describing how he copied thousands of classified documents from U.S. Army servers. “I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like ‘Lady Gaga’ … erase the music … then write a compressed split file,” Manning recalled. “No one suspected a thing … [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga’s Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history.” Hmm. Perhaps this sheds new light on why Lady Gaga vomited on stage in Spain. She’s an enemy of the state and the powers that be are poisoning her! Since June, the 41-year-old Assange has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has since been granted diplomatic asylum. The British government intends to extradite Assange to Sweden under an arrest warrant for sexual assault once he leaves the embassy. Assange says he fears that may result in his subsequent extradition to the United States of America to face charges over the leak of the military documents.

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American Public: Too Much Chelsea, Not Enough Real News

If you thought the media’s obsession with Chelsea Clinton’s July 31 wedding went a little overboard, you’re not alone. A new poll has found that a majority of Americans think there was too much coverage of the wedding at the expense of real news. The News Interest Index Survey, conducted July 29 through August 1 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press,  found  that 58 percent of respondents felt there was “too much” coverage of the Clinton wedding. As the Culture and Media Institute  reported , the three broadcast networks – ABC, CBS and NBC – aired 87 stories about Clinton’s nuptials between July 25 and August 1. That represented a 48-percent increase over coverage of former first daughter Jenna Bush’s wedding in 2008. Networks had reporters on the scene in Rhinebeck, N.Y., and brought in gossip columnists and celebrity wedding planners to dish on the event. But at what cost? Other news happened over the weekend, after all, including continued drama in the Gulf of Mexico and fallout over the leak of classified documents related to the war inAfghanistan, as well as economy and immigration issues. Americans noticed, according to the survey. While half believed the media delivered the “right amount” of coverage on the oil spill, pluralities felt there was “too little” coverage of the “Afghan War Diary” leak (41 percent) and the economy (42 percent).