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Jennifer Dempsey, a married Arizona woman, is accused of seducing two teenagers in a catfishing scam ... all while faking cancer to gain sympathy from her family.

Dempsey, 35, allegedly posed on Facebook as a teen to lure two boys - ages 14 and 16 - into her car and the home she shares with her husband.

Cops think more boys could have been targeted in her catfishing scam, including Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o. Just kidding. The best part?

When confronted by agents, she reportedly tried to use her "illness" as an alibi, saying intense chemotherapy had actually left her unable to have sex.

Officers soon learned this "cancer patient" was perfectly healthy.

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There's V-Day, and then there's D-Day, when breakups happen with surprising frequency and divorce attorneys' phones start ringing off the hook.

This is because Valentine's Day, along with New Year's Eve, is an "expectation holiday" that often precedes relationship problems, according to experts.

“There’s an uptick around dates like that,” Michelle Smith, a Manhattan-based divorce financial analyst, tells the New York Daily News of the trend.

“It can even happen on Valentine’s Day, when people are like, ‘I’ve had it.’”

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Some passengers who fled the disabled Carnival Triumph cruise ship and left Alabama aboard charter buses suffered yet another setback en route home.

One of the buses taking them back to Houston broke down.

Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen said that the bus broke down Friday on the way to New Orleans after leaving Mobile, Ala., where the ship docked.

He says another bus was available and those aboard were transferred and continued to the Big Easy where they arrived safely later Friday morning.

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Bunnies are apparently wreaking havoc at Denver International Airport, attacking cars, chewing on parts and leaving massive amounts of damage in their wake.

Nearly 100 bunnies are being removed each month from the airport by the USDA Wildlife Service because the animals are chewing cables underneath cars.

“They like to chew on the insulator portion of the ignition cables. That’s what we see,” said Wiley Faris, spokesman for Denver area repair shop Arapahoe Autotek.

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A professor at West Liberty University gave her students a take-home assignment this week, attaching to it research options that ban two supposed news outlets from being used as a source.

The first is The Onion, an openly satirical (and hilarious) website.

The second? Fox News.

In the assignment criteria, Stephanie Wolfe reportedly writers that "the tagline Fox News makes me cringe," a viewpoint that upsets President Robin Capehart. He tells WTOV:

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Maureen O’Connor, the former mayor of San Diego, admitted in federal court that she took $2.1 million from her late husband’s charitable foundation.

With that money, she won - and lost - more than $1 billion gambling.

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Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears in a South African courtroom Friday after being charged with the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

The Olympic sprinter's attorneys requested to postpone the bail hearing, as did the prosecution.

He did not enter a plea and will remain in custody.

In his first public response, Pistorius’s family and management team said in a statement that “the alleged murder is disputed in the strongest terms."

The statement also said Pistorius “would like to send his deepest sympathies to the family” of Reeva Steenkamp, who died at his home at age 30.

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A meteorite shot across the sky in Russia today, sending fireballs crashing to Earth, damaging buildings and injuring more than 500 people ... seriously.

The meteorite's astonishing arrival was captured on video:

Meteorite Hits Russia

People going to work in Chelyabinsk (950 miles east of Moscow) heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave.

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A new study says use of the morning-after pill in the U.S. is on the rise, especially among younger women ... interestingly, teen lingerie sales are way up as well.

Makes you think!

A major government study has found that 11 percent of sexually active women recently used the morning-after pill, up from just 4 percent in 2002.

One in four women aged 20-24 used the drug, compared with one in nine overall, among 12,000 females surveyed and aged 15-44 from 2006-10.

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Latrell Higgins is a 13-year old who was adopted at the age of 10 by a photographer in Florida.

Because Higgins never had pictures taken as a newborn, he asked his adoptive mother recently to snap a few of him making like a baby.

The result? Kelli Higgins posted the following images to Facebook, along with the caption: "Here's my sweet not so little Newborn! His name is Latrell and weighs 112lbs ;)"

Okay, that's pretty funny. But these are pretty darn weird, no?