A Troy Township Democratic official was charged with setting up a sex date with a 15-year-old boy and federal agents searched her house on suspicion she has been producing child pornography videos, police said. Margarita Hernandez, 32, of 6901 Monmouth Drive on Joliet's far west side, was arrested about 3 p.m. Thursday and taken to the Will County jail on a warrant charging her with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Hernandez had sex with a 15-year-old Chicago boy during a prearranged...

Summit Entertainment just released the last U.S. poster for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2," but it turns out there's still one more to check out. The international poster for the final installment of the hit franchise has been released, featuring Bella (Kristen Stewart), Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner), as well as members of the Volturi. The film, which hits theaters on November 16, was directed by Bill Condon, who promises that this time, Bella is more focused...

As if three Emmy nominations weren't proof enough that Lena Dunham is quickly becoming a hot Hollywood commodity, the "Girls" creator/star is now the subject of a publisher bidding war. The actress is set to pen a book of essays and bidding for the book has reached $3.7 million, with five publishers vying for Lena's material, according to The Hollywood Reporter. PLAY IT NOW: Girls Season 1 Blu-Ray Gag Reel Clip: Lena Dunham & Andrew Rannells (Exclusive) The hefty payday nears the $5 million...

Virginia Tech receiver Dyrell Roberts made an odd discovery on the field against North Carolina, when he found a pair of scissors on the field just before the Hokies ran a play. As Virginia Tech was lining up, Roberts started gesturing to the sideline and the officials with something in his hand. He had found the scissors as he took his spot on the field. That's something you don't see every day. In fact, we can't remember ever seeing it before in a college football game. Officials stopped...

After an ugly loss to the Bears on Monday night dropped the Cowboys to 2-2, owner Jerry Jones is trying to stay upbeat. Jones said Friday on 105.3 The Fan that while he isn’t exactly thrilled with the way the team has played since the impressive Week One win against the Giants, he isn’t worried, either. “We thought we would play better in the last three ballgames,” Jones said, via the Dallas Morning News. “Certainly in Seattle, we were not above expectations. But we met expectations and were...

As the Colts prepare to take the field on Sunday without head coach Chuck Pagano to lead them, they’ll hear from Pagano, indirectly. According to Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star, Pagano has sent an email to the team. Interim head coach Bruce Arians will read it to the players on Saturday. “Very private,” Arians said. “He sent it to every player.  Very long. . . . When you read it by yourself, it’s very emotional.  I don’t know if I can get it out to the team.  I might assign...

In a red, ruffled dress and flowers in her hair, Whitney Kropp, the Michigan high school student picked by her classmates to be on her school’s homecoming court as a prank, took to her school’s football stadium Friday for the ceremony. “I had thoughts about not coming, but you know what, I’m glad I changed my mind and actually came out,” Kropp told NBC News. Kropp's appearance was met with thunderous applause and camera flashes from her fellow students at Ogemaw Heights High School in West...

It’s happened to the best of us, so Jessica Alba should try not to feel too embarrassed. Well, maybe she should, just a teeny tiny little bit… While bending down to shield baby Haven from the elements – yes! It rains in New York, too! – Jessica had a bit of an incident. Unfortunately for her, the paps were there to capture it all. Jessica Alba goes shopping at Whole Foods Market in Manhattan Maybe she should have kept that jacket on Wenn It had all started so well, with the 31-year-old popping...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's bombastic "60 Minutes" interview and Lindsay Lohan's disastrous nightclub episode catapulted these two celebrities into high trend alert at the start of the week. But are they connected otherwise? Here, we put the Kevin Bacon theory to the test to see just how closely Schwarzenegger, 65, and Lohan, 26, relate in Hollywood. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted in "The Expendables 2" (2012) with Bruce Willis, who acted in "Moonrise Kingdom" (2012) with Edward Norton, who acted in...

 While the rest of the world fell in love with Nicole Scherzinger’s beauty and talent, the brown-eyed bombshell harbored a horrible secret — a decade-long battle with bulimia. The former Pussycat Doll is breaking her silence on her with in a revealing interview for VH1’s “Behind the Music,” airing Sunday. “I just hated myself, I really was just hated myself,” Scherzinge says in a clip of the interview that debuted on EW.com. During one particularly low point, Scherzinger locked herself...