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Jordan Powers, the 18-year-old high school student who quit school to move in with her teacher, says her relationship with the teacher, James Hooker, is over. Hooker, 41, was arrested by Modesto, Calif., police Friday on charges of sexually assaulting another teenage girl 14 years ago. "He called me from jail and, yes, I told him that we're done," Powers told  Saturday morning. "I lost everything for this guy. I lost my senior year." Hooker posted $50,000 bail and was released from the Stanislaus County Jail. Until February, Powers was a student at Enochs High School and Hooker was a business teacher. They say their student-teacher relationship became romantic last fall, after Powers turned 18 and legally became an adult. Hooker was suspended by the Modesto City Schools District in January. In February, he quit his job.

A former California teacher who made national headlines when he left his job and family to move in with an 18-year-old student was arrested Friday on suspicion of sexually abusing a different student more than a decade ago, police said.Christopher Hooker, 41, was arrested at his home and booked in Stanislaus County Jail on one count of oral copulation with a minor.   Police said the abuse occurred with a 17-year-old girl in 1998 when Hooker was a teacher at Davis High School in Modesto. The girl was a student at a different school, police said. In a statement, police said Hooker befriended the 17-year-old. The department did not immediately return a call seeking clarification of how the two met. Hooker appeared in court Friday. A judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, set his bail at $50,000 and assigned him a public defender.Hooker requested that his bail amount be reduced, and the judge set a hearing for Tuesday to consider the matter. Police said the investig...