A call to police in England that sparked a frantic search for a 3-year-old girl who said her mother had collapsed was a hoax, police said after spending nearly 30 hours trying to trace the call.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it has received more than 50 calls to its tip line about a false distress call of a yacht explosion that prompted massive rescue effort Monday off the coast of New Jersey.
CNN's Lizzie O'Leary reports on the Coast Guard offering a reward about a distress call that appears to have been a hoax.
Two Australian parents are thanking officials for freeing their daughter from a fake-bomb chained to her throat.
For 10 long hours, the teen sat still as a bomb squad gingerly worked to remove a suspicious device strapped around her neck.
The suspected bomb that triggered a 10-hour drama in Australia has turned out to be an elaborate hoax, police said Thursday.
Richard Heene, who pulled a hoax in 2009 by saying his 6-year-old son was in peril as a stowaway in a balloon over Colorado, is now auctioning the saucer for charity.
"He is on his way over to see his daughters," Sheen's ex-wife Tweets amid false rumors
Police say the acid attack on 28-year-old Bethany Storro's was self-inflicted. Jane Velez-Mitchell reports.
Richard Heene, the man who pulled a hoax by saying his 6-year-old son was drifting over Colorado in a balloon, must pay $36,000 in restitution, a judge has ordered.
The man who pulled a hoax by saying his 6-year-old son was drifting over Colorado in a balloon is finishing his 90-day sentence with home detention, authorities said.
Richard Heene, convicted in the "balloon boy" hoax has begun serving his 30-day jail sentence in Fort Collins, Colorado.
A man who pleaded guilty to perpetrating a hoax by saying his 6-year-old son was drifting over Colorado in a balloon began his jail sentence Monday.
Richard Heene tells CNN's Larry King that he truly thought his son Falcon was trapped in a runaway balloon.
A man who pleaded guilty to perpetrating a hoax by falsely reporting that his son was drifting over eastern Colorado in a balloon maintains the incident was not part of a plan for fame in an interview with CNN's "Larry King Live."
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The couple behind the hoax get a total of 110 days behind bars and 8 years' probation
Richard and Mayumi Heene are sentenced for their part in staging a hoax that claimed a 6-year-old was aloft in a balloon.
A contrite Richard Heene, whose plan for fame went awry after he and his wife falsely reported that their son was drifting over eastern Colorado in a balloon, apologized Wednesday to a judge.
Bay News 9's Melissa Eichman interviews Richard Heene's mother, Rae Sprow.
The Colorado couple who said their 6-year-old son was aboard an escaped balloon pleaded guilty Friday to charges related to the well-publicized "balloon boy" case.
"This whole deal is designed to keep the family together," says Richard Heene's lawyer
Authorities in Colorado have filed charges against the parents in last month's notorious "balloon boy" case, and the pair's lawyers say the two are expected to plead guilty on Friday.
Lawyer says Richard Heene will plead guilty to prevent Japanese wife's deportation
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