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Hoax

Former congressional staffer charged with staging hoax attack

  • Nov 20, 2025

Employee falsely reported shooter at base to 'trauma bond': court docs

  • Oct 1, 2025

False active shooter reports create chaos for college students, police

  • Aug 27, 2025
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Wave of active shooter hoaxes brings turmoil to start of school year

  • Aug 26, 2025

9-year-old girl found in an upstate NY pond drowned in a homicide

  • Jul 23, 2025

Father charged with murder of 9-year-old daughter in upstate NY

  • Jul 21, 2025

Flight scare was hoax by 2 young children: FBI

  • Mar 8, 2025

IL police say reported child abduction was 'intentional deception'

  • Jan 31, 2025

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Villanova University says active shooter report was 'cruel hoax'

  • Aug 21, 2025
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IL Supreme Court overturns Jussie Smollett conviction

  • Nov 22, 2024
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Carlee Russell charged with making false statements in 'hoax'

  • Jul 28, 2023
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Carlee Russell's disappearance was 'hoax,' police say

  • Jul 25, 2023
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Dad shows up to school with gun after 911 call about active shooter

  • Sep 27, 2022
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Jussie Smollett claimed he was attacked in Chicago 1 year ago

  • Jan 29, 2020
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Jussie Smollett news: 'Empire' actor's attorneys argue against special prosecutor, want judge replaced

  • Jul 20, 2019
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Jussie Smollett: Judge orders special prosecutor to review case; 'Empire' actor could be re-charged

  • Jun 21, 2019

Latest Stories

Convicted kidnapper Matthew Muller allegedly began crime spree in 1993 at 16 years old

Convicted kidnapper Matthew Muller is facing more new charges and investigators now say Muller may have begun his crime spree all the way back in 1993.

  • Jan 8, 2025
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Ex-husband of Sherri Papini says he can't forgive her, speaking out on kidnapping hoax for 1st time

"I wanted to get the truth out." Ahead of a new Hulu docuseries, the ex-husband of Sherri Papini, the woman who faked her own kidnapping in Northern California, is speaking on experiencing the mystery that became a global story.

  • Jun 18, 2024

Inside STIC, the Illinois terrorism intelligence agency fighting real and viral hoax terror threats

Illinois' Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center analyzes threats of hate crime attacks, claims of bombs in public places, the ongoing risk from foreign terror groups and a fast-spreading plague of domestic lone wolf strikes.

  • Nov 15, 2023
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Sherri Papini: CA woman sentenced for faking her own kidnapping to be released in October

Papini was moved to a residential reentry management, also known as a halfway house, ahead of her release in October. She was initially set to be released in May 2024.

  • Aug 26, 2023

Carlee Russell charged with making false statements to Alabama police in 'hoax' disappearance

Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who made a 911 call to report a toddler walking along the highway and then vanished for 49 hours, turned herself in to authorities Friday.

  • Jul 29, 2023