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Police say a teenage girl and her 20-year-old boyfriend concocted an elaborate account of being attacked in western New York to disguise a fight between themselves.
A man accused of swindling desperately ill patients out of $400,000 by making false promises of organ transplants has pleaded guilty in New York to five federal wire fraud charges.
A former official at New York City's Touro College is going to prison for his role in a scheme to sell phony degrees and transcripts.
A Connecticut woman's close encounter with the mythical beast, Sasquatch or Big Foot, turned out to be nothing more than a boy in a costume. Fairfield police said a woman driving last Tuesday night called police to report that she "almost hit Sasquatch," which was standing in the middle of the road.
A former official at New York City's Touro College has been convicted on charges of creating and falsifying student transcripts for money.
A fugitive American who claimed he was a psychiatrist will be returned to upstate New York to face federal charges he took $70,000 for a bogus promise of a liver transplant in the Philippines, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
Police arrested a man for impersonating a New York City firefighter after he tried to help battle a warehouse blaze in the suburbs. Suffern police and fire officials said that the 39-year-old man was dressed in full New York City Fire Department gear, including a jacket, pants and a helmet with his name on it.
A man who bolted antlers to the head of a dead doe and posed for a photograph with the deer was fined $400 and jailed for game violations.
A former New Jersey beauty pageant winner and her mother are accused of passing fake $50 bills at two stores near the Jersey shore.
Cyber-thieves are clever crooks. They know an e-mail that looks like it’s from the IRS will get your attention. So they send out fake e-mail that says you are about to be audited or are due a big refund. Who could ignore a message like that?
Police say a New Jersey man posed as a female animal doctor, ran an illegal veterinary practice and set up a phony rescue agency that may have duped pet lovers out of thousands of dollars. Vineland police arrested 26-year-old Daniel C. Tyce on Friday and charged him with practicing medicine without a license. He is being held on $10,000 bail.
A New York City man is accused of trying to smuggle a date rape drug into the United States by putting the liquid in bottles he claimed contained "holy water."
A man faces criminal charges for allegedly stealing a uniform from Dodger Stadium and posing as one of the team's players.
The Federal Trade Commission charged five companies with making false and misleading claims for cancer cures and said Thursday that it has reached settlements with six others. "As long as products have been sold there has been somebody out there selling snake oil to consumers," said Lydia Parnes, director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection.
Intercepting Internet traffic, and spying on the communication between two computers, is a gold mine for hackers. Now Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope software they've built will make it harder for criminals to hit that jackpot.
A federal judge has ordered a $63,000 civil judgment against four people who claim to be chiefs of an American Indian tribe in eastern Utah.
Congratulations! You're corrupt. That was the message on three wooden, gold embossed plaques sent from Puerto Rico to the Lawrence Police Department. The plaques delivered Sunday appeared to be awards, but accused officers, including Chief John Romero, of corruption.
A jeweler was sentenced Wednesday to six months in jail and fined $5,000 for falsely reporting that five Arab men were plotting to bomb the subway system, a scheme meant to cause trouble for his former business associates.
It wasn't Santa Claus but a would-be burglar that rescue workers found stuck up a chimney in central Australia on Friday.
In an urgent call to a friend, Larry Lee Risser Jr. said he had been wounded in an ambush during a clandestine CIA assignment and he needed $10,000 for a rescue helicopter.
Two former college students avoided jail when they pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge related to paying school officials to falsify their grades and transcripts.
A jeweler was convicted Thursday of falsely reporting that five Arab men were plotting to bomb New York subways on July 4, 2006, a hoax apparently meant to cause trouble for former business associates.
An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus.
Hundreds of people who were treated at a southern Arizona hospital received exorbitant medical bills as high as $49 million because of a computer error.
The U.S. Secret Service confiscated bogus $1 million bills printed as religious tracts from an evangelical ministry, saying the handbills too closely mimic real money.
Another awful Rasmussen pollThis is a good brief article from Media Matters of America informing the public why the Rasmussen poll is not credible. It's funny how Faux No News relies so much on this poll.
Flu Vaccines Revealed As The Greatest Quackery Ever Pushed In The History Of Medicine Prepare to have your world rocked. What you're about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time.
Recently a news story hit that said nearly 45,000 died because they did not have health insurance.
911: It's for emergencies moron!They ask for directions. They want to know what time it is. They've even asked for more toilet paper.
(Backgrounder article:Obama's 'strategic interests' call to SE Asia's notoriously corrupt leader)
Murtha Scandals Widen to Include Florida ProjectThe Air Force project was supposed to research new battlefield technologies, and Murtha pushed millions of taxpayer dollars into the program to hire defense contractors.
Yawn, Drudge Report claim About ABC and Obama proves to be bogus Admit it, you'd be shocked if anything were the case, right? From Drudge's comical, hyperventilating claim about ABC's planned prime-time health care special [emphasis added]: ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
Cops In '911 Rape Ruse' - Sick Ploy To Get To Victim: Prosecutor The two NYPD patrolmen accused of raping a drunken woman made a bogus 911 call so they could be sent back to the victim's East Village apartment, a senior prosecutor said.
EXCLUSIVE: Barton's foundation not so charitable - Washington TimesThe Texan is having lobbyists with issues before his Committee funnel money to his own charity (which his daughter runs) and not disclosing. Then - he takes the credit. This is AGAINST the LAW
West Memphis, AR Girl Calls 911 to Report Brother Passing Gas (Video Report)West Memphis Police say they are flooded with bogus 911 calls, including a teenager complaining about her brother "tooting" in her face.
Donors warned of bogus Web funds for HaleighExcerpt: Fake online solicitations for donations are surfacing as the search for a missing Putnam County girl continues, more than two weeks since she vanished from her home.
The Boom Is Over. Long Live the Art! - NYTimes.comSigh. This makes me so inexpressibly happy. I think I'll become an artist now!
Iran Hangs Baluch in PublicIranian authorities have hanged a Baluch man in public in the restive Seistan-o-Baluchistan province.
Conservitive Blogs All Atwitter Over "Bizarre" African Press Interview With Michelle Obama. Too Bad It's "100% Bogus"The conservative blogs are all atwitter about a bizarre interview allegedly with Michelle Obama on a website called "African Press International."
Tom Matzzie: How McCain Will Steal the Election from Obama (Sort Of)The floundering right-wing coalition is on the verge of collapse due to a combination of poor performance in office and an incoherent message coming from a candidate whose plans change with every day, and whose only constant is the uninterrupted stream of baseless partisan attack …
Congress, White House reach financial bailout dealIn an attempt to mollify Asian markets, a verbal agreement has been reached.
Officer cites abusive U.S. interrogations in IraqThe Senate Armed Forces Committee will hold a hearing Thursday into abusive U.S. interrogations in Iraq.
Sarah Palin's powerful "First Dude"In Sarah Palin's political profile and governing methods, critics see a direct political heir of George W. Bush.
Gloria Arroyo preparing for a nasty exitIn her fake presidency, Gloria Arroyo has every right to appoint anybody- scoundrels and losers -in her cabinet. If she thinks Chavit Singson, will help her stay in power, let her be. After all, if not for Singson, she would not be in Malacañang today.
Vaginal Blowing...is not a miracle cure!A woman died 36 days after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when a "doctor" told her the cure was known as the ozone treatment, aka, "vaginal blowing." She was told to move up and down on a bed and say, "Oh boy." For an additional $10,000 he would continue her treatments …
That Chain E-mail Your Friend Sent to You Is (Likely) Bogus. Seriously.by Lori Robertson: I've noticed that chain e-mails, particularly those about politics, have a lot of things in common: urgent and frightening messages; spelling errors; a tendency to blame mainstream media for not telling the real story; and false, misleading, utterly bogus, a …
In a move described grimly as a cereal killing, General Mills has outraged concerned parent groups with it's launch of new Lucky Charms "Booger Bits."
Bogus MP at LargeCome elections, he will appear. Shaking hands, lending an ear, and accompanied by a press entourage, the politically-unsavvy will easily be taken in by the typical MP campaign tactic.
All the News "Unfit To Print" and For Good Reason - It's Not TrueThis is so true. I can't count how many hours I spent chasing stories that were totally bogus and spread like gossip
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