Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors

Los Angeles police are recalibrating their response to some emergency calls in light of a series of prank “swatting” calls reporting violent incidents at the homes of celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Justin Bieber and now Chris Brown....

A 33-year-old Yucaipa man was arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap teenage girls as they walked to school, police said Tuesday afternoon....

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o will be interviewed by Katie Couric, the first on-camera interview given by the All-American since news broke about the dead girlfriend hoax.   Te'o and his parents will appear on Couric's syndicated talk show Thursday...

School gets an F John Cherwa Los Angeles Times Perhaps the saddest part of the Manti Te'o Internet fraud story is the total lack of leadership shown by the once hallowed institution of Notre Dame. While a forensic examination of Te'o's statements...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A Michigan man has been sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for false reporting plots to bomb the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert, Mich. and the Gerald R. Ford Federal Building in Grand Rapids. U.S. Attorney...

  Heard any good jokes lately? I haven’t or at least not ones that I believed to be funny. Twitter and Facebook are full of them as everyone seems to have a punch line for the Manti Te’o hoax story. However, that’s where you lose...

The peripheral threads of the Manti Te'o saga spread, even advanced in some cases on Thursday, the day after the former Notre Dame football standout's online relationship mushroomed into international headlines. Various news outlets and player Twitter...

LAIE, Hawaii (AP) — People in the small Hawaii hometown of Manti Te'o stood firmly behind the Notre Dame linebacker after the story of his girlfriend and her death from leukemia were revealed as a hoax. For the second day Thursday, no one answered...

Kim Kardashian went on Twitter this weekend to decry "swatting" after sheriff's deputies swarmed her family's family home Friday....

Whether or not the rest of us believe that Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o was truly duped by a guy claiming to be a ill-fated woman who stole his heart, the Heisman-trophy finalist's got one important ally. Nev Schulman, star of the hit 2010 documentary...

Family of man implicated in Manti Te'o girfrlend hoax has obtained legal counsel...

The family of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the Antelope Valley man publicly identified as the person behind the fictitious-girlfriend hoax involving Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, has hired legal counsel and is determining how to respond to the incident,...