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Te'o girlfriend hoax: Manti story captivates nation
South Bend TribuneThe Manti Te'o story has captivated more than the sports media with publications ranging from People to Forbes Magazine featuring him prominently on their websites Thursday. The linebacker caught the attention of almost every major news outlet,...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Social Media, Media Industry, Football, Toronto Star
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5-year sentence for bomb plot hoax against Palisades Nuclear Plant and Ford Building
WSBT-TVGRAND 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...Tags: Nuclear Power, Police Investigations, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Emergency Incidents
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Fundraiser 'shell-shocked' by Te'o girlfriend hoax
Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A University of Notre Dame graduate who launched a campaign to raise money for a cancer research group in memory of linebacker Manti Te'o's girlfriend says he is "shell-shocked" to learn the woman didn't exist. Dan Tudesco, a...Tags: Cancer, YouTube, Human Interest, University of Notre Dame, Manti Te'o
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Mutual UFO Network investigates sightings
GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — A glowing light hovered in the early-morning sky over Franklin. Large and bright, the object seemed to pulsate and give off colored waves from the edges. Suddenly, the object ascended rapidly as an airplane passed by....Tags: Unexplained Phenomena, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Newspaper and Magazine, Witnesses, UFO Sightings
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Hammond man admits story of fake cop was hoax
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — Authorities in northwest Indiana say a Dyer man who said he shot at a man posing as a police officer has admitted the story was a hoax. The 18-year-old man told police he fired two shots at a fake police officer who pulled...Tags: Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Shootings
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Florida was weird as only it can be in 2011
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — It was another weird year in Florida. A giant Lego man washed up on a beach, a piano mysteriously appeared on a sandbar and a man walked into a bar, ordered a beer and left to rob a bank. Then, he returned to finish the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, LEGO Group, Bank Robbery
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Australian charged over not-so-sweet-16 party hoax
SYDNEY (AP) — Police say an Australian teenager hijacked a girl's Facebook page and posted an open invitation to her 16th birthday party that drew more than 200,000 positive replies. The girl's shocked parents had the page removed from the...Tags: Human Interest, Facebook, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors
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Hacienda pulls 'cult' ad
Hacienda admits it made a mistake.
For the first time in the history of the South Bend-based restaurant company, billboards are being removed less than two weeks after Hacienda launched a new advertising campaign.
Hacienda has instructed a local...Tags: Suicide, Lifestyle and Leisure, Human Interest, Economy, Business and Finance, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Ripley's Believe It or Not museum gets family-friendly makeover
A gruesome photo gallery of men and women impaled by arrows, augers and pipes is gone from the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in Hollywood. And don't expect to see any displays of medieval chastity belts or tongs used to torture victims of the...
Tags: IMAX, Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture, Travel, Entertainment
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Michael Jackson referred to as 'freak' in AEG email
In his opening statement in the Michael Jackson wrongful-death suit, an attorney for AEG said his side would expose the singer's secrets. "We're going to show some ugly stuff," Marvin Putnam said. But on Wednesday, it was lawyers for the singer's family...Tags: Conrad Murray, AEG, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment, Randy Phillips
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Bioterrorism consultant's anthrax claims challenged
WASHINGTON — As an example of the ease with which terrorists could produce anthrax, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig has repeatedly cited the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult gained infamy in 1995 by unleashing the nerve agent sarin in...Tags: Human Genome Sciences Inc., Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of Maryland, College Park, Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Michigan Avenue merchants fear they'll be the victims of robbery hoax
The bizarre saga of a 68-year-old woman who said she was forced to hand over jewelry valued at more than $135,000 to a group of menacing young men on the bustling Magnificent Mile reverberated around the country. Some 36 hours later, police had...
Tags: Whitehall, Lifestyle and Leisure, Crime, Law and Justice, Theft, Bars and Clubs
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