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East Hampton Man Pleads Guilty To Middle School Bomb Hoax
The Hartford CourantA 21-year old East Hampton man pleaded guilty Monday to a charge associated with creating a hoax after he admitted placing a fake bomb outside the front door of the town's middle school. Sean Doran is charged with the federal offense of intentionally...Tags: Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Emergency Incidents, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Explosions
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Surge in bomb squad calls, 'suspicious packages' since Boston
Someone calls a television station and makes a bomb threat, causing a phalanx of police to race to the scene. It’s a hoax. Someone sees a package they think is a bomb, temporarily shuttering a city hall over terrorism fears. It’s a fake....
Tags: Sports, Conservation, Television Industry, Los Angeles Police Department, Michael Jackson
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E! adds six new series, announces a hefty development slate
Even with its prized dynasty -- the Kardashians -- procreating enough to supply E! with programming for years to come, the network continues to beef up its slate: It will add six new series and 10 specials in the coming months, with subjects ranging...Tags: Gossip Girl (tv program), Soups, Brian Robbins, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment
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On this date in history: The Hitler Diaries
On April 22, 1963, the German magazine Stern stunned the world with its announcement that it had acquired dozens of volumes of secret diaries and journals written by Adolf Hitler. The magazine, along with the London's Sunday Times, brought in...Tags: Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Newspaper and Magazine
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Soccer-British media sink teeth into 'cannibal' Suarez
ReutersLONDON, April 22 (Reuters) - Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been dubbed a "cannibal" by British media after his shameful bite on Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in a Premier League match on Sunday. The Uruguayan could face heavy punishment from...Tags: Sports, Soccer, Punishment
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Senator with anti-swatting bill is victim of hoax emergency call
A state Senator who has legislation that would increase the penalties for hoax 911 calls known as "swatting" was himself the victim of such a prank call Friday. Police received an anonymous text message sent through an operator that reported a...Tags: Shootings, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors
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NAACP false alarm shows region on edge over security
NAACP employees were going through the mail Thursday at national headquarters in Baltimore when they found a strange-looking envelope. It bore no return address and had a Memphis, Tenn., postmark — just like letters to President Barack Obama and a...
Tags: Sports, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), NAACP, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice
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Peggy Riley talks polygamy, faith, 'Amity and Sorrow'
Popular shows like “Big Love” and “Sister Wives” have given us a small glimpse into the life of a woman within a polygamist family — her struggles, her relationship with the other wives and her expectations. In debut novel...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Cults and Sects, Abusive Behavior, Human Interest, Authors
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With new arrest, ricin case takes a strange turn
TUPELO, Miss. — Federal agents of all sorts invaded northeast Mississippi several days ago, on a mission: Find the man who sent a poison-laced letter to the president. But the United States government quickly found itself entangled, once again, in a...Tags: Sports, Paul Kevin Curtis, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Abusive Behavior, Barack Obama
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Urine Drinker wins Strangest “My Strange Addiction”
Channel Guide MagazineThe Urine Drinker from TLC's My Strange Addiction continues to claim the accolades from our readers. After winning the 2012 Channel Guide Viewer's Voice Award for Most Outrageous Program Title, the top seed in the Strangest “My Strange Addiction... -
Scientists sequence DNA of a 'living fossil': the coelacanth
They're big, they're furtive, they're weird-looking. You almost certainly wouldn't want to dine on one, since they're endangered and are said to cause digestive distress in people who eat them. But the African coelacanth is extremely useful in at...
Tags: Paleontology, Science and Technology, Fishing, Fossils, Biotechnology Industry
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Connecticut's 17-Year Cicada Brood is About to Wake Up
One of nature's weirdest, most mysterious bugs is living under Connecticut. Millions of them have been waiting the better part of two decades to stage a mass orgy of singing and sex, and we're now only a few short weeks away from their "emergence."...
Tags: Science and Technology, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Science, Japan, Biology
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