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Filed under: Entertainment, Celebrity, News Friday was a dark day for celebrity news, as two icons of our generation, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, each died rather suddenly. Then we got some surreal news that was really upsetting. All over Twitter,
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A Pennsylvania man has been accused of burglarizing at least three apartments and vandalizing them with spray paint and chocolate pudding _ after police say he was...
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AP, Philadelphia
The head of a Philadelphia museum says its sample of Abraham Lincoln’s blood may get DNA testing, but some questions must be answered first.
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AP, New York
Rihanna is back _ on the red carpet, at least.
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AP, Washington
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will provide Congress with a fresh assessment of the country’s fragile economic health that probably will note some recent...
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AP, New York
Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or...
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AP, New York
One of the nation’s largest July Fourth fireworks shows will be held on the Hudson River this year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of English explorer Henry...
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AP, Revere
City councilors just outside Boston say police should be better prepared for large crowds descending on a local beach after thousands of students skipped school and...
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AP, San Diego
A deputy assistant secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton has been sentenced in San Diego to more than three years in federal prison for possessing child...
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AP, Missoula
The owner of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club says she opposed a $375 million loan blamed for the resort’s financial collapse, but never tried to stop the...
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AP, New York
Dan Barber, a pioneer of the so-called farm-to-table restaurant movement, was named the nation’s top chef Monday by the James Beard Foundation.
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AP, Los Angeles
A woman is under house arrest for falsely reporting that a man she was stalking was going to hijack a plane in Los Angeles _ a lie authorities say nearly prevented him...
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AP, Pittsburgh
The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
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AP, Washington
Israel’s prime minister on Monday outlined a “triple track” approach to peace with the Palestinians, a strategy that emphasizes political, economic...
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AP, Chicago
In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their...
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AP, Pomona
Two teenagers have denied in court they planned to bring guns to their California high school and randomly shoot fellow students.
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AP, Chicago
Federal officials say a civilian project engineer has been charged with squeezing an Army Corps of Engineers contractor for a bribe in connection with a $2.5 million...
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AP, Detroit
Voters head to the polls Tuesday to select their mayor for the next 7 1/2 months in a runoff election seen as key to restoring stability to Detroit amid a bleak fiscal...
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AP, Washington
The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered...
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AP, New York
Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.
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AP, Washington
A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime...
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A woman is under house arrest for falsely reporting that a man she was stalking was going to hijack a plane in Los Angeles _ a lie authorities say nearly prevented him...
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This one is a special treat for Beyonce-haters. The hilarious audio clip - a raw ‘board mix’ reportedly of Beyonce Knowles singing during her Today Show...
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AP, Oakland Park
Deputies said a woman in South Florida has faked a miscarriage. The Broward county Sheriff’s Office responded an emergency call of a possible miscarriage just...
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The Hotelicopter that fascinated most of us is reportedly a hoax. Though we have not contacted anyone from the (so called) company’s official site, we did noticed...
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I don’t know about you, but the lack of source links gave the BBspot hoax about Twitter’s premium account business model away right away. Then, reading on,...
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AP, San Diego
The U.S. Justice Department is acknowledging it perpetrated a hoax on its own employees to see if they were gullible enough to divulge personal information over the...
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AP, New York
The New York Times says it published a fake letter purportedly from the mayor of Paris criticizing Caroline Kennedy’s bid for a U.S. Senate seat as...
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AP, New York
A New York City man has pleaded guilty to claiming in hoax Internet videos that he had poisoned baby food.
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It is true. As per Dawn newspaper of Pakistan, someone with a perverted sense of humour pretending to be India’s foreign Minister Pranab Mukerjee spoke to the...
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AP, Islamabad
A man pretending to be India’s foreign minister called Pakistan’s president and talked in a “threatening” manner during the Mumbai terror...
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AP, Stockholm
A man who falsely told the FBI that his son-in-law visiting the United States had links to al-Qaida and supported the “Muslim world’s revenge on U.S....
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AP, New York
MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice...
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AP, Boston
A woman who fabricated a best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust by living with wolves has won a Massachusetts court battle with her former publisher.
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AP, Kansas City
A suburban Kansas City woman who faked the birth of sextuplets to get financial support from her community is missing after walking away from a community release...
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AP, Woburn
An author who fabricated a best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust by living with wolves asked a judge Thursday to affirm a $32.4 million jury award in her...
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AP, Boston
It was a shock to Misha Defonseca’s readers this year when she admitted that the best-selling story of her tortured childhood during the Holocaust was false, but...
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AP, Charleston
Charleston police said a man tried to rob a movie rental store with an unusual weapon _ an empty cheesecake box. Earlier this week, the suspect placed the box on the...
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AP, New York
A man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly claimed in hoax Internet videos that he had poisoned millions of bottles of baby food, some with cyanide or rat poison,...
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Hoax news from press photographer about lost Amazon tribe of warriors. It is fun or irresponsible journalism in the name of fun or attention seeking acts.
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